December 15, 2024 • 40 mins
It's a Wonderful Lifetime!
Lifestyle mogul Leslie aims to acquire charming Sugar Bakers bakery before year's end. She dispatches employee Emma undercover as temp worker to persuade owners, but Emma finds herself enamored with its festive charm and baker David.
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(00:04):
Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Lifetime Christmas
movies. Hi, I'm Patrick Serrano and I'm
a Lifetime movie expert. I'm Dan and I despise lifetime
Christmas movies and this is thedeck.
The homework podcast deck the homework.
It's this podcast, Brandon. And friends host this podcast.
(00:27):
We hope you like this, Dolly. But just bum, bum, bum, bum,
bum. Hello.
Did we catch you off guard there, Patrick?
Oh, I don't know, did I lag? Yo, I just looked like you were
like, Oh yeah, it's my turn there.
You know, well, you know, I am always surprised by myself.
(00:50):
Of course. You know what I love about this
time of year is I I love lifetime on court.com because
you're doing the Lord's work over there.
You're covering all the homeworks, all the lifetime and
then also all the UPS. Are you doing all the up TV's?
There's a sprinkling like if I feel like I want to do 1, I I've
done a couple UPS, I've done a couple BTS buses.
(01:12):
We can't even. Get our our employment page and
address right on our website. Oh, that's right, Patrick's got
reviews from all of those synopsis.
Give us give us the quick rundown on a Bluegrass
Christmas. Bluegrass Christmas, this girl,
her grandpa's like a bluegrass player.
She has to put on there's a horse stables and the the one of
(01:39):
the horses hot chocolate gets, you know, sold and.
The horse's name is Hot Chocolate.
Yeah, but it's a boy. It's not a girl, but as you were
would have thought. Yeah.
Then they put on a concert and and she she ends up singing a
lot and then her grandpa comes on and saves the.
(01:59):
Save. We do this instead.
Festival of Tree Festival of. Trees there is a horse tables.
Yeah, the Festival of Trees. There's obviously a festival
that has trees and this lady has, it's a competition like a
tree decorating, not like a treeChristmas tree.
There's a really sassy gay guy in it who out sasses me by 1000%
(02:22):
and and he's the gay assistant and I just thought he was the
best. You should be offended by
brand's reaction. Correct.
Wow. You said there's a sassy gay guy
that out sasses me by 1000% and Brand said wow, like you're the
sassiest gay guy he's ever seen by a country.
Mile say. That that's how I mean.
I'm pretty sure I might be the sassiest gay person that Brand
(02:45):
knows, but you know, there are more sassy out there.
As somebody who? Yeah, I think that's for the
fact. As somebody.
As somebody who grew up in a very sheltered, conservative
Christian little bubble, I thinkPatrick is the the sassiest gay
person I know. Yes.
Right. It's like Alonzo and me.
And it's like, you know, Alonzo is more more surly and I'm more
(03:10):
sassy. Yeah.
Surly, Surly. Alonso, Dorado.
And I love you both so much. I love you both so much.
And then? Nice for covering anything else.
Despite what I say about you, Opera, I love you so much.
There is a horse stables. There is a horse stables I
Festival of lights. Anything else aside from the
Festival of the Lights in that movie that's worth?
(03:31):
Festival of Lights with with Antonio, right?
No, that's Christmas under the lights.
No, I was just going back to Festival of Lights real quick,
but before I moved on you. Said there was a Christmas tree
decorating. Not a Christmas tree, but a
Christmas tree. At some .0 you mean.
You mean that the great Up TV movie, Yes, that we were talking
about? Yeah.
No, I'm done recapping that one.You have to read the rest on
(03:55):
lifetimeaccord.com. That's right.
That's right. How has the lifetime crop been
overall this year? Obviously we're doing a few of
them with you on the show, but we can't do them all.
How? How's it How's it been so far?
Dreadful. OK terrible.
Is the Chiefs 1 the best one? Yes, so hard the they're not the
(04:18):
change. In that one, thank.
You I can see how you. The Taylor Swift 1 is the best.
One yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Taylor Swift 1.
Of course, by a mile. They they crushed it and
everything else has been. Even Tia Mowry was like, yawn,
this is boring. So much talking.
So much. So much talking about things
(04:39):
happening in these Lifetime movies.
No. Actions, it sounds.
So it's been bad, is what we're trying to say.
Yeah, real bad. Has it been?
Has it been great? I'm holding out for a Carpenter
Christmas. The horny, the horny 1.
And that's all I that's a glimmer of hope I have.
Yeah. Is that what they're saying on
the commercials? They'll remind people it's the
make sure you turn into Carpenter Christmas because.
(05:01):
The Carpenter Christmas You knowJesus was a Carpenter.
You could get the wrong idea in a hurry.
Get the wrong idea and it's the horny one.
True. I think that's that's what's
nice. It's a little bit of Jesus, a
little bit of it's a new. The devil we're playing called
Horny or. Julie Nope, sorry, the new.
Game we're playing that's reallyfun.
It's got to take off. We'll play it at Bramble.
Horny or holy, it'll be interesting.
(05:21):
Let's talk and make a big Christmas a star-studded feature
Vivica. A fox, Jack.
Hey, Jack. Hey.
And then? The rest of the game.
The rest of the game this year. Oh, that's mean to Meredith
Thomas, my favorite Lifetime actress.
Oh really? Meredith is your favorite.
She's she's she's up there. And Gina Hirazumi, who has the
(05:44):
best hair in any Lifetime movie?Always.
Gina Hirazumi Best. Hair.
Best hair hands down always winsBest hair every year.
Always wins what? Every year.
What award shows this? You don't get it.
Oh, I do it. I do a lifetime and court award
show only about hair and makeup.Interesting.
(06:06):
It's the lifetime on quad hair and makeup.
More you've never gotten an invite or anything the the
Corkies, I don't know. The Corkies?
Yep, hair, Makeup. We'll throw a wardrobe in there
too. Why not?
Yeah, I think we should. Yeah, well, we'll, we'll be on
the lookout for that next year for sure.
Hopefully we get an invite. All right, let's dive into this
(06:27):
one, shall we? Make or make Christmas.
OK, make or break Christmas, we already said Vivica A Fox, Jack
Harry. The actual lead leads are
Jasmine, Avelitas and Landon Moss.
It's about Vivica A Fox and JackHay are both just like
supporting in this. Yeah, holy.
They're, they're very, they're very supporting, you know,
(06:49):
they're not. Lovely, you just like showed up
for a day or two. Jack A more than Vivica I would
say is in this. Way.
Wow. Wow.
Yep. OK.
Yes, and it is directed by notable director David Dakota.
Dakota is what? We're looking for.
I'm kidding. David and company did not
direct. This.
(07:11):
He would be so pissed. Sorry, David, but what I want to
say about this director is this director has been directing
terrible like bee movies foreverand ever and ever.
He likes them. He likes them and you know,
they're, they're of a genre, youknow, like killer bees type of
movie, you know, like a killer bee movie.
(07:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A more traditional Lifetime
movie, not a Lifetime Christmas movie, is what you're saying?
Yeah, he does a lot. He does basically all the wrong
movies. He directs those.
And yeah. He has an in with.
Vivica Vivica showed up as a favor, is what you're saying?
Oh yeah, yeah. This is like their partnership.
And like, he'll, he'll always slot in a gay character as like,
(07:54):
the waiter or like the, you know, the random person.
So I'm always like, there's the role I would play.
Yeah. He's just around in the biz, OK.
OK. Does he know about you?
Have you ever talked to him? I have not talked to him, but I
think he's scared of me probably, you know, OK, yeah, I
(08:16):
get that. When when gays first meet, they
had they get scared and they have to like give it a moment
and then decide if they're friends or foes.
Wow, wow. All that happens in a matter of
minutes. Seconds.
It's all in my eyes. It all happens in a matter of
seconds. So you were talking about you
and Alonzo, sassy and surly if you had met Alonzo and
(08:38):
determined that you guys were foes.
What would we have done? What would we have?
What was the? What are the next?
Steps do you? Do you?
You don't think that, right? No.
No, no, we're, we're friends. We we went to dinner together
one time during the you know, those things that you invited to
South Carolina for? Which Ramble Fest or the
marathon, Patrick? One of them I can't remember
(09:02):
what. Got it.
But but yeah, we have been both.You would know, You would know.
You'd hear it on air. You'd hear the tension.
Yeah, you'd hear the tension. Great, I get that.
OK, go ahead. Let let's see if that doesn't
happen. So let's jump in.
Let's. Jump has that ever made that?
I'm sorry, it's just hard. In mere seconds.
Has this ever ruined a friendship group for you?
Or like dinner or anything we'relike within?
(09:24):
Oh, it's all the time, all the time.
I can't go anywhere. I can't go anywhere, get
enemies, all of a sudden the thethe bar back is like pissed at
me for something and I have no idea what I did.
Yeah. So it's usually.
You you're getting. You're becoming the foe.
You're not assigning. The foe.
You're not assigning foe. Yeah, usually I'm not the the
(09:45):
the foe you're so I don't. Have I can't imagine.
I don't have me me feelings, butpeople, people think I have a,
you know, a mean streak. I can't imagine.
Wow. I don't believe that to be true.
I refuse to believe it. Man.
We're learning a lot, not about this movie though.
But we maybe should start. Oh.
You're right, the movie. Let's talk about it, Dan.
(10:05):
You didn't see this? Why we'll.
Tell you the worst thing that that Patrick has told us about
the queer community, it's the fact that he said lesbians never
break up in an episode of this. He's like lesbians, They find
each other and then they just stay together.
And every time I hear about a lesbian couple breaking up, I'm
always like, that's not what Patrick told me.
(10:26):
Yeah, don't worry, don't worry. They'll get back together.
They'll get back together. They can break up, but it's
never going to. Last.
That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. I can't stay mad at you.
Hands tied hands. Are tied, yeah.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
Go ahead. I just want to tell you're a
liar, Patrick. Sorry.
Go ahead. Great.
You know, if anything, I'm a teller of tall tales.
Teller of tall tales, Fair. All right, so we start off, we
(10:49):
have Miss Vivica Fox. She start doing like a Christmas
commercial for her business. She's playing Leslie Bake.
Leslie Bake bakes, cookies and other mark her.
Last name is bake without the R.Yeah, believe it or not, not the
most on the nose name that you're going to hear in this
movie. Her name should there's Baker's
(11:09):
like last name. Her name is Leslie Bake.
Leslie Bake. Leslie Bake.
The name we made-up here on deck, the Hallmark.
But who knows if it's her real name because it's also her whole
like brand. Yeah, identity.
You know. She's a Martha Stewart ask type
of, of entrepreneur. Yeah.
And. Like Martha Stewart's name was
(11:29):
Martha Home Decor Martha Home. Decor, yes.
Yeah, yeah. And the kid, they cut the
commercial, they're like cut, cut because she takes somebody
like the cookie and she's smiling and she, she does not
like the cookies. She just bit, she's like, this
is not one of my cookies. And then you see like a shot of
like all the assistants being like, I don't know, she's bad.
(11:50):
I'm like, yes, what's going to be like mean boss?
What's crazy? You know, a Christmas time.
Is she's like, why are my competitors cookies in the
commercial? And I got to be honest, she's
not a very nice boss, but she's right about this.
If you have a brand that'd be like us, I don't know, we don't
(12:14):
really have any competitors. I but it's really, we took down
the Bubbly Sesh and that's the one that matters.
But yeah, of course. Yeah, once the Bubbly Sesh was
when they were still around, it'd be like us, like one day
just accidentally uploading an episode of Bubbly Sesh on our
feet. We'd be like, that'd be actually
really funny, an old one, but write that down.
(12:35):
It'll be funny somebody writes that down, but April?
Fool's joke, but it. Oh, that's good if.
It's her commercial for her stuff.
It's got to be her stuff on me, right?
Yeah, definitely. I like the idea of finding old
bubbly such apps and getting pulling clips and applying them
(12:55):
to a new acting like they did a new one together take some work.
And I feel like. The bit really would pay off.
Got a got a scour, I'm sure. I'm sure Jax has all the
transcripts. Similar stuff for sure.
It'll it'll, it'll be easy. It'll be easy.
Yeah. Anyway, she's mad and she's bad,
boss. She's like.
She's bad boss, of course. That's what they're trying to
establish. But she's right.
About it so we're we're so excited because we have Miss Fox
(13:18):
being a bad boss she's like where is my assistant Emma?
Emma runs in and Emma is our protagonist for now.
For now, we'll see what happens and.
You say that for all the movies.Right.
She she's like a horses. Or a stables of there is a horse
(13:40):
stables I believe. Sorry, but.
There you go. There you the, she's like, we
have to take this company down like, and Emma's like, oh, you
want to like acquire the companyor like do a like a bakery, run
a bakery. And she's like, no, I don't want
to run a bakery. I just want all their cookies
and recipes. And I'm going to send you in
undercover to go check it out. Yeah, 'cause it's like she was
(14:05):
so offended that somebody made the mistake of putting not her
cookies on the table that I guess this is like, I'm going to
get them 'cause I guess if we'regoing to air this and So what if
someone figures it out and is like, those aren't her cookies?
Well then she could be like, well, look at you now, fool.
They are 'cause I bought them. I guess that's was her whole the
(14:27):
motivation behind it. Yeah, and you know, if if she
steals every cookie recipe, thenshe'll be the only cookie person
in town. I got to be honest, right?
I know we're real early here. Like early, early.
This sounds awful. We'll just wait.
OK. Right.
That's the first scene. You know, we got it.
(14:47):
We have so much more. We, we, we actually don't.
We actually really don't. My notes are so minimal on this.
We got maybe 5 minutes. Left.
Oh wow, OK, she's a bad boss. Cookies aren't hers, Yes.
We got it. So Emma does some research.
She watches a YouTube video of some guy named Butterfingers who
(15:08):
makes cookies with butter, whichis revolutionary.
Wow, with real butter. Cuz she doesn't.
Butter doesn't. Know how to actually bake?
She's an assistant. She doesn't actually bake.
Her last name is Bake, so no. Emily's Leslie.
Leslie. She's not related.
Emily doesn't bake is her name. Yes, that's exactly.
(15:28):
Right. Never baked before?
Yep. And so she never, if she's going
to go undercover at a bakery, a mom and pop, she's going to have
to do some baking. She's going to have to prove
herself. So she's going to learn through
the Butterfinger guy. Yes, nobody better lay a finger.
I'm about my Butterfinger. Right.
And I was expecting that Butterfinger thing to come back.
(15:49):
It doesn't. It doesn't.
OK. But it's, it's court endemic.
Yeah, he's a Canadian, Canadian actor, so he's shut up.
Notable. Can I pause really quickly
because this week the tutorial and then we'll and then we'll
take a break and then we'll do something else.
Have you ever seen the Santa Conwith the with no the movie, a
(16:14):
Lifetime movie. I Think it's 2014 with Melissa
Joan Hart and Steve Urkel. Jaleel White.
Have you seen this movie? Probably.
Yeah, probably. So I I lead you.
Wouldn't forget. It I lead the way that the
poster led me to believe, which is going to be these two, I led
(16:35):
the way I LED with. OK.
Melissa John Hart. And Joel White.
Yeah. That was the way that I was led
to believe this movie was going to be about.
They are in this movie so little.
Yeah, instead it's the brother, Big Brother from 7th Heaven.
And I have to be honest, I turned this movie on late
(17:00):
Saturday night with the intention of I'm going to give
this 5 minutes just so I can seeMelissa, Jonah Hart and Steve
Urkel together and I'm going to fall asleep.
Watch the whole movie. You live.
Such a cool life. Man, Daggumit, if it didn't end
up making me. I liked it more than I had any
(17:20):
right to like this movie. It is a wild time and I would
recommend it. Oh, I would recommend giving it
a watch. It's a fun time.
That's all I'm trying to you guys.
Are locked in on this make and bank.
Hey, let's take a quick break. We've gotten ever after.
Let's take a quick break. With Julia White and Melissa
John. Hardy Oh, really?
That's another one. So they've been in, They've
been. Before too, ever after.
Maybe this one they actually do.They actually.
(17:41):
The Santa Con and ever after. Yeah, that's it.
How? About that, how about that?
Let's do this. Let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and we'll actually talk about the movie.
Should we do that? We'll try.
We'll try we're. Trying folks.
Butterfinger. Live an update Brand Ever After
is Jaleel White's podcast. Oh.
(18:04):
OK. Oh.
For years, really, including an episode in 2021 with How.
About that AM. I going to listen.
Am I going to listen to some Julia White podcasts?
You bet I am. I would like to watch.
I was so mad when I realized that it wasn't what I was
promised with the. Probrina Merkel.
(18:25):
Yes, it's a crazy movie. Anyway, let's So she is going to
get a job at the competitor. She's going to go in, she's
going to be a seasonal employee of this bakery, which is led by
the what? What's the name of the the last
name of this family? They are called the sugar.
(18:49):
Gosh, what sugar. Sugar bakers.
Sugar bakers. Are you serious?
I think so. Leslie Bake and the Sugar Baker
families. I'm like.
Get out. Of here.
Wow. So Emma.
Emma pulls up to the to the a cookie factory and there's a guy
like dancing in his car. And she's like, this guy is
(19:12):
crazy, but he's really dancing. And his name's Dave.
He's the son and heir of cookie whatever business.
I don't know what the business is called.
And he's basically Jackie Harry's son in the movie, right?
Right. So Jackie, Harry, she comes down
and she's interviewing Emma and she's like, you know what?
(19:36):
I got a good feeling about you. You, you seem nice and I don't
really need to see you bake. I don't need to like this
resume, like forgot about it references like I'll call him
later. You just seem so nice and I'm
going to just hire you on the spot.
Well, that's what she does. And I'm sure it's going to be
fine. She's going to.
(19:57):
Seems like nothing could go wrong.
No big deal. And the whole point here is to
kind of get like Recon on how this company's doing.
Could we make them an offer? Could we buy them out?
What would it look like for me to just get?
Sugar Sugar Baker. That's exactly right.
Well, oh, the interview does consist of one question I
(20:18):
forgot. Very important.
Are you a liar? That's a good one to ask.
We ask that. To Aaron Shay in the interview
process we never want to like are you a liar like a just a
thing we should we. All know the truth now.
We've been there. Because a liar would 100% tell
the truth there. That's right.
You know what? Yeah, I'm a liar.
Please give me this job. That's.
(20:41):
Right. It's like if you if you meet a
cop, you ask them they're a cop,they have to say they're a cop,
right? But they don't, right?
Is that true? That's not true.
It's not true, but it's it's a rumor that I rumor.
Set in the Movies Now, this bakery has been around for a
while, the Sugar Baker Bakery, and they have these employees
that have been around forever and they're like a staple of
(21:03):
this bakery. Sally, Maggie Patty.
Sally, Maggie. Patty.
Sally, Maggie, Patty, those are three individuals. 3 individuals
great and they all are so important to do this.
Movie I can tell. So important to this movie, but
you can't forget about Clark thethe guy who works there.
(21:29):
Clark, Saggy. Maggie Clark and Clark.
Saggy Sally. Maggie Patty Clark.
Yes. Clark is a taller John Krasinski
look alike. OK, he does look a little bit
like John Krasinski. Yeah.
All right, check it off now. I would say and Dave.
(21:52):
Dave. There's something in your
throat. Yeah, Dave.
Dave. Maybe.
If I. Say Dave.
Some people clear their throats.I just try to talk through it.
By saying the same. Thing over and over again.
Is that Gary or Christmas dank? Dave is the, the son of the
(22:12):
sugar Baker and he's immediatelysuspicious of her.
Like what is what is your deal? And I but the my problem with
Dave is he's suspicious of her, but like he thinks that she's
knows too much to be a temp, butdoesn't really know what to do
(22:35):
with that. And so he's just kind of like,
what's your deal as a temp? I was very, I don't know.
He he couldn't figure out what what he wanted to be suspicious
of, but he's suspicious. Yeah, of course.
And you know, he should be suspicious because she is acting
strange. She doesn't know how to bake.
She doesn't know how to do anything.
She, like, burns the cookie. She puts salt in a recipe for
(22:56):
one of them. But we'll get to that.
It's actually a huge plot point.It's a.
Win for her when she does the song.
Oh my God. But but Dan, but Dan, I want you
to envision this because the movie, it gets a little boring.
So I'm going to spice it up a little bit and I want you to
invent. Get out of town.
The movie gets a little boring. The bakes in the Well, We're the
(23:17):
Bakers and Maggie, Sally Magpie,whatever her name is.
And Clark and Clark don't. Clark shut it out.
I'm a spice it up. I'm a spice it up with
imagination. So imagine this happens.
OK, Emma, a protagonist. Yes.
Or we think so, man in a, in a VAT of cookie dough, OK,
(23:40):
chocolate chip cookie dough. And she drowns like quicksand in
the cookie dough and she dies. She dies and she has to be
replaced. She has, she has to be replaced.
And Miss Vivica, A fox comes andnow she's pretending to be Emma,
pretending to be an assistant. Got it.
I love that. Does that happen?
No, but I want you for the rest of the movie to picture.
(24:04):
Vivica A Fox. As Emma pretending to be.
Knowing that Emma died in a VAT of cookie dough, which, what do
I want to go? Hey, I saw.
I know we have time for this. I know we do at Cherrydale, us
at the movies. And I was at a 10 AM Moana, so I
wasn't going to get any of these.
They had, you know, the cookie dough bites they sell.
Yeah, they're trash. Yeah.
Unless you put them in the fridge.
(24:25):
But you have to do that ahead. Of time, yeah.
Or there's sometimes they have them, sometimes they have them.
They currently have chocolate peppermint or chocolate mint
cookie dough balls just for the holidays.
That's interesting. And they had them cold.
And I've been thinking about himever since.
And he said cookie dough, that cookie dough.
And that's what I went to. But I got to get back to the
movies. Here we are now there's
(24:45):
something we can do. There's something we can do.
What? What's happening?
Really chocolate mint mint chocolate cookie dough balls
They. Are they're chocolate peppermint
brownie batter? I think I like brownie batter,
but cookie dough's where it's at.
All right, but that's cookie dough.
Cookie dough. Always cookie.
Dough's the best. Just buy the spoonful.
(25:06):
Absolutely. Yep.
Give it to me totally. All right, so now that Mister K
Fox is playing Emma in my made-up part of the movie, we,
we, she starts to have moral quandaries about stealing all
the recipes. And she's like, I don't know,
everyone out in this bakery is so nice.
And, you know, there's a guy whostops by and he talks to
(25:28):
Meredith Thomas and he's like, hey, this land is like really
valuable and you should sell thebakery.
And they're like, we would neversell the bakery.
He's like, no, I don't want the bakery.
I just want the land the bakery's on.
And they're like he. Sounds like a bad guy.
He's actually a really good guy in this.
Like he ends up like, you're like, oh, this guy's gonna pull
(25:51):
out the rug from underneath. He's a great guy and he just has
the hots for Maggie. Whatever.
Whoever. Meredith.
Thomas. Meredith.
Thomas just has just has the hots for Meredith Thomas so.
He does. Who wouldn't?
Yes, she's she's she doesn't ageone other.
Thing this movie does, you know,I don't know like how how little
(26:13):
they tried with this movie is how hard they tried with
karaoke. They wrote original Christmas
songs to sing karaoke to, and they play all of it.
And it's entirety. And they have them sing live and
(26:34):
and now I know why they don't typically do that for movies
because what? A time to try to hear at make
and make. Christmas.
It was a tough slog and it happened twice.
It happened twice, but the song wasn't bad.
Song's not bad, but it's completely unnecessary and a
waste of talents. It is, it is, but it happens.
(26:57):
They do go to karaoke and and this is when, you know, she
already like is kind of like beginning to and like, like the
people that she's working with. Course, she's starting to like
Dave in a whole different way than the rest of the, you know,
Maggie. 'S Maggie, Sally Raphael.
And so they kind of start havinga little bit of a thing going on
(27:21):
and at some point, I don't know if we're here yet, but she does
go over. For.
Dinner to the Sugar Baker family.
She does well cuz well cuz in mynotes I skip a lot of things
like this dinner and like everything.
Hey guys, the Golden Globes justgot announced.
(27:41):
I think we should cover that instead.
We should. Yeah, she goes over.
The Is Cynthia Revo supporting or lead?
Well, I don't know. I haven't pulled it up, but I'm
going to. But we'll get back to it.
We'll so talk about the dinner and I'll look up the Golden
Globes. So she goes over to the Sugar
Baker family for dinner and it'sgreat.
(28:02):
They're having a great time. They she's like, I don't sell
it. I've never done Christmas
before. And he's like, what, this is
crazy. Introduces her to chestnuts.
And that's a moment. And then they find them.
They find themselves under the mistletoe.
And this seat is so funny to me because he's like, oh, mom's,
(28:25):
mom's at it again. And she's like, well, then we
better not disappoint mom. And they go to kiss and Jackie
walks in while this is happening, watches until right
before they kiss, right so closeto lips locking and goes, what's
(28:46):
going on in here? And I loved it.
It was a great moment. It was a great.
Moment Jackie has one volume to so you know.
Jackie apparently put up mistletoe in her house just so
that she could interrupt a kiss,and I love that.
That's great. And we did find out Cynthia Revo
is lead. There you go.
(29:06):
Ariana Grande is supporting. That's exactly.
What I which I got to be honest,based upon the amount of screen
time in that movie, you could have fooled me so.
It is called wicked. They are evenly spread.
Yeah, yeah, in that movie, how is 1?
Supporting in one league. One better one's the wicked,
better chance of winning. Well, Cynthia Revo's way better
(29:27):
in it, but the fact that they'reone of them is supporting one of
them's. Leading one of them's wicked.
But it not in. Wicked, but it's OK.
Got it. Wicked's got to be leading
Wicked. That'd be like me not being the
leading them in the podcast where it's Brand, Brandon and.
Fred and friends. Yeah, Brandon.
And friends I lead. Brandon.
(29:50):
How dare you? I'll take the lead.
It's going to be doing Brandon and friends.
When we record it, it's a Cisco and Ebert situation.
While this. Is happening.
She keeps having to call Vivica A fox who's just kind of like,
what's happening, what's happening?
And she's like, if they don't want to sell, just take it
basically like we'll, we'll takethe recipes, we'll make them
ourselves, we won't give them any credit and we'll put them
(30:12):
out of business. And she's like, if this makes
you feel uncomfortable, how about I give you a promotion and
she's going to promote her to her like executive fun time or
whatever it is. And.
Executive fun time? Yeah, got.
It right she has to deceive themto get the promotion.
But it's weird because Miss Vivica Fox just talking to
(30:33):
herself in a mirror the whole scene.
Yep. She sure is pretty wise.
I think she. Talks to herself in the mirror
this entire movie. Right.
Because you know she's playing Emma.
Playing Emma. Playing Emma.
Playing Emma, of course, yes. Yes, but but actually Emma does
find the recipes she finds like a little book.
It's in a. Book called recipes.
(30:53):
It just says recipes. It just says recipes.
How'd she crack that case? I don't.
Know, yeah, she starts to have like second, second guessing and
she just like, comes out with it.
She just tells Dave she's like, you know what?
I've been lying to you. And yeah, I've been stealing
recipes. This is what I I.
(31:14):
Love this scene so much though, because to prove that she's a
good person, she throws down a copy of the recipes that she
printed out and said, see, I didn't give these to my boss.
Yeah, reminder, she took the picture with the with her phone.
(31:36):
Had full intention I got. Copies.
I got them. They're these are they're.
Still there. This moment I've yet to do
anything. I put them into a document and
printed them out to show you that I am not going to give them
to my boss. A wonderful moment.
A wonderful and she he of course, is upset and he's like,
(31:58):
but we were gonna be doing the business and she has to go to
Miss Phil K Fox and tell her like, OK, I'm not gonna do this
thing anymore and Miss Phil K Fox is like, you are fired,
you're fired and go ahead. She says well no I quit and I
(32:20):
quit when I walked in the door and then like it right it like
pings on a text or something. Yeah, she gets an e-mail, Vivica
A Fox says. She opens it up and she and it's
just like her resignation e-mail.
So I guess I don't know if she put like a delay on the e-mail
to work. Right.
So that's just going to hit. Perfect, but it was great right
before I walked in the door to. One boom.
(32:42):
Right. There's a there's a lag, you
know, the Wi-fi's slow. It's so it hits perfect.
And Mr. OK Fox is kind of like, good on you.
You got me there, which I, I thought was pretty funny.
Emma goes to Jackie Harry and Jackie Harry's like I'm I'm sad
to hear that you, you know, are a liar when I asked you about
(33:03):
not being a liar. And it sucks because you I made
these cookies and I named them after you.
They're the ammo cookies. They're salted caramel cookies,
right, Because she made a mistake.
She made salted. She put salt instead of sugar in
a. Cookie.
Turns out that worked out for her, yes?
So she put way too much salt into cookies.
(33:24):
And so our guy who I, I don't remember his name, Dave.
They. Added caramel to the cook to to
the cookies after the fact and it worked out.
Salted caramel cookies were goodbecause you put salt in instead
of sugar, not because you drizzle salt rock salt on top of
it. Right, that's exactly right.
Course kosher salt on top. These cookies were so good that
(33:47):
they they they were going to putthem in their store as Emma's
cookies. Emma's caramel salted caramel
cookies. Even after she it came out that
she's a liar. That's that's the type of
character of the Sugar Baker family.
Yeah, credit what creditors do. And of all the things in this
(34:07):
movie that sound like they suck,the the fact that they're
passing off, the fact that she replaced sugar with salt and and
the the people love the cookie is the thing that's angry me the
most. Yeah, there's a.
Lot they love it. There's a lot to it.
How it doesn't OK? That's a lot of salt.
Man. We get they Jack Kay invites her
(34:28):
to the Christmas party that the company is throwing and she's
like, I don't know if I should come but she does anyway.
And she makes up with Dave and they do, and they kiss, and then
they sing karaoke again. Same song.
Anything can happen at Christmas.
Anything. Can happen at Christmas, yeah.
That's what that's the title of the song and it goes like this.
(34:50):
Anything can happen at Christmas.
The fact that you guys were not neither of you sounded like
you're on a delay was wild. We're.
Pretty we're pretty good. Here's another part.
Of that when? Ready.
You take the lead and I'll follow.
OK, this is Christmas. It's happening.
(35:12):
We're pretty great. We're writing an album that's
going to come out next year. We need a whole year.
It's going to be really Fast forward some time.
I don't know if it's a year or whatever.
And she is still working at the bakery at the Sugar Baker.
She gets brought on to the SugarBaker family because they need
somebody like her with her business knowledge to really
take them to the next. Step.
(35:35):
That's right. And who's a who's a customer who
shows up? Oh.
That's right, Miss Viva Gay Fox.And she puts on her sunglasses
and she says, Merry Christmas, darlings.
And then that's the end of the movie.
And she says looks like I walkedinto the wrong bakery or
something like that. I wish that.
Would have been great I. Would what do?
(35:57):
We do now, Patrick. What do we do now?
Well, of course it's time for pour it up.
I put a cork in it. So what?
We'll start with Dan. Since you were using your
imagination, don't forget SO. She's in the.
She's dead in the cookie batter.I will pour that movie.
I will put a cork in the one that we got, which sounds like
(36:20):
it was made over the course of 36 hours for a $6 budget and
could have easily been an e-mail.
This movie sounds terrible. Please tell me that you fooled
me like you did with the Taylor Swift movie and it's actually
really good, but it sounds awful.
Put a cork right on. It I need to pull that clip of
first thing, let's freaking go. It it needs to be the new I'm
(36:42):
lonely. I'm lonely because I I think I
would like to play that every sooften.
Yeah, Yeah, it's great. OK.
Brad, what are you thinking? So this movie is real, real bad
and and it is a movie that I am 100% sure that it was written by
AI. I don't think that there is a
(37:05):
reasonable explanation for anything else.
There is a conversation that happens in this movie that
literally word for word takes place twice and it is insane.
It is bad. I did find myself towards the
end of this movie being like, it's kind of a good time.
Of course, I kind of had a little bit of fun with this
(37:26):
movie. Is it good?
No, it's not. It is the worst quality movie
I've seen this one on any network.
It's the worst you've seen. But I did enjoy myself,
especially towards the end once I got over it.
Got over what was happening. Stop being offended.
(37:48):
Some of the cuts make no sense. This movie is just wild.
It may have been edited by AII, don't know, but it is it it.
It does seem like a a movie thatwas made like hey, I've heard
about these movies before, let me try my hand at it and they
never actually watched one. It was not good.
(38:10):
I had a great time but I will have to put a cork in it.
Yes, I think you're right. It's like, did I hate that
license to wed knock off movie more than this?
Yes. Yeah, but higher quality.
Right. So but this was like way worse
(38:30):
quality than that. So it didn't make me angry, it
just was like not good in any shape or form.
But yeah, probably one of the worst I've seen this year.
I was so sad. I'm like, oh, we're covering
this movie. I would know what are we going
to do? What are we going to talk about?
It could be summed up in like 1 sentence like the whole movie.
So yeah, you know, I I wish better things for Miss Vivica
(38:53):
and Jackie Harry, but this is the hand that they were dealt
this year. Wow, that's right.
So it was as bad as it sounded. That's hand.
That's right. Jeez.
Well, we did it. We will be back next week with
the Holiday junkie a big one over.
On the road Jennifer Love Hewitt, Atlanta junkie on the
(39:15):
street. Biggest movie of the year,
right? As far as like, you know, yeah,
well, I guess the Taylor Swift movie did get a good bit of
publicity, but I don't think they were, like, fully
anticipating that. I don't know.
No, this was what they planned to be the thing, Yeah.
So we'll be covering that and then you will be joining us for
one more episode after Christmasbecause we have the the the the
(39:37):
movies to do so. So that's going to be fun as
well. So it's not the it's not the end
of the road for Patrick. We still we got more, more to
get to and of course live from acork.com.
You can go there anytime to see the reviews on stuff like
bluegrass, bluegrass Christmas on up.
We're not good for that anytime.Soon.
No, Patrick. Did and so you can check that
(39:57):
out, Patrick, Anything else for the people?
Oh, I got a Christmas card from Ryan.
Oh, look at that. That's where it file it out to
be such DTH you can see it. That's right.
Yeah. So that made me happy today.
There you go. There for little things.
Go we'll be back tomorrow with another one till they may be the
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Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Lifetime Christmas
movies. Hi, I'm Patrick Serrano and I'm
a Lifetime movie expert. I'm Dan and I despise lifetime
Christmas movies and this is thedeck.
The homework podcast deck the homework.
It's this podcast, Brandon. And friends host this podcast.
(00:27):
We hope you like this, Dolly. But just bum, bum, bum, bum,
bum. Hello.
Did we catch you off guard there, Patrick?
Oh, I don't know, did I lag? Yo, I just looked like you were
like, Oh yeah, it's my turn there.
You know, well, you know, I am always surprised by myself.
(00:50):
Of course. You know what I love about this
time of year is I I love lifetime on court.com because
you're doing the Lord's work over there.
You're covering all the homeworks, all the lifetime and
then also all the UPS. Are you doing all the up TV's?
There's a sprinkling like if I feel like I want to do 1, I I've
done a couple UPS, I've done a couple BTS buses.
(01:12):
We can't even. Get our our employment page and
address right on our website. Oh, that's right, Patrick's got
reviews from all of those synopsis.
Give us give us the quick rundown on a Bluegrass
Christmas. Bluegrass Christmas, this girl,
her grandpa's like a bluegrass player.
She has to put on there's a horse stables and the the one of
(01:39):
the horses hot chocolate gets, you know, sold and.
The horse's name is Hot Chocolate.
Yeah, but it's a boy. It's not a girl, but as you were
would have thought. Yeah.
Then they put on a concert and and she she ends up singing a
lot and then her grandpa comes on and saves the.
(01:59):
Save. We do this instead.
Festival of Tree Festival of. Trees there is a horse tables.
Yeah, the Festival of Trees. There's obviously a festival
that has trees and this lady has, it's a competition like a
tree decorating, not like a treeChristmas tree.
There's a really sassy gay guy in it who out sasses me by 1000%
(02:22):
and and he's the gay assistant and I just thought he was the
best. You should be offended by
brand's reaction. Correct.
Wow. You said there's a sassy gay guy
that out sasses me by 1000% and Brand said wow, like you're the
sassiest gay guy he's ever seen by a country.
Mile say. That that's how I mean.
I'm pretty sure I might be the sassiest gay person that Brand
(02:45):
knows, but you know, there are more sassy out there.
As somebody who? Yeah, I think that's for the
fact. As somebody.
As somebody who grew up in a very sheltered, conservative
Christian little bubble, I thinkPatrick is the the sassiest gay
person I know. Yes.
Right. It's like Alonzo and me.
And it's like, you know, Alonzo is more more surly and I'm more
(03:10):
sassy. Yeah.
Surly, Surly. Alonso, Dorado.
And I love you both so much. I love you both so much.
And then? Nice for covering anything else.
Despite what I say about you, Opera, I love you so much.
There is a horse stables. There is a horse stables I
Festival of lights. Anything else aside from the
Festival of the Lights in that movie that's worth?
(03:31):
Festival of Lights with with Antonio, right?
No, that's Christmas under the lights.
No, I was just going back to Festival of Lights real quick,
but before I moved on you. Said there was a Christmas tree
decorating. Not a Christmas tree, but a
Christmas tree. At some .0 you mean.
You mean that the great Up TV movie, Yes, that we were talking
about? Yeah.
No, I'm done recapping that one.You have to read the rest on
(03:55):
lifetimeaccord.com. That's right.
That's right. How has the lifetime crop been
overall this year? Obviously we're doing a few of
them with you on the show, but we can't do them all.
How? How's it How's it been so far?
Dreadful. OK terrible.
Is the Chiefs 1 the best one? Yes, so hard the they're not the
(04:18):
change. In that one, thank.
You I can see how you. The Taylor Swift 1 is the best.
One yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Taylor Swift 1.
Of course, by a mile. They they crushed it and
everything else has been. Even Tia Mowry was like, yawn,
this is boring. So much talking.
So much. So much talking about things
(04:39):
happening in these Lifetime movies.
No. Actions, it sounds.
So it's been bad, is what we're trying to say.
Yeah, real bad. Has it been?
Has it been great? I'm holding out for a Carpenter
Christmas. The horny, the horny 1.
And that's all I that's a glimmer of hope I have.
Yeah. Is that what they're saying on
the commercials? They'll remind people it's the
make sure you turn into Carpenter Christmas because.
(05:01):
The Carpenter Christmas You knowJesus was a Carpenter.
You could get the wrong idea in a hurry.
Get the wrong idea and it's the horny one.
True. I think that's that's what's
nice. It's a little bit of Jesus, a
little bit of it's a new. The devil we're playing called
Horny or. Julie Nope, sorry, the new.
Game we're playing that's reallyfun.
It's got to take off. We'll play it at Bramble.
Horny or holy, it'll be interesting.
(05:21):
Let's talk and make a big Christmas a star-studded feature
Vivica. A fox, Jack.
Hey, Jack. Hey.
And then? The rest of the game.
The rest of the game this year. Oh, that's mean to Meredith
Thomas, my favorite Lifetime actress.
Oh really? Meredith is your favorite.
She's she's she's up there. And Gina Hirazumi, who has the
(05:44):
best hair in any Lifetime movie?Always.
Gina Hirazumi Best. Hair.
Best hair hands down always winsBest hair every year.
Always wins what? Every year.
What award shows this? You don't get it.
Oh, I do it. I do a lifetime and court award
show only about hair and makeup.Interesting.
(06:06):
It's the lifetime on quad hair and makeup.
More you've never gotten an invite or anything the the
Corkies, I don't know. The Corkies?
Yep, hair, Makeup. We'll throw a wardrobe in there
too. Why not?
Yeah, I think we should. Yeah, well, we'll, we'll be on
the lookout for that next year for sure.
Hopefully we get an invite. All right, let's dive into this
(06:27):
one, shall we? Make or make Christmas.
OK, make or break Christmas, we already said Vivica A Fox, Jack
Harry. The actual lead leads are
Jasmine, Avelitas and Landon Moss.
It's about Vivica A Fox and JackHay are both just like
supporting in this. Yeah, holy.
They're, they're very, they're very supporting, you know,
(06:49):
they're not. Lovely, you just like showed up
for a day or two. Jack A more than Vivica I would
say is in this. Way.
Wow. Wow.
Yep. OK.
Yes, and it is directed by notable director David Dakota.
Dakota is what? We're looking for.
I'm kidding. David and company did not
direct. This.
(07:11):
He would be so pissed. Sorry, David, but what I want to
say about this director is this director has been directing
terrible like bee movies foreverand ever and ever.
He likes them. He likes them and you know,
they're, they're of a genre, youknow, like killer bees type of
movie, you know, like a killer bee movie.
(07:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A more traditional Lifetime
movie, not a Lifetime Christmas movie, is what you're saying?
Yeah, he does a lot. He does basically all the wrong
movies. He directs those.
And yeah. He has an in with.
Vivica Vivica showed up as a favor, is what you're saying?
Oh yeah, yeah. This is like their partnership.
And like, he'll, he'll always slot in a gay character as like,
(07:54):
the waiter or like the, you know, the random person.
So I'm always like, there's the role I would play.
Yeah. He's just around in the biz, OK.
OK. Does he know about you?
Have you ever talked to him? I have not talked to him, but I
think he's scared of me probably, you know, OK, yeah, I
(08:16):
get that. When when gays first meet, they
had they get scared and they have to like give it a moment
and then decide if they're friends or foes.
Wow, wow. All that happens in a matter of
minutes. Seconds.
It's all in my eyes. It all happens in a matter of
seconds. So you were talking about you
and Alonzo, sassy and surly if you had met Alonzo and
(08:38):
determined that you guys were foes.
What would we have done? What would we have?
What was the? What are the next?
Steps do you? Do you?
You don't think that, right? No.
No, no, we're, we're friends. We we went to dinner together
one time during the you know, those things that you invited to
South Carolina for? Which Ramble Fest or the
marathon, Patrick? One of them I can't remember
(09:02):
what. Got it.
But but yeah, we have been both.You would know, You would know.
You'd hear it on air. You'd hear the tension.
Yeah, you'd hear the tension. Great, I get that.
OK, go ahead. Let let's see if that doesn't
happen. So let's jump in.
Let's. Jump has that ever made that?
I'm sorry, it's just hard. In mere seconds.
Has this ever ruined a friendship group for you?
Or like dinner or anything we'relike within?
(09:24):
Oh, it's all the time, all the time.
I can't go anywhere. I can't go anywhere, get
enemies, all of a sudden the thethe bar back is like pissed at
me for something and I have no idea what I did.
Yeah. So it's usually.
You you're getting. You're becoming the foe.
You're not assigning. The foe.
You're not assigning foe. Yeah, usually I'm not the the
(09:45):
the foe you're so I don't. Have I can't imagine.
I don't have me me feelings, butpeople, people think I have a,
you know, a mean streak. I can't imagine.
Wow. I don't believe that to be true.
I refuse to believe it. Man.
We're learning a lot, not about this movie though.
But we maybe should start. Oh.
You're right, the movie. Let's talk about it, Dan.
(10:05):
You didn't see this? Why we'll.
Tell you the worst thing that that Patrick has told us about
the queer community, it's the fact that he said lesbians never
break up in an episode of this. He's like lesbians, They find
each other and then they just stay together.
And every time I hear about a lesbian couple breaking up, I'm
always like, that's not what Patrick told me.
(10:26):
Yeah, don't worry, don't worry. They'll get back together.
They'll get back together. They can break up, but it's
never going to. Last.
That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. I can't stay mad at you.
Hands tied hands. Are tied, yeah.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
Go ahead. I just want to tell you're a
liar, Patrick. Sorry.
Go ahead. Great.
You know, if anything, I'm a teller of tall tales.
Teller of tall tales, Fair. All right, so we start off, we
(10:49):
have Miss Vivica Fox. She start doing like a Christmas
commercial for her business. She's playing Leslie Bake.
Leslie Bake bakes, cookies and other mark her.
Last name is bake without the R.Yeah, believe it or not, not the
most on the nose name that you're going to hear in this
movie. Her name should there's Baker's
(11:09):
like last name. Her name is Leslie Bake.
Leslie Bake. Leslie Bake.
The name we made-up here on deck, the Hallmark.
But who knows if it's her real name because it's also her whole
like brand. Yeah, identity.
You know. She's a Martha Stewart ask type
of, of entrepreneur. Yeah.
And. Like Martha Stewart's name was
(11:29):
Martha Home Decor Martha Home. Decor, yes.
Yeah, yeah. And the kid, they cut the
commercial, they're like cut, cut because she takes somebody
like the cookie and she's smiling and she, she does not
like the cookies. She just bit, she's like, this
is not one of my cookies. And then you see like a shot of
like all the assistants being like, I don't know, she's bad.
(11:50):
I'm like, yes, what's going to be like mean boss?
What's crazy? You know, a Christmas time.
Is she's like, why are my competitors cookies in the
commercial? And I got to be honest, she's
not a very nice boss, but she's right about this.
If you have a brand that'd be like us, I don't know, we don't
(12:14):
really have any competitors. I but it's really, we took down
the Bubbly Sesh and that's the one that matters.
But yeah, of course. Yeah, once the Bubbly Sesh was
when they were still around, it'd be like us, like one day
just accidentally uploading an episode of Bubbly Sesh on our
feet. We'd be like, that'd be actually
really funny, an old one, but write that down.
(12:35):
It'll be funny somebody writes that down, but April?
Fool's joke, but it. Oh, that's good if.
It's her commercial for her stuff.
It's got to be her stuff on me, right?
Yeah, definitely. I like the idea of finding old
bubbly such apps and getting pulling clips and applying them
(12:55):
to a new acting like they did a new one together take some work.
And I feel like. The bit really would pay off.
Got a got a scour, I'm sure. I'm sure Jax has all the
transcripts. Similar stuff for sure.
It'll it'll, it'll be easy. It'll be easy.
Yeah. Anyway, she's mad and she's bad,
boss. She's like.
She's bad boss, of course. That's what they're trying to
establish. But she's right.
About it so we're we're so excited because we have Miss Fox
(13:18):
being a bad boss she's like where is my assistant Emma?
Emma runs in and Emma is our protagonist for now.
For now, we'll see what happens and.
You say that for all the movies.Right.
She she's like a horses. Or a stables of there is a horse
(13:40):
stables I believe. Sorry, but.
There you go. There you the, she's like, we
have to take this company down like, and Emma's like, oh, you
want to like acquire the companyor like do a like a bakery, run
a bakery. And she's like, no, I don't want
to run a bakery. I just want all their cookies
and recipes. And I'm going to send you in
undercover to go check it out. Yeah, 'cause it's like she was
(14:05):
so offended that somebody made the mistake of putting not her
cookies on the table that I guess this is like, I'm going to
get them 'cause I guess if we'regoing to air this and So what if
someone figures it out and is like, those aren't her cookies?
Well then she could be like, well, look at you now, fool.
They are 'cause I bought them. I guess that's was her whole the
(14:27):
motivation behind it. Yeah, and you know, if if she
steals every cookie recipe, thenshe'll be the only cookie person
in town. I got to be honest, right?
I know we're real early here. Like early, early.
This sounds awful. We'll just wait.
OK. Right.
That's the first scene. You know, we got it.
(14:47):
We have so much more. We, we, we actually don't.
We actually really don't. My notes are so minimal on this.
We got maybe 5 minutes. Left.
Oh wow, OK, she's a bad boss. Cookies aren't hers, Yes.
We got it. So Emma does some research.
She watches a YouTube video of some guy named Butterfingers who
(15:08):
makes cookies with butter, whichis revolutionary.
Wow, with real butter. Cuz she doesn't.
Butter doesn't. Know how to actually bake?
She's an assistant. She doesn't actually bake.
Her last name is Bake, so no. Emily's Leslie.
Leslie. She's not related.
Emily doesn't bake is her name. Yes, that's exactly.
(15:28):
Right. Never baked before?
Yep. And so she never, if she's going
to go undercover at a bakery, a mom and pop, she's going to have
to do some baking. She's going to have to prove
herself. So she's going to learn through
the Butterfinger guy. Yes, nobody better lay a finger.
I'm about my Butterfinger. Right.
And I was expecting that Butterfinger thing to come back.
(15:49):
It doesn't. It doesn't.
OK. But it's, it's court endemic.
Yeah, he's a Canadian, Canadian actor, so he's shut up.
Notable. Can I pause really quickly
because this week the tutorial and then we'll and then we'll
take a break and then we'll do something else.
Have you ever seen the Santa Conwith the with no the movie, a
(16:14):
Lifetime movie. I Think it's 2014 with Melissa
Joan Hart and Steve Urkel. Jaleel White.
Have you seen this movie? Probably.
Yeah, probably. So I I lead you.
Wouldn't forget. It I lead the way that the
poster led me to believe, which is going to be these two, I led
(16:35):
the way I LED with. OK.
Melissa John Hart. And Joel White.
Yeah. That was the way that I was led
to believe this movie was going to be about.
They are in this movie so little.
Yeah, instead it's the brother, Big Brother from 7th Heaven.
And I have to be honest, I turned this movie on late
(17:00):
Saturday night with the intention of I'm going to give
this 5 minutes just so I can seeMelissa, Jonah Hart and Steve
Urkel together and I'm going to fall asleep.
Watch the whole movie. You live.
Such a cool life. Man, Daggumit, if it didn't end
up making me. I liked it more than I had any
(17:20):
right to like this movie. It is a wild time and I would
recommend it. Oh, I would recommend giving it
a watch. It's a fun time.
That's all I'm trying to you guys.
Are locked in on this make and bank.
Hey, let's take a quick break. We've gotten ever after.
Let's take a quick break. With Julia White and Melissa
John. Hardy Oh, really?
That's another one. So they've been in, They've
been. Before too, ever after.
Maybe this one they actually do.They actually.
(17:41):
The Santa Con and ever after. Yeah, that's it.
How? About that, how about that?
Let's do this. Let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and we'll actually talk about the movie.
Should we do that? We'll try.
We'll try we're. Trying folks.
Butterfinger. Live an update Brand Ever After
is Jaleel White's podcast. Oh.
(18:04):
OK. Oh.
For years, really, including an episode in 2021 with How.
About that AM. I going to listen.
Am I going to listen to some Julia White podcasts?
You bet I am. I would like to watch.
I was so mad when I realized that it wasn't what I was
promised with the. Probrina Merkel.
(18:25):
Yes, it's a crazy movie. Anyway, let's So she is going to
get a job at the competitor. She's going to go in, she's
going to be a seasonal employee of this bakery, which is led by
the what? What's the name of the the last
name of this family? They are called the sugar.
(18:49):
Gosh, what sugar. Sugar bakers.
Sugar bakers. Are you serious?
I think so. Leslie Bake and the Sugar Baker
families. I'm like.
Get out. Of here.
Wow. So Emma.
Emma pulls up to the to the a cookie factory and there's a guy
like dancing in his car. And she's like, this guy is
(19:12):
crazy, but he's really dancing. And his name's Dave.
He's the son and heir of cookie whatever business.
I don't know what the business is called.
And he's basically Jackie Harry's son in the movie, right?
Right. So Jackie, Harry, she comes down
and she's interviewing Emma and she's like, you know what?
(19:36):
I got a good feeling about you. You, you seem nice and I don't
really need to see you bake. I don't need to like this
resume, like forgot about it references like I'll call him
later. You just seem so nice and I'm
going to just hire you on the spot.
Well, that's what she does. And I'm sure it's going to be
fine. She's going to.
(19:57):
Seems like nothing could go wrong.
No big deal. And the whole point here is to
kind of get like Recon on how this company's doing.
Could we make them an offer? Could we buy them out?
What would it look like for me to just get?
Sugar Sugar Baker. That's exactly right.
Well, oh, the interview does consist of one question I
(20:18):
forgot. Very important.
Are you a liar? That's a good one to ask.
We ask that. To Aaron Shay in the interview
process we never want to like are you a liar like a just a
thing we should we. All know the truth now.
We've been there. Because a liar would 100% tell
the truth there. That's right.
You know what? Yeah, I'm a liar.
Please give me this job. That's.
(20:41):
Right. It's like if you if you meet a
cop, you ask them they're a cop,they have to say they're a cop,
right? But they don't, right?
Is that true? That's not true.
It's not true, but it's it's a rumor that I rumor.
Set in the Movies Now, this bakery has been around for a
while, the Sugar Baker Bakery, and they have these employees
that have been around forever and they're like a staple of
(21:03):
this bakery. Sally, Maggie Patty.
Sally, Maggie. Patty.
Sally, Maggie, Patty, those are three individuals. 3 individuals
great and they all are so important to do this.
Movie I can tell. So important to this movie, but
you can't forget about Clark thethe guy who works there.
(21:29):
Clark, Saggy. Maggie Clark and Clark.
Saggy Sally. Maggie Patty Clark.
Yes. Clark is a taller John Krasinski
look alike. OK, he does look a little bit
like John Krasinski. Yeah.
All right, check it off now. I would say and Dave.
(21:52):
Dave. There's something in your
throat. Yeah, Dave.
Dave. Maybe.
If I. Say Dave.
Some people clear their throats.I just try to talk through it.
By saying the same. Thing over and over again.
Is that Gary or Christmas dank? Dave is the, the son of the
(22:12):
sugar Baker and he's immediatelysuspicious of her.
Like what is what is your deal? And I but the my problem with
Dave is he's suspicious of her, but like he thinks that she's
knows too much to be a temp, butdoesn't really know what to do
(22:35):
with that. And so he's just kind of like,
what's your deal as a temp? I was very, I don't know.
He he couldn't figure out what what he wanted to be suspicious
of, but he's suspicious. Yeah, of course.
And you know, he should be suspicious because she is acting
strange. She doesn't know how to bake.
She doesn't know how to do anything.
She, like, burns the cookie. She puts salt in a recipe for
(22:56):
one of them. But we'll get to that.
It's actually a huge plot point.It's a.
Win for her when she does the song.
Oh my God. But but Dan, but Dan, I want you
to envision this because the movie, it gets a little boring.
So I'm going to spice it up a little bit and I want you to
invent. Get out of town.
The movie gets a little boring. The bakes in the Well, We're the
(23:17):
Bakers and Maggie, Sally Magpie,whatever her name is.
And Clark and Clark don't. Clark shut it out.
I'm a spice it up. I'm a spice it up with
imagination. So imagine this happens.
OK, Emma, a protagonist. Yes.
Or we think so, man in a, in a VAT of cookie dough, OK,
(23:40):
chocolate chip cookie dough. And she drowns like quicksand in
the cookie dough and she dies. She dies and she has to be
replaced. She has, she has to be replaced.
And Miss Vivica, A fox comes andnow she's pretending to be Emma,
pretending to be an assistant. Got it.
I love that. Does that happen?
No, but I want you for the rest of the movie to picture.
(24:04):
Vivica A Fox. As Emma pretending to be.
Knowing that Emma died in a VAT of cookie dough, which, what do
I want to go? Hey, I saw.
I know we have time for this. I know we do at Cherrydale, us
at the movies. And I was at a 10 AM Moana, so I
wasn't going to get any of these.
They had, you know, the cookie dough bites they sell.
Yeah, they're trash. Yeah.
Unless you put them in the fridge.
(24:25):
But you have to do that ahead. Of time, yeah.
Or there's sometimes they have them, sometimes they have them.
They currently have chocolate peppermint or chocolate mint
cookie dough balls just for the holidays.
That's interesting. And they had them cold.
And I've been thinking about himever since.
And he said cookie dough, that cookie dough.
And that's what I went to. But I got to get back to the
movies. Here we are now there's
(24:45):
something we can do. There's something we can do.
What? What's happening?
Really chocolate mint mint chocolate cookie dough balls
They. Are they're chocolate peppermint
brownie batter? I think I like brownie batter,
but cookie dough's where it's at.
All right, but that's cookie dough.
Cookie dough. Always cookie.
Dough's the best. Just buy the spoonful.
(25:06):
Absolutely. Yep.
Give it to me totally. All right, so now that Mister K
Fox is playing Emma in my made-up part of the movie, we,
we, she starts to have moral quandaries about stealing all
the recipes. And she's like, I don't know,
everyone out in this bakery is so nice.
And, you know, there's a guy whostops by and he talks to
(25:28):
Meredith Thomas and he's like, hey, this land is like really
valuable and you should sell thebakery.
And they're like, we would neversell the bakery.
He's like, no, I don't want the bakery.
I just want the land the bakery's on.
And they're like he. Sounds like a bad guy.
He's actually a really good guy in this.
Like he ends up like, you're like, oh, this guy's gonna pull
(25:51):
out the rug from underneath. He's a great guy and he just has
the hots for Maggie. Whatever.
Whoever. Meredith.
Thomas. Meredith.
Thomas just has just has the hots for Meredith Thomas so.
He does. Who wouldn't?
Yes, she's she's she doesn't ageone other.
Thing this movie does, you know,I don't know like how how little
(26:13):
they tried with this movie is how hard they tried with
karaoke. They wrote original Christmas
songs to sing karaoke to, and they play all of it.
And it's entirety. And they have them sing live and
(26:34):
and now I know why they don't typically do that for movies
because what? A time to try to hear at make
and make. Christmas.
It was a tough slog and it happened twice.
It happened twice, but the song wasn't bad.
Song's not bad, but it's completely unnecessary and a
waste of talents. It is, it is, but it happens.
(26:57):
They do go to karaoke and and this is when, you know, she
already like is kind of like beginning to and like, like the
people that she's working with. Course, she's starting to like
Dave in a whole different way than the rest of the, you know,
Maggie. 'S Maggie, Sally Raphael.
And so they kind of start havinga little bit of a thing going on
(27:21):
and at some point, I don't know if we're here yet, but she does
go over. For.
Dinner to the Sugar Baker family.
She does well cuz well cuz in mynotes I skip a lot of things
like this dinner and like everything.
Hey guys, the Golden Globes justgot announced.
(27:41):
I think we should cover that instead.
We should. Yeah, she goes over.
The Is Cynthia Revo supporting or lead?
Well, I don't know. I haven't pulled it up, but I'm
going to. But we'll get back to it.
We'll so talk about the dinner and I'll look up the Golden
Globes. So she goes over to the Sugar
Baker family for dinner and it'sgreat.
(28:02):
They're having a great time. They she's like, I don't sell
it. I've never done Christmas
before. And he's like, what, this is
crazy. Introduces her to chestnuts.
And that's a moment. And then they find them.
They find themselves under the mistletoe.
And this seat is so funny to me because he's like, oh, mom's,
(28:25):
mom's at it again. And she's like, well, then we
better not disappoint mom. And they go to kiss and Jackie
walks in while this is happening, watches until right
before they kiss, right so closeto lips locking and goes, what's
(28:46):
going on in here? And I loved it.
It was a great moment. It was a great.
Moment Jackie has one volume to so you know.
Jackie apparently put up mistletoe in her house just so
that she could interrupt a kiss,and I love that.
That's great. And we did find out Cynthia Revo
is lead. There you go.
(29:06):
Ariana Grande is supporting. That's exactly.
What I which I got to be honest,based upon the amount of screen
time in that movie, you could have fooled me so.
It is called wicked. They are evenly spread.
Yeah, yeah, in that movie, how is 1?
Supporting in one league. One better one's the wicked,
better chance of winning. Well, Cynthia Revo's way better
(29:27):
in it, but the fact that they'reone of them is supporting one of
them's. Leading one of them's wicked.
But it not in. Wicked, but it's OK.
Got it. Wicked's got to be leading
Wicked. That'd be like me not being the
leading them in the podcast where it's Brand, Brandon and.
Fred and friends. Yeah, Brandon.
And friends I lead. Brandon.
(29:50):
How dare you? I'll take the lead.
It's going to be doing Brandon and friends.
When we record it, it's a Cisco and Ebert situation.
While this. Is happening.
She keeps having to call Vivica A fox who's just kind of like,
what's happening, what's happening?
And she's like, if they don't want to sell, just take it
basically like we'll, we'll takethe recipes, we'll make them
ourselves, we won't give them any credit and we'll put them
(30:12):
out of business. And she's like, if this makes
you feel uncomfortable, how about I give you a promotion and
she's going to promote her to her like executive fun time or
whatever it is. And.
Executive fun time? Yeah, got.
It right she has to deceive themto get the promotion.
But it's weird because Miss Vivica Fox just talking to
(30:33):
herself in a mirror the whole scene.
Yep. She sure is pretty wise.
I think she. Talks to herself in the mirror
this entire movie. Right.
Because you know she's playing Emma.
Playing Emma. Playing Emma.
Playing Emma, of course, yes. Yes, but but actually Emma does
find the recipes she finds like a little book.
It's in a. Book called recipes.
(30:53):
It just says recipes. It just says recipes.
How'd she crack that case? I don't.
Know, yeah, she starts to have like second, second guessing and
she just like, comes out with it.
She just tells Dave she's like, you know what?
I've been lying to you. And yeah, I've been stealing
recipes. This is what I I.
(31:14):
Love this scene so much though, because to prove that she's a
good person, she throws down a copy of the recipes that she
printed out and said, see, I didn't give these to my boss.
Yeah, reminder, she took the picture with the with her phone.
(31:36):
Had full intention I got. Copies.
I got them. They're these are they're.
Still there. This moment I've yet to do
anything. I put them into a document and
printed them out to show you that I am not going to give them
to my boss. A wonderful moment.
A wonderful and she he of course, is upset and he's like,
(31:58):
but we were gonna be doing the business and she has to go to
Miss Phil K Fox and tell her like, OK, I'm not gonna do this
thing anymore and Miss Phil K Fox is like, you are fired,
you're fired and go ahead. She says well no I quit and I
(32:20):
quit when I walked in the door and then like it right it like
pings on a text or something. Yeah, she gets an e-mail, Vivica
A Fox says. She opens it up and she and it's
just like her resignation e-mail.
So I guess I don't know if she put like a delay on the e-mail
to work. Right.
So that's just going to hit. Perfect, but it was great right
before I walked in the door to. One boom.
(32:42):
Right. There's a there's a lag, you
know, the Wi-fi's slow. It's so it hits perfect.
And Mr. OK Fox is kind of like, good on you.
You got me there, which I, I thought was pretty funny.
Emma goes to Jackie Harry and Jackie Harry's like I'm I'm sad
to hear that you, you know, are a liar when I asked you about
(33:03):
not being a liar. And it sucks because you I made
these cookies and I named them after you.
They're the ammo cookies. They're salted caramel cookies,
right, Because she made a mistake.
She made salted. She put salt instead of sugar in
a. Cookie.
Turns out that worked out for her, yes?
So she put way too much salt into cookies.
(33:24):
And so our guy who I, I don't remember his name, Dave.
They. Added caramel to the cook to to
the cookies after the fact and it worked out.
Salted caramel cookies were goodbecause you put salt in instead
of sugar, not because you drizzle salt rock salt on top of
it. Right, that's exactly right.
Course kosher salt on top. These cookies were so good that
(33:47):
they they they were going to putthem in their store as Emma's
cookies. Emma's caramel salted caramel
cookies. Even after she it came out that
she's a liar. That's that's the type of
character of the Sugar Baker family.
Yeah, credit what creditors do. And of all the things in this
(34:07):
movie that sound like they suck,the the fact that they're
passing off, the fact that she replaced sugar with salt and and
the the people love the cookie is the thing that's angry me the
most. Yeah, there's a.
Lot they love it. There's a lot to it.
How it doesn't OK? That's a lot of salt.
Man. We get they Jack Kay invites her
(34:28):
to the Christmas party that the company is throwing and she's
like, I don't know if I should come but she does anyway.
And she makes up with Dave and they do, and they kiss, and then
they sing karaoke again. Same song.
Anything can happen at Christmas.
Anything. Can happen at Christmas, yeah.
That's what that's the title of the song and it goes like this.
(34:50):
Anything can happen at Christmas.
The fact that you guys were not neither of you sounded like
you're on a delay was wild. We're.
Pretty we're pretty good. Here's another part.
Of that when? Ready.
You take the lead and I'll follow.
OK, this is Christmas. It's happening.
(35:12):
We're pretty great. We're writing an album that's
going to come out next year. We need a whole year.
It's going to be really Fast forward some time.
I don't know if it's a year or whatever.
And she is still working at the bakery at the Sugar Baker.
She gets brought on to the SugarBaker family because they need
somebody like her with her business knowledge to really
take them to the next. Step.
(35:35):
That's right. And who's a who's a customer who
shows up? Oh.
That's right, Miss Viva Gay Fox.And she puts on her sunglasses
and she says, Merry Christmas, darlings.
And then that's the end of the movie.
And she says looks like I walkedinto the wrong bakery or
something like that. I wish that.
Would have been great I. Would what do?
(35:57):
We do now, Patrick. What do we do now?
Well, of course it's time for pour it up.
I put a cork in it. So what?
We'll start with Dan. Since you were using your
imagination, don't forget SO. She's in the.
She's dead in the cookie batter.I will pour that movie.
I will put a cork in the one that we got, which sounds like
(36:20):
it was made over the course of 36 hours for a $6 budget and
could have easily been an e-mail.
This movie sounds terrible. Please tell me that you fooled
me like you did with the Taylor Swift movie and it's actually
really good, but it sounds awful.
Put a cork right on. It I need to pull that clip of
first thing, let's freaking go. It it needs to be the new I'm
(36:42):
lonely. I'm lonely because I I think I
would like to play that every sooften.
Yeah, Yeah, it's great. OK.
Brad, what are you thinking? So this movie is real, real bad
and and it is a movie that I am 100% sure that it was written by
AI. I don't think that there is a
(37:05):
reasonable explanation for anything else.
There is a conversation that happens in this movie that
literally word for word takes place twice and it is insane.
It is bad. I did find myself towards the
end of this movie being like, it's kind of a good time.
Of course, I kind of had a little bit of fun with this
(37:26):
movie. Is it good?
No, it's not. It is the worst quality movie
I've seen this one on any network.
It's the worst you've seen. But I did enjoy myself,
especially towards the end once I got over it.
Got over what was happening. Stop being offended.
(37:48):
Some of the cuts make no sense. This movie is just wild.
It may have been edited by AII, don't know, but it is it it.
It does seem like a a movie thatwas made like hey, I've heard
about these movies before, let me try my hand at it and they
never actually watched one. It was not good.
(38:10):
I had a great time but I will have to put a cork in it.
Yes, I think you're right. It's like, did I hate that
license to wed knock off movie more than this?
Yes. Yeah, but higher quality.
Right. So but this was like way worse
(38:30):
quality than that. So it didn't make me angry, it
just was like not good in any shape or form.
But yeah, probably one of the worst I've seen this year.
I was so sad. I'm like, oh, we're covering
this movie. I would know what are we going
to do? What are we going to talk about?
It could be summed up in like 1 sentence like the whole movie.
So yeah, you know, I I wish better things for Miss Vivica
(38:53):
and Jackie Harry, but this is the hand that they were dealt
this year. Wow, that's right.
So it was as bad as it sounded. That's hand.
That's right. Jeez.
Well, we did it. We will be back next week with
the Holiday junkie a big one over.
On the road Jennifer Love Hewitt, Atlanta junkie on the
(39:15):
street. Biggest movie of the year,
right? As far as like, you know, yeah,
well, I guess the Taylor Swift movie did get a good bit of
publicity, but I don't think they were, like, fully
anticipating that. I don't know.
No, this was what they planned to be the thing, Yeah.
So we'll be covering that and then you will be joining us for
one more episode after Christmasbecause we have the the the the
(39:37):
movies to do so. So that's going to be fun as
well. So it's not the it's not the end
of the road for Patrick. We still we got more, more to
get to and of course live from acork.com.
You can go there anytime to see the reviews on stuff like
bluegrass, bluegrass Christmas on up.
We're not good for that anytime.Soon.
No, Patrick. Did and so you can check that
(39:57):
out, Patrick, Anything else for the people?
Oh, I got a Christmas card from Ryan.
Oh, look at that. That's where it file it out to
be such DTH you can see it. That's right.
Yeah. So that made me happy today.
There you go. There for little things.
Go we'll be back tomorrow with another one till they may be the
first to wish you a. Merry Christmas Deck, the
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