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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it's Wednesday, December twenty fourth. What is

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Speaker 1: the perfect, perfect Christmas Eve movie for the family. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's either gonna be Elf or it's gonna be die Hard.

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Speaker 2: That's the fight, at least in this house. There are

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Speaker 2: plenty of others people go to and.

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Speaker 1: With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to go down the road of

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Speaker 1: whether or not die Hard is a Christmas movie that's

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Speaker 1: been settled, So let's not even do that.

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Speaker 3: We'll start with the premise that it is.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but these two movies are a sore, a sore

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Speaker 1: spot in the house because of how much we seem

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Speaker 1: to dislike the movie that the other absolutely loves.

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Speaker 2: Right, and look, I don't hate die Hard, but it

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Speaker 2: is a note it is but Elf is not playing

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Speaker 2: in the apartment twenty four to seven, So that's your

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Speaker 2: Diehard's It adds to the annoyance.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you can explain.

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Speaker 3: I don't TJ has how long.

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Speaker 1: Have you been doing this my whole life? Adults?

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Speaker 3: College?

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Speaker 1: Maybe remember?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So he as soon as it's Thanksgiving Day he

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Speaker 2: puts die Hard on a loop. He actually still has

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Speaker 2: a DVD player so that he can do it. And

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Speaker 2: at some point the rule is in the apartment, some

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Speaker 2: through January one, And sometimes the volume gets turned up

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, I hear a machine gun

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Speaker 2: and gun fire. I'm like, what is going? Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: it's die Hard. I forgot.

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Speaker 3: It's playing on a loop in the apartment.

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Speaker 1: And I'm laughing as we record this at our studio

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Speaker 1: at home one, two three, it's playing on at least

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Speaker 2: Yes, you actually go around and put it on as

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Speaker 2: many TVs as you can, but the rule is at

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Speaker 3: Has to be playing Diehard.

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Speaker 1: I love the movie.

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Speaker 3: Why is that? I think that the journalist in me needs.

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Speaker 1: To know why I only subject you to this a

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Speaker 1: certain period of the year. I don't watch Diehard at

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Speaker 1: all for the other eleven months of the year. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's true, Okay, that's true. Why do I do this?

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Speaker 1: I love this movie. It goes, Yes, it goes a

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Speaker 1: little too. You know what, for folks out there, you

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Speaker 1: were watching something was on? Was it Elf? It might

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Speaker 1: have been that was I don't think it was Elf.

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Speaker 1: There was something on you said, this just makes me

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Speaker 3: Well, Elf, definitely does.

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Speaker 1: Some you just have that thing that puts you in

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Speaker 1: whatever Christmas spirit, or lifts you up, or takes you

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Speaker 1: back to the time maybe you were happiest. That is

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Speaker 1: absolutely what die Hard is for me. It seems like

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Speaker 1: maybe for some folks in an odd movie to do

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Speaker 2: Okay, and there we are, there we got to the

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Speaker 3: I did not know that.

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Speaker 1: I told you that.

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Speaker 3: I knew that you loved the movie, but I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't the first movie I ever went to the

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Speaker 1: this was the first one. And I love this movie.

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Speaker 1: I remember the promos for it, and I was so

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Speaker 2: So it's nostalgic and it takes you back, and that's

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Speaker 2: what this movie gives you and brings to you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So it was funny growing up at Christmas time.

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Speaker 2: The two movies that I was subjected to, I like them,

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Speaker 2: but they don't have the same weight. My mom always

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Speaker 2: Those were the two must sees on Christmas Eve. The

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Speaker 2: It's hilarious. I love that movie too. That would be

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Speaker 1: Oh, I am sure of it. You all seem to

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 1: And I have never sat down and watched Elf, even

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Speaker 3: Yes, I believe it was last Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Sabine and a bunch of girls and I were all

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Speaker 2: you have never up until now, you'd never actually watched

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Speaker 3: You know, Bye, buddy, Hope you find your dad and

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Speaker 3: you would say what is that from? And we'd be like, Elf,

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Speaker 1: Do you think the majority of people who just heard

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Speaker 1: you say that know the reference?

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Speaker 3: Yes, hey, buddy, hope you find your dad?

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Speaker 1: Really okay? Yes, okay, okay. So we finally, folks, we

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Speaker 1: this recording. We just sat down and watched each other's

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Speaker 1: respective favorite Christmas movie, and um, we're gonna give you

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Speaker 1: our assessment. Now, I'll give you mine. We reserve judgment

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Speaker 1: about two movies. We haven't shared this. We'll share it

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Speaker 1: for the first time. Elf. Though, as a reminder, let's

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Speaker 1: start with that movie. Okay, Elf, two thousand and three.

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Speaker 1: You had that right PG. If you don't know it,

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Speaker 1: Here it is about raised as an oversized ELF. Buddy

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Speaker 1: exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. Now,

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Speaker 1: this cast is out of this world.

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Speaker 1: It's out of this world. Will Ferrell, of course, but

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Speaker 3: Of him and Zoey de Chanel. Wasn't he over there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Because I left her off. That's on me. But

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Speaker 1: this movie did really well at the box office. Who

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Speaker 1: Tomatoes score eighty five percent. They liked it.

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Speaker 1: The audience liked it to seventy nine percent. The critic

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Speaker 1: a spirited, good natured family comedy benefits greatly from Will

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of audience critiques to even put it

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Speaker 3: I think it's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: I laugh out loud every single time the lines can

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Speaker 2: Just when it started to get cheesy or too hokey,

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Speaker 3: They'd sneak in some cheesiness. But actually, those of.

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Speaker 2: Us who love romcoms, et cetera want a little of

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Speaker 2: You've got a movie that you love with your kids,

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Speaker 1: Now, who is this? I mean, always is a family

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Speaker 3: Maybe that would be a would be off putting. But

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Speaker 2: Don't like cheesy movies, it's funny enough that it'll still

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Speaker 1: I've never seen that scene. I've never seen that scene.

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Speaker 1: First and foremost, I'm a fan of Will Ferrell. Obviously

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Speaker 1: Even when Peter Dinklish was being mean to him, he

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Speaker 2: It just makes you feel good, and I will say

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Speaker 1: I saw it for the first time today. You sit

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just not my I don't know, I'm

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Speaker 2: next time it's on, and maybe you'll sit down and

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Speaker 1: Well, folks, Yes, that was my take on Elf singing

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Speaker 1: for the first time. Fully here just a little while ago.

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Speaker 1: But stay here, we're gonna hear from Robock about what

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Speaker 1: she thought about finally watching my favorite Christmas movie of

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Speaker 1: all time, Die Hard.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, as we debate Elf versus die Hard?

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Speaker 2: What movie is the best Christmas movie? On this Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 2: We hope you are with your family and maybe you

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Speaker 2: are deciding what movie to watch. I know every family's

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Speaker 2: got their movie, but when you blend a family, now

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Speaker 2: we have to deal with die Hard versus Elf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the and I guess I am out numbered.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what am I? You're totally out numbers four.

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Speaker 3: It's four to one, Yes, four girls who all love

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Speaker 3: Elf to your Diehard. Now, you had never watched Elf?

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Speaker 3: You watched it, and we just heard your review.

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Speaker 2: I had never actually seen die Hard, even though it's playing,

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Speaker 2: as we mentioned before, for what a solid four weeks

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Speaker 2: in this apartment NonStop. I see bits and pieces, I

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Speaker 3: Actually saw the whole thing together.

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Speaker 2: So actually it was last night from when we recorded this,

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Speaker 2: I finally watched die Hard and I loved it.

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Speaker 3: It was a little long, longer than I wanted it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have ended about thirty minutes prior two

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Speaker 2: all the machine guns. But here's the synopsis for those

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Speaker 2: of you who don't know what die Hard is. I

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Speaker 2: highly doubt it. New York City policeman John McClain is

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Speaker 2: visiting his estranged wife on Christmas Eve. He joins her

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Speaker 2: I thought it was fun, exciting. There was a little

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Speaker 2: bit too much gunfire for me for a Christmas movie,

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Speaker 2: but I did like the acting and they had an

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Speaker 2: I actually loved there was Christmas music in the movie,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're talking Bruce Willis. Obviously is John McClain

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Speaker 2: Bruce Willis, young, strong, like snarky New York.

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Speaker 3: He was great in it. He was really good when the.

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Speaker 1: Hero could be a little goof yeah or rough around

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Speaker 1: the edges, right, He's the the anti Schwarzenegg're kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like a charming, smart ass New York cop who

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Speaker 3: That was him in this.

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Speaker 2: Then you had Alan Rickman, the late Alan Rickman. He

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Speaker 2: him as an older actor. He is young and vibrant

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Speaker 2: all of his his characters. He does end up being

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to say. Reginald Johnson, Yes, family matters.

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Speaker 2: He's the cop and we love him, love him. He

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Speaker 2: You're totally rooting for Reginald's character. And then Bonnie Bidella

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Speaker 3: She's great? What else has she been in? Because she

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's action packed, but again, it's just a

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Speaker 2: Even though this is coming out of the mouth of

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Speaker 3: I'm not against a holiday horror flick. But I did

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Speaker 2: It had all the makings of a great movie. It

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Speaker 3: Both of these movies that we watched had like office.

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Speaker 1: That bothered you?

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Speaker 2: And you're not upset that there's an elf walking through Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, okay to Chay. But and then

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Speaker 2: I saw an elf he Walter Hobbs, was at a

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Speaker 1: Would be okay late night for you, it was you

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Speaker 2: I too would be all right if I never saw

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Speaker 1: Didn't that crazy? I love this movie so much that

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Speaker 3: So upset that I felt the same way when you

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Speaker 1: You would say such a thing. But you see that

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Speaker 2: Well, oh yes, let me get to it rotten to

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Speaker 3: By the audience.

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Speaker 2: If you all can see DJ's face right now, he

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Speaker 3: It's like a warmth just spread over his whole face

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Speaker 2: And the critics consensus was this, It's many imitators and

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Speaker 1: It's a good movie. It's a fun movie, and I

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Speaker 2: I have embraced my fate, I should say our fate,

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Speaker 2: that Diehard will just always be a part of our lives.

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Speaker 3: This time of year.

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Speaker 1: Will let's get back to our horror movies. We'll have

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Speaker 1: that episode for you. Yet, there are Christmas horror movies, folks,

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Speaker 1: and we have some will recommend later. Be looking out

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Speaker 1: DJ Holmes, we appreciate you listening to us. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to y'all soon.