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The holiday season isn’t complete without the joy and nostalgia of Christmas movies. In this Building Better Developers 2024 Christmas Special, hosts Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche share their favorite festive films and discuss how these timeless classics and modern hits add a little extra sparkle to the most wonderful time of the year. From iconic blockbusters to cozy Hallmark flicks, this episode celebrates the tradition of Christmas movies and the heartwarming connections they foster.
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[Music] all right well I click record bam we are recording again hiy everybody before we even hit record because some people can't wait we talked about our topic for this time around so I think we're going to do Christmas movies and that's actually there's a lot of good stuff there so I'm not going to talk about anymore because I want to get right we'll save it for the episode I want to use up all of our good stuff here um as I finish let me get one little fresh drink here just a tad more caffeine because that's what I always need and we're going to do a little three two well hello and welcome back once again those bells those Christmas bells point out that this is a holiday episode and this episode we're going to get into Christmas movies because it's that time of year or even holiday movies if you want to get into that especially if you're on the Hallmark Channel or something like that and there's like four billion of them before we do that I'm here I'm not going to ho ho ho I don't I don't have a bowl full of jelly or anything belly of jelly and all that kind of crap I'm just Rob rodad I'm one of the founders of developer.com I'm develop andur also building better developers this podcast and a founder of RB Consulting where we it's Christmas every day when you work with us because we take all of that crap that you got just like when you Christmas you got all of this stuff and you're trying to figure out how to like get it home if you've gone to gone some we help you with your technology sprawl all those gifts you've gotten all the years of technology and find a better way through integration simplification automation to utilize that stuff to actually make it worthwhile instead of just putting it up on a shelf until a year from now when you go oh yeah I got that Christmas gift last year we help you really make the most of your budget and all your efforts that go into your technology in the good thing bad thing sense good thing is got a customer this week that we finally got two months of like billing headache straightened out and it was basically because it was like hey go talk to you know shoot this email off here and I did and it kept bouncing and I was like I assumed it was something I did wrong kept going back and forth and it's finally it's like oh yeah we changed this it's one of those things it's just like miscommunication finally got that straightened out so it's like one headache I don't have to worry about as I wrap up the year bad thing is it is that Christmas season and we we came into this like okay here's what we're going to do here's our budget that has gone out the window there's all kinds of little stuff we're like oh yeah let's do this let's do that let's gret that thing let's do that thing so as always January is going to be one of those where like December's great and you get into January they're like why did I buy so much stuff or why did I do so many things but enjoy it while it lasts because sooner or later the bills come or something along those lines along those same lines let's see how you're doing today go ahead and introduce yourself Michael and we'll step right into our holiday hey everyone my name is Michael Mage I'm one of the co-founders of developer Nur I'm also the founder of Envision QA where if you are a software shop or have custom applications that you have had built if you have buggy software or problems maintaining them we come in we look at your systems we walk through your current processes and we bring a test driven approach to software development and we can help you fix or stabilize your products making your customers happy and kind of increasing the bottom line you know happy customers means more uh hopefully more sales of your product good and bad uh good it's the holiday season all that wonderful you know candy popcorn chocolate sweets and things that uh keep getting delivered or we keep buying at the grocery store uh to our Hearts content uh bad thing my waistline has gone up quite a bit this holiday season by eating too much junk uh I think I'm going to have to do one of those FAA New Year's resolutions where I'm going to lose weight but yeah know right now I keep eat drinking and that egg nug and eating those Christmas cookies yeah that is part of the the bills and the uh diet programs come due in January and so that's the same thing as I was a really good and I basically by the time got into Thanksgiving just going the wrong direction and it's tough because there's a lot of that where it's like all the sweets and all the other food and just the general food and drinks and stuff like that way more than I need and I'm too busy so I'm not getting out an exercising enough so yeah January is going to be like catchup time basically try to like get all that stuff back in order but for now I'm enjoy it while it lasts Christmas movies now this was great because one there are I always think of like iconic there are Christmas movies that just you have to watch basically every year I do I feel and this going to be a challenge this year because there's a short a very short period of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and so there's going to be movies I'm probably going to miss that I you won't watch this year so next year I'll have to like figure out how to like really binge my way through them and we've just been really busy so we haven't had a lot of Christmas movie nights and I don't want to throw her under the bus but Natalie has several times we've sat down to watch like a traditional movie and she's like oh I've never seen that and so we go watch this other movie which you know they're not bad but it's like wait a minute I like I have stuff to do I have Christmas movies I need to watch so here it is at this point almost Christmas I haven't watched Die Hard yet this year and this is one of those that like she's like Ah that's not a Christmas movie and yeah I forgive her I know it's like it's just wrong but But Die Hard Die Hard too haven't gotten into those I haven't even watched any of the Santa Claus's movies there's like several of these that I have not gotten into now of course I got I got like my elf fix I don't think we haven't watched Christmas vacation yet I mean there's like a lot of these like I'm just realizing I have a lot of movies to watch in the next few days I have got to really like crank out my movie per day you know pum kind of thing I do want to mention this is not too long ago red one came out and I think that that I see that as being one of these movies that is really well done that is going to be a recurring Christmas movie from here on out the the most recent previous one to that would be Netflix's Christmas Chronicles and Christmas Chronicles 2 both incredibly good movies uh a lot of fun tra very much like the old school Christmas movie Santa Claus blah blah blah all that kind of good stuff that is really like makes life that that much better I mean we did get the Scrooge we got like the in the new Scrooge movie if you haven't seen the I think it's the DreamWorks version of it it's a it's a fun one it's like an hour and a half or whatever but uh very much a a good movie came about four or five years ago and we got like the old old school actually we haven't I was going to say I think it was I think we gotten Scrooge but we haven't gotten Scrooged yet so we're like we've got a couple we've got to catch up on what are your thoughts like some of your favorite Christmas movies and and where you go during this season so thanks to my mother years ago uh she got us into watching The Hallmark uh Christmas shows every year so we we're working our way through that is just kind of our feel-good movies you know footballs we take breaks for that but NASCAR's done so uh I get Saturdays back to kind of watch some of my shows uh so my top list of course Renee likes die hard I'm Die Hard 1 and two is her Christmas movie so we cannot start watching Christmas movies till we watch that first so like she is nipping at the butt November 1st can we watch die hard I'm like it's not even Thanksgiving yet so this year literally the day after Thanksgiving we watched Di and we started our Christmas tradition so this year I have the argument that Iron Man 3 is a Christmas movie because it takes place over Christmas it's knows and and you know it ends with Christmas uh so I'm arguing that Iron Man 3 should be a Christmas movie then if die hard's a Christmas movie so is Lethal Weapon I just want to say because I've seen these arguments also the uh Hawkeye the series The Little the uh Disney when they did the Hawkeye series that one is very much a Christmas series as well so there's a lot of there's a lot of good christmy stuff out there just got look I I got to watch that one again not only that but Hawkeye takes place in well they basically brought the Netflix uh Marvel series like the Daredevil and all that together in that one so that was like a good series uh Scrooge Gotta Love Bill Murray gotta love that one uh that's actually uh so we have are certain CL Classics we'll watch the week of Christmas so like all this week is when we start watching these so Scrooge is up next Polar Express love that movie um I am particularly a fan of the snoopies so of course I'm going to be doing uh the Snoopy Christmas my wife won't she doesn't like uh cartoon cartoons uh so her loss uh Frosty and Rudolph of course uh Christmas Chronicles we just watched the first one um we're about to watch the second one tonight uh got Grinch uh both grinches I like the anime uh she likes the Jim Carrey version both good um different takes on it uh we did watch the first Santa Claus movie so that that was good um we'll probably watch the second one I kind of like the third one but the third one's not really my favorite and the Disney TV series I just wasn't a fan um I don't know why it just didn't quite have that magic um so those are kind of like what's on the agenda to watch uh probably the next few days uh get through that and of course you know like I said the Hallmark movies so we're cranking through those this uh uh Netflix actually had some good ones so there was uh one with brck shields uh which was like an a castle that was really good last year uh we just rewatched that one that one was pretty good uh the princess series that they did uh a Christmas Prince or whatever that was actually a pretty good series Netflix actually had quite a few uh over the years now the Lindsay Lohan ones e I'm not overly a fan of that but like during covid and like pre-co when Netflix really started investing in the Christmas shows some of those are really good so I I think they're going to start becoming like oh we got to watch that next year we got to watch that next so those are uh kind of nice Disney like you said Hawkeye that was a great one that they did they they tried to do the Santa Claus magic again and hit or miss on that but some of the streaming ones have some nice ones coming out um so it'll be interesting to see we did watch red one so now that it's on streaming we did watch that and I actually liked it but I think I understand why it didn't do well in the box office because it really felt like it was made more for TV streaming than it was for the theaters I I don't know why I just as we watched it it just kind of had that feeling that this was more like targeted for streamers than movie goers yeah I mean it had it it had some of the spectacle that you want out of a a big you know a big screen movie but yeah I think that could be part of it it's just it was for us it was great it was a it was a full um theater when we saw it we happened to it was one of those things we just happened into it actually we missed it we we were going to go um to an earlier showing and they were sold out when we got there and then we went back later and and picked it up later and it worked out really good and it was it was it was a it was a fun movie I did I get that I think that's part of it it is one of those that's I guess why I liked it it's one of those it's very much suitable to just like watch it every year it's it's moderately predictable even the first time you see it so it's not like it's that much different um it did remind me that's another couple that I've that I've started into I always go through the first and second Home Alone we've already got the the first one of those done um and then also like some of the like one offs um Christmas with the cranks and um jingle all the way you know some of those are always there and then actually one that's very near and dear to my heart that's uh just because if it's not the happiest one is uh Family Stone because it's always around Christmas and family gatherings and stuff like that it's always another good one and then we wait till the end as we get to the end of the week because we probably will watch some Christmas movies after Christmas because we just got to catch up and then there's always like a Harry Met Sally to me is like like the epitome of a New Year's kind of like getting in the New Year's kind of movie but that's maybe we get into a little bit of the mushy romantic ones as well but you know they're all good and it is to me that's like part of the season is you just sit there have like a nice warm drink maybe have the fire going throw a blanket over you and just sit there and watch some TV and just chill for a while you know something like that and maybe you're maybe you're snacking along the way as well like we've gone through enough popcorn now that we don't need to do as much but we still will I'm sure we'll crank out some more popcorn and we'll be in good shape so by the time we get in January we're like hey we've used up all our popcorn allotment for the year so we'll do it next time around always it's good and it is it's just one of those that to me is like it's what it's about it's having some of these traditions and setting some stuff up so that we can have a good time enjoy the family and the and the times around there and just you sometimes it is as we've talked about it's good to just unplug a little bit and to just not worry about all the other work and all the other crap we've got and just like you know veg a little bit it may be may not be the best use of your time you know it's like not productive necessarily or anything like that but I think it is like there is a productive side of being able to just relax and allow your body to rest and recover and and things like that it's sort of like taking a long nap and if you take a nap during some of these movies bonus you've gotten a little bit you know you've got two birds with one Stones you got your nap time in and you manage to like once again watch one of those movies that just makes it you know makes your heart a little bit lighter because you're able to like get through it again and enjoy that season closing thoughts from you yeah the other thing as you watch these a lot of them are not necessarily just Feelgood movies but they are happy movies yes there's some romcoms things of that nature but there a lot of them aren't necessarily too violent granted red one is probably an exception to that along with die hard but you end up feeling a little de-stressed a little happier you know instead of like all the bad news that happens every day you get that kind of lift up feeling from watching these movies uh the last thing I'll throw out you didn't mention it I didn't mention it but A Christmas Story the leg land I don't I can't watch that anymore because all through school growing up it literally was played on the channel every day in December all the way throughout through senior year of high school that's all we had running on the TV in December it's like okay I'm so tired of this movie but it is a good movie you know if you hear the leg lamp joke that came from that movie you shoot your eye out that came from that movie I I it's a good feel-good movie I just can't watch it any yep that is definitely one of those and it's not been I think that's me it was such a part of my childhood and growing up I've seen it so many times that it doesn't it it is not on my my regular list now it's a wonderful life is but that's partially because I actually never saw that movie ever until I was into my 40s I think it was like the first time I ever watched it so it's a little more newish to me plus it's just like it is a nice something that's very comforting about going to an old school black and white kind of thing I don't get the colorizer I've got the original black and white and there's just something that very much like takes me back to childhood and and stuff like that so we will wrap this one up just as you're probably need to wrap up some of your gifts as you're getting close to that time as always send us whatever you want whether it's holiday greetings whether it's uh questions comments concerns suggestions all of that stuff happy to get it uh so happy that you have spent another year with us and we'll next time around we're going to talk about you know s wrap up our holiday specials talk about the New Year how how we're going to dive into 2025 and how we're going to get things started so that as we get to this point a year from now we are much much better developers we have built better developers and wrapping up that season have a lot of habits to take us into uh the future basically that being said you guys go out there have yourself a great day a great week great holiday season and we'll talk to you next time bonus material I don't even know if like that was like pretty good well let's see is there any I want try trying to think if there was a movie in there that we didn't cover that we want to mention like throw one more out there and I'm trying to think of what's out there um yeah I didn't want to say the I agree the the Santa Claus series it was nice it was fun enough to go back to see those um last year I went because they did the season and last year they did the second season and last year it was like it was a little bit drudgery for me to go through the first season and then to get into the second season to just like run through all of those so it was uh it's not you know it's it's good but it's not like it's not to the level of like iconic you know Christmas stuff to me um there were definitely some good movies out there that are like you know one you'll catch here and there I actually we've seen some that are like you know borderline out there like we watched bad mom's Christmas which actually had like a couple of stories it was like oh okay it was like you know and then we watched U oh shoot there was one I can't even think of the name of it now that was another it's an old old one with Danny Devo and um I can't even think of the other one but it was you know one of those it was like it was okay it's a it's a Christmas movie but uh I love to yeah I love the arguments around like certain things like the Harry Potter stuff those are always run during Christmas and a lot of people almost call them Christmas movies because there is some you know there's Christmas in it but it's a whole year and and so there's yeah the animated stuff the claymation ones are also always in the favorite we didn't really talk about those like the um I think it is it's Frosty the Snowman is is claymation they've got that and then some of um California Raisins Christmas special yeah I mean you got some of those that are just like the or the stop motion or whatever they are those are always good um classic movies and it's just like whatever it is I all you guys out there guys and gals I recommend that you build some stuff around the end of the year that whether it's you know if you're if you're a Christmas celebrator then that's the best way to just have some Christmas movies some Christmas events some things that you do um that's what I said is we're solely building our own is like we had a whole bunch of stuff now as as we move to a different season of life we're building some other stuff up but then there is always like Christmas movies are the things that like to tie it all the way back and even whether it's like whether it's how you take time off whether it's like you know some of the things that you do during this year because it's the that time of year CU like just just spending some time going out and like driving the neighborhoods and checking all the lights out and stuff like that those kinds of things I think just goes back to what Michael says it allows us to have a little bit of happiness a little bit of Joy a little bit of like getting away from all the negative crap that's out there oh that was a bonus I was thinking about is especially in an election year you spent all year and all the ads and all the crap and stuff like that and to get to the end of it and be like we got through another election year you should be very happy and it's like you've earned some good feel good just happiness kinds of shows out there closing thoughts from you I had two bonuses uh one to me it's not a Christmas movie it's a Thanksgiving movie but Miracle on 34th Street you always have to watch that the day or on Thanksgiving or the day after Thanksgiving because it starts out with the Macy's day parade you know everyone goes to visit Santa Claus so to me that's more a Thanksgiving pre- Christmas holiday movie but I love it you know I prefer the black and white virgin versus the K but that's just me uh the other one is a Christmas movie but it's from my favorite director who did my favorite Halloween movie which is trick-or treat so this is actually a Christmas horror movie uh trumpus not you gota look for the guy who did trick-or treat and look for his Christmas one and it's trumpus and it is a Christmas horror is movie uh I thoroughly enjoyed it but I'm also a big Halloween movie guy as well so for me I always have to throw in at least one horror Christmas movie and that that's it every year I would say that actually reminds me that is my other that is the combo one is The Nightmare Before Christmas is that one is there's a lot of that that one's very near and dear to my heart because I've I like all the stuff that Burton's done all almost all the stuff and always like Danny Elfman back to a huge Boingo Boingo fan all the way back things like that love the music love the style uh and then also I have a a guy that graduated college with me that that was the first time he works with Disney and worked for them for years and I think he's still working with them and that was the first one where he was actually his name was in the credits and I remember us going to theater in downtown Chicago and watching that movie and sitting there to the end until we could see his name in the four billion you know names that are at the end of that uh but it's also it's just one my kids love it we've got the soundtrack it's one of those that it's just like we sing along it's a much to the chran of everybody that can hear us but it is a is fun one of those like combo kind of things that we'll we usually don't do it around thanksg or around October and Halloween even though it is very Halloween is uh we usually try to get that that's like some of those is like when I'm itching a little bit to have a Christmas movie that's like perfect to throw in sometimes in think you know November time frame even before Thanksgiving because it's like well I'm going to argue it's October and it's a Halloween thing and we're a little late for Halloween even though it also does give us that that Christmas kind of feel for the whole thing you mentioned Tim Burton Edward Scissor Hands and Batman Returns almost Christmas movies to me yeah I think uh yeah both of those there's a lot of that I think Batman Returns definitely because that's like the big thing is the Christmas tree lighting and all that kind of stuff so yeah that's old school but that's uh there's some Christmasy if you want some DC Christmas then you can get Batman uh Batman Returns is that what it no was that the one okay Batman Returns it was the second one um and I'm sure there's some others out there there's always the Christmas specials of stuff except for the Star Wars Christmas Special just avoid that like the plank don't ever watch I I actually remember watching that when it was like first done and it was years later that I blacked it out it was years later that I was reminded that it even existed it's one of those it's like it's a painful to watch just like wow you guys are really stretching uh trying to get the Star Wars name into something and get it out there your marketing went too far that being said hopefully our marketing and our time has not gone too far thank you for spending your time with us go out there now and spend some time with your friends your family whatever it is playing some games whatever it is go out there enjoy your holiday season and we will catch you again next episode as we start our March to the end of the year finish our March for this year and we start into 2025 go out there and have yourself a great one we will talk to you next time [Music]
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all right well I click record bam we are
recording
again hiy everybody before we even hit
record because some people can't wait we
talked about our topic for this time
around so I think we're going to do
Christmas movies and that's actually
there's a lot of good stuff there so I'm
not going to talk about anymore because
I want to get right we'll save it for
the episode I want
to use up all of our good stuff here
um as I finish let me get one little
fresh drink here
just a tad more
caffeine because that's what I always
need and we're going to do a little
three two well hello and welcome back
once again those bells those Christmas
bells point out that this is a holiday
episode and this episode we're going to
get into Christmas movies because it's
that time of year or even holiday movies
if you want to get into that especially
if you're on the Hallmark Channel or
something like that and there's like
four billion of them before we do that
I'm here I'm not going to ho ho ho I
don't I don't have a bowl full of jelly
or anything belly of jelly and all that
kind of crap I'm just Rob rodad I'm one
of the founders of developer.com I'm
develop andur also building better
developers this podcast and a founder of
RB Consulting where we it's Christmas
every day when you work with us because
we take all of that crap that you got
just like when you Christmas you got all
of this stuff and you're trying to
figure out how to like get it home if
you've gone to gone some
we help you with your technology sprawl
all those gifts you've gotten all the
years of technology and find a better
way through integration simplification
automation to utilize that stuff to
actually make it worthwhile instead of
just putting it up on a shelf until a
year from now when you go oh yeah I got
that Christmas gift last year we help
you really make the most of your budget
and all your efforts that go into your
technology in the good thing bad thing
sense good thing is got a customer this
week that we finally got two months of
like billing headache straightened out
and it was basically because it was like
hey go talk to you know shoot this email
off here and I did and it kept bouncing
and I was like I assumed it was
something I did wrong kept going back
and forth and it's finally it's like oh
yeah we changed this it's one of those
things it's just like miscommunication
finally got that straightened out so
it's like one headache I don't have to
worry about as I wrap up the year bad
thing is it is that Christmas season and
we we came into this like okay here's
what we're going to do here's our budget
that has gone out the window there's all
kinds of little stuff we're like oh yeah
let's do this let's do that let's gret
that thing let's do that thing
so as always January is going to be one
of those where like December's great and
you get into January they're like why
did I buy so much stuff or why did I do
so many things but enjoy it while it
lasts because sooner or later the bills
come or something along those
lines along those same lines let's see
how you're doing today go ahead and
introduce yourself Michael and we'll
step right into our holiday hey everyone
my name is Michael Mage I'm one of the
co-founders of developer Nur I'm also
the founder of Envision QA where if you
are a software shop or have custom
applications that you have had built if
you have buggy software or problems
maintaining them we come in we look at
your systems we walk through your
current processes and we bring a test
driven approach to software development
and we can help you fix or stabilize
your products making your customers
happy and kind of increasing the bottom
line you know happy customers means more
uh hopefully more sales of your product
good and bad uh good it's the holiday
season all that wonderful you know candy
popcorn chocolate sweets and things that
uh keep getting delivered or we keep
buying at the grocery store uh to our
Hearts content uh bad thing my waistline
has gone up quite a bit this holiday
season by eating too much junk uh I
think I'm going to have to do one of
those FAA New Year's resolutions where
I'm going to lose weight but yeah know
right now I keep eat drinking and that
egg nug and eating those Christmas
cookies yeah that is part of the the
bills and the uh diet programs come due
in January and so that's the same thing
as I was a really good and I basically
by the time got into Thanksgiving just
going the wrong
direction and it's tough because there's
a lot of that where it's like all the
sweets and all the other food and just
the general food and drinks and stuff
like that way more than I need and I'm
too busy so I'm not getting out an
exercising enough so yeah January is
going to be like catchup time basically
try to like get all that stuff back in
order but for now I'm enjoy it while it
lasts Christmas
movies now this was great because one
there are I always think of like iconic
there are Christmas movies that just you
have to watch basically every year I do
I feel and this going to be a challenge
this year because there's a short a very
short period of time between
Thanksgiving and Christmas and so
there's going to be movies I'm probably
going to miss that I you won't watch
this year so next year I'll have to like
figure out how to like really binge my
way through them and we've just been
really busy so we haven't had a lot of
Christmas movie
nights and I don't want to throw her
under the bus but Natalie has several
times we've sat down to watch like a
traditional movie and she's like oh I've
never seen that and so we go watch this
other movie which you know they're not
bad but it's like wait a minute I like I
have stuff to do I have Christmas movies
I need to watch so here it is at this
point almost Christmas I haven't watched
Die Hard yet this year and this is one
of those that like she's like Ah that's
not a Christmas movie and yeah I forgive
her I know it's like it's just wrong but
But Die Hard Die Hard too haven't gotten
into those I haven't even watched any of
the Santa Claus's movies there's like
several of these that I have not gotten
into now of course I got I got like my
elf fix I don't think we haven't watched
Christmas vacation yet I mean there's
like a lot of these like I'm just
realizing I have a lot of movies to
watch in the next few days I have got to
really like crank out my movie per day
you know pum kind of thing I do want to
mention
this is not too long ago red one came
out and I think that that I see that as
being one of these movies that is really
well done that is going to be a
recurring Christmas movie from here on
out the the most recent previous one to
that would be Netflix's Christmas
Chronicles and Christmas Chronicles 2
both incredibly good movies uh a lot of
fun tra very much like the old school
Christmas movie Santa Claus blah blah
blah all that kind of good stuff that is
really like makes life that that much
better I mean we did get the Scrooge we
got like the in the new Scrooge movie if
you haven't seen the I think it's the
DreamWorks version of it it's a it's a
fun one it's like an hour and a half or
whatever but uh very much a a good movie
came about four or five years ago and we
got like the old old school actually we
haven't I was going to say I think it
was I think we gotten Scrooge but we
haven't gotten Scrooged yet so we're
like we've got a couple we've got to
catch up on what are your thoughts like
some of your favorite Christmas movies
and and where you go during this season
so thanks to my mother years ago uh she
got us into watching The Hallmark uh
Christmas shows every year so we we're
working our way through that is just
kind of our feel-good movies you know
footballs we take breaks for that but
NASCAR's done so uh I get Saturdays back
to kind of watch some of my shows uh so
my top list of course Renee likes die
hard I'm
Die Hard 1 and two is her Christmas
movie so we cannot start watching
Christmas movies till we watch that
first so like she is nipping at the butt
November 1st can we watch die hard I'm
like it's not even Thanksgiving yet so
this year literally the day after
Thanksgiving we watched
Di and we started our Christmas
tradition so this year I have the
argument that Iron Man 3 is a Christmas
movie because it takes place over
Christmas it's knows and and you know it
ends with Christmas uh
so I'm arguing that Iron Man 3 should be
a Christmas movie then if die hard's a
Christmas movie so is Lethal Weapon I
just want to say because I've seen these
arguments also the uh Hawkeye the series
The Little the uh Disney when they did
the Hawkeye series that one is very much
a Christmas series as well so there's a
lot of there's a lot of good christmy
stuff out there just got look I I got to
watch that one again not only that but
Hawkeye takes place in well they
basically brought the
Netflix uh Marvel series like the
Daredevil and all that together in that
one so that was like a good series uh
Scrooge Gotta Love Bill Murray gotta
love that one uh that's actually uh so
we have are certain CL Classics we'll
watch the week of Christmas so like all
this week is when we start watching
these so Scrooge is up next Polar
Express love that movie um I am
particularly a fan of the snoopies so of
course I'm going to be doing uh the
Snoopy Christmas my wife won't she
doesn't like uh cartoon cartoons uh so
her loss uh Frosty and Rudolph of course
uh Christmas Chronicles we just watched
the first one um we're about to watch
the second one tonight uh got Grinch uh
both grinches I like the anime uh she
likes the Jim Carrey version both good
um different takes on it uh we did watch
the first Santa Claus movie so that that
was good um we'll probably watch the
second one I kind of like the third one
but the third one's not really my
favorite and the Disney TV series I just
wasn't a fan um I don't know why it just
didn't quite have that
magic um so those are kind of like
what's on the agenda to watch uh
probably the next few days uh get
through that and of course you know like
I said the Hallmark movies so we're
cranking through those this uh uh
Netflix actually had some good ones so
there was uh one with brck shields uh
which was like an a castle that was
really good last year uh we just
rewatched that one that one was pretty
good uh the princess series that they
did uh a Christmas Prince or whatever
that was actually a pretty good series
Netflix actually had quite a few uh over
the years now the Lindsay Lohan ones e
I'm not overly a fan of that but like
during covid and like pre-co when
Netflix really started investing in the
Christmas shows some of those are really
good so I I think they're going to start
becoming like oh we got to watch that
next year we got to watch that next so
those are uh kind of
nice Disney like you said Hawkeye that
was a great one that they did they they
tried to do the Santa Claus magic again
and hit or miss on that but some of the
streaming ones have some nice ones
coming out um so it'll be interesting to
see we did watch red one so now that
it's on streaming we did watch that and
I actually liked it but I think I
understand
why it didn't do well in the box office
because it really felt like it was made
more for TV streaming than it was for
the theaters I I don't know why I just
as we watched it it just kind of had
that feeling that this was more like
targeted for streamers than movie goers
yeah I mean it had it it had some of the
spectacle that you want out of a a big
you know a big screen movie
but yeah I think that could be part of
it it's just it was for us it was great
it was a it was a full um theater when
we saw it we happened to it was one of
those things we just happened into it
actually we missed it we we were going
to go um to an earlier showing and they
were sold out when we got there and then
we went back later and and picked it up
later and it worked out really good and
it was it was it was a it was a fun
movie I did I get that I think that's
part of it it is one of those that's I
guess why I liked it it's one of those
it's very much suitable to just like
watch it every year it's it's moderately
predictable even the first time you see
it so it's not like it's that much
different um it did remind me that's
another couple that I've that I've
started into I always go through the
first and second Home Alone we've
already got the the first one of those
done um and then also like some of the
like one offs um Christmas with the
cranks and um jingle all the way you
know some of those are always there and
then actually one that's very near and
dear to my heart that's uh just because
if it's not the happiest one is uh
Family Stone because it's always around
Christmas and family gatherings and
stuff like that it's always another good
one and then we wait till the end as we
get to the end of the week because we
probably will watch some Christmas
movies after Christmas because we just
got to catch up and then there's always
like a Harry Met Sally to me is like
like the epitome of a New Year's kind of
like getting in the New Year's kind of
movie but that's maybe we get into a
little bit of the mushy romantic ones as
well but you know they're all good and
it is to me that's like part of the
season is you just sit there have like a
nice warm drink maybe have the fire
going throw a blanket over you and just
sit there and watch some TV and just
chill for a while you know something
like that and maybe you're maybe you're
snacking along the way as well like
we've gone through enough popcorn now
that we don't need to do as much but we
still will I'm sure we'll crank out some
more popcorn and we'll be in good shape
so by the time we get in January we're
like hey we've used up all our popcorn
allotment for the year so we'll do it
next time around always it's good and it
is it's just one of those that to me is
like it's what it's about it's having
some of these traditions and setting
some stuff up so that we can have a good
time enjoy the family and the and the
times around there and just you
sometimes it is as we've talked about
it's good to just unplug a little bit
and to just not worry about all the
other work and all the other crap we've
got and just like you know veg a little
bit it may be may not be the best use of
your time you know it's like not
productive necessarily or anything like
that but I think it is like there is a
productive side of being able to just
relax and allow your body to rest and
recover and and things like that it's
sort of like taking a long nap and if
you take a nap during some of these
movies bonus you've gotten a little bit
you know you've got two birds with one
Stones you got your nap time in and you
manage to like once again watch one of
those movies that just makes it you know
makes your heart a little bit lighter
because you're able to like get through
it again and enjoy that season closing
thoughts from
you yeah the other thing as you watch
these a lot of them are not necessarily
just Feelgood movies but they are happy
movies yes there's some romcoms things
of that nature but there a lot of them
aren't necessarily too violent granted
red one is probably an exception to that
along with die hard but you end up
feeling a little de-stressed a little
happier you know instead of like all the
bad news that happens every day you get
that kind of lift up feeling from
watching these movies uh the last thing
I'll throw out you didn't mention it I
didn't mention it but A Christmas Story
the leg
land I don't I can't watch that anymore
because all through school growing up it
literally was played on the channel
every day in December
all the way throughout through senior
year of high school that's all we had
running on the TV in December it's like
okay I'm so tired of this movie but it
is a good movie you know if you hear the
leg lamp joke that came from that movie
you shoot your eye out that came from
that movie I I it's a good feel-good
movie I just can't watch it
any yep that is definitely one of those
and it's not been I think that's me it
was such a part of my childhood and
growing up I've seen it so many times
that it doesn't it it is not on my my
regular list now it's a wonderful life
is but that's partially because I
actually never saw that movie ever until
I was into my 40s I think it was like
the first time I ever watched it so it's
a little more newish to me plus it's
just like it is a nice something that's
very comforting about going to an old
school black and white kind of thing I
don't get the colorizer I've got the
original black and white and there's
just something that very much like takes
me back to childhood and and stuff like
that so we will wrap this one up just as
you're probably need to wrap up some of
your gifts as you're getting close to
that time as always send us whatever you
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have spent another year with us and
we'll next time around we're going to
talk about you know s wrap up our
holiday specials talk about the New Year
how how we're going to dive into 2025
and how we're going to get things
started so that as we get to this point
a year from now we are much much better
developers we have built better
developers and wrapping up that season
have a lot of habits to take us into uh
the future
basically that being said you guys go
out there have yourself a great day a
great week great holiday season and
we'll talk to you next
time bonus material I don't even know if
like that was like pretty good well
let's see is there any I want try trying
to think if there was a movie in there
that we didn't cover that we want to
mention like throw one more out there
and I'm trying to think of what's out
there um yeah I didn't want to say the I
agree the the Santa Claus series it was
nice it was fun enough to go back to see
those um last year I went because they
did the season and last year they did
the second season and last year it was
like it was a little bit
drudgery for me to go through the first
season and then to get into the second
season to just like run through all of
those so it was uh it's not you know
it's it's good but it's not like it's
not to the level of like iconic you know
Christmas stuff to me um there were
definitely some good movies out there
that are like you know one you'll catch
here and there I actually we've seen
some that are like you know borderline
out there like we watched bad mom's
Christmas which actually had like a
couple of stories it was like oh okay it
was like you know and then we watched U
oh shoot there was one I can't even
think of the name of it now that was
another it's an old old one with Danny
Devo and
um I can't even think of the other one
but it was you know one of those it was
like it was okay it's a it's a Christmas
movie but uh I love to yeah I love the
arguments around like certain things
like the Harry Potter stuff those are
always run during Christmas and a lot of
people almost call them Christmas movies
because there is some you know there's
Christmas in it but it's a whole year
and and so there's yeah the animated
stuff the claymation ones are also
always in the favorite we didn't really
talk about those like the um I think it
is it's Frosty the Snowman is is
claymation they've got that and then
some of um California Raisins Christmas
special yeah I mean you got some of
those that are just like the or the stop
motion or whatever they are those are
always good um classic movies and it's
just like whatever it is I all you guys
out there guys and gals I recommend that
you build some stuff around the end of
the year that whether it's you know if
you're if you're a Christmas celebrator
then that's the best way to just have
some Christmas movies some Christmas
events some things that you do um that's
what I said is we're solely building our
own is like we had a whole bunch of
stuff now as as we move to a different
season of life we're building some other
stuff up but then there is always like
Christmas movies are the things that
like to tie it all the way back and even
whether it's like whether it's how you
take time off whether it's like you know
some of the things that you do during
this year because it's the that time of
year CU like just just spending some
time going out and like driving the
neighborhoods and checking all the
lights out and stuff like that those
kinds of things I think just goes back
to what Michael says it allows us to
have a little bit of happiness a little
bit of Joy a little bit of like getting
away from all the negative crap that's
out there oh that was a bonus I was
thinking about is especially in an
election year you spent all year and all
the ads and all the crap and stuff like
that and to get to the end of it and be
like we got through another election
year you should be very happy and it's
like you've earned some good feel good
just happiness kinds of shows out
there closing thoughts from you I had
two bonuses uh
one to me it's not a Christmas movie
it's a Thanksgiving movie but Miracle on
34th Street you always have to watch
that the day or on Thanksgiving or the
day after Thanksgiving because it starts
out with the Macy's day parade you know
everyone goes to visit Santa Claus so to
me that's more a Thanksgiving pre-
Christmas holiday movie but I love it
you know I prefer the black and white
virgin versus the K but that's just me
uh the other one is a Christmas movie
but it's from my favorite director who
did my favorite Halloween movie which is
trick-or treat so this is actually a
Christmas horror movie uh trumpus not
you gota look for the guy who did
trick-or treat and look for his
Christmas one and it's trumpus and it is
a Christmas horror is movie uh I
thoroughly enjoyed it but I'm also a big
Halloween movie guy as well so for me I
always have to throw in at least one
horror Christmas movie and that that's
it every year I would say that actually
reminds me that is my other that is the
combo one is The Nightmare Before
Christmas is that one is there's a lot
of that that one's very near and dear to
my heart because I've I like all the
stuff that Burton's done all almost all
the stuff and always like Danny Elfman
back to a huge Boingo Boingo fan all the
way back things like that love the music
love the style uh and then also I have a
a guy that graduated college with me
that that was the first time he works
with Disney and worked for them for
years and I think he's still working
with them and that was the first one
where he was actually his name was in
the credits and I remember us going to
theater in downtown Chicago and watching
that movie and sitting there to the end
until we could see his name in the four
billion you know names that are at the
end of that uh but it's also it's just
one my kids love it we've got the
soundtrack it's one of those that it's
just like we sing along it's a much to
the chran of everybody that can hear us
but it is a is fun one of those like
combo kind of things that we'll we
usually don't do it around thanksg or
around October and Halloween even though
it is very Halloween is uh we usually
try to get that that's like some of
those is like when I'm itching a little
bit to have a Christmas movie that's
like perfect to throw in sometimes in
think you know November time frame even
before Thanksgiving because it's like
well I'm going to argue it's October and
it's a Halloween thing and we're a
little late for Halloween even though it
also does give us that that Christmas
kind of feel for the whole thing you
mentioned Tim
Burton Edward Scissor Hands and Batman
Returns almost Christmas movies to me
yeah I think uh yeah both of those
there's a lot of that I think Batman
Returns definitely because that's like
the big thing is the Christmas tree
lighting and all that kind of stuff so
yeah that's old school but that's uh
there's some Christmasy if you want some
DC Christmas then you can get Batman
uh Batman Returns is that what it no was
that the one okay Batman Returns it was
the second one um and I'm sure there's
some others out there there's always the
Christmas specials of stuff except for
the Star Wars Christmas Special just
avoid that like the plank don't ever
watch I I actually remember watching
that when it was like first done and it
was years later that I blacked it out it
was years later that I was reminded that
it even existed it's one of those it's
like it's a painful to watch just like
wow you guys are really stretching uh
trying to get the Star Wars name into
something and get it out there your
marketing went too far that being said
hopefully our marketing and our time has
not gone too far thank you for spending
your time with us go out there now and
spend some time with your friends your
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whatever it is go out there enjoy your
holiday season and we will catch you
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to the end of the year finish our March
for this year and we start into 2025 go
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