Apres Culture

This week we’re celebrating the holidays with explosions and Hallmark schmaltz. That’s right, Pop Culture Swap is back, and the pieces of pop culture we gave each other were … not the same. Fortunately, there was eggnog. Very, very grownup eggnog. (This is absolutely the tipsiest we’ve ever gotten on the podcast.) We talk about the surprisingly progressive politics of the 1988 Christmas/action classic Die Hard, and how unlikely it must have seemed in 1987 that it would become a classic. Plus, Kasey enjoys a little romance/schadenfreude combo by forcing Sara Ann to watch the Hallmark Channel’s A Princess for Christmas, the story of a poor but noble young woman (of course) raising her dead sister’s children (of course) who suddenly gets whisked away to a fake European country to stay in a castle with her dead brother-in-law’s suddenly friendly, very royal, and suspiciously British family (OF COURSE). Pull up a chair and contemplate the chaste but appreciative kiss you will give your beloved when he finally du