Episode 32: Red Ryder Contra Mundum

We talk about A Christmas Story, guns in movies, Star Wars (no spoilers!), movie families, commercialism, God in Home Alone, childhood, and Christmas.

Episode 6: It's a Wonderful Life - Freedom From Our Dreams

Sony and North Korea, the phenomenon of Wodehousing, prestige, communitarianism, the origin of Buildings and Loans, poor old Mr. Potter, and how George Bailey's problem is really nepotism.

Episode 5: A Christmas Carol - All that Glitters

We talk about two Scrooges: Sim and Scott. Also: South-West Virginia, The Muppets, putting the mass back in Christmas, favorite Dickens names, Mrs. Crachit’s divine pudding, and the cruelty of government charity.

Episode 4: Children of Men - Unto Us a Child is Born

Demographics, illegal immigration, obsession with pets, P.D. James, dystopia, hope, and the Christmas story.

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