Speaker 1: Oh it is Christmas time. Will the air is fresh,
Speaker 1: it's christy and nice and beautiful, and it's still love it.
Speaker 1: Don't here in California?
Speaker 2: Of course you love it, don't you. You love Christmas?
Speaker 1: I love Christmas.
Speaker 2: My wife's the same way.
Speaker 1: I love Halloween. But the day after Halloween, I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 2: We never want to skip Thanksgiving. It's Susan's favorite holiday.
Speaker 2: Is also her birthday is the twenty seventh. Oh so
Speaker 2: sometimes it falls right after Thanksgiving. Sometimes it falls on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving some so it's kind of wrapped up birthday Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: But Thanksgiving is by far her favorite. She goes all out.
Speaker 2: She cooks for days. It is wow. But when I
Speaker 2: say she's a good cook, I mean like she's like
Speaker 2: a legit cook.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So it's yeah, turkey wrapped or bacon wrapped, this and
Speaker 2: this kind of side and the stuffing that takes a
Speaker 2: couple of days. And but yeah, I mean her cramped.
Speaker 2: She'll start her cranberry sauce in like a week.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, no, we're.
Speaker 1: People eat the cranberry sauce. I find that I now
Speaker 1: don't go through the trouble the only one that is
Speaker 1: adamant is my mother in law. So she makes it
Speaker 1: because it's so much time to make a really good
Speaker 1: cranberry sauce, and then no one really dives into it,
Speaker 1: and you're just like, come.
Speaker 2: On the thing about Thanksgiving. A lot of times you're
Speaker 2: making specific dishes for one person because it's like I'll
Speaker 2: say to her, I need I need the cream onions.
Speaker 2: She's like, no one needs the cream onions, Like, well,
Speaker 2: I use so I need the cream onions I have. Also,
Speaker 2: I take over turkey duty. She kind of cooks it,
Speaker 2: but then I baste and I carve because I have
Speaker 2: the carving down path nice. So you know you're not
Speaker 2: supposed to slice, like don't because everything gets cold. You
Speaker 2: take it off in big chunks and you put it
Speaker 2: on a pan full of gravy and oh yeah, we've
Speaker 2: got the whole Okay, my mouth is literally as.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a PDF format, well.
Speaker 2: I'll send that. I will send that to you. Take
Speaker 2: off the breasts and two big hunks of the and
Speaker 2: then you cut them in giant chunks with the skin
Speaker 2: still on, and then you lay them out on a
Speaker 2: pan full of hot Gravyes, so everything stays hot and
Speaker 2: juicy because when you slice it thin, everything gets dry.
Speaker 1: Anyone allowed in the kitchen with you and Sue, because
Speaker 1: I feel like you guys are very intense.
Speaker 2: We are. Oh no, I'm I'm She's the main chef,
Speaker 2: ironically being named Sue, and I'm the Sioux chef.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: But we work well together. We're a well oil machine.
Speaker 2: But we're not talking about Thanksgiving today.
Speaker 1: We are not.
Speaker 2: We're not. We're talking about Christmas. But first of all,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 2: want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn
Speaker 2: and go back to a time when all the houses
Speaker 2: were smart, the waves, tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilford Dell.
Speaker 1: And I'm Sabrina Bryant.
Speaker 2: Deck the halls with bows of Holly, because we are
Speaker 2: going to the capital of Christmas for this movie, Los Angeles, California. Yes,
Speaker 2: for the Holiday fantasy Comedy of two thousand, The Ultimate
Speaker 2: Christmas Present. Yes, it's time for December on Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2: First got to ask, greatest Christmas present You've ever gotten
Speaker 2: in your life?
Speaker 1: Wow? I don't it's really Christmas isn't necessarily has ever
Speaker 1: been about the presence for me, It's really the time
Speaker 1: with family that I've always enjoyed. And I will say,
Speaker 1: and this is going to be totally corny, and I
Speaker 1: do not care that. My favorite Christmas present was I
Speaker 1: was gone for Christmas one year doing a show, a
Speaker 1: dance show, and Jordan came and surprised me on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: I was really bummed I was going to miss Christmas
Speaker 1: with my family, and Jordan came out to Florida where
Speaker 1: I was doing the show and surprised me. And that
Speaker 1: was like, Oh the magic, because I again love being
Speaker 1: with family on holidays. You can ask me, oh, do
Speaker 1: you love this holiday? Hell, yeah, I do, because it
Speaker 1: usually means I'm getting to be with the people that
Speaker 1: I love the most. And you know, when you work
Speaker 1: a ton, with the kind of job I had on
Speaker 1: tour and stuff like that, I missed a lot of
Speaker 1: HOLLI So now it's like I just really soak them
Speaker 1: in of being able to spend time with the family,
Speaker 1: make memories. And that was probably the greatest Christmas car
Speaker 1: the night.
Speaker 2: That is really sweet. It's, of course the wrong answer.
Speaker 2: Christmas is all about presents. But that's very, very nice
Speaker 2: that you said that. No, of course I feel the
Speaker 2: same way. But it does not change the fact that
Speaker 2: when I was fourth grade, I think I got the
Speaker 2: g I Joe the USS Defiant, which is the giant
Speaker 2: space shuttle. Oh wow, still have it. It's the basket
Speaker 2: opened to three feet tall. Coolest thing in the world. Anyway,
Speaker 2: you still have that? But I have everything. Anyone who
Speaker 2: knows me knows I throw nothing.
Speaker 1: Away ever, Order alert.
Speaker 2: It's not hoarding if you love the stuff. But we're
Speaker 2: back to the ultimate Christmas Present, which marks a massive
Speaker 2: milestone for the Channel. As believe it or not, this
Speaker 2: is the first Christmas d coom Ever, how is that
Speaker 2: possible in two thousand, right?
Speaker 1: I don't get it, But they really haven't made a
Speaker 1: lot since either.
Speaker 2: No, it's you know what it is, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about it. But I think it. I think they kind
Speaker 2: of realized that maybe Hallmark and all like Lifetime, they
Speaker 2: kind of have the corner on the Christmas movies. Of
Speaker 2: course I've never been they do it, Mark in Lifetime,
Speaker 2: Hallmark and Lifetime. I've been talking about this forever. I
Speaker 2: want to be in I want to be a Christmas
Speaker 2: movie but anyway, for real, they do. They really do
Speaker 2: it the best. It's just what it is, so very strange.
Speaker 2: But this movie aired on December one, two thousand, as
Speaker 2: part of their Christmas season lineup quote unquote, since the
Speaker 2: studio was already gung ho on the holiday themed episodes
Speaker 2: of their shows and theatrical movies like The Santa Claus,
Speaker 2: but now it was time for d coms to get
Speaker 2: into the action a little bit. Do you have a
Speaker 2: favorite Christmas movie? Is the one you watch every year?
Speaker 1: Elf? Elf?
Speaker 3: Every year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I actually just rearranged a closet this weekend. I have
Speaker 1: five copies of that. I probably could, so I just
Speaker 1: went ahead and bought another one just because, you know,
Speaker 1: and I mean I love Will Ferrell and no one
Speaker 1: does it better than him. I just nailed it. And
Speaker 1: that's my absolute favorite.
Speaker 2: US Will ask snow what to do? Us Will ask
Speaker 2: it to do? What I'm telling you, good Christmas story
Speaker 2: for me. I watch it every year, while I really
Speaker 2: every single year. I love it. This movie was filmed
Speaker 2: in no real shock here Vancouver, though it takes place
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, and you figured they'd actually film in
Speaker 2: LA though. No, And it does predate the Christmas movie
Speaker 2: Frenzy that we just talked about that Hallmark in Lifetime,
Speaker 2: So I guess now I understand why they're not making him.
Speaker 2: But then it seems kind of right up the rally.
Speaker 1: But maybe I know the magic.
Speaker 2: The magic, I don't get it. But now now there's
Speaker 2: not gonna be a ton of film fans out there
Speaker 2: who remember much about this movie. It's another one that
Speaker 2: has sort of lost to the test of time. But
Speaker 2: the cast is definitely stacked. Seriously, just wait to hear
Speaker 2: the lineup. But you can stream The Ultimate Christmas Present
Speaker 2: now in Disney Plus and you can watch it on
Speaker 2: the third day with the Three French Hens or on
Speaker 2: the seventh day with the Seventh Swans. It's all up
Speaker 2: to you. But remember, once you hit day ten, you
Speaker 2: got to tangle with the Lord's Leaping and they steal stuff.
Speaker 2: So pick now or after you finished the podcast, But
Speaker 2: either way you've been warned. Did you know anything about
Speaker 2: this movie before our bosses? No? I had to watch it.
Speaker 1: No idea me either. I went to YouTube. I didn't
Speaker 1: even go to Disney Plus. I'd never heard. I went
Speaker 1: to YouTube. I tried to make me pay five dollars
Speaker 1: and seventy five cents.
Speaker 2: I said, no, thank you, going to Disney Plus. Going
Speaker 2: to Disney Plus now before any of you out there,
Speaker 2: they'll go and steal a weather machine and almost ruin
Speaker 2: Christmas for children everywhere. Let's get into the synopsis. All
Speaker 2: after their plan to make it snow and Los Angeles
Speaker 2: goes awry, two young ladies joined forces with Santa Claus
Speaker 2: to set things right. What'd you think I was in.
Speaker 1: At the beginning? And then this? I will be honest, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Don't come for me. This movie exhausted me.
Speaker 1: And there was so many different storylines going on. I
Speaker 1: was exhausted. I just kind to stop caring. I really did.
Speaker 2: I didn't get what it was.
Speaker 1: No, everything that kept me going was Branda's song because
Speaker 1: she is a queen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Brenda's song is great. And I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Peter Scullari fan and have been a huge Peter Scollari
Speaker 2: fan since Buzs and Buddies, like, huge fan. And he
Speaker 2: was funny in this movie, and he was great, But
Speaker 2: I didn't understand what it was. Is this a movie
Speaker 2: about a girl trying to get her name off the
Speaker 2: naughty List? Is it about Santa Paper. Yes, not getting
Speaker 2: to the boys.
Speaker 1: It was the paper getting to the boys party that
Speaker 1: this that there was so much, Like I said, my
Speaker 1: brain was like.
Speaker 2: I just didn't understand that. I couldn't bad, Like the
Speaker 2: acting wasn't bad, and it was directed well, it looked nice.
Speaker 2: I just didn't get what it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was just tough for me.
Speaker 2: It was Yeah. So the Ultimate Christmas Present was directed
Speaker 2: by a Hall of Fame name here on the podcast,
Speaker 2: Greg Beeman, whose dcom resume includes the contraver Marshall Brink.
Speaker 2: And It's only controversial because apparently I'm the only person.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 2: He didn't like it, and I didn't dislike it. I
Speaker 2: was just met. I'll watch it again, poorse Sense and
Speaker 2: under Wraps, and his first two directing gigs were on
Speaker 2: The Magical World of Disney Movies, The Richest Cat in
Speaker 2: the World Hopefully that's just about a very rich cat
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six, and Little Spies later that same year.
Speaker 2: Beeman also directed theatrical films like Oh License to Drive,
Speaker 2: Great movie and Mom and Dad Save the World Another
Speaker 2: great movie, and was a big TV heavyweight, producing shows
Speaker 2: like Nash Bridges, Heroes, Smallville and Minority Report. And I'm
Speaker 2: assuming Minority Report was a takeoff, like a television takeoff
Speaker 2: of the Tom Cruise movie, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The movie stars Haley Hirsch as Ali Thompson. Haley is
Speaker 2: best known as the little girl in You've Got Mail,
Speaker 2: but was a soap opera veteran even at a young age,
Speaker 2: with rolls on as the World turns, Loving All My
Speaker 2: Children and the Young and the Restless. You might also
Speaker 2: recognize her from shows like Judging, Amy, Jag, and Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 2: Also on a very very creepy episode of Law and
Speaker 2: Order I will never forget, where she plays like a
Speaker 2: little serial killer girl who was killed. Oh, totally creepy,
Speaker 2: to the point where right when I saw her, I
Speaker 2: was like, why do I have chills when I'm seeing
Speaker 2: this young girl? And I was like oh, And I
Speaker 2: had to google her and I was like, Oh, she
Speaker 2: was in that creepy Low and Over episode.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got it.
Speaker 2: This is a truly rare occurrence for an actor, though,
Speaker 2: because she had not appeared in a true Disney production
Speaker 2: before this movie, and it seems like she never did again. Wow,
Speaker 2: Like they Disney went and just cast a girl who
Speaker 2: had no Disney affiliation and had her star in a
Speaker 2: dcom and she.
Speaker 1: Was great, And then she was weird that they didn't
Speaker 1: use her again because she was awesome never before, never since, likable, awesome, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Weird tod that Disney would do it. And again, this
Speaker 2: wasn't nineteen eighty five where they were getting their footing.
Speaker 2: This was two thousand where yeah, girls right around the corner.
Speaker 2: Very strange. And then of course just mentioned Brenda's song
Speaker 2: is back. A dcom legend, she plays Samantha Kwan. Brenda
Speaker 2: was a constant on the Channel, with appearances on That
Speaker 2: So Raven, The Leelo and Stitch Show, Phil, The Future,
Speaker 2: Wizards of Waverley Place, and most notably, she was London
Speaker 2: Tipton on the Sweet Life of Zach and Cody, and
Speaker 2: of course a star of the dcom Stuck in the Suburbs.
Speaker 2: It seriously would be difficult to imagine the Channel in
Speaker 2: the early two thousands without thinking of her. Brenda is
Speaker 2: also in the upcoming Oscar Shoe in the Last Show Girl,
Speaker 2: starring Pamela Anderson and Dave Batista. Wow, I don't know anything,
Speaker 2: So somebody else wrote that line for me, I don't
Speaker 2: know anything about uh this movie, and I'm assuming because
Speaker 2: it's starring Pamela Anderson and Dave Batista. The Oscar shoe
Speaker 2: in part was a joke, but I could be wrong
Speaker 2: and they could be in some amazing film that I
Speaker 2: don't know about, So I apologize if his own really
Speaker 2: it's not a joke, this is it's going to be
Speaker 2: an Oscar shoe in Really have you seen it?
Speaker 1: Brenda will have will be up for the Oscar because
Speaker 1: if that's the case, I am so in.
Speaker 3: I have not seen yet, but pam Anderson's the Lock
Speaker 3: and then Batista is supposedly going to be nominated to Really.
Speaker 2: Okay, not a joke?
Speaker 3: Great good for the cool directed by Giacopobla.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, gotcha. Spencer Breslin is the little brother Joey Thompson.
Speaker 2: We might be giving out a new award this week
Speaker 2: for the most annoying human little brother on the planet.
Speaker 2: Spencer's big breakout was the two thousand theatrical releases Disney's
Speaker 2: The Kid, and was somehow in two other Christmas movies,
Speaker 2: Santa Claus two and three, and is probably most recognizable
Speaker 2: from the Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers, which
Speaker 2: he starred in as Conrad, and his sister is little
Speaker 2: Miss Sunshine herself Abigail Breslin. He was also in the
Speaker 2: film theatrical version of Zoom Again with.
Speaker 1: Tim out Oh, Tim Allen. Wow.
Speaker 2: Haley Todd plays the mom Michelle Thompson, but our listeners
Speaker 2: out there will recognize her as Joe McGuire, the mom
Speaker 2: on Lizzie McGuire. And then you got basketball player John
Speaker 2: Sally who plays Crumpet. He was the first NBA player,
Speaker 2: this is amazing ever to win championships with three different teams,
Speaker 2: the Pistons, the Bulls and the Lakers, ironically three more
Speaker 2: teams than I've won with, as well as the first
Speaker 2: player in NBA history to win a championship in three
Speaker 2: different decades.
Speaker 1: Wow man, very coo.
Speaker 2: Somehow he ended up making a smooth transition into acting,
Speaker 2: appearing in Bad Boys one, two and three, Malcolm and Edti,
Speaker 2: Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Confessions of a Shopaholic. And
Speaker 2: he was great. And this week in the Coleman Reynolds chair,
Speaker 2: we have the Oh, I love him so much. We
Speaker 2: have Peter Scalari as Weatherman, Edwin Hadley. His first fame
Speaker 2: was as one half of the sitcom team on Bosom Buddies,
Speaker 2: sharing the starring role with a young comedy focused actor
Speaker 2: named Tom Hanks. If you do not know Bosom Buddies,
Speaker 2: please go watch it. It is phenomenal. People will say
Speaker 2: that it is way out of touch and tune and
Speaker 2: oh my god, but watch it for what it was.
Speaker 2: It was really really great. He also worked on shows
Speaker 2: like New Heart, where it was phenomenal, Honey Shrunk the Kids,
Speaker 2: and HBO's Girls. But it's maybe most beloved for his
Speaker 2: part in the Hanks directed That Thing You Do, which
Speaker 2: is another great movie. Scullar worked right up to his
Speaker 2: death from leukemia in twenty twenty one at the young
Speaker 2: age of sixty six. Rest in peace. He was an
Speaker 2: unsung comedy talent. I know he never seemed to get
Speaker 2: his flowers because Tom Hanks is always around him, which
Speaker 2: is phenomenal. But Peter Scullari was amazing. The movie is
Speaker 2: a mirror wait for it eighty minutes long. I felt
Speaker 2: a lot longer, ten away from what we see as
Speaker 2: as ideal. But if you want to come up ten short,
Speaker 2: we approve your decision. As we've now become accustomed to
Speaker 2: with dcoms. A story credit is given to someone named
Speaker 2: Hallie Einhorn, and this would be her only credit ever.
Speaker 2: But the script was written by Michael Hitchcock, an actor
Speaker 2: and writer who not only wrote this, but sleep Away
Speaker 2: Camp two and three. I wonder if you don't see
Speaker 2: sleep Away Camp one, if you'd lose the story if
Speaker 2: you just saw two and three, Mad TV, Glee, and
Speaker 2: Crazy Ex Girlfriend. But has also been seen in Waiting
Speaker 2: for Guffman, Best in Show and All the Christopher Guests classics,
Speaker 2: as well as Bridesmaids, GLEEVEEP and the recent Netflix hit
Speaker 2: Nobody Wants This. He has the craziest career and is
Speaker 2: so unbelievably funny. I did not even know he was
Speaker 2: a writer oh when we started this, because as an actor,
Speaker 2: especially in all the Christopher Guest stuffs, he is hysteric, funny.
Speaker 1: Wow, and Nobody Wants This is such a good show.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's good.
Speaker 1: I watched it literally in a day. It was I mean,
Speaker 1: you just have to real next episode.
Speaker 2: It's so so it's like below Deck.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like below death Watch eight thousand episodes in
Speaker 1: one weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, So all right, I've got I'll check that out
Speaker 2: and then I'll watch the Pamela Anderson Batista one because
Speaker 2: I feel like I insulted them for this amazing movie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so this seems like another situation where they got the
Speaker 2: idea from either a very green writer and or somebody
Speaker 2: who wasn't a writer at all, and then handed it
Speaker 2: off to a pro who we also didn't know was
Speaker 2: a writer but isnt. Phenomenal actor and yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, so crazy, I love it.
Speaker 2: Follow La, Let's unwrap the ultimate Christmas Present once and
Speaker 2: for all. I'd like to thank you and apologize for
Speaker 2: all of my singing. It will continue to happen because
Speaker 2: of the Christmas. So we open with a reggae inspired
Speaker 2: version of Deck, which is great. And it's Christmas in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles or lack thereof. It's sunny, with busy freeways, scooters, convertibles,
Speaker 2: palm trees, and rollerblades. I'm telling you this is not
Speaker 2: your grandpa's Christmas movie, unless, of course, your grandpa was
Speaker 2: in the Beach Boys or lived in Los Angeles, or
Speaker 2: was in this movie, then it is, in fact your
Speaker 2: grandpa's Christmas movie. We zoom into a home and a
Speaker 2: televised weather report from Action Now News meteorologist Edwin Hadley.
Speaker 2: He says there are only three more days until Christmas
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be sunny weather until the big day.
Speaker 2: Edwin starts to explain all the scientific reasons, and a
Speaker 2: young Ali Thompson, who's watching the screen, turns off the TV. Boring.
Speaker 2: We are now in the Thompson house. Things are chaotic.
Speaker 2: Both of Ali's parents, Michelle and Steve, are on the
Speaker 2: phone getting ready for work, and her brother Joey can't
Speaker 2: find his Smash Crash Float game. Smash Crash Float Smash.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is his video game, which
Speaker 2: can't be the best fake video game name the writer
Speaker 2: came up with. It's probably just the one they used.
Speaker 2: Another phone rings and led me instantly to wonder how
Speaker 2: many phone lines of this house actually has In two thousand,
Speaker 2: where nineteen different people are on the phone at the
Speaker 2: same time. It's Ali's friend and neighbor Sam Alie needs
Speaker 2: to talk to her asap. The very popular Blake Lynch
Speaker 2: called and they're invited to his Christmas party. This is
Speaker 2: the best thing that has ever happened to them, so
Speaker 2: Sam runs over and gets the details. His party is
Speaker 2: of course at four pm on Christmas.
Speaker 1: Christmas, on Christmas, what is happening?
Speaker 2: I don't get it? And it gets weirder, and Ali
Speaker 2: offered to come over early to help. So there's a
Speaker 2: party on Christmas. What parents are going to let this happen?
Speaker 2: But anyway, there's a party on Christmas. The girls see
Speaker 2: that this is their way to finally become popular. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Ali's dad wants to know what they think of his
Speaker 2: pending pet treat focused website bones for Bowser dot com.
Speaker 2: It appears he's very high in this terrible domain name,
Speaker 2: and he's going to visit investors in San Francisco, like
Speaker 2: two days before Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because everyone knows, especially in La. La is shut
Speaker 1: down the day after Thanksgiving and we pick back up
Speaker 1: in mid January. Yeah, exactly, nobody works. It's so true
Speaker 1: before Christmas, it so true.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're recording this podcast right now. It's September first, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's not I'm kidding, but it might as well be.
Speaker 2: It might. You're right, everything shuts down, but Ali's mom
Speaker 2: already has a Christmas schedule in mind for when he
Speaker 2: gets back, and all the girls care about is that
Speaker 2: they'll be done by two. Joey the Little Kid also
Speaker 2: has a basketball tournament at two on Christmas. Nope, no one.
Speaker 2: No one in Los Angeles apparently, or just in this
Speaker 2: version of Los Angeles has anything to do on Christmas Day. No,
Speaker 2: which is very, very just weird. Before the kids leave,
Speaker 2: Ali announces she wants new rollerblades because her current pair
Speaker 2: are so last year and perfect for two thousand. She's
Speaker 2: probably a Brink fan Brink. We're now at the girls school.
Speaker 2: A teacher lectures Ali in her classmates. But Ali is daydreaming,
Speaker 2: which is another big trope from that time. I've been
Speaker 2: in that same position where you're sitting behind a desk
Speaker 2: and you're daydreaming, and then the teacher it says your name.
Speaker 2: Like there's so many movies that they do that in.
Speaker 1: I've done that a real life thing, for sure. It is. No.
Speaker 2: I meant I've done it in movies. Oh, I'm sorry
Speaker 2: what I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here.
Speaker 2: Ali is daydreaming, writing Blake in cute bubble letters all
Speaker 2: over her notebook. The teacher catches are slacking and asks
Speaker 2: how her five page creative writing assignment due tomorrow is
Speaker 2: coming along. She obviously hasn't even started it. So Ali
Speaker 2: stumbles with her answer, but eventually hits her stride. She
Speaker 2: looks around the room, figuring everything out makes up an
Speaker 2: entire story as she goes. She is writing about uh
Speaker 2: William Shakespeare, who finds himself one morning in current day
Speaker 2: Los Angeles and no one believes it's him, so he
Speaker 2: makes money by flipping burgers and writing on the side.
Speaker 2: He eventually writes a play called The Tale of Two Pickles.
Speaker 2: By the way, great idea for a story.
Speaker 1: Seriously, why couldn't you, I mean jot that down?
Speaker 2: Be great idea for a story. That's an alas story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's an A plus story right there. You think any
Speaker 2: other kids coming up with shake ends up in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles as a fail play writer who's flipping burgers.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant, exactly this and that was one of my
Speaker 1: spirit seas. The teacher gives it no credit, Like no,
Speaker 1: she's just like, yeah, whatever, that's stupid, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: this little kid just came up. You know, she's lying,
Speaker 1: and like, look how creative her brain is.
Speaker 2: She's how about that line, how about that line? How
Speaker 2: about using that mine you just used to lie to
Speaker 2: me to make that and make a story, and just
Speaker 2: make a story, you'll be a bajillionaire vibe. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: Terrible teacher.
Speaker 2: Alie can't really finish her story, but she is saved
Speaker 2: by the bell. The class laughs and leaves, but the
Speaker 2: teacher looks forward to reading it. We are now back
Speaker 2: at their locker. Sam ad mitched she liked ali Shakespeare idea,
Speaker 2: but no, she was making it up. Of course, so
Speaker 2: did everyone else in the world. Allie knows she has
Speaker 2: to write it, even though she's forgotten almost everything. She
Speaker 2: just said she needs a plan on how to get
Speaker 2: out of doing the paper before Christmas break, even though
Speaker 2: she had a week to finish it. Just then, the
Speaker 2: very popular and very short Blake walks up to talk
Speaker 2: to the girls about his party. It always kept him
Speaker 2: a couple steps ahead, did you know, set They had
Speaker 2: her on low steps and him on the steps. This
Speaker 2: kid comes up.
Speaker 1: It's not impressive.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, I'm a short guy to short kings forever,
Speaker 2: but come.
Speaker 1: On, not just his height, just like in general, like
Speaker 1: I was saying, Blake was going to be this like
Speaker 1: hatty mc toddy, and he just was s you know.
Speaker 2: So terrible that a little kid, but I think the
Speaker 2: same thing.
Speaker 1: Well, he's an adult house.
Speaker 2: I know, but still I was like, oh man.
Speaker 1: It was just kind of like, that's Blake, all right.
Speaker 2: It honestly seemed like it was like the director of
Speaker 2: producer's kid, like just a guy who was like, you
Speaker 2: played the part of Blake, but they kept him on
Speaker 2: a stair above and yeah and all that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: He was love, we love you Blake. We love you Blake,
Speaker 2: we absolutely do. That's just But also shout out, sir
Speaker 2: Jason Dolly, just because you deserve it. You weren't in
Speaker 2: this movie, but we're going to shout you out every week.
Speaker 2: It's just the way that is. So they It's just
Speaker 2: just how it has to be. So little Blake thought
Speaker 2: Ali's story in class was awesome too. Things are really
Speaker 2: coming together for these dorky girls. They only have seventy
Speaker 2: two hours until the party and now have errands to run,
Speaker 2: so they're going to be cutting it close. But Allie
Speaker 2: knows of a short cut through the woods. Never a
Speaker 2: bad idea, The girls take off on their bikes and
Speaker 2: quickly realize this shortcut isn't working out. They have no
Speaker 2: idea where they are and are in a real blair
Speaker 2: Witch kind of situation. Eventually they stumble on a weird
Speaker 2: little cabin that they've never seen before, which is actually
Speaker 2: like a decent sized house, not a little woods at all. No,
Speaker 2: it's not the unibomber cabin. This was like an Airbnb
Speaker 2: yea for bedroom. Yes, cute palatial estate in the middle
Speaker 2: of the woods that they had never seen before. Ali
Speaker 2: wants to find out who lives there. Sam is hesitant,
Speaker 2: but Alli peeks in to see an old man building something.
Speaker 2: She wants to ding Dong ditchum, which I didn't even
Speaker 2: know was still a game in two thousand. But Sam
Speaker 2: just wants to leave. Ali proposes a bet. If she
Speaker 2: pranks him, Sam has to write her paper, which I
Speaker 2: Sam's like, my paper's done. I had a week. I'm
Speaker 2: finished with my paper. I did my work. But if
Speaker 2: she chickens out, Ali has to do Sam's and thus
Speaker 2: the worst bet proposal in film history is done.
Speaker 1: Horrible. Starting to lose me here, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, this is this is where? This is where I'm
Speaker 2: out all the parties and all the stuff you have
Speaker 2: to do on Christmas that makes sense. Falling in love
Speaker 2: with the tiny little kid. That makes sense, but fine,
Speaker 2: but going in through the woods, that makes sense. This bet, I'm.
Speaker 1: Out, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Ali was just about to ring the bell when the
Speaker 2: old man just is all flustered and everything and hurls
Speaker 2: something right out the front door and into the garbage can,
Speaker 2: almost smashing into her. The girls hide just in time.
Speaker 2: As the frustrated man walks out and complains about some
Speaker 2: wires and gears. Allie sneaks up to the trash to
Speaker 2: see whatever was making the guy mad. It looks like
Speaker 2: a small steampunk robot with red ears. It was a
Speaker 2: weird design that was nothing Christmasy about it. Oh, there
Speaker 2: was nothing weathery about it. It was just.
Speaker 1: Weird robot looking thing it was.
Speaker 2: But it like have it look like something a candy cane,
Speaker 2: a reindeer, a sleigh, a snowflake, something that has to
Speaker 2: do with something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like we find out later like create
Speaker 1: can create. I mean it's all weather, so maybe that's why,
Speaker 1: because it's not just for break.
Speaker 2: But then make it look like something, I don't know,
Speaker 2: make it look Christmas anyway. It looks like a small
Speaker 2: steampunk robot with red ears. And she has no idea
Speaker 2: what it is, but she steals it anyway. Again, it's
Speaker 2: in the trash, technically not stealing, but you know, between
Speaker 2: this and the ding Dong ditch, Ali turns out is
Speaker 2: actually kind of a thug. After the girls leave, the
Speaker 2: old man immediately realizes it's gone and is very very concerned.
Speaker 2: We are now back at the Thompsons. Michelle is hard
Speaker 2: at work on a popular catering company with her spicy
Speaker 2: assistant Reuben. Joey wants to know, Okay, people get catering
Speaker 2: a lot of cater on Christmas. That's probably a thing, right,
Speaker 2: people don't want.
Speaker 1: To parties like Christmas parties. Okay, yeah, like work parties.
Speaker 1: I think is okay, but like a big that makes sense.
Speaker 2: But I think wasn't she supposed to have it on Christmas?
Speaker 2: Another thing on Christmas? I don't know, ye, very strange.
Speaker 2: But Joey wants to know when they're getting a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Two or three days before Christmas, they still don't have
Speaker 2: a Christmas tree. Afraid that by waiting for their dad
Speaker 2: to come back, who was just home, by the way,
Speaker 2: it's not like he's been gone for a month that
Speaker 2: they're going to miss out on all the good trees.
Speaker 2: This is again when I was like, who's planning this
Speaker 2: family is get a calendar.
Speaker 1: His parents are not on it. Christmas is not a
Speaker 1: big thing for them.
Speaker 2: It seems like it gets even worse with the parents.
Speaker 2: And we'll get into that. It just seems like they're
Speaker 2: doing everything last minute, which leads to a very good
Speaker 2: question because it changes every year. And Sue and I
Speaker 2: just had this conversation, when do you normally get your tree?
Speaker 1: I would love to every year we get it later
Speaker 1: than what I want. We get it probably I would
Speaker 1: say two weeks before Christmas. I would love to be
Speaker 1: one of those families that gets it the day after Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: get all my free have it. But Jordan's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's a fire hazard.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: By the time Christmas comes around, it's dry. There's nothing
Speaker 1: you can I mean, we can. I feel like our tree,
Speaker 1: even though we only have it for about two weeks,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more than two weeks, is very dry.
Speaker 1: When we take it down, like every year religiously put
Speaker 1: the you know, the special stuff in it, and the
Speaker 1: and the water and you know all that. Still it's hard.
Speaker 1: So Jordan won't let me, but I would love to
Speaker 1: do it the day after Thanksgiving, have it up all
Speaker 1: for so much longer. It's so beautiful and it's all
Speaker 1: memories and on.
Speaker 2: Sue likes a very specific kind of Christmas tree. It's
Speaker 2: the one that has like there's a branch and then
Speaker 2: you have a big space, and then a branch, and
Speaker 2: then a big space and then a branch. Okay, she likes,
Speaker 2: I forget the name of it. That's because then you
Speaker 2: can see the ornaments and you can wrap the center
Speaker 2: of the tree she likes. She takes its very specific center.
Speaker 1: So she does the tree.
Speaker 2: She does this center the trunk all the way up.
Speaker 2: She pours a glass of wine. She puts on the
Speaker 2: same album, and she cries the whole day as she's
Speaker 2: in the tree. It's just a thing. It's a thing
Speaker 2: every year. It's hysterical, every ornamental turn around. This was
Speaker 2: our dog and then it's so it's a thing.
Speaker 1: Gosh.
Speaker 2: So we went three three weeks before Christmas last year
Speaker 2: to find the specific tree she wanted, and it might
Speaker 2: as well have just been kindling by the time we
Speaker 2: took it out. She's Jordan's right, I mean it it's
Speaker 2: have you heard about sprite or seven up. Apparently if
Speaker 2: you put that in with the water and that helps.
Speaker 1: I don't know we do that the first time. You
Speaker 1: have to do it like because you know, they recut
Speaker 1: the very bottom of it for you and that soaks
Speaker 1: up and the sprite is really good for it. But
Speaker 1: then I get my tree at Home Depot. They are
Speaker 1: very good trees. Home Deepot has a great depot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Home Depot has a lot of trees. They're so good
Speaker 1: and they're great price, and I get a huge tree.
Speaker 1: Our tree gets taller and taller every year. We started
Speaker 1: doing pretty big seven eight. Now we're at like eleven twelve.
Speaker 2: Oh that's big. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and they're at Home Deepo. They have a special
Speaker 1: special little like bottle of stuff that you do just
Speaker 1: like a cap every time.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, I think we use that stuff too.
Speaker 2: All right, it's interesting this year we're gonna we can't
Speaker 2: go as late, but then we might, like it's a
Speaker 2: whole thing anyway. This is also the time in the
Speaker 2: film that we learned that Uncle Don and Aunt Gwen.
Speaker 2: I say aunt, they say aunt, I'm saying it correctly,
Speaker 2: are coming over for the holiday too. Well, that's I
Speaker 2: always tell people like it's aunt. I go really so
Speaker 2: I was born in August are coming over for the
Speaker 2: holiday as well, and they seem like real characters. Ali
Speaker 2: and Sam return home and quickly make their way upstairs
Speaker 2: to check out this new random contraption that they've just stolen.
Speaker 2: Sam turns it on and a whistle pops out of
Speaker 2: its head, which is now spinning and causing smoke to
Speaker 2: bellow from its top. Eventually, the smoke becomes a dark
Speaker 2: cloud in her ceiling that pours down rain on them.
Speaker 2: So it makes rain. They try to make it stop,
Speaker 2: but the rain only comes down harder and faster. They
Speaker 2: eventually turn a knob and realize they can make the
Speaker 2: cloud move. They also summon thunder and lightning. Joey tries
Speaker 2: to barge in, but the girls keep them at bay,
Speaker 2: and thus the machine is still a secret. And now
Speaker 2: we can officially announce we have another mean, annoying little brother.
Speaker 2: He was the worst.
Speaker 1: I thought he was so cute.
Speaker 2: Oh guy, he's a cute kid, but oh god, it
Speaker 2: was so annoying. Oh my god, we have different different
Speaker 2: forms of hilarity. I believe to bring. That's a good
Speaker 2: little brother. Now Sam wants to take a turn at
Speaker 2: what she assumes is a weather making a machine. I
Speaker 2: don't know why you'd instantly assume that, but apparently it is.
Speaker 2: She presses a button and we get a massive gust
Speaker 2: of wind and then an earthquake.
Speaker 1: Which isn't too crazy at in California.
Speaker 2: No, but I'm saying, if you're building a weather machine
Speaker 2: to help people with Christmas, why an earthquake? What? What
Speaker 2: is the the what? Why does Santa we don't want
Speaker 2: to cause earthquakes?
Speaker 1: Santa's doing this yet, we just know we don't.
Speaker 2: But still, what's the positive of an earthquake?
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's exactly.
Speaker 2: It's very I was like, oh, so Santa wants to
Speaker 2: eventually I will control the whole world. Ho ho ho
Speaker 2: really weird. Yes, So they decide they're going to leave
Speaker 2: that one alone from now on, which Santa probably should
Speaker 2: have done as well. And finally they press another button
Speaker 2: and they make it snow in her room. They think
Speaker 2: this machine is so rad great word, but Sam thinks
Speaker 2: they should just return it to the old man, which
Speaker 2: they probably could or should have. But Ali has a
Speaker 2: totally different plan. She wants a snow day. She has
Speaker 2: a cousin in Boston, and sometimes it's snows so much
Speaker 2: there they shut down the schools. And so if she
Speaker 2: can make it snow in La she won't have to
Speaker 2: turn in that paper for two more weeks. They will
Speaker 2: also have a full day to decide what they're wearing
Speaker 2: to Blake's party. How much can you possibly hate homework?
Speaker 2: You want to blanket a city in snow to not
Speaker 2: write it, but you live.
Speaker 1: You come from a place where you did get snow days.
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who's from California. I am on board one
Speaker 1: with Ali. Let's make it snow. Let's get a free
Speaker 1: day off of school. Hell yeah, let's Allie, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't free, I get back, but they attack it on
Speaker 2: to the end of the year. So you're just adding
Speaker 2: more more days in the summer.
Speaker 1: Get a certain amount before they added on the end
Speaker 1: of the year. No, I thought you got like seven
Speaker 1: free days before you Again, I will say, I am
Speaker 1: in California, not knowing really what a real snow day
Speaker 1: thing is. I was into it. I'm like, yes, absolutely
Speaker 1: everyone else gets a snowy Christmas, we don't. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Here's here's one thing I will say. There was something marvelous.
Speaker 2: Growing up back east, which is where I am right now.
Speaker 2: I'm in my childhood bedroom back in Connecticut, there was
Speaker 2: something wonderful about you. You'd know it was supposed to snow,
Speaker 2: and you go to sleep knowing was supposed to snow,
Speaker 2: and then you'd wake up in the morning and you'd
Speaker 2: see a fresh blanket of snow on the ground and
Speaker 2: you turn on your radio and you sit there waiting radio. Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: you're you're laughing like, we didn't have to do that. Wow,
Speaker 2: it was Yes, it was after Ranger station. No, it
Speaker 2: wasn't on TV. It was on the radio. It was
Speaker 2: first of all, why are you driving a car as
Speaker 2: you're turning on the radio.
Speaker 1: I'm adjusted senior.
Speaker 2: Those were called rabbit ears, And yes he had to
Speaker 2: do it with the footfail you would. You would hear
Speaker 2: like Avon and then they pause. They always knew when
Speaker 2: to pause. They go like Avon. Middle school is closed today,
Speaker 2: and you're like oh, and you go right back to
Speaker 2: sleep under your beil or you get the thing that
Speaker 2: would be good but kind of stink was they would say,
Speaker 2: is delayed. So instead of starting at seven, you know,
Speaker 2: seven thirty, you'd started nine thirty, and it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: now it's just made it more difficult than my parents
Speaker 2: to try to get me to school at this point.
Speaker 2: So yeah, snow days were good, but not anyway, not
Speaker 2: not worth blanketing entire city.
Speaker 1: I would be so down for that if someone did
Speaker 1: it this year, Like I want snow here, I'm like
Speaker 1: ready for we got to go driveway. I will invite
Speaker 1: all the kids.
Speaker 2: Hey, with all the crazy stuff going on with the
Speaker 2: weather in the world, you never.
Speaker 1: Know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Ali's mom. This is when she walks in and the
Speaker 2: girls quickly hide the machine, but they can't disguise the
Speaker 2: soaked floor. Ali's mom needs catering help, and though she's
Speaker 2: mad about the conditions of the room, she never actually
Speaker 2: asks why it's wet, what happened, or why the items
Speaker 2: in the room seem to have fallen down and broken
Speaker 2: into pieces. She just picks up a shattered lamp and she's.
Speaker 1: Like, lamp right, Well, not that this is a sabrinast season.
Speaker 1: You just had an earthquake. You felt it, your assistants
Speaker 1: under the table. Why aren't you running upstairs checking on
Speaker 1: to make sure your kids didn't have a bookshelf fall
Speaker 1: on them or something crazy, like, Mom, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's la. Have you ever been in a restaurant
Speaker 2: during an earthquake. I've been at a restaurant during an
Speaker 2: EarthCare Everybody instantly just grabs their wine and holds it
Speaker 2: up because they don't want the wine to spill. That's it,
Speaker 2: and then you put the wine back down the grate
Speaker 2: didn't miss a drop.
Speaker 1: I honestly think I've only been home during earthquakes. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever been even out and about really,
Speaker 1: or even at school. I feel like I feel like, well, I.
Speaker 2: Wonder where we'll be for the next one, cuz we're
Speaker 2: two sus always. Why do you say that, I'm like,
Speaker 2: cause it's true anyway, Yes, no, no, The mom just
Speaker 2: chooses not to ask why everything's broken and why the
Speaker 2: room is all wet, just pick everything up and go
Speaker 2: from there. So fine, But they want to keep the
Speaker 2: new machine on the DL, so Ali decides to put
Speaker 2: it outside in a little balcony area and set it
Speaker 2: to snow. Now, they say, nothing happens, but maybe it
Speaker 2: takes a while or maybe it's broken. They don't know,
Speaker 2: but they just leave it spinning and they walk away.
Speaker 2: We then cut to the North Pole, where they're having
Speaker 2: no trouble with the snow at all, and missus Claus
Speaker 2: is concerned they haven't heard from Santa at his summer
Speaker 2: rental house yet. Amongst her worries, two elves Crumpet and
Speaker 2: Sparky enter with a pitch Worth noting they're not small
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, they're huge size. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: size appears to be something they've grown out of over time. Frankly,
Speaker 2: I kind of love this twist on elves. I thought
Speaker 2: that was very cool. It's like they're not not only
Speaker 2: they're not short, but they're basketball size people. Very very funny.
Speaker 2: I thought that was cool. Anyway, They these two elves,
Speaker 2: Crumpet and Sparky, have an idea. They want to build
Speaker 2: a state of the art workshop where machine take the
Speaker 2: jobs of elves and the elves become telemarketers. So Crumpet
Speaker 2: is basically describing Amazon. Yeah, and missus Claus hates it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Everyone thought Christmas couldn't yet Santa can't deliver anything around
Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, go order something right now. By the
Speaker 2: end of this podcast, it'll be at your house. Just then,
Speaker 2: the phone rings and it's Santa he's breaking the news
Speaker 2: to his wife. Uh oh, the weather machine is missing. Yes,
Speaker 2: this is where we find out if you didn't know already,
Speaker 2: the old man in the woods was Santa. He says
Speaker 2: it vanished, and he only blames himself. He's worried it's
Speaker 2: gotten to the wrong hands. The damage could be catastrophic.
Speaker 2: Missus Claus calms him down and sends the immature Crumpet
Speaker 2: and Sparky to help him find it. She offers him
Speaker 2: reindeers to travel, but actually it's reindeer. I think the
Speaker 2: probably the plural of reindeer is reindeer, so which is Yeah,
Speaker 2: she offers him reindeer to travel, but he's been bitten
Speaker 2: by it. I think he said, was it donner bit him?
Speaker 2: Or blitzing bit him last time? Again? Was it blitzen
Speaker 2: blitzen blitzen can bitch? And so yes, he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to be on the reindeer, so instead they introduced her
Speaker 2: to their newest invention, and SUV, a Santa utility vehicle.
Speaker 2: Very cute. Back at the Thompsons, Alli is hard at
Speaker 2: work on her Stream of Consciousness Shakespeare story. When her
Speaker 2: dad calls from San Francisco. He wants to know what
Speaker 2: happened to her room today, Not about the earthquakeer if
Speaker 2: they're okay, but just what happened to a room today,
Speaker 2: which frankly is a very good question considering her mom
Speaker 2: didn't care at all. Ali keeps it vague and somehow
Speaker 2: gets away with it. We might have our first ever truly. Well, no,
Speaker 2: we've had a couple. I was gonna say another set then, yeah,
Speaker 2: truly stupid decom parents. Um, they just seemed yeah, out
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and again I get it. We are in a
Speaker 1: d coom, we're watching d coms, and you kind of
Speaker 1: sometimes just have to take things for what they are.
Speaker 2: And yes, we're absolute.
Speaker 1: Parents are just I mean, you're just like we're at
Speaker 1: this point, Disney Channel is embedding into kids' minds. Your
Speaker 1: parents are dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too all much.
Speaker 1: You can get way with.
Speaker 2: Break you in your room and make it rain.
Speaker 1: Because you're to go.
Speaker 2: They're never gonna get it. Yeah, so very strange. But
Speaker 2: just then, as Michelle's about to close the shade, she
Speaker 2: notices it worked. It is snowing in southern California. It
Speaker 2: is a Christmas miracle or is it the weather machine?
Speaker 2: Who knows the family is amazed and runs outside to
Speaker 2: play with Sam and her mom. Up in the skies,
Speaker 2: Crumpet and Sparky are on their way to meet with
Speaker 2: Cabin Santa, but they run out of gas and they
Speaker 2: coast to the ground, using umbrellas to break their fall.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of Christmas stuff that I love.
Speaker 2: Are these little Christmas inventions And like, like again you're
Speaker 2: talking about Elf, like the rocket card on Elf and
Speaker 2: how it takes sheer to run. I love all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm for it me too. And now with this unpredictable weather,
Speaker 2: meteorologist Edwin Hadley is freaking out on the evening news.
Speaker 2: He doesn't believe that this is happening. They keep trying
Speaker 2: to tell him at snowing, but he just doesn't believe it.
Speaker 2: He reports snow but explains that it is not scientifically
Speaker 2: possil and just then he is hit in the ear,
Speaker 2: and I mean right in the ear. That's all I
Speaker 2: think about as an actor, is is like it went
Speaker 2: right in his ear by a snowball. Apparently his coworkers
Speaker 2: also think he is a bull ring Santa himself. Here's
Speaker 2: this weather bulletin and he knows exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2: We are now off the air, and Edwin tests some
Speaker 2: of the snowballs, just like taking pieces of ice and
Speaker 2: putting it in blue liquid. Ah snow science, because he
Speaker 2: of course plans to figure out exactly where all this originated,
Speaker 2: but first he has to meet with mister Martina, his
Speaker 2: station boss. Immediately, the head honcho here asked what Edwin
Speaker 2: wants for Christmas. As Edwin starts to explain a raise,
Speaker 2: Martina cuts him off. The boss just wants to see
Speaker 2: a little positivity from him, how about a smile and
Speaker 2: some energy. And to top it all off, he's not
Speaker 2: even getting the weather right, and to not get the
Speaker 2: weather right in Los Angeles is saying something. Edwin explained
Speaker 2: that this storm is like nothing that's ever happened, and
Speaker 2: he's going to figure out the cause. But that doesn't
Speaker 2: stop mister Martina from calling him the worst weatherman ever,
Speaker 2: while also revealing he's married to Edwin's sister. He then
Speaker 2: turns a photo around and is clearly Peter Scalari in
Speaker 2: a wig, so his sister I did too. I thought
Speaker 2: it was very funny.
Speaker 1: This, by the way, was probably the harshest SmackDown I've
Speaker 1: ever seen of a going after an employee. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: I mean he is ravaged, like he is savage with it.
Speaker 1: He is so mean to this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who also turns out to be his brother in law. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's also your family.
Speaker 1: Like this never snows in California.
Speaker 2: How is he most Yeah? Yeah, he finally says, Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, for the record, he's married to his sister.
Speaker 2: Never comes up again, ever, never mentioned again, none of it.
Speaker 1: It's just as they should give him an extra.
Speaker 2: Year and exactly exactly correct, just to show Peter's scalari
Speaker 2: in address, which again is a throwback to bos and Buddies.
Speaker 2: And it's a throwback that's what and Buddies was about,
Speaker 2: So I'm guessing that's why they did it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: since it's the holidays, Edwin is going to get one
Speaker 2: more chance. Martina wants celebrity stories and hard luck Christmas tales.
Speaker 2: Back at the Thompsons, Allie's plan has come to fruition
Speaker 2: when it's announced that both her and her brother's schools
Speaker 2: are closed. They couldn't be happier. The entire neighborhood found
Speaker 2: their winter clothes and are having a blast outside. We
Speaker 2: get a montage's sledding building snowmen that everybody's partaking in
Speaker 2: snowball fights and making snow angels. Los Angeles has snow fever. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Crumpet and Sparky arrive at Santa's cabin to help and
Speaker 2: immediately start selling him on some of their ideas, like
Speaker 2: it's a bad episode of the Shark Tank, but Santa
Speaker 2: isn't hearing it. He needs help with this weather machine,
Speaker 2: and while investigating the scene, they find a shoe print
Speaker 2: near the trash can. Santa realizes it's been stolen. Back
Speaker 2: on TV, Edwin reports on a new snowfall record for
Speaker 2: southern California, and he is not hiding his suspicions. Michelle
Speaker 2: is getting slammed with calls about her catering progress, and
Speaker 2: Ali's dad is still duck in the snow in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Now he's delayed, so we don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 2: make it home. They joke that Ali is so excited
Speaker 2: is almost like she personally ordered up the snow from
Speaker 2: the Weather Service herself. Also, Ali's mom can't find those
Speaker 2: rollerblades Ali wants, and the reason they're talking about that
Speaker 2: because it leads us to her shoe size, which is seven.
Speaker 2: That sends us back to the cabin where Santa and
Speaker 2: his business minded and tall Elves had figured out the
Speaker 2: exact shoe that made the print, and with Santa's knowledge
Speaker 2: of kids in the area, he knows there are just
Speaker 2: under two thousand possible thieves. They're gonna start with the
Speaker 2: Naughty List, which, based on Ali's recent decision, she's gotta
Speaker 2: be on absolutely there is no time to lose now,
Speaker 2: so they take to the La streets over some big
Speaker 2: band swing music's like it's Ali Cat's strike once again.
Speaker 2: They approach girls from the Naughty List, who are all
Speaker 2: doing mischievous things like pouring snow on strangers or stealing chocolate,
Speaker 2: but they all have alibis. That night, Ali unveils her
Speaker 2: perfect outfit for Blake's party, and ironically, it's something Sam
Speaker 2: gave her. As if we needed another reason to think
Speaker 2: Ali's kind of a slug, it appears she's also kind
Speaker 2: of a thief. She just never returns things. Just then,
Speaker 2: Sam's mom arrives to pick up her daughter and Steve
Speaker 2: calls he's still stuck at the airport. He might not
Speaker 2: make it back for Christmas. Ali promises that he will
Speaker 2: make it back and the girls rush upstairs to turn
Speaker 2: off the powerful weather machine. The snow doesn't immediately stop,
Speaker 2: but maybe it just takes some time again like it
Speaker 2: did for it to start. Okay, reasonable hypothesis. Ali can't
Speaker 2: imagine her dad not being at Christmas, but Sam says
Speaker 2: she can. Allie apologizes as Sam reveals her dad died
Speaker 2: when she was three and she barely remembers him. Alie
Speaker 2: knew this. That's why she apologized, right, because she's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I probably shouldn't have said something like that. Yeah, but again,
Speaker 2: weird kind of not twist, but they took it a
Speaker 2: kind of a quick dark section there.
Speaker 1: Oh man, down like it goes down into the deep
Speaker 1: like ends of certain topics, like very quick, and then
Speaker 1: it's never over with. We don't hear about it after this,
Speaker 1: this one little moment which I loved for Brenda. You
Speaker 1: got to see her do like an emotional scene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all it was ever really said as far as
Speaker 1: it goes with Sam's character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was an emotion. She was good in the
Speaker 2: scene too. She's got the tear running down her face
Speaker 2: like she was. She was very good. You can see
Speaker 2: why Disney was in love with her.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she is all the things.
Speaker 2: Every time she hits she was everything, everything you could
Speaker 2: possibly want for. She was like, it's like the Disney factory,
Speaker 2: the Disney Plato factory built her, and she came out like, ooh,
Speaker 2: Disney Star, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 2: She's adorable.
Speaker 1: She's a great actress, and she's she's so good and.
Speaker 2: She gets through the glass like you want to watch her,
Speaker 2: You just want to watch her. Yeah, absolutely so. Sam's
Speaker 2: mom told her that Christmas was her dad's favorite holiday.
Speaker 2: The girls exchanged some of their parents' holiday traditions and
Speaker 2: they know they have to fix this, and just then
Speaker 2: they notice the snow stopped. Okay. Edwin finally gets to
Speaker 2: report the shocking storm has ended in California and gets
Speaker 2: to sneak in some of that celebrity news he's been
Speaker 2: instructed to include, reporting that Jennifer Love Hewittt slipped on
Speaker 2: a patch of ice in Burbank. Too many jokes, yep.
Speaker 2: At the Thompson's, Michelle has worked out the very busy
Speaker 2: Christmas schedule, hoping they can spend a few more hours
Speaker 2: together before all their individual plans, which again all for
Speaker 2: some reason, take place on Christmas and in the family room,
Speaker 2: Ali and Joey have surprised their mom with a terrible
Speaker 2: looking Christmas tree in case they aren't able to get
Speaker 2: one tomorrow when their dad gets home.
Speaker 1: Why do they have a five foot plus cactus in
Speaker 1: their house?
Speaker 2: I also just don't get who buys their tree on Christmas.
Speaker 1: I bet you some families do, Like I really I
Speaker 1: do know of a one friend in particular buys HER's
Speaker 1: Christmas e and that's what they do Christmas Eve is
Speaker 1: they decorate.
Speaker 2: Okay, that could be a thing, but yeah, Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: it's not very many. I mean, how many What would
Speaker 2: you have to choose from on Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Even when Jordan and I go
Speaker 1: two weeks before Christmas, we we sometimes it's like, okay, babe,
Speaker 1: we've got to go earlier than this. We've got some
Speaker 1: pickens here. We had to go to, you know, three
Speaker 1: different home depots.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send you some names that aren't home
Speaker 2: or depot for your Christmas tree lots in the future.
Speaker 2: Here We're going to make sure. But anyway, yeah, I
Speaker 2: get it. It's it just doesn't make any sense. In turn, though,
Speaker 2: Michelle introduces your California born children to the fireplace. The Thompsons,
Speaker 2: who are usually very busy, are finally spending some valuable
Speaker 2: time together. Did you so you've talked about how you
Speaker 2: did you missed out on winter during the day, but
Speaker 2: you said you've been going to Big Bear most of
Speaker 2: your life, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, yeah, and we are. That is definitely something
Speaker 1: that is going to be My kids will go to
Speaker 1: Big Bear a lot during the snow time. I give
Speaker 1: her like a little espresso size mug that she SIPs
Speaker 1: her hot chocolate. We do small. Yeah, we do the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And it's super fun because I really wish
Speaker 1: that I had more white Christmas winter experiences growing up.
Speaker 1: I didn't really start that, I think until like junior
Speaker 1: high is when I really remember.
Speaker 2: So were you one of those people who were like
Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen the first time you saw snow.
Speaker 1: Not saw we would quote to Big Bear, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't a frequent thing. If it was a trip, it
Speaker 1: was a big deal trip that we were going, you know,
Speaker 1: to Mammoth or as.
Speaker 2: You've seen snow, you've seen and played in Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not a ton, not a ton. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was, but every time we went, we were buying
Speaker 1: snow stuff versus you had probably a whole closet.
Speaker 2: Full of you much Still do you know, still do
Speaker 2: one of those.
Speaker 1: Things that they call a mud room? I had no
Speaker 1: idea what that was until I was an adult.
Speaker 2: As to quote, my wife love a good mudroom. She does,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about moving, and she's like, wherever it is.
Speaker 2: As long as I was mud room, I'm good. Cool.
Speaker 2: That night, while Ali is sleeping, the weather machine starts
Speaker 2: whirling again, and to her dismay, she wakes up to
Speaker 2: a horrific blizzard. It's still going. The Thompsons go straight
Speaker 2: to work, trying to shovel the driveway. Sam gets dropped
Speaker 2: off because Sam's mom works at the hospital and they're
Speaker 2: on emergency alert. Ali reveals to Sam that she can't
Speaker 2: turn the machine off and she has no idea why
Speaker 2: it restarted. The buttons aren't working anymore. And this is
Speaker 2: when it hits me. Their plan's going to kill people.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the people are.
Speaker 2: Actually going to die, yes, because of what's happening here.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if Disney's going to admit this.
Speaker 2: We've got a letter and I just sent her to
Speaker 2: care of Disney. I'd like to see if it works.
Speaker 2: We are now back at the new station. We see
Speaker 2: reports of the havoc being caused by the storm. The
Speaker 2: National Guard has been called in freeways and airports have
Speaker 2: been closed. Mister Martina wants Edwin to report on the
Speaker 2: cast of Friends being stuck in their studio or else
Speaker 2: he'll be fired, but Edwin's also onto something else. He's
Speaker 2: figured out exactly where the storm originated Ali's house. He
Speaker 2: sneaks out of the newsroom to investigate. We're now back
Speaker 2: at the Thompson's. They're an uncle called they're snowed in
Speaker 2: and won't make it to Christmas. Woo. That excites Joey,
Speaker 2: but his happiness is very short lived since their grandparents
Speaker 2: also won't make it and their dad is stranded up north.
Speaker 2: Ali is crushed. This is all her fault. And it
Speaker 2: was so funny because this is when I was like,
Speaker 2: he's in San Francisco, get in a car and drive there.
Speaker 2: And right as I said that, she asks, He's like, no,
Speaker 2: the roads are shut down. I was like, ah, they
Speaker 2: got it, they did it. Okay, they got me, They
Speaker 2: got me. Because it was like, Oh, that's it, that's all.
Speaker 2: That's a loophole. Oh no, okay, you're right, they got me. Yep,
Speaker 2: she's crushed. This is all Ali's fault. Out in the streets,
Speaker 2: Edwin tries to get to the Thompson's, but all the
Speaker 2: cars are stuck all over the place, because again, even
Speaker 2: when it rains, nobody can drive in Los Angeles, So
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even imagine what happens when it snows. A
Speaker 2: snowmobile speeds by like you do, and Edwin common deers
Speaker 2: I'm putting in quotes the vehicles by pushing off the
Speaker 2: driver in the name of media and his eventual Emmy speech.
Speaker 2: He now safely navigates the snowy streets and is a
Speaker 2: felon because he literally just carjacks.
Speaker 1: Somebody exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: He's snowmobile jack mobile jacked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is just insane, because who has a snowmobile
Speaker 1: Southern California. I think people up in big bear snowmobiles.
Speaker 2: I've yet to see what where are the snowmobi who's
Speaker 2: got Who's like, Oh, thank god, I've got my snowmobile
Speaker 2: out here, and see, luckily out in Burbank, I am
Speaker 2: gonna bust out my snowmobile. No, not how it works.
Speaker 2: Ali's assistant is still working on catering, but people all
Speaker 2: over town are worried. And the worst news, Blake has
Speaker 2: canceled his party. He's been lost under a two foot
Speaker 2: snow drift. They can't find him. I'm kidding, of course,
Speaker 2: poor little, poor little Blake. Ali and Sam admit they
Speaker 2: have ruined everyone's lives, but especially their own lives. They
Speaker 2: retreat upstairs, hoping to fix the machine and find Joey.
Speaker 2: Joey sneaking onto Ally's balcony. He thinks the weather machine
Speaker 2: is his present that year for Christmas. He swears it's
Speaker 2: a boombox. They usher him out of the room. Sam
Speaker 2: wants to return the Machine of the Old Man, which
Speaker 2: probably should have happened long time ago, but Ali isn't sold.
Speaker 2: She's not even sure she could find the cabin, and
Speaker 2: breaking into it seems like a very bad idea, but
Speaker 2: she has a plan. Here's the plan. She's going to
Speaker 2: use wire hangers to make the machines antennas longer to
Speaker 2: reach outer space. Because what cause huh.
Speaker 1: Oh, god, she's got Sam, who shuts that down?
Speaker 2: God? Yeah, because apparently Ali thinks she's a scientist, and
Speaker 2: I don't know what a science stition. Let's call that
Speaker 2: because it doesn't even make any sense. This spirals into
Speaker 2: a fight between the girls, though, and Ali calls Sam
Speaker 2: a chicken. The electricity goes out and things are looking dismal.
Speaker 2: The girls absolutely apologize to each other. They get into
Speaker 2: this big kind of altercation, but they apologize to each other,
Speaker 2: and Sam suggests a lead box based on something she
Speaker 2: saw on Superman. At least that's science, right, if Superman's involved,
Speaker 2: it's real.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Don't get me started. If they put the machine in
Speaker 2: the box, it could stifle its rays. It's something They
Speaker 2: sneak into the garage as Michelle fields catering cancelations and
Speaker 2: her assistant goes home in horrific weather conditions. Note to
Speaker 2: everybody listening, we never see the assistant again in the movie.
Speaker 2: I think we have to assume he died on his
Speaker 2: way home.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that, but yeah, he's gone,
Speaker 1: see you later.
Speaker 2: That guy our first death because of the weather caused
Speaker 2: by these two meglomaniacs who are destroying the world.
Speaker 1: What was his name? What's the assystem's name? He's got
Speaker 1: to go one.
Speaker 2: It was what is it?
Speaker 1: Oh man?
Speaker 2: I forget the assistance? All right, we'll Jamie, we will
Speaker 2: find it out. We'll find it out. But you're right.
Speaker 2: He does have a good one too. Joey tries to
Speaker 2: wrap them out to their mom, in action that only
Speaker 2: a dcoms sibling can try, and is unsuccessful. Now that
Speaker 2: both girls are outside, this leaves Joey with the ability
Speaker 2: to check on that boombox once again. In Ali's room
Speaker 2: in the garage, it is pitch black and the girl
Speaker 2: stumble around to find a toolbox. Eventually, a light turns on,
Speaker 2: revealing Senta Clause and his elves in full get up.
Speaker 2: The girl scream, and Chris Kringle official name, screams right
Speaker 2: back at them. Ali has some serious explaining to you.
Speaker 2: By the way, the assistant is Ruben Wright, Ruben, a
Speaker 2: good friend of Jackal Johnson's Rubin Right. Gotta love a
Speaker 2: good alliterative name. Just ask eighth grade hottie Shannon Chipley
Speaker 2: and your eighth grade who is your eighth grade popular girl?
Speaker 2: Morgan Mackey Morgan Mackie. People love it, love it so
Speaker 2: the girl scream. Chris Kringle screams, right, back of them,
Speaker 2: Ali has I'm explaining to do. She is number two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three on the Naughty List. The girls
Speaker 2: don't believe it's actually Santa Claus, because who would, but
Speaker 2: he proves it with Sam's secret. When she's alone, she
Speaker 2: dances to Ricky Martin songs and pretends she's married to him.
Speaker 2: Apparently Santa doesn't know everyone's secrets though, thank god for that.
Speaker 2: He also reveals that Ali's secret, which is kind of deep,
Speaker 2: is that her family isn't as perfect as they seem.
Speaker 2: No one is time for one another, and that makes
Speaker 2: her very sad again jumping in. Just what you said exactly.
Speaker 1: Just like whoa? We are talking about? Bullet back, Santa,
Speaker 1: pull it back. You could have just said, like I
Speaker 1: have a I don't know something else proved I was
Speaker 1: too much he did.
Speaker 2: He turned like, went to one girl and went you
Speaker 2: dance to Ricky Martin and your socks and you know
Speaker 2: your mother's cheating on your father with most.
Speaker 3: Like what the hell?
Speaker 2: Wait, whoa Santa?
Speaker 3: Yikes?
Speaker 1: Was that your brother was dead?
Speaker 2: Right? Exactly? Oh my god, it is it just it
Speaker 2: got real dark for Alley, real fast. Snay on the
Speaker 2: ecrets say, Santa, come on tillikes yeah, but right on cue,
Speaker 2: a suspicious Edwin arrives at the Thompson's front door. Michelle
Speaker 2: answers the door slightly confused, but of course lets him
Speaker 2: in because he's on TV. As he investigates the house,
Speaker 2: he pretends the family won a Channel three contest and
Speaker 2: afternoon with Edwin. He was very I I don't know
Speaker 2: if he did not buy what he was doing, but
Speaker 2: he committed one hundred percent to it. He made the
Speaker 2: character so weird that it was it was funny. Yes,
Speaker 2: he was my favorite part of the movie. He wonders
Speaker 2: if her husband has a government job, something clandestine, and
Speaker 2: even starts to take a part a lamp looking for
Speaker 2: a wire back in the garage. Though the girls are
Speaker 2: telling the truth to Santa about the machine, Santa says
Speaker 2: it took over two months to build and he never
Speaker 2: perfected it, which is why he threw it out. Which
Speaker 2: is why he threw out such an important machine in frustration.
Speaker 2: He wanted to create the ultimate Christmas present. He wants
Speaker 2: a gentle snowfall to make everything slow down in society
Speaker 2: and give everyone a few moments to be reminded of
Speaker 2: the magic of the season.
Speaker 1: I'm back in amazing, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: And that's if you press the left button. If you
Speaker 2: press the right button, the San Andreas fault crumbles and
Speaker 2: we lose California. Thanks for the machine, Santa, What the
Speaker 2: other nine buttons for? Yike? Ali apologizes to Santa. If
Speaker 2: she wasn't such a and just wrote the school paper
Speaker 2: you think like she was supposed to, none of this
Speaker 2: would have happened. Santa says they can talk about that later,
Speaker 2: but for now, where's the machine? After asking Ali's mom
Speaker 2: for a buffet spread of food and drink, which I
Speaker 2: thought was great? Can I get you anything? Cup of coffee? Sure,
Speaker 2: I'd also like it, he just lists all this stuff off.
Speaker 2: It was funny. Edwin looks around the house, eventually landing
Speaker 2: in Ali's room. He opens the door and is met
Speaker 2: with a gust of wind. There is a full on
Speaker 2: blizzard going on inside the room. Joey is screaming, hunkered down,
Speaker 2: holding the machine. Edwin gets him to hand it over
Speaker 2: by threatening jail, realizing it's a weather making machine that
Speaker 2: could make him the greatest meteorologist ever. He can control
Speaker 2: the climate. This is where you got real kind of
Speaker 2: like evil les villain kind of villain.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he just thought he was a weird weather guy.
Speaker 1: Turns out Captain.
Speaker 2: Cold do you know Captain Cold? No No, Captain Cold
Speaker 2: Arch Nemesis of the Fat No Arch Nemphsis of the Flash.
Speaker 2: I swear to God, Arch Nephysis of the Flash. Now,
Speaker 2: Captain he is anyway that they weren't all gems. They
Speaker 2: can't all be gems. There Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Yikes, Frank Freeze, I mean, come on, well, excuse me,
Speaker 1: you just made one up, mister Freeze.
Speaker 2: Doctor Freeze is the villain and batman who freezes everything.
Speaker 2: Doctor Freeze.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, God.
Speaker 2: To me too, Yeah, that to me too was mis
Speaker 2: Take to a DS and call me in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was yeah great. Uh. Anyway, Joey alerts his
Speaker 2: mom to the situation upstairs, while outside, the girls, Santa
Speaker 2: and the Elves need a way to distract Ali's mom.
Speaker 2: Ali then suggests, like she always does, ding Dong ditch,
Speaker 2: which is not a fun game at all. The plan
Speaker 2: works because as Michelle answers the door to No One,
Speaker 2: Ali and the gang sneak upstairs, only to run into Edwin,
Speaker 2: leaving with the machine. He darts off, trying to sneak
Speaker 2: out of Alley's window, yelling to Santa that it will
Speaker 2: never give back to contraption. While arguing, he slips, falls
Speaker 2: off the roof and into the snow. Edwin dusts himself
Speaker 2: off and stumbles onto his stolen snowmobile. Santa the gang
Speaker 2: run out of the front door. Santa and the gang
Speaker 2: run out the front door, right past a confused Joey,
Speaker 2: just in time to see Edwin driving off. Ali announces
Speaker 2: she knows another shortcut because that worked out so well
Speaker 2: the last time. But Edwin crashes the snowmobile into a
Speaker 2: candy shop when he's confronted by Horace, the man he
Speaker 2: stole the vehicle from. We do get a very cool
Speaker 2: stunt here, which was great as he flies into the
Speaker 2: air and lands in a vat of chocolate, just saving
Speaker 2: the machine from being covered in dessert. And this might be,
Speaker 2: I think the best stunt we've seen since motocrossed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean this was like a legit stunt.
Speaker 1: It was good. It was good. And there's a second
Speaker 1: one that comes right after it that I liked.
Speaker 2: Too, Yes, I did too, but this was cool. Ali
Speaker 2: and her friends finally catch up and burst into the
Speaker 2: candy shop, but Edwin is nowhere to be found. Ali
Speaker 2: eventually finds his chocolate footprints that fizzle out in a corner. Also,
Speaker 2: is this the world largest chocolate store that apparently makes
Speaker 2: their own stuff. It's like they're in the Hershey factory
Speaker 2: in the middle of downtown LA, but not even in
Speaker 2: the in the middle of the neighborhood in.
Speaker 1: LA small little town, and but a giant candy store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to own a candy store. I want
Speaker 2: to own a candy store, but I want to own
Speaker 2: I want to own Willy Wanka's candy store, like I
Speaker 2: want the Chocolate River and all that. So, oh wow,
Speaker 2: we'll talk, We'll talk. Why do you think I'm doing
Speaker 2: so many podcasts? I'm saving up out of nowhere. It
Speaker 2: starts drizzling chocolate from above and they realize that Edwin
Speaker 2: is hiding on the platform. They beg froim the surrender,
Speaker 2: and I love this, say. They send up Sparky the
Speaker 2: Elf to attack, and before he gets up there, he
Speaker 2: puts a candy cane in his mouth like Rambo used
Speaker 2: to put the knife in his mouth when he would
Speaker 2: climb something. So it's like he grabbed a weapon.
Speaker 1: I didn't get that.
Speaker 2: I thought, that's it.
Speaker 1: Why what was the point of that? What was the purpose?
Speaker 2: It was like one of those war era things that
Speaker 2: if you have to climb something and you're holding the knife,
Speaker 2: they always put the knife between your teeth and their
Speaker 2: So he puts the candy. He came between his teeth
Speaker 2: like an.
Speaker 1: Goes around the corner and picks up the candy can.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. It was it was like he was
Speaker 2: getting a knife. I know, I know, but it was
Speaker 2: totally cool. I know, I knew no one was going
Speaker 2: to get that, but it was just the greatest.
Speaker 1: Thing in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, in a very last ditch effort to escape,
Speaker 2: Edwin uses a giant candy cane to swing from upstairs,
Speaker 2: dropping the machine in the process. Just in time, Ali
Speaker 2: dies and catches it, just like Mike Trout saving a
Speaker 2: game in the ninth inning, and Edward descends into a
Speaker 2: huge cotton candy maker. Is that the stunt that hes
Speaker 2: in the cotton zip line and the cotton candy machine?
Speaker 1: Yep, Giants, giant box of cotton candy was.
Speaker 2: In Keshu watch cotton candy. They're shipping it off it's
Speaker 2: cotton candy day. Everyone does that on Christmas. You know that,
Speaker 2: all right? Uh? Yes? So Ali has saved the day.
Speaker 2: Edwin emerges covered in cotton candy and he is apprehended
Speaker 2: by the giant Elves. Now with the machine back with
Speaker 2: his rifle, owner Santa works on it with the help
Speaker 2: of Ali and Sam. Back in his cabin. The elves
Speaker 2: watch on with a captured when nearby, but Santa just
Speaker 2: can't figure it out. He's triple checked everything it should
Speaker 2: be working. Ali suggests batteries, and Santa says he uses
Speaker 2: his own brand that lasts for one hundred years. Thank
Speaker 2: you for giving those to us, Santa, but you didn't.
Speaker 2: But in this case he'd run out. That's right. He
Speaker 2: remembers that he used generic batteries this time. Ali was right,
Speaker 2: that was the problem. He switches out the batteries and woila.
Speaker 2: He is back in business. They raised the temperature to
Speaker 2: bring out the sun and it immediately works. It's four
Speaker 2: h five pm, which was very specific, and it's time
Speaker 2: to get Christmas back on his feet. Ali asks she's
Speaker 2: really on the naughty list, and Santa says yes, but
Speaker 2: it's not permanent. If she learned a lesson today, it
Speaker 2: can change. She can't waste all of her brain power
Speaker 2: by skipping homework assignments. Good, good, rule of thumb. But
Speaker 2: if we got all this Santa stuff and everything just
Speaker 2: for the message to be do your homework. Wow, Yes,
Speaker 2: but that's what it seemed to be. And as far
Speaker 2: as Edwin goes, Santa remembers him as a child, he
Speaker 2: wasn't a crook, then what made him a selfish, mean snob?
Speaker 2: Edwin says life hasn't been fair. He's always wanted to
Speaker 2: be a weatherman, but he feels like a failure. Santa
Speaker 2: says he isn't a failure. He just needs a new challenge,
Speaker 2: a place where he can be passionate and share his knowledge.
Speaker 2: Santa says he'll see what he can do if Edwin
Speaker 2: promises to be good and keep this little adventure to himself.
Speaker 2: And with that, Santa andn Theiels take off, ready to
Speaker 2: save Christmas. Ali, who hasn't caused enough trouble yet, has
Speaker 2: one more favor to ask and whispers in Santa's.
Speaker 1: Ear the longest sentence of life. Yes, his whispering for
Speaker 1: whole monologue is like I.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to like Santa as he's doing it to
Speaker 2: just be like right, Okay, yeah, it just took forever.
Speaker 2: You're right, it took forever, but it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Back at the Thompsons. Now, with the perfect weather outside,
Speaker 2: it is Christmas. Michelle tells Ali that she couldn't find
Speaker 2: the roller blades and with all the chaos, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be kind of a yucky holiday. Ali says it's okay,
Speaker 2: she forgot all about the roller blades. Don't even worry
Speaker 2: about it. Ali and Joey want to wait for their
Speaker 2: dad to get home to celebrate, even if it takes
Speaker 2: a few days. They don't even open a single present
Speaker 2: without him. But with that, a Christmas card magically appears
Speaker 2: on their pathetic little tree. It bears a picture of
Speaker 2: Santa and his two elves and says your gifts should
Speaker 2: be arriving right about and she opens it up and
Speaker 2: it says now. Then a car honks. It's their dad
Speaker 2: being dropped off by a red Hummer. They embrace outside
Speaker 2: and he explains that he has to thank the two
Speaker 2: people that helped him get here. We get to see
Speaker 2: that it's Sparky and Crumpet who gave him a ride.
Speaker 2: You think they would pick a more climate conscious car
Speaker 2: than the giant hummer, but Santa, I guess, likes to
Speaker 2: stop for gas every twenty five feet. Steve then hands
Speaker 2: his wife a jewelry box, continuing a tradition of getting
Speaker 2: her a charm for her bracelet every December. This year,
Speaker 2: it's an appropriate one. It's a snowflake. Steve professes his
Speaker 2: love to his family and says that the storm was
Speaker 2: wait for it, everybody the ultimate Christmas Present? What they
Speaker 2: use the title? Ali looks up to the sky and
Speaker 2: thanks Santa. We pull out to see a small black
Speaker 2: and white TV displaying the unfolding scene. It is Santa
Speaker 2: and missus Claus snuggling up and at what they see.
Speaker 2: The Thompson's now joined by Sam and her mom, but
Speaker 2: not Michell's Assisant because I remember he was killed horribly
Speaker 2: in a crash. Play in what's left of the snow.
Speaker 2: As we fade out, then we find ourselves in a
Speaker 2: very snowy Antarctica, surrounded by penguins. A man in a
Speaker 2: big jacket is teaching a class. It is Edwin. He
Speaker 2: has his own school now teaching meteorology. Also was the
Speaker 2: guy whose snowmobile he stole? Was he in class two?
Speaker 2: Did I miss that? Or was it a different guy?
Speaker 1: It was a different guy? I think I didn't.
Speaker 2: I think, okay, okay, I thought there was I thought
Speaker 2: snowmobile guy was there, but I guess not. His students
Speaker 2: are so excited. It appears that Santa made Edwin's dreams
Speaker 2: come true as well. And folks, Merry Christmas. That is
Speaker 2: your movie we got there? Can we do some real reviews?
Speaker 1: Yes we can.
Speaker 2: I think I have the five star this week and
Speaker 2: it is. It is from Susie, and Susie says, this
Speaker 2: is one of my favorite Christmas movies. I've seen it
Speaker 2: many many times. I would have love to have a
Speaker 2: weather machine just so I could control the weather. That's it.
Speaker 2: Five stars, love it? I love it. What do we
Speaker 2: got for our one star this week?
Speaker 4: Star?
Speaker 1: One star is from yash b Yosh. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it's your.
Speaker 1: First time for me for this this name? What kid
Speaker 1: would even want to change the weather as a kid.
Speaker 1: I guess I still enjoyed it, okay, all right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I guess I still enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: One star all right, I love that and now as
Speaker 2: I say this every week, but I know that this
Speaker 2: week is absolutely the truth. This is Sabrina's favorite part
Speaker 2: of the program. Where we are doing our feature, which
Speaker 2: is called Santa Claus or Santa Nas, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I tried to make it sassy. We will be given
Speaker 2: the name of an actor and we have to guess
Speaker 2: if he's played Santa Claus or an impersonator at some
Speaker 2: point in his career. For example, if we get Tim Allen,
Speaker 2: that's obviously a yes from the Santa Claus movie. Okay,
Speaker 2: that makes sense. So three out of five win. Okay, again,
Speaker 2: I say this every week. We have not looked at
Speaker 2: these We do not know. So we're gonna get the
Speaker 2: name of five actors and either they've played Santa Claus
Speaker 2: or they've played a Santa Claus impersonator. Yeah, like a mall,
Speaker 2: like a mall sent right, all right?
Speaker 3: Like Fordton, Billy Bob Thornton would have been a yes.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay, wait, no, Phil, he would have been a.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Billy Bob Thornton. Santa He's a Santa Okay.
Speaker 2: So oh wait, so it's either okay, I misunderstood the game.
Speaker 2: I thought it was yes if he played Santa Claus
Speaker 2: or know if he played a Santa Claus impersonator. Just
Speaker 2: if he's been either gotcha?
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Gotcha? Yes? Okay, so here we go. Number one Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think none of the Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 2: I can't think of one. But that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say no too.
Speaker 3: We're off to a good start. It was a yes.
Speaker 3: He was in All I Want for Christmas. He did
Speaker 3: play Santa.
Speaker 2: Oh I All I Want for Christmas? Okay. Number two
Speaker 2: Chris Rock. Yes, Yes, Chris Rock did one.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the movie was, but I don't either. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a picture of him and.
Speaker 2: Me too with the Santa stuff on.
Speaker 3: Yes, I probably also imagine Sinbad as a genie. Because
Speaker 3: this is a no, you scared yourselves. Chris Rock has
Speaker 3: never played Santa.
Speaker 2: Come on, I thought so too. This sucks.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 2: Number three Wilford Brimley, Diabetes, the guy who right Diabetes. Brimley, Yeah, yeah, cocoon. No,
Speaker 2: you don't know. No, Okay, with Bread, I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: just because he looks like Santa, I'm going to say yes.
Speaker 2: Just because he so looks like Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say, no, well that's a good producer
Speaker 3: because he has never played Santa, but he he does
Speaker 3: look like.
Speaker 2: Oh Jensen went and picked all these people that look
Speaker 2: just like Santa Claus. I haven't got a single one
Speaker 2: right yet.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, you're you have one to get the next
Speaker 3: two right, but you're I lost.
Speaker 2: But you have to get the next two right. Number
Speaker 2: four George Went. Do you know who George Went is?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: From Cheers, Norm from Cheers Cheers?
Speaker 1: Wait, which guy?
Speaker 2: And Norm? The big guy? Norm? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a male man.
Speaker 2: No, Cliff is a mailman.
Speaker 3: Oh right, right, he's just a drunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, he looks like he'd be a good Santa.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean will have to answer guys.
Speaker 2: Oh do I I can't win anyway. Oh I'm gonna
Speaker 2: then just say no. I'm gonna do the opposite of
Speaker 2: whatever Sabrina does to try to get one right.
Speaker 3: So no continues as Goosegg he in a movie called
Speaker 3: Santa Buddies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Santa Buddies.
Speaker 2: Okay, and number five Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell's yes, even
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That, all right?
Speaker 3: So he I gave you one. Chris A Chronicles is
Speaker 3: Kurt Russell. Butrina won the Christmas Challenge.
Speaker 2: It's a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1: Christmas miracle.
Speaker 2: Yah, I did I got I was over five. Ho
Speaker 2: oh is what I just got? There? Well, thank you
Speaker 2: for producer Jensen for throwing in people like Wilford Brimley
Speaker 2: who should totally have played Santa Claus and didn't didn't. Yikes, Okay,
Speaker 2: well there we go. Uh wow, well you wont Sabrina.
Speaker 2: I think we should just end on a high note.
Speaker 2: Never do one of those again.
Speaker 1: I know, I think I'm out. We're here on out.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do that.
Speaker 2: Never All right, can we do a Sabrina Sees please? Yes?
Speaker 1: This one is probably just my eye of just I
Speaker 1: couldn't stand it. She had it for so long and
Speaker 1: Brenda's song, and I love Brenda, so I'm upset it
Speaker 1: the hairstylists who did this to her. She had the
Speaker 1: world's worst part for her pigtails. It was like it
Speaker 1: wasn't even like a zigzag. It was literally like the
Speaker 1: hairstylist went like this once and then just put it
Speaker 1: in pigtails, didn't care center to set, like come on Lady.
Speaker 1: That part was was jarr Or man Or man Orman
Speaker 1: drove me crazy and she wears them for good twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of the movie.
Speaker 2: I love this stuff that I would never see that
Speaker 2: you see. This is like one of my favorite segments.
Speaker 1: Because I just care about that. I know I'm the
Speaker 1: only one that would care. But that was absolutely awful.
Speaker 1: I had to put down how horrible this mom was
Speaker 1: about the earthquake that definitely needed yeah, set nothing, So
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if we would get there and actually
Speaker 1: say it or not. Is it me? Was Santa and
Speaker 1: missus Klaus kind of in a weird fetish mama papa situation.
Speaker 2: It seemed like there was something going on, like it's
Speaker 2: like Santa had an only.
Speaker 1: Fand me feel a little uncomfortable. It's like, ah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, like mama, mama. It started with a mama
Speaker 1: and then mama, Papa, bye, papa, stop it, cut it out,
Speaker 1: get it, get it off.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 1: And then the last thing I will say was I
Speaker 1: really did love how it was. It felt really real. Again.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously traumatized that I didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: snow days when I was young, glowing up, but I
Speaker 1: really loved how true they set. They stayed with it
Speaker 1: being like La where they didn't have a bunch of
Speaker 1: sleds out on the set or in the snow. It
Speaker 1: was boogie boards and blow up like cool toys, and
Speaker 1: the kids were in jeans. They were not in snow gear.
Speaker 1: You know, it looked crazy because that's just not what
Speaker 1: you'd wear in snow. But if it rained or if
Speaker 1: it snowed here, that's exactly how ella. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: so I really did. I absolutely love that. However, I
Speaker 1: have to say this, and I feel terrible. The set
Speaker 1: design of what the North Pole looked so fake. It
Speaker 1: also looked like it was eighty five degrees outside with
Speaker 1: all this snow in the North Pole. It was not great.
Speaker 1: And I love Christmas movies and part of what I
Speaker 1: love the most about them is seeing these snowy sets.
Speaker 2: And you either have to go. You either have to
Speaker 2: go like it's awesome or so cheesy like Elf like that,
Speaker 2: like it's supposed to look that bad as Elf like
Speaker 2: it's supposed to look like the old Rank and kind
Speaker 2: of movies, which is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the snow didn't look real at all, like
Speaker 1: it was just kind of that part made me a
Speaker 1: little sad that that the budget didn't go a little
Speaker 1: bit more towards the set stuff of just the north pole,
Speaker 1: the play stuff. I didn't care the north pole. If
Speaker 1: you're going to put a north pole in, it's gotta look.
Speaker 2: Make it the north pole. Make it.
Speaker 1: And that's it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you, well. We we now come to
Speaker 2: the wonderful part of our feature presentation this week where
Speaker 2: we we rate our film. And we do this all
Speaker 2: the time. We do this every week. You know, one
Speaker 2: is one is bad, ten is good. And this week,
Speaker 2: should we do one out of ten terrible bet proposals,
Speaker 2: one out of ten, boring meteorologists, one out of ten
Speaker 2: poor Jennifer love Hewitts, one out of ten, pitiful looking
Speaker 2: Christmas trees, one out of ten, one out of ten meteorologists, carjackings, yep,
Speaker 2: one out of ten, awful d com siblings, one out
Speaker 2: of ten Ricky Martin secrets, or one out of ten
Speaker 2: dead catering assistants.
Speaker 1: We gotta go with that one yet.
Speaker 2: All right, so we're gonna do one out of ten
Speaker 2: dead catering assistance. I think I went first last time,
Speaker 2: you did, so you have to go first. This time.
Speaker 1: Okay, like I said before, you guys obviously are catching
Speaker 1: on that I love Christmas movies. Yeah, my bar is
Speaker 1: set pretty high for these Christmas movies.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: Like I said before we started, I just felt like
Speaker 1: Disney Channel does things so right. Christmas movies is not
Speaker 1: one of the things that I felt like they did
Speaker 1: that great. So I'm going to go with just like
Speaker 1: a five. It wasn't a horrible movie. The actors made
Speaker 1: it what it was, which was, you know, their acting
Speaker 1: was so great, but the movie itself, I was exhausted,
Speaker 1: and I love Christmas movie so it was really just
Speaker 1: kind of a middle range that was just a movie
Speaker 1: for me. It was a five for me.
Speaker 2: Five catering, catering assistance. It's so good, you know, I said,
Speaker 2: I was never going to give a ten, but then
Speaker 2: I saw this. No I'm kidding, of course, don't you dare.
Speaker 1: Good at it?
Speaker 2: Ear? No, you know what's funny is I agree with
Speaker 2: you one. This was a movie. I saw a movie,
Speaker 2: and again I really liked the cast, all of them.
Speaker 2: Bill Fagerbaki who plays with the the one of the
Speaker 2: tall elves, the tall el They went in John Sully
Speaker 2: and I love Peter Galary. The kids were great that
Speaker 2: they weren't bad. None of the acting was bad at all.
Speaker 2: It really was not. There was not like, wow, they
Speaker 2: were terrible. I did. I still don't understand what the message.
Speaker 2: I know what they were trying to do. The ultimate
Speaker 2: Christmas present is being with your family. Weird way to
Speaker 2: do it with the weather machine, and everybody has plans
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, and none of that made any sense.
Speaker 2: Who buys? No one buys their Christmas tree anchors. So
Speaker 2: there were little things where it was like, what is
Speaker 2: I didn't understand it. I agree with you one thousand percent.
Speaker 2: It is five dead catering assistance. Just saying that sounds awful,
Speaker 2: it makes it so much better, but it does. It
Speaker 2: is better five dead catering assistants. If you want to
Speaker 2: see a movie, this is definitely one of them. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for joining us. And before you leave here,
Speaker 2: by the way, a couple things first. Our next movie
Speaker 2: is going to be us returning to a place we love,
Speaker 2: which is the wonderful world of Disney. For the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety seven fantasy comedy star in Kirsty Ali, It's toothless, Yes,
Speaker 2: this one, it's a tooth fairy thing. It sounds like
Speaker 2: it might be a tooth fairy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think Christy Ally is the tooth fairy.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's the truth fairy.
Speaker 1: Okay, if it's hitting me correctly, she might actually be.
Speaker 2: The tooth fairy again. After thirteenth year, I don't even
Speaker 2: pretend to know what anything is about. So great if
Speaker 2: that's what it is. And that's not all. For our
Speaker 2: park Opper episode on the dedicated magical rewind Feed we
Speaker 2: talked to I was really excited about this. A Disney legend,
Speaker 2: someone who has come up multiple times in this podcast,
Speaker 2: and without him, high School Musical would sound an awful
Speaker 2: lot different. But he has been in a ton of
Speaker 2: great stuff for the channel. It is the one and
Speaker 2: only Drew Seally. We've been waiting for this because we've
Speaker 2: talked about him so many times. I can't wait times.
Speaker 2: So let's take a listen for what you're in for
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 4: I've never been given an explanation of why they kept
Speaker 4: my voice on the soundtrack, and I don't think zach
Speaker 4: Was has ever been given that explanation of why they didn't,
Speaker 4: So it just sort of came out the way that
Speaker 4: they came out and yeah, reporters started calling me. I
Speaker 4: was still working at PF. Chang's the first time High
Speaker 4: School Musical aired. I was watching it on the bar top.
Speaker 4: Monitors like telling people, Hey, that's my voice, and they're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: get me my Rice.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was pretty crazy. It happened very suddenly.
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Speaker 2: Thank you again. Everybody, don't make a ton of plans
Speaker 2: for on Christmas Day. It doesn't make any sense, okay,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you later.
Speaker 1: Bye bye