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Hello America, welcome to I Hate Christmas.

1:31

I'm your host, Niles Abstin, and

1:34

I hate Christmas. It sucks. Sorry to

1:36

break it to you. It's just true.

1:38

Today, we'll be talking about Christmas movies,

1:40

my least favorite. Well, no, this

1:42

isn't my least favorite genre movies. Tyler Perry does exist.

1:45

So yeah, we'll be talking about my

1:47

second least favorite genre movies, Christmas

1:49

movies. But first, I would like

1:51

to introduce a very special guest.

1:54

She is one of my favorite comedians. She has an album

1:56

dropping next year. Go out to check that out. She

1:58

has a podcast that I love called... Tv I

2:00

say we're actually right. On Love.

2:03

Don't. Tell ya doing all of this Welcome.

2:06

To. Reporters Ashley Race: are you doing?

2:08

I'm good. I'm so happy to be

2:10

here. I'm happy you're here to. I

2:13

also have I think ah you know.

2:16

My my opinions on Christmas are mainstream.

2:18

Know we aren't. Yeah, we're We're like

2:20

work to me. I don't think Christmas

2:22

is a period of of you know

2:24

holiday joy. I think it's be a

2:26

period of deep sorrow and reflection. Is

2:29

gray outside? We should be sad.

2:31

You should be watching things that

2:33

make you question your mortality. That's

2:36

that's the period. That's the season. Yeah, I think

2:38

I think a lot of people need to. Do.

2:41

More reflecting of them in the year of

2:43

how they fucked up like enjoying a girl

2:45

silverware. The I would jollies. you know. think

2:48

about what you did. That's. What Christmas

2:50

means to me. You think anything early in

2:52

your life around the holidays is like what

2:54

influences be like that like for me is

2:56

very very much. Christmas was a very religious

2:59

being so that's why I want nothing to

3:01

do with it. Yeah, I did grow up

3:03

lake in the church. Blake's Christmas was we

3:06

are going. It hurts all day. Ah

3:08

I'm like I I grew up in a missionary baptist

3:10

church roof. Yeah so it was truly like we were

3:12

to turn to like seven in the morning and we

3:14

were there and so like a P A as. Below

3:18

my mom was good about his you put the

3:20

decorators up have the trees us I guess but

3:22

I think when I was five years old I

3:24

came downstairs and she was putting putting together like

3:26

a Barbie dream house. As you as

3:28

like a santa ask me to do this and

3:30

I was of college will have to lie it'll

3:33

take why would you like Nigeria right here you're

3:35

doing the work why are we try to give

3:37

this is some white man legless this list thoughts

3:39

are your mom was gonna let you believe in

3:41

Santa you just more for it but I was

3:43

just like the i see no reason to pretend

3:45

mom like a it's enough that you're doing the

3:47

agree with as beautiful I'd like to start off

3:49

with is what what is It was your favorite.

3:52

Was. Your favorite Christmas gift you've ever

3:54

gotten. and worse Christmas gifts you ever

3:57

gotten. And you can say sox at

3:59

the best. When

4:02

I was in sixth grade, my mom got

4:04

me a guitar, my first guitar.

4:07

That was really special, acoustic, because I

4:09

was obsessed with like Ani DeFranco and I

4:12

played classic guitar. Oh my God. So that

4:14

was like a really cool gift. And

4:17

the worst was like my freshman year

4:19

of college, my mom got me Jersey

4:22

sheets, just like

4:24

Jersey Twin XL bedsheets. What is

4:26

Jersey? It's like cotton,

4:28

like really soft Jersey material they make

4:30

like jumpsuits out of, but like for

4:33

your bed. Wow. And

4:35

she was like, you're in college now, you

4:38

don't get fun gifts anymore. This

4:40

is the time where I need more fun. And

4:42

she's like, no, now for the rest of your

4:44

life you just get socks and sheets

4:47

and things that you need. And I was

4:49

like, well, now that just kills this holiday

4:51

even more. And that's

4:54

why they always wonder like, why do you

4:56

have any holiday spirit anymore? Because it was beat out

4:58

of me. It was beat out of me. With practical

5:00

gifts. I

5:02

don't even really get excited about Christmas shopping now because

5:04

I'm like, I know my mom's just going to be

5:06

like, oh, she needs some Brita filters. Exactly. Like,

5:09

you have the whole year to give me

5:11

a practical gift. Yeah. For

5:14

once, can I just feel special? Just something silly and

5:16

stupid that I'm going to look at and be like,

5:18

oh, this is fine. You might be

5:20

up there. Might be one of the worst gifts we've

5:22

heard so far. Yeah. We'll talk more

5:24

about your relationship with Christmas later,

5:26

but we want to jump in to what

5:29

this episode is about. Today we're breaking down

5:32

Christmas movies. So

5:34

Ashley turned in a list of

5:36

her favorite Christmas movies and

5:39

a list of her least favorite Christmas movies. And

5:41

we're going to go through all of them. Some I have seen

5:43

and am a fan of. Some

5:45

I have not seen, but I know are

5:47

special to certain people that haven't done drugs

5:50

yet. And

5:52

we're going to get into them. So your favorite

5:54

ones, you're going to have to defend. Yeah.

5:57

And your least favorite ones. I

5:59

can't wait to hear why. So let's go through

6:01

the list. So number one

6:04

on your favorite Christmas movies, The Nightmare Before

6:06

Christmas. I know this is a very popular

6:09

movie to white people. And

6:11

kids who shopped at Hot Topic, please. Oh,

6:14

yeah. Is that what that is? Yeah,

6:16

it's the goth Christmas movie. Okay,

6:19

if you were listening to corn in seventh

6:21

grade, you were loving The Nightmare Before Christmas.

6:23

Yeah. Yeah. Well, as a black

6:25

Christian kid, I was not, and

6:28

even had the word nightmare in it that

6:30

was not allowed in our house. So never

6:32

got the opportunity to see this one. What's

6:34

his name? Burton? That's him, right? Yes, Tim

6:36

Burton. Okay. So I saw the Batman movies

6:38

he made. Yeah. But those

6:40

didn't have the devil in them.

6:42

No. Yeah. But this is more

6:45

like Edward Scissorhands vibe. Dark. It's

6:47

about basically Halloween creatures

6:49

that decided to take over

6:51

Christmas. Okay. And I mean,

6:53

it's a musical. It has an

6:55

amazing soundtrack. Okay, so musical that I

6:57

still listen to to this day. I

6:59

mean, it's

7:02

incredible. What do you

7:09

think the musical aspect of it is

7:11

like what really grabbed you as

7:17

a kid? Because

7:32

that's why you said the music. Yes. Yes.

7:34

The music in The Nightmare Before Christmas is

7:36

I think still some of the best. There's

7:39

the Oogie Boogie man. Yes. That's the

7:42

white face dude. Yes. Is that what

7:44

that is? They said it was racist.

7:46

The Oogie Boogie man. Here's the thing.

7:48

If you, this is America. If

7:51

you look far enough into anything, everything's racist.

7:53

It is. I will say that like the

7:55

tone of most of the songs in the

7:57

show, in the movie are very like

8:01

They kind of feel like parodies of

8:03

Christmas songs. It's like, this is Halloween.

8:06

And then when it comes to the

8:08

Oogie Boogie Man song, it's like this

8:10

jazz, like, he's joking. He's joking. The

8:12

Oogie. And it's like, is this supposed

8:15

to be a black man? That

8:17

is a lot of cartoons. Because what movie is

8:19

that with the scarecrows? They obviously

8:22

like black. Oh, yeah. And they're obviously,

8:24

but yeah, yeah. It's a

8:26

little bit of that. But I mean,

8:30

it's the Oogie Boogie. It's a good song. It's still

8:32

a good song. I don't know. I

8:35

mean, Tim Burton doesn't put black people in his movies.

8:37

He doesn't. So first of all, how can he be

8:39

black? Exactly. Exactly.

8:42

So that's just his soulful white Oogie Boogie Man.

8:44

One of my favorite rules that I've heard from

8:47

back home was you can't be racist if there's

8:49

no black people around. Yes, there's no black people

8:51

around. And Tim Burton abides by that rule of

8:53

the night before Christmas, though it's not racist. Yeah.

8:56

And I love it. OK, so Nightmare Before Christmas,

8:58

is that was this just a list or is

9:00

that really your number one? It really

9:02

is my number one. I rewatch it most

9:04

years. Like it's if it's if I'm flipping

9:06

channels and it's on, I will put it

9:08

on like it. I

9:11

mean, I as I used to think they could

9:13

make so many spinoff. They go into Christmas because

9:15

there's all these trees with doors for different holidays.

9:18

So they show the other holidays like there's an

9:20

Easter door. I was like, they can make so

9:22

many movies. I watch all of these. I'm going

9:24

to do shrooms and watch that. It's worth that.

9:27

Yes, it is a perfect Christmas Shrooms movie. OK.

9:30

All right. I will check out Nightmare Before

9:32

Christmas. I will. I'm gonna

9:34

check that out. Number two is a movie that I

9:36

really like didn't. I don't think I ever

9:38

noticed it was a Christmas movie because it just played

9:40

in every black house that I grew up because

9:43

it just had it has two of

9:45

the most like two of the most important

9:47

black people ever in the movie. And Whitney Houston

9:50

and Denzel Washington. Yeah. And

9:52

then Courtney B Vance is also in the movie.

9:54

He's there. Great. Great actor. So

9:57

The Preacher's Wife. The Preacher's Wife is your number two.

10:00

Christmas movie why why is that I was obsessed

10:02

with Whitney Houston as a kid I just like

10:04

fell in love with her in this movie it

10:06

really I think made me super gay I just

10:08

thought she was so pretty I loved like when

10:10

she would see I would just

10:13

watch it over and over and I truly

10:16

just her like I I don't I remember

10:18

always as a kid being like I want

10:20

her to kiss the angel like just leave

10:22

your husband for Tesla Washington and

10:24

my mom would always like that's not what it's about and I

10:26

was just like well that part stupid that's no

10:29

literally as a kid like I feel

10:32

like all kids watching that movie that was like

10:34

our first yeah went into like maybe cheating ain't

10:36

so bad maybe it's not so bad maybe that's

10:38

the meaning of Christmas is that sometimes I definitely

10:40

was like you should leave your husband for this

10:43

ain't for this angel and I

10:45

think as I think most children that's how we felt

10:47

about that movie but it's not about that I do

10:49

I mean I don't know I think I think we

10:51

could all agree maybe it's okay to cheat if the

10:54

other person is an angel and little bit like them

10:56

that was looks like them so Washington you know you've

11:00

had your

11:02

palm right

11:12

I see a beautiful woman with a

11:14

good heart only

11:17

has to open her eyes to realize that

11:19

everything she ever wanted she

11:22

already didn't

11:25

even look at my head do

11:31

you see him really Oh

11:39

Wow Oh so

11:41

hot I had to let it go they knew

11:43

what they were doing when they made that movie

11:45

and it could only be Denzel anybody else you'd

11:47

be like nah not justified but Denzel it's like

11:50

really it's funny be man's even that cool like

11:52

he was he wouldn't even take you ice skating

11:54

girl like come on Wow I forget a lot

11:57

of it I haven't seen it in so long I guess I

11:59

just kind of forget What's yeah, it's

12:01

like Courtney V Vance is like a negligent

12:03

husband right lost the meaning of Christmas a

12:05

pastor He's a pass. Yeah, and he's like

12:08

so busy and then he's like, wait a

12:10

second This is a job stepping in on

12:12

my wife and that makes

12:14

him realize he should spend Christmas with his

12:17

family Maybe husbands

12:19

will do better if an angel

12:21

that looks like Denzel Washington starts flirting with their

12:23

wedding with your wife That'll make you act right

12:25

and I think that is the meaning of Christmas.

12:28

That's a great. That's a great story lesson all

12:30

the men listening to this with a woman in your

12:32

life you're taking her for granted

12:34

just imagine an Angel

12:36

that looks like Denzel Washington is pushing up

12:38

on her is coming down. You will now

12:40

act right Yeah, think about it like bringing

12:43

a perfect Christmas tree. Nah get it together

12:46

That was like a Tyler Perry

12:48

movie before Tyler Perry. Absolutely like a supernatural

12:52

Like if Denzel had been light-skinned with a

12:54

bad wig. Oh my god. Yeah, it sounds

12:56

like it would be a tooby movie That's

12:58

just like an angel almost breaks up a

13:00

marriage Oh, yeah, if that movie didn't

13:02

have the people in it that it had in

13:04

it, it definitely would have been like, yeah What

13:06

are we watching made for VT? Yeah, and it

13:08

would still probably be a family You could you

13:10

that was back in the day where you could

13:12

have like a B movie idea But if you

13:14

put a list talent in it and it was

13:17

gonna make ah like soul food Yes,

13:19

literally like soul food big mama your

13:21

arm. Anyway Number

13:23

three which might be my

13:25

favorite Christmas movie ever Jingle

13:28

all the way. Absolutely. What a

13:30

movie. You got Schwarzenegger and Sinbad

13:35

In the late Phil Hartman, oh

13:37

my god Phil Hartman is Which

13:41

Sally's like what made me love it as a kid. I

13:43

was really obsessed with Phil Hartman Hey,

13:45

is it is it the kid the kid

13:47

that plays Anakin in Star Wars? Oh, I

13:49

think he is That's

13:51

that kid. Yeah, he's had a bad life. Yeah.

13:53

Yeah. Yeah But where do you

13:55

go after jingle all the way though? I know jingle up

13:57

like that movie is so good Like it literally is I

16:00

know what's going on. It's so funny like so

16:02

many movies like in Like

16:05

even with the preacher's life like so many movies and like the

16:07

90s are very much like dad wasn't appreciating

16:09

the rest of the Yeah, like

16:11

that's definitely what it was nothing our old Schwarzenegger

16:14

basically plays like a dad Yeah, who's like oh,

16:16

I've been so absent for my kids lives But

16:18

I got this if I just give them this

16:20

toy and it's like really okay Yeah, yeah, that

16:22

could be the message that you know you just

16:24

gotta get your kid a toy right? Hollywood

16:27

is funny because our old Schwarzenegger was

16:29

in so many movies like after he's like

16:31

whole action hero run He was in like

16:33

so many movies where it was like why

16:35

is this dude the dad in a family

16:37

where no one else talks like Yeah Kindergarten

16:41

cop yes No one

16:43

no one around you talks like that How are

16:46

you the only person here that talks like your

16:48

whole family kids aren't picking up on it? It'll

16:50

just be this regular like white Midwestern family, and

16:52

then he's like I'm all new like no, bro

16:55

And they also will be like and you

16:57

know you're from Ohio dad exactly like what

17:00

okay that man is Austrian And

17:03

he's 12 inches. It's an all-american Christmas

17:05

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17:07

Arnold Schwarzenegger do whatever he wanted sure sure

17:09

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17:11

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17:13

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17:15

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17:17

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yeah, Jingle All The Way. Like that, Jingle All

18:37

The Way is like, as a kid was definitely

18:40

my favorite Christmas movie. Yeah, it's

18:42

all action. The plot never

18:44

stops, like from the get go. Like it's one of

18:46

those movies where it's just like, like, what's that movie

18:48

I like? Rant Race. Oh

18:51

yeah. It's one of those movies where it's just like, boom, boom,

18:53

this happens and this happens and this happens. I love movies

18:55

like that. It never slows down. No, never. It's

18:58

perfect. It's like, I've never seen

19:00

that before. So that's the Seth Rogen movie, right? Yes. I

19:02

never, this is like, it's the Seth Rogen movie no one

19:04

has ever seen. This is the, this is around the moment

19:07

where I just gave up on him. Love

19:10

Seth to death. I really do. Yeah,

19:12

yeah. I'm a big Seth Rogen fan, but

19:14

there was just a time where it just kind of

19:16

like, I feel like he lost his fastball. This is

19:19

the one where like people kind of, I think, started

19:21

to find that type of movie grading the like adult

19:23

man who's kind of a child and doesn't know how

19:25

to grow up. And it's

19:27

about these like three dudes who every...

19:29

Is him, Anthony Mackie, and... Oh God,

19:31

what is his name? Oh,

19:34

is Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Yeah. Yeah.

19:37

That's him, right? Yeah,

19:39

yeah. They're good in that cancer movie

19:41

and they did this first. And yeah,

19:43

that's that guy. But you vouch for The Night

19:45

Before? It's one I like

19:48

to revisit because I love stoner comedy movies.

19:50

Oh, so it's a stoner Christmas movie. Yeah,

19:52

it's a stoner Christmas movie. It's about these

19:54

three guys who every night before Christmas try

19:56

to find this like elusive holiday party that's

19:59

like secret invite. only, they like

20:01

never find it, but

20:03

then one year they managed to find it and

20:05

like Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character is like we've got to

20:07

go to the party but the other two at

20:09

this point are boring and like have girlfriends and

20:12

are like oh I'm too old for this and

20:14

he's like no come on I just like went

20:16

through a divorce or something please go to it

20:18

okay and then chaos ensues. I

20:20

don't remember that from the marketing at all. No

20:23

one remembers the marketing from this movie

20:26

because no one heard about it, no

20:28

one saw it, like there's so

20:30

many celebrity cameos in it too

20:33

like Mindy Kaling

20:35

is in it, there's like a bunch of

20:37

famous athletes who pop up in it, there's

20:41

like a famous actor who plays a drug

20:43

dealer and all these like dream sequences they

20:45

have. It is a wild movie

20:47

that when people watch it are just like

20:50

how did no one ever talk about it.

20:52

That sounds like something I would very much

20:54

enjoy. It's I think a sleeper hit for

20:56

the Christmas season if you like a stoner

20:59

like Christmas comedy, it's better than

21:01

any others I've seen like there's you know

21:03

Harold and Kumar Christmas but that is a

21:05

bad movie. Harold and Kumar made a Christmas

21:07

movie? Yeah it's the third one in the

21:09

in the like series. I think I've seen

21:11

that one. It's like Harold and Kumar Harold

21:13

and Kumar Guantanamo and then the Christmas one.

21:15

The Christmas one isn't there like a scene

21:17

at a party like in a nice really

21:19

nice apartment or something like that. Yeah

21:21

and like there's

21:23

like a fight scene in there. Yeah I

21:26

think it's something we like Neil Patrick Harris

21:28

tries to be Santa or something. Yeah I've

21:30

seen that one. Yeah it wasn't very good.

21:32

It wasn't very good. The night before is

21:34

better. Okay but it wouldn't like crack like

21:36

your top five Seth Rogan movies though. No

21:39

okay no okay. I'll check

21:41

it out because that actually sounds like something I

21:43

would watch but I definitely don't remember it being

21:45

marketed like that. Nobody remembers it and it's like

21:47

a big cast. There's so many famous people in

21:49

it. What year did it come out? If

21:52

it came out like anywhere between 2015. See so 2013 to 2015

21:54

was right before I dropped out of college. And

22:00

so like most new movies that came out

22:02

around then, I just kinda missed. I just-

22:04

Oh, I forgot Nathan Fielder is in it.

22:07

Really? Yeah. Well, you know, like they all

22:09

went to school together. Yeah, I forgot, like

22:11

he has a huge role in it. Michael

22:13

Shannon is the actor who like plays the

22:15

drug dealer. Really? Yeah. And I

22:18

didn't watch this. And nobody watched it. Are you

22:20

gonna be cool at this party, dude? Oh, fuck

22:22

G. No, you're not cool, G. You look insane,

22:24

only your right eye is working. There's gonna be

22:26

a lot of famous people at this party. And

22:28

I don't want you to fuck it up. You walking

22:30

and looking like a shit show. You look weird now. Yes,

22:33

you look weird. Still

22:35

weird. Weird-er.

22:38

He looks fine when he's in the mall. No, you

22:40

don't. Look, you need to fucking check yourself before- Before

22:44

I wreck myself.

22:46

Oh. Is that what you're saying? Yeah.

22:49

G, can you check myself before I wreck myself? How

22:51

does that make someone feel? Right. To

22:53

be told that they might wreck themselves. You're not gonna

22:55

wreck yourself. You made him feel bad. Why don't you

22:57

just leave him alone? No, I'm not- Why

23:00

don't you have some weed and mellow out?

23:03

I'm gonna watch that this Christmas. Yeah, he

23:05

plays their limo driver who won't leave them

23:07

alone. That's so

23:09

funny. Because all I remember from

23:11

the marketing, I just saw three grown men in Christmas

23:14

sweaters running down the street. Yeah. And

23:16

I was just like, no. What is

23:18

this even about? And it's actually pretty clever

23:20

and funny. It's funny, Seth Rogen

23:22

making a Christmas movie. Yeah, see that's- Being

23:24

a Jewish guy making a Christmas movie. Yeah,

23:26

and that's part of it, is that they're

23:28

like, ha ha, you know. Oh, what's her

23:30

name is in it? Miley Cyrus. Really? Yeah.

23:33

That was like, bangers Miley Cyrus.

23:35

Yeah, bangers Miley Cyrus is in the movie.

23:37

She performs and then like, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is

23:39

like, help me propose to my girlfriend. And

23:42

the girlfriend is like, we literally just got

23:44

back together a week ago. This is not

23:46

a good idea. Wow.

23:48

It's a pretty funny scene. I'm gonna check it out. Yeah,

23:50

it's worth it. Night before. All right,

23:52

Seth, I'll see you. Yeah. Number

23:55

five. Hmm, this is

23:57

a Christmas movie video. It

23:59

is Texas. technically a New Year's Eve

24:01

movie, but I watch

24:03

it during Christmas. Waiting to exhale. Yes.

24:07

Very good movie. It starts on Christmas

24:09

Eve, ends with them celebrating the next

24:11

Christmas Eve. It does. But for me,

24:13

I mean, I start watching it during

24:15

the holiday season. So for me, it

24:17

means Christmas. Angela Bassett. Yeah.

24:20

Love Angela Bassett. Love Angela Bassett.

24:23

Whitney Houston again, like I said, obsessed with

24:25

her. This

24:27

motherfucker is psychotic. I

24:30

bet you they serial killers less anal.

24:37

This white woman probably only was one who holler

24:40

at your smug ass. Yeah,

24:42

I was a white woman for 11 years. I

24:45

started that damn company without me.

24:48

Hell, I was broke my ass off.

24:51

I mean, I got masters to see in

24:53

business, and there was this secretary that's always

24:55

mad at her. And she's

24:57

confused. Angela is

25:00

a family friend of mine. Oh,

25:02

OK. Yeah. She went

25:04

to college with my cousin. So

25:07

whenever I go to their house, she

25:09

has the Waiting to Exhale poster in

25:11

her kitchen, and it's signed by her and Whitney. It's

25:14

really cool. I had to find

25:16

the picture, but I think

25:18

it was after the Tina

25:20

Turner movie. She

25:23

came to our family reunion in

25:25

small town Louisiana. This is a hangout? Yeah,

25:28

she's the hangout with everybody. She wasn't super

25:30

famous yet, but everybody knew her. And she's

25:32

in movies. And so there's pictures

25:34

of her. I feel like she's just always been

25:36

black famous. Yes, she really has. And so you

25:38

talk to a white person, it's like, what do

25:40

you like Angela Bassett in? Black Panther? Get the

25:42

fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of

25:44

here. Get out of here. But

25:46

Angela Bassett has our black people. We got

25:48

the family reunion t-shirt. She literally has like

25:50

the red family reunion t-shirt in the thing.

25:53

And then my grandma, I got to

25:55

find the picture, but I was the baby

25:57

that family reunion. So Angela

25:59

Bassett's like. sitting on the couch with our

26:01

family t-shirt on, just holding me as a baby.

26:03

I would lie to everybody and say, she's my

26:05

aunt. I would literally, you should post that. You

26:07

would get so much money for, like

26:10

people would be like, oh, you gotta help find

26:12

Angela Bassett's nephew. Look, nepotism. Even

26:14

if you gotta lie about it, Jesus. Come on,

26:16

make it work. I gotta find that picture, but

26:18

yeah, definitely that whole, that run

26:20

of movies, I think it was the Tina

26:22

Turner one, Waiting to Exhale, and there was

26:25

like, there was like a run of like three movies she

26:27

had that were just sick. Yeah. Or she

26:29

should have got an Oscar for like all three.

26:31

And every single one, and of course, racism. Yeah.

26:33

No, she didn't. So she didn't. But

26:35

Waiting to Exhale, I think, I counted as

26:37

a Christmas movie. It's about new beginnings. I

26:39

think it's like, yeah, it's a pinnacle of

26:41

kind of what I think the holiday season

26:43

should be about, of thinking about

26:45

what you did wrong and what you need to

26:48

change. Who else is in that movie?

26:51

They look a fox in that movie. Loretta Devine, no. Robin

26:55

Givens. Robin Givens

26:57

is in it? Yeah. Who love Loretta

26:59

Devine? Loretta Devine, that's the main four girls.

27:02

Okay. Who's that man who was always like

27:05

tap dancing? Am I

27:07

safe young Grover? Gregory Hines. Gregory

27:09

Hines is in it? Yeah. Okay.

27:11

Yeah. Yeah. Good cast. I like

27:13

that movie a lot. I just never thought about it.

27:15

Oh, and Donald Faison. Wow.

27:18

He is in that shit. He plays Loretta

27:20

Devine's son, who's like, I'm gonna go travel

27:22

the world, ma. You can't hold me back.

27:25

I love Donald Faison. Now

27:27

he does C-Mobile commercials. Yeah.

27:29

Yeah. And animated shows like Alabama Jackson, which

27:31

you can... She wrote for. Yeah, that I

27:34

wrote for that. You can watch on YouTube

27:36

from adult swim. They took it off of

27:38

everything, but it's on YouTube. Oh

27:42

my God. YouTube, man. It's

27:45

sick how many things you could just watch on

27:47

YouTube now that someone should have been

27:49

getting paid more money. Paid so much money and

27:51

it should be on a real TV, but you

27:53

know, hey, it's out there. That's the business, baby.

27:55

That's the business. We love it. We

27:58

love it. So you got... Four

28:00

of your least favorite movies. Yes. Christmas

28:03

movies. And yeah. We're

28:05

gonna start off hot. Yeah. Cause you got one

28:07

on here that. Let's go. As someone who is a Christmas

28:09

hater, I think is a great movie. Home

28:12

Alone. Yeah. Is your

28:14

least, is this your number one on your least favorite? Yeah.

28:18

I can't, I love, okay, I like Home

28:20

Alone. I get in the,

28:22

why Home Alone is an entertaining time.

28:24

Yes. It has hijinks. Yes.

28:27

And action. Great. It's

28:30

not a Christmas movie. It's not a Christmas movie.

28:32

I don't watch that movie and feel warm and

28:34

cuddly. I am just like, you

28:36

left your child. Yeah. That's

28:38

fucked up. It's messed up. That isn't the Christmas

28:41

spirit to me. Leaving a child,

28:43

abandoning a child. I think if this happened to

28:45

a black family, the child protective services are getting

28:47

called. Oh, of course. Immediately.

28:49

I'm like first, and also there's just a

28:51

lot of miscommunication. Oh yeah. Black, Black Kevin

28:54

is getting put in a foster home. A

28:56

foster home. A former sequel. Police are getting

28:58

called. What time do you have to go

29:00

to bed? Early. We're leaving the house at 8

29:02

a.m. on the bus. I hope you're all drinking milk. I want to get rid

29:04

of it. Hey. I need a pizza boy that

29:06

needs $122.50 plus tips. For pizza? 10 pizzas, that's 12 bucks. Frank, you've

29:08

got the money, don't you? Come on. Traveler's

29:10

checks. We're getting it, Frank. We have

29:13

cash. What kind of a...

29:15

Did anyone order me a plain cheese? Oh yeah, we did.

29:17

Unless you want any. Somebody's got a pizza. I'm going to

29:19

get a pizza. I'm going to get a pizza. I'm going

29:21

to get a pizza. Are

29:53

pigeons about Christmas? No. There's

29:56

no reason. They could be

29:59

any. It could be any

30:01

holiday reasons. It could have been a summer vacation

30:03

and they left him at home. Christmas is not

30:05

key to the film. It's not. It could have

30:07

been anything. It could have been anything. It could

30:09

have just been like, oh yeah, Kevin's summer vacation.

30:12

It's like they're a big family and like Christmas is

30:14

like a stressful time. You have a bunch of kids.

30:16

So I feel like, I don't know. I feel like

30:18

any travel is stressful, but Christmas, you forget a

30:20

kid. You're packing gifts and

30:22

stuff. You should remember the kid. Come on.

30:24

That is crazy that they just forgot him

30:27

like that though. Yeah. And I just couldn't

30:29

get over that to be like, this is

30:31

a Christmas movie. Because what's his name? McCully

30:33

just got his little Hollywood star walker name.

30:35

Yeah. Yeah. He was a little late,

30:37

but hey. It's very late. That's crazy. If you

30:39

had asked me to bet, I would have bet

30:41

he had one already. Yeah,

30:43

I would have thought so too. I would have thought so

30:45

too. I mean, that kid, I mean, when he was a kid,

30:48

he was on everything. Every

30:50

single name. Somebody was on Twitter saying that Kevin

30:52

should have got an attempted murder charge. Yeah. For

30:54

all that shit he was doing. Absolutely.

30:56

I mean, he did use

30:58

a brick. He used a brick and he's

31:01

can't the paint. Like he was just torturing

31:03

these two men. And

31:05

yes, okay. They're criminals. But

31:08

is this the justice system we want to live in?

31:12

When that's ruled by like a 12 year old boy.

31:16

I don't know. I'm just a big

31:18

Kevin McAllister fan. I don't know. You

31:21

know, if you just told me it was an

31:23

action movie, I would be like, it is like

31:25

child die hard. Yeah. It's like child die hard.

31:28

And they always try to say, oh, die hard

31:30

is a Christmas movie. You don't think that hard.

31:32

No, it just happens to be at Christmas. It's

31:35

like that. It's not bringing the

31:37

Christmas spirit. There's no Christmas message

31:40

or meaning here. That's

31:43

real. So it's home

31:45

alone to Christmas too. It

31:48

is. Wow. See, I never watched it

31:50

because I was sick of it. He didn't even. I

31:54

might be, you know, I think home alone

31:56

too is actually better. Oh, is that the

31:58

one with Donald Trump? It is. Wow.

32:00

Toestar Donald Trump. Wow. Yeah,

32:03

yeah, enjoy that. You're complicit. I

32:05

am very complicit. Have a complicit

32:07

Christmas. Yeah, it's almost like having

32:09

the biggest sketch show ever in history and

32:11

having him host or having him on your

32:14

talk show and rubbing your face. And rubbing

32:16

his head, yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what you're

32:18

doing when you watch Home Alone, even the

32:20

one he's not in. Even

32:22

the one he's not in? The whole franchise is complicit.

32:25

Okay? That's crazy. There

32:28

you go. You go watch Jingle All The Way. You don't have to worry about Trump

32:30

in that one. You could just watch Jingle All The Way. Exactly.

32:34

Okay. Ashley has very good points for

32:36

her Home Alone hate. I don't

32:38

know if I agree. This is one of your most

32:41

confident. You could watch Home Alone any time of the

32:43

year. Ashley, they come at you

32:45

on Twitter a lot. They do. They're going

32:47

to hate me. Yeah. This

32:49

one might be your most confident. Honestly, I

32:51

would never tweet this. Yeah,

32:54

you shouldn't tweet this ever. People would know. Keep this

32:56

on the podcast. And if you're listening to this, we're

32:58

going to keep this. Don't tell anyone I said it.

33:00

Don't tell anyone I said it. We're keeping this in

33:02

the I Hate Christmas family. We're not putting this online.

33:04

You could watch it 4th of July. It's not a

33:07

Christmas movie. It's just Home Alone.

33:09

That's true. This next one. Now,

33:12

I think this is crazy too. The

33:15

Grinch? Yeah. That's on

33:17

your least favorite? Yeah. And I mean

33:19

every version, the cartoon, the remake.

33:22

The Jim Carrey? Every single

33:24

one. I just don't

33:26

understand. So I'm just kind of

33:28

like let him live his life.

33:31

That's crazy. I don't understand why

33:33

we're meddling in The Grinch's affairs.

33:37

I just never really needed him to have

33:39

holiday cheer, joy in his heart. I was

33:41

fine with him being The Grinch. But

33:44

I'm just supposed to care about his... I

33:47

wasn't pulled into his growth or his narrative

33:50

in this film. I wonder

33:52

if his coat and his hat are the

33:54

gush they say next. You're

33:57

a mean one, Mr.

33:59

Grinch. You

34:02

really are a heel.

34:06

You're a godly attack, and

34:08

as charming as an ear, you're a bitch.

34:13

You're a bad banana with a

34:16

greasy black beard.

34:24

I love any movie that is allegory about

34:26

we should just leave the old angry black

34:28

man alone. So I

34:30

love The Grinch. I

34:33

mean, I want

34:35

to. But every time I'm upset when

34:37

someone puts it on. Really? If

34:40

I'm at a holiday party and someone's like, we're going to put

34:42

on The Grinch, I'm like, why? You don't think it's funny? You

34:46

know, the Jim Carrey version has

34:48

moments because he's Jim Carrey. He

34:50

knows how to be funny, but

34:53

it just annoys me.

34:55

It's another one where I'm just kind

34:57

of like, I don't care

35:00

about these people having their Christmas spirit. It's

35:03

not a big Whoville fan. Not a big Whoville

35:06

fan. I'm not a fan of the remake aspect.

35:08

I think they're about to do another one. Yeah,

35:10

they're probably going to make 10 million versions of

35:12

The Grinch. Jim Carrey said he wants to do

35:14

it again. Get over

35:16

it, man. Why? Why? Why? I

35:22

don't want to see a reboot or a re-eminent. Yeah,

35:25

like what? He lost his holiday spirit so

35:27

he's a Grinch again? What are we doing?

35:30

I don't know. For now. It's

35:33

just... I get

35:35

people's love for that one, though. I do. I

35:37

get why people love The Grinch. I

35:40

would say if I saw

35:42

The Grinch now, I

35:44

don't think I would care much about it. I think it's one

35:46

of those, I saw it as a kid. I

35:48

think I'm pretty sure I saw it in theaters. I

35:51

definitely saw the Jim Carrey one in theaters, and

35:53

I think it's the cartoon version. That

35:56

was recent. That was a few years ago, right? Oh, I

35:58

mean the original cartoon. I'm

36:00

on broadcast TV. Yeah, and I think as a kid

36:02

it would come on all the time. My mom would

36:04

play it and to me it was just so boring,

36:06

like Charlie Brown Christmas. So I just kind of put

36:09

it on that level of like, why do I care

36:11

about this old Christmas movie? No, that's real

36:13

cute. Yeah, because I see you don't have none of the

36:15

old classic ones like The Rudolph and Charlie

36:17

Brown. No, no. You don't like those. I

36:19

like those, sorry. I hated those movies growing

36:21

up. I hated those growing up. I was just

36:24

like, why are you making me watch this

36:26

old stuff? And then they would have Frosty

36:28

the Snowman. I hated so much. Yeah, I hated

36:30

that one. Because what would he say when he

36:32

would come back alive? He'd be like, you got

36:34

a happy birthday? Yeah, he

36:36

was always like, happy birthday. Nah,

36:38

bro. I'm not doing this.

36:41

I hated it. I hated how sad the

36:43

little Rudolph one looked. It just, you know,

36:45

that was tough for like my mom's

36:48

age. Like I didn't get that old ass

36:50

cartoon. There was one that, there

36:52

was like a Claymation one that was really bad

36:54

about Santa Claus. And Jack Frost, I think. Jack

36:56

Frost, yeah. Yeah, I didn't like none of that.

36:58

Yeah, I didn't like any of that. I'm sorry,

37:00

I'm a kid of the 90s. And

37:03

I was like, who needs that? We have live action.

37:05

Why do I watch that when SimBad is like fighting

37:07

on a Christmas float? For Turbo Man. So

37:10

third, so I hear about this movie a

37:12

lot, but I have no

37:14

idea what it's about, who's in it.

37:18

None of it. What is love actually? I hear people talk

37:20

about it all the time. Never seen this

37:22

movie. I don't even

37:24

know where to begin with that. Love actually is,

37:27

consider one of the like biggest,

37:30

most famous rom-coms ever.

37:32

It's also based around the holidays. It

37:34

follows a bunch of couples that don't

37:37

all intersect. Some of them kind of

37:39

do. And it's not even

37:41

really couples. It's like people

37:43

who are somewhat into

37:45

each other. And then over the course of the

37:48

movie, they end up being together, some of them.

37:51

And there's these two actors

37:54

who are stand-ins for nudity

37:56

in movies. And so they

37:58

recreate sex scenes and they... like

38:00

fall in love and there's just like

38:02

all these different couples that you follow

38:05

in different plot lines and they're all

38:07

around Christmas there's one where like Alan

38:09

Rickman is like this mean angry boss

38:11

oh yeah yeah like oh so many

38:15

famous Hugh Grant is in it like star-studded

38:17

cast yeah it's like if you ever did

38:19

you ever watch like a new year no

38:21

but I know those kind of movies yeah

38:24

but it's like a million celebrities and the

38:26

plot is just kind of like watch a

38:28

bunch of different people fall kind of

38:30

in love okay like Hugh Grant is

38:32

what the Prime

38:35

Minister or something and he falls in

38:37

love with his secretary hello does Natalie

38:40

live here oh right

38:42

fine thank you sorry to disturb you're

38:47

the Prime Minister yes

38:52

Merry Christmas oh part

38:54

of a service now trying to get round everyone

38:56

by new year's Eve and it's

38:58

a British movie and

39:01

they are I'm never watching I guess

39:03

I never considered if it was actually

39:05

like me but British people but everyone

39:08

is British that's why I've never seen this is

39:10

I hate it's so corny and it was like

39:12

it's so of its time like it came out

39:14

in I think the early or maybe just like

39:17

the late 2000s early 2010s but it you watch

39:21

it now and in so much of it

39:24

is problematic that you're like oh that is

39:26

not how we should treat women oh

39:29

okay and so every year it's

39:31

the same conversations around this movie of

39:33

people being like actually the way

39:35

that they do this relationship is super problematic

39:38

and it's like well it's not a good

39:40

movie it's the wrong like yeah what are

39:42

you expecting here it's a Christmas rom-com it's

39:45

like just to watch it and enjoy it or turn

39:47

it off but I choose to

39:49

turn it off I definitely think rom-coms are like

39:52

some of the hardest movies to age

39:54

gracefully yeah yeah it's you

39:57

know you have to like get the comedy of the time

39:59

and it does. And relationship aspects

40:01

and that changes so much

40:03

from like how we view

40:06

gender and love and dating so much. Yeah.

40:08

That's hard. It's tough but every it's one

40:10

of the ones so many people return to

40:12

you go to a holiday party people will

40:14

be like we're putting on love actually because

40:17

it has so many if you I feel like the

40:19

most classic moment is the girl opens the door and

40:21

the guy is standing there holding the signs and he's

40:23

like don't say anything. I love and

40:25

the signs like say and people turn it into a

40:27

meme. Oh okay. If you've

40:29

ever seen where the guy is like saying.

40:32

I just completely missed the whole of love

40:34

actually. It's I feel like it was a

40:36

phenomenon. Really? Yeah. Like it's where was I?

40:39

There's been oral histories books written about

40:43

it is very white. I don't think there's it's

40:45

this giant star setting. No one I can't think

40:47

of a black person in the movie. Okay. Because

40:49

no one I know has ever brought this movie

40:51

up and yeah like you need to watch this.

40:53

No. I would never tell someone they need to

40:55

watch. And I feel like I do have white

40:57

friends. You do. You do. Yeah. And

40:59

I bet if you ask them specifically they'd be

41:02

like of course I love love actually. They would

41:04

be like I every Christmas I have to watch

41:06

my favorite couple is this one. Right. Yeah. So

41:08

I guess I just knew better to just not

41:11

suggest it to me. Yeah. You don't look like

41:13

you would love it. I don't think I would.

41:16

But it's I mean it

41:18

is set at Christmas and I guess it's

41:20

people falling in love during Christmas. But

41:22

I hate it. Okay. Time

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41:54

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42:01

I hate this movie too. I think

42:03

it's whack and overrated. And I'm kind

42:05

of anti-Chevy Chase on anything. National

42:08

Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I hate this movie. So I

42:10

watched when I was a kid and I was just

42:12

like, this is just a bunch of like, gags.

42:15

Gags. Every, I hate, I

42:17

hate every National Lampoon movie. Really?

42:20

I'm sick of those white people and their hijinks and their

42:22

chaos. You know, like Animal

42:25

House? Okay, I

42:27

like Animal House. It doesn't age well,

42:29

but for the time. But for the

42:31

time, that one's pretty good. But all

42:33

of the just like, Chevy Chase family

42:35

ones, like whatever vacation, Christmas vacation. I

42:37

hate all of them. It's just

42:39

so much of that movie makes me roll my

42:42

eyes. And then growing up, it was constantly on

42:44

Comedy Central. They would just play it. Yeah, I

42:46

would on TV. I remember being on TV like

42:48

a lot. All the time. Where do

42:50

you think you're going? Nobody's

42:52

leaving. Nobody's walking out on this

42:54

fun old fashioned family Christmas. No,

42:56

no, we're all in this together.

42:58

This is a full blown four

43:00

alarm holiday emergency here. We're

43:02

gonna press on and we're gonna have the hop,

43:05

hop, hoppiest Christmas and spin Crosby tap dance with

43:07

Danny fucking K. And when

43:09

Santa squeezes fat white ass down that chimney night,

43:12

he's gonna find the jottiest bunch of assholes this side

43:14

of the Nut House. And

43:16

to me, that movie and Home Alone

43:18

are of a similar flavor. Whoa. Yeah.

43:22

Ooh. Where I'm like, what are we,

43:24

what are we really doing? This is just hijinks and jokes. This

43:27

isn't, this isn't Christmas. Wow.

43:30

You gonna put Home Alone and vacation.

43:32

Home Alone is better. I would

43:34

watch Home Alone, but they're the

43:37

same kind of Christmas movie to me. Just

43:40

too silly. That's interesting. Okay. Like I

43:42

said, Christmas isn't about silly. It's not

43:44

about silly. It's about reflection. It's about

43:46

reflection. Sorrow. The trees are dead. Okay.

43:49

What are you laughing about? I can't argue with you

43:51

there. I can't argue with

43:54

you there. One movie that I

43:56

was surprised wasn't on either one

43:58

of your, I feel like it's this movie. is

44:00

one of those like, you know, you hate it

44:02

as a Christmas movie because everybody loves it as

44:04

goofy or you love it. Elf. I

44:06

knew that was gonna be what you said. Yeah. And

44:09

I actually have a very controversial Sans here. Let's go.

44:11

I have never seen Elf. Whoa!

44:13

That's crazy. Okay, people, tomorrow morning, here they

44:15

am. Santa's coming to town. Ah! Oh

44:18

my god! Santa's here? I know him.

44:21

I know him. I've never seen Elf. I've never

44:23

seen Elf. I've never seen Elf. I've never

44:25

seen Elf. I've never seen Elf. I've never seen

44:27

Elf. I've never seen Elf. Oh my god. I

44:30

honestly thought about watching it just because I

44:32

knew it should be on my

44:35

list because there's such an expectation. Look, I'm gonna

44:37

be, I'm gonna stand up, because I know I'm

44:39

not alone, and I'm gonna stand up

44:41

for everyone out there who's never seen Elf. It's probably one

44:43

of those movies that like, if you haven't seen it, you

44:45

just act like you have. You have?

44:48

I pretend. I'm like, ha ha, yeah, he's so

44:50

tall that he's not an Elf or something. Yeah,

44:52

that's the point. It's the point. It's

44:55

the point. Look, and Zooey Deschanel

44:57

is there. He's

44:59

there. Saigon Love. Oh, he's,

45:02

oh, okay. He's great. But

45:05

I think that was like one of his

45:07

last movies before like white industry people was like, all

45:09

right, bro, you've talked to me. Yeah, you did a

45:11

little too much. I was watching that other one. He

45:13

like couples. The one where he's naked. Yeah, yeah, that

45:16

was pretty fun. That's a pretty funny movie. But

45:19

Elf, you got it. I just,

45:21

I feel like I miss the hype.

45:23

I don't typically see holiday movies in

45:25

theaters. Tarantino plays it at the New

45:27

Beverly like every Christmas. Okay, I mean,

45:29

it must be good. It's

45:31

a really funny movie with a lot of heart, you should

45:33

watch. And I love Will Ferrell. He

45:36

listens to his podcast, so you need to... I'm

45:38

sorry, Will. I'm sorry, Will, that you had to hear that.

45:41

I know I'm not alone, and I speak

45:43

for everyone who just happened to kind of

45:45

miss it, and then, you know, years in

45:47

a decade or something passed. It's on TV

45:49

like all December. It was really, it's literally

45:51

the number one movie on Hulu right now.

45:53

It's like, it's to the point,

45:55

like I like the movie and I haven't watched

45:58

it in like six Christmases. There was just every...

46:00

everywhere every time. Yeah, but that's just

46:02

one it's You

46:04

know, I'll that's a failure on my part a little

46:07

bit. Yeah, I think it is I'm blown

46:09

away I'm a lot too many people.

46:11

Yeah, I haven't seen else I and I'm embarrassed

46:13

to admit it and it's something I've hit and

46:15

I don't try I try to just like act

46:17

like I've seen It and like I know about

46:19

it like it's there's

46:21

a part where he goes in a board meeting, right?

46:23

And that's funny In the

46:27

department store scene that everybody loves

46:33

You know and then he oh he eats the

46:35

gum and it's gross I think or he eats

46:37

something because he's that he doesn't know What

46:40

humans do? Hope

46:42

you watch it. I really do. I will go home and

46:44

watch it today Yeah,

46:46

I was gonna get away with you

46:48

can't get away from it I was

46:50

gonna start my Christmas movie binge season

46:53

watch with Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander

46:57

It is a beautiful Christmas movie

46:59

about a family in Sweden, this

47:01

is sort of like turn-of-the-century Sweden

47:03

It's very depressing It's about them

47:05

coming to terms with loss and

47:08

mortality and death around the Christmas

47:10

season and losing sort of their

47:12

bourgeois lifestyle Fitzsou

47:15

just super depressing Ingmar Bergman Swedish film with

47:17

subtitles. That's how I get depressed during the

47:19

holiday season That's what I like to get

47:22

into this just the that is a choice

47:24

actually the real dark stuff But instead I'm

47:26

gonna put that aside. I'm gonna go home.

47:28

I'm gonna watch else Well,

47:32

I mean I I'm

47:34

really surprised about how many Christmas movies I had

47:36

to defend on this episode You

47:40

really But because

47:42

but my thing with Christmas movies though,

47:44

I do see them as like a lower

47:47

tier of movie just Christmas

47:50

is there about Christmas? It's like a gimmick

47:52

like a gimmick comedian like yeah, exactly It's

47:54

like the one no thing. So if when

47:56

I haven't seen else, it's like it was a

47:59

Christmas movie I get it, I get it, I get it. But

48:02

I mean, when people are like, I haven't seen The Nightmare Before

48:04

Christmas, I'm like, what is wrong with you? I'm

48:06

like, so, yeah, I feel like I slipped up on

48:08

that. I gotta go watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm

48:10

just not the biggest Tim Burton fan in the world.

48:13

Yeah. I'm gonna go check it out. Yeah,

48:15

it's so good. There's so

48:17

many sad songs and it's like, night

48:19

is beautiful and about coming to terms with like

48:21

how your life isn't what you wanted it to be at

48:24

Christmas, when you dream of more. I can

48:26

relate to that. Yeah, like you wanna take

48:28

over Halloween and Christmas. Can't

48:31

have it all though. No, no you can't. And

48:33

that's really what Jack Skellington learns along the way.

48:35

Jack Skellington, what a name. Do

48:38

you have any favorite

48:40

like Christmas stories coming up that you'd

48:42

like to tell the audience? You

48:45

know, Christmas, I

48:50

guess my favorite thing to do at Christmas is that I

48:52

get drunk and I watch a lot of TV. I

48:56

don't do that anyway. I do even

48:58

like I day drink. Like

49:01

you get to, it's like it's Christmas season.

49:03

You get to put whiskey in your coffee,

49:05

Merry Christmas. And then I

49:07

just kinda watch a lot of the crown

49:09

because I like how dark and kind of

49:11

sad it is, but also so decadent and

49:13

pretty. So I

49:16

encourage the people to do that with

49:18

their holiday season. You

49:21

know, I guess I sound like a real

49:24

Grinch. I'm

49:26

hating so hard. I'm hating on the

49:28

Grinch in this episode. But

49:30

I do love like, I

49:33

do love, I think Christmas TV

49:35

episodes. Those are the stories that

49:37

make me like really actually, I

49:40

love wanna celebrate Christmas. I love when TV

49:42

series do their Christmas episodes. Yeah. That

49:44

is one thing I think we're missing in

49:46

this day and age of shortened seasons. Yeah,

49:48

if you don't. We don't get the holiday

49:50

episodes. The holiday episodes. Those were always really

49:52

good. Or Like some random

49:55

guest star is an angel and he's

49:57

there to help everybody or someone. Santa

49:59

Claus. The undercover, undercover or like

50:01

someone's dealing with like deep family

50:04

drama through Christmas. ah I guess

50:06

the community Christmas episode. Where are

50:09

they said his. I like

50:11

have dissociating and thinks everyone is a

50:13

puppet. That's. Probably one of my favorite

50:15

for that is a Dorries. Ah,

50:17

That you know. I It brings together everything

50:20

I love about Christmas. Ah,

50:22

mental illness, ah and and

50:24

and sadness But the bud.

50:26

some tier for do. With.

50:29

A select sister sister had a really good

50:31

Christmas episode. Oh absolutely for do have some

50:33

with that but that's I don't usually look

50:35

things up but I'm elected Yeah, I remember

50:37

that. Sounds silly. there's

50:40

well with like a teen heartthrob

50:42

boy in a. Like

50:44

makes their Christmas wishes comes to come true

50:46

and then it's like oh you for his

50:48

and L for some they they probably saw

50:51

that for the movie else because racism of

50:53

course you know. Sister's

50:55

home so. I'll go

50:57

to and some era learn that Grandpa

50:59

is being hounded by a loan shark.

51:02

On Christmas day I remember being something

51:04

like it was really good vs for

51:06

Jago us as again or three episodes

51:08

will it is on Pluto Tv Noaa

51:10

data love Pluto channel of Pluto to

51:12

be they they hold my comunidad of.

51:15

Homeless. Girl, I'm glad. I'm glad you

51:17

came on here and. You. Gave was

51:19

your favorite and least favorite Christmas movies and

51:21

really pressures? Yeah, Honestly, I'm glad to be

51:24

here. I'm gonna watch else and it's gonna

51:26

get me into the Christmas spirit. you know?

51:29

I'm. Does you know what else in your life? Or and I did

51:31

it. Out

51:33

why I was going to fall in love with

51:35

willing I'll I'll watch Alvin selling other even understand

51:37

the grants like my heart is gonna growth three

51:39

size and I think you gotta give the grants

51:41

another spent. by how long is it means Ah

51:43

has year day hobby of Blake's. I

51:46

probably haven't seen it since around when it

51:48

came out A but you gotta give Grants

51:50

one more spin. I do. Any you know,

51:52

they did turn him into like a meme.

51:54

Ends yeah, I'm alone. I don't think we

51:56

can censor. opinion if it's

51:58

that yeah no it's die hard

52:00

for kids. It is. It's

52:02

not a Christmas movie and I'm sick of

52:04

all the die-hards of Christmas movie yeah yeah

52:06

you just want to feel cool and special.

52:08

You're so quirky you think die-hard is a

52:11

Christmas movie wow you're so cool. I think

52:13

it is you got Carl Winslow in

52:15

there I think it is. It's

52:17

a movie that happens during Christmas. Sure.

52:20

Okay look yeah I'm not here to

52:22

change opinions I'm not here it's

52:24

all good. But I

52:26

do think I give Elf one more spin. Like

52:29

if I put die-hard on this list you would have rolled your eyes.

52:31

I would have laughed I would have thought

52:33

you were trolling. I definitely defended a few

52:35

more Christmas movies than I thought I did but

52:37

at the end of the day I think that's

52:40

just childhood nostalgia. I think most Christmas movies are

52:42

bad unless they have Angela

52:44

Bassett or Whitney Houston in them. Is

52:47

there anything you'd like to plug? You

52:49

know listen to TV I say

52:51

with Ashley Rae. Me too. Yeah

52:53

we're getting into all the holiday

52:55

TV episodes some really good like

52:57

Bob's Burgers again another one that

52:59

does good. We're gonna get into

53:01

some of the best sitcom ones and

53:04

you know I got some shows if you're in

53:06

LA go to my website the Ashley rae.com you

53:08

can follow me online at the Ashley Rae for

53:10

other shows and yeah my album will be out

53:12

in early next year so keep an eye

53:14

out for that. I'm gonna go listen to that. Thank you Ashley

53:17

so much for being on the show. I'm

53:19

Niles Apsen your host this is I Hate Christmas

53:21

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