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00:00:00 ◼   ► Jason's gonna be liberal with the [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► editing I just I either I'm it's gonna [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► be like to die hard episode I'm just [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► gonna put a disclaimer on the front that [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► says don't listen to this it's episode [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► in this episode is five minutes alone [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► we're horrible horrible people happy [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► happy holidays everybody [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► the incomparable over 180 December 2012 [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► ho ho [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► welcome back everybody it's the holidays [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► and this is the uncomfortable podcast [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► I'm your host Jason snow and we are [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► going to revive I guess it only comes to [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► tradition once you do it more than once [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► so this is it we are going to talk about [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► our favorite holiday movies again last [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► year we did an episode called the [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► holiday movie vault where we each placed [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► an item a TV show or movie in the [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► holiday vault 22 treasure for always for [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► all time and we're going to do it again [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► we're going to add some more things the [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► vault is large enough to fit more movies [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► and TV shows than we have in it now [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► there's plenty of room in the vault so [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► we're going to throw some more stuff in [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► the vault [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► joining me to add items to the vault are [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► Glenn fleischmann hi Glenn [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► hello there and ho ho from this Jewish [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► boy [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► hoho hello hello oh and also joining us [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► and Enoch oh hello Andy [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► Merry Christmas Jason have you been a [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► good host this year a fair-to-middling [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► oh ok well you i'll give you the the [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► i'll give you the logitech USB [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► microphone instead of the height 240 see [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► that I give it the good posts [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► wow this podcast brought to you by [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► logitech it's like a lump of coal in [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► your stocking [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► also here is the fine and why is Steve [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► let's hi Steve [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► Wow bay as aplin already [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► and if you identify the movie that comes [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► from you win a free non-existence the [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► comparable teacher yeah that's right i [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► always tell me if you will win the [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► Seventh Seal you guessed it Berkman knew [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► had knew his way around some dialogue [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► and tell you i was i was gonna say [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► eraserhead I'm so glad it's a class [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► whatever feeling foolish right now [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► also joining me Dan Morgan I dan hi [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► Jason I anything clever to smoke [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► okay fair enough and very happy to have [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► Lisa Schwyzer with us to hi Lisa [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► happy winter solstice everyone here Mary [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► pagan festival of darkness all good [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► you're good you'll agree that they're [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► all you nod critical thinkers how I pity [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► and hate you [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► critically of cards throwing a richard [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► dawkins special in the holiday movie [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► Pulp it's terrible little present [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► everything that's in there it's a core [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► Sagan Christmas billions and billions of [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► Christmas specials [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► well that's true and that's just [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► rankin/bass oh so I i want to recap [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► before we do our inductees for the year [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► 2012 into our holiday movie vault which [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► ice should say i called the holiday [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► movie vault and see let's pointed out [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► that uh I said movies or TV and so when [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► we induct the TV show last year that [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► that was one of these choices that was [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► not cheating [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► it was perfectly valid and it's my fault [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► for calling it the whole holiday movie [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► volt includes television that's just how [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► it is it's called the holiday movie [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► vault includes television that's how we [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► roll [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► I'm going to recap the movies that are [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► already in the vault first off we have [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► an honorary inductee because at [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► Christmas in 2010 we did a whole episode [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► about die hard and what a great holiday [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► movie diehard was so I'm gonna put that [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► I'm gonna mark that down as being dan [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► moore and selection from year zero of [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► the holiday movie fault and input [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► diehard in the vault last year's choices [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► Glenn inducted elf the will ferrell [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► comedy about a else that looks like will [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► ferrell he's very tall and james caan is [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► very angry [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► it's the wrath of khan which we I think [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► did a whole episode about uh damn freaks [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► abducted when harry met sally which is [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► originally sent around christmas and new [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► years and I thought that was a great [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► choice and Aiko inducted groundhog day [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► because Groundhog Day is also a holiday [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► and also a great movie serenity Caldwell [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► had it's a wonderful life Steve let's [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► when the TV route with Charlie Brown [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► Christmas excellent choice and I brought [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► in Miracle on thirty-fourth street so [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► you can you can learn all about the [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► holiday movie evolved last year that's [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► incomparable number 71 71 look it up [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► people and and that brings us to today [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► where we have new selections for the [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► holiday movie evolved and I'm wondering [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► who would like to go first and tell us [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► what thing that they love that they want [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► to permanently Preserve in are very [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► high-quality fault that we ordered on [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► the Internet is this like do this by the [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► same people who made the disney vault or [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► we could not afford that [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► unfortunately the pole vault actually so [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► it's really not really awkward it's the [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► people maybe the Keitel gold records [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► solid gold vaults interesting I sure [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► i'll go first I was shocked shocked i [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► tell you to find that nobody last year [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► picked the seminal 1983 classic a [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► christmas story which you've seen [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► because he runs for 24 hours during xmas [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► on TBS yes it does mr. ossible for you [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► not to have seen it [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► oh I love watching it like two in the [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► morning it's great it's really a ball [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► with the best part about it is that you [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► can start watching at some point and [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► then yes and you can go to bed then you [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► can get a meeting gets the resin dip in [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► and out and you know you come up as we [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► know the most ridiculous thing we bought [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► a DVD of it when you're have no idea [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► what we can see that is correct that is [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► just ridiculous ruins the experience [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► that's not what was that about [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► so it perfectly supports that sort of [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► dipping in and out right because it's [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► kind of well it is an overarching has an [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► overarching plot there are like sort of [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► these little scenes that serve as [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► vignettes so it really does a good job [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► of letting you sort of drop in and pick [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► up just you know a thread and then you [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► could just let it go and then come back [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► later and watch another thread and it's [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► it's it's just a lovely movie iight shot [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► is what you're saying [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► exactly i remember it i remember it's [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► scaring me a little bit when I was a kid [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► because the Santa seen the Santa scene [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► where he kicks and down the slide was [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► like oh very nice and also the shooting [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► your eye out was very traumatic for me [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► oh yeah sure I with that thing i had a [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► BB gun and I had that same fear was like [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► we want to get him [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► it's dangerous and I got my co-host [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► interest i hope i don't misuse it and [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► accidentally somehow shoot and I out of [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► mine or someone else's I here's the deal [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► ken jennings considers jeopardy winner [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► and gentlemen commence collecting his [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► new book out about childhood myths [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► things our parents told us that were [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► wrong and just came out a couple days [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► ago and one of them is about your I [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► would be begun it is in fact true most [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► mrs. book he disapproves but in fact [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► there are enormous number of merchants [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► your room visits of people having shot [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► there I with their guns and BB gun while [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► your eyes are pretty sensitive so it's [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► not really a surprise we talk about the [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► air those airs those intense airsoft [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► rifles are we talking about like a [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► little like one of the ones that you can [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► pump up and maybe guns i think I'm packs [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► of Indian rifles are these guns can [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► produce like a crazy amount of psi so it [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► is an actual worry and that was this [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► week's installment of blending with [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► Jennings [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► they can work your plan works you and [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► Jeffery 100 I've erased all memory of [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► that experience [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► me too oh yeah yeah yeahs a couple [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► things I really love about this movie [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► one I really love the the little brother [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► Randy whose I think my favorite [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► character in the meantime people fight [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► because the Santa got this movie with me [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► when he's under the sink [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► no that was one of the better one for me [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► as always okay why are your arms down [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► when you get to school but also daddy's [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► gonna kill Ralphie which is that is that [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► is a around my family my extended family [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► that that quote comes up fairly often or [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► around around Christmastime can we get [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► some praise for darren mcgavin they're [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► always and you are a man what a great i [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► mean he's a great actor and [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► underappreciated but this it's so [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► actually great and he passed away a few [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► years ago [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► it's so great that as delivery that he [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► isn't the kind of thing guy deserved to [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► be in a in a classic I don't in a [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► timeless classic and this is it the [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► boxes from juillet must be Italian [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► the duck is smiling at us but this is [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► dog its tether little mexican smooth up [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► the mechana seen that always comes back [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► to me is of course the changing the tire [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► on our shop [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► oh I the only he doesn't say yeah my [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► cabin is great and easy particularly [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► great in this because the I think for me [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► the best thing about this film is that [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► is the relationship between Ralphie and [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► dad made a most at least american males [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► I it and certainly myself you know dad [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► is basically this sort of vague presents [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► that that appears after work in the [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► evenings and seems to exist solely to [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► scallops you and tell you you're doing [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► things wrong and it's me and it's just [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► it's absolutely beautiful where you know [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► he's he's asking for the gun from every [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► single entity he can he can consider and [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► you never even thinks of the dad and in [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► the end it's a daddy was aware enough of [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► his son's needs and wants to be the one [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► that sneaks the gun into the house I [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► think that's just great it's so it's a [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► it's it just encapsulated the whole [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► father-son relationship thing to a tee [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► and it does a good job making [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► three-dimensional to write like you know [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► like you're saying there it's just he's [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► he's a natural character there and I [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► don't know I mean I assume like many of [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► you probably that there is an element of [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► that reminds me of my own relationship [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► with my father so i came to this movie [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► really late I this movie was already a [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► classic and I hadn't seen it until like [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► five years ago or something and I you [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► had that moment where you're thinking [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► well it's really on and it is it's great [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► it feels like it's a document that fell [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► out of a you know a time warp from like [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► 50 years ago because of the setting and [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► all of that and it it and as a result is [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► so timeless and it's great and and the [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► fact is yeah it has so many of those [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► vignettes in it that it it's in some [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► ways it whoever thought to run it 24 [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► hours a day over christmas on TBS is a [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► genius because you really can kind of [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► chop it up in a blender and it doesn't [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► matter it's just kind of charming and [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► fun and nice to see it and I use [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► sometimes i use the word charming a lot [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► to describe the certain kinds of movies [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► and TV shows but i really believe [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► there's something to be said for for [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► that kind of quality of like it just [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► makes me feel good to watch it and it [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► fits nice and it's enjoyable and it's [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► nostalgic in a way and it's just it's [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► got all those all those pieces to it [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► it's got its got a great get tie into [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► that I that I discovered recently which [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► I hadn't thought about which is that the [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► the character of scut Farkus the bully [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► who beat Amon did not realize the [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► recently that he appears in those two [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► sort of flashforward episodes of [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► dollhouse the ones with felicia day he [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► is he's like this because he's this tall [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► redheaded kid and like for some reason [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► when especially when I was growing up [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► because this movie is set [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► it's from the eighties but it is set [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► much earlier I always sort of assumed [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► because it's done so well as a movie of [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► that time I was assumed it was from that [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► era and so when I realized that no this [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► is from the eighties and thus the actors [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► you know who are now in their thirties [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► or forties you know like if it started [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► really strange to see them on TV shows [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► that are modern and like his second [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► house that guy only like 30 now it [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► doesn't make any sense that was the only [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► thing that caused me to disconnect that [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► movie because the mom has this 1980 Cape [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► Kate Capshaw style hair that says they [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► didn't wear hair like that in the [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► forties did they and the dad is Aggies [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► perfectly cast but he's kind of old to [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► have such a young son may be the age [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► difference always intrigued me because [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► she's so much older than his wife and [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► the only way I can explain it as maybe [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► he spent the thirties thinking he'll [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► never have a family there with [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► depression was on you couldn't start a [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► family then it's just because he's an [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► Oldsmobile man it ages you have a vague [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► some historical explanation for these [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► were the days when like you know people [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► used to die in childbirth like we're [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► very very high rates you have to marry a [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► lot of different women just to ensure [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► that one of the would survive to raise [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► the children the 1950s 47-43 this is way [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► more thought than I'd ever given to this [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► but you know you know for you you do [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► know physicians were washing their hands [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► by that point right i mean childbed [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► fever was installed a thing in charlotte [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► was urging shouts idea the on temporary [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► gene Shepard of resin traffic right [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► Urlacher e-book I like you imagine gene [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► Shalit Christmas still that's a very [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► different movie [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► yes year you're going to have a halt [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► holiday thanks to the Christmas story [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► that there's my house i'm wearing that [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► crazy kid pop otay Shepherd served in [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► Korea didn't he was in those World War [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► two [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► he was in a single course so in fact [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► these stories he's telling them in the [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► sixties movie was made the eighties but [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► he was really talking about the thirties [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► originally I don't know the movies [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► center of an indeterminate time that [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► seems like it might be the fifties but [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► these are about this really the thirties [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► he was born in 21 [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► so he's nostalgic for someone else's [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► childhood well now i have to recalibrate [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► I'm thinking that the old man is [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► shell-shocked from his trench warfare [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► were one that's that's my new historical [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► one of the trench foot and pick your [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► poison hero palms next steak frites ass [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► and they just weren't appreciated and [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► now he isn't it suspicious that he [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► didn't actually know Italian then I mean [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► think about you clearly he appears to [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► have been I've nothing I got nothing i [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► just running out the next and you drop [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► you drop that that that kid was on [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► fringe but i think last year now a [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► dollhouse for dollhouse right but last [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► year we we dealt with the fact that [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► Peter Billingsley is in elf [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► yes yes and Marilyn line apparently an [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► iron man two original original iron man [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► really yeah and scott schwartz who plays [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► flick went on to do some some you just [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► sell my work as well and work apparently [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► I'm not necessarily genre-specific the [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► kind of enjoyed by geeks billingsley is [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► friends with I think jon favreau the [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► manager I think they do the co-producer [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► hunter right ya know anything more to [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► say about a christmas story please [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► it's a good movie like fantastic limited [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► by like the wind she devised I don't [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► know how else to like the Tin Man next [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► alright so so a christmas story and more [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► in in in the holiday movie halt forever [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► flying and must be discovered that it [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► did steroids and then we might take it [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► out later but otherwise it's in forever [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► whoo-hoo would like to choose next I [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► would like to choose next I stand step [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► for starting value to the bolts & lock [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► me in [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► yes so my film the volunteer condition [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► to go ahead there's no air bizarre [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► condition holiday in a 1942 American [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► musical which is a terrific film it's [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► got being cross be in it it's got Fred [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► Astaire it's musics by Irving Berlin [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► it's like the Christmas see is the [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► American musical easiest thing you could [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► possibly imagine and also is not just [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► about Christmas it's about all kinds of [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► holidays being called holiday and so [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► that the conceit is that being Crosby [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► he's tired of the big city life up there [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► in Manhattan he wants to move out to the [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► country like Greenwich Connecticut or [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► somewhere where it's still country and [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► everything's quiet small in those days [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► and so he wants to start farm and farm [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► doesn't do so well so he decides that [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► he'll take his acting and singing talent [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► and production production town and [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► having left first airing a club in the [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► big city and having lost his girlfriend [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► stare he sets up shop with the idea that [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► he'll run and in just on holidays like [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► Christmas and groundhogs day maybe I [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► don't know [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► well that's it that's a business model [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► that can't fail you can feel that's what [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► spawned a successful the successful [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► hotel chain named after la quinta right [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► and no way that that wrong [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► sorry it's just concerning though that [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► now holiday and has an entirely [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► different meaning than what it actually [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► meant when the movie was made it was [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► confusing the first time I saw the movie [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► I thought something was wrong that hotel [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► that hotel you so only be open on [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► holidays too and they decided you know [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► what we're paying all the staff just to [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► sleep in the bed for 29 days on the [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► month [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► it's a pretty thing well you know that [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► long gap in April and May so the movies [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► full of fantastic music they the one [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► that's best known for of course is white [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► Christmas and there's this tremendously [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► wonderful surreal bit at the end where [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► the front of stair character whose name [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► is Ted Hanover if you created Jim Hardy [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► and Ted Hanover convinces Hollywood to [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► make a movie about holiday inn in the [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► movie holiday inn and so they cut and [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► show you a set at some point and the set [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► is the set we've been watching the [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► entire movie and then they pull back and [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► you see that its asset but they're [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► showing you a set as asset because [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► they're filming it with all the cameras [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► in it as if they were filming the set it [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► is a little surreal for a movie made in [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► 1942 I liked that bit too but full of [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► great music and we try to watch it every [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► year it's one of the film's in my house [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► set out my wife and I try to bring up [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► your cousin music and it's just a silly [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► plot and that's got you know great [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► singing dancing that kind of thing in it [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► also racism right also raised oh no wait [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► should we just brushed under the carpet [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► snow likely also races absolutely what [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► did anything so it's got a senior so the [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► American tradition religion to be fair [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► christmas story also has its a brief [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► races scene 2 so what's the regular [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► racism I think about the Chinese [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► restaurant is already [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► which is it possible bad because it is [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► so hilarious but at the same time yes [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► terribly rich with so this basically [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► you're saying that this is the racist [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► wing of the holiday movie ball basically [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► saying that Christmas is racist and [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► having been white and Christmas hello [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► lump of coal I mean come on [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► having been in chinese restaurants as a [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► Jew before I married someone who's not [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► Jewish on Christmas day I will say that [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► the you know the Christmas story scene [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► is relatively accurate in many regards [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► so the so the in holiday am that issue [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► is of course lincoln's birthday where [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► the performers apply black face and sing [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► a song called Abraham and it's a little [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► terrifying another the terminally [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► classics from what I was just looking [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► this up to make sure that's right they [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► refused to edit movies they want to show [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► them on edited so they in fact will show [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► the film with this extra tray classic [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► movies and AMC will show the movie with [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► the Abraham seen it and it's usually cut [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► and the first time I saw I'd seen Holly [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► and for years and years and i'm watching [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► I'm like I don't remember them doing [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► abraham lincoln's birthday [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► I don't remember being Crosby putting on [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► blackface old no no [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► and the thing about that scene is like [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► its it opens up with Bing Crosby singing [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► in French first of all being Crosby [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► singing anything that it you know you've [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► screwed up when you do anything that [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► overshadows Bing Crosby singing one of [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► the best vocalist in the 20th century [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► and so it's bad enough because he's he's [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► in this uncle remus costume and it's bad [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► and you're you're like oh my god what a [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► different error this was this is [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► horrifying this is horrible and they [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► started gets the end of the song realize [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► okay they're going to move on to the [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► next holiday is and then the female lead [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► comes onstage in out four hundred times [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► worse most great more racist stereotype [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► like all this it's like it's like a real [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► springtime for Hitler moment for your [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► job is you just know and your job is [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► like on your chest because the phrase [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► like I'm not saying they're not [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► yeah like some part of you is going to [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► look at least get that keyboard [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► background your head saying okay totally [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► different time racism was far far far [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► far different than that was now and then [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► you're like I had no idea how did this [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► get released and people not just like [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► breaking excuse a little bit then you're [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► like okay not that much nobody know but [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► i think the business there's a thing of [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► the time which is that minstrel ism had [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► a long history wasn't purse a racist as [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► a point where developed into that we can [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► have a whole discussion about that black [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► people actually dressed up as minstrels [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► and performed is it's a very often but [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► the weird part to me is not just that [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► but then while these people are singing [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► black face behind them are the black [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► servants in the house including Louise [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► Ellen beavers I look up her name here [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► was plays mammy and like every movie [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► during her lifetime and including this [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► one and her kids are singing along and [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► of course they're black they're not a [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► black face their black with these white [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► people in blackface singing and it's not [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► set up to be funny it's an absolutely [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► serious moment so if you take it for [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► what it is it's actually fine it's just [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► terrifying insight into what was [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► acceptable portrayal wasn't it wasn't a [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► parody or Lampoon but anyway it is just [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► an odd moment movie but you know where [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► we're not confronted with having to see [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► it it actually turns out that all your [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► favorite movies have black faces that [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► have been cut another our shows busters [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► these diehard the die-hard black facing [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► the top that's really true actually you [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► know the worst one is in 2001 a Space [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► Odyssey that is the most offensive [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► blackface scene i have ever ever seen [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► but you got to get the bootleg David [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► really overdoing it [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's really it's really [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► horrible you know it's funny what I [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► think I think we may have touched on [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► this briefly in previous podcast but it [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► is fascinating not to get off of holiday [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► movies into crippling racism and culture [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► that's what every podcast involves and [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► the one that always gets me it again not [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► a I'm not holiday-themed per se but [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► actually a tradition that that I i got [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► from from Lisa's husband [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► Oh ducts which is which is a which is [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► the Marx Brothers & duck soup every yes [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► 3 New Year's Eve we want we watch duck [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► soup and the marketplace duck soup and [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► there is there's actually a number in [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► there that does have a lot of a slightly [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► horrific black facing right in the [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► middle of it with with all four marks [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► reference yes and they're there are [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► several other Marx Brothers movies with [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► similar either lines or or in fact in [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► one movie a whole production number data [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► races that and and that one blows me [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► away because it's like guys you're [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► Jewish you yourself are an oppressed [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► group do you not see what you're doing [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► here but it again it's just something I [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► watched all those movies as a kid and I [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► have no recollection of this i feel like [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► my parents were that's kind of parents [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► would like sit me down and had a talk [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► about it but apparently justice i'm [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► almost i'm almost tempted to change my [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► vote to duck soup and duck soup has [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► nothing to do with the holidays and all [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► but it's a wonderful holiday tradition [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► and it's a it is such an absurd movie to [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► there's ever a little things i like [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► about it's a great hungry New Year's Eve [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► thing and it's short I was my favorite [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► Marx Brothers movie grown ups [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► yeah that's where I got one of my [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► twitter icons because for one of my [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► Twitter streams i have Margaret Dumont [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► is my car Oh from that movie with you [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► have been spalding my house but no one's [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► gonna answer the whole Lake that the [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► market marshmallows yes other than the [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► hundred and the occasional bits of of [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► quite disturbing racism lovely lovely [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► sunday and holiday and so I guess we [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► have to indulge holiday in glitter we [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► inducting it without mr. lincoln's [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► birthday I don't important historical [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► record I think we'll be able to see if [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► you rent it i don't know what the DVD is [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► like and if you rent it rented out if [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► you can read it if you watch it on [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► television get the DVD it's you know [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► it's part of the history of [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► entertainment what people watch the time [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► what our grandparents watched was first [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► out so i think we induct it without the [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► scene with the important recollection [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► that movie was made with this seemed [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► alright fair enough [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► as the inductor you get to decide how we [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► how we view this movie for all time so [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► thank you but one last night I'm holiday [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► inn which I've which I found fascinating [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► they actually took the exact same sets [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► years later when they made white [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► christmas and the holiday the the [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► holiday inn like club is the exact same [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► set they use for the generals lot of the [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► ski lodge in white Christmas [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► so if it's the they turned it around a [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► little bit but it is exactly stick for [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► stick to the same one and you can tell [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► because in holiday in white christmas [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► which is a Technicolor movie they didn't [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► even bother to paint this [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► black-and-white set it is it looks like [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► a black-and-white movie with like the [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► only one that's been colorized with like [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► human skin tones in it i should also [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► point out that that indian taco has his [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► own equivalent of a holiday movie vault [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► and it's a it's down in his basement and [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► that's where white christmas has been [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► locked up and he doesn't feed especially [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► if it's changed out of it puts the [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► lotion on its skin and never ever gets [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► aired again no it's it's the same as the [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► same vault that like they used to put [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► the Hulk in like the first issues the [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► comic to prevent it from getting out and [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► wreaking havoc upon innocent people is [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► the same philanthropy with which I [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► protect people from white Christmas [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► thank you we appreciate it do you [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► spoilers spoilers are you gonna ruin [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► somebody's a beloved holiday movie again [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► this year I i actually have had many [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► requests to lie creature like repeat [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► that episode I am actually in the early [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► stages of preparing what a twitter [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► follower pre professionally described as [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► the detractors commentary of white [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► Christmas I'm going to do my own like [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► rifftrax that's not joking it just [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► simply go shot-by-shot beautiful hissing [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► okay now here's here's the part where I [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► think you could kind of see you kinda [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► see Bing Crosby's but underneath those [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► tighty-whities because the director just [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► didn't care i was framing it didn't even [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► give him a new pair of Underpants I [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► wouldn't say so much [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► there it is everybody look forward to [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► that will be everybody understands [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► remember for next year preview of any [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► not goes next [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► the strategy it's gonna be a big project [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► it's gonna be good let's go from the [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► from horrible racist scenes and hot 11 [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► holiday movies to Steve lots of natural [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► transition i don't know how i feel about [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► what are you gonna do Steve well well [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► actually it might turn out to be a [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► better segue than you think but only [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► very tenuously oh boy ok so we look I [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► haven't already [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► no no Skeletor ball [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► I mentioned at the end of last year's [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► holiday vault that that I was bitter [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► that a christmas story had mentioned and [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► I really wanted to induct that this year [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► but then I caught wind that Dan might [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► want to choose it so in the spirit of [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► Christmas i decided to let him have all [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► because i'm a giver [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► but I did pick another film from the [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► great Bob Clark who is for modern fee [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► it has been marked with peaks and [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► valleys but i believe the peaks are very [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► high indeed i'm talking about like a [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► christmas story he did Porky's baby [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► geniuses to electric babylou i think was [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► his one of those Peaks is the film i've [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► chosen for this year's holiday movie [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► evolved and that is 1974 black christmas [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► you are going to get international [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► production starting it is it is a [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► delightful tale of a sorority house at [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► Christmas break and the psychotic killer [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► living in the Attic who periodically [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► emerges to kill the ones that didn't go [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► home for the holidays was the call [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► coming from inside the house this is [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► great this is great is is the killer see [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► so he stood the killer starts to kill [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► the girls in the sorority house why [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► don't the rest of them leave saying [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► there is a killer there was a horrible [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► kit murder here or if there's a good [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► reason that Jason don't know it'sit's [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► actually brilliant the because it is [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► Christmas break and the girls are you [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► know periodically leaving the sorority [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► house to go home for the holidays or go [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► skiing and naturally just before most of [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► them get dispatched they say something [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► along the lines of I might not be here [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► when you get back because my dad's [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► coming to pick me up and then lo and [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► behold when the person gets back that [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► that person is our molecules but is in [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► fact there because the killer is keeping [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► his his his trophies in the Attic [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► oh just like John McCain no one ever [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► notices the smell or nothing really [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► apparently not [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► apparently not although i excuse you [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► have up there it's you do get perfect [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► and it's apparently soundproof as well [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► because this guy does as Glenn mentioned [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► make quite a few phone calls to the to [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► the residents of the sorority house [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► really it's really awkward but it's on a [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► party-line to write get off the phone [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► kill your mom come on the phone but no [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► this is [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► this is easily the best of the Christmas [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► based horror movies and I think one of [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► the best horror movies at the seventies [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► period i hesitate to call it a slasher [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► film because i think it is higher [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► quality than most of those but pretty [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► much every slasher that came afterwards [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► crib from it in that black christmas i [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► think introduce the sorority house [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► setting the camera shots taken from the [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► point of view of the killer which i [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► think most people would attribute to [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► halloween was done here for years [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► earlier the repeated phone calls from [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► the killer as i mentioned and these are [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► much much worse than just the check the [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► kids this is actually some really creepy [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► schizophrenic sounding stuff with the [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► guy uses multiple voices and speaks as a [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► child sometimes and occasionally just [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► drops into totally normal speech [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► patterns and indeed plan the call is [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► coming from inside the house so you work [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► you were correct there I was worried for [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► a second we're going to pick a black [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► yellow Christmas notes that's a good one [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► too though right you know i just i'm not [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► i'm not super familiar this but I [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► wouldn't look at the wikipedia page what [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► we're talking and notice that this in a [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► tie into our earlier discussion cured [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► aaliyah's in this movie here 2001 Fame [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► also Olivia Hussey who was in romeo and [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► juliet juliet Margot Kidder and Margot [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► Kidder here playing that here playing [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► away from type as a drunk kind of a pic [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► oh this is the darkest holiday would [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► evolve ever so it's wonderful it's a [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► wonderful film whose Andrea Martin plan [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► this film well I don't seem it and she's [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► got more Andrea Martin he's somewhat [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► attractive semi amusing friend [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► well the sorority girls with the curly [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► hair and glasses who she's really more [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► of an accessory she doesn't really rise [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► to or two I do i think the fast lane [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► choice her talents but it's it's a [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► wonderful summer film this is a [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► Christmas Eve and you only a scary one [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► it's it's a good thing thrown the DVD [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► player wire wrapping gifts or stabbing [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► gifts with a knife over and you're [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► somewhere so when the cancer sleep [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► upstairs you're assembling all the toys [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► there you go you have after you've put [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► together the bike with the Japanese [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► instructions and you're in a bitter [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► bitter mood this is the this is the way [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► to go [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► at least somebody's having a worst [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► Christmas Eve than I am just don't have [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► don't have the volume up to louder [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► one of your kids will come downstairs to [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► be like what do you want God it does [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► have very little blood so if you happen [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► to be somebody who's squeamish that's [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► actually a pretty decent film for for [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► you know horror beginners and contrary [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► to the template that Halloween started [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► the Virgin dies first [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► so it's actually an improvement over [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► what came later it was between this and [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► home alone [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► I think you did a good job by by another [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► psychopathic keeps picking people off [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► one-by-one during the holidays and [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► inside a house that's right [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► die hard 2 also somebody skulks around [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► killing people inside a big house that I [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► think about our mothers our headlight [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► different holiday and no one is killed [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► to my knowledge accepting the same that [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► they removed spoken of murder see all by [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► briefly considered I hard to for my [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► choice this year but us decided that [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► it's not as good as die hard one [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► it's not the sequels rarely are still [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► still decent still better than a lot of [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► crap your action movies but you know [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► what it doesn't quite capture the magic [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► I think we should move on because I'm [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► going sir [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► yes I know it's starting to get dark in [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► let's all it so let's go to Andy next [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► you didn't put a halt it is involved i [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► I'm entering it in the vault now in the [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► back of the values extremes to put [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► involved in your screams of horror from [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► the vault when it entered I thought [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► maybe there was an alternative all that [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► you were putting that it i'm telling you [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► i'm looking for Donnelly this podcasting [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► hear all those special of sound effects [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► will be laying in hear the creaking the [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► fall to the screaming and that's gonna [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► be awesome [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► it is IMVU podcast listener [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► Oh holiday and has just mysteriously [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► disappeared from the ball it's coming [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► from inside the vault oh no it's cool [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► though is it was gonna dip out for you [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► know some eggnog so it'll probably back [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► later it's going to get phone call [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► though it's coming from inside the vault [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► so good huh yeah any what do you got [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► well you got a topic what was horrible [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► what horrible thing will be emanating [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► from your heart warming christmas [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► special [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► well I we talk this afternoon you [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► reminded me that I actually talked about [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► the sctv holiday special last year so [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► let's consider that already there even [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► though was sort of snuck in under an [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► asterisk I decided in lil in lieu of [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► that to talk about what is actually a [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► legitimate sincere beloved holiday TV [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► classic for me every year this this show [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► comes on every year [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► I not only watch it I'm like they're 10 [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► minutes early I'm excited like a kid for [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► the show to come on and when the show [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► ends i am just so happy and so thankful [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► that Christmas exists and it really is [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► Christmas when the show airs and again [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► it sounds like i'm going to be sarcastic [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► then say it's about the seals and Crofts [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► robot robot Christmas crowd cartoon of [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► 1974 no no I'm being sincere here it is [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► the last show of late show with david [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► letterman before Christmas it is the [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► unofficial david letterman holiday [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► special never announced never promote [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► promoted that way but they do the exact [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► same show each and every season each [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► with a certain segment that you know [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► it's coming but it's the greatest thing [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► ever [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► so they this is paul shaffer is going to [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► tell from from behind the piano is going [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► to tell the story about him watching the [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► share Christmas special Sonny and Cher [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► christmas special in the mid-seventies [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► always the same script as oh it always [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► kills only yeah you mentioned that she [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► wasn't she was in Victorian clothes [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► her hands were in a month pause for the [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► laughs from the audience every time okay [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► Jay Thomas comes on as a guest [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► he tells the story about the time that [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► he and his friend gave the lone ranger a [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► ride back from her from a car show [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► appearance that he and a he and Dave [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► will like take turns throwing footballs [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► at a Christmas tree with a giant [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► meatball on the top of it they're going [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► to take turns throwing these footballs [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► and trying to knock the meatball off the [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► tree and sometimes Jake sometimes [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► sometimes jay thomas gets it sometimes [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► David Letterman gets it but you can see [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► every single time they really really [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► want to be the one who [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► it's two knocks the meatball off the [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► tree this year and then but the but the [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► the best part of all [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► Darlene love singing christmas baby [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► because problem yeah and maybe the first [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► time they ever did this it was done like [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► almost any other musical appearance on [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► the show extremely well produced well [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► done but nothing spectacular about it [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► but you can sort of you can also tell [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► that everyone associated with this show [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► wants this to be the best five minutes [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► they do every single year there's they [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► bring a chorus that bring an orchestra [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► they bring soloists they find a new way [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► to get the saxophone player in for his [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► big saxophone solo I'm really looking [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► forward to it especially this year [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► because the sex of their regular [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► saxophone player left earlier this [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► season and now there's a new guy in [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► there I don't know if he's going to fill [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► in where they're going to get the old [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► guy back in yet [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► you can tell by this is a smile on my [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► face that's about eight miles wide [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► I love this each and every year and [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► possibly it's because one common thread [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► through a lot of these things we've been [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► talking about our favorite favorite [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► Christmas shows a lot of it is just its [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► associated with so many really great [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► memories that we a christmas story comes [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► on at some point and we're gonna be [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► seeing it through the course of the day [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► it's gonna be tied into whatever we do [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► on Christmas each and every year [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► Letterman shows but I've been watching [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► the show since I was a kid it what [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► didn't exist before be before I was a [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► teenager and it wasn't designed to be [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► this this commercial sort of thing [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► that's going to sell products and sell [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► advertising it just feels as though it [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► just grew naturally and organically and [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► everybody including the audience is just [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► enjoying every damn second of it so I'm [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► looking forward to if ever I i got my [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► schedule screwed up and I missed it i [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► would really have to petition like the [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► internet saying that somebody record [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► this and post the video because I can't [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► have my christmas until I see the [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► lettermen christmas show amazing that [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► they you know they essentially do the [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► same thing over here every year why not [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► david has the same show every night [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► that's true oh zing you got a point for [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► backpack that's right Dave I'm sorry he [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► couldn't hear you over the sound of the [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► kennedy center honor that you receive [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► as one of the leading contributors to [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► American entertainment now I just didn't [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► hear about that because I stopped [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► watching him 10 years ago when he [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► stopped being funny you know you weren't [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► always sing bird finding worried so what [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► do you have to contribute to the the the [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► increasingly crowded and come on holiday [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► movie volt the 1968 classic the lion in [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► winter good one [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► thank you it's the story of Christmas [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► with Henry the second Eleanor of [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► Aquitaine and their three squabbling a [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► surviving sons to give you a little [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► backstory Henry and Eleanor one of [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► history's original fun couples she tried [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► to have him overthrown and in turn he [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► had imprisoned but because they were big [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► on appearances he freed her for [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► Christmas every year and during so this [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► takes place with her being you know [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► wrote on a barge up from prison to the [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► family stronghold where Henry has been [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► shacking up with his son's fiancee [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► this is fine by his son Richard because [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► Richard wasn't exactly into the ladies [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► and over the course of the next I want [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► to say 36 hours that the movie takes [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► place the sun's conspire to kill one or [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► both of their parents Henry and Eleanor [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► squabble reconcile squabble reconcile [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► blah blah at infinitum and the whole [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► thing is just a meditation on the [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► madness of going home for the holidays [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► and seeing the relatives you know you [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► know will drive you nuts and the the [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► dialogue the odd katharine hepburn place [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► Eleanor of Aquitaine peter o'toole is [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► brilliant as Henry the second a [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► comparatively young Anthony haha Anthony [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► Hopkins is Richard Timothy oh god [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► Timothy Dalton that's his name Timothy [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► Dalton plays the King of France who [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► happens to have had been having things [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► to do with Richard on the side and and [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► BB you come for that you you come for [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► the 1183 imager you stay for the [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► dialogue because it's got some of the [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► best lines that you're ever going to [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► hear in cinema i love that bit but she [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► throws herself doses every family has [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► its ups and downs but now there's [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► there's a scene where after after after [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► the Sun seven prison both Henry and [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► Eleanor [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► and stuck them in the in the dungeons to [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► figure out what to do with them [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► there's this beautiful scene where [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► Katherine Hepburn turns to Pedro to [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► lances I have a confession i'm afraid i [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► don't much like our children [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► well this that I think aaron sorkin [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► frequently quotes the line about the [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► about the man falling down which i [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► believe is from here which was [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► yeah it'sit's when the falls on all that [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► was left yes it matters anyway I don't [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► know how you fall one of the Alliance [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► that we used to what shall we hang the [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► Holly or each other is one that comes up [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► a lot i'm not a huge katharine hepburn [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► fan I think she tells I think she I [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► think she veers towards the gimmicky I [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► mean it's a hell of a screen it's a hell [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► of a screen presence but i'm always [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► going to prefer Rosalind Russell to [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► Katharine Hepburn in terms of grand old [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► downs and but i have to say that I can't [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► see Roz Russell doing this one and [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► there's a point where cats were on [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► Elinor's fondly recalling when she went [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► on the Crusades because she was a huge [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► backup the Second Crusade and she went [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► out and it's kind of a big deal but I'm [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► and the line is I even made pour lui her [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► first husband King of France Louie take [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► me on crusade how's that for blast to be [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► addressed my maids Amazons and rode bare [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► breasted halfway to Damascus Louie had a [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► seizure and I damn near died of wind [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► burn but the troops were dazzled equinix [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► just circle maybe it's in the every line [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► is this beautiful setup and the [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► knockdown and setup and the knockdown um [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► and and the music is fantastic [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► I best of all it's not a ren fair or in [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► SC a type of oh the nobility is clean [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► and and the sets are gorgeous and rumors [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► gowns I it's just it's grainy the only [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► way you can tell Henry that the king is [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► you can be bothered to put on a circle [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► and he's just as grainy and and shovels [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► everybody else there are dogs sleeping [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► under the table people are sleeping on [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► piles of strong the Florence is very [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► true to life it to what it was and I [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► think that had something to it as well [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► it's again if you are going if you're [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► going home for the holidays only with [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► the greatest of reluctance or you are [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► stealing yourself for some inevitable [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► relative showing up [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► watch this movie ahead of time because [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► you will be smirking to yourself the [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► rest of the holiday season and this is a [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► screenplay is James golden who's the the [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► brother of william goldman yeah there's [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► there's a remake they did a couple years [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► ago the BBC did were i believe it's the [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► BBC it's patrick stewart as Henry the [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► second and Glenn Close is Eleanor I [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► haven't worked out for the DVD yet and [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► I'd love to see Patrick Stewart I'm just [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► not not sure I want to see Glenn Close [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► that makes sense but maybe youtube can [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► do a mashup where it's patrick stewart [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► and Katharine Hepburn that sound again [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► gauge but it's well worth i'm not i'm [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► not sure returning classic movies is [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► going to show it during the holiday [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► season but they usually show it during [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► their third 31 days of Oscar so keep an [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► eye out for items for 24 hours and just [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► dip in dependent value Y is y is y is [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► Jeffrey advocating mutiny what is going [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► on why are they had a Chinese restaurant [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► knows dance move i have never seen this [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► movie I I am blown away i need to see [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► this i is forever different fantastic [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► never T the chew the scenery they spit [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► it out they create new scenery to shoe [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► and spin it again and it's historically [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► barely accurate peter o'toole is [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► fantastic because he makes you what he [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► make he makes you understand than half [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► of being a king is convincing other [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► people that your kingly and then that's [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► in the other actors who are stuck with [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► planning & Sons actually do a fantastic [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► job of explaining how the Plantagenet [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► dynasty was kind of do before it started [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► because that you know Henry the second [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► was kind of the peak of it was all [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► downhill after that even though Richard [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► was technically the lion-hearted he [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► bankrupted England and you know John [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► prompted the Magna Carta it's come for [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► the dialogue stay for the acting I just [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► really this is one of my desert island [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► movies as well as one of my Christmas [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► favorites so I really love this movie [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► you handing back on his heels like Lou [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► visualize that's a good sign to know [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► that they had it so I had a sort of war [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► myself to say Andy shut up because this [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► is sort of movie you can spend 30 [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► minutes talking about another let's say [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► we get a word in edgewise is it is an [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► intensely solid choice it is also it is [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► also on that list of movies where it's [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► like okay well i only get it at that's [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► great i put in a lot of work together to [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► finish this thing on time and got maybe [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► another 45 minutes worth of work but [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► they're not expecting it till noon and [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► that's two or three hours away [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► I'm good I'll definitely make this the [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► consensus on time like all [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► wrap this movies on this my husband and [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► I can I know I can't do anything but [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► watch this [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► oh damn it will act of god what I do [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► it's America know and it's just there's [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► it's such a good movie [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► oh yeah maybe it really it really [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► underscores absolutely like why Peter [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► O'Toole is one of the greatest actors [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► that that the passing of the years I've [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► ever you get that had been working the [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► past 50 years because you see him when [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► he's on you see like a Richard Harrison [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► peter o'toole the other actors like when [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► they are mostly down to playing you know [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► Richard Harris or peter o'toole exactly [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► that you have to see you see him on the [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► chalk shows and they have these great [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► stories about being drunk actors in [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► their early twenties and they're great [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► stories but you forget that these are [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► these people who were on some sort of [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► reality show and that's how the name is [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► out there they got there they became [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► famous actors after 15 years of nothing [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► but great role after great role after [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► great role and this my I think I i think [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► that this is only my second favorite [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► peter o'toole performance beyond the [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► only second only to his role in the [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► stuntman because if there is ever a [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► stuntman te plaît plays he plays as [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► that crazy director exactly please King [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► in in that movie he plays God in this [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► one because he plays a direct a director [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► who like within this for this realm is [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► like any if I want something to happen [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► it happens because I wanted it to happen [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► if you're on my set I control and really [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► completely you don't know whether he's [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► insane or a genius but that is the [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► that's the only other roller can say oh [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► it's such a hard choice to make between [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► those do anyway you can practically see [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► Anthony Hopkins picking up tips and his [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► scenes quickly and Hawkins has a good [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► seem to when to let you have a family [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► dynamics put up there are five minute [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► there are six main characters Alice the [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► mistress Henry and Eleanor the [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► squabbling monarch / parents and then [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► the three sons Richard Jeffrey the [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► conniving little Sun and then John [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► two-out-of-three these guys become kings [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► the way the way the loyalty split up is [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► Richard back to his mother when she [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► tried to overthrow Henry and put their [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► now deceased brother and put their now [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► deceased son Henry on the throne [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► there's a lot of Henry's and John back [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► his father and Jeffrey plays [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► both sides against the middle and [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► actually tries to make an end around and [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► run around everybody but there's there's [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► a scene where Henry is wondering why [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► Richard never warmed to him and and why [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► there's this huge disconnect and anthony [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► hopkins you could have called you could [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► have called anytime and i would have [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► come to your side and you never once [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► looked at me and I've seen this movie [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► about I'd say 1015 times and everytime i [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► see that seen it still breaks my heart [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► and that's because it feels fresh every [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► time that it's it's good acting [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► it's it's not hackneyed it's not cliche [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► it's not one of those things where you [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► know what's coming you can practically [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► mouth the dialogue it's just it's very [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► fresh organic moment and again the [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► writing a snap-in brilliant there is not [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► a bad performance of a lot the [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► historical details really throw you and [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► 22 of the mindset we understand how it [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► can be that parents and children are [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► actively scheming to kill each other [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► I'm just ended set of Christmas so it's [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► best we can but it really basically the [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► same plot as Black Christmas so but most [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► most film spring spring from Black [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► Christmas there are no virgins to be [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► killed in this film so you know everyone [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► loves her a Jason confused about [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► something I think there's still one [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► package left to open tonight [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► contact it's left to open yes that's [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► right we could save for the next night [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► of Hanukkah is it isn't alone offers a [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► full of burning crap or is it full of [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► something delightful it is full of [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► delightfully burning crap i have my my [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► selections and first I'm going to say [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► that that the guy i had to choose [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► between two episodes of animated TV [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► series that aired on fox [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► so it was it was a close one because I [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► dearly love and perhaps will induct a [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► future holiday movie vault the episode [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► of futurama called xmas story where in [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► where in Santa is a murderous robot that [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► duh strikes fear into the population of [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► Earth as he tries to kill everybody [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► voice of John Goodman which I believe [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► they actually didn't air originally [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► because they were afraid of how awful i [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► think i confirm this with david cohen [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► sorry glinting when I when the [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► mysterious came on and [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► it was they had a delayed i think a year [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► because it was so horrifying and [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► terrifying to the studio executives and [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► only they could bring themselves to air [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► it but by the next year they'd already [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► destroyed the show viewership enough the [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► studio was willing to bet that was going [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► to show it because i didn't think i was [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► watching it because Cassandra is like [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► weapons and he tries to kill everybody [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► that's a and and uh not as good as Black [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► Christmas it's it's good and that's how [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► they celebrate xmas in the year 3000 [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► this is they they honor the murderous [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► Santa and the the episode here's a [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► little trivia bit the episode begins [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► with the super title based on a true [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► story [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► who why but no i'm not i'm not actually [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► gonna gonna pick that one instead i'm [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► going to pick an episode of the Fox [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► animated series the tick called the [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► tickle of Santa but it was a saturday [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► morning cartoon show on Fox before it [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► became a brief and brilliant light [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► action comedy on Fox and primetime and [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► the animation is crude but the writing [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► is incredibly sharp the writing is a [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► sharp as the animation is crude and Fox [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► actually aired this episode in primetime [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► as a kind of a Christmas special and [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► it's great it's really clever the idea [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► is there's a department store addresses [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► a department store Santa and he he he's [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► a criminal and he gets accidentally [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► electrocuted but rather than dying he he [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► has this superpower where multiple [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► versions amount of himself created and [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► this is created a super villain known as [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► multiple Santa multiple Santa decides to [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► go of it ultimately to the city dam [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► which is hydroelectric power and he's [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► going to electrocute himself and create [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► an army of millions of multiple Santa's [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► each of whom basically just says 00 over [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► and over again as they swarmed the city [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► creating chaos and and just horrible [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► crimes that happen [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► so that's that's the that's your [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► superhero plot and it has to be thwarted [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► by the tech in his sidekick arthur but [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► maybe the best thing about it is the [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► tech is this character who is a who is [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► very innocent and and we learn early on [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► in this in this episode that he believes [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► in Santa completely you [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► is he he's a believer in sand and this [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► episode walks a line because it's the [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► children's cartoon that adults watched [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► include me but it is it was on [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► originally in you know the daytime it [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► and and so it never takes a position on [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► Santa being real or not but the tick [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► does the tick believes that's that Santa [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► is real and Arthur doesn't and what ends [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► up happening is because he's upset that [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► the multiple Santa because he thinks [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► it's anna turns out it's not Santa [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► however Israel and in fact Santa is a [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► almost a he's surrounded by Secret [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► Service like group of elves and big red [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► is on the rooftop big red is coming down [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► the stairs now so so big red santa the [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► real Santa decides to meet with the [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► ticket Arthur and they see his whole [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► security contingent which is elves [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► literally Secret Service agent elves [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► they've got dark glasses and little ear [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► pieces and the tip comes and briefs them [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► about about how it gives him a pep talk [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► and says you got to take care of [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► multiple Santa and as he's doing this he [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► occasionally just hands presence to them [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► just like it here have this and [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► communities talk because that's that's [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► it Santa Claus right so is taken streets [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► like okay Santa Israel and then they [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► have to go and they they have to stop [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► the multiple Santa and and you know it [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► was ridiculous and just I think that the [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► the climax at the city damn where [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► they've got the hydroelectric plant and [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► any and of course it all works out and [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► and Santa thanks them for their service [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► and all that but i love it because it's [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► it's a it's funny it's a it's got a nice [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► take not quite as murderous as the xmas [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► santa from futurama but still it's funny [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► the bad guy is not just one Santa but [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► many many Santas and who they're up to [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► no good and then the real Santa has to [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► come and and give the assignment and [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► he's treated with a sort of proper [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► reference so it's a it's a it's a gym [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► and I think it's on [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► I don't know if it's on streaming but i [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► know that the tick a season two I [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► believe is on DVD of the animated series [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► is all on DVD now and i love it and it's [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► a great series but the tickle of Santa [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► great episode so I want to toss it in [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► the vault original comic books i read [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► the watch [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► the original cartoon series one area and [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► reruns and I even mildly enjoyed the [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► crazy live-action series our little [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► which I love because the Creator has [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► been was last name is lieutenant yeah [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► but his thing is you know we were [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► negotiating for the cartoon my lawyer [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► said just keep something back he was [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► going to keep something back so we [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► decided to keep back the live-action [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► rights because no one's ever gonna make [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► a lot of action version of this while [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► Ben Edlund who went on to work on Angel [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► and firefly believe and also [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► supernatural well very clear that the [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► tickets a great character and that is a [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► great episode [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► don't let don't let the cheap cheap [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► animation fool you that the three [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► seasons of the animated tick and the [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► live-action 1r are great but being [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► married holiday everyone was trying to [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► think what TV episodes have had TV shows [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► with Christmas episodes have I really [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► liked my thought about I thought about [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► it for a while i was thinking about [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► dramas and very special Christmas [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► episodes and also kind of modeling [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► christmas episode of mash and things [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► like that and suddenly I was like oh you [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► know what it's the tick I i love outside [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► of the Charlie Brown Christmas that [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► would be the next place i would go for a [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► tad animated Christmas think so strongly [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► Caldwell related tick trivia which is [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► that Josh believe it was originally [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► supposed to be our threw them off and [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► live-action version of the show but they [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► wouldn't release them from sports night [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► even though the show had been canceled [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► ah shameful i know it only last about [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► seven episodes 4 episodes a lot of [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► Andrews that's also on DVD i have those [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► that's great that's great great [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► yeah and created by created in in my [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► locale was published by New England [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► comics yes my comic book store growing [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► me too yeah they have a waiver I guess [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► the recoloring all the old dishes of the [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► original theory they're gonna we're [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► gonna sell the hell out of those 12 [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► issues whatever I mean there are only [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► yet 12 or 13 I had one once and if you [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► have to wear is though there's a [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► collection I mean I did those issues are [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► available in many forms because you know [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► comics can keep making money on the [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► night [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► it's like a large building i have my [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► flaming carrot comics but i do not have [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► takes oh yeah i wish' i wish the tix [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► rights were kind of resolved better [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► because that would be nice to see see [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► more more stuff than there is in in high [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► school my friend [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► and occasionally comfortable contributor [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► Jason tachi and I designed a tick [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► role-playing game [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► wow that was hilarious like basically [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► just makes used to like screw around for [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► a couple hours on the computer and come [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► up with ridiculous rules for a game i [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► think it had skills including like [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► doorknob operation was a skill in that [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► came and many other references to the [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► series 19 vulnerability that kind of [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► stuff I so I i should say yes and he's [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► nine vulnerable not completely dry and I [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► invulnerable up one thing that I'm not [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► not Christmas but Thanksgiving at my [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► notice [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► Michael Gartenberg who is our our pal [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► and was on the stretcher to episode [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► every year watches the to Thanksgiving [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► episode of the west wing on thanksgiving [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► and i actually had a little bit of time [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► while I was preparing a Thanksgiving [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► dinner and I watched by watching one of [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► the lobby [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► I i well Indians in the lobby and uh [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► what's the other one called well no no [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► no Thomas one it's the one with the [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► Chinese immigrants who are Christians [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► and therefore triple-a Shiva left yeah [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► excellent you know those are pretty good [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► i have my criticisms of especially later [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► days west wing Sorkin but those are [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► pretty good too but just to throw them [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► out there as some nice holiday episode [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► for holidays that aren't in december [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► because not all holidays are in december [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► as the holiday and taught us along with [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► the lesson about horrible radar look [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► thanks go ahead there's a darker episode [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► that i didn't expect no one expects the [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► spanish inquisition Christmas itself but [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► as a Jew I don't really have much [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► experience with this Christmas thing [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► that gets me you know there are there [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► any good Hanukkah anything's I don't [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► think that you are you know you're [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► alienating the Hebrew ever actually the [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► hebrew hammer is an excellently I will I [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► will seriously lyerly is the co-star no [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► no it's judy greer one match your career [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► planning a better to degrade and Adam [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► Goldstein and it's an animal is his [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► hammer is MC Hammer in that know if [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► you're not and you're not familiar with [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► the overhand no no no [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► so it is basically the interval another [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► black white asian films [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► but about cruising with whole arias and [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► awesome would it be safe for college [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► exploitations it is in fact an often [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► called a disappointing isn't very funny [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► but yes he's kinda got an afro sort of [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► pimped out but he's got superpowers this [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► great bit where he engineer fighting [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► andy dick was santa claus's son who's [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► killed Santa class i think and wants to [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► take over all holidays and they're [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► fighting away and then the sun goes down [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► there like oh jus powers fading is the [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► Sabbath in the potty training other [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► powers sometimes it's a really i don't i [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► saw it in the theater [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► believe it or not are you standing there [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► was fantastic is a great movie is on [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► netflix streaming you can get their [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► Mario Van Peebles is actually in this [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► movie to Peter Coyote it's a crazy crazy [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► film melvin van peebles in this movie [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► well sure i highly highly recommended [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► isn't always the best Hanukkah related [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► movie one setting aside eight crazy [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► nights I mean it isn't the LC your [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► there's one other isn't there now we [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► don't we don't admit that exists so uh [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► what one of these days what we need to [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► do is get get even more negative and [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► talk about the things that we would like [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► to put a holiday movie purgatory but [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► that would probably be another podcast [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► the holiday movie incinerator bank and [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► pass but not now [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► and Andy besides that Sandy's gig right [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► rankin/bass isn't that bad and he's the [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► guy who brings you down with your [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► beloved with your beloved na old things [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► that was very emissary of God on this [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► plane I don't find the standards for [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► sanity for the rest yeah that's how it [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► is you have a problem with that take it [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► up with God not with me [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► okay well with that hear the sound [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► effects that you candy is requesting [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► that I'm not going to put it of the [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► vault door is being closed and slam shot [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► for another year [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► this has been this has been great this [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► was a lot of fun and I got some more [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► movies that i need to go watch including [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► the line and winter from Lisa that's a [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► good one that I had not even double [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► features with the hebrew hammer very [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► well that's good that's good at holiday [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► inn but only the 1si it's like chocolate [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► pretzels you wouldn't think about it i [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► will soon as you take them together wow [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► yeah all right so this is great i want [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► to thank everybody for coming [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► Lisa thanks for being here alright [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► thanks guys by inflation thank you for [TS]