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(00:03):
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 theday.
The Hallmark podcast, this podcast.
We hope you like this Dolly podcast.
(00:33):
Yes. Oh.
Boy. It is true.
It is Christmas in July. Christmas in July.
For the Lifetime movies, too. That's all right.
I made-up, yeah. You know that one year lifetime
really went hard on. It was like summer of Santa.
'S Let's Do it, Summer of Santa's.
Oh. Patrick remembers.
Now I, I'm excited about this because Patrick, we decided for
(00:57):
Christmas in July instead of just doing some of the Lifetime
Christmas movies that, you know,we haven't covered over the
years. What if we do the like the, the,
the few like thriller ones that are like Christmas adjacent?
Because I want, I want when I want a Lifetime movie, I just
want it to be a Lifetime movie. It's true the I mean these are
way more enjoyable than the Lifetime Christmas offering.
(01:20):
So I love a a murder with a Christmas tree in the
background. Give me not any date.
I think Lifetime hasn't cracked the code on this.
Yet murder. And you know what, we tried to
help him crack that code and they just, we had two or three
meetings with them of a pitch where we had cracked the code of
murdering Christmas tree. And we, I think we were close,
(01:40):
but we just got what they want to do.
We didn't get it. That's not what they want to do.
Because I thought it was about aperfect pitch and I, we had
three meetings. I thought it was going really
well. So I'm not mad at them.
That's incredible. But it's clearly not what they
want to do 'cause we cracked it,I'm telling you, we cracked it.
Yeah, they're they're not Shudder.
Shudder's going to just take that over and and Lifetime will
acquire like, yeah, Shudder's like a streaming service for
(02:03):
scary. Movies.
Oh no. Yeah, we know about Shudder.
We've covered some Christmas movies.
Oh, you're saying? We should pitch our idea to
shudder, all right. But it's not OK, We'll talk
about it. We'll talk about it off air so
no one steals your your idea That's.
Right. But I'm excited like these, the
ones that we we're doing 3 and Ithink they get like
progressively less Christmassy as the month goes on because
(02:24):
we've already done a couple of these.
And so the ones that were like Christmassy, Christmasy we've
already done. And so I think the last ones
just snow. So it's like, it gets like
there's less Christmas trees as the month goes on, but this
one's Christmas Eve in an airport, so.
Come on, that's Christmas. Doesn't get more Christmas Eve
than that, right? That's exactly right.
(02:46):
What's the name of the movie again?
You better watch out in the movie.
You better watch out. OK, this is Christmassy.
It's Christmassy, Yeah. Excited.
I've been to and excited to see you at Bramble Fest in just a
couple, like a week. What is it?
A week and a half now. Yeah, I know we're going to be
there. The Lifetime game show is
getting prepared, so don't worry.
(03:07):
Yeah, I'm getting all the clips.That's right.
I'm excited. I've seen it.
You've sent me an e-mail. I don't look at the.
I don't look at it though. Yeah, cuz you're gonna play the
game stuff. To get it on the screen, but I'm
not I I just. Now I know what happens if
somehow your team wins. I, I, I, I promise, I think.
(03:28):
We'll ever do a year where you and I are on the same team.
There's no way, right? So there's no way I.
Got the the to tell you the truth, last year, I, I lost.
I remember. And not only did I get the, I
get, not only did I get the presentation ahead of time, I
had to do some edits to it aheadof time.
And you still lost because I no,I take it very seriously.
(03:49):
Good for you. I the integrity of the Lifetime
game show Palooza. To me, it's just nothing high.
There's nothing high. Right there was stealing the
deckies you don't want, you don't want to do it.
You know what? I mean, no, no, no, yeah,
there's no. What's that one where they they
were like the game show where they were giving the question
the answers to the people? Oh, you remember that?
The quiz? Yeah, 'cause the movie was Quiz
(04:09):
Show. It's a great movie.
Quiz. Show quiz show Martian on the
waterfront they had him missing on.
Purpose. None of that.
None of that. None of that going on that's.
Right. We're not about that.
We're about it's a serious, serious thing and this year at
Bramble Fest, Jax is going to beCo hosting with you the lifetime
game show Palooza, which I thinkis going to add a.
Whole nother way left and right here.
(04:29):
It's going to add a whole notherelement to it.
Oh, oh, just get ready. Oh, I'm ready.
Me and Jax, it's always a good time so.
You know. Will we coordinate our outfits?
I don't. Know I'm sure the plan, the the
plan, the meetings where you guys have been planning.
Oh, they've been. I've just been.
Oh, so fun. Have you you guys that aren't
(04:49):
actually talking about the game,you're just talking about
outfits? That's great.
She just says 2 peppermint mochas the whole time.
It's like Jax, I can. Hear you, you're live.
You're not on delay like you're here.
You're in the room. You're in the room.
Meetings with her are interesting.
Yeah, yeah. All right, it's going to be a
lot of fun, so come on deck the homework.com/fest.
You can get virtual tickets and stream along live all next.
(05:10):
Weekend, I know we've got to do this, but I was I I listened to
our best of episodes because youworked so hard on them.
The double deckers worked so hard of them.
And it reminds me of things where we actually were funny
throughout the year that I've forgotten about.
And I got to the part where Patrick can't.
He never breaks. Patrick is the most like a bit
is not funny. I'll just smile and get through
it. He doesn't we he hears that I'm
(05:32):
lonely for the first time and hecannot stop laughing.
He's actually crying, laughing. One of the best moments of the.
Year he has a prayer. Going away?
When he finds out that that's not supposed to be a song,
that's just a line of dialogue, he cannot compose himself.
What a moment. What a moment in the best.
(05:52):
I want to watch that movie with you.
You. Would love that.
Movie's a. Riot, you would really, you have
a lot of I've. Seen it, I remember.
Oh, you have? But yeah, I'll watch.
Say it again. Be sure.
Why not? Let's.
Watch it together, it'd be fun. OK, you better watch out.
It was from 2024. We just didn't.
Surprising. We didn't cover it on this here,
(06:14):
wouldn't it air? Like the actual day.
Yeah, do you remember? I posted it on December 5th OK
the blog so I so it just didn't get.
Chosen by you guys it is. Choose the four or five we do.
Right. I will say in years past we've
we've strayed away from the Lifetime Movie Network, which I
(06:34):
think is where this did, except for that one time we did the
thriller, but it aired after. Yeah, usually brand goes for
like the big names over a lifetime when when we're picking
like brands like who do you who,who is the the front runner of
the stars of the. Like the big deals, who are the
(06:54):
big deals? And I don't know who this is.
Who is this lead in this movie? So the movie stars the better.
Watch out. It stars.
Monet moves. Monet moves.
Money. Money Moines.
Maybe it's there's AY. It's there AY or AV?
Moines. I guess I'm going to look it up
on IMDb again. Moves, though I will say that
(07:16):
she does like walk around in this movie and she does right.
What's my name? Movement, Jenna, Zoo and
Michael. This movie stars Monet moves and
Jenna Zoo. I don't believe you for a second
and. Michael Comedy.
Monet, Moyes. Moyes got it.
(07:37):
And Jenna Zoo is probably correct, yes.
OK, I'm ready for Michael. Go ahead.
Michael Silberblatt. Michael Silverblatt.
Silverblatt. Yes.
Silverblatt, yes. It's like silver spells.
Fun. Of fun casts of.
Names. Great cast.
Great Monet moves in. Michael Silverblack, Lisa Long.
That's right. Yeah, we love them all.
(07:59):
We do. I haven't seen any of them in
another Lifetime movie, but we should get them in another one
maybe. Reminds me of someone and I I
can't. It was driving me nuts while I
was watching. She's like that girl in middle
school who's like, you know, good at drawing and like.
Art class she remind you of someone?
Yes, but I don't know who it is.It's the girl who's super
(08:22):
earnest in what she plays on Hallmark everything.
She looks like she's about to cry all the time.
Why can't I think of who that is?
Jessica Alba. It it is.
She's the Jessica Alba of lifetime.
It's Jessica Alba, right? It's Holland Rhode, that's who I
think she does look. She looks like Holland.
Rhode Holland. Rhode, you can see that.
(08:43):
Yeah, that's who is. OK, let's do this.
You better watch out, Patrick. You and I watched a movie, Dan,
you have not. You're going to get to
experience it threw us telling you about it, and I'll let
Patrick take it away. Yes.
So remember this is scary Lifetime movie, but there's
Christmas scattered throughout the movie in the background.
OK, so for your for your imagination, we start out, we
(09:06):
have a young girl, she is like locked in an airplane hangar or
museum. I'm not quite sure what it was.
Yeah, it was a museum and I don't know.
I don't know why. Kitty Hawk in North Carolina,
like the Flight Museum. OK, that, that's, that's what it
seemed like to me. There was airplanes, like kind
of hanging around. There was like a statue.
(09:28):
She's like freaking out. She's like, hello, I'm locked in
this. I'm locked in here, let me out.
And then she gets kidnapped or maybe killed.
We don't know. We don't know.
It all happened so fast. They're like, it's closing.
And she was like Kay. And then the doors were like
chain shut and it was like, oh, wow, this, it happened so fast.
Oh. That's how I close at at the
(09:50):
theater I work at. I just turn off the lights, lock
the doors, see. You you don't have to do
anything else. Share cleaning required.
Padlock. It yeah, shatter bad people
people are in the bathroom. I'm like, too bad you're.
Speaking of Bramble Fair, back then, that was the second year
when we were at the theater. It ended and I was like, all
right, time to go home. And then you look around and
it's like it's all on us, everybody, we've got stuff to do
(10:12):
for the next. Three hours.
That's right. We got places to go.
Yeah. People to see exciting times,
yeah. So we meet our protagonist, who
we we cut to in an airport. She's getting ready.
Natural airport, not a museum. Of of airport not a museum
airport a real airport. Got it.
She's trying to get home on Christmas Eve cause her sister's
(10:32):
pregnant and she wants to be there for the birth, you know?
Her mother, her sister is Mary. Good God.
Yeah, Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Good point. Good point.
Very Christmassy. Thank you.
The most Christmassy. That's right.
Yeah. They did an interesting.
Thing in on Lifetime where they made a movie about baby Jesus
where it's just like not really the.
(10:52):
Point in the background. It's just like virgin birds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've all heard the story, but
do you know about her sister trying to make it there?
Yes, yes. So that's Aubrey.
Aubrey has a fear of flying. We learn out, We learn later
that it's because her parents died in a car crash and she was
(11:16):
flying to she was going to fly to meet them and for like a
trip, but she didn't go because she's scared of flying.
So she blames herself. Yeah, it's very convoluted, but
basically. Did it throw you off when she
like there's a couple times, Dan, where it cuts to her
talking to her therapist and hertherapist is British.
And the first time it happened, I was like, what's happening
(11:37):
right now? Why is this random British woman
in this movie? And I didn't know if it was
somebody in her mind, like if her inner voice was British or
if it was. I think it's her counselor.
I think it's her counselor basedon the later scene, but that
they they do it again later. And it definitely seems like
it's a therapist. But the first time when she's
like getting ready to like go through security or whatever and
(11:59):
it cuts to the British woman, I was like, is her inner voice
British? I would love that.
You'd love it. She just.
Has a lot of she has a lot of trauma from mine.
So, so just know that she's not,she's not a good flyer.
She's a she's a nervous flyer. She's a nervous flyer.
Which I can't relate to. You can.
(12:20):
I cannot. Oh no, no, no, I'm part.
I'm like, surprisingly fine withit.
Like for as afraid of heights asI am, there's something about
planes where it just like, doesn't seem real.
Like when I'm up there, I'm like, this is, this is once you
get past a certain point, it's no longer.
Not being in control of whatever's moving us through
time and space is always a little bit tough for me.
(12:41):
But there's something about flying that as soon as I sit
down, I just go. There's no other better way to
do this. So my brain goes, this isn't
what you want. And then my brain then goes, you
don't have another choice. And as soon as my brain tells me
I don't have another choice, I just get comfortable, turn on a
movie and and that's the end of it.
But I do have an an initial feeling of I'm not flying this
(13:03):
thing, so I don't trust it. That's that's a me problem.
But then I get past it pretty quickly.
I get freaked out when I think about the fact that I can't
leave, like if the minute that interest my mind where I'm stuck
in this. Game people that are afraid of
flying all kinds of news. Next week, That's right.
Come on down and. Join us.
Come on down. That's right.
Yeah, my brain says where's the the snacks, you know?
Yeah. When's the snack cart coming?
(13:24):
That's right. Yeah, so and like, I hope I
don't have to pee because I hategetting up on the plane.
I don't. I don't like going to the
bathroom on the plane so I only do short flights.
There's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than like
having a middle or window seat and having to pee and you look
over in the aisle, person is asleep and you're like.
So sad. I always sit in the aisle for a
(13:47):
number of reasons, but me being one of them, but also that,
yeah, I'm just like, I would like to be able to get up and
move. If I want to get up and move.
We flew to London or only back from London.
I was just like, I have to standup.
I can't do. Were you going to therapy?
I wasn't going to therapy on theplane.
That would have been great. I'll British.
I'll British people are. Yeah, that's why I went over
(14:10):
there. Just the only therapist I could
find. Yeah, it's a lot.
He does it every week. Yeah, it's a full flight every
week. I could go.
So does Aubrey. So does Aubrey.
So it doesn't help the therapy doesn't help her.
Her trauma of flying. She everything goes wrong on
this on this flight, her her seat mate is chatty.
Her seat mate's like, oh, I lovetalking.
(14:32):
You're get ready to talk to me. There's a kid.
Like the whole flight, she's like, I'm going to talk to you
the whole flight. Yeah, the seat belt, the seat
belt won't work. It was giving Final Destination.
I was like, oh, no, this, this flight is cursed because we're
like on the plane at this point.And you know, for a Lifetime
movie to be on the plane, that'sa big budget.
We we're, we're talking about the, the premium budget.
(14:53):
Yes. And then things start to go
real, real wrong. The turbulence is hey, because
they're flying through big, big winter storm and big turbulence
and they end up having to like land somewhere else because the
the storm is so bad. So it's going from bad to worse
for her lookout. Yes, for Dan's brain, let's just
say it's a very small airport. Let's just say that, OK, OK,
(15:16):
It's it's not, they're not, they're not landing in O'Hare,
OK, they say. It's a.
They say it's a regional airport, no less than a.
Is it time? Is it GSP level?
Small or smaller? It's I don't know what GSP
means, but I know what ESP means.
The airport you fly in. Oh yeah, probably that side
well. That's like the national
(15:37):
airport. Yeah, they say regional a lot in
this movie, so. They want you to know they're
not. Trying to pass it as O'Hare.
It's smaller, yes. It's a small airport.
Right. The passengers all get off the
plane. They're, of course, upset.
It's Christmas Eve, man. They got places to go.
Yeah, presents to deliver. And Aubrey's like walking this
(15:59):
guy like is talking and like knocks her phone out of her hand
and she's like, what the heck? And he's just goes off with his
wife and she's like, everyone's so rude and she's like really
having a hard time because she was the worst has happened to
her, right? And let me let me play a quick
game with Dan here. OK, so Guy hits her while he's
(16:22):
walking by, her phone drops, he yells at him, he doesn't turn
around, he just keeps walking. What reason do you think it is
going to be that that happened? That he didn't turn back around
for his phone. That he that he no, that it's
for her phone. So imagine you're walking.
OK, you brush somebody's shoulder, their phone drops,
they yell, hey, you broke my phone.
(16:43):
And you just ignore him and keepwalking.
What? What's the reason?
Is he got like a logical reason or what's the actual thing that
happens in this movie? What's the?
Actual thing that happens in this movie.
He's a murderer. He's a murderer.
He doesn't want to turn. Around, OK, OK, that's, that's
one option. Yeah, that is one option.
Good answer, good answer. What's the OK?
I guess we'll get to it. We'll get back to it.
We'll get back to it. So Aubrey rebooks her flight for
(17:05):
the next day. She's like kind of rude to
everybody at this point. Like, it just her general
customer service, like interaction skills really rubbed
me the wrong way. I was like, I don't know if I
like Aubrey. But the person behind the desk
acts like she's the nicest person in the world, which is so
weird thing. She's like, you're gonna be a
great aunt. And I'm like, I mean, sure,
fine. I guess.
I don't know. Yes, Aubrey also tells everybody
(17:25):
that she's about to be an aunt and she's very excited.
Or I would say aunt, but I said aunt cuz Brand said sorry.
I started a whole aunt train that we need to get off of
immediately. Aubrey sister she her she does
she get like a burner phone or something Like her phone was
broken? Yes, she goes into the store in
the airport and this burner phone that has a burner phone
(17:48):
sell in the airport. We all know and we there's like
a couple of options and she's buy one or two just in case.
Yeah, just in case. And she's like, what do these is
better? And he's like, neither but this,
but this one will, you know? So one of them is.
Then got it. Get you the job.
Get the job done I guess. 'Cause this is one of those
airports that famously has terrible cell service.
No service anywhere. Classic airports, you know what
(18:09):
I mean? No cell signal and.
So she sits down at the bar. The diner.
I don't know what the restaurantis and she's like, she tries to
call her sister to like tell herabout what's happening and can't
get through Mary, Mary, this is huge and Mary's like you won't
believe where I am there's. No room at the end.
(18:33):
And so anyway, she can't get a asignal right.
And so she the person behind like the bartender or whatever
is like if you go to the car garage you will get service.
The OK the garage out, you'd have to go back to security out.
Well, no, you would think so. No security.
(18:56):
There's a there's a secret. Place after 911.
There's a secret way. There's a lot now.
From the garage to the terminal itself, like an employee
entrance. Yes.
And she shows the the lady that she's like, don't tell anybody.
That just don't tell anybody. Just between because there's
only a few people in the. Airport.
Don't tell anybody. Just don't tell anybody.
(19:16):
That's the key. And so it's a hand she is going,
she is going to go to and from this garage to the terminal back
and forth no less than six times.
You'll never have to go through security again.
Wow, never so wow. And and also like notoriously
(19:37):
parking garages are great for cell service.
Yeah, so good, especially the lower floors.
What you want to do is you want to start dialing when you enter
the elevator. That's right.
That's the key thing. It's.
Really going to? All that cement around you, it
makes great, yeah. For sure also like the elevator,
like every the airport I've everbeen to that I can think of, the
(19:58):
garage is like on the other sideof the street, you know, like
there's the garages, the drop off area, the airport and they
make it seem like it's just an elevator down to the garage.
I don't know. It doesn't make.
Sense you know this is a very special.
Airport you lost me at We don't get any cell signal here, but
(20:20):
you can really get it in the parking garage through the the.
Entrance. It's the prime place.
Eventually she does get signal enough to find out her sister is
in labor and she's going to be missing the birth or she's going
to have just go meet her niece but.
But like during that conversation, the, the, the, you
know, it's going in and out kindof you know, and so it ends up
(20:43):
dropping. Out, I mean all the way to
Bethlehem from I know it's just a crazy she ends.
Up the the call drops and so she's like hopefully she can
call me back or so she's like like holding her phone like
really close to her. She does end up going back to
the terminal and hopefully, like, hoping for the best,
basically, and we're going to hope for the best here with the
ad. Yeah, with the break.
(21:03):
Yeah, you were doing so well. We're going to hope for the best
and we'll see what happens rightafter this break is all you had
to do. Dang, it would.
Have been good. So we're back.
She just the call just dropped. But one of the things Dan that
(21:25):
she noticed right before walkingback into the terminal as you do
is she noticed this like creepy van.
There's like a creepy van in the.
Garage parking lot The garage The garage Garage was the cell
signal and. She heard some banging sounds,
but it's like that's it. So she's like, I guess that
that's weird, but like, you knowwhat, What am I to do about
(21:49):
this, basically? It is a pull up on the side of
the street and grab you van. Yes, OK.
It's a classic creepy. The van that you think of, What
do you think of? Yeah, Creeper van.
That's that's the van. No, I'm sure Lifetime knows how
to get this right. They got.
It. Yeah, yeah.
So Aubrey goes back into the terminal.
She makes fun with a guy named Finn.
(22:11):
Finn is just, like, making jokesand like, trying to, like, he
can tell she's stressed out, right?
So he's trying to, like, make her feel better.
He's like, let's people watch and talk about the people, yeah.
And one of the people. The couple.
Yeah, Well, I was going to say one of the people that they talk
about is that couple, the guy who hit her shoulder and his
wife, They are like in what seems to be like a heated
(22:34):
argument and he like grabs her shoulders and pushes her into
like a hallway area. And so he's definitely, he
doesn't seem as though he's above board.
It doesn't seem like. It you better watch out and.
He better watch. Out.
He looks very mad all the time. He's just like staring at like
(22:56):
angry. Yeah, his name's John and his
wife's name is Leah. John and Leah.
There's also an elderly lady named Vivian and a creepy
janitor. OK, who's OK?
So there's there's lots of creepy people.
It's not really making Aubrey feel better to like, look at all
these people. There's also suspect.
Yeah, there's also one thing that she she did talk to like
(23:21):
this one police officer at this regional airport before going
through security after the phonebump incident.
She talked to this police officer and the police officer
was like, it sounds like it's your fault, basically.
Wow, like. Yeah, he didn't.
Break. He didn't break it.
You dropped it sounds like. So it wasn't helpful for him
too. Wasn't helpful.
And so if she's going to need a police officer, hopefully
(23:42):
there's another. One I'll do.
Yeah. You would hope so, yeah.
So Vivian sees Finn and Aubrey talking and it's like, oh hey
guys, let's go get something to eat, we're going to be here all
night. Have you tried the Christmas
burger? It's.
The Christmas. Burger.
Yeah, that's all we get on it. You don't get anything else.
No, it's like, have you ever tried?
This. You don't even really see it.
(24:03):
You don't even really. See it?
What do you think of it? Say I.
Don't know, kind of like I can't.
It's got to have lettuce and tomato.
Or red, red and green Hatch green Chili Peppers with pepper
pepper Jack cheese. And crushed up peppermint.
Let's just like, let's just brainstorm.
Let's not sure. I think I got.
(24:24):
It pepper Jack and pepper mint. No pepper.
Maybe. Maybe it's a lamb burger, like
lamb and mint go well together. Right, OK, sure.
Yeah, Lamb, cause Jesus. Yeah.
Like I bet there was one of them.
Sure. Lamb, goat cheese, Mint.
Yep, I'm back in with lamb and mint.
I'm back in peppermint. I'm not in.
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Mary had a little lamb. Right.
Maybe there's some like a shoestring potato fries.
It's like hay. That's good.
I see what you're doing now. We're doing burgers.
Jesus, right in the middle of that hay I.
Don't. Sure.
Yeah, away in a Manger Burger. Yeah, that's not bad.
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OK, Let us know in the comments.Right, the burger is that, but
they do mention the Christmas burger.
Christmas. Burger.
Christmas burger, You mentioned it multiple times.
You got to cook it. You got to cook.
It a good pepper Jack cheese would do that.
There's like some red and green in there.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, Aubrey goes back yes out to like check her, her
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reception, and then she hears someone banging.
From more banging and like clearly coming from the vein.
From inside the van, Yeah. Calls coming from inside the
van, yeah. She's trying to call 911, but
the call fails. So she goes inside.
She sees that security guy from before.
She's like, I can't talk to him.So she talks to the janitor.
The janitor is like, oh, well, let me help you here.
(25:53):
Come with me. And he like, touches her arm.
And she does like the Jennifer Love Hewitt, Like, get off of
me, you know, like, stop. Touching me.
Perfect, perfect. Yeah, that's great.
I love like a good like JenniferLove Hewitt, like yelling at
somebody. It's all it's got are.
You excited for her, her comeback, and I know what you
did last summer. Oh my God, I can't wait.
(26:13):
I'll be there opening day. It is it during?
Bramble Fest opening will be our.
Movie date When do you get on early in?
That morning, well. We'll figure out.
Yeah, we. Want to plan it out I'm I'm
down. I'd love to see.
I'd love I'd. Love, we can't.
We got the things later. I know a mid a midday.
I know he did last summer though.
(26:34):
Oh, a midday. I know what you did last summer
on Thursday. That like a three.
I don't know how it's tough. There's dinner.
For I don't know if it would. Work we got, we got to move it
to Friday. The problem is Friday you got
registered. It's a it's a tough, it's
tricky, it's tricky. It's tough.
It's tough. Yeah.
I have to do a midnight showing.No, I can't.
I can't do it. I got it.
There's no I'm out. I.
Would do it midnight. It's one Patrick's only in town.
(26:54):
A couple. Times.
I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this.
Last year I did it. I was so tired.
No, I love you, Patrick. Dan can't hang out anymore.
I saw a twister for you. The morning stuff is done.
The morning stuff's done at noonon Saturday and there's 3:00 PM
meet and greet. I bet we could do it there.
There's your window now. Yeah.
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Maybe, yeah. We'll see.
We'll. Figure it out.
I know he did last. Summer.
But yeah, love, love that movie.So in the van there's a girl.
She's chained to the floor. She's a girl in the van, chained
to the floor. OK.
Yeah, she's the girl from the museum, obviously.
Yeah, Kitty Hawk. I got to be honest, I had
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forgotten at this point. I was like, I want to hear that.
Girl, I thought she was a mannequin maybe?
No, I forgot about the beginningof the movie.
It was like, yeah. Just not.
Very memorable. What I love is that Aubrey,
instead of just like opening thedoor and being like, are you OK?
I'm. I'm going to go get help.
She, like, gets in the van, closes the door behind her and
is like, are you OK? Like, tell me what's going on?
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Well, how did you get here? What's your name?
Like, I'm like, come on, get outof there.
What are you doing? Of course, the kidnapper gets in
the passenger or the driver's seat and you're like, he's going
to drive away. He's going to drive away with
her in the thing. No, he just like takes a call.
There's a a ringtone that's verydistinctive.
Not Santa Claus is coming to town, unfortunately.
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No, it's just like a bitty boop scoop doop boop.
Beep beep, beep, beep beep. Right.
Something like that. I'm gonna kidnap you.
I'm gonna kidnap you. It's a.
Song that good? Yeah, it sounds like it's for
obviously not the kidnapping. The kidnapper has cell service.
They have cell. Service somehow.
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Because we've been a big thing about the cell phone and a big
thing about service. And this, this kid never.
Has yeah, they got, they got a Nextel, you know.
No Nextel direct connect. That was the.
Do you remember that with the walkie-talkie where you're like,
hello? Nothing more efficient than a
Nextel direct connect. And it's like a big deal because
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like she's like she really like she's having trouble with her
phone. It's not obviously it's not
having very good service even inthe garage, even in the garage
where it's. Supposed to be having very good
service. Well, it's having it.
I don't need it from you right now.
Even though the garage is supposed to be prime, the prime
spot for service, she's not getting it.
OK. And so like, she's in the
airport. The kidnapper is.
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The kidnapper is and, but she goes inside and she asks
everybody in the terminal does anybody have a phone with
service? And they're all just like, Nope,
we don't. So somebody, somebody's.
Lying. Go ahead, go ahead.
Somebody's lying, Yeah. Yeah, well, I love that she went
in. She like called a group meeting,
said anybody have a phone? Hold up, everybody is is anyone
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driving a white van? Did anyone drive a white van to
work today? Right.
Like like a murdery van, Yes. Yeah, and so and she's like.
Go ahead. It's so funny.
I just love that she was like, just ask the question.
Just go right to the cut, right to the chase.
Is anyone driving to this van? And so Finn is like, what is
your deal? Like, why?
Like, what's like, you're very frantic right now?
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And so she decides I'm going to tell Finn the truth, and I'm
going to go and show him the van.
OK? I think I can trust Finn.
I'm going to show Finn the van. They get down to the garage.
Van's gone. The van's nowhere to be found
and she, and so she's like a doofus now.
(30:27):
So Finn. Is this means she told somebody
about the secret entrance without the security?
Finn's knows about it now. Yeah, yeah, he knows.
Now, he she promised not to tellanyone.
Yeah, but Finn, we're gonna thisairport's gonna be responsible
for another attack. It is once you saw once you saw
Finn's blue eyes, you would you would take.
Him to the Yeah, I'd tell him whatever he wanted to know.
I got you. And so Finn is like, well, how
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about we go and like look at thelike we can talk to this the
cop, we can maybe see the security footage and see like
where the van went or something like that.
Obviously problematic cause the cop hates her.
Yes, but Finn offers him 50 bucks.
To show him the 50 to. Show him the footage.
Yeah, a little. A little bribe goes a long way
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and on. Christmas Eve, too.
Like, that's huge, yeah. Yeah, we go.
There's no footage of the van the the parking space is empty
the whole time. Far back as the footage goes,
the space is empty, Dan. So they're like, what's going
like? And so she like Finn is kind of
hinting at the fact that she's just crazy.
(31:33):
Basically. It's like, but it's also like
I've seen. Flight plan I I know what's
going to happen here. Finn Finn's the bad guy.
Finn's the bad guy. Wow, OK.
Finn's the bad guy. That's one.
That's one theory. Though that is 1 theory.
Yeah. So there's really nothing more
they can do. They kind of, they leave the
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security guard and. Let's get back in the elevator,
you know. Yeah, they get back in the
elevator and then as they're going to the terminal, the the
cell phone, there's that ring again.
Yeah, she hears the ring. The I'm a kidnapper.
Yeah, I'm a kidnapper. Whatever the ringtone was, she
hears it and she looks down and Finn pulls out his satellite
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phone and it's like, hey, yeah, we'll be there in a little bit.
Finn's got the cell service. Finn's got the cell service.
And she's like, why did you lie about having a phone?
He's like it's. Unbelievable.
He's like, it's just a satellitephone.
No worries. Like, whatever.
Yeah. But she's like, I'm actually not
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going to get off the elevator with you.
I'm going to like just, I need some time to myself basically
like to clear my head or whatever.
She goes back to the parking garage and she notices something
she didn't notice before, which was a giant van covered by a
sheet. And it's like, oh, maybe it's
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under the sheet. And it it was, it was under it.
Was under the sheet. Maybe he's under the sheet?
Maybe he was under the sheet. You know, you know how those
tarps blend in with like the. Concrete.
It happens. Yeah, Yeah.
No. Yeah, and this killer had a
sheet is. Barely at an airport.
It's barely at an airport. Barely.
It's barely Christmas as well. God, it's mostly parking garage.
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Yeah, mostly parking. Garage, Yeah.
So she, Finn follows her. Of course, he's the bad guy.
He's like lurking around the thetruck and the security guards
there. And they're like yelling at each
other like, we lost her. Where is she?
Clearly they're in on it together, the security guard.
And so she runs back. Finn and the security guard.
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Yes, they're working on it together.
She runs back, and she finds Vivian.
Old Lady Vivian, remember old. Old lady Viv.
She's like asleep. Christmas Burger.
Yeah, Christmas burger. She's like asleep.
And she's like, hey, come and like, I got to tell you
something. Come and see.
So she's telling people about the entrance left and right.
She takes Vivian to the van to the to the girl.
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And Vivian's like, Oh my gosh, who, who did this?
How did this happen, basically? And they're like, OK, let's go
back and we'll plan on how we'regoing to get this girl to
safety. Yeah, and they sneak.
They sneak the girl like some like supplies, like to defend
herself. Yeah, she, yeah, she handed her
(34:25):
like a little like little littlebaby scissors, OK.
All right, little baby scissors.Like maybe you could do some?
Little baby scissors. So Vivian and Audrey are are
drinking from a flask. They're they're talking through
the suspects because Vivian likes to read those like cozy
murder mystery books. So she's really getting into it.
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Also, she's saying everybody butherself, of course.
And Aubrey starts to feel woozy and she's like, and she passes
out. She's been drugged by Vivian.
Vivian was in on it. It's a strangers on a train
situation. They're.
All in on it. They're all in on it.
Yeah, that's actually what? It's just them, the other people
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are. They're not just the three of
them. Got it.
Just the three of them mainly. Well, don't forget about John,
guys. Don't forget about that.
Yeah, don't forget about it, John.
Robbery wakes up. She's tied to a chair at an
abandoned part of the airport with a school bus.
Yeah, no, that's a yeah. Usually every airport has one.
You know the one. Yeah, we learn because Vivian is
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gonna go through her villain monologue now.
She explains that Finn is her son.
Oh my God. And the there's also another
son, the black sheep of the family, Jason.
He's in prison, right? And the little girl is Jason,
the prisoner's daughter, OK. And they kidnapped.
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Vivian's granddaughter, yeah. Got it.
Yeah, because she was with the mom and the mom wasn't bringing
the kid over to hang out with. Right.
They were just letting this girljust like, you know, explore
airplane museums on Christmas Eve by herself.
So like clearly, like some some she's she needs she should be
rescued like they we so they're in their minds are like we're
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not the bad guys here. We're actually like.
Yeah. Helping her.
Yeah, no. Sure, Sure, sure, sure.
And their plan is to take the little girl to Canada for
safety. To Canada, That's right.
And we're and we're going to take it to break.
Oh, nicely done. That one's way better.
Way better. They know my.
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OK, so Dan, you said that you think that John, the guy who
bumped into her, did that because he's a killer.
He I thought so, but now that it's so I.
Immediately when Finn was like, you're crazy.
Right guest #2 what, what do youthink his deal is?
Why would what? What reason would there be for
you to bump into somebody, hear them yell you broke my phone?
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But then you shoved your wife, right?
Then he shoved. His wife He did shove his wife,
so he's a. Bad human being.
I want to be very clear. He's a terrible human being,
yes, But now I know for sure he's also an undercover police
officer that's going to help save the day.
Right. Okay, that's great.
That's good. Good second guess trash human.
(37:26):
Good second guess. So Aubrey, of course.
Well, you're thinking like Dan, like we're at the end of the
movie villain monologue stuff. No, there's more.
There's still more to. That's why you were asking me.
I'm like, I think we already cracked it, right?
The three of them, but I guess not for.
Him, no. Aubrey breaks free from her
restraints and runs back to the terminal.
Sees the janitor and the couple that we're fighting and it's
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like, guys, they're bad. Oh my gosh, we got to get out.
We got to get out of here. We got to get.
Out of here, man. And John is just like looking at
her. And then he turns to his wife
and then he's just starts sign language, just.
Sign language. They start doing sign language
to. Each and she's doing sign
language and we get the subtitles and John is deaf.
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That is the big. Real John's deaf.
He's not rude. He's just deaf.
What about the shoving of his wife?
He needed to get close to her sohe that he could read her lips.
Yes. Hell no.
I just, I don't know why you hate deaf people.
The deaf. Community First is.
Coming at you. It does not matter what your
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physical predisposition is. You can't shove people.
You can't do it. You shouldn't.
You shouldn't. Especially not, it's not a good
look for you. The very strong I'm against
abuse stance that I'm taking no matter who you are.
John being deaf was the craziesttoy that it It was a real
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Shyamalan. It was a.
Real. It it.
It really was. It really was.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the movie.
At all, but it was still felt bumping into her, right?
Yeah, but didn't hear her yelling.
You broke my phone. She, he didn't know.
He broke her. Phone, right.
OK. All right.
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He does offer to pay for it later, actually the wife does,
but whatever. Yeah, it's fine.
But basically we're setting Johnup now to for a hero's journey.
OK, He's going to go get the, he's getting EDA pads from the
little closet. He he shocks the security guard,
knocks him out. And then he's like me and my
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wife, we're going to go and we're going to walk to the
police station from the airport and get help.
And we don't have mittens, we don't have hats, we don't have
coats. But we're going to go.
We're going to risk it all. That's right.
It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.
Great. Awesome, we're gonna save this
girl. Yes, and and one thing about the
sign language I I did like that they were talking in sign
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language and like, you know, like actually having full
conversations in sign language. It wasn't just like one person
talking, you know the other person not they were both
talking sign language, speaking in sign language.
That's right. So let's see.
The baby. The baby happens.
Oh yeah, she gets a call. From Mary, Yeah.
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Mary has his chances. She's got it.
Yes. So good.
So that's great. We love that.
Everyone's walking around the airport.
The ones who remain, they're looking for for the little girl
whose name is Chloe. They're like Chloe.
Chloe, where are you? They're literally all walking
around this airport, Dan, and they're all just like Chloe.
Yes, Chloe, where are you? It's good.
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This. Empty town of an airport?
Yeah. A stage whisper.
That's a stage whisper. Right there, a stage whisper
glow. Hey.
And we get back to the Magic school bus and it's like, it's
like the school bus was like stressing me out it, it was just
so dilapidated and like, no kidsare going to be riding on this
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bus, you know? That's just sitting at the
airport, you know, like normal. Yeah, that's where, yeah,
everyone knows airports are where buses go to die.
Aubrey and Vivian have like a a fight in the school bus, but
eventually Chloe is saved. Yeah, yes.
We don't need to get, we don't need to get into it often nitty
gritty. Yes, at this point, Patrick
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thinks the movie's. Over for sure.
I think it's over. I thought the movie was over.
Here is my last sentence of the of the recap from 20/20/24
December 5th. The police arrive and take
Vivian and the security guard into custody.
Finn is Mia. 72% of kidnappings are by relatives.
Merry Christmas. That's how I that's how I ended
(41:51):
it. OK.
And then now it just says, wait,I totally missed the end of this
movie. I love it.
Which is great, yeah. So there's a whole other last 7.
Minutes. A whole other part.
You didn't watch the whole you thought it was over.
In turn, he's. Convinced that they didn't air
it. Oh my gosh, that's Patrick's
defense. I mean, I'm not saying Patrick's
(42:11):
wrong, but knowing the track record of how many Lifetime
movies you watch, it would not surprise me at all if this was
late at night and you turned it off thinking it was over.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
I mean, it could. Happen.
OK, all right, all right. But I was surprised.
I was like, whoa, what is going on?
We, we go to like, it couldn't have been that much later
(42:33):
because there's still Christmas decor.
So maybe like a week or two later.
How long do you leave your Christmas tree up?
Not even the day after Christmas.
OK, some people leave it up a little longer.
Yeah, it's two weeks later, is what it says.
Yeah. So keeps her apartment.
On the 26th and it needs to go down, right?
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Aubrey's in her apartment. She is like just doing whatever
and then all of a sudden Finn islike right there, right behind
her in her apartment and he is blaming her for his mother being
in jail now, his brother being in jail now.
He is like Aubrey, we could havehad a real thing.
(43:16):
We had a connection and you justthrew it all away and you ruined
everything and you know, now I'mgoing to kill you basically.
So I was right, at least that hewas a bad guy.
I nailed that one. Yeah, gets out of syringe.
The famous. The bad guy?
Yeah, I saw flight plane. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The famous lifetime syringe full
of a mystery substance that willkill you, of course and.
(43:40):
I just can't get over what he does here.
Like he fills it with the the magical drug and then it's like,
I'm going to just continue having a conversation with you
and I'm going to put it down like on the side table so that
you can easily grab it. And she proceeds to grab it so
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slowly, like it's not like she leaps towards it.
She's just like slowly reaches over and he's like sneaky, don't
do that. And then she like throws the
Christmas tree at him. It's a whole thing.
He's very this whole family's really bad at being bad guys.
Yeah, sounds like it. Yeah, doesn't come natural,
doesn't come natural. And and the first time I've ever
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seen a Christmas tree used as the weapon.
Yeah, it was pretty cool. Love that she stabbed him in the
heart with the syringe. He's dead.
The police sirens are in the background and that is the end
of the movie. That's the end of the movie.
You better watch out. What are we doing now, Patrick?
Oh yes, now we either pour it up, which means we are into it,
(44:46):
or put a cork in it, which meanswe are not into it.
Dan will start. Since Dan has not seen the movie
and he's going on our description and his imagination.
I'm so I'm torn here because themovie sounds like it's not good
and I want to be very clear, it sounds really bad.
It sounds like it was just slapdash together and isn't good
on any front. Having said that, I have yet to
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watch one of these murder Christmas movies.
I got to watch Mistletoe Murders.
I thought it was great. So the intrigue of Christmas
tree is a weapon. Christmas Eve in an airport I is
still weighing heavily for me, whereas most of what you're
(45:29):
talking about sounds like the budget was $10.
You know what? It's Christmas in July.
Let's get in the Christmas tree,everybody.
Here we go. I want to pour it up.
I want to pour it up, everybody.Merry Christmas.
Wow. I know, I love that.
Just here to surprise Christmas miracles.
Brand, what do you think? Well, I think first of all, this
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regional airport is not decorated for Christmas nearly
enough. If I've seen any Hallmark or
Lifetime movie, there's just notenough Christmas decorations at
this regional airport. And I think Patrick, you would
agree with me on that one. The the kidnap, like the keeping
in the all of that was just not very well done.
(46:11):
Like fair, this girl being in the back of this van, she got
out really easily. Like the bad guys are not good
at being bad guys. And so that was interesting.
But you know what, I had a good time overall.
I'm pouring it up as well. Not one of my favorites, but I
it was an easy breezy watch and there were some like I didn't
(46:35):
like. There was a second when I first
meet Fenn where I'm like, oh, he's going to be the bad guy.
But then he kind of grew on me and I'm like, maybe he's not the
bad guy. So they got you there.
So when the phone goes off in the elevator, I was like, oh,
all right, pretty good. I like that.
And then the I, I think that Vivian being in on it too was a
(46:57):
little bit of A twist as well. So some good stuff in this one
overall, Patrick. Yeah, I think the difference
here, what makes a good Lifetimemovie from like unwatchable
Lifetime movie is that you actually care about the
characters. Like you get to know them pretty
well. Like all the characters kind of
have like a back story. So that in in and of itself is
like achievement for a Lifetime movie where you get like kind of
(47:21):
a little bit of like a history of the character or whatever.
And yeah, the the movie was likedoing things that were
predictable, but then like, alsogoing like, totally like out of
left field with the John being deaf was just like, so random.
But, you know, we like to see representation.
So that's great. And I thought that overall the
(47:43):
actors, like the lead actress was really good.
Like, she was traumatized and like, you know, trying to save
this kidnapped child, but she wasn't like, freaking out the
whole time. She had levels to her freak
outs, right? Yeah, of course.
So we like, we like that, we like that.
So I would say pour it up as well.
Alright, ohh, triple pour it up,triple pour out, pour, pour up,
(48:06):
pour out. We don't pour it out.
Pour it out into your glass and pour that.
Out your homies and then pour itout, yeah?
Pour it out for the homies. Yes, absolutely.
This is a lot of fun. Next week we're going to be
watching Dangerous Snow Day, Dangerous Snow Day, Dangerous
Snow Day. So coming back for that, that's
going to be a lot of fun. So dangerous.
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Check out Lifetime on court.com for all of Patrick's stuff.
What is Lifetime doing right now?
In July, they got some sort of theme.
I haven't really looked into it for July because I'm getting
ready for Bramble Fest. So you just had a?
Birthday too, didn't you, Patrick?
Like I feel like we. Did.
Yeah, yeah. I had a birthday and.
Oh, thank you. Yep.
(48:50):
Yeah. So I've been busy, but I've been
keeping up with all the all the movies there.
There we have it. There you go, find those where
live Tom and cork dot. Com live Tom and cork.com.
That's exactly right. Yeah.
And I've been doing more YouTubelike 3 minute summaries, so
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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 theday.
The Hallmark podcast, this podcast.
We hope you like this Dolly podcast.
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Yes. Oh.
Boy. It is true.
It is Christmas in July. Christmas in July.
For the Lifetime movies, too. That's all right.
I made-up, yeah. You know that one year lifetime
really went hard on. It was like summer of Santa.
'S Let's Do it, Summer of Santa's.
Oh. Patrick remembers.
Now I, I'm excited about this because Patrick, we decided for
(00:57):
Christmas in July instead of just doing some of the Lifetime
Christmas movies that, you know,we haven't covered over the
years. What if we do the like the, the,
the few like thriller ones that are like Christmas adjacent?
Because I want, I want when I want a Lifetime movie, I just
want it to be a Lifetime movie. It's true the I mean these are
way more enjoyable than the Lifetime Christmas offering.
(01:20):
So I love a a murder with a Christmas tree in the
background. Give me not any date.
I think Lifetime hasn't cracked the code on this.
Yet murder. And you know what, we tried to
help him crack that code and they just, we had two or three
meetings with them of a pitch where we had cracked the code of
murdering Christmas tree. And we, I think we were close,
(01:40):
but we just got what they want to do.
We didn't get it. That's not what they want to do.
Because I thought it was about aperfect pitch and I, we had
three meetings. I thought it was going really
well. So I'm not mad at them.
That's incredible. But it's clearly not what they
want to do 'cause we cracked it,I'm telling you, we cracked it.
Yeah, they're they're not Shudder.
Shudder's going to just take that over and and Lifetime will
acquire like, yeah, Shudder's like a streaming service for
(02:03):
scary. Movies.
Oh no. Yeah, we know about Shudder.
We've covered some Christmas movies.
Oh, you're saying? We should pitch our idea to
shudder, all right. But it's not OK, We'll talk
about it. We'll talk about it off air so
no one steals your your idea That's.
Right. But I'm excited like these, the
ones that we we're doing 3 and Ithink they get like
progressively less Christmassy as the month goes on because
(02:24):
we've already done a couple of these.
And so the ones that were like Christmassy, Christmasy we've
already done. And so I think the last ones
just snow. So it's like, it gets like
there's less Christmas trees as the month goes on, but this
one's Christmas Eve in an airport, so.
Come on, that's Christmas. Doesn't get more Christmas Eve
than that, right? That's exactly right.
(02:46):
What's the name of the movie again?
You better watch out in the movie.
You better watch out. OK, this is Christmassy.
It's Christmassy, Yeah. Excited.
I've been to and excited to see you at Bramble Fest in just a
couple, like a week. What is it?
A week and a half now. Yeah, I know we're going to be
there. The Lifetime game show is
getting prepared, so don't worry.
(03:07):
Yeah, I'm getting all the clips.That's right.
I'm excited. I've seen it.
You've sent me an e-mail. I don't look at the.
I don't look at it though. Yeah, cuz you're gonna play the
game stuff. To get it on the screen, but I'm
not I I just. Now I know what happens if
somehow your team wins. I, I, I, I promise, I think.
(03:28):
We'll ever do a year where you and I are on the same team.
There's no way, right? So there's no way I.
Got the the to tell you the truth, last year, I, I lost.
I remember. And not only did I get the, I
get, not only did I get the presentation ahead of time, I
had to do some edits to it aheadof time.
And you still lost because I no,I take it very seriously.
(03:49):
Good for you. I the integrity of the Lifetime
game show Palooza. To me, it's just nothing high.
There's nothing high. Right there was stealing the
deckies you don't want, you don't want to do it.
You know what? I mean, no, no, no, yeah,
there's no. What's that one where they they
were like the game show where they were giving the question
the answers to the people? Oh, you remember that?
The quiz? Yeah, 'cause the movie was Quiz
(04:09):
Show. It's a great movie.
Quiz. Show quiz show Martian on the
waterfront they had him missing on.
Purpose. None of that.
None of that. None of that going on that's.
Right. We're not about that.
We're about it's a serious, serious thing and this year at
Bramble Fest, Jax is going to beCo hosting with you the lifetime
game show Palooza, which I thinkis going to add a.
Whole nother way left and right here.
(04:29):
It's going to add a whole notherelement to it.
Oh, oh, just get ready. Oh, I'm ready.
Me and Jax, it's always a good time so.
You know. Will we coordinate our outfits?
I don't. Know I'm sure the plan, the the
plan, the meetings where you guys have been planning.
Oh, they've been. I've just been.
Oh, so fun. Have you you guys that aren't
(04:49):
actually talking about the game,you're just talking about
outfits? That's great.
She just says 2 peppermint mochas the whole time.
It's like Jax, I can. Hear you, you're live.
You're not on delay like you're here.
You're in the room. You're in the room.
Meetings with her are interesting.
Yeah, yeah. All right, it's going to be a
lot of fun, so come on deck the homework.com/fest.
You can get virtual tickets and stream along live all next.
(05:10):
Weekend, I know we've got to do this, but I was I I listened to
our best of episodes because youworked so hard on them.
The double deckers worked so hard of them.
And it reminds me of things where we actually were funny
throughout the year that I've forgotten about.
And I got to the part where Patrick can't.
He never breaks. Patrick is the most like a bit
is not funny. I'll just smile and get through
it. He doesn't we he hears that I'm
(05:32):
lonely for the first time and hecannot stop laughing.
He's actually crying, laughing. One of the best moments of the.
Year he has a prayer. Going away?
When he finds out that that's not supposed to be a song,
that's just a line of dialogue, he cannot compose himself.
What a moment. What a moment in the best.
(05:52):
I want to watch that movie with you.
You. Would love that.
Movie's a. Riot, you would really, you have
a lot of I've. Seen it, I remember.
Oh, you have? But yeah, I'll watch.
Say it again. Be sure.
Why not? Let's.
Watch it together, it'd be fun. OK, you better watch out.
It was from 2024. We just didn't.
Surprising. We didn't cover it on this here,
(06:14):
wouldn't it air? Like the actual day.
Yeah, do you remember? I posted it on December 5th OK
the blog so I so it just didn't get.
Chosen by you guys it is. Choose the four or five we do.
Right. I will say in years past we've
we've strayed away from the Lifetime Movie Network, which I
(06:34):
think is where this did, except for that one time we did the
thriller, but it aired after. Yeah, usually brand goes for
like the big names over a lifetime when when we're picking
like brands like who do you who,who is the the front runner of
the stars of the. Like the big deals, who are the
(06:54):
big deals? And I don't know who this is.
Who is this lead in this movie? So the movie stars the better.
Watch out. It stars.
Monet moves. Monet moves.
Money. Money Moines.
Maybe it's there's AY. It's there AY or AV?
Moines. I guess I'm going to look it up
on IMDb again. Moves, though I will say that
(07:16):
she does like walk around in this movie and she does right.
What's my name? Movement, Jenna, Zoo and
Michael. This movie stars Monet moves and
Jenna Zoo. I don't believe you for a second
and. Michael Comedy.
Monet, Moyes. Moyes got it.
(07:37):
And Jenna Zoo is probably correct, yes.
OK, I'm ready for Michael. Go ahead.
Michael Silberblatt. Michael Silverblatt.
Silverblatt. Yes.
Silverblatt, yes. It's like silver spells.
Fun. Of fun casts of.
Names. Great cast.
Great Monet moves in. Michael Silverblack, Lisa Long.
That's right. Yeah, we love them all.
(07:59):
We do. I haven't seen any of them in
another Lifetime movie, but we should get them in another one
maybe. Reminds me of someone and I I
can't. It was driving me nuts while I
was watching. She's like that girl in middle
school who's like, you know, good at drawing and like.
Art class she remind you of someone?
Yes, but I don't know who it is.It's the girl who's super
(08:22):
earnest in what she plays on Hallmark everything.
She looks like she's about to cry all the time.
Why can't I think of who that is?
Jessica Alba. It it is.
She's the Jessica Alba of lifetime.
It's Jessica Alba, right? It's Holland Rhode, that's who I
think she does look. She looks like Holland.
Rhode Holland. Rhode, you can see that.
(08:43):
Yeah, that's who is. OK, let's do this.
You better watch out, Patrick. You and I watched a movie, Dan,
you have not. You're going to get to
experience it threw us telling you about it, and I'll let
Patrick take it away. Yes.
So remember this is scary Lifetime movie, but there's
Christmas scattered throughout the movie in the background.
OK, so for your for your imagination, we start out, we
(09:06):
have a young girl, she is like locked in an airplane hangar or
museum. I'm not quite sure what it was.
Yeah, it was a museum and I don't know.
I don't know why. Kitty Hawk in North Carolina,
like the Flight Museum. OK, that, that's, that's what it
seemed like to me. There was airplanes, like kind
of hanging around. There was like a statue.
(09:28):
She's like freaking out. She's like, hello, I'm locked in
this. I'm locked in here, let me out.
And then she gets kidnapped or maybe killed.
We don't know. We don't know.
It all happened so fast. They're like, it's closing.
And she was like Kay. And then the doors were like
chain shut and it was like, oh, wow, this, it happened so fast.
Oh. That's how I close at at the
(09:50):
theater I work at. I just turn off the lights, lock
the doors, see. You you don't have to do
anything else. Share cleaning required.
Padlock. It yeah, shatter bad people
people are in the bathroom. I'm like, too bad you're.
Speaking of Bramble Fair, back then, that was the second year
when we were at the theater. It ended and I was like, all
right, time to go home. And then you look around and
it's like it's all on us, everybody, we've got stuff to do
(10:12):
for the next. Three hours.
That's right. We got places to go.
Yeah. People to see exciting times,
yeah. So we meet our protagonist, who
we we cut to in an airport. She's getting ready.
Natural airport, not a museum. Of of airport not a museum
airport a real airport. Got it.
She's trying to get home on Christmas Eve cause her sister's
(10:32):
pregnant and she wants to be there for the birth, you know?
Her mother, her sister is Mary. Good God.
Yeah, Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Good point. Good point.
Very Christmassy. Thank you.
The most Christmassy. That's right.
Yeah. They did an interesting.
Thing in on Lifetime where they made a movie about baby Jesus
where it's just like not really the.
(10:52):
Point in the background. It's just like virgin birds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've all heard the story, but
do you know about her sister trying to make it there?
Yes, yes. So that's Aubrey.
Aubrey has a fear of flying. We learn out, We learn later
that it's because her parents died in a car crash and she was
(11:16):
flying to she was going to fly to meet them and for like a
trip, but she didn't go because she's scared of flying.
So she blames herself. Yeah, it's very convoluted, but
basically. Did it throw you off when she
like there's a couple times, Dan, where it cuts to her
talking to her therapist and hertherapist is British.
And the first time it happened, I was like, what's happening
(11:37):
right now? Why is this random British woman
in this movie? And I didn't know if it was
somebody in her mind, like if her inner voice was British or
if it was. I think it's her counselor.
I think it's her counselor basedon the later scene, but that
they they do it again later. And it definitely seems like
it's a therapist. But the first time when she's
like getting ready to like go through security or whatever and
(11:59):
it cuts to the British woman, I was like, is her inner voice
British? I would love that.
You'd love it. She just.
Has a lot of she has a lot of trauma from mine.
So, so just know that she's not,she's not a good flyer.
She's a she's a nervous flyer. She's a nervous flyer.
Which I can't relate to. You can.
(12:20):
I cannot. Oh no, no, no, I'm part.
I'm like, surprisingly fine withit.
Like for as afraid of heights asI am, there's something about
planes where it just like, doesn't seem real.
Like when I'm up there, I'm like, this is, this is once you
get past a certain point, it's no longer.
Not being in control of whatever's moving us through
time and space is always a little bit tough for me.
(12:41):
But there's something about flying that as soon as I sit
down, I just go. There's no other better way to
do this. So my brain goes, this isn't
what you want. And then my brain then goes, you
don't have another choice. And as soon as my brain tells me
I don't have another choice, I just get comfortable, turn on a
movie and and that's the end of it.
But I do have an an initial feeling of I'm not flying this
(13:03):
thing, so I don't trust it. That's that's a me problem.
But then I get past it pretty quickly.
I get freaked out when I think about the fact that I can't
leave, like if the minute that interest my mind where I'm stuck
in this. Game people that are afraid of
flying all kinds of news. Next week, That's right.
Come on down and. Join us.
Come on down. That's right.
Yeah, my brain says where's the the snacks, you know?
Yeah. When's the snack cart coming?
(13:24):
That's right. Yeah, so and like, I hope I
don't have to pee because I hategetting up on the plane.
I don't. I don't like going to the
bathroom on the plane so I only do short flights.
There's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than like
having a middle or window seat and having to pee and you look
over in the aisle, person is asleep and you're like.
So sad. I always sit in the aisle for a
(13:47):
number of reasons, but me being one of them, but also that,
yeah, I'm just like, I would like to be able to get up and
move. If I want to get up and move.
We flew to London or only back from London.
I was just like, I have to standup.
I can't do. Were you going to therapy?
I wasn't going to therapy on theplane.
That would have been great. I'll British.
I'll British people are. Yeah, that's why I went over
(14:10):
there. Just the only therapist I could
find. Yeah, it's a lot.
He does it every week. Yeah, it's a full flight every
week. I could go.
So does Aubrey. So does Aubrey.
So it doesn't help the therapy doesn't help her.
Her trauma of flying. She everything goes wrong on
this on this flight, her her seat mate is chatty.
Her seat mate's like, oh, I lovetalking.
(14:32):
You're get ready to talk to me. There's a kid.
Like the whole flight, she's like, I'm going to talk to you
the whole flight. Yeah, the seat belt, the seat
belt won't work. It was giving Final Destination.
I was like, oh, no, this, this flight is cursed because we're
like on the plane at this point.And you know, for a Lifetime
movie to be on the plane, that'sa big budget.
We we're, we're talking about the, the premium budget.
(14:53):
Yes. And then things start to go
real, real wrong. The turbulence is hey, because
they're flying through big, big winter storm and big turbulence
and they end up having to like land somewhere else because the
the storm is so bad. So it's going from bad to worse
for her lookout. Yes, for Dan's brain, let's just
say it's a very small airport. Let's just say that, OK, OK,
(15:16):
It's it's not, they're not, they're not landing in O'Hare,
OK, they say. It's a.
They say it's a regional airport, no less than a.
Is it time? Is it GSP level?
Small or smaller? It's I don't know what GSP
means, but I know what ESP means.
The airport you fly in. Oh yeah, probably that side
well. That's like the national
(15:37):
airport. Yeah, they say regional a lot in
this movie, so. They want you to know they're
not. Trying to pass it as O'Hare.
It's smaller, yes. It's a small airport.
Right. The passengers all get off the
plane. They're, of course, upset.
It's Christmas Eve, man. They got places to go.
Yeah, presents to deliver. And Aubrey's like walking this
(15:59):
guy like is talking and like knocks her phone out of her hand
and she's like, what the heck? And he's just goes off with his
wife and she's like, everyone's so rude and she's like really
having a hard time because she was the worst has happened to
her, right? And let me let me play a quick
game with Dan here. OK, so Guy hits her while he's
(16:22):
walking by, her phone drops, he yells at him, he doesn't turn
around, he just keeps walking. What reason do you think it is
going to be that that happened? That he didn't turn back around
for his phone. That he that he no, that it's
for her phone. So imagine you're walking.
OK, you brush somebody's shoulder, their phone drops,
they yell, hey, you broke my phone.
(16:43):
And you just ignore him and keepwalking.
What? What's the reason?
Is he got like a logical reason or what's the actual thing that
happens in this movie? What's the?
Actual thing that happens in this movie.
He's a murderer. He's a murderer.
He doesn't want to turn. Around, OK, OK, that's, that's
one option. Yeah, that is one option.
Good answer, good answer. What's the OK?
I guess we'll get to it. We'll get back to it.
We'll get back to it. So Aubrey rebooks her flight for
(17:05):
the next day. She's like kind of rude to
everybody at this point. Like, it just her general
customer service, like interaction skills really rubbed
me the wrong way. I was like, I don't know if I
like Aubrey. But the person behind the desk
acts like she's the nicest person in the world, which is so
weird thing. She's like, you're gonna be a
great aunt. And I'm like, I mean, sure,
fine. I guess.
I don't know. Yes, Aubrey also tells everybody
(17:25):
that she's about to be an aunt and she's very excited.
Or I would say aunt, but I said aunt cuz Brand said sorry.
I started a whole aunt train that we need to get off of
immediately. Aubrey sister she her she does
she get like a burner phone or something Like her phone was
broken? Yes, she goes into the store in
the airport and this burner phone that has a burner phone
(17:48):
sell in the airport. We all know and we there's like
a couple of options and she's buy one or two just in case.
Yeah, just in case. And she's like, what do these is
better? And he's like, neither but this,
but this one will, you know? So one of them is.
Then got it. Get you the job.
Get the job done I guess. 'Cause this is one of those
airports that famously has terrible cell service.
No service anywhere. Classic airports, you know what
(18:09):
I mean? No cell signal and.
So she sits down at the bar. The diner.
I don't know what the restaurantis and she's like, she tries to
call her sister to like tell herabout what's happening and can't
get through Mary, Mary, this is huge and Mary's like you won't
believe where I am there's. No room at the end.
(18:33):
And so anyway, she can't get a asignal right.
And so she the person behind like the bartender or whatever
is like if you go to the car garage you will get service.
The OK the garage out, you'd have to go back to security out.
Well, no, you would think so. No security.
(18:56):
There's a there's a secret. Place after 911.
There's a secret way. There's a lot now.
From the garage to the terminal itself, like an employee
entrance. Yes.
And she shows the the lady that she's like, don't tell anybody.
That just don't tell anybody. Just between because there's
only a few people in the. Airport.
Don't tell anybody. Just don't tell anybody.
(19:16):
That's the key. And so it's a hand she is going,
she is going to go to and from this garage to the terminal back
and forth no less than six times.
You'll never have to go through security again.
Wow, never so wow. And and also like notoriously
(19:37):
parking garages are great for cell service.
Yeah, so good, especially the lower floors.
What you want to do is you want to start dialing when you enter
the elevator. That's right.
That's the key thing. It's.
Really going to? All that cement around you, it
makes great, yeah. For sure also like the elevator,
like every the airport I've everbeen to that I can think of, the
(19:58):
garage is like on the other sideof the street, you know, like
there's the garages, the drop off area, the airport and they
make it seem like it's just an elevator down to the garage.
I don't know. It doesn't make.
Sense you know this is a very special.
Airport you lost me at We don't get any cell signal here, but
(20:20):
you can really get it in the parking garage through the the.
Entrance. It's the prime place.
Eventually she does get signal enough to find out her sister is
in labor and she's going to be missing the birth or she's going
to have just go meet her niece but.
But like during that conversation, the, the, the, you
know, it's going in and out kindof you know, and so it ends up
(20:43):
dropping. Out, I mean all the way to
Bethlehem from I know it's just a crazy she ends.
Up the the call drops and so she's like hopefully she can
call me back or so she's like like holding her phone like
really close to her. She does end up going back to
the terminal and hopefully, like, hoping for the best,
basically, and we're going to hope for the best here with the
ad. Yeah, with the break.
(21:03):
Yeah, you were doing so well. We're going to hope for the best
and we'll see what happens rightafter this break is all you had
to do. Dang, it would.
Have been good. So we're back.
She just the call just dropped. But one of the things Dan that
(21:25):
she noticed right before walkingback into the terminal as you do
is she noticed this like creepy van.
There's like a creepy van in the.
Garage parking lot The garage The garage Garage was the cell
signal and. She heard some banging sounds,
but it's like that's it. So she's like, I guess that
that's weird, but like, you knowwhat, What am I to do about
(21:49):
this, basically? It is a pull up on the side of
the street and grab you van. Yes, OK.
It's a classic creepy. The van that you think of, What
do you think of? Yeah, Creeper van.
That's that's the van. No, I'm sure Lifetime knows how
to get this right. They got.
It. Yeah, yeah.
So Aubrey goes back into the terminal.
She makes fun with a guy named Finn.
(22:11):
Finn is just, like, making jokesand like, trying to, like, he
can tell she's stressed out, right?
So he's trying to, like, make her feel better.
He's like, let's people watch and talk about the people, yeah.
And one of the people. The couple.
Yeah, Well, I was going to say one of the people that they talk
about is that couple, the guy who hit her shoulder and his
wife, They are like in what seems to be like a heated
(22:34):
argument and he like grabs her shoulders and pushes her into
like a hallway area. And so he's definitely, he
doesn't seem as though he's above board.
It doesn't seem like. It you better watch out and.
He better watch. Out.
He looks very mad all the time. He's just like staring at like
(22:56):
angry. Yeah, his name's John and his
wife's name is Leah. John and Leah.
There's also an elderly lady named Vivian and a creepy
janitor. OK, who's OK?
So there's there's lots of creepy people.
It's not really making Aubrey feel better to like, look at all
these people. There's also suspect.
Yeah, there's also one thing that she she did talk to like
(23:21):
this one police officer at this regional airport before going
through security after the phonebump incident.
She talked to this police officer and the police officer
was like, it sounds like it's your fault, basically.
Wow, like. Yeah, he didn't.
Break. He didn't break it.
You dropped it sounds like. So it wasn't helpful for him
too. Wasn't helpful.
And so if she's going to need a police officer, hopefully
(23:42):
there's another. One I'll do.
Yeah. You would hope so, yeah.
So Vivian sees Finn and Aubrey talking and it's like, oh hey
guys, let's go get something to eat, we're going to be here all
night. Have you tried the Christmas
burger? It's.
The Christmas. Burger.
Yeah, that's all we get on it. You don't get anything else.
No, it's like, have you ever tried?
This. You don't even really see it.
(24:03):
You don't even really. See it?
What do you think of it? Say I.
Don't know, kind of like I can't.
It's got to have lettuce and tomato.
Or red, red and green Hatch green Chili Peppers with pepper
pepper Jack cheese. And crushed up peppermint.
Let's just like, let's just brainstorm.
Let's not sure. I think I got.
(24:24):
It pepper Jack and pepper mint. No pepper.
Maybe. Maybe it's a lamb burger, like
lamb and mint go well together. Right, OK, sure.
Yeah, Lamb, cause Jesus. Yeah.
Like I bet there was one of them.
Sure. Lamb, goat cheese, Mint.
Yep, I'm back in with lamb and mint.
I'm back in peppermint. I'm not in.
(24:46):
Mary had a little lamb. Right.
Maybe there's some like a shoestring potato fries.
It's like hay. That's good.
I see what you're doing now. We're doing burgers.
Jesus, right in the middle of that hay I.
Don't. Sure.
Yeah, away in a Manger Burger. Yeah, that's not bad.
(25:09):
OK, Let us know in the comments.Right, the burger is that, but
they do mention the Christmas burger.
Christmas. Burger.
Christmas burger, You mentioned it multiple times.
You got to cook it. You got to cook.
It a good pepper Jack cheese would do that.
There's like some red and green in there.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, Aubrey goes back yes out to like check her, her
(25:31):
reception, and then she hears someone banging.
From more banging and like clearly coming from the vein.
From inside the van, Yeah. Calls coming from inside the
van, yeah. She's trying to call 911, but
the call fails. So she goes inside.
She sees that security guy from before.
She's like, I can't talk to him.So she talks to the janitor.
The janitor is like, oh, well, let me help you here.
(25:53):
Come with me. And he like, touches her arm.
And she does like the Jennifer Love Hewitt, Like, get off of
me, you know, like, stop. Touching me.
Perfect, perfect. Yeah, that's great.
I love like a good like JenniferLove Hewitt, like yelling at
somebody. It's all it's got are.
You excited for her, her comeback, and I know what you
did last summer. Oh my God, I can't wait.
(26:13):
I'll be there opening day. It is it during?
Bramble Fest opening will be our.
Movie date When do you get on early in?
That morning, well. We'll figure out.
Yeah, we. Want to plan it out I'm I'm
down. I'd love to see.
I'd love I'd. Love, we can't.
We got the things later. I know a mid a midday.
I know he did last summer though.
(26:34):
Oh, a midday. I know what you did last summer
on Thursday. That like a three.
I don't know how it's tough. There's dinner.
For I don't know if it would. Work we got, we got to move it
to Friday. The problem is Friday you got
registered. It's a it's a tough, it's
tricky, it's tricky. It's tough.
It's tough. Yeah.
I have to do a midnight showing.No, I can't.
I can't do it. I got it.
There's no I'm out. I.
Would do it midnight. It's one Patrick's only in town.
(26:54):
A couple. Times.
I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this.
Last year I did it. I was so tired.
No, I love you, Patrick. Dan can't hang out anymore.
I saw a twister for you. The morning stuff is done.
The morning stuff's done at noonon Saturday and there's 3:00 PM
meet and greet. I bet we could do it there.
There's your window now. Yeah.
(27:16):
Maybe, yeah. We'll see.
We'll. Figure it out.
I know he did last. Summer.
But yeah, love, love that movie.So in the van there's a girl.
She's chained to the floor. She's a girl in the van, chained
to the floor. OK.
Yeah, she's the girl from the museum, obviously.
Yeah, Kitty Hawk. I got to be honest, I had
(27:37):
forgotten at this point. I was like, I want to hear that.
Girl, I thought she was a mannequin maybe?
No, I forgot about the beginningof the movie.
It was like, yeah. Just not.
Very memorable. What I love is that Aubrey,
instead of just like opening thedoor and being like, are you OK?
I'm. I'm going to go get help.
She, like, gets in the van, closes the door behind her and
is like, are you OK? Like, tell me what's going on?
(27:58):
Well, how did you get here? What's your name?
Like, I'm like, come on, get outof there.
What are you doing? Of course, the kidnapper gets in
the passenger or the driver's seat and you're like, he's going
to drive away. He's going to drive away with
her in the thing. No, he just like takes a call.
There's a a ringtone that's verydistinctive.
Not Santa Claus is coming to town, unfortunately.
(28:20):
No, it's just like a bitty boop scoop doop boop.
Beep beep, beep, beep beep. Right.
Something like that. I'm gonna kidnap you.
I'm gonna kidnap you. It's a.
Song that good? Yeah, it sounds like it's for
obviously not the kidnapping. The kidnapper has cell service.
They have cell. Service somehow.
(28:42):
Because we've been a big thing about the cell phone and a big
thing about service. And this, this kid never.
Has yeah, they got, they got a Nextel, you know.
No Nextel direct connect. That was the.
Do you remember that with the walkie-talkie where you're like,
hello? Nothing more efficient than a
Nextel direct connect. And it's like a big deal because
(29:02):
like she's like she really like she's having trouble with her
phone. It's not obviously it's not
having very good service even inthe garage, even in the garage
where it's. Supposed to be having very good
service. Well, it's having it.
I don't need it from you right now.
Even though the garage is supposed to be prime, the prime
spot for service, she's not getting it.
OK. And so like, she's in the
airport. The kidnapper is.
(29:23):
The kidnapper is and, but she goes inside and she asks
everybody in the terminal does anybody have a phone with
service? And they're all just like, Nope,
we don't. So somebody, somebody's.
Lying. Go ahead, go ahead.
Somebody's lying, Yeah. Yeah, well, I love that she went
in. She like called a group meeting,
said anybody have a phone? Hold up, everybody is is anyone
(29:45):
driving a white van? Did anyone drive a white van to
work today? Right.
Like like a murdery van, Yes. Yeah, and so and she's like.
Go ahead. It's so funny.
I just love that she was like, just ask the question.
Just go right to the cut, right to the chase.
Is anyone driving to this van? And so Finn is like, what is
your deal? Like, why?
Like, what's like, you're very frantic right now?
(30:07):
And so she decides I'm going to tell Finn the truth, and I'm
going to go and show him the van.
OK? I think I can trust Finn.
I'm going to show Finn the van. They get down to the garage.
Van's gone. The van's nowhere to be found
and she, and so she's like a doofus now.
(30:27):
So Finn. Is this means she told somebody
about the secret entrance without the security?
Finn's knows about it now. Yeah, yeah, he knows.
Now, he she promised not to tellanyone.
Yeah, but Finn, we're gonna thisairport's gonna be responsible
for another attack. It is once you saw once you saw
Finn's blue eyes, you would you would take.
Him to the Yeah, I'd tell him whatever he wanted to know.
I got you. And so Finn is like, well, how
(30:49):
about we go and like look at thelike we can talk to this the
cop, we can maybe see the security footage and see like
where the van went or something like that.
Obviously problematic cause the cop hates her.
Yes, but Finn offers him 50 bucks.
To show him the 50 to. Show him the footage.
Yeah, a little. A little bribe goes a long way
(31:11):
and on. Christmas Eve, too.
Like, that's huge, yeah. Yeah, we go.
There's no footage of the van the the parking space is empty
the whole time. Far back as the footage goes,
the space is empty, Dan. So they're like, what's going
like? And so she like Finn is kind of
hinting at the fact that she's just crazy.
(31:33):
Basically. It's like, but it's also like
I've seen. Flight plan I I know what's
going to happen here. Finn Finn's the bad guy.
Finn's the bad guy. Wow, OK.
Finn's the bad guy. That's one.
That's one theory. Though that is 1 theory.
Yeah. So there's really nothing more
they can do. They kind of, they leave the
(31:56):
security guard and. Let's get back in the elevator,
you know. Yeah, they get back in the
elevator and then as they're going to the terminal, the the
cell phone, there's that ring again.
Yeah, she hears the ring. The I'm a kidnapper.
Yeah, I'm a kidnapper. Whatever the ringtone was, she
hears it and she looks down and Finn pulls out his satellite
(32:21):
phone and it's like, hey, yeah, we'll be there in a little bit.
Finn's got the cell service. Finn's got the cell service.
And she's like, why did you lie about having a phone?
He's like it's. Unbelievable.
He's like, it's just a satellitephone.
No worries. Like, whatever.
Yeah. But she's like, I'm actually not
(32:41):
going to get off the elevator with you.
I'm going to like just, I need some time to myself basically
like to clear my head or whatever.
She goes back to the parking garage and she notices something
she didn't notice before, which was a giant van covered by a
sheet. And it's like, oh, maybe it's
(33:01):
under the sheet. And it it was, it was under it.
Was under the sheet. Maybe he's under the sheet?
Maybe he was under the sheet. You know, you know how those
tarps blend in with like the. Concrete.
It happens. Yeah, Yeah.
No. Yeah, and this killer had a
sheet is. Barely at an airport.
It's barely at an airport. Barely.
It's barely Christmas as well. God, it's mostly parking garage.
(33:22):
Yeah, mostly parking. Garage, Yeah.
So she, Finn follows her. Of course, he's the bad guy.
He's like lurking around the thetruck and the security guards
there. And they're like yelling at each
other like, we lost her. Where is she?
Clearly they're in on it together, the security guard.
And so she runs back. Finn and the security guard.
(33:42):
Yes, they're working on it together.
She runs back, and she finds Vivian.
Old Lady Vivian, remember old. Old lady Viv.
She's like asleep. Christmas Burger.
Yeah, Christmas burger. She's like asleep.
And she's like, hey, come and like, I got to tell you
something. Come and see.
So she's telling people about the entrance left and right.
She takes Vivian to the van to the to the girl.
(34:05):
And Vivian's like, Oh my gosh, who, who did this?
How did this happen, basically? And they're like, OK, let's go
back and we'll plan on how we'regoing to get this girl to
safety. Yeah, and they sneak.
They sneak the girl like some like supplies, like to defend
herself. Yeah, she, yeah, she handed her
(34:25):
like a little like little littlebaby scissors, OK.
All right, little baby scissors.Like maybe you could do some?
Little baby scissors. So Vivian and Audrey are are
drinking from a flask. They're they're talking through
the suspects because Vivian likes to read those like cozy
murder mystery books. So she's really getting into it.
(34:46):
Also, she's saying everybody butherself, of course.
And Aubrey starts to feel woozy and she's like, and she passes
out. She's been drugged by Vivian.
Vivian was in on it. It's a strangers on a train
situation. They're.
All in on it. They're all in on it.
Yeah, that's actually what? It's just them, the other people
(35:07):
are. They're not just the three of
them. Got it.
Just the three of them mainly. Well, don't forget about John,
guys. Don't forget about that.
Yeah, don't forget about it, John.
Robbery wakes up. She's tied to a chair at an
abandoned part of the airport with a school bus.
Yeah, no, that's a yeah. Usually every airport has one.
You know the one. Yeah, we learn because Vivian is
(35:29):
gonna go through her villain monologue now.
She explains that Finn is her son.
Oh my God. And the there's also another
son, the black sheep of the family, Jason.
He's in prison, right? And the little girl is Jason,
the prisoner's daughter, OK. And they kidnapped.
(35:50):
Vivian's granddaughter, yeah. Got it.
Yeah, because she was with the mom and the mom wasn't bringing
the kid over to hang out with. Right.
They were just letting this girljust like, you know, explore
airplane museums on Christmas Eve by herself.
So like clearly, like some some she's she needs she should be
rescued like they we so they're in their minds are like we're
(36:13):
not the bad guys here. We're actually like.
Yeah. Helping her.
Yeah, no. Sure, Sure, sure, sure.
And their plan is to take the little girl to Canada for
safety. To Canada, That's right.
And we're and we're going to take it to break.
Oh, nicely done. That one's way better.
Way better. They know my.
(36:42):
OK, so Dan, you said that you think that John, the guy who
bumped into her, did that because he's a killer.
He I thought so, but now that it's so I.
Immediately when Finn was like, you're crazy.
Right guest #2 what, what do youthink his deal is?
Why would what? What reason would there be for
you to bump into somebody, hear them yell you broke my phone?
(37:05):
But then you shoved your wife, right?
Then he shoved. His wife He did shove his wife,
so he's a. Bad human being.
I want to be very clear. He's a terrible human being,
yes, But now I know for sure he's also an undercover police
officer that's going to help save the day.
Right. Okay, that's great.
That's good. Good second guess trash human.
(37:26):
Good second guess. So Aubrey, of course.
Well, you're thinking like Dan, like we're at the end of the
movie villain monologue stuff. No, there's more.
There's still more to. That's why you were asking me.
I'm like, I think we already cracked it, right?
The three of them, but I guess not for.
Him, no. Aubrey breaks free from her
restraints and runs back to the terminal.
Sees the janitor and the couple that we're fighting and it's
(37:49):
like, guys, they're bad. Oh my gosh, we got to get out.
We got to get out of here. We got to get.
Out of here, man. And John is just like looking at
her. And then he turns to his wife
and then he's just starts sign language, just.
Sign language. They start doing sign language
to. Each and she's doing sign
language and we get the subtitles and John is deaf.
(38:12):
That is the big. Real John's deaf.
He's not rude. He's just deaf.
What about the shoving of his wife?
He needed to get close to her sohe that he could read her lips.
Yes. Hell no.
I just, I don't know why you hate deaf people.
The deaf. Community First is.
Coming at you. It does not matter what your
(38:35):
physical predisposition is. You can't shove people.
You can't do it. You shouldn't.
You shouldn't. Especially not, it's not a good
look for you. The very strong I'm against
abuse stance that I'm taking no matter who you are.
John being deaf was the craziesttoy that it It was a real
(38:56):
Shyamalan. It was a.
Real. It it.
It really was. It really was.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the movie.
At all, but it was still felt bumping into her, right?
Yeah, but didn't hear her yelling.
You broke my phone. She, he didn't know.
He broke her. Phone, right.
OK. All right.
(39:17):
He does offer to pay for it later, actually the wife does,
but whatever. Yeah, it's fine.
But basically we're setting Johnup now to for a hero's journey.
OK, He's going to go get the, he's getting EDA pads from the
little closet. He he shocks the security guard,
knocks him out. And then he's like me and my
(39:38):
wife, we're going to go and we're going to walk to the
police station from the airport and get help.
And we don't have mittens, we don't have hats, we don't have
coats. But we're going to go.
We're going to risk it all. That's right.
It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.
Great. Awesome, we're gonna save this
girl. Yes, and and one thing about the
sign language I I did like that they were talking in sign
(40:00):
language and like, you know, like actually having full
conversations in sign language. It wasn't just like one person
talking, you know the other person not they were both
talking sign language, speaking in sign language.
That's right. So let's see.
The baby. The baby happens.
Oh yeah, she gets a call. From Mary, Yeah.
(40:21):
Mary has his chances. She's got it.
Yes. So good.
So that's great. We love that.
Everyone's walking around the airport.
The ones who remain, they're looking for for the little girl
whose name is Chloe. They're like Chloe.
Chloe, where are you? They're literally all walking
around this airport, Dan, and they're all just like Chloe.
Yes, Chloe, where are you? It's good.
(40:43):
This. Empty town of an airport?
Yeah. A stage whisper.
That's a stage whisper. Right there, a stage whisper
glow. Hey.
And we get back to the Magic school bus and it's like, it's
like the school bus was like stressing me out it, it was just
so dilapidated and like, no kidsare going to be riding on this
(41:06):
bus, you know? That's just sitting at the
airport, you know, like normal. Yeah, that's where, yeah,
everyone knows airports are where buses go to die.
Aubrey and Vivian have like a a fight in the school bus, but
eventually Chloe is saved. Yeah, yes.
We don't need to get, we don't need to get into it often nitty
gritty. Yes, at this point, Patrick
(41:27):
thinks the movie's. Over for sure.
I think it's over. I thought the movie was over.
Here is my last sentence of the of the recap from 20/20/24
December 5th. The police arrive and take
Vivian and the security guard into custody.
Finn is Mia. 72% of kidnappings are by relatives.
Merry Christmas. That's how I that's how I ended
(41:51):
it. OK.
And then now it just says, wait,I totally missed the end of this
movie. I love it.
Which is great, yeah. So there's a whole other last 7.
Minutes. A whole other part.
You didn't watch the whole you thought it was over.
In turn, he's. Convinced that they didn't air
it. Oh my gosh, that's Patrick's
defense. I mean, I'm not saying Patrick's
(42:11):
wrong, but knowing the track record of how many Lifetime
movies you watch, it would not surprise me at all if this was
late at night and you turned it off thinking it was over.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
I mean, it could. Happen.
OK, all right, all right. But I was surprised.
I was like, whoa, what is going on?
We, we go to like, it couldn't have been that much later
(42:33):
because there's still Christmas decor.
So maybe like a week or two later.
How long do you leave your Christmas tree up?
Not even the day after Christmas.
OK, some people leave it up a little longer.
Yeah, it's two weeks later, is what it says.
Yeah. So keeps her apartment.
On the 26th and it needs to go down, right?
(42:54):
Aubrey's in her apartment. She is like just doing whatever
and then all of a sudden Finn islike right there, right behind
her in her apartment and he is blaming her for his mother being
in jail now, his brother being in jail now.
He is like Aubrey, we could havehad a real thing.
(43:16):
We had a connection and you justthrew it all away and you ruined
everything and you know, now I'mgoing to kill you basically.
So I was right, at least that hewas a bad guy.
I nailed that one. Yeah, gets out of syringe.
The famous. The bad guy?
Yeah, I saw flight plane. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The famous lifetime syringe full
of a mystery substance that willkill you, of course and.
(43:40):
I just can't get over what he does here.
Like he fills it with the the magical drug and then it's like,
I'm going to just continue having a conversation with you
and I'm going to put it down like on the side table so that
you can easily grab it. And she proceeds to grab it so
(44:02):
slowly, like it's not like she leaps towards it.
She's just like slowly reaches over and he's like sneaky, don't
do that. And then she like throws the
Christmas tree at him. It's a whole thing.
He's very this whole family's really bad at being bad guys.
Yeah, sounds like it. Yeah, doesn't come natural,
doesn't come natural. And and the first time I've ever
(44:24):
seen a Christmas tree used as the weapon.
Yeah, it was pretty cool. Love that she stabbed him in the
heart with the syringe. He's dead.
The police sirens are in the background and that is the end
of the movie. That's the end of the movie.
You better watch out. What are we doing now, Patrick?
Oh yes, now we either pour it up, which means we are into it,
(44:46):
or put a cork in it, which meanswe are not into it.
Dan will start. Since Dan has not seen the movie
and he's going on our description and his imagination.
I'm so I'm torn here because themovie sounds like it's not good
and I want to be very clear, it sounds really bad.
It sounds like it was just slapdash together and isn't good
on any front. Having said that, I have yet to
(45:08):
watch one of these murder Christmas movies.
I got to watch Mistletoe Murders.
I thought it was great. So the intrigue of Christmas
tree is a weapon. Christmas Eve in an airport I is
still weighing heavily for me, whereas most of what you're
(45:29):
talking about sounds like the budget was $10.
You know what? It's Christmas in July.
Let's get in the Christmas tree,everybody.
Here we go. I want to pour it up.
I want to pour it up, everybody.Merry Christmas.
Wow. I know, I love that.
Just here to surprise Christmas miracles.
Brand, what do you think? Well, I think first of all, this
(45:51):
regional airport is not decorated for Christmas nearly
enough. If I've seen any Hallmark or
Lifetime movie, there's just notenough Christmas decorations at
this regional airport. And I think Patrick, you would
agree with me on that one. The the kidnap, like the keeping
in the all of that was just not very well done.
(46:11):
Like fair, this girl being in the back of this van, she got
out really easily. Like the bad guys are not good
at being bad guys. And so that was interesting.
But you know what, I had a good time overall.
I'm pouring it up as well. Not one of my favorites, but I
it was an easy breezy watch and there were some like I didn't
(46:35):
like. There was a second when I first
meet Fenn where I'm like, oh, he's going to be the bad guy.
But then he kind of grew on me and I'm like, maybe he's not the
bad guy. So they got you there.
So when the phone goes off in the elevator, I was like, oh,
all right, pretty good. I like that.
And then the I, I think that Vivian being in on it too was a
(46:57):
little bit of A twist as well. So some good stuff in this one
overall, Patrick. Yeah, I think the difference
here, what makes a good Lifetimemovie from like unwatchable
Lifetime movie is that you actually care about the
characters. Like you get to know them pretty
well. Like all the characters kind of
have like a back story. So that in in and of itself is
like achievement for a Lifetime movie where you get like kind of
(47:21):
a little bit of like a history of the character or whatever.
And yeah, the the movie was likedoing things that were
predictable, but then like, alsogoing like, totally like out of
left field with the John being deaf was just like, so random.
But, you know, we like to see representation.
So that's great. And I thought that overall the
(47:43):
actors, like the lead actress was really good.
Like, she was traumatized and like, you know, trying to save
this kidnapped child, but she wasn't like, freaking out the
whole time. She had levels to her freak
outs, right? Yeah, of course.
So we like, we like that, we like that.
So I would say pour it up as well.
Alright, ohh, triple pour it up,triple pour out, pour, pour up,
(48:06):
pour out. We don't pour it out.
Pour it out into your glass and pour that.
Out your homies and then pour itout, yeah?
Pour it out for the homies. Yes, absolutely.
This is a lot of fun. Next week we're going to be
watching Dangerous Snow Day, Dangerous Snow Day, Dangerous
Snow Day. So coming back for that, that's
going to be a lot of fun. So dangerous.
(48:29):
Check out Lifetime on court.com for all of Patrick's stuff.
What is Lifetime doing right now?
In July, they got some sort of theme.
I haven't really looked into it for July because I'm getting
ready for Bramble Fest. So you just had a?
Birthday too, didn't you, Patrick?
Like I feel like we. Did.
Yeah, yeah. I had a birthday and.
Oh, thank you. Yep.
(48:50):
Yeah. So I've been busy, but I've been
keeping up with all the all the movies there.
There we have it. There you go, find those where
live Tom and cork dot. Com live Tom and cork.com.
That's exactly right. Yeah.
And I've been doing more YouTubelike 3 minute summaries, so
check those out. Check them out, love it, come
back next time for another one until they may be the first to
(49:10):
wish you a. Merry Christmas Deck the
Hallmarks the Bramble Jam podcast is produced by Aaron
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