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Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Die Hard (Holiday Special)

Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Unresolved Productions

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this holiday special, I try to address one of the bigger Christmas mysteries: IS Die Hard a Christmas movie?

I am joined by some of my true crime & mystery podcasting friends, including hosts from the following podcasts:

- Generation Why

- Thinking Sideways

- The Fall Line

- Cold Traces

- The Asian Madness Podcast

- The Trail Went Cold

- Killafornia Dreaming

- Texas True Terrors

- True Crime Story Time

- Canadian True Crime

- Criminal Musings

- True Crime Fan Club

- Weird Shit Podcast

 

Make sure to listen through to the end, and have a wonderful holiday season!

 

Musical Credits

Pipe Choir - "Shhhame (Instrumental)"

Ailsa Traves - "Unresolved (Theme)"

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to a very special episode of the Unresolved Podcast.

0:15.2

I'm your host Michael Wheeler.

0:17.6

This episode will hope to solve a mystery that has divided families for almost 30 years.

0:23.5

That mystery is, of course, whether or not diehard is, in fact, a Christmas movie.

0:29.0

Now, this wouldn't be much of a special if I just read things from a script, would it?

0:33.9

Thankfully, I was able to recruit some of my fellow true crime and mystery podcast hosts

0:38.5

to weigh in with their thoughts. Hopefully, by the end of this episode, we will have reached

0:44.0

a definitive conclusion to this decades-long mystery. Before we get started, I should say that

0:50.0

those of you who have not seen diehard may be a bit out of the loop. So if you have not seen the

0:55.5

movie, you should probably remedy that before we begin. Just go and tell the family that you

1:00.9

need to pause their TBS marathon of Elf to do some mystery podcast research.

1:07.9

All right, are you back yet? Ready to learn whether or not diehard is a Christmas movie?

1:12.9

Well then, without any further ado, let me hand the episode off to some of my podcasting friends,

1:18.1

beginning with Justin of Generation Y.

1:21.1

So, the question is whether or not diehard is a Christmas movie? Well, it takes place during

1:29.8

Christmas. So, yeah, right? That's all you need. I guess maybe you need some references to it being

1:38.2

a Christmas movie? He says, Ho, Ho, Ho. Now I have a machine gun. What the fuck else do you need?

1:49.3

It's a Christmas movie, people. It's the Christmas movie I wanted. So, I don't know what other people

1:56.9

want out of Christmas movie. You want sleigh bells, you want reindeer, you want frosty. Well,

2:04.7

you had some frosty characters in there. Some of them getting slayed. I don't know how much more

2:10.5

Christmasy you can get. Hi, this is Lauren Brooke from The Fall line and we're here to discuss a very

2:16.5

important topic. Is diehard a Christmas movie? Now, full disclosure, we hadn't seen diehard

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