Kylie Kelce on Love Actually, Blind Ranking Christmas Movies and the Best Kelce Gift Giver | Ep 116

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Speaker 1 There's nothing sweet about this. Didn't speak.

Speaker 1 I prefer more of the Shakespearean love where they actually communicate and there's some romantic interaction.

Speaker 2 He's an advocate for communication. He wouldn't know romance if it smacked him square in the face.
So that's the problem.

Speaker 1 Well, let me tell you, if love actually is about romance, I do not understand romance.

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Speaker 1 I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother, Jason Kelsey, and my sister-in-law, Kylie Kelsey, has decided to join us for this very, very special episode.

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Speaker 1 And Jason, this is your time to tell everyone what we're doing. What are we doing?

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, we got got an outstanding New Heights episode where we're going to be diving into the New Heights Film Club, but not just one film. That's right.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 For a little present for your holiday, we're going to be giving you a double dose of film reviews, Love Actually, and Christmas Vacation. Double down.

Speaker 1 The double deuce.

Speaker 1 So without further ado, let's get into a little bit of new news. I don't know if you guys have seen, but my wife Kylie is the number one podcast in the world right now.
Number one.

Speaker 1 Number one, number one. Well, on Apple, on Apple Podcasts.
We should stipulate Apple Podcast,

Speaker 1 number one podcast. Yeah, how's it been?

Speaker 1 Any easier or harder than we

Speaker 1 did?

Speaker 1 I don't think we gave her any advice. No, she didn't ask me for it.
She didn't. Yeah, she didn't ask me.
It was like, what do I need advice for? Clearly, she chose right.

Speaker 2 No, I would love advice from you guys on what not to do.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. There you go.
Yeah. Well, We'll get a good team that edits well.
Well, how's it going, Kai?

Speaker 2 It's going great. I've gotten to have some really great conversations with incredible people.

Speaker 1 And I mean, talking to myself is a little weird, but that's, I was about to ask, how was the one-man show or one-woman show?

Speaker 2 Queen Emma's writing rundowns that really make it go easy, but nice, Emma.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Shout out to Emma. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's interesting talking to yourself for that much.

Speaker 1 Nice. You don't have an intern doing it for you? What's that? Are you actually paying somebody? We have interns do that stuff for us.

Speaker 2 No, you have an executive producer.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 we have like volunteers that just come in.

Speaker 1 We don't pay people that.

Speaker 1 We don't. Yeah, we actually.

Speaker 2 Sorry, Brandon.

Speaker 1 We need to fix that. Interns only.

Speaker 1 They both take us. That's how you run a business.
That's how a 90s

Speaker 1 business is ran. That's how you sell a $100 million podcast right there.
Interns, baby.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ. Take advantage of that.

Speaker 2 Somewhat.

Speaker 2 How is it this short into the show and already off the rails?

Speaker 1 No, this is

Speaker 1 on the rails going high school.

Speaker 1 Is that what it is? Headed straight for Christmas Review Town. Okay.
Hit me with it. Why did you make us review this movie before we get into it? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Tell us about your love for actual love, love actual Lee.

Speaker 2 Love Actually is one of my favorite movies, period. Like outside of like not just just Halloween.

Speaker 1 Favorite movies. Yes.
Like up there with like Shawshank Redemption.

Speaker 2 You said that like it was a joke, but I love that movie, too.

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 2 He started listening like he was going to be like. It's a joke.

Speaker 1 The joke isn't that Shawshank is up there.

Speaker 1 That's not the joke. I think that's pretty routinely up there with best movies.
You might be the eyeball out here. I actually enjoyed Love Actually.
It's not. You don't have to

Speaker 1 have to say that, Travis. No,

Speaker 1 I will concede. I will concede it's not an unenjoyable movie to watch nice my issue is the christmas aspect of it and then also just like the overall

Speaker 1 we're gonna get into it but the overall sentiment and lessons and overall values that it expunges expounds are absolutely horrendous but we'll we'll dive into that oh this is gonna be a fun one i really do love the movie i think are we going into the movie now i can't wait for him to sit here and shit on it for the next 10 minutes we might as well dive into it but first this episode will be released on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1 Oh, Merry Christmas, everyone.

Speaker 1 Yes, if Santa's listening. Happy Hanukkah, if that's what you

Speaker 1 is there anything you want to ask for? When is Hanukkah this year? Is Hanukkah right now?

Speaker 2 It's the same time as Christmas, actually.

Speaker 1 Not all the time, though.

Speaker 2 No, this year it is, though.

Speaker 1 It lines up perfectly with Christmas. There you go.
Which night?

Speaker 2 I believe on Christmas Eve, Hanukkah starts. Does someone want to fact-check me on that?

Speaker 1 I thought it was. Jets Jake, are you here?

Speaker 2 Brandon, type.

Speaker 1 Just Jake, I heard it's on the honeymoon.

Speaker 2 Oh, I'm sorry. It starts on Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 Starts on Christmas Day. Nice.
Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish friends. I think best Hanukkah movies, Eight Crazy Nights.
We don't even need to debate that one, right? All right.

Speaker 1 Well, Habi Hanukkah, everybody. Do you guys have anything on the Christmas list that you want to share? Christmas list, like that we want is like presents? Yeah, what do you want?

Speaker 1 Is there anything you want to ask Santa for, Jason?

Speaker 1 Man, if I was going to ask Santa,

Speaker 1 anything, it would be

Speaker 1 for

Speaker 1 better time management skills. Ooh, he wants skills.
Yeah. Nice.
Kylie, get him one of those old school palm pilots. Well, no, I don't think

Speaker 1 you can

Speaker 1 make all of my decisions for me. I don't think it's going to help.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 All right. More time management.
Okay. I need Santa to work his magic, not in the physical realm, but in

Speaker 1 the mental realm. That man wants Santa to work magic on him.
So we want to respect your podcasting rule of no episodes over 45 minutes, but that's not the way we do things.

Speaker 1 But we will set a timer so that you know how much you've gone over. Fuck your roles.
Yeah. You're on the New Heights podcast, not the.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie, this is going to take way more than 45 minutes. No way.

Speaker 2 Well, that's how long we have.

Speaker 1 So Brandon will start this

Speaker 1 timer.

Speaker 1 We're off and running.

Speaker 1 We're rolling. Okay, we're going to start try and summarize the plot of this movie in a little two-minute drill.
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Speaker 1 Kylie, please give us the plot of love, actually, since you made us watch it. Good luck.
Ready, set, go.

Speaker 2 Why is it that I made you watch it?

Speaker 1 Listen, I didn't make the rules here. You're already

Speaker 1 10 seconds in and you haven't gotten. You got 50 seconds.
You got 250 left.

Speaker 2 I don't think I need that much time. It is a collection of stories

Speaker 2 associated with a number of families.

Speaker 1 I don't know how many because that's not really. I think it's nine.
I think it's nine.

Speaker 2 Is it really nine?

Speaker 1 I think it is nine.

Speaker 2 And they are all connected to each other in some way, whether it's by marriage, sibling, friend, it's different people experiencing different family

Speaker 2 things during the holidays. You have the prime minister, you have porn star stand-ins, you have...

Speaker 1 I don't think that was a porn.

Speaker 2 I think that was like a are you joking right now?

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me? Well, in porn, they actually have sex. They were just acting like they were having sex.
No, they were the stand, they were like the lighting crew. They were like

Speaker 1 to get like the lighting right, which I didn't know. I didn't even like think that I didn't see that.
I thought they were like the okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 My goodness.

Speaker 2 You have

Speaker 2 a man who is recently widowed and he's navigating his new, like, his

Speaker 2 relationship with his son. You just have all of these things that are connected sort of by

Speaker 2 like one degree of separation, each of them.

Speaker 2 There's good, there's bad, and it ends in a beautiful Christmas pageant with a one of the best renditions of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You.

Speaker 1 Amateurish, if you ask me.

Speaker 1 It was a child that sang it. Thank you.
Exactly. Jordan Morris, kill this.

Speaker 2 And the build up to it was outstanding. Yeah, I think it's lovely.

Speaker 2 Maybe it could be my ADHD that makes me like this movie so much because it's like a bunch of small stories in one big movie and it pops around a lot. That's helpful for me.

Speaker 1 You actually did that in two minutes, which is pretty, I mean, this is why your podcast is number one. You're very punctual.
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Speaker 1 Let's keep this thing moving. Okay, so let's be honest.

Speaker 1 Let me be brutally honest. Love actually might be the worst Christmas movie I've ever seen.
Like, I don't even know that it's up for debate. I didn't feel Christmas at at all during the movie.

Speaker 1 There was zero Christmas spirit or anything resembling.

Speaker 1 I enjoyed the movie.

Speaker 1 It was okay. It was okay.
I just didn't, I didn't understand how much it really tied into Christmas. Not only does it not tie into Christmas,

Speaker 1 it was like the worst family values of all time tied into Christmas. It was like bad people.
A guy went to get a necklace for his

Speaker 1 secretary or whatever that woman was.

Speaker 1 Let's just go story by story. Let's go story by story.
The one guy

Speaker 1 is like voyeuring his best friend's wife and only recording her.

Speaker 2 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 Start from the beginning. Okay.

Speaker 2 Who did it start out with? I don't know, but you've seen it.

Speaker 2 No, the guy who's going no, the guy who's going to the wedding.

Speaker 2 And he's like, hey,

Speaker 2 are you sure you don't want to come? And she's like, I'm disgusting. I'm sick.
I can't go.

Speaker 1 Okay, so we want to start with that storyline.

Speaker 2 That's the first storyline.

Speaker 1 So for those of you that don't know, the first storyline is a guy leaves the house. his wife is like, Oh, hey, like, I'm a little sick.
I'm not going to go with you. And I knew it right away.

Speaker 2 You called it the minute.

Speaker 1 The minute he left, and she's going to be fucking somebody when he gets back. Obvious, right? So, it's not even like it's remotely creative of a movie.
So,

Speaker 1 super obvious that she's going to come back in. She's going to be with him.
It wasn't obvious in the 90s. Well, it also wasn't obvious that it was going to be his fucking brother.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Did you know that? No. Yeah.
She's fucking his brother.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Merry Christmas, everyone. Then he sucks.
So he leaves her and decides to go to, where was he at? He went to France?

Speaker 2 Right? Somewhere.

Speaker 1 Italy or France or someplace. And he has this Portuguese woman who's waiting.

Speaker 2 He went to the countryside. Okay.
Wherever. And his housekeeper that he hires is Portuguese.
Yes. Or speaks Portuguese.

Speaker 1 The housekeeper that he's given speaks Portuguese from this other woman, which they don't get into if she was human trafficked or how she got there. They don't go into that.

Speaker 1 but they we do know that these people fall in love with each other without being able to talk what the are we talking about

Speaker 1 they never spoke a word you ever watch love is blind i i i do not watch love is blind no

Speaker 1 this was love is mute

Speaker 1 it was love is mute it was a great it was a great life lesson it was a great life lesson into how much you can fall in love with somebody without actually being able to communicate with them it was terribly unbelievable.

Speaker 1 But it,

Speaker 1 not even like they're in the water and they're saying the same thing. And kind of like, look, they're saying the same thing.
And all I'm in my head is like, this is complete nonsense.

Speaker 1 This is just like complete ridiculousness. There's nothing sweet about this.
They're acting like.

Speaker 2 There's nothing sweet about the fact that they were saying the exact same thing but didn't speak.

Speaker 1 I prefer more of the Shakespearean love where they actually communicate and there's some romantic interaction as opposed to

Speaker 2 you want to talk about communicate.

Speaker 1 This, he's in the world. You want to talk about romance?

Speaker 2 I'm realizing that is the problem here.

Speaker 1 It was too, it hit home too much for him.

Speaker 2 No, that he actually doesn't, he wouldn't know romance if it smacked him square in the face. So that's the problem.

Speaker 1 Well, let me tell you, if love actually is about romance, I do not understand romance.

Speaker 1 There might have been one storyline, and then there was one storyline in the whole movie that was good. Which one was it? Sam Mason.
Liam Neeson and his son Sam. That was by far.

Speaker 1 That was a great storyline. It was fantastic.

Speaker 1 They couldn't have hit the nail on the head. We got to get that kid a scholarship.
We got to get a football in his hand. We got to get him catching the ball.

Speaker 1 That motherfucker was running through the airport, dodging cats like he was Pat Mahomes in the fourth quarter. He was just out there.

Speaker 2 The cutest thing about watching was that Ellie was watching at the end of the movie and got blushed on the cheeks.

Speaker 1 She was feeling her.

Speaker 2 So she was so excited.

Speaker 2 And then the next day she told me, Mom, that cute boy that played the drums, will you show me a picture of him?

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 2 And then I had to Google Sam from Love, actually. And she was giggling like, she was so, it was funny.

Speaker 1 Wyatt was giggling too.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but Wyatt loves every boy that

Speaker 2 comes up on the scene.

Speaker 1 Anybody that kisses, oh my gosh!

Speaker 1 It's adorable.

Speaker 1 That's the one redeemable story. Let's watch this.

Speaker 2 No, they only saw the end. They almost saw the boobs, but

Speaker 2 I warned Jason

Speaker 2 he sped it up.

Speaker 1 All right. So that's the one redeemable story.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I will say the one storyline that really does not sit right with me is the best friend and Kira Knightley.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're talking about the cards? The cards? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like the iconic way to do it. That's like the most romantic way to tell someone you're in love with them, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Play music.

Speaker 1 while you're just while your best friend her husband is inside sitting on the couch tell them it's carolers what's crazy is that yeah exactly no what's crazy is that all these like you said all these stories tie together in one community and it it's supposed to make it look like this is what happens

Speaker 1 in like a community like this is like these are all the different love stories and all the like this is what's going on around you it's horrendous and it's terrifying because there's so much scandal in it.

Speaker 1 Everyone's, everyone's a guy, you got a guy buying a necklace for another woman.

Speaker 2 Yeah, she's a hoe.

Speaker 1 Jesus.

Speaker 2 Sorry, that was aggressive.

Speaker 1 It was aggressive, but deserving if you're going to do that.

Speaker 2 I just didn't like.

Speaker 1 I don't know why anybody's mad at her that the husband's the guy that freaking. Yeah, the husband's the worst.
It's never made sense to me.

Speaker 2 So the husband is horrible, but she's the one who is sitting at her desk and splits her legs while she's standing in front of him to be like, Hey, this Christmas party is about to be off the hook.

Speaker 1 The weird thing is her dancing with him in front of him. I don't recall her announcing her devotion.

Speaker 2 This is what I will say.

Speaker 1 I see

Speaker 1 her wife

Speaker 2 absolutely laying the gauntlet after

Speaker 2 the Christmas pageant and walking up to him and being like,

Speaker 2 Like, oh, do you want to explain to me what I'm supposed to do now? And like, called his ass on the carpet.

Speaker 2 Power to you, girl. Yes.

Speaker 1 Power to

Speaker 1 the end of the movie, they were still together. She didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 How do you know they were still together?

Speaker 2 He was somewhere on a trip, and the only reason she was picking him up was because of the kids, and she only allowed him to kiss her on the cheek. She didn't kiss him.

Speaker 1 Either way, I don't know. Whatever.
Horrible storyline. Let's have the boss cheating with the secretary.

Speaker 2 Yeah, because that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 It's not that it's crazy. It's just that we're expounding.

Speaker 2 I think the whole point is, is that they

Speaker 2 put together a collection of storylines surrounding the holidays because the holidays are sensationalized.

Speaker 2 And in, I think, adult life, you realize the holidays aren't as jolly and like life doesn't, like, real life doesn't stop because of the holidays. And it's also sensationalized.

Speaker 2 I just think top to bottom.

Speaker 2 I see what you're saying that it didn't need to be a Christmas movie.

Speaker 1 But I think that's part of the point.

Speaker 2 I think that's why they're like trying to drive the point home.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think that they made it a Christmas movie because they know that by making it a Christmas movie, it would sell and become a tradition every single year.

Speaker 1 And I think you're just a hater. I think that this is so wild.
It's terrible values. Not all.
Not all terrible values. Some good values in there.
No, one good story, maybe two.

Speaker 2 The porn couple were very cute

Speaker 1 and very happy. They were.
They were very cute.

Speaker 2 I don't remember. He was so distracted by the boobs, he couldn't even realize that they were having actual conversations.

Speaker 1 Well, they weren't like a legitimate storyline that was happening that much. But yes.

Speaker 2 Also, how about

Speaker 2 what's his name? Colin? Colin, God of Sex?

Speaker 1 That was a good one. He comes to the United States.
We're talking about that. Living the American dream.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I just love that it was Wisconsin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then he found those girls in Wisconsin. I mean, he definitely.
He found some smoke shows in Wisconsin. I will say this.

Speaker 1 I will say this. Made out like a thief.
They didn't go into this in the movie, but Colin clearly was talking to a prostitute.

Speaker 1 Like, if you go up to a bar and a woman is that, yeah, that's like she's dressed that way. Are you kidding me? She's dressed that way and talking that kind of way.

Speaker 1 That's a prostitute. All right.
I don't need to know. I don't need to know anything more about this story.
That didn't really happen to Colin. And then he brought one home for his friend.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's that's love.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 2 And that is love, actually. That's that's love, actually.

Speaker 1 That's Colin has some wealthy parents, and he couldn't afford them. You don't know that.
She comes through the door and immediately just kisses the other guy. Like, this whole thing is just so.

Speaker 1 Love at first sight, Jason. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Love at first sight. Or paid for love in the form of prostitution.
That's what I got from that vibe.

Speaker 2 I really do love the movie.

Speaker 1 It's a fun one to watch.

Speaker 1 I was enjoying following along to all the stories. I also was kind of with Jason on some of them.
Like, this is a little far-fetched.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, a couple of them.

Speaker 2 I will say, the moment, the moment that Kira Knightley sits down and is trying to watch the wedding video, it does give you like an uneasy feeling in your stomach.

Speaker 2 As a woman, like if that were to happen to you, where you sat down, you were like, Oh, my husband's best friend recorded this video. I'm going to watch it.
And then it's all close-ups of your face.

Speaker 2 And you're like, Are you about to kill me?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, that's my thing.
She wasn't like that, though. She was kind of into it.

Speaker 2 I don't think she was into it.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. She was into it.
And then she was into it when he came with the cars off the wall.

Speaker 2 I think she felt bad for him.

Speaker 1 No, she was into it. And the whole thing was weird.
I mean, it's stalker-type behavior.

Speaker 2 A thousand percent.

Speaker 1 Can't do it. No, top to bottom wrong.
Don't want to promote that. Don't want to.

Speaker 1 That's not the storyline that gets the happy ending. I agree.
Overall, rating it. Are we doing the PFF grade? Is that what we're doing here? We always do.
All right. PFF grade.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Amount of Christmas. I mean, minimal Christmas.
I mean, it's a lot of Christmas, but minimal actual Christmas theme. I'm going to go

Speaker 1 four. I'll say four because there's Christmas stuff all over the place.
That's so much more generous than what I thought you were going to give it. Yeah, I'm not going to, listen, I'm realistic.

Speaker 1 I'm giving an honest review that is not swayed by any ulterior motive. This is an honest, that's what you can expect from Jason Kelsey.
That's what you can put a stamp, put a guarantee on the box.

Speaker 1 What are you giving it, Kai?

Speaker 2 For the amount of Christmas,

Speaker 1 six.

Speaker 1 Anywhere from four.

Speaker 2 I won't aggressively, I won't. I understand that these storylines could have been constructed outside of the holiday season.
Yeah, I mean, it's I can acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 And that's why I'm giving it a three. This had nothing to do with Christmas.

Speaker 1 Both of you are just being generous.

Speaker 1 That's not the one I'm going to be generous on. Acting.

Speaker 1 I thought the acting was pretty good. I mean, it's for what it is.
It's a rom-com. Honestly, the acting,

Speaker 1 that's what I'm saying. I enjoyed the storylines and the acting, and it was fun.

Speaker 2 It was a very good cast.

Speaker 1 When you bring good kids acting, good kid acting in. Also,

Speaker 1 prime minister calling out the United States. If that isn't the biggest form of fucking political grandstanding that I have ever seen, fuck that guy.

Speaker 1 He didn't say shit to Billy Bob's face and then went up on there on the podium. Like, I ain't doing shit.
If I'm the U.S., I'm sticking it right up the prime minister of Britain's ass.

Speaker 1 Like, we run the fucking show, not you, dickhead. We just had a whole fucking conversation in your office.

Speaker 1 You're bringing this up one time, and then you're going to go out there and say that shit in the fucking media.

Speaker 1 So, anyways, just had to get that off my chest.

Speaker 1 He did. He flanked.
Hugh Grant flanked. The Prime Minister flanked.
We're not going to talk about any of this in the office.

Speaker 1 I'm going to act like I'm your best buddy and then go out there and say, like, we're done being taken advantage of. Well, now Britain's fucked because the U.S.
is all on your side. So, guess what?

Speaker 1 Good luck.

Speaker 2 He wasn't talking.

Speaker 2 He was talking about the woman.

Speaker 1 No, he was not. Oh my god.
He was still mad at the woman because he was about to fire her. No, he was not.
That's all he was in his head. He fired her right afterwards, guys.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you guys have talked yourself into. He fired her.
And then it took later in the morning.

Speaker 2 He took her from his personal office to alleviate temptation.

Speaker 1 No, he liked the temptation. He was in on it.
That's why at the end, he came back around. He was like, oh, my gosh, I've made a terrible mistake.

Speaker 1 That woman was being taken advantage of. Now I need her back.
He knew immediately that what the president was doing. I don't think he was in.
Acting,

Speaker 1 I'm giving it a solid nine. I love the acting.
I mean, I can't give it a nine just for, because of like the type of movie it is. You're ridiculous.

Speaker 2 But nothing, then you, then you downscore the plot. You don't fuck with the acting.

Speaker 2 I'll agree with Travis Nine.

Speaker 1 But I just think that there's

Speaker 1 the acting wasn't like overly difficult. That's why I guess what I'm getting at.

Speaker 1 You're so fucked up. Just being honest.
Like it's not, it's like the rom-com type model isn't like this.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 This isn't like

Speaker 1 Shawshank like level

Speaker 1 type. This isn't,

Speaker 1 what's the fucking one where.

Speaker 1 Leonardo's out in the fucking wilderness for two hours with the grizzly bears or whatever. What the fuck's that movie? Reverent.
Like Revenant.

Speaker 1 This isn't that type of film. So like,

Speaker 1 this would be like if if the Chiefs played, like, a high school team. How'd the Chiefs play? Well, they beat them by 1,000 points, but it's hard to tell if they're very, like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, I don't know what to tell you. You're fucking ridiculous.
Give it a score. All right, seven.

Speaker 1 It's good acting, but, like, I can't. Directing.

Speaker 1 I thought the directing was up there. I thought to be able to put all these.

Speaker 1 I can't take Jason serious right now.

Speaker 1 I thought the directing was cool.

Speaker 1 A lot of the shots were fun, the symmetrical. I thought the shots on the,

Speaker 1 especially on the water,

Speaker 1 when all the papers and everything flew around, I thought that was sweet. I thought the running, the slow-mo running through the

Speaker 1 airport fired me up for some reason. I found it to be.

Speaker 1 I'll give it a solid directing solid eight.

Speaker 1 Solid eight.

Speaker 2 I'm going to say nine. I love this movie.

Speaker 1 I'll say, like, just very predictable.

Speaker 1 Like, I think it's hard. It's plot.
Yeah, but it's plot, but also, but also, like, the way the scenes are shot and, like, the choices that are made.

Speaker 1 Like, it just felt very a wedding scene where everybody pops up with their own instrument. That's first of all, again, that's plot.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying the way everything was shot was just very, there was nothing creative to it.

Speaker 1 So, like, I feel like anybody who went to film school could have directed this movie in the exact same way this guy did. So, I'll go five.

Speaker 1 You're such a grinch man that's a great description plot what do we got plot can i go negative no you can't go negative christ it's a one to ten one to ten yeah so i can't go zero no

Speaker 1 one

Speaker 1 it's fucked up it's a horrendous the reality of it jason is that there probably is a lot of this going on so as much as you want to act like this is like not a good plot, like this is this is something that could actually be going on.

Speaker 2 I'm going eight. I think that it was a lovely

Speaker 2 collection. And again, the only reason I'm down scoring from higher is because I think that it didn't necessarily have to be a holiday movie.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'll say this. If it is actually going on, it was directed and filmed in a way that was completely inappropriate.
It was filmed in this uplifting, like, oh, look.

Speaker 1 She's out with the cue cards guy, the best friend trying to fuck his best friend's wife.

Speaker 1 And like, all of it was done in this like happy, like there was there should have been much more dark tones and filmed in a way that expounded on these people being pieces of shit that's fine but the fact that all of it was celebrated is ridiculous so like maybe the plot isn't horrendous maybe i would like the plot if the director and the way it was shot accurately portrayed all these people as monsters I did feel like they were like portraying everybody as all, everybody's good people.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That being said, I'll give it a solid seven.

Speaker 1 I enjoyed the bouncing around.

Speaker 1 I thought the plot of the movie, like how they were tying in all the stories, even though I wasn't agreeing with what everybody was doing, I thought it was very interesting. Character relatability.

Speaker 1 This is where it's tough. Can't relate to a lot of these situations.
Everybody can relate to Sam.

Speaker 1 You got your first crush.

Speaker 1 You know, how do I, you know, do I, do I, do I have the courage courage to go up and ask the girl that I'm into out and sing to her? Couldn't really relate to anybody.

Speaker 1 I'm going to give it a nice solid three.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Outside of them all being European.

Speaker 2 I just feel bad giving it any low score, but I don't know that there's a single plot where I'm like,

Speaker 1 I feel that. I'm going to go

Speaker 2 four, five, four.

Speaker 1 I don't know how you don't love this adorable dog behind you.

Speaker 2 She looks dead.

Speaker 1 You see her. Where are you going, Jason? Sam's relatable.
It's the only one. And the dad.

Speaker 1 I think most dads are going to be put in that situation where they're trying to navigate their son's first love interests and Sam having to do that and nailing it. So I'm going to go,

Speaker 1 I'll go three as well. Nice.
Because that was a very relatable scene. Nice.
All the other ones, just no.

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Alrighty, back to the top of the two-minute drill here.

Speaker 1 We just got done with love, actually giving it a solid, kind of buns movie review. But

Speaker 1 we are into one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time. And this is America speaking because this movie, Christmas Vacation, is based off of the good-hearted, middle-class American family.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And it's just, it's so, it's such a magical,

Speaker 1 fucking hilarious, it hits on every single aspect of like the families and all the characters and like kind of portrays what I imagine as a lot of, a lot of like people's Christmas, I don't know, Christmas experiences year in, year out, especially when you get the entire family, like both sides of the family together in one house.

Speaker 1 I love it. This is a movie that I didn't love as much when I was a kid.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I think it was hard to relate to all of it, but the older you get, the funnier it gets, the more relatable it gets, especially once you start having kids of your own, once you're married, I feel like

Speaker 1 even without like kids, I'm looking at it like, man, I can appreciate it for just the dynamic, like the father always trying to just go above and beyond for the Christmas magic.

Speaker 1 For sure, whether it's the tree or the lights.

Speaker 1 And he's always, he says it in the beginning. He's like, I always just wanted a big Christmas

Speaker 1 family environment in my life, having all the both sides of the family, his wife's and his,

Speaker 1 all the parents, knowing that, you know, not everybody always sees eye to eye, but they always wanted this. Yeah, we're also going to mention here that Kylie hasn't seen it.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, Kylie, well, she has seen it. She did not watch it before this episode, though.

Speaker 2 No, I'm of no use to you. So, I've only seen bits and pieces.

Speaker 1 What pieces have you seen?

Speaker 1 Can you see the dog right now? Yeah,

Speaker 1 she stole the dog.

Speaker 1 Is she stealing toilet paper?

Speaker 2 She stole the toilet paper out of the bathroom.

Speaker 1 Oh, there we go. Look at her.
She's about to tear it to pieces. Arts and crafts.
It's doggy arts and crafts.

Speaker 2 I don't even know that I can pull scenes out of my pocket here.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 When I tell you I am useless to this.

Speaker 1 Do you know who the main character is? Clark Griswold. Okay.
Do you know who plays him?

Speaker 1 No. Okay.
Kylie's out of this. All right.

Speaker 1 Chevy absolutely kills it.

Speaker 2 There you go. That's it.

Speaker 1 Chevy's the man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think what's special about this movie is exactly what you're saying, Travis, that Clark is trying to give his family the ideal storybook Christmas that Hallmark and every movie and every story has ever laid out.

Speaker 1 But the beauty behind this is like, this is how actually Christmas is. It's a giant chore.
It's incredibly hard to pull off.

Speaker 1 But you all, for some reason, all of us revel in the misery of trying to make it happen because you're trying to make it special for your kids and your family.

Speaker 1 And I think everybody can identify with Clark's inability to do that, but in trying to do so every single year. Yeah, so I think it's fantastic.
I love

Speaker 1 right from the opening scene of going out and cutting the Christmas tree down, and the kids are like, Why the hell are we out here doing this?

Speaker 1 This makes no sense, dad. And he's like, It's because of it's a Christmas tradition.
This is what we're going to go get our tree. This is what it's the ultimate like dad line of American dads.

Speaker 1 This is what our forefathers did. They went out.

Speaker 1 I'm just like, god damn, it's going to be more than spot on. No doubt.

Speaker 1 All the 90s dads talk.

Speaker 1 And then it's just, you know, right down the, like, go, like, right down the barrel from, you know, he's expecting the bonus from his job and like how big of a point he's gone all in on Christmas.

Speaker 1 Like he's leveraged everything that this is going to happen. And it comes to full,

Speaker 1 you know, it comes to a head immediately when he finds out that he isn't getting the bonus that he he thinks he's getting.

Speaker 1 But kudos to the boss for coming, getting his senses when he's kidnapped by cousin Eddie. Cousin Eddie.
And we all have a cousin Eddie. I had a revelation while I was watching this movie.

Speaker 1 I've always thought I was Clark Griswold. Am I cousin Eddie? No.
Like when I come to your house, am I viewed as the cousin Eddie? No, you're viewed as Clark Griswold.

Speaker 1 You're 100% Clark.

Speaker 1 I just thought all of those scenes are so relatable, and that's what makes the movie so special.

Speaker 1 And they did such a good job of just making it funny, poking fun at the ridiculousness of it, poking fun at the neighbors who are too cool to have Christmas be a part.

Speaker 1 Like, I just think it's really, really well done across the board by National Lampoon and Chevy Chase and everyone involved. So, should we get into the PFF rating of this movie?

Speaker 1 Or do you want to talk about more stories?

Speaker 1 I want to ask you. What's your favorite scene? Yeah, favorite scene.

Speaker 1 I probably should have thought of this before. There's so many good ones.
I mean, right off the bat, the kiss my ass scene with the uh with the boss and all of his little minions.

Speaker 1 I thought that was fucking gold. Kiss my ass, kiss his ass.
Kiss his ass. Happy Hanukkah.
Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

Speaker 1 So good. Yeah.
I like the sledding scene. That one's an iconic one when he goes like through all the freaking different material.

Speaker 1 He's got the new lubricant. I really like

Speaker 1 the scene. Don't put that on my sled.
You know, the metal plate I got in my hand.

Speaker 1 Cousin Eddie's lines are so much better.

Speaker 1 It turns the microwave on. I piss myself.
I piss myself.

Speaker 1 And now the only thing standing between my brain and

Speaker 1 is a two-inch-wide piece of government plastic.

Speaker 1 So good. It's so good.
Oh, my gosh. That's fucking gorgeous.
I never understood the attic scene. I thought he was stuck up there.
And I forgot that he goes through the ceiling.

Speaker 1 He could have just left, but he stays up there. He stays up there.
He gets caught up in just enjoying all the shit that's up there. That's going down memory lane, which we all get caught up in.

Speaker 1 For sure. I love the lights, the light scene.
Oh, my gosh. When he finally gets it clicked on and the whole town goes out, then they got to turn the nuclear power on.
Shitter's full, man.

Speaker 1 What's he says? He worked hard on those lights, Grandma. So does the washing machine.
Or say, he worked hard, grandma. So does the washing machine.
That's a good one. All right, right.

Speaker 1 Let's get to the PFF grade. So before we got to get out of here, Kylie's, we're fast approaching our 45-minute window.
Let's do it. Amount of Christmas, 10.
10.

Speaker 1 Could not have more.

Speaker 1 Could not have more Christmas. Yeah.
Acting for what it is, like a comedy, they nailed it. Yeah.
I mean, it's again, not the most challenging, but.

Speaker 1 I was about to say, if you're going to go, if you're going to give

Speaker 1 This was more challenging. Like the comedic timing here is way more challenging than what they did in Love, actually.

Speaker 1 And I'm assuming there was an amount of off the cuff comments made like most of these comedies i'm going eight i'm going eight yeah there's no off the cuff in love actually directing

Speaker 1 i didn't give my acting

Speaker 1 uh i'll give them

Speaker 1 those two

Speaker 1 just i mean a seven they were both tens but if we're going the entire movie entire cast yeah all right

Speaker 1 that's fair i thought the boss did a good job forget that guy's that actor but yeah directing I mean, 10. It nailed it.
Like, it's freaking hilarious. Ridiculous.
And it's not overstated.

Speaker 2 It's not over.

Speaker 1 Like, it's not like, here's what I mean. And this is why I like old comedies.
So many comedies that are made now, it's like they overdo it with a lot of it. And it feels like

Speaker 1 there should be some question. Like, there's like in the first scene, like, they forget the saw, but they still get out of there with the tree because they ripped it out of the ground.

Speaker 1 How do they rip it out of the ground? Who gives a shit? It's funny.

Speaker 1 We don't need to overdo it. We don't need to over, like, we don't need to make it so realistic that, oh,

Speaker 1 no, Clark, Chevy Shays isn't ripping a tree out of it. The comedy is very dry.
It's not like at any moment, it feels like, like, if you weren't listening to the words, it doesn't feel like a comedy.

Speaker 1 Like, it's not like this slapsticky thing too much. Actually, that's a lot.
Anyway, I think the comedy is very dry throughout.

Speaker 1 And I just like that type of comedy as opposed to kind of things that happen now where it's like more.

Speaker 1 Comedy is being made right now.

Speaker 1 I'll give it a solid eight on the directing. I thought it was good.
Plot

Speaker 1 10. Stop, Jason.

Speaker 2 11.

Speaker 1 In terms of Christmas movie plot, it's all hit. It was horrible.
It was all like when he's turning on the lights and they're doing the drum roll. We all knew it was not going to go up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you didn't know why it wasn't going up. Is it because of light bulbs?

Speaker 1 You did not know that there was going to be the light switch in the garage

Speaker 1 and that there was going to be a back and forth where she was going to turn it on. Then he's like having trouble.
He thinks he's got it fixed. And then all of a sudden it's going out and he's trying.

Speaker 1 Like, I just had it on. Like, no, none of that stuff was predictable.
That's why it was funny. Things that are predictable aren't funny.
This movie is very funny. The light part.
It wasn't funny.

Speaker 1 It was just

Speaker 1 the needed part in the movie. You didn't think it was funny when he stapled his sleeve to the gutter and he ripped his sleeve off and then the ladder fell back into the tree.

Speaker 1 Then he went forward again, then he's hanging from the gutter, and a piece of ice shot out and hit his

Speaker 1 neighbor's window. No,

Speaker 1 it's good for TV, but

Speaker 1 I didn't laugh if that's what you're asking me.

Speaker 1 Just give it a rating. Plot, I'll give it a seven.

Speaker 2 It's ridiculous. I like the way Travis just crushed you, the way you crushed me on.

Speaker 1 I mean, what I just said was actually 100%.

Speaker 1 I mean, it made a ton of sense. This makes no sense.
Character, he said it was predictable. It's like not predictable.
That's why it's funny. Character relatability,

Speaker 1 10. Character relatability is up there.
I'll give it a good nine. What's the PFF grade? It's going to be pretty high.
It's going to be pretty high for a Christmas movie.

Speaker 1 Probably right around the eighths. High eight.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's going to have to be eight points.
No, it might be nine. It's going to be eight points something, right? It shouldn't be this

Speaker 1 hard.

Speaker 1 I don't know what's taking Brandon so long to type this up.

Speaker 1 8.9. Wow.
I mean, yeah, I think that's a solid score for how I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was 8.9 for sure.

Speaker 1 All right. That's it for movie reviews.
We're going to get to our next segment, which is Christmas movie games. That's right.
We're going to do... Kylie's informed me.
This is a TikTok trend.

Speaker 1 I'm not on TikTok, so I'm new to this trend. It's a blind ranking.

Speaker 1 This is a big thing in the world of TikTok. The blind ranking is brought to you by our friends at Accelerator.
Nice.

Speaker 1 Whether you're trying to get geared up to put up some Christmas lights

Speaker 1 like Clark Griswold

Speaker 1 or wrapping some presents

Speaker 1 in the heat of the night

Speaker 1 before Santa gets there, make sure you're drinking Accelerator when you need that energy and a little bit of all-natural

Speaker 1 plant-based thermogenics to get you there. Ooh, always get you right, baby.
It's gotten me to 14-1 this season.

Speaker 1 All right, we're going to blind rank 10 of the most popular Christmas movies of all time. Can't wait to see what they chose for this.
You will see one movie at a time.

Speaker 1 Place it on the list before seeing the next one. It's going to be hard because we don't know what the 10 movies are going to be.
That's the whole thing. The point of it.
That's why it's blind ranking.

Speaker 1 He gets it now.

Speaker 2 There's literally filters on TikTok that do this.

Speaker 1 What's a filter?

Speaker 1 Is that like a...

Speaker 1 It's like a Snapchat thing. But is it, it does like, it like turns everything orange?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 It shows

Speaker 2 up like one through 10, and then it puts one thing on the screen, and you have to select which number you'd like to put it at, and then you find out what the next one is. Got it.

Speaker 1 Okay. There's multiple versions of filters.

Speaker 2 There's like Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 That's also a filter.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that is. But there's

Speaker 2 Thanksgiving food ranking.

Speaker 1 How are we doing this? Are we doing this with you? Brandon's going to tell us. I'm going to pop it up.
Should I get a pen and pencil? No.

Speaker 1 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 So funny. First movie, The Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 Santa Claus. Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 That's a good movie. I can think of a lot of movies better, but I do like Santa Claus.
Who's going first? Travis, you go first on this one? Then we'll rotate. Somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Speaker 1 I was thinking four. I would do five.
If you guys want to go five, where were you going? I was going higher than that. You're a big fan? We'll go four.
Time all the way.

Speaker 2 I just think it's a great movie.

Speaker 1 It's a really good movie. If you want to go four, I'll go four with Santa Claus.
I'll go four. I can think of a few movies better, including Chris's Vacation.
Second movie, Jingle All the Way.

Speaker 1 Jingle All the Way.

Speaker 2 That's not better than The Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 No, it is not. I mean, it's a guilty pleasure for me just because it has Schwarzenegger, but objectively, not that good of a movie.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I can think of worse, like Love Actually. It's got to be eight or nine.
I can't, so it can't go too low.

Speaker 2 I would say eight or nine.

Speaker 1 I'll go eight. I think eight's a good solid Jingle All the Way score.
I hope they didn't put a bunch of bad movies in here now. A Christmas story.
Yeah, Wyatt clearly doesn't agree with that.

Speaker 1 A Christmas Story.

Speaker 1 I think you got to go one.

Speaker 1 I don't know that there's any movie that symbolizes Christmas more to me than Christmas Story, personally.

Speaker 1 I love it. I really do love it, but I just, I enjoy other Christmas movies so much more.
Is it above or below Santa Claus is the question?

Speaker 1 I think definitely above.

Speaker 2 Then it needs to be three, because quite honestly, it wouldn't even be my top five.

Speaker 1 Christmas Story? No.

Speaker 1 It hits home for us, Clevelanders. I think three is fine.

Speaker 1 I think it should be on either side. I think it should be two.
I think it should be two. I don't think it should be two.

Speaker 2 You already, no, Brandon, keep typing. He already got vetoed.
No, he, yeah, thank you. He got vetoed.

Speaker 1 Movie number four, Elf. Elf is a very good movie.

Speaker 1 Man, it's good. It's definitely better than Santa Claus, so I'm upset that Santa Claus is at four because I can't put it above a Christmas story.

Speaker 2 Yes, we can.

Speaker 1 I think Elf is two. Right? I'll put it at five.
I'll compromise it.

Speaker 2 Jason, we're not compromising.

Speaker 1 I think there's two other Christmas movies better than Elf.

Speaker 1 I can think of like five if I'm being honest.

Speaker 1 A Wonderful Life. I can think of Christmas vacation.

Speaker 2 I just want to declare that this does not accurately represent how I would have blind-ranked any the Grinch.

Speaker 1 Guys, we are this rating is so fucked up.

Speaker 1 We fucked up with Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 No, the Grinch is going to be number one, and Elf is going to be number two.

Speaker 1 I fucked up with Santa Claus. Santa Claus shouldn't be four.
It should be low.

Speaker 1 Christmas story shouldn't have squeaked into the top five. I said five or six on Santa Claus.
Listen,

Speaker 1 I think Elf has got to be up there. Is the most iconic Christmas movie of all time? They play play it for 24 hours straight on TBS.
They used to.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. All the geezers that still want to see it.

Speaker 2 Is it going 34th Street going to be in this?

Speaker 1 Shit. That one's way down there.
That movie sucks.

Speaker 2 Elf is outstanding. The OG.
Talk about playing every movie. It's not the OG.

Speaker 1 It's not the OG.

Speaker 2 No, no, no.

Speaker 2 I mean the OG version of that movie, not the remake.

Speaker 1 All right, put it at five. Put it at five.
I'm fine. We'll put it at five.

Speaker 1 We'll put it at five. It's up there.
It's top five. Perfect.
Elf is top five Christmas all time. Wow.
The Muppets Christmas Carol. Oh.
Six. I love me some Muppets.
Okay, five away.

Speaker 1 Put that at nine if not. No, no, no, no, no, no.
You're way off. You are way off.
No way. You guys are.
I'm not letting. I'm not listening.

Speaker 1 A Muppet Christmas Carol is fucking fantastic. This is

Speaker 1 ridiculous.

Speaker 2 I will agree.

Speaker 1 You're saying this movie is worse than Jingle All the Way. You're out of your mind.

Speaker 2 You are out of your mind. I didn't think Jingle All the Way should have been that high either.

Speaker 1 I was also, I was giving Shorty. Guys, we still have Love Actually coming up.
We have to leave space down there for Love Actually. Nine it is then.

Speaker 2 You motherfucker.

Speaker 1 Nine it is, because

Speaker 1 there's still two more that we probably should have put above Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 I can't wait to see what comes next. Brandon hit it.

Speaker 1 Nightmare Before Christmas. Oh.
God damn it.

Speaker 1 10.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 2 This is not a Christmas movie. This is a Halloween movie.

Speaker 1 This is the way that Love Actually should have been filmed. If it was filmed like this, it might have been

Speaker 1 good.

Speaker 1 The cartoon porn scene, the anti-Christmas movie is the way it's going to be. I would love to see some play titties, okay?

Speaker 1 It needed to be darker. It was, they were trying to shine light on them too much.
You guys are out of your mind if you think the nightmare before Christmas is not a good thing. This is an absolute

Speaker 1 I can't put it down. There's going to be something worse than this.
I'm saying you're right. There is going to be something worse than it, but I can honestly say I've never even watched that.
This is,

Speaker 1 yeah, we fucked up. The Nightmare Before Christmas.
So, how are you at all inclined to rate it anything if you've never seen it?

Speaker 2 It's a fucking skeleton, Jason.

Speaker 1 don't judge a book by its cover kai oh god yeah you didn't like the adams family this is the next one it's a wonderful life

Speaker 1 oh here he goes one or two here he goes this is not one or two this is six no chance

Speaker 2 this is a cluster fuck dude there's no way

Speaker 1 this is out of your minds if you don't think this movie is wonderful dumpster fire it's got the word wonderful in its life if you put a wonderful life below fucking elf and Santa Claus,

Speaker 1 this list is fucking ridiculous. It's not better than ELF.

Speaker 1 It's not as funny as ELF, but it's more impactful and has more sentimental value.

Speaker 1 I'm clearly in the minority.

Speaker 1 I'm clearly in the minority. Have you ever seen this movie too?

Speaker 1 No. I forced myself to watch this terrible movie.
Step your Christmas movie up.

Speaker 1 I think it should be one or two, but if Travis wants it at six. I don't know what other Christmas movies we're saving for one and two.
That's a problem. We're going to get something like Love Action.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to put it all of a sudden.

Speaker 2 If you put it at two, then you have a very clean light.

Speaker 1 We can't do six because then it's either the best thing or the worst thing. Nice, Kai.
Way to make it make sense. Put it at two.

Speaker 1 I just don't know what you're going to put above a Christmas story and wonderful life in

Speaker 1 the grand scheme. The Grinch.

Speaker 2 I love that we're all on the same page about it.

Speaker 1 The Grinch is great. The Grinch is objectively fit.
Which Grinch are we going, though?

Speaker 2 It's going to be the OG Grinch.

Speaker 1 I got bad news.

Speaker 2 The Grinch isn't on here. Jesus Christ.
The Grinch isn't on the list. The Grinch isn't on here.

Speaker 1 I have horrible dudes. This is so funny.
Number eight, love, actually. Ten.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think this is like the middle of the pack.
No chance. This movie is

Speaker 1 not his Christmas vacation. One.
It's my favorite Christmas movie outside of A Wonderful Life and Christmas Story. That's my top three.
But it's neither one of them.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, Travis, I've given up.

Speaker 1 Which one are you going to put in six?

Speaker 1 So you put it at six, then no matter what, then no matter what freaking movie that comes up is going number one yeah this is the point of the game jason i'm going six kylie what are you going one or six six

Speaker 1 i i haven't seen this in forever don't i didn't even know that the lead actor's name is chevy chase why would i know that jason i don't know it's just like okay i'm happy with this list this is nice

Speaker 1 home alone's great objectively home alone is fantastic i mean joe pesci freaking

Speaker 1 i thought this was going to be a really bad list, but it's actually not a bad list. I think it's pretty accurate other than Chris's vacation should be above Elf and Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 A Christmas,

Speaker 2 10 of the most popular Christmas movies and you didn't include The Grinch is a travesty.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Also, across the loop,

Speaker 1 since when is The Wonderful Life

Speaker 1 about Christmas?

Speaker 2 Great question, Travis.

Speaker 1 What the fuck are we talking about? I think A Wonderful Life.

Speaker 2 Show me the timer, Brandon. Can I see for the timer, please?

Speaker 1 I remember watching. I'm like, when is Christmas going to even fucking play its part in this movie? So A Wonderful Life is

Speaker 1 the community and the concept

Speaker 1 of things being bigger than yourself

Speaker 1 and the concept of giving, obviously, and the bank that I forget the bank guy's name.

Speaker 1 George? George. The concept of the bank giving to the community.

Speaker 1 I mean, I guess if you don't like banks, you probably don't like A Wonderful Life. but the mom and pop banks, not the conglomerate, you know, 2008 banks.

Speaker 1 If I were to change this list, Wonderful Life would go down to six and Christmas vacation would go up. That's the only thing I would change.

Speaker 1 Our blind rankings from one to 10 were Home Alone at one, Wonderful Life at two, which I don't know. Number three was a Christmas story.

Speaker 1 Four, Santa Claus, five elf, six Christmas vacations, seven nightmare on Christmas, eight jingle all the way, nine Muppets, and ten Love Actually, 92 percenters. Tell us how we did.

Speaker 1 We need to know: is this an acceptable list? Is it not acceptable? And is Jason thinking way too highly of Wonderful Life? That's a great movie.

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Let's move on to the little no-dumb questions. I wasn't here.

Speaker 1 There's other movies I enjoy watching.

Speaker 2 I wasn't needed here for any of this, so can I get up before dumb questions?

Speaker 1 No, no, you're staying, Kylie. Yeah, I think we need to just forget.

Speaker 2 We have to go care for children.

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Next, Carla.

Speaker 2 Hi, guys. I would like to know, when is it, it's ever okay to tell your partner that they are a bad gift giver?

Speaker 1 Thank you. Go birds.
Well, that's a good question. And go birds.
Love that. I will say this.

Speaker 1 I will say this. Don't fuck around with this because it sounds like it's an issue.
If you got a bad gift giver, you got to say something and nip it in the bud.

Speaker 1 Because I'll tell you this: mom, Donna Kelsey, had to deal with Christmas upon Christmas of the exact same gifts.

Speaker 2 Earrings and candles.

Speaker 1 Earrings and candles and pistachio nuts for, I mean, we did it our whole childhood before we were in high school where she said, you know, guys, you don't have to give me the same thing every single Christmas.

Speaker 1 So I'll say that. But what do you get a mom that has everything she gave for me?

Speaker 1 You got to nip that in the bud. You got to say something.
And you don't have to be like a jerk about it. Just be like, hey, I think like...
I got my fearrings.

Speaker 1 Yeah, or just whatever you don't like about the gifts. Don't say you don't like them.
Just say, hey, I just like sometimes I think I would appreciate something more sentimental, something

Speaker 1 I like, I really like jewelry.

Speaker 1 Just say what you like. You don't have to say what you don't like.
You can plant seeds as to what you want if they're listening.

Speaker 2 Now you're getting warmer.

Speaker 1 Right? Plant seeds. And also, if they give a gift to somebody else and it's asked, let them know we got to work on your gift given.

Speaker 1 And that way they'll take the note that they need to get better to give. Why would you give this gift? It's this is it makes no sense.
You understand how to give a gift? Right. Oh.

Speaker 1 Kai, you have something you want to chime in?

Speaker 2 I think you should be gentle about it, but I think you can let someone know ahead of time. Like you're saying, plant a seed, but you don't need to plant a seed that they're a bad gift giver.

Speaker 2 You can just plant a seed on something that you would like. You can do like one or two things so that they have a rate, like two different things to choose from would be a good option.

Speaker 2 And just plant that seed early and say, you know, I've been looking at this sweater. It's a beautiful sweater.

Speaker 2 I'm just not sure that I want to spend that much money on it or I'm not sure that I want to, I'm not sure that I'll get there.

Speaker 1 Speaking for men everywhere, be very clear if you want this gift because

Speaker 1 we miss some of these more subtle hints. I'm just being honest.
Also, also, also, what's considered a good gift and a bad gift?

Speaker 1 If you're a shitty gift receiver, you need to check yourself in the fucking mirror. That's good.
If you're out here hoping you're getting a fucking brand new car and it's like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Expectations.

Speaker 1 What are we fucking doing here? All right.

Speaker 1 We need to reevaluate the situation at. Expectations.
Yes. So it goes both ways.
How am I as a gift giver, guys?

Speaker 2 Trav, you want to take this one?

Speaker 1 Nobody has to rush. Ooh,

Speaker 1 I did like my birthday gift. I think that was a Kylie move, though.
Which one? Which one was it? You want me to tell everybody?

Speaker 2 The box.

Speaker 1 Big box. The box? Yeah.

Speaker 2 The box we took to Kansas City. He doesn't actually know what that was, Travis.

Speaker 1 I knew that wasn't him. Sorry.

Speaker 1 What has Jason gotten me?

Speaker 2 The 99 jersey. He was very excited about that one.

Speaker 1 Ooh, I mean, that was a fucking banger. I got it right here.

Speaker 2 The problem is, Jason and I are, I feel, we align on gift giving in a way where when a holiday or a birthday or something comes around, we kind of do like an oh shit.

Speaker 2 But outside of holidays and times where you're actually supposed to give gifts, there have been times where we've like, oh, I really thought this would be great.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 2 And then I don't love getting gifts. And so I never help him in any way.

Speaker 2 And he buys everything that he wants just when he thinks of it.

Speaker 1 I deal with that as well. I think I'm a good gift giver.
I think I'm a bad gift planner. That's where I'm, I'm a bad gift planner.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I'd say we like, well, he's not saying I'm a good gift giver, so I'm not confident saying I am a good gift giver.

Speaker 1 That's a good gift giver.

Speaker 2 But I would say the gift planning is the downfall for both of us.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I'm right there in the same boat.
We're all in the same boat on this one. Got you the transform the transformer robot last year.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but Jason, you always do it the day before.

Speaker 1 I got you the Transformer gift last year on Christmas.

Speaker 2 He either gets it months ahead of time or the day before.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, isn't that pretty standard? Whoever floats your boat finds lost remote.
You know what I mean? Outcast taught me that one. Wait till you see what I got you guys this year.

Speaker 1 We're going to revisit this in a couple of days. We're going to revisit this conversation and who the best gift giver is in a couple of days.

Speaker 2 It's not going to be me.

Speaker 1 Because I know who's winning that one. It's not going to be me.

Speaker 2 I was too busy playing S-A-N-T-A if you catch my drift.

Speaker 1 You just wait, Jason. You just wait.
I don't think I've ever been this confident.

Speaker 2 For me, too? Huh? For me?

Speaker 1 I'm giving away zero details. I know I'm very confident in Travis, less confident in Kylie.
That means he hasn't.

Speaker 2 That means he hasn't gone to the mall yet.

Speaker 1 Very confident.

Speaker 1 I also blame our gift creativity

Speaker 1 on dad. He made us get mom the exact same gifts.
So I don't really, I just think I can just go out and just get the same gift. I've really had to work on this,

Speaker 1 but I just want to let you guys know. I don't blame Dad.
I just want to let you guys know. He's actually a very good gift giver.
We are going to revisit this in five days.

Speaker 2 We're going to revisit this in five days. You know what? You talk about planning a seed.
Talk about planting a seed. I am perfectly happy with a candle and some earrings.

Speaker 2 I want to throw that out there.

Speaker 1 On it. Do you guys know what that is?

Speaker 1 That's a trap, Brema. That is a trap.

Speaker 1 All right, we are good to go. Thank you for the call in there.
Go, birds. And yeah, let's reevaluate the situation.
You got to be a good receiver and a good gift giver.

Speaker 1 Hope your holidays are as magical and you get some good gifts that you've been

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Speaker 1 Thanks to our production and crew, and thank you again to 92%ers. Kylie Kelsey, thank you.

Speaker 2 Anytime, Trav. I lied.

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Speaker 1 Is it weird that

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm playing Monopoly in real life now? Is that like

Speaker 1 no? That's exactly what happy holidays, everyone.

Speaker 2 Happy holidays.

Speaker 2 He's man spreading into my area. I can't actually get my chair forward.

Speaker 1 I don't really have anywhere to go.

Speaker 2 You should hear our daughters talk about his boobs. Seriously, I mean, look at them.

Speaker 1 They're built for.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 You may not. Don't keep that in.
Do not keep that in.