The Xmas Mistake: A Cursed Podcast

Once a week, every week, Daniel, Kate and Chad dive into a new Christmas Romance Movie and pick apart its dark secrets! Join us on this trip to Jingle Hell in The Xmas Mistake, A Cursed Podcast.

Holiday Road 02/14/2024

Holiday Road 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. tell us what we got wrong about the new present on Twitter /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/29639038

A Christmas to Treasure 01/25/2024

A Christmas to Treasure 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). tell us where to find buried treasure (real only) on Twitter /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/29638903

Candy Cane Candidate 12/25/2023

Candy Cane Candidate Dan, Ester, and Kate have returned to learn more about what elections are like on Earth '23. Ooh, I bet they're normal elections. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/29218213

A Timeless Christmas 12/24/2023

A Timeless Christmas 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/29218153

RETURN 12/24/2023

RETURN 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???? /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/29218093

Dear Christmas 02/19/2021

Dear Christmas 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? /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/18007109

The Princess Switch: Switched Again 01/01/2021

The Princess Switch: Switched Again Dan, Kate, Chad, and Tau (@TauZaman) 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/17387921

Love, Lights, Hanukkah! 12/25/2020

Love, Lights, Hanukkah! 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, and how they fail. First of all: why didn't they name it Love, Lights, Latkes? /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/17325212

Happiest Season 12/16/2020

Happiest Season Dan, Kate, and Chad get back in the sleigh for a few more 2020 Xmas movies. This week, we're finally watching one what's got gays in it. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/17220650

LOST EPISODE: Christmas Under Wraps 12/04/2020

LOST EPISODE: Christmas Under Wraps 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! /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/17058773

It's Christmas, Carol! 03/03/2020

It's Christmas, Carol! 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!! /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/13386863

Holly Star 03/03/2020

Holly Star Whoops, this one got unpublished for some reason. We'll have more Xmas coming tomorrow! /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/13386182

The Jingle Hell Special, Disneyland Edition 01/31/2020

The Jingle Hell Special, Disneyland Edition 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12961781

Let it Snow 01/24/2020

Let it Snow 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12835793

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane 01/18/2020

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12794066

Christmas at Mistletoe Junction 12/25/2019

Christmas at Mistletoe Junction Dan, Kate, and Chad celebrate the season, and add a little Xmas mythology of their own. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12527369

Xmas Eve with The Xmas Mistake 12/24/2019

Xmas Eve with The Xmas Mistake 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12526805

Marrying Father Christmas 12/21/2019

Marrying Father Christmas Dan, Kate and Chad watch the third movie in an Xmas Trilogy because CHAD DIDN'T DO HIS HOMEWORK. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12489122

A Christmas to Remember: The Lost Episode 12/13/2019

A Christmas to Remember: The Lost Episode 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12387545

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby 12/06/2019

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12303548

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding 12/05/2019

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding 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 /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12288695

A Christmas Prince 12/05/2019

A Christmas Prince Dan, Kate, Chad, and Brigid head to Aldovia, and shall remain there throughout a trilogy. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12285179

Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade 11/28/2019

Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade Dan, Kate, and Chad go to CHICAGO, CHICAGO, to learn what is truly important: parades. Happy Xgiving! /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12205100

The Princess Switch 11/23/2019

The Princess Switch Dan, Kate, and Chad watch the right movie this time, and go back to one of our holiday favorites /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12146183

Northpole: Open for Christmas 11/16/2019

Northpole: Open for Christmas 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/12060278

Last Christmas 11/08/2019

Last Christmas 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/11957438

The Halloween Special 10/31/2019

The Halloween Special 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! /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/11852273

A Very Nutty Christmas 10/26/2019

A Very Nutty Christmas 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/11788841

An Evergreen Christmas 10/11/2019

An Evergreen Christmas 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. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/11529752

Becoming Santa 10/06/2019

Becoming Santa Dan Kate and Chad BECOME SANTA. /episode/index/show/thexmasmistake/id/11529710

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