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Holiday Bloodlust · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  I look like Steve Jobs right now.
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  (laughs)
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  - A very sexy Steve Jobs.
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  - Thank you. - You're the Rock.
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  - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, it's the Rock.
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  - The Rock.
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  - When he had the curls, I'll take that.
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  - I like the fancy ball. - I like the fancy tank.
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  - Yeah. (laughs)
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  (upbeat rock music)
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  (upbeat rock music)
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  (singing)
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  - Hello, and welcome to another episode
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  of the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast,
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  where we are getting ready for the Marriest of Holiday Seasons.
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  But it's not just me, I'm joined by my holiday helpers.
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  - Nicole. - And Shauna.
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  - You know, for some, Christmas really isn't about
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  all the cookies and the candy canes.
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  For me, I've been recently really obsessed
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  with some fairy books.
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  But before I jump into my undying love for fairy book romances,
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  I'm curious, what have you guys really been up to
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  the last couple of weeks?
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  - Oh man, I've been watching a lot of Korean films.
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  Netflix has an amazing array of Korean movies.
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  And we also just started a Korean show called Sweet Home.
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  We're only like two episodes in, but it's kind of like a zombie apocalypse vibe.
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  I love a good end of the world, zombie apocalypse thing.
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  I have been obsessed recently with just end of the world movies in general.
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  - Okay. - Interesting.
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  - I know. Well, it'll tie into the rest of the theme of the episode once we get to that.
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  But I recently watched Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
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  with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley.
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  - Okay. I haven't watched it, but I've heard of it.
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  - Yeah. And you know, it's dark, but I really enjoyed it.
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  I love like day after tomorrow in zombie movies
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  and just kind of doom, you know, the world's gonna end.
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  - Yeah. - Yeah.
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  - I love the aftertomers so much. - Especially that time of his life.
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  He was just, oh, so good. - He was so cute.
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  And they were all going into academic to Catholic competition.
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  And as the former academic to Catholic law in class of 2017, Captain,
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  I love that. - No, Captain.
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  - Oh, I was the team captain, baby. I was head, Matthew.
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  - Okay. - Very popular.
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  - I'm sure. - I'm sure you were pretty.
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  - Very popular.
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  - Into a tan potion.
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  - No, that wasn't till college. That wasn't that kind of popular till college.
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  - Oh, you'll see.
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  - But yeah, lots of Korean films and into the world movies.
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  And I do have the fairy book that you gave me.
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  I promise I'm gonna read it. - I'm gonna read it.
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  - Yes. - Yes.
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  Nicole, have you ever read a court of thorns and roses?
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  - No, I haven't. - Okay, have you heard about it?
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  People call it like Akatar.
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  It's really popular on TikTok. - Wait.
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  Stop. I was actually looking, I don't know if you saw my Instagram story today,
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  but I put on their mysteries, slash their book recommendations.
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  And this was coming up. No one said this one, but I googled books
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  because I'm just in the mood to read a book.
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  This came up as one. So this was actually when I was interested in reading.
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  So it's really funny that we're actually talking about this book.
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  - Yes. - I haven't read it yet.
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  - Oh my gosh, you should read it. - Okay.
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  - Everyone should read it. It's really, really good.
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  I read all five 400 page books in seven days.
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  - Oh my gosh. - So, I--
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  - Of course, you do. - Of course.
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  If you can't tell by just listening to this,
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  I have like a hyper obsession personality.
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  And like, I just have to see it through.
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  Like, I just have to. It was so good.
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  It's a court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Mass.
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  And at first, I was like, oh, I'll read the first one.
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  And I stayed up to like 4 a.m. the first night reading that.
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  And then I was just like hooked.
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  So I would definitely say watch it.
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  The sixth book should be coming out soon.
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  - Read it. - And--
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  - Yeah. Read it.
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  - Probably make a movie at some point, I'm sure.
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  - Right. No, they are. That's where my brain was like two thoughts at once.
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  So Hulu has the rights to it.
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  And so during the writer's strike and everything,
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  like, stop casting and all that.
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  But yeah, Hulu has optioned it.
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  So it will be a series eventually.
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  - We should all three. So you've already read it.
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  Nicole and I can read it.
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  And then we can do a, you know, episode two of the junkie book club.
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  - We'll do that next year. - Yes.
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  - Have an episode breakdown. That would be fun.
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  - Yes. Very, very good.
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  We're in our smart girl era.
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  - Reading books. - I know.
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  - Look at us. - I know.
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  - And if anybody else likes very romance books,
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  I've just finished fourth wing and started Iron Wing.
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  - She's-- I'm deep-- - I'm deep--
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  - I'm deep-- - I'm deep.
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  - I'm deep-- I'm hot.
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  It's scratching a niche that I can't stop.
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  But no, I've literally, like, all I've done is be in very romance line.
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  - Live is joining the thing.
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  - It's a physical-- - I wish.
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  - I wish. I wish.
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  - You're going to find me in mushroom circles all over the country.
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  - Oh my god. - Oh my god.
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  - Like doing mushrooms or growing them or sitting on top of a mushroom.
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  - No, so, "Fae" lore, like, actual, like, in real life, not in these books,
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  is that if you find a circle of mushrooms, it's like a fairy ring.
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  - That's so cool. - It is what it is.
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  - But, like, "Fae" are, like, mischievous creatures
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  so that you don't want to walk through them.
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  - Yeah, I know what I'm talking about. - It's like a fairy circle.
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  That would just be rude.
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  - Yeah. - They were--
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  - They were all that time building it.
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  - Like, portals or whatever.
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  But, yeah, there's some crazy testimonials from people on TikTok.
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  I don't know.
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  You know, it could be attention seekers, but it is entertaining.
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  - I love that. - Yeah.
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  - Yeah. - But--
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  - Have you been transported to a fairy world, Nicole?
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  What have you been reading and watching?
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  - There's two things that I want to talk about.
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  One of them is I actually went to the movie theater,
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  which I haven't done in-- I don't know how long.
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  - I'm like, I should-- - I'm gonna get to the barb.
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  - I'm gonna put it in forever. - Yeah.
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  - Oh, true.
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  I guess that wasn't that long ago then, but--
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  - Before then. - I went--
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  - Yeah. - Before then, it wasn't so--
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  - It was like a pretty good thing. - That was time--
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  - That was the-- - The barb andheimer was July, right?
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  - Exactly. - Yeah, I guess so.
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  - Gosh, it went-- - This whole year
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  went by so fast, it's insane.
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  I can't believe it's December already.
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  - Seriously. - One movie, though.
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  - Hunger Games.
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  - Did you always do so good? - Did you like it?
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  - Yes. - Yes.
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  - I want to see it.
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  - It was good, it was good, but it was way too long.
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  It was like two hours and 40 minutes.
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  - Say, I've heard very mixed reviews where people are like,
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  "It wasn't long enough," and they would have sat
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  if it was longer, but yeah, I think it's just kind of like
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  a book to movie argument, you know? - I have the book,
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  but I haven't read it.
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  It's just sitting on my shelf, but I know--
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  I've read all the other, like, original Hunger Games books
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  and I just re-watched one and two, actually.
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  And so now I really want to go see it.
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  What was your review, Nicole?
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  Did you think, did you like it, despite it being too long?
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  - I did like it.
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  I didn't read the book and I don't know
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  the last Hunger Games movie that I watched.
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  I know I watched the first one.
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  - This one's a prequel, though, so at least you don't really have to read it.
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  - Yeah, you don't have to really watch the other ones,
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  but I did like it.
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  The storyline is really, really good.
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  It got to a certain point for me personally,
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  where I was just like, when is it going to end?
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  - Maybe it is because I didn't read the book,
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  but also to it was later at night.
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  I think the show we went to was 805 shows,
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  so by the time it was over, it was almost 11 o'clock at night.
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  - I can't see.
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  - Yeah, I can't say up that late anymore.
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  So I was just like, "Okay, what time is this over at?"
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  But other than that, I thought it was really, really good.
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  The storyline was really good.
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  I did like the girl who played, oh my gosh,
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  I think her name's like Lucy Bird or Lucy.
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  - Yeah, Lucy Gray.
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  - She was really good.
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  I loved her acting and then the main actor, I liked him a lot too.
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  I thought they played really well together.
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  - Yeah, he's hot as a blonde.
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  - I would recommend it.
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  - Rachel Segaler, that's who the actress is.
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  - I think she's gonna be the new Snow White too,
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  and the live action.
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  - I was just about to bring that up.
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  You can tell she's like a big fan of the Hunger Games.
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  But the first interview she or pressure she did
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  for the Hunger Games, everyone was like,
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  "Well, Rachel Segaler learned her lesson
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  about how to talk about a movie with fans."
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  Because the internet came for her whenever she said
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  that Snow White was not going to be about the prince saving her
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  in the adaptation and the internet.
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  - Not for bad.
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  - It's just this poor, like 20-year-old girl
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  who's a Broadway kid at Harvard.
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  - It's poor girl.
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  - It's so beautiful.
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  - It's so beautiful.
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  - The whole premise is Snow White,
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  all of those original Disney stories.
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  - It's like, I've passed out woman.
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  - There's zero consent in these.
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  - And I know they're based on Christian Anderson.
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  - Yeah, but those are about murder.
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  - They've adapted them.
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  They went from murder to just misogyny.
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  And now people are clutching their pearls
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  that they're trying to make it.
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  Like a woman has agency over herself.
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  - But you know what I'm saying?
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  - We went off on a tangent.
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  But yes, I want to go see "Ballad of Snakes" and "Songbird,"
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  "Songbirds," and eventually I will read the book too.
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  - Say that 10 times fast.
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  - "Ballad of Snakes" and "Songbirds."
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  - "Ballad of Snakes."
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  What was the second thing you said, Nicole?
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  - The second thing that I've been watching,
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  I just started it.
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  So I'm pretty fresh into it.
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  But it is the reality show of Silver Estors,
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  Solone Family.
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  - Oh, that's a family stone or something.
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  - Yeah, it's like the stone family or something like that.
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  And it's on Paramount Plus.
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  I just renewed my subscription.
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  - Ooh. - She got money.
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  - I did it.
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  I literally didn't have it for months
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  because I was like, I'm not watching anything on it.
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  And then I saw it on there because his daughters
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  are just dropped out gorgeous.
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  And I was like, you know what,
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  they're making me want to watch it because of how pretty it is.
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  - Is there so pretty?
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  - Yeah.
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  So I was like, and they're talking about their voice problems.
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  - That's what people would say to this podcast.
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  - It's just so pretty.
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  - 'Cause they can see us.
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  - But they're just talking about their voice problems
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  because of their dad is.
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  And I was like, this is intriguing to me.
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  - That is intriguing.
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  - I think I'm in like three episodes.
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  And it's actually pretty good.
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  They're whole family is really funny actually.
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  So if you want to watch a new reality show
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  and get to know more about his family,
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  I'd recommend it to you.
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  - She's probably-- - Yeah, I'm only like three episodes in.
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  And the episodes are like 20 minutes long.
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  So they're not even that long.
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  - So are a sister podcast or one of our podcasts
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  on the network called That Movie Is Fine?
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  The host, Laura Knight.
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  Did you guys see?
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  She just got to meet some of us.
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  - I did.
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  - And she's obsessed with him.
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  Long time listeners have popped culture junkie podcast.
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  But we'll remember that Lauren was on our show
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  a couple years ago in talking about her love of sliced alone.
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  So I was so happy to see she finally got to meet him.
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  - I know.
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  - You know, dreams do come true.
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  They're really, really do.
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  - So maybe that means one day I'll meet Alexander Skarskard.
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  - You already did it, never mind.
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  - No.
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  (laughing)
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  - We don't talk about that one.
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  - We don't talk about that one.
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  - We don't, he must not be named.
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  - I love that.
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  - No.
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  - After the Britney episode, I was kicking myself.
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  I gotta say this.
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  I kept saying her name was Felicity.
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  Her name was Felicia, which was the--
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  (laughing)
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  - I said Alisha the first time and then I was like
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  listening back to it and I was like, oh my god.
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  I'm not acting like I didn't even read the book.
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  - Correction corner.
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  - Correction.
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  - Felicia.
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  - Quick note from last time.
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  - Oh, no.
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  - Oh, no.
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  - Of the correction corner.
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  - Oh yeah.
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  - Did we fuck up more than once?
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  - No, I just have an update.
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  - Ooh, love an update.
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  - I read right before we came on.
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  - I know what it's gonna be.
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  I'm so excited.
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  Go ahead.
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  - Update.
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  Britney Spears' father's leg was amputated.
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  - Yes, it was, bitch.
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  (laughing)
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  - Oh.
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  - The lips hit me this today and she's like, see, this bitch is dying.
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  - Okay.
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  - Karma is my boyfriend.
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  - Karma is a cat.
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  Karma is your leg being amputated.
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  (laughing)
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  - We're all going to hell.
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  - Oh my god.
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  - You need to tell us.
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  - But we don't-- - Heart will be down there.
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  - We'll be in the fun area that would like Lil Nas X just like on the stripper pole.
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  - I would love that.
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  - If hell was Lil Nas X giving me a show, I would not be mad.
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  (laughing)
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  - But it is a figurative place.
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  - Yeah.
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  - So we will, we will leave it at that.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Pouring out for Jamie Spears.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And no pourin' out for his leg.
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  - Pourin' out for his body leg.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Pourin' out for his disembodied leg.
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  (laughing)
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  - Oh, well, you know, Britney, your karma is coming.
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  Let's hope you win your court case.
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  I did see it's coming in like May of next year.
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  So we'll pray for you guys.
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  We're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be back.
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  (dramatic music)
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  (dramatic music)
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  - So Christmas can be really dark.
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  It comes very close to Winster Solstice, which is the darkest day of the year.
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  And so that's probably why we've seen so many different movies enter into this Christmas horror genre.
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  And we kind of mentioned about Hans Christian Anderson Christmas tales earlier.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Or the folklore.
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  - Folk lore.
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  - Yeah, that's a pretty crampus monsters.
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  - Yeah.
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  And so the legend of Crampus really kind of comes out of that European folklore era.
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  And that's really kind of the earliest that we see it.
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  But, you know, the Christmas horror genre has been around ever since a Christmas Carol,
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  which was the first movie to really kind of feature the spookiness to Christmas with the ghost apparations.
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  But holiday horror really started to become really popular in the early 1970s.
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  And so, you know, kind of looking at this Christmas horror genre,
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  like what do you think it is that draws people into watching this?
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  So, I think we are just also accustomed to Halloween being the spooky time of year,
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  that mixing a joyous occasion like Christmas or just winter holidays in general,
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  with a story about murder or ghosts, it kind of seems like it would be...
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  I don't know that juxtaposition there doesn't make the most sense.
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  And then when you put it together, it's just so satisfying that I think
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  because we don't expect it to make sense is why it's so good, if that makes sense.
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  Yeah.
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  You think that Christmas movies all have to be about happiness and family and falling in love,
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  and Hallmark makes us think it's about two white people in Christmas sweaters
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  saving the town square with cookies.
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  And then when you watch you see one come out and it's about ghosts and murder
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  and Santa slaughtering people, you're like, this isn't intriguing, it kind of mixes it up.
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  Yeah. I agree. I think two people are just obsessed with true crime and stuff,
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  so the more these types of movies come out, the more people you will have that want to watch it.
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  Especially nowadays I feel like true crime, not saying that these are true crime,
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  but it's in that genre. True crime is just becoming more and more popular.
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  And people are psychologically into true crime.
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  I know me and Olivia R into true crime or true crime fanatics.
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  Well, she is more than me way more than me.
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  So I used to be in one of my favorite podcasts besides this one, of course, they're breaking up.
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  They just, you know, wine and crime pour one out for a wine and crime podcast.
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  But I have to get to a new true crime.
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  But no, I agree Nicole, like we all have a blood lust.
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  We're all blood lusty and thirsty. We want that. Gore.
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  Yeah, I also think Nicole went said, I wish I could see real dead bodies.
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  She's a real dude. She was reviewing some of the side for the holidays.
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  Yeah, homicide for the holidays. And she's like, it was okay.
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  And you either liked it because it did show the dead body.
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  I did. Yeah. Yeah. They show the real dead bodies.
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  They do. They show the real crime scene photos.
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  You sick fuck. I love it.
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  That's good. That's good.
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  Blood lust. That's why we want it.
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  It's a blood lust. Yeah, I think I think it's also like people are expected to be happy
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  during the holidays. And like, you know, if you like even if you are a part of like a really tight-knit family,
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  they are stressful, like just being around immediate family, extended family can be a really stressful time,
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  where it's not the Christmas we knew as children.
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  And so that kind of like those children's movie rewatching those movies and those stories
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  necessarily might not resonate. So it's, I feel like it's also like these people seeking out kind of like an
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  aged up version of holidays or kind of putting the silliness of Christmas, but putting it into a horror one.
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  So yeah, I think it's been really, really interesting, you know, like some really early examples of these movies were like
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  whoever slew anti-rew, silent night, bloody night, black Christmas, and some of the other ones.
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  The one that I remember as a kid and I'm not sure if you guys have seen this, it came out in 1997.
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  It's Jack Frost. Now I will just claim here. This is not the one with Michael Keaton, right?
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  It's not the Michael Keaton one. It's not the Michael Keaton one.
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  It's not the Michael Keaton one. Yeah, no, it's not the Michael Keaton one.
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  With the sad dad who like isn't there for a child.
• 19:01
  Turn to a snowman or something. Yeah, why are all Christmas movies about absentee fathers?
• 19:06
  Side down. That's weird. Yeah, that's suspicious.
• 19:11
  So it's the one with Shannon Elizabeth, so the girl from American Pie and 13 Ghosts.
• 19:18
  Okay.
• 19:19
  And so I don't know why they all have the same name. It's probably because it's like an older material that's like re-adapted.
• 19:26
  So it can't be copyrighted. Like Jack Frost has been around. So it's like what? The 20s?
• 19:31
  I mean, so many of these movies have the same title as we'll get to later. Like Silent Night.
• 19:36
  There's tons of movies with that name. And I think that's just, you're trying to go off a holiday trope in the state of that set.
• 19:43
  Yeah, the trip.
• 19:44
  Yeah. And they came out similar times. But if you've never seen the horror Jack Frost, it is so good.
• 19:50
  It's got the crap out of me as a kid. But it's the story is it's about a serial killer Jack Frost.
• 19:55
  He's being driven to be executed. And so his caught and the truck carrying the murderer encounters a blizzard accident.
• 20:04
  And he gets transformed into a mutant snowman as what is want to do. Yeah.
• 20:10
  So it is like the Michael Keaton Jack Frost. But instead it's a really evil person.
• 20:15
  And so it follows the story of the sheriff who like caught this guy originally. And he somehow knew that he would return.
• 20:24
  As a snowman. No, just that he would come back like after he caught him. But you know, they think he died in that accident.
• 20:33
  So it's kind of like them finding this killer snowman. But I just remember him like for can murdering someone with his nose.
• 20:41
  Like his little carrot. And I was afraid of it forever from the Olivia could need carrots for years.
• 20:48
  She gets wings and she's like celery only my god. Only baby carrots, you know, only baby.
• 20:54
  Yeah, he can't stab them over the baby. I mean, maybe, but that'd be harder.
• 20:59
  It's not as like a sharp. More pressure. Yeah, it's more rounded.
• 21:03
  You can shove into an ice socket or an ear.
• 21:06
  You can just back it. Yeah, you can show someone. If you like throw a bunch of baby carrots at the back of someone's throat.
• 21:13
  The baby bunny, the chubby bunny until they die. Yeah, okay, like my tilde.
• 21:19
  But with baby. Oh, yeah.
• 21:22
  Just who?
• 21:24
  Baby carrot. Baby carrot murder.
• 21:26
  Hashtag baby carrot murder.
• 21:28
  I love that. That's amazing.
• 21:31
  Well, I'm gonna have to watch that next. That's my god. You've never seen it.
• 21:35
  No, and you know, there are so many cheesy ones like as I was looking through Netflix for these.
• 21:41
  I just gingerbread men that turn evil Santa turns evil all these B horror movies, which I'm sure would be amazing after a few drinks.
• 21:50
  So I want to have like a holiday B horror movie.
• 21:56
  I tried to choose some good ones, but they all are shit.
• 22:01
  Yeah, it's just varying degrees of shit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I love it.
• 22:08
  What are the movies I watched, which we've already kind of mentioned briefly a little bit was Black Christmas,
• 22:14
  which I watched the night, the 1974.
• 22:17
  That's the good one. Yes.
• 22:19
  Yes. And thanks for the recommendation, Sean.
• 22:22
  I was lost. I was lost. I was like, I don't know which ones to watch because there were a lot,
• 22:27
  but I was like, these all look kind of goofy.
• 22:29
  You feel so like which looks a good one.
• 22:32
  So I watched this one and actually was really good.
• 22:35
  And it is about a group of sorority girls that are being stalked on their Christmas break.
• 22:41
  And the main girl, Jess, she keeps getting phone calls at the sorority house.
• 22:46
  And it's kind of just like your typical, if you know the movie scream from Halloween,
• 22:52
  it's kind of like those types of phone calls, which is someone on the other end kind of like talking kind of scary voice.
• 22:57
  Three big heavy breathing.
• 22:59
  Yeah. That type of phone call.
• 23:01
  That was more bringing sexy breathing.
• 23:03
  I'm just sexy. You know, I can't help that stop breathing so sexual.
• 23:08
  This is just a Britney 2.0.
• 23:11
  It really is.
• 23:12
  It really.
• 23:13
  Or 3.0 since you already had a 2.0.
• 23:15
  There we go.
• 23:16
  There we go.
• 23:17
  And so it kind of starts off with a girl in the sorority being murdered.
• 23:24
  And she's kind of chilling up in the attic from what I remember.
• 23:28
  And the father of this girl that's murdered comes to the college campus and he's supposed to be meeting her at like one o'clock in the afternoon.
• 23:37
  So just kind of hang out with her meet up with her and she is not there to meet up with him.
• 23:42
  So he starts getting a little worried.
• 23:45
  He ends up going to the sorority house, kind of look at for her and everything on campus.
• 23:49
  This is not finding her.
• 23:51
  They don't really think anything about it.
• 23:52
  They're like, oh, she's probably just with the boy.
• 23:54
  The police.
• 23:55
  Like a slut.
• 23:56
  Say that.
• 23:57
  Please.
• 23:58
  Boy.
• 23:59
  This is 1924.
• 24:00
  Yeah.
• 24:01
  Oh, dare she have a boyfriend.
• 24:03
  I brush it off like it's nothing.
• 24:06
  And then as they have a search party later come out trying to look for her.
• 24:11
  They find another girl murdered in the park by the sorority house.
• 24:15
  And this kind of gets their worries up a little bit more.
• 24:19
  So then the police put a bug on the sorority house phones every time that phone rings.
• 24:24
  The phone at the police station will ring.
• 24:27
  So they could find out the location of where the person on the other end is calling from.
• 24:31
  They figure out that the person calling is in the sorority house.
• 24:36
  The guys are coming from inside the house.
• 24:41
  They try not to freak out Jess, but the police officer says it's in the house.
• 24:45
  It's in the house.
• 24:46
  It's in the house.
• 24:47
  And obviously they figure out don't bring Jess.
• 24:51
  Yeah.
• 24:52
  Jess is very calmly.
• 24:55
  And Jess is dating a guy named Peter.
• 24:58
  And this is at the beginning I should have mentioned this earlier because this is actually a pretty big part.
• 25:02
  Jess is pregnant and her boyfriend Peter is a part of the monastery I believe it's called.
• 25:07
  Or he's a part of the church or something.
• 25:09
  Is it a place religious?
• 25:10
  Religious.
• 25:11
  Yeah.
• 25:12
  Yeah, he's a religious boy.
• 25:13
  And so she wants to get an abortion and he's telling her no don't get an abortion.
• 25:17
  And she's like, you can't tell me what to do with my body.
• 25:19
  And I'm like, yes, queen.
• 25:22
  Girl, yeah.
• 25:23
  You tell him.
• 25:24
  But anyways, this kind of triggers him.
• 25:27
  So then it leads to him never being there when the phone calls are coming in.
• 25:33
  And then she is putting it together that it might be Peter, which is her boyfriend, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:40
  That's that movie.
• 25:41
  And really, really good.
• 25:42
  I really enjoyed it too.
• 25:44
  Yeah.
• 25:45
  It was really good.
• 25:46
  This is bad of me, but I've only ever seen the 2006 version with Michelle Trashnberg.
• 25:53
  And I've heard that that is the worst one.
• 25:56
  So I wanted to watch that one just because I do have a soft spot for Michelle Trashnberg.
• 26:01
  It's our girl.
• 26:02
  It's really.
• 26:03
  Yes, it's our donny.
• 26:04
  I don't know her.
• 26:05
  I didn't see the doner.
• 26:07
  Shit reviews.
• 26:08
  So it's so bad, but it does have all of our Hudson in it.
• 26:11
  Definitely recommend the 70s version.
• 26:14
  It has that perfect 1970s aesthetic, you know, just the old school telephone ringing on the wall
• 26:20
  and all of their outfits are just so groovy.
• 26:24
  I think it makes it stickier.
• 26:26
  And then the scene and the attic.
• 26:27
  I don't want to not just spoil a movie that came out.
• 26:30
  What was the 40 years ago?
• 26:32
  Yeah, I agree Nicole.
• 26:34
  It's really good.
• 26:35
  It is really good.
• 26:36
  I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
• 26:38
  I am going to describe a movie that I watched that it's been sitting with me for a couple
• 26:43
  days since I viewed it.
• 26:45
  And it's funny because another movie by the same title just came out recently.
• 26:49
  So the one that I watched is called Silent Night.
• 26:52
  It stars Kira Knightley, Matthew Good, Lily Rose Depp is in it.
• 26:57
  Looking so hot.
• 26:59
  Right.
• 27:00
  A movie just came out called Silent Night.
• 27:02
  Gosh, and December within the last month or so.
• 27:06
  And I think it's also set in the holidays and it's a silent film.
• 27:10
  Oh.
• 27:11
  Yeah, so I think nobody, the whole chick is that there's no lines or very little lines in
• 27:16
  the movie.
• 27:17
  So haven't watched that one yet.
• 27:18
  It's got Joel Cannonman.
• 27:20
  It looks pretty good.
• 27:21
  This one is the Kira Knightley film.
• 27:23
  It was filmed in 2019.
• 27:27
  And that's important because it is in the before times in its pre-COVID.
• 27:32
  So the just of the movie in the beginning, you don't really get what's going down.
• 27:37
  I knew because I had read the synopsis and I did describe it to my husband and I just said,
• 27:42
  oh, we're going to watch this movie.
• 27:44
  It seems really interesting.
• 27:46
  And as they're gathering, all these friends are coming back from college at somebody's house
• 27:51
  in the mountains, huge snowy, gorgeous.
• 27:56
  They're all showing up and they're very overdressed, very glamorous.
• 28:00
  But then they keep saying things like, oh, we're out of water.
• 28:03
  I'm sorry.
• 28:04
  The store didn't have anymore.
• 28:06
  And well, the kids had to rob a convenience store to get the last pie and they're like letting
• 28:12
  the kids cuss.
• 28:13
  They were like, yeah, it's fine.
• 28:15
  You can cuss for the rest of the day.
• 28:16
  We don't care.
• 28:17
  And so it's like these little nuggets kind of sprinkled in like, what's going on here?
• 28:22
  Come to find out it is the end of the world.
• 28:24
  The apocalypse is happening on December 26.
• 28:28
  It is never really described what is happening.
• 28:33
  It's like a toxic fog coming.
• 28:35
  They're killing people.
• 28:37
  Exactly.
• 28:38
  They make a joke like Greta warned us.
• 28:40
  So it's something to do with global warming, you know, the environmental apocalypse.
• 28:45
  There's going to be a fog that engulfs the earth and no one can survive it.
• 28:49
  You breathe it in.
• 28:50
  You're going to bleed from the eyeballs and anus and die.
• 28:53
  It's like a Christmas that happening by M. Knight Shumulamalong.
• 28:58
  Yes.
• 28:59
  It's like a Christmas version of it.
• 29:01
  Yes.
• 29:02
  Better actors.
• 29:03
  Exactly.
• 29:04
  And so this group of friends are gathering it to celebrate their one final Christmas before
• 29:09
  they all die the next day.
• 29:12
  They do have the option to take a suicide pill if they don't want to experience the gas,
• 29:17
  which is promised to be an excruciatingly painful death.
• 29:21
  So most of the people in the house agree they're all going to take the suicide pill, which
• 29:25
  is supposed to just kind of lowly to sleep.
• 29:28
  I don't want to spoil the movie too much.
• 29:31
  But there are some characters who don't want to take the pill.
• 29:35
  And so there's kind of a back and forth there.
• 29:38
  The ending of the movie comes off as extremely anti-vax, which is hilarious.
• 29:43
  I wouldn't agree with that though.
• 29:45
  Really?
• 29:46
  I wouldn't agree.
• 29:48
  I thought it came off as anti-vax because thought, okay, spoilers for this movie that came
• 29:53
  out in 2021.
• 29:55
  Yeah.
• 29:57
  The kid who doesn't take the pill on the end survives the gas.
• 30:02
  Everyone else.
• 30:03
  No, he doesn't.
• 30:04
  Oh, yeah, he does.
• 30:05
  Yeah, he does.
• 30:06
  Sorry, I remember.
• 30:07
  Yeah, he does.
• 30:08
  Oh my god.
• 30:09
  He survives his eyes open in the end.
• 30:11
  So I look at it and I was like, that kind of reads as a little anti-vax.
• 30:15
  Like he was the one who was right.
• 30:18
  Everyone else who took the pill died and he didn't.
• 30:21
  So I read an interview with the director who is a, she's a feminist director.
• 30:27
  Camille Griffin, written and directed.
• 30:29
  She's making fun of conservatives for a lot of the movie.
• 30:33
  Even the main kid is saying things like, well, why don't the poor people or like the immigrants
• 30:38
  get the suicide pill and they're like, that's just the way it is.
• 30:41
  We get it and they don't.
• 30:43
  So they're speaking a lot to like white privilege and rich privilege in this film.
• 30:48
  But then in the end, it does kind of smack of anti-vax.
• 30:51
  And she said in the interview, she's like, that was not my intention in the slightest.
• 30:56
  She said, I made this movie before COVID.
• 31:00
  I'm very pro-vaccine.
• 31:02
  Like, and she goes, the fact that it came out after COVID and that's what everybody's like,
• 31:06
  oh cool anti-vax film.
• 31:09
  She's like, I'm fucking kicking my self-friend.
• 31:11
  That was not the whole point of the movie was.
• 31:14
  But like one thing that they say in the movies is like, if you survived, you would become
• 31:20
  like a weird zombie thing.
• 31:22
  Yeah, like they say.
• 31:24
  That's what I thought it was.
• 31:25
  I am a catch man.
• 31:26
  I kind of caught that like they said that no one could survive and he ends up surviving.
• 31:32
  Like the guy who was a doctor was like, this isn't something you can survive, but he
• 31:36
  we're all going to die.
• 31:37
  And then it kind of does.
• 31:38
  I mean, he's all alone and there's no resources in his family's all dead.
• 31:42
  So yeah, yeah, he's going to die.
• 31:45
  He's going to die.
• 31:46
  It is definitely, it's a dark film.
• 31:49
  It's got its funny points to it.
• 31:52
  It's got kind of a dark comedy undertone.
• 31:55
  And as it gets closer to the point where it's like, okay, they're all going to have to die
• 31:59
  soon.
• 32:00
  They're all going to take the pill.
• 32:01
  Then you kind of start getting that kind of anxious feeling in your chest and your gut.
• 32:05
  And they're all dealing with like the leftover drama that they have, you know, his friends
• 32:09
  at the end of the world.
• 32:10
  And I don't know, overall, I really liked it.
• 32:13
  I thought it was very well done.
• 32:14
  It is kind of depressing and dark, but also Christmassy and scary.
• 32:20
  Yeah.
• 32:21
  I liked that one.
• 32:22
  That was good.
• 32:23
  I was very happy when I watched this on Sounder.
• 32:25
  Like he lives girl with the fuck.
• 32:27
  Well, no, I remember in my mind being like, well, I think he's like a zombie thing because
• 32:31
  how do you have a brain?
• 32:32
  How do you have a brain aneurysm and then like have cognitive thought?
• 32:37
  Yeah, he was definitely bleeding a lot.
• 32:39
  He was bleeding out the brain like a zombie.
• 32:43
  I mean, he's not going to do well.
• 32:46
  That's what he might be.
• 32:48
  He might be alive for a little bit, but he probably should have taken the pill.
• 32:52
  Yeah.
• 32:53
  Dive his family.
• 32:54
  Yeah.
• 32:55
  Right.
• 32:56
  At the whole time during the movie, I was like, what'd I take it?
• 32:58
  What'd I do?
• 32:59
  And then I was like, I would definitely take it because I have for like most of my life when
• 33:03
  I've watched a zombie movie, I've just been like, if people were eating people around
• 33:07
  me, I'd just headshot baby.
• 33:08
  Yeah.
• 33:09
  So I would definitely take the pill.
• 33:11
  Definitely.
• 33:12
  Like I would definitely do that.
• 33:13
  Absolutely.
• 33:14
  I don't want to live through this shit.
• 33:15
  I want to die of noxious gas points.
• 33:18
  I'd be like the blonde bitch and just buy a really nice dress and be like, I'm dying in
• 33:23
  a dress.
• 33:24
  I did like how everyone would kind of wore y'all their expensive jewelry's and dresses
• 33:28
  that they never got to wear.
• 33:30
  Yeah.
• 33:31
  That was kind of a trope in seeking a friend for the end of the world to where characters
• 33:34
  shows up and she's wearing like a tiara just dripping with all of her jewelry.
• 33:39
  She owns it.
• 33:40
  And she girls like, why are you wearing it?
• 33:42
  She's like, oh, it's everything that I've always wanted to wear but was saving for a special
• 33:45
  occasion.
• 33:46
  And then they all do it.
• 33:48
  And then they all do it.
• 33:49
  Yeah.
• 33:50
  I would probably do that at the world designing.
• 33:52
  Most of the honest.
• 33:53
  I don't think I would.
• 33:54
  I would be afraid I would do the wrong amount and die before it.
• 33:57
  The world has ended, babe.
• 34:00
  I know, but like there's so much more I want to I just want to eat as much as I can.
• 34:03
  I just want to eat food.
• 34:05
  I'm not caring about the calories.
• 34:07
  I'm eating all the gluten.
• 34:09
  I love that the world has ended and the only thing you can think is like, I'm not going to
• 34:12
  be body shaming myself anymore.
• 34:14
  I'm not going to be body shaming myself anymore.
• 34:17
  I'm going to just be naked and eating and so happy.
• 34:22
  I love that for you.
• 34:24
  Let's let's achieve that goal before the world ends.
• 34:27
  Naked and eating anything I want.
• 34:29
  You know, I'm not body shaming herself.
• 34:32
  Not body shaming.
• 34:33
  That's a good one.
• 34:34
  Yes.
• 34:35
  Do not wait till the end of the world to not body shame yourself.
• 34:37
  Yes.
• 34:38
  Naked.
• 34:39
  Yes.
• 34:40
  Yes.
• 34:41
  Yes.
• 34:42
  And where are that jewelry?
• 34:43
  Maybe with a fork.
• 34:45
  Maybe not naked because then at the past is high.
• 34:47
  It'll burn you.
• 34:48
  Yeah.
• 34:49
  Well, it definitely burning off your hands.
• 34:51
  It was, it wasn't that bad.
• 34:54
  Okay.
• 34:55
  We're on a tangent.
• 34:57
  I digress.
• 34:58
  Okay.
• 34:59
  The next one that I watched is, you know, a real holiday classic, the crampus from 2015,
• 35:06
  which is one of the most ridiculous things ever.
• 35:09
  Crampus, we kind of talked about it before, but it's this lore.
• 35:13
  It's like the opposite of Santa.
• 35:15
  And so like, people used to say, "Cranpus came when you were bad."
• 35:19
  Like, they made it a naughty list, but, "Cranpus is this really fricking scary looking
• 35:25
  devil-like creature from Eastern Alpine folklore."
• 35:30
  So it kind of looks like the Yeti and the Devil combined is how I would describe him.
• 35:35
  But this movie is about, like, is so silly.
• 35:38
  So it has Tony Collette, Adam Scott, David Keckner.
• 35:43
  And it is so silly.
• 35:45
  So it's like this little kid who still believes in Santa.
• 35:52
  And he's, his grandmother is like German.
• 35:56
  And so she used to live in Germany, like, back in the day.
• 36:00
  And she convinces him to, like, still believe in Santa.
• 36:04
  But his cousins are like bullying him and making fun of him.
• 36:07
  And they find the note.
• 36:08
  They don't work.
• 36:09
  They find the note.
• 36:10
  And they're like, "Santa is even real."
• 36:12
  And so he rips up this note and throws it out the window, like, disregarding Santa in his
• 36:18
  life.
• 36:19
  And like, Santa's not real.
• 36:20
  And so that, like, sends in this invite for Crampus to come.
• 36:26
  And so the story is just like Adam Scott versus David Keckner.
• 36:31
  It's like a gun loving Republican, super ridiculous.
• 36:35
  And it's like, "I've got to defend the flock."
• 36:37
  And Adam Scott is just like, you know, Adam Scott in every movie.
• 36:42
  And, you know, I would really love, like, a very serious Crampus movie where it, like,
• 36:47
  really makes it, like, scary and in the olden times, like, things like the witch, but
• 36:52
  Crampus, like, I would love that.
• 36:54
  Like, an actual, like, Crampus horror movie that takes itself seriously.
• 36:59
  And it's not this movie.
• 37:02
  They literally have, like, these little, and merry bands are, like, gingerbread men that
• 37:06
  are, like, tea bagging people.
• 37:09
  I want to see the rotten tomato scores for those.
• 37:12
  I'm going to assume it's low.
• 37:14
  It's 66, which just feels right.
• 37:16
  Oh.
• 37:17
  Yeah.
• 37:18
  66, that's fresh.
• 37:19
  Oh, and then the next one for Google users is 69.
• 37:22
  It's nice.
• 37:23
  I don't think it's, yeah, I don't think it's that good.
• 37:25
  I think people were just determined to make the movie 69.
• 37:29
  I think that's that was what was happening here.
• 37:32
  But they have, like, these, it's just really, really silly, but the ending is pretty good.
• 37:38
  And I think it's, like, a good horror movie where, like, the ending doesn't turn out the
• 37:43
  way that you think it's going to, and it kind of, like, flips the whole, like, Christmas
• 37:47
  movie, like, everything's great and everything will be fine, like, trope.
• 37:52
  And it gets a little, like, black mirror-ish at the end of it.
• 37:55
  But, yeah, I really liked it.
• 37:56
  It's very, very silly and pretty funny if you want to see some Keckner jokes.
• 38:03
  It's very, like, his style comedy.
• 38:05
  Yeah.
• 38:06
  But there are a ton of crampus movies as well, but this one is the 2015 one.
• 38:11
  What was your next one, Nicole?
• 38:12
  My next one was Better Watch Out.
• 38:16
  And I don't know if there's multiple of these, but if there is, I watched the 2016 version.
• 38:22
  I've seen that one too.
• 38:24
  I still don't know how I feel about it.
• 38:26
  But I'm interested to hear your take on it.
• 38:30
  Also just putting it out there.
• 38:32
  I watched both of my movies on peacock.
• 38:34
  You were interested in watching either of those, especially the black Christmas 1974 version.
• 38:39
  It's on peacock.
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  Crampus is also on peacock.
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  Oh, hell yeah.
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  It is about a quiet suburban street babysitter, and she must defend a 12-year-old boy from
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  intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion, which, like,
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  is a great description because for me, I was very shocked by the twist that was taken
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  place in this movie.
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  Me too.
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  It has, I'm going to butcher her name, so I apologize to John.
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  Olivia De Jong.
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  Olivia De Jong.
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  Yep, I was like, never enough with that way.
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  Olivia De Jong.
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  Olivia De Jong.
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  Olivia's got her stick out for other Olivia.
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  For downstairs names, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I actually liked it.
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  I think because of the twist that it had, it starts out with the girl, the babysitter,
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  babysitting the 12-year-old boy, and just like any babysitter and boy, a female babysitter
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  with the boy, he has a little crush on her.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  He's trying to get her interested in him.
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  She's like, no, this is a little weird, like, I'm your babysitter.
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  And this kind of triggers him.
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  I don't know.
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  I should leave a little bastard.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, do we want to give away the twist?
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  Yeah.
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  It's going to get a little bit.
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  I'm just going to give it away because I can't talk to you.
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  The twist is coming in.
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  The twist is coming in in three, two, one.
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  Okay, go.
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  The 12-year-old boy is the home intruder.
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  He's the one that is killing everyone.
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  And he's a fucking psychopath.
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  This kid is a little serial killer in the making.
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  She is insane.
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  The way it ramps up, I mean, he's a creep from the beginning.
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  He tries to kiss her.
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  And they try to kind of write it off.
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  He's like, oh, he's just a silly boy.
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  It's will be boys.
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  And I think that is the interesting kind of trope in this movie is how far can we take
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  boys?
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  We'll be boys.
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  Because he goes from trying to kiss her and then eventually committing lots of murder
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  and like, fondling her breast and like, I mean, luring people over to kill them.
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  And he doesn't understand like the scope of what he's doing.
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  It just keeps ramping up so violently.
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  I feel like it's like such a common trope in like movies where like plays on you expecting
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  like the babysitter and the kid to like live and win.
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  But he's evil.
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  Yes.
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  He's crazy.
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  But Ashley, who is the main character, she has a boyfriend.
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  The boyfriend comes over and she's kind of locked up.
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  She's trapped to a chair in the kitchen.
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  And her boyfriend is searching for her in the house and the boy Luke, who is the trope
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  girl boy that she's babysitting is kind of following him around the house.
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  And he's like, you're not going to find her.
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  She's on her period.
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  She's not feeling well.
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  And the boyfriends like, well, I don't really care.
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  That's nothing for her to be embarrassed about.
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  I don't want to help her make her feel better.
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  And it comes to a point where he's just annoyed so he gets his baseball bat hits him.
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  That doesn't really do anything to the boyfriend.
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  He gets back up.
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  The boyfriend ends up getting locked up with the girl with Ashley in the kitchen.
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  Then he ends up getting murdered, which they quote in the movie, which I love because
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  Homolone is my favorite movie.
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  Homolone style with the paint can to the face from the banister.
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  Homolone, which I wish honestly as bad as it sounds, I wish we could have like sought
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  happen.
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  Yeah, they definitely cut away very specifically, but I do think yeah, I really like that
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  eerie shot with the blood dripping down mixed with the paint like you know, something.
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  It reminds me almost of in her red itary when her head hits the pole, but it doesn't show
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  it and you just hear it and you know what happened is really bad and you're kind of left to your
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  own imagination.
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  Yes.
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  But I will say my favorite part is the ending when he's in his room and the pencils are on
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  his little door.
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  And well, I guess that's not my favorite part, but very adamant.
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  They're like the police are like, we have one alive.
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  We have one alive.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And you see Ashley getting into an ambulance and she just sticks a permit of finger at him
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  right in his window.
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  And I'm like, yes, queen.
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  You tell them exactly what happened.
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  So I see I was really not root.
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  I when it got to the end where it looked like he was going to get away with it.
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  And yeah, we're spoiling this entire movie.
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  Sorry guys.
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  Yeah.
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  When it got to the point where it looked like he might get away with it.
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  I was like, I don't think I like this movie.
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  Like it's really sick that this kid is getting away with this.
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  Like yeah, boys will be boys.
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  He's getting away with all of this shit.
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  He's going to be a little serial killer.
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  But then when she ends up being alive.
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  And I'm like, okay.
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  All right.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel a little better even though we're poor.
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  We won't give away all of the kills because there's multiple in this film.
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  But within in the very end, did you see the after credit scene?
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  Where he goes to his mom.
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  He's like, I'm really worried about Ashley.
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  I think we should go visit her in the hospital.
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  And I was like, no, come on man.
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  Come on.
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  Yeah, it's like hinting that like the mom might drive them to the hospital to check on
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  her.
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  Yeah, they probably did it as like a let's do a second one kind of thing.
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  It's like knocking her in the hospital.
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  Like let's try the night after Christmas or something.
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  Yeah.
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  Like even a little open in the end.
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  I like to think that she got this kid put away and never received a light of day again.
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  Yeah.
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  Definitely is a good twist.
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  I agree.
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  I was very surprised with the twist.
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  I love that.
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  Well, we will end this with a movie that I won't go into too much detail in because we talked
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  about it on the podcast before and it did just come out last year.
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  It's Violent Night starring our daddy favorite David Harbour as Santa Claus.
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  I wildly recommend this movie.
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  So it is about Santa Claus.
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  He's kind of disillusioned with Christmas at this point.
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  The Christmas magic is going out of the air.
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  It opens and he's at a bar and he's like, and there's like a Santa person there and they're
• 45:05
  like, how long have you been doing this shit?
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  And he's like too long going to think he ends up going to a house.
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  It's a very wealthy house and it's being broken into by a gosh.
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  How do you even describe them like hitman?
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  Hitman mercenaries.
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  Yeah.
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  Breaking into the house in order to steal this $300 million cash fortune.
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  The daughter in the house is hiding.
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  She has a walkie talkie that she was given to from her dad.
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  The he promises will connect her to Santa.
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  And it works.
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  So there are some amazingly gory scenes in this movie.
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  And Christmas themed kills involving candy canes and light bulbs and reindeer.
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  David Harbour is just incredible as Santa.
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  I mean, we get into Santa's Viking past and towards the end of it, he kind of rediscoveres
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  what makes him love the same thing.
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  The meaning of murder.
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  The meaning of Christmas is murdering to save children.
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  Murdering John Leguizamo for the sake of Christmas.
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  I watched that movie on Christmas last year with my family.
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  It was great.
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  It was really brought us together.
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  I loved it so much.
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  I mean, it's so gory.
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  And there is a little homage to home alone in it as well.
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  Just kind of setting up those little Christmas traps to take people down and take the bad guys
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  down.
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  The little girl in it is so adorable in her relationship with Santa's, you know, just
• 46:40
  kind of the crux of the film.
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  And she kind of helps him as he defeats all of these bad guys that are all named after
• 46:47
  Christmas tropes as well.
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  And Mr. Scrooge.
• 46:50
  John Leguizamo's character, the main bad guy is Mr. Scrooge.
• 46:53
  Yeah.
• 46:54
  I definitely recommend it if you guys haven't watched it yet.
• 46:57
  Again, it just came out last year.
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  I know it's still kind of, it was during the Stranger Things renaissance of David Harbour.
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  Lily Allen's husband.
• 47:07
  That's right.
• 47:08
  I don't remember what I watched it on to be.
• 47:12
  Totally honest with you, but I'm sure it's widely available because it is relatively new.
• 47:16
  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I love it.
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  Well, I think that about wraps up another naughty and nice episode of Pop Culture Junkie.
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  We hope you have the best holidays whenever you are listening to this.
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  But before we take our long winter naps, go hibernate like the chubby little bears that we
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  are.
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  Nicole and Shauna, where can the listeners find you on social media?
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  You can find me on Instagram and on TikTok @nicole_eldridge
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