🎄 It’s 1979, by way of 1933 — or the other way around — and the human from Fraggle Rock has broken into my garage with a haunted choir of singing children.
Join us as we turn the dial on our haunted time-traveling radio to find Henry Winkler at the height of his fame as the Fonz hiding under multiple layers of makeup as a Scrooge figure in Great Depression-era New England.
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🎙 Guests:
Tom Coombs (The Pop Daddy)
Scott Leopold (Holly Jolly X’masu)
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
1. Watch “An American Christmas Carol” on YouTube, courtesy of Shout Factory.
2. Henry Winkler interview on being asked to play a Scrooge figure.
3. The Ford Model TT truck, in example.
4. Dorian Harewood (Matt Reeves/Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) filling in for James Avery as Shredder.
5. Today’s TV Trope: Recursive Fiction — and “The Identical.”
6. Robin Williams on “Sesame Street” showing Elmo different ways to play with a stick.
7. “Sister Kenny,” based on the true story of an Australian nurse.
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📼 Commercial Break:
McDonald’s Gift Certificates Christmas Commercial, 1979.
Holly Jolly X’masu, your podcast destination for Japanese Christmas music.
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“An American Christmas Carol” © 1979 Scrooge Productions, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
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Title: An American Christmas Carol
