21. The Christmas Holiday Spectacular

In this week’s episode, we celebrate and talk about all things Christmas. We are joined by special guest Karen Louie (James’ wife) who gives some extra holiday cheer. Topics covered are: Christmas memories, Mint Condition-related Christmas gifts, everyone's favorite game “Is It a Christmas Movie?”, favorite holiday specials, favorite Christmas movies, and a holiday pop culture wish.

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:10 James introduces the Christmas Holiday Spectacular with special guest Karen Louie, James’ wife. We start the episode the way we start every holiday show: by talking about our memories. We share remembrances about celebrating Christmas throughout our lives.

26:00 We talk about our favorite Mint Condition Christmas gift memory, either receiving or selling a gift to someone at the store. This also opens things up for some Mint memories in general at Christmas time, and James shares the “Secret Origin” of his Swamp Thing #1.

42:40 We do a segment called “Is It a Christmas Movie?”: James shares a list of movies and everyone weighs in on whether each movie is or isn’t a Christmas movie.

1:00:20 We move into talking about our favorite Christmas Specials. But as per usual, most of our lists get poached. This time, it's Karen doing the poaching as she demolishes James and Joe's lists.

12:53 Karma strikes back HARD when we move into our top 5 Christmas movies and one of our number gets nearly their entire list poached...

37:13 We end the show with our last segment: “What is our Christmas Wish?” as applied to pop

culture.