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#416 My Grown Up (and Not So Grown Up) Christmas Movie List · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: It's The Happy Family's.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast Merry Christmas, You're Fealthy Animal.
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  Speaker 3: And the Oscar goes to, oh my god, seeing it here,
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  Speaker 3: I know him well.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas is just around the corner. Schools are in some
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  Speaker 1: states finished, some kids are still winding up, and families
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  Speaker 1: are starting to have You noticed, Kylie, there's this switch
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  Speaker 1: between where in one breath we're relaxed, and then the
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  Speaker 1: next breath we're stressed, like we're trying to slow things
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  Speaker 1: down because everyone's going on holidays, but there's so much
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  Speaker 1: to do. There's so much going on.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to slow down. I'm not doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just hoping the kids are all going to catch
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  Speaker 2: up with me.
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  Speaker 1: There's a favorite quote mine. Yeah, that's right, there's a
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  Speaker 1: favorite quote of mind that and it's particularly pertinent at
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  Speaker 1: this point of the year when your kids are in
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  Speaker 1: your arms, they can't possibly be underfoot, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of parents at the moment saying other kids is just
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  Speaker 1: under my feet all the time, and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get stuff done and they're sitting around staring at screens
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  Speaker 1: and doing nothing. We have got some solutions. Oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I'm justin you're kilie. Parents of six kids.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Families dot com dot you, the Happy Families podcast
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  Speaker 1: is bringing you some solutions for Christmas. Joy Christmas Bliss.
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  Speaker 1: I know that not everybody wants their kids to be
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  Speaker 1: watching screens all the time, but the reality is sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you kind of just have to right just to get
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  Speaker 1: through and keep saying. So we've compiled, well.
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  Speaker 2: How do you get the presents wrapped if they're not
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  Speaker 2: staring at a screen?
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  Speaker 1: You got to stay up late, and then you're tired
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  Speaker 1: the next day and cranky. So we have compiled a
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  Speaker 1: list of our top I was gonna say top five,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no way we're going to. Last time we
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  Speaker 1: talked favorite movies, we ended up having like Poor O Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Our producer. Instead of doing our top five movies for
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was, we ended up doing like thirty. So
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  Speaker 1: supposedly this is going to be our top five Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movies kids, although I think we're going to veer into
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  Speaker 1: some adult ones as well, to help your family to
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  Speaker 1: have a happy Christmas, but also so that you can
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  Speaker 1: have some peace and quiet. The kids can be watching Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: everyone can be getting into the spirit of Christmas. Christmas
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  Speaker 1: music can be on That's where we're going today, everyone
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  Speaker 1: can be baking gingerbread.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, everyone, are you going to bake ginger browse?
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, how unrealistic is what I
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  Speaker 1: just said. I've gone for the nostalgia, the romanticized version
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  Speaker 1: of what's happening. Truth is, nobody's going to be doing
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  Speaker 1: any of that sort of stuff except for the one,
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  Speaker 1: poor soul.
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  Speaker 2: We've only just got the Christmas tree up for goodness.
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  Speaker 1: To day decorated. There's literally a green Christmas tree sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the corner with no decoration.
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  Speaker 2: What's surrounded by all my green plants. It actually doesn't
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  Speaker 2: look too bad naked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I nearly said something I shouldn't have said. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Christmas movies before we g rated one,
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  Speaker 1: before we get to sidetracked with all that sort of stuff. Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: if you were to pick your all time favorite family
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movie, what would it be?
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  Speaker 2: I would have once upon a time said the Polar Express.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wishing on aster. Well you're coming where way to
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  Speaker 1: the North Pole?
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  Speaker 3: Of course this is the Pola Express.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we used to love that film, but last year
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  Speaker 2: when we watched a movie a night for each day
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  Speaker 2: leading up to Christmas, we got introduced to so many
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  Speaker 2: new movies and I now have a few favorites.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, just before you talk about your favorites,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's worth highlighting that we took on more
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  Speaker 1: than we could handle by saying let's watch one Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movie each day with the kids or each night. That
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  Speaker 1: was exhausting. I couldn't stand it. It was just too
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  Speaker 1: much TV and too many things to do. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: did it, and now you've got a whole new list
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  Speaker 1: of favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and we can thank our staff for that because
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  Speaker 2: they actually introduced us to a couple that have now
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  Speaker 2: become literally my top three.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so number one, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna say Klaus.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Klaus, you have a gift you were meant from
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  Speaker 3: making toys.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, so that's a Netflix special. You know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Background behind Klaus was that because it was such an
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  Speaker 2: untraditional story, DreamWorks and Disney wouldn't pick it.
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  Speaker 1: Up, right, So for Netflix, good, Netflix has got an
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  Speaker 1: unlimited budget. Let's do whatever we want.
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  Speaker 2: And I just love the take on the Christmas story
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  Speaker 2: that this movie portrays.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you who haven't seen it, there's
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  Speaker 1: a boy who's being raised by a very rich dad.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Dad's very cranky at the boy. It's a cartoon,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, because he's entitled and selfish and rich
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  Speaker 1: dad owns like the postal system in their country, so
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  Speaker 1: he sends his son to the most far reaching outposts Samehrenberg.
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  Speaker 2: It's labeled the saddest place on Earth, and you see
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  Speaker 2: it in the depiction of the animation. Everything's just graay.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what do you guys think you're doing. This is Smirnsburg,
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  Speaker 1: the unhappiest police on earth, and there are two warring
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  Speaker 1: families who just hate each other. And there is no
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  Speaker 1: postage service there like nobody actually, no one writes a letter.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody hates each other. And it's the story of how
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  Speaker 1: this young man, well, it's a coming of age and
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  Speaker 1: it's a hero story. He saves the town. He becomes
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  Speaker 1: a person who falls in love with the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and changes everything. It's a great movie.
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  Speaker 2: My second one is going to be Arthur Christmas Phillel's
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  Speaker 2: Jingle Jingle Jingle Time eighteen point one four second brows.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a staff member, Elizabeth, who told us how
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  Speaker 1: great Arthur Christmas was, and it was. It was an
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  Speaker 1: absolute joy. I survive, I'll walk home, I'll get a boat,
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  Speaker 1: but I am never getting back in that crazy flying
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  Speaker 1: death trap ever again.
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  Speaker 2: I just I loved it. Here's this kid, he's Santa Claus'
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  Speaker 2: son and he just loves Christmas. But he gets the
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  Speaker 2: way is it glutz everything? But he ended up actually
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  Speaker 2: saving Christmas this time.
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  Speaker 1: What's your third one?
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  Speaker 2: It's actually Evelyn's favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Cheese and Craigs. Oh is it Craigs as well? Elf?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, people tomorrow morning to damn Santa's coming down?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Santa here, I know him.
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  Speaker 2: So much fun. I probably would never ever have watched this.
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  Speaker 2: It has Will farrellan I don't really like him very
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  Speaker 2: much as an actor, and I probably wouldn't have put
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  Speaker 2: it in as a kid's movie as a result of
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  Speaker 2: him being in it.
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  Speaker 1: He's absurd. He's absolutely ridiculously over the top absurd. You stink.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have a good Christmas like beef
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  Speaker 1: and cheese. You don't smell like Xander. Okay, that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes it so delight so good. So are there any
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  Speaker 1: other great kids Crew Smith's movies that you think we
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  Speaker 1: should mention? Because that's only three. I said we were
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  Speaker 1: going to do like our top five.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you can go past at Christmas movie
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  Speaker 2: list without giving a mention to Home Alone.
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  Speaker 3: I made my family disappear.
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  Speaker 2: We all grew up with that movie, and it still
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  Speaker 2: has to be on the top. I'd say top ten
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  Speaker 2: movies ever.
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  Speaker 1: Great slapstick comedy. And our children, even our teenagers, watch
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  Speaker 1: that and laugh their heads off. Harry, how did you
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  Speaker 1: take your shoes off? Why the hell you dressed like
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  Speaker 1: a chicken? I'm on per you more, aunt, Come and
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  Speaker 1: get me. You guys, give up or you're thirsty for more.
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  Speaker 2: And the last one I'm going to mention would be
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  Speaker 2: Santa Claus with Tim Allen.
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  Speaker 1: What you put on a little wheat? A little weak?
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  Speaker 1: Does this look like a little.
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  Speaker 2: Weight to you?
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  Speaker 1: We can fluctuate from you to year fluctuate. You make
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  Speaker 1: it sound like I'm retaining water. I've been forty five
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  Speaker 1: pounds in a week.
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  Speaker 2: Here's this guy who single handedly destroys Christmas by interrupting
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  Speaker 2: Santa as he's trying to go down a chimney and
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  Speaker 2: he falls off.
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  Speaker 1: The roof.
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  Speaker 3: Her.
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  Speaker 1: Santa or tim Ellen Santa okay, And so.
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  Speaker 2: His son sees it all happenings. You have literally killed Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: You've killed Sannah right, so much fun. After the break,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a handful of other Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movies that may or may not suit the whole family,
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  Speaker 1: but you, as a parent might really enjoy. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Happy Family's Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: For a happier family. Try a Happy Families membership, because
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  Speaker 2: a happy family doesn't just happen.
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  Speaker 1: Details at happy families dot com dot au.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Happy Family's podcast, the podcast for the type
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  Speaker 2: or parent who just wants answers now and hopefully today.
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  Speaker 2: We've given you a few options to keep the kids
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  Speaker 2: occupied so you can do your centering.
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  Speaker 1: If that's necessary. Wink quink, because you all know, because
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  Speaker 1: you would have seen my Facebook post about that particular topic.
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  Speaker 1: What's really going on?
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  Speaker 2: Sandny tawpers come on?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So there's a couple of movies that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't mention that I think need an honorable recognition.
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  Speaker 1: The first one is Christmas Chronicles of Snow Fall on.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You actually were putting it on your list and I said, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's not really that good. You're a trickster.
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  Speaker 2: You just did it so you can have it on yours.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's not what happened. What actually happened
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  Speaker 1: was that we watched the We watched the trailer, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that is a really good movie.
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  Speaker 1: I did enjoy that movie quite a lot. And of
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  Speaker 1: course there are a couple of other movies that again
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  Speaker 1: Christmas confession. Not only have I not seen The Santa Clause,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen Bad Center, what about The Rain Deer?
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  Speaker 1: Would you please shut up about Reindeer? And I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen The Holiday?
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  Speaker 2: You're not iris, or if you are, I'm much stronger
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  Speaker 2: than I realized.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody says that those must watch grown up movies
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas, So I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess we're going to have a few movie nights then.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know if I want to watch them,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, but everyone's been saying, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about those movies. They're amazing. So we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: them even though we haven't seen them. Is that cheating?
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  Speaker 2: That's so cheating. Seriously, I hope you don't get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even know what's in them.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, though, I think we've got to acknowledge, well,
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  Speaker 1: Christmas is not a time of faith for everybody. There
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of people who listen to the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and there are millions upon millions, tens of millions of
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  Speaker 1: people around the world who do have a religious faith.
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  Speaker 1: And there are some really wonderful, religiously oriented, faith producing,
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  Speaker 1: faith promoting movies about the Nativity. Different churches have them.
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  Speaker 1: They're available online, they're often free, and will link to
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  Speaker 1: a couple of those in our show notes for those
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  Speaker 1: who are interested in some nice Nativity movies and things
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  Speaker 1: that will help you to have the actual Christmas story.
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  Speaker 1: Sands Santa, no Sander in these ones instead the religious
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  Speaker 1: foundations of where Christmas comes from. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's nice to just pause and say this is meaningful,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's not your religious faith. To talk to
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  Speaker 1: the kids about what the background is. Find one of
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  Speaker 1: the short ones, the ten or twenty minute ones that
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  Speaker 1: just step through it. I think that that can help
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  Speaker 1: us to appreciate what Christmas is all about for millions
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  Speaker 1: and millions of people around the world. We really hope
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  Speaker 1: that you've enjoyed the Happy Families podcast today and that
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  Speaker 1: it's given you a little bit of inspiration or just
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  Speaker 1: some nice reminiscence about how good the entertainment can be
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  Speaker 1: around Christmas time. We hope that these movies inspire you
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  Speaker 1: and your family to goodness and kindness and service and
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  Speaker 1: fun for this Christmas. The Happy Families podcast is produced
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  Speaker 1: by Justin Roulin from Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our
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  Speaker 1: executive producer and if you'd like more information about making
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  Speaker 1: your family happier across Christmas, we did a really well
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  Speaker 1: received webinar called tis the Season to Be Cranky? But
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  Speaker 1: there's also another webinar called how to Unspoil Your Kids
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  Speaker 1: This Christmas. They're both available in the Happy Families store
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  Speaker 1: at Happy families dot com dot you, or they're included
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  Speaker 1: in a Happy Families Premium membership. If you've been thinking
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  Speaker 1: about becoming a Happy Family's member, you'll get them, You
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  Speaker 1: get the Christmas inspiration, and they're all included in your
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  Speaker 1: Happy Families Premium membership. Maybe you'd like to try one
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas or give one for Christmas. For all the info,
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  Speaker 1: visit Happy families dot com dot you. Merry Christmas, You
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  Speaker 1: Pealthy Animal