Eyes Wide Shut

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and a happy holiday to you from the Muckering podcast.
0:06.2	Thank you, as always, for supporting the show.
0:09.0	You are the absolute best audience out there.
0:11.3	Anybody who comes on the show absolutely says it.
0:13.8	Nick, I know you share it.
0:15.1	I know that you're full of holiday spirit as we begin to take on one of everybody's favorite Christmas movies, the Yule Tide
0:22.5	Classic, eyes wide shut.
0:25.0	I was thinking about this because you had characterized that in the last time.
0:29.0	What did I miss as I was, I was frantically taking notes from watching this movie carefully,
0:34.1	but I don't think I recognize anything Christmas-y specifically.
0:38.5	Did I-
0:38.9	You didn't see Christmas trees and lights?
0:41.9	Oh, yeah, right.
0:42.9	It's a Christmas party in the very beginning.
0:44.7	It's a Christmas, it technically, the funniest thing about this is we have chosen a movie
0:50.7	that tangentially takes place during Christmas.
1:12.5	Yes. But, and you know what? Now that I'm even saying this, I'm thinking of ways to explain how that is relevant to this entire conversation. But there's a whole lot to it. All right, because I mean, I could be thinking the lights. It could be like New Year's Eve party, maybe. Because you know what I need? I need someone wearing a Santa hat if it's to be a Christmas.
1:13.1	Maybe that's... I think if somebody in Eyes Wide Shut wore a Santa hat,
1:16.5	it would be 10% to 20% more disturbing.
1:20.6	I think I would like it better, though.
1:23.2	You know, that's probably what makes something like Die Hard a Christmas movie for me
1:26.6	because someone's simply wearing a Santa's hat. hat now diehard is a dyed in the wool christmas movie i mean
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