THE PODCAST ON HAUNTED HILL EPISODE 146 – NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION

WOW! Episode 146 of THE PODCAST ON HAUNTED HILL is here, and not only is it OUR TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY but also our CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!! Join us for this VERY special episode as we travel down memory lane discussing the highs, lows and everything in between! We also cover NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989), and this leads into WORLD OF THE STRANGE where we discuss some FRIGHTFUL FAMILY FESTIVITIES!!! So tune in, download, listen, like, comment, and share!! “TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU, ELLEN! WE’RE AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL!”

Speaker 1: The podcast on Haunted Hill will contain

Speaker 1: spoilers and swearing.

Speaker 2: I am the devil and I am here to do the

Speaker 2: devil's work.

Speaker 2: I sell this vicon.

Speaker 2: Be one of us.

Speaker 2: I didn't tell you my name, hang up.

Speaker 2: I didn't tell you my name.

Speaker 2: They're all apart.

Speaker 2: They're all apart.

Speaker 2: Come it is time to keep your appointment.

Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the podcast on Haunted

Speaker 1: Hill 140.

Speaker 1: 66 is Happy Christmas, merry Christmas.

Speaker 1: My name is Gav.

Speaker 1: I'm Dan to Clause.

Speaker 1: Dan to Clause, indeed, gavi Christmas.

Speaker 3: I like that.

Speaker 3: Gavi Christmas Sounds like a children's TV

Speaker 3: presenter.

Speaker 1: Hope everybody's having a good time and is

Speaker 1: happy and festive and pleasant.

Speaker 1: And if you don't celebrate Christmas,

Speaker 1: you're just doing what?

Speaker 1: If you do and you're happy though, or if

Speaker 1: you don't like being happy, you're sad in

Speaker 1: what you do, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1: I suppose, if you don't like to be happy

Speaker 1: and you're always annoyed and sad, but that

Speaker 1: makes you happy, surely that's you being

Speaker 1: happy.

Speaker 1: So I don't know.

Speaker 1: I'm stuck for that now.

Speaker 1: I'm confused.

Speaker 3: One of my best friends is only ever happy

Speaker 3: when he's got something to moan about, and

Speaker 3: I'm not talking about you.

Speaker 1: I know who you're talking about as well.

Speaker 3: Yeah, rob.

Speaker 3: So some people are happy, but listen what

Speaker 3: Gav's trying to say is, but that is him

Speaker 3: happy even though Greg Orn never happy.

Speaker 1: But you're happy, not being happy, he's not

Speaker 1: happy actually.

Speaker 3: If he hasn't got a list of things to moan

Speaker 3: about, he's not happy, he doesn't know what

Speaker 3: to do with himself.

Speaker 3: But I think, gav, what you're trying to say

Speaker 3: to our lovely listeners is happy holidays,

Speaker 3: happy festivities, even if you don't

Speaker 3: celebrate it.

Speaker 3: You might just get a half a day or a day to

Speaker 3: put your feet up, whatever it is.

Speaker 3: Relax, enjoy yourselves and enjoy this

Speaker 3: festive time.

Speaker 3: This is a very, very, very, very, very

Speaker 3: Double celebration Special episode double

Speaker 3: rainbow.

Speaker 3: This is a double celebration because this

Speaker 3: is our annual Christmas special.

Speaker 3: But the other reason this is another

Speaker 3: special episode is not only is it our

Speaker 3: annual Christmas special, it's our 10th

Speaker 3: annual Christmas special, which means that

Speaker 3: this is our 10th year anniversary episode,

Speaker 3: ten years of podcasting.

Speaker 3: It's crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 3: So may I be the first, first of all, to

Speaker 3: wish you a Merry Christmas, gavin, and a

Speaker 3: Happy New Year if I don't speak to you

Speaker 3: before then, and on top of that happy

Speaker 3: fucking anniversary, my friend, I know 10

Speaker 3: years.

Speaker 3: Bit weird, isn't it?

Speaker 3: 10 years, that's longer than a lot of

Speaker 3: people have had jobs.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I absolutely adore podcasting.

Speaker 1: I loved doing it.

Speaker 1: I was doing it last night with my lovely

Speaker 1: lady a new episode of HighStrokesPodcom,

Speaker 1: which we did Christmas murder.

Speaker 1: So if you don't like happiness, you want a

Speaker 1: bit of death at Christmas, you can pop over

Speaker 1: there and listen to that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I love podcasting.

Speaker 1: I love podcasting with you.

Speaker 1: I love talking about horror movies.

Speaker 1: If we didn't podcast, I'd still be talking

Speaker 1: to you about horror movies, just with a

Speaker 1: microphone there.

Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly that, and we will

Speaker 3: get going to get into all of that today.

Speaker 3: So let's run through what this episode is

Speaker 3: about.

Speaker 3: Obviously, it's our festive episode, so

Speaker 3: we're going to be getting very festive in

Speaker 3: Christmasy.

Speaker 3: We're going to start off by talking about

Speaker 3: Christmas, what we like to do, tradition,

Speaker 3: what we've been doing, what films we've

Speaker 3: been watching.

Speaker 3: Our main review, which you already know

Speaker 3: because you clicked on this, is we're only

Speaker 3: doing one film because we've got lots of

Speaker 3: other stuff to talk about, but our main

Speaker 3: review is going to be National Lampoon's

Speaker 3: Christmas Vacation from 1989, because, even

Speaker 3: though it's not a horror film, it's got

Speaker 3: some pretty gnarly elements to it.

Speaker 3: I think you know the whole obstacles of

Speaker 3: family at Christmas, and the lighter side

Speaker 3: of it perhaps, but also the darker side of

Speaker 3: it.

Speaker 3: So that's going to be a very fun one.

Speaker 1: It's got a.

Speaker 1: It's quite an outlander sort of cult

Speaker 1: hemisphere I'd say really.

Speaker 1: I know it's not genre, but it is.

Speaker 1: It's there with a massive fan base of you

Speaker 1: know it's John Hughes as well.

Speaker 1: It's not a straight average Christmas movie.

Speaker 1: It's a little bit off the side there.

Speaker 1: And it's just enjoyable fun, so we thought

Speaker 1: fuck it.

Speaker 3: Well, it's both a part, you know, in our

Speaker 3: top five Christmas films of all time.

Speaker 3: We really love it and what fun to talk

Speaker 3: about.

Speaker 3: So we're going to be doing that and we're

Speaker 3: also going to be taking a trip down memory

Speaker 3: lane where we're going to talk about the

Speaker 3: last 10 years of podcasting, what that

Speaker 3: means to us, what how our lives have

Speaker 3: changed in those 10 years, what we've been

Speaker 3: the favorite memories, films, franchises

Speaker 3: and just really just shoot this shit really

Speaker 3: and pretend that you know we're in the same

Speaker 3: room with a glass of whiskey not that

Speaker 3: either of us drink Incredible An open fire.

Speaker 1: How many years ago was that memory podcast

Speaker 1: in front of an open fire?

Speaker 1: Richard's Get.

Speaker 3: Truck.

Speaker 1: I've actually heard of some of our

Speaker 1: listeners and thank you, listeners, for

Speaker 1: being listeners all this time and listening

Speaker 1: to us.

Speaker 1: I'll say listen a few more times, Listen,

Speaker 1: listen.

Speaker 1: I remember one of our listeners possibly

Speaker 1: saying to us at one point our older

Speaker 1: episodes of audio quality not as good.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we kind of I don't know, I

Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with that,

Speaker 1: because it's not like I've got better,

Speaker 1: because it's in 10 years I'm still doing I

Speaker 1: don't know.

Speaker 3: Well, I think we have got better.

Speaker 3: I think we've been doing it long enough

Speaker 3: that we can record.

Speaker 3: We don't really edit much.

Speaker 3: You know, the odd time we might take

Speaker 3: something out or add something in or

Speaker 3: something might distract one of us and we

Speaker 3: have to like quickly stop recording for

Speaker 3: whatever reason.

Speaker 3: But we can do this.

Speaker 3: You know, we set aside an evening for

Speaker 3: anyone that doesn't know and we just sit

Speaker 3: down and we record.

Speaker 3: Then we take breaks, you know, as the

Speaker 3: breaks you hear throughout the episode.

Speaker 1: But we could do like a YouTube video behind

Speaker 1: the scenes.

Speaker 3: This is how we make a podcast.

Speaker 3: Everybody knows.

Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there was an episode

Speaker 1: where you and I sat river fire so you'd

Speaker 1: have heard the fireplace crackling away and

Speaker 1: us.

Speaker 1: But we would have been sharing because just

Speaker 1: amateur, because like the same device I

Speaker 1: record our show on if I got to tell you

Speaker 1: what it is Zoom H4N, which I use for all

Speaker 1: our filmmaking as well this is the best.

Speaker 1: I love this device 200 quid.

Speaker 1: I bought it 12 years ago.

Speaker 1: It's fucking amazing.

Speaker 1: You can get it super cheap now and I'm

Speaker 1: really good.

Speaker 1: If you want to start podcasting, just give

Speaker 1: you that and make a model.

Speaker 1: It's pretty hardy as well.

Speaker 3: But we you know it's dirty.

Speaker 1: But with Sarah, for example, I have a mic

Speaker 1: going, an extra mic going direct into it,

Speaker 1: as well as a mic I've got on it going into

Speaker 1: it, so we could both talk.

Speaker 1: But when me and you used to do it, it would

Speaker 1: have been just that mic in the middle of

Speaker 1: the room and it's not like we were nose to

Speaker 1: nose.

Speaker 1: So we'd be like, hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not bad, but we did sit very

Speaker 3: close to each other on the sofa to try to

Speaker 3: make the same biscuit as we did.

Speaker 3: It's terrible.

Speaker 1: So those episodes would just be kind of

Speaker 1: like whack documentary style audio of just

Speaker 1: one mic in a room somewhere.

Speaker 1: If someone's talking you can't really hear

Speaker 1: them.

Speaker 3: But I think it's safe to say podcasting has

Speaker 3: come along way for everybody, for the whole

Speaker 3: world, in 10 years, because I think when we

Speaker 3: started out it was still relatively new.

Speaker 3: You know it was probably been going for a

Speaker 3: year or two but people were still finding

Speaker 3: their feet there and you know one was like

Speaker 3: there was no Joe Rogan's or that kind of

Speaker 3: thing.

Speaker 3: You know people weren't getting paid off of

Speaker 3: it Not that we're getting paid off of it.

Speaker 1: I'm not sure when Joe Rogan did start

Speaker 1: actually he probably was around 10 years I

Speaker 1: thought yeah Well, you got to think the

Speaker 1: advent of the smartphone was not till 2010

Speaker 1: with Apple's first iPhone.

Speaker 1: And that would have been a lot easier for

Speaker 1: people to listen to podcasts on the go.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's the other thing.

Speaker 3: It's not just about the recording.

Speaker 3: It is, then, about people being able to how

Speaker 3: they listen, if they're not just a home

Speaker 3: based on a computer or in the office, which

Speaker 3: people would do as well.

Speaker 1: I'm going to check out the stats for Sarah

Speaker 1: and I's show, the High Strangers podcast.

Speaker 1: I could see what devices listen.

Speaker 1: It's crazy.

Speaker 1: So I can see if it's a desktop or whatever,

Speaker 1: and most of the time Gav can see you.

Speaker 1: I can see what you're doing Most of the

Speaker 1: time, it's Apple iTunes on, I think,

Speaker 1: smartphones Most of the time and you can

Speaker 1: sort of see what it is.

Speaker 1: But yeah, back in the day, not so many

Speaker 1: people did it, so that's what we're doing.

Speaker 3: Well.

Speaker 3: It's Christmas time, so let's start things

Speaker 3: off festively.

Speaker 3: I've got some mince pies in the kitchen

Speaker 3: which I'll be eating periodically on our

Speaker 3: breaks.

Speaker 1: I fucking loved.

Speaker 1: Yesterday I made a bubble and squeak out of

Speaker 1: leftovers.

Speaker 3: Can you explain to anyone not from the UK

Speaker 3: what bubble and squeak is?

Speaker 3: It's a very British meal.

Speaker 1: The bubble and squeak is basically what

Speaker 1: happens when you do the cooking.

Speaker 1: You get your leftovers from a traditional

Speaker 1: roast dinner, so you know your turkey, your

Speaker 1: potato, your vegetables, any other little

Speaker 1: bits, and you have to have pretty much 50%

Speaker 1: potato to whatever else you have, because

Speaker 1: potato is the form that sticks it all

Speaker 1: together.

Speaker 1: And you get a frying pan, you put some oil

Speaker 1: in it and a knob of butter and put all your

Speaker 1: leftovers in.

Speaker 1: I actually diced mine up a bit, so it's

Speaker 1: super fine, that's mine, we've done it and

Speaker 1: then you put it in a pan for about 15, 20

Speaker 1: minutes with a masher.

Speaker 1: You kind of just mash it.

Speaker 1: This is like the cooking podcast we're

Speaker 1: doing.

Speaker 1: Welcome to the kitchen on Lunted Hill and

Speaker 1: you mash it together and eventually it

Speaker 1: forms together like a big patty and then

Speaker 1: that's it.

Speaker 1: But it's the flavours of every bit of the

Speaker 1: roast dinner in every bite.

Speaker 1: All combined it's gorgeous.

Speaker 1: You could do it any food, you could do it

Speaker 1: with any leftovers, you could do bubble and

Speaker 1: squeak, and it's called that because it

Speaker 1: squeaks and it bubbles as you cook it.

Speaker 1: Yep, not sponge bubbles Only if you've

Speaker 1: really got liquid going on.

Speaker 3: When I was a kid, my mum had two budgies

Speaker 3: called bubble and squeak.

Speaker 3: So there we go.

Speaker 3: That's a little, but yeah.

Speaker 1: I put mine in my parents' and I said to my

Speaker 1: dad we have good Christmas, girlfriend.

Speaker 1: I was like yeah, yeah, dad, no ice, yeah.

Speaker 1: I said to her well, my bubble and squeak,

Speaker 1: it's the best thing, it is Better than

Speaker 1: Christmas dinner.

Speaker 1: That is the bubble and squeak.

Speaker 1: And she said I think I'll move you.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Oh Well, I've got some mince pies to snack

Speaker 3: on and I think very quickly because I was

Speaker 3: rolling with my parents.

Speaker 1: But my parents say, yeah, air fryer for

Speaker 1: Christmas.

Speaker 1: My dad was a chef in the Navy.

Speaker 1: He's old now.

Speaker 1: He's not bothered about being here.

Speaker 1: He'd be happy where he's dead.

Speaker 1: He's the way he is now.

Speaker 1: He don't want to go anywhere, stays in the

Speaker 1: house, don't want to speak to anyone.

Speaker 1: Fuck off everybody, that sort of thing.

Speaker 1: That's how he is.

Speaker 1: So I've got him an air fryer.

Speaker 1: Did he want it?

Speaker 1: Fuck did he.

Speaker 1: No way, does he want an air fryer?

Speaker 1: Tell my mum.

Speaker 1: No, I'm not using it.

Speaker 1: Could change it's different.

Speaker 3: I was like it makes your life easy.

Speaker 3: My dad was the same.

Speaker 3: I bought him a CD player 15 years ago.

Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 1: A couple of days ago Dad got your CD player

Speaker 1: trade he said.

Speaker 3: And then mum looked at me and said they

Speaker 3: said we're not going to use it.

Speaker 3: And then within about five years they had a

Speaker 3: library of hundreds of CDs.

Speaker 3: Same thing happened.

Speaker 3: I bought him a DVD player.

Speaker 3: And probably five years after DVDs were a

Speaker 3: thing.

Speaker 1: This is exactly what I told you You've got

Speaker 1: to get him a dog, and every dog he says

Speaker 1: fuck off.

Speaker 1: You love a dog.

Speaker 1: If you had one.

Speaker 3: Well, my dad's got a blue ray player.

Speaker 3: Now You're the best planning buggy ever,

Speaker 3: but yeah you know he's all over it, but

Speaker 3: I've got some strawberry milk.

Speaker 3: I'm really into chocolate and strawberry

Speaker 3: milk this year, so I've been buying cartons

Speaker 3: of that.

Speaker 3: I had a carton of eggnog as well, which is

Speaker 3: nice.

Speaker 1: Because I don't drink anymore.

Speaker 1: I haven't drank for four and a half years,

Speaker 1: but when I used to have mice by about some

Speaker 1: sprites, I ended up getting addicted to

Speaker 1: chocolate milk.

Speaker 3: Yeah, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, I've

Speaker 3: been buying those, I know why.

Speaker 3: But it's very festive as well.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and my in-laws bought me a huge tray

Speaker 3: of really high quality cocaine.

Speaker 1: No, Was it good?

Speaker 3: Really high quality gingerbread.

Speaker 3: And, my God, I am fucking addicted to this

Speaker 3: stuff, to the point that my wife gave me a

Speaker 3: kiss good night last night.

Speaker 3: I was staying up late watching Santa's

Speaker 3: sleigh and I sat there with my glass of

Speaker 3: strawberry milk and she gave me a kiss and

Speaker 3: she went right, you need to stop eating

Speaker 3: this gingerbread.

Speaker 3: And I said what she went?

Speaker 3: You stink of gingerbread.

Speaker 3: I can smell it on your breath.

Speaker 3: You've got a crumb of it in your beard.

Speaker 3: You keep going in the kitchen and I know

Speaker 3: what you're doing.

Speaker 3: You keep going in there.

Speaker 3: How much is left in the box?

Speaker 3: And I say I don't know.

Speaker 3: I've left some for the kids.

Speaker 3: You're giving me boobs in gingerbread.

Speaker 3: I love gingerbread man Of everything.

Speaker 3: Gingerbread man, gingerbread Dan,

Speaker 3: gingerbread Dan can't catch me.

Speaker 3: I'm the gingerbread Dan.

Speaker 3: But we won't be eating whilst we record.

Speaker 3: We'll do all our eating in the brains.

Speaker 1: No, I've been told off.

Speaker 3: Don't gobble your nuts while we're

Speaker 3: recording.

Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to do munching while we're

Speaker 1: recording.

Speaker 3: If anyone's going to gobble your nuts,

Speaker 3: it'll be me, all right, hello.

Speaker 1: So I could have 100 moles between this, but

Speaker 1: all right, no.

Speaker 3: You've got long balls, so it's fine.

Speaker 1: I do, I have, but no, why am I telling you

Speaker 1: that?

Speaker 3: I love the honesty.

Speaker 3: This is the many years of friendship and

Speaker 3: ten years of podcasting.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I'm happy, though it's not

Speaker 1: like this is going out to the world, so

Speaker 1: it's fine.

Speaker 1: You completely fucking frame me, all right,

Speaker 1: you frame me, fuck it.

Speaker 3: Well, look, let's start talking about what

Speaker 3: we've been watching, what we like to watch.

Speaker 3: Let's start off with anything we've watched

Speaker 3: recently.

Speaker 3: That's quite new.

Speaker 3: I know you're very excited to talk to me

Speaker 3: about a film called Hands of Steel.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not new to me, though it's not

Speaker 1: new to me.

Speaker 1: I know, I know but I still want to hear

Speaker 1: about it.

Speaker 1: Oh man, Hands of Steel, I might tell you

Speaker 1: what.

Speaker 1: Let me just pull it up for a second.

Speaker 1: What about the?

Speaker 3: synopsis Well yeah.

Speaker 1: Basically Hands of Steel.

Speaker 1: Last night I said, sarah, I managed to get

Speaker 1: to see Sarah this Christmas.

Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to and I managed

Speaker 1: to get to see her and it was our last night

Speaker 1: together, I mean you know you don't see

Speaker 1: each other that much.

Speaker 1: So, like, what are we going to watch?

Speaker 1: It has to be something like it's really

Speaker 1: frustrating.

Speaker 1: You get to say go, that's a fucking waste

Speaker 1: of two hours.

Speaker 1: We could just say a chat or something.

Speaker 1: You know, and I found this movie on Amazon

Speaker 1: Prime from oh, it's 1986.

Speaker 1: It's not like I'm doing a review, but I'm

Speaker 1: going to do the synopsis.

Speaker 3: Please do, because you've been banging on

Speaker 3: about this so I want to hear.

Speaker 1: Oh, I told you about it.

Speaker 1: I had some friends come over earlier and I

Speaker 1: was chatting to them about it.

Speaker 1: Oh no, a cyborg is programmed to kill a

Speaker 1: scientist who holds the fate of mankind in

Speaker 1: his hands.

Speaker 3: Like all over this straight away.

Speaker 1: A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist,

Speaker 1: who holds the fate of it?

Speaker 1: And the scientist in question is John Saxon.

Speaker 1: Fuck me, he fails in an Italian film.

Speaker 1: He fails and hides in a diner what he fails

Speaker 1: and hides in a diner run by a woman who

Speaker 1: likes him.

Speaker 1: She wants him dick.

Speaker 1: The people who sent him here sent him what

Speaker 1: Sent him after him, so it's the local arm

Speaker 1: wrestling champ.

Speaker 1: That is really bad.

Speaker 3: What the local arm wrestling champ.

Speaker 1: Right, this dude escapes from John Saxon

Speaker 1: and he's basically massive.

Speaker 1: He's kind of your Swatchenegotype, but he's

Speaker 1: kind of charismatic as well in a sort of

Speaker 1: way.

Speaker 1: It's a bit I don't know kind of.

Speaker 1: He wasn't just like completely brain dead,

Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: That's what you kind of possibly thought.

Speaker 1: He escapes and he manages to get to this

Speaker 1: bar out of diner and it happens to be a

Speaker 1: load of rough guys in there, sort of mobike

Speaker 1: gang type of that.

Speaker 1: But this woman's like I need some work done,

Speaker 1: can you help me out for bed and board?

Speaker 1: And he's like yeah, no, no, no, no problem,

Speaker 1: trouble is there.

Speaker 1: They're all like there's a guy there who is

Speaker 1: called he is basically arm wrestling

Speaker 1: champion of the town Amazing.

Speaker 1: Bronco, I think he's called or something

Speaker 1: like that, or Blanco or something like that,

Speaker 1: and he's pitchers up on the wall as well.

Speaker 1: But you've got all these other guys there

Speaker 1: and they're basically just like all having

Speaker 1: arm wrestling competitions.

Speaker 1: Then he's there and there's this bit where

Speaker 1: he gets a bit of toyed up the bad guys.

Speaker 1: There's one particular guy he doesn't get

Speaker 1: along with.

Speaker 1: He gets the waitress when she sends him out

Speaker 1: to go get some beer for him out the back

Speaker 1: and come back for some toilet paper to take

Speaker 1: over to him.

Speaker 1: He reads it and it says you'll need this to

Speaker 1: wipe your arse from the ship after you shit

Speaker 1: yourself.

Speaker 1: For me, beating you armwrestling, it's

Speaker 1: really bad.

Speaker 1: It's a great movie, by the way.

Speaker 3: I mean, I've just looked at the poster and

Speaker 3: it looks fantastic from the poster.

Speaker 1: The poster was what in the video shot back

Speaker 1: in the day that was that movie would have

Speaker 1: got it and I'd been happy.

Speaker 1: I was over the moon with this film, like

Speaker 1: I'm telling you now.

Speaker 1: So he looks down.

Speaker 3: It sounds like the Terminator meets over

Speaker 3: the top, but done with John Saxon and

Speaker 3: Italian.

Speaker 1: Yeah, with big laser guns as well.

Speaker 1: That's another boy.

Speaker 3: Oh, come on.

Speaker 1: And he looks down and he starts writing

Speaker 1: something called the kitchen worktop, snaps

Speaker 1: it off and throws it on the table at them

Speaker 1: because they gave it, and it just says

Speaker 1: you're on, that's it.

Speaker 1: That's a bit of a waste.

Speaker 1: So, anyway, he beats the guy and all this

Speaker 1: sort of stuff.

Speaker 1: And then there's other stuff, though.

Speaker 1: You've got John Saxon and his guys and the

Speaker 1: FBI after them after him, because he's out

Speaker 1: of control.

Speaker 1: But there's a segue to our last episode.

Speaker 1: In this, one of the main actors, claudio

Speaker 1: Cassenni, and an aircraft, a helicopter

Speaker 1: pilot, crashed and died in the making of

Speaker 1: this.

Speaker 1: Oh, wow, interesting John Saxon because of

Speaker 1: SAG, that's, the Screen Actors Guild,

Speaker 1: because he I think it's Green, because he

Speaker 1: was going to keep into their roles.

Speaker 1: He said I won't shoot anything in America,

Speaker 1: I'll just do all my shots in Italy.

Speaker 1: And the helicopter crashed into America and

Speaker 1: he would have been in the helicopter.

Speaker 3: Bloody hell.

Speaker 1: So John Saxon were a daughter in the 80s.

Speaker 3: Thank God he didn't.

Speaker 1: Anyway, I really enjoyed this film.

Speaker 3: Well, I've just added it to my watch list.

Speaker 3: It's on Prime for free to watch if you've

Speaker 3: got Prime.

Speaker 3: So, hands of steel.

Speaker 3: Everybody watches it.

Speaker 1: Just get on that shit honestly, it's so

Speaker 1: good.

Speaker 3: I love it when you come across or I come

Speaker 3: across one of these, oh Hands of Prime is a

Speaker 3: beauty for that, like when I recommended

Speaker 3: that Island of Death to you.

Speaker 1: It's just a film that I yeah, we watched it,

Speaker 1: and Sarah says we should cover it.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we should.

Speaker 3: It would be a fun discussion.

Speaker 1: That's the thing, though, because sometimes

Speaker 1: certain movies visually might not be good,

Speaker 1: but audibly, doing a podcast reviews, it

Speaker 1: comes across so much better.

Speaker 1: But anyway, hands of Steel for 1986 is 1800,

Speaker 1: hour and 30 minutes.

Speaker 1: Just fucking get on that, get on it.

Speaker 3: Well, I discovered a hidden gem myself from

Speaker 3: the 80s, which a lot of people will already

Speaker 3: know about, but I believe it's a German or

Speaker 3: French film.

Speaker 3: It's called Deadly Games from 1989.

Speaker 3: And basically it's like Home Alone.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know of it, yeah.

Speaker 3: But Home Alone meets.

Speaker 3: It's Halloween, I guess.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're a bit gutted.

Speaker 1: It's because it wasn't American.

Speaker 3: If it'd been American, it might have been

Speaker 3: possibly picked up before they actually

Speaker 3: tried to sue John Hughes, but he was able

Speaker 3: to prove that Home Alone was already in

Speaker 3: production.

Speaker 3: But it's about a young boy who lives in a

Speaker 3: huge mansion because his parents are rich

Speaker 3: but he's on his own and he lives there with

Speaker 3: his grandfather and then a man, a really

Speaker 3: creepy guy dressed as Santa, breaks in and

Speaker 3: tries to kill him and his dog and his

Speaker 3: grandfather and he basically has to home

Speaker 3: alone the shit out of it.

Speaker 3: But it's really brutal because he's

Speaker 3: European and I think I'll probably watch it

Speaker 3: again next Christmas because, you know,

Speaker 3: like the first viewing of something you

Speaker 3: just like wow.

Speaker 3: So I think my second viewing of that would

Speaker 3: be really good.

Speaker 3: So, yeah, I love discovering these hidden

Speaker 3: gems.

Speaker 3: I've not really watched anything new other

Speaker 3: than stuff I discussed in our last episode,

Speaker 3: like something in the barn or, um, werewolf

Speaker 3: Santa or Violent Night, um.

Speaker 3: But is there anything else you wanted to

Speaker 3: talk about before we move on to just sort

Speaker 3: of traditional or favourite Christmas films,

Speaker 3: to watch.

Speaker 1: I got Colombo Boxer from Sarah for

Speaker 1: Christmas and I watched uh Vincent Price

Speaker 1: and Martin Sheen episode and it was really

Speaker 1: enjoyable yeah, colombo's.

Speaker 3: We've talked about Colombo before.

Speaker 3: It's very well crafted, you don't?

Speaker 3: They just didn't.

Speaker 3: They don't make them like I used to.

Speaker 1: It's just kind of enjoyable, but it's.

Speaker 1: It's my age.

Speaker 1: I am as well like if I've been a 17 year

Speaker 1: old, be like I'm not fucking sitting here

Speaker 1: watching this for an hour and a half the

Speaker 1: age I am now quite happily just sit there

Speaker 1: and go.

Speaker 1: Okay, we, because of the formula of the way

Speaker 1: it works, we know who did the killing.

Speaker 1: We've seen that in the first 15 minutes.

Speaker 1: Now we've got to figure out.

Speaker 1: Colombo's going to figure it out and it's

Speaker 1: such fun and that's actually I take about

Speaker 1: what I said.

Speaker 3: They do make them what they used to, I

Speaker 3: believe, in the last five years.

Speaker 3: Tv is actually really, yeah, incredible now.

Speaker 3: Um, and people you know you've got big

Speaker 3: Hollywood actors appearing in TV shows now

Speaker 3: that are incredible.

Speaker 3: You know some of the Star Wars stuff on

Speaker 3: Disney plus.

Speaker 3: Some people don't like it, but some people

Speaker 3: do.

Speaker 3: Some people are saying it's the best Star

Speaker 3: Wars stuff since start the originals.

Speaker 3: And then there's other stuff.

Speaker 3: There's a lot of good crime stuff out there

Speaker 3: and there's been some great horror shows as

Speaker 3: well.

Speaker 3: So actually TV is very good but, um, yeah,

Speaker 3: fargo, there's a really good crime show.

Speaker 1: I'm gonna see the first few seasons, but

Speaker 1: I've seen the first three.

Speaker 3: I want to see the new one actually it's on

Speaker 3: Amazon Prime also.

Speaker 1: I've got all four seasons, three.

Speaker 3: That's how I watched the third season yeah,

Speaker 3: I need to.

Speaker 1: Uh, I probably just jump on to the fifth

Speaker 1: one.

Speaker 1: That's a new one.

Speaker 1: I should really do the fourth.

Speaker 3: I haven't seen.

Speaker 3: I'll probably watch season four, but, um,

Speaker 3: I'm not in a rush because they're quite

Speaker 3: slow paced, but they are very enjoyable, um,

Speaker 3: okay, well, let's talk about, aside from

Speaker 3: National Olympians, christmas vacation,

Speaker 3: which we're going to cover in great detail,

Speaker 3: christmas favorites to watch for, and some

Speaker 3: of these I'm sure you will agree with as

Speaker 3: well.

Speaker 3: You know, you tell me yours, I'll tell you

Speaker 3: mine.

Speaker 3: As they say, I tell you I've got a soft

Speaker 3: spot over the years, the last sort of 10

Speaker 3: years, and I really love.

Speaker 3: I always try and watch Jingle all the way.

Speaker 1: It's so cheesy and silly, but I had it on

Speaker 1: the background this year for Elijah because,

Speaker 1: um, elijah and I, whenever he's over with

Speaker 1: like he doesn't have a bedroom here, he's

Speaker 1: like the living rooms, his bedroom with me,

Speaker 1: you know, and so we're always together a

Speaker 1: lot.

Speaker 1: So, in the background, while he's playing

Speaker 1: and stuff, I put on Jingle all the way it's

Speaker 1: just so good, um, you know, and it just

Speaker 1: makes you feel festive really.

Speaker 3: I also watched and I do watch this every

Speaker 3: year, probably, since you saw it in front

Speaker 3: of us, better watch out which it's just an

Speaker 3: incredible film that came out for Christmas

Speaker 3: yeah, I uh uh.

Speaker 1: Elijah and Charlie, formerly known as Jay

Speaker 1: um, watched um it because they're like no,

Speaker 1: I've seen that.

Speaker 1: I was like sure you haven't seen that,

Speaker 1: because I swore that's the perfect movie

Speaker 1: for us to watch yeah and they hadn't.

Speaker 1: So we saw them, watched it and they really

Speaker 1: enjoyed it.

Speaker 1: It's a good gateway horror for you know,

Speaker 1: I've, I've kind of just with Elijah, I've

Speaker 1: kind of just recently he showed me a

Speaker 1: Netflix TV show called One PC.

Speaker 1: So he's just a yeah sandy man but it's a 15

Speaker 1: and I've watched it all the way through.

Speaker 1: He's watched it multiple times, like you

Speaker 1: would when your kid used to watch the same

Speaker 1: video tape, and over and over and um, he's

Speaker 1: obsessed with it and it's a fifth.

Speaker 1: I was like this is a 15, no.

Speaker 1: And then I was like hang on, he's 10 next

Speaker 1: year.

Speaker 1: Like I know I might sort of thought about

Speaker 1: my own and I'm not a psychopath, I've not

Speaker 1: killed anyone.

Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go and get a hockey mask and

Speaker 1: not if anyone out.

Speaker 1: And uh, I just thought, oh, fuck it up.

Speaker 1: So I've dropped it at a bar.

Speaker 1: A little bit of him.

Speaker 1: I'll show him a few 15 horror movies here

Speaker 1: and there.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what?

Speaker 3: My dad did the same with me.

Speaker 1: He, not he understands effects because he's

Speaker 1: been with me when I've been making films my

Speaker 1: dad did the same with me.

Speaker 3: He introduced me to the bruce lee movies

Speaker 3: around about the age of 10.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1: And then yeah, once I was once that was

Speaker 1: okay.

Speaker 3: I then got into stuff that had a bit more

Speaker 3: violence in it, and then things like

Speaker 3: sitting down and watching the thing you

Speaker 3: know and I already see.

Speaker 3: We grew up watching movies that shouldn't

Speaker 3: really been aimed at children, like some of

Speaker 3: the indiana jones scenes, joules, these

Speaker 3: movies that definitely are questionable.

Speaker 3: Really, when they came out, um, even stuff

Speaker 3: like the twilight zone feels a bit kid

Speaker 3: friendly, but actually when you sit and

Speaker 3: watch it you realize, wow, there's stuff in

Speaker 3: this that was would have really affected

Speaker 3: people.

Speaker 1: I do feel, though, in a way, a lot of this

Speaker 1: stuff is good.

Speaker 1: Like I um what we're watching horror movies

Speaker 1: was quite young and, when it comes down to

Speaker 1: it, I, you learn lessons from these movies

Speaker 1: because you see these idiots do really

Speaker 1: stupid things, you're like, why'd you do

Speaker 1: that?

Speaker 1: And you just you learn stuff from movies.

Speaker 1: Um and uh, alongside, I don't think it's

Speaker 1: too like uh, uh, we're getting into realms

Speaker 1: of rape or uh, mental abuse or torture or

Speaker 1: anything like that, or animal torture, I

Speaker 1: think.

Speaker 1: I think you could get away with a lot of

Speaker 1: things with her.

Speaker 1: I think it's not.

Speaker 3: I don't think they're bad lessons on these

Speaker 3: films yeah, and I think the only that's the

Speaker 3: only area my parents drew the line was they

Speaker 3: didn't they weren't comfortable with me

Speaker 3: watching sex scenes at a young age and, to

Speaker 3: be honest, I wasn't comfortable because I

Speaker 3: didn't really understand what I was

Speaker 3: watching.

Speaker 3: And secondly, if I was, I remember watching

Speaker 3: Ghost with my mum and dad yeah, I've

Speaker 3: watched Sex and Swords with Buckets and

Speaker 3: when that scene happened with with Patrick

Speaker 3: Swayze and Demi Moore really getting it on.

Speaker 3: You know it's all fun and games at the

Speaker 3: pottery table, but then it gets really hot

Speaker 3: and heavy and I remember my dad pausing it,

Speaker 3: going right.

Speaker 3: Well, that's enough of that.

Speaker 3: I think me and mum will watch the rest of

Speaker 3: this.

Speaker 3: Make sure it's okay for you guys.

Speaker 3: And I remember thinking what, what's

Speaker 3: happened.

Speaker 3: It's so bad what I, and it made it seem

Speaker 3: even weirder and seedyer to me.

Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: yeah, because you're going upstairs to bed

Speaker 1: going what's going on then?

Speaker 3: and you're going to watch what's Patrick

Speaker 3: Swayze doing.

Speaker 1: You can imagine what happens.

Speaker 1: Yeah, what I did because he got a clay

Speaker 1: penis.

Speaker 1: What's going on?

Speaker 3: but yeah, um, also, you know, every year I

Speaker 3: watch Home Alone.

Speaker 3: For first Home Alone, it's got to be

Speaker 3: watched.

Speaker 3: It's an absolute classic.

Speaker 3: And again I'm trying to sit in there with

Speaker 3: my two year olds.

Speaker 3: We have Home Alone.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to explain to them because

Speaker 3: they're getting upset, because the burglars

Speaker 3: are getting hit in the head with bricks.

Speaker 3: You know they're getting their heads set on

Speaker 3: fire and they're looking at me going daddy,

Speaker 3: he needs a plaster.

Speaker 3: Daddy, he needs a doctor.

Speaker 3: I'm like, fuck he does.

Speaker 3: He does need a doctor.

Speaker 1: Imagine that Home Alone was that Joe Pesci

Speaker 1: saying happens to him if he goes to

Speaker 1: hospital, comes back.

Speaker 1: Gets saying happens and if they go to

Speaker 1: hospital, come back.

Speaker 1: Just, it's like your, it's for your twins

Speaker 1: friendly fucking hell, what a different

Speaker 1: movie, but the hospital didn't question it.

Speaker 1: They patch them up and send them back

Speaker 1: because in your kids, mind they need that

Speaker 1: he's just keep going back and comes back

Speaker 1: with another bandage.

Speaker 1: He comes back and comes out.

Speaker 3: One guy at four degree burns all over his

Speaker 3: head.

Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to him, but um

Speaker 3: bandage.

Speaker 3: It looked like he'd been hitting that, but

Speaker 3: four bricks Strange.

Speaker 3: But yeah, I've got to watch Home Alone

Speaker 3: every year as well.

Speaker 3: Um, I watched Rare Exports again.

Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I've seen it for a few years.

Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was fitting because, as

Speaker 3: you remember, we covered that as our first

Speaker 3: film we ever covered Old Man's Coxe 10

Speaker 3: years ago.

Speaker 3: Yeah and god, there's a lot of old man's

Speaker 3: coxe in that flapping around in the wind at

Speaker 3: the end of it.

Speaker 1: It's not best when you get into High

Speaker 1: Definit, is it?

Speaker 1: Are you staring at on Blue Race?

Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.

Speaker 3: If you're gonna see an army of naked old

Speaker 3: men swarming your village, you want to see

Speaker 3: an High Definition Gav, really Every grey

Speaker 3: pube.

Speaker 1: you want to see it Every swinging and

Speaker 1: thirsty.

Speaker 3: But yeah, that is a good one.

Speaker 3: Rare Exports Um, I also watched a couple of

Speaker 3: the classics, like Black Christmas.

Speaker 1: Oh, yep, so I did Black.

Speaker 3: Christmas Day.

Speaker 1: Christmas Day night.

Speaker 1: For me, every year is Black Christmas.

Speaker 3: Gets under my skin.

Speaker 3: Doesn't fucking love it.

Speaker 1: I also watched for the first time Bob

Speaker 1: Clark's other Christmas film as well.

Speaker 3: What a Christmas story.

Speaker 1: Never watched it before.

Speaker 3: It's my favourite Christmas film of all

Speaker 3: time.

Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that and it's and it's

Speaker 1: Colchak as his dad.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I always think you always

Speaker 3: mention Colchak.

Speaker 3: I'm like what the guy from Christmas Story

Speaker 3: is.

Speaker 1: He's more famous.

Speaker 1: He's the guy from Colchak.

Speaker 3: for me, christmas, Story is like, um,

Speaker 3: probably the American Colch Christmas film,

Speaker 3: but somehow my family recorded it when I

Speaker 3: was about eight or nine, off of television

Speaker 3: and we watched it every year and now I own

Speaker 3: it, um, and I.

Speaker 3: It hit differently this year because I'm a

Speaker 3: dad and my kids really get a Christmas and

Speaker 3: that scene where him and his wife sit back

Speaker 3: and just let their kids stare into the

Speaker 3: presents I just thought they've worked so

Speaker 3: hard to get everything they can for their

Speaker 3: kids.

Speaker 3: It's also crazy, funny, silly, sentimental.

Speaker 1: It does happen, though, when you have

Speaker 1: children, every time you go back to the

Speaker 1: movie every year, not just Christmas,

Speaker 1: different films as well.

Speaker 1: You start to see them different, yeah, and

Speaker 1: then you start to change your opinion of

Speaker 1: things, and then, all of a sudden, you're

Speaker 1: like, yeah, I quite like them.

Speaker 1: I'm dad and I used to think they're twats.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah and now I'm like fuck them kids.

Speaker 3: Well, I'm funny enough, like with home

Speaker 3: alone, because my kids have watched

Speaker 3: probably watched that about 10, 15 times in

Speaker 3: the last two or three weeks and I realised

Speaker 3: that Kevin McCullister is a bit of a little

Speaker 3: dick and actually, yeah, his mum is quite

Speaker 3: sweet but he calls her a moron, you know,

Speaker 3: okay.

Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets into a situation where he's a

Speaker 3: bit stitched up and he gets picked on

Speaker 3: perhaps a little bit by his brothers and

Speaker 3: cousins, but he's not very nice to his mum

Speaker 3: at times.

Speaker 3: So a good life lesson for him there to be

Speaker 3: left alone for a week in a house.

Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's not.

Speaker 1: He was basically.

Speaker 1: I was watching it for Elijah.

Speaker 1: I was like you're about the same age.

Speaker 1: I think he's eight years old, so he's

Speaker 1: slightly younger, so I asked Elijah what

Speaker 1: would you do?

Speaker 1: And he's just like uh, he's just because

Speaker 1: he's already cared about as his tablet,

Speaker 1: anyway, so we're watching Home Alone, but,

Speaker 1: um, yeah, he's not even a teenager.

Speaker 1: If he's a teenager, I would understand that

Speaker 1: response.

Speaker 1: So yeah, elijah would never speak to me

Speaker 1: like that.

Speaker 3: Well Home Alone these days, anyway, you've

Speaker 3: got the internet.

Speaker 3: So if I was, you know if I'd left the kids

Speaker 3: at home, accidentally, on purpose?

Speaker 1: I tried to introduce Elijah to the

Speaker 1: Terminator, terminator 2.

Speaker 1: I didn't feel the first Terminator is a.

Speaker 1: I thought it was a bit too dark.

Speaker 3: I think the second one is a bit more

Speaker 3: kid-friendly.

Speaker 1: He wasn't really interested, watched a bit

Speaker 1: of it.

Speaker 1: But I said to him would you want to

Speaker 1: Terminator 2, look after you?

Speaker 1: Do you know what he said to me?

Speaker 1: Why do I need a Terminator when I've got

Speaker 1: you and you're the strongest and kindest

Speaker 1: person I know?

Speaker 3: Wow.

Speaker 1: And that made me very happy and I was like

Speaker 1: job done yes.

Speaker 3: That's good man, but respect from my son.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice to feel like you're a hero

Speaker 3: to your kids.

Speaker 3: Definitely.

Speaker 3: My kids tell me I've got big muscles.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 3: But I haven't.

Speaker 3: They clearly don't know their dad.

Speaker 3: And last night funny enough just last night

Speaker 3: Edith didn't want to.

Speaker 3: She struggles to get off to sleep at the

Speaker 3: moment, so I have to lie in the room with

Speaker 3: her and sort of stroke her hair.

Speaker 3: And last night she said I like you, daddy.

Speaker 3: I said why?

Speaker 3: She said because you've got big, soft hands.

Speaker 3: There we go.

Speaker 3: And I thought I came out and said to Alice

Speaker 3: I've got big, soft hands.

Speaker 3: She went right, I'm happy, it's a

Speaker 3: compliment.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I was very stoked to my compliment.

Speaker 3: Well, you are the you.

Speaker 3: You are the biggest and strongest person.

Speaker 3: I know as well, gav, and I wouldn't.

Speaker 3: I wouldn't need the Terminator if you were

Speaker 3: around.

Speaker 1: I'd look after you, but I'm not big.

Speaker 3: Would you pick me up on a motorcycle and

Speaker 3: drive me through some Bioducks, bioduck

Speaker 3: things, yeah absolutely.

Speaker 1: I can't run my bike, so I'm a crash, but

Speaker 1: yeah Well.

Speaker 1: I still like that you try Shit movie when I

Speaker 1: come back naked in the streets.

Speaker 3: Imagine you walking naked into a bar full

Speaker 3: of bikers.

Speaker 1: Fucking dangling testicles.

Speaker 1: Oh I who's got a fucking bike coming then I

Speaker 1: need you.

Speaker 1: I'm a dirty little cane for us.

Speaker 1: I need you motorbike and your clothes and

Speaker 1: your boats.

Speaker 3: Another festive favourite of mine, which I

Speaker 3: watched the other night and got, as always,

Speaker 3: a bit teary at the end, was Scrooge,

Speaker 3: because some people don't like the ending

Speaker 3: of that movie.

Speaker 1: I've not seen it since we covered it.

Speaker 3: But Bill Murray, just that speech he gives

Speaker 3: at the end, man, and the fact that he's got

Speaker 3: real tears in his eyes, just great.

Speaker 3: And also it's it's got some really good

Speaker 3: horror elements in that man as well.

Speaker 3: Some of the ghosts are great.

Speaker 1: All the Scrooge ones are good.

Speaker 1: Last year I really enjoyed watching the

Speaker 1: George Lee Scott Scrooge.

Speaker 1: George Lee Scott.

Speaker 1: George Lee Scott.

Speaker 1: I really enjoyed watching him be Scrooge at

Speaker 1: one point, one of the one of the.

Speaker 1: It's always the ghost of Christmas past is

Speaker 1: always the best one.

Speaker 1: It's always like the gothicy, the big, the

Speaker 1: creepy one.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one everyone looks forward

Speaker 3: to, because they're like what's he gonna

Speaker 3: look like in this one?

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, he's pretty spooky stuff.

Speaker 3: Cut off a sail.

Speaker 3: I've watched Die Hard.

Speaker 1: Yep, yep, sara and I did Die Hard.

Speaker 1: It's another staple of mine.

Speaker 1: I had a boxing day, though I used to think.

Speaker 3: I really liked Die Hard too, and I do like

Speaker 3: it, but it is nothing compared to the first

Speaker 3: one.

Speaker 3: The first one is just no, but it's still

Speaker 3: enjoyable.

Speaker 3: I think the first one is a.

Speaker 3: I would give it a 10 out of 10.

Speaker 3: It's a pretty perfect film really.

Speaker 3: The cast, the lines, you know everything

Speaker 3: about it really.

Speaker 3: And for the first time, I got emotional at

Speaker 3: the end.

Speaker 3: You know, when Al and John find each other

Speaker 3: this year, I was thinking, feeling a bit

Speaker 3: festive, and I thought, wow, they're in

Speaker 3: love.

Speaker 3: I'd like to see a spin-off where him and Al

Speaker 3: run off together.

Speaker 1: And and, uh, algol drives him yeah he's

Speaker 1: there driving.

Speaker 3: His tunes are always so banging, he's so

Speaker 3: funny Made me realise that Christmas and

Speaker 3: Hollis by Run DMC is probably my top five

Speaker 3: Christmas film songs of all time.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I walked in CX yesterday and it's

Speaker 1: just finishing.

Speaker 1: I was gutted, gutted.

Speaker 1: Whenever I hear it, I'm like it's Christmas

Speaker 1: time and while I was in there, I picked up

Speaker 1: National Land Cruiser location on Blu-ray,

Speaker 1: which was quite handy.

Speaker 1: I never got to see the commentary track

Speaker 1: which I was going to do, or gutted for, and

Speaker 1: I'm gutted that I never did the Randy Quaid

Speaker 1: sequel.

Speaker 3: Oh, I've done it.

Speaker 3: Oh great you can tell us about.

Speaker 3: Let us know.

Speaker 3: At the end of the first one.

Speaker 3: Last night when everyone was all tucked up

Speaker 3: in bed, I watched two more and then I'll

Speaker 3: stop then and we'll talk about, we'll get

Speaker 3: into other things.

Speaker 3: I watched the calendar which we covered the

Speaker 3: advent calendar last year, which still

Speaker 3: holds up, because we both really enjoyed

Speaker 3: that and that was a lot darker than we

Speaker 3: thought it was going to be.

Speaker 3: That was great.

Speaker 3: So if anybody hasn't seen that, it's a

Speaker 3: French film I believe French or Belgian, I

Speaker 3: think it's French about a woman in a

Speaker 3: wheelchair who gets a mysterious advent

Speaker 3: calendar sort of a great big box with doors

Speaker 3: all over it and if she doesn't follow the

Speaker 3: rules of the advent calendar.

Speaker 3: It's about like jigsaw meets the ring kind

Speaker 3: of thing.

Speaker 3: It's very creepy.

Speaker 3: There's some really good deaths and gory

Speaker 3: stuff going on there.

Speaker 1: Listen to our review lot from last year.

Speaker 3: Yeah, last year was upset.

Speaker 3: And then, to finish up the evening was I

Speaker 3: sat there with my glass of strawberry milk

Speaker 3: and my my gingerbread, while my wife told

Speaker 3: me off.

Speaker 3: I watched just human sugar.

Speaker 3: I was just literally.

Speaker 3: That's why I had a mental mid-night, it's a

Speaker 3: fucking hard line.

Speaker 3: It's Christmas.

Speaker 3: I watched Santa's sleigh, which I think we

Speaker 3: covered many years ago, with Bill Goldberg

Speaker 3: the wrestler running around time with a

Speaker 3: great big ball or a hell deer, as he calls

Speaker 3: it just killing old ladies and anyone that

Speaker 3: gets in his way, basically, and that's a

Speaker 3: good, fun film.

Speaker 3: So I've been watching lots and I've still

Speaker 3: you know we've still got a few days, you

Speaker 3: know.

Speaker 3: So I'll still be watching lots of Christmas

Speaker 3: stuff over the next few days as well.

Speaker 3: Still want to check out Fat man, which I

Speaker 3: know you said is a good one.

Speaker 3: So that's another one to check out for me

Speaker 3: and even though it's getting dissed, I'm

Speaker 3: going to check out.

Speaker 3: It's a Wonderful Knife.

Speaker 3: Still want to check that one out as well,

Speaker 3: but I know it's getting dissed.

Speaker 3: I will probably check it out.

Speaker 3: And if you've watched or any of the

Speaker 3: traditional films you like to, sit in watch.

Speaker 1: I've just been doing all that I need for

Speaker 1: the horses.

Speaker 3: You watched.

Speaker 3: It's a Wonderful Life, didn't you?

Speaker 1: just like I didn't get through all of it

Speaker 1: because I did it whilst cooking.

Speaker 1: It's quite a long one that one, yeah, and I

Speaker 1: did enjoy it, but it was a case of like I

Speaker 1: was pausing at times there because people

Speaker 1: come in to talk to me and then we're

Speaker 1: leaving the kitchen again.

Speaker 1: I'd carry on cooking.

Speaker 1: I wasn't cooking in my own kitchen, I was

Speaker 1: cooking in the ex-wife's kitchen.

Speaker 3: And also that's what the mum in Gremlins

Speaker 3: watches.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and that is kind of I quite a

Speaker 1: dig that that I was doing that, you know,

Speaker 1: while I was cooking.

Speaker 3: I did watch Gremlins as well, and that's

Speaker 3: that's probably another film that we

Speaker 3: watched at a very young age.

Speaker 3: Talking about earlier topic, when you look

Speaker 3: back at it now you think Jesus Christ man

Speaker 3: there was.

Speaker 3: She was putting these things in the blender

Speaker 3: in the microwave.

Speaker 1: Well that I do apologize.

Speaker 1: Got a bit of a cold in that time.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what made me feel sick.

Speaker 1: I went around my friend's house as a kid

Speaker 1: and his mum gave us tomato soup and said,

Speaker 1: yeah, I'll watch the Gremlins.

Speaker 1: So I sat and ate a bottle of bowl of soup,

Speaker 1: you know, and it got to that scene and

Speaker 1: they're blending the green stuff and I I

Speaker 1: can remember it like it was this morning,

Speaker 1: honestly.

Speaker 1: I remember walking out the stairs, walking

Speaker 1: out of the living room exactly, and sitting

Speaker 1: on the third or fourth step up and just

Speaker 1: sitting there and I could hear it going on

Speaker 1: and I was like no, I couldn't watch it.

Speaker 1: I was as little.

Speaker 3: That's the weirdest.

Speaker 3: That's two scenes for me that really hit me

Speaker 3: as a kid, where the dog being hung in the

Speaker 3: Christmas lights because I'd never seen an

Speaker 3: animal harmed.

Speaker 3: That I can remember in a film up until that

Speaker 3: point, and I was probably eight, nine when

Speaker 3: I watched Gremlins and I thought, jesus

Speaker 3: Christ, these things have hung a dog.

Speaker 3: You know, I didn't didn't know that he was

Speaker 3: dead, I just knew that he was hanging from

Speaker 3: the lights.

Speaker 3: The other scene, though, which still holds

Speaker 3: up so well is when the Gremlins in the

Speaker 3: Christmas tree and it attacks Billy's mum.

Speaker 3: That looks so sinister and good man, the

Speaker 3: effects for Gremlins.

Speaker 3: If you haven't watched it for years, guys

Speaker 3: go back and watch it.

Speaker 3: Just marvel at the effects work on that

Speaker 3: movie.

Speaker 3: It still holds up incredibly well.

Speaker 3: Gizmo looks like a real little creature,

Speaker 3: you know, and okay, you might be able to

Speaker 3: figure out where puppets were, puppeteers

Speaker 3: were hiding and things like that.

Speaker 3: But my god, that film holds up so well and

Speaker 3: it's so much fun as well.

Speaker 1: I turned up to Sarah's house Christmas day

Speaker 1: evening after I'd been cooking and with the

Speaker 1: kids and stuff and I turned up there and

Speaker 1: they were playing board games and watching

Speaker 1: Gremlins 2.

Speaker 3: Gremlins 2 so.

Speaker 1: I kind of sat there and watching Gremlins 2

Speaker 1: in the background while they were playing

Speaker 1: Monopoly for hours and hours.

Speaker 3: Monopoly.

Speaker 3: You sounded like Ali McMinn then.

Speaker 1: Monopoly.

Speaker 3: Mr McClane, would you like to be the top

Speaker 3: hat if we play Monopoly?

Speaker 1: Mr McClane, should we play Monopoly?

Speaker 3: Elliot is a piece of shit.

Speaker 3: Just a very quick side note.

Speaker 1: Yeah, sarah, I could hear her come out.

Speaker 1: And what a dick, because it is a he'm

Speaker 1: trying to.

Speaker 1: Oh, he's waiting.

Speaker 1: He's trying to say the show him a watch,

Speaker 1: show him a watch.

Speaker 3: Hans Booby.

Speaker 3: Honestly, I know he's fairly innocent but

Speaker 3: when he gets blown away.

Speaker 3: When he gets blown away, I'm always like

Speaker 3: yeah.

Speaker 1: Ah, it's just like what fucking coke adult

Speaker 1: forts did they make him go?

Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got, I could it.

Speaker 1: What are you gonna give?

Speaker 1: How are you gonna just go?

Speaker 1: Bruce Whisk could go.

Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, don't know you, I'll

Speaker 1: finish, I'll come back down.

Speaker 3: Insane.

Speaker 3: Why, alice?

Speaker 3: Who do you hate more, alice from Die Hard

Speaker 3: or Walter Peck from Ghostbusters, who is

Speaker 3: also in Die Hard in a different character?

Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's a good combo.

Speaker 1: I thought you could say that, franklin,

Speaker 1: there's almost.

Speaker 3: No, no, no no, no, no, these two these two

Speaker 3: are like these two are like Walter Peck,

Speaker 3: because they're like little weasels that

Speaker 3: get under your skin.

Speaker 1: No, I don't like Walter Peck, and I'm not

Speaker 1: speaking of Walter Peck as for Ghostbusters,

Speaker 1: because he's not like one either, but I

Speaker 1: mean in this because he's in Die Hard 2 as

Speaker 1: well and not that good Does.

Speaker 1: Holly Does Holly any other Die Hards did he.

Speaker 3: I don't think he did.

Speaker 3: Did Holly punch him at the end of Die Hard

Speaker 3: she does, doesn't she?

Speaker 1: It ended with the first one, yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, she knocked out good.

Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad that he got punched and I'm

Speaker 3: glad that Alice got killed.

Speaker 1: Quite frankly, Good to meet her.

Speaker 1: They think Bruce Willis is is mental.

Speaker 1: I don't know what the name of what he has,

Speaker 1: but they think it actually was from an

Speaker 1: accident on a film set.

Speaker 3: actually, they're thinking it's a form of

Speaker 3: dementia.

Speaker 1: I think it's a film set in the 90s where he

Speaker 1: had an accident in his head or something.

Speaker 3: And this, he's basically lost the ability

Speaker 3: to communicate.

Speaker 1: Now but he still knows what's going on, ish.

Speaker 3: But this explains why and we've really gone,

Speaker 3: been mean about it but we didn't know.

Speaker 3: But over the last sort of 10 years, his

Speaker 3: career is him picking up little tiny

Speaker 3: snippets here and there, you know, and he

Speaker 3: it's because he, I should imagine he was

Speaker 3: struggling to remember some of his lines.

Speaker 3: He didn't know it though at the time, you

Speaker 3: know, we all just assumed he's been.

Speaker 3: Oh, he's found in another performance.

Speaker 3: He's being lazy, but actually so I wonder

Speaker 3: what Kevin Smith, who famously really

Speaker 3: ragged on him when they made that cop movie

Speaker 3: together, I wonder what he thinks of,

Speaker 3: because I know he'd heard, yeah, which I

Speaker 3: quite enjoyed Coppa to be honest, but

Speaker 3: actually no, because I listen to.

Speaker 1: One of the first podcasts I ever listened

Speaker 1: to literally was a Kevin Smith one

Speaker 1: interviewing the dude who made Looper, ryan

Speaker 1: Johnson.

Speaker 1: Yep, and he worked with Bruce Willis and,

Speaker 1: um, oh, was it him or someone else?

Speaker 1: It was the first time filmmaker and they

Speaker 1: worked Bruce Willis and they were really

Speaker 1: good and he was was like what he was good

Speaker 1: for you.

Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it's fucking amazing.

Speaker 3: Well, I know Shyamalan and him, get on with

Speaker 3: him as well.

Speaker 1: Well, apparently it used to be that Bruce

Speaker 1: would be quite good with first time

Speaker 1: directors for some reason, like really

Speaker 1: championing them like first time filmmakers,

Speaker 1: but then something like Kevin Smith, I

Speaker 1: don't know but it's weird that he was quite

Speaker 1: friendly with Die Hard 4 and that's when he

Speaker 1: met.

Speaker 3: Well, I think I was talking to my dad on

Speaker 3: the phone the other night about Die Hard as

Speaker 3: you do, and I said to him, like hands down,

Speaker 3: that's the Bruce's best performance and

Speaker 3: people might think of it as a dumb action

Speaker 3: film, but it's so much more to it than that

Speaker 3: it's not.

Speaker 3: I well I know that's what I'm saying like

Speaker 3: people think of that film as an action film,

Speaker 3: but and it is an action film, but there is

Speaker 3: so much to it, it's layered and the story

Speaker 3: and, like I say, bruce's performance is

Speaker 3: phenomenal in that, um, but Die Hard is

Speaker 3: definitely my, my top five for.

Speaker 1: Chris, I had to sort of.

Speaker 1: I couldn't help it.

Speaker 1: I had to do it again with Sarah.

Speaker 1: I took a reminisce over my sneaking onto

Speaker 1: Nakatomi Plaza and being right in front of

Speaker 1: the glass door, standing there and going,

Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, because I'd just gone

Speaker 1: through some back door up.

Speaker 1: Some fucking thing just snuck on there.

Speaker 1: Then the guards came out and I was like, oh,

Speaker 1: they're used to their guns.

Speaker 1: No, they weren't used to the fact that I

Speaker 1: was there.

Speaker 1: They're like how the fuck did you get up

Speaker 1: here, that door?

Speaker 3: A similar thing happened when I went into

Speaker 3: the library from Ghostbusters when I was in

Speaker 3: New York and I walked into the library and

Speaker 3: I said Alice didn't really get it.

Speaker 3: But I was like, oh my god, oh my god, this

Speaker 3: is where they see the, the, the ghost and

Speaker 3: the lady.

Speaker 3: Are you, alice, menstruating right now?

Speaker 3: I said your name's Alice too.

Speaker 3: This is brilliant.

Speaker 3: And then I looked around and there was

Speaker 3: literally about 10 other bloke saying

Speaker 3: pretty much the same thing to their wife or

Speaker 3: friend.

Speaker 3: Who was just, and I thought, oh, everyone

Speaker 3: comes here and says this is the library

Speaker 3: from Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1: I've got a friend who's in New York right

Speaker 1: now and this morning he put our picture of

Speaker 1: him standing in front of the Ghostbusters

Speaker 1: place.

Speaker 3: There we go there we go Christmas,

Speaker 3: christmas, christmas.

Speaker 1: But Die Hard 5 I actually quite like, just

Speaker 1: very quickly, and I put it off for many

Speaker 1: years and started watching it and I was

Speaker 1: like this is such shit.

Speaker 1: I watched it one day thinking it's gonna be

Speaker 1: shit, kind of enjoying it.

Speaker 1: It's really weird.

Speaker 1: It's completely not a Die Hard movie,

Speaker 1: though I've seen it once You've got to like

Speaker 1: take that out of it.

Speaker 1: It's just an action film.

Speaker 3: For me, one, two and three are great, and

Speaker 3: three is like, not amazing, but it's still

Speaker 3: good.

Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson as a team cop buddy type.

Speaker 3: The reason it's fun is because originally

Speaker 3: it was a lethal weapon script and then they

Speaker 3: flipped it.

Speaker 3: You can tell that the dynamic between them

Speaker 3: is very rigged and murder.

Speaker 1: That could have been a lethal weapon movie,

Speaker 1: then why didn't they just make it?

Speaker 3: Because I can't remember what happened

Speaker 3: there.

Speaker 3: I think they thought they weren't going to

Speaker 3: make any more lethal weapons.

Speaker 1: Are they still making a new one though?

Speaker 3: Apparently, apparently.

Speaker 3: They better hurry up.

Speaker 1: We've got Beverly Hillscott next year.

Speaker 3: Did you see the trailer?

Speaker 3: Yeah?

Speaker 1: it looks right.

Speaker 3: The chemistry looks great still between

Speaker 3: them and the fucking I'm not expecting to

Speaker 3: be amazing because I keep getting

Speaker 3: disappointed by the NGA Jones or whatnot.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Anyway should we get into Christmasy stuff

Speaker 1: or whatever?

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, before we get into what we're

Speaker 3: going to do next, guys, we're going to take

Speaker 3: a break and then we're going to talk about

Speaker 3: 10 years of podcasting.

Speaker 3: So, for anybody who hasn't been with us

Speaker 3: from the beginning, we're going to talk

Speaker 3: about some of our favorite episodes,

Speaker 3: moments, memories.

Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the highs and the

Speaker 3: lows.

Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about our lives

Speaker 3: and how they've kind of changed in 10 years,

Speaker 3: because a lot happens in 10 years.

Speaker 3: It's not, you know, it's a long time, it's

Speaker 3: a decade.

Speaker 3: The last thing I wanted to mention is a bit

Speaker 3: of a bar humbug, which is I took my

Speaker 3: children out on we're recording this just

Speaker 3: after Christmas Day, and I took my children

Speaker 3: out to a restaurant on Christmas Day which

Speaker 3: I've never, ever been out.

Speaker 3: So I've been to a pub once for a beer on

Speaker 3: Christmas Day, but I've never eaten food

Speaker 3: out in a restaurant on Christmas Day.

Speaker 3: But because we've got two two-year-olds and

Speaker 3: it's already hectic, we just decided that's

Speaker 3: about the bullet this year, let's do it.

Speaker 3: So we went out, we booked in, got there um

Speaker 3: about 12 o'clock, had three courses each.

Speaker 3: The kids really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3: You know, daddy, yes, christmas, they keep

Speaker 3: shouting they love their custard and

Speaker 3: they're pudding.

Speaker 3: We had a great time the last sort of 10

Speaker 3: minutes of it.

Speaker 3: They were so full of sugar and they were

Speaker 3: running up and down, waving all the old

Speaker 3: people in there and oh, it was lovely and

Speaker 3: um it just we just had.

Speaker 3: We just came away with a really good

Speaker 3: feeling.

Speaker 3: So my wife logged in to TripAdvisor the

Speaker 3: following day to leave them a lovely review.

Speaker 3: However, before she could leave a review,

Speaker 3: somebody had put in a review which is

Speaker 3: essentially complaining about me and my

Speaker 3: family.

Speaker 3: They said, um, their Christmas experience

Speaker 3: was ruined by a couple of screeching

Speaker 3: children, not laughing or giggling or

Speaker 3: saying Merry Christmas and waving

Speaker 3: screeching children.

Speaker 3: Um, and they said, we were there with our

Speaker 3: grandmother who'd lost her husband only a

Speaker 3: few months before and it was going to be

Speaker 3: her first Christmas without him and because

Speaker 3: of these children our experience was ruined.

Speaker 3: But the food was nice and the parking was

Speaker 3: okay.

Speaker 3: They put at the end, but I don't know what

Speaker 3: to say.

Speaker 3: I mean me and Gav talked about this off

Speaker 3: fair and people are always going to say

Speaker 3: things about your kids and you're going to

Speaker 3: get offended.

Speaker 3: But maybe if, if your grandma's grieving a

Speaker 3: little bit, just don't take her out to a

Speaker 3: restaurant full of people who are going to

Speaker 3: be a bit merry and bright, because it was

Speaker 3: full of drunk blokes stood at the bar

Speaker 3: singing um the pokes fairies held in New

Speaker 3: York.

Speaker 3: They didn't complain about them.

Speaker 3: No, of course.

Speaker 1: I don't know.

Speaker 1: It's kind of like the cinema.

Speaker 1: I understand when people don't want kids to

Speaker 1: cinema.

Speaker 1: So that's why you do actually have 18 over

Speaker 1: cinema for movies which aren't 18, even if

Speaker 1: they're 15, so younger kids can't go in.

Speaker 1: So maybe, like, if you're doing that, find

Speaker 1: a restaurant which is like going like we're

Speaker 1: not taking kids.

Speaker 1: I don't know what restaurant would do that

Speaker 1: because they'd get fucking social media out.

Speaker 3: But also, this wasn't a fancy restaurant.

Speaker 3: It was like a bar and sizzle grill, which

Speaker 3: is like a chain of really like in the UK

Speaker 3: yeah, yeah, we had the works, but um, they.

Speaker 3: It's not like a fancy restaurant, it's just

Speaker 3: like a pub that also serves food.

Speaker 3: We wanted to keep it cheap and cheerful.

Speaker 3: Still costs us 150 quid for the four of us.

Speaker 3: But I don't know, man, some people, you

Speaker 3: know, I get, if you're dealing with grief,

Speaker 3: I get.

Speaker 3: You might sort of say stuff.

Speaker 3: But I just thought I look back now and I

Speaker 3: laugh a few days later.

Speaker 3: But at the time I was quite cross and quite

Speaker 3: upset.

Speaker 3: But now I just think, well, if you can't

Speaker 3: enjoy, if you can't see a couple of

Speaker 3: two-year-olds enjoying their Christmas day,

Speaker 3: then I feel a bit sorry for you really at

Speaker 3: the end of the day.

Speaker 3: But I just thought I'd mention that because

Speaker 3: it's quite funny.

Speaker 1: And now I just always have it.

Speaker 1: When I was out there, there'd always be

Speaker 1: someone, because my, my three are fucking

Speaker 1: out of control at times.

Speaker 1: Feral children just fucking like I've got

Speaker 1: no chance.

Speaker 1: And you know, and I've had it before.

Speaker 1: People tell me can you control your

Speaker 1: children?

Speaker 1: And just the looks that people give it,

Speaker 1: just like fuck off.

Speaker 1: I know it sounds shit.

Speaker 1: Uh, I'm not me saying fuck off there, I'm

Speaker 1: gonna give a fuck about that.

Speaker 1: I mean, for those of you, I don't know, I

Speaker 1: feel like they're screaming.

Speaker 1: That's annoying, but it's fuck.

Speaker 1: We're all living the same plan out.

Speaker 3: I can't fucking help you.

Speaker 3: Let's, let's be kind.

Speaker 3: I think let let listen, guys probably take

Speaker 3: a break.

Speaker 3: Let's leave that there.

Speaker 3: Let's say let's be kind and remember at

Speaker 3: Christmas, just try and be even a little

Speaker 3: bit more kinder.

Speaker 2: Really um we've all got a liver together

Speaker 2: yeah, if not, then fuck off, take your

Speaker 2: granny somewhere else if she's a bit sad.

Speaker 3: Anyway, look, let's take a break, and then

Speaker 3: we'll go down memory lane and talk about 10

Speaker 3: years of fucking podcast.

Speaker 3: And what was that?

Speaker 1: Halloween theme for free.

Speaker 1: Halloween free boop boop, boop boop.

Speaker 1: Did I all right back in a minute.

Speaker 1: Ho ho, ho, we're back again, we're back.

Speaker 3: We're back.

Speaker 3: So, gav, again, happy anniversary.

Speaker 3: Ten years, crazy, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 3: I thought what we could do would be fun now

Speaker 3: to talk and get real and talk about

Speaker 3: podcasting, but also, like ten years.

Speaker 3: Ten years is a long time.

Speaker 3: We've been friends a lot longer than that,

Speaker 3: but, yeah, crazy times.

Speaker 3: We've both been through ups and downs and

Speaker 3: we've also reviewed some shit films and

Speaker 3: some great films.

Speaker 3: So let's jump in, jump into the mix really

Speaker 3: and talk about it.

Speaker 3: Where do you want to start off?

Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about episodes?

Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about life?

Speaker 3: What do you want to do?

Speaker 1: I don't know you lead it.

Speaker 3: Alright, I'll lead it, okay.

Speaker 3: Well, ten years, Ten years ago, both very

Speaker 3: different.

Speaker 1: We recorded our first episode, and then

Speaker 1: what?

Speaker 3: Dimper's record.

Speaker 1: No, we didn't.

Speaker 3: Not to do it again.

Speaker 3: We did Because it's too drunk.

Speaker 3: I wasn't a married man ten years ago either.

Speaker 3: Obviously I am now.

Speaker 3: I'm still with Alice, but I also become a

Speaker 3: dad in that time as well.

Speaker 1: I don't think I was a married man.

Speaker 3: You were a married man.

Speaker 1: We've switched roles, yeah well technically

Speaker 1: Still converse, but yeah, not really.

Speaker 3: Separated from your ex-nate.

Speaker 3: But you've got the lovely Sarah now in your

Speaker 3: life, which is awesome, fantastic.

Speaker 3: I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 3: Hello, sarah, merry Christmas.

Speaker 1: Shit, oh, she just got in there.

Speaker 1: She's had a do-mary Christmas.

Speaker 3: Fuck off.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got some kids now as well, which

Speaker 3: is crazy.

Speaker 3: Your kids are grown-up man, because

Speaker 3: 16-year-old now a 14-year-old.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Nine-year-old ten this year.

Speaker 3: I mean, you only had two children when we

Speaker 3: started podcasting.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Which is nuts, and the oldest was six at

Speaker 3: the time.

Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah.

Speaker 3: Can you I mean, this is what I'm saying

Speaker 3: like ten years, is it?

Speaker 1: To be fair, it won't be that long until

Speaker 1: they're 17.

Speaker 1: So it's just like what the fuck Nuts.

Speaker 3: Absolutely nuts, and we've taken a few

Speaker 3: high-atices here and there, you know.

Speaker 1: No, that's good then, because that's only a

Speaker 1: year Now.

Speaker 1: Kick them out the door 18.

Speaker 1: Off you go.

Speaker 3: Get at it, fuck off.

Speaker 3: I want to see that.

Speaker 3: I want to see what you do with that.

Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to do that to my

Speaker 1: autistic child.

Speaker 1: Yeah, please don't.

Speaker 1: I don't think that'll go well.

Speaker 3: We've taken a few high-atices here and

Speaker 3: there because life throws you curveballs,

Speaker 3: like we said, and Galf separated from his

Speaker 3: ex.

Speaker 3: But you know, for the best really, and you

Speaker 3: find Sarah now and you know I had some

Speaker 3: stuff I dealt with as well.

Speaker 3: I lost my mum and got married six days

Speaker 3: later, which is a bit of a rollercoaster

Speaker 3: for me really.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that was insane and that was the last

Speaker 1: time I was proper drunk.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we got married six days later and

Speaker 3: then we celebrated being married for a few

Speaker 3: months and then the fucking world shut down

Speaker 3: for the pandemic.

Speaker 3: So my brain lost it at that point.

Speaker 1: Didn't we podcast quite a lot in pandemic

Speaker 1: because we were in the house going.

Speaker 1: Should we podcast?

Speaker 3: Probably two episodes a month.

Speaker 3: I'd say we were doing then.

Speaker 1: Yeah, two, you're squeezing to three quite

Speaker 1: properly.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we were doing a lot.

Speaker 3: I think everybody was doing a lot more

Speaker 3: content, weren't they?

Speaker 3: During the pandemic.

Speaker 1: There's some parts of the pandemic I kind

Speaker 1: of liked I've got.

Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 1: There's parts when I was up in my little

Speaker 1: loft because, honestly, I had a little room

Speaker 1: in the loft and I was just making a little

Speaker 1: miniature house out of foam.

Speaker 1: I just got nothing to do.

Speaker 3: And that's why 10 years the last 10 years

Speaker 3: has probably felt quicker, because three

Speaker 3: years of that, a good two of those, was the

Speaker 3: pandemic really.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, 20.

Speaker 1: To 22.

Speaker 1: And then after that the first spouts of

Speaker 1: years are coming back.

Speaker 1: Obviously we're only 23,.

Speaker 1: Going into 2024 soon.

Speaker 1: It was sped along but all of a sudden now I

Speaker 1: feel like it's kind of slowed again.

Speaker 1: I don't know why if anyone else but I feel

Speaker 1: like it's slowed down again.

Speaker 1: But when we came out of it it was just like

Speaker 1: go, go, go.

Speaker 1: It's like ah, it's foam, go, go, go.

Speaker 1: So weird, weird, fucking time.

Speaker 3: It's been crazy.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a dad now, which still wrapping

Speaker 3: my head around it still feels very new to

Speaker 3: me, but also I feel like they've always

Speaker 3: been here, you know.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because you keep obviously

Speaker 1: saying bits and bobs.

Speaker 1: It's just stuff like you're learning and as

Speaker 1: you're, because you grow with your kids,

Speaker 1: because you're growing as a every day,

Speaker 1: you're a parent for the first time of that

Speaker 1: kid of that age, yeah, so you're always

Speaker 1: learning stuff.

Speaker 1: It's funny because you're always coming on

Speaker 1: stuff and it's not funny because I was

Speaker 1: there 10 years ago doing all that shit.

Speaker 1: No longer than that you know so it's funny

Speaker 1: seeing it here and it from you now.

Speaker 3: And now I'm seeing friends start having

Speaker 3: children and they're asking me advice.

Speaker 3: And I never give out advice, and if

Speaker 3: somebody asks me something I'll tell them

Speaker 3: how I dealt with it or something.

Speaker 3: But everybody's journey is different.

Speaker 1: As a parent, look what funny it is for me

Speaker 1: now, as I'm completely thrown from it now,

Speaker 1: if I could change an app.

Speaker 1: You know the problem because it comes up

Speaker 1: memory.

Speaker 1: You know muscle memory sort of thing.

Speaker 1: So I could do that.

Speaker 1: But there's other stuff I can't remember.

Speaker 1: It's so long ago now, being a dad.

Speaker 3: Well, the thing is even for me my time is

Speaker 3: gone you know, even for me with two, two

Speaker 3: and a half year olds, I don't remember

Speaker 3: those first few months because you're so

Speaker 3: tired.

Speaker 3: It's such a blur Like.

Speaker 3: My brother has recently become a dad, his

Speaker 3: first child and whenever he hands me his

Speaker 3: baby I'm like how do I hold it again?

Speaker 3: He's like you've got two.

Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but I don't know, I've got

Speaker 1: that stuff I could do really well, but

Speaker 1: there's some stuff I'm like oh, don't get

Speaker 1: me wrong, I can hold a baby, I'm not gonna

Speaker 1: drop it.

Speaker 3: But also you kind of like, you forget that

Speaker 3: you had to do all this stuff.

Speaker 3: You know, you think how do we get through

Speaker 3: all this?

Speaker 1: Yeah, now, I had a baby last year.

Speaker 1: I think it was Last year or two years ago.

Speaker 3: I was like you, had a baby last year.

Speaker 3: Held a baby?

Speaker 3: Oh right, thank you.

Speaker 1: And it was funny holding a baby again.

Speaker 1: But I always start to the point where it's

Speaker 1: straight away and a neighbor kind of

Speaker 1: comforted the baby.

Speaker 1: So yeah, if I can hold on to this, no

Speaker 1: worries.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like holding my brother's baby,

Speaker 3: because what's great is he just kind of

Speaker 3: lies there and then I look at him and he

Speaker 3: doesn't really do a lot.

Speaker 3: He doesn't give me any back, talk or ask

Speaker 3: for a biscuit, and then I can just hand him

Speaker 3: back to my brother and say he's done a shit.

Speaker 3: You need to change him, not me.

Speaker 3: But yeah, so that happened as well.

Speaker 3: Lots of stuff, really, and also we, you

Speaker 3: know deadbolt films.

Speaker 3: We've done a lot in the last 10 years.

Speaker 3: You know, slightly outside of the 10 years.

Speaker 3: We made Shadow of Death, which Gav is just

Speaker 3: hit just hit Vipko, hasn't it?

Speaker 3: Oh, whoa it's hit, it's hit.

Speaker 1: It's on Amazon now for Rent and Buy, which

Speaker 1: is fucking kind of an achievement.

Speaker 1: I was actually for the first time ever, I

Speaker 1: looked at the Amazon Prime and add the

Speaker 1: whole thing rating and the characters in

Speaker 1: the background and I was proud of myself.

Speaker 1: For the first time ever, I was proud of

Speaker 1: myself.

Speaker 3: I looked at it last night and that's the

Speaker 3: trailer place.

Speaker 3: While you're reading it you're like wow,

Speaker 3: and it seemed myself in that trailer, you

Speaker 3: know, and I was thinking this is weird that

Speaker 3: Prime, although Pret-o-Natural, another of

Speaker 3: our pictures is it not on Prime anymore.

Speaker 1: No, it's actually free on YouTube via the

Speaker 1: actual company or Plex.

Speaker 1: Okay cool.

Speaker 1: Actually no, I think you could probably

Speaker 1: still rent it on Amazon, but I'm just

Speaker 1: giving you the cheat codes.

Speaker 3: We've done a ton of shorts as well, Most

Speaker 3: recently, of course, Star Wars, Sanctuary

Speaker 3: Moon, which we're very proud of.

Speaker 3: So sorry, Star Wars, Sanctuary Moon, which

Speaker 3: we're very proud of.

Speaker 3: It was an amazing experience filming that

Speaker 3: and getting to be part of that.

Speaker 3: Sadly, we'd be remiss to not mention our

Speaker 3: buddy Boz, who we lost shortly after that

Speaker 3: and he sadly never got to see it.

Speaker 3: But yeah, fellow podcaster, Some of you

Speaker 3: guys will know Boz from his show, the

Speaker 3: Little Pod of Horrors.

Speaker 3: So that's a sad moment.

Speaker 1: But yeah, no Guided you never see the Star

Speaker 1: Wars film so Guided.

Speaker 1: For that reason, you know, just I don't

Speaker 1: know.

Speaker 3: I know, I know, but it's one of those

Speaker 3: things, but yeah it did really well with

Speaker 3: Deadbolt films over the years.

Speaker 1: It was just this little.

Speaker 1: I just literally called it Deadbolt because

Speaker 1: Peter Jackson had winged up.

Speaker 3: I remember the conversation with you and

Speaker 3: you said that and I said, well, I like that,

Speaker 3: that's fine, okay cool yeah, I remember

Speaker 3: sitting in your living room with you while

Speaker 3: we were working on this, our second well,

Speaker 3: your second and my first script, because we

Speaker 3: banged out a few scripts in the early days.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been very productive year.

Speaker 3: You know, at 10 years, not year, you know

Speaker 3: to the point that we've done almost 150

Speaker 3: episodes, probably have done 150 if you

Speaker 3: count all the little bonus snippets and

Speaker 3: Fright Vests and all the little bits we've

Speaker 3: done as well, done a few Fright Vests as

Speaker 3: well over the years.

Speaker 3: Well, I thought what would be fun to do.

Speaker 1: I've even interviewed Richard Brake one of

Speaker 1: the first ones actual legit people.

Speaker 3: Do you remember when we got messaging Tom

Speaker 3: Holland for a while of Psycho?

Speaker 3: Well, charter Wave no yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and his assistant kept saying yeah,

Speaker 3: yeah, yeah, we just need a date, we just

Speaker 3: need a date.

Speaker 1: He never got back or forth.

Speaker 1: No, yeah, he sent me a few years ago.

Speaker 1: Have Merry Christmas to me.

Speaker 1: Oh, christmas day, that was about it.

Speaker 1: It's just, I think he wanted to do it, but

Speaker 1: then he was trying to get through to

Speaker 1: whoever's organizing it and it was just

Speaker 1: like, can't we just sort it out?

Speaker 1: And, yeah, it didn't work.

Speaker 1: So yeah, we don't really have people on the

Speaker 1: show often, very rarely.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had a few guests in the 10

Speaker 3: years some fellow podcasters like Kate, and

Speaker 3: some of our friends like Andy and John.

Speaker 1: Yeah, early years.

Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just fucking now.

Speaker 1: Just put the microphone in the room and we

Speaker 1: all sit in the room.

Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, so bad.

Speaker 3: It is difficult just to sometimes organize

Speaker 3: our own lives around getting a show

Speaker 3: recorded though, which is why sometimes

Speaker 3: there are delays, but we appreciate that

Speaker 3: you guys still support and listen.

Speaker 3: I mean, if anybody wants to know the way

Speaker 3: that we work is, I'll come up with the

Speaker 3: theme of the episode.

Speaker 3: Really, I'll check with Gav that he's happy

Speaker 3: with that, and Gav always gives me I want

Speaker 3: to cover this film, so I put it on the list

Speaker 3: and I usually try and pair up a couple of

Speaker 3: similar films.

Speaker 3: The way it works is we plan a date that

Speaker 3: we're gonna record and then, about a week

Speaker 3: before that date, we'll both watch the

Speaker 3: films, make the notes for that film, and

Speaker 3: then I'll take an evening to write all the

Speaker 3: extra segments like notes for the intro and

Speaker 3: outro.

Speaker 3: I'll do my research for World of the

Speaker 3: Strange.

Speaker 3: If we're doing a time team segment, which

Speaker 3: we used to do on every episode, I also need

Speaker 3: to do a ton of research on that and we put

Speaker 3: it all together, and then on that night we

Speaker 3: get together, we press record and we just

Speaker 3: go for it, take those breaks, like I say,

Speaker 3: and we actually record it linearly as well.

Speaker 3: So we record the outro, we record.

Speaker 3: Occasionally we have to break it up,

Speaker 3: perhaps, but we try and record it in the

Speaker 3: order that we're gonna put it out there, so

Speaker 3: that the editing from Gab's side is much,

Speaker 3: much easier.

Speaker 3: All he needs to do is chuck the music in

Speaker 3: and slip a few bits here and there.

Speaker 1: I just generally need to chop the nose and

Speaker 1: tails, the heads and tails.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we will.

Speaker 3: I'll write up a little piece that Gab will

Speaker 3: then attach to it and it goes up online for

Speaker 3: everybody to yeah, I have to obviously pull

Speaker 3: the trailers and the audio for that.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was a little thing.

Speaker 1: I have to put all the sound to fit with the

Speaker 1: length of our talks, conversations, but

Speaker 1: actually I've got it down to a T now where

Speaker 1: it's not too much work on my end actually

Speaker 1: and I can have it edited within the hour.

Speaker 3: And we've said it a billion times, but

Speaker 3: we'll say it again we both love doing this.

Speaker 3: We do this even if no one else is listening

Speaker 3: We've got patrons but we do it even if we

Speaker 3: didn't, because it is a little bit of

Speaker 3: therapy for both of us.

Speaker 3: We're friends.

Speaker 3: Obviously, we get together, we shoot the

Speaker 3: shit, we catch up.

Speaker 3: We always catch up a bit before we hit

Speaker 3: record, but we do a lot of our catching up

Speaker 3: while we're recording as well.

Speaker 3: We save funny stories and anecdotes for

Speaker 3: while we're recording because we love

Speaker 3: seeing each other's reactions to these

Speaker 3: things, you know, and we love doing that,

Speaker 3: and I'm just really thankful that we

Speaker 3: created this in a hotel room in Wales one

Speaker 3: night, which is a bit weird, but we did

Speaker 3: Right.

Speaker 3: We were working together away and Talked

Speaker 3: about something.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we led in our single beds next to

Speaker 3: each other chatting and you said we should

Speaker 3: be recording this.

Speaker 3: Then we started.

Speaker 3: We just said to Sidere that we would.

Speaker 3: Yeah, famously didn't hit record on that

Speaker 3: first ever session.

Speaker 3: But let's talk about what films that we've

Speaker 3: covered and just to jog some of our

Speaker 3: memories and get a little bit of a

Speaker 3: discussion going around some of our

Speaker 3: favourite things and some of our not so

Speaker 3: favourite things.

Speaker 3: I can't wait to talk to you about some of

Speaker 3: that.

Speaker 3: So, gav, I thought I'd start off with just

Speaker 3: reminding you some of the movies we've

Speaker 3: covered, because we have a birthday episode

Speaker 3: each every year where the birthday boy gets

Speaker 3: to pick the movie.

Speaker 3: So, gav, some of the ones that you've

Speaker 3: picked over the years Dark Knight of the

Speaker 3: Scarecrow from 1981, you were really

Speaker 3: excited for us to cover that.

Speaker 1: I don't know why, though I can't remember

Speaker 1: it.

Speaker 3: really, you made us watch the Burbs, which

Speaker 3: I will watch anytime.

Speaker 3: I didn't make you watch the Burbs, that's

Speaker 3: for sure yeah we love it.

Speaker 3: The Lost Boys Fright Night.

Speaker 3: This is my choices, these are your choices,

Speaker 3: yeah.

Speaker 1: Lost Boys and Fright Night.

Speaker 1: It's a birthday, OK.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you also picked for your Tarantino

Speaker 3: birthday.

Speaker 3: You picked the Sorry, not Tarantino, but

Speaker 3: Snowy.

Speaker 3: You picked the Thing and the Hateful Eight

Speaker 3: great combo.

Speaker 1: Did we do the Thing and the Hateful Eight

Speaker 1: together?

Speaker 1: Yeah, what year was that?

Speaker 3: It was our third year of podcasting.

Speaker 1: See, that's the thing, though If you go

Speaker 1: back now, the audio's probably like good.

Speaker 1: We almost need to do fresh reviews of these

Speaker 1: things.

Speaker 1: Mm.

Speaker 3: You know, the following year you picked

Speaker 3: Silver Bullet and the Howling.

Speaker 1: I guess if we ever get to a point maybe we

Speaker 1: could cover it.

Speaker 1: We could do that, but that's not going to

Speaker 1: happen.

Speaker 1: I suppose Silver Bullet and the Howling I

Speaker 1: didn't want to pick the Howling you would

Speaker 1: have must have put that in there, because

Speaker 1: I'm not Howling's alright.

Speaker 3: No, no, you would have picked it.

Speaker 3: I never, I always let you pick the real

Speaker 3: thing.

Speaker 1: That's not a weird thing because I'm like

Speaker 1: Howling that's alright.

Speaker 1: So strange that I picked that rather than

Speaker 1: the Marquardt from London.

Speaker 1: Well, we covered that separately I think

Speaker 1: yeah, I know, we did yeah.

Speaker 3: Did a commentary you also the following

Speaker 3: year.

Speaker 3: You picked to support and sort of discuss

Speaker 3: mental health.

Speaker 3: You picked First Blood and Session 9.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the first episodes.

Speaker 1: That was a hair of the episodes.

Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, my favourite birthday episode

Speaker 3: was the following year, where you picked

Speaker 3: the Deadpool and Tend to Midnight, because,

Speaker 3: my God, I had such fun with those two.

Speaker 1: It's for jacking off.

Speaker 3: So much fun.

Speaker 3: If anybody who hasn't seen Tend to Midnight

Speaker 3: with Charles Bronson from 1983, get and

Speaker 3: watch it.

Speaker 3: It is good.

Speaker 3: And the Deadpool definitely, definitely my

Speaker 3: favourite of the Dirty Harry films, I've

Speaker 3: got to say is my favourite of them.

Speaker 1: And it gets dissed, though, and it's like I

Speaker 1: don't think you guys are looking at it

Speaker 1: properly.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: There's a funness to it which is not in the

Speaker 1: other films.

Speaker 1: It is a different movie from the others.

Speaker 3: And the following year you got Very British

Speaker 3: with us.

Speaker 3: We did what a Carve Up with the Carrion

Speaker 3: team and you paired that up with the House

Speaker 3: in Nightmare Park, Nice, Frankie Howard.

Speaker 1: I definitely picked that.

Speaker 3: That episode with those two films has got

Speaker 3: you written all over it, your cheeky,

Speaker 3: insensitive humour, oh yeah.

Speaker 3: And then last year we did the Relic and the

Speaker 3: Horror Express.

Speaker 3: Horror on a train no, not horror on a train,

Speaker 3: but creatures sort of.

Speaker 1: You could see, as the years have gone, I've

Speaker 1: got more like ooh and I've slowly thought

Speaker 1: about it and picked up good parents, you

Speaker 1: know.

Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3: Well, I love it, and obviously our next

Speaker 3: episode will be well, not our next, but the

Speaker 3: one after will be your birthday and you've

Speaker 3: picked Sorcerer William Friedkin and Studio

Speaker 3: 666.

Speaker 3: So we'll be covering that in a couple of

Speaker 3: months.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you're still a strange one for

Speaker 1: it.

Speaker 1: But I want to just say fun, because it's

Speaker 1: quite modern compared to Sorcer, which is

Speaker 1: not.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think when it's your birthday

Speaker 3: episode, you can go crazy.

Speaker 1: I just want something fun to go over that

Speaker 1: film.

Speaker 3: So that moves on to me then.

Speaker 3: So my first birthday episode I picked

Speaker 3: Alligator and Brain Dead.

Speaker 3: Wow, brain Dead.

Speaker 1: I can't even remember doing talking about

Speaker 1: Brain Dead.

Speaker 1: I remember talking about Alligator, because

Speaker 1: I pronounced the name wrong and Beau

Speaker 1: messaged us to say it.

Speaker 1: I pronounced it Robert Forrester Forrester.

Speaker 3: Oh.

Speaker 1: Robert Forrester Forrester, but he would

Speaker 1: pronounce it wrong.

Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I can remember that

Speaker 1: the following year I picked Psycho.

Speaker 3: It's a great movie and I paired that up

Speaker 3: with, randomly, jason Six, because it's my

Speaker 3: favourite of the Jason franchise.

Speaker 3: Obviously, that's what's banning in the

Speaker 3: works, because we're now currently annually

Speaker 3: reviewing the Jason movies every summer.

Speaker 3: But Kill kill, kill kill, but yeah whatever.

Speaker 3: The following year I did oh, this was a

Speaker 3: good year.

Speaker 3: One of my favourite birthday episodes I

Speaker 3: picked the Fly and the Monster Squad Great,

Speaker 3: great couple of movies.

Speaker 1: And I remember doing that because I now

Speaker 1: have to fly in Blu-ray randomly and it's

Speaker 1: body horror.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why you're a bit apprehensive

Speaker 3: of that one.

Speaker 1: I find body horror yuck, I don't like it.

Speaker 1: But I remember doing that as a review and

Speaker 1: you really enjoying reviewing it because I

Speaker 1: was looking at it for a review, as always,

Speaker 1: of the film and it came across differently

Speaker 1: and really more appreciate.

Speaker 1: More an intellectual look at it, I guess.

Speaker 3: Possibly my favourite, Cronenberg, I would

Speaker 3: say it's a yeah.

Speaker 1: I'm not a big Cronenberg fan because of the

Speaker 1: body horror, so yeah, probably would be for

Speaker 1: me.

Speaker 1: I suppose I do like a history of violence.

Speaker 1: That's what.

Speaker 3: The following year, I chose two sequels

Speaker 3: that don't always get a lot of love

Speaker 3: Ghostbusters 2 and Psycho 2.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Psycho 2's great, yeah.

Speaker 3: Tom Holland yeah, and Ghostbusters 2 is.

Speaker 3: I love that too, so it's fine.

Speaker 3: After that I got Stephen King the following

Speaker 3: year.

Speaker 3: I did Stand by Me, and Misery Stand by Me

Speaker 3: and Misery.

Speaker 3: Stand by Me and Misery Bastard.

Speaker 3: I don't think you were much of a fan of the

Speaker 3: following year when I made you watch Teen

Speaker 3: Wolf and Labyrinth.

Speaker 1: It's really weird.

Speaker 1: You keep saying these movies and I'm just

Speaker 1: sitting here going.

Speaker 3: Oh, you've got them in town then.

Speaker 1: Actually Daisy's Obsessor is Stand by Me.

Speaker 1: Fucking loves it.

Speaker 3: Have you got a copy of Teen Wolf or

Speaker 3: Labyrinth right there?

Speaker 1: No, I've got a lot of girls' films.

Speaker 3: Not good.

Speaker 1: Bridesmaids and Clueless and stuff.

Speaker 1: Um no.

Speaker 3: After that I got Arnold in the mix.

Speaker 3: Oh, I made us review Total Recoil and the

Speaker 3: Running man, some sci-fi 80s, goodness

Speaker 3: Sweet.

Speaker 3: And then last year or this year, because

Speaker 3: we're still in 2023, we did Happy Birthday

Speaker 3: to Me and April Fool's Day.

Speaker 3: In the flesh I remember recording those sat

Speaker 3: nose to nose with you, oh, really, we were

Speaker 3: together.

Speaker 1: We did, probably didn't rock two Mike Frans,

Speaker 1: did we Still one Mike was it.

Speaker 3: Is this a Beastie Boys quote?

Speaker 3: We were at two Mike's, and we were at two.

Speaker 3: What year was that?

Speaker 3: That was this year.

Speaker 1: This year we were sitting together.

Speaker 1: Oh, so yeah, of course you were around us,

Speaker 1: because we were shooting the Century Moon,

Speaker 1: weren't we?

Speaker 3: That's right.

Speaker 1: Ah, so we would actually have two Mike's.

Speaker 1: That would have sounded proper.

Speaker 3: Indeed, indeed.

Speaker 3: Indeed, we also enjoyed our first year of

Speaker 3: having Patron's Pick movies, patron's Pick.

Speaker 3: So we've had Patron's Pick, patron's Pick.

Speaker 3: We got some Patron supporters a few years

Speaker 3: ago and one of them, matthew Godly, came up

Speaker 3: with a fantastic idea of letting our

Speaker 3: Patrons pick two films for us to review,

Speaker 3: which we've now incorporated into every

Speaker 3: three episodes as a Patron Pick.

Speaker 3: It's a great way, to you know, give them

Speaker 3: something back for supporting us.

Speaker 1: And it's amazing that you all support us.

Speaker 1: I appreciate that.

Speaker 1: I seriously appreciate it.

Speaker 1: I'm not a very enthusiastic person when I

Speaker 1: talk, sometimes it comes across possibly,

Speaker 1: but I really appreciate it.

Speaker 3: But also we've got to review some absolute

Speaker 3: crazy stuff that we wouldn't normally do.

Speaker 3: So we've had Hansel and Gretel and Bram

Speaker 3: Stoker Stratkula.

Speaker 1: I've loved being able to do some of these

Speaker 1: Patron films because it's like when would

Speaker 1: we do this?

Speaker 3: I can't wait.

Speaker 1: Next episode's fucking banging.

Speaker 3: We've got a couple of good ones coming up

Speaker 3: RJ picked the Land that Time Forgot and All

Speaker 3: Lords of Atlantis for us.

Speaker 3: After that we got into some what do you

Speaker 3: call it?

Speaker 3: Hag exploitation.

Speaker 3: From Jamie.

Speaker 3: She picked whatever happened to Baby Jane

Speaker 3: and Straight Jacket.

Speaker 1: Yes, that was really interesting.

Speaker 3: A really good episode.

Speaker 3: And then after that we got a Poltergeist

Speaker 3: and a Redditory thrown at us which was

Speaker 3: again covering Poltergeist.

Speaker 3: I don't know why we just never covered it,

Speaker 3: but we got to finally do it.

Speaker 3: After that, the legacy and the changeling

Speaker 3: again the changeling is just a phenomenal

Speaker 3: film.

Speaker 3: I don't know why we've never reviewed it.

Speaker 1: And the legacy that was that building that

Speaker 1: I was going to go to.

Speaker 1: I never fucking got to it, it's just a road.

Speaker 3: You developed a bit of a man crush on

Speaker 3: what's his name in that from Roadhouse,

Speaker 3: which kind of a stash, and his sculpted

Speaker 3: buttons Sam Elliott, sam Elliott, yeah.

Speaker 1: He's quite a handsome fella.

Speaker 3: And then I remember Holly after that

Speaker 3: through a couple of curveballs that us

Speaker 3: would sell from 2016,.

Speaker 3: The Stephen King Scribd movie and

Speaker 3: Razorblade Smile.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we covered that, which is crazy.

Speaker 3: It was like an early Matrix vampire British

Speaker 3: thing.

Speaker 3: That was a weird one.

Speaker 3: And then, most recently, rachel is picked

Speaker 3: Mum and Dad and Run to parents.

Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny seeing that oxy between

Speaker 1: the lines here, right yeah?

Speaker 3: And our next patron pick, which will be our

Speaker 3: next episode.

Speaker 3: We've circled back around, so Matthew has

Speaker 3: selected Deadman Shoes and Flash Gordon, so

Speaker 3: we're definitely going to keep this going

Speaker 3: because it's so much fun getting these

Speaker 3: things thrown at us guys and we really

Speaker 3: appreciate you doing that.

Speaker 3: So start thinking about your second round.

Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch Deadman Shoes and

Speaker 1: Ages, and that is a great film.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a dark one.

Speaker 3: I think we might have to do those Deadman

Speaker 3: Shoes first and then finish up with Flash

Speaker 3: Gordon, because I think he'll save every

Speaker 3: one of us.

Speaker 3: Um lastly because it's our.

Speaker 3: Christmas Sorry, Because this is our

Speaker 3: Christmas episode.

Speaker 3: I thought I'd remind us and our listeners

Speaker 3: all of our Christmas shows that we've done

Speaker 3: in the 10 years, so our very first

Speaker 3: Christmas episode that we didn't press

Speaker 3: record for, I mean it's a record.

Speaker 3: The following evening we covered Rare

Speaker 3: Exports, which I talked about earlier, and

Speaker 3: Jack Frost the Killer Snowman, which is

Speaker 3: silly and fun.

Speaker 3: The following year we did Killer Santers,

Speaker 3: we did Santa's Slay and Sint, which you

Speaker 3: watched the other night, didn't you?

Speaker 3: I think you watched Sint the other night,

Speaker 3: no, I didn't.

Speaker 1: I was going to, but I didn't get round to

Speaker 1: it.

Speaker 3: After that we did Black Christmas, the

Speaker 3: classic, and we paired it up with William

Speaker 3: Shatner drinking cocoa in a cardigan in a

Speaker 3: Christmas horror story which I'm a big fan

Speaker 3: of, that one Drinking cocaine.

Speaker 1: William Shatner drinking cocaine.

Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 3: After that we got quite modern with Better

Speaker 3: Watch Out and we covered the classic Die

Speaker 3: Hard.

Speaker 3: So that was a really good Christmas episode.

Speaker 3: Yeah, after that we did Krampus and

Speaker 3: Gremlins.

Speaker 3: Again, the Christmas keeps on giving,

Speaker 3: doesn't it?

Speaker 3: Then we did that weird movie that you

Speaker 3: picked to follow the year after that called

Speaker 3: Secret Santa, about the family.

Speaker 3: That's punch gets spiked and they all start

Speaker 3: murdering each other.

Speaker 3: That was quite enjoyable, if I remember

Speaker 3: rightly, and we paired that up with the

Speaker 3: classic.

Speaker 3: Is it a Christmas movie?

Speaker 3: Is it not Lethal Weapon?

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: We figured do you know what it's our show?

Speaker 3: It's our Christmas movie to us.

Speaker 1: What was that first one called?

Speaker 3: Secret Santa 2018.

Speaker 1: I remember when we did Calvair that was

Speaker 1: great.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that was the last year.

Speaker 3: So after that we did Silent Night, deadly

Speaker 3: Night and Scrooge, then we did Die Hard 2

Speaker 3: the year after that with the Wolf of Snow

Speaker 3: Hollow, and then, like you say, last

Speaker 3: Christmas we did Calvair.

Speaker 3: The ordeal which is certainly that, isn't

Speaker 3: it Gaff?

Speaker 1: It is an ordeal.

Speaker 1: The only movie I've seen, sarah Look Away

Speaker 1: Disgusted, and I've watched some films of

Speaker 1: Sarah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, for anyone who hasn't seen it 2004,.

Speaker 3: Great but dark film.

Speaker 1: But I really like the movie and I have it

Speaker 1: in my DVD collection.

Speaker 3: And we paired that up with another equally

Speaker 3: dark Belgian film or French film called the

Speaker 3: Advent Calendar, which I talked about

Speaker 3: earlier, from 2021.

Speaker 3: So you know we've done that.

Speaker 3: We've done New Years.

Speaker 3: We went for a run of doing New Year's

Speaker 3: themed movies, but there aren't an awful

Speaker 3: lot of them.

Speaker 3: The only other time we really try is

Speaker 3: Valentine's.

Speaker 3: We try and do stuff that's got a slight

Speaker 3: romance or sexy or love.

Speaker 3: But we've also got Easter specials, don't

Speaker 3: we Gaff, which have been the bane of your

Speaker 3: fucking life, because we started off with

Speaker 3: Alien that was fine and Critters.

Speaker 1: I like Alien, Aliens and Prometheus.

Speaker 1: The rest I don't really care about.

Speaker 3: So every year we watched one of the Alien

Speaker 3: franchise all the way through to Covenant,

Speaker 3: which isn't too bad.

Speaker 3: But we then did Alien vs Predator as well.

Speaker 1: That's okay, that's fairly all right.

Speaker 1: Entertainment AVB too.

Speaker 1: Did we do that.

Speaker 1: Do we not bother?

Speaker 3: No, we didn't bother with that one.

Speaker 3: We've got to control the lights.

Speaker 1: But then it's the Critters.

Speaker 3: Well, we did, because Critters come out of

Speaker 3: eggs.

Speaker 3: We thought, well, let's do the Critters

Speaker 3: movies, critters 1?.

Speaker 1: We got that review from someone.

Speaker 3: We got a bad review because I think for

Speaker 3: Critters 3.

Speaker 1: They just didn't like me.

Speaker 3: Well, you just couldn't find anything

Speaker 3: positive to say about Critters 3.

Speaker 3: And as for Critters 4, it isn't any better.

Speaker 3: Really, it's just awful.

Speaker 1: I think when I started with Critters 2, I

Speaker 1: was like shit us too, they didn't like me

Speaker 1: saying that and I was like I'll get nothing

Speaker 1: from this, I can't help it.

Speaker 3: However, after that, because we'd run out

Speaker 3: of egg-themed horror films and

Speaker 3: Easter-themed horror films, I said I've got

Speaker 3: an idea.

Speaker 3: St Patrick's Day usually falls around

Speaker 3: spring slash Easter.

Speaker 3: We're still doing that, though let's do the

Speaker 3: Leprechaun film.

Speaker 3: No, we finished them though.

Speaker 1: Oh, thank God.

Speaker 3: So we started off with the Leprechaun.

Speaker 1: Or Frank Satan.

Speaker 3: And then we did Leprechaun 2 and 3, which I

Speaker 3: could tell when we got that to that point

Speaker 3: you were already done.

Speaker 3: Then we got to Leprechaun 4 in Space, 5, in

Speaker 3: the Hood, 6, back to the Hood and we found

Speaker 3: some fun stuff to talk about.

Speaker 1: No, I remember the second one of the.

Speaker 3: In the Hood ones.

Speaker 1: Wasn't that actually not like the stuff?

Speaker 1: Production value was OK.

Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I had.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty good production.

Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's going to be surprised

Speaker 1: by it, I think.

Speaker 3: It's because the one before it, the

Speaker 3: production was so low, they spent all their

Speaker 3: budget on iced tea being in it.

Speaker 3: Do you remember?

Speaker 1: Yeah, the second one was actually just a

Speaker 1: little bit better.

Speaker 1: I think I remember now, fucking hell, I

Speaker 1: remember.

Speaker 3: Well, it was only this year we recorded it.

Speaker 1: That's why the budgets were the same, but

Speaker 1: it was just different people making it

Speaker 1: different director, production, whatever so

Speaker 1: one of them was more talented than the

Speaker 1: other.

Speaker 1: Sorry, that's the way it is.

Speaker 3: Now my question to you is I already know

Speaker 3: that your least favourite films we've

Speaker 3: covered are going to be in one of those two

Speaker 3: franchises, but which franchise to you is

Speaker 3: the worst one, Critters, which is only four

Speaker 3: films, or Leprechaun, which is six, not

Speaker 3: including the two recent sort of reboots,

Speaker 3: oh my God, which we're not going to cover,

Speaker 3: by the way.

Speaker 3: What one's worse?

Speaker 3: Yeah, which is worse.

Speaker 1: Probably the Critters, because at least

Speaker 1: with Leprechaun's it's Warwick Davis as

Speaker 1: well.

Speaker 1: He continues throughout the films slight

Speaker 1: theme.

Speaker 1: It's quite funny because Warwick Davis as

Speaker 1: well.

Speaker 1: I'm going to go with that either, as more.

Speaker 1: I don't know If you said like, right,

Speaker 1: that's it.

Speaker 1: You're sitting in this room, you're going

Speaker 1: to watch a Critters' movie, back to back

Speaker 1: Looped, or the six Warwick.

Speaker 1: I was probably going to six, I suppose,

Speaker 1: because there's more of them, I don't know.

Speaker 3: If you could smoke weed and watch the

Speaker 3: Leprechaun movies and have a bong every

Speaker 3: time Warwick Davis has a bong, it might

Speaker 3: make you better.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I thought I'd ask that one

Speaker 3: because you know, I know that I've put you

Speaker 3: through a lot over the ten years, gav, I'm

Speaker 3: really sorry.

Speaker 3: I've made you watch some of those films,

Speaker 3: but I think 90% of what we've watched and

Speaker 3: reviewed has been fun.

Speaker 3: Often that we come out of a film both sort

Speaker 3: of going like shit.

Speaker 1: Eight 85.

Speaker 3: 85.

Speaker 1: There's been some movies I've been like.

Speaker 3: I think the good thing about our

Speaker 3: conversation, though, is we always find

Speaker 3: something funny or silly and go on.

Speaker 3: What are you going to say?

Speaker 1: The difference between you and I.

Speaker 1: I will sit there and fucking go no and get

Speaker 1: moody and not moody.

Speaker 1: I just have more of a and it's not a

Speaker 1: negative opinion, because I'm a happy but

Speaker 1: like person.

Speaker 1: But I will really fucking give it to a

Speaker 1: movie where I don't feel like it.

Speaker 1: It's where you'll be a lot more upbeat

Speaker 1: about it and that probably makes it better

Speaker 1: listening rather than us both being in the

Speaker 1: exact same page, because that'd be boring.

Speaker 3: It would be boring.

Speaker 1: Unless it's a justified good film.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when we're reviewing Die.

Speaker 1: Hard.

Speaker 3: It's something, of course, but then people

Speaker 3: are tuning in knowing that they're going to

Speaker 3: hear two people really loving Die Hard, I

Speaker 3: was going to say by hard.

Speaker 3: Then I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1: By hard.

Speaker 3: But I think what makes it is our silly

Speaker 3: tangents and stupid voices and jokes over

Speaker 3: the years.

Speaker 3: So long may it continue.

Speaker 3: And it's been an incredible journey and

Speaker 3: we're just about to.

Speaker 3: You know, I don't know what else to say.

Speaker 3: Really, it's just incredible.

Speaker 1: Shall we get on to the episode?

Speaker 3: Yeah, 2024, here we come.

Speaker 3: I was going to say here you.

Speaker 1: I thought you could say here we come.

Speaker 3: Oh Well, thank you for sticking with us

Speaker 3: everyone for ten years, but now we're going

Speaker 3: to review a one and only Christmas film for

Speaker 3: this Christmas episode which is the

Speaker 3: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 3: After vacationing across America and

Speaker 3: throughout Europe this holiday season, the

Speaker 3: Griswolds are going to play it safe.

Speaker 3: Clark, we're stuck under a truck.

Speaker 2: Oops, they're staying at home.

Speaker 2: I give you the Griswold Family Christmas

Speaker 2: tree.

Speaker 2: Hope you're not getting sat well over your

Speaker 2: sweater, clark.

Speaker 3: All Clark wants is a quiet, old-fashioned

Speaker 3: Christmas.

Speaker 3: Sorry.

Speaker 3: That little knot here.

Speaker 3: Do work on that.

Speaker 3: What he's going to get is the gift that

Speaker 3: keeps on living.

Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, His family.

Speaker 3: We didn't come to impose.

Speaker 3: Oh hell, let's play in your room.

Speaker 3: Do you sleep with your brother?

Speaker 3: Do you know how sick and twisted that?

Speaker 1: is Mom.

Speaker 1: Well, I'm sleeping with your father.

Speaker 2: Have you got a kiss for me?

Speaker 2: You better take a rain check on that Art.

Speaker 3: He's got lip fungus seen identified yet.

Speaker 3: But no holiday could ever be more deeply

Speaker 3: touching.

Speaker 3: We were going to call, but anyone had to

Speaker 3: make it a surprise.

Speaker 3: If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to

Speaker 3: the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised

Speaker 3: than I am right now.

Speaker 2: Ah, we're really going to fly down the hill

Speaker 2: with this stuff, so genuinely moving.

Speaker 2: I refill your eggnog for you, drive you out

Speaker 2: to the middle of nowhere, leave you for

Speaker 2: dead.

Speaker 2: More truly uplifting, can I show you

Speaker 2: something?

Speaker 2: Let's just blouse browsing For more down to

Speaker 2: earth.

Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2: If Santa is smart, he'll stay well clear of

Speaker 2: this jointed to death trap.

Speaker 1: What Then?

Speaker 1: Christmas with the Griswolds?

Speaker 1: Everybody come out quick look at the lights.

Speaker 1: They want you to say gris.

Speaker 2: I pledge allegiance to the flag the United

Speaker 2: States of America.

Speaker 3: This year let's chevy chase light up your

Speaker 3: holidays.

Speaker 3: National.

Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 1: The thing had nine lives.

Speaker 1: You just spit them all, you whoo crack up.

Speaker 1: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation from

Speaker 1: 1989, rated 12 and hour and 37 minutes.

Speaker 3: The Griswold Families Plan for a big family

Speaker 3: Christmas Predictably turned into a big

Speaker 3: disaster.

Speaker 3: Don't worry guys, we're not going to do

Speaker 3: that.

Speaker 1: There's too much review like that.

Speaker 3: But we just figured, because there's only

Speaker 3: one movie.

Speaker 1: There's too much for you like that, here we

Speaker 1: go.

Speaker 1: Ostar Angelo, you do one word from your

Speaker 1: notes Fucking hell, what crazy people is

Speaker 1: going to decipher that review.

Speaker 1: I figured it out the biggest brain in the

Speaker 1: world deciphered their review of National

Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 3: This is written by John Hughes, who is very

Speaker 3: good at writing Christmas films, and,

Speaker 3: weirdly, directed by Jeremiah S Chichik,

Speaker 3: who Did a lot of music videos and does a

Speaker 3: lot of TV.

Speaker 3: Now, he's only ever done a handful of films.

Speaker 3: You wouldn't know any of them other than

Speaker 3: this one and the Avengers.

Speaker 3: Now, I'm not talking about Marvel's

Speaker 3: Avengers, I'm talking about the British God

Speaker 3: awful film with Sean Connery, uma Thurman,

Speaker 3: ray Fiance, british TV show.

Speaker 3: Yeah, awful film, but in a cheesy kind of

Speaker 3: way.

Speaker 3: So, what a strange career.

Speaker 1: but yeah, well it.

Speaker 1: It differs really because this, this

Speaker 1: product, would have been one of some strong

Speaker 1: willed minded people and Chevy Chase being

Speaker 1: one of them, been a supposed to be kind of

Speaker 1: hard to work, with Christopher Columbus

Speaker 1: being kind of put off by wanting to work

Speaker 1: with Chevy Chase and declining, and John

Speaker 1: Hughes saying I can't do it I'm still

Speaker 1: wrapping up post on Uncle Buck, but you can

Speaker 1: imagine like sometimes you don't actually

Speaker 1: have to direct, you could.

Speaker 1: There's gonna be films out there which you

Speaker 1: like, guaranteed behind the scenes.

Speaker 1: The director was kind of just go and the

Speaker 1: director of photography, the producer, that

Speaker 1: so many people are quite strong people,

Speaker 1: would, it could, would and could of, not

Speaker 1: necessarily just because they're strong

Speaker 1: people.

Speaker 1: What just have happened?

Speaker 1: Because the director, whatever reasons

Speaker 1: happen, can make the film without a

Speaker 1: director.

Speaker 1: You can have everybody in place, knowing

Speaker 1: what they do and just the film involves and

Speaker 1: made itself and guaranteed Just movies out

Speaker 1: there which you love, which that happened.

Speaker 1: So, even though the director didn't have

Speaker 1: that much of a CV as such, I don't think

Speaker 1: that's too much of an issue to make this

Speaker 1: film, but saying that it's a well-handed

Speaker 1: film.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think the cast Really Drive it

Speaker 3: because it is an ensemble piece.

Speaker 3: Although it's Chevy Chase, there's a lot of

Speaker 3: cast members that all play their part, you

Speaker 3: know Randy Quaid, etc.

Speaker 3: And Without all of those cast members, all

Speaker 3: the children, all the old relatives,

Speaker 3: everybody, the neighbors, that's what makes

Speaker 3: this film and I can't.

Speaker 3: I'm it, didn't probably do it Incredibly

Speaker 3: when it came out, but it's one of those

Speaker 3: films that is a cult classic.

Speaker 1: It's needed, it's like you need it.

Speaker 1: It's Halloween.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it needed to take a long time before

Speaker 3: people started appreciating it.

Speaker 1: I think, really the two strong people, and

Speaker 1: it really would have been John Hughes and

Speaker 1: Cherry Chase, those two even though John

Speaker 1: who's and Cherry Chase producing.

Speaker 1: Just because they are, they're gonna be

Speaker 1: saying, no, this is what we're doing,

Speaker 1: that's what we're doing.

Speaker 1: This is what we're doing.

Speaker 1: John Hughes is quite visually directing.

Speaker 1: He's a director that no, it's a Quentin

Speaker 1: Tarantino.

Speaker 1: They know a crystal Nolan, they know where

Speaker 1: they're gonna go, what a movie looks like

Speaker 1: in their mind.

Speaker 1: Already They've pretty much produced it and

Speaker 1: done that.

Speaker 1: So when he comes up with the idea of going

Speaker 1: to Angelo Badalamenti twin peaks, david

Speaker 1: Lynch's composer and saying, can you score

Speaker 1: this film, which he did, he's doing that in

Speaker 1: a way, he wants to this film to be coming

Speaker 1: at it in a darker side and not as normal,

Speaker 1: because he knows Angelo Badalamenti's never

Speaker 1: composed something like this and it's just

Speaker 1: give it a hold of a thing.

Speaker 1: But he's the one saying that John Hughes is

Speaker 1: going in as producer, saying that the

Speaker 1: director isn't.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so the director is more of a

Speaker 1: director for hire, I think, for this

Speaker 1: particular project.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and that does happen, like you say,

Speaker 3: from time to time.

Speaker 3: Where it's it's more about the, the clay

Speaker 3: behind.

Speaker 1: Where it happens mainly isn't TV.

Speaker 1: Hmm that's why you have a director.

Speaker 1: Come on to a couple episodes.

Speaker 1: You might see a slight signature, but they

Speaker 1: don't have time.

Speaker 1: It's move on, shoot move, shoot move.

Speaker 1: We just need a director who's available at

Speaker 1: the time.

Speaker 3: When did you first come across this film?

Speaker 3: Is this a childhood one or I have no idea.

Speaker 1: I think the childhood I do remember.

Speaker 1: I think a lot more the other lampoons.

Speaker 1: Yeah, the European I think European, mainly

Speaker 1: being English and known London, and this is,

Speaker 1: you know, pre-internet.

Speaker 1: So like it felt more homely to me, I guess.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know this.

Speaker 1: But then one day my buddy is like oh no, we

Speaker 1: watch national boot cruise focus.

Speaker 1: It's like Christmas day or Christmas Eve,

Speaker 1: christmas Eve.

Speaker 1: And he goes no, we were every year and I

Speaker 1: sat every morning watched it with him a

Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and it was kind of fun to do

Speaker 1: that with his family.

Speaker 1: And then we kind of did it again.

Speaker 1: Then I kind of just took that tradition on

Speaker 1: and this year's only year I didn't, because

Speaker 1: I didn't get time to do it for and I wanted

Speaker 1: to do a bit more fresher for show, and I

Speaker 1: was luckily because I went see it yesterday

Speaker 1: when I was boss bits Bob's.

Speaker 1: I found it on Blu-ray and picked up and it

Speaker 1: was really nice to see in such high

Speaker 1: definition.

Speaker 1: So that's it, that's the history for me.

Speaker 1: How about?

Speaker 3: yourself.

Speaker 3: I think I Don't really remember seeing it

Speaker 3: as a kid.

Speaker 3: It was certainly wasn't on rotation when we

Speaker 3: were kids.

Speaker 3: It wasn't something we would watch every

Speaker 3: year, but we had seen it.

Speaker 3: But I think it felt like a bit more of an

Speaker 3: adult film so I didn't really get it so

Speaker 3: much.

Speaker 3: It wasn't really until I Really I mean, if

Speaker 3: I'm honest with you, the first time I

Speaker 3: really properly fell in love with it Was

Speaker 3: was watching it with you, probably a good

Speaker 3: 10, 11, 12 years ago.

Speaker 3: Your house and I remember thinking god,

Speaker 3: this is so good, and I think probably

Speaker 3: because the moment we were both sat there

Speaker 3: really laughing at it, probably drinking

Speaker 3: egg mog, egg mog.

Speaker 1: Everybody warning don't drink egg mog.

Speaker 1: And because I have one of the most glasses

Speaker 1: as well we were probably full of cheese,

Speaker 1: and you know crisps.

Speaker 1: But I think is that our podcast is style

Speaker 1: for the cheese.

Speaker 3: But I think, like our jokes, I think that

Speaker 3: was when I started to really fall in love

Speaker 3: with it.

Speaker 3: And then I've watched it every year.

Speaker 3: I think for the last 10 or more years, and

Speaker 3: In fact the last couple of years, it's

Speaker 3: moved into my top five Christmas films of

Speaker 3: all time.

Speaker 3: And this year I'm talking to my dad because

Speaker 3: he said I'll do a watch along with you and

Speaker 3: I said, oh, I can't because I've got to

Speaker 3: make notes.

Speaker 3: But I said look, tell me when you, if you

Speaker 3: want, we'll press play at the same time and

Speaker 3: then we can have a phone call afterwards.

Speaker 3: So we did and I said to him God, you know

Speaker 3: what, dad, I didn't realize Just how much I

Speaker 3: relate to Clark Griswold, but my god, I

Speaker 3: don't know if I've ever related to a

Speaker 3: character more in a film or a definitely in

Speaker 3: a Christmas film as A guy who's such an

Speaker 3: optimistic man, who's trying to bring

Speaker 3: everyone together and it's tries to see the

Speaker 3: good and positive and everything which I do

Speaker 3: in real life as much as I can, and

Speaker 3: Sometimes the world's just against this guy

Speaker 3: and you just feel so bad for him.

Speaker 3: But also it's so fucking hilarious and it's

Speaker 3: so, john Hughes, you know it's got that

Speaker 3: planes, trains, automobiles, style, great

Speaker 3: outdoors, those movies where you shouldn't

Speaker 3: really be laughing at this guy and his

Speaker 3: family falling apart, but you kind of are

Speaker 3: because it's just so stupid.

Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you're one of the reasons

Speaker 3: I fell back in love with it and really

Speaker 3: realize how great this film is really.

Speaker 3: And it it's just a film about a man and his

Speaker 3: family, but the scenes, it's each

Speaker 3: individual scene, everybody's got a

Speaker 3: favorite.

Speaker 3: You know, it's like a series of sketches

Speaker 3: almost, isn't it?

Speaker 3: You know, the opening scene, the middle

Speaker 3: seat, this bit, that bit, you know, and

Speaker 3: then just throwing all these cast members

Speaker 3: and as soon as Randy Quaid shows up, my god,

Speaker 3: it just kicks into overdrive because he's

Speaker 3: just a ridiculous character that you kind

Speaker 3: of love to hate, really, or hate to love

Speaker 3: which everyone.

Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just awesome, awesome.

Speaker 1: Randy Quaid, john Hughes.

Speaker 1: The second film that he wrote of the

Speaker 1: national impunes didn't do so well in a box

Speaker 1: office and it didn't involve cousin Eddie

Speaker 1: and he felt like this film had to have

Speaker 1: cousin Eddie to make it more, make it more

Speaker 1: Acceptable in a box office and you know,

Speaker 1: get the money back against up a thing any.

Speaker 1: For only Randy Quaid can do it as well.

Speaker 1: So that happened.

Speaker 1: I wonder what he thought of part two, if he

Speaker 1: is still alive, john Hughes, when he part

Speaker 1: two came out.

Speaker 1: So he would not have like that.

Speaker 3: It's called Island vacation, cousin Eddie's

Speaker 3: island vacation.

Speaker 1: Yeah, what happens I?

Speaker 3: Don't.

Speaker 3: The only reason I watched it is because bow

Speaker 3: Randall did did it for his Christmas

Speaker 3: special a couple years ago Pick six movies

Speaker 3: to show one of his shows and and him and

Speaker 3: his buddy covered it and they were ripping

Speaker 3: it to shreds and I thought I've got to see.

Speaker 3: I think it was on prime for free to watch.

Speaker 3: I thought I've got to see this and see if

Speaker 3: it's as bad.

Speaker 3: And, to be honest with you, bow is

Speaker 3: sometimes the reason I watch some of these

Speaker 3: terrible films because His show they rip

Speaker 3: things apart so much that it makes me I'm

Speaker 3: such a you know, I've got such a bad streak

Speaker 3: I need to go.

Speaker 3: You know I'm like with shark movies etc.

Speaker 3: So I had to go watch it and it was just

Speaker 3: terrible.

Speaker 3: I don't remember much about it.

Speaker 3: To be honest, I think they try and do a lot

Speaker 3: of callbacks and jokes and lines from from

Speaker 3: this one, but it just falls so flat.

Speaker 3: You know Chevy Chase isn't in it.

Speaker 3: It's not even that very Christmasy.

Speaker 3: It takes place on a tropical island.

Speaker 3: I think he wins a trip away or something.

Speaker 3: Just terrible.

Speaker 3: Gal, I'm only great, he's a funny Guy, but

Speaker 3: he's not a leading man.

Speaker 3: He can't carry a film that movie.

Speaker 1: I watched a very sorry that bug bust the

Speaker 1: movie or what's over it's called.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 1: I'll talk about it on last episode.

Speaker 1: Yeah okay, great, yeah, ready, great.

Speaker 1: I kind of don't mind him, did he go, but

Speaker 1: hasn't he got a bit yeah?

Speaker 3: Him and his wife.

Speaker 1: In the world, and they were.

Speaker 3: I think they live in like basically where

Speaker 3: tin foil hats and think the government he

Speaker 3: basically is turning.

Speaker 1: It's one of his characters independence day.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's phenomenal in this and I

Speaker 3: have some of the best lines.

Speaker 3: But Clark is my favorite character, or

Speaker 3: Sparky as his wife likes to call him.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: She doesn't look like her anymore.

Speaker 1: No, she looks very different.

Speaker 1: It's like a totally different person from

Speaker 1: all the plastic surgery.

Speaker 3: She's had a Beverly DeAngelo.

Speaker 3: She was in Vine at night, wasn't she?

Speaker 1: and I didn't know it's her until it's half

Speaker 1: way through.

Speaker 1: And I've been watching her.

Speaker 1: For If you said to me who's that woman, I'd

Speaker 1: be like I have no idea.

Speaker 1: I've never seen it before.

Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't notice her voice

Speaker 1: eventually, maybe, but weird.

Speaker 3: We also got gracefully.

Speaker 1: Juliette Lewis in this as well, a young

Speaker 1: Juliette Lewis, and then one of the dudes

Speaker 1: from that Popular program.

Speaker 1: It's all about space theory or something.

Speaker 1: Okay not sure about that one.

Speaker 1: What's it called?

Speaker 3: Oh, you mean that got?

Speaker 3: Back in theory I can hate that show.

Speaker 1: He's, he's in that as me.

Speaker 3: He is fucking.

Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, I forgot about that.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's because I've really I try and

Speaker 3: avoid that show.

Speaker 3: I Really get greats on me that show does oh

Speaker 3: that's that show.

Speaker 1: I'm funny enough I'm about to say it's a

Speaker 1: Marmot show, but I'm not because I'm like,

Speaker 1: I Don't really have any opinion of it.

Speaker 1: To be honest, I understand why it has a

Speaker 1: following.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I do as well.

Speaker 3: But I think what annoys me is I don't find

Speaker 3: it very funny and I don't, and I don't like

Speaker 3: it.

Speaker 3: And everybody tells me, oh damn, you must

Speaker 3: like the big bang theory.

Speaker 3: I'm like, no, I don't know like what why

Speaker 3: would they like to think that?

Speaker 3: Because Catches on.

Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, and I like some science

Speaker 3: fiction, but I'm not like these guys.

Speaker 3: I'm not socially inept, hope.

Speaker 3: Well, let's get into this film.

Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about this film and you

Speaker 3: know we're gonna, so.

Speaker 1: If you've still, it is still Christmas Eve

Speaker 1: for you.

Speaker 1: You're probably back at work or saying baby

Speaker 1: if it isn't see if you can have the little

Speaker 1: hot chocos.

Speaker 1: But say hot choccho, what's hot choccho?

Speaker 1: Choccho sounds like something you smoke and

Speaker 1: drink some eggmark.

Speaker 1: I have me a hot choccho and smoke some.

Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3: Well, like I say, this film, basically this

Speaker 3: movie is a series of sketches, really, with

Speaker 3: the plotline being that Clark Griswold is

Speaker 3: trying to hold it all together.

Speaker 3: He's got various members of his family in

Speaker 3: Laws aunties, cousins descending on him and

Speaker 3: he's happily taking everyone in over

Speaker 3: Christmas, all whilst waiting on a Bonus

Speaker 3: check to come through from his boss.

Speaker 1: Well, I actually had this sort of as a

Speaker 1: reviewer, looking at this in a different

Speaker 1: type, different than I ever have before,

Speaker 1: and looking at his choices and what's going

Speaker 1: on, and it's it as I can figure out.

Speaker 1: Okay, I have to work it out through clues

Speaker 1: in the film.

Speaker 1: This, this house, was his parents and they

Speaker 1: gave it to him and moved to a smaller place.

Speaker 1: This is what I've had to come to the

Speaker 1: conclusion, so it helped me this bit.

Speaker 1: Okay and he now has the house.

Speaker 1: But he's decided he wants a big family

Speaker 1: Christmas for the first time with everybody,

Speaker 1: and that's why he's inviting them all over

Speaker 1: and they're staying for sale.

Speaker 1: They're staying for like a month, which is

Speaker 1: ridiculous.

Speaker 3: Well, only edit.

Speaker 1: Cousin Eddie is Okay, but that's an idea

Speaker 1: I'm gonna be staying for a month, but those

Speaker 1: guys do turn up in the 14th, which is just

Speaker 1: to be insane, hmm, Anyway, so that's how I

Speaker 1: figured this out, because I couldn't, I had

Speaker 1: to.

Speaker 1: I've never really figured the movie out,

Speaker 1: and that's what's going on.

Speaker 1: And cousin Eddie just happens to hear that

Speaker 1: this is happening and turns up.

Speaker 1: And the reason being is when he finds a

Speaker 1: small packet present that he hid when he

Speaker 1: was a child in the loft For his mum.

Speaker 3: No, no, that's the present that he bought

Speaker 3: his wife, I think, for Mother's Day.

Speaker 3: Oh really.

Speaker 3: But I still think your theories is good,

Speaker 3: because he finds all those old videos

Speaker 3: canisters and also he's a man who is Almost

Speaker 3: obsessed with tradition.

Speaker 3: Absolutely he wants to keep this dream

Speaker 3: alive now.

Speaker 1: The reason I relate to my and having a big

Speaker 1: family meal now from everybody there.

Speaker 3: And everything you've just described is

Speaker 3: actually is my dad.

Speaker 3: My dad is Really loves tradition.

Speaker 3: He loves having a big family thing.

Speaker 3: You know, christmas was his big Thing.

Speaker 3: The house turned into Santa's grotto if

Speaker 3: everyone was there.

Speaker 3: You just see him sat in the corner watching

Speaker 3: everybody interacting, drinking and eating.

Speaker 3: It's kind of like a bit sad really when we

Speaker 3: lost mum because he's kind of taking the

Speaker 3: wind out of his cells a little bit for

Speaker 3: Christmas, but up until that point he he

Speaker 3: was bit like Clark really tried everything

Speaker 3: you could to make sure everyone was there

Speaker 3: and everyone was fed and everyone was

Speaker 3: looked after and had a bed.

Speaker 3: So I think that's why I relate to Clark,

Speaker 3: because he's such a sweet heart really.

Speaker 3: You know I heart.

Speaker 1: He's just such a good guy at heart really

Speaker 1: well, I think also he's probably invited

Speaker 1: everybody down because he's getting a

Speaker 1: swimming pool.

Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, and.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1: I do say it's one of things Sarah also said.

Speaker 1: Well, the house in America probably cheaper,

Speaker 1: but so many movies you have the people with

Speaker 1: like ridiculously big houses is, I don't

Speaker 1: know, I thought like it's just a bit like

Speaker 1: yeah, I'm like then how do you afford

Speaker 1: everybody's flights?

Speaker 1: It's just a bit like it.

Speaker 1: I don't know.

Speaker 1: It almost I don't know if it wouldn't

Speaker 1: intentional, but goes almost put people

Speaker 1: down, or do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: Or it's just like people can't afford such

Speaker 1: properties.

Speaker 1: It's a bit like I don't really like that.

Speaker 3: Well, there is that.

Speaker 1: I never thought about that shit, and even

Speaker 1: on middle-aged, you know.

Speaker 3: Clark's plan is, on boxing day morning, to

Speaker 3: reveal to the ball that he's building

Speaker 3: swimming pool.

Speaker 1: Obviously, that plan and that's why I'd

Speaker 1: invite everyone down.

Speaker 3: I could you but then at the same time he

Speaker 3: wants everyone to know so that he can then

Speaker 3: fly them over for the summer when the

Speaker 3: swimming pools ready and they can have a

Speaker 3: big family summer thing.

Speaker 3: So he, he's still doing it from a family

Speaker 3: point of view.

Speaker 3: He's always got his and he loves his kids

Speaker 3: and he loves his wife and they love him and

Speaker 3: even when things go wrong or he looks like

Speaker 3: a buffoon, they still support him and say,

Speaker 3: dad, you did a good job, you tried your

Speaker 3: best, we love you, dad.

Speaker 3: I think the only people he doesn't like

Speaker 3: actively in this whole movie are his yuppie

Speaker 3: neighbors, who seem to hate him as much as

Speaker 3: he Margot.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Who live in Murdoch's Murdoch's, murdoch's

Speaker 1: house, murdoch's house.

Speaker 1: Relief a weapon, yeah.

Speaker 3: But other than those two, he, he loves

Speaker 3: everyone and he loves Christmas.

Speaker 1: Murdoch, murdoch, murdoch, murdoch.

Speaker 1: Can't fucking a crossover, just those two.

Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if Murdoch's pissed off with

Speaker 3: Rick's behavior, if we, if Murdoch gets

Speaker 3: pissed off with Rick's behavior, what's he

Speaker 3: gonna be like being paired up with Murdoch?

Speaker 3: He'd be in a.

Speaker 3: It'd be in a helicopter.

Speaker 1: It's not just a why he's not gonna be like

Speaker 1: this fucking white guy.

Speaker 1: It's not.

Speaker 3: It just that it's like this white guy and

Speaker 3: he's flying a helicopter upside down and

Speaker 3: he's like why are we upside down?

Speaker 3: I'm too old for this shit, murdoch.

Speaker 1: Murdoch.

Speaker 3: Oh man Murdoch, what a great character.

Speaker 1: I want to see that.

Speaker 1: Should we get into it?

Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it, so we still have a car.

Speaker 3: Well, we start off with the nice animated

Speaker 3: credits, which always gets me in the

Speaker 3: Christmas spirit.

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, my god, that song.

Speaker 1: Please kill me now.

Speaker 3: I oh, really I love that song.

Speaker 1: No, no, it's.

Speaker 1: Please choose a different singer.

Speaker 3: Maybe you can do it.

Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, you're right, we're in that.

Speaker 3: We start off in a very eight, late 80s

Speaker 3: American family wagon, station wagon, and

Speaker 3: we're driving along and the family is

Speaker 3: singing Again.

Speaker 3: This gives us straight away we know who

Speaker 3: Clark is.

Speaker 1: He's there, oh what what is with with this

Speaker 1: is you see the wife just been like okay,

Speaker 1: husband, I would you know Long fit is.

Speaker 1: Oh, come on, kids, here we go.

Speaker 1: And it's just so funny the dynamic and the

Speaker 1: mum and dad Absolutely adore and love each

Speaker 1: other, which is quite sweet and it's quite

Speaker 1: evident.

Speaker 1: Idiots like my kids think I am you know

Speaker 1: Accia recently they my kids think it's

Speaker 1: quite cool I've got a movie for rent and

Speaker 1: buy on prime shadow death Amazon Prime.

Speaker 1: They think I'm quite cool.

Speaker 1: It's like, of course, some cool points

Speaker 1: recently.

Speaker 3: Well, the kids, you know they're sat in the

Speaker 3: back.

Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, because then they start

Speaker 3: singing jingle bells as well, you know.

Speaker 1: The idea that he's just gonna go out to the

Speaker 1: woods, not not just close by, they're gonna

Speaker 1: hike, it's like.

Speaker 1: It's like.

Speaker 1: It's like, you know, just out in the middle

Speaker 1: of fucking nowhere it's gonna go and find a

Speaker 1: tree.

Speaker 1: Doesn't take us all which really eventually

Speaker 1: find out what is the idea in this.

Speaker 1: It's not.

Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's just trying to be

Speaker 1: proper old-school, traditional.

Speaker 1: Hey, come on kids.

Speaker 3: I think the problem is the problem with

Speaker 3: Clark is he thinks with his heart and not

Speaker 3: his head.

Speaker 1: Evident.

Speaker 3: Because they're like well, where are we

Speaker 3: going?

Speaker 1: Basically, it's almost like he's like his

Speaker 1: heart has gone Tree.

Speaker 1: No, let's go.

Speaker 1: Everybody cut in the car.

Speaker 1: Let's go, we're going.

Speaker 3: It's not just the tree, is it it?

Speaker 3: He says the big, we're going to pick up the,

Speaker 3: the centerpiece, the Symbol of our family's

Speaker 3: Christmas, and I'm talking about the

Speaker 3: Griswold family tree.

Speaker 3: It's the most important thing.

Speaker 3: If we've got that in the house, then

Speaker 3: Christmas can start.

Speaker 3: So it's it's like the symbol of everything

Speaker 3: that is Griswold Christmas.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're like why don't we just go

Speaker 3: and buy me?

Speaker 3: So that's not how it works.

Speaker 3: We have to go into a field, hack one down

Speaker 3: and bring it home.

Speaker 3: That's the way it is, that's the way my dad

Speaker 3: did it.

Speaker 3: That's the way his dad did it.

Speaker 3: You know, you get the impression this is a

Speaker 3: tradition.

Speaker 1: I am.

Speaker 1: I am never going out and getting a train

Speaker 1: chucking on top of my Prius.

Speaker 1: I never make it anywhere.

Speaker 3: Don't, don't do it, especially this tree

Speaker 3: with the roots and all well, before they

Speaker 3: get there, gov, they get some jackasses

Speaker 3: riding their tail, don't they?

Speaker 1: I love these guys couple of hillbillies in

Speaker 1: the vehicle which was in they live.

Speaker 3: Is it that car is?

Speaker 1: that live anchor Russell's job car in

Speaker 1: overboard brilliant.

Speaker 3: Well, these guys really are riding their

Speaker 3: tail, so they sort of go around him and he

Speaker 3: flips them the bird, and then Then they put

Speaker 3: the brakes on and he always crashes.

Speaker 1: I know finally they put these break.

Speaker 1: They did.

Speaker 1: It's that old-classic trick.

Speaker 1: I've had people do it to me before.

Speaker 1: I had some kids do it to me once.

Speaker 1: It's really weird.

Speaker 1: I was with someone else going what these,

Speaker 1: what these teenage kids have just learned

Speaker 1: to drive doing, and they're like Thinking

Speaker 1: that I was really close behind them because

Speaker 1: I think the kid had learned, just let it

Speaker 1: drive and didn't know perception, and I

Speaker 1: said I'm not even that close to them.

Speaker 1: They're doing the brakes, you know, and I

Speaker 1: was like I'm not even near them, I don't

Speaker 1: know what they're trying to do.

Speaker 1: Or was it like jump in?

Speaker 1: It's like okay, slow down and anyway.

Speaker 1: I've had that done.

Speaker 1: So these guys are doing this.

Speaker 1: These are your typical kind of you don't

Speaker 1: want to piss off.

Speaker 1: They've probably got a shotgun and the dog

Speaker 1: Sick balls chopper type dog, you know yeah.

Speaker 3: He says to them Well, you wait and see what

Speaker 3: I'm gonna do, don't worry.

Speaker 3: I think he says I'm gonna burn dust, I'm

Speaker 3: gonna tell them to eat my rubber rusty is

Speaker 3: trying to explain to me.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't even get the words right.

Speaker 1: I don't think this is a good idea, but but

Speaker 1: you know he's still gonna go for it Because

Speaker 1: yeah, because he has a jacket.

Speaker 1: It's right in his tail, as he says.

Speaker 3: Well, they eventually run him off the road

Speaker 3: by tricking him into the path of a log

Speaker 3: lorry from to final destination to so he's

Speaker 3: Thinks on his feet and he just pulls out.

Speaker 1: But as he pulls out, it's something you do

Speaker 1: when you drive, Dan.

Speaker 3: You look in your mirror just pull out.

Speaker 1: You go, huh.

Speaker 1: No, I won't go.

Speaker 1: There's a big fucking lorry on the other

Speaker 1: lane Wife for that and then I'll pull out.

Speaker 1: No, no.

Speaker 3: So.

Speaker 3: So this stunt is something that I've seen

Speaker 3: in a Jackie Chan movie once as well, and

Speaker 3: what they managed to do is get and it's

Speaker 3: probably attached, I should imagine but

Speaker 3: they think he accidentally drives his car

Speaker 3: underneath a huge juggernaut, the space

Speaker 3: underneath it, and then they're trapped and

Speaker 3: and he's like what do I do?

Speaker 3: What do I do?

Speaker 3: She's like I don't know.

Speaker 3: He's like, well, I didn't mean to get us

Speaker 3: under here, and they're kind of driving

Speaker 3: along underneath this lorry and he's like,

Speaker 3: well, how do I get out?

Speaker 3: Well, he pulls out and Slams off into a big

Speaker 3: bank of snow and they all survive, because

Speaker 3: the next we see them trudging through the

Speaker 3: snow Trying to find this Christmas tree.

Speaker 1: It's a ridiculous.

Speaker 3: His daughter's frozen who's?

Speaker 1: carrying it Him and that Lowe's for.

Speaker 3: But his daughter can't carry it because

Speaker 3: she's frozen from the waist down and her

Speaker 3: eyeballs are frozen.

Speaker 3: She can't see.

Speaker 1: It reminded me of if I tried to take Daisy

Speaker 1: out and just out of that I would hear every

Speaker 1: swear word under the Sun.

Speaker 1: And it do not mean I could.

Speaker 1: You can never get a teenage girl out there,

Speaker 1: I don't think.

Speaker 1: Happily.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well, like you said earlier, how?

Speaker 1: did he get out?

Speaker 1: Do they get big foot to pull it out

Speaker 1: eventually?

Speaker 1: I don't know how they put it out the ground

Speaker 1: that's the thing, though, because we're

Speaker 1: doing a review, as I on this, I started

Speaker 1: doing logic and I was like I stop, gav,

Speaker 1: stop putting logic to it, it's just fun

Speaker 1: sketches.

Speaker 3: Yeah Well, somehow he pulls out the ground

Speaker 3: and the next shot, the next shot is you see

Speaker 3: three, which is about twice as big as the

Speaker 3: car With all the roots that attached not

Speaker 3: just the roots, like a whole mound of

Speaker 3: triangle of turf.

Speaker 3: It's fucking hilarious.

Speaker 1: When he gets back though, todd and Margo

Speaker 1: happy to be out there there.

Speaker 1: There you're.

Speaker 1: Yuppie, I've got to say 90s.

Speaker 1: Here You're up, he kind of jogging pair

Speaker 1: like they're the new type of when event,

Speaker 1: when we originally had like people going to

Speaker 1: like mineral vidman shops and things like

Speaker 1: that.

Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean when it's a more

Speaker 1: than any, a certain amount of people, do

Speaker 1: that?

Speaker 3: now Everybody does and they're really into

Speaker 3: their technology because they've got a

Speaker 3: fancy high-fi stereo system.

Speaker 1: Anyway, they've got a certain class that

Speaker 1: they feel that they are, or whatever.

Speaker 1: A cousin any really makes them Realize

Speaker 1: there is definitely other classes and and

Speaker 1: they basically see him and I, oh my god,

Speaker 1: look what he's got over there.

Speaker 1: And obviously we see the neighborhood

Speaker 1: rivalry.

Speaker 1: So they sort of say, hey, chris world,

Speaker 1: where you just take that tree, yeah he says

Speaker 1: when did you bend over?

Speaker 1: And I'll show you that's no way to talk to

Speaker 1: me.

Speaker 1: Chris world, who do you think you are?

Speaker 3: I wasn't talking to you and it's just such

Speaker 3: a great exchange and you know that although

Speaker 3: this guy's a bit of a softy, he will not

Speaker 3: take shit from these neighbors.

Speaker 1: Well, he's got a Hockey mask on and

Speaker 1: chainsaw raring at raw and at them over his

Speaker 1: head.

Speaker 3: Why don't you bend over and I'll show you

Speaker 3: what a great comeback.

Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you.

Speaker 3: It's so good, it's so good.

Speaker 3: Well, he gets like the tree in the house.

Speaker 3: Somehow it's all tied up with rope and he

Speaker 3: says here we go, guys, this is a big moment.

Speaker 3: And she's sort of saying it's very bees,

Speaker 3: yes, it is a little fool.

Speaker 1: A third of it is bent over because he

Speaker 1: doesn't fit.

Speaker 1: It doesn't fit in there.

Speaker 3: Will the staff?

Speaker 3: And he's like, yes, I'm sure it will.

Speaker 3: We might need to trim some of it down, but

Speaker 3: it's fine.

Speaker 3: He says, right, he's getting ready to cut

Speaker 3: the ropes to let all the branches settle.

Speaker 3: And he says I give you the Griswold family

Speaker 3: tree and and they're all looking like

Speaker 3: excitedly because the kids really believe

Speaker 3: in their dad.

Speaker 3: You know, he cuts the ropes and it takes up

Speaker 3: the entire living room, smashes all the

Speaker 3: windows and in golf sim, he's inside it

Speaker 3: somewhere.

Speaker 1: All you hear is him say a lot of sap in

Speaker 1: here, a lot of sap and then he's in bed and

Speaker 1: Covered sap with Ellen and they're just

Speaker 1: basically stuck to each other.

Speaker 3: He's reading a magazine and his fingers are

Speaker 3: sticking to the pages, then he sticks to

Speaker 3: her hair and then he sticks to the lamp.

Speaker 1: Very funny but silly comic stuff and the

Speaker 1: next day is December the 14th, my middle

Speaker 1: child's birthday and also the day of the

Speaker 1: grandparents both turn up at the exact same

Speaker 1: time.

Speaker 3: They do.

Speaker 3: Before that, though, we do see Clark at

Speaker 3: work with his Tasmanian devil cup full of

Speaker 3: cocoa, and this is where we find out.

Speaker 3: He's talking to his colleague who says oh,

Speaker 3: we should be getting our bonus check soon.

Speaker 3: He says look, I've got a secret.

Speaker 3: You're right.

Speaker 3: Clark says I've got a secret.

Speaker 1: Bill Murray's, not his boss.

Speaker 1: Sorry, bill.

Speaker 1: No, not you, bill.

Speaker 1: That's later the segment.

Speaker 1: No, your brother was in the movie.

Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, bill Murray's brother is

Speaker 3: his boss and he says so, he sucks up to him

Speaker 3: a little bit, he doesn't shit.

Speaker 3: But he also shows his colleague you know,

Speaker 3: I'm gonna be getting this swimming pool.

Speaker 3: I've already put down $7,500 Deposit on

Speaker 3: this, so when I get my bonus check I can

Speaker 3: pay the rest and then I can tell my family

Speaker 3: we're getting a, you know, for Christmas.

Speaker 3: I'm getting you all a swimming pool ready

Speaker 3: for next summer.

Speaker 3: And his buddy's like, wow, you're yours,

Speaker 3: really are the last family guy, aren't you?

Speaker 3: And then he sees his boss is like he said,

Speaker 3: his boss doesn't give a shit, it doesn't

Speaker 3: even know his name, calls him the wrong

Speaker 3: name and as he walks off he says to a merry

Speaker 3: Christmas, sir.

Speaker 3: And then he says to his all his sort of

Speaker 3: crony.

Speaker 3: She says Merry Christmas, merry, kiss my

Speaker 3: ass, kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your

Speaker 3: own ass.

Speaker 1: He says these are department stocks.

Speaker 1: He needs get in some a present and he

Speaker 1: thinks I might get in some underwear, some

Speaker 1: sexy underwear, and this is where he just

Speaker 1: gets like Like a very 80s 90s man.

Speaker 3: This, this girl working in the department

Speaker 3: store is Pretty special.

Speaker 3: She is hot, yes, she's right, she's hot as

Speaker 3: hell and I've always thought that.

Speaker 3: And yeah, he, she's flirting with him and

Speaker 3: he keeps saying he's keep, because she's

Speaker 3: very.

Speaker 3: She's dressed in a way that you really your

Speaker 3: eyes drawn to her cleavage and she's very

Speaker 3: pretty, blows in a browsing for something.

Speaker 1: It's been nippy outside, nipple.

Speaker 1: What am I saying?

Speaker 3: Why am I saying nipple, I don't know why

Speaker 3: I'm even saying that.

Speaker 3: And then she says some, can I take

Speaker 3: something out for you?

Speaker 3: And he just sort of has a breakdown, he's.

Speaker 1: It's quite like you know this little human,

Speaker 1: but he uses?

Speaker 3: he uses a pair of panties to dab his

Speaker 3: forehead.

Speaker 3: Yeah, doesn't he?

Speaker 3: It's so funny.

Speaker 1: Rust comes along says I see, you can't even

Speaker 1: see the line, can you?

Speaker 1: Rust, no dead.

Speaker 3: Well before that he's saying to her and

Speaker 3: these are for my wife, she's dead.

Speaker 3: He says she's dead.

Speaker 3: He's like well, she's not dead, but you

Speaker 3: know we're divorced, yes, we're really

Speaker 3: divorced.

Speaker 3: We're not together.

Speaker 3: So he's like what are you, what are you

Speaker 3: even saying, clark?

Speaker 3: You're just thumb because some hot girl has

Speaker 3: been your attention.

Speaker 3: You can't get your words out.

Speaker 3: Then she says to him the underwear I'm

Speaker 3: wearing right now is really high cut.

Speaker 3: Look if I lift up my skirt.

Speaker 3: And she shows her whole fine bit of buttock

Speaker 3: to him, says you can't even see the line,

Speaker 3: and this is a rusty turns up and says.

Speaker 3: And he says look, you can't see the line.

Speaker 3: Can you rest and realize this?

Speaker 3: He's been caught red-handed by his son

Speaker 3: staring at some girls legs.

Speaker 3: Hilarious, really, really funny scene.

Speaker 3: Really funny scene.

Speaker 3: But yes, then the in-laws, so Clark's

Speaker 3: parents and Ellen's parents, all arrive at

Speaker 3: the same time.

Speaker 3: Argument straight away.

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, and and it shot really

Speaker 1: claustrophobic with all close-ups.

Speaker 3: They're all sort of shouting each other,

Speaker 3: but it's not all arguments.

Speaker 3: It's like they've all got news like I've

Speaker 3: got hemorrhoids Can you believe that I've

Speaker 3: got hemorrhoids?

Speaker 3: And then somebody else saying oh, I've got

Speaker 3: banyons in my feet.

Speaker 3: If I give you a shit, a dollar, would you

Speaker 3: rub my feet for me?

Speaker 3: And then I, you've grown, haven't you?

Speaker 3: And they're also hugging and kissing each

Speaker 3: other and it I've been here before where

Speaker 3: families, big families, meet up and it's

Speaker 3: just.

Speaker 3: You just think I need a break from this.

Speaker 3: It's too loud, it's too noisy.

Speaker 1: I went for the first time.

Speaker 1: It's really bad of me because I've been

Speaker 1: living in the same village as my auntie and

Speaker 1: uncle for two years and I've not gone

Speaker 1: around see him and I haven't seen them for

Speaker 1: fucking years.

Speaker 1: So my parents on Christmas Eve to see them

Speaker 1: and and it's my dad's older sister and it

Speaker 1: basically looked like my dad, shorter and

Speaker 1: fatter, with a black wig.

Speaker 1: Amazing it was incredible.

Speaker 1: I will show you the picture sometime.

Speaker 1: It's absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1: But I did a family thing and I was really

Speaker 1: proud of myself for doing a Christmas

Speaker 1: family thing and not seeing a family member

Speaker 1: for many years.

Speaker 1: So I kind of relate to this as well.

Speaker 3: My dad is one of seven and my mum was one

Speaker 3: of seven, so I've quite big family, lots of

Speaker 3: cousins.

Speaker 3: So particularly when we were younger,

Speaker 3: christmases were very, very busy like this.

Speaker 3: Like home alone, I was related to the home

Speaker 3: alone family dynamic because this there was

Speaker 3: always so many of us in the house.

Speaker 3: In fact the first time I watched home alone

Speaker 3: was with about six or seven of my cousins.

Speaker 3: We all watched it together as kids but I've

Speaker 3: lost sort of contact with them all over the

Speaker 3: years but reconnected recently with a few

Speaker 3: of them and I had the same thing with my

Speaker 3: dad's brother.

Speaker 3: He'll hadn't seen for a good 15 years.

Speaker 3: Him and his wife, my auntie, came around

Speaker 3: and they met the kids.

Speaker 3: So I was just staring at him thinking

Speaker 3: you're my dad, but you're bold and you've

Speaker 3: got a moustache.

Speaker 1: Yeah that's.

Speaker 3: The only difference is if my dad shaved his

Speaker 3: hair and grew a moustache and then when he

Speaker 3: left my my wife Alice was saying Fucking

Speaker 3: hell, your uncle is is literally just your

Speaker 3: dad with a moustache, isn't he?

Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, he really is.

Speaker 3: It's funny when you see that, isn't it?

Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, rusty says sorry.

Speaker 3: Clark says Russ, let's go outside and put

Speaker 3: some lights on this house.

Speaker 3: Hell, yeah.

Speaker 3: So we get some funny moments now where he's

Speaker 3: slapstick.

Speaker 1: Nice ladder slapstick.

Speaker 3: Yeah, he's falling off of ladders.

Speaker 3: He's stapling his hands to things.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's classic stuff.

Speaker 1: It's very nice when he really upsets Todd

Speaker 1: and Margot's stereo system.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that's brilliant when he because he

Speaker 3: uh explain, explain it well, he slips off

Speaker 3: the ladder because he staples his glove to

Speaker 3: the.

Speaker 3: He's using a big stable gun to staple the

Speaker 3: lights to the gutter, but he slips off the

Speaker 3: ladder, grabs onto the gutter, rips the

Speaker 3: gutter off of the the sort of the side of

Speaker 3: the house which is full of ice.

Speaker 3: This then fires the ice javelin, as I've

Speaker 3: called it in my notes Such a velocity that

Speaker 3: it shoots across the road straight through

Speaker 3: the window of Todd and Margot's.

Speaker 3: Smash is the latest 1988 stereo system.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Which is hilarious because when they get

Speaker 3: home, it's a mystery the mystery is there's

Speaker 3: a hole in the window.

Speaker 3: Well, something must have destroyed the

Speaker 3: stereo Margot the stereo is destroyed and

Speaker 3: then there's a pool of water on the floor.

Speaker 1: I don't understand it.

Speaker 1: And where did this water come from?

Speaker 3: and this this is an urban legend that Are

Speaker 3: you doing?

Speaker 3: No, no, they found Someone's dog was found

Speaker 3: dead in the garden or in the house yeah, in

Speaker 3: the house.

Speaker 3: And there was a puddle of human piss next

Speaker 3: to it and a hole in the ceiling.

Speaker 3: And they realized that an aeroplane had

Speaker 3: flushed or discarded its toilet waste.

Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, it's an urban

Speaker 3: legend, I could say.

Speaker 3: And apparently the urine froze yeah, I know

Speaker 3: the way down smash through the window, kill

Speaker 3: the dog and then unfroze and they tested it

Speaker 3: and it's like well, it's not dog piss, it's

Speaker 3: human piss, multiple human pisses, what?

Speaker 3: And they couldn't figure out for ages, and

Speaker 3: it's kind of dog and the human piss.

Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know, I don't believe that

Speaker 3: that's a real thing, but yeah, it's a, it's

Speaker 3: fun and it's a fun thing and it's another

Speaker 3: moment for them Of something bad happened

Speaker 3: to them, because we don't like these

Speaker 3: yuppies, because they don't like our clarky,

Speaker 3: but it's funny, it's funny.

Speaker 1: He goes to turn the lights on everyone

Speaker 1: there.

Speaker 1: Let's do a drum beat.

Speaker 3: And he gives us, he does a speech, doesn't

Speaker 3: he?

Speaker 3: He says, um, he says something along the

Speaker 3: lines of I'm so grateful to have you all

Speaker 3: here.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I dedicate this house to my

Speaker 3: entire family of griswolds, because that

Speaker 3: the lights on this house demonstrate my

Speaker 3: love and he does draw to the world, like

Speaker 3: you say, plugs it in what happens nothing,

Speaker 3: nothing happens.

Speaker 3: Uh, it is a check, all that.

Speaker 1: Is parent and also just like see what a

Speaker 1: waste of time this is kids.

Speaker 1: What a way I she says resources.

Speaker 3: I hate me for learning what a waste of

Speaker 3: resources this is.

Speaker 3: And, um, yeah.

Speaker 3: His daughter says he worked really hard,

Speaker 3: grandpa.

Speaker 3: And his grandpa says yeah, and so do

Speaker 3: washing machines.

Speaker 1: Yeah, what a bastard.

Speaker 1: Anyway, it doesn't work.

Speaker 1: They all go back in.

Speaker 1: He's kind of pissed off and so leave it,

Speaker 1: and it's just like, for fuck's sake.

Speaker 3: His son says really good, try dad, you did

Speaker 3: really well.

Speaker 3: And they can't figure he's, he's probably

Speaker 3: checked all the bulbs.

Speaker 1: It's very interesting on the front cover.

Speaker 1: I'll get over the blu-ray.

Speaker 1: That doesn't actually happen.

Speaker 3: No, it doesn't does it.

Speaker 1: I've always thought that, never liked that

Speaker 1: post, so no where, cherry chase on the

Speaker 1: front in a Santa costume and he's been

Speaker 1: electrocuted by the light bulbs which would

Speaker 1: imagine, unless it's a deleted scene, I

Speaker 1: don't know, but where'd you get the idea

Speaker 1: from?

Speaker 3: To me that looks more like um the poster

Speaker 3: for the Santa Claus with Tim Allen.

Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: It's not, it doesn't look, it's not even

Speaker 1: cherry chase.

Speaker 3: It's just, someone's just drawn that up and

Speaker 3: it doesn't look good.

Speaker 3: I've never liked that poster.

Speaker 3: No, um, yeah, it's all family supportive.

Speaker 3: We go back inside and the children have to

Speaker 3: sleep together.

Speaker 3: So Russ and his sister have to sleep in the

Speaker 3: same bed because all the grandparents are

Speaker 3: sleeping in their beds.

Speaker 3: Um, not great situation.

Speaker 3: And it's only gonna get worse when cousin

Speaker 3: Eddie turns up.

Speaker 3: Um, yeah, and in the morning he goes back

Speaker 3: up into the attic.

Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's a great dad and he wants

Speaker 3: to hide the presents in the usual hiding

Speaker 3: spot.

Speaker 3: This is where he finds the Mother's Day

Speaker 3: gift that he bought for um Ellen many years

Speaker 3: ago from one of the kids.

Speaker 3: However, his mother-in-law locks him in the

Speaker 3: attic and they will go out for lunch.

Speaker 3: In fact, his father-in-law says well, I

Speaker 3: don't care about Clark, I gotta go out to

Speaker 3: lunch to take some Uh, to have something to

Speaker 3: eat, because I can't take my pain relief

Speaker 3: without eating.

Speaker 3: So they all go off and they leave him

Speaker 3: stranded in his pajamas in the attic, which

Speaker 3: obviously it's very snowy and it's very

Speaker 3: cold.

Speaker 3: Can we?

Speaker 3: get a little bit more slapstick here.

Speaker 1: Why.

Speaker 1: I guess he's trying to be this traditionist

Speaker 1: and that kind of explains it, but it's like

Speaker 1: who's gonna be looking for presents you

Speaker 1: mentalist?

Speaker 1: Why don't you just go put them under the

Speaker 1: tree?

Speaker 3: He just wants to keep it a nice surprise.

Speaker 1: That is trying to do.

Speaker 1: I think showing that old present though

Speaker 1: he'd forgotten which is up there, is

Speaker 1: obviously showing that it's a tradition

Speaker 1: that he does on it and he just wants to

Speaker 1: keep that.

Speaker 1: But it's just like there's no surprise.

Speaker 1: Just put them in the fucking under the tree.

Speaker 3: Well, my theory is this is that every time

Speaker 3: he questions whether he's doing the right

Speaker 3: thing, taking all these people in and

Speaker 3: trying to have this big family Christmas

Speaker 3: excuse me he gets a life lesson given to

Speaker 3: him from the universe.

Speaker 3: Now the life lesson here is he's locked in

Speaker 3: the attic, he goes through loads of old

Speaker 3: boxes and obviously he wraps himself up in

Speaker 3: old city clothes to keep warm.

Speaker 3: But he also finds all the old film footage

Speaker 3: Christmas 1955.

Speaker 3: He starts crying when he reminds himself of

Speaker 3: the fun Christmas this is had with his mum

Speaker 3: and his dad and his aunties and the kids

Speaker 3: when they were younger.

Speaker 3: And this is the universe saying look, just

Speaker 3: stop and take a moment and remember how

Speaker 3: great Christmas can be with the family.

Speaker 3: You know, I know this seems quite

Speaker 3: pressurised, but look, and so he starts

Speaker 3: crying because he remembers, because he's

Speaker 3: such a good guy and such a family man.

Speaker 3: And I think that's what my theory is is

Speaker 3: that you know he's reminded here at this

Speaker 3: point.

Speaker 3: So he's got a new lease of life.

Speaker 1: I think it's a reason to show that.

Speaker 1: So it's a good set up for that, I suppose.

Speaker 1: But it's just like, why are you putting a

Speaker 1: hide them in a loft?

Speaker 1: But anyway anyway, it does help with some

Speaker 1: slapstick, with him falling down the loft,

Speaker 1: but they come back.

Speaker 3: Well, the comedy timing is he sat there

Speaker 3: crying watching this and then all of a

Speaker 3: sudden his wife opens the attic and he sat

Speaker 3: on the loft hatch and falls out.

Speaker 3: So it's great comic timing.

Speaker 1: It's quite a cheesy montage when he's

Speaker 1: looking at the footage and stuff.

Speaker 1: That's just me now, but you know.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but I love it.

Speaker 3: I know you say that's the difference

Speaker 3: between you and me.

Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, it's pretty fucking cheesy

Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, I've written here.

Speaker 3: it inspires him to try and be better and

Speaker 3: try and be even nicer to his family, even

Speaker 3: though he's already fucking nice enough, if

Speaker 3: you ask me.

Speaker 1: He tries his lights again that evening and

Speaker 1: they come on, but then they go off and then

Speaker 1: they come on.

Speaker 3: And he's getting more and more frustrated

Speaker 3: here because he can't figure out why they,

Speaker 3: and the reason being is that one of his

Speaker 3: in-laws keeps going in the attic and

Speaker 3: whenever she turns the light on it that

Speaker 3: ridiculous adapters all plugged up like a

Speaker 3: pyramid.

Speaker 3: It's about a hundred adapters plugged into

Speaker 3: one extension.

Speaker 1: It's like that one spark and you're gone.

Speaker 3: And we get a fun moment now where, when it

Speaker 3: does turn on, the floodlights come on and

Speaker 3: blind his neighbours who are in the middle

Speaker 3: of a back to get down to some saucy

Speaker 3: sexiness.

Speaker 3: But they then smash their bottle of wine

Speaker 3: all over the floor.

Speaker 3: Then the lights go off, so they're blinded.

Speaker 3: Then they come back on and he falls down

Speaker 3: the stairs.

Speaker 3: Basically they destroy their house because

Speaker 3: they're blinded by Chevy Chase's

Speaker 3: floodlights.

Speaker 1: Clark, clark, just being Clark somehow

Speaker 1: destroys their life pretty much.

Speaker 3: Yeah, just being Clark.

Speaker 1: Just being Clark and they just happen to

Speaker 1: not like him.

Speaker 1: So that's what I think the message there is

Speaker 1: don't dislike your neighbour because

Speaker 1: accidentally he will ruin your life.

Speaker 3: There's a very John Hughes moment here

Speaker 3: where he just before the lights come on

Speaker 3: properly because his wife saves the day,

Speaker 3: ellen is the one who figures out his switch,

Speaker 3: but just before that he kicks the shit out

Speaker 3: of a big model, Santa and reindeer.

Speaker 1: He punched reindeer and broke his small

Speaker 1: finger but they kept filming.

Speaker 3: But this also really reminds me of

Speaker 3: something that Steve Martin would do in

Speaker 3: plane tracers and all sorts of videos where

Speaker 3: he loses his shit.

Speaker 3: It's a very John Hughes-type thing and it's

Speaker 3: really funny.

Speaker 3: But then, like we say, ellen saves the day,

Speaker 3: she figures it out, she turns it on, he

Speaker 3: starts hugging them all, one by one, each

Speaker 3: family member Mum, dad, can I call you dad,

Speaker 3: even though you're my father-in-law?

Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden he calls an Eddie

Speaker 3: and he doesn't notice it initially and he

Speaker 3: gives him a hug, and then he looks at him

Speaker 3: and goes cousin Eddie, and he's like Clark.

Speaker 1: Looks great Clark.

Speaker 3: Love it and he thinks, what the fuck?

Speaker 3: And then you realise cousin Eddie's there

Speaker 3: with his wife.

Speaker 1: And actually just stands there for a while

Speaker 1: going, eddie, eddie.

Speaker 3: He can't quite believe it.

Speaker 1: And that's his brother-in-law, and Eddie is

Speaker 1: living on the fringe.

Speaker 3: Well, he's not his brother-in-law, he's his

Speaker 3: cousin, isn't he or cousin-in-law or

Speaker 3: something?

Speaker 1: But yeah, no, this is it actually.

Speaker 1: Can you work this out for me then?

Speaker 3: Well, he says well, he's cousin Eddie, so

Speaker 3: I'm guessing he's just his cousin.

Speaker 3: I don't really know.

Speaker 1: Because art is.

Speaker 3: It's father-in-law yeah it's father-in-law.

Speaker 1: So Beverly, the angel's wife, Ellen's mum

Speaker 1: is, so that's Ellen's brother.

Speaker 3: But why is he called cousin Eddie?

Speaker 3: Maybe he should be uncle Eddie, I don't

Speaker 3: know.

Speaker 1: I've never really got that.

Speaker 1: I know it's kind of confusing why he's

Speaker 1: cousin Eddie.

Speaker 3: He's got a great big Rottweiler as well,

Speaker 3: called Snots.

Speaker 3: We call him Snats because he's got a

Speaker 3: problem with the sinuses.

Speaker 3: That's all he does.

Speaker 3: And then he says roll over.

Speaker 3: And you let your uncle Clark stroke your

Speaker 3: belly.

Speaker 3: And he says word of warning, if he starts

Speaker 3: going at your leg, just let him finish.

Speaker 3: All right, just let him finish.

Speaker 1: The common tree for this movie is Randy

Speaker 1: Quaid.

Speaker 1: I wanted to watch it beforehand, but the

Speaker 1: common tree is Randy Quaid.

Speaker 1: Why have they got so many people?

Speaker 1: Randy Quaid, beverly D'Angelo, rusty and

Speaker 1: then Randy Quaid's wife.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but they do everything together Then

Speaker 3: director and then the producer.

Speaker 1: So many people who does what all together?

Speaker 1: What do you mean?

Speaker 3: Heyman is wife in real life.

Speaker 3: They do everything together.

Speaker 3: They're attached to the hip.

Speaker 1: Oh what Randy Quaid's wife.

Speaker 3: Oh no, no, that's why she would have been

Speaker 3: oh sorry, not his real life wife, the woman

Speaker 3: that plays his wife in this.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, I mis-invited you.

Speaker 1: It just seems a lot of people work.

Speaker 3: And to paint the picture as well Randy, a

Speaker 3: cousin of Eddie, his wife and two children

Speaker 3: and giant Rottweiler.

Speaker 3: They are living in an RV, a recreational

Speaker 3: vehicle that is huge and is parked on

Speaker 3: Clark's driveway.

Speaker 3: It's a real eyesore.

Speaker 3: And he says, clark, if it's all the same

Speaker 3: for you, me and my wife would like to stay

Speaker 3: in the RV because you know it's been a long

Speaker 3: drive and we've got some catching up to do

Speaker 3: in the bedroom, but if you could just have

Speaker 3: the two kids in with you.

Speaker 3: And then he says to his wife don't forget

Speaker 3: the rubber sheets and the gerbils, do you

Speaker 3: think?

Speaker 3: Oh boy.

Speaker 1: I never hear.

Speaker 1: I mean never knew.

Speaker 1: He said gerbils bit.

Speaker 3: Yeah, the rubber sheets and the gerbils.

Speaker 1: I'm sure he's kidding, but it's a dark

Speaker 1: sense of humour.

Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that to Sarah.

Speaker 3: Well, one of my favourite scenes is next,

Speaker 3: where cousin Eddie and Clark are drinking

Speaker 3: eggnog together and he's sort of they're

Speaker 3: chatting away.

Speaker 3: Clark seems very annoyed.

Speaker 1: Can we just take a moment to appreciate

Speaker 1: cousin Eddie's a sweater?

Speaker 3: combo.

Speaker 3: Oh man, he's got like this roll neck.

Speaker 1: He's got a turtle neck, a black turtle

Speaker 1: around his neck, so it goes on.

Speaker 1: But it's not a turtle neck, which is a long

Speaker 1: sleeve top underneath a short sleeve top or

Speaker 1: whatever, or sweater, it's just a rectangle

Speaker 1: going down the stops.

Speaker 1: It's almost like a church thing, collar

Speaker 1: piece and he's got this white top on top,

Speaker 1: which is all creamy coloured tops.

Speaker 1: And he's sort of walking around

Speaker 1: accidentally breaking things in Clark's

Speaker 1: house, you know drink as much as he can,

Speaker 1: and he's never been to the house before, so

Speaker 1: he's very excited to be there.

Speaker 3: And he says oh, I'm really excited that

Speaker 3: we're going to be staying here for a whole

Speaker 3: month as well.

Speaker 1: He spits his eggnog out to show he chased

Speaker 1: us because he's not happy about that.

Speaker 3: And he says well, let me know if there's

Speaker 3: anything else I can do for you, eddie, you

Speaker 3: know, maybe drive you out into the middle

Speaker 3: of nowhere and leave you for dead One of my

Speaker 3: favourite lines.

Speaker 3: He just kind of half says it under his

Speaker 3: breath because Eddie's so dumb he doesn't

Speaker 3: really catch it.

Speaker 3: No, no, it's okay, clark, you're doing

Speaker 3: enough as it is.

Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 1: Someone I know I do this to because, for

Speaker 1: whatever reason, they have a selective

Speaker 1: hearing, like literally, say something, you

Speaker 1: go to respond.

Speaker 3: I think I know who this is.

Speaker 1: And they just carry on talking and you're

Speaker 1: like what?

Speaker 1: So I will then carry on saying stuff and

Speaker 1: I'll say you fucking don't even listen to

Speaker 1: me, you fucking idiot.

Speaker 1: I'll just carry on going and they won't

Speaker 1: take any of it in.

Speaker 1: It's incredible.

Speaker 3: Well, it's legend time Gav.

Speaker 1: It is legend time, one of my favourite

Speaker 1: highlights as a child in this movie.

Speaker 3: So Clark works for a company that makes

Speaker 3: food products and one of the products

Speaker 3: they've made is this really good grease or

Speaker 3: oil for your pan for cooking, and he

Speaker 3: basically smothers this sort of dustbin lid,

Speaker 3: metal dustbin lid in it Because he says

Speaker 3: this will make it go 100 times faster, and

Speaker 3: his kids are all excited.

Speaker 3: Everyone's like, wow, you're going to go

Speaker 3: really fast, eddie.

Speaker 3: And he's sorry Clark, and he says, yeah,

Speaker 3: yeah, you watched me, I'll go first to make

Speaker 3: sure it's okay.

Speaker 1: Well, well, well, randy doesn't want to

Speaker 1: because he's got a metal plate in his head,

Speaker 1: but the metal plate had a problem not long

Speaker 1: ago as an accident and that changed metal

Speaker 1: plate in this other stuff, which is a

Speaker 1: little bit softer, and if you really push

Speaker 1: in there, push it, it can feel my brain.

Speaker 3: Have a little push.

Speaker 3: Well, he says it's because basically

Speaker 3: whenever my wife would use the microwave

Speaker 3: I'd pass out and piss myself, so we had to

Speaker 3: replace the metal plates.

Speaker 3: It wasn't very good really, and it's like

Speaker 3: wow, okay.

Speaker 3: And also earlier, his daughter.

Speaker 3: He says this is my daughter.

Speaker 3: You remember her?

Speaker 3: Look at her eyes.

Speaker 3: Her eyes aren't crossed anymore.

Speaker 3: So funny she fell down a well.

Speaker 3: Her eyes got crossed.

Speaker 3: She got kicked in the head by a mule.

Speaker 3: It uncrossed her eyes.

Speaker 3: So this family are just a bunch of kids.

Speaker 1: It kind of gives you an impression.

Speaker 1: I remember years ago as a younger person

Speaker 1: just like imagining these dudes living out

Speaker 1: in nowhere and just doing like running

Speaker 1: around playing with snakes for the fun to

Speaker 1: do.

Speaker 3: Getting kicked in the head by a donkey Just

Speaker 3: you know, and just random stuff, yeah.

Speaker 3: Well, he climbs onto this greased up,

Speaker 3: dust-binded sledge and he says right, I

Speaker 3: think he says like surfs up, dude, catch

Speaker 3: you on the flipside.

Speaker 3: He tries to be all cool and say this like

Speaker 3: surf, dude talk.

Speaker 3: And then we get this ridiculous sort of

Speaker 3: special effect of him just a lightning

Speaker 3: flying down at light speed and there's like

Speaker 3: fire behind him, like back to the future

Speaker 3: car, and he ends up sort of crashing into a

Speaker 3: bin outside the Walmart.

Speaker 3: And yeah, it's just another chance just to

Speaker 3: show a silly scene.

Speaker 3: Like I said, it's a series of sketches.

Speaker 3: Not a lot comes from it really.

Speaker 1: It is what it is.

Speaker 1: It's kind of fun.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it is fun.

Speaker 3: Like you said, there's a scene that

Speaker 3: everybody likes in this.

Speaker 3: Really, there's always.

Speaker 3: You know, everyone's got their favorite

Speaker 3: scene Cut to nighttime and he's dreaming

Speaker 3: about his bonus.

Speaker 3: He's stood in the kitchen on his own the

Speaker 3: rest of the family, obviously and he's

Speaker 3: looking out the window, looking at the

Speaker 3: garden, imagining what it'll be like when

Speaker 3: that pool's there, and he's imagining all

Speaker 3: of his family and their swimming outfits.

Speaker 3: They're all really happy with him.

Speaker 3: He's the hero because he's bought a

Speaker 3: swimming pool.

Speaker 3: And then his fantasy goes a little

Speaker 3: different, doesn't it Gav?

Speaker 1: Well, he's watching all his family.

Speaker 1: Then he says cousin Eddie, he's standing

Speaker 1: over his beer and vest tucked into his but

Speaker 1: she's mug-less.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's swimming trunks and just waving

Speaker 3: to him, and then it just changes to the

Speaker 3: lady in the laundry or the department store

Speaker 3: and she starts stripping off for him and

Speaker 3: he's watching up against the kitchen window,

Speaker 3: really pushed up against the window, and

Speaker 3: then all of a sudden his little knee spooks

Speaker 3: in and interrupts him.

Speaker 1: I think he's full of Christmas because he's

Speaker 1: in a red dressing gown.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and she starts talking to him about

Speaker 3: Santa and this is where it's revealed that

Speaker 3: actually cousin Eddie and his family are in

Speaker 3: a really bad time.

Speaker 1: And that's why they're there.

Speaker 3: They've got no money.

Speaker 3: I don't even think we've got money for

Speaker 3: presents.

Speaker 3: I was told that there's no Father Christmas,

Speaker 3: there's no Santa Claus.

Speaker 3: But is that true?

Speaker 3: Uncle Clarkney says, look, if you believe

Speaker 3: in something and it will happen, I promise

Speaker 3: you, you guys are going to have a great.

Speaker 3: So again, life's got him down a bit, but it

Speaker 3: gets reminded by this little girl that

Speaker 3: there is a magic to Christmas and he can

Speaker 3: make her a Christmas.

Speaker 3: If he helps him, his cousin Eddie and his

Speaker 3: wife and kids out, it's going to make him

Speaker 3: feel better about things.

Speaker 3: So he thinks, right, ok, I'm going to help

Speaker 3: these guys out, because he's too, you know,

Speaker 3: he's too manly to sort of tell me he needs

Speaker 3: help perhaps, so I'm going to just tell him

Speaker 3: I'm going to help him.

Speaker 1: Shit to his fool.

Speaker 3: Well, is that the next bit?

Speaker 3: Yeah, next morning it is the next bit.

Speaker 3: Oh, I was going to say the bit where the

Speaker 3: little girl says about He'll be shitting

Speaker 3: rocks and shitting bricks and he says, oh,

Speaker 3: you shouldn't say that.

Speaker 3: She says, sorry, uncle Clark, he'll be

Speaker 3: shitting rocks.

Speaker 3: She just changes it slowly.

Speaker 3: But yes, the next morning, the yuppies.

Speaker 3: The yuppie, one of the yuppies is leaving

Speaker 3: for a jog and he smells something in the

Speaker 3: air.

Speaker 3: Classic scene.

Speaker 3: Everyone knows this.

Speaker 3: It's the most quieted line from this whole

Speaker 3: film.

Speaker 3: What's he doing?

Speaker 3: I've described it.

Speaker 1: Cousin Eddie's there in his underwear.

Speaker 1: With a beer, a hat and a cigar and a big

Speaker 1: old pipe in his slippers, big old pipe

Speaker 1: emptying his waste, his chemical waste

Speaker 1: toilet, just going all over the place and

Speaker 1: he's smoking a cigar, just doing it like

Speaker 1: it's just kind of having everybody does it,

Speaker 1: and he says shit, it was full.

Speaker 1: Just looks into the neighbors hey, hey, hey,

Speaker 1: shit, it was full.

Speaker 3: And he's burping away, scratching his ass,

Speaker 3: cigar.

Speaker 3: Somebody says to him you know that stuff's

Speaker 3: flammable, he shouldn't really do that.

Speaker 3: Well, that will come back later on, as we

Speaker 3: expect in a John Hughes film.

Speaker 3: And they go shopping and in the shop Cart

Speaker 3: basically says look, what's been going on

Speaker 3: with you, eddie.

Speaker 3: And this is where Eddie says all right,

Speaker 3: I'll tell you the truth.

Speaker 3: It's been a really rough year.

Speaker 3: We live in the van.

Speaker 3: We don't have a house anymore.

Speaker 3: I haven't even got any money to buy my kids

Speaker 3: presents.

Speaker 3: I don't really know what to do.

Speaker 3: I've kind of come to you really for help,

Speaker 3: but I haven't really been able to ask for

Speaker 3: it.

Speaker 1: But we do know that for seven years he

Speaker 1: hasn't had a job because he's been waiting

Speaker 1: for a managerial position.

Speaker 3: He's been waiting for a management position.

Speaker 1: It's just taking any hand.

Speaker 1: So basically, fuck him, get a job.

Speaker 3: Also, he's got two older children.

Speaker 3: One of them is in a rehab and I can't

Speaker 3: remember what the other one's doing there,

Speaker 3: but they're both got sad stories.

Speaker 3: So their family's really been through the

Speaker 3: ringer.

Speaker 3: Get a job.

Speaker 3: So he says.

Speaker 3: He says similar, okay, I'll tell you what

Speaker 3: I'll do.

Speaker 3: I'd like the opportunity to give you a

Speaker 3: Christmas and I want to get your kids some

Speaker 3: presents.

Speaker 3: And for a couple of seconds Eddie says oh,

Speaker 3: clark, I can't, I can't do that.

Speaker 3: And then he pulls out a giant list out of

Speaker 3: his pocket and says wow, well, here's a

Speaker 3: list of all the things that we need and I'd

Speaker 3: like to get this from my wife.

Speaker 3: And also I'd like to get you something,

Speaker 3: clark, if I could, something really special.

Speaker 3: And Clark's thinking for fuck's sake, why

Speaker 3: did I say I'd help him?

Speaker 3: But he's a good guy, gav, he's a good guy.

Speaker 1: I don't know.

Speaker 1: I understand doing it for the kids now, but

Speaker 1: I'd still be like, why don't you go a

Speaker 1: fucking job?

Speaker 1: That would be my conversation.

Speaker 3: Don't worry about managerial positions for

Speaker 3: me.

Speaker 1: Just get a fucking job.

Speaker 1: If you're flipping burgers, you're still

Speaker 1: fucking working.

Speaker 3: If you can empty a chemical waste toilet,

Speaker 3: you can do anything.

Speaker 3: While smoking a cigar and drinking a beer,

Speaker 3: you can do anything.

Speaker 3: Well, it's December 24th and crazy Auntie

Speaker 3: and Uncle arrive.

Speaker 3: Uncle Louis, Uncle Louis, is it?

Speaker 1: Louis, yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and Auntie, the crazy old, deaf

Speaker 3: Auntie, and they're ancient, they're like

Speaker 3: 90 years old.

Speaker 1: In real life she's 82 and he was 61.

Speaker 3: And in real life she's very, very famous

Speaker 3: for being the voice of Betty Boop in the

Speaker 3: cartoon.

Speaker 1: Betty Boop.

Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not singing.

Speaker 3: No, that's Betty Boop, the rapper, betty

Speaker 3: Boop, the cartoon, as in the boo boo, boo,

Speaker 3: boo boo, that one, you know the one I mean.

Speaker 1: I know, I thought they were both connected.

Speaker 3: I think Betty Boop named herself after

Speaker 3: Betty Boop with a P.

Speaker 3: But Betty Boop is a rapper.

Speaker 3: I was well into her in the 90s.

Speaker 3: Betty Boop, she's cool man.

Speaker 1: I only know one song.

Speaker 3: She had.

Speaker 3: I've got her album on cassette in the

Speaker 3: kitchen.

Speaker 3: Fair enough, Just there you go.

Speaker 3: You didn't expect that on a Christmas

Speaker 3: episode, did you?

Speaker 1: Talking about Betty Boop cassette album.

Speaker 1: You have no.

Speaker 3: So yeah, they're crazy, they're deaf.

Speaker 3: He smokes a lot of Stoge's, she keeps

Speaker 3: farting and there's a lot of comedy mishaps

Speaker 3: around those two.

Speaker 3: He accidentally pulls Uncle Lewis's wig off.

Speaker 1: She's basically giving him a Christmas

Speaker 1: present and it's her cat wraps up.

Speaker 3: Yeah, how does he get the cat?

Speaker 1: in her books.

Speaker 3: She's meow.

Speaker 3: This presents Meow in.

Speaker 3: Basically, what Auntie does is she hasn't

Speaker 3: got much money, so she just picks things

Speaker 3: from around the house from up somewhere.

Speaker 3: But she gets confused and I think she's

Speaker 3: wrapped her cat up.

Speaker 3: And at this point Eddie comes in and goes

Speaker 3: ah Clark, this one's leaking and it's green.

Speaker 3: And they're like what, why is green?

Speaker 3: And he just sticks his finger in whatever.

Speaker 3: This is Eddie, and he just goes.

Speaker 1: no, he doesn't Beverly Ellen sticks her

Speaker 1: finger in and he sucks her finger.

Speaker 3: That's right, Like a lot and he goes climb.

Speaker 3: It must be a key like pie.

Speaker 1: Imagine that, like just picking up stuff

Speaker 1: around your house and wrapping it up and

Speaker 1: giving it to people, but forgetting what's

Speaker 1: what, and then just giving out people.

Speaker 3: But I think the worst thing here is that

Speaker 3: your cousin Eddie sucks your wife's finger

Speaker 3: in front of you.

Speaker 1: It isn't good.

Speaker 3: But then it's Eddie.

Speaker 3: You know, when you've got Eddie in the

Speaker 3: house, you can just expect anything to

Speaker 3: happen, really.

Speaker 3: So it's dinner time, it's turkey time, gav

Speaker 3: Joy old turkey.

Speaker 3: And again he's like with a tree, like with

Speaker 3: the lights.

Speaker 3: He's got an announcement.

Speaker 1: He says you know, I always remember

Speaker 1: watching this and being like what?

Speaker 1: What?

Speaker 1: You made a Christmas dinner on Christmas

Speaker 1: Eve.

Speaker 1: What's what Making tomorrow, a Christmas

Speaker 1: dinner?

Speaker 1: Like what?

Speaker 1: So you just gonna let your wife's just

Speaker 1: fucking spend all day in the kitchen?

Speaker 3: Maybe they'll do Well, maybe they'll make

Speaker 3: Bubbling Squeak on Christmas Day.

Speaker 3: So he gives his big speech about the turkey

Speaker 3: and he says but because this is auntie's

Speaker 3: 80th birthday, a very special one, I'd like

Speaker 3: you to say grace.

Speaker 3: And she goes Grace, no, grace died 25 years

Speaker 3: ago.

Speaker 3: No, she wants you the blessing Old cut old

Speaker 3: shenanigans.

Speaker 3: And so she then says I pledge allegiance to

Speaker 3: the flag of the United States of America

Speaker 3: because she doesn't know what's going on,

Speaker 3: because I know he stands up and salutes and

Speaker 3: eventually we cut the turkey.

Speaker 3: Gav describe what happens when he puts the

Speaker 3: knife into the turkey.

Speaker 1: It just all breaks open.

Speaker 1: It's nothing, it's just dried up inside the

Speaker 1: fridge.

Speaker 1: That was great.

Speaker 1: It's just how did they do that.

Speaker 3: I don't know, it's a special effect, isn't

Speaker 3: it?

Speaker 1: But it's not that I was like how would you

Speaker 1: cook something in it?

Speaker 3: She cooked it out for too long.

Speaker 1: Yeah, but the outside was fresh, though

Speaker 1: that's the thing we do have.

Speaker 1: The outside in Klingville was I Do.

Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

Speaker 3: But again he's so optimistic he says no, no,

Speaker 3: no, I'm sure this will be fine, it's just a

Speaker 3: little dry, that's all.

Speaker 3: And then he goes oh, I can see the heart.

Speaker 3: And then it cuts to them or really try and

Speaker 3: chew and all you can hear is crunching and

Speaker 3: chewing and they're all drinking water and

Speaker 3: pouring gravy over it, apart from Eddie

Speaker 3: who's like eating all the potatoes and

Speaker 3: everything he can, because it's just

Speaker 3: because of Eddie.

Speaker 3: And yeah, the turkey is absolutely

Speaker 3: disgusting.

Speaker 3: I think they find a cat hair in it as well,

Speaker 3: don't they?

Speaker 3: Or something.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awful.

Speaker 3: And talking to the cat, we do see the cat

Speaker 3: now being attracted to the tree, playing

Speaker 3: with the ball balls, and then it grabs the

Speaker 3: fairy lights out of the tree.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: It takes them under a chair to play with

Speaker 3: them.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: So we'll come back to that in just a moment.

Speaker 3: Love this moment Again.

Speaker 3: Clark trying his best to help cousin

Speaker 3: Eddie's kids.

Speaker 3: He says oh guys, I just heard an

Speaker 3: announcement on the news that a pilot

Speaker 3: flying in from New York City just spotted

Speaker 3: Santa flying over in his sleigh.

Speaker 3: And they all go, wow.

Speaker 3: And what does cousin Eddie say?

Speaker 1: Are you really real Clark?

Speaker 1: Is that true?

Speaker 3: Clark, I really believe that.

Speaker 3: So sweet that he tries to do that.

Speaker 3: And then we get the dog underneath the

Speaker 3: table.

Speaker 3: The whole table starts by breaking.

Speaker 1: He says is there?

Speaker 1: He's not choking up stuff that he's been

Speaker 1: eating.

Speaker 1: He's been rummaging through the bins in the

Speaker 1: kitchen.

Speaker 3: He says he's just yakking on a bone.

Speaker 3: Then you hear a bleh and he goes there,

Speaker 3: he's got it up.

Speaker 3: So the dog threw it up on the table.

Speaker 3: He smashed the trash can in the kitchen so

Speaker 3: there's food everywhere.

Speaker 3: And while they're cleaning that up, uncle

Speaker 3: Lewis says if you're not doing anything

Speaker 3: productive, could you get me one of my

Speaker 3: stovies?

Speaker 3: So they give him his cigar and he likes it

Speaker 3: near the tree and the whole tree goes up.

Speaker 3: He doesn't even notice he's done it.

Speaker 1: The cat's been electrocuted as well.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot where that cat has been

Speaker 3: electrocuted.

Speaker 3: Well, first of all, uncle Lewis turns

Speaker 3: around and his back's on fire.

Speaker 3: So they jump on him, stop, drop and roll

Speaker 3: him with a rug and put him out.

Speaker 3: And then they realise what's that smell.

Speaker 3: They pull the armchair away and there's

Speaker 3: what used to be a cat underneath the

Speaker 3: armchair.

Speaker 3: That's just completely fried.

Speaker 3: And the next shot is just cousin Eddie and

Speaker 3: Clark taking this burn armchair outside.

Speaker 1: And Clark and Eddie saying, if you don't

Speaker 1: mind, clark, I think I could probably clean

Speaker 1: this up a little bit.

Speaker 1: Actually.

Speaker 3: Do you want me to ask him how much?

Speaker 3: It was brand new?

Speaker 3: I think I can refurbish it for you, but he

Speaker 3: wants it for himself, really, doesn't he?

Speaker 3: Poor old Clark, it's not going right and

Speaker 3: you can see now the mental breakdown is

Speaker 3: starting to happen now.

Speaker 3: It's just starting to happen ever so

Speaker 3: slightly.

Speaker 3: He gets a delivery from work now, because

Speaker 3: he's found out that all his colleagues have

Speaker 3: already had their deliveries.

Speaker 3: Where's my check?

Speaker 3: And this guy turns up and says look, I'm

Speaker 3: really sorry, I was supposed to deliver

Speaker 3: this to you yesterday, but the envelope

Speaker 3: slipped down the back of the seat.

Speaker 3: But here it is and Clark thinks right, this

Speaker 3: is my chance.

Speaker 3: It's all falling apart, the cat's dead, the

Speaker 3: tree's gone, but I'm going to tell my

Speaker 3: family about this one before.

Speaker 3: And he says everybody, this envelope

Speaker 3: contains the check, my bonus check, and I

Speaker 3: wasn't going to tell any of you this till

Speaker 3: tomorrow, but I'm going to buy some in Paul,

Speaker 3: I've already put the money down for a

Speaker 3: deposit.

Speaker 3: And they're all like wow, this is

Speaker 3: incredible.

Speaker 3: Mums Like Clark, you're the best, I love

Speaker 3: you.

Speaker 3: And he says and I'll tell you what, if

Speaker 3: there's enough money left over, I'll fly

Speaker 3: you all out here in the summer and we'll

Speaker 3: have a great time.

Speaker 3: And they're like oh wow, this is amazing.

Speaker 3: He opens the envelope and it's a year

Speaker 3: subscription to a jam or a jelly as they

Speaker 3: call it in the US of the month club.

Speaker 3: So basically, you're getting a jar of jam

Speaker 3: if you're in the UK every month for a year.

Speaker 3: Wow, and the only person who thinks it's

Speaker 3: amazing is Eddie.

Speaker 3: He's like that is the gift that keeps on

Speaker 3: giving it.

Speaker 1: keeps on giving Clark.

Speaker 3: But he is guided because that was going to

Speaker 3: be the swimming pool.

Speaker 3: What can he do?

Speaker 3: No bonus.

Speaker 3: So he starts losing it.

Speaker 3: He starts necking eggnog now and he gives a

Speaker 3: big speech.

Speaker 3: Now he says what do?

Speaker 3: You know what I really want?

Speaker 3: I want my boss right here with a big red

Speaker 3: bow on him, so I can tell him what an

Speaker 3: asshole he is.

Speaker 3: And he calls him, he starts swearing, he

Speaker 3: says everything under the sun.

Speaker 1: Apparently, the other actors had signs

Speaker 1: around the necks with just words on

Speaker 1: swearing words.

Speaker 1: So if you watch him, he's looking up,

Speaker 1: looking, in case you look up at words.

Speaker 3: Amazing.

Speaker 3: Yeah, he loses it and the family you know,

Speaker 3: upset with him.

Speaker 3: Cousin Eddie drives off in his RV.

Speaker 3: We don't understand why.

Speaker 3: Initially Clark goes out and says I'm going

Speaker 3: to get it.

Speaker 3: This is it.

Speaker 3: Now the mental breakdown has started.

Speaker 3: He gets his chainsaw, he cuts down just a

Speaker 3: random tree in the front yard and brings it

Speaker 3: inside.

Speaker 3: It's why it's like honey, are you okay?

Speaker 3: He's like I'm fine.

Speaker 3: It goes on as he's walking across the

Speaker 3: landing.

Speaker 3: The top of the banister is a bit loose.

Speaker 3: Just cut us off with the chainsaw.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1: Though this is where he has a mental

Speaker 1: breakdown and unfortunately, as much as I

Speaker 1: like to find it funny, now looking at it

Speaker 1: I'm like oh God, because I've had a couple

Speaker 1: of weeks go off.

Speaker 1: Oh God, I was having a little one and it's

Speaker 1: not the nicest of feelings, gonna tell you.

Speaker 1: So you watch it now looking at that like

Speaker 1: that's like oh God, that's actually kind of

Speaker 1: dark.

Speaker 1: Next time watching, we're like oh God, he's

Speaker 1: having a mental breakdown.

Speaker 1: It's not the fun.

Speaker 3: That's not a fun thing.

Speaker 3: Then they realized that there's a squirrel

Speaker 3: in the tree.

Speaker 3: Yeah, just to add to the commotion.

Speaker 3: And he says get my hammer.

Speaker 1: Well, when he cuts it down, todd and Margot,

Speaker 1: get us.

Speaker 1: I said, do you?

Speaker 1: Think we should have got a Christmas tree

Speaker 1: this year, I don't know, they're a bit

Speaker 1: cheesy and corny, and then all of a sudden,

Speaker 1: through the window just comes the end of

Speaker 1: the tree.

Speaker 3: He says where would we even get a tree?

Speaker 1: This is our own Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1: And a tree comes through the window.

Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's destroying their Christmas

Speaker 3: again.

Speaker 3: He gets his, he wants his hammer.

Speaker 3: Great scene with the squirrels on his back.

Speaker 3: When he turns around and says where is it?

Speaker 3: I think he might have left, but it's on his

Speaker 3: back Chases them around the house a bit.

Speaker 3: The dog runs around with them a bit.

Speaker 3: It's all very slapstick, but it's fantastic

Speaker 3: stuff.

Speaker 3: And then the dog chases the squirrel, the

Speaker 3: woman Yuppie, what's her name?

Speaker 3: Margot, margot.

Speaker 3: Margot says to Todd, march on over there

Speaker 3: and punch him in his face.

Speaker 1: He's like I can't just go over, you're not

Speaker 1: man enough to do it, and I will.

Speaker 1: And she stomps on over there and bangs the

Speaker 1: door, but she doesn't know there's a rock,

Speaker 1: wiler, I've chased the squirrel around the

Speaker 1: house inside, so she gets her face full of

Speaker 1: squirrel.

Speaker 3: And then a fucking face full of wiler.

Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the weight of those dudes,

Speaker 1: she goes back to to Todd and he's.

Speaker 3: he's such a chicken shit because he's let

Speaker 3: her go over there and she goes back.

Speaker 3: All her clothes are ripped, she's got

Speaker 3: bruises and cuts.

Speaker 3: She fucking.

Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens to you?

Speaker 3: So she knocks him out.

Speaker 3: Yeah, good, good for her.

Speaker 3: We get a second big round here now because

Speaker 3: they're planning on leaving.

Speaker 3: And he says where do you think you're going?

Speaker 3: Nobody's leaving, nobody's walking out on

Speaker 3: this fun, old fashioned family Christmas.

Speaker 3: We're all in this together.

Speaker 3: He says this is a full blown four alarm

Speaker 3: holiday emergency.

Speaker 3: And he's like we are saying to get this

Speaker 3: down, gives him a bit of a pep talk.

Speaker 3: And he says look, you're a great dad and

Speaker 3: you're better than this.

Speaker 3: Everybody's a bit upset with you because

Speaker 3: you've been shouting at everyone.

Speaker 3: He like brings him back down to earth.

Speaker 3: He says you know we need to.

Speaker 3: It's fine, you know.

Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden he says that to

Speaker 3: his he reads the night before Christmas,

Speaker 3: doesn't he?

Speaker 3: He says, all right, let's read this.

Speaker 3: So they all sit around it's a cute moment.

Speaker 3: It was the night before Christmas and all

Speaker 3: through the house and he starts reading it

Speaker 3: to them again.

Speaker 3: Gav, it's a tradition.

Speaker 1: It's funny because I had to do it to

Speaker 1: Charlie Insisted days.

Speaker 1: He was like OK.

Speaker 1: And every Christmas whatever, but for her

Speaker 1: to do it, and I do it in there like it's

Speaker 1: just.

Speaker 1: He does it every year.

Speaker 1: Come on, this is all right, come down.

Speaker 3: But as he gets towards the end of the story

Speaker 3: he says oh, there was a man in the pajamas

Speaker 3: with handcuffs and cousin Eddie, what's

Speaker 3: going on?

Speaker 3: And cousin Eddie took his words literally

Speaker 3: and went and kidnapped his boss and it's

Speaker 3: brought him back to his house with a big

Speaker 3: red ribbon on him, kicks him in the living

Speaker 3: room and he says oh, it's you, chris, and

Speaker 3: he's like, it's Clark, chris Ward, he's

Speaker 3: like.

Speaker 3: That's what I meant.

Speaker 3: And so they have this impression of us.

Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3: And they sort of have this backwards and

Speaker 3: forwards and he says, she says, oh, I'm so

Speaker 3: sorry, it's our family's first kidnapping.

Speaker 3: And eventually the boss comes to realize

Speaker 3: that the little people.

Speaker 1: Yeah, the people, it's the little people

Speaker 1: that matter really.

Speaker 3: And he's he's given them all a year

Speaker 3: subscription to a jelly of the club, jelly

Speaker 3: of the month club, whereas they used to get,

Speaker 3: like, this giant bonus.

Speaker 3: And something I really believe here, which

Speaker 3: a lot of companies don't do, is Clark says

Speaker 3: people come to rely on their Christmas

Speaker 3: bonuses as part of their salary, and you

Speaker 3: can't just drop it.

Speaker 3: I've worked for you, for I think he says,

Speaker 3: like 17 years or something, I've had a

Speaker 3: bonus every year and you just decide this

Speaker 3: one year.

Speaker 3: No, it would know, like you know there's,

Speaker 3: you don't give us any warning.

Speaker 3: And he says oh, maybe I've been a bit of an

Speaker 3: asshole, but just as they come to this

Speaker 3: moment, the police sort of storm the house,

Speaker 3: these guys swat team start kicking the

Speaker 3: windows in, and they hold everybody at

Speaker 3: gunpoint.

Speaker 3: First of all, though, they do take.

Speaker 3: They do kick in Todd and Margot's house,

Speaker 3: don't they?

Speaker 3: Of course they do.

Speaker 3: Yeah, they come inside and he says I don't

Speaker 3: want to press the.

Speaker 3: I don't want to press charges.

Speaker 3: I can't do it again, he says.

Speaker 3: But I've come to realize I've been a bit of

Speaker 3: a dick.

Speaker 3: And his wife says don't tell me you didn't

Speaker 3: give yourself a bonus this year.

Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, why did his wife not

Speaker 1: get dressed For?

Speaker 1: The house is the weirdest fucking thing.

Speaker 1: It's like you, honestly, a couple of

Speaker 1: minutes you could put something on just

Speaker 1: your underwear.

Speaker 1: It's very bizarre.

Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe she, maybe she's been in

Speaker 3: saucy.

Speaker 3: Yes, his boss isn't pressing charges.

Speaker 3: Everything seems fine.

Speaker 3: And then, of course, someone likes to cigar

Speaker 3: outside.

Speaker 3: How does the flame?

Speaker 3: Where's the Lewis?

Speaker 1: lights, and this is Stoge and it.

Speaker 3: Let's not forget that Santa Claus and

Speaker 3: reindeer is the model is that on top of the

Speaker 3: sewer where a cousin of he's been pumping

Speaker 3: his shit and when Lewis that's the

Speaker 3: expression Lewis lights his cigar and that

Speaker 3: Santa Claus explodes and flies off and the

Speaker 3: kids look at me and they go look Santa and

Speaker 3: it's just the reindeer flying through the

Speaker 3: air on fire.

Speaker 3: The model Santa goes flying and Clark says

Speaker 3: I did it and it's going to get a swimming

Speaker 3: pool.

Speaker 3: The music plays with Christmas.

Speaker 3: So, you sound like the guy that sings the

Speaker 3: Toy Story songs, you know.

Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: You got a friend.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the end.

Speaker 3: And, like I said to my dad and like I said

Speaker 3: earlier, I'd never related harder to

Speaker 3: somebody in a Christmas film than I have in

Speaker 3: this one, because, you know, I can't relate

Speaker 3: to John McClain, I can't relate to Kevin

Speaker 3: McAllister, but I can relate to Clark

Speaker 3: Griswold trying to hold it all together

Speaker 3: while your family, especially when there's

Speaker 3: a lot of family members that's what me and

Speaker 3: Alice did a very low key one this year,

Speaker 3: which was me and her and the kids.

Speaker 3: Last year there was 11 of us at my in-laws

Speaker 3: and it was chaos.

Speaker 3: It was so many people.

Speaker 3: It sounds too much, it's just hell.

Speaker 3: I love you all if you're listening, which

Speaker 3: you're not, but it is too many, you know,

Speaker 3: and everyone's sort of worried about what

Speaker 3: everyone else is doing and thinking Whereas,

Speaker 3: yeah, so Clark Griswold, bless him, I love

Speaker 3: him and this is definitely the best

Speaker 3: National Lampoon's movie, I would say.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would say so.

Speaker 3: So there we go.

Speaker 3: Any other thoughts on it?

Speaker 1: No, I think we've got it pretty much.

Speaker 1: I do like this film.

Speaker 1: It's a very entertaining movie and I do

Speaker 1: like trying to watch it, but she is.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great one to watch and, like I

Speaker 3: said, I've got very happy memories of

Speaker 3: watching this with you, of all people.

Speaker 3: You know, with an eggnog or whatever, we

Speaker 3: were drinking, probably anything and

Speaker 3: everything we could get our hands on back

Speaker 3: then and, you know, slowly getting a bit

Speaker 3: more drunk is probably on a box in there or

Speaker 3: something.

Speaker 3: We were watching this.

Speaker 3: I don't know when I used to come over.

Speaker 3: I can't remember we used to do fake most,

Speaker 3: didn't we?

Speaker 3: When I come, reigned.

Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: In between your birthday and New Year, we

Speaker 3: do like another Christmas, or sometimes

Speaker 3: early in December.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 3: But yeah, there we go, guys.

Speaker 3: If you haven't seen this, go watch it.

Speaker 3: It's a Christmas film that you can watch

Speaker 3: from sort of November to January, I would

Speaker 3: say.

Speaker 3: But also, if you have seen this, go watch

Speaker 3: it again, because it's definitely worth a

Speaker 3: rewatch.

Speaker 3: Thumbs up from Gav, I should imagine.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely Thumbs up from me,

Speaker 3: and a big old thumbs up from cousin Eddie.

Speaker 3: Save the neck for me.

Speaker 3: Clark, jesus Christ, we know it's deep

Speaker 3: squirrels.

Speaker 1: He says, where's cousin Eddie he usually

Speaker 1: eats these things.

Speaker 3: No, no, he's found out there.

Speaker 1: I ain't cholesterol, so he's taking a break

Speaker 1: from them.

Speaker 1: So shall we come back to see out the show?

Speaker 1: Well, I think we've got a little Mr Murray,

Speaker 1: who wants to chat first, of course, bill.

Speaker 3: Sorry Bill, he didn't mean it.

Speaker 3: No, no, all right then.

Speaker 3: Well, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1: No, no, all right, then we'll come back for

Speaker 1: that, won't we?

Speaker 3: Here's Bill Hi welcome back to World of the

Speaker 3: Strange.

Speaker 3: World of the.

Speaker 3: Strange.

Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh.

Speaker 3: World of the Strange.

Speaker 3: There we go.

Speaker 3: Thank you very much, bill, as always,

Speaker 3: taking time out of your busy Christmas

Speaker 3: schedule to just do the intro and the outro

Speaker 3: of World of the Strange for us.

Speaker 3: We really appreciate you doing it.

Speaker 3: Thank you, I think he's pretty hammered,

Speaker 3: but he's got that mistletoe on his belt.

Speaker 1: He's got that.

Speaker 1: Look he sometimes gives us when he's you

Speaker 1: know, he's a bit horny.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: He's got a mistletoe on his belt and he's

Speaker 3: supposed to kiss under the mistletoe when

Speaker 3: that wasn't Eddie's dog.

Speaker 1: when he goes to town on your leg, just let

Speaker 1: him out of it.

Speaker 3: If Bill Murray starts humping your leg,

Speaker 3: garth, just let him finish, let him finish.

Speaker 1: If he doesn't finish, just let him finish.

Speaker 1: It's easier.

Speaker 3: Cut the balls.

Speaker 3: Now I've got a list of similarly to Clark

Speaker 3: Griswold's family, some family Christmas

Speaker 3: has gone wrong, which we probably shouldn't

Speaker 3: laugh at people's misfortunes.

Speaker 3: But these people have posted these online

Speaker 3: because in hindsight, they're laughing at

Speaker 3: the craziness of the situation.

Speaker 3: So I've got a few of these to read to you.

Speaker 1: All right, it's funny.

Speaker 1: Last night they've murdered us.

Speaker 1: Okay, go on then.

Speaker 3: Here we go.

Speaker 3: The first one says I was opening presents

Speaker 3: with my then boyfriend in front of his huge

Speaker 3: religious family.

Speaker 3: We've been together for some time, do you

Speaker 3: know, and we all thought he's going to

Speaker 3: propose to me.

Speaker 3: They all waited with bated breath and I

Speaker 3: opened the envelope from him and I thought

Speaker 3: he's got, he's put a lot of thought into

Speaker 3: this.

Speaker 3: This is going to be like a clue.

Speaker 3: Is it going to be like a treasure hunt?

Speaker 3: Nope, the envelope contained a gift

Speaker 3: certificate for laser mole removal.

Speaker 3: Wow, laser.

Speaker 1: So there's a mark on someone in the body

Speaker 1: that he doesn't like and he wants it gone

Speaker 1: yeah.

Speaker 1: I thought you'd like this.

Speaker 3: She said I couldn't decide whether to laugh

Speaker 3: or cry, but we broke up a few days later.

Speaker 3: Wow, wow.

Speaker 3: How about that Laser mole removal?

Speaker 3: Here's the next one.

Speaker 3: My uncle got sent a letter, which arrived a

Speaker 3: couple of days before Christmas, from his

Speaker 3: 18 year old son that he didn't know he had.

Speaker 3: He told us it Christmas.

Speaker 1: So say that again.

Speaker 3: My uncle got sent a letter which arrived a

Speaker 3: few days before Christmas.

Speaker 3: He opened it on Christmas morning and

Speaker 3: realized it's from his 18 year old son that

Speaker 3: he didn't know he had.

Speaker 3: Wow.

Speaker 3: So he told us all at Christmas.

Speaker 1: It's because at 18, now, they are able to

Speaker 1: go and find their true parents themselves.

Speaker 3: Merry Christmas family.

Speaker 3: I've got a kid I didn't know about from 18

Speaker 3: years ago.

Speaker 3: Imagine that I dread the day that a mini

Speaker 3: dad knocks on the door.

Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be a problem

Speaker 1: with me, ok Well, I just don't think that's

Speaker 1: going to happen.

Speaker 3: Years ago.

Speaker 3: Here's the next one.

Speaker 3: I was dating a guy for a few months.

Speaker 3: Christmas came around and it was that

Speaker 3: awkward time where you'd only been seeing

Speaker 3: each other for a few months.

Speaker 3: So I thought what do I get him?

Speaker 3: Do I get him something nice?

Speaker 3: Do I get him something small?

Speaker 3: So I thought, you know what, I'll splash

Speaker 3: that a bit.

Speaker 3: And I got him a GPS system.

Speaker 3: I thought, you know, it's thoughtful and

Speaker 3: it's useful and it's not too sentimental,

Speaker 3: it's perfect because we were only a few

Speaker 3: months into our relationship.

Speaker 3: Not bad Gav, not bad no.

Speaker 3: So I got him a used MMA magazine that he'd

Speaker 3: read.

Speaker 3: I don't even like MMA.

Speaker 1: Oh no, he realized oh shit, I better give a

Speaker 1: sign Hang on.

Speaker 3: There's more here.

Speaker 3: I don't even like it one little bit.

Speaker 3: Nor have I ever expressed an MMA or even

Speaker 3: talked about it to him.

Speaker 3: I think he, on the other hand, he loved MMA,

Speaker 3: so he tried to move on.

Speaker 3: I said thank you very much.

Speaker 3: I put the magazine down and opened the next

Speaker 3: present from him, which was a DVD that had

Speaker 3: already been opened and the rapper was

Speaker 3: missing.

Speaker 3: He went quiet and then said look, basically

Speaker 3: I got a bit bored yesterday, so I opened

Speaker 3: your DVD and watched it.

Speaker 3: And she said right, and you got me the

Speaker 3: magazine because you wanted to read it.

Speaker 3: And he said well, yeah, basically it was a

Speaker 3: magazine that I've already read and I just

Speaker 3: thought you might like to read it.

Speaker 3: Wow, how lovely, how lovely of him.

Speaker 1: Very nice.

Speaker 3: On to the next one.

Speaker 3: When I was a toddler, we were supposed to

Speaker 3: go to Savannah to visit my mum's family for

Speaker 3: Christmas, but we couldn't.

Speaker 3: My dad said I've lost my wallet.

Speaker 3: It turned out what had actually happened

Speaker 3: was some prostitutes with an S that he'd

Speaker 3: slept with had stolen his money, id cards

Speaker 3: and all of the cocaine he'd been carrying,

Speaker 3: so we ended up going to hot on holiday

Speaker 3: without him.

Speaker 3: Unsurprisingly, my parents were divorced

Speaker 3: later that year.

Speaker 1: So what he went on?

Speaker 1: He's on holiday with his family, but he'd

Speaker 1: been banging prostitutes at sex work.

Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.

Speaker 3: He couldn't go on holiday with them.

Speaker 1: Because he lost his wallet because of the

Speaker 1: sex workers at home.

Speaker 3: He said to them I've lost my wallet.

Speaker 3: But it turned out he'd had his wallet

Speaker 3: stolen by some prostitutes who'd also taken

Speaker 3: all of his ID and some cocaine that he'd

Speaker 3: been carrying, and her mum and dad broke up

Speaker 3: many months later.

Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3: Yeah, at least it's white.

Speaker 3: She was a toddler when that happened as

Speaker 3: well.

Speaker 3: Yeah, white Christmas.

Speaker 3: Indeed, she was a toddler when that

Speaker 3: happened as well.

Speaker 1: So it might have been very poor.

Speaker 1: He was banging sex workers as well.

Speaker 1: He had a little kid.

Speaker 3: He had a big old orgy basically.

Speaker 1: He's a nice man then.

Speaker 3: So this was my family, thank God, but one

Speaker 3: of my friends.

Speaker 3: So my uncle, sorry.

Speaker 3: Her uncle got cheating at the dinner table

Speaker 3: when his phone buzzed and her auntie saw

Speaker 3: the message coming in, she started

Speaker 3: screaming and crying and throwing dinner at

Speaker 3: him.

Speaker 3: My friend, her daughter, started to laugh,

Speaker 3: so her mum turned on her and started

Speaker 3: insulting her, saying you'll never get a

Speaker 3: man, You're too ugly.

Speaker 3: Then the mum stands up and started shouting

Speaker 3: at everybody the whole family starts to get

Speaker 3: involved, calling everyone back snobbers

Speaker 3: and lowlifes.

Speaker 3: And then, because I was the friend of the

Speaker 3: family, the mum then turned around to me

Speaker 3: and said and who the fuck are you, you

Speaker 3: intruding bitch On Christmas Day?

Speaker 1: Yes, that was a fun one.

Speaker 3: I've never been back there on.

Speaker 1: Christmas again.

Speaker 1: I'm glad I've done that.

Speaker 1: I have families and all this sort of stuff

Speaker 1: going on, or I don't have family, but yeah.

Speaker 3: Imagine Chevy Chase in these situations as

Speaker 3: well.

Speaker 3: He's just trying to hold it together.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 3: My husband's stepmother gave me a 36 year

Speaker 3: old at the time gave me a kindergarten size

Speaker 3: backpack for Christmas.

Speaker 3: When I opened it she said I actually bought

Speaker 3: that for a child about five years ago but

Speaker 3: the child hated it.

Speaker 3: So it's been in the closet for ages and I

Speaker 3: saw it and thought I know what you're like

Speaker 3: that.

Speaker 3: None of us like it, though.

Speaker 3: We all think it's very ugly, but we think

Speaker 3: you might like it for Christmas.

Speaker 3: Wow.

Speaker 3: That same year they gave my three children

Speaker 3: gifts totaling $15.

Speaker 3: All of them still had the for sale stickers

Speaker 3: on them, so they're all bought in a sale.

Speaker 3: Meanwhile she'd bought her biological

Speaker 3: granddaughter a $300 unicorn.

Speaker 3: They made sure we all knew it costs $300.

Speaker 3: They pointed at the sales stickers on all

Speaker 3: of my children's presents and said they

Speaker 3: were great deals, weren't they?

Speaker 3: Then they said now can you all leave the

Speaker 3: room for a moment so that we can have some

Speaker 3: nice pictures with my daughter and her

Speaker 3: unicorn.

Speaker 3: Nice.

Speaker 3: What a lovely family.

Speaker 3: Yeah, growing up this is the next one

Speaker 3: growing up, as we always did, we went to my

Speaker 3: auntie and uncle's house for Christmas Eve

Speaker 3: dinner a family tradition.

Speaker 3: It was usually full of a house, full house,

Speaker 3: normally about 35 people, big family gal.

Speaker 1: That's a lot.

Speaker 3: You see we're all sitting down to dinner

Speaker 3: with my auntie.

Speaker 1: It's a lot of cooking.

Speaker 3: It is so my auntie, whose house it was, got

Speaker 3: into an argument with her sister.

Speaker 3: It escalated to the point where they were

Speaker 3: screaming at each other and my sister, my

Speaker 3: cousins and I were being herded into the

Speaker 3: basement to go and play with something and

Speaker 3: try not to listen to the adults yelling.

Speaker 1: Play with something in the basement.

Speaker 3: It ended when my auntie yelled that she was

Speaker 3: sick of the family drama.

Speaker 3: It's time to come clean.

Speaker 3: She announced that my oldest cousin is

Speaker 3: actually not the daughter of my auntie, but

Speaker 3: the daughter of the other auntie.

Speaker 3: Basically, when her auntie got pregnant,

Speaker 3: she was too young and irresponsible to

Speaker 3: raise her, so the other auntie stepped in,

Speaker 3: who's a bit older.

Speaker 1: Okay.

Speaker 3: My Christmas day, revealing this Amazing In

Speaker 3: front of 35 people.

Speaker 3: Happy Christmas, short one.

Speaker 3: One Christmas, my brother and father got

Speaker 3: into a fight.

Speaker 3: The cops had to be called and my brother

Speaker 3: was arrested and spent three months in jail

Speaker 3: beating up my dad.

Speaker 3: So much so her brother beat up her dad.

Speaker 1: Wow.

Speaker 3: The next one is a true Clark Griswold story.

Speaker 3: A few years ago, one of my brothers or

Speaker 3: sisters said something that pissed my mom

Speaker 3: off so much that she just cracked.

Speaker 3: She pushed this Christmas tree over, went

Speaker 3: down to the basement, got a saw, came up

Speaker 3: and started sawing it into tiny pieces in

Speaker 3: front of a saw.

Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3: A couple more, 2012,.

Speaker 3: My family had reached boiling point that

Speaker 3: year.

Speaker 3: My brother had been kicked out of the army,

Speaker 3: I was a 17-year-old stoner about to drop

Speaker 3: out of school, my parents' marriage was a

Speaker 3: shit show and almost ripe for divorce, and

Speaker 3: my sister was over from the US for the

Speaker 3: holidays.

Speaker 3: The mood was bad.

Speaker 3: In the middle of Christmas dinner, the

Speaker 3: doorbell rang.

Speaker 3: My dad shouted who the fuck disturbs a

Speaker 3: family?

Speaker 3: On Christmas dinner night, we were all

Speaker 3: thinking the same thing Without hesitation,

Speaker 3: my brother gets up from the table and

Speaker 3: disappears for a few minutes.

Speaker 3: After a while, my angry dad stomped out of

Speaker 3: the room and went out to find who the

Speaker 3: unwanted visitor was.

Speaker 3: It was a man buying weed from my brother on

Speaker 3: Christmas Day, on Christmas night.

Speaker 3: You can imagine my dad's reaction.

Speaker 3: Little did we know that if my brother

Speaker 3: hadn't gotten up from the table and ensured

Speaker 3: that my dad would drive off afterwards to

Speaker 3: cool down, that he would have told us of

Speaker 3: his year-long affair that night.

Speaker 3: This is her dad, as well as the child he

Speaker 3: was about to have with his mistress and the

Speaker 3: fact that he was planning on leaving.

Speaker 3: He did actually tell us this a week later,

Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve, though, so that saved

Speaker 3: their Christmas day, but a week later they

Speaker 3: found out that their dad was having a baby

Speaker 3: with another lady.

Speaker 1: Amazing, what a family.

Speaker 3: Two more stories, short ones again.

Speaker 3: I love this one.

Speaker 3: My grandmother went out to the garage to

Speaker 3: smoke a cigarette after Christmas dinner.

Speaker 3: She intentionally slammed her arm in the

Speaker 3: car door, breaking her wrist in the process.

Speaker 3: You might ask why she was drunk.

Speaker 3: She said I wanted to see if my pain

Speaker 3: medication was working.

Speaker 1: Fucking hell.

Speaker 3: So she broke her own wrist in the car door

Speaker 3: to see if her pain medication was working.

Speaker 1: Fucking dickhead.

Speaker 3: We spent Well, no.

Speaker 1: Well, it might have been.

Speaker 3: And even if it was, it doesn't make you

Speaker 3: super human.

Speaker 3: We spent the rest of Christmas night in the

Speaker 3: emergency room, wow, and the last one is

Speaker 3: one involving poo.

Speaker 3: Lovely.

Speaker 3: And a church.

Speaker 3: I went drinking with my friends on the 23rd

Speaker 3: of December.

Speaker 3: The 24th.

Speaker 3: We went to midnight mass.

Speaker 3: Things were going well, but then it

Speaker 3: suddenly hit me.

Speaker 3: I got the shits 10 minutes into the service.

Speaker 3: My guts forced me to let out a silent fart,

Speaker 3: but it had the power to melt candles.

Speaker 3: It was such a bad smell.

Speaker 3: Luckily I got away with it because there

Speaker 3: was a baby nearby and everyone just assumed

Speaker 3: the baby had pooed in its nappy.

Speaker 3: Amazing.

Speaker 3: Then my gut did another noise and I thought

Speaker 3: oh, I've realized what's going to happen.

Speaker 3: So I had to run, with my butt clenched, to

Speaker 3: the church bathroom.

Speaker 3: There is only one male and one female unit.

Speaker 3: The men's had someone in it, so I ran into

Speaker 3: the women's and I kicked the door open and

Speaker 3: shot myself.

Speaker 3: I looked back to see the damage on my

Speaker 3: trousers.

Speaker 3: Then I realized there was no toilet paper.

Speaker 3: So I took off my jumper and my jacket and

Speaker 3: wiped my ass with my jumper and my jacket.

Speaker 3: I then went outside to wait by my parents

Speaker 3: car.

Speaker 1: Wouldn't you though I know it's a bit more

Speaker 1: disgusting would you use your hand and then

Speaker 1: just wash in the wash basin?

Speaker 1: I know that's kind of disgusting I think

Speaker 1: the diarrhea was so bad.

Speaker 3: I think it was so bad that my hand's not

Speaker 3: just going to get in.

Speaker 1: So it must have been all over the bum

Speaker 1: cheeks.

Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because he says there.

Speaker 3: I waited outside my parents car in the

Speaker 3: freezing cold in just a t-shirt, because my

Speaker 3: jacket and my jumper were in the bin in the

Speaker 3: toilet.

Speaker 1: The public clears the bin.

Speaker 3: And then my parents came back outside after

Speaker 3: the service.

Speaker 1: Shitty clothes in the bin.

Speaker 3: And they asked me why I had poo all over my

Speaker 3: trousers.

Speaker 3: I told them the whole story.

Speaker 3: They laughed at me the entire way home on

Speaker 3: Christmas Eve night.

Speaker 1: But don't just, don't sit down, yeah.

Speaker 3: You had to lie on the back seats front down,

Speaker 3: I should imagine.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Fuck, hell.

Speaker 3: Well, there we go.

Speaker 1: Nice.

Speaker 3: Clark Griswold.

Speaker 3: I think if I were, to Happy shitmas.

Speaker 3: I don't even want to pick which one of

Speaker 3: those I'm going to be.

Speaker 3: I'm just going to leave it there.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3: Happy shitmas indeed, Bill Bill.

Speaker 3: Take us out, Shall we come back and have

Speaker 3: yourself a very Murray Christmas Boy and a

Speaker 3: happy bill yeah.

Speaker 1: That's all the time we've got for this week

Speaker 1: on World of Strange.

Speaker 1: Next week, though, Gimme iron.

Speaker 1: Hairless pets Weird.

Speaker 1: I'm a back.

Speaker 3: Back again for Christmas time.

Speaker 3: Ten years of podcasting, that's it.

Speaker 3: That's all I've got.

Speaker 3: I haven't got any other lyrics.

Speaker 3: That's what we work on it Excellent.

Speaker 3: Well, merry Christmas and a happy new year

Speaker 3: to you, gavin, to all our listeners, and

Speaker 3: happy tenure anniversary all over again to

Speaker 3: us.

Speaker 3: Fantastic stuff, it's been a wild ride.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very enjoyable.

Speaker 3: National Lampoons and all that business.

Speaker 1: I love putting words in your ears.

Speaker 3: This is the last episode of 2023.

Speaker 3: So let's talk about what the next three

Speaker 3: episodes are going to be as we enter into a

Speaker 3: new year.

Speaker 3: First episode of 2024, episode 147 will be

Speaker 3: a patron pick.

Speaker 3: Patron pick, matthew Godley's, your turn

Speaker 3: again.

Speaker 3: You, as we discussed, have selected Flash

Speaker 3: Gordon and Dead man.

Speaker 3: Shoes, ups and downs, highs and lows there,

Speaker 3: motions.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 3: After that Gav you old git.

Speaker 3: It's your birthday episode 32.

Speaker 3: Episode 100.

Speaker 3: He's only 32, guys Even that sounds old.

Speaker 3: It does really.

Speaker 3: Episode 148, Gav's birthday episode.

Speaker 3: It's going to be Sorcerer 47.

Speaker 3: It's going to be 47.

Speaker 3: He's not really 32.

Speaker 3: Yeah, mugs.

Speaker 1: Sorcerer and Studio 666.

Speaker 3: Sorcerer and Studio 666.

Speaker 1: Two completely different films.

Speaker 3: I've not seen either of them.

Speaker 1: Amazing.

Speaker 3: And after that will be episode 149.

Speaker 3: And, as mentioned previously, any episode

Speaker 3: we can.

Speaker 3: For the next year.

Speaker 3: We're going to do director specials and

Speaker 3: we're going to kick that off with episode

Speaker 3: 149, which will be an Adam Green special.

Speaker 3: Looking at this relatively newcomer to the

Speaker 3: horror game, he's been around a while now,

Speaker 3: but not yeah, I was going to say it's good

Speaker 3: 20 years it's still fresh-ish.

Speaker 3: We're going to be covering two of his films

Speaker 3: Frozen not the Disney thing, a long musical

Speaker 3: thing, the one where they're in the ski

Speaker 3: lift and Digging Up the Marrow.

Speaker 3: A bit of Ray Wise in your life there.

Speaker 1: And I actually know a lot about Adam Green

Speaker 1: as well.

Speaker 3: Yes, well, that's what's going to be fun to

Speaker 3: discuss.

Speaker 3: So that's what we're doing next, patron Pit,

Speaker 3: gav's birthday and an Adam Green special.

Speaker 3: Well, it's fun to kick the ear off, gav.

Speaker 1: I thought you said a dog bark.

Speaker 1: You have a dog there.

Speaker 3: I don't have a dog here Weird, it's just

Speaker 3: jacking on a bone, just knots.

Speaker 3: Well, gav, I think what I'll probably do at

Speaker 3: this point is say some admin stuff before

Speaker 3: we say goodbye to Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3: Anything you want to add before we do that?

Speaker 1: Thank you Everybody.

Speaker 1: Have a great New Year.

Speaker 1: I'm glad everyone's happy.

Speaker 1: If you're happy.

Speaker 3: Don't do this all over again.

Speaker 1: Exactly, you're not happy, then.

Speaker 1: I'm happy that you're not OK, we'll confuse

Speaker 1: again.

Speaker 1: Carry on Thank you.

Speaker 1: I certainly just said anything.

Speaker 3: I can see you're really regretting opening

Speaker 3: your mouth.

Speaker 3: He's just wrung in his shoulders.

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Speaker 1: And quite possibly, as I'm wearing one, I'm

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Speaker 1: It's stole one of the fresh t-shirts and

Speaker 1: tie-dye it for me and it looks kind of good.

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Speaker 3: a very Christmassy fashion.

Speaker 3: So, first of all, thank you, don Correa.

Speaker 3: Thank you, matthew Godley.

Speaker 3: Have you been a good boy this?

Speaker 1: year.

Speaker 1: Oh has Father Christmas given you a good

Speaker 1: tickle.

Speaker 3: Oh right, this might get bad.

Speaker 3: Oh, jamie Jenkins, you've been a very good

Speaker 3: girl.

Speaker 1: Did you have a good pull-up cracker?

Speaker 3: Oh God, this is Gav saying these things

Speaker 3: off-screen, kevin S5.

Speaker 3: You very good boy.

Speaker 1: Jingle bells, jingle bells Sarah.

Speaker 3: Kay.

Speaker 3: No, oh, sarah Kay.

Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy your presents.

Speaker 1: Oh, roast potatoes, why I?

Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3: Oh Rachel, oh Rachel, I hope you get a

Speaker 3: white Christmas.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Speaker 3: oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Speaker 3: oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 3: What a good boy you've been.

Speaker 3: Sit on my lap, oh oh, rj.

Speaker 3: Oh, rj, you have been a good boy, and

Speaker 3: finally, Lex Boo, what a wonderful girl

Speaker 3: you've been this Christmas.

Speaker 3: May your days be merry and bright.

Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 3: I've always wanted to be Santa.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Thank you, merry Christmas Patreons.

Speaker 3: I hope you guys all enjoyed that and I hope

Speaker 3: Santa comes down your chimney and empties

Speaker 3: his sack all over you.

Speaker 3: Oh the place, oh the classics, the classics.

Speaker 3: But listen, go pour your cracker and

Speaker 3: whatever it is you do, stuff your bird,

Speaker 3: stuff your turkey and pour gravy over

Speaker 3: everything.

Speaker 3: And drink some egg drink some egg mog and

Speaker 3: smoke some chocochoccalola, chocochoccalola,

Speaker 3: chocochoccalola.

Speaker 1: Chocochoccalola.

Speaker 1: Smoke some chocochoccalola.

Speaker 3: Smoke some chocochoccalola and drink some

Speaker 3: egg mog, and may your days be merry and

Speaker 3: bright.

Speaker 1: You know maybe your days be buried, buried.

Speaker 3: Days be buried under the sun.

Speaker 1: Let's finish this now.

Speaker 1: Let's finish this.

Speaker 3: Listen, it's a good night from Clark

Speaker 3: Griswold.

Speaker 3: It is.

Speaker 3: It's a good night from Coslett, it was you

Speaker 3: it was Paul, and it's a good night from

Speaker 3: Snotts yacking on a bone.

Speaker 1: Indeed, it is and it's.

Speaker 1: A good night from you.

Speaker 3: It's a good night from me and it's a good

Speaker 3: night from Santa and it's a little helpers

Speaker 3: and it's a good night from me.

Speaker 1: Good night everybody.

Speaker 3: What does Snoop Dogg say at Christmas?

Speaker 3: I don't know.

Speaker 3: Ho ho, ho.

Speaker 3: Good night everyone.

Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the podcast on

Speaker 1: Haunted Hill.

Speaker 1: We will be back again real soon, merry

Speaker 1: Christmas.

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