White Christmas
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Happy holiday season! We're interrupting our mini-season on the wedding industrial complex to bring you our (now) annual holiday movie. Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at an inn Vermont to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered about White Christmas.
This week, we discuss the trope of the 'tricky Jew', minstrelsy, and nostalgia. We finish the episode by calling Dominic Broomfield–McHugh to talk about the connection between this movie and President Eisenhower.
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| 0:00.0 | We're taking a break from the wedding industrial complex for two weeks to discuss a holiday classic, White Christmas. |
| 0:10.8 | This Bing Crosby vehicle came out in 1954 and is as beloved today as it was then. |
| 0:18.4 | Along with It's a wonderful life, |
| 0:22.3 | its holiday ubiquity makes it a rare classic film |
| 0:24.3 | that is still popular today. |
| 0:27.5 | White Christmas is a musical love story, |
| 0:31.2 | a save the local inn story, |
| 0:34.3 | and honor our old general story, |
| 0:42.7 | a show within a show story, a fairy tale of two underappreciated talents, finding stardom, a fake relationship to true love story, |
| 0:50.4 | and at its heart, two people with hearts of gold getting over misunderstandings and find true love. |
| 0:58.9 | So many tropes hanging off this Christmas tree, it's a wonder it doesn't fall over under the weight. |
| 1:05.9 | But the singing, dancing, and charm keeps the film rooted deep in the ground. |
| 1:13.5 | The film starts in World War II. |
| 1:16.5 | General Waverly has just been injured and is passing over his leadership on Christmas Eve. |
| 1:22.9 | Meanwhile, Bob, played by Bing Crosby, and Phil, played by Danny Kay, are entertaining the troops with their signature song, White Christmas. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. |
| 1:42.8 | That same night, there's an air raid, and Phil saves Bob's life. |
| 1:48.6 | Phil says, hey Bob, pay me back by recording a song with me when the war is over. |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.2 | Well, this's for two people. |
| 1:55.4 | It's a duet. |
| 1:56.2 | Yeah, it needs two people, two dynamite entertainers. |
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