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Join Gemma, James & James Junior again as we discuss what we have been watching. From Christmas classics to horror films, we cover most topics without any spoilers.  Squid Games 2, The Night Before, Help! My House is Haunted, Muppets Christmas Carol, That Christmas, Wallace & Gromit, Insidious 2 and much more.  Just wait for the Codswallop at the end. Wait.. there's Codswallop about TV or Films I hear you cry? Gemma ALWAYS has Codswallop.  Talking Codswallop can be found on ALL social media: @CodswallopPod and we are on YOUTUBE too!!! :)   Talking Codswallop is NOW part of the UNFILTERED Studios. Find out more about them here: unfpod.com & help support INDIE podcasts. 

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Roger Parloff, Renée DiResta, and Tyler McBrien to talk through the week's big national security news, including:“The Art of the Heel.” As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration nears, the various legal cases against him are gradually winding down to their inevitable end. But Trump is not letting them go quietly: instead, he has fought certain final steps tooth and nail, ranging from the (mostly meaningless) sentencing in his New York case to the final release of the report that Special Counsel Jack Smith is obligated to write. How do these various threads seem like they will resolve? And what will the legacy be for presidential accountability?“Make Meta MAGA Again.” The recent election appears to be triggering a wave of changes in corporate America, as a number of leading tech companies like Meta have begun quite publicly breaking down disinformation protections, paring back DEI programs, and eliminating offices and personnel that have long peeved conservatives. And even CEOs who have not implemented such changes have seemed eager to meet with Trump at his home in Mar-a-Lago. How much of this shift is smoke and how much is fire? And what might it mean in the long term?“Embracing a Growth Mindset.” President-elect Trump sent shivers through the international community last week when he refused to rule out the possibility of using economic coercion or even military force to expand U.S. territorial control, specifically over Greenland and the Panama Canal, two allied foreign territories that he has previously identified as having a direct bearing on U.S. national interests. How realistic are his threats? And what are the ramifications likely to be?In object lessons, Tyler shared why there seem to be so many Australians in Brooklyn, as reported in “Bogans in Brooklyn,” from The Baffler (say that three times fast). Roger recommended “V13: Chronicle of a Trial” by Emmanuel Carrère, for coverage of a different trial than the ones he's been used to. Scott, in a stubborn refusal to admit that the holidays are over, was jolly about the Netflix movie “That Christmas.” And Renée reflected on AI's potential to help people reach consensus through democratic deliberation and supernotes.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Roger Parloff, Renée DiResta, and Tyler McBrien to talk through the week's big national security news, including:“The Art of the Heel.” As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration nears, the various legal cases against him are gradually winding down to their inevitable end. But Trump is not letting them go quietly: instead, he has fought certain final steps tooth and nail, ranging from the (mostly meaningless) sentencing in his New York case to the final release of the report that Special Counsel Jack Smith is obligated to write. How do these various threads seem like they will resolve? And what will the legacy be for presidential accountability?“Make Meta MAGA Again.” The recent election appears to be triggering a wave of changes in corporate America, as a number of leading tech companies like Meta have begun quite publicly breaking down disinformation protections, paring back DEI programs, and eliminating offices and personnel that have long peeved conservatives. And even CEOs who have not implemented such changes have seemed eager to meet with Trump at his home in Mar-a-Lago. How much of this shift is smoke and how much is fire? And what might it mean in the long term?“Embracing a Growth Mindset.” President-elect Trump sent shivers through the international community last week when he refused to rule out the possibility of using economic coercion or even military force to expand U.S. territorial control, specifically over Greenland and the Panama Canal, two allied foreign territories that he has previously identified as having a direct bearing on U.S. national interests. How realistic are his threats? And what are the ramifications likely to be?In object lessons, Tyler shared why there seem to be so many Australians in Brooklyn, as reported in “Bogans in Brooklyn,” from The Baffler (say that three times fast). Roger recommended “V13: Chronicle of a Trial” by Emmanuel Carrère, for coverage of a different trial than the ones he's been used to. Scott, in a stubborn refusal to admit that the holidays are over, was jolly about the Netflix movie “That Christmas.” And Renée reflected on AI's potential to help people reach consensus through democratic deliberation and supernotes.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two episodes in a week? We're back again with an all homework episode.  After catching up, we talk about Dear Santa, Transformers One, Red One, That Christmas, Christmas Vacation, Vacation, Jackpot, Monkey Man, The Beekeeper, My Old Ass, Wolfs, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Snack Shack, Juror #2, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Will and Harper, Creature Commandos, Skeleton Crew, Shrinking, Starman, Klaus, Nailbiter, Do A Powerbomb!, Extremity, The Worst Ship In The Fleet, In, Superman: Jonathan Kent, and Skyward. This week's featured song is "Upper Riffspiratory Infection" by Oh The Humanity!  You can find them at: Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify | Twitter/X Check us out at our website and on social media.  Don't forget to rate and review the podcast on iTunes.

The Film School Janitors discuss the newest Netflix animated holiday film - THAT CHRISTMAS! It's based on the kid's book by the writer of LOVE, ACTUALLY, and is it actually kid friendly? Yes! BONUS: Rodney and Sean list their top-five Christmas movies!

So here it is, Merry Christmas! We have a bumper special episode for you today catching up with 5 glorious guests from previous episodes to see what their Christmas plans and traditions are. We're dialling into join Vanessa Williams live from the West End, Sophie Ellis Bextor as she rehearses for her New Years Eve TV special, Richard Curtis & Emma Freud tell us all about his new film ‘That Christmas', Tom Odell is in the midst of rehearsals for his Australian shows, and Nadine Coyle is hot footing it to the airport in a taxi to get home to Ireland for Christmas! We hope wherever you are and whatever you're doing you all have the loveliest Christmas, thank you for joining us for all of our adventures this year, we'll be back next week in 2025! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Últim programa de l'any i toca fer-ne balanç. Fem un repàs a les millors pel·lícules, sèries i lectures de 2024. En les llistes d'aquest any no faltaran títols com Dune: Part Dos, Furiosa, Challengers, Emilia Pérez, Mr. Crocket, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Substance, Conclave, X-Men '97, Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Masters of the Air, Fargo 5, Shogun, Cobra Kai VI Parts 1&2, The Penguin, Fallout, Arcane 2, Ted, Hacks i molts més. Com a suplement de Nadal, portem una ressenya de la pel·lícula de Netflix, That Christmas, escrita per Richard Curtis, guionista i director de Love Actually. Us acompanyen l'Ignasi Arbat, la Marta Sanz, l'Aram Bonmatí i en Jacint Casademont, amb la participació de l'Escarrufa, en Francesc Morales, en Sergi Toboso, en Paco Cavero, en David Callahan Ruiz, en Jep Soler, en Marcel González i l'Agus Izquierdo i la Belit Lago. Web: https://www.ningunoesperfecte.cat Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ningunoesperfecte

Reviews: An Almost Christmas Story, Dear Santa, Mickey and the Very Many Christmases, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland, Red One, That Christmas It's the 4th (official) installment of Jimmy's reviews of new Christmas films/streaming/TV. A couple of live-action films and some animated specials. Does Jack Black make a good Santa? What happens when Santa goes to Wonderland? How much can Santa bench press if The Rock spots him? Tune in to hear Jimmy's thoughts on them all.  Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

The Patreons helped us pick what is the final review of 2024, with a seemingly charming looking Netflix exclusive, That Christmas. Penned by Richard Curtis, we were intrigued to see how this UK based film would play out, But was is the lesser of two evils from the other movie it was pitted against?  Santa banter, Love Actually, how to build a snowman, and being lonely at Christmas are some of the topics we bring up in this festive finale, and we hope you enjoy listening in whilst having a mince pie and a little tipple. Merry Christmas to all, or however you celebrate the holidays!  ------------------------------------------------------- Christmas messages provided by @Chatsunamipod and @HypnoWellness1 ------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to follow us on social media in the links below, and let us know your thoughts and recommendations for the future!   instagram.com/sp_filmviewers x.com/SP_Filmviewers  letterboxd.com/SP_Filmviewers Rating and reviewing the show is a great help too! Please feel free to do so with these helpful links below: Goodpods: https://goodpods.app.link/pkE7J2T6ykb Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/users/sp_filmviewers Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sp-filmviewers/id1485548644  Lastly, we now have a Patreon you can join, for as little as £1/$1.50. More details in the link below: https://patreon.com/spfilmviewers  ------------------------------------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/magical-christmas Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/roo-walker/aurora License code: AC7GSU1PNZU1H387

Real Life Steven shares his recent battle with the flu, updates to his computer and recording setup, and his deep dive into World's Finest from the Superman: The Animated Series. He's also been watching That Christmas on Netflix, a cozy seasonal pick. Meanwhile, Ben recounts his creative ventures, like shadow boxing the Moon Lord, experimenting with black paper and sharpies, and recommends Perfect Days. This Tokyo-based film follows the quiet, reflective life of Hirayama, a janitor whose mundane routines uncover profound beauty. With its oldies-filled cassette soundtrack, the film is perfect for anyone craving a refreshed outlook on life's simple joys. Perfect Days on IMDb. Future or Now? This Week in Space: In space exploration news, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is making history this week by flying closer to the Sun than ever before—just 3.8 million miles from its surface. It's the fastest human-made object, designed to brave temperatures over 2,500°F as it ventures into the Sun's corona to unlock mysteries about the solar wind. That's Nuts!: Meanwhile, on Earth, scientists have observed California ground squirrels defying their herbivorous stereotype by hunting and eating voles. This unexpected carnivorous behavior highlights their adaptability and raises new questions about the flexibility of animal diets in response to environmental changes. Read more about this discovery in the ScienceDaily article and watch a detailed breakdown on YouTube. Book Club This week, we dive into spoiler-heavy discussion for the short film Where Rabbits Come From, a moving tale set in a dystopian world. Ben reviews the story of a widowed father rabbit who defies an authoritarian government to spark hope and magic in his daughter's life. They escape oppression, finding solace and a possible reunion in the meadow. Learn more on Letterboxd. On a lighter note, Steven gives a glowing review of Skeleton Crew, a family-friendly Star Wars show featuring kid pirates and Shistavanen aliens, which ties back to some classic lore. Check out Shistavanen lore here. Next week, we'll explore Ray Bradbury's time-travel classic, A Sound of Thunder. Read the story here or listen to an audio reading on YouTube. For a fun twist, watch this TV show adaptation.

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! Or should we say: Happy Christmas Adam, Happy Tibb's Eve, Happy the Day Before the Night Before Christmas, and Happy December 23rd!? Whatever you'd call it, we are only two days from Christmas 2024! Can you believe it? Where has the time gone?! To mark the occasion, Julia, Thom, and Anthony gather to discuss the brand-new, 2024, Netflix-holiday film, "That Christmas"! While many of our listeners seem to have a lot of love for this one, the elves are decidedly more mixed! Nevertheless, this a fun and festive discussion that's also filled with talk about why Anthony's mind was in the gutter while watching this film, rumors about the upcoming "Harry Potter" television series on HBO, and Anthony's recent Christmassy foray into New York City! So, settle back, relax, and enjoy this fun episode that's sure to put you in the holiday mood and kick off the week of Christmas the correct way! And make sure to check your podcast feeds tomorrow for your annual Christmas Eve story! Fans of "The Office", in particular, will want to make sure to tune in for that one!  As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️

In this two days till Christmas 2024 episode we do a nice job covering everything by starting with an analysis of the new Superman film's teaser trailer.Then we make good on our promise to discuss the Christmas entertainment we have been watching including: “Red One,” “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” “That Christmas,” “Dear Santa,” and “Hot Frosty.”Finally to cap everything off we talk about the games we have been playing to pass these yuletide times, which spirals into a discussion about the emerging debate about modern games not being as good a their retro counterparts. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday for you and yours this season. See you next week for the continuation of our NInja-tivity festivities.

Här kommer det stora julavsnittet! Idag pratar vi om allt som har med julen att göra: våra planer för julen, den perfekta julen, amerikansk vs svensk jul, favoriter på julbordet, declutter-list för 2025 och sist men inte minst en This or That Christmas edition.Om ni vill malja oss med frågor, dilemman, tips på ämnen eller bara för att säga hej så kan ni nå oss på AlmostAmerikan@gmail.comFölj oss behind the mic på instagram @almostamerikanMusik gjord av: Fannie hertzberg & Joseph WilcoxOm du gillar avsnittet glöm inte att lämna 5 stjärnor ❤️ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More than two thousand years ago God broke through the barrier separating sinful humanity from a Holy God and took on human flesh in the form of a tiny baby. Christianity says all of human history had been building to that monumental event that separated time. Why did God, the creator of the universe, decide to enter our world, not as an avenging angel, but as a vulnerable and innocent baby? It's because of love. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Pastor Max Lucado, best-selling author and preacher, talks about the true meaning of Christmas. That Christmas set into motion the life-altering cosmos calamity that closed the chasm between God and sinful man."Christmas", says Lucado, "begins what Easter celebrates." The two highest holy days of the Christain calendar are eternally linked. While Christmas has become much more commercialized with shopping and Santa taking center stage, it hasn't changed the reality that the peace and joy we talk about on Christmas cards and ad slogans, flows only from this one event, the birth of Jesus: "For God so loved the world!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

10. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 01:049. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 05:068. Disaster Holiday 08:267. Subservience 13:016. Our Little Secret 17:485. It Ends With Us 22:034. Dr. Suess' The Grinch 26:083. Mary 29:502. That Christmas 33:401. Carry-On 37:07

In this episode, Captain Kaye and the Animation Guru discuss Dream Productions, That Christmas, Flow, and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/renegadepopculture/support

In our final episode of 2024, we reflect on our holiday activities and projects. We dive into the film "That Christmas," discussing its themes of family, forgiveness, and redemption through character arcs. The importance of generosity and hope is highlighted, especially through the children's struggles during a blizzard. We conclude by expressing gratitude to our listeners and extending warm holiday wishes, wrapping up the year on a joyful note._____________________________________________________________________________Follow us:InstagramFacebookYouTubeTIkTok

*Podporte podcast Vertigo v aplikácii Toldo a získajte prístup k extra obsahu na sme.sk/extravertigo Aj v novom Vertigu ponúkneme veľa tipov na vianočné obdobie bohatého sledovania filmov a seriálov na streamovacích platformách. Predstavíme vám hneď niekoľko pozoruhodných nových seriálov, televíznych filmov, ale pôjdeme aj do kina. Veríme, že žánrovo vyberieme šikovný vianočný kokteil napätia, komédie, ale aj drámy. V extra obsahu pre predplatiteľov sa tentoraz zameriame na naše vybrané vianočné filmy, ktoré máme radi a ktoré možno nie sú až tak typicky vianočné. Kapitoly: (kapitoly v epizóde môžu byť v niektorých prípadoch o pár sekúnd posunuté) 00:00:00 Úvod 00:00:52 Deň Šakala / The Day of the Jackal 00:07:07 The Long Shadow 00:10:15 Černá holubice / Black Doves 00:13:26 Sto rokov samoty / Cien Años de Soledad 00:17:01 1992 00:20:29 Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 00:25:06 Tenkrát na Vánoce / That Christmas 00:28:43 Zraněné city / You Hurt My Feelings 00:33:17 Mary 00:37:46 Totem 00:41:35 Milý Santo / Dear Santa 00:46:10 Exkurzia / Ekskurzija 00:51:51 Nerob vlny / Pas de vagues 00:56:39 Záver _ Ak nám chcete napísať, ozvite sa na vertigo@sme.sk _ Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Vertigo a zaujímate sa o filmový svetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With box office takings down once more, James Cameron-Wilson says that #5 Kraven the Hunter is the worst ever Marvel opening. It's a mixed bag but is often entertainingly ludicrous with Russell Crowe having fun as a Russian villain. He found the anime Lords of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim often utterly baffling but it got better as it went on, even if he never wants to see anything Lords of the Ring-related ever again. On Netflix, however, he warmed to the animated That Christmas, co-written by Richard Curtis. It's a sweet and sentimental tale aimed at the whole family that does what it says on the tin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are back with another movie rewatch! Today's guest is Sean Donohue, you've probably seen him as the family coach on social media. We have an amazing conversation, framed around discussing a brand new movie out on Netflix now -  That Christmas. What starts out as a chat about a family movie gets really deep into topics like burdening our kids with our emotions, kids being forced to raise themselves, and more.  If you're going to watch this movie before you listen and you are a devout christian, there is a scene early on in the movie with a school play doing the nativity scene, we talk about this in the podcast but you could find this scene offensive so feel free to skip it, it doesn't really add to the story and then the rest of the movie is really great.  Enjoy! EPISODE LINKS: www.parentingmodernteens.com https://www.instagram.com/the.familycoach/ https://www.tiktok.com/@the.family.coach https://www.parentingmodernteens.com/podcast SHOW LINKS: contact: ⁠⁠successfulworkingparents@gmail.com⁠⁠ Linktree:⁠ ⁠https://linktr.ee/successfulworkingparents⁠⁠ Musical credit: Hippie Beatnix (ID 1913) by Lobo Loco CC-by-nc-nd

Our holiday film viewing continues as we take a look at Netflix's new animated entry - That Christmas.

On this episode of The Movies Made Us Do It, Durs and Matt review Cuckoo, Subservience, That Christmas, The Critic, Our Little Secret and more! Find links to all of our shows here: linktr.ee/dursproductions #cuckoofilm #cuckoo #cuckoomovie #subservience #thatchristmas #ourlittlesecret #thecritic #Netflix #AmazonPrimeVideo #MovieReview #FilmPodcast #MoviePodcast #DursProductions #dursproductionspodcasts

In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing THAT CHRISTMAS (2024), from director Simon Otto with a screenplay by Richard Curtis, Peter Souter and Andrew Dawson.  In this animated feature, several characters' stories become somewhat entwined as a blizzard hits a small English town of Wellington-on-Sea during Christmas with Santa (Brian Cox) narrating. The film clocks in at 1 h and 31 m, is rated PG and is currently streaming on Netflix.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review.#ThatChristmas  #RichardCurtis  #PeterSouter  #AndrewDawson  #SimonOtto  #BrianCox  #Santa  #BillNighy  #LighthouseBill  #GuzKhan  #Dasher  #JackWisniewski  #Danny  #ZazieHayhurst  #Sam  #SiennaSayer  #Charlie  #IndiaBrown  #Bernadette  #FionaShaw  #MsTrapper  #JodieWhittaker  #MrsWilliams  #FreddieSpry  #Teddy  #AvaTalbot  #Scarlett  #KuhuAgarwal  #Nisha  #LollyAdefope  #MrsMcNutt  #RhysDarby  #MrMcNutt  #BronteSmith  #Eve  #SindhuVee  #MrsMulji  #Holidays  #Holidays2024  #HolidayAnimation  #Animation  @Netflix  #FridayFamilyFilmNight --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support

This week on the Sheerluxe podcast, Sarah Templeman (Hodge), Charlotte Collins and Billie Bhatia sit down to discuss all the new film and TV releases on Netflix and the ACOTAR series. They also discuss SheerLuxe's Edinburgh takeover and the Sheerluxe Christmas sleigh – or ‘slay' – activation, as well as Billie's podcast and new wellness club.Finally, the three give us their take on this week's reader dilemmas, from being ghosted in a friendship to giving up a steady career to pursue a dream job…Sign Up to The FREE SheerLuxe Daily Email: https://sheerluxe.com/signupFollow Us On Instagram | @sheerluxe | https://bit.ly/3xCvaHi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.PANELCharlotte Collins | @charlotteleahcollins | https://bit.ly/3KJwX0c Billie Bhatia | @billie_bhatia | https://www.instagram.com/billie_bhatia/ Sarah Templeman | @sarahjtempleman | https://bit.ly/3BsR4z1 NEW & NOTEWORTHYVogue Festive Calendar | https://bit.ly/3BsDA6m Black Doves | https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81682935 That Christmas | https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81309564 Our Little Secret | https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81498404 The Merry Gentleman | https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81766198 Happiest Season | https://bit.ly/3ZrHq7I A Court Of Thorn & Roses | https://bit.ly/3Dd2FCL The Devonshire | https://www.devonshiresoho.co.uk/ Pippa Campbell Super Greens | https://bit.ly/4gqbF6t Barrière Patches | https://www.mybarriere.comc/ MUSTN'T MISSSpill | https://bit.ly/49xPMPK Club Squash | https://bit.ly/3ORLTvu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

That Christmas A blizzard hits a seaside town, setting off entwined tales of family, friends, love and loneliness - and Santa making a big mistake (Netflix). Better Man The true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6 Movie Reviews, One Amazing Episode! OK it's really 7, but we covered Juror #2 last week too. Whatever.Movies Covered: Werewolves, Y2K, The Order, Kneecap, That Christmas, Subservience

This week Holden is strugglin' to feel the spirit of the season and Jackie and MJ give their review of Sabrina Carpenter's new Netflix Christmas special, Holden comes up with a plan for TSwift and Olivia Rodrigo Unity, Jackie tells tale of the awful "My Santa", while MJ contemplates watching thespian of our time Mario Lopez in the classic holiday cinematograph "Feliz Navi-DAD." Holden brings up his new obsession of Diamond Jubilee, and Jackie let's everyone know that "Watch Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story" is just as upsetting as you'd think. MJ starts It Ends With Us on Netflix, Jackie is gettin' all ready to head to the theatre with Geoff to see "Babygirl" and tries to sell MJ and Holden on "Later Daters" despite their fear it will be just as sad as "Golden Bachelorette" and Holden is lovin' the Monday watchalongs of "Bad Girls Club".  This season Ultimatum resulted in half the cast leaving, and Jackie lets everyone know she does not want to try the Real Housewives of SLC ice cream, MJ says that That Christmas is just Love Actually for kids, and Holden started The Substance! A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter- NetflixMy Santa - Amazon PrimeThe Church Play Cinematic Universe - link for it --->  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4gM7RC1M0&ab_channel=JennyNicholsonDiamond Jubilee by Cindy LeeGirls Gone Wild: The Untold Story - PeacockIt Ends With Us Queer - IN THE THEATAHHHHHHLater Daters - NetflixThat Christmas - Netflix Want even more Page 7? Support us on Patreon! Patreon.com/Page7Podcast  Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes.

On this episode of Reel Insights, Sean Tajipour, the Mayor of Nerdtropolis, chats with Simon Otto about his directorial debut, That Christmas. Discover the creative journey behind this heartwarming holiday tale and the inspiration that brought it to life. Now Streaming on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81309564 Visit Nerdtropolis.com https://www.Facebook.com/nerdtropolis https://Instagram.com/nerdtropolis https://Twitter.com/nerdtropolis

This ep Adam and Damo talk about new Netflix spy drama Black Doves starring Keira Knightly, Ben Wishaw and Sarah Lancashire. They also talk about The Agency, Star Wars Skeleton Crew, The Sticky, Say Nothing, Smoggie Queens, After The Party, Silo, Day Of The Jackal, Dune Prophecy, The Madness, Have I Got News For You, Question Time, That Christmas, Nutcrackers and Hot Frosty.   Trailers Somebody Somewhere season 3 - Sky Comedy/NOW 9th December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34C2ZTMXGaASecret Level - Prime Video 10th December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvY9Uq7I30Y One Hundred Years of Solitude - Netflix 11th December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG45GfgD2JU No Good Deed - Netflix 12th December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKufPJ-JHvA Dexter:Original Sin - Paramount+ 13th December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw8ZdQpVtdU  We can't wait for you to hear our thoughts on the latest episodes and for you to give us yours too. You can find and follow us on all the socials @tvdnapod You can also email us on tvdnapod@gmail.com  And, if you listen on Spotify, check out our poll below. We have recent specials on Agatha All Along and MAFS, plus our new Spoiler zone episodes covering shows such as Silo and Day of the Jackal, our back catalogue includes The Bear, Succession and Happy Valley. We're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Anchor, Breaker and Radio Public so be sure to subscribe to the pod and please leave us a review.  Thanks as always to JComp for our logo and Roman Senyk Music for our theme.  Adam, Grace, Neil, Damian and Isabel

We set sail for the Golden Fleece this week as we take a deep dive look at the 1963 Harryhausen classic, Jason and the Argonauts. In the main reviews we checked out Rumours, Nightbitch, and That Christmas, with enough time to also give our initial thoughts on Skeleton Crew. Get In Touch Threads @filmfileuk BlueSky @filmfileuk.bsky.social Mastodon @filmfileuk@mastodonapp.uk Twitter (because we refuse to call it X) @FilmFileUK Instagram FilmFileUK Youtube https://tinyurl.com/yv5skc42 Email podcast@filmfile.uk

Today Sari Cohen talks to director Simon Otto about the new animated film THAT CHRISTMAS. Make sure you check it out on Netflix Check out The Dreidle Disaster by Stacey Agdern today! https://amzn.to/3BlzUU0 (ad) Follow Sari at https://twitter.com/ask_sari Find more from Sari here http://thesaricohen.com/ Follow Simon on instagram https://www.instagram.com/simonottoanim/ For all our director interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXv4sBF3mPUBlik8iWDeZHnwT0-SZkxyM Join us over on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/hallmarkies Check out our merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hallmarkies Send us your feedback at feedback@hallmarkiespodcast.com Or call +1 (801) 855-6407 Follow Rachel on twitter twitter.com/rachel_reviews Follow Rachel's blog at http://rachelsreviews.net Follow Rachel's Reviews on youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/rachelsreviews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Farnsworth joins KSL-TV to help audiences decipher #WhatToWatch for the weekend of December 6, 2024.  5, 2024. This week’s movie roundup starts of strong with Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult turning in outstanding performances in "The Order." One of the better-animated movies of the year, "Flow" follows a kitty trying to survive a catastrophic flood and has absolutely no dialogue whatsoever. On streaming, a couple of Netflix movies might catch your interest, including "Mary," which imagines what *could* have happened with the mother of Jesus. It's a Nativity Action Movie… kind of. And in a sweet story, the animated movie "That Christmas” follows a once-in-a-generation snowstorm on Christmas Eve in a small English seaside town, creating new opportunities for fun and human connection.  The brains behind Fan Effect are connoisseurs of categories surpassing nerdy with a goal to publish a weekly "What to Watch on the Weekend" minisodes, taken from KSL-TV's Friday segment, and two deep-dives a month on shows, creative works, artists, local events, and other fandom topics.  Based in the beautiful beehive state, Fan Effect celebrates Utah's unique fan culture as it has been declared The Nerdiest State in America by TIME, and is hosted by KSL Movie Show's Andy Farnsworth and KSL Podcasts' KellieAnn Halvorsen.   Listen regularly on your favorite platform, at kslnewsradio.com, kslpodcasts.com, or on the KSL NewsRadio App. Join the conversation and get the latest 'nerdly' news on Facebook @FanEffectShow. Fan Effect is sponsored by Megaplex Theatres, Utah's premiere movie entertainment company. 

Ultimo episodio del 2024 di Sul Divano di Ale che, con dispiacere, quest'anno si congeda molto in anticipo rispetto alla canonica tabella di marcia. Vi porto la mia su Arcane Stagione 2, Mr and Mrs Smith, That Christmas e Nutcrackers!Buona ascolto e buone feste!Patreon Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy Adams rips into motherhood in Nightbitch. You'll absolutely want to go with the beautifully animated Flow. Kyle Mooney's Y2K will send you tripping down memory lane. That Christmas is a sweet holiday blast. Find us at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.werewatchingwhat.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/werewatchingwhat⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/thedhk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/thedhk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/thedhkmovies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tiktok.com/werewatchingwhat

Director Simon Otto is here to chat failed Christmas gifts, formative films, and finding the balance of a multithreaded storyline story and having to take into account theatrical experience versus streaming consumption. This interview contains mild spoilers for That Christmas. More about Simon Otto Simon Otto is the Director of That Christmas. He started his directing career on the Netflix animated series Dragons: Race to the Edge and Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia. Most recently, he directed the Love, Death & Robots episode ‘The Tall Grass' and developed, executive produced and served as the Supervising Director on the successful Netflix series, A Tale Dark & Grimm. Prior to turning to directing, he spent over 20 years working at DreamWorks Animation, most notably as the Head of Character Animation on the Oscar-nominated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. In that role, Simon oversaw the character animation and was instrumental in designing and developing the look of the characters, their personalities, and the overall style of the animation, while also working in the story department as a story artist. He first joined DreamWorks in 1997 to work on the groundbreaking The Prince of Egypt and worked as a Supervising Animator both in hand-drawn and CG animation on many of the studio's features including, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and the Aardman co-production Flushed Away. Born and raised in Switzerland, Simon studied animation at the prestigious Les Gobelins Animation School in Paris, France. More about That Christmas Based on the charming trilogy of children's books by beloved multi award-winning writer/director Richard Curtis (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, LOVE ACTUALLY, YESTERDAY), THAT CHRISTMAS follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys! This heartwarming comedy from Locksmith Animation marks Curtis' first foray into animation, serving as the film's writer and executive producer, and also the feature directorial debut of renowned animation veteran Simon Otto (LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON FILMS). Nicole P. Hearon (MOANA, FROZEN) and Adam Tandy (THE THICK OF IT, DETECTORISTS) are producers. Starring Brain Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Lolly Adefope, Alex Macqueen, Katherine Parkinson, Bill Nighy, Rhys Darby That Christmas is streaming now on Netflix Find us at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.werewatchingwhat.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/werewatchingwhat⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠tiktok.com/@werewatchingwhat⁠⁠ THEDHK can be found at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/thedhk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/thedhk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/thedhkmovies⁠

This British Christmas animation is based on a series of books by Richard "Love Actually" Curtis, so you know it's going to be quirky and Christmassy and British, and stars a comedy who's-who of talent, including our guest this time, Rhys Darby! But did our panel love it? To find out, your host, Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara) talks to Charlotte Harrison (@sometimesmovies) and Tom Beasley (@TomJBeasley) to find out if it's THAT good or THAT bad before talking to Rhys himself. That Christmas is was in cinemas on November 29, and will now be on Netflix. Your host, Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara) sits down with stand-up comic and former MC of Magic Mike Live, David Morgan (@ThisIsDavid) to talk about the difference between chiselled and too chiselled, and what exactly is going on in these small towns... If you want to read or hear more from Helen, you can order her book "Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film" which is out now in The UK . You can find Helen on Twitter @HelenLOHara This pod was edited by Ben Williams and produced by Helen O'Hara and Stripped Media. If you want to know more about this podcast and others produced by Stripped Media, please visit www.Stripped.media to find out more or email producers@Stripped.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to snuggle up with some popcorn, hot cocoa and watch a new holiday film. Film and streaming columnist Lisa Hrabluk shares her thoughts on "That Christmas", a new British film from Netflix animation. 

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 6th December, including:Ever wondered what the build-up to the biggest darts tournament of the year is like? Ever wondered how Michael van Gerwen deals with pressure? Ever wondered what Luke Littler's life was like before his meteoric rise? Well, now you can find out in new documentary Game of Throws: Inside Darts on Now TV.A blizzard hits a seaside town, setting off entwined tales of family, friends, love and loneliness - and Santa making a big mistake. From Richard Curtis (Love Actually), That Christmas is on Netflix now.Jack Whitehall races against time to get from the US to the UK for Christmas in Prime Video special Jack in Time for Christmas. His frantic four-day journey involves various modes of transport and encounters with celebrity friends including Michael Buble and Rebel Wilson as he battles holiday chaos to reach home.Unprecedented access to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, and his extraordinary family as he fights for his political life and fails to keep his seat. Meet the Rees-Moggs is on Discovery+ now.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!If you're a brand interested in sponsorship or collabs, email hello@podcastsbyliam.com and chat to us now!

We discuss NBR, AFI, IDA, Indie Spirits, Saturns + the Seattle Critics and go category by category starting with Best Picture to discuss the rest of this week's many Oscar Race Checkpoints. The Big Best Picture Conversation - 1:44 - We discuss the Best Picture category in light of how this week's NBR & AFI confirmed strong starts for Wicked, Sing Sing & several other films. On the flipside, we doubt the Gladiator and Dune sequels. Then we breakdown what the Indie Spirit Feature, First Feature, and Cassavettes categories tell us about the year in film at large. Best International Feature - 18:43 - The Girl with the Needle and The Seed of the Sacred Fig are on the rise. Plus, we further discuss whether or not All We Imagine As Light can sustain momentum towards a Picture nom. Best Director & Jon M. Chu's good week - 22:10 The Best Screenplays & the Hard Truths bit lives anew - 25:11 Lead Acting Category Questions including Mikey & Coleman hopes - 28:51 Supporting Categories leads to talk on Kieran's strength and Elle's surprise win - 35:59 Some early tech talk on Cinematography & Editing + More on the Docs with IDA - 43:19 Animated Feature: Flow's surge + reviews of That Christmas & Spellbound - 47:09 A Quick Thing on the Saturn Awards + a review of Fly Me To The Moon - 50:05 A Quick Thing on the Seattle Critics Society - 55:41 WHAT WE'RE WATCHING: The Order - 57:03 The Hustler & The Color of Money - 58:09 The Great Lillian Hall - 1:00:04 A Woman Under The Influence - 1:01:51 OUTRO - Send us your thoughts via social media. A reminder that we're now on Blue Sky. Please rate and review us. Also, please make sure to stay ready for upcoming Oscar Race Checkpoints on the upcoming Golden Globes and Critics Choice Noms + the Oscar Shortlists and then get ready for some fun guests for Oscar Bets and Nosferatu.

It's day 4 of the Christmas Everyday Club Podcast, and we're unwrapping more holiday fun! Today, we dive into the brand-new Netflix animated film That Christmas, based on Richard Curtis' trilogy of charming children's books. Discover the heartwarming tales of love, family, and holiday chaos, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the creators and voice cast of this delightful movie.We'll also share festive jokes, trivia, and an original Christmas story, The Turkey's Christmas Miracle , to add extra cheer to your day. Don't miss our Book of the Day, Would You Rather: Pantomime Edition, filled with hilarious questions for family fun, and today's Gift Idea: the dazzling, entertaining Orbit Ball!Tune in for all things merry and bright, and get inspired for your own holiday traditions.

Tom Sutcliffe hears from the Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis about how much he's obsessed by Christmas - and how he's now moved into animation for his latest film That Christmas, based on his trilogy of children's books. There's advice on the best books to buy this Christmas from the literary critic Alex Clarke and Toby Lichtig, Fiction and Politics editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Tom also talks to the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita about her new audio drama Purple Heart Warriors, which tells the extraordinary story of a Japanese-American unit in World War Two.And art critic Zarina Muhammad is in the studio to assess this year's Turner Prize artists, just as the winner is announced this evening. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath

Peter Souter legendary copywriting genius of the advertising industry and now Co-Producer of Netflix's animated Christmas hit ‘That Christmas' with ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral' and ‘Love Actually' Director Richard Curtis.   It's an epic production starring Brian Cox, Bill Nighy, Jodie Whittaker, Fiona Shaw, India Brown and a galaxy of talent, including musical assistance from Ed Sheeran.   And Peter is here to tell us all about it and make sure we all book at least one viewing of it on our Netflix wish list.   We discuss how the movie came into being and what it's like working with all that talent. We discuss the connection between Walberswick and Stellar Street and why you should always surround yourself with incredible talent.   Peter tells us why it's important to pay attention to the numbers but to avoid the reviews in this Neo Hollywood landscape and we learn how he uses positive reinforcement.   How are Peter's advertising and creative skills useful in film making and how good is his Christmas trivia knowledge? It's all wrapped up in a bow by discussing the other greatest Christmas movie ever made.   Peter is an advertising industry A-lister and now he's a movie big wig too! We were so lucky to snag him for the show and it was an incredible hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Otto sits down with me to talk about his fatherhood journey. He shares the values he looks to instill into his son as he grows up. In addition, he shares how resilient his son is and what his son taught him about life. After that we talk about his new movie, That Christmas, that is on Netflix. Simon shares what message he hopes that the audience will take away from film. Plus, he also shares how much fun he had working with the cast and crew. Lastly, we finish the interview with the Fatherhood Quick Five.  About Simon Otto  Simon Otto is a Director, Animator and Story Artist. Most recently, Simon directed an episode for Volume Two of the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots called The Tall Grass while also developing several other Netflix related projects. Simon is known for his work as the Head of Character Animation of all three How to Train Your Dragon films for DreamWorks Animation. In addition to overseeing the animation of the films, Simon has been instrumental in developing the look of the characters, their personalities, and the overall style of the animation as well as working in the story department on the second and third film. Make sure you follow Simon on Instagram at @simonottoanim. In addition check out his film, That Christmas on Netflix starting December 4th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCTXSwqzkw Guardian Bikes Is This Week's Sponsor  A Guardian Bike is the easiest, safest, and quickest bikes for kids to learn on. Kids are learning to ride in just one day, no training wheels needed! What sets Guardian Bikes apart? Designed especially for stability, they are low to the ground with a wide wheelbase and ultra-lightweight frames, offering superior control and balance. This design gives young riders the ability to learn in just 1 day, without tears or frustration. Guardian Bikes are the only kids' bikes designed and assembled in a USA factory, ensuring top-notch quality and durability. They were also featured on Shark Tank and are the New York Times Wirecutter top kids' bike pick for 2024. Join the hundreds of thousands of happy families by getting a Guardian Bike today. Their holiday sales have begun, offering the biggest deal of the year. Save up to 33% on bikes, no code needed! Plus, get free shipping and a free bike lock and pump with your first purchase after signing up for their newsletter. Visit GuardianBikes.com to take advantage of these deals and secure your holiday gifts today. Happy Riding! About The Art of Fatherhood Podcast  The Art of Fatherhood Podcast follows the journey of fatherhood. Your host, Art Eddy talks with fantastic dads from all around the world where they share their thoughts on fatherhood. You get a unique perspective on fatherhood from guests like Bob Odenkirk, Hank Azaria, Joe Montana, Kevin Smith, Danny Trejo, Jerry Rice, Jeff Foxworthy, Patrick Warburton, Jeff Kinney, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kyle Busch, Dennis Quaid, Dwight Freeney and many more.

For Thanksgiving, we have a MAGA-free episode full of holiday warmth, true crime, and absurdity. Iconic filmmaker Richard Curtis, the creative force behind Love Actually and Notting Hill, joins us to discuss his new Netflix movie, That Christmas, and Hugh Grant's hilariously hostile tribute at Curtis's honorary “Better Than Nothing” Oscar. Daily Beast CEO Ben Sherwood shares stories of growing up near the Menendez brothers and his decades-long fascination with their case, now making headlines with shocking new twists. Plus, a glimpse inside Gloria Steinem's storied home, a laugh-out-loud tangent on mischievous Thanksgiving balloons, and Joanna Coles recounts a surreal dinner with O.J. Simpson during which he smashed a whiskey glass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"How to Train Your Dragon" trilogy head of character animation Simon Otto makes his animated feature directorial debut with the comedy adventure "That Christmas". It debuts Wednesday Dec. 4 on Netflix. Otto returns to The LCJ Q&A to discuss adapting Richard Curtis' books, working with Brian Cox and crafting a unique holiday family film.

In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor dive into some of animation's quirkiest corners and biggest news: Godzilla's 70th Anniversary: Celebrating Godzilla Day with a look back at the 1978 Godzilla animated series and the fascinating story behind Hanna-Barbera's unique take on the King of Monsters. The Wild Robot's Box Office Success: DreamWorks' hit continues to climb, surpassing $250 million worldwide. "Emily the Strange" Returns: A new animated feature from Warner Bros. and J.J. Abrams brings the iconic goth character to life. The Simpsons' NFL Takeover: A real-time Simpsons Monday Night Football game using innovative animation technology. Halloween Treats & Holiday Previews: Highlights from Netflix's That Christmas, Marvel's upcoming series lineup, and spooky animated specials. Tune in for a monster-packed episode celebrating everything from classic kaiju to modern animation news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor dive into some of animation's quirkiest corners and biggest news: Godzilla's 70th Anniversary: Celebrating Godzilla Day with a look back at the 1978 Godzilla animated series and the fascinating story behind Hanna-Barbera's unique take on the King of Monsters. The Wild Robot's Box Office Success: DreamWorks' hit continues to climb, surpassing $250 million worldwide. "Emily the Strange" Returns: A new animated feature from Warner Bros. and J.J. Abrams brings the iconic goth character to life. The Simpsons' NFL Takeover: A real-time Simpsons Monday Night Football game using innovative animation technology. Halloween Treats & Holiday Previews: Highlights from Netflix's That Christmas, Marvel's upcoming series lineup, and spooky animated specials. Tune in for a monster-packed episode celebrating everything from classic kaiju to modern animation news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It couldn’t happen but it did. Now, we have to survive.By ronde, in 3 parts. Listen to the ► podcast at Connected.I thought I was ready when the time to be ready arrived. I wasn’t. I was more ready than most people, but still not ready for what happened.To this day, I don’t know why it happened and apparently there’s nobody left to explain it. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. What was is probably gone for a long, long time, and people like us have to pick up the pieces and get on with trying to live. I’m writing all this down in hopes that if and when things do get back to normal a lot of people will read it and do what all people should have done before.I started getting ready as more of a hobby than actually preparing for when the “shit hits the fan", or “SHTF” as the survivalists called it. There were many scenarios that would cause SHTF, none of which I thought would ever happen. The leading scenarios were about the world, or at least the U S, going from normal to crisis to lawlessness in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases. You had your:1.      "the world economy is going to collapse" people, your2.      "there will be another civil war" people, and your3.      "another country will bomb and then invade the U S" people.I tended to discount these for what, to me at least, were logical reasons.While the economy had gone belly up at least a couple times, the world didn’t descend into chaos. Even though in at least some cases it took years to do so, governments managed to work through the depression and come out healthy.Another American civil war would just be stupid. Civil wars have never worked out well. The group with the most resources always wins, and they usually aren’t very nice to the losers. After most modern civil wars, the leaders on the losing side end up being executed for treason or some other offense. Why would any sane person even think about starting a civil war unless they were absolutely confident they could win?While I supposed it was possible that some other country could launch nukes at the U S, the result would be their own destruction as well. It was also possible some country could load up a million or so soldiers and ship them across the Pacific or the Atlantic with the intention of attacking the big cities on the East or West coast, but it’s very probable they wouldn’t make it. That many ships or planes would be spotted long before they posed any real danger and the U S Air Force and Navy would end the threat before it got started.Right behind these were “artificial intelligence will take over and eliminate the human race” and a global pandemic that kills most of the human population of the world.While these made some decent novels and movies, they weren’t all that realistic. I mean, artificial intelligence isn’t really all that smart. AI can rapidly review data from a multitude of sources, develop conclusions from that data based upon its programmed algorithms, and then take or recommend actions based upon those conclusions and again, its programmed algorithms. It can further examine those actions and determine if they were correct and modify its logical process as needed.At the time it happened, I was a civilian electro-mechanical engineer working on B 1 B flight simulators at Ellsworth AFB and my job required a thorough and current knowledge of that sort of thing because I was writing it into my machine control programs. Everything I'd  read told me even the best artificial intelligence is really good at adapting its programming to different conditions and reporting any conclusions in appropriate language, but in reality is maybe actually as smart as a five-year old. Though the data set used can be enormous, any autonomous decisions are made just as a five-year old would make them – by trial and error.A self-driving car can learn where it is and where it needs to go, but it you want to transfer its “brain” to an aircraft or a robot, that requires a software change and a human has to do that. Artificial Intelligence can read most current languages spoken in the world and can be taught the phonetics to speak them correctly. It can also be taught to generate art, prose and poetry when given appropriate parameters. It can’t just one day decide to become a best selling author or poet and start writing, or begin painting scenes that it visualizes on its own. It needs a human to ask it to do something or to tell it what to do. Yes, there can be some unforeseen consequences, but when all else fails, a human can always “pull the plug” and stop the computer.A global pandemic was possible, but even in the worst pandemics like the plague and Spanish Flu, enough people survived to keep society going. Yes, the disease slowed civilization down, but civilization didn’t die.There were several other causes like natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards and forest fires that could likely happen and cause significant stress on society. The more I thought about those causes, the more sense it made to do some preparation. It wouldn’t hurt and if something did happen, I’d be prepared.It was also a way to get back to quasi-reality from my job. Back then, I spent all my work days immersed in tuning the interactions between computer code and hydraulic servo valves and the response time of hydraulic systems, and I needed something a lot less complex to decompress on the weekends.Location?I started reading about what I would need and decided my best bet was to have a month’s supply of food in my apartment and a shotgun for self-defense. The extra food was easily affordable since I wasn’t married, lived in a two-room apartment, and worked too many hours to actually spend much of my income on anything else. I still had the single-shot shotgun I got as a kid so I could hunt rabbits, squirrels and pheasants on my dad’s farm. I still did that when I had the time.I stored a month’s supply of canned and dried food in my bedroom and bought three boxes of buckshot to go with the box of bird shot I already had. I was all set; until I  read some more and watched some videos.One article I  read asked the question, “What will you do if you’re away from home when the shit hits the fan?” The answer was something called a “get-home bag” and was a small backpack filled with enough to get me from my office to home if there was trouble in the city or on the road.I bought a small backpack and stuffed it with protein bars, six bottles of water, and a first-aid kit. Also in that backpack was a coffee can with a candle and a disposable lighter, but I’d always had those in my car. If you’re stuck alongside the road in a heavy snow like we sometimes get during the South Dakota winters, it’s nice to have a heat source so you don’t freeze to death before the wrecker gets there. I was all set, until I  read some more and watched more videos.The opinion of all the experts on the internet was you should prepare to weather a crisis at home. That’s where your food supply would be and you’d be familiar with the area, but the next question was, “What if you can’t get to your home or if your home isn’t there or if it isn’t safe to go to your home?” The answer, actually three answers, were a “bug-out bag”, a place to “bug-out” to, and to never let my gas tank get lower than three-quarters of a tank so I’d have the gas to “bug-out”. I think that was when my hobby became sort of an obsession. Looking back now, I wish it had become an obsession a lot sooner.Keeping my gas tank filled was something I already did during the winter. It’s not unusual in my area of South Dakota to have a heavy snow that will cause traffic to back up for hours. Having a candle in a coffee can will keep you from freezing to death, but a full tank of gas and a car heater will keep you comfortable.The bug-out bag was easy. It was just a scaled up version of my get-home bag. It was a bigger backpack filled with food for three days and water for a week. Since I might need to make a fire to cook and keep warm, I included a hunting knife, a hatchet, two disposable lighters, and a ferrocerium rod and striker in a metal box full of charred cotton cloth in case the lighters died. If I got wet or just needed some more layers, I had an extra set of clothing, and in case something happened to the clothing, a sewing kit.According to everything I red, it might be that I’d have to fight my way out of something, and to do that, I bought a bigger first-aid kit in case I got hurt and had to fix myself up. Stuck in a pocket in the flap was an unloaded Sig P365 nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol with a hundred rounds of ammo to keep me from getting hurt. Carrying the pistol required me to get a state carry permit, but that was easy. After three visits to a gun range to practice, I spent one Saturday taking a class and then took my application and check for the fee to the local sheriff’s office. A month later, I had my South Dakota carry permit in my wallet.The place to bug-out to was harder. The articles I  read said the place should be pretty isolated because looters would be roaming the countryside looking to take what they didn’t have from people like me who did. Since I lived in an apartment, I’d probably at least have my neighbors begging from me. Montana seemed to be the favored location, but Montana was a five-hour drive from Box Elder, South Dakota where I had my apartment. Besides, I didn’t have enough money to buy even a small place in Montana.Dad’s farm was closer. The six hundred acres where he’d run some cattle and raised hay wasn’t exactly out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a little over twenty miles from the nearest city, that being Rapid City. I figured I’d just build a hideaway cabin to use for hunting and fishing the small river that ran through it. I did both there every year anyway, and with a small cabin, I could stay over a weekend instead of driving back and forth. If I needed it to bug-out, it would be there.I still call the place Dad’s farm, but it’s essentially mine. He willed it to my mother when he passed and her will states that it will go to me when she passes. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when that happened because the inheritance taxes would be huge, but I liked hunting and fishing there, so I was playing “wait and see”. The land would never drop in value.I was paying the taxes on the place because Mom couldn’t afford to. I didn’t want to continue to pay property taxes on the old house and outbuildings, so I had them torn down. Then I rented the place to a local cattle breeder. His cattle and the small herd of horses he ran there kept the old pastures and fields cropped down and the rent paid the remaining property taxes every year with a little left over to go toward the taxes I’d eventually pay.Provisions.Once I’d decided to build a bug-out place, I started reading and watching videos about what I needed to build. I found people who recommended just a small log cabin, people who built what would have been called a “fall-out shelter” in the 1950’s, people who built basically a full sized and equipped house, and everything in between.I wasn’t all that thrilled about a log cabin after I  read more about the ones you can buy. They would be hard to heat in our frigid South Dakota winters and were pretty expensive since they were intended to be full-time residences. I thought about cutting some of the pine trees on the place and building a cabin myself, but that seemed like a ton of work that would take me a year of weekends to finish. I decided a log cabin was a bad idea.I saw some ads about pre-manufactured shelters that could be installed in a week or so by the manufacturer. I thought that would work out pretty well. I could buy just the steel box and then fit it out however I wanted. They were all underground, so I’d have the benefit of some natural insulation when it was time to heat it. There was only one hitch. I could have bought a three bedroom house in Box Elder for what one would have cost me to buy and install. I decided that was a bad idea too.As I kept reading and watching videos, I discovered there were some ideas about building a bug-out place that seemed to conflict. The main one had to do with the need to keep your bug-out place a secret. If you didn’t and some emergency happened, everybody who hadn’t prepped would come knocking on your door for food, shelter and safety.For this reason, I figured running electricity to whatever I built, like a lot of people did, was stupid. I could live without electricity, and overhead power lines running out through the middle of a farm field would be like a road sign saying, “This way for free food.” The other problem with electricity is electricity has a tendency to stop if there are high winds or sleet. It wouldn’t do any good to have the wiring if there was nothing in the wires.Another thing I thought was pretty short-sighted were the people who said they were prepared to live off the land. I’d hunted and fished for most of my life, and my experience had taught me two things. If you depend upon hunting, fishing, and foraging for food, you’ll probably starve to death. I’d spent a lot of long days in the woods without ever seeing so much as a rabbit let alone a deer. It’s the same with fishing. Some days, you catch several fish. Other days, all you get is a sunburn and some mosquito bites.Foraging for plants is interesting and fun and I’d done it as a Boy Scout, but if that’s your only food source, it won’t take long to pick all the edible plants in your immediate area. Then you’ll have to move to find more and that means giving up the security you spent all that money to build.I figured I needed a place big enough to store a lot of non-perishable food and enough other stuff so I could fend for myself for at least a year. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t hunt and fish. It just meant I wouldn’t go hungry when the deer, rabbits, or fish didn’t cooperate.I liked the idea of an underground bunker for several reasons. If it was underground, I’d get the benefit of the natural insulation of the soil, and at least from a distance, nobody could tell there was a bunker there. Concrete seemed a better alternative than steel. All the ammo bunkers on the base were poured concrete and they’d been there since World War 2.I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to get it built. I figured the cost wouldn’t be a problem because it would be just a concrete box with a concrete lid. The problem was who could I trust to build it and not tell anybody else where it was?That Christmas, I went to the assisted living home in Rapid City where my mother was living to take her a Christmas gift. I told her I was going to build some sort of cabin on the farm so I’d have a place to stay when I went hunting or fishing. Bless her heart, she gave me the answer I’d been looking for.“Remember Jeff Hayes from high school? His mother lives here and we talk all the time. He owns a construction company now, and she said he did the same thing except he built his under the ground. I don’t think I’d like living underground, but she saw it and said it’s really nice, considering. You ought to go talk to him and find out how he did it.”I did remember Jeff. He and I had hunted and fished together a lot when we were in high school. We sort of drifted apart when I went to college and he enlisted in the Army. When he got out of the Army, he went to a trade school. We were just different that way. He was very practical and I tended more toward the theoretical.Army Buddy.Jeff grinned when I walked into the building where his office was located.“Well I’ll be damned. Ted Jackson. Figured you’d forgotten all about Lakeview High and everybody you went to school with.”I smiled.“No, I’ve just been really busy. I was visiting my mother and she said I should come talk to you about a project I have in mind.”I told Jeff what I’d been thinking about and asked what he would recommend and why that would be better than what I’d already  read and seen in videos. He smiled.“When I was in Iraq, I talked to a guy from Montana whose dad had been getting ready for the big one for years. He didn’t know what the big one was gonna be, so he tried to cover all the bases. I learned a lot from listening to what his dad built."When I came back, I took a look at how politics and the economy were going and decided maybe he was right. Like you, I  read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos, but I had my military training and combat experience too. A lot of those books and videos didn’t make any sense."I thought about it for a year before I built what I built. I ain’t saying it’s perfect, but it’s good enough. I’m not sure I want to be around if something happens that it isn’t good enough for anyway.”My question was what did Jeff build and how did he build it without a bunch of people knowing. He just smiled again.“I own a construction company, so I have the equipment and skills to build about anything. I also have two guys on my crew who think like I do, and the local ready-mix plant owner and a couple of his crew do too. We got together and each of us built basically the same thing on weekends. The six of us are the only ones who know where and what we have, and we aren’t going to tell anybody else. Since we go way back, I’ll make an exception in your case. You got any idea about what you want?”When I said other than what I’d already told him I wasn’t sure, Jeff opened a drawer in his desk and took out a set of plans. The first page said “Plans for a 1,200 square foot Ranch With Partial Basement”. Jeff flipped past the first two pages and then pushed the plans toward me.“The rest of this is just so anybody finding our plans will think they’re just for a house I built. The basement plan will show you what I built. Since I know you pretty good, if you’ll swear to keep your mouth shut, I’ll talk to the other guys about helping you build one. It would be good to know there’s another of us in the area in case we somehow have to leave our own place.Noah's Ark.We couldn’t start construction until May because the nighttime temperatures were still dropping below freezing and the ground hadn’t yet thawed out. Once we started, it surprised me how quickly things went and how little it cost. In a month and a half of weekend work, I had my bunker. It was out in the middle of a pasture about a mile from the road and was invisible unless you got close enough to see the hatch sitting in the ground. I traded my car for a four-wheel drive pickup so I could get to it in about any kind of weather.It’s an underground bunker twelve feet wide and thirty feet long. It’s all concrete with leak stoppers between the floor and walls and between the walls and ceiling, the s

It couldn’t happen but it did. Now, we have to survive.By ronde, in 3 parts. Listen to the ► podcast at Connected.I thought I was ready when the time to be ready arrived. I wasn’t. I was more ready than most people, but still not ready for what happened.To this day, I don’t know why it happened and apparently there’s nobody left to explain it. It doesn’t matter anymore anyway. What was is probably gone for a long, long time, and people like us have to pick up the pieces and get on with trying to live. I’m writing all this down in hopes that if and when things do get back to normal a lot of people will read it and do what all people should have done before.I started getting ready as more of a hobby than actually preparing for when the “shit hits the fan", or “SHTF” as the survivalists called it. There were many scenarios that would cause SHTF, none of which I thought would ever happen. The leading scenarios were about the world, or at least the U S, going from normal to crisis to lawlessness in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases. You had your:1.      "the world economy is going to collapse" people, your2.      "there will be another civil war" people, and your3.      "another country will bomb and then invade the U S" people.I tended to discount these for what, to me at least, were logical reasons.While the economy had gone belly up at least a couple times, the world didn’t descend into chaos. Even though in at least some cases it took years to do so, governments managed to work through the depression and come out healthy.Another American civil war would just be stupid. Civil wars have never worked out well. The group with the most resources always wins, and they usually aren’t very nice to the losers. After most modern civil wars, the leaders on the losing side end up being executed for treason or some other offense. Why would any sane person even think about starting a civil war unless they were absolutely confident they could win?While I supposed it was possible that some other country could launch nukes at the U S, the result would be their own destruction as well. It was also possible some country could load up a million or so soldiers and ship them across the Pacific or the Atlantic with the intention of attacking the big cities on the East or West coast, but it’s very probable they wouldn’t make it. That many ships or planes would be spotted long before they posed any real danger and the U S Air Force and Navy would end the threat before it got started.Right behind these were “artificial intelligence will take over and eliminate the human race” and a global pandemic that kills most of the human population of the world.While these made some decent novels and movies, they weren’t all that realistic. I mean, artificial intelligence isn’t really all that smart. AI can rapidly review data from a multitude of sources, develop conclusions from that data based upon its programmed algorithms, and then take or recommend actions based upon those conclusions and again, its programmed algorithms. It can further examine those actions and determine if they were correct and modify its logical process as needed.At the time it happened, I was a civilian electro-mechanical engineer working on B 1 B flight simulators at Ellsworth AFB and my job required a thorough and current knowledge of that sort of thing because I was writing it into my machine control programs. Everything I'd  read told me even the best artificial intelligence is really good at adapting its programming to different conditions and reporting any conclusions in appropriate language, but in reality is maybe actually as smart as a five-year old. Though the data set used can be enormous, any autonomous decisions are made just as a five-year old would make them – by trial and error.A self-driving car can learn where it is and where it needs to go, but it you want to transfer its “brain” to an aircraft or a robot, that requires a software change and a human has to do that. Artificial Intelligence can read most current languages spoken in the world and can be taught the phonetics to speak them correctly. It can also be taught to generate art, prose and poetry when given appropriate parameters. It can’t just one day decide to become a best selling author or poet and start writing, or begin painting scenes that it visualizes on its own. It needs a human to ask it to do something or to tell it what to do. Yes, there can be some unforeseen consequences, but when all else fails, a human can always “pull the plug” and stop the computer.A global pandemic was possible, but even in the worst pandemics like the plague and Spanish Flu, enough people survived to keep society going. Yes, the disease slowed civilization down, but civilization didn’t die.There were several other causes like natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards and forest fires that could likely happen and cause significant stress on society. The more I thought about those causes, the more sense it made to do some preparation. It wouldn’t hurt and if something did happen, I’d be prepared.It was also a way to get back to quasi-reality from my job. Back then, I spent all my work days immersed in tuning the interactions between computer code and hydraulic servo valves and the response time of hydraulic systems, and I needed something a lot less complex to decompress on the weekends.Location?I started reading about what I would need and decided my best bet was to have a month’s supply of food in my apartment and a shotgun for self-defense. The extra food was easily affordable since I wasn’t married, lived in a two-room apartment, and worked too many hours to actually spend much of my income on anything else. I still had the single-shot shotgun I got as a kid so I could hunt rabbits, squirrels and pheasants on my dad’s farm. I still did that when I had the time.I stored a month’s supply of canned and dried food in my bedroom and bought three boxes of buckshot to go with the box of bird shot I already had. I was all set; until I  read some more and watched some videos.One article I  read asked the question, “What will you do if you’re away from home when the shit hits the fan?” The answer was something called a “get-home bag” and was a small backpack filled with enough to get me from my office to home if there was trouble in the city or on the road.I bought a small backpack and stuffed it with protein bars, six bottles of water, and a first-aid kit. Also in that backpack was a coffee can with a candle and a disposable lighter, but I’d always had those in my car. If you’re stuck alongside the road in a heavy snow like we sometimes get during the South Dakota winters, it’s nice to have a heat source so you don’t freeze to death before the wrecker gets there. I was all set, until I  read some more and watched more videos.The opinion of all the experts on the internet was you should prepare to weather a crisis at home. That’s where your food supply would be and you’d be familiar with the area, but the next question was, “What if you can’t get to your home or if your home isn’t there or if it isn’t safe to go to your home?” The answer, actually three answers, were a “bug-out bag”, a place to “bug-out” to, and to never let my gas tank get lower than three-quarters of a tank so I’d have the gas to “bug-out”. I think that was when my hobby became sort of an obsession. Looking back now, I wish it had become an obsession a lot sooner.Keeping my gas tank filled was something I already did during the winter. It’s not unusual in my area of South Dakota to have a heavy snow that will cause traffic to back up for hours. Having a candle in a coffee can will keep you from freezing to death, but a full tank of gas and a car heater will keep you comfortable.The bug-out bag was easy. It was just a scaled up version of my get-home bag. It was a bigger backpack filled with food for three days and water for a week. Since I might need to make a fire to cook and keep warm, I included a hunting knife, a hatchet, two disposable lighters, and a ferrocerium rod and striker in a metal box full of charred cotton cloth in case the lighters died. If I got wet or just needed some more layers, I had an extra set of clothing, and in case something happened to the clothing, a sewing kit.According to everything I red, it might be that I’d have to fight my way out of something, and to do that, I bought a bigger first-aid kit in case I got hurt and had to fix myself up. Stuck in a pocket in the flap was an unloaded Sig P365 nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol with a hundred rounds of ammo to keep me from getting hurt. Carrying the pistol required me to get a state carry permit, but that was easy. After three visits to a gun range to practice, I spent one Saturday taking a class and then took my application and check for the fee to the local sheriff’s office. A month later, I had my South Dakota carry permit in my wallet.The place to bug-out to was harder. The articles I  read said the place should be pretty isolated because looters would be roaming the countryside looking to take what they didn’t have from people like me who did. Since I lived in an apartment, I’d probably at least have my neighbors begging from me. Montana seemed to be the favored location, but Montana was a five-hour drive from Box Elder, South Dakota where I had my apartment. Besides, I didn’t have enough money to buy even a small place in Montana.Dad’s farm was closer. The six hundred acres where he’d run some cattle and raised hay wasn’t exactly out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a little over twenty miles from the nearest city, that being Rapid City. I figured I’d just build a hideaway cabin to use for hunting and fishing the small river that ran through it. I did both there every year anyway, and with a small cabin, I could stay over a weekend instead of driving back and forth. If I needed it to bug-out, it would be there.I still call the place Dad’s farm, but it’s essentially mine. He willed it to my mother when he passed and her will states that it will go to me when she passes. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it when that happened because the inheritance taxes would be huge, but I liked hunting and fishing there, so I was playing “wait and see”. The land would never drop in value.I was paying the taxes on the place because Mom couldn’t afford to. I didn’t want to continue to pay property taxes on the old house and outbuildings, so I had them torn down. Then I rented the place to a local cattle breeder. His cattle and the small herd of horses he ran there kept the old pastures and fields cropped down and the rent paid the remaining property taxes every year with a little left over to go toward the taxes I’d eventually pay.Provisions.Once I’d decided to build a bug-out place, I started reading and watching videos about what I needed to build. I found people who recommended just a small log cabin, people who built what would have been called a “fall-out shelter” in the 1950’s, people who built basically a full sized and equipped house, and everything in between.I wasn’t all that thrilled about a log cabin after I  read more about the ones you can buy. They would be hard to heat in our frigid South Dakota winters and were pretty expensive since they were intended to be full-time residences. I thought about cutting some of the pine trees on the place and building a cabin myself, but that seemed like a ton of work that would take me a year of weekends to finish. I decided a log cabin was a bad idea.I saw some ads about pre-manufactured shelters that could be installed in a week or so by the manufacturer. I thought that would work out pretty well. I could buy just the steel box and then fit it out however I wanted. They were all underground, so I’d have the benefit of some natural insulation when it was time to heat it. There was only one hitch. I could have bought a three bedroom house in Box Elder for what one would have cost me to buy and install. I decided that was a bad idea too.As I kept reading and watching videos, I discovered there were some ideas about building a bug-out place that seemed to conflict. The main one had to do with the need to keep your bug-out place a secret. If you didn’t and some emergency happened, everybody who hadn’t prepped would come knocking on your door for food, shelter and safety.For this reason, I figured running electricity to whatever I built, like a lot of people did, was stupid. I could live without electricity, and overhead power lines running out through the middle of a farm field would be like a road sign saying, “This way for free food.” The other problem with electricity is electricity has a tendency to stop if there are high winds or sleet. It wouldn’t do any good to have the wiring if there was nothing in the wires.Another thing I thought was pretty short-sighted were the people who said they were prepared to live off the land. I’d hunted and fished for most of my life, and my experience had taught me two things. If you depend upon hunting, fishing, and foraging for food, you’ll probably starve to death. I’d spent a lot of long days in the woods without ever seeing so much as a rabbit let alone a deer. It’s the same with fishing. Some days, you catch several fish. Other days, all you get is a sunburn and some mosquito bites.Foraging for plants is interesting and fun and I’d done it as a Boy Scout, but if that’s your only food source, it won’t take long to pick all the edible plants in your immediate area. Then you’ll have to move to find more and that means giving up the security you spent all that money to build.I figured I needed a place big enough to store a lot of non-perishable food and enough other stuff so I could fend for myself for at least a year. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t hunt and fish. It just meant I wouldn’t go hungry when the deer, rabbits, or fish didn’t cooperate.I liked the idea of an underground bunker for several reasons. If it was underground, I’d get the benefit of the natural insulation of the soil, and at least from a distance, nobody could tell there was a bunker there. Concrete seemed a better alternative than steel. All the ammo bunkers on the base were poured concrete and they’d been there since World War 2.I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to get it built. I figured the cost wouldn’t be a problem because it would be just a concrete box with a concrete lid. The problem was who could I trust to build it and not tell anybody else where it was?That Christmas, I went to the assisted living home in Rapid City where my mother was living to take her a Christmas gift. I told her I was going to build some sort of cabin on the farm so I’d have a place to stay when I went hunting or fishing. Bless her heart, she gave me the answer I’d been looking for.“Remember Jeff Hayes from high school? His mother lives here and we talk all the time. He owns a construction company now, and she said he did the same thing except he built his under the ground. I don’t think I’d like living underground, but she saw it and said it’s really nice, considering. You ought to go talk to him and find out how he did it.”I did remember Jeff. He and I had hunted and fished together a lot when we were in high school. We sort of drifted apart when I went to college and he enlisted in the Army. When he got out of the Army, he went to a trade school. We were just different that way. He was very practical and I tended more toward the theoretical.Army Buddy.Jeff grinned when I walked into the building where his office was located.“Well I’ll be damned. Ted Jackson. Figured you’d forgotten all about Lakeview High and everybody you went to school with.”I smiled.“No, I’ve just been really busy. I was visiting my mother and she said I should come talk to you about a project I have in mind.”I told Jeff what I’d been thinking about and asked what he would recommend and why that would be better than what I’d already  read and seen in videos. He smiled.“When I was in Iraq, I talked to a guy from Montana whose dad had been getting ready for the big one for years. He didn’t know what the big one was gonna be, so he tried to cover all the bases. I learned a lot from listening to what his dad built."When I came back, I took a look at how politics and the economy were going and decided maybe he was right. Like you, I  read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos, but I had my military training and combat experience too. A lot of those books and videos didn’t make any sense."I thought about it for a year before I built what I built. I ain’t saying it’s perfect, but it’s good enough. I’m not sure I want to be around if something happens that it isn’t good enough for anyway.”My question was what did Jeff build and how did he build it without a bunch of people knowing. He just smiled again.“I own a construction company, so I have the equipment and skills to build about anything. I also have two guys on my crew who think like I do, and the local ready-mix plant owner and a couple of his crew do too. We got together and each of us built basically the same thing on weekends. The six of us are the only ones who know where and what we have, and we aren’t going to tell anybody else. Since we go way back, I’ll make an exception in your case. You got any idea about what you want?”When I said other than what I’d already told him I wasn’t sure, Jeff opened a drawer in his desk and took out a set of plans. The first page said “Plans for a 1,200 square foot Ranch With Partial Basement”. Jeff flipped past the first two pages and then pushed the plans toward me.“The rest of this is just so anybody finding our plans will think they’re just for a house I built. The basement plan will show you what I built. Since I know you pretty good, if you’ll swear to keep your mouth shut, I’ll talk to the other guys about helping you build one. It would be good to know there’s another of us in the area in case we somehow have to leave our own place.Noah's Ark.We couldn’t start construction until May because the nighttime temperatures were still dropping below freezing and the ground hadn’t yet thawed out. Once we started, it surprised me how quickly things went and how little it cost. In a month and a half of weekend work, I had my bunker. It was out in the middle of a pasture about a mile from the road and was invisible unless you got close enough to see the hatch sitting in the ground. I traded my car for a four-wheel drive pickup so I could get to it in about any kind of weather.It’s an underground bunker twelve feet wide and thirty feet long. It’s all concrete with leak stoppers between the floor and walls and between the walls and ceiling, the s