We're back to ruin the holidays with a scholarly dissection of a christmas classic!* Listen along, and you too can piss off everyone at the family dinner table with incisive insight into the post-9/11 military-industrial themes of The Polar Express, and the USA's ongoing anxious spiral into full christmas derangement.
Featuring: Being Tom Hankovich, Santa's adrenachrome harvesting operation, elf rally at Yulemberg, graphic hobo explosion, Dewey's wet cardboard box, Cami's Frosty origin story,[white knuckled] it matters where the train is going
*Allegedly, arguably. Classic status debatable.
Movie: The Polar Express (2004)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Rating: Santa is dogecoin
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intro and outro music: "Everyone in Town Wants You Dead" by Singing Sadie
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