The Big Christmas Eve Debate In Our Home: “Elf” Vs “Die Hard”
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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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On this Christmas Eve many families gather around to watch their favorite holiday movies, but in Amy and T.J. home, it’s a dilemma. And up until now, neither one had actually sat down and watched the other’s favorite movie. This week, they took the time to watch both films together, and have a spirited debate about whether either or both should remain a holiday classic for the Christmases to come.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Wednesday, December 24th. |
| 0:09.8 | What is the perfect, perfect Christmas Eve movie for the family? |
| 0:15.8 | Well, it's either going to be elf or it's going to be die hard. |
| 0:20.7 | That's the fight at least in this house there |
| 0:23.0 | are plenty of others people go to and with that welcome to this episode of amy and tj i don't even |
| 0:29.0 | want to go down the road of whether or not die hard is a christmas movie that's been settled so let's |
| 0:33.9 | not even do that fine we'll we'll start with the premise that it is. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay. |
| 0:38.7 | But these two movies are a sore, a sore spot in the house because of how much we seem to dislike the movie that the other absolutely loves. |
| 0:53.6 | Right. |
| 0:54.0 | And look, I don't hate Die Hard, but it is, |
| 0:58.7 | no, but Elf is not playing in the apartment 24-7. So that's your problem with Die Hard. It's, |
| 1:05.5 | it adds to the annoyance. Okay, you can explain. I don't... T.J. has... How long have you been doing this? |
| 1:13.6 | My whole life, adult life. |
| 1:15.6 | Since college, maybe? |
| 1:16.4 | I can't remember. |
| 1:17.4 | Okay, so he, as soon as it's Thanksgiving Day, he puts die hard on a loop. |
| 1:24.1 | He actually still has a DVD player so that he can do it. |
| 1:29.3 | And at some point, the rule is, |
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