The Cake Eaters - 99. Family Switch

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

It's time for another Christmas Special! Heath & Brandon discuss Family Switch. The boys talk through Brandon's dislike for Ed Helms, all the weird cameos in this movie, the constant product place...ment, Rita Moreno being a national treasure, the real lack of conflict between this family, and how Hallmark movies do this way better. Follow us on Instagram @thecakeeaterspod Email us at thecakeeaterspod@gmail.com

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Starting point is 00:01:44 Give it a shot. Has he ever sung that Christmas song? Yeah, he sings Santa Claus is Coming to Town. That was the joke. Ed Helms was singing it very similar to Bruce Springsteen. Oh, was he? Oh, I didn't get that joke. Yeah, you better watch out. Yeah, you better not cry. You better not pout. I'm telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to town.
Starting point is 00:02:15 Santa Claus is coming to town. Santa Claus is coming to town in America, Bruce Springsteen. That's amazing. Amazing. Amazing edition. I wish I had heard it recently because I can usually mimic it a lot better. It's one of my favorites in the car during the holiday season. To rip, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:46 yeah, I get after it. That means some pentatonics, you know, for the holiday. Oh God. The worst. Riddity doo. Chris, so I'm not a huge fan of the boss. I'm not a big boss guy. No, but I do love Christmas. And the end of this movie actually brought up a really good reminder to me that the OG Feliz Navidad, I'm not sure it gets better than that.
Starting point is 00:03:12 That's top notch, top notch. Come on, dude, when they first, like after that, when you went, ba ba ba ba ba, Feliz Navidad, ba ba ba ba ba ba, Feliz Navidad, Brandon. And my God, when they first rip into, you know, that very first course, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Fuck yeah, I do. My God, Feliz Navidad, you son of a bitch. It is, it is, it is one of the better ones.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Absolutely. Come on. Like the OG one to name a time when that comes on the very first time you hear it during like the Christmas season, it pops on you like, Oh my God, you know what? I am feeling a little gently Christmasy now that this, this song is going. My God, Brandon. What?
Starting point is 00:04:03 Oh, sorry listeners. My God, dogs. Get your shit together, Brandon. What? Oh, sorry listeners. My God, dogs. Get your shit together, Brandon. Josie's in a cone because she had a tumor removed from her leg and Jenkins had a tooth removed. And so he's on all wet food. And my God, if his farts aren't destroying this household right now.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Just in case you were curious. One of the worst lives I've ever heard Heath. It's... But Brandon, you're gonna have to explain to the people why we're doing Family Switch because there's people out there that don't even realize that the main reason we're doing this was even part of the ducks lexicon universe,
Starting point is 00:04:44 whatever you wanna call it. And it's my number one pet peeve. It's the bane of my existence. I just got every every single one of our listeners not only knows why we're doing this movie, but they've been begging for us to do it. He's I've been getting emails from from the 10s and 10s of listeners. Yes, just constantly every day Constant comments on the socials constant emails they have been clamoring for
Starting point is 00:05:12 Family switch because they know that Evan Brady noon is the one true hero of the Mighty Ducks franchise He was one of the worst characters And I named one good character from that show Mighty Ducks franchise. He was one of the worst characters. Name one good character from that show. Evan. No, wrong. How about Nick's mom's?
Starting point is 00:05:34 Double wrong. Wow, that's the most homophobic thing I've ever heard. He's like, God, you're the worst. Everyone associated with that show like Emilio Estevez, it will take, there's not enough bleach in the world to get the stench of that show off of him. You just said nobody remembers it. Now it's tarnishing his legacy. It can be both things, Brandon.
Starting point is 00:06:03 This is idle hands all over again. It can be both things, Brandon. This is idle hands all over again. It can be both. You can, you can both not want it and also want it at the same time. You can encourage people not to buy things while also buying them. I don't think that's true. I don't think there's any science to support that. Yeah. To explain to Brady, new, I just did, but I'll recap for you. Brady Newton, Evan from Game Changers, our boy,
Starting point is 00:06:29 he plays the son in this movie. He plays the fucking nerd. God, he's a fucking nerd in this movie. It's very frustrating. I like how the movie opens with them being introduced as one of those families that we just should naturally hate where they're making like a Christmas video that they send to people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're doing like a TikTok fucking thing. Oh my God. Have you seen the one of the family doing it in the airport on like influencers in the wild? My God. It just like, just, could you imagine growing up
Starting point is 00:07:07 in a family like that? Could you imagine being a parent like that? God, just fucking, ugh. It's not for me. I'm not built like that. Just not built like that. You know what I mean? Like I just, those poor kids, like don't make them do that.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Make them do sports, make them do arts, make them do extracurricular activities that are positive and nourishing, but don't make them do your self-centered, selfish fucking family Instagram posts. These kids are very well-rounded kids though. Like considering how the girl, this, this gets me to my, my, my dislike for this movie. I did not care for this movie at all. Um, because that's no surprising. It has, it has the whimsy of a Christmas movie. That's not supposed to fully make sense. And that's just not up your alley, which is surprising.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Cause you love hallmark movies. I'm all for stuff, not making sense and going whimsy in the magical route, but you have to earn it. This movie, this, this, this, this movie doesn't do any work. It's, it's, it doesn't, you know, I'm not justifying this movie, Brandon. I think it's just, you have to just take it for what it is,
Starting point is 00:08:22 which is a shitty Netflix original Christmas movie that you put on in the background while you're opening up presents. Because it's like low impact. It is the worst. Like I don't mind these body switching movies. Like Freaky Friday is a great one. They have a scene where they fucking list all of them, which was the stupidest thing I've ever fucking seen. I mean, why do you think I'm so mad at you for this Brady making us do this movie?
Starting point is 00:08:51 Because it's not good, but I hate that. You're not. You're mad for other. You're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're anger is never justified. I want you to know that. But this, this, this movie, this movie doesn't do, uh, and I, you to know that. But this movie doesn't do, and you know what I think the problem is, is because they're doing, actually they're doing three body switches at once. So they're just one. And so because of that, they're going from one scene to another real quick. They don't
Starting point is 00:09:22 do any groundwork. They don't do any character building. I mean, that's very modern cinema. Everything happens so quick that there's no background to it, which is where the beauty of these movies comes from, because the person has to walk, you know, you go through them walking a mile in the other person's shoes. This one, everything is so goddamn quick,
Starting point is 00:09:43 and it just, it's there to set up the next unfunny joke that they don't do any character development. They don't do any work in, you know, letting you in on the whimsy and the magic. It's just boom, boom, boom, boom. Brandon, are you saying that the scene where she stress ate ice cream as her mom, who has,
Starting point is 00:10:05 who is lactose intolerant. And then she farted the boardroom to death. That didn't, that didn't trip your trigger. I'm shocked, Brandon, I'm shocked and surprised that that scene wasn't for you. I just, it was, it was so incredibly funny, Brandon. That brings me to my other, Sorry.
Starting point is 00:10:24 That brings me to my other complaint about this movie is it is essentially so hard. It's a constant product placement ad as well. Everything is name brand. Even down to the songs they play are fucking product placement. But like there's the Tillamook ice cream that she eats from the freezer. There's the whole cheese it scene. What the fuck was that about? It's just, it's the chemicals. Yeah. It's, I don't know. I am.
Starting point is 00:10:55 I hated that. I did laugh incredibly hard though at the, okay. So we haven't had to have, I haven't been able to have a Christmas tree since moving in with cat Jessie, who is a menace at all times and would murder the Christmas tree and all the ornaments in like a half a second. So we do like the, um, what are the, like the little wall sticker ones? Like the fat head. We do like fat head.
Starting point is 00:11:19 We do like a fat head Christmas tree. That's weird. But, but when it's actually awesome, Brandon, don't talk shit. Um, but when I did do a Christmas tree in Houston, um, Jenkins would do and Josie on the skirt would do exactly what that fucking dog did. Like Josie would go under the tree and pee and then Jenkins would pee on the tree every time. So I'd have to put a barricade around the tree so they wouldn't go try and fucking pee on it. I'd have to put a barricade around the tree so they wouldn't go try and fuck a pee on it. Like,
Starting point is 00:11:49 cause like, and I felt bad. Like, you know, like Jenkins is like, Hey, like why are you yelling at me? I pee on trees. We, we do, we do this multiple times a day. You brought the tree in the house. Sick. Don't have to go outside. New P tree. But, uh, that, speaking of which, that, that, uh, another, it's going to be nonstop complaints from me here.
Starting point is 00:12:14 He's, Ed, I have, uh, maybe a controversial opinion. I don't find Ed Helm's funny at all. He's only funny in certain characters. He's funny in the office. He's funny in the office. He's funny. Andy's the least funny person ever. Andy was so unfunny. Except the one scene where they hide his phone
Starting point is 00:12:34 and he punches the wall, that was funny. Everything else is garbage. The ringtone is fantastic. Yeah. But all his- The ringtone with him escalating to put that's the only the only funny scene he ever did in the office but his his physical humor that they tried to have him do in this movie is so unfunny it never lands. No that
Starting point is 00:13:01 was the they I said already Brandon they tried so incredibly hard everywhere. Yeah, it's Everywhere, although I was especially with the fucking all the cameos they have in this fucking movie. That's another try hard thing Yeah, there's so many famous people that are popping up out of nowhere It was the dude from fucking Weezers in this. Yeah, it was the dude from fucking Weezers in this. Yeah. It was Brandon. I always, I think that I'm just so confused by your anger because I feel like you don't understand what you are getting yourself into from the beginning. Like from the beginning, this is a try hard shitty Netflix version of a Hallmark movie with bigger names. Like I don't, this, you, you keep saying it's a version of a Hallmark movie.
Starting point is 00:13:47 It is absolutely not. Hallmark movies make this movie, make would shit all over this movie. Okay. Then it's just a try hard, shinny Christmas movie made by Netflix. Like it's a, it's a, it's a 180 or however, how long is it? I feel like, I feel like Netflix has like a 40% hit rate of original content.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Like, like, like, are you kidding me? Netflix original content, 90% of it is absolute shit. And like, and now I just had to resign back up for it because of this movie. And it's six ninety nine for the ad one. But you still don't get half the fucking movies based on like certain rights. Like I couldn't, what fucking movie was it that I couldn't watch that was just like, damn it. I'm blanking out. Anyways, it's dumb. I hate Netflix. I have just God fucking damn it.
Starting point is 00:14:38 I hate Netflix and you're sitting here yelling at me like it's going to be, I did this. Like God, I thought this was going gonna be a nice talk about how this shitty Christmas movie was just that, Brandon. It was a shitty Christmas movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Quit yelling at me about it then. Yes. Now you know how I feel when we do Turbulence 2 and you spend the whole time ruining my morning, you know? Well, that's your fucking fault for it. God, it's just, you do these movies just, oh my God. Anyways, it's fine. It's not, it's not. I want to say-
Starting point is 00:15:12 It's not my fault. A lot of these actors have done some terrible movies, Heath. Okay, it's not my fault. I do want to say that PSA graded Charizard, you know, the- I fucking hated that, too. That was such- Charizard, you know, the fucking tated that to those sets at the end of the movie didn't I don't think I don't think the producers have ever seen a graded card because it didn't look like it. But I will have to say when Logan Paul came out at WrestleMania with I was gonna say, I guarantee that's the only reason that that move that Charizard is in this movie is because one of the writers saw Logan Paul wearing it on his fucking necklace.
Starting point is 00:15:45 Yeah. It was awesome though when he did it. When he came out and that was awesome. I hate Logan Paul, but that was sweet. And I want to say like, I will have to say like, I was really like when he first started doing some of the wrestling stuff, like I was really gearing up to just be like, my God, what a, what a worthless fucking piece of shit. Get this fucking guy out of here. And then he did some of that crazy shit, like with ricochet at the Royal
Starting point is 00:16:12 Rumble. And I was like, okay, you're, you're kind of the worst, but you know, at least he, at least he wasn't the worst in the ring. I don't care for Ricochet either. I don't care for your fucking, you know, flippy fucking nonsense wrestling. Flippy floppy nonsense wrestling. What are you talking about? I'm gonna Ricochet. Have you seen some of the pictures of like the AEW crowds recently speaking of Ricochet? Well, it's because yeah, they spend, he did another match with, what's his name? Ospreay, the British flippy fucking finesse.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Dude, their matches, I get it. It's a feat of athleticism. That's pretty cool. But it's the most boring thing to watch in the world. Is them just, cause you know why? Because everything... Wrestling is a spot. It doesn't look real.
Starting point is 00:17:11 It looks like they're doing spots. Wrestling is the best when it doesn't look choreographed and that looks like the most choreographed nonsense ever. Well, they, yeah, it's very... They're not fast or smooth enough to make me believe it. Like, you know, as a Fizz member, you can look forward to free data, big savings on plans, and having your unused data roll over to the following month, every month. At Fizz, you always get more for your money. Terms and conditions for our different programs
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Starting point is 00:18:27 Anyway, let's get off of Logan Paul. Let's get back to this great movie, Heath. All right. So you have to admit that Dadder Alive as a band name is not bad. No, it's terrible. It's a bad, bad guy. Bad band name.
Starting point is 00:18:43 The big bully kid, I couldn't figure out where he was for the longest time. He was also played a similar character in the Christmas movie, 8-Bit, with Neil Patrick Harris, where he talks about, to his daughter, about the story about how he gets the Nintendo for Christmas. Have you seen that one on HBO? I have not seen it, but Christmas.
Starting point is 00:19:07 All right, well, you should check it out. It's not bad. It's another one of the bad Christmas movie characters. Yeah. It's, oh geez, you're such a hater. And Helms as the band teacher was a good fit. And did you get the joke where they were really good at playing, um, white stripes and then they couldn't play, um,
Starting point is 00:19:30 jingle bells in the slightest. Yeah. Because the reason they, the reason they were good at playing white stripes is because they practice all the time. No, it's because of the speech he gave, um, the speech he gave about how, uh, you guys are not individuals. You're a collective. You're a team.
Starting point is 00:19:47 You're a one unit. You need to walk a mile in each other's shoes. You need to get out of your head and into their heart, Heath. Which is, you know, I mean, he should take his own advice with his family here, Heath. Isn't that a, get out of my head and into my car? Oh, yeah. And into my car. Because it's a hot, because it's a hot lady.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Yeah, yeah. It's probably got a sick rack. But the speech he gives is ridiculous and, you know, very foreshadowing and that's why they play. That's why they play good. And then he leaves and then the other can't play jingle bells. Yeah. Um, yeah. Um, the Dan band guy doing wait, wait, wait, before, before you skip over that while we're still with him. So he's in the band teacher thing. And then we, we, sir, and the rest of his band comes up. Oh yeah. Dad are alive, baby. They're going to, what is the thing that they're so fucking performing at? It's, it's, uh, so you think
Starting point is 00:20:57 you can rock is what they call it. Okay. Which is America's got talent. Cause they brought in Howie Mandel. Yeah. That's, I think that's what they're going for is America's Got Talent, because they brought in Howie Mandel. Yeah, I think that's what they're going for, is America's Got Talent. Do you remember Bobby's World? I know of it, I don't remember any, I think about it though. Okay, it was always on before school, on one of the stations as a kid, that we just randomly have on.
Starting point is 00:21:19 And every time I see him, I always think of Bobby's World. Oh, Bobby, don't you know? I was just minding. Howie Mandel's lived quite a few lives, you know? Yeah, he's kind of got canceled there for a little bit, right? Did he? Oh, I don't know. Maybe not.
Starting point is 00:21:36 At this point, it hasn't like 50% of people went canceling. I mean, he does seem like a fucking weirdo, but I don't know. I never, I wasn't paying attention if if he got canceled. But the audition, so they got an audition for the TV show. So you think you can rock and the TV show decided we're going to come to your son's school, not prom, it's just a school. It's the Christmas dance. Yeah. So the school dance, where you're going to be playing for all of the kids. And now we're going to use that as your audition.
Starting point is 00:22:09 The TV show because stuff fuck there. As we know, Brandon, the youths of America want nothing more than to watch their teachers fulfill their lifelong dreams and rock in front of them at their school. What does he say at the planetarium? What does Brady say to him? He goes, he's like, Ed's like, oh, I wish I could be you. I'd give anything to be you. And what does he say? He says something like, maybe that's why you chose the profession you did so you could, you know, get as close to your, your glory days as
Starting point is 00:22:42 possible or something like that, right? I don't know. I might've blacked out during that part. You know, you blocked, I mean, that was the most ridiculous part. They brought a fucking dog to a planetarium. I mean, Bill Simmons did a bit about that earlier about people bringing dogs to like youth games.
Starting point is 00:23:02 Like quit taking your fucking dogs places, calm down. There's just a brewery, fine, I get it, right? But people gotta calm down. Ken will train that bad boy. Yeah, too many dogs, too many places. Especially these, I mean, because they bring the, he's a little French bulldog, pickles, they bring him to the fucking planetarium
Starting point is 00:23:26 They don't have like normally if you have a small dog and you're bringing it places you hear something Yeah, you have a bag or something. These these guys are just fucking raw dog in that Just fucking carrying him their raw dog in the dog Brandon exactly But they're just hold they're holding them and they're holding them like a fucking like a little baby Yeah, they treat that they treat that dog them and they're holding them like a little baby. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, Brandon. They treat that dog nicer than they do the baby. So I actually put that down there. The way that they treat the baby,
Starting point is 00:23:56 the dog and the baby's body versus the baby and the dog's body is mortifying to me. Like if anything, it should be like your baby's like soul is in a dog and you're just letting it, you're just letting it run around the house. Like you didn't have that in your periphery and all. Anyways, it doesn't matter. This is just so sad.
Starting point is 00:24:20 In their defense, they don't have the baby for much of the movie. They give it to Rolf, Rolf's babysitting. So he's the, he is number one, the best part of the whole movie. Like Rolf and the baby dog interaction. He's a great, he's a great, he's top five for sure. He's not number one. Number one is my boy, Paul Scheer, who is the, uh, Jennifer Garner's rival. When, when the daughter comes and she goes, oh, you got, yeah, you must be her daughter. You got a big nose too. And the daughter is like, what?
Starting point is 00:24:55 Or when he goes, uh, when he goes, I love reviewing your work, it makes me feel so much smarter. I needed more Paul. I needed more Paul in this. I will always appreciate him for his line in the league where he talks about his, his clear hair. I have stolen that Paul and I've used it so much in the past decade since you've said that on TV, I've just, it's, it's my number one go to, if anyone, I was like, Oh, what do you mean? My beautiful clear hair gets a, it's a laugh nine out of 10 times.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Oh, you know who else is great. So, so Rolf is great. All is great. I forget his name in the movie. What's his name in the movie? Steve, Steven, Steven, Rolf, Steven, and then, um, the, uh, her coach, the soccer coach. She's always, she starts, she starts hugging him, hugging her, which is like telling her, she's like, everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Stand up bit about talking to your parents on the phone. When her mom was like, do you remember Gina?
Starting point is 00:26:07 Remember Gina from your class? Yeah, her husband died. That is my mom all the time. Like we'll just be in the family chat. Just like hanging out, laughing, having a good time. All of a sudden, mama D would be like, hey, I won't use real names. So she'd be like, hey, Jim Bob's wife just died in a car accident yesterday.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Very sad. And, and it's just, well, yes, it's very sad. Just in mid convo to throw it like just the, it's just, it's the best standup bit I laugh for like ever, every time I hear it because it's so true about like, just, oh my God, small town America, you call your mom and it's just like, yeah. Remember Sharon Sharon, she was your preschool teacher. You remember how much you liked her? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:58 She died. Horrific cancer. It's like, God damn it. I was having a good day. Have you seen that? That's the soccer coach. I will always appreciate her standup that bit because it just, it happens. It happens so many times, like at least three to four times a year.
Starting point is 00:27:25 I'm like, Oh my God, that standup bit is just so true. Just so true. Uh, yeah, the Rolfe Rolfer and then Paul Sheer are the best parts of this movie. When we got it, we got to talk about, we got to talk about Gus because Gus makes no fucking sense to me. Is he a, is he the parking lot attendant? Is that what he is? So why is he just, he's just sitting in the fucking, okay. He's not, he's not like the doorman. He's, he's too
Starting point is 00:27:52 far outside to be a doorman. Is he, is he just security? He's, he's got it. It's either that or parking lot attendance, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Like the parking lot security guy or like valet. I don't know. Yeah. What's, I don't know. But, I mean, it's LA right. People in California suck. He made no fucking sense to me. And then wildly inappropriate, wildly inappropriate for a work setting. Okay. So first of all, I loved seeing him in here because I love the damn band.
Starting point is 00:28:24 The damn band is great. When they did the wedding crashers song, I still do that at karaoke. Uh, when I, when I do totally clips of the heart. Yeah. I fucking need to know tonight. Is it a take you to the candy shop that they do for hangover? Oh my God, yes. I take you to the candy shop. I lick you like a lollipop.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Yeah. Could you hear that? I can't do it as loud as he could. That was so upsetting. Don't ever do that again. I saw the Dan Band live in concert in Houston at the House of Blues. Oh dang. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Did they play, did they play Candy Shop? Oh my God, of course. Yeah. They played all the, they played all the hits from those movies. So to have the cameos is the band. It was so for him to do that, I was like, Oh my God, that's great. But once again, it circles back to my God, are they trying hard? Right? They're like, let's make sure we get the lead singer from that. Like everyone thought was hilarious and wedding crashers. That's still pretty relevant 20 years later.
Starting point is 00:29:34 Yeah. Yeah. Same with all of the cameos they do are. Yeah. The shrine very hard and they're like five years too late, you know, like the Weezer, Howie, all these people that they're like five years too late, you know, like the Weezer, Howie, all these people that they're pulling. It's like, you're five years too late here, guys. You know, you missed the wave. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:54 But fucking gusty. That thing was, he was driving me crazy because I was, I was like, is this, is he just the parking lot guy who's singing wildly inappropriate songs and grinding on the workers as they walk by? It's insane. You know, it's in today's day and age, that's a recipe for disaster. You can't, and honestly, she should not be encouraging that behavior either. No, no, no, no. The rest of, and then the rest of her work crew is crazy. That, so. The baby, the baby dog switch too,
Starting point is 00:30:34 like some of the things that they were having, the baby do is, yeah. That CGI they're using for the dog and the baby is so unsettling. It was terribly, terribly, terribly. That was like uncanny valley, like nightmare fuel. When they make the baby like pant, like a dog, that was terrifying.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Rolf's line though. I laughed really hard when he said this. Is there like, have you ever been around a baby? And he's like, yes, I was a baby once myself. Yeah, that's great. Or then when they come home, when they come home ever been around a baby and he's like, yes, I was a baby once myself. Yeah, that's great. Or then when they come home, when they come home and he's like, I think, I think the dog and the baby were spending too much time together.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Oh, see, he is the best character in this movie. I told you. He was great. He's great. Oh yeah. Oh my God. The, the forced kiss of the brother, as the parents in the body in front of the mom's friend group. That was, that was like quadruple incest. It was just, and it was too far in like no mom friend group is going to make them performative makeouts. Imagine kissing. Imagine, imagine your sister is in your mom's body and you have to make out with her.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Brandon. Luckily my mom's dead. I don't have to worry about this. Mo imagine if you had to do it. Necrophilia. I said, yeah, that's that's adding some layers some very complex layers well now that we've touched on necrophilia in a Christmas episode that's that's nice this is for the children this is for yeah we but Yeah, we, uh, but these, so they, so they're, um, yeah, for everybody who hasn't seen this
Starting point is 00:32:30 movie, we're gearing up for, we're gearing up for the body switch. Okay. Because these, this fam, this honestly very well adjusted family that seems to only have slight bickering and fighting is in desperate need of some of this, you know? Yep. Some body switching. God forbid they go use their music, their magic on a family that actually needs it, you know? Yeah, I don't know. That's fine. But so they're at the planetarium and the argument at the planetarium comes out of fucking nowhere. Oh, you know what I do want to point out though is the magic lady,
Starting point is 00:33:03 do you know who that is? It's uh, Rita Moreno Great Rita Moreno Where's she from? She looked familiar. She's like, you know like a um Like a like a famous famous Um actress from like the you know, the 50s and 60s and maybe even earlier than that, but um, you would know her um as uh, Vin Diesel's, I believe grandmother in Fast X. Maybe mom. I forget if she's Vin Diesel's mom or Vin Diesel's grandma.
Starting point is 00:33:34 It's been a minute since I've seen that movie. Fast X? I mean it came out last year. I know. I saw it when it came out on Peacock, but I haven't seen it in a minute. Let me pull out the year. I know I saw it when it came out on peacock, but I haven't seen it in a minute. Let me pull out the cat. She, she's like a famous, uh, what's the, what's the word I'm trying to like, like a Hollywood debutant. Is that, does that sound right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:54 It's from like the, like the fifties and sixties. She was, she was like the girl back then, you know, nice. Love that. Um, yeah, she was in, what was she in? She was in the, the King and I, she was in, I was she in? She was in the King and I. She was in, I think she was West Side Story. Was that her? Okay, so if she was in the King and I live action musical,
Starting point is 00:34:12 then I do, I have seen that movie. What's her name again? Rita Moreno, yes, and she is West Side Story. West Side Story. Oh my God, yeah. She's amazing. She's a national goddamn treasure. And she kills it in this movie. She's, I get the side characters are the best part of this movie. But we don't get enough of them, you know? Yeah, it's true. Give me, give me less, uh, try hard Jennifer Garner and more Rita Moreno. That's what I need.
Starting point is 00:35:10 Let's try hard everything. I don't know. I just, it was, it was fine for what it was, right? It's a terrible Christmas movie. It wasn't good. But if you throw the mom and the daughter. Oh, so two things. One I want to talk about. This movie is very weird. It's a very weird family dynamic, I noticed, because I watched it twice. And on the rewatch, I made sure to pay attention to this. It's a very, very weird family dynamic in the fact that I don't think Ed Helms ever has a conversation with the daughter. And I don't think Jennifer Garner ever has a conversation with Brady Noon, the son. It's very much a dad, son, mom, daughter dynamic.
Starting point is 00:35:41 They don't talk, they don't like cross talk to each other. Oh, you're right. It's, I, they, because it's all so rushed, I feel like they, they, they forget that like they're a normal family and they should all interact at some point in time. Not just the body switching people. They have to spend so much time on like setting the body switching pieces that that's why they always interact. It's because the two people in their bodies also that yeah, I don't know. It's the, the, the other thing I wanted to bring up. It was the argument between the mom and the daughter is all about the
Starting point is 00:36:22 daughter wanting to try out for the national team of soccer. The women's soccer team. What parent doesn't get behind their kid being on the national soccer team? Exactly. Jennifer Garner's whole argument. It goes to all of her games. She goes to all the fucking games. And Jennifer Garner's argument is, what does she say? She says, what about college? She was like, you need to go to college. She said something like she played some kind of sport
Starting point is 00:36:50 and then she got hurt. So she said she had to start over from scratch and go back to college and she doesn't want her daughter to have to do that, which makes no fucking sense at all. You know what's always going to be there? College. You know what's not going to be there? You got one fucking shot at is to join the goddamn national team. I never understood that argument of like, you got to go to college first. It's like college college will always be there. I could go to college right fucking now. And I'm 80 years old. I I will say that Brady, what's his last name?
Starting point is 00:37:22 Brady Nunez, his oh, his. he, what's his last name? Brady Nunez. His, um, Oh, uh, his portrayal of Ed Helms being in his body during the interview was pretty good. Like the way that spun the chair. What is this? Flash dance? And then what's he, what's he saying? He's talking about, because right before he goes into the interview, he's talking to the dad or whatever, or the kid, they're talking to each other. And he's trying to tell him, he's like, I can do this. I'm great. I'm great at all these,
Starting point is 00:37:58 I'm great at Jeopardy. And then the kid's like, you always lose. And he's like, okay, but I always win. Is that cake or not? And so then it cuts to the interview and he's like right in fucking Pete Holmes face and he's like, when it zooms in and you see those brushstrokes, wait, did you ever get into that show? So that was a shameless plug for a show on Netflix. But I will say when my family came to visit, we were just hanging out at night after a day of activities. It was a pretty good show to throw on.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Like we had a lot of fun guessing if it was cake. And you'd be very surprised. What is it? Another show along those lines that's real great is I don't even know the name of it. It's a Japanese show, but, uh, the most extreme elimination. Do you remember that? That, that, that, but this one is they like lock them in a room and there's
Starting point is 00:38:52 one thing in the room that's made of chocolate and they have to figure out what it is and so it's just, it's just these Japanese people going around like biting door handles and like stuff just to figure out if it's chocolate. It's great. Uh, my God. Um, do we talk about how the switch happened? That it was B they were at the planetarium and like, they broke the, the thing when all the planets aligned.
Starting point is 00:39:16 Yeah. So, so, so they switched all the bodies. Yeah. So, so a little plot here. Okay. So it's three days before Christmas and three days before Christmas, there's a once what he said 2162 is the next time this was going to happen. There's a planetary alignment between Jupiter, it looked like Jupiter Saturn and
Starting point is 00:39:33 was a Uranus or exactly what the planets were. But it was a planetary alignment. And Brady knew the fucking nerd character that he is he's like, we got to go to the planetarium to see this. And so that's a lot that they drag the fucking nerd character that he is. He's like, we got to go to the planetarium to see this. And so that's a lot that they, they dragged the fucking dog and the baby with them to the planetarium. Um, but yeah, so they're, they could have done this without the baby and the dog, right? Like there's too many body switches. There's too many, like, and it was like, well, we've got a baby, so we better make sure we have something to switch the baby with. Let's do a dog instead of just being like, you know what, let's just cut the baby and focus on it's, it's supposed to be.
Starting point is 00:40:10 Cause that's what that's the, it's the point of these body switching movies is so you walk a mile on somebody else's shoes, you learn where they're coming from because you're, you're at, you're at some sort of impasse, you're at some sort of disagreement. You can't see that baby and that dog are not in any disagreement at all. They don't need to walk a mile in the other's shoes. It's completely unnecessary. What did that baby learn?
Starting point is 00:40:34 Half of the family's problems could have been solved with very simple communication. I would argue they don't have that many problems. Yes. They made the normal problems of society. Like the mom doesn't want the daughter to be what she was when she was younger. Make the same mistakes. Shocker. The dad is trying to relive his glory in his older
Starting point is 00:41:05 years because his son is a fucking nerd. Wow. That's never happened before. It's, I don't know. Yeah. You're right. You're right. Just a little communication would have solved everything. And I feel like they, again, they were trying too hard to make all of these characters so likable that there's, there's no, there's no problems. There's no disagreements because everybody, they're too busy trying to make Jennifer Garner look cool.
Starting point is 00:41:30 Yeah. I do think that the girl did a good job of acting like she was Jennifer Garner in her body though. Yes. Like at the party and stuff. I thought that- I think Brady Neen did a great job acting like Ed Helms. I thought he did a fantastic job with that.
Starting point is 00:41:48 Emma Myers and Brady Noon did such a good job. Also, did you know the baby was twins again? They love doing that with babies. Oh yeah. Lincoln and Theodore Sykes. You know why they do that? Because one's off shitting himself while the other one's acting. Well, kind of that, but more importantly,
Starting point is 00:42:08 kids can only work a certain number of hours per day. So if you do twins, you can swap them out and keep going, you know? There you go. Double trouble. But yeah, so, and then, oh God, when they are chasing after the dog because it gets out of the yard, because it's the baby,
Starting point is 00:42:29 hated that with Ed Helms pretending like he was dying. It was just, I don't know. I did laugh when the friend's mom is telling her in her mom's body about, she's like, hey, that move you taught me and my husband saved our marriage. They like, they like, uh, mute it out in the movie, but in the, in the bloopers, they, they give you a glimpse
Starting point is 00:42:55 of what she's saying. Turn around and. What did she say, like make it clap or something? What did she say? She'd flip it around and make it clap behind and send it back and then bring it back. That was, that was pretty, that was pretty funny. Yeah. I also laughed when the ball got kicked to her and like out of instinct, she just got it.
Starting point is 00:43:18 Good boy. And then they just cut to Brady noon, just thrusting on the top of the chair through the window. It's just, that was, that was, uh, pretty, pretty absurd. The party, the party was risky. The party was all around like with, uh, with him putting the cheese hit box up to block the kiss and stuff, you know, it was, it was the. Well, then the, the, the parents, the kids come in and they start dancing.
Starting point is 00:43:47 If I was at a party and parents walked in. And then they started doing a choreographed family group. Oh no, they were just doing the bust and move dance. I'm pretty sure that's what they were doing. But it became a choreographed family dance. Well, everybody at the party was doing it though. It wasn't just a family dance. It started out as that and then they joined in.
Starting point is 00:44:13 If a brother and sister were doing a choreographed dance, would you not just think, anyways, it's fine, it doesn't matter. I just wasn't a big fan of the party. I'm going to give you a recommendation Heath, okay? The movie Grind featuring Adam Brody. matter. I just wasn't a big fan of the party. I'm going to give you a recommendation Heath, okay? The movie Grind featuring Adam Brody has a way better bust a move dance scene in it. So if you're if you're if you're ever like, hey, I really want to see I really want to watch a movie that has a dance scene, choreographed dance scene for bust a move, watch Grind instead. choreographed dancing for bust a move, watch grind instead. You know, it did make me think though, whatever happened to flash mobs? Remember when we were a much kinder and more whimsical country and now we're just full of anger?
Starting point is 00:44:54 You thought flash mobs were whimsical? Yeah. People just break out and dance in the middle of Times Square. Sometimes I forget how insane you are. And then you say shit like that. Yeah. So you had this conversation with Kelly. It's like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I am, I masquerade as normal. It's.
Starting point is 00:45:19 You know, what is it? What was it? Fuck. True Detective with Woody Harrelson. Wish you would just stop saying such odd shit. That's how it is. That's just, that's just how it, that's just how it is sometimes. Oh, but another thing.
Starting point is 00:45:42 So, so going back, did you hate the band that his dad got? It used to be Maroon six. His, his dad missed out on instead of Maroon five. I knew it was coming because they played, um, when he's in the, in his Camaro reminiscent about the get all days, they played Maroon five songs. And then there's that scene in the bathroom where the kids are like oh he was in some kind of color band um and i was like oh it's fucking maroon five oh my god it just makes me feel old yeah you know good old the dad well the thing i wanted so he says he was in maroon six which means that he just left and they did replace him because then it was Maroon five
Starting point is 00:46:26 But was he? Was he the lead singer ahead of Adam what's his is it Adam Levine, right? I don't know. It's it's it's like the it's it's it's like was he just like the guitar player I'm gonna be the last and then he was like, now, now I can sing. Maybe I was like a co-singer thing. Maybe they, maybe they co-sing. Dueling vocals. Yeah. Maybe it was like in math, you know, signing cosine. Um, what about a tangent?
Starting point is 00:46:59 Hey, I could go on a tangent if you want me to. Like, oh my God, when the mom keeps like asking the questions when he tries to let the class out early, that's like every corporate meeting, right? It's like, oh my God, just comment on the document and let me get out of this meeting. Speaking of the corporate meetings, when she goes into her office, right, after she's sexually
Starting point is 00:47:28 assaulted by Gus, and she does that fucking handshake with the one dude, that made no sense at all for her character. The dude being in the handshake. Again, I feel like they were trying so goddamn hard to make Jennifer look cool. And then they had to set up the nut kick. Yeah. You know? I did like, I did, okay, I'll take it back.
Starting point is 00:47:53 There was one part where I laughed at and that was when she kicks him in the nuts and then she's walking away and the girl, the CC in Jennifer Garner's body is, I forget exactly what she says, but she's like, you need to rush away by everybody. And she's like, you can't be doing that. You're gonna get kicked in the nuts. You can't just come up on people. That's just what she said.
Starting point is 00:48:14 She's like, you can't just come up on people like that. You're gonna get kicked in the nuts. Also, and then another thing, sorry, I keep just random bouncing thoughts here. We did a terrible job of going through this movie, but what's up with the radio guy that shows up for two, two, two scenes. Then he does like the voiceover. You know what I'm talking about?
Starting point is 00:48:33 The radio guy. No, there's, there's like two cut scenes where they're like showing them. They basically just show scenes of LA and then they have the radio. They have like a radio announcer guy over voice overlay. It was so weird. To be honest with you, I was so incredibly distracted at the end of this movie with how he's at the very, at the very beginning, the radio guys at the very, not the very, very beginning, but he was like five minutes in and then he's in like somewhere in the middle, like right before they go back.
Starting point is 00:49:07 He's, he's there right before they first go to the planetarium. And then right before they go back to the planetarium, I believe. I don't know. I just very weird. The, the family singing the song at the America's Got Talent high school dance thing. I had that question. Why are, since when are they backup singers for the band? I just, I hated it. Like as soon as it started happening, I was like, ah, damn it.
Starting point is 00:49:36 I really don't like this. And then why? Nothing, nothing says cool to high school kids. Like, like the Osmonds up there performing for them. Your music teacher's band. Yeah. Music teacher's band and his family who are trying to be Donnie and Marie Osmond in case you didn't get that joke, but my God.
Starting point is 00:50:00 I will say Donnie Osmond and his, you know, he crushed it in Mulan. It's one of, it's my new favorite karaoke song. A five to five to karaoke. He plays that for, uh, in his shows. He plays that song. Yeah. I've had like three people send it to me actually on Instagram. Let's get down to business.
Starting point is 00:50:18 Great song. That's what they should have sang. The banger. It's, it's, it's good. You know, Mulan and Emperor's new groove, you just for as far as like, you know, not like the traditional classics from like the sixties and seventies, like those are the best Disney movies. Cause I also like sword in the stone and that was a good revival.
Starting point is 00:50:40 You had the 60s, 70s, you had like the original ones. You had the, like the early mid nins with like Lion King. Yep. And then you had Little Mermaid and all that. And then you had the third wave. Well, I don't know, Mulan might all be the same wave, because Mulan was 90s to you, right? I think Mulan was like late 90s.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Yeah, later 90s. And then Emperors in Groove was like 2002 or something like that. Yeah. We can count that all the same wave, second wave. Yeah, all good stuff. was like 2002 or something like that. Yeah. We can count that all the same way. Second wave. Yeah. I'll get, but yeah, I, this, this movie was, it's, it's like I said, I, I don't know, it, it had so many flaws, but it was just like, as soon as I pulled it up, I was like, it's just, I think I remember watching this with the family last year.
Starting point is 00:51:23 And I remember finishing it after I was kind of like scrolling, scrolling while I was watching it. It was like right up my mind. These are we. It was. It was a good. It was good for the whole family to take a break from just like straight hallmark. You know, you got to shake it up every once in a while. But it was it was exactly what I remembered at Brandon.
Starting point is 00:51:44 It was a try hard, you know, Netflix movie. I have a few more notes I want to talk about one. The office, uh, shows up at the audition school dance. I, I hated that too. I was like, why? I was like, I like how they tried to school of rocket where like everyone came to the show, but like it didn't make sense for everyone to come to the show. Like why in the fuck is the client coming? He wanted to tell her in person. And then they fired my boy Paul.
Starting point is 00:52:22 Probably firing Paul for. And then they fire my boy Paul. What are we firing Paul for? Okay. So another thing, this thing, this was a real mind bender for me and threw me on a fucking loop for a bit. Okay. So they are trying to get back to the planetarium, right? Oh my god. They're in the Camaro.
Starting point is 00:52:39 And he, Brady Noon doesn't, he's too scared to drive, he doesn't know how to drive. So Ed Helms in Brady Noon's body is in the front seat and he goes, I'll help you out here. And do you remember what he says? He says, I'll handle shifting and steering. You handle gas breaking clutch. I'll handle, he says, I'll handle shifting and steering from the front, from the passenger seat. Everything about that was so dumb and I hated it.
Starting point is 00:53:14 It was the way they ramped off the bridge. Yeah. They ruined that Camaro, but I don't think the, I don't think the writer of this movie knows how manual cars work. If the guy in the passenger seat is going to handle shifting and steering, the writer of this movie knows how manual cars work. If the guy in the passenger seat is gonna handle shifting and steering. Think about who is working on this movie, Brandon. It's, there's zero chance they've even been around a manual car, let alone understand the concept
Starting point is 00:53:42 of driving it. Like shifting and steering was wild to me though. But once again, it was trying so hard. It's like, Hey, you know what this, you guys, you know what this movie is missing? High speed car chase without the chase part race against time. Yeah. Anyways, I, like I said, I just, and then the, the end, I don't know, it's fine.
Starting point is 00:54:09 The only good part was when it was over and the dog was back to peeing on the tree again. I liked that. I was like, hey. The last thing I need to talk about is the scout who shows up at the house. It snows in LA on Christmas morning. And so he can't, his flight gets canceled, right?
Starting point is 00:54:30 And so he, the other, okay. So the other thing we forgot to mention during the soccer game, that soccer game was fucking wild too, by the way. There was so many- Oh my God, her not kicking the goal and then going back to help the person is the dumbest thing ever. That doesn't make, it doesn't make any sense. Cause you know what you can't do for that person? Help them in any fucking way.
Starting point is 00:54:52 Yeah, like none of that. You're just going to sit there until the fucking trainer comes. Yeah, you kick the, you kick the goal, win the game and then go check on them. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you, you, you get in there 10 seconds. It's your fault that dumb bitch fucking hurt her knee. Yeah. And there's nothing you can do for her 10 seconds earlier. It's not like you can fucking, you know, you know, set her leg.
Starting point is 00:55:14 We've got an ACL people. Look out. So that was insane too. But so then the scout, so the scout can't, he comes to the house, right? Hey, why does he have access to her home address? That seems weird. I don't know, scouts have home visits all the time. I guess, but that's, I don't know, but anyway.
Starting point is 00:55:37 So he goes to their house, he rings the rail set's doctor and he goes, hey, we're gonna offer you another chance, which is very weird. We're not gonna offer you the spot, we're gonna offer you another chance. It was just like such a like a fucking half ass thing. But so then he goes,
Starting point is 00:55:57 we're gonna offer you another chance, you can come to tryouts again. But then he hands her a jersey. He's like, this is yours. Here's your Jersey for the chance. Playing for the team. It was so fucking weird. Uh, I don't, I don't know, Brandon.
Starting point is 00:56:17 It's you're, you're trying to put launching on a movie. Because, you know, okay. So it goes back to the, I don't know if the person who was writing this movie understands how sports teams work. How tryouts. Yeah. So, so how do you make nationals? Well, you, you got to, you got to win regionals.
Starting point is 00:56:43 How do you win regionals? You got to win regionals. How do you win regionals? You got to win States. Yeah. That fucking stadium was, that stadium wasn't saying that there was easily 50,000 people at that high school soccer game. I just, yeah. Anyways, it's it. Once again, Brandon, you've done a terrible job. He's like the movies from someone who is barely even a duck.
Starting point is 00:57:07 He gave her a Jersey. Doesn't make any fucking sense. It's, it's CC makes the team. Congrats. No, she doesn't. She gets another chance. She gets another chance at tryouts. That's what, that's, that's what he says.
Starting point is 00:57:21 It's you get another chance at tryouts. Oh, that was the other thing. So we gloss over real quick. Everybody's most important day of their entire life was all on the same day. That's some planning. Amazing. You gotta love the synchronization there.
Starting point is 00:57:42 Cinema Brandon, you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. I loved how at the beginning though, she has the know, cinema, Brandon, you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. I love, I loved how at the beginning of those, they have the, she has the meeting, the family meeting where she's like, Hey, by the way, guys, tomorrow is everybody's most important day in the world. And then they wake up after the initial switch didn't, Oh my God. I don't you love how they drug it out for another 15 minutes by making the initial switch at the planetarium not work because it's not, that's how, that's, that's how these usually go is the, all
Starting point is 00:58:12 these kind of movies physically broken. It's one to see motion. That's what we met the whole time. And then they switched back on Christmas and the dog pees on the tree again. Yeah. But that's usually how these work though, is, is the, the magic happens. And then the next morning you wake up in the body. Like that's what happens with freaky Friday.
Starting point is 00:58:31 And cause the, the wake up scene, that's what everybody, that's what everybody wants. 30 Brandon. Don't forget that one. Jennifer Garner special. She said, I never saw that. She's a queen, the queen of the body switch Brandon. You know, it's a great body switching movie is the change up.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. The change. That's not a body switching movie, is it? Yeah. This was buddies. Oh, which is the one where he, um, he accidentally, like she is going to do like sperm donation, but then he spills it and does it instead. And so the kids his, is that the backup plan? Oh, there you go.
Starting point is 00:59:12 The change up the backup plan. Same difference. They're both not very good. No, not backup plan. Backup plan is a different movie. Well, they're both, they're both not good. See, this is what Jennifer Aniston, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:27 Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston. Oh, the switch. That's what that is. The switch. Yeah, he takes the sperm donor sperm and jacks off into it, which is... That's an insane thing to do. The all-new FanDuel Sportsbook in Casino is bringing you more action than ever. Want more ways to follow your faves?
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Starting point is 01:00:55 I don't think there's a lot of Christmas movies with ducks in it though. I don't think there is. No, I guess not. I had a, I had a maybe a list going on. I do have to say, they, going back to them trying so hard, just them having to instruct Jennifer Gardner how to drink a drink in an unsophisticated manner. I never had any beef with her,
Starting point is 01:01:17 but it made, that was the point where I was like, I don't think I like her anymore. Wait, what part? What is this? Sorry. During the bloopers, when they like put in the bloopers, her burping and they had to explain to her how to drink like the fizzy water. They're like, no, you have to drink it. Like you're unsophisticated.
Starting point is 01:01:37 So this goes back to, uh, um, them and I don't think it's a them issue. I think it's a Jennifer Garner led campaign to try to make us think that she's cool. Do you ever, so she does those Capital One commercials and in those it's the same kind of energy where it's like, you may know me as an actress, but I'm really this super cool business owner. And it's shit like that. And it's like, you're just trying so hard to make me think that you're cool. And you're not. She reminds me a lot of like Tom Cruise where it's just, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:14 I'm just not sure they're a real person anymore. Yeah. Not a lot of life behind the eyes. If you know what I mean? I guess. Yeah. Have you seen the interview where Christian Bale, they're like, what did you base your American psycho character on?
Starting point is 01:02:29 He's like, have you seen that interview with Letterman with Tom Cruise? Where it's like smil- smiling maniacally, but there was no, nothing behind it. Good stuff. All right. Um, should we, should we rank this? You know, cause the- I didn't the reason that I like this movie so much is cause they, they did end it in a fantastic way, which is on the OG Felice Navidad, like I mentioned before.
Starting point is 01:03:00 And then the bloopers, which was way better than the actual movie. Yeah, it's true. Especially the P Holmes line. And then the bloopers which was way better than the actual movie. Yeah, it's true especially the p holmes line as you seem to me as a Old man of middling intelligence an Ed Helms type if you will It was good. That was the best line of the whole movie You go first cuz I gotta think I didn't even give this any thought. Um,
Starting point is 01:03:25 I'm going to give it 2.3, five cakes because it was just kind of exactly what I thought it was. It was a Christmas movie made by Netflix that was not very good, but also wasn't, wasn't completely an abomination to my senses as I was going through it. Yeah. So there you go. Interesting. Just seen he's I think I'm going to go zero point nine.
Starting point is 01:04:06 Yeah. Cause it's slightly better than turbulence too. I'd rather watch this than turbulence too, but not by much. I watched this for the second time and it wasn't, it wasn't the worst. Like I didn't mind it. I, I, I, I, I think, I think I gave American Outlaws a one. Yeah. I'd rather watch American Outlaws. Oh, for, ah, ah,
Starting point is 01:04:33 let's go. I don't know. It doesn't matter. It's not great. What did you give it again? Uh, 2.35. Ooh, okay. High praise from Heath.
Starting point is 01:04:45 Yeah. I mean, it's a terrible Christmas movie made by Netflix. I kind of liked it. You know what I mean? Like this is my second go around. Like, was I, was I enjoying myself while I was watching it? No, but like I was, I was doing other, I was doing other things. And while I was watching it and I, and I wasn't bothered, you know,
Starting point is 01:05:07 some of these movies I'm doing other things while I'm watching it and taking notes and I'm bothered the whole time. This one is just like, all right, it's, it's, you know, I, now was I constantly counting down how much time was left in the movie? Yes, absolutely. I remember one time I learned the first one. The first time I was watching it, I paused it and I was like, how it's got to be almost over, right? And there was another fucking 50 minutes left. I was like, God damn. Yeah. The first the first 30 minutes I was like, Oh, okay. Well, we got to be at least halfway
Starting point is 01:05:40 through. I was like, Oh, no no, Oh no, I was very wrong. Um, so anyways, it's, I mean, you know, it's, it's not good, but it also isn't so bad that it will like make you hate the hour and a half you spend with it. I feel like that's fair. That's fair. So there you go. Easy breezy. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:06 Any final thoughts? I mean, it's just, it's, it's a bummer that you have to be, that we have to be filled with so much hater aid during this wonderful magical holiday season, because I love Christmas movies. I did too. I'm, I am fully, did I tell you, I am fully like on, like I get it now. Like it took me a while But I finally fully get and understand Hallmark movies. Yeah. Yeah
Starting point is 01:06:31 Mike cuz they're amazing me know They can they can get a bit old, you know, but oh, yeah Again, I mean they're all the same lot Again, I mean, they're all the same plot. Um, Oh my God. Did I tell you when I was back, I was back visiting the fam and we watched, um,
Starting point is 01:06:55 so I, I mean, this is on me, I guess, but maybe we talked about it too, but I, I didn't realize that Hallmark movies were also other seasons. Like, so on the Hallmark channel, they will have other seasonal movies and I watched, um, I watched a couple of Halloween ones while I was back. My God. Um, I was, I was in on the haunted, um, the haunted house one. It was the Halloween and the Thanksgiving ones are solid. Yeah. Um, it makes me wish that I was back for,
Starting point is 01:07:27 like I would love, I would love to see like a 4th of July Hallmark movie. That's something, but they do Christmas in July, but I think they need to, I think they need to end of June, like rip a couple like 4th of July movies. I wouldn't be shocked, there probably is one. There's gotta be one.
Starting point is 01:07:46 I would imagine. Yeah, maybe anyways. Yeah. The Hallmark movies I get, I'm actually, I mean, I love like, I watch the Christmas movies once a year, you know, like the home alone's Santa Claus is, um, some of the other more ancillary ones, Christmas story. I love the clean motion. You're Without a Santa Claus. Are you gonna throw this movie in the rotation?
Starting point is 01:08:11 No, no, no, no. But I am excited for this year's round of Netflix Christmas movies. I might keep Netflix subscription just through Christmas. They have a few, um, like they're like Hallmark version movies, which this doesn't really fall into, but they have a few, uh, like with Lindsay Lohan. That was last year. It was so big.
Starting point is 01:08:37 It was a big deal. It was a big deal. The one I remember was from like 2018 or whatever. And then I think they did like three or four fucking sequels for it. And it was like, uh, like the, the, the Prince issue. She like, Oh my God, Vanessa Hudgenson. Yeah. The princess switch.
Starting point is 01:08:58 No, that's, that's a different one. That's not the one I'm thinking of. Oh, dude, the Netflix. I also like, there's a country, no, it's like the ranch one or no small. We're like the girl that does the wine farm. A Christmas, a Christmas prince is the one I was thinking of. Oh, OK. The princess switch is a good one to you. But the Christmas prince is what I was thinking of.
Starting point is 01:09:21 And a night before Christmas. That one's good. That one's good. That one's good with the night. Yeah, dude, that one's Netflix. That's Vanessa Hudgenson found like a second calling. It was like, dude, a lot of them have, uh, it's like the girl from Mean Girls on Hallmark, mama D is a massive fan of hers. Like a real, she's a real Stan.
Starting point is 01:09:41 If you got her, you have, um, uh, what's the, the DJ from full house. She's in a bunch of them. Um, Connie, Connie, Connie has been in a few. The, the girl from American pie that was like the foreign exchange student. She's out here in the hallmark. So that was, that's an interesting, I saw her come up and I was like, Oh, she's a the hallmark. Okay. So that was, that's an interesting, I saw her come up and I was like, oh, she's a hallmark actress.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Okay. You know, it's, but yeah, it's, You can't find it man. God, I forget which one, there's one. Christmas inheritance, that's another good Netflix one. Yeah, okay. That one is a good one actually. I, so what, wait, hold on.
Starting point is 01:10:23 What is the, it's like Christmas, not Christmas on the farm anyways. Yeah, we, uh, falling for Christmas. Is that the Lindsay Lohan one you were talking about? Yes. Yes. Where she falls and, um, I gotta watch that one. I haven't seen that one. California Christmas. There we go. Yes, where she falls and, um, I gotta watch that one. I haven't seen that one.
Starting point is 01:10:51 California Christmas. There we go. Boom. California Christmas. The main actor's name and falling for Christmas with Lindsay Lohan. Uh, his first name is Chord. All right. Chord over street. What a fucking name. Now that we've, now that we've gone through that but like seriously though Oh, dude, there's like fucking seven Lindsay Lohan Netflix movies. What the fuck? On fire. All right, I can't miss all these best Christmas ever. What's the Irish wish that sounds right up my alley
Starting point is 01:11:22 any final thoughts Brandon for this movie other than go out and have a glad tidings, glad tidings, um, Merry Christmas things, communicate with your family, I think is a, is a big lesson from this movie, especially your kids of a different genders, you know, if you're, if you're, if you're a dad, if you're a dad with a daughter, talk to your daughter at least once, you know, also, also if you are going into the holidays with the expectation that you are going to potentially change your parents and their views on life, that's a fool's hair and my friends, like you should just go in there, be malleable, make it low impact holiday. If you're being the worst, just, you know,
Starting point is 01:12:08 find an excuse to remove yourself from the situation and you know, find yourself, find yourself a Rolf to hang out with. Yeah. Yeah. That guy rocked. This is the best. All right. Let's, let's wrap it up. Get it. Christmas gift. So So you

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