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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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It’s the Holiday Season! James, Jerah, and Jonathan are joined by Tessa Hersh to discuss David E. Talbert’s 2020 instant classic, “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.” The musical follows a toymaker who rediscovers that everything is possible, if you believe. It stars Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Madalen Mills, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Davina Phillip, and Rick Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | So do you want to talk about your, the combo you have with your, your nieces? |
| 0:06.2 | Please tell us about this. |
| 0:07.8 | For the holiday season. |
| 0:10.2 | So, so I've been pitching this movie for a minute, but then my little nieces, let me get their birth. |
| 0:16.3 | What is it? |
| 0:18.9 | Five, three, and one and two, five, three, two. So basically, my niece's face-time me the other day |
| 0:26.3 | and told me we had to watch jingle jangle and proceeded to tell me all about jingle jangle |
| 0:31.7 | and asked me, do I sing? And I said no. And they were very disappointed that that I can't. They wanted you to, like, sing the songs. |
| 0:40.5 | Because they were telling me, because they were telling me about, like, because I will say this, I didn't know it was a musical. And so they're like, oh, they're talking about the songs. And they were singing them. And they were like, why aren't you sing it? And I was like, well, I don't know the songs and I don't sing. |
| 0:52.8 | And the disappointment. |
| 0:55.9 | And like we, I have one, I have the youngest one, Kaya, she has a very, um, raspy voice, but she's like very, very young. And I'm like, oh, man, you remind me like, T-Baz and Shade. Like, it's a great singer voice. And when she sings, it is so cool because she's not even two and a half or three yet. And I'm like, yes. And I guess, like, kids would, like, make fun of her. I guess when they would have Zoom classes because her voice sounds like that. And I'm like, no, you're going to be in jingle jangle because you got the singer voice to get in the jangle. You know what I mean? Yes. So it was great, man. They're texting me now saying, |
| 1:30.5 | Mommy put us to bed. singing voice to get in the jangle. You know what I mean? Yes. So it was great, man. |
| 1:48.8 | They're texting me now saying, Mommy put us to bed. Have fun. Aw. That's the message. I tried to get them on the podcast. You tried to get them on the podcast. That was cute. I was hoping. Do they have their own cell phone? No. This is with me. So it's my cousin's cell phone, but I'm assuming I'm the oldest one that's texting me from it. |
| 1:50.6 | It's so, man. |
| 1:51.7 | Oh, they're cute. |
| 1:52.7 | They're cute. |
| 1:53.2 | And I'm like, look at y'all. |
| 1:54.0 | I love hanging out with them and then going home once they start going crazy. |
| 1:57.5 | This is fun. |
| 1:59.0 | We need to take these kids back. |
| 2:00.3 | Did you have a favorite holiday film growing up? |
| 2:04.3 | I don't know. |
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