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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

"Stranger Things" Star David Harbour On Playing Santa Claus In The New Movie "Violent Night"

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Mental Health, Sports, Wrestling, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

David Harbour (@dkharbour) is an actor known for his roles in Stranger Things, Hellboy, Suicide Squad, Extraction, Black Widow and many others. He joins Chris Van Vliet from Budapest to talk about his new holiday movie "Violent Night" where he plays a version of Santa Claus with a twist. He also talks about putting a twist on other holiday characters like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.4

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Ville.

0:07.7

Oh, baby.

0:09.7

Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.

0:13.1

I'm CVV.

0:14.4

I'm Chris Van Vleet.

0:15.6

And in a proverbial sea of podcasts, there's millions of podcasts now. Thank you so much for choosing this

0:23.3

episode right now. And if you're a fan of Stranger Things, then you definitely know. David

0:29.3

Harbor, he's Jim Hopper, but I mean, how amazing was he in Suicide Squad? Hellboy, Black Widow,

0:36.6

just to name a few. And he has a new movie coming out

0:39.9

on December 2nd where he plays Santa Claus. It's called Violent Night and, oh, boy, is it violent.

0:46.4

It's so much fun, but man, we talk about it. It's like, it's not what you expect when you hear

0:52.3

about a Christmas movie and you hear about David

0:54.6

Harbor playing Santa Claus, but I will leave it at that.

0:57.8

He's much better at explaining this.

0:59.8

Before we jump into the interview, could I ask you to subscribe wherever you're listening

1:03.5

right now?

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1:07.0

And it's been a while, but we're bringing back the shoutouts here on the show. So if you're listening on Apple Podcasts and you'd be so kind as to leave a review on there, I will be so kind as to read it out right here. Or if you've already left a review, just go back in there, change a few words, add an emoji, take away an emoji, whatever it is. It'll refresh it.

1:27.8

It'll pop right up to the top and then we'll read it out here. So if you want to promote something,

1:32.5

I mean, this feels like a really easy and also cheap slash free way to do that. This review comes to

1:39.7

us from McComb 86, my new favorite podcast. CVV always has amazing guests.

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