Episode 08.5 – The Christmas Shoes (The Movie)
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
God wanted to make sure you understood the true meaning of Christmas, so he sent you this podcast episode based on the movie, based on the novel, based on the song, The Christmas Shoes. In this bonus mini-sode, Kait and Renata confront Renata’s long-time nemesis Rob Lowe and conclude that he’s perfectly suited to play a douchebag lawyer who requires human sacrifices before he changes his behavior. We’re also pleased to see that this 12-year-old movie appears to have taken many of the notes we made about the novel’s shortcomings in last week’s episode. Listen now, before one of your loved ones comes down with a case of Christmas cancer!
Footnotes: Renata’s Moth story about her rivalry with Rob Lowe
The Christmas Shoes movie on YouTube
Coming up next: The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers where we watched a movie based on a book, based on a song so that you didn't have to. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:21.1 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:22.9 | And, yeah, this is our mini episode about the movie, the made for TV movie based on our last |
| 0:30.8 | book, The Christmas Shoes. |
| 0:33.0 | And that was a movie we watched. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes. |
| 0:36.6 | Our guest, Ashley, who was great on the book episode, was unable to join us for this because |
| 0:42.0 | she's probably busy appreciating her family like this book taught us to. |
| 0:48.4 | So it's just me and Kate. |
| 0:50.1 | And I think that's fine because I think we have a lot to say about this. |
| 0:54.1 | Yeah. It was right off the bat. Right. And I think that's fine because I think we have a lot to say about this movie. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | It was right off the bat. |
| 1:00.7 | Right off the bat, this movie was not as bad as I wanted it to be. |
| 1:02.1 | I wanted it to be terrible. |
| 1:08.1 | And it was just kind of mediocre, but also better than the book. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, yeah, 100%. Before we get into this, I really quickly want to |
| 1:13.1 | address my rivalry with Roblo, which, which I think most people listening to this probably |
| 1:20.3 | already know about, but just in case you don't, um, it's a, I have a longstanding rivalry |
| 1:26.5 | with Roblo that he is unaware of, but which was the subject |
| 1:31.7 | of an award-winning story that I told at a moth story slam, and is also the subject of the |
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