Stocking Stuffers 9.6 My Southern Family Christmas with Elizabeth Katheryn Gray

There's this talent. The version of Santa Claus is a man named Everett bergeron her Greatest Christmas Gift. I'm here to write a story about you maybe finding a whole new family. Your Everett's daughter. He seems like a good guy.

Tell him when you're ready. Once I tell him, everything's going to change for the better. Well, I would like to raise a toast to my family, my southern family. Christmas on Hallmark. Welcome again to the sixth episode in this season, Stocking Stuffers.

I am Emily, and as you heard from the trailer, we're here to talk about a very special movie that has some things going on, and we're going to dive into all that. But I say we and you're wondering, Emily, have you lost it or are you talking to yourself? No, I am talking to one of our favorite regular guests, the one, the only, the head Hauntress herself, Elizabeth Gray. Hello, Emily. I am so happy to be back.

Happy holidays. I can't believe it's been a year since we've talked. It seems like it was only yesterday. It does it does? Where does time fly?

It flies out of an empty coffee cup. That's where it lies. Oh my god, yes it does and big goods. Yes. Now this this movie again, like where obviously is we say like, oh, we'll get into it.

We'll get into it. Like trust me, we'll get into this one. It is hallmarks My Southern Family Christmas, which I initially had written out as US Southern Family Christmas and I didn't check, but I guarantee there's probably. Like I'm interested now in trying to find maybe one season, I will pick a generic title and only do movies that shuffle the words around in that generic title, because I think you could probably do seven episodes on a Southern family Christmas, Christmas with my Southern family and so on. But this is my Southern family Christmas, Christmas in the South christ and well, that's Christmas in a Southern state, of which several of which the director of this film, Emily Moss Wilson, has directed.

She has directed Christmas in Mississippi and A Christmas in Louisiana. I know that I covered one, if not both, of those movies over the last few years. I could not tell you which one or two. I'm pretty sure it's Christmas in Mississippi. M Yeah, I seem to remember you covering that as well.

She's not the Santa Jaze chick though, that's a different no no, no, no, no, no, no no. I didn't think so, no, there is. I mean it's it's great. There's there's a lot of chicks behind the camera when it comes to Hallmark and Lifetime and anything Christmas related, which is always welcoming to see. Yeah, it's too bad Genres I watch on a regular basis.

Well, I mean she also directed The Nanny Seduction, So to me, that's like that pairs well with this. I mean that fits my watching. So that's how sometimes I end up having seen a lot of these directors' filmographies. I mean I am like that as well. I mean I watched Barbie with Talk to Me as a double feature nice, so I get it.

I get it, you know, and they oddly work. I can say that. I mean, we had talking Barbie in the nineties. Yeah, so anyway, it's but this we're taught here about Christmas. But horror is definitely on my mind, as it always is, and I think that's why you picked this movie, is it not.

I was gonna say, and something stood out to me that I immediately like, looked through and said, Oh my god. I immediately contacted you and said, there is it. This is the one. There is actually a Hallmark movie with Bruce Campbell in it. Yes, he's already done one of these Christmas movies, but not an official Hallmark Christmas movie where he plays Oh my god, when we get to the countdown, the most important thing ever.

I mean, I didn't know it was Cannon, but in my mind it is now head Cannon about Bruce Campbell. So so you know, we'll talk. So I was really excited to bring you My Southern Valley, My Southern Family Christmas. I was really surprised that it's not like any of the other movies we have reviewed on this show. It's not.

Now, this does fit the Hallmark genre, I assure. Ten minutes into this movie, I thought to myself, Oh this is this was probably the Hallmark Mystery channel. They have kind of a Hallmark has a couple of channels. They have a Hallmark Movie Channel, they have another one that's supposed to be like mysteries, and it's usually where you have some of the more dramatic stuff like The Christmas Train was on that channel, and his last movie, one December Night, was on that channel, right right right, Yeah, so yeah, no, so I understand the assumption, but no, this was straight up homeark. It's straight up Hallmark.

But it is almost more drama than comedy. And it also is not the usual form I mean, it is the usual formula, but they're bending it a bit, which I don't know if I appreciate, but I do like that they were trying to do something a little different with this one. And I think they were trying to step up their game because they had Bruce Campbell in this movie. Because I cannot believe for a minute that the main character's name in the script was originally camp That's probably very true. Yeah, seriously, it's the kind of second film this year where and a second Hallmark film, although Scottish Christmas Marry Scottish Christmas was twenty twenty three, but it's the the second one where the central relationship is less.

It really isn't the romance. There is romance in this movie, and we will get to that, but the core plot of this movie is not about a romantic relationship, which is very at all. No. No, and then that in some ways is refreshing, as is the lead is a little different than what you meet in most of these Hallmark movies. At the same time, I feel completely pandered to.

So let's go into it. Well, actually we should give a summary of the movie first, because I totally get what you're saying before we dive into this. Can you explain what my Southern Family Christmas is about? To tell us the plot? You can go to spoilers, that's all good.

Uh, there's no way you can't do this without spoiling, yes, or I mean again, you know where it's ending, even though it has a couple of surprises along the way. Ye. All right, So we have our lead. Her name is Campbell Wallace, I believe is her name, and she works for a magazine in Dallas. Uh.

And she's one of those travel magazines like you read on the airplanes. Yes, which is kind of a dream job of mine. That would actually be fantastic. Oh, that it would rule. I don't think they do those magazines anymore.

I'm pretty sure they keep cutting costs. I fly Spirit. They have they pay you to change your underwear. I was gonna say, you fly Spirit if you you get a discount, if you can fly the actual plane, right yeah, yeah, No, so you know, I have no where I could tell you one way or another, but either way she gets to do all this cool, hot, shoddy stuff and her her surprisingly young encouraging boss right well, like like not evil boss, ambitious but not evil boss right right right, played by played by an important uh actor who is in a lot of these movies, Wes Brown. You would recognize him from I think Christmas in Mississippi or Christmas in anything.

He's very good looking and it is funny to see him, which because that happened in another Christmas read this year where you had or was Will Camp in Scottish Christmas, where you now have this like Hallmark cinematic universe of actors that they're sort of doing. It almost feels like they're doing the Ryan Murphy thing of like taking actors that you've seen together with other actors, but like giving them different parts and different like small roles and things. And it's sort of this now like theater company of actors. But I digress. Continue well, but yeah, but he's totally asking for because first of all, they're working next year's Christmas articles, which is actually on brand that actually is really yeah, so they wouldn't be sending her to Louisiana the week before Christmas if the story is not at all so true.

So anyway, but I thought that was a cool note that they put that in there, because usually it's like a last minute like the small town quick you have. The deadline is Christmas Eve. No, it's not. Nobody's reading this on Christmas. Yeah.

So they all of them give these like exotic ones, and then she's like talk to her friend and her friend earlier, her sassy side kick friend that works there also very encouraging, was like, well keep it personal. And uh then she gets a She goes home and gets a phone call, and this phone call is from a woman who says, I think I'm married to your father. She hangs up the phone, freaks out, looks at a picture of a very young looking Bruce Campbell in a picture. Oh my gosh, like like evil Dead era young. Oh yeah, with a baby, and he goes She goes, hello Everett, and that's how we started.

And so she pitches the the idea of going to the town where he is in because he's about to become Paranoel, which is a major plot point in this movie. Uh. Paranoel is the Cajun Santa uh And by the way, in the town is Sorrento, which is actually a real town in Baton Rouge outside bout Rouge. Uh So. Uh So I had to look up and I thought it was a real town.

It's totally a reltown. So, so she's going on location to Sorrento for her supportive boss who thinks it's a good idea to have a close to home article. But honestly, here's where I say the truth is is the other ones were too expensive and hers was the cheap. That's actually how I feel about it. They airlines and c Well, Dallas to Louisiana is a normal traffic commute for a lot of people, and if you read Charlene Harris's vampire books that can it happens in several Okay, so, which is a weird thing to like reference, but once again, horror on the mind.

This is where we build our knowledge base. Yes, So, so she goes too Easy Ada to Sorrento and meets the woman who called her, who is married to her dad. She was played by the cutting Edges Moira Kelly, who was the cast initially as Kit Keller in A League of their Own, but then broke her ankle while filming a cutting edge and could not be in a league of their own, and history was made continue. Oh and she's done a lot too. Yeah.

I didn't recognize her at first, and I'm like, oh my god, she's got like a quite a resume and she's from Long Island originally. Yeah, so, so we might talk about her later on our on Our crops town. But she totally promises not to tell him until she's Intel Campbell's ready to tell, uh, Bruce Campbell that that's her real dad, Everett. And so Hi Jenks's sues because he thinks she's a journalist the whole time. But it's not funny hygiene.

It's actually, like I said, more serious comfortable at times, because yeah, it feels like a weird Uh. So he left the family, right, so, yeah, we don't know why he was having a dark time. Yeah, we were having a dark time. They never actually say why. He is now a fully, fully reformed man.

He went home, Actually he left her behind because of all that. But at the same time, he left her behind because he had to go home and take care of his dying father, who there's some baggage there. They touch on and don't really and then it's drossed. I don't know what was that, but there is something dark there, which you know, once again, like I said, his film was a little darker than some of the others. And so he stayed home, got married to this woman, had two kids, and uh, you know, Campbell wants to meet her sister.

So she's an impostor in her own family, hanging out with her sisters, baking a lot of stuff. A lot they have. They have a food truck and a a much bigger food truck than Xmas. Yes, and they said that they actually distribute nationally, so the food truck's local. But they make they actually make a decent amount of money, which makes sense because they have a gorgeous house.

Oh my god, do they I liked it better than the house of Campbell's family in Dallas. I thought that was just garish and huge. But that's a very just generic lifetime house, whereas this one. I like the design of the kitchen. They had the cook top in the middle of the island, so you could like stand and talk to people while you're cooking, which is something I really appreciate.

And they are shooting on location, so you gotta give them credit for that. They are shooting in Louisiana, and it has that a little bit of the flare. I always say a little bit, because boy, is this like the most whitewashed Cajun country. None of those people that are the main characters. Now, there was some extras, but main characters are not from that area at all at all.

Anyway, So she goes and she's in the family, she's doing the story. She meets this hard, hot young ARCHIVI dude where she's staying at this guy's house. The mayor is the stage person giving everybody advice and has all the expositional backstory. But he's very compelling. We like him and we all root everybody on.

And then she still can't tell him, even to the point where everyone wants that, like half the town now knows, and they're they're like trying, they're like actually conspiring to get them to tell each other truth, and they don't, and to the point that there's actually a moment where you actually think that maybe this is not gonna happen. But this is, of course a Hallmark movie. Of course everyone falls in loves and he's been writing her letters all his life. So she can catch up on him fully. He's a good man, she's a good girl, and and she's not asked to quit her job and the young hot god guy wants to go traveling with her the end, so you know, so there we go.

Yeah, it's a lot more hot than most of these movies. It Again, something I'm really appreciating this year is this is I think like the third coda I've had in one of these movies, which is great because normally we don't get them. We just get like they end on a really chase kiss and then their credits roll immediately. Yeah, no, the kiss. Actually, I actually kept clocked in the kiss because I thought it was early, and it was.

It was at an hour six and the movie is hour forty five, so there was still like seventeen some minutes of the film before at kiss time. So you know, it was no, like I said at convention, a little bit. Yet it's completely on brand, very much, very much. So with that, let's dive in to so number one being our female lead in need of a lesson? Oh yeah, absolutely needs one.

What do you think she needs to needed to learn? She needed to learn that she has enough love in her heart to have forgiveness and to bring her families together. That's very sweet and actually is true. I okay, I'm gonna make a confession. It's you know, like, look holidays when we know this, because the whole point of these movies is that they know a lot of people are like emotionally a little bit more fragile than they normally are.

And I'm watching this today and I get to that last scene and I'm like, am I gonna fucking cry? I felt it too, right, just ever so slightly. I got the clemped at the end of this movie. My eyes were burning. I was there, I was on the edge.

It was coming. It was very sweet, and so I can't say that that is not actually one of the more positive messages I've seen in one of these movies. It's not like I'm giving up everything for this hot guy right to relive in the small town. No. Matter of fact.

She wasn't asked once the quitor job. Matter of fact, you know she went back home because there's the last shot is her house in Dallas, so you know she it was just kind of surprising. Now, but she still needs to learn this lesson, and it's not an easy lesson to learn, especially since she feels like she's been abandoned by her father and technically she was. Yeah, I mean he left her as a baby, and you know, we find out later that he he did a few years later he decided that he was in a better place and maybe he would go reach out, and he, you know, has this like kind of very sweet story about going to see her in like a Christmas pageant and watching her and decide and realize then he did not go and say hello because she had a new family that her her mother had remarried, and clearly this man who we meet is her stepfather, was very loving and he said to himself, she doesn't need me, and I'm she's better off without me, and he left and it's and she hears this and she understands it, and it's actually very graceful and sweet.

Well, can we give a mic drop to Bruce Campbell in that scene? Oh, he's so good. He was really good at this movie, right, It really was. He might have been better than the movie. He was he you know, because we did one to Summer Night, I think two years ago or three years ago, and it was disappointing to me because I'm like, it's first fucking Campbell and he's just not Bruce campbelling, And in this he's not Bruce Kembling.

He's just acting and he's good. It's not a role I have seen him do. He's my hero for a reason. Yeah, he's great in this. And you know he's the best B movie actor that's ever lived.

Of course, will always live. So you know, Lord and Savior, Bruce Campbell up there with Lemmy, you know they're gonna keep care of us, you know what I'm saying. Well, ever before, we should talk about j C. Elliott, the lead. Okay, yeah, I don't know her very well.

This looks like she has a pretty long resume behind the camera and in front of the camera. I guess she's a Gray's Anatomy person. And yeah, I watched twenty minutes of Grades Anatomy like fifteen years ago because all of my friends watched it and I wanted to be able to talk to them. They would all talk about it and I felt left out. So I'm like, all right, I don't watch the show too.

I could not. I don't think I lasted twenty minutes. I wanted to throw my TV out the window. I thought it was so painful. No, again, it's clearly just not for me.

People love it. I don't get it. That's fine. But she was apparently in that show for a while. I saw that she was in her show, and she was pretty young when she started, apparently like she played some intern or something.

I actually read their resumes on their Hallmark channel and it said that she had been on Entertainment Weekly. Do you remember I miss Ello two weekly? By the way, Friday night, Friday afternoons. That was, Oh, look forward to it every week. That was like the only magazine I've ever had a subscription that.

When I moved, I took the subscriptions with me. Nice. So anyway, But yeah, this actress, it's I mean, I'll just say it. It's really nice to see a woman that looks like somebody I could know in these movies. If this was me in that movie, that's the actress that would play me.

Right, Yeah, I guess it really is, right. Yeah. Yeah, So you know, a little glam more glam version of myself, you know, And she's nerdy and she likes archivists, she does. Yeah, got to think. Yeah, so she's cute.

I I was, I know she has done more of these this again. This was last year. She apparently was in one in fall called like Designed to Love or something that was about a plus sized designer, which kind of sounds like something I have to seek out. So yeah, a welcome addition to the to the Hallmark clubs. I was.

I was happy with with her work in this And once the dangly ear rings are on our lead, they are in our lead and they look good on her. That was actually one of the first notes I wrote, dangly ear rings, circle, circle, circle, because I've never seen that before where the lead had the ear ring right and she wears them the entire movie. She's got some kind of crazy earring on. Yeah, so anyway, it's a style. Trust it's my second favorite fashion moment of this movie.

Oh okay, okay, that's the big finale, all right. The number two is our bland love interest. So let's talk about Jackson Shepherd. First of all, his last name is Shepherd, which I don't know. This year you have the trope about people's name.

Yeah, I kind of have it just bundled up with the lead. But this year, this is like the third time we again, we've had it where it's the man who has a more Christmas y name than the woman. Yeah. So and his father used to be the previous paranoel and he is the nerdy record keepers guy that's super hunky, except for when he takes off his you know, but it's very clockt thing. Yeah, oh my god.

So Clark kit his and at one point he tries to like set up a date with her, and it's to look through a box of files. I mean they're sitting there going like, this is my porn. You know, I was an archivist for twenty years, so I first of all, I've never seen an archivist that honky. Never. Usually they were ten or fifteen, maybe even twenty years older than I was, so they were They were cool though, because one of my co workers, he was the lead of the fan club for Linda Carter.

So you know, so you know we're nerds, that right, Yeah, that part is on brand that we are nerds. That part I can't say that we're not. And and good journalist is a nerd too because you got to get in those boxes and read stuff. So that part was cool. But I really he didn't have anything really to add to the story.

Well, it's interesting because it's not the primary story of this movie. It's just one edition, and you almost wonder, like I would love to kind of chicken and egg this to figure out, Okay, how did this movie kind of come to fruition and was it we want to tell a story that he is where it's not the romance, where it's actually about a parent child relationship. And then did they have that? And they said, oh, but you know what, we really need a romance in here, so let's just write somebody in really quickly and have it have him there throughout. And for me, weirdly, it didn't bother me because I think I would not have wanted the entire if that this relationship was the primary story of this movie.

It would have been boring. These two actors are cute together, but it's not. There's nothing that that dynamic, and I would not want wanted to have sat through that. But him just sort of being there and having very little conflict, it was fine. And then it has that like really refreshing ending And again we were saying this, I've seen this once before.

I can't remember the name of the movie it was. It was a Lifetime movie from like four years ago. Or so where it ended with the man saying like, I am going to uproot my life to go because you have a job, and I'm going to go follow you, because he says, he's like, I've lived in this town my whole life. I would like not to. You have a much cooler life than me.

Okay, I'm gonna come move in with you and we'll go to Morocco on assignments. I don't know what he actually is going to be doing, Like can he still be a town archivist remotely? You know what? Maybe I don't know. Well that that's another movie and another time the truth.

You know, there's always questions like that, and sometimes you and I both will go down that rebbit hole and think about, yeah, it really is. I have a song like I'm doing that with right now. You don't want to do that, Okay, there's a lot of red shoe laces going on. I mean, maybe he maybe he'll take a librarian job. I mean it is Dallas, there's a lot of work there, sure true, you know, or because everyone is a fucking coffee fiend in this movie.

Not that I have a problem with that, because I am too. Maybe he opens a coffee shop he opens up a food truck, exotic coffee, very light cups. Yes, and really yeah, oh that's right, it it really is. Both of the coffee shots are with him, right, true, true. That's his job is to give us empty coffee mugs.

That's hey, somebody's got to do it, I guess. So now moving on number three is are setting so again the big bad city. We get a little Dallas, but not much, and then we go to Louisiana, Sorrento, Sorrento and uh and there were some really nice shots of the Bayou and this movie again like they they went to location. They it feels like it feels like they took advantage of the greenery and you know, the Louisiana landscape looks different from the Canadian landscape and it's nice to see. But none of the primary actors are from that area.

Not a Cajun accent down. But I will give them credit for background actors because they did look like they hired locally, and I did see in the scroll that they had a local extra background higher. Okay, good, So they were giving local work to Sorrento at the town so so there might have actually been real people in that audience. So but I still like even like the French. Okay, I don't speak French.

I've been to Louisiana a lot, though I was actually there this past February, uh for the Chubacchus parade, so I actually know quite a bit about Louisiana. But I've never heard French pronounce that way before. Well, I know, like Louisiana kind of Cajun French is very different from France French, or even Montreal French. But I have no way of knowing if anything. I mean, Bruce carobll sounded awkward when he said it, and so did our lead was a little better, but she also was awkward.

The kids, she's French, she is French. She is actually from France, the actors, so yeah, her, but it's going to be a different French. I mean she's you know, from like real France, because she felt authentic when she spoke. The kids were also questionable. I don't know what was up with the kids and that, but you know, but so there was I but you know, that just me being a nitpick because I just wanted more more Cajun and the flavor of and there is dash as of Cajun flavor all through the music.

Yes, and they come up a lot in the food, which we'll get to and the music too. Yes, yeah, good point. Yeah. Number four dead parents or dead wife? No, well Campbell's dead dad, yeah, okay, yes, there is des Campbell play.

He's like, it's talked about once in its job. But our lead she's got like two families, she's got oh, yes, very much. But the because I felt the same way at first, I'm like, man, who dead parents? And I'm like, well, we don't know what happened with his dad, but it's clearly a thing, and it clearly, uh you know, was one of the other like plot motivators. So I'll take that.

I'll take having his dead dad, okay. And it was dark, like something dark we don't know it does. Yes, this movie never tells us what really happened. It's very weird, and I kind of wish maybe I don't think because it's a home or movie they actually need to tell you. But it would have been cool to have like this really dark speech come out of Bruce Campbell's mouth.

I would have been totally on board for it. Yeah, it would have worked in this but yeah. Number five sassy sidekick. It's kind of a movie where the little sassy sidekick is the lead in a way, because normally I think both that character and that actor would be in that part. So she doesn't have throughout the movie, she doesn't have that like voice to bounce things off of.

I guess in a way, her mother is kind of the person that's there to sort of feeld the questions and give advice. But there is, and you mentioned her earlier, and I was getting very worried because there was in that first scene chr coworker friend, who felt again very written as the Okay, we're gonna have uh, you know, she's gonna have a sassy coworker, and that sassy co worker is going to have to say girl twice in very awkward ways. It wasn't that bad, though, No, it just again it felt like one of those things where somebody has like screened, like the screenplay said girl, comma this, this, this, and then they cast a black actress to do this who then has to say a girl. But it doesn't feel like she wants to say girl, and I wish they had let her just not say a girl.

But yeah, okay, I see what you're saying, but she's only luckily she's only in one scene. Yes, you know, for her at least, but it also would have been nice if we had a sassy side kick to go along. But it really wasn't. It wasn't about that kind of relationship. We already are sandwiching a love story and having a friendship story in there too.

We're having like the comic relief, you know, goofy person to the side. We did not need. You don't need a comic relief when you have Bruce Campbell. True, that's a good point number six our villain, evil woman or evil boss. No, not really, but I want to give the step mom half of Brownie points for her conniving.

Mm okay, that's fair. It was very manipulative and this whole thing impatitive ways, but she's been orchestrating this whole thing. I had this similar early on when the premise was sort of rolled out, and because when Campbell shows up and Moira Kelly comes out and greets her and is like, yeah, no he doesn't know, You'll tell him when you're ready, there's a moment I'm like, wait, this is really fucked up to do to both of these people to do to both this young woman and your husband. Yeah, and I and also like, now your daughters are there, and this entire time, it's like, oh, sister, but not sister. I won't say it.

TI and I did think the same. I'm like, this is this is fucked up. But it's one of those things that I think because Moira Kelly is really good in this, and I feel like she's she's very much coming to this as like, no, no, no, I'm not this isn't nefarious. I'm doing this as a good person. I believe her that she's doing it as a good person, So it didn't feel nearly as absolutely morally wrong as it probably is.

I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. But at the same time, I was like, especially when she found out that the boyfriend knew, Yeah, she's like, oh good, now I can talk to someone about it. Yeah, now they're conspiring to guess I'm like, you know, guys, I know you're good intentioned, but really you should be button out of this for a moment. Okay, So so she gets half a point, but she's really not that evil. She's actually genuinely caring about her family, and you don't feel any animosity towards her.

No, no, no, no. Yeah. Now let's talk about to this movie and its approach to montages. Ooh, the baking montage. There's I so you know what I'm telling you.

I think these movies have finally broken me to where I'm not immune anymore to their charms. And there's a bacon montage. I'm like, yeah, good roll that dough, sniff that dough. Bring me the baking montage and they do. Yeah, the food there's too much.

I think there's like a small montage at the initial party where they're catering in the beginning of the movie, where they're taking photos of their own food, and then but the baking one is the monumental montage. Like that is how you throw down a making montage. Damn scream. I can't really you know, I can't really say anything negative about it. Matter of fact, it might even give it elevated points of how spot that montages, especially since we have been watching some of these movies and together we have been not denied montages well.

And I thought this movie was doing it because it kept giving me what I'm gonna call blue balls montages. It kept starting like the Christmas music would play. You'd suddenly get like a Cajun jingle bells as they drive into town and I'm like all right, great, and there's a shot of an alligator and then immediately she gets out of the car and starts talking. And then there's the Christmas party you mentioned it when suddenly like up on Housetop plays and I'm like great, and then immediately we cut to people talking. And this happened again with the Christmas there's like the Christmas actual festival where they're outside and it's the same thing.

And it kept being like two seconds of what looked like was gonna be a montage, and then it didn't. It turned into a scene and I was getting mad. So the baking montage did save it, but it was it was touch and go for a while. Well maybe you know, that's very you know, maybe that's it. That's the point.

Maybe they're the whoever they because these writers seem to be understand what they're writing pretty well. Yeah, maybe they were deliberately doing that, knowing that there's people that are deliberately looking for montages in these movies yelling. And then when she they hit us, Bam, baking montage. You know, yes, pies and cage in music, you know, yeah, yeah, we deny that. Right.

That's a good point because this is so the writers. It's Alice Murray who's written like Hallmark novels and some screenplays, and then I think Emily Moss Wilson is also credited as a writer. And there was one thing that right in the first scene when she's doing like the pitch meeting, where the boss kinda says something that I thought was very meta, where he's talking about like, well, we have to do something different for next year's Christmas story because we've already done Christmas on a Ranch and we've done a lot of gingerbread Christmases. And I'm listening to this, I'm like, is this about is this self aware hallmark of well, we've already done Christmas on the Bayou, but we haven't done Revealing Yourself to be the Long Lost Daughter of Santa Claus and Christmas on the Byou.

So I think that this did this was aware. This was a smart movie in that way. I almost think that maybe this was written for people like yourself. Maybe yeah, they might be Yeah, it did make me tear. I won't Lie.

I was surprised. Maybe because I love Bruce Campbell so much. I'm just gonna be a you know, fall for him anyway. Possibly, you know, I am I have to meet I am biased, you know. So there's that all right?

Where are we at? We are at number eight slapstick? Oh yes, there's one clumsy moment, lots of empty fall on each other. Oh my gosh. And that's that's how she meets Jackson.

Oh god, oh boy, you know, bumping in. She's got things in her hands full of food, he's got with bows on top. Together they make it work. Oh my god. Yeah.

But once again, and I said this about one December night, when you have Bruce Campbell on your staff, you are not using him for slapstick. You know what? I feel like Bruce Campbell at this age, like this is one of those things where I remember he doesn't do it anymore. It's gonna be so nice for him to be like, Yeah, you're gonna fly me out to Louisiana, put me up in a really nice hotel. I'm gonna film for three days.

I'm gonna just wear like comfortable Christmas sweaters. I'm not gonna do any stunts. I'm not gonna film in the elements like he. I'll be outside, is it in a nice day? Okay, then I'll do your scene.

Like I feel like he's got the power and this man does not have to take a hit anymore. Oh, you know, he earned his coast, right. You know, I'm not saying he's Robert de Niro, but like Robert de Niro, he has earned his coast. He can do what he wants now, yeap, and you know he's I don't expect him to be Ash Williams and take a bump on the stairs. That's not what I mean.

I just thought it would be maybe more like fun when he's dressed up as Paranoel where we get to see him actually go down the roape cause we got denied him actually doing his parade. We only got to see the top of it. We didn't actually get to see him go to the house to house and pick up the ingredients for the gumbo and drop off the presence and all that. We didn't get to see any of that. Yeah, wow, No, it's only a yeah, yeah.

I mean you could do a montage, that's what you can do. But oh, I know, but we got a baking montage. We did, and I can't really complain, and you know, and I can't really complain about the lapstick. It's just one of those moments in the movie where I was like, oh, well there's the Hallmark yep, yep, yes, and maybe in it because otherwise you might have had people at home thinking, hey, what am I watching? Oh good?

Okay, they bumped into each other with Christmas presents. I'm good, I'm good. I'm watching a Homewark movie. Yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay. This is not true dramatic for me.

Okay. Number nine, Well, there's a couple because I would say Bruce Campbell is the sage old person, and he definitely is in many ways. But the mayor Thompson, he's a mayor yep. Yeah. It was very like, very very zen about things.

Yeah, and he's seen a lot and gone through it and he's chill. He's totally chill. You know. Once again, stepmom is pretty safe. I agree.

Yeah, her father is pretty sage. Her father, I mean it seems like father. Yeah, she grew up calling him dad, but he's technically her stepfather. The old paper, the only one that had no chill was her mom was her mom a little bit. Yeah, yeah, and but yet she still was supportive, so you know, so yeah, I would say she was surrounded by sage old people.

Yep, they should have just like pushed her, like just do it, get it over it month. I know, I know she was dragging her feet. Yes, it does bring us to number ten, Santa Claus. Oh my god. And this is where my head canon is Ruther cam I had no idea that Bruce Campbell is the cage in Santa Claus, but he is.

It all makes sense when you really put it together. Yeah right. I always knew somewhere the reason why he doesn't die is he has some kind of superpowers. Now we know he's immortals. You know, he's frigging Santa Claus.

So he is chosen by this town to be the new Para Noel and that's a big apparently in this town. That's like like being bigger than the mayor. Yes, it's a lot of work, though. It is a lot of work. You have to like get the costume and you have to do the boat thing, and then you have to go to people's houses and you know, it's probably a year long, like like job yeah, it's it's like being like Miss America without the crown, like it it seems, I don't know, I don't know, but but it's Louisiana, and I can tell you they know how to throw a parade.

Okay, okay, no problems there. Well, good for it. Even in the Cajun country they know how to throw a parade, so you know they'll be all right, all right. The only thing is like, once again he's wearing this very strange costume, because it's not a traditional Santa costume at all, is it. It's like I think Paranoela is.

And again I only really know about it because I watched one of these other Christmas in either it was Christmas in Louisiana or Christmas on the Body, one of these other movies that had a similar set up, and there was also a Paranoel thing going on. I think ed Asner was in that one. I want to say he was paranol but I don't think he was a real Santa Claus. But anyway, it's a thing where I know it is, you know, obviously a sort of a cultural variation on Santa that's very specifically regional, and I don't know enough about it to know if some of that costuming is actually correct to that region or not. I don't know either because usually when I'm in Louisiana it's around Maudi Gras time, so you know, which is some you know, so Santa's not walking around with all the beats.

No, no. And this year I was two weeks out from Mardi Grassias and I went to the first major parade, which is the Crew to Baccris. That's the science fiction parade. Two thousand people dressed up in every type of science. You would die that.

It sounds pretty amazing. So Louisiana knows how to throw it down. Yes, And they're saying and you know, and if anything is there if I'm sure because they were instrumental that that that that that barge could have been the real deal, true, true, So who knows. We'll look, we'll do some more research. Yes, yes, of course I will probably forget most of this movie in a year.

But that's a year. Well, that's very generous, you're right. Moving on to the bonuses. So the first thing is our music, which is generally public domain holiday songs or very uh essentially public domain cheap word sound Christmas songs. What do we get here A healthy mix?

Yeah, I agree, I agree, healthy mix, and uh we heard deck the Halls twice, but it was a Cajun remix times. There was a Cajun remix of jingle bells on the credits. There was an up on the house top and style well that that was the one on the credits. It's okay and the trio, and then at the festival there was that trio. They did deck the Halls and they did an old legg sign yes, yes, and it was actually pretty good.

Yeah. There was also and I didn't bother to look it up because it's impossible to watch on Hallmark's credits when they like scroll really quickly in a tiny window because they're busy starting the next movie. But it felt like there was a I wrote, like a folksy feisty, like feist the singer feist, not like feisty as in you know, spunky. That there was. It seemed like they had somebody like a voice that I heard like a few times in the movie that was doing sort of folky word solad Christmas songs that I did not recognize, but that like sounded fine and kind of fit the tone of this movie.

So oh yeah, that person there was either it was the same song in a different spot or it was a two different songs, but the way they sounded the same. Yeah, but it fit like tonally, it kind of fit well. Like yeah again, like the soundtrack was done well for this movie, which you don't know we see. Hell, it's okay, this is not like you know, I didn't feel like I wasted my two hours watching this same number two is our secret family recipe. Yes, it's a main plot point.

Tell me about the secret family recipe. Oh my god, it's something in their meat pies. Now I have seen Motel Hell, so I know what's in the meat pies. Or if you watch see Ay Todd, you know what's in the week pies. But they don't tell us.

It's a family movie, it's a family secret. But make a plot point. At the very end of the movie, she gets to read the family secret in her brand new journal, and we don't see the secret because it's gotta be people. Right. Oh absolutely, that's what I'm saying.

We know, we know, we know what's in you know the printers, we know you know. But yeah, but now she knows too, so uh and but we will never know what's the secret creator is. But yes, it is a major plot. Yes there is also not so secret because I think he tells us all the ingredients in it, although he didn't list them out. But Jackson brings Campbell a cup of coffee and he says, oh, it's my grandma's famous Cajun eggnog coffee, and he does list it out, and it sounded a nutmeg I think was like the main ingred But it was like nutmeg and red pepper and paprika and like And I'm a big, like savory sweet person, Like I like a you know, I don't like things that are overly sweet.

I like a you know, like a salty sweet type thing. I enjoy those kinds of tastes, like I don't want a sweet coffee. But that did kind of sound disgusting, Like it was just a lot of words like list read off of let me look at a spice cabinet and list a bunch of things, and it did not sound an appealing. I would agree with you. The only thing I would say is, I know one thing about Louisiana is that they put unusual ingredients together.

And sometimes you have to be open minded about it, that's fair. Yeah, like chicory coffee, which is amazing and I love and that is not something that necessarily Yeah, and they do eat begnets in this movie. They do, yes, keep their coffee. Yes, all right. Number three is our small business in danger, which we don't have because not at all.

The Bergeron family bakers apparently are thriving by I mean, you know, uh, murdering other daughters of the family or something and using their flesh in their amazing meat pies. But it's working for them, so yeah. And they're distributing, yes, yes, nationally they so they're doing fine. Clearly. The other family is loaded in Dallas house that dude.

Yeah, you know, she looks like she had a really good upbringing with that family. She's definitely a rich girl. And apparently it pays well to write for like Airplane magazine, even though there's magazines are no longer in print, but everybody's happy. So yeah, So okay, Number four. Product placement.

Was there really much product place? Man, dere wasn't the one thing that I noted because I watched the whole movie and I wasn't you know, I'm always thinking about it, But it wasn't directly thinking about it, and I thought, oh, yeah, I guess there's nothing and so much so that in the last scene when uh, you think Campbell has given up, but instead out of nowhere and we don't see what happened, Campbell just shows up to uh the Bergeron house with a bunch of presents, and I can't remember it's her or Jackson says like, we got presents. The big box store on Highway ten is open all night. And it just felt very funny that they didn't say, like, did you know Walmart's twenty four hours. It was just you know, this sort of like here's how to here.

We decided you would wonder how we got all these presents so quickly when it didn't seem like I was planning to bring presents for five people. But don't worry. Big box stores are open, but we're not gonna tell you which one because they didn't, you know, they weren't sponsoring the program. I think said something about, yes, it is open at for a I'm on Christmas Eve, something like that, you know, I guess. Yeah, he sounded a little annoyed, but also like supportive.

I mean, it's how I think we all feel about those kinds of stores, like, yeah, we don't want them to be there and take over things. At the same time, you're like, well, oh, and I don't think honestly that was his intention of hanging out together for their first night on Christmas Eve. Yes, I remember my first date with my husband when I introduced him to the family that he already knew but that didn't know I was part of that family. And you know, then we just reminisced for the next several hours. Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so he's a keeper because he's got to deal with all that, I guess.

Yeah, well, well at least in this world. Okay, now number five cloying child. Yes, we got to actually tell me about these kids. We got a teenage girl. I don't know how old she is.

She's a teenager. She's a typical teenager, and she's described more than one. She once again, she's nerdy, and she likes social media and refers to things as she refers to social media as the gram which does anybody actually say that that isn't in a movie? Yeah. I think the other girl might have been nine going on ten.

Maybe maybe Tad be younger, but I think she was nine going on ten and she's a writer, you know, and you know, so she she's and she's also very like, oh, I'm in love with you already, like instantly becomes like a fan of this girl, and yeah, maybe unhealthy. It's just an unhealthy thing to have, like in each old and she's playing with these kids and she's hanging out with them and they don't know who she really is. And I thought it was a little like a little weird at the same time, like the bonding scenes. Most of the scenes except for the one where of course they threw food at each other because they got it, do that when you're decorating something, because they're once again more baking. They did this like remember the the ice they were making ice cream snowman that looks really cute but seemed incredibly impractical.

Yeah, and then like they threw stuff at each other because it seems like you only do that for a picture and then for a food fight. But but the next scene was actually realther sweet and surprisingly good and and you know, the kids are actually decent actors were I didn't hate them, like I wanted to change their what they looked like, their hair was like not like I don't know, something very fake about their hair, like not age appropriate. Maybe, you know, maybe maybe because I think they're trying to age them down because they're older. Then they're playing that. That's my guess, you know, especially the teenager, because we don't know how old she is, she's just as she's a teenager.

There's also a lot of like kid extras, and some of them looked like they did not want to be there. Yeah, and everyone is bundled up in clothes. I think there was one shot of it raining and everyone is like, it's the middle of summer. We're we're not getting paid a lot for this, so you know, but you know, whatever the kids were, the kids could have been worse. Yeah, they could have.

It wasn't like last year's kid. True. Oh my god, I'd almost forgotten. I'd almost forgotten, and now I'm having flashes. Oh that little dancing boy.

Let's see. Number six was finding the perfect tree, which don't get it. Yeah, we already have trees, we already have them up, but there's lots of decorating of said trees. And I have to say that the alligator ornament, even though to me it looked like Godzilla, I thought was really cute, the one that they put on initially on the tree. You're right, I did.

I noted that too. Now we get to the big one, number seven. Empty coffee cup acting. Okay, Oh my god, there was so much of it right well, and the first scene I've seen, but it's like the second scene in the movie where she's going to visit her mom and stepdad and like she makes a comment of how like, oh yeah, they wanted me to bring them coffee, and I'm like, oh boy, here it comes. And that scene to me was actually okay, And I was like briefly fooled into thinking we were gonna get good coffee cup acting.

And then the rest of the movie happened. And I have seventeen notes. I like how she was walking in with three of them on one of those plastic cardboard holders. Yeah, she's like swinging it around like it's Frisbee. Oh yeah, she has no idea how to empty coffee coffee cop Yeah, and she wasn't as even as egregious as Shepherd was.

He was like Jackson was the worst. Oh my god, it's so bad. And also this to me was really weird because he's like she's so she's staying on his property, I guess, And he comes over with coffee and he's like my grandma's secret recipe I made for you, and he brings them over in takeout cups with like the plastic lids. Does he have those in his house? That seemed very strange to me, That's what I'm saying.

Did he is he gonna move to Dallas and open a coffee shop? Because clearly there's he's got the supplies. Yeah? No, so that's that was my theory. Yeah, yeah, I wrote out of my notes.

Oh it's bad. It's very very bad regarding the cup acting. So I'm gonna try to say this fast, but I had to tell you something. So I'm ground. I'm surfing to be looking for bad Christmas movies, partly your fault, but partly because I do that.

And TB is a treasure trove, as you know. Yeah, I see a movie with Castor fran Dean from twenty twelve called Christmas Twister. I yes, yes, yes, okay, continue, okay. So the first of all, the screen comes up with the title card and it's misspelled. It's Chris TAM's Twister.

And we actually took screencasters that day because we were like, okay, and it's just a black and white card, like like no one even gave a fuck to change it. So and then the movie starts, and I won't go into details, but it hits these tropes just like all these other movies, with the exception that there's no coffee in this movie. Because they also mentioned they're in Texas. It's a Southern movie. They're at some mall, and we have now seen an upgrade two empty lemonade jumbo cup.

Oh okay, I love it. I love it. Yeah. If you want to see some teenagers on a variant on our coffee cup acting, I've now seen lemonade jumbo cups acting. I mean, I would even posit that this movie gives us a variation because when Campbell shows up to the house, she's got her rolling suitcase with her.

She's staying for a few days, so it makes sense. And she is standing there and wherever Kelly's coming out of the out of the house to come see her, and Campbell is just holding her rolling suitcase like in her arm and walking with it. When the ground it looks very level, so she could have very easily rolled the suit which it was designed to do. But apparently it was also so light that she could also fling it around as if it were an empty coffee cup. But everything was empty in this movie.

That the suitcases were empty, the presents were empty, the coffee cups were empty. There was not a single weight to anything. Oh it wasn't empty. Was There was two wine glasses in the scene with the first part, okay, and it was ever so slight red juice of some kind at the bottom of the plastic white cups. Now that's how clear.

Actually they were clear, but either way it was, you know, and it's so funny that I actually look for that stuff detail. I know, I've created boxs all across the world. But there was a scene towards the End's towards the end where Bruce Campbell brings Campbell. I just said that out loud. He comes up and he walks out with he's like, oh, I got you some hot cocoa, and he's carrying two very like actually heavy looking ceramic mugs.

And she takes it in her hands and our arms do drop like she picks it up. Clearly, this was a real prop it it was. We learned it's empty very quickly because she immediately brings it her to her mouse and starts drinking. And I'm thinking, like, you know what, this is okay because at least like it looks like it has weight to it. And then I feel like the ad are slurping effects.

It was like a come on, you finally did it and then you still couldn't do it right. But you know it's it's it's a it's a struggle. Is real? It really is? It really is?

I mean we have never seen this ever? Get it? Like, how we ever actually seen that? No, we have never seen it. I mean here and there, like what did I we the one I just watched?

But it was from nineteen ninety seven, so that's why. So like there was like good coffee acting, but it was like good actors and it wasn't yet an actual Hallmark movies. Yeah, at least it wasn't those porcelain cups with the with the fake coffee drinks for a last time, those were my favorites, so bar god. Yeah, the food props that were like all made out of plastic where the frame wasn't moving. Yes, yes, yeah, you're right right, we've gone through so much.

We really have Number eight actress trying hard not to actually eat on camera. I think jac Elliott was slamming down some beignets. Oh and actually they were kind of clever about this, Like the meat pie is sing is essential to the story, and he offers her a meat pie and a walk, and we cut back and she's literally putting the last corner of the meat pie in her mouth. Yes, yes, and I thought that was clever. They did take one bite out of one meat pie in the end of the of the baking montage, which I appreciated.

Yes, but you don't see them eat anything else. They immediately put it down, considering that's kind of the point of going to Louisiana's to eat. Oh, it is absolutely. I don't think I've ever had a meat pie down there. Same, Yeah, hants have had, I mean food that wasn't necessarily featured in this movie.

But yeah, let's see number nine, we don't really have canadianisms because this was not actually filmed in Canada. It was again not a single accent to be found. That that is very true. Yes. Number ten, warm weather Watch.

We can kind of excuse it because it's louis I don't know what the weather is in Louisiana right now. But it's probably about the same of what it is here. It's warmer, isn't it. Yeah, it usually is. It can get down to forty and people are like thinking it's the end of the world there, you know, But that's about it.

It's the coldest I've ever experienced. Louisiana was forty degrees. Let's see, so i'm today, it's unseasonably warm by me today it's fifty seven degrees and in Baton Rouge today it's fifty five degrees. Yeah, it's that's probably about typical. It's about fifties for us here.

Yeah, it looks like it's going to be in the sixties all week. If you're in Baton Rouge the week whatever, it is a third week in December, you're gonna have a pretty nice week. So yeah, no, no, So we give them a pass because this is the South. Yes, yes, so, and it was shot on location, so they get a point for that. Now.

Number eleven is our old people aggressively matchmaking her leads. Oh my god, yet mom again, That's why I said I give her a half point for conniving because she also not only is he orchestrating this whole meet up with the dad. She's also trying to set up her with the archivist, like immediately without them actually meeting. She's like, oh yeah, that's why I have her staying on this property because I know they'll listen to each other immediately, anything about like I I mean, well we know, because she even admits it early on. She's like, well, you can find anything out on the internet.

So this woman has been like Facebook stalking Campbell. She probably like, oh my god, she probably like the dating app catfished her at different times just to figure out what she likes. To make this work, Like you know what, there is a far more ominous Lifetime movie to be made from the Moira Kelly character's point of view, where she is like just spingliing everything about her town and the people around her. Like I said, and a slight twist, this movie could have actually been rather creepy. Yes, which is true of most of these movies.

It's true, but they wear it on their sleeve this time around. But it's still a Hallmark movie and everyone comes out happy and everybody looks great because we are at the last beat, and that is our favorite fashion moment. Well other than I was impressed with it, dangly earrings on the lead. This time, I have to say it's it's seeing the awkward moment of seeing Bruce Countable Justice Pierre Noelle. Yeah, I mean yeah, it was awkward yet awesome and a little sexy.

Yeah. Well it's Bruce Campbell. Like the picture, that picture of him holding the baby, You are the same. I'm like, oh, hunky Bruce Campbell, daddy Bruce Campbell, same thing, same thing. That was Bruce Campbell that I fell in love with on a time.

You know, So there was that going on. But you know so I would say that was because everybody else was very like, really whitewashed, generic. There was not a lot of flavor when it came to fashion. It was very red and green everywhere. Yeah.

But Campbell's coat in that the final like festival, on that big Christmas thing, She's got this really like this forest green pea coat with a hood. Oh yeah, those buttons that caught my eye. That was one where I was like, oh, I wonder if I should can find that because that one was weird because for the most part, also, like I liked Campbell's wardrobe, I thought like some interesting choices that actually could work on me, just because again it's rare that I see somebody closer in my body size. But that coat, I definitely want that coat. I will.

I will agree with you. The green coat did stand out because I actually, when she's talking with Jackson on the hill there and they're trying to get her back Oka to that coat looks great, natch, It does it really does, you know? And no one looks bad in the movie. She's dressed. She's dressed when a journalist would be wearing in the South, and the Christmas time to be exactly.

So there's all that. I thought everyone was pretty suburban looking, especially the Dallas people, but that's actually it's Dallas. So what can you say, suh? It looks like Dallas. Dallas is not known for their fashion sense per se.

They but you know, I won't go into discent on Dallas. I was going to say, like, look, I don't know if anybody listens to Dallas. I don't know if this podcast has reached there. But I also don't want people from Dallas coming at me. So very clear, I am not saying any of this.

No, no, no, and and and you can only I lived in Texas so my opinion of Texas is a little I have a very different viewpoint from Texas. I lived a lot of different places. Right now, I'm in Georgia, so home of many a homework movies. So, oh my god, so many there. They shoot so much in this town.

They do ridiculous and it was interesting to be down here for the sag strike. But that's another podcast entirely. All right, Well, and I guarantee maybe one of these years you will get to come on here and talk about a movie that you have witnessed the filming of Oh I have you can probably be an extra if you if you really work hard on it, you can find a way. All right, So do you recommend? And if so, who would you recommend to?

Whatever? This movie is called My Southern Family Christmas. First, I know there's Bruce Campbell completists, and they've watched worse movies, so you are not talking about that. So Bruce Campbell Complete is absolutely worth your time. It's kind of like it's not I don't know if I would call it refreshing, but it is a little different than your normal Hallmark movies.

Yet it will fully hit the right spots and the right itches. And you'll enjoy it, So I would say, Uh, you know, they play it at odd times. I noticed it plays like at four in the morning on Hallmarks, so they obviously know it's a little darker than the normal one. So yeah, they are not necessarily and which is how I had to watch it because on my has a weird thing. I don't get the Hallmark channel, but I can DVR the Hallmark channel, so maybe you can do out there.

Uh. And I agree, this is one that I ultimately liked. I thought this was a movie, which I don't always say, but uh, it is done pretty well. There's a there's enough there that you can tell the writers and director know what the audience is expecting, and they can they play with it a little bit. Uh.

The relationships are nice. Brus Campbell's fantastic. More Ra Kelly is fantastic, but it's so nice to see her in this movie. And I if you're I don't know, if you watch these hoping you actually have an emotional connection to them, it really might work. Like I don't.

Usually I watch these, you know, with a pen to look for empty coffee cups, and every now and then I'll actually be moved by something and I was moved by this. I was shocked to say that, but I was. Yeah, I would say I did. Like I said, I didn't hate my time, and you know, I'm I have less tolerance for these movies than you do. And I felt fine with it.

You know, I would watch it with somebody if they wanted me to. As a Bruce Campbell fan, it totally works. You know. It's actually like one of his better performances. He gets to actually act, which I feel like he has not done in a while, which and he has changed.

He has complexity. You know, when he says there's a dark period, you freaking believe him, right, I still want to know what that is. And we could just say, well that was when that was the period of time when he opened the Economicon. That might be an entertaining reado, okay, final thing to close out with when they're given away, the final Presence. There's not one but two leather bound journals in that shot Campbell.

As a Bruce Campbell fan, when I saw those come out, I'm like, oh no, yes, yes, yeah, anyway, yeah, let your brain fill in where this goes. Yeah, I thought that was awesome, well lit as always, it is fantastic having you here. Now. You do a million things. You do creative things, you do intellectual things.

And I say that as if they're two different things, but it can be the same. Tell everybody, what are you doing? What are you up to? Where can we find you? Well?

I have my own podcast. We've been doing it for nine years. It's arkivis Bets on Sexy Witches. But you can find us at the Sexy Witches on Facebook and on Twitter. We do blog talk.

We're on blog talk platform. We are a live call in show. We had a pretty rough ninth season. We're very inconsistent on shows this year, but we're still there and our end of the year is the thirteenth this week, and we're going to talk about our twenty twenty three everything we like, except for movies themselves. We save that for its own show.

But we can talk about things in movies like Best Kill, for example, which was in a movie called Suitable Flesh. Most people didn't see it, but you know, we talk. We'll talk about things like that and you know, favorite music, movies, whatever, And I of course will shamelessly plug this show as well. Oh well, before we finished shamelessly plugging you also have movies that you've produced that are out there. Yes, I've there is movies.

They're called the the FP series. They were shot and directed by Jason Trost and his brother did the first two movies, Brandon Trost, who is now this like way famous cinematographer, and I produced I was acted into The FP two Beats of Rage, and I produced three and four, which are kind of game They're kind of gaming movies. It's dance dance, revolution to the death in a comedy, post dystopian, post a acalyptic future. It has its own language. I highly recommend using the subtitles, especially the ones on Amazon.

When they were doing it, it was absoutely brunisled. But you can watch it all for free on to Be But definitely turn on the subtitles because they are glorious and it's just a stupid, stupid, fun movies. Lots of great music everyone. The costumes are incredible. Matter of fact, Sarah Tross, their sister, did the costumes and now she works for Jodah Hill and all his movie shows Eastbounded Down and Vice Principals and the one with the the priests, I mean the evangelicals, the big the rhinestones show a right gemstones.

That's it. She's basically those are rhinestones in their own Yeah she did. She did all the costumes for those that show too, So there's a lot of hidden pedigree on these very low budget movies. Definitely worth We're watching so fantastic. We are gonna go make ourselves some eggnog coffee and find the right person to make that secret ingredient meat pie and have ourselves married little Christmases.

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