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Noel Next Door · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to you girls gone Hallmark. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy, and today we are discussing Noel next Door,
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  Speaker 1: the very first movie in Hallmarks count Down to Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Marathon marathon.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a marathon, don't dun't. Megan suggested that
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  Speaker 2: we make a Rockie type video prepping for all of
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: our count down to Christmas kind of watching and reviewing.
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  Speaker 2: So this is technically a bonus review to what we
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  Speaker 2: had planned to review.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just because, like I was some peer
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  Speaker 2: pressure from our Facebook group. Not that they said, like,
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  Speaker 2: you guys need to review this, they just everybody was
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  Speaker 2: talking about how good it was, and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, now I got to go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch it. And then I watched it and I was like,
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: I spoiler alert. I really like this movie. Let's review it.
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  Speaker 2: So Megan's like, oh, should we do too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now that you've watched it, let's review it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I watched. Watching is the hard part for us time wise?
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  Speaker 1: Time wise?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I watched all four. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to review all four though, No, have you watched all
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  Speaker 2: I've watched three. I was the three that you watch.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite? We Wish You a Married Christmas is
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  Speaker 1: my favorite of the three that I've watched. We have
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  Speaker 1: yet to watch We Need a Little Christmas. We will
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  Speaker 1: watch it actually before this episode airs. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a strong start and I will I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now. This movie was not one that
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  Speaker 1: I was looking forward to. It was not on my
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  Speaker 1: radar as one to watch in excess of the ones
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  Speaker 1: that we needed to watch. But as you said, our
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  Speaker 1: Facebook group came in hot and said this was a
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  Speaker 1: surprise success of the weekend. And I'm glad that we
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  Speaker 1: watched it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. If you think otherwise or want to join the bandwagon,
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  Speaker 2: search Girls Gone Hamewark in Facebook groups, come join. I'll
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  Speaker 2: leave a link in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I love it there. Speaking of where to find
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: this outside of the podcast, Wendy has relaunched our Girls
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark Instagram. It is a brand new home for
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: all things Girls Gone Hallmark. We're really glad that you
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  Speaker 1: found us in our new home. Thank you for finding
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  Speaker 1: us over here. We'd love it if you would find
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  Speaker 1: us on Instagram and follow along with everything Wendy is
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  Speaker 1: doing over there. She is killing it. I appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. It is a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot. I say this to Mecca, who does
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  Speaker 2: like all of our stuff, for our other for Megan
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  Speaker 2: and Wendy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It is your doing. You're doing a great job. Hi five,
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Hi five, Hi five. Let's do a quick Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: News and Notes check in. Yeah, so I took a
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  Speaker 1: look into some of the reviews for this opening weekend. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all four opening weekend movies did fall short of their
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  Speaker 1: viewership for twenty twenty one in terms of the first
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  Speaker 1: three movies the first three nights. I'm shocked. However, let's
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  Speaker 1: put it in context. So I think what's happening? And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not me who just thinks this. This is you know,
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  Speaker 1: everyone on Twitter who's talking about this is cable subscribership
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  Speaker 1: is going down. There are fewer people available to watch
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  Speaker 1: these movies. So, as sleep Kitty Posh says on Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: she believes that Hallmark is still the biggest fish in
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  Speaker 1: a shrinking pond. We Wish You Had Married Christmas still
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  Speaker 1: did better than anything that wasn't sports. It was the
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  Speaker 1: number one show that wasn't sports. Okay, and it's timeslot.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing well in the areas in which they can compete.
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  Speaker 1: If you compare numbers to numbers, it does look like
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  Speaker 1: they're not doing as well. Again, this was October twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: It's pre Halloween. We're not even really into the Christmas season,
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  Speaker 1: but it is something to think about. I do have
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  Speaker 1: prior to countdown to Christmas. The top ten Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: debut movie rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have a guess what you like to guess?
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  Speaker 1: Sure?
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  Speaker 2: One, two, and three. It's gotta be the Wedding Veil.
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  Speaker 1: You're almost right, oh, one, two and four. I believe
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  Speaker 1: movie three would be a surprise to you. It's Butler's
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  Speaker 1: in Love really Yeah, which we liked. Yeah, the Wedding
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  Speaker 1: Veil and Veil did have a higher share of the
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  Speaker 1: demo than Butler's and Love. They had fewer viewer Got
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  Speaker 1: it all right? Let's talk about News and Notes for
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  Speaker 1: Noel next Door. Let's do Oh? Okay, I forgot.
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  Speaker 2: This follows a single mom as she gets into a
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  Speaker 2: war of words with a neighbor who is ruining Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: only to find that this misunderstood grouch just may steal
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  Speaker 2: her heart.
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  Speaker 1: HM News and Notes filmed in Ottawa on Harriot Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what I like. Actually during the winter.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the biggest highlight for me. It's not I'm just
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  Speaker 2: a that they filmed it during an actual cold season,
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  Speaker 2: when there were snows.
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  Speaker 1: See their breath. Loved it. It feels believable to me.
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  Speaker 1: I love it when that happened. Sometimes that happens with
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  Speaker 1: movies that are filmed late in the season. We sometimes
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  Speaker 1: get that, but this was filmed last winter.
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  Speaker 2: I watched a interview with director Max Maguire and he
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  Speaker 2: said that was really funny. You're reminded me of Rick Dy's.
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  Speaker 2: Do you Rick D's in the morning?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my gosh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, in this interview, he said that he he shot
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the movie overnight, so.
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  Speaker 1: It would be like dark and really cold, and it
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  Speaker 1: was really cold. I saw photos from We Wish You
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  Speaker 1: a Married Christmas or like it's three am on set yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, man, that's a rough life,
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  Speaker 1: could you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's ten days, Like how hard could it
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  Speaker 2: be for ten days when you got like and I.
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  Speaker 1: Assume they're not they're like getting time off for in
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  Speaker 1: the day. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Max Maguire, he has twenty five directing credits
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  Speaker 2: on IMDb. Lots of Lifetime esque.
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  Speaker 1: Type movies and you know what I mean by that, right,
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  Speaker 1: cheer leader who murdered my.
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  Speaker 2: Mother and stuff like that. But he also directed The
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  Speaker 2: Most Colorful Time of the Year, which is set to
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  Speaker 2: premiere on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: On December ninth. Indeed he did.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that's the one about the color blind person? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Keith hemp Street adapted this screenplay from a novel
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  Speaker 1: which I'll talk about in a minute. He has three
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  Speaker 1: writing credits that are all twenty twenty two Hallmark movies. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Ghost of Christmas always the most colorful time of
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  Speaker 1: the year, directed by Max Maguire and Noel next Door.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I mean he just churned him out this year,
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  Speaker 1: really did.
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  Speaker 2: How exciting to be a writer and be like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: I got three movies and count down to Christmas this
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  Speaker 2: year doing it and that's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: As mentioned, this les based on the novel by Annabelle Acosta.
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  Speaker 1: The book was called How the Grinch Stole My Heart.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know anything about this book? Absolutely nothing. I
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  Speaker 2: read a review that it was a little bit naughty
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning, so you know, Hallmark adapted it as
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  Speaker 2: fit for their demo. Yeah, yeah, anyway, And of course,
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  Speaker 2: the original title of this movie was The Grin Shoe
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  Speaker 2: Stole My Heart. Oh they were going to use that, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that title.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: Corey Sevier will also star in Lifetime's Christmas on Mistletoe
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  Speaker 2: Lake on November tenth, as well as Christmas Plus one,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know when or where that will be airing.
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  Speaker 2: I looked, I looked everywhere. I could not find it.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Cory Sevier. Three Christmas movies, remember, yes, a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Natalie holl and Corey Sevier started together
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  Speaker 1: in Road Trip Romance earlier this year, and they both
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  Speaker 1: had Fall movies this year.
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  Speaker 2: I can't requalify liked the Road Trip Romance all. I
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  Speaker 2: remembers they carried those ugly ass suitcases that had their
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  Speaker 2: toys in it, pitching the toy ran.
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  Speaker 1: I remember your you're disdain for the suitcase, Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember anything else other than they were like
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  Speaker 1: former high school rivals.
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  Speaker 2: And then they had a car broken down and to
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  Speaker 2: drive across whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I think. I think it was the middle of the road, enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hate it, Okay, what's your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: this movie. My first impression of this movie is that
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  Speaker 1: the promotion failed. Hard of this movie. It was so
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  Speaker 1: much better than I expected. Oh, I agree one thousand percent.
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  Speaker 2: The sneak previews that they were showing, like in the
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  Speaker 2: weeks leading up. Yeah, we're like the kid coming in
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  Speaker 2: and being like he stole my ball, Like who cares?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares about that? Like I go the scene where
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  Speaker 1: he scares off the mean guy in the diner.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god, that was a great scene. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that scene stands alone, right, That like builds up
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  Speaker 1: your hype and you root for this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know promotion department needs unless I just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't edited well early enough. Maybe maybe yeah, Or they're
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  Speaker 2: like here here's ten seconds of this movie. Yeah, I agree,
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  Speaker 2: I think the promotion failed. That's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is Corey Sevier yelling the equivalent of
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  Speaker 1: get off my lawn and kills me. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: what we liked.
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  Speaker 2: About Noel next Door. All right, I got quite a few,
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  Speaker 2: me too, go for it all right. First, I happened
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  Speaker 2: to always love Natalie Hall movies.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: I think she can come off like too cutesy. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately, like that was one of the things why
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm I'm really not interested in watching
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  Speaker 2: this movie. Sure, but now I realize I think it
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: was maybe just the movie or the script, because I
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  Speaker 2: thought she was fantastic in this I agree wholeheartedly. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've shed the Fit for a Prince shackles, right, Yes,
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: because For a Prince was an early on movie for
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  Speaker 2: us that we're reviewed, and I was like, this is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It was not good, and unfortunately that is the original
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  Speaker 1: impression I have of Natalie Hollan in my head. It
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: is part of the reason why we didn't and review
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  Speaker 1: her Fall movie because we had these preconceived notions. I
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent agree with you. She's completely swayed me
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  Speaker 1: in this role. Yes, Yeah, there's lots of little things
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  Speaker 1: I liked about this movie go ahead. Loved the fake
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  Speaker 1: Cereal branding. I felt like the props department must have
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  Speaker 1: had so much fun with that. Although it was funny
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  Speaker 1: that they're in the Cereal aisle and they're using fake
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  Speaker 1: Cereal names, but they're using real Cereal taglines.
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  Speaker 2: They're like it's great.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Cruise in flakes, It's great. Yeah. Anyway, that branding popped
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  Speaker 1: for me. I just it gave me real like shopping
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: in my pretend grocery store vibes, which is the thing
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: that would have totally brought me joy of the child.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: I loved that her date was kicked off of social
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: media for spreading this information was a flat earther. I
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: just was like, I think the writers had a great
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: time with this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too, because there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like funny jokes. The tampon scene, yes, which was like
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: I know, I had seen a lot of like feedback
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  Speaker 2: even in the IMDb reviews of this, like oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: there was a tampon sceand I've never seen that before
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  Speaker 2: in a Hallmark movie, and I just like, it's such
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  Speaker 2: like a realistic thing for women. But it was just
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  Speaker 2: so funny where she's like, yeah, it happens every month,
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  Speaker 2: you know what happens.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Yes. Look. One of the hills that I will die
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: on is removing the shame from periods, right. I feel
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  Speaker 1: this strongly for my daughter because I grew up feeling
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: very ashamed, like don't let anybody ever see me buying
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: paths or see me carrying one or knowing that I
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: need one right now, Like that was horrifying to me. No,
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  Speaker 1: periods are not shameful. Is it something that our bodies do.
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  Speaker 1: Let's demystic by it, Like, yes, this is what happens
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  Speaker 1: when we normalize these things in our movies. What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I wish the writer of this movie is a man, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So bravo. Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a minute, I was confused with
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: the last movie that we just reviewed, But yeah, a
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: man wrote this movie, so I can't appreciate that. So
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: I wasn't completely sure about Corey Sevier. I tru don't
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  Speaker 2: doubt yourself every single time anyway. But I thought the
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: two of them like generated a lot of like flirtatious chemistry.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Like when they first show him, like come outside, I
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, he does look like a curmudgeon. Maybe
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: got better throughout the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Their interactions together were always warm and lovely, Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the character of Noel. I thought she was
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  Speaker 2: like so loving and so kind and so patient, just sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question though, for you. Previously we have
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  Speaker 2: criticized Hallmark for not using actors that have real life
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: health conditions or impairments. What was the movie heart of
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  Speaker 2: the matter? Anyway, I wanted to know, like, how you
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  Speaker 2: feel about Corey Sevier, who is an able body actor
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  Speaker 2: playing a person with a health condition.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a good question. And I hadn't thought
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  Speaker 1: about it and it didn't bother me in the watching.
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  Speaker 1: And as I sit here, I'm trying to wonder if
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  Speaker 1: it should have bothered me based on previous criticisms, I
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: don't have a good answer for how I feel about that.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: It's okay, you don't have to have do you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I don't know how it's different from
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  Speaker 1: previous criticism. It feels different, though, but I can't quantify why. Yeah,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I hear you, Okay, I don't think like, oh yeah,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: I should be coming for Homewark in this moment. No,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: I understand, good point, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the story because I thought it reflected real life.
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  Speaker 2: Like I know a lot of people like to like
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  Speaker 2: escape reality with their entertainment, but I like At Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: their opening movie for Countdown to Christmas had the following
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  Speaker 2: divorce co parenting issues. A full time working parent an
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  Speaker 2: impaired character and a new word that I learned, an
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: interabled relationship.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Oh look at that, I know, But.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Like, when do you see this stuff found out Mark movies?
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  Speaker 1: I think those are great points.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: We've been asking for Hallmark to be more inclusive, right
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: did they do that with this movie?
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I think. I think steps are being taken. And to
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  Speaker 1: me this still felt very escapist, very lighthearted. I don't
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: like stressful television for the most part. If I watch
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: a show that is stressful or suspenseful, I have to
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: watch a lot of other stuff to absorb that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and so I have a real strong radar for depressing
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  Speaker 1: or stressful or down or this was not that for me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think real life isn't depressing, right, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: not euphoria, no, right, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: No. So from that, these are things that I like.
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  Speaker 2: Like we see Noel like struggling as a single parent
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  Speaker 2: and wanting to give her son like the best Christmas
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: ever post divorce. We see Jeremy struggling as he tries
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: to date again and how difficult that must be, like
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: could you even imagine? And I liked that we got
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: a full understanding of why Jeremy doesn't like the holidays,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: and how I felt very seen in this moment, how
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: significant he is in one's life can leave these like
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: scars on time, and so therefore you.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Just don't want to Yes, I very much thought about
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: your yes, did you?
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  Speaker 2: And finally I love that it was actually filmed in
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  Speaker 2: the wintertime.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I have one last, very small, like it was
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  Speaker 1: just a quick line. Noel tells Max to go to
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: bed and he's like, you know, having a hard time
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: falling asleep, and she's like, no more Murder podcast at
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: night and he goes. But they're just so addicting. I
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: have several wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let me hear well.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: First, I wish that Max didn't have a stepmom that
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: just wasn't that into him, right. I thought that was really.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible, and I was like, why is the dad trying
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  Speaker 2: so hard then to make them like such a family
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  Speaker 2: unit if he felt like not welcomed to buy his
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: stepmother well.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: And my next wish is that Max's dad didn't suck
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: so much, suggesting that his new family with his mistress
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: that he left his wife for was somehow superior to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Max spending Christmas with his mother. Uh is single because
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: you left her agreed agree.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I was like, what what a creed?
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Technically or I don't think single motherhood is anything shameful,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: regardless of the path to it. But I think people
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: in glass houses here, buddy, Yeah, what a dick. I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: have a really big wish, Okay, I wish that I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: could believe that these two could live next door to
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: each other and never run into each other. Yeah. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: think it is the one huge flaw in this movie
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: for me. Make him live around the corner, make him
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: live near the school, near the park where Max is,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: if they want to have this. You know, Max and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Jeremy antagonism put him in their orbit in the neighborhood,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: so it's still realistic that he could run into her
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: at the diner. Right, But you live next door and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: you've never seen each other. Yeah, I don't buy it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that you would recognize a good looking man, like.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: If he lived across the street from me. She knew
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the other neighbors, and they refer to him as mister
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: so and so all the time, Yes, which I think
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: lends this air of like serious curmudgeon dude to his
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: personality when they talk about him. But I just don't
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: buy the Oh my god, it's you. Yeah, when you're
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: literally next door.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: It was a big flaw, I think. So, yeah, did
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you wish for anything? I did.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I wish that we knew we could have seen how
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Jeremy got to his current state, Like show us some flashbacks.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: They have him like meet his ex on the street
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: who now has a new baby, like, which was not
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: even like necessary. I thought, like, throw if he really
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: wants to think about his like past, not past life,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but life prior, just give us like a little bit
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: of a flashback scene how he was like very into
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: his music or whatever, you know, and then how this
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: big significant life change like changed all that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, I don't know, just give us something. Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: They wanted us to know that he had been married before,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that he had had this life before. I felt like
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that scene with his wife was so awkward. He doesn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: know that his ex wife is remarried with the baby already.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And there was something about the timing too. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: was going to go back and listen to this and
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I forgot it had been two years. Yeah, so his
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: ex got married and had a baby pretty quickly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and when you've been married to someone you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: have people in your same word. Yeah, no one knew
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that she was married. No one said, hey, you should
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: probably know this about her, so that if you bump
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: into her on the street in the same small city,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like she was such a jerk, Like if you leave
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: your husband because he has a stroke and is no
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: longer the same person and is kind of difficult because
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he's having to relearn how to live his life in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a body that works it differently than he was used to.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: First of all, I think you're kind of the asshole totally,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And also like, why are you now mad at him
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because he was angry because his life changed drastically at
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: such a young age, Like, no, lady, Yes, double strikes
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: for you, double strikes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Speaking of not nice people, Jeremy's.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Date, Oh my gosh. So, first of.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: All, like you you're not Was it a blind date?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: And this person did not know anything about him, I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: mean evidently not. Come on, and her reaction to him
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: was like she come, do people act.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Like that or reliah? First of all, I thought that
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was overdone and I think they needed to sell how
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: miserable it was. She looks at his cane multiple times
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: upon him approaching there's like, if you watch her eyes,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: she's like looking him up and down and up and down,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and then he struggles to take his jacket off, but
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: she's making a scene a scene.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, are you kidding me?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you say, hey, can I help you with that?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And I thought that scene when Noel comes over drops
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: him with his jacket, Oh my god, was just so lovely.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I was like, oh, I love you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I know. She was terrible, terrible, And what I wonder
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is the people who were setting them up did they
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: not know that she was this shallow? I don't know.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: So either you prepare her with information that you think
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that she needs, or you don't set these two up
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: because this is on his friends. Yeah, totally, because that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: was terrible.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just the same way that like her sister was like,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: oh sorry about that day that she's way up on.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly time for did you say that? Yeah? And
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I only have a question, Okay, why did the cheating
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: ex husband get to keep the house? Oh?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know, that's funny. Maybe she was like I'm
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: out of here, dude.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean she she even says like he's not giving
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: her any money and he's like, well, let's let's wait
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for the courts to figure it out, because she's like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I've been working hard to pay the bills. Not that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you would know anything about that because you haven't set
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: us any money. And he's like, well, let's just wait
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for the attorneys to figure out. What a creep? What
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a creep?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I did not catch any of that. I have just
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: a few one. Noel's name tag is spelled n E
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: l l E, but the movie is called Noel next
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Door n E L Why do you think they did
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it different like that?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That's a good question. On IMDb it is spelled n
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: O E l l E.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Also, I wonder if there's another movie called Noel next
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Door with the e ll.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Perhaps that's perhaps sounds like a porn when you write
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it like that. I'm sorry, I hope not, and nothing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm all right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: First of all, this is just a complaint. Really, our
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: kid was kind of an asshole.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: First of all, you don't kick your ball against somebody's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: else that was.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: His house, Yes, like you know better on your garage
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: kicking their soccer ball and you go out. I would
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely like get out of.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Here, absolutely, And then he can clearly see that his
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: name's Jeremy, right, he can clearly see that Jeremy is disabled.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And he throws a soccer ball at the man like
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: what a asshole?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, and then lies about it. All do is long
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and she says, have you been kicking your soccer ball again?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: No?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Mom, it's just me and me. Uh.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: This is why I don't like children in movies.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He was a jerk. He did. He did have his redemption,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: he did apologize, he did take it upon himself. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was happy to see that. But this kid doubled down
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: over and over again about this neighbor being a jerk,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: when I'm so sorry, the jerk is you. Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: The other thing is, as a former soccer parent, soccer
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: tryouts are usually like there's like a summer league and
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a fall spring like over at this it's over, yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: And he's like trying out. But kick I mean kicking
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: your wall. That's a great like drill. But come on,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: there's like three fu snow around my kid. Like there's
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: no park nearby or.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Like open space?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Right, do they live in downtown New York?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: There's an indoor gym of some thing. Let's write the movie.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, go Ahead.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Four point seven five stars. Oh my gosh, you rated
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: this higher than We wish you a Married Christmas. I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it more you did.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought there.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I thought both movies the writing was really great and
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the actors were really great in each movie. There was
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: something about this one that just gave it a slight edge.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That's so fascinating to me. Three point seven five Oh,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and that's a really high score for me. I think
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that's still a good movie. I think I'm still nervous
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: about the number of movies to come, and I guess
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: there's no reason why they can't all be four and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: five star movies. They're not gonna be, though, They're not
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: gonna be, and then I'm gonna regret giving this movie
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a low rating when we get to a real estate.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: That's what's really hard, is like rating these in real time,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: because you can't go back and be like, oh, wait
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a minute, this one was better than this one. And
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: we'll figure that out when our tournament bracket comes out,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: right right.
• 24:58
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