The Mistletoe Secret

A special guest joins us this week: SMJ! Together we try to ring any sense or meaning out of the meandering adventure that is known to the universe as Baby's First Christmas. Can you have the first baby born on Christmas Day and win $25,000? OR will your Christmas Angel get in the way and make you reconnect with your deadbeat dad? Who knows! Check out all of SMJ's amazing work at: https://www.smjw...

An elf descends into the real world (America) to help a family recover some Christmas Joy (tm)! Also elves have rules and are maybe divided into different clans and families we don't really know yet, and we're really excited for our elf focused movie! Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com, and our Twitter! @HCUsecret Special t...

A businessman learns how to dance for a corporate party and the Department of Homeland Security executes a brilliant plan to take down Santa Claus...it doesn't work.  Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show!  Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com, and our Twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more...

Something a little different this week! Trey and special guest Ian Allred go head to head in a Christmas Quiz throwdown! Who will win? Who will lose?  Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com, and our Twitter! @HCUsecret Be sure to check out Recovering Gleek: A Glee Podcast on Spotify, iTunes, Tik Tok and at https://www.inst...

We had really long weeks this week so we're sorry this one is a little brief, but also the movie was really sad and not that great for the jokes so... Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our Twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: h...

This week a man makes a bet that he can get a girl to marry him before Christmas, YIKES. But more importantly, we learn the origin of psychic dogs in the continental United States... Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our Twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find m...

This week we have a lovely conversation about two really interesting and exciting JUST KIDDING TREY AND ANNIKA HIGHJACK THE PODCAST TO TALK ABOUT SURVIVOR WHILE I HAVE TO SIT AND LISTEN. Anyway, it's pretty good, check it out. Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our Twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson f...

Two huskies get lost in the snow and get out real quick, and Carrie Fisher helps a woman remember the real magic of publishing books!  Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://dist...

This week we talk about The Wishing Tree and Matchmaker Santa, one a heartwarming, if not subtle Dead Poets Society rip-off, and the other and paint by numbers Hallmark Movie featuring the first appearance by Lacey Chabert! Oh and also a Santa appears trying to make her get together with her boyfriends assistant so Santa can turn their kid into a new Santa Claus. It's weird. Make sure to leave a r...

Oh BOY is it a rough one everyone. Two teachers must break all the rules and battle it out to see which one will stay the music teacher at their recently combined schools. It's pretty bad and offensive at some points, but we had a good time with the only movie brave enough to ask "what IS the opposite of Chinese food??" Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out o...

We're back with a...Thanksgiving Movie?? the 2012 HCU gets off to a weird start when a parade organizer clashes with Mr. Government Oversight (not his real name). Make sure to leave a review on iTunes if you're enjoying the show! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great...

Listen to a special director's cut from Daniel and Trey, two people decidedly NOT involved in the production of Love's Christmas Journey. But they had...some kind of time with it. Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/colin...

The wrap-up episode for 2011! It's all been building to this! Who will live? Who will be deemed non-canon? What WAS the deal with Billy Ray Cyrus?? Find out on this episode!  Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/colin...

OUR FINAL MOVIE OF 2011! Christmas Magic is about a woman who dies in a car crash and must return to Earth as an angel to help a failing restaurant owner. He sings some songs, she talks to some people, and we learn so much about angels in the HCU, it's kind of crazy. Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme mus...

Trey and Daniel welcome Colin Robertson, musician extraordinaire to talk about Christmas Comes Home to Canaan, a long, winding journey through Texas with captain Billy Ray Cyrus at the helm. Though it may appear simple on the surface, here on the Mistletoe Secret, we know that NOTHING is easy, and some things, go much deeper than they look like they might, look, it's late when I'm uploading this s...

Deep secrets are revealed and the HCU is changed by the arrival of the Greek Gods themselves...just kidding a director goes to a small town to direct their totally not canonical Christmas pageant.  Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com And our twitter! @HCUsecret Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://distroki...

The Mistletoe Secret welcomes its' very first guest Ian Allred, co-host of Recovering Gleek: A Glee Podcast to talk about Annie Claus is coming to town, a wild ride full of twists and turns, and a reveal that will change the HCU for all time... Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com Be sure to check out Recovering Gleek: A Glee Podcast on Spotify, iTunes, Tik Tok and at https://www.instagram.c...

The most beautiful woman in the world travels from Buffalo to a fantastical European country with her niece and nephew to meet her extended family. It goes about as well as the title suggest.  Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com You can find all sorts of information about the HCU here! Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great m...

The return of Debbie Macomber brings with it a cheerful, multi-state love story in Trading Christmas, and in Holiday Engagement a young woman must lie to her family by hiring an actor to pose as her finance. Sketch comedy ensues.  Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com You can find all sorts of information about the HCU here! Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music...

A thrilling court drama and shockingly dark story of a woman and her children trying to make ends meet before Christmas. It's an up and down one this week! Check out our website: mistletoesecret.com You can find all sorts of information about the HCU here! Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow...

Santa goes undercover at an all boys school and dogs are psychic now. Trey and Daniel find out what kind of dog they are. The answer will SURPRISE you. Have thoughts or theories of your own? Shoot us an email at mistletoesecret@gmail.com Find more things from us at: https://www.treyplutnicki.com/ https://www.danieljkunkel.net/ Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You ca...

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN and by town we mean sitting on our butts and watching more Hallmark Christmas Movies. Join us this week for MISTLETOE OVER MANHATTAN, a heartwarming tale of Mrs. Claus and her mission to save Christmas. And LUCKY CHRISTMAS, a surprisingly engaging tale of having your lottery ticket and your heart stolen by the same man.    Have thoughts or theories of your own?...

The story so far. We give a complete, definitive, 100% authentic recap of the 2010 Hallmark Cinematic Universe films. Have thoughts or theories of your own? Shoot us an email at mistletoesecret@gmail.com Find more things from us at: https://www.treyplutnicki.com/ https://www.danieljkunkel.net/ Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music...

Our final films of 2010!!! Gift of the Magi is a cautionary tale against lying to your spouse, and Battle of the Bulbs is Jim Carrey fan fiction. Have thoughts or theories of your own? Shoot us an email at mistletoesecret@gmail.com Find more things from us at: https://www.treyplutnicki.com/ https://www.danieljkunkel.net/ Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find...

PREQUEL MOVIE BABYYYYYYYY. Also, time-traveling guardian angels. These two movies are all about Ireland? Really weird ones.  Also: Trey takes a quiz! Find more things from us at: https://www.treyplutnicki.com/ https://www.danieljkunkel.net/ Special thanks to Colin Robertson for providing our theme music. You can find more of Colin's great music at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/colinrober...