Hi, I'm Bran and I love Hallmark Christmas movies. Hey, I'm Panda and I like

Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies.

I'm John Durgan sitting in the reporter of the Wall Street Journal and I'm

fascinated about Hallmark Christmas movies and everything that they'll

just read around them. And this is the Deck the Hallmark podcast.

What a great day guys. It is the beginning of what is going to be just an

insane week in the world of Hallmark. Yeah, we're here to cover it off. If

we're gonna talk about Christmas at Graceland, who better to do it with than a

reporter from the Wall Street Journal? I mean, I was all over this one. That is true.

I believe, I don't know. You responded pretty quickly or like this is the one for me.

And why is it? Why was this the one that was calling out to you? Well, I mean, first of all,

I just had to know how they were in a handle of Graceland and incorporate this

magnificent operty and legacy of almost personally into the world of Hallmark.

And more than that, what are they gonna do with the snow? I mean, first of all,

gonna come from what's it gonna look like? Because clearly it's all gonna be fake.

Yeah. So definitely a lot to talk about. Yeah. And John, you said you're fascinated

with Hallmark. What's kind of your history with Hallmark Christmas movies, if you will?

It started from zero. And then I started when I was looking at the TV previews for the

season coming up. I noticed how there was about a Jillian Hallmark Christmas movie

coming up. And you know, it's been a bit of a blind spot for me. I know I'd be a

little massive culture that was the subculture. Right. And then so I did a story for the

journal last year about the Hallmark Christmas movie machine and how to correct these things

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