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Episode 090: Barton Men Don’t Lie, Except When They Do! The Holdovers (2023) with Ed Hansen
Join Alex and returning guest host Dr. Ed Hansen in a festive discussion of a recent, but to-be-considered a holiday classic, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (2023). This is a story of a young, ne’er-do-well (Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully) who meets an immovable force in an old, curmudgeonly boarding school classic teacher (Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham). They’re both “heldover” the winter holidays at the prestigious Barton Academy, with a grieving mother played by Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Over the course of the break, the three learn more about each other and how to navigate an unforgiving landscape of adolescence and obsolescence.…
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Episode 006: Belief in Santa—Placebo Effect? Elf (2003) with Wind Goodfriend
Join Alex and Dr. Wind Goodfriend on discussion of the psychological concepts in Jon Favreau’s holiday classic Elf (2003), where we being the meme game in and discuss how the belief in Santa could just be a placebo effect of in holiday cheer.
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