December 13, 2024 • 24 mins
Marc Summers stops by the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge to talk about starring in "Hanukkah on the Rocks" and plays holiday movie trivia!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mark Summers is here. Mark Summers. Of course, last time
we had you and I was a guest, you were
doing Life and Slams of Mark Summers, your stage show,
which was fabulous. We loved it. Were so nice to
be there. How long ago was that?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We opened February fourteenth, We closed June second, so it
was a five months.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, welcome back, Thank you, thank you, thank you. By
the way, I listened to you guys all the time,
I get the clips all the time. But congratulations to
you for the CBS Sunday Morning piece. That was spectacle.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh thank you. That was a multitude of dreams coming true.
I can't you know.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's the best show on television. It really is. And
for them to follow you around and tell your story.
And how long did they follow you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know what if it was seven and a half
minutes long that piece. Yeah, they did maybe a total
of five days. Oh my, I know. That's amazing. So
there's a lot of stuff they didn't show, but it
was a lot of It was last year or so.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is that Christmas concert that you saw, Yes, we're having
that again tonight tonight, right, so that was last year.
So it's been a year.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It felt like it was a year that they followed
you around. I know it was probably in total few days,
but I just felt like they were here a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was awesome. And they do such a great job
telling stories, which is another reason why I loved your
stage show, Oh Things, because you told your story about
Nickelodeon being slimed, the whole thing. You told your story
in such a beautiful way. Oh thank you, and we
all kind of fell in love with you a little
bit a lot bit.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, you know, you never know when you put yourself
out there. You know, I'm seventy two years old. I'm
doing like seven shows a week whatever, eight seven eight,
And somebody from Hallmark came in and afterwards came backstage
and said, you know, this is really good. Would you
like to maybe producer write one of the movies. I
don't do that anymore. I'm just I'm trying to retire
quite honestly, but I'm not good at it. And a
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few weeks later they called me and said, we're looking
at a script and we think there's a pard in
here for you. And I said, yeah, but I don't act,
and they went, no, no, we just saw your one
man show. You act, And I said, well, send me
the script. So they sent it to me. I read
the first twenty pages. I thought, well, I can do
this much in there for me, and I signed the
deal and then I read the rest of the script.
I was a lead in this thing, I said, what
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have I done?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I like how they slip that in there.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yes, And so the one man shows one day, because
you're on stage for ninety minutes pretty much by yourself.
This is interacting with other humans, but it's also worrying
about delivering the lines and reacting to what they're saying.
I've never done that before. You're such a natural for
something like oh well thanks. I don't know, but you
know what. I saw the screener the other day and
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I didn't want to look like a guy pretending to
be an actor. And I'm really really pleased with what
came out on this thing. Yes, and the last scene
is this very dramatic where I had to cry and
get emotional, and I did an acting class. I could
never do that, and it took me to this point
in my life to be able to just release it
all and do it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Can you do it right now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, when I think about the time you and I
had lunch, yet, I can think about that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We had. We had a crazy lunch, a lot of tears.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Did your wife see the movie already?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
No, I won't let her look at it until tonight. Yes,
I had the screener and she said I want to
look at I said, no, you're going to watch it
on television.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'll tell you a story years ago. Remember the actress
that played the mother on Happy Days, Yes, Marian Ross. Yes,
we had her on our show years and years ago. Huh.
And we're talking about actors that needed to produce tears.
And she said, okay, I'll do it right now and
she started crying. That's crazy that people could do that. Well, yes,
scary because you kind of wonder where a person.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Goes to get to that point. Well, when I was
taking an acting class, a teacher was Mark Lano. Kevin
Neiland was in my class, and we were going to
have to cry. Well, week one, I couldn't cry, Week two,
I couldn't cry, Week three I couldn't cry. So when
it came in a week four, he said, you're doing
it tonight and I couldn't and I literally, I'm not
proud of this. I picked up a chair and threw
it at the acting coach. Okay, and I left the class,
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and I'm so angry. So after I was able to
do this on this movie, I called Mark Lano, who's
almost ate years old now, and I said, I just
want to let you know I finally was able to
cry on I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But after four weeks of being pushed and prodded to cry,
you're like, the pressure's on, I gotta cry. If you
threw a chair at me, would you start crying? Let's see,
I threw chairs all the time. He has drunken I
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break chairs. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
As much money as you make for these folks, you
can break one as well. Another chair, Elvis.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay, let's talk about it, because look, every year the
Hallmark Holiday movies rolled out and of course Danielle and
now Danielle has sucked Gandhi into that boortex. Yeah, kitty,
what is it that you love about? You know?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's they're brainless. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Drive careful later, That's why I got hired. They're not complicated.
They're not complicated.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I don't have to sit there and think like, oh
my gosh, I have to concentrate on this whatever. It's
just going to be a story that's gonna put me
in the holiday spirit. At the end of it is
usually a happy ending, and I smile. I watch it
with my husband or you know, my girlfriend's It's just
it's part of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's good to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, people say they keep it on all day and
all night. Yeah, which is pretty dark.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then he gets sucked in every time. I'll just
watch the beginning of this one, and then I got
to watch the whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Gandhi, though Danielle is a very sentimental comfort I like
comfort in my life kind of woman. Gandhi's more of
a menace. She's salty, she's sassy. I couldn't see her
sitting down in front of a hallwork movie. But you
do now I.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Do, because it's just the feeling of the holidays, like
all the decorations and what they're talking about. Plus they
always end happily. Yes, there's never a plot twist where
someone dies.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
At the end. There's a nice makeout scene at the end.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Of always a nice is it what made you cry?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Then I would get to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But I like getting irritated because I'm like, how do
you know it's not him? Or how do you know
it isn't this guy? And it's this guy that you're
going for. It's never the big city guy. It's always
a small town act.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You talk back to the screen, of course I do. Well,
there's something very unique about Mark Summer's holiday movie that
premieres tonight. Honkah on the Rocks. Yes, Now, they don't
have a lot of honkka movie. I think this is
the second one. I believe there's more honkka of music
than there is movies. You know, Classic that's the only one.
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And Oldrade, Oldrada and I'm lost, you know. Okay, So
Honkah on the Rock Yes, And so did you know
he wanted to be a rabbi?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
After my bar mitzvah many years ago, nineteen sixty four,
I thought it was way cool and I was performing
and I had this thing where I wanted to be
on TV, but I wanted to be a rabbi. I
couldn't couldn't make up my mind. So I rode my
bike over to Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, where I went to
temple and Rabbi Weitzman, the assistant rabbi, was there and
I said, I need to talk to you because I
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know that you started off in radio and TV and
then you became a rabbi. And he said yes. He said,
why do you want to become a rabbi? I because
I want to help people. And he said to me,
as a rabbi, you can help a small amount of
people a lot, but in the entertainment industry you can
help a lot of people a little. Whatever you do
is the perfect one. And I chose entertainment.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Mark Summers. You know, you have the best stories and
you're such a great guy. Oh you're very kind. Get
out of here, get him out. No, but but Hankah
on the rocks. I'll be a little nervous the premieres tonight,
Prayers Tonight. I'm a little nervous about it because I
want people to like it. I don't want people to
turn on and say, oh, there's the Nickelodeon guy. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I mean that's followed me my whole life, and I
get it, and I'm proud of it. But will they
be able to make the separation? And hopefully the answer
to that is yes. I play Sam Rosen a old
Jewish grandfather typecasting. And I was a dry cleaning guy
for fifty years in Chicago. My wife has passed away,
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and my son is a doctor in Florida, and he
wants to convince me to move down to Florida with
the family, and he sends the grandson to try and
bring me down. And what happens is this young lady
who just loses her job as an attorney comes in
and I play matchmaker and put them together. And as
you can imagine, it's really rough upfront, but being a
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Hallmark movie, it gets better and better. And then they
do this big makeout s and at the end and
I said to Stacy Farber, who's the female lead, I said,
I've kissed the same woman for fifty years. I don't
think I could do that. And she said, ah, if
you like the guy, it's easy. And if you don't,
I said, well, that was obviously you like him. She said,
O yeah, I like them about But then they kiss
and they make up and they go okay, god launch
and they just go different directions.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's the weirdest thing to watch. So for you, for
Mark Summers, it kiss is something that's a more intimate connection.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, I don't think I could kiss a strange woman,
and even you and Mark kiss. Yes, let's I'd be
very nervous about that. I was auditioning once early in
my career for a Sea and Ski Suntown lotion thing,
and that the casting dark got mad because all these
girls were in baking and I was afraid to touch them.
And she called my agent and said, never send this
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guy here again. I've always been sort of, you know,
shy and inhibited about that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Maybe it goodn't. The talent doesn't touch the bikini class.
You could. Now you can't do anything. Now it's your time. Yeah,
I got to go back to something second a second
ago month summers. Of course, we've known you. We've known
you a lot. Lawer, you've known us, but we've known
you for so many years. You said that you're quote
unquote type cast as a grandfather, But I still think
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of you as a young guy. Do you really? Yeah,
I still think of you. I don't know you're not
a grandfather. It's seventy three, you know, I'm still running
around like a madman. We've been doing press all week here.
We did the view a lot of TV and with
you guys culminating the final day, which is fantastic. But
I have great energy, and you know what you do?
As I keep saying, I've never worked a day in
my life. I'm just having fun. The phone rings and
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somebody offers you a job, and you go. Sure why.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I talked to Richard kind about this once because I
I make fun of him about some of the choices.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He goes the phone rings, I go and do the job.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
What do I hurt by not going and doing you
know whatever thing that they're doing. And I agree with him,
you know, why not just take the gig?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I love that. You know what? Did you see the
cold Play Dick Van Dyke video? Oh yeah, that was fantastic.
Dick Van Dyke ninety ninety nine nine years old said
exactly what you just said. It is like, I don't
even have to get paid for what I'm doing. I'm
just doing what I love it so happens I make
a living at it. You seem to be in that
same form.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In nineteen seventy one, I was going to a place
called Graham Junior College in Boston, and I went to
la because I wanted to see will it work? And
I sneaked into CBS Radford Studios and Dick Van Dyke
was doing a sitcom where he played a talk show host,
and I just went up to him and just started
talking and I said, there's a story I want to
ask you that I read that you fell off a
tree and broke your cheek once. And he said, that's
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one hundred percent right, And just to sit there and
have a fifteen twenty minute conversation with the guy you've idolized.
And I run into him every now and then. He
lives out towards Malley and there's this shopping center near
the Colony, and he'll be sitting one day, I swear
to god. I was sitting on a bench and moving
to my right and he was in a yoga position,
sitting on the ground right next to me, and I said,
mister Van Dyck, are you He said, oh, fine, just
a conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was the weirdness wow yoga position ninety eight, but today
he's actually ninety nine. It's his birthday.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Oh and it's Gandhi's birthday, but she's not ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, So Gandhi, I need to ask you a question. Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So I've been doing a podcast for a while. And
I know you guys do podcasts, but I've been told
by your lovely people here are that you do a
really good podcast. Oh wow, yes, I heard. It's amazing.
What do you think makes a great podcast?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Ah, that's a tough question. I think you have to
be interviewing people that you're interested in and do something
that you're interested in. I think if you're interested in something,
then it translates well to other people.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right, But everybody has a podcast now and it's hard
to break through.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But you've managed to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, what is your podcast about.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's called Mark Summer's Unwraps and you're not allowed to
plug anything on this but it's about the fact.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But here's the deal. People are knocking the dart down.
Here's my point of view.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
When you see a movie star on the screen, or
you go to broadwaysh or whatever, you boy, there's the
luckiest people in the world, and you know those people
work their rear ends off to get there. And I
want to find out the story the suffering. How difficult?
Why do some people run away and and never do
it and wish they did it? And other people never
stop and keep moving forward? I didn't get my first
real job till I was doubledare was? I was thirty
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four years old before I got that, thirteen years in
LA being told no, no, no, no no. And so
the story is one we just did got a huge rating.
We did Cara Toop. Oh wow, what a great story
this man has.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know the story. I have to listen to
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You really have to listen. I've known Scott for thirty
five years. I think is a name Scott Thompson's.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Isn't it right?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
His hysterically and see people don't They go, oh, no,
he's not that fine, this and that. Everybody has the
same reaction when they see him. They cannot believe how
hysterical this guy is hot.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Stand up straight, my stomach heard from laughing so hard. Yes,
it was hilarious. Get him in the ear, you got
to hear. Sure, I'd love caring. He's brilliant. He's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But we've had Richard kind On, We've had Kevin Pollack
was brilliant. We did two segments with Howe Mendel and
we get names. But you know, now, when Ted Danson
and every actor have podcasts, it's really hard because there're
what like five million people doing these things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, you know, you ask God to you a question
and she answered you, and you you answered it yourself.
Your question was how do you how do you break through?
How do you make it a successful interview and podcast?
And she said, will you do things that interest you? Look,
for instance, on this show, we have a lot of
it's a mass audience and mass amounts of people with
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different interests. But if I did this show just on
my own, it would not be as exciting as with
my girlfriends. But stuff that it would only interest me.
And that's what Gandhi does. She's had You've had such
a wide spectrum of people from different walks of life.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I mean, I'm just nosy and curious and I want
to know everything about everything.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's what it takes. It's a smart too.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, that's what comes across. Oh, you're so nice.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I wish we would have done this long time ago too. Selfishly,
I would love to have you on my podcast. It's
wherever around to do that. That'd be great, But I
think it's just so fun. And Elvis, do you think
it would be boring just doing something that you like.
I totally disagree.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I don't know. I just get so much nathy
from them and from you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I think it's cool though, to see what somebody's into
and follow that gay porn. Yes, I listened to that
podcast and probably watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I tell you. One of my favorite podcasts that Gandhi
did was with her dad, Oh what'd you talk about?
Young Gandhi? Things that she would never talk about to us,
and what it was like raising a genius daughter.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We talked about why he did all the things that
he did, and what it's like being a dad of
a first generation American child here when they were from India,
and all kinds of stuff. And he's a loose cannon.
So he can only be on a podcast. He could
never be on the actual show.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So well, can I say what he said?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't care if you say, okay?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, and I get it, but her dad said it. Yes,
they said, when Ghani was growing up, they would reach
out to the teachers at her schools and let them
know keep an eye on her. And unquote him, he said,
because we think she's retarded.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes, really, and they genuinely believed it, because he swears
that I never did anything normally. It was quantum leaps.
So he says, I never saw you scoot or crawl.
You just laid around for a long time and then
we're walking.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But he used the R word, yes, but he us
the art work. I I didn't think you can use that.
I'm quoting him. Yes, yes, he used it repeated.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But this is why he's podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But he said, yeah, what's the one guess who's the
one guest? You would like that? You can't get so far?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh oh shoot, that's right. I mean I would selfishly,
I would love eminem. I think he's fast.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, well he's a genius. He's a genius.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And then he just vanished and he'll never come back
again to the spot.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I don't think so not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't think he'll do interviews and stuff. I would
love that though, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That'd be great. So Mark Summers, it's Honakah on the
Rocks premieeres tonight, it's the tonight tonight. We're all gonna
see Mark Summers cry tonight, eight o'clock on the home.
We're canceling a jingle ball. It's a garden, okay, or
or we'll do jingle ball. Will just stop the show
and just play the play the movie, stream the movie.
Who's jingle Ball? Who isn'ts Boone?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And Teddy Swims?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All your favorite?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah? That one of their songs. No, no, you know
all we're big fan.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
If we watch this tomorrow, you guys will still get credit.
Like how long does it last?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They're doing uh I think four of them. There's one tonight,
then there's one tomorrow and then go to Hallmark dot
com put Conkah on the Rocks Mark Summers and you'll
find it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, So tonight's tonight Honkah on the Rocks starring our
Mark Summers into Somebody. Now we're gonna take a break
because we're gonna come back. We have a contest that
is sort of right up your alley. I hope. I
don't know the last time you had something up your alley,
not since you and I had last.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
We're not going to see that in the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So we'll fix it and post. All right, So Mark
Summers in a contest craps it just for so excited.
Mark Summers is with us Hanka Hanakah on the Rocks tonight.
It's it's his Hallmark debut. Tonight. Gandhi is going to
be watching with baited breath. He cries, he's giving spoilers,
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and there's a tear. Anyway, Mark's here, and it's got
to be an interesting thing to be approached and say, hey,
we want you to play a part on a movie
that's going to play on Hallmark. Yes, because this is
this is their super Bowl, this is their time of years. Yeah,
and with your movie soon to be a classic Honkah
on the Rocks premiere tonight on Hallmark. I think I
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said that. Let's see how much you know about holiday production? Oh,
shows that they have on during holidays on the.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Hallmark I will know nothing. Oh, got these my partner,
I'm gonna help you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Let's see where. Let me get Lisa here, Lisa, Lisa,
thanks for holding so long. Say yeah, good morning to
Mark Summers. Good morning Lisa. Where where do you live? Lisa,
keep Cod, Massachusetts? Wow, so you're a Hallmark fan? You
watch it religiously? Correct? I do o my fuzzy slippers?
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Yeah yeah, yeah, glass of wine. Don't forget your glass
wine and fuzzy slippers. You're checking off all the boxes,
all right. So this game is holiday trivia game with
Mark Summers and you get to win if he does
a good job. It's called Christmas Classic or Holiday Hoax.
Here we go. Oh there sounds great. All right, So
I'm gonna give you the I'm gonna give you the
plot of a movie. Okay. If it's a real movie,
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answer Christmas Classic. If it's a fake one, say Holiday hopes. Okay, okay.
These are maybe some of them true true movies you've
seen on the Hallmark Okay, you ready to go? Here
we go. The first one's called Pottersville. It's set during
Christmas time. A man named Maynard is mistaken for Bigfoot
when he drunkenly runs through his hometown of Pottersville and
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a gorilla costume. Christmas Classic or Holiday Hope. It's got
to be a holiday hoax? What do you think, Lisa.
I'm gonna say Christmas Classic it is because it happened. No,
they it is not happen from twenty seventeen. It's a
Christmas Classic with Michael Shannon and Judy Greer. By the way,
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I happen to live in pottersvilleag Jersey. No not okay,
So okay, so you got that one right. I didn't
know it was the competition. How it is? Right? Okay?
Christmas Classic or Holiday Hoaks, Santa and the ice Cream bunny.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Fish Holiday Hope.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
When Santa's slave gets stuck in Florida, he tells a
group of kids is the story of FuMB Billina. You
call it a holiday home. No, it's a Christmas classic, Lisa.
Did you know that movie? I did not, No, No,
but it sounds like something ridiculous that I would watch.
It's supposedly a cult classic. I think you can see
it on YouTube. Nineteen seventy two. All right, here we go,
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Christmas Classic for Holiday hoax? Elf hard really? When an
elf on the shelf named Jingles gets left behind in
an office Christmas party, he discovers the building's been taken
over by toy hating burglars. Using his small size bestive
gadgets and all on a holiday mischief, Jingles pranks the
intruders one by one to save the hostages. Holiday Classic,
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Holiday Classic. It's a holiday hot we're seeing that's home alone.
Just you just put an alf in there, exactly. Okay,
here's another after this. I'll never be back on the
homework channel. But here's another one. It's called the wonderful Dead.
It's a very, very frightening Christmas tale. George, a regretful
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zombie who dreams of being alive again, is granted his
wish by a mysterious holiday angel. As he experiences life
among the few human survivors, he realizes they're selfish, cruel,
and even more monstrous than the undead holiday hoax or
Christmas class. Gonda, you're answering this for me that for.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Some reason it sounds terrible. But I'm gonna go with
Christmas Classic.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
What do you think? Uh, Lisa, I'm gonna go with
Christmas Classic even though it sounds unreal. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm gonna say holiday it's a holiday hoax that sounds
like a terrible movie.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well you thought that was bad? How about this? How
about this one? Was this real? Grandma got run over
by an AI driven sleigh when a small hey, hear
me out now, When a small town inventor creates the
world's first self driving sleigh, it helps Santa deliver presents
more efficiently. Disaster strikes, with the sleigh malfunctioning and actually
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running over his sassy grandma Mildred.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
See AI is too new, too hip. I'm gonna say
holiday hoax?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, what do you think I'm gonna go with Christmas Classic?
You wish? But no, it's a hoax. Now I'm starting
to feel it. Now I got two more for you. Okay,
here we go Frostbite Fight Club. In the snowy underground
of the North Pole, disgruntled Elves secretly run an after
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hours fight club to settle disputes, vent frustrations, and crown
the strongest Elf. Chaos ensues when Santa discovers the club
and decides to enter the ring himself to teach the
Elves a lesson about teamwork. Lisa, is that a Is
that a Christmas Classic or Holiday hoax? I really hope
it's a Christmas Classics because I want to see it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
See Because of the word fight club, I don't think
Hallmark would ever put fight club shows on.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So I'm gonna go hoax thinking, yeah, it's a hoax.
Three in a row nowt here, I'm gonna give you
one more. Okay, Honkkah on the rocks. I'm gonna get
my rocks off now. Okay. We're a week before Hankakah,
recently unemployed lawyer, embarks on a journey to find Honkkah candles,
leading her to a Chicago bar where she transforms a
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holiday spirit, discovers love, and finds the courage to pursue
a new path in life. Christmas Classic, nic classic or
holiday hoax?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Definitely a classic, Lisa, Yes, it's real.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's question did we do there? Well? Too many? It's
on tonight on a Hallmark unbelievable having you here. Thank
you so much, so much, you guys are thank you.
What do you have for Lisa? We got yeah, yeah,
buy a bunch of fuzzy slippers, Lisa, thanks to Caroloha
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five hundred dollars coming with it. Drink up, bottoms up, Lisa,
and happy Holidayday and make sure you're watching a homework tonight.
It's there the premiere of I will coming soon. Holiday
classic Hanukah on the rock staring Mark Summers, thank you
so much for we love you. You always have a seat
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at our table. Mark Summer. You're the best. We got
through this alive. Mark Summer's everyone Tonight
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mark Summers is here. Mark Summers. Of course, last time
we had you and I was a guest, you were
doing Life and Slams of Mark Summers, your stage show,
which was fabulous. We loved it. Were so nice to
be there. How long ago was that?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We opened February fourteenth, We closed June second, so it
was a five months.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, welcome back, Thank you, thank you, thank you. By
the way, I listened to you guys all the time,
I get the clips all the time. But congratulations to
you for the CBS Sunday Morning piece. That was spectacle.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh thank you. That was a multitude of dreams coming true.
I can't you know.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's the best show on television. It really is. And
for them to follow you around and tell your story.
And how long did they follow you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know what if it was seven and a half
minutes long that piece. Yeah, they did maybe a total
of five days. Oh my, I know. That's amazing. So
there's a lot of stuff they didn't show, but it
was a lot of It was last year or so.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is that Christmas concert that you saw, Yes, we're having
that again tonight tonight, right, so that was last year.
So it's been a year.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It felt like it was a year that they followed
you around. I know it was probably in total few days,
but I just felt like they were here a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was awesome. And they do such a great job
telling stories, which is another reason why I loved your
stage show, Oh Things, because you told your story about
Nickelodeon being slimed, the whole thing. You told your story
in such a beautiful way. Oh thank you, and we
all kind of fell in love with you a little
bit a lot bit.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, you know, you never know when you put yourself
out there. You know, I'm seventy two years old. I'm
doing like seven shows a week whatever, eight seven eight,
And somebody from Hallmark came in and afterwards came backstage
and said, you know, this is really good. Would you
like to maybe producer write one of the movies. I
don't do that anymore. I'm just I'm trying to retire
quite honestly, but I'm not good at it. And a
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few weeks later they called me and said, we're looking
at a script and we think there's a pard in
here for you. And I said, yeah, but I don't act,
and they went, no, no, we just saw your one
man show. You act, And I said, well, send me
the script. So they sent it to me. I read
the first twenty pages. I thought, well, I can do
this much in there for me, and I signed the
deal and then I read the rest of the script.
I was a lead in this thing, I said, what
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have I done?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I like how they slip that in there.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yes, And so the one man shows one day, because
you're on stage for ninety minutes pretty much by yourself.
This is interacting with other humans, but it's also worrying
about delivering the lines and reacting to what they're saying.
I've never done that before. You're such a natural for
something like oh well thanks. I don't know, but you
know what. I saw the screener the other day and
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I didn't want to look like a guy pretending to
be an actor. And I'm really really pleased with what
came out on this thing. Yes, and the last scene
is this very dramatic where I had to cry and
get emotional, and I did an acting class. I could
never do that, and it took me to this point
in my life to be able to just release it
all and do it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Can you do it right now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, when I think about the time you and I
had lunch, yet, I can think about that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We had. We had a crazy lunch, a lot of tears.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Did your wife see the movie already?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
No, I won't let her look at it until tonight. Yes,
I had the screener and she said I want to
look at I said, no, you're going to watch it
on television.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'll tell you a story years ago. Remember the actress
that played the mother on Happy Days, Yes, Marian Ross. Yes,
we had her on our show years and years ago. Huh.
And we're talking about actors that needed to produce tears.
And she said, okay, I'll do it right now and
she started crying. That's crazy that people could do that. Well, yes,
scary because you kind of wonder where a person.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Goes to get to that point. Well, when I was
taking an acting class, a teacher was Mark Lano. Kevin
Neiland was in my class, and we were going to
have to cry. Well, week one, I couldn't cry, Week two,
I couldn't cry, Week three I couldn't cry. So when
it came in a week four, he said, you're doing
it tonight and I couldn't and I literally, I'm not
proud of this. I picked up a chair and threw
it at the acting coach. Okay, and I left the class,
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and I'm so angry. So after I was able to
do this on this movie, I called Mark Lano, who's
almost ate years old now, and I said, I just
want to let you know I finally was able to
cry on I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But after four weeks of being pushed and prodded to cry,
you're like, the pressure's on, I gotta cry. If you
threw a chair at me, would you start crying? Let's see,
I threw chairs all the time. He has drunken I
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break chairs. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
As much money as you make for these folks, you
can break one as well. Another chair, Elvis.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay, let's talk about it, because look, every year the
Hallmark Holiday movies rolled out and of course Danielle and
now Danielle has sucked Gandhi into that boortex. Yeah, kitty,
what is it that you love about? You know?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's they're brainless. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Drive careful later, That's why I got hired. They're not complicated.
They're not complicated.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I don't have to sit there and think like, oh
my gosh, I have to concentrate on this whatever. It's
just going to be a story that's gonna put me
in the holiday spirit. At the end of it is
usually a happy ending, and I smile. I watch it
with my husband or you know, my girlfriend's It's just
it's part of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's good to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, people say they keep it on all day and
all night. Yeah, which is pretty dark.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And then he gets sucked in every time. I'll just
watch the beginning of this one, and then I got
to watch the whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Gandhi, though Danielle is a very sentimental comfort I like
comfort in my life kind of woman. Gandhi's more of
a menace. She's salty, she's sassy. I couldn't see her
sitting down in front of a hallwork movie. But you
do now I.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Do, because it's just the feeling of the holidays, like
all the decorations and what they're talking about. Plus they
always end happily. Yes, there's never a plot twist where
someone dies.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
At the end. There's a nice makeout scene at the end.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Of always a nice is it what made you cry?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Then I would get to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But I like getting irritated because I'm like, how do
you know it's not him? Or how do you know
it isn't this guy? And it's this guy that you're
going for. It's never the big city guy. It's always
a small town act.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You talk back to the screen, of course I do. Well,
there's something very unique about Mark Summer's holiday movie that
premieres tonight. Honkah on the Rocks. Yes, Now, they don't
have a lot of honkka movie. I think this is
the second one. I believe there's more honkka of music
than there is movies. You know, Classic that's the only one.
(06:27):
And Oldrade, Oldrada and I'm lost, you know. Okay, So
Honkah on the Rock Yes, And so did you know
he wanted to be a rabbi?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
After my bar mitzvah many years ago, nineteen sixty four,
I thought it was way cool and I was performing
and I had this thing where I wanted to be
on TV, but I wanted to be a rabbi. I
couldn't couldn't make up my mind. So I rode my
bike over to Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, where I went to
temple and Rabbi Weitzman, the assistant rabbi, was there and
I said, I need to talk to you because I
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know that you started off in radio and TV and
then you became a rabbi. And he said yes. He said,
why do you want to become a rabbi? I because
I want to help people. And he said to me,
as a rabbi, you can help a small amount of
people a lot, but in the entertainment industry you can
help a lot of people a little. Whatever you do
is the perfect one. And I chose entertainment.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Mark Summers. You know, you have the best stories and
you're such a great guy. Oh you're very kind. Get
out of here, get him out. No, but but Hankah
on the rocks. I'll be a little nervous the premieres tonight,
Prayers Tonight. I'm a little nervous about it because I
want people to like it. I don't want people to
turn on and say, oh, there's the Nickelodeon guy. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I mean that's followed me my whole life, and I
get it, and I'm proud of it. But will they
be able to make the separation? And hopefully the answer
to that is yes. I play Sam Rosen a old
Jewish grandfather typecasting. And I was a dry cleaning guy
for fifty years in Chicago. My wife has passed away,
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and my son is a doctor in Florida, and he
wants to convince me to move down to Florida with
the family, and he sends the grandson to try and
bring me down. And what happens is this young lady
who just loses her job as an attorney comes in
and I play matchmaker and put them together. And as
you can imagine, it's really rough upfront, but being a
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Hallmark movie, it gets better and better. And then they
do this big makeout s and at the end and
I said to Stacy Farber, who's the female lead, I said,
I've kissed the same woman for fifty years. I don't
think I could do that. And she said, ah, if
you like the guy, it's easy. And if you don't,
I said, well, that was obviously you like him. She said,
O yeah, I like them about But then they kiss
and they make up and they go okay, god launch
and they just go different directions.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's the weirdest thing to watch. So for you, for
Mark Summers, it kiss is something that's a more intimate connection.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, I don't think I could kiss a strange woman,
and even you and Mark kiss. Yes, let's I'd be
very nervous about that. I was auditioning once early in
my career for a Sea and Ski Suntown lotion thing,
and that the casting dark got mad because all these
girls were in baking and I was afraid to touch them.
And she called my agent and said, never send this
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guy here again. I've always been sort of, you know,
shy and inhibited about that.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Maybe it goodn't. The talent doesn't touch the bikini class.
You could. Now you can't do anything. Now it's your time. Yeah,
I got to go back to something second a second
ago month summers. Of course, we've known you. We've known
you a lot. Lawer, you've known us, but we've known
you for so many years. You said that you're quote
unquote type cast as a grandfather, But I still think
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of you as a young guy. Do you really? Yeah,
I still think of you. I don't know you're not
a grandfather. It's seventy three, you know, I'm still running
around like a madman. We've been doing press all week here.
We did the view a lot of TV and with
you guys culminating the final day, which is fantastic. But
I have great energy, and you know what you do?
As I keep saying, I've never worked a day in
my life. I'm just having fun. The phone rings and
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somebody offers you a job, and you go. Sure why.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I talked to Richard kind about this once because I
I make fun of him about some of the choices.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He goes the phone rings, I go and do the job.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
What do I hurt by not going and doing you
know whatever thing that they're doing. And I agree with him,
you know, why not just take the gig?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I love that. You know what? Did you see the
cold Play Dick Van Dyke video? Oh yeah, that was fantastic.
Dick Van Dyke ninety ninety nine nine years old said
exactly what you just said. It is like, I don't
even have to get paid for what I'm doing. I'm
just doing what I love it so happens I make
a living at it. You seem to be in that
same form.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In nineteen seventy one, I was going to a place
called Graham Junior College in Boston, and I went to
la because I wanted to see will it work? And
I sneaked into CBS Radford Studios and Dick Van Dyke
was doing a sitcom where he played a talk show host,
and I just went up to him and just started
talking and I said, there's a story I want to
ask you that I read that you fell off a
tree and broke your cheek once. And he said, that's
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one hundred percent right, And just to sit there and
have a fifteen twenty minute conversation with the guy you've idolized.
And I run into him every now and then. He
lives out towards Malley and there's this shopping center near
the Colony, and he'll be sitting one day, I swear
to god. I was sitting on a bench and moving
to my right and he was in a yoga position,
sitting on the ground right next to me, and I said,
mister Van Dyck, are you He said, oh, fine, just
a conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was the weirdness wow yoga position ninety eight, but today
he's actually ninety nine. It's his birthday.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Oh and it's Gandhi's birthday, but she's not ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, So Gandhi, I need to ask you a question. Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So I've been doing a podcast for a while. And
I know you guys do podcasts, but I've been told
by your lovely people here are that you do a
really good podcast. Oh wow, yes, I heard. It's amazing.
What do you think makes a great podcast?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Ah, that's a tough question. I think you have to
be interviewing people that you're interested in and do something
that you're interested in. I think if you're interested in something,
then it translates well to other people.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right, But everybody has a podcast now and it's hard
to break through.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But you've managed to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, what is your podcast about.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's called Mark Summer's Unwraps and you're not allowed to
plug anything on this but it's about the fact.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But here's the deal. People are knocking the dart down.
Here's my point of view.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
When you see a movie star on the screen, or
you go to broadwaysh or whatever, you boy, there's the
luckiest people in the world, and you know those people
work their rear ends off to get there. And I
want to find out the story the suffering. How difficult?
Why do some people run away and and never do
it and wish they did it? And other people never
stop and keep moving forward? I didn't get my first
real job till I was doubledare was? I was thirty
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four years old before I got that, thirteen years in
LA being told no, no, no, no no. And so
the story is one we just did got a huge rating.
We did Cara Toop. Oh wow, what a great story
this man has.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know the story. I have to listen to
the podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You really have to listen. I've known Scott for thirty
five years. I think is a name Scott Thompson's.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Isn't it right?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
His hysterically and see people don't They go, oh, no,
he's not that fine, this and that. Everybody has the
same reaction when they see him. They cannot believe how
hysterical this guy is hot.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Stand up straight, my stomach heard from laughing so hard. Yes,
it was hilarious. Get him in the ear, you got
to hear. Sure, I'd love caring. He's brilliant. He's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But we've had Richard kind On, We've had Kevin Pollack
was brilliant. We did two segments with Howe Mendel and
we get names. But you know, now, when Ted Danson
and every actor have podcasts, it's really hard because there're
what like five million people doing these things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, you know, you ask God to you a question
and she answered you, and you you answered it yourself.
Your question was how do you how do you break through?
How do you make it a successful interview and podcast?
And she said, will you do things that interest you? Look,
for instance, on this show, we have a lot of
it's a mass audience and mass amounts of people with
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different interests. But if I did this show just on
my own, it would not be as exciting as with
my girlfriends. But stuff that it would only interest me.
And that's what Gandhi does. She's had You've had such
a wide spectrum of people from different walks of life.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I mean, I'm just nosy and curious and I want
to know everything about everything.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's what it takes. It's a smart too.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, that's what comes across. Oh, you're so nice.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I wish we would have done this long time ago too. Selfishly,
I would love to have you on my podcast. It's
wherever around to do that. That'd be great, But I
think it's just so fun. And Elvis, do you think
it would be boring just doing something that you like.
I totally disagree.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I don't know. I just get so much nathy
from them and from you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I think it's cool though, to see what somebody's into
and follow that gay porn. Yes, I listened to that
podcast and probably watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I tell you. One of my favorite podcasts that Gandhi
did was with her dad, Oh what'd you talk about?
Young Gandhi? Things that she would never talk about to us,
and what it was like raising a genius daughter.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We talked about why he did all the things that
he did, and what it's like being a dad of
a first generation American child here when they were from India,
and all kinds of stuff. And he's a loose cannon.
So he can only be on a podcast. He could
never be on the actual show.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So well, can I say what he said?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't care if you say, okay?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, and I get it, but her dad said it. Yes,
they said, when Ghani was growing up, they would reach
out to the teachers at her schools and let them
know keep an eye on her. And unquote him, he said,
because we think she's retarded.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yes, really, and they genuinely believed it, because he swears
that I never did anything normally. It was quantum leaps.
So he says, I never saw you scoot or crawl.
You just laid around for a long time and then
we're walking.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But he used the R word, yes, but he us
the art work. I I didn't think you can use that.
I'm quoting him. Yes, yes, he used it repeated.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But this is why he's podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But he said, yeah, what's the one guess who's the
one guest? You would like that? You can't get so far?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Oh oh shoot, that's right. I mean I would selfishly,
I would love eminem. I think he's fast.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, well he's a genius. He's a genius.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And then he just vanished and he'll never come back
again to the spot.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I don't think so not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't think he'll do interviews and stuff. I would
love that though, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That'd be great. So Mark Summers, it's Honakah on the
Rocks premieeres tonight, it's the tonight tonight. We're all gonna
see Mark Summers cry tonight, eight o'clock on the home.
We're canceling a jingle ball. It's a garden, okay, or
or we'll do jingle ball. Will just stop the show
and just play the play the movie, stream the movie.
Who's jingle Ball? Who isn'ts Boone?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And Teddy Swims?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All your favorite?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah? That one of their songs. No, no, you know
all we're big fan.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
If we watch this tomorrow, you guys will still get credit.
Like how long does it last?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They're doing uh I think four of them. There's one tonight,
then there's one tomorrow and then go to Hallmark dot
com put Conkah on the Rocks Mark Summers and you'll
find it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, So tonight's tonight Honkah on the Rocks starring our
Mark Summers into Somebody. Now we're gonna take a break
because we're gonna come back. We have a contest that
is sort of right up your alley. I hope. I
don't know the last time you had something up your alley,
not since you and I had last.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
We're not going to see that in the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
So we'll fix it and post. All right, So Mark
Summers in a contest craps it just for so excited.
Mark Summers is with us Hanka Hanakah on the Rocks tonight.
It's it's his Hallmark debut. Tonight. Gandhi is going to
be watching with baited breath. He cries, he's giving spoilers,
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and there's a tear. Anyway, Mark's here, and it's got
to be an interesting thing to be approached and say, hey,
we want you to play a part on a movie
that's going to play on Hallmark. Yes, because this is
this is their super Bowl, this is their time of years. Yeah,
and with your movie soon to be a classic Honkah
on the Rocks premiere tonight on Hallmark. I think I
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said that. Let's see how much you know about holiday production? Oh,
shows that they have on during holidays on the.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Hallmark I will know nothing. Oh, got these my partner,
I'm gonna help you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Let's see where. Let me get Lisa here, Lisa, Lisa,
thanks for holding so long. Say yeah, good morning to
Mark Summers. Good morning Lisa. Where where do you live? Lisa,
keep Cod, Massachusetts? Wow, so you're a Hallmark fan? You
watch it religiously? Correct? I do o my fuzzy slippers?
(18:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, glass of wine. Don't forget your glass
wine and fuzzy slippers. You're checking off all the boxes,
all right. So this game is holiday trivia game with
Mark Summers and you get to win if he does
a good job. It's called Christmas Classic or Holiday Hoax.
Here we go. Oh there sounds great. All right, So
I'm gonna give you the I'm gonna give you the
plot of a movie. Okay. If it's a real movie,
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answer Christmas Classic. If it's a fake one, say Holiday hopes. Okay, okay.
These are maybe some of them true true movies you've
seen on the Hallmark Okay, you ready to go? Here
we go. The first one's called Pottersville. It's set during
Christmas time. A man named Maynard is mistaken for Bigfoot
when he drunkenly runs through his hometown of Pottersville and
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a gorilla costume. Christmas Classic or Holiday Hope. It's got
to be a holiday hoax? What do you think, Lisa.
I'm gonna say Christmas Classic it is because it happened. No,
they it is not happen from twenty seventeen. It's a
Christmas Classic with Michael Shannon and Judy Greer. By the way,
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I happen to live in pottersvilleag Jersey. No not okay,
So okay, so you got that one right. I didn't
know it was the competition. How it is? Right? Okay?
Christmas Classic or Holiday Hoaks, Santa and the ice Cream bunny.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Fish Holiday Hope.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
When Santa's slave gets stuck in Florida, he tells a
group of kids is the story of FuMB Billina. You
call it a holiday home. No, it's a Christmas classic, Lisa.
Did you know that movie? I did not, No, No,
but it sounds like something ridiculous that I would watch.
It's supposedly a cult classic. I think you can see
it on YouTube. Nineteen seventy two. All right, here we go,
(20:19):
Christmas Classic for Holiday hoax? Elf hard really? When an
elf on the shelf named Jingles gets left behind in
an office Christmas party, he discovers the building's been taken
over by toy hating burglars. Using his small size bestive
gadgets and all on a holiday mischief, Jingles pranks the
intruders one by one to save the hostages. Holiday Classic,
(20:41):
Holiday Classic. It's a holiday hot we're seeing that's home alone.
Just you just put an alf in there, exactly. Okay,
here's another after this. I'll never be back on the
homework channel. But here's another one. It's called the wonderful Dead.
It's a very, very frightening Christmas tale. George, a regretful
(21:04):
zombie who dreams of being alive again, is granted his
wish by a mysterious holiday angel. As he experiences life
among the few human survivors, he realizes they're selfish, cruel,
and even more monstrous than the undead holiday hoax or
Christmas class. Gonda, you're answering this for me that for.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Some reason it sounds terrible. But I'm gonna go with
Christmas Classic.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
What do you think? Uh, Lisa, I'm gonna go with
Christmas Classic even though it sounds unreal. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm gonna say holiday it's a holiday hoax that sounds
like a terrible movie.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well you thought that was bad? How about this? How
about this one? Was this real? Grandma got run over
by an AI driven sleigh when a small hey, hear
me out now, When a small town inventor creates the
world's first self driving sleigh, it helps Santa deliver presents
more efficiently. Disaster strikes, with the sleigh malfunctioning and actually
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running over his sassy grandma Mildred.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
See AI is too new, too hip. I'm gonna say
holiday hoax?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, what do you think I'm gonna go with Christmas Classic?
You wish? But no, it's a hoax. Now I'm starting
to feel it. Now I got two more for you. Okay,
here we go Frostbite Fight Club. In the snowy underground
of the North Pole, disgruntled Elves secretly run an after
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hours fight club to settle disputes, vent frustrations, and crown
the strongest Elf. Chaos ensues when Santa discovers the club
and decides to enter the ring himself to teach the
Elves a lesson about teamwork. Lisa, is that a Is
that a Christmas Classic or Holiday hoax? I really hope
it's a Christmas Classics because I want to see it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
See Because of the word fight club, I don't think
Hallmark would ever put fight club shows on.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So I'm gonna go hoax thinking, yeah, it's a hoax.
Three in a row nowt here, I'm gonna give you
one more. Okay, Honkkah on the rocks. I'm gonna get
my rocks off now. Okay. We're a week before Hankakah,
recently unemployed lawyer, embarks on a journey to find Honkkah candles,
leading her to a Chicago bar where she transforms a
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holiday spirit, discovers love, and finds the courage to pursue
a new path in life. Christmas Classic, nic classic or
holiday hoax?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Definitely a classic, Lisa, Yes, it's real.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's question did we do there? Well? Too many? It's
on tonight on a Hallmark unbelievable having you here. Thank
you so much, so much, you guys are thank you.
What do you have for Lisa? We got yeah, yeah,
buy a bunch of fuzzy slippers, Lisa, thanks to Caroloha
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five hundred dollars coming with it. Drink up, bottoms up, Lisa,
and happy Holidayday and make sure you're watching a homework tonight.
It's there the premiere of I will coming soon. Holiday
classic Hanukah on the rock staring Mark Summers, thank you
so much for we love you. You always have a seat
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at our table. Mark Summer. You're the best. We got
through this alive. Mark Summer's everyone Tonight
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