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A very Die Hard movie debate with Dyer Oxley and Bill Radke

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Here's a special Christmas episode brought to your feed from KUOW's arts and culture podcast Meet Me Here: The holiday season means trees, cookies, family, spirituality, or presents to many. For Meet Me Here's Dyer Oxley, it means it's time to watch his favorite Christmas movie — "Die Hard." This 1988 action flick staring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman has become a Christmas tradition for many. But not everyone agrees that "Die Hard" can be a Christmas tradition. Week in Review host Bill Radke is in that camp. He challenges Dyer's "Die Hard" opinion in a special holiday throw down. Bill and Dyer debate a modern holiday question: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie?

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Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. It's Christmas. I hope you have fun plans.

0:29.4

The Seattle Now team is off today, but we wanted to leave you a little Christmas present in the feed.

0:34.5

It's a bonus episode of another great KUOW podcast. Meet Me Here.

0:42.0

Each year, Christmas floods the culture as soon as Thanksgiving Turkey is out of the way. There's

0:47.3

music, lights, shows, traditions, all of it ranging from super religious to fully secular.

0:54.3

One tradition, Die Hard the movie, is the subject of an ongoing debate about its place in the Christmas movie canon.

1:01.8

Meet Me Here host Dyer Oxley and Weekend Review host Bill Radkew argue over it every year.

1:07.4

And this year, they're bringing the conflict to the mic in a... A very special die-hard holiday rumble.

1:16.8

In this corner, the die-hard denier, the merry man of movie virtue, K-U-O-W's Bill Radkey.

1:30.3

And in this corner, the Holiday Heretic, the festive film fanatic, Dyer, Oxley.

1:43.3

Head to head for a holly jolly joust of cinematic purity.

1:51.0

Let's get ready to respectfully disagree. Bill, you're here because I like disagreeing with you.

2:07.6

I like disagreeing with you.

2:11.2

I did, let's, uh, we, we disagree on sparkling water, I believe.

2:15.6

Yes, we do.

2:16.3

Uh, I think what was the other, there was a

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