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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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Introducing A Very Terminator Christmas from Revisionist History.
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What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic cable? A holiday miracle.
Today on the show: The never-before-published, extremely bizarre story of the making of ‘Christmas in Connecticut’... the remake.
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0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
0:10.6 | Christmas is one week away. |
0:13.9 | And how am I celebrating? |
0:15.8 | With restraint and circumspection. |
0:18.9 | In the Gladwell family, we do a mid-century modern Christmas, |
0:22.1 | spare, elegant, minimalist. |
0:24.6 | Lots of the baby Jesus in a tasteful Scandinavian leather and rosewood manger. |
0:29.4 | No Santa, no reindeer, no elves. |
0:33.1 | Not so for my colleague, Ben Nadav Haff-Hafrey. |
0:36.7 | The Gladwells impose a dollar limit on gifts, like price controls in some socialist state, |
0:41.9 | the Nadafi's spend months thinking of what to get one another. |
0:46.5 | The glabbles buy a tree at the last moment and would be happier if we could just move the whole operation outside |
0:51.8 | around the Douglas Pine in the backyard. |
0:56.9 | Ben's family has a tree, |
1:02.7 | a little model village covered in snow, and his father's vintage electric train set, plus a little metal tree with ornaments that's up year-round. So when I told Ben that I had never watched, |
1:09.9 | it's a wonderful life, he was stunned. |
1:12.8 | Then he reached out to me, as the Good Samaritan did to the traveler lying bereft by the side of the road. |
1:18.2 | How could this be? he asked me gently. |
1:20.8 | Because, as you can imagine, within the Dadaf Hafries, It's a Wonderful Life is a sacred text. |
1:26.8 | Then Ben told me another story |
1:29.5 | about what in his mind |
1:31.2 | is an even more important Christmas tale. |
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