Kelsey McKinney
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Hello. I'm so excited for this episode. I'm also really excited. We have a special little holiday treat. I hope that everyone did their homework. If you haven't done your homework, the homework was to watch The Spirit of Christmas. So I guess fucking spoiler alert.
You've had a decade, but you know, it is available on Amazon Prime and Apple Plus to rent. So it's not too late to watch this and then come back. Anyway, we're going to discuss this. Rachel, how the fuck did you find this movie? Why are we here?
Oh, my God.
I'm in the Rachel Hampton cultural experience class. Exactly. We're on Rachel time, as my friends call it. Wow. I love Rachel time. I'm so happy to be here. You told me to go into this movie, not Googling it, no information.
So the only thing I knew about it before putting it on was that you had, in an effort to try and help me understand if I had seen it or not, you had mentioned it's about a ghost. The spirit is a ghost. And I was like, okay, no, I haven't seen that. And two, I very much want to.
I don't think we're going to be able to be brief because I have a lot of notes. Let's do the longest recap ever.
I don't know. We're in the woods. And we're also in the past. I would say he's the main character, even though he's not the protagonist. Our main character, giant man, walking through the snow. He's looking at a white inn where he can see a woman embracing a man on the little patio veranda situation. And he's clearly upset by this because there are no subtleties in this movie at all.
And then he pulls out a pocket watch out of his pocket that looks to have been made of like, I don't know, plastic. And he looks at that and then he is hit in the back of the head. The screen goes dark and we flash to the present day. So tell me how you felt after that scene. The first thing I did was Google, what year did this movie come out? Everything about it is insane.
This man has the most, like, 2010s face I've ever seen in my life. Right? He has iPhone face.
It's also like if you had put this man in a suit that was not made out of polyester. it would be like immediately apparent that he is not from the present. But because everything that everyone in the past is wearing looks like it came from Kohl's, it makes it feel like you have no idea where you are or what time it is. And that's fun.
okay so the plot that we're given right after she breaks up with his boyfriend is deranged the plot is like she's a lawyer unclear what kind of law i think property law property law okay and her boss is like a rich lady died she had no heirs she had this fancy inn and we don't want to pay taxes on it so it has to be sold by the end of the year which is in three weeks
Already insane. Also, is that how taxes work? Is that real? I don't think so. One. Two, he's like, it goes to the trust. And the whole point of having a trust is to evade taxes. Yeah. So it's like, I don't really believe that this is like a premise that exists at all. But whatever. It works. Works for me. So she drives her Jeep Cherokee out. Yes. Like she's not a girl who has a Jeep Cherokee.
No, she's not.
I think it's supposed to be like New Hampshire, Vermont. Because at some point he's like, you've got to come back to Boston. And it's clear that she like drove. Yeah. But whatever. One problem that I have is that, and you may also have this problem, is that I spent my whole childhood watching movies about Christmas in the Northeast. And I thought it was going to fucking snow here. Yeah.
And it doesn't usually. Yeah. That's because of climate change. I know, and I want it.
It's snowing like feet of snow on the ground. Like there's so much snow, which is maybe why she has to have a Jeep Cherokee.
Which, first off, is insane to assume that you're just going to stay at an inn. Like, that's what you have to pay for things. Yeah.
As a writer, one of my favorite things to recognize in dialogue is where someone has poked a hole in the plot. And then instead of resolving the hole in the plot, they just have one character say a line. So in this case, the question is, she's like, why aren't there people here? Wouldn't this be the inn's most busy season? Yeah. And then he's like, yes, but we are never open. And it's like, what?
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