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We are officially less than a week out from Christmas, so this is something I've done for the last few years and I thought it would be fun to do on the show today with you guys. I'm all snuggled up in my Christmas jammies. I've got the world's best cup of coffee. Congratulations, everybody, sitting here with me in the studio. And we are about to break down objectively, because I am the arbiter of truth. Truth, obviously, the greatest Christmas movies of all time. Now, my team has asked me to give them my favorite movies in no particular order. And honestly, my order sometimes changes. It does. So I don't know where we're gonna go with this, but I do know where we're gonna end. So we'll get to that with the greatest Christmas movie ever made. First, though, I need to share something that apparently needs repeating because some of you here heathens disagree with this and there's something psychologically wrong with you. Do we remember the TikTok audio from early. Early TikTok. Like peak Covid. TikTok. She needs some serious psychological evaluation. That's you, all of you who claim to like the Polar Express. Before I even get into the greatest Christmas movies of all time. According to me, which is objectively true. It is also objectively true that. That the Polar Express is a creepy horror movie. I've said this on the show already this Christmas season, but it bears repeating because some of you have come after me animation style. Creepy. Okay. It's like I'm watching something out of a bad nightmare that I can't wake up from. The one where you're like, I know I'm dreaming, but I need to wake up and I just can't make myself get there. Creepy actual storyline. Creepy Tom Hanks running a train by himself with no parents around, picking up children from their homes in the middle of the night with weird hobo man trying to hang out with you all the time. No. Creepy, creepy. Creepy. The Polar Express sucks. The book is great. The movie is terrible. We will not be watching that in the Belcher family household around Christmas time. And my daughter will not grow up thinking that the Polar Express is this lovely, warm, feel good movie. The score is beautiful, the book is great, the movie gives haunted horror vibes, and I will die on this hill. So now that we've gotten that out of the way, I want to share with you my favorite Christmas movies of all time. And we will end with the objectively greatest Christmas movie, if not like top three greatest movie ever made. And I think you guys, if you've been following me for longer than five minutes, will probably know where I'm going with that. But I have a love of Christmas and Christmas movies that far exceeds the average person. Not quite to the level of my middle sister. My sister Gabby Shout Out Gabs is obsessed with Christmas to, like, an unhealthy degree, actually. She doesn't celebrate Halloween. She dresses up in her Christmas pajamas on October 31st because that's the first night that Hallmark puts out their Christmas movies every year. My sister Gabby celebrates half Christmas, which is June 25th. She celebrates Christmas in July, which is July 25th. She watches Elf at least once a month. We just had her Christmas in New York bachelorette party extravaganza two weekends ago, and it was magical and so very fun. So I'm not quite at that level. But I do love me some good Christmas movies from really mid November all the way through the end of the year, the only thing on TV with the exception this year of Stranger Things, is a Christmas movie. My daughter is starting to fall in love with Christmas movies now that she's a little bit more aware of what she's watching every day. And it has been so much fun getting to share some of these with her already. And there are way too many amazing ones to choose from. But I've narrowed this down to like a top seven, top eight situation that I've never actually ranked in order before. So this will be a challenge for me. And I want to start with one of my family's favorite Christmas movies of all Time. This is probably my mom's favorite. We watch it every year. Interestingly, my husband Brock had never seen this movie until he was dating me and and we went to my family's Christmas the very first year we were ever dating in 2021. And my mom made him like immediately sit down and watch the movie because he had never seen it before. But it is a longtime classic and a longtime favorite. White Christmas. Love White Christmas. It is so timeless, so iconic. The choreography is amazing. The music is amazing. The storyline is so iconic. Would I say it's a top five Christmas movie? I don't know. And my mom is gonna hate me for that. It's so good. Don't get me wrong, I love White Christmas. My sisters and I sing Sisters Sisters all the time, all year long. But I'm gonna put White Christmas at like a solid number six. It's a great movie. I will go back to it year after year. I don't think it is in my top five, which is objectively the top five of the world Christmas movies of all time. And that may be a hot take to some of you watching this. Don't hear that as me saying I hate White Christmas. It is truly one of the greatest movies ever made. Miracle on 34th Street. Not the original, but the 1994. I know also hot take. The original is great. The original is fantastic. It's timeless, it's amazing. But The Mara Wilson 1994 Miracle on 34th street is magic. Like it has this magic quite quality to it. It captures the beauty and the innocence of Christmas through a child's eyes. So poignantly. I watch Miracle on 34th street pretty much every Black Friday, if not Thanksgiving night when I'm in the midst of my Thanksgiving food coma. Because as you all know, it starts with the beautiful Thanksgiving Macy's Day Parade. Which interestingly, they didn't call it Macy's in the 94 version. They called it Coles C O L E. I wonder why that reasoning came to be. I'm sure Macy's is regretting that now, not giving them the licensing to just call it Macy's, but obvious obviously it's the Macy's Day Parade. And they capture this story of Santa Claus and this man who believes that he is Santa Claus. The world tells him that he's crazy for it and he's trying to help this family. The top executive at Kohl's and her daughter fall in love with Christmas and learn how to believe in something that's bigger from than themselves. Learn how to embrace Optimism and joy and faith again, and find a little bit of magic in the season. And then the very best part of the movie, obviously, is the end of the. When they get to the court case part of all of this, where they're essentially trying to lock this man up in a mental institution, claiming that he is unfit to live in polite society because he's deranged. He clearly believes that he is Santa Claus, and that is not normal behavior. We need to lock this person up. And they make the most beautiful legal argument. I love lawyer movies. I'm the daughter of two lawyers. I got into law school, decided not to go. But I love a good lawyer movie, and I think this actually might be my favorite legal scene in any legal movie ever, which is saying something, because we love legal movies. A Few Good Men comes to mind and many others, but they make the argument that if the United States government can put their faith in God on our very currency with the dollar bill that's delivered to the judge in the Christmas card by saying, in God we trust, then the government, therefore, the law and the justice system cannot determine whether this man is or is not Santa Claus. And. And we can all believe. And the whole country rallies together to all believe in something bigger than themselves. Of course, then he brings all of the Christmas wishes to come to fruition for the beautiful little girl in the story, Susan, who asks for a dad and a house and a baby brother for Christmas, all of which ends up coming to light for Christmas morning. It is so heartwarming. It is so beautiful, and I think really reinforces the positive reason why we still do Santa in society. I know that's controversial. That'll be our episode for Monday, I promise. Why so many people aren't doing sant, but it helps people believe in something bigger than themselves, which, of course, is connected to God as well. Miracle on 34th Street, 1994 edition. Oh, this is really hard. This is really hard. This might be a hot take. I'm gonna put at number five. It is a classic. It's iconic. I watch it every single year without fail. I cry every single year without fail, multiple times in the movie. I mean, when Santa is doing ASL to deaf girl. I mean, if you're not crying at that, there's something seriously wrong with you. It is a solid top five Christmas movie of all time, and I will die on that hill. All right, what's next? Here we go. Now we're getting into some really, really, really hot takes. Tim Allen as the Santa Claus. This is personally one of my favorite movies ever created. Even outside of the Christmas genre, I have never seen an actor. I think this was also 1994, wasn't it? It might have been the same year. I'm going to have our beautiful producer Jess check on that for me. I'm 99% sure it was also 1994. I know it was mid-90s. Tim Allen captures the whimsy and the whimsical nature of children believing in Santa Claus. It is also 1994. Nice. Well done. Captures the whimsical magic of what it means to believe in Santa as a little kid, unlike any modern actor I've ever seen. There have been a lot of modern Christmas movies that are good. Like, they're pretty good. And I count modern as like 90s on probably that are good. But Tim Allen has the. The joy and the magic and the symbolism unlike any modern actor portraying Santa ever. Charlie, who we watch grow up through all of the Santa Claus movies, is perfect for the role. When he's a little boy in the first one, when he's a naughty, rebellious teenager in the second one and the third one. It is so fun to watch this family grow up and learn how to fall in love with magic again. To see him go to the North Pole and interact with the beauty of Christmas, that it's not just about toys. Obviously he works for the toy company before he becomes Santa, but is about the magic and the beauty of Christmas helping rekindle his family after. What they start the story with is a really nasty divorce where, like, mom and dad can't even be in the same room together. But through believing in something bigger than themselves. Believing is seeing. It's also. It's also loving. And he learns how to fall in love with his family again. They welcome in Neil. Neil is like the most iconic, random stepdad character ever in TV or movie history. With his ugly, ugly sweaters that are actually so cool. I wish I owned all of them and I wish I could wear them throughout the holiday season. I love the Santa Claus. And even though the CGI was very rudimentary, even though all the animation was very, very early and some people might struggle, watch that today in the year of our Lord 2025, where anything and everything is CGI, the practicality of the sets, of the reindeer, of the elf costumes, of everything, that it's not CGI is part of the reason I love this movie even more. And maybe it's just me. I say this every year, but Tim Allen actually, like, weirdly reminds me of my dad in many ways. I Think that's probably true for a lot of people in America. But Tim Allen and my dad are very similar people. In fact, my dad has said for years that the show that was later canceled because it was too racy and too out there for the woke mafia, Last Man Standing was actually about him because he has three daughters and lives in Denver and we go to Bass Pro Shops all the time. So he loved that show. We have fallen in love with Tim Allen over and over and over again as a family. But his best role, by far, way better than Last Man Standing, way better than Home Improvement, way better than Toy Story, is Santa in the Santa Claus. I actually still have yet to watch the Disney plus series the Santa Clauses. Is that what it's called? They. It just came out a few years ago and it's like now everybody's all grown up and his new children that he had with his beautiful wife Carol are starting to grow up. They're in their teenage years. And I think he's trying, from what I've seen, to figure out who's going to take over the family business and who's going to be Santa. Will it be Charlie? Will it be his other son? Who knows? I'm dying to watch that. I just haven't had any time to sit down and watch it yet. But I love the Santa Claus. I, in fact, watched it last night with my daughter. This for me. Oh, this is really controversial. This is really controversial. I put it number three. I do. I do. I'm sorry. You guys might hate me for that. You might not think it warrants that level of cinematic masterpiece, but it is. It is so good. And I challenge you it. If you are upset with me for ranking Tim Allen as the Santa Claus as the number three greatest Christmas movie of all time, you probably haven't watched it in a while. Go back and watch it because it means so much more, even as an adult to see his wrestling with. How do I, as a grown up, learn how to believe in something bigger than myself and not be afraid of magic and whimsy and joy? To the degree that my son is embracing all of this, what can we, as crusty, angry, grumpy grownups, learn from the magic of children? It's perfect. Like, there's no notes. No notes for this movie whatsoever. I absolutely love it. Please go watch it tonight if you are mad at my ranking. Back to all of my movie brilliance in just a second. But first, I want to talk about something that's hit me really hard after becoming a mom, especially around the holidays and wanting to have a million more years just like this one. I have realized that every decision I make about my health is not just about me anymore. It's about showing up for Isla and all of my future children, being present for their milestones, and having the energy to keep up with them for decades to come. That is a totally different kind of perspective on my health. But here's the problem. Our healthcare system is built to be reactive. You wait until something is really wrong and then you try to fix it. So when you want to take a proactive approach, it can be really hard to know where to even start. 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I love Home Alone. Don't get me wrong. I was at the Plaza Hotel a few weeks ago, very, very briefly in their little lobby shop to buy my daughter some Eloise at Christmas time things. And they had a whole little Setup of Kevin McAllister at the Plaza for Home Alone, too. I saw a TikTok video of a real estate listing of the actual Home Alone house in Chicago, and somebody ruined it. By the way, all of the whimsy and character and charm of this home that we all fell in love with watching Home Alone and is gone. It's just like a soulless millennial gray box now on the inside, which is incredibly sad. But the rumor is somebody has purchased it and they plan to restore it to what it originally was in the 1990s. Home Alone is iconic. It's adorable. I have my problems with this movie. No mother in their right mind, no matter how many children you have running around, would ever forget their child all the way through the airport when you're sitting on the airplane. Okay, I'm sorry. Maybe it's just because I'm a mom now. That is so not in the real of possibility. No good mom would ever find herself sitting on a plane to another country and then going, kevin. It's cute, it's iconic. We love quoting it, but it's so unrealistic that I have a hard time wrapping my head around it a little bit. But it is very, very cute. It's very quotable. We quote Home Alone all the time. Why I really love Home Alone is actually the religious undertones of this movie. People have somewhat forgotten about this in the last couple of years, and yet all of a sudden it's making a huge resurgence on social media that it turns out Home Alone is kind of like a Catholic movie. Who knew? It's so shocking. I know. Not overtly, necessarily, but in the component when Kevin takes himself to church on Christmas Eve and he's talking with his neighbor and he's embracing the true meaning of Christmas, falling in love with his faith, and wrestling with being alone. And how do I find solace that I'm not really alone? I always have. God, it is such a poignant, powerful message. Not judging a book by its cover when he's sitting there with his neighbor, who he was convinced is like a shovel massacre serial killer, but actually is an incredibly soft, kind man and learning how to find the common, shared humanity in one another. Oh, it's so, so, so, so good. Plus, how many of us, how many of us didn't dream, didn't have nightmare level fuel about what it meant to have that level of booby traps in your house when you were a kid? We dreamed of being able to set them. We had nightmares over what it would be like to be faced with hot irons to your face and falling on toys and being smacked in the face with shovels. All of it. It was so, so whimsical, so crazy, so outlandish that we all fell in love with this movie when we were kids. I love Home Alone. It is not a top five Christmas movie for me. I think I would put it at a solid number seven. I love it. It's a great film. I will watch it every year. It's not the greatest Christmas movie of all time, but there is a great. There is a great that's out there. One that inspired my sister's Christmas in New York bachelorette extravaganza. A few weekends ago, we treated my sister Gabby because she rarely gets time off for medical school to a bachelorette weekend about six months before her actual wedding. She's getting married next June. And it was all inspired by her favorite movie, Elf. My sister watches this movie every single month of her life, at least once a month. I don't know how she's not tired of it up to this point, but she absolutely loves it. And how could she not? Because Elf is arguably the greatest modern Christmas movie ever made. It is so timeless. It transcends every genre. Every generation finds it absolutely hilarious, heartwarming, a poignant message. It hits every single note perfectly, whether it's Will Ferrell just being stupid and running around with no plan. Which, by the way, fun fact is what happened when he's just running around New York and, like, eating gum off the subway stair rail, or he's jumping between all of the crosswalk steps, or he runs up to the guy in the red sweatsuit and goes, santa, Santa, not Santa. When he's running through the revolving door. All of these things were not planned. The camera crew literally just said to Will Ferrell, go run around and be insane. Like improv. This in New York. So timeless, so funny. But what I love about Elf is, again, it captures that same spirit of the Santa Claus, where it's crusty old, angry grownups learning how to fall in love with beauty, with magic, and believing in something bigger than themselves. Again, it's obviously presented much more through an adult comedic lens than the Disney Santa Claus Tim Allen style, which is still quite magical. But what I love about Elf is that it doesn't matter if you're 99 years old or you're 1 year old or even younger. My daughter loved Elf the other day when we watched it. Everyone loves this movie. It is probably the most quotable movie of all time. I watched a video on TikTok of a one year old who barely learned how to talk recently, who after watching Elf one time was singing. I'm here with my dad and we've never met and he wants me to sing a song. People dress up as Elf for Halloween. People watch Elf in the summertime. It is so good, so, so funny. And I would consider Elf to be my number two Christmas movie of all time. It is incredible. It is hilarious, it's whimsical, it's fun. It is a hit every single time you watch it. No arguments. All of you agree. You might not call it your top two, but all of you agree it is one of the greatest movies ever created. I'm gonna go next to one of my favorite videos or movies that I watched when I was growing up as a kid. One of my favorite, favorite Christmas movies ever is really underrated and a lot of people have never actually seen it because no one in the modern age really watches this movie, I guess. But if we zoom back to the era of Rudolph and other similar movies made by claymation animation, there is an incredible underrated film that more of you need to watch. This is your homework from Isabel from the Isabel Brown Show. This Christmas, that is always been one of my favorites. It's always been one of our family's favorites. My sister, my Christmas loving sister dressed up as one of these characters for Halloween one year in high school. It is called the Year Without a Santa Claus. If you are unfamiliar with the movie. So, so funny, so iconic and very different from the vast majority of Christmas movies that are just distinctly about Santa. This movie, the Year Without a Santa Claus, is circulating the idea of what if Santa just got bored one year and doesn't really want to do the whole Christmas thing? He's kind of over it. He's stuck in his same routine. He doesn't feel well. He's feeling like he's getting too old for this. So he really isn't in the movie very much at all. The vast majority of the movie centers around some elves that are Santa's like right hand men. Two different elves that help him accomplish his goals every year in delivering presents to all of the children around the world. Mrs. Claus takes on a huge role in this movie. The reindeer take on a pretty big role and everybody's fan favorite in the Year Without a Santa Clause. The Heat Miser and the Snow Miser. The people who control the weather, who are brothers. Their mother is Mother Nature. And these brothers, the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser hate each other's guts. They are mortal enemies and they are constantly battling each other for control over the weather. So Mrs. Claus has to go to the Heat Miser camp and the Snow Miser camp and try to create like this peace summit between the Miser brothers to make sure that it snows on Christmas because that might help. People want Santa to keep coming and to keep the magic and joy of Christmas alive. If you've ever heard the I'm Mr. Snow miser those songs that comes from these movies. So funny, so amazing. The animation style can be hard for people to watch. If you're really into like modern CGI and you don't love the retroclaymation thing. I personally love that. It's so nostalgic and reminds me of my childhood and wishing I was still a little kid. And I think Year Without A Santa Claus 100% is a top 10 Christmas movie. I would put it solidly at number eight. It is an old movie. I don't know if the story writing necessarily would hold up to the level of dialogue that you might expect from a movie that comes out in 2025, but it is a timeless classic. It hits every single time you watch it. And mo like, I'm actually kind of shocked as I'm growing up as an adult. Most of my friends have never seen this movie. They did not grow up watching this movie. I, my husband had never seen this movie until he met me. Wow. His scorecard looks really, really sad. As I am watching all of this back, he had never seen White Christmas. He had never seen the Year Without a Santa Claus. We're working on his movication throughout our marriage. Okay. We're almost five years into our relationship now, so we're getting there. We're getting there. But I would put this at number eight. It is a must watch every single Christmas. And if you guys haven't seen it yet, you absolutely need to. We've got two slots left on the rankings list. Number one and number four. And I'm gonna leave number one for last. And you know exactly where I'm going with it. But Jim Carrey as the Grinch in How the Grinch stole Christmas. Top five Christmas movie. We're putting it at number four, 100%. I love Dr. Seuss. Have always loved Dr. Seuss. I love pretty much every Dr. Seuss story that they have turned into a movie. And I love that our generation is like re falling in love with Dr. Seuss as grown ups. How on God's Green Earth. The Lorax became like the number one trend on TikTok this year. I have no ide. More power to you ladies all dressing up as the Lorax for every single celebration of your lives. I saw a video the other day that a girl was proposed to while wearing her Lorax costume, which makes me so happy because I love the Lorax. Great movie. Horton Hears a who was one of my favorites growing up. The animated version is so amazing. But there's nothing that beats Jim Carrey as the Grinch. This poor man had to go through literal like physical and psychological torture in order to get into his makeup every day. He's given many interviews about it that it took seven plus hours every single day of hair and makeup prep to transform him into the Grinch. And he actually had to speak with survivors of literal torture like former prisoners of war and CIA level experts to help him not feel like he was actually being tortured while he was getting into the garb every day. But there is something so unique, so special and so funny about Jim Carrey's portrayal of the Grinch. It obviously has inspired countless different cultural iconic moments as a result of it. How many of us don't quote the Grinch's schedule whenever we possibly can? 4:30 wallow and shelf petition into the abyss. But what will I wear? We quote this all the time in my family. If you go to Universal Studios these days around Christmas time, they have not go meet Santa, but they have a whole meet the Grinch situation in their Dr. Seuss land and that dominates even pop culture now on social media. Max as the reindeer. I mean, could your heart just explode with this little dog that could. And he just wants to help his owners so bad. It's the sweetest form of selfless love. The Grinch's heart growing three times because he all of a sudden understands what life is all about. That it can't be hypernarcissism, it can't be all about me all the time. It's so easy and so tempting when you are wronged by other people, when you are slighted by your community, when you feel like an outcast and you are othered by the people that you desperately want to seek acceptance from. It is so easy for us to retreat into human nature and retreat into hypernarcism. And I think we see that in society in 8 million different ways every single day. That fuels a lot of the cultural conversations that we have here on the Isabel Brown show every day. But what life is all about is not what you are getting, it's not what you are stealing, it's not what you are receiving from other people. What joy and love and life is about is in what you give to other people. And watching the Grinch walk through that experience in real time is such a beautiful reminder of what life is all about and what human nature really means in terms of love. That love is service, love is giving, love is making other people joyful and happy. Not in what we receive or in what we take or steal from other people. For a kids book, it is like the most deeply meaningful story of all time. And they captured the whimsy of it in live action in this live action film of Jim Carrey's how the Grinch Stole Christmas so, so beautifully. It is a must watch at least twice every Christmas season for, for us. Which brings us to. Drum roll please. The greatest Christmas movie of all time. Objectively speaking, and this is just true. I'm sorry you can disagree with me, but you're wrong. That's just facts. It's a Wonderful Life is the greatest Christmas movie of all time. It's a Wonderful Life, interestingly, is also kind of in the news cycle right now because a lot of people are resurfacing other commentators takes on It's a Wonderful Life over the past few years, including our Daily Wire's own Ben Shapiro. I have a much different take on It's a Wonderful Life than Ben, but he would agree it is the greatest Christmas movie ever made. And I think generally our society loves this story so much because it has inspired so many other stories in the process and really because it tells the story of humanity, of the fact that we matter, that we are created in the divine image of God and that the world would not be the same without us. It kind of ties back to those same themes that we see in the Grinch and watching how we give to other people rather than constantly wallowing in what we feel like we're missing out on what we feel like we're not receiving from people. But life is about the gift of giving. It's a Wonderful Life is maybe one of the top three movies ever made in human history and has inspired countless other movies along the same circumstances. The more modern adaptation of all of this with Nicholas Cage, my mom is obsessed with, called the Family Man. It's a great movie if you've never seen that one either. That's the more like 1990s early 2000s version of it's a Wonderful Life. But in case you've never seen it, which means you're living under a rock before you watch any other movie on this list. Today you're gonna go watch this because it's free to watch on Amazon prime. But I wanted to highlight some of my favorite scenes in this movie with you and react to them together because truly, it is the most powerful reminder on how to recenter ourselves around faith, around family, and around our communities this holiday season. It must be painful for some of you to know that I'm always right about everything, including ranking of the movies. But I'm also right about this. I am a huge advocate of making important decisions in day to day life. And the same goes for making our decisions about our health care. It is open enrollment season right now and insurance companies are betting that you're just going to auto renew without asking any questions. But you are so much smarter than that because you listen to this show. And to me, if you are tired of overpriced premiums and really confusing fine print in your health care, there is such a better way out there. 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He's usually like the big goofball, the class clown, the comedian, but here he portrays a pretty dark story. At the beginning of the movie, George Bailey has a life, really a whole life, throughout his entire childhood and adolescent years and going into his young adult years, full of hardship and trouble. Right at the beginning of the film, there's a whole scene where he and his brother are ice skating on a frozen pond, but it's not fully frozen through, and so his brother falls through and almost drowns. George saves his brother's life, which is incredibly miraculous, but he injures himself in the process and he goes deaf in one ear, which is a whole thing because he cannot serve in the military while his brother can. And he was looking forward to this experience, to go overseas, to experience new cultures, to travel all over the world. And he feels like he's missing out on that and becomes a bit jaded through the process. By the time he is graduating from high school and we fast forward a little bit through his adolescent years, he wants to drop everything to not go work for his family's loan business at the bank, but instead to go be a world traveler and experience all kinds of exciting new lives and adventures and getting out of his hometown. His brother comes home and announces that he's getting married and is moving away. So all of a sudden he is stuck in his hometown having to deal with his family Business. Having to help his father, who is getting older and in poor health, take care of the community through their family savings and loan business. And unexpectedly, at his high school graduation, he falls in love with a beautiful woman named Mary. He is so sweet to Mary. And one of my favorite scenes toward the beginning of the movie is when they're coming home from their high school graduation party and the big town blowout of helping all of them graduate, and he's courting her to date him. It is so, so nostalgic, so beautiful. And this is exactly the type of man that I feel like, sadly, is going extinct in 2025. Or has gone largely extinct. There are still some good ones out there. But tell me, every young woman doesn't yearn for this type of romance in her life, right?