1
00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:03,600
Speaker 1: It's The Happy Family's.

2
00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:13,040
Speaker 2: Podcast, Merry Christmas, You're fealthy animal, and.

3
00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:21,400
Speaker 1: The Oscar goes to, oh my god, seeing here, I

4
00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,240
Speaker 1: know him. Well. Christmas is just around the corner. Have

5
00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,840
Speaker 1: you noticed, Kylie, there's this switch between where in one

6
00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,360
Speaker 1: breath we're relaxed and the then next breath we're stressed,

7
00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,040
Speaker 1: like we're trying to slow things down because everyone's going

8
00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,720
Speaker 1: on holidays, but there's so much to do. There's so

9
00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,440
Speaker 1: much going on.

10
00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,120
Speaker 3: I just want to slow down. I'm not doing anything.

11
00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,240
Speaker 3: I'm just hoping the kids are all going to catch

12
00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:43,680
Speaker 3: up with me.

13
00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,720
Speaker 1: There's a favorite quote mine. Yeah, that's right, there's a

14
00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,879
Speaker 1: favorite quote of mind that and it's particularly pertinent at

15
00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,160
Speaker 1: this point of the year when your kids are in

16
00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,720
Speaker 1: your arms they can't possibly be underfoot, because a lot

17
00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,280
Speaker 1: of parents at the moment saying other kids is just

18
00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,520
Speaker 1: under my feet all the time, and I'm trying to

19
00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,720
Speaker 1: get stuff and they're sitting around staring at screens and

20
00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,560
Speaker 1: doing nothing. We have got some solutions, by the way,

21
00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,959
Speaker 1: I'm justin your kilie, parents of six kids. Happy families

22
00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,920
Speaker 1: dot com dot you, the Happy Families podcast is bringing

23
00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,959
Speaker 1: you some solutions for Christmas. Joy Christmas Bliss. I know

24
00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,199
Speaker 1: that not everybody wants their kids to be watching screens

25
00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,240
Speaker 1: all the time, but the reality is sometimes you kind

26
00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,960
Speaker 1: of just have to right just to get through and

27
00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,720
Speaker 1: keep saying. So we've compiled, well, how do you.

28
00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,480
Speaker 3: Get the presents wrapped if they're not staring at a screen?

29
00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,960
Speaker 1: You got to stay up late. Then you're tired the

30
00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,600
Speaker 1: next day and cranky. So we have compiled a list

31
00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,160
Speaker 1: of our top I was going to say top five,

32
00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,800
Speaker 1: but there's no way we're going to. Last time we

33
00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,160
Speaker 1: talked favorite movies, we ended up having like Poor Od Jr.

34
00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,720
Speaker 1: Our producer. Instead of doing our top five movies for

35
00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,640
Speaker 1: whatever it was, we ended up doing like thirty. So

36
00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,760
Speaker 1: supposedly this is going to be our top five Christmas

37
00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,760
Speaker 1: movies for the kids, although I think we're going to

38
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,960
Speaker 1: veer into some adult ones as well, to help your

39
00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,720
Speaker 1: family to have a happy Christmas, but also so that

40
00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,240
Speaker 1: you can some peace and quiet. The kids can be

41
00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,720
Speaker 1: watching Christmas, everyone can be getting into the spirit of Christmas.

42
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:10,040
Speaker 1: Christmas music can be on. That's where we're going today.

43
00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,760
Speaker 1: Everyone can be baking gingerbread.

44
00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,120
Speaker 3: Hell, everyone, are you gonna bake ginger bread?

45
00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,280
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how unrealistic is what I just said.

46
00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,600
Speaker 1: I've gone for the nostalgia, the romanticized version of what's happening.

47
00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,160
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Christmas movies before we g rated one,

48
00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,919
Speaker 1: before we get to sidetracked with all that sort of stuff. Kylie,

49
00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,200
Speaker 1: if you were to pick your all time favorite family

50
00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:33,600
Speaker 1: Christmas movie, what would it be?

51
00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,639
Speaker 3: I would have, once upon a time said the Polar Express.

52
00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,640
Speaker 1: Well you're coming.

53
00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:42,280
Speaker 2: Where?

54
00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:43,320
Speaker 1: Why?

55
00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,120
Speaker 2: To the North Pole? Of course?

56
00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,120
Speaker 1: This is the whole Express. Yeah, we used to love

57
00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:49,600
Speaker 1: that film.

58
00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,399
Speaker 3: But last year, when we watched a movie a night

59
00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,359
Speaker 3: for each day leading up to Christmas, we got introduced

60
00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,040
Speaker 3: to so many new movies. And I now have a

61
00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:00,799
Speaker 3: few favorites.

62
00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,840
Speaker 1: By the way, just before you talk about your favorites,

63
00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,880
Speaker 1: I think it's worth highlighting that we took on more

64
00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,760
Speaker 1: than we could handle by saying let's watch one Christmas

65
00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,480
Speaker 1: movie each day with the kids or each night. That

66
00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,200
Speaker 1: was exhausting. I couldn't stand it. It was just too

67
00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,840
Speaker 1: much TV and too many things to do. Anyway, we

68
00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,760
Speaker 1: did it, and now you've got a whole new list

69
00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:19,640
Speaker 1: of favorites.

70
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,840
Speaker 3: And we can thank our staff for that because they

71
00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,400
Speaker 3: actually introduced us to a couple that have now become

72
00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,800
Speaker 3: literally my top three.

73
00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,239
Speaker 1: Okay, so number one I'm gonna say Klaus, Mister Klaus,

74
00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,360
Speaker 1: you have a gift you were meant from making toys.

75
00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, so that's a Netflix special.

76
00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,280
Speaker 3: You know the background behind klausse that because it was

77
00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,240
Speaker 3: such an untraditional story, DreamWorks and Disney wouldn't.

78
00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,280
Speaker 1: Pick it up, right, So for Netflix, Netflix got an

79
00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,839
Speaker 1: unlimited budget. Let's do whatever we want.

80
00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,120
Speaker 3: And I just love the take on the Christmas story

81
00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:56,720
Speaker 3: that this movie portrays.

82
00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,520
Speaker 1: So for those of you who haven't seen it, there's

83
00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,840
Speaker 1: a boy who's being raised by a rich dad. Rich

84
00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,960
Speaker 1: dad's very cranky at the boy. It's a cartoon by

85
00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,560
Speaker 1: the way, because he's entitled and selfish and rich dad

86
00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,160
Speaker 1: owns like the postal system in their country, so he

87
00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,000
Speaker 1: sends his son to the most far reaching outposts.

88
00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,400
Speaker 3: Smehrenberg. It's labeled the saddest place on Earth, and you

89
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,320
Speaker 3: see it in the depiction of the animation. Everything's just

90
00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:23,640
Speaker 3: great hate.

91
00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,320
Speaker 1: What do you guys think you're doing? This is Smirnsburg,

92
00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,120
Speaker 1: the unhappiest police on Earth, and there are two warring

93
00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,560
Speaker 1: families who just hate each other and there is no

94
00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,839
Speaker 1: postage service there like nobody actually, no one writes a letter.

95
00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,159
Speaker 1: Everybody hates each other. And it's the story of how

96
00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,760
Speaker 1: this young man, well, it's a coming of age and

97
00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,480
Speaker 1: it's a hero story. He saves the town, he becomes

98
00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,800
Speaker 1: a person who falls in love with the spirit of

99
00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,360
Speaker 1: Christmas and changes everything. It's a great movie.

100
00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:57,640
Speaker 3: My second one is going to be Arthur Christmas.

101
00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:02,039
Speaker 2: Oh hello, Phil El's jingle Jingle, Jingle, Tim eighteen point

102
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,479
Speaker 2: one four second crowns life.

103
00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:07,440
Speaker 1: We've got a staff member, Elizabeth, who told us how

104
00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,400
Speaker 1: great the Christmas was, and it was. It was an

105
00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:16,960
Speaker 1: absolute joy. We made this. I survive, I'll walk home,

106
00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,960
Speaker 1: I'll get a boat, but I am never getting back

107
00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,800
Speaker 1: in that crazy flying death trap ever again.

108
00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,679
Speaker 3: I just I loved it. Here's this kid, he's Santa Claus,

109
00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,159
Speaker 3: his son, and he just loves Christmas. But he gets

110
00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,960
Speaker 3: in the way, is it glutz everything? But he ended

111
00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,719
Speaker 3: up actually saving Christmas this time.

112
00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:36,680
Speaker 1: What's your third one?

113
00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,400
Speaker 2: Okay, people, tomorrow morning to damn Santa's coming down?

114
00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,279
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Santa here else? I know him so

115
00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:48,000
Speaker 1: much fun.

116
00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,200
Speaker 3: I probably would never ever have watched this. It has

117
00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,200
Speaker 3: will Farrell and I don't really like him very much

118
00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,240
Speaker 3: as an actor, and I probably wouldn't have put it

119
00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,920
Speaker 3: in as a kid's movie as a result of him

120
00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:00,960
Speaker 3: being in it.

121
00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,320
Speaker 1: He's absurd, He's absolutely ridiculously over the top absurd.

122
00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:06,120
Speaker 3: You stink.

123
00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,159
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have a good Christmas like beef

124
00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:18,159
Speaker 1: and cheese. You don't smell Xander. Okay, that's what makes

125
00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,760
Speaker 1: it so delight so good. So are there any other

126
00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,560
Speaker 1: great kids Christmas movies that you think we should mention?

127
00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,040
Speaker 1: Because that's only three. I said we were going to

128
00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,159
Speaker 1: do like our top five.

129
00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,800
Speaker 3: I don't think you can go past a Christmas movie

130
00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,760
Speaker 3: list without giving a mention to Home Alone.

131
00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,320
Speaker 1: I made my family disappear.

132
00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,960
Speaker 3: We all grew up with that movie, and it still

133
00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,120
Speaker 3: has to be on the top. I'd say top ten movies.

134
00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,920
Speaker 1: Ever great slapstick comedy, and our children, even our teenagers,

135
00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,400
Speaker 1: watch that and laugh their heads off. Harry, I'm on,

136
00:06:54,520 --> 00:07:01,880
Speaker 1: Perry Mount, come on get me, you guys, give up.

137
00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,480
Speaker 2: You're thirsty for more.

138
00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,960
Speaker 3: And the last one I'm going to mention would be

139
00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,599
Speaker 3: Santa Claus with Tim Allen.

140
00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,440
Speaker 2: What you put on a little week a little weight?

141
00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,040
Speaker 2: Does this look like a little weight.

142
00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:16,280
Speaker 1: To you wait can fluctuate from you to ear fluctuate

143
00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,200
Speaker 1: you make it sound like and retaining water.

144
00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,080
Speaker 2: I've given forty five pounds in a week.

145
00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,080
Speaker 3: Here's this guy who single handedly destroys Christmas by interrupting

146
00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,240
Speaker 3: Santa as he's trying to go down at chimney and.

147
00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:38,320
Speaker 1: He falls off the roof her Santa or tim Ellen

148
00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,800
Speaker 1: Santa okay.

149
00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,080
Speaker 3: And so his son sees it all happenings. You have

150
00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,160
Speaker 3: literally killed Christmas.

151
00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,080
Speaker 1: Killed Sannah.

152
00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:47,960
Speaker 3: So much fun.

153
00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,080
Speaker 1: After the break, we're going to talk about a handful

154
00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,520
Speaker 1: of other Christmas movies that may or may not suit

155
00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 1: the whole family, but you as a parent might really enjoy.

156
00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:08,520
Speaker 3: It's the Happy Families Podcast, and hopefully today we've given

157
00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,320
Speaker 3: you a few options to keep the kids occupied so

158
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,560
Speaker 3: you can do your.

159
00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,960
Speaker 1: Centering if that's necessary.

160
00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:16,880
Speaker 3: Wink quink.

161
00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,120
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of movies that we didn't mention

162
00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,000
Speaker 1: that I think need an honorable recognition. The first one

163
00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:28,360
Speaker 1: is Christmas Chronicles.

164
00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:26,720
Speaker 2: Damn.

165
00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 1: And a snow.

166
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,720
Speaker 2: It's the following on the ground.

167
00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,600
Speaker 1: Now. You actually were putting it on your list and

168
00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,240
Speaker 1: I said, ah, you know it's not really that good.

169
00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:38,640
Speaker 1: You're a trick ster.

170
00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,320
Speaker 3: You just did it so you can have it on yours.

171
00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,680
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's not what happened. What actually happened

172
00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,360
Speaker 1: was that we watched the We watched the trailer, and

173
00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that is a really good movie.

174
00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,679
Speaker 1: I did enjoy that movie quite a lot. And of

175
00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:51,480
Speaker 1: course there are a couple of other movies that again

176
00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,640
Speaker 1: Christmas confession. Not only have I not seen The Santa clause,

177
00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,960
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Bad Center, what about The Rain Deer?

178
00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,319
Speaker 3: Would you please shut up about Reindeer?

179
00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:00,880
Speaker 1: And I haven't seen The Holiday.

180
00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,160
Speaker 2: You're not Irish, or if you are, I'm much dronker

181
00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,080
Speaker 2: than I realized.

182
00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,360
Speaker 1: But everybody says that those must watch grown up movies

183
00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:10,599
Speaker 1: for Christmas.

184
00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,040
Speaker 3: So I guess we're going to have few movie nights then.

185
00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,560
Speaker 1: I still don't know if I want to watch them,

186
00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,319
Speaker 1: to be honest, but everyone's been saying, you've got to

187
00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,360
Speaker 1: talk about those movies. They're amazing. So we've talked about

188
00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,720
Speaker 1: them even though we haven't seen them. Is that cheating?

189
00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,679
Speaker 3: That's so cheating. Seriously, I hope you don't get in trouble.

190
00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,880
Speaker 3: You don't even know what's in them.

191
00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,439
Speaker 1: On top of that, though, I think we've got to acknowledge, well,

192
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,280
Speaker 1: Christmas is not a time of faith for everybody. There

193
00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who listen to the podcast,

194
00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,480
Speaker 1: and there are millions upon millions, tens of millions of

195
00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,400
Speaker 1: people around the world who do have a religious faith.

196
00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:43,040
Speaker 1: And there are some really wonderful, religiously oriented, faith producing,

197
00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,800
Speaker 1: faith promoting movies about the Nativity. Different churches have them,

198
00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,240
Speaker 1: They're available online, they're often free, and I think that

199
00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,200
Speaker 1: sometimes it's nice to just pause and say this is meaningful,

200
00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,320
Speaker 1: even if it's not your religious faith, to talk to

201
00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:55,920
Speaker 1: the kids about what the background is. Find one of

202
00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,000
Speaker 1: the short ones, the ten or twenty minute ones that

203
00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,960
Speaker 1: just step through it. I think that that can help

204
00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,240
Speaker 1: to appreciate what Christmas is all about for millions and

205
00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,360
Speaker 1: millions of people around the world. We really hope that

206
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,040
Speaker 1: you've enjoyed the Happy Families podcast today and that it's

207
00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,000
Speaker 1: given you a little bit of inspiration or just some

208
00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,640
Speaker 1: nice reminiscence about how good the entertainment can be around

209
00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,720
Speaker 1: Christmas time. We hope that these movies inspire you and

210
00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,720
Speaker 1: your family to goodness and kindness and service and fun

211
00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,800
Speaker 1: for this Christmas. The Happy Families Podcast is produced by

212
00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,160
Speaker 1: Justin Roulin from Bridge Media and if you'd like more

213
00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,960
Speaker 1: information about making a family happier across Christmas, we did

214
00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,600
Speaker 1: a really well received webinar called tis the Season to

215
00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,520
Speaker 1: Be Cranky? But there's also another webinar called how to

216
00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,520
Speaker 1: Unspoil Your Kids This Christmas. They're both available in the

217
00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,040
Speaker 1: Happy Families Store at Happy families dot com dot.

218
00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:53,080
Speaker 2: A Merry Christmas. You're fealthy Animal,