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A Shoe Addict’s Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm mag I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we're discussing a shoe at ex Christmas in
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  Speaker 1: a throwback Girls Gone Hallmark review just for you during
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  Speaker 2: How did you get me to watch movies from three
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  Speaker 2: years ago? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I am already on edge about this review because we
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  Speaker 1: just recorded our review of Mingle all the Way, and
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  Speaker 1: I really felt like that was going to be the
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  Speaker 1: low point of these throwback reviews, and I thought we
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  Speaker 1: were headed in the right direction, and something in Wendy's
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  Speaker 1: tone tells me we very much are not. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what she's going to say, But before we
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  Speaker 1: get into it, do you have a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: I do. As Christmas approaches, Noel is at a crossroads
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  Speaker 2: in her life when it seems that love, a connection
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  Speaker 2: with her father, and her dream career are out of reach.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do some news and notes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The exterior of the department store, IMDb tells me is
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  Speaker 1: in Stockholm, Sweden.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a stock stock shot of stock Defly,
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  Speaker 2: there's no department store apparently in Manitoba.
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  Speaker 1: Winnipeg. Winnipeg is Winnipeg and Manitoba. Oh Canadians, y' sorry,
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  Speaker 1: it's Winnipeg, Manitoba. Okay, Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: You know, did this movie? Was it supposed to take
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  Speaker 2: place in New York? I think so. I mean, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: not outrightly said, but I think it's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: in New York, especially with like the horse drawn carriage
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  Speaker 2: ride and oh yeah, so maybe it's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: like a Macy's New York Macy's, I mean, because really,
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  Speaker 2: department stores like that hardly exist anymore, except for like
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  Speaker 2: maybe New York, you know, like those big big one. Sure, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. That's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Candice Cameron Beret brought a suitcase full of shoes from
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  Speaker 1: home for the movie. Some were also provided to her,
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  Speaker 1: but she did come with many money shoes for the
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  Speaker 1: filming of this moviem.
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  Speaker 2: Super dumb.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why this? The snow in this movie is both
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  Speaker 1: real and fake? It actually snowed midway through filming.
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  Speaker 2: Do we know when it when it was filmed?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really care. I'm just happy that it snowed. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when it was filmed. It must have
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  Speaker 1: been late in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Well this aired Sunday, November twenty fifth, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: So I wonder when does it snow in Manitoba that
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  Speaker 2: earlier October? Anybody listening from Manitoba please email us Migan
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  Speaker 2: and Windy at gmail dot com and tell us if
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  Speaker 2: it snows in October, because I wonder if that's misinformation
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  Speaker 2: that you've read.
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  Speaker 1: It was from her. It was an interview with Candice
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  Speaker 1: Cameron back get Out Really so I believe it is
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  Speaker 1: gospel okay.
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  Speaker 2: Movie was based on the novel by Beth Harbison A
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  Speaker 2: Shoe Attics Christmas, which is the third book in a
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  Speaker 2: Shoe Attics series. Are you familiar with this uh book
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  Speaker 2: series by any chance? Well, we own A Shoe Addicts Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: We actually bought it for my daughter because she loves
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  Speaker 1: this movie, and I believe she's getting it at some
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  Speaker 1: point this year, like a Thanksgiving gift that has passed
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  Speaker 1: as of the airing of this podcast. But I did
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  Speaker 1: not know it was part of a series. But I
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  Speaker 1: may have to order those for her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know she'd be into those books. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know I age appropriate. I don't know, because I
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  Speaker 2: was wondering if they were like, you know, schoppahallic series
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  Speaker 2: like kind of gives me the same vibes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hold On a Shoe Addicts Christmas book hold On
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  Speaker 1: Secrets of a Shoe Addict Shoe Addicts Anonymous. So if
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  Speaker 1: you scroll down to the reviews, it has like commonly
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  Speaker 1: mentioned phrases and it says like Shoe Addicts Addicts Anonymous
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  Speaker 1: chick lit phone sex. Oh no, yikes. So no, I
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  Speaker 1: will not be buying this series for my eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter. I have no problem with phones a book,
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  Speaker 1: just you know not for my preteen Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to assume that a shoe atticts Christmas is perhaps safer,
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  Speaker 1: but I may need to do a little perusal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just wonder if like they took kind of
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  Speaker 2: the premise and then an entirely different story. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: really possible. Yeah. The film's other writer is Rick Garman,
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  Speaker 2: and he is known for writing this year's twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: one Christmas at Castle Heart, which at the time of
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  Speaker 2: this recording we have not seen yet. Bear Yes. He
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  Speaker 2: also wrote You Had Me at Aloha, which was also
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  Speaker 2: a twenty twenty one summer film. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: in summer.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of a dud.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it, I remember I didn't love it. I
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  Speaker 2: liked it. But he also wrote Christmas in Evergreen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: isn't that like a big witch?
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  Speaker 1: The first one.
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  Speaker 2: I think he wrote the first one and maybe the
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  Speaker 2: second one.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the first two, the third one not so much.
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  Speaker 2: The party scene at the end where CCB is wearing
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  Speaker 2: the red dress. Yeah, the red dress is from David's bridle.
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  Speaker 2: According it does have bridesmaid vibes. Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I have a note on the dress later. It is pretty.
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  Speaker 1: That's so sunny. Yeah, yeah, that does not look terribly
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  Speaker 1: different from a bridesmaid dress I once wore in Periwinkle, though.
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  Speaker 2: As a bridesmaid or just to a party as.
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  Speaker 1: A bridesmaid with diet to Matt shoes of course. Oh god,
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  Speaker 1: oh god, it was the year two thousand. Okay, what's
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  Speaker 1: your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Are there no news stories? Because this is a
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  Speaker 2: mashup of a Christmas Carol and it's a wonderful life,
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  Speaker 2: am I? Right? Yeah? Right?
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  Speaker 1: However, some sort of Christmas Carol throw back every year,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Those are the kind of movies I like.
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  Speaker 2: I did find it enjoyable and can what is Cameron Burret?
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  Speaker 2: However you say her last name? She's easy to watch.
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  Speaker 2: She shines on the screen, even though I don't really
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  Speaker 2: enjoy her.
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  Speaker 1: As a person. Oh I agree with all of those
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  Speaker 1: statements right there. As mentioned in a previous episode, I
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  Speaker 1: chose all of the movies that we are watching these
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  Speaker 1: older countdown to Christmas movies, and unlike Mingle all the way,
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  Speaker 1: this one held up to my memories of it as
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  Speaker 1: While not the greatest movie Hallmark has ever made enjoyable
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  Speaker 1: and highly watchable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess my problem with this is not the movie. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I had a hard time watching it on the Friendly App,
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  Speaker 2: and you and I talked about this off air the
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  Speaker 2: Friendly App, which I loved because it's so easy to
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  Speaker 2: record movies. The problem is it does not resume in
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  Speaker 2: the same spot you left it off. So I had
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  Speaker 2: a hard time like finding my place in this movie,
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  Speaker 2: and I was rewatching scenes and like, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: this was the ending movie for me.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Perhaps if you could have watched it in one sitting,
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  Speaker 1: you might have enjoyed it more.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I will borrow that DBD that you bought.
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  Speaker 1: We do own it, we own it. What did you
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  Speaker 1: like about this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Watching it in the twenty twenty one lens Jean Smart.
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  Speaker 1: Jean freaking Smart.
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  Speaker 2: Man love her well, first of all, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: she did what was the name of that show, hacks Hacks,
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  Speaker 2: and she was also in an HBO show and I
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  Speaker 2: astown yes, and she is just so good. She's just
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  Speaker 2: so good. So when I watched this and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: Jean Smart's in this, Like, what the hell Jean Smart?
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  Speaker 2: But I just love her so much. She's just such
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful natural actress. I just love her.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not into the gene smart Asance, get into it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to watch all of Designing Women now just
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  Speaker 2: because of her.
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  Speaker 1: You know I do too, I one hundred percent mate.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, should we continue Patreon and Designing Women?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I'm into it. I'm into it. Okay, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: into it.
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  Speaker 2: We could do a half hour show, right, a thirty
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  Speaker 2: minute sitcom show, yes, yes, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Easily, especially because episodes are gonna be like twenty two
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  Speaker 1: minutes with commercials. I know, I think we should do it.
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  Speaker 1: Throw back to your comment about CCB's dress at the gala,
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  Speaker 1: her dress at the gallup really makes me want to
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  Speaker 1: dress up for Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Not because it's the most amazing dress ever. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty. I think Canda's Cameron beret is very
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  Speaker 1: pretty on the outside at least. And I found myself
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  Speaker 1: yesterday googling holiday party dresses.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, David's bridal is where you need to look.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that level of a holiday party dress.
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  Speaker 1: I found myself on the Anthropology website, And let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I am not the person who is spending
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars in a dress I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: wear for three hours on Christmas. That's not my particular
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  Speaker 1: holiday vibe. But I there's so many beautiful dresses out there,
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  Speaker 1: and we have a holiday party that I typically wear
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  Speaker 1: Jean's on a sweater for, but I kind of want
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  Speaker 1: to wear a fun, do it up dress. I want
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  Speaker 1: to dress up for Christmas Eve at my parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I will take a look at
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  Speaker 1: our Instagram guys, if I did dress up, the proof
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  Speaker 1: will be there. Well, we're gonna shop tomorrow, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: we'll find a dress.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Speaking of wardrobe, I loved Cameron's wardrobe in this top.
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  Speaker 2: Oh same, and I'm guessing that her movies have a
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  Speaker 2: good budget for wardrobe and perhaps she.
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  Speaker 1: Gets some input on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I have every scene she was in, I
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  Speaker 2: thought she looked really good, like beautiful, you know, even
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  Speaker 2: on Fuller House, which I've seen every episode of because
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  Speaker 2: my kids are into it. I think she's a really
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  Speaker 2: cute dresser on that show as well. So I have
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  Speaker 2: to believe either she works with people that you know,
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  Speaker 2: really know her look, or she has some sort of
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  Speaker 2: input because I agree, she looked great and one of
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  Speaker 2: the things I liked, the clothes, the shoes, the department
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  Speaker 2: store setting, all that really worked for me. Yeah. That
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  Speaker 2: felt super nostalgic for me too on some level. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. Maybe just you know, department stores
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  Speaker 2: at Christmas time like feels special in a way.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I love a department store setting for a movie.
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  Speaker 1: There's a movie I think we've discussed it with Joanna
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  Speaker 1: Garcia where she's a chef with some sort of magic
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  Speaker 1: and it's set in a Henry Bendall. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that movie, and I think I might
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  Speaker 2: want to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Joanna Garcia.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: It's Sarah Michelle Geller.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I love Sarah Michelle Geller. Oh. I thought you
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  Speaker 2: were actually talking about a Hallmark movie. But that's like a.
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  Speaker 1: Oh No movie simply Resistible from maineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I've seen Does she have red hair
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  Speaker 2: in it? Is that why you were thinking it was
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  Speaker 2: Joanna Garcia?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Well, still like, why isn't she in Hamewark movies?
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  Speaker 1: Right? That really feels like her way to make a
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  Speaker 1: comeback because they only take two weeks to film.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I wonder why she's not.
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  Speaker 1: M Did she take a step back to like stay
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  Speaker 1: home with her family because you could take two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, smg ccp okay, I have hold. I really
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  Speaker 2: like Luke McFarlane. He's one of my favorite Hallmark dudes.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a super wowye zowie for me, but I
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  Speaker 2: just enjoy him as an actor. He's nice to look at.
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  Speaker 2: He was in one of my favorite movies from this year,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, taking a Shot at Life. I really
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  Speaker 2: liked him in that, and I liked him in this.
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  Speaker 2: I liked him a lot too. And finally, this movie
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  Speaker 2: had a sweet message that I liked a lot, and
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw it several times because of my
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  Speaker 2: problem with the friendly But it's when Jeane Smart is
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  Speaker 2: telling her the slave story about how the guy that
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  Speaker 2: dies and then whatever, and I just really liked the
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  Speaker 2: message about taking help when it comes and staying aware
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  Speaker 2: that these little miracles are having every day around you.
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  Speaker 2: I like that part a lot. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I like that you took such a positive take on
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  Speaker 1: that story. I also love that story, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: story that's been told with on a lot of variations,
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  Speaker 1: but in twenty twenty one, I look at this story
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  Speaker 1: and I thank all of you people who are like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to wear a mask. God's gonna protect me.
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  Speaker 1: It's all right, I don't need to get vaccinated. God's
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  Speaker 1: gonna protect me. What part of your belief stops you
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  Speaker 1: from believing that maybe God sent protection in the form
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  Speaker 1: of doctors and epidemiologists and all these other smart people
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  Speaker 1: who know things, and now he's like, hey, dummies, I
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  Speaker 1: sent you.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I think all the time. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I know everyone's so tired of that, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: help it. I had that same note.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Moving on, what did you wish for from
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  Speaker 2: this movie?
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  Speaker 1: I wish that Hallmark would stop trying to tell me
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  Speaker 1: that photos that are black and white are quote great photography.
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  Speaker 1: That's how Hallmark tells you this is a good photo.
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  Speaker 1: They put it in black and white.
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  Speaker 2: This is artsy, this is something to look at. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch a gingerbread miracle.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of it? Yes, when she took all
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  Speaker 2: the pictures of the place for sale, and it's like
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  Speaker 2: of a baker's hands, in black and white. That's not
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  Speaker 2: how you sell a property.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So first of all, yes, she takes
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  Speaker 1: photos of a property in black and white. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see something I would like to buy in
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  Speaker 1: black and white. I would like to see what it
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  Speaker 1: actually looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then yes, they make all this fuss the baker's
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  Speaker 1: hands kneading the dough in a property listing. They go
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  Speaker 1: on and on about how this up close, soft focus
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  Speaker 1: shot of the baker's hands make her this incredible photographer.
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  Speaker 1: That was my biggest issue. Takes me out of the moment. Hollmark.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you could find an actually good photographer to take
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  Speaker 1: some photos and then we wouldn't need to put them
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  Speaker 1: in black and white.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure those are just stock photos that they
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  Speaker 2: just pull off the internet anyway, right.
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  Speaker 1: The one of the lady for sure, The one of Jake,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a great photo anyway, but anybody
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten that shot with a DSLR hot take.
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  Speaker 2: With the camera phone with your iPhone. Oh my god. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what I wish for in this movie is that the
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  Speaker 2: story jumped around a lot, and if one is casually
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  Speaker 2: watching like myself, hard to keep up. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: keep up. It's super confusing. And that's why again, like
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  Speaker 2: I felt like I watched this movie fourteen times because
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  Speaker 2: I was like, where am I in time and space?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I realize like clothes and hair
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to help the viewer know where Noel is at,
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  Speaker 2: but like it wasn't super totally helpful, not to me.
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  Speaker 1: So I've seen this movie three or four times prior
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  Speaker 1: to this, but I did sit down yesterday and watched
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  Speaker 1: it from start to finish, but I was doing my nails.
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was watching. I was present,
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  Speaker 1: but I was, you know, eighty five percent, and so
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while I would look up and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, why do we keep
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  Speaker 1: There's so much jumping. It's a lot of jumping, right,
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  Speaker 1: it is, yeah, and her hair does help, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also I'm like, is this the future? Is this the past?
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  Speaker 1: What's happening? I also wish that homework would say, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to be single. We don't need to write
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  Speaker 1: every female character in our movies who happens to be
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  Speaker 1: single as someone who needs to be rescued from the
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  Speaker 1: throes of singleness. My goodness, this movie had so much
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  Speaker 1: going on for it, the relationship with her dad, being
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  Speaker 1: in a job that she didn't perhaps love. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: also need the storyline that she's pining away for this
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  Speaker 1: ex who she didn't even really like. We could have
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  Speaker 1: left that alone and the love story could have been
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  Speaker 1: secondary to all these other life changes.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I agree, I agree what she wished for. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: two things I didn't love the shoe promise. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of thought it was silly. It's the again, Like the
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  Speaker 2: title doesn't really go with the movie because the shoes
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  Speaker 2: were to catalyst to get back and forth in the
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  Speaker 2: future and the past and whatever. I get it, but
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  Speaker 2: it what I just I just thought it was dumb.
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  Speaker 1: I may need to read the book and figure out
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  Speaker 1: how much the book aligns with the movie and figure
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: out if they just really took mild inspiration or a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: lot of inspiration from the title.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I need you to buy that book, all.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Right, Oh, we own it the book. Yes, that's what
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I was telling you. We have the book ready to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: go for my daughter, and I was considering buying the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: other two until I saw Phone Sex in the review.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Well, you should probably read the book to make sure
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that book doesn't have phone sex in it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Indeed, I did say that at the top of this episode.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was confused.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. That's okay. We own the book and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the DVD.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Okay. My final thing is I kind of wish there
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: was less God stuff in this movie, but I'm not
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: surprised because it was a CCP movie, but it was
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: heavy handed faith God related content. Agreed.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I also wished This is a mild complaint, but I
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: hate it when people tell other people they need to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: live a little bit quiet lives are fine. I'm the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: kind of person who lots of people probably think are boring,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: but that's okay, Like I'm okay for me. There are
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: people who like me. And also I'm also boring in
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a crowd that I'm not comfortable with. So I have
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: vivid memories. I had a friend in my twenties who
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: had kind of this like friend renaissance, and he found
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: this new group of friends and he tried to meld
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: his old group, which included me, with his new group,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and it was not a good fit. And those people
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: thought we were super boring, and I was super boring
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: because I was not comfortable with them. But also some
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: people are just like happy live in their lives. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: hate live a little. It's like when people tell you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to smile, I want to smack.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Hey. I think people think I'm boring too. I think
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: that's why you and me like pop off when we're
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we're like to like we're a good time together. I think, well,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I also.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Think when you find your people, you're comfortable. But also
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I like, I am not the like I need loud
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: excitement in my life kind of person. Yeah, I don't
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: think that. I find it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Go out every night because I need to live. I'm
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: good like reading a book that's living too. You know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to spend a night in my pajamas decorating
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: my Christmas tree, just like Candice Cameron Beret was in
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: this movie.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: M okay, I have a question before we move on
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: to digit see that getting locked in a department store
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: is that fun or terrifying?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe both. I liked the idea of like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: she's just gonna put on all these Christmas pajamas and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: eat these treats. And I did appreciate her boss was
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: like make yourself comfortable. So she's like, yeah, I'm gonna
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: wear these. I mean, I would be like, where's the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: most comfortable pajamas in the store, Give me those slippers.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Those are mine now you locked me in here. But
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: also that big, dark, empty space would terrify me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, first of all, going down into the basement
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of the store would probably terrify me, like I would
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: not want that job. And then to come upstairs like
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: nobody knew you were down in the basement. That's really scary.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And then come upstairs everybody's gone, nobody notified anybody whatever,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Like that's scary to me. Yeah, being inside trapped, well
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you're not trapped. She wasn't trapped, she just was locked in.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Somebody was coming to get here. But yeah, I would
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, let me look at all these like
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: facial products this hole. Yes, lamaire, I'm gonna put on
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: some really expensive pajamas, and yeah, I don't know, I
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: think it might be kind of fun.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I would ever close a department store like that in
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a storm. I don't know, after hours, you think you've
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: got like your cleaning crew coming in. There's probably a
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: security situation. Somebody's there. But if they had to close
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it because the weather was so bad, that they wanted
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: everybody home. Would that actually happen?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know people who live in very cold, snowy
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: weather where stuff like this happens. Please email us Megan
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and Windy at gmail dot com. I just I would
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: love to.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Know, like, right they close school, do they also close
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the nordstrum?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And does security not come in? Like? Yeah, I need
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to know that sun.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Now they're not polishing the floors while everybody else cloes home?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Okay did you see that for me? As like a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: did you see that slash? WTF?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Okay? Okay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Does the HR manager in a department store typically plan
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: their holiday party?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Do they? I doubt it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It seems like they're pretty busy otherwise, but I think.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: They would be really busy with like sexual harassments, setting
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: up a four oh one k's I don't know.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: End of the year bonuses. Yes, yeah, I don't hurt.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Entire job is like decorating the store and planning this party.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We never see it in an office. I'm not slamming
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: HR professionals, but it seems like they spend a lot
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of time in their office.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like they're managing people, right, they're dealing with fires.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: They're not I don't know. Yeah, they're not planning parties.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Come on, now, why didn't they just give her a
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: different job title then, Like they should have given her
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: like merchandising or something like that. But I a merchandiser
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: wouldn't also plan a party either, So I don't know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think the goal was to give her a job
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that was boring so that they could play on this
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: like you are not living out your true self. Perhaps
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: if she was in merchandising that that would be a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: fun job and they couldn't really play on you need
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to be a full time photographer. Yeah, speaking of which,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: there is no chance that the department store is hiring
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a brand new photographer for their ad campaign. Oh I know, right,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: come on now, so dumb, we're gonna hire you for that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Nope, No you're not. No you're not.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: No, Nope, Nope.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: That's like, don't they go through like ad agencies and
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff is planned like way far in advance. No. No,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: there's one scene where Jean Smart is driving the horse
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: carriage and CCB and Luke are in the back. And
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: here's here's my problem with like these kind of movies,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like Candice is only able to see Jean smart right, Like,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that's for Guardian Angel. So wouldn't Luke be like, who's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: driving the carriage because he can't see her?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Well, there's another scene where she's the chef and she's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: clearly there too, and she's trying to hide her face. Yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, that doesn't make sense. That doesn't make sense.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Would have the people like seeing this, like carriage being
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: driven through Central Park without an actual person guiding the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: horses might think that's an emergency. I don't know, so stupid.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, the Christmas tree shoe tree is cute, but also
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: perhaps a waste of shoes.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Were they all red shoes too?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if you're getting like cheap red shoes
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: from somewhere to create a display, okay, fine, but yes,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: like that's a waste of shoes. I hope they donated
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: those shoes or.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Something, right, And I can't resell them after they've been
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: stacked together and covered in dust all seasons, huh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Holy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Also, you're missing prime red shoe selling season, so it
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: seems like you're not going to be able to sell
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: them after the holidays. Anyway, but kind of cute too,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: like a kind of a cute display. I thought it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was a cute display, but my brain went, that's a waste.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. We yeah, it's some of these movies
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: are so hard to watch because of that kind of stuff,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: you know, you know at the beginning, like when she's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: getting dressed and she goes to put on like her
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: cross necklace, and then she decides to put it down,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and then her dad asks her about it later and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: she's like, oh, yeah, it doesn't go with my shoes.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, what a simple like gold, delicate necklace
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: does not go with your shoes. I don't get it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I think the point there is that maybe she's like
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: questioning her faith and in comes Charlie to reaffirm her.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But that's just her excuse for her dad as to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: why she's not wearing Oh I think she always wears. Okay,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: thank you for explaining that to me, because that makes
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: much more sense, because I was like, that's an interesting direction,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: like why would she like think about it and then
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: like decide not to go with it. Like I think
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they're set in the scene there. I have a couple
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: lol moments.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm me here.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: One is when she gets locked in and she calls
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: her boss and he's sitting by the fire like he's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on Masterpiece theater. She's sitting alone in a room, not whything,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: not reading anything, just fireplace and not even looking at
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the fire by the way it's behind him, just looks
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: like he's about to read you a story. When Charlie
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: first shows up and she's trying to explain what's happening
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to Noell, she goes, oh, they said you would be skeptical,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and Noel goes, are they doctors?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And finally, when Jeane Smart is the invisible cook, she
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: uses this fake French accent to throw them off, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was funny. She was like, oh, no,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: we shall make the cookies now, as if a French
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: chef is also making Christmas cookies anyway, a French.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Pastry cheft, I don't know. That would be at a
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: department Were they in the department store during that scene?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know where they were.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I can't remember. I don't know. I don't know.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And finally, the gala is to support the fire station.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't the fire station get any say in what
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: happens at this event.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not understand that at all, other than
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the department store is paying for it. So she's like, well,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: if I'm paying for it, then I want it to
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: be a certain way. I don't know.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Well, in the end, we find out that Noel never
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: tells Jake that he's been removed and never tells Jake
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that they're not going in his direction. But he goes, hey,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: they're paying it should be their event. So if that
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: was going to be his reaction all along, we have
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: all once again built up conflict for absolutely nothing exactly.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: That's see, I'm dying to know. Like, what do you
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: give this movie? Since you rewatched it yesterday?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: This is still a solid three stars for me?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: What?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, what did you rate it?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Two point seventy five?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, okay about that far off. It's far off
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: visually pleasing for me to watch. Uh, and it's really
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: without my girl's gone Hallmark glasses on, it's an enjoyable
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: movie for me to watch.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I preferred if I only had Christmas from twenty twenty
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: so much more over this one.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Oh veto for real? If I only had Christmas is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: distracting for me to watch because it's so much like,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: where's where's the Wizard of ozz Uster Egg, Where's the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Wizard of Ozzy's to Egg? Where's the Wizard of East Egg?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And the entire time I was watching, I was like, Oh, oh,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that's because of this, and that's because of the Cowardly Lion,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and that's because of the yellow Brick road. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: thought it was silly, like, oh, Candice Cameron Beret is
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: our Hallmark movie darling, so we're gonna let her tell
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: us to make a movie about the Wizard of Oz.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: It is also somehow a Christmas movie. I still liked it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a hater. Thank you so much for listening to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: this episode of the podcast. Later this week, on Thursday,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we will be discussing a Christmas Waltz from twenty twenty
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and who. I'm excited to talk about that one. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: do think. I do think that one lives up to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: my memory of it. So make sure to come back
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: for our discussion of that movie. Thanks so much for
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: being listeners of the podcast. Happy Holidays, everybody, goodbye bye.