No, hello there and happy holidays. If you're like me, your mailbox and inbox are beginning

to fill with the obligatory year end updates from family and friends. Exotic vacations,

fulfilling careers, the accomplishments of so many perfect children. Ah, it is the season.

And so we've collected a few Christmas newsletters for some festive fun. Names and locations have

been changed, of course, because if there is one thing I've learned in all my years, it's

that there's always room to read between the lines. And chances are, it's a wonderful lie.

Welcome back to It's a Wonderful Lie. I'm Ashley Flowers. We have Holly Laurent.

Hey everybody, and Greg Hess. Here we go. All right, you guys. Never ceases to

amaze me these letters that we have found are beyond truly. It's been a Christmas miracle.

Let's just keep getting better and better. I'm having the time of my little Christmas life.

I know. I'm really, it's, you know, the reason for this is I'm getting like jazz. I don't think

I've ever been this excited for Christmas in such a world where like it honestly has been one

of the worst Christmases, but this is exactly what I needed. So even if no one else likes this podcast,

I'm having a good time. That's it. So are we? Well, in this letter, there's actually a

little bit of a debate about whether die hard is a Christmas movie, a debate that has been going on

since die hard was a movie. Right. What is your right to favorite Christmas movie? Oh, I'm going

home alone all the way. I just always loved I feel like home alone was the first Christmas movie

as a kid that I really was like, this is a movie for me on Christmas. And I could still, I think I

still dial into that excitement of home alone on Christmas. I'm so surprised you said that. Really?

Because I you I've always said your favorite movie of all time is White Christmas. Well, that's true.

But that's my favorite movie of all time, but I think my favorite Christmas movie is Home Alone.

I love the home alone soundtrack. Sometimes I just play the soundtrack. Yeah, totally. Around the house.

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