The Xmas Mistake: A Cursed Podcast

Holiday Road Feb 14, 2024

Kate, Dan, and Ester are dumbfounded. It's 2023 again and... they kinda like this one? Maybe it's the last of the Xmas curse magic running through them but something about this one has them ready to dive back in for more. Happy V-D, you rascals.

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A Christmas to Treasure Jan 25, 2024

Ester, Kate, and Dan plumb for buried treasure (knowledge about 2022) in this movie about figurative buried treasure (lost friendships) that leads to real buried treasure (actual treasure, more or less).

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Candy Cane Candidate Dec 25, 2023

Dan, Ester, and Kate have returned to learn more about what elections are like on Earth '23. Ooh, I bet they're normal elections.

A Timeless Christmas Dec 24, 2023

Dan, Ester, and Kate have begun their Earth '23 cultural reintegration much like the protagonist of this film: rushed into a strange present day, unclear about what has happened in the intervening years, and living in a house that's been turned into a museum.

RETURN Dec 24, 2023

Dan, Ester, and Kate have been gone for years, trapped in the Xmas dimension. Thanks to a powerful Xmas wish, they've returned in podcast form. Wait, then who made those episodes in 2021????

Dear Christmas Feb 19, 2021

Dan, Kate, Chad, and Julia start a podcast, but maybe it's also just the first episode of a podcast sub-series. It's not totally clear, but hey, who are we to explain it all?

You can find Julia Schifini on Spirits, at multitude.productions, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Princess Switch: Switched Again Jan 01, 2021

Dan, Kate, Chad, and Tau travel to Moldova. Wait, no, Mandalore. Wait, no, Monaco. Mordor? I don't know. We're headed back to whatever Christmas kingdom from The Princess Switch for the sequel.

Listen to CARAVAN

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Love, Lights, Hanukkah! Dec 25, 2020

Dan, Kate, Chad, Geoff, and Adri are clawing their way away from Christmas; we talk Hallmark's latest foray into capturing the festival of lights, how they fail, and what they could have done better. First of all: why didn't they name it Love, Lights, Latkes?

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Happiest Season Dec 16, 2020

Dan, Kate, and Chad get back in the saddle sleigh for a few more 2020 Xmas movies. This week, we're finally watching one what's got gays in it.

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LOST EPISODE: Christmas Under Wraps Dec 04, 2020

Dan, Kate, and Chad finally get around to posting an episode they fully watched, recorded, and produced almost a full calendar year ago. We'll be posting new episodes all throughout December, and after that, who knows? Anyway, this movie is one of CCB's best. Sorry you're only hearing this now! Here's a final vestige of the old world that's dead and left behind.

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It's Christmas, Carol! Mar 03, 2020

Dan, Kate, Chad, and Beth (@HeyBethMay) find themselves facing down the grim reminders of death and the struggles of being too cutthroat in the publishing industry. Also if you wanted a movie with a satisfying use of Carrie Fisher's ghost, this is one!!

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Holly Star Mar 03, 2020

Whoops, this one got unpublished for some reason. We'll have more Xmas coming tomorrow!

The Jingle Hell Special, Disneyland Edition Jan 31, 2020

Dan, Kate and Chad go to the most Xmas'y place on... wait, where is all the Xmas. Where did it go. Don't just leave us alone like this. Don't leave us alone in Disneyland. PS: Dear Wil, this episode contains our gift to you, The Haunted Mansion

Let it Snow Jan 24, 2020

Dan, Kate, and Chad do a bunch of boring winter stuff that would be in the doing winter stuff montage, but instead it's the whole movie, also something eldritch and horrific happens or something.

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Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane Jan 18, 2020

Dan, Kate, and Chad travel to Honeysuckle Manor for their first Xmas in the new year of gaiety and mirth, but find themselves diminished through a ceaseless onslaught of family drama that threatens to tear their family apart.

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Christmas at Mistletoe Junction Dec 25, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad celebrate the season, and add a little Xmas mythology of their own.

Xmas Eve with The Xmas Mistake Dec 24, 2019

It's December 24th and Dan, Kate and Chad are camped near the fireplace next to a comically large Xmas Tree in footie pajamas and silly elf hats. Our Xmas Eve hang out episode! Check your Podcatcher tomorrow morning. ;D

Marrying Father Christmas Dec 21, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad watch the third movie in an Xmas Trilogy because CHAD DIDN'T DO HIS HOMEWORK. During the summer we agreed to each take one movie in a trilogy and review it. Dan took the first.

Kate took the second.

And Chad... did nothing.

Now they must watch it together and reverse engineer the trilogy from the end.

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Contact us by screaming into a stocking.

Xmas is here, all fear.

A Christmas to Remember: The Lost Episode Dec 13, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad actually forgot to upload this amnesia-themed Xmas. I can't believe we did it for this one specifically either. Anyway, here it is.

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby Dec 06, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad discover key secrets combing two parallel timelines into one mighty conflict, one might say the Conflict of the Christmas Kingdoms. It all makes sense now. The dots are connecting. The stars are aligning. We know the secrets. We are coming. @thexmasmistake @thexmasmistake @thexmasmistake

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding Dec 05, 2019

Dan, Kate, Chad, Brigid, and Katie return to Aldovia to look fabulous, get married, and quell an uprising! As the hours drag on, our brave adventurers into the festive unknown grow weary. Will they survive into their third–final?–leg of this endless endless endless ENDLESS endless ENDLESS endless enDLess eNdlEss EndLeSs endless

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A Christmas Prince Dec 05, 2019

Dan, Kate, Chad, and Brigid head to Aldovia, and shall remain there throughout a trilogy.

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Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade Nov 28, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad go to CHICAGO, CHICAGO, to learn what is truly important: parades. Happy Xgiving!

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The Princess Switch Nov 23, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad watch the right movie this time, and go back to one of our holiday favorites

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Northpole: Open for Christmas Nov 16, 2019

Dan, Kate, Chad, and special guest Emily VanDerWerff find themselves in Northpole, and learn more about the structure of Xmasland than even they had bargained for.

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Last Christmas Nov 08, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad LEAVE THE HOUSE and GO TO THE MOVIES to BRING YOU THE SCOOP. The bewildering 2019 Xmas movie featuring some kind of twist and a very messy Dany Targaryen and so, so much George Michaels.

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The Halloween Special Oct 31, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad would like you to see something strange: a time where they're actually joyful! Come with us and you will see the curse ebb, and our heroes gasp for creepy spooky air!

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A Very Nutty Christmas Oct 26, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad explain it all to a nutcracker given human life to be a local baker's boy toy. Join Melissa Joan Hart and her bewitched nut servant as they try to remember what that Tchaikovsky ballet was all about.

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An Evergreen Christmas Oct 11, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad learn the meaning of "Don't Tread On Me" and LA Soy Boys and praying over dinner one minute and pulling a gun on people the next. That's right, it's a Conservative Indie Xmas Movie. Buckle up.

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Becoming Santa Oct 06, 2019

Dan Kate and Chad BECOME SANTA. Just kidding. But SOMEONE'S GONNA. AND IT'S NOT GONNA BE THE HEIR TO SANTA, A WOMAN, WHO SHOULD PROBABLY BE SANTA. Can't have that in my Xmas movie. Nope. Tune in for Jack Frost being a total Chad.

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Naughty or Nice Sep 27, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad uncover hidden dark forces, and grow mad with Christmas power.

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Christmas Camp Sep 20, 2019

Christmas grows impatient. Bodies don't yet comply. Vassals, they will be yet.

Dan, Kate, and Chad are sent to a perfectly safe and normal Christmas Camp to land the big account, and they'll be fine when they get back. Seriously, don't worry about it! It's all very cool.

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A Christmas Wedding Date Sep 13, 2019

Dan, Kate, Chad, and special guest Vin live Christmas over and over and over again. They've got us, babe. Gotta get up, gotta get down (with Christmas). It's a time loop Christmas movie, I dunno.

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Matchmaker Santa Sep 06, 2019

Time warp! Dan, Kate, and Chad stay inside their Lacey trilogy (Tri-Lacey) and avoid a possibly phantasmal bear in Matchmaker Santa.

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Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe Aug 30, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad are at their most Austen-tatious with Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, a twist on the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The twist is that it basically has nothing to do with P&P and is mostly your run-of-the-mill Hallmark. Spooky!

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A Royal Christmas Aug 24, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad think they're returning to the Xmas Kingdoms for a pleasant jaunt around Who-gives-a-fuck-ivia, turns out they've begun a Chabert streak to remember.

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A Snow Globe Christmas Aug 16, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad get smacked in the head with a snow globe, sucking them into a realm of heart break and madness in this theory shattering world shaping Hallmark Classic, A Snow Globe Christmas. Santa Help Us.

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Catch a Christmas Star Aug 08, 2019

Dan Kate and Chad launch into... wait, Kate is gone. Kate isn't here anymore. Its Travis now. Dan Travis and Chad watch the most Basketball Xmas Movie that ever Basketballed. It has exactly one basketball for one scene.

What happens when your daughter decides that Taylor Swift should be your new wife? That's basically this movie. Buckle up. Poor Travis.

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Hitched for the Holidays Aug 02, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad stumble upon their darkest Hallmark yet: an actually good movie.

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Moonlight and Mistletoe Jul 30, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad are incredibly late to this episode, and go deep into the heart of Santaland for Moonlight and Mistletoe.

The Sweetest Christmas Jul 19, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad bring a guest and neglect the big gingerbread contest to review The Sweetest Christmas, Lacey Chabert's bakery nightmare.

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Rodeo and Juliet Jul 12, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad watch Xmas slowly encroach on the frontier of its influence in this very, VERY poor kinda sorta not really adaptation of Shakespeares "Romeo and Juliet". It's a terrible mess, if you watch it just skip to the end for the good Barrel Racing.

Stranger Things was great by the way.

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A Veterans Christmas Jul 04, 2019

Dan, Kate and Chad SUPPORT OUR TROOPS on THE 4TH cause we planned ahead and definitely didn't get the date wrong and have to switch this episode with a different episode last minute. This one is surprisingly good. I'd write more but Stranger Things 3 is out and I have to watch it on repeat for the next two weeks.

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The Christmas Detour Jun 27, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad gotta get back, back to the past to find... CCB's first Hallmark! Within, they figure out how to pronounce her name–probably.

Here's the video we watch during the episode.

The Christmas Card Jun 20, 2019

Dan, Kate, and Chad stumble into the unfamiliar The Christmas Card from all-too-familiar time: an era before the infection, before the burnt-black X of the Hall Mark. Here, was a run-of-the-mill Christmas TV movie; one outside of the dense crust of Christmasland, where men were men, troops were heroes, and the only festive darkness was the darkness in America's heart. Welcome back to the War on Terror, baybee!

The Christmas Spirit Jun 13, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad learn all about Christmas Coma Ghosts and their absurd, situational rules in this movie that is DEFINITELY not "The Spirit of Christmas". Evil business men, magic electric powers, child lead ghost cults and more, it gets so, so weird.

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Journey Back to Christmas Jun 06, 2019

Daniel, Kate, and Chad travel back to the 1940s to... really just go back to the present and watch a pretty by-the-numbers fish out off water Hallmark. Comet doesn't really make sense. Hit us up on Patreon.

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A Gingerbread Romance May 30, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad enter a realm as thin as a gingerbread house, as hollow as a gingerbread house, impermanent as a gingerbread house. Would you believe it's a gingerbread house? A poor single father is forced to work for free during his vacation crafting a massive Xmas Gingerbread House to satisfy that one twin from that one Disney show and thwart her lesbian lover.

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A Shoe Addict's Christmas May 23, 2019

Daniel, Kate, and Chad fall fast for festive footwear-focused film A Shoe Addict's Christmas. Is CCB's Noelle really addicted to shoes? Nope. Has her obsession for heels ruined her life? Not really. Is it kinda messed up that people throw around "addict" so casually? It is!

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Crown for Christmas May 16, 2019

Daniel, Kate, and Chad discuss the movie that A Christmas Prince took all its test answers from, Crown for Christmas. Watch as they wade deeper into the Chronogeographic territory of Xmas-Land.

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The Town Christmas Forgot May 09, 2019

Daniel, Kate, and Chad wish they could forget this instant clas-suck through some sort of Santesque mesmerization. Watch as four average coastal elites rediscover the central tenets of Xmas feudalism on a budget! It may look, sound, and feel like a horror movie, but it (probably) isn't! Right?

Featuring a romance that's barely a romance, a real, live Xmas cultist, a new rule, and Coleman falls in a mine!

The Jingle Hell Special, Live from Clifton's Republic May 02, 2019

Twas the night before March, and all through LA No Christmas signs could be seen, not even a sleigh. But here to bring festivities to this out of season verse, were Dan, Kate and Chad with their Cold Christmas Curse. Live from Clifton's Republic! You heard podcasters from Arden, Wolf 359, Red Rhino, Wooden Overcoats, The Far Meridian, 20 Sided Stories + The Whisper Forge.

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A Very Merry Mix-Up Apr 27, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad chaperon a couple of four year old children in adult bodies who are probably maybe going to fall in Xmas with each other. There is so much blue and so much pain and it is a true herald of our darkest chapter yet.

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Christmas Inheritance Apr 18, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad slide right through the terrible shaving cream covered land of Snow Falls where's some Millionaire Heiress does Yoga and listens to Sitar music in a small town that she may or may not own. Featuring cursed, cursed artwork, murder snow sculptures and MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS AT CHEATING.

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The Holiday Calendar Apr 11, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad watch a good movie! A nice movie. A movie with an (enchanted? well crafted? blessed?) Calendar, a movie with a shade throwing homeless gay couples, a movie with GOOD SWEET LOVELY FERNANDO (#justice4fernando) Join us for the only good movie we are going to get to watch on this cursed, cursed journey. Get the next (maybe lost) episode and other neat things at our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/thexmasmistake

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The Spirit of Christmas Apr 04, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad attempt to solve the mystery of the Hot Hot Ghost on the Cold Cold 12 Days before Christmas. For all those thirsty listeners who want a man with abs more numerous than the Wise Men and shoulders broader than a Stable (though there's also another ghost... and a poltergeist... and some Bootlegging and this murder brother person spirit? This is some Kingdom Hearts writing)

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Switched for Christmas Mar 28, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad catapult into the dark world of Twins! Switching places! Hooking up with Serial Killers and VolCels! Santa is so cursed! It's a mess!

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The Christmas Train Mar 21, 2019

Daniel, Kate and Chad hop aboard "The Christmas Train", a movie where there's this writer guy, and this writer girl, and maybe a ghost/angel... it's... You know what, just listen to the episode we'll explain everything. Tweet at us @TheXmasMistake Email us your Christmas List at TheXmasMistake@gmail.com

Episode 0 Mar 21, 2019

What is The Xmas Mistake? Who got Cursed? Why are Daniel, Kate and Chad reviewing Christmas Romance Movies every week EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT XMAS SEASON!? Find out in Episode 0 of The Xmas Mistake! Tweet us your most cursed Christmas content @TheXmasMistake Email us at TheXmasMistake@Gmail.com

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