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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for a Friday for and I have this idea.
We've done Christmas songs Christmas movies in the past, and
I got to thinking, how about Christmas characters, like people
who are like I mean, it doesn't have to be
a person. I guess it could be anybody who is
involved in Christmas movies, Christmas folklore, traditional Christmas characters, even
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maybe somebody who's referenced in a song and what the
mount rushmore of that is for you?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, we haven't had a whole lot of time to
think about this, but to be honest, I think it's
a pretty instinctual, like what you you know right, mind comes.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
To Yeah, So who are the like the the go to? Like?
Oh yeah, I'm really excited about watching this show because
I like this character.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I feel like all of us have that one Christmas
movie at least that we're like, I gotta watch this
every year.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And that could be one for me. I didn't put
that down in his character of mine, but like the Grinch,
I always want to watch it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The original or the Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I like the Jim Carrey one, but it doesn't matter.
The original is great. I just love watching The Grinch.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You're a mean one misster Grinch.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, like it's it's great to me like the Grinch.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
All right, I have a I have my list. You
have your list.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I do have my list. Yep, all right, go ahead
far away. I'll get it kicked off here. The first one,
we have a Christmas decoration in the house. Oh so,
it's one of the first things that always gets put up.
It's pretty. It's like motion detected if you like. Also,
step two loud, it'll go off and it's a Frosty
the Snowman. It's my favorite, one of my favorite characters.
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And it'll just start doing that the first like twenty
seconds to the Frosty the Snowman song, and if you
step loud, you walk in front of it, it goes
off automatically, and it's like so annoying, but it's also
fun because it's Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You like, do you like Frosty the Snowman as like
the show? I mean, the song's legendary, but do you
like what do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The movie's fine? Yeah, like it's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Frosty's a Snowman. The song is awesome. The concept of
Froste's Snowman's pretty cool because it's the like Christmas magic
that like keeps him alive, right, yeah, and I love that.
But what I also I'm intrigued by is the concept
that this guy, this Frosty the Snowman character comes to
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life and the first thing he says is happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's funny, that's true, though have.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We have we figured out why he does that?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Why do we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Why does he say happy birthday? First? Of all the
things he could say, but he does of the thing
he probably should say, it's happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He says happy birthday, But I never quite understood why.
So maybe maybe somebody can help me out with that. Anyway, Okay,
Frosty's no man, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Speaking of Christmas spirit, I have Buddy the Elf.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Buddy the ELF's a good one. And Elf, I think
is kind of the post two thousand movie I think
people reference the most when it comes to just like
classic feely good Christmas movies.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's great and it's like so stupid, but it's so
funny and it's.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Every Well Ferrell movie can fall into that for the
most part. How dumb is this? But you just are
laughing The whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Uh and you know, fair enough fair play to Will Ferrell.
That was like his first major movie role, you know
what I mean. That's a he was an SNL guy,
and I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Think I knew that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's actually pretty incredible. Yeah, if you go through, you know,
and that gave him a lot of juice. He was
gonna figure it out anyway. But to get to Anchorman,
to get to Talladega Knights, to get to step Brothers,
to get to you know, the other guys. With Mark Wahlberg,
there's a lot of I mean I watched recently the
one he did with Rachel McAdams when they're Icelandic singers
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that are trying to win the Eurovision Song Contest, and
it's also just ridiculously stupid most of it. But there's
a lot of heart in it, and I can't help
but like smile watching it. I don't know, it's hard
to it's hard to explain.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And I love watching Will Ferrell. Yeah, going back to
The Grinch, Okay, obviously don't have him on my list.
I have Cindy lu who she saw the best in
The Grinch, and I think, you know, obviously I love
to see The Grinch.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
She it's interesting because she she's a character. But is
there a person out there that would be like her,
that would know that you're talking to a villain that
everybody's afraid of her, hates just straight up hates, know
that they're up to no good. Be willing to talk
to them, and eventually even get them to make their
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heart grow. Yeah, eventually get that individual to want to
do good, you know. Like, honestly, an underrated achievement in
any film or any story is how Cindy lu who
does what she does. You could put her in the pantheon.
I don't know if she's in the Mount Rushmore, but
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you could put her in the pantheon of good hearted
people that are incredibly persuasive, like people are just like
you know what, I just want to be better as
a person because I talked to her.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, in a lot of different ways too. I also
love the concept of Whoville and the Who's like what?
It was so fascinating to me as a kid before
I thought about the story of like what Cindy's actually doing? Yea,
but man, the Who's from Whoville, especially in the in
the one with Jim Carrey it just looks so silly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, it's funny if the design of that entire movie
is unbelievable, if, like from a movie making perspective, that
whole the set, costumes, the way that they turned Jim
Carrey into the Grinch, like everything is really susical. Like
they really did an amazing job with that. Like, and
they tried with Mike Myers and the Cat in the Hat.
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It wasn't quite the same. It was still pretty good,
but it wasn't quite the same. They nailed it with
the Grange.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They really did. They really did. And then bringing my
list home, number four a classic. Not much to be
said here, but the conductor from Polar Express, Tom Hanks
as Tom Hanks. Yeah, I just think that's great. That
brings me right back to elementary school watching Polar Express
and in school on the last like you do your
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Christmas party before you leave for the winter break. Yeah,
and we always sat down and watched that, and you know,
it's just a classic Polar Express.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah. Maybe I was just a little too old to
hit that at the right time, I think.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So this was like first grade. You sit down in
the dark and watch Polar Express with your with your
bowl of popcorn that has a few peanuts in it,
I mean a few peanut m and ms.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I guess I just I watched it, and maybe
you have to watch it when you're a kid to
really like feel it. It just at one never hit
for me the same way as it probably does for
a lot of people. My wife loves it, but she
also grew up with four younger siblings who would have
been the perfect age for this when it was coming out.
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So not not to criticize the movie, because it's well
regarded for the most part, and the animation style is
very unique.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is unique, a little bit uncanny sometimes, but it is.
It is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's like not full on legitimate Pixari animation animation,
but it's also not like claymation. It's kind of like
a morph between the two of those things. But it
works for the story it's trying to tell, and I
don't Yeah, it's good, It's well regarded. It's just not
one that I feel like when it's on the TV,
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I'm you might scroll past it. I'm not feeling like
I have to sit and watch it, whereas if EL
is on, I'm watching it. Yeah, if home Alone is on,
I'm watching it. If Diehart is on, I'm watching it,
you know, and I know the whole Diehard. Is it
a Christmas movie or not? I've been in both camps.
I've taken different arguments and been like, you know, if
I'm using this parameters and I'm using those parameters. At
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the end of the day, Christmas is a part of
it and people play at this time of the year.
So whether you think it's a Christmas movie or not,
when it's on TV and I see it on a channel,
especially if we're like still early in the movie, I'm
watching diet, You're on, You're gonna finish it. I'm putting
Diehard on. I'll give you my list. So what was
the full list?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Frosty the Snowman, Cindy lou Who from The Grinch, Buddy
the Elf, and the conductor from Polar Express.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Well done. I'll give you my list coming up. And
if you've got a list of your four Christmas characters,
email them to me. We'll open the phones later, but
email me Emory at kfab dot com and we'll start
building our lists together. We're talking Christmas, We're talking Christmas characters,
and that's our Friday for today, one of yours was
the one of yours was the Frostiest Snowman. Frosty says
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happy birthday when he comes to life. I asked pretty legitimately.
I mean, like, I don't know the answer to this question.
I don't know if there is an answer to this question.
But why does Frostier the Snowman say happy birthday? That's
the first thing that he says when he comes to life.
A couple of emails here, Scooter says it's simple, he
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was reborn, so he's wishing himself a happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, Scooter, that's a good shout. I don't know if
that's it, though.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then Mike says, it's Frosty's birthday. Now, I don't
know anybody else, first of all, who could even wish
themselves a happy birthday when they're born because they can't speak.
But he obviously is well read, because he knows how
to speak, he knows lessons, He understands the ability of song.
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Isn't that isn't it always just kind of strange, Like,
I know he's a magical figure, but if it was
even kind of realistic, which none of this is, And
I get it, But like, how would he know all
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then was he just like existing in the air,
like just in the air, just like watching things, just
waiting for like Lord Voldemort. He's just waiting for like
a body to come along that he can like occupy.
When and when kids build a specific type of snowman
and dress him up with the hat, the scarf and
the carrot and the corner coop pipe and all that stuff,
all of a sudden boom, there he is, and he's like, yes, finally,
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you guys, finally did it. You cracked the code. Now
I get a chance to run for president or whatever
he was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
When you wake up on your birthday, you happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
This is like Quinn Williams sneezing when he was drafted
by the in the NFL and then blessing himself.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Bless you, thank you. He did that to himself mid interview.
He did it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's on video. You can find that good manners though,
never question his manners. I just don't yeah, doing it
in the third person to sudden work. I don't think anyway.
Frost is Noma. It's still a great character. I just
have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What do you got going on over there?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
What my list? My Friday four of Christmas characters?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, I know, you always got something good in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well, I mentioned Home Alone. I watch Home Alone and
Home Alone two. Those are both great Christmas movies. I
think the concept works without Christmas. It is a Christmas movie, though,
because they use Christmas as like the backbone of everything.
There are some real continuity issues with these movies. I mean,
if we're going to talk about realism, here's one example.
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And I love these movies, by the way, and I
think the first one's better than the second. There's a
lot of people that think the second one is actually
better than the first. It's it's a real credit to
Chris Columbus and you know, John Hughes and all the
actors who came back for the second one to make
the second one as good as it ends up being,
considering that it's hard to make a sequel anywhere close
to as good as the first, they actually did a
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dog one good job.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So my.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Opinion on Home Alone is that it's a great movie.
But I still much like Airbud one of my favorite movies.
I have a lot of questions about the plot and
some of the timeline stuff. For instance, Kevin is at
the church, Kevin McAllister, who's the first person on my list.
I love Kevin McAllister. I think he's insane, but I
mean he's a kind of funny insane that I really
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want to know him, and I wish that I could
just talk to him and try to see what's going
on in his brain. But we have absolutely no evidence
that Kevin McAllister has done any preparation for the night
that Marv and the other guy show up.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Harry, is it, Marvin Harry.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's right, good job, Marvin Harry show up. No preparation
in these are well. And he's done some weird stuff
in the house, right because he did the whole Angels
with Filthy Souls thing and you know, made it sound
like there was gunshots and everything, and you know, made
it look like there were people in the house. He
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knows somebody spying on him, so he's done some things
to try to make things seem better or seem normal.
But they figure it out and they show back up.
He's at the church still when the clock strikes eight pm,
and he knows the robbers are showing up. The wet
bandits are coming at nine, So in an hour he
runs by himself in the dark from the church to
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his home. I mean he's running on foot.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And what is he like, eleven years old?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, he's eight eight? Okay, yeah, so he's eight years
old and he's he runs from the church after talking
to his neighbor he was afraid of until right then
the clock is striking eight pm. He's running home. And
by the way, nobody's at this church. The entire choir
is rehearsing. Old man is there to his granddaughter because
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he has a better relationship with his own son, and
they don't want him to be there. He says, when
is this concert? He says, it's that night. Nobody's there
at eight pm? When is this concert? Ten eleven at night?
Like you're gonna have a children's choir singing songs on
Christmas Eve that late? That doesn't seem likely. And then
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Kevin has to run from the church at eight o'clock,
run home, draw up his his like his battle plan. Essentially,
get all of the things he needs for this battle plan,
including rigging a line from the house to the tree house,
knowing and choreographing every single thing that he is going
to do, rigging multiple doorknobs, he puts water on the
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stairs in the front and the back of the house,
and they're gonna freeze in less than an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, that's the big one.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Though, what are we doing? Like, how did he how
did he come up with all of this? This is crazy?
And then it works right flawlessly at that And he
had three minutes to spare because it's eight fifty seven
when he cooks his macaroni and cheese. Okay, so he
did all that from the church, running home, drawing the
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battle plans, executing the plan as far as like laying
it all out before the robbers get there, and he's
eating or he's a preparing to eat macaroni and cheese
by eight fifty seven. There's not enough time there. I'm sorry.
It's even crazier in the second one. And I know
that they just said screw the timeline. We are just
we're going crazy with the special effects, like we are
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destroying this New York home to make this movie. And
they did it and it's really funny. It's crazy, but
it's funny anyway. Kevin McAllister, I think he's insane, and
I honestly like I love him. Number two is Bob
Cratchit on the other end of the spectrum. How can
somebody be so uniquely positive? Right? If you're unfamiliar with
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Bob Cratchit, he is the good guy essentially the subject
matter opposite Ebenezer Scrooge and a Christmas Carol, and he's
just so wholesome and Mickey Mouse. Kermit the Frog, I mean,
Kermit the Frog is my favorite Bob Cratchit. He's fantastic
as Bob Cratchit, So kudos to you, Kermit the Frog.
But anytime you tell the story of the Christmas Carol,
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the true positivity and love from Bob Cratchit is what
holds the entire story together, because how evil Ebenezer Scrooge
is is only really illustrated by the way that he
talks to somebody as positive as Bob Cratchit. So I
love Bob Cratchit. Big fan of Yukon Cornelius, underrated guy
Yukon Cornelius. He shows up barely at the end of
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and he is an explorer
and prospector who is able to fend off and help Rudolph,
and you know the elf guy, whatever his name is.
What is the ELF's name? Hermie, Hermie the Elf. He
wants to be a dentist. Hermie, remember, I remember Hermie
the Elf. Hermie and Rudolpher are getting attacked by the
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abominable snow monster and Yukon Cornelius shows up. I have
no idea how they know his name, but Yukon Cornelias
shows up and fends off the crazy, large, abominable snow monster.
And again this the movie, the show Rudolf the Red
Nose Reindeer is so uniquely sixties and a bunch of
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it makes absolutely no sense, but it's still like a
must watch every year, and Yukon Cornelius deserves a spinoff,
an Arctic prospector and explorer who has the ability to
fend off a giant, abominable snow monster. Like if mcgruber
can have his own movie, then Yukon Cornelius can have
a movie. That's my that's my take on it. And man,
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you could go in so many ways as a comedy.
You could make it super serious. You could make it
very dramatic with a like a thriller, like a horror
thriller following Yukon Cornelius through the Arctic, and then he
comes up on Rudolph, but Rudolf's a bad guy, and
Rudolph tries to take him out. I mean, he's got
a rights. How does he know?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then my last one here is Ralphie Parker. I've
been pretty critical of Classic Christmas Story is a movie.
It's not a great movie. It's a great kind of
television show that's put together as a movie. Like all
of the things are pretty unique. There's only a couple
of things that like the Red Rider BB Gun and
then the Bullies. Those are the only things that really
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are like continuous throughout the story. But it's a fun watch.
Is another movie I'm gonna watch no matter what. I
just don't think it's that great of a movie. I
just think it's you know, it's a fun watch and
you can jump in at any point during the movie
and rewatch it because there's not a lot of continuity
with it. So but Ralphie, he's relatable to anybody who
was a boy and wanted a Christmas present. And there's
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something about the chase and then the moment when you
get it that you just absolutely love and h Yeah,
so I can relate to him. Peyton highlock with me.
We're doing a Friday four. The Friday four is your
favorite characters, your favorite characters that are Christmas related, and
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my list was Kevin McAllister from Home Alone, Bob Cratchett,
the good guy from Christmas Carol, Yukon Cornelius, who I
think deserves his own spinoff after rescuing Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer, and Hermie the Little Dentist, Like he's an
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elf but he's wanting to be a dentist for some reason,
not to not to knock dentists, but of all the
things that an elf would want to be in his life,
it just feels like a strange one. And I just
feel like Yukon Cornelius could have we could have made
a movie about him, and yeah, it could have gone
in multiple directions.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
You always you always have something niche in there that's
like a little bit unexpected. And Yukon Cornelius, I mean,
he makes a very short appearance in terms of like
overall impact.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean until right at the end, I mean, the
Abominable snow Monster is going to eat Rudolph if he's
not there. We only need him to come and rescue them.
At the same time, I have more questions and I
have answers about Yukon Cornelius and in my head and
maybe I'll use, you know, my creative writing skills to
you know, chalk up like an origin story, you know,
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like Wicked. It's kind of like an offer of the
Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Absolutely, yeah, that the.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Original book and kind of it takes those characters, kind
of morphs it into a different story. Well, how about
I do the exact same thing, but the entire thing
is happening and the same timeline. But Yukon Cornelius is
the main character we're following, and he's got had all
these incredible adventures and then he runs into Rudolph at
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some point during his own story, and then we see
Rudolf from that perspective, like, what the heck is going on?
This guy's got a red nose and why is this
elf with him that wants to be a dentist?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, I had an idea about this. Have you heard
of Black Mirror? It's a series on Netflix. Yeah, It's
essentially a compilation of short form movie shorter than a
TV episode. It's about fifteen to twenty minutes, and it's
just this alternate reality of something, but it's not a continuation.
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Is just fifteen twenty minutes of this alternate universe. I
thought it would be pretty cool. You named a bunch
of different situations that you could see Yukon Cornelius in
about going through with in these one movie but then
fifteen twenty minutes and it's like separate from each other,
but also a collection of stories in a way where
he's doing these different things and it somehow ties together
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at the end.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, yeah, it's kind of like the Christmas story, right,
a Christmas story. Yeah, you know, it's like all these
little things like the tongue on the pole, the of
the the leg lamp right, Farcas right in his relationship
with Farcas, and his daydreams about his teacher giving him
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an A plus for his essay about his red writer
bb gun. You know all those things are they kind
of exist on their own, and if you watch the
movie or when he goes to the mall in ask
Santa for the Red Writer bb gun, you know, all
those things are like ten fifteen minute Like many episodes
in the bigger plot of the movie, and the entire
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plot essentially is just seeing Christmas through the lens of
a ten year old boy in the nineteen thirties. That's
really the whole plot, right. Napoleon Dynamite was like that hilarious.
See I love that movie, but there's no real plot.
You know, it's just like, at one point in the
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movie is feeding a lama. Another point in the movie,
he's taken a rex Kwondo class. A little bit later
in the movie, he is telling the one girl that
makes multiple appearances that seems to want to interact with
him that she doesn't need to be drinking skim milk
or two percent milk because she's not fat. She could
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be drinking whole milk if she wanted to. You know,
these are like they're.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Just Napoleon, give me some toss, Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's just like happening throughout the movie and there's not
really any there's no purpose to any of it, except
at the end he wants to make Pedro his friend
that he met president class President. Yeah, it makes no
sense anyway. And then my last one was Ralphie Parker
from a Christmas Story. Just to add that to the end,
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there a lot of emails coming in here. Let's get
to him. Scooter says, I'm totally with you on Polar Express.
I didn't get it at all, made no sense. I
didn't find it entertaining at all. Well, the conductor from
the Polar Express was on Peyton's list, And I guess
you just had to be the right to watch it
the first time to really feel what I think it's
trying to make you feel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean when I watch it now, I was forty.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Years old watching home alone for the first time and
laughed just as hard as the kid would. Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Polar expresson thinks it's more of a nostalgia thing. It's
meant for a younger audience, and if you caught it
at the right time, you're gonna go back and rewatch
it a bunch, right, because it's gonna remind you of
how you felt when you watched it the first time.
So I think it has merit and you're the right age,
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so so it absolutely it doubles down. There had Troy
s in this in Troy says the Abominable, the Abominable
Snowman from the original stop motion Rudolph the Red Nose
Reindeer is on my list. Bumbles Bounce Yukon, Cornelius from Rudolph. Yeah,
we got another Cornelius in the house. Tim Allen as
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the Santa Claus. Yeah, another really solid Christmas movie. It's
aged very well. I wasn't a big fan when I
was growing up, but the more I watch it now
because my sister really likes it and I think her
kids like it, It's like, oh, yeah, it's a pretty
good one. Now I'm not so sure about the sequels,
like Martin Short playing like the the Mister Freeze guy
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or whatever, but everything Jack Frost, yeah that was his name.
He looks like Mister Freeze from Bad Man.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But anyway, Yeah, but the original Santa Claus is really good.
And then the Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is coming
to town. That's a pool scooter, says Ralphie, the Grinch,
the snow Miser, and Willie Soaky. My computer froze up.
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He has something else in there, and I would there
it is Bad Santa. That's what it is. From Bad Santa. Yeah,
Bad Santa. Not for the kids. Bad Santa. If you
check that out. It's just an observation the home alone.
Movies are not meant to be super realistic. Obviously, real
criminals who wanted to do bad things to that house
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and burgularize that house would not have been so dumb
to fall for every single one of Kevin McAllister's traps.
So I get that it's just kind of like this crazy,
outlandish thing, and you could poke holes in the entire
plot from start to finish. It's not about that, I understand,
but the idea that he builds the entire trap, the
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entire house full of traps, gets the ice to freeze
in an hour, gets the door handle to basically turn
fire hot in an hour, gets he draws this whole
thing and puts all these micromachines on the floor, and
he has he rigs up these paint cans. Like where
did he find the paint cans? Why is there a
tarantula just wandering around the house and it just happens
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to be in the right place all the time. I
have no idea. You'd think that thing would be in
some sort of what do they call those terrariums?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, it's case or cage. I mean, I mean something
you put.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It on a terrarium, it's not it's not an aquarium
because there's no water, but it's a terrarium. And what
you're just letting this thing run walk around the house.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
The fact he's an eight year old kid that got
left at home alone, I mean already.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, they do a decent enough job of making it
seem plausible that they might have forgotten him. The way
that it all goes down, and the chaos that's around
this family call the cops and say, hey, my kid,
is that well? And they did, but they but they
couldn't figure out how to get into the house. And
this is the other thing. And then it says, I
hate the second one. It happens again. It happens again.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
How does it happen again? The next Christmas? The next year?
You lose them again?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
What are we doing? Guys? CPS get here now?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Literally literally, what are we talking about now? Say I
mentioned this, Chris sent me a note and said, don't
get too hung up on the timeline. It's a movie.
Movie minutes are kind of like football minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They take forever, that's true, or NBA basketball below five minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I mean a college basketball especially those guys take all
their time outs and foul. Even when it's like a
twelve point game, it's like, come on, man, it's over with.
Theresa sent this in Gizmo from The Grimlins. Didn't know
is the Gremlins? I mean maybe a Christmas movie. I
haven't seen that a long time. The little boy from
the Polar Express. So she went Polar Express. But she
went with the kid, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
He's kind. I mean, he's the main character. I mean,
there are kind of characters, but the geek, the dork kid,
or the one with the glasses, the circular glasses.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Oh, I hate that kid. If that kid was around me,
I would have I would have I don't want to
say that I would have put my hands on him,
but I would have been like, brother, you need to
stop talking and you need to get away from me. Now,
stat get away from me. Four eyes, your geek, you dweeb.
Scott Calvin in the Santa Claus two again, I'd have
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to think about the Santa Claus two and then Rudolph
the original range. You know, I thought about having Rudolphin.
I'm of the opinion that Rudolph got lucky, and it
was bad luck at first, but then he got like
the winning he learned how to harness his ability with
his red nose. He ended up being lucky in the
right way. You're telling me you're gonna build your entire
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sleigh team around the little wimpy guy that's got the
red nose and not like some sort of legitimately beefy
guy like Blitzing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They need the light in the fog, They need a
a this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
There's got to be another way, right for him to
just be out there leading the way, and all these
other reindeer are cool with it. Now. They shouldn't be.
They shouldn't be. That's not how the hierarchy of things
works here. Rudolph hasn't had a pain of his dues yet.
If it's foggy on Christmas Eve, Santa, you've been around
for like eight thousand years. You haven't come across this
once before.
It's time for a Friday for and I have this idea.
We've done Christmas songs Christmas movies in the past, and
I got to thinking, how about Christmas characters, like people
who are like I mean, it doesn't have to be
a person. I guess it could be anybody who is
involved in Christmas movies, Christmas folklore, traditional Christmas characters, even
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maybe somebody who's referenced in a song and what the
mount rushmore of that is for you?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, we haven't had a whole lot of time to
think about this, but to be honest, I think it's
a pretty instinctual, like what you you know right, mind comes.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
To Yeah, So who are the like the the go to? Like?
Oh yeah, I'm really excited about watching this show because
I like this character.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I feel like all of us have that one Christmas
movie at least that we're like, I gotta watch this
every year.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And that could be one for me. I didn't put
that down in his character of mine, but like the Grinch,
I always want to watch it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The original or the Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I like the Jim Carrey one, but it doesn't matter.
The original is great. I just love watching The Grinch.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You're a mean one misster Grinch.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, like it's it's great to me like the Grinch.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
All right, I have a I have my list. You
have your list.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I do have my list. Yep, all right, go ahead
far away. I'll get it kicked off here. The first one,
we have a Christmas decoration in the house. Oh so,
it's one of the first things that always gets put up.
It's pretty. It's like motion detected if you like. Also,
step two loud, it'll go off and it's a Frosty
the Snowman. It's my favorite, one of my favorite characters.
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And it'll just start doing that the first like twenty
seconds to the Frosty the Snowman song, and if you
step loud, you walk in front of it, it goes
off automatically, and it's like so annoying, but it's also
fun because it's Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You like, do you like Frosty the Snowman as like
the show? I mean, the song's legendary, but do you
like what do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The movie's fine? Yeah, like it's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Frosty's a Snowman. The song is awesome. The concept of
Froste's Snowman's pretty cool because it's the like Christmas magic
that like keeps him alive, right, yeah, and I love that.
But what I also I'm intrigued by is the concept
that this guy, this Frosty the Snowman character comes to
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life and the first thing he says is happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's funny, that's true, though have.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We have we figured out why he does that?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Why do we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Why does he say happy birthday? First? Of all the
things he could say, but he does of the thing
he probably should say, it's happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He says happy birthday, But I never quite understood why.
So maybe maybe somebody can help me out with that. Anyway, Okay,
Frosty's no man, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Speaking of Christmas spirit, I have Buddy the Elf.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Buddy the ELF's a good one. And Elf, I think
is kind of the post two thousand movie I think
people reference the most when it comes to just like
classic feely good Christmas movies.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's great and it's like so stupid, but it's so
funny and it's.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Every Well Ferrell movie can fall into that for the
most part. How dumb is this? But you just are
laughing The whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Uh and you know, fair enough fair play to Will Ferrell.
That was like his first major movie role, you know
what I mean. That's a he was an SNL guy,
and I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Think I knew that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's actually pretty incredible. Yeah, if you go through, you know,
and that gave him a lot of juice. He was
gonna figure it out anyway. But to get to Anchorman,
to get to Talladega Knights, to get to step Brothers,
to get to you know, the other guys. With Mark Wahlberg,
there's a lot of I mean I watched recently the
one he did with Rachel McAdams when they're Icelandic singers
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that are trying to win the Eurovision Song Contest, and
it's also just ridiculously stupid most of it. But there's
a lot of heart in it, and I can't help
but like smile watching it. I don't know, it's hard
to it's hard to explain.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And I love watching Will Ferrell. Yeah, going back to
The Grinch, Okay, obviously don't have him on my list.
I have Cindy lu who she saw the best in
The Grinch, and I think, you know, obviously I love
to see The Grinch.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
She it's interesting because she she's a character. But is
there a person out there that would be like her,
that would know that you're talking to a villain that
everybody's afraid of her, hates just straight up hates, know
that they're up to no good. Be willing to talk
to them, and eventually even get them to make their
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heart grow. Yeah, eventually get that individual to want to
do good, you know. Like, honestly, an underrated achievement in
any film or any story is how Cindy lu who
does what she does. You could put her in the pantheon.
I don't know if she's in the Mount Rushmore, but
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you could put her in the pantheon of good hearted
people that are incredibly persuasive, like people are just like
you know what, I just want to be better as
a person because I talked to her.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, in a lot of different ways too. I also
love the concept of Whoville and the Who's like what?
It was so fascinating to me as a kid before
I thought about the story of like what Cindy's actually doing? Yea,
but man, the Who's from Whoville, especially in the in
the one with Jim Carrey it just looks so silly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, it's funny if the design of that entire movie
is unbelievable, if, like from a movie making perspective, that
whole the set, costumes, the way that they turned Jim
Carrey into the Grinch, like everything is really susical. Like
they really did an amazing job with that. Like, and
they tried with Mike Myers and the Cat in the Hat.
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It wasn't quite the same. It was still pretty good,
but it wasn't quite the same. They nailed it with
the Grange.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They really did. They really did. And then bringing my
list home, number four a classic. Not much to be
said here, but the conductor from Polar Express, Tom Hanks
as Tom Hanks. Yeah, I just think that's great. That
brings me right back to elementary school watching Polar Express
and in school on the last like you do your
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Christmas party before you leave for the winter break. Yeah,
and we always sat down and watched that, and you know,
it's just a classic Polar Express.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah. Maybe I was just a little too old to
hit that at the right time, I think.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So this was like first grade. You sit down in
the dark and watch Polar Express with your with your
bowl of popcorn that has a few peanuts in it,
I mean a few peanut m and ms.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I guess I just I watched it, and maybe
you have to watch it when you're a kid to
really like feel it. It just at one never hit
for me the same way as it probably does for
a lot of people. My wife loves it, but she
also grew up with four younger siblings who would have
been the perfect age for this when it was coming out.
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So not not to criticize the movie, because it's well
regarded for the most part, and the animation style is
very unique.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is unique, a little bit uncanny sometimes, but it is.
It is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's like not full on legitimate Pixari animation animation,
but it's also not like claymation. It's kind of like
a morph between the two of those things. But it
works for the story it's trying to tell, and I
don't Yeah, it's good, It's well regarded. It's just not
one that I feel like when it's on the TV,
(07:55):
I'm you might scroll past it. I'm not feeling like
I have to sit and watch it, whereas if EL
is on, I'm watching it. Yeah, if home Alone is on,
I'm watching it. If Diehart is on, I'm watching it,
you know, and I know the whole Diehard. Is it
a Christmas movie or not? I've been in both camps.
I've taken different arguments and been like, you know, if
I'm using this parameters and I'm using those parameters. At
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the end of the day, Christmas is a part of
it and people play at this time of the year.
So whether you think it's a Christmas movie or not,
when it's on TV and I see it on a channel,
especially if we're like still early in the movie, I'm
watching diet, You're on, You're gonna finish it. I'm putting
Diehard on. I'll give you my list. So what was
the full list?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Frosty the Snowman, Cindy lou Who from The Grinch, Buddy
the Elf, and the conductor from Polar Express.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Well done. I'll give you my list coming up. And
if you've got a list of your four Christmas characters,
email them to me. We'll open the phones later, but
email me Emory at kfab dot com and we'll start
building our lists together. We're talking Christmas, We're talking Christmas characters,
and that's our Friday for today, one of yours was
the one of yours was the Frostiest Snowman. Frosty says
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happy birthday when he comes to life. I asked pretty legitimately.
I mean, like, I don't know the answer to this question.
I don't know if there is an answer to this question.
But why does Frostier the Snowman say happy birthday? That's
the first thing that he says when he comes to life.
A couple of emails here, Scooter says it's simple, he
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was reborn, so he's wishing himself a happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, Scooter, that's a good shout. I don't know if
that's it, though.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then Mike says, it's Frosty's birthday. Now, I don't
know anybody else, first of all, who could even wish
themselves a happy birthday when they're born because they can't speak.
But he obviously is well read, because he knows how
to speak, he knows lessons, He understands the ability of song.
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Isn't that isn't it always just kind of strange, Like,
I know he's a magical figure, but if it was
even kind of realistic, which none of this is, And
I get it, But like, how would he know all
this stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then was he just like existing in the air,
like just in the air, just like watching things, just
waiting for like Lord Voldemort. He's just waiting for like
a body to come along that he can like occupy.
When and when kids build a specific type of snowman
and dress him up with the hat, the scarf and
the carrot and the corner coop pipe and all that stuff,
all of a sudden boom, there he is, and he's like, yes, finally,
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you guys, finally did it. You cracked the code. Now
I get a chance to run for president or whatever
he was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
When you wake up on your birthday, you happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
This is like Quinn Williams sneezing when he was drafted
by the in the NFL and then blessing himself.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Bless you, thank you. He did that to himself mid interview.
He did it.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's on video. You can find that good manners though,
never question his manners. I just don't yeah, doing it
in the third person to sudden work. I don't think anyway.
Frost is Noma. It's still a great character. I just
have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What do you got going on over there?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
What my list? My Friday four of Christmas characters?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, I know, you always got something good in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well, I mentioned Home Alone. I watch Home Alone and
Home Alone two. Those are both great Christmas movies. I
think the concept works without Christmas. It is a Christmas movie, though,
because they use Christmas as like the backbone of everything.
There are some real continuity issues with these movies. I mean,
if we're going to talk about realism, here's one example.
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And I love these movies, by the way, and I
think the first one's better than the second. There's a
lot of people that think the second one is actually
better than the first. It's it's a real credit to
Chris Columbus and you know, John Hughes and all the
actors who came back for the second one to make
the second one as good as it ends up being,
considering that it's hard to make a sequel anywhere close
to as good as the first, they actually did a
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dog one good job.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So my.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Opinion on Home Alone is that it's a great movie.
But I still much like Airbud one of my favorite movies.
I have a lot of questions about the plot and
some of the timeline stuff. For instance, Kevin is at
the church, Kevin McAllister, who's the first person on my list.
I love Kevin McAllister. I think he's insane, but I
mean he's a kind of funny insane that I really
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want to know him, and I wish that I could
just talk to him and try to see what's going
on in his brain. But we have absolutely no evidence
that Kevin McAllister has done any preparation for the night
that Marv and the other guy show up.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Harry, is it, Marvin Harry.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's right, good job, Marvin Harry show up. No preparation
in these are well. And he's done some weird stuff
in the house, right because he did the whole Angels
with Filthy Souls thing and you know, made it sound
like there was gunshots and everything, and you know, made
it look like there were people in the house. He
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knows somebody spying on him, so he's done some things
to try to make things seem better or seem normal.
But they figure it out and they show back up.
He's at the church still when the clock strikes eight pm,
and he knows the robbers are showing up. The wet
bandits are coming at nine, So in an hour he
runs by himself in the dark from the church to
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his home. I mean he's running on foot.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And what is he like, eleven years old?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, he's eight eight? Okay, yeah, so he's eight years
old and he's he runs from the church after talking
to his neighbor he was afraid of until right then
the clock is striking eight pm. He's running home. And
by the way, nobody's at this church. The entire choir
is rehearsing. Old man is there to his granddaughter because
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he has a better relationship with his own son, and
they don't want him to be there. He says, when
is this concert? He says, it's that night. Nobody's there
at eight pm? When is this concert? Ten eleven at night?
Like you're gonna have a children's choir singing songs on
Christmas Eve that late? That doesn't seem likely. And then
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Kevin has to run from the church at eight o'clock,
run home, draw up his his like his battle plan. Essentially,
get all of the things he needs for this battle plan,
including rigging a line from the house to the tree house,
knowing and choreographing every single thing that he is going
to do, rigging multiple doorknobs, he puts water on the
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stairs in the front and the back of the house,
and they're gonna freeze in less than an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, that's the big one.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Though, what are we doing? Like, how did he how
did he come up with all of this? This is crazy?
And then it works right flawlessly at that And he
had three minutes to spare because it's eight fifty seven
when he cooks his macaroni and cheese. Okay, so he
did all that from the church, running home, drawing the
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battle plans, executing the plan as far as like laying
it all out before the robbers get there, and he's
eating or he's a preparing to eat macaroni and cheese
by eight fifty seven. There's not enough time there. I'm sorry.
It's even crazier in the second one. And I know
that they just said screw the timeline. We are just
we're going crazy with the special effects, like we are
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destroying this New York home to make this movie. And
they did it and it's really funny. It's crazy, but
it's funny anyway. Kevin McAllister, I think he's insane, and
I honestly like I love him. Number two is Bob
Cratchit on the other end of the spectrum. How can
somebody be so uniquely positive? Right? If you're unfamiliar with
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Bob Cratchit, he is the good guy essentially the subject
matter opposite Ebenezer Scrooge and a Christmas Carol, and he's
just so wholesome and Mickey Mouse. Kermit the Frog, I mean,
Kermit the Frog is my favorite Bob Cratchit. He's fantastic
as Bob Cratchit, So kudos to you, Kermit the Frog.
But anytime you tell the story of the Christmas Carol,
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the true positivity and love from Bob Cratchit is what
holds the entire story together, because how evil Ebenezer Scrooge
is is only really illustrated by the way that he
talks to somebody as positive as Bob Cratchit. So I
love Bob Cratchit. Big fan of Yukon Cornelius, underrated guy
Yukon Cornelius. He shows up barely at the end of
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and he is an explorer
and prospector who is able to fend off and help Rudolph,
and you know the elf guy, whatever his name is.
What is the ELF's name? Hermie, Hermie the Elf. He
wants to be a dentist. Hermie, remember, I remember Hermie
the Elf. Hermie and Rudolpher are getting attacked by the
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abominable snow monster and Yukon Cornelius shows up. I have
no idea how they know his name, but Yukon Cornelias
shows up and fends off the crazy, large, abominable snow monster.
And again this the movie, the show Rudolf the Red
Nose Reindeer is so uniquely sixties and a bunch of
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it makes absolutely no sense, but it's still like a
must watch every year, and Yukon Cornelius deserves a spinoff,
an Arctic prospector and explorer who has the ability to
fend off a giant, abominable snow monster. Like if mcgruber
can have his own movie, then Yukon Cornelius can have
a movie. That's my that's my take on it. And man,
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you could go in so many ways as a comedy.
You could make it super serious. You could make it
very dramatic with a like a thriller, like a horror
thriller following Yukon Cornelius through the Arctic, and then he
comes up on Rudolph, but Rudolf's a bad guy, and
Rudolph tries to take him out. I mean, he's got
a rights. How does he know?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then my last one here is Ralphie Parker. I've
been pretty critical of Classic Christmas Story is a movie.
It's not a great movie. It's a great kind of
television show that's put together as a movie. Like all
of the things are pretty unique. There's only a couple
of things that like the Red Rider BB Gun and
then the Bullies. Those are the only things that really
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are like continuous throughout the story. But it's a fun watch.
Is another movie I'm gonna watch no matter what. I
just don't think it's that great of a movie. I
just think it's you know, it's a fun watch and
you can jump in at any point during the movie
and rewatch it because there's not a lot of continuity
with it. So but Ralphie, he's relatable to anybody who
was a boy and wanted a Christmas present. And there's
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something about the chase and then the moment when you
get it that you just absolutely love and h Yeah,
so I can relate to him. Peyton highlock with me.
We're doing a Friday four. The Friday four is your
favorite characters, your favorite characters that are Christmas related, and
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my list was Kevin McAllister from Home Alone, Bob Cratchett,
the good guy from Christmas Carol, Yukon Cornelius, who I
think deserves his own spinoff after rescuing Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer, and Hermie the Little Dentist, Like he's an
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elf but he's wanting to be a dentist for some reason,
not to not to knock dentists, but of all the
things that an elf would want to be in his life,
it just feels like a strange one. And I just
feel like Yukon Cornelius could have we could have made
a movie about him, and yeah, it could have gone
in multiple directions.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
You always you always have something niche in there that's
like a little bit unexpected. And Yukon Cornelius, I mean,
he makes a very short appearance in terms of like
overall impact.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean until right at the end, I mean, the
Abominable snow Monster is going to eat Rudolph if he's
not there. We only need him to come and rescue them.
At the same time, I have more questions and I
have answers about Yukon Cornelius and in my head and
maybe I'll use, you know, my creative writing skills to
you know, chalk up like an origin story, you know,
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like Wicked. It's kind of like an offer of the
Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Absolutely, yeah, that the.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Original book and kind of it takes those characters, kind
of morphs it into a different story. Well, how about
I do the exact same thing, but the entire thing
is happening and the same timeline. But Yukon Cornelius is
the main character we're following, and he's got had all
these incredible adventures and then he runs into Rudolph at
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some point during his own story, and then we see
Rudolf from that perspective, like, what the heck is going on?
This guy's got a red nose and why is this
elf with him that wants to be a dentist?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, I had an idea about this. Have you heard
of Black Mirror? It's a series on Netflix. Yeah, It's
essentially a compilation of short form movie shorter than a
TV episode. It's about fifteen to twenty minutes, and it's
just this alternate reality of something, but it's not a continuation.
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Is just fifteen twenty minutes of this alternate universe. I
thought it would be pretty cool. You named a bunch
of different situations that you could see Yukon Cornelius in
about going through with in these one movie but then
fifteen twenty minutes and it's like separate from each other,
but also a collection of stories in a way where
he's doing these different things and it somehow ties together
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at the end.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, yeah, it's kind of like the Christmas story, right,
a Christmas story. Yeah, you know, it's like all these
little things like the tongue on the pole, the of
the the leg lamp right, Farcas right in his relationship
with Farcas, and his daydreams about his teacher giving him
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an A plus for his essay about his red writer
bb gun. You know all those things are they kind
of exist on their own, and if you watch the
movie or when he goes to the mall in ask
Santa for the Red Writer bb gun, you know, all
those things are like ten fifteen minute Like many episodes
in the bigger plot of the movie, and the entire
(22:32):
plot essentially is just seeing Christmas through the lens of
a ten year old boy in the nineteen thirties. That's
really the whole plot, right. Napoleon Dynamite was like that hilarious.
See I love that movie, but there's no real plot.
You know, it's just like, at one point in the
(22:54):
movie is feeding a lama. Another point in the movie,
he's taken a rex Kwondo class. A little bit later
in the movie, he is telling the one girl that
makes multiple appearances that seems to want to interact with
him that she doesn't need to be drinking skim milk
or two percent milk because she's not fat. She could
(23:16):
be drinking whole milk if she wanted to. You know,
these are like they're.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Just Napoleon, give me some toss, Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's just like happening throughout the movie and there's not
really any there's no purpose to any of it, except
at the end he wants to make Pedro his friend
that he met president class President. Yeah, it makes no
sense anyway. And then my last one was Ralphie Parker
from a Christmas Story. Just to add that to the end,
(23:45):
there a lot of emails coming in here. Let's get
to him. Scooter says, I'm totally with you on Polar Express.
I didn't get it at all, made no sense. I
didn't find it entertaining at all. Well, the conductor from
the Polar Express was on Peyton's list, And I guess
you just had to be the right to watch it
the first time to really feel what I think it's
trying to make you feel.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean when I watch it now, I was forty.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Years old watching home alone for the first time and
laughed just as hard as the kid would. Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Polar expresson thinks it's more of a nostalgia thing. It's
meant for a younger audience, and if you caught it
at the right time, you're gonna go back and rewatch
it a bunch, right, because it's gonna remind you of
how you felt when you watched it the first time.
So I think it has merit and you're the right age,
(24:28):
so so it absolutely it doubles down. There had Troy
s in this in Troy says the Abominable, the Abominable
Snowman from the original stop motion Rudolph the Red Nose
Reindeer is on my list. Bumbles Bounce Yukon, Cornelius from Rudolph. Yeah,
we got another Cornelius in the house. Tim Allen as
(24:51):
the Santa Claus. Yeah, another really solid Christmas movie. It's
aged very well. I wasn't a big fan when I
was growing up, but the more I watch it now
because my sister really likes it and I think her
kids like it, It's like, oh, yeah, it's a pretty
good one. Now I'm not so sure about the sequels,
like Martin Short playing like the the Mister Freeze guy
(25:13):
or whatever, but everything Jack Frost, yeah that was his name.
He looks like Mister Freeze from Bad Man.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But anyway, Yeah, but the original Santa Claus is really good.
And then the Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is coming
to town. That's a pool scooter, says Ralphie, the Grinch,
the snow Miser, and Willie Soaky. My computer froze up.
(25:43):
He has something else in there, and I would there
it is Bad Santa. That's what it is. From Bad Santa. Yeah,
Bad Santa. Not for the kids. Bad Santa. If you
check that out. It's just an observation the home alone.
Movies are not meant to be super realistic. Obviously, real
criminals who wanted to do bad things to that house
(26:03):
and burgularize that house would not have been so dumb
to fall for every single one of Kevin McAllister's traps.
So I get that it's just kind of like this crazy,
outlandish thing, and you could poke holes in the entire
plot from start to finish. It's not about that, I understand,
but the idea that he builds the entire trap, the
(26:25):
entire house full of traps, gets the ice to freeze
in an hour, gets the door handle to basically turn
fire hot in an hour, gets he draws this whole
thing and puts all these micromachines on the floor, and
he has he rigs up these paint cans. Like where
did he find the paint cans? Why is there a
tarantula just wandering around the house and it just happens
(26:48):
to be in the right place all the time. I
have no idea. You'd think that thing would be in
some sort of what do they call those terrariums?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, it's case or cage. I mean, I mean something
you put.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It on a terrarium, it's not it's not an aquarium
because there's no water, but it's a terrarium. And what
you're just letting this thing run walk around the house.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
The fact he's an eight year old kid that got
left at home alone, I mean already.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, they do a decent enough job of making it
seem plausible that they might have forgotten him. The way
that it all goes down, and the chaos that's around
this family call the cops and say, hey, my kid,
is that well? And they did, but they but they
couldn't figure out how to get into the house. And
this is the other thing. And then it says, I
hate the second one. It happens again. It happens again.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
How does it happen again? The next Christmas? The next year?
You lose them again?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
What are we doing? Guys? CPS get here now?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Literally literally, what are we talking about now? Say I
mentioned this, Chris sent me a note and said, don't
get too hung up on the timeline. It's a movie.
Movie minutes are kind of like football minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They take forever, that's true, or NBA basketball below five minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I mean a college basketball especially those guys take all
their time outs and foul. Even when it's like a
twelve point game, it's like, come on, man, it's over with.
Theresa sent this in Gizmo from The Grimlins. Didn't know
is the Gremlins? I mean maybe a Christmas movie. I
haven't seen that a long time. The little boy from
the Polar Express. So she went Polar Express. But she
went with the kid, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
He's kind. I mean, he's the main character. I mean,
there are kind of characters, but the geek, the dork kid,
or the one with the glasses, the circular glasses.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Oh, I hate that kid. If that kid was around me,
I would have I would have I don't want to
say that I would have put my hands on him,
but I would have been like, brother, you need to
stop talking and you need to get away from me. Now,
stat get away from me. Four eyes, your geek, you dweeb.
Scott Calvin in the Santa Claus two again, I'd have
(28:53):
to think about the Santa Claus two and then Rudolph
the original range. You know, I thought about having Rudolphin.
I'm of the opinion that Rudolph got lucky, and it
was bad luck at first, but then he got like
the winning he learned how to harness his ability with
his red nose. He ended up being lucky in the
right way. You're telling me you're gonna build your entire
(29:17):
sleigh team around the little wimpy guy that's got the
red nose and not like some sort of legitimately beefy
guy like Blitzing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They need the light in the fog, They need a
a this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
There's got to be another way, right for him to
just be out there leading the way, and all these
other reindeer are cool with it. Now. They shouldn't be.
They shouldn't be. That's not how the hierarchy of things
works here. Rudolph hasn't had a pain of his dues yet.
If it's foggy on Christmas Eve, Santa, you've been around
for like eight thousand years. You haven't come across this
once before.
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