1st Day of Bingemas: 'Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!' With Joanna Robinson

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4.3 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Merry Bingemas, one and all! Jodi Walker is back with 12 days of Bingemas on Ringer Dish and the Ringer TV YouTube channel. Every Monday and Thursday until Christmas, Jodi will meet cute with all your Ringer faves to talk about the craziest plots, most mysterious Santa Claus-esque men, fakest towns, and chastest kisses in this year’s original holiday movies. On the 1st day of Bingemas, Jodi is joined by bestie of the pod Joanna Robinson to talk about Hallmark’s ‘Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!’ which follows a down-on-his-luck weather man and his high school crush through multiple emergency room visits, a multi-week cookie competition, and a Christmas-themed escape room. Find our weekly schedule on Instagram at instagram.com/wereobsessedpod. Host: Jodi Walker Guest: Joanna Robinson Producers: Sasha Ashall, Belle Roman, and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time!
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to binge miss, a 12-part holiday special here on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:23.6	I'm your host, Jody Walker.
0:25.4	And ever since 2017, when I happened upon a little hallmark film called The Christmas Train,
0:32.4	wherein Danny Glover basically kidnapped Dermott Mulroney and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in order to
0:38.7	enter them into a Truman show-like scenario aboard, you guessed it, a Christmas train.
0:45.0	I have been obsessed with breaking down the insane plots of original holiday movies and getting
0:51.2	them to the people. These are plots that are so formulaic yet mysteriously compelling
0:57.3	that each and every one of the 100-plus original holiday movies this year can and will
1:04.0	complete our patented Benjamas rubric, answering questions like, are there any fake towns
1:10.2	or perhaps a whole fake country?
1:12.2	Is there a mysterious old man? And does that man turn out to be Santa? Who's royal? How many
1:17.4	Vanessa Hudgens is are in this? And of course, everyone's favorite, who's dead? Because
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