Behind the Bells

“You know what this family needs? A mute”

Writer Richard Lagravenense, who was raised in New York, wanted to be a playwright like Neil Simon or Eugune O’ Neil. It just so happened that he also loved movies with sharp dialogue and great jokes.

Learn how he scored his first hit with The Fisher King (which was also his first script ever written on his own), How his personal families Christmases gave him and his sister-in-law the idea and why he left Disney after too much executive meddling.

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Author: Robert Nicholas
Title: The Ref Part 1: Christmas…in March, Richard Lagravenese, The Fisher King, and a 20 Minute Pitch
Behind the Bells

It’s our 1 year anniversary… and to celebrate, I baked each and every listener a chocolate turtle brownie… but then I ate them all.

To celebrate today, I’ve got some special things in the episode including:

A brand new Christmas story called The City of Limes by Jamie Kleman, then I talk to the author in an interview. After that Gracie and I chat about mince pies, brownies, and bears… oh my! If you’d like to watch my conversation with Gracie and her bears, check out our youtube channel – the video will be up in a few days! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCikiozEbu0h9pKeI1Ei5TQ

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:28 Story: The City of Limes

29:38 Interview with Jamie Kleman

01:11:30 Gracie and Her Christmas Bears

Jamie Kleman’s Website: https://jamielkleman.com/

The City of Limes Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBhDagEB7M

Life Changing Chocolate Turtle Brownies recipe: https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/chocolate-turtle-brownies/ (be sure to add some extra caramel!)

Help Support the show:

www.ko-fi.com/cozychristmas.com

My etsy store is back with some Scrooge ornaments, and I’ll be adding some different ornaments and things throughout the weeks/months ahead. https://www.etsy.com/shop/CozyChristmasPodcast

Music:

Deck the Halls  by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100368

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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Author: ArtK
Title: Mince Pies, Brownies, and Bears… Oh My! with Special Guest Jamie Kleman

Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Podcast

This is the first part of a new series, “Christmas Destinations!” We begin with that famous holiday store in Michigan, Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland. Get the history of how this family store came to be, along with the lay of the land of this huge Christmas shopping landmark. Plus, the wonderful story behind Bronner’s Silent Night Memorial Chapel modeled after the original in Obendorf, Austria.

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Author: Rikki Meece and Mary Richards, Christmas Podcasters
Title: SMBX Christmas Destinations: Bronners Christmas Wonderland

Tis the Podcast

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! This week, the elves are joined by Kendall Farrae of “For Forks Sake” podcast to journey to “Schitt’s Creek” and cover the one holiday episode of the beloved Canadian comedy, Season 4, Episode 13, “Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose”!

In this laugh-a-minute, quote-filled episode, listen as the elves discuss their histories with this brilliant show, what makes it so special, their favorite projects the cast have participated in in the past, and much more. And not only do they answer whether or not this episode of TV is actually a Christmas special and has a Linus moment, but Julia must also answer – as a newcomer who has never experienced this sitcom before, was it good enough to make her want to watch the entire series?

And in addition to all of the “Schitt’s Creek” talk, there’s discussion about the “Twilight Saga“, the elves address listener Danielle Essary’s suggestion that they dedicate every October to covering Halloween content instead of Christmas content, and they answer the question of the week posed in the prior two episodes: “Is there a non-Christmas movie that’s not even set at Christmas that you watch every year around the holidays?”

So blast that air-conditioning to simulate a winter environment, cozy up on the couch with your favorite warm beverage, and enjoy this very entertaining episode we can guarantee you do not want to miss! And if you want even more, free “Tis the Podcast” content, make sure to check your feeds this upcoming Thursday for the next installment of “Another Christmas Story” – Chapter Twenty-Four: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, which Glen Warren of “Seasons Eatings” will read to y’all!

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Author: Tis the Podcast
Title:

I’m Afraid This Whim Of yours Is Going To Obliterate Our Precious Holiday Memories. (Schitt’s Creek)

Advent Calendar House

Happy Back to the Future Day! Set your time circuits to 1845 by way of 1991 for a special Christmas in July episode of the Back to the Future Saturday morning cartoon, featuring hologram clothes, the hoverboard equivalent to texting while driving, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The actually animated segments of the animated series feature Dan Castelleneta as Doc, plus the return of Thomas F. Wilson (Batman: The Animated Series) as various Tannens throughout history, and Christmas movie all-star Mary Steenburgen (Elf, One Magic Christmas) as Clara.

Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/back-to-the-future-dickens-of-a-christmas

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🎙 On This Episode:

Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), leaving greasy footprints all over the ceiling.

Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), whom I’d entrust with the keys to my DeLorean anytime, from Y-Not Radio.

Joseph Wade, the hoverboarding ghost of Christmas All of the Above, from Christmas Creeps and The O/S/T Party.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

Mary Steenburgen playing Informer on the accordion in Last Man on Earth.

• Series art director James S. Baker storyboards his own blog.

• The Back to the Future pinball game and its random movie quotes.

• Futurepedia on how Doc’s clothing converter camera works.

• Weird things we did as kids to show our parents we were responsible.

• Some toys in Fedgewick’s shop shouldn’t be there yet in 1845.

• Did We Wish You a Merry Christmas exist in 1845? Possibly, but not the version we know.

• Doc’s wad of cash vs. England’s bank notes circa 1845.

• Wilkins’s dog looks like 1980s T-shirt icon Rude Dog.

• My Back to the Future-themed Good Friday and Easter Sunday tweets.

• The closest thing we could find to a Kaiju Christmas movie is 1962’s Gorath.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Back to the Future: The Ride at Universal Studios Florida (1996).

Hi-C Ecto Cooler Commercial, starring David Kaufmann, the voice of Marty (1989).

“Back to the Future,” the Animated Series, and “Dickens of a Christmas” © 1991 Universal Cartoon Studios / Amblin Television.

The Advent Calendar House can also be found hoverboarding while distracted on Twitter (@adventcalhouse) and Instagram (@adventcalendarhouse).

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Title: Back to the Future: Dickens of a Christmas

Welcome to a special bonus episode of A Cozy Christmas Podcast.

Today, I’ll begin reading one of my favorite Christmas novellas, The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

Though it was published closer to the end of the Victorian period in 1894, it captures all the hallmarks of a Victorian story, overflowing with sentimentality – but there are some wonderful Christmasy scenes as well.

It tells the story of a lonely, gruff widower Sir John Penlyon as he spends Christmas with his friend Danby and his niece Adela. Danby points out how Christmas is dull without children around, and Sir John agrees. Danby quickly hatches a scheme to find some children to hire to bring into Sir John’s lonely house. Will the children bring some much needed joy to Sir John’s life?

In today’s episode, we begin with the prologue that sets the story up, and then chapters 1-2 explain Sir John’s backstory and why he has become so withdrawn and gruff. In next week’s chapters, we will pick up where the prologue left off and find out what happens when the children arrive at Penlyon Place.

Enjoy!

You can help support the show: www.ko-fi.com/cozychristmas

Deck the Halls  by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100368

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Angels We Have Heard on High  by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100368

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Listen to this episode of the Cozy Christmas Podcast
Author: ArtK
Title: The Christmas Hirelings, Part 1, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Advent Calendar House

Join us on a sleigh ride back to the ancient year 2014 to find out why the fate of Christmas is in the hands of Murray Weiner (it rhymes with “diner”), who lives in a hidden town that’s home to more than a couple dozen holiday mascots… but mostly just the American ones.

Full episodes with links at: https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/how-murray-saved-christmas

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🎙 On This Episode:

Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), suffering from superficial fractures of his little baby toeses.

Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks), Queen Hannah of Bananaland, from the Classic Film Jerks and Pop Culture Retrofit.

Donnie Storms (@boxcar45) from Bronwen’s Ghost, who’s got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re going to… sorry, wrong show.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

• Former Simpsons showrunner Mike Reiss’s original books, How Murray Saved Christmas and
Santa Claustrophobia.

• The 45-minute special was trimmed to a half-hour, which removed some bad jokes, but also Murray’s backstory.

• Speaking of super offensive things, Marc Mero as Johnny B. Badd, for reference.

• Today’s TV Trope: Santa’s Sweatshop.

• “Vishnu” (totally not Vishnu) takes The Problem with Apu to a new low.

Every LBGT Joke on The Simpsons Ever (as of early 2021).

• There’s an actual National Milkmen Day… but on June 26, not August 12.

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🗓 All the holidays represented in Stinky Cigars:

  1. Christmas,
  2. Hanukkah,
  3. Kwanzaa,
  4. New Year’s Day,
  5. Groundhog Day,
  6. Valentine’s Day,
  7. Chinese New Year,
  8. Mardi Gras,
  9. Presidents Day,
  10. St. Patrick’s Day,
  11. April Fool’s Day,
  12. Easter,
  13. Arbor Day,
  14. Earth Day,
  15. Secretary’s Day (we think),
  16. May Day,
  17. Cinco de Mayo,
  18. Mother’s Day,
  19. Graduation Day?
  20. Father’s Day (maybe… there are multiple Father Times),
  21. Independence Day,
  22. Bastille Day,
  23. Labor Day,
  24. Columbus Day,
  25. Halloween,
  26. Veterans Day,
  27. Thanksgiving,
  28. and Jack Frost is there, because sure!

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

McDonald’s McDLT Commercial starring Jason Alexander (1985).

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

Tinsel Tunes.

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“How Murray Saved Christmas” © 2014 Universal Animation Studios.

The Advent Calendar House can also be found creating paddle balls out of pizza and meatballs on Twitter (@adventcalhouse) and Instagram (@adventcalendarhouse).

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Title: How Murray Saved Christmas

Tis the Podcast

Happy Thursday, Christmas fanatics! Welcome to the twenty-fourth official installment of “Another Christmas Story“!

This week, Matt Eurich of “TGI Podcast” will read to all of you Chapter Twenty-Three of our tale, entitled “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”. Within this chapter, we switch back between the points of view of multiple characters, including Hudson Jackson, Officers Dwyer and Lee, and Joey and Mary!

We hope you like it! If you do, make sure to share this episode and our website, upon which the text of this installment is posted, to get it in front of as many ears and eyes as possible! Make sure to check your main feeds on Monday as well to hear all three elves discuss “Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose” – the one Christmas episode the beloved Canadian sitcom, “Schitt’s Creek” made – with Kendall Farrae of “For Forks Sake” podcast, in addition to checking it next Thursday for the twenty-fourth official chapter of this story – “Chapter Twenty-Four: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, which Glenn Warren of “Season’s Eatings Podcast” will be reading to you!

Enjoy, y’all! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️ 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

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Author: Tis the Podcast
Title:

“Another Christmas Story” – Chapter Twenty-Three – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – As Read By Matt Eurich Of “TGI Podcast”

Patch continues to introduce himself to B.Z.  As Patch pops up around the room, we manage to talk about the FTC, the age difference between Dudley Moore and John Lithgow, the existence of fairies in the movie’s universe, and two elf puns of varying quality. Join us as we discuss Minute 65 of Santa Claus: The Movie (1985).

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Author: santabytheminute
Title: Minute 65 – Heaven Helps Those Who Help Their Elf
Santa By the Minute

Advent Calendar House

Hop, hop, hop with us back to 1981 for our first trip to Bear Country, which it turns out was built on top of the Easter Bunny’s industrial nightmare factory.

Find full show notes and links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/berenstain-bears-easter-surprise

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🎙 On This Episode:

Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), a giant vat of chocolate shaped like an enormous baby chick.

Alan Johnson (@AlanJ), about to hook up his candy conveyor belt to an old car and knock us all off the Skype call, from Two Bad Neighbors – A Simpsons Podcast and Talespin Trivia.

Emily Rowley (@mlerowley), TV’s sassiest Easter Bunny.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise on the official YouTube channel.

• Yes, we all collectively mispronounced “Berenstain.”

The VHS cover, for reference.

The Berenstain Bears: The Very First Easter, being the story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, who is also a bear.

Inside the Berenstain Bears’ Tree House.

• The widest tree in the world, for comparison.

• Things this special has in common with Steel Magnolias: Knowl Johnson and dozens of broken Easter eggs.

• An ode to the Bear Family’s tiny, antique, circular porthole TV set.

• Today’s TV Trope: Packed Hero.

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video, featuring young Zachary Danziger (Bill Bunny) and a host of way more familiar names.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Kellogg’s Raisin Bran: Morgan the Mockingbird Commercial (1981), preserved from the original airing of this special.

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🎤 And Now, These Messages:

• Mike on the Two Bad Neighbors podcast for Marge Be Not Proud and Monty Can’t Buy Me Love.

Jingle Jank.

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“The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise” © 1981 Joseph Cates Co., Inc.

The Advent Calendar House can also be found daydreaming about jellybeans on Twitter (@adventcalhouse) and Instagram (@adventcalendarhouse).

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Title: The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise

Happy Christmas in July! To kick off this fun month we have planned we are covering the one and only Christmas episode from Blossom!

This week we talk about how Joey Lawrence may only be able to act when his character has his own name, how this episode gave us Married With Children vibes and, of course, determine whether or not this should be deemed a Christmas classic. As always, be sure to rate and review the podcast if you haven’t already and follow us on both Instagram and Facebook.

Don’t forget we will be back each week this month with a special Christmas in July episode!

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Author: Matt Eurich
Title:

24. Blossom: It’s a Marginal Life

TGI Podcast

Totally Rad Christmas

What’s up, dudes? John and Pat from the 30something Podcast join me to talk the action-movie-set-at-Christmas “Die Hard”! It’s Bruce Willis in his breakout role taking on Alan Rickman pre-Snape! There’s terrorist thieves, “Christmas in Hollis,” and yuppies galore! Even Beethoven is in this one….well, sort of. So come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…and dig this episode!

Listen to this episode of Totally Rad Christmas
Author: Gerry D / John, Pat
Title: Ep 74 – Die Hard (w/ John and Pat)

Sounds of Christmas

Ken Kessler from the Sounds of Christmas talks about Christmas In July – how it started (probably) and how it’s going in 2021

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Author: Ken Kessler
Title: Christmas In July
Sounds of Christmas

Tis the Podcast

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! We hope you’re all having a great long weekend and that you all enjoyed your Canada Day and 4th of July!

To kick off Christmas in July month, join the elves as they travel back in time to discuss two classic and beloved, black-and-white television shows, “I Love Lucy” and “The Addams Family” – specifically, their holiday episodes entitled, “The I Love Lucy Christmas Show” and “Christmas with the Addams Family”! Enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane as they discuss their histories with the show, this simpler time, and these two iconic families we all wished we could be a part of! Fair Warning though – there are a few adult jokes in this one that would earn this episode a PG-13 rating and may not be appropriate for the youngest of ears!

So settle in beside the air conditioning, close your eyes picturing that most wonderful time of the year, and enjoy, y’all! And make sure to check your feeds this upcoming Thursday for the twenty-third official installment of “Another Christmas Story” – “Chapter Twenty-Three: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, which Adam of “Merry Britmas Podcast” will be reading to you!

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Author: Tis the Podcast
Title:

Uncle Fester, Do You Believe In Santa Claus? (The “I Love Lucy” Christmas Show and Christmas with the Addams Family)

Sina Skates, playwright from the Birmingham Children’s Theater, is back on the show today and we’re talking about keeping the magic of Christmas alive – 365! Well at least that’s what we started talking about. As usual the conversation wanders – we talk about what’s coming this Christmas at the BCT, how to get through the difficult Christmases, what keeps us in the mood for Christmas all year round, and all kinds of other topics. Sina wants to be the Christmas light in a dark world and she brings plenty of that to our episode today! Make yourself cozy and enjoy this interview!

I’ll see you on Friday with the first of a 4 part story – The Christmas Hirelings, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. There’s a lot of fun coming this month in the podcast!

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:20 Interview with Sina Skates

1:00:15 What’s coming to the Podcast in July

1:03:40 Christmas in July Coaster Cozies Contest

You can help support the show: www.ko-fi.com/cozychristmas

Music:

Deck the Halls  by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100368

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Angels We Have Heard on High  by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100368

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Listen to this episode of the Cozy Christmas Podcast
Author: ArtK
Title: The Light of Christmas with special guest Sina Skates

Advent Calendar House

We’re mysteriously floating back to 1983 on an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico on a Saturday morning cartoon that lasted a shorter amount of time than the fad it tried to cash in on.

Full show notes with links at: https://adventcalendar.house/rubik-the-amazing-cube-christmas

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🎙 On This Episode:

Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), surprisingly energetic village granny.

Gerry Davila (@RadChristmas), hiding out in the spacious trunk of my station wagon and scaring the family dog, from Totally Rad Christmas.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

The History of Rubik’s Cube.

• The theme song by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo.

• Ángela Moya, the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in Gleaming the Cube.

• An ode to the family station wagon.

• An archived, early-Internet Rubik fan site.

• Rubik has more powers than Superman.

Las Posadas.

• Date a TV show by adding a CB radio.

• Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of The Polar Express.

• Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life Rubik’s Cube world records in 1983 and today.

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:

Cap’n O.G. Readmore (1985).

Cap’n Crunch Cereal, Crunch vs. Taste (1985).

• An Alpha Bits Cereal commercial that’s clearly still trying to ride the Pac-Man wave, but I’m not complaining (1985).

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“Rubik, the Amazing Cube” and “Rubik’s First Christmas” © 1983 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc.

The Advent Calendar House can also be found dangling from the side of a cliff above an eagle’s nest on Twitter (@adventcalhouse) and Instagram (@adventcalendarhouse).

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Title: Rubik, the Amazing Cube: Rubik’s First Christmas

Christmas Podding

This week on Australia’s ONLY Christmas Podcast we uncover the MOST given Christmas Gift of all time. And why it’s still one of the best gifts to receive.

Would you ever consider buying second hand decorations? They are in high demand online at the moment and we want to know why? Plus

We want to start sending Christmas in July Christmas Cards, who’s with us? We are determined to make them a THING this week where we talk all things Christmas ALL YEAR LONG.

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Author: Liam Renton
Title: Christmas Podding- What is the most given Christmas Gift of all time?
Christmas Podding

Total Christmas

Well blow me down if it isn’t a brand spanking new episode of The TCP.
Well, it is if you’re listening to it when it’s just come up out, if not then it’s an old episode.  I don’t know when you’re listening, but I hope you enjoy this rubbish.

Thanks to Benji Pearson we find out that the story of Babushka from the last episode is actually just a rip off of the story of La Befana, the old lady who delivers presents to all the good children of Italy.  Here’s a clip of Orson Welles telling the legend:

Next up we look at the Christmas Not So Classic Have A Cheeky Christmas by the Cheeky Girls.  It’s not awful, but it’s not good either.
Actually, it is awful, plus they traumatise a reindeer in the video (I’m not kidding watch the video):

This episode’s Joke is once again provided by Benji Pearson?  Was I misguided in given him a chance to return.   Only you can decide…

Then it’s Ebenezer Sanford an episode of the 70s sitcom Sanford & Son.
It’s okay.  If you want to watch it, here’s a link:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6chy3q

This week’s recommendation is Behind The Bells.  It’s a podcast hosted by Robert Nicholas that looks at the making of classic Christmas movies.  From inception to script, casting and production.  Have a listen, you might learn something:
https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bells-podcast

I also appeared on an episode of Jingle Jank where Scott and Jay battle it out to find out who sang it better.  I got to judge the competition and my ruling was just and fair:
https://jinglejank.com/episodes/027.html

If you want to get in touch, the email is totalchristmas@gmail.com

The website is totalchirstmaspodcast.com

Merry Christmas.

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Author: Jack
Title:

Episode 33 – Ebenezer Sanford & Son

Total Christmas