The following podcast is about a movie that's rated R.

As a result, it does include some salty language.

If your ears are sensitive or if the ears of those around you are sensitive,

please use caution while listening to this episode.

The incomparable podcast number 17 for December 2010.

From the penthouse, high atop Nakatomi Power, it's the Incomparable podcast.

I am your host, Jason Snell.

We are joined today by Steve Lutz. Hello, Steve. Hello. And Dan Morin.

I like to think of myself as the John McLean to your Hans Gruber, if you will. Oh, do you now?

And then who's Steve? Is he like Samuel L. Jackson from Die Hard with a vengeance?

I'm Reginald Vell Johnson and don't you forget it.

All right.

Yeah.

And playing the part of Argyle trapped in the basement in the parking garage is Greg Noss, who says he'll join us, but is out buying a Christmas tree now.

This is the season.

Appropriate.

That's right.

There's a, there's a Christmas tree in Die Hard.

So the topic today, if you haven't guessed already, is the classic heartwarming holiday film, Die Hard from 1988 starring Bruce Willis.

Now, you may be, you may be saying,

how in the world is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

And in fact, I was taken aback on Twitter the other week

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