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You Are Good

Bad Santa

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In which we get down and dirty with "an eating, drinking, s******g, f*****g Santy Claus," and unpack Bad Santa.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello you and welcome to You Are Good of Feelings podcast about movies. Today we are talking about

0:16.4

bad Santa it's just Sarah and me cozying up by the proverbial fireplace to talk about this this wild film.

0:26.4

One quick note about this episode

0:29.4

is this conversation about Bad Santa

0:31.8

inexplicably took place in the middle of October, so that might put some of our conversation in a little bit more context.

0:40.0

If you are new to You Are Good, this is is a feelings podcast about movies. We talk about movies sure, but we talk about how they make us feel what in them resonates. We're not a film criticism podcast, there's plenty of those.

0:54.8

We talk about the films critically a lot of the time, but we're really talking about ourselves,

1:00.5

about humanity, about relationships, about mental health, etc, etc.

1:05.0

And if you don't know what Bad Santa is,

1:08.0

let's quickly debrief.

1:10.0

Bad Santa is a 2003 American Christmas black comedy film directed by Terry Zweigoff written by Glenn Fekara and John Ricwa and starring Billy Bob Thornton and the title role with a supporting cast of Tony Cox,

1:25.2

Lauren Grimm, Brett Kelly, Lauren Tom, John Ritter, and Bernie Mac.

1:31.1

It was Ritter's last live action film appearance. And we'll get into, we'll get into it momentarily.

1:37.8

If you are sometimes like, oh my gosh, I wish this conversation had kept on going, I wish there was more, just no, we talk for quite a bit in these

1:49.0

episodes and then we hone it down, we bring it down to just about an hour an episode so that your mind

1:55.1

doesn't wonder but if you're the type of person who wants more we're going to have a

1:59.5

longer version of this very episode available for folks who subscribe on Patreon and Apple

2:04.7

podcast subscriptions you know sometimes some folks like it longer so it's going to be

2:10.3

over there and we might do that from time to time from here on out if that's something you enjoy.

2:14.8

Speaking of Patreon and Apple podcast subscriptions,

2:18.0

thank you, thank you to everyone who supports us over there.

2:21.8

You get bonus episodes in exchange. this case you're going to get

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