A very Die Hard movie debate with Dyer Oxley and Bill Radke⁠81%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0% Dyer Oxley⁠0% Matt Martin⁠0%

12/25/2025, 1:45:01 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Framing Effect, and Self-Serving Bias, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 39.8% saturation with 45 hits. Analysis detected 192 faulty-reasoning hits from 113 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠81% (4,279 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.50% of the article peer group.

Here's a special Christmas episode brought to your feed from KUOW's arts and culture podcast Meet Me Here: 
The holiday season means trees, cookies, family, spirituality, or presents to many. 
For Meet Me Here’s Dyer Oxley, it means it's time to watch his favorite Christmas movie — "Die Hard." 
This 1988 action flick starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman has become a Christmas tradition for many. 
But not everyone agrees that "Die Hard" can be a Christmas tradition. 
Week in Review host Bill Radke is in that camp. 
He challenges Dyer's "Die Hard" opinion in a special holiday throwdown. 
Bill and Dyer debate a modern holiday question: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie? 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 39.8%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias39.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 24.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias24.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 22.1%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect22.1%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.6%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 8.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias8.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 10.6%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias10.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 10.6%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias10.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 10.6%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic10.6%This article: 16.8%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias16.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 15.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon15.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.6%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization10.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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