NAMELESS BEST FRIENDS

or..."It's Not Always Easy to Be a Smithsonian"-- Well, this gang is a bunch of total suckers for old Hollywood. We do live in L.A. and Palm Springs after all. And we also fall for a movie with a good budget. This one had that--or at least was HELLA sponsored by THE BILTMORE ESTATE! DID WE MENTION THE BILMORE ESTATE?! Which Beth hasn't been to, Richie has been to, Paige has been outside of, but wh...

 or...“What? Don’t repeat it, I heard you.”-- WE SWEAR, we actually WANT to like these movies. We know it sounds hard to believe. But we're really trying here. We talk messenger bags (with disdain), Shirley Temples, and yearn for deep fried food. We also mention one of Beth's books, Every Time You Go Away, which has the setting we wish this one had. On account of the red flags, we also mentio...

or..."Nightmare in Christmas Alley."--- Sigh. If it weren't for the guest, we'd truly say not to listen to this one. Honestly, we'd tell you to just pretend this never happened. We had to watch it, we had to talk about it, we had to record it, we had to do all of that, because of a commITMENT we made it to YOU. Because of an arbitrary commitment we made to all three of our listeners that we would...

or...""A Stupid Fight Amongst Liars"-- on this one, we have a REAL best friend in the house! The girls have Emily over! Paige's very own Nameless Best Friend. They've been friends so long they used to play pretend together, learned to be boy crazy together, and yet still Paige didn't know her well enough to know that the reason they watched Lord of the Rings so many times was really because of Gim...

or...."Grandma Got Run Over By a Troll Subplot."-- It's hard to believe "Letters to Santa" was even on the same channel as this. You know what I'm saying? We have a special guest on this one! The girls have Sarah over to sip cocktails and talk about this cozy lil movie. The Ted Lasso comparisons just WILL. NOT. STOP. So again, just a reminder, that if you're a fan of Ted Lasso, be aware or beware...

or..."Bend it Like Bethlehem" or also "The Newbourne King," man, Paige was really on FIRE coming up with alternate titles for this one. Here's one Beth hated and Paige loved! A first for Nameless Best Friends, but not a first in life. In this one, the NBFFs discuss jiffypop hats (and they don't care), more inevitable Ted Lasso comparisons come up, and some dreamy imaginings of the eighties in Lond...

or..."A Bad Case of the Jolly Johnsons" -- It's here! The sequel to Haul Out the Holly! We covered the original episode in a Patreon episode, so if you wanna catch up, cough up. But if not, it's okay, it's just a fun lil romp and you'll probably be able to keep up without our original quips. In this one, Evergreen Lane is alight again, but some reality stars on the block again to drive Lacey Chabe...

or.... "Nobody Blow" In this one, a bunch of people can't get to Denver but insist on going, and going together. Ugh. In this we discuss Paige's brief but endless lifetime on Concourse C in the Atlanta airport, the wax figuring at MCO, and discuss Tragedy Anne's insurance fraud scam. Bonus episodes and ad-free episodes can be found here! Follow Paige at @pharbeaux Follow Beth at @bethharbisonbooks...

or "18 USC Section 1702" -- Not to be all Cliff Claven about it, but um it's illegal to open someone else's mail... So yeah, two brats gets a magical pen and a meddling grandmother uses lying to parent-trap two toxic people back together (for a while, they def break up after the movie ends). In this one Paige goes full Fa La La Kent, we wonder where the puppy went, and of course, discuss mail law....

or: "Cloudy with a Chance of Nepotism" -- This one is about a woman who wants to be an on-air reporter but instead, meets Santa's son. In this one we are joined by chief meteorologist from NBC2, Allyson Rae! Also, she and Paige have been Nameless Best Friends for over a decade. She gives us her take on the Pig Diver journal, we agree that we'd like to party with the theater troupe in spite of the...

or: "You'll Believe a Man Can Fry" Well, well, well! This was a movie with many names, sponsored, we think, by the Nickname Organization (to donate, please send any and all donations to Venmo at @paigeharbison) This is a movie about a "British" "chef" who works at a holiday hotline for people who cook their turkeys with the plastic on and then call other adults to ask if it's okay to do that. She...

or: Bagpipe Anastasia THOMAS THOMAS THOMAS THOMAS THOMA--sorry. Ahem. Two estranged siblings can't decide if they wan't a free castle. Yeah, that's really what happens in this movie! We discuss Thomas, Fiveheads, medieval intrigue, and Paige gets a new hat made out of the outdoors. Keep on rating us and downloading us and sharing us, it really makes a difference! Jack is starting to apply to resta...

or, "Ok, Whippersnapper" You know how when your sixteen year old doesn't get to go on a snowboarding trip and you don't have a passport you go ahead and book an Airbnb for a lighthouse where you have to work the entire time you're there? Well, so do the players of this particular melodrama. This one is a long one, so buckle up! If you're traveling home from Thanksgiving, this one is perfect becaus...

or "I Broke My Ornament 2: Adventures Of The Alliterative American" In this one, a woman trusts a comedian at a shipping facility to ship her most prized worldly possessions across the world for a bargain price and then she goes to a beautiful place to wait for them to arrive broken. AKA, a foreign language film about an unwell woman. In this one we discuss asking a flight attendant to p...

or: "Captain Hot Cocoa & the Wetter Weather" An awful rich family is stranded by a pilot, whom they blame for the bad weather, on an island around Christmastime. Love ensues. Well, this is a movie with Belsnickel in it. A lobster death tree, a lot of food in actor's mouths (but not ours, don't fret), and we talk about the first note of the happy birthday song. Speaking of songs, listen to jack...

or "The Fellowship of the Seasonal Fling" Plot: Two friends try to get to a town that celebrates Christmas all year long but on account of car trouble they fall in love with two losers instead. In case you didn't like it when we liked the movies last week, NEVER FEAR. Ugh. Here we go. Paige had to turn down her mic on this one. But we had fun as always! Thanks so much for sharing and rating us 5 s...

I always skip the bonus material in the podcasts I listen to, but maybe I shouldn't because now I see that it actually MATTERSSSSSUH. Okay, so this is an announcement for our very first Patreon episode, and if you miss it then you might be out of the loop on an upcoming mainstream episode. Just sayin.... <3 Bonus episodes and ad-free episodes can be found here! Follow Paige at @pharbeaux Follow...

or: "The Harbisons Get Religion" Welp. This movie is perfect. I'd apologize, but this might have been our favorite episode to record to date. Was it because we'd consumed a bottle and a half of wine before deciding to record the podcast in the middle of the night after watching the movie because we just COULDN'T WAIT to talk about it?? Yeah, partially. But also, rarely does Hallmark give us a gift...

OR: "The Real Family Was the Throuple We Made Along the Way" EPISODE 8!!! Time to learn what it’s like when we actually LIKE one of these movies. I mean…we have notes but…this one was fun. But going to this high school sounds like a living nightmare. Thank you all for listening, thank you so much for downloading and rating us 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is actually starting to make a difference, a...

Or: "The Notebook 2: The Rise of the Video Cartoons" Here's the trope here: two people inherit something and fall in love about it. This one has it all! A snowball fight, a paint fight, a meet-hate, and a bunch of other things that made the Harrisons say WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!??!?!? and made Paige draw an actual family tree to make feeble sense of it all. Thanks so much for all your listening and sh...

or..."BONJER, CHOCLET, ; JHWYUUUU NOWELLLL " this is NOT about the 2005 drama about the Christmas ceasefire in WW1 Here's the trope rundown for this one: a copywriter wants to be a 'real' reporter so she and a gruff co-worker go to a tiny village in France to uncover a romantic mystery and fall in love along the way. Includes a precocious child, lots of gnomes, a hotelier with a lawsuit in her fut...

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Elfcapades HOW did they say 'elfcapades' so many times with a straight face? Why are there so many mechanics and cars in these movies? Why does this woman hate loungewear so much? Is her landlord worse than Paige's? (no, Paige's is still worse) Keep sharing this podcast with your nameless friends, moms, boyfriends, girlfriends, sisters, aunts, and ev...

Everyone was talking about Barbie and Ken this year, but they SHOULD have been talking about Ken and Candace. Come on down and find out what a blanket means in a Hallmark movie, what Victorian Adrian Grenier was doing in this film, and meet our very first guest, filmmaker and Hollywood mover and shaker, Richie Costales!! Our Instagram Richie's Instagram Patreon Website Listen to Jack's music and s...

I hate when I get stuff in my eye and can't go to space to touch the sun. please share and download! the more active listeners we have, the more power to do this that we have. <3 instagram patreon website Bonus episodes and ad-free episodes can be found here! Follow Paige at @pharbeaux Follow Beth at @bethharbisonbooks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Checkin' it Twice" or "Gingerbread Lasso & the Real Estate Agent Who's Not at Work Right Now" Join the gang as we dive into this sporty book romance that has nothing to do with Christmas, even though it is the beginning of the Hallmark Countdown to Christmas! Please share with your friends, rate, subscribe, and download! :) Instagram Patreon Website Bonus episodes and ad-free episodes can be...