Episode 859: There’s a Right Christmas and a Wrong Christmas

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Mark Lee, Matt Wrather, Peter Fenzel, and Matt Belinkie, Hannukah preparations notwithstanding, triangulate and ascertain the True Reason for the Season with the freshest of holiday treats: 2024 Christmas movies. It’s a ginger-spiced promenade from the Rock to the Lohan and Hallmark to Hell and back, through approval, myth, family, heroism, and the worst kinds of miracles. Emotions run high, hopes rise and collapse, and we haven’t even cracked open the egg nog yet!

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Further Reading

• Red One, in theaters and on Prime
• Our Little Secret on Netflix
• Dear Santa on Paramount+
• Sugarplummed on the Hallmark Channel
• Toasty Tails: A PAW Patrol Holiday Fireplace | 24-Hour Fireplace for Kids #holiday #fireplace on YouTube
• What Is Reification?, on novelr
• Beware the Satanic Panic around Jack Black as the Devil in Dear Santa, as it might make the movie sound cool or fun 
• Incredible streaming performance raises possibility Red One might not be a complete financial disaster
• Lindsay Lohan Lives ‘Without Regrets’ After Learning from Her Past, ‘I Really Have Seen It All.’ from People.com