Tom's Top 3: December 23, 2025

A Holiday Season Watchlist

Hi everyone! Welcome to this week’s installment of Tom’s Top 3 Tuesdays, where I highlight three pieces of content (Podcasts/Shows/Songs/Articles/etc.) that I found interesting or noteworthy from the prior week.

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First, I want to shout out my wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, and caring fiancé Charlotte who just couldn’t contain her excitement regarding her Christmas gift to me. So much so that she gave me the gift a couple days early! Now, I want to share it with you so you can see just how wonderful, beautiful, intelligent and caring she is.

I present to you: Star Wars Catan!

Isn’t this awesome?!?! Charlotte customized all of the resources, board, characters, etc to be all Star Wars themed, and it came out great. I can’t wait to play it, and I just wanted to give a shoutout and thank you to Charlotte. 🩵

This week, I’ll keep it short and just suggest some things to watch over the holiday break. Enjoy.

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1. [TV Show] Netflix - Nobody Wants This

So funny. Love the characters, especially Sasha, played by the amazing Tim Simons. Season 2 just came out this year, so we have been binging to catch up, and now we are loving the new season.

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2. [Movie] Universal Pictures - The Thing (1982)

Another shoutout is in order. This time for my cousin, Aidan, who recommended this film and regularly follows the newsletter (thanks bro).

This movie is awesome. John Carpenter is so amazing at building suspense and anxiety. It really holds up, even after 43 years.

We decided it’s a Christmas movie… because it takes place in the snow…

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3. [YouTube] Ringer Movies - And the Oscars Go to … YouTube?!

Can’t go a week without some Hollywood news. In 2029, the Academy Awards are going from ABC to YouTube. ABC will end its run with the 100th Oscars in 2028, before handing it over to Google.

This excerpt from a longer podcast goes through how this could be a good thing for movies.

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