KJB Holiday Special 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance

Just gave this episode to relisten, and it occurred to me that Jerry is definitely a Patreon member for WTYP

“Sam Phillips said that the sequence where Katya uses a knife to slice up a security guard until he is dead was hard for her to film, but she also admitted that it became easier when she noticed the actor playing the guard looked sort of like a real person she despised: Rush Limbaugh.”

I love you sweet youths. The Hillary Clinton joke was a misogynistic joke about how Hillary was actually in charge and Bill was hen-pecked.

Devon - as an American union film worker — I love you. Also, as me just as a person, love you all. But yes. We want to make movies like this still. But the tech companies that own the studios don’t think you do.

Thanks for the shout out. I have no way to start blasting, but your episodes do make my 12 hour security shifts go faster

This movie holds a lot of importance to me in that a shitload of my friends made this kind of thing their identity in the year of our lord 2009.

Self-taught horologist Aldis Hodge??!

They did the Woker lmao

Just wanna plug a few other fun Shane Black movies - The Nice Guys and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - which are also both crime movies AND Christmas movies!

If someone tells you to talk white, hit em with the okie dokie

the yakult shot joke is an all timer lmao

The German "Zeus", "Tsoyss" completely knocked the wind out of me. Incredible. And perfect pronunciation.

Assuming that they don't start making a new Die Hard every year before the end of 2027, and also there is an end of 2027, there's pretty much the whole filmography of Shane Black

I dunno if I'll be the first to mention this but Terry Pratchett, when picturing Lord Vetinari in his mind, pictured Alan Rickmann's Hans Gruber as the voice and mannerisms. When it came time to cast Lord Vetinari in The Colour of Magic (a shit bbc adaptation) they got Jeremy Irons. Quote Pratchett "I had to settle for Grubers Brother".

re: the dwindling paramedic jacket budget, i was very intent on stealing the thigh-high compression socks the hospital gave me to wear during my top surgery but by the time i came out the other side of it, I was too high and forgot. only part of it I regret. thanks for a great year of podcast!

This is an extremely strange experience to watch if 1) you grew up in 90s NYC 2) your partner’s name is Simon 3) Your old place is clearly visible in the background of a big shot

It is a shame that the KJB missed the fact that the bomb mechanism itself is the metaphor taken sraight from the nazi manual. Two stable liquids becoming explosive only after mixing, isn't quite obvious for blood laws, racial supremacy and other nazi/eugenics mythology. Very visual metaphor and foreshadowing for the politics of the movie.

Obviously Jerry is the MVP of the episode, but special shout-out to the shitbag little kid who says "You could steal City Hall" in the most Noo Yawk way possible. And, as always, renewing my recommendation for y'all to watch How to Steal a Million.

Hearing them talk about Kowalski- HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE TO DO "RAISING ARIZONA"

ok for star wars episode 2 we need to know whether or not this podcast is pro or anti confederacy of independent systems

As someone who has a shit family, i genuinely appreciate the holiday greetings for me. Cheers

Since we all agree, as leftists, that colonialism is inherently robbery I suggest for Robbery Season the 1996 Val Kilmer vehicle The Ghost and the Darkness. It has everything the gang loves: Val Kilmer, guns from one of my favorite IMFDB pages, a depiction of Brit colonialism worthy of criticism.

Honestly I’m with Devon on the Complete Google Brain Collapse, I have googled like that before and you do really just have to look at it, you can’t just delete it and move on

When you run out of Die Hards remember that The Fellowship of the Ring set out from Rivendell on the 25th of December, thus making LotR Christmas movies.

Merry Christmas!! Been really looking forward to this episode. (Though no mention of how hot Jeremy Irons is in this movie??)

I nominate The Shining as a potential Christmas movie once you run out of Die Hards, it's got snow in it so it counts as Christmas

For the record, "next location" would be "prochain emplacement" probably

This episode of the podcast is hauntology for millennials.

Merry Christmas to all the hogs

much less than 50% of americans live in new york but new yorkers certainly think that's the case

November no! You can't admit to the MTA grate theft while you are trying to get customs to let you into the country for the Northwest Corri-tour

Been looking forward to this all year regrettably

The beautiful blonde lady with the knife is super talented Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and composer Sam Phillips. She had never acted before but - per interviews she gave at the time of the film's release - the director saw her on the black and white film noir-ish cover of her then-recent album, Martinis & Bikinis, and decided he wanted to cast her in the role. She initially turned down the role because she was not an actress but he kept asking so she eventually agreed on the condition that he make her character mute because she feared she wouldn't be able to deliver lines. He agreed and the rest is history. I was already a big fan of hers at the time and I lost my mind when I saw her in the film when I watched it in the cinemas - she was the reason I went back to see it a second time. Cuz that's my level of music nerditude.

We were robbed of a Die Hard where John gets blackout drunk, loses his gun, and has extremely weird conversations with the fascist voice in his head. But since he's a cop, we can take it as read

Very good episode!! Mery Chrysler!! I am like 98% sure I heard Devon burp at 51:06, 10/10 episode I loved it

YES! Time for the best Die Hard!

PLEASE tell me you're including the alternate ending as well!! It's on YouTube and soooo good.

When I first saw this film it was on a plane, meaning it was the safe for TV version. Which means John McClane was made to wear a sign saying "I hate people", with this blatant display of misanthropy causing much consternation amongst onlookers. "Hey, this guy says he hates [FELLAS]", one was heard to cry. "I don't think the sign says that," I thought to myself.

Merry Christmas everypony

Great blastin timing

first (merry xmas) (not first don't yell at me)

Merry bondsmas to all!

YIPPIE KI YAY FATHER CHRISTMAS

Been looking forward to this one all year

merry christmas fellow KJBheads!