It's Christmastown
@itschristmastown
A gentle comedy podcast about Hallmark original movies, unnecessarily large dinner rolls, quonset-related time travel, wine clowns, trauma swaps and the Christmas Wicker Man from Jeb Lund (@Mobute.bsky.social), David Roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) and pals
From the Netflix movie "My Secret Santa," which is going to take too much time deciphering to do the alt text—but which is so abundant text-wise and competently executed in terms of grammar, usage and layout that it makes you wonder if AI were involved.
Want to thank everybody who could make our haram chat about Hot Frosty, which David liked to a disturbing degree, and whose best moment is this screenshot.
Practically every scene of the Buffalo Bills movie teems with the bizarre, but perhaps the best tableau comes from this scene between Abraham Benrubi's profile—looking like the Mount Rushmore of Santas—and our lead, We Have Adrien Grenier At Home, who proceeds to hit the audience with the full Ka$h.
Taking a moment to reflect on the journey from episode 36—from disbelief that kringles are even a thing that exists—to having one show up years later in the mail in a size that one customarily associates less with food than with things like dry-erase boards or honorary diplomas.
Computer, show me the Nelson Agholor Hallmark movie that had to be scrapped because of production issues.
So last night for our live show we talked about "Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper," starring (and story by) Robert Buckley, and we all agreed it was a 5 out of 5. So here's a thousand words on the subject of "Robert Buckley Understands the Damn Assignment."
It is uncanny sometimes how good the algorithms are at just, like, recreating a whole you out of something as little as 240 hours of dialogue.
When you're about 6 hours into a deeply haram, haunted edit and start to feel good about the progress you've made and discover you've accidentally deleted a Watergate's worth of audio and lost 3 hours of work. (It was fixed. But don't worry: It took yet more time!)
There's a gentleman in the Netflix docuseries "The Program" who is billed as a journalist, who deserved Googling, whose sense of flair seems to veer from maybe mid-2000s Inside the NBA panelist to what you see here, which fits thematically, I assure you.
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