Closer to Christmas

46 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, Max and I are talking about things you and the family can do to prepare for the season, and get in the Christmas spirit!

Today’s episode, we talk about making some paper chains to count down the days

 

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 spooky Nightmare Before Christmas adventure? 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 spooky, and jolly Nightmare Before Christmas challenge, click my link, and search the challenges for the Nightmare Before Christmas 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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Author: Charles Ague
Title: 46 Days, Paper chains
Closer to Christmas

Merry Christmas! Welcome to The Nice List!

Every Monday, we spotlight two or more things about Christmas that fill us with the Christmas spirit! If you have any suggestions for The Nice List, please send those to us at christmaseverydayshow@gmail.com, and we will definitely discuss it!

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46 days until Christmas (“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” Song Battle)

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Christmas Countdown Show 2022

MOVE OVER, MAIN CHARACTERS! IT’S TIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS SIDEKICKS TO SHINE!

Some of the most unforgettable Christmas movie characters aren’t even the stars of the show… but SHOULD they be?!

This week on Christmas Countdown, Eric and Danny are counting down their Top 10 Christmas Characters Who Need a Spinoff! From scene-stealing sidekicks to underrated holiday movie favorites, the guys reveal which supporting characters deserve their very own Christmas movie, sharing their picks from #10 all the way to #1!

PLUS! Discover new Christmas music in Tinsel Tunes, laugh all the way through Eric’s hilarious holiday dad jokes in Eric’s Hysterics, and play along as Producer Chris joins the guys for their newest Christmas game, Did Chris Miss It?

And, of course, Eric and Danny catch up on life as Christmas 2026 approaches, with plenty of holiday nostalgia, festive fun, and wonderfully ridiculous banter along the way!

Whether you’re obsessed with classic Christmas movies, holiday music, or all things Christmas, this episode is your ticket to keeping the Christmas spirit alive all year long!

YOUR TURN: Which Christmas movie side character deserves their own spinoff? Tell us in the comments!

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Christmas Countdown'

Tis the Podcast

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatic!

We are *back* with our first episode of the 2026 Christmas Season! To kick-off the celebrations, we decided to revisit one of our few, infamously lost episodes in which the elves gather to discuss the 2016, Disney Christmas special, “Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special“! Does the ugly animation of this show fit the Christmas season? Does it throw out decades worth of lore regarding Donald Duck and the Duck family? And is Daisy Duck as insufferable as Miss Piggy? You’ll just have to tune in to find out! Trust us when we say, though, this is one fun, festive episode you want to make sure not to miss!

So, settle in with your favorite holiday beverage, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y’all! ❤️🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

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Author: Tis the Podcast
Title:

There’ll Be Presents And Twinkling Lights As We Partake In The Season’s Delights! (Duck The Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special)

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Today we’re taking a peek “behind the beard”! My guest today is Brandon Rice, who is the director of a new documentary called “Behind the Beard: Making Santa Real”. It is a fantastic film that takes a look at the people who perform as Santa and the history and traditions behind it. Dressing as Santa could just be a gimmick to help sell toys, but it actually has developed into a fantastic community of generous people who have so much love and kindness to give to those around, just like the real Santa. I know you will enjoy our conversation today! Before I sit down with Brendan I give my thoughts on the film and the Santa Claus Oath, and I take a few minutes to talk about Patrick Stewart and his connection to Christmas as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Brandon Rice and information about his film can be found at: https://www.behindthebeardmovie.com/

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00:00 Introduction

00:30ish Behind the Beard and the Santa Claus Oath

6:45 Patrick Stewart

11:42 Interview

1:01:30 Final Thoughts

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Title: Santa Claus is Real | A Conversation with Director Brandon Rice
A Cozy Christmas'

What’s up, dudes? I’ve got Christmas Clatter host Todd Killian here to discuss “Newhart” episode ‘Thanksgiving for the Memories!’ When some electrical work needs to be done at the inn, Dick and company go to the rich Vanderkellens for Thanksgiving, until a fight sends them to Larry, Daryl, and Daryl. Ludicrously rich relatives? Check. Groundhog stuffing? Yup. Carving knives that make Excalibur look like a butter knife? Definitely! So grab your clubs and play some indoor gold to this episode!

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Jeff and Jay take on a new movie before it’s even released! Well I’ve always said they were a couple of guys with weight! Check out A Cold Season on November 10th.

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Title: Horror For The Holidays Episode 91: A Cold Season
Horror for the Holidays

Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)

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Sounds of Christmas

Ken from the Sounds of Christmas talks to Cliff Beach about his new Christmas singles, next year’s Christmas music project, Christmas music in general and so much more!

Cliff’s new single “Misfit Christmas” – https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/cliffbeach1/misfit-christmas
Cliff’s “virtual” Christmas concert from 2020 – https://youtu.be/AxVGayWFTc0?si=k4AcGQVWEaYEUQYW
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Author: Ken Kessler
Title: Cliff Beach and Misfit Christmas
Sounds of Christmas

Closer to Christmas

47 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, Max and I are going virtual!!! We spend each day enjoying a different Christmas themed virtual reality experience, and talking about it on this show. Then for a bit of bonus content each day, at 12:00 noon, I am releasing a video on my youtube channel, where you can watch the entire virtual experience as we enjoyed it! This week is a must listen, and MUST WATCH!! Click here to watch

Today’s episode, we travel back to 1999 to visit a virtual Christmas

 

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 spooky Nightmare Before Christmas adventure? 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 spooky, and jolly Nightmare Before Christmas challenge, click my link, and search the challenges for the Nightmare Before Christmas 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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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…)

Listen to this episode of Closer to Christmas
Author: Charles Ague
Title: 47 Days, a 1999 Christmas VR experience
Closer to Christmas

Total Christmas

Hello you beautiful people!

We start the show with a couple of Carols sent in by listener Julie Sibilla, she’s in the North Penn Singers and, thanks to the TCP her choir are singing Once In Royal David’s City this year.

Then Bob Baker looks at the overhead baggage compartment in Do You Hear What I Hear? Is it a locker, is it a bin? Only you can decide.

This episode’s version of A Christmas Carol bears only the slightest passing resemblance to the original, but we’re covering it anyway (blame my wife). It’s an episode of Absolutely Fabulous and despite it being nothing like A Christmas Carol it’s a fun watch.

Then Bob is back with Where Are You Christmas? and he’s found it in Greenland.

Check out Bob’s podcast here:  https://4fpodcast.buzzsprout.com

Last episode I talked about making a hat for my cat, well this episode Nicola McLean from Scotland tells us about her cats Christmas presents.

Then it’s The Christmas Quiz. I managed 8, let me know your score… prove you love me.

This episode the recommendation is a BBC show called Ludwig. It’s a crime solving comedy and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

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Merry Christmas!

 

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Author: Jack
Title: Episode 169 – An Absolutely Fabulous Christmas
Total Christmas

Closer to Christmas

48 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, Max and I are going virtual!!! We spend each day enjoying a different Christmas themed virtual reality experience, and talking about it on this show. Then for a bit of bonus content each day, at 12:00 noon, I am releasing a video on my youtube channel, where you can watch the entire virtual experience as we enjoyed it! This week is a must listen, and MUST WATCH!! Click here to watch

Today’s episode, we go visit a cozy little cabin, called, Last Christmas

 

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 spooky Nightmare Before Christmas adventure? 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 spooky, and jolly Nightmare Before Christmas challenge, click my link, and search the challenges for the Nightmare Before Christmas 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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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…  

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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…)

Listen to this episode of Closer to Christmas
Author: Charles Ague
Title: 48 Days, a cozy cabin visit, called Last Christmas
Closer to Christmas

It’s a Wonderful Life turns 80 years old this year. When it first hit theaters in 1946, there was little indication that it would become the juggernaut it is.

Film critic and author Emily St. James joins Brian to discuss the history and legacy of this American classic. Her new book is Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of It’s a Wonderful Life, America’s Most Beloved Holiday Film.

 

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“Christmas Slow Jazz” — PulseBox, via Pixabay

 

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Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions (2022, Lyons Press and Recorded Books) 

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Author: Brian Earl
Title: Interview: Emily St. James, author of Every Time a Bell Rings
Christmas Past

Merry Christmas! Thank you so much for checking us out this week!

We have 7 amazing songs that have been sent in by our listeners, and we wanted everyone to have a listen so you can add them to your holiday playlists this season!

“We Three Kings” by Karl Lindholm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImlvZY3IqU0&t=83s

“O Holy Night” by A Hero for the World:

https://youtu.be/8pAUTgTi3YQ?si=-SrO1YBtz8YCdb6G

“While the World Turns White” by Mero7924:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0z898hhikSXlCzo4KOaXOa?si=d79e84732c9449ab

“Christmas Without You” by GINAxC:

https://youtu.be/Md00wIshttps://youtu.be/adwKfH6wIks?si=gs3RDSa_gUtD8_wXjQCw?si=0JDevzig5q1vqonF

“Jingle Bells” by Mark Hussey:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7BbDdzzytll7UR5fKFGpo4?si=d1d30aaf9cf64036

“Do you hear what I hear?” by DALL:

https://open.spotify.com/track/27FeOIFt3gaMy0DrRw7xXj?si=c291a9b0c03a4a53

“The Thought That Counts” by Jax Bright:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qN0gUM3z5p9N6rZGdYCrC?si=2325e20cbc444977

Listen to this episode of Christmas Everyday
Author: Christmaseverydayshow
Title: Episode 59 – A sleigh full of song submissions!!! (Links in the show notes!!) 🎄🎅🎄🎅
Christmas Everyday

Festive Fans Unite! (send us a message)

For the Festive Fans, Christmas is an international journey. We venture into foreign lands, finding the holiday in the most unexpected places. We love discovering how various cultures celebrate the season, and learning about the unfamiliar traditions, strange customs, and the diverse foods that make it unique in every corner of the globe. The spirit of Christmas, as we have seen, is able to ignore borders, cross oceans, and overcome different languages.

But after so many of these adventures abroad, the Fans are coming home.  Despite the universal appeal of the holiday, we feel it is important to revisit the places, the people and the experiences that helped shape the understanding, the gratitude, and the joy we feel for Christmas. It is time we turn our focus back to the United States, and, more specifically, on our own home states. Before we became the international Christmas podcasters you know today, we were just children enjoying it in our own backyards.  And those backyards seemed to spark the magic of the holiday just as much as anywhere else we have traveled in the world.

This is what makes our next two episodes different. We aren’t exploring how other people celebrate Christmas, instead we are considering ourselves. We come from different states, so while our Christmases may have familiar ingredients, the individual recipes are not quite the same. For our first homecoming episode, we are handing the microphone over to Mark and heading to Pennsylvania, the state where his Christmas story began.  This episode will be a personal journey through his Pennsylvania upbringing, with its distinctive regional influences and rich Christmas heritage. It is an opportunity to understand what he actually experienced. This time, we aren’t asking Mark to tell us what Christmas looks like in another country, we’re asking him to take us home to Pennsylvania.

There is something special about returning to the Christmases of your childhood, even if they weren’t that great or memorable. Not everyone grew up with extraordinary Christmases. Not every home was filled with giant family gatherings, mountains of presents, or annual traditions like you see in a Hallmark movie. Some of our Christmases might have been quiet, boring, maybe disappointing. But that doesn’t mean those Christmases were without magic. What is impressive about the human mind is how it can expand on the excitement and the anticipation that we felt, while also suppressing any hint of disappointment or unhappiness.  Some of the smallest and most ordinary details — the glow of the neighborhood Christmas lights, the crowds and the Christmas music at the malls, or the annual specials on TV – are preserved as treasured memories.

We are not doing this because we have run out of foreign places to explore. Quite the opposite. We have spent our podcast exploring Christmas around the world. Now we are discovering that one of the most fascinating destinations has been waiting for us all along. Home.

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Closer to Christmas

49 Days until Christmas. This week on the podcast, Max and I are going virtual!!! We spend each day enjoying a different Christmas themed virtual reality experience, and talking about it on this show. Then for a bit of bonus content each day, at 12:00 noon, I am releasing a video on my youtube channel, where you can watch the entire virtual experience as we enjoyed it! This week is a must listen, and MUST WATCH!! Click here to watch

Today’s episode, Max and I go on a virtual walk through a Christmas story movie set

 

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 spooky Nightmare Before Christmas adventure? 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 spooky, and jolly Nightmare Before Christmas challenge, click my link, and search the challenges for the Nightmare Before Christmas 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!

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram and Twitter

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…)

Listen to this episode of Closer to Christmas
Author: Charles Ague
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Closer to Christmas

In 1647, Parliament abolished Christmas. On Christmas Day, Canterbury fought back with a riot, two footballs and, eventually, a war. And did Cromwell really ban mince pies?

On Christmas morning 1647, Canterbury’s mayor ordered every shop in the city to open, because by act of Parliament, Christmas no longer existed. By nightfall the mayor had been knocked into the mud, prisoners had broken out of jail, and the townspeople were playing football down the High Street.

This week we tell the real story behind the “Plum Pudding Riots”: the Canterbury Christmas riot of 1647, the Puritan barber who fired a pistol over the insult “Roundhead,” the local gentlemen jailed for calming the crowd, and the grand jury whose refusal to convict helped spark the Kent rising of 1648 and the Battle of Maidstone.

Then we test the myths against the reality:• Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?• Were mince pies ever illegal, and is it still illegal to eat one on Christmas Day in England?• Where does the name “Plum Pudding Riots” come from, and was there any pudding?

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Listen to this episode of the Lost Christmas Podcast
Author: The Chronicler
Title: The Plum Pudding Riots: When England Canceled Christmas
Lost Christmas Podcast