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A Love Only The Branch Of A Willow Tree Could Conjure. (Obsession)

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! Can you believe we’ve already reached our penultimate episode of Spooky Season 2026? We sure can’t! Where has the time come?

This week, Julia and Anthony are joined by two of their favorite recurring guests, Kendall and Misty of the excellent “Two Girls, One Crypt,” to talk the 2026 smash-hit, “Obsession!” The four dive-deep into this timely horror-film about consent and autonomy, and there’s a lot of great insight into one of the year’s best films -which, spoiler alert, all four of your hosts loved- in this episode! Trust us when we say this is definitely one you do not want to miss!

So settle back with your pumpkin spice lattes, relax, and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y’all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

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Drak Pack “Hideout Hotel” (w/ Joe Martinez)

What’s up, dudes? Halloween is creeping up on us, so we’re checking into the spookiest resort on Saturday morning TV. It’s the 1980 Hanna-Barbera monster mash Drak Pack and the episode “Hideout Hotel”! I’ve got Joe Martinez from Now Watch This with me to talk all about it!

Drak Jr., Frankie, and Howler (the teenage descendants of Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man, who fight crime to make up for their ancestors being total jerks for a few centuries) are stuck freezing in the snow back home while their great-great-uncle Big D is soaking up the Florida sun at the 300th-anniversary reunion of the Transylvania Retired Spooks, Spectres, and Spirits Society. Too bad Dr. Dred picked the same hotel. He sends Vampira in as a sea monster to clear the beach, kicks out every paying guest, and reopens the place as Dr. Dred’s Hideout Hotel, a luxury resort for the world’s worst criminals. It comes with a Wall of Crime, prison-bar doors, and a lobby where you check in with your fingerprints. The Drak Pack show up and immediately get buried up to their necks in the sand with high tide coming in (“Enjoying the view, Quack Pack?”). They bust out with a head-bonk Drak Whack and some werewolf sandblasting, then pick off O.G.R.E. one by one: Mummy Man gets wrapped up, Fly gets stuck in the shade, and Vampira’s seagull disguise goes straight into the drink. With hundreds of hoods pulling up in black limos, Frankie accidentally has the idea of the century. It’s a crooks’ convention? Well, Big D has a convention too! Cue skeletons in the closets, beds floating out the windows, and a dragon in the bathtub of Room 521 (“Do we allow pets?”). It’s all voiced by a total ’80s Saturday-morning dream team: Hans Conried (Captain Hook himself!) as Dr. Dred, Alan “Skeletor” Oppenheimer as Big D, Papa Smurf’s Don Messick as Toad and Fly, Duckworth’s Chuck McCann as Mummy Man, and Clumsy Smurf’s Bill Callaway pulling double duty as Frankie and Howler.

Wall of Crime? Check. Sand sculpture of Dr. Dred built by the world’s biggest suck-up? Yep. A dragon in the bathtub? Better call the front desk! So grab your beach towel, register your fingerprints, and check in to this episode on Drak Pack “Hideout Hotel”!

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2026 Horror For The Holidays Halloween Spooktacular 4: The Barn

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Jay and Jeff head out back to the barn to see what all that 25 year old high schooler racket is! I hope someone doesn’t carve out my skull!

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SiS 81 – Halloween 2026 – The Dream Warriors

It’s Halloween, and we’re rockin’ with Dokken as we discuss Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and Halloween in the 1980s. We’ll be back really soon with our 1980s holiday season!

Thanks to Born Too Late for having me on the show recently. You can hear the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DiRN5noYolHwMho9huCwt?si=a41231f09bd94f26

Thanks to Classic Pat for sharing his audio clip about the Dream Warriors with us. Check out Pat’s music here: https://classicpat.bandcamp.com/

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68 Days, crab migration

68 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest, my youngest son, Max. He is here, once again for a Maxmas takeover!!! The entire week, I made up a game, and will be telling him one Christmas story a day, and he has to tell me if it is Fact, or a Lump of Coal!

Today’s episode, crab migration

 

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The Shadow of Christmas Present

Happy October! We are hurtling through the Ber months, and I can’t believe that October is already half over. In today’s episode I read you another cozy Christmas story. It’s called “The Shadow of Christmas Present” by Willis Allen Boyd. In the story our main character just finished reading A Christmas Carol, and seems pretty happy with not being a Scrooge… however, the Ghost of Christmas Present arrives and shows him there is still work to do! Grab a warm blanket and a hot beverage, and let’s settle in here by the Christmas fire and enjoy another wonderful story!

(A quick note – once or twice I refer to the story as The Shadow of Christmas Past (instead of Present)… sorry for any confusion that might cause. What can I say except my brain had a hiccup and I didn’t catch the mistake until I published the episode!)

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69 Days, sweater competition

69 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest, my youngest son, Max. He is here, once again for a Maxmas takeover!!! The entire week, I made up a game, and will be telling him one Christmas story a day, and he has to tell me if it is Fact, or a Lump of Coal!

Today’s episode, sweater competition

 

There is something NEW in Christmastown!!! Want to help support the show, and get some great swag in the process? Click on the link over at Closer to Christmas and grab yourself some new merch!

 

Want to join me, virtually on a walk through Rovaniemi? Check out the Conqueror challenge, and use my special code for 10% off if you decide to join! Click here to use the code: Conqueror Challenges

to get 10% off, ANY challenge, but if you want to join the tour through Rovaniemi, click my link, and search the challenges for the Rovaniemi City virtual challenge.

 

If you would like to pick up the Closer to Christmas Coloring Book that I released, for yourself, or as a gift for someone, you can do so, by clicking HERE!

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You can also email me, I would love to hear your feedback. Email me at closertochristmaspodcast@gmail.com

Please rate and review the podcast wherever you are listening, it helps spread the word, and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. To check out any visual component to this epidode, check out my Youtube page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   / @closertochristmas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…  

If you would like to check out my ko-fi page, and support me as an artist, you can follow this link: Ko-Fi and click on the shop page to get some free, or pay what you like christmas phone wallpapers!

And finally, and HUGE thank you to my brother, Kevin, for allowing me to use his music throughout my show. If you like what you hear, you can pick up his album on Itunes, which can be found here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A solstice night on Apple music or A Solstice Night on Amazon (https://amazon.com/music/player/album…)

 

 

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Episode 57 – What was the first secular Christmas song?

Merry Christmas, everybody! This week we got something very special from the store, we talk about the first secular Christmas songs, and we have a new Carol of the Week!

You can check out the Christmas Every Day Christmas Carol of the Week Spotify playlist at the link below:

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70 Days, the Upside down tree

70 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest, my youngest son, Max. He is here, once again for a Maxmas takeover!!! The entire week, I made up a game, and will be telling him one Christmas story a day, and he has to tell me if it is Fact, or a Lump of Coal!

Today’s episode, the upside down tree

 

There is something NEW in Christmastown!!! Want to help support the show, and get some great swag in the process? Click on the link over at Closer to Christmas and grab yourself some new merch!

 

Want to join me, virtually on a walk through Rovaniemi? Check out the Conqueror challenge, and use my special code for 10% off if you decide to join! Click here to use the code: Conqueror Challenges

to get 10% off, ANY challenge, but if you want to join the tour through Rovaniemi, click my link, and search the challenges for the Rovaniemi City virtual challenge.

 

If you would like to pick up the Closer to Christmas Coloring Book that I released, for yourself, or as a gift for someone, you can do so, by clicking HERE!

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You can also email me, I would love to hear your feedback. Email me at closertochristmaspodcast@gmail.com

Please rate and review the podcast wherever you are listening, it helps spread the word, and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. To check out any visual component to this epidode, check out my Youtube page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   / @closertochristmas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…  

If you would like to check out my ko-fi page, and support me as an artist, you can follow this link: Ko-Fi and click on the shop page to get some free, or pay what you like christmas phone wallpapers!

And finally, and HUGE thank you to my brother, Kevin, for allowing me to use his music throughout my show. If you like what you hear, you can pick up his album on Itunes, which can be found here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A solstice night on Apple music or A Solstice Night on Amazon (https://amazon.com/music/player/album…)

 

 

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Merry Britsmas 90 – Goth Rock Christmas Ghosts vs the Mari Lywd

It’s October or Spooktober, so it’s time to get spooky and seasonal with this creepy festive episode. Let’s find out if He Came in the BBC sitcom Ghosts, listen to some gothic festive music, and hear a tale of the Welsh skeletal horse, the Mari Lwyd!

The Damned – Ain’t No Sanity Clause 

The Cure – Merry Xmas Everybody 

Cranes – The Xmas Angel 

Siouxsie & the Banshees – I’l Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant 

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93. Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square Musical Medley Extravaganza

In the ninety third episode of 12 Days Pod, Dan and Cara discuss Catholic sacrifice, Delilah, and Cara’s business school drag persona.

 

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92. It Happened on Fifth Avenue: Breaking and Entering

In the ninety second episode of 12 Days Pod, Cara and Dan discuss love vectors over love triangles, bus tours and movie promotions, and the Minions, for the second straight episode.

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91. Christmas Chronicles 2 and the Wet Sponge Tongue

In the ninety first episode of 12 Days Pod, Dan and Cara discuss Kurt Russell’s Santa dissertation, oompa-loompas, and the Star of Bethlehem.

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Podcast Countdown Starts Next Week!

Ken from the Sounds of Christmas checks in with a quick episode to tell you about the upcoming podcast countdown, highlighting the top ten most-listened-to and most-downloaded episodes of the Sounds of Christmas podcast (all leading up to the new season of the Sounds of Christmas station, which starts on November 1)!

Show links:
Listen to the Sounds of Christmas station – https://www.soundsofchristmas.com/listen-now.html
Find the Sounds of Christmas podcast – https://linktr.ee/socmusic
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Check out all the artists will be making the 2026 season of the Sounds of Christmas station possible – https://linktr.ee/socartists

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A Lounge Jazz Christmas with Earl Grant

This week, Alex digs into vocalist/keyboard player Earl Grant’s 1965 album Winter Wonderland. Grant’s career was varied, starting with one of his biggest hits “The End” in 1959, then a successful version of “Bali Ha’i” in 1961.

Grant followed Earl After Dark (which featured “Bali Ha’i”) with a decade of predominantly lounge/easy listening albums focused on his organ, before he died in a car accident in 1970 at the age of 39.

Winter Wonderland falls in the middle of that run, when he released two or three albums a year. Alex talks about it as an album that fits into his life at Christmas time.

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Christmas Talk Radio- How to make the Best Christmas Ham Ever!

Coming up today on Christmas Podding, Australia’s ONLY Christmas Podcast we talk to a festive butcher who has the top tips to making the best Christmas Ham of all time.

We uncover the true hero of all Festive Feast and unpack why Butter is your best friend when baking any festive treats, plus

We ask the question Should we have 60 day rather than 30 day Advent Calendars? Would you be willing to extend the countdown by an extra month?

With your Aussie Hosts Liam Renton and Ness Gibson talking Christmas all year round on Christmas Podding.

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71 Days, Temperature changing candy cane

71 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest, my youngest son, Max. He is here, once again for a Maxmas takeover!!! The entire week, I made up a game, and will be telling him one Christmas story a day, and he has to tell me if it is Fact, or a Lump of Coal!

Today’s episode, the temperature changing candy cane

 

There is something NEW in Christmastown!!! Want to help support the show, and get some great swag in the process? Click on the link over at Closer to Christmas and grab yourself some new merch!

 

Want to join me, virtually on a walk through Rovaniemi? Check out the Conqueror challenge, and use my special code for 10% off if you decide to join! Click here to use the code: Conqueror Challenges

to get 10% off, ANY challenge, but if you want to join the tour through Rovaniemi, click my link, and search the challenges for the Rovaniemi City virtual challenge.

 

If you would like to pick up the Closer to Christmas Coloring Book that I released, for yourself, or as a gift for someone, you can do so, by clicking HERE!

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You can also email me, I would love to hear your feedback. Email me at closertochristmaspodcast@gmail.com

Please rate and review the podcast wherever you are listening, it helps spread the word, and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. To check out any visual component to this epidode, check out my Youtube page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   / @closertochristmas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…  

If you would like to check out my ko-fi page, and support me as an artist, you can follow this link: Ko-Fi and click on the shop page to get some free, or pay what you like christmas phone wallpapers!

And finally, and HUGE thank you to my brother, Kevin, for allowing me to use his music throughout my show. If you like what you hear, you can pick up his album on Itunes, which can be found here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A solstice night on Apple music or A Solstice Night on Amazon (https://amazon.com/music/player/album…)

 

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A Charlie Brown Christmas watchalong (w/ Jeff and Jeremy)

PARENTAL WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE WITH CHILDREN PRESENT!

What’s up, dudes? Cue the piano, because we’re gonna have a watch-along party for the 1965 Peanuts classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas”! I’ve got Jeff Loftin from Lost Christmas podcast and Jeremy Phelps the Alamo City Santa  with me to provide commentary and enjoy the ride!

This is the special CBS was pretty sure they’d just made a mistake. Charles Schulz wrote it, Bill Melendez directed the animation, Lee Mendelson produced it, and Coca-Cola sponsored it after an ad guy asked if they had a Christmas show and Mendelson said yes before he asked Schulz. They built it in about six months on a $76,000 budget (and still went about $20,000 over), with real kids talking, no laugh track, and Vince Guaraldi playing jazz like it belonged next to the tinsel. Schulz got up and left the room when somebody assumed there’d be canned laughs. Mendelson scribbled the words to “Christmas Time Is Here” on the back of an envelope. The network watched a cut and called it slow. Then it aired on CBS on December 9, 1965, at 7:30 p.m. ET, in The Munsters’ Thursday slot, and 45% of the people watching television that night stayed with it. An estimated 15,490,000 homes. Number two, behind Bonanza. An Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program and a Peabody showed up after that, which is a wild trophy case for a half-hour everybody in the room thought was too quiet.

So press play with us. We’re not gonna recap it like you’ve never seen it. We’re riding the ice, visiting Lucy’s five-cent psychiatric booth, clocking Snoopy’s doghouse light display, and taking Lucy’s very sincere pitch for a big shiny aluminum tree. Charlie Brown, being Charlie Brown, comes back with the little real one. When the rehearsal falls apart, Linus still has Luke 2 and a blanket he is willing to put down. Peter Robbins is Charlie Brown, Christopher Shea is Linus, and the kids recorded the whole thing in a day (Jefferson Airplane was next door and swung by for autographs, because of course they did). Hit play, keep the blanket nearby, and talk through it with us.

Aluminum tree? Check. Nickel therapy? Got it. Guaraldi plus a scripture reading network TV was not ready for? That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown! So grab the sad little sapling, drop a nickel in the booth, and skate on over to this episode on “A Charlie Brown Christmas”!

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