Okay, so before we get into anything on the episode, like I'm actually quite, so I, we just watched the Santa Claus 3. And I was looking at the

Wikipedia page, you know, I was curious about the details of its making, you know, the burden of

dreams like saga behind its traveling from Walt Disney's imagination to the screen. So I look on

Wikipedia and it says box office 110 million million worldwide. Budget $12 million,

and I'm sorry, that can't be possible. So I'm looking at that and I think, okay,

Wikipedia, somebody just forgot a zero. Like it cost $120 million probably and they forgot to put the

zero. But then I go on IMDB also says $12 million. And like, I'm sorry, I realize this movie

looks kind of cheap, but a Disney holiday movie that was theatrically released in the year 2006,

like Tim Allen doesn't work for less than $12 million if he's doing the Santa Claus 3. And then

falling in a web of confusion and despair, because when I search

Santa Claus 3 budget, the first thing I find is a Reddit thread called, how was the budget

for Santa Claus 3, only $12 million? And somebody says, according to Wikipedia, it was filmed

entirely on a soundstage and studio backlot, which severely cuts costs as opposed to filming on location.

Sets were reused.

They didn't literally go to the North Pole, you're saying.

Yeah, I guess.

I guess.

And I get that that saves money, but I want a full accounting.

It can't have cost $12 million.

That's wrong.

Let's contact our friend Eric Lloyd and find out.

I bet he knows. Eric Lloyd, the boy from these movies, who's a man. And Dunstan checks in.

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