The family tree comes to life for the holidays with an ancestry tree donned with vintage photos, lights & the spirit of relatives & history long past. And have you ever marked a Xmas season because you’re grieving? The holiday can become a harsh reminder of who you’ve loved and lost. Create a memorial tree of your own. In this episode, we’re taking on a unique way of honoring our genealogy with an ancestral Christmas tree. Author, medium, historian Craig McManus shares his original creation of 3-generation ancestral Christmas tree with tips of creating your own.
As the world slowly starts to think about opening up again, Chris & Kris close out their Social Distancing series by chatting about being tourists again. Kris delivers news about the future of Broadway and film/tv productions in NYC. They speculate about Christmas 2020 and how things might be different. In Listener Mail (14:08), they revisit Home Alone 2 and it’s filming locations. Stay tuned until the end for an update on the tote bag GIVEAWAY. Stay safe, everyone. Next month is Leon Day!
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This episode is part 1 of a 3 part series on the Christmas offerings from the members of the Beatles. In this episode we look at Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime. I’ll show you 6 other versions you may like.
And I’ll touch on some changes being made to the format of Tinsel Tunes for the 2020 season. They’re all good, I promise.
A talk with Brad Warner, author of the new book Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen. How Buddhism can help calm holiday stress, and just stuff about Brad and Zen in general.
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Enjoy some laughs and warm feelings as SBMX honors Moms and the Matriarch of the North Pole, Mrs. Claus. Episode #21 begins with a compilation of holiday memories from listeners/contributors sharing Christmas moments made special by their Moms. Then Mrs. Claus joins Rikki Meece for some inspiring advice of helping others during these often difficult Corona times.
The Christmas Hall of Fame launched in 2019 to give the true Christmas enthusiast a voice and a place to memorialize the best of Christmas.
In this merry episode of the Merry Little Podcast we discuss how the Christmas Hall of Fame works by extending a conversation that began with Tim Babb of the Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast. Tim nominates and argues for Sesame Street and Muppet Creator Jim Henson for the Christmas Hall of Fame. We argue against him.
Well, it’s not really all about Jim Henson. It is about the many discussions we need to have about the Christmas famous — and who belongs and why.
This project begins a massive Christmas community outreach. We have contacted Christmas museums, websites, social media channels, podcasts and forums of all type to help spread the word and to nominate people, places, events and things related to Christmas. We need to hear from thousands as voting begins and continues in the years ahead.
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Jon takes the reins in the first edition of “Screw You, Watch This” by making Chris and Brian watch the final three episodes of Cowboy Bebop (available on Hulu). The boys talk anime for almost an hour while Chris tries to figure out what he just watched, Brian tries to say some words, and Jon tries to be the best podcast host around. Also there’s a small Digimon update.
On this episode, not rain nor sleet nor snow shall stop us from talking about the folks who bring a lot of Christmas to our door, the United States Postal Service. Well also countdown 5 Christmas movies currently streaming, show you how to play some Christmas games any day of the year, and it’s the world premiere of part 1 of our made-for-podcast Christmas movie, “A Bomb for Christmas!”
00:00 – 01:32 Intro
01:32 – 03:37 We Need a Little Christmas Now
03:37 – 10:12 Five Golden Things (Christmas Currently Streaming)
10:12 – 17:53 Salute to the US Postal Service
17:53 – 18:43 Who Sang It Best? (Results)
18:43 – 31:29 A Bomb For Christmas (Act 1)
31:29 – 33:27 Wrap Up
33:27 – 34:39 Outtakes
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” United States Marine Band
“Jingle Bells” Performed by Kristen Nowicki
Music for “A Bomb for Christmas”
Deck the Halls A, Chase, & Wish Background by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Chris joins Rikki to chat about his podcast, Yuletide TV. Chris and his cohosts, former college friends, review a wide variety of TV holiday episodes ranging from years gone by to current times. Each host gives his very candid opinion about each featured episode followed up with their custom ratings of “Classic” for the whole family to watch year after year, “Socks” which its OK to have on in the background while wrapping gifts, or “Coal” which is self-explanatory. All episodes are found on streaming services so you can watch and decide for yourself if you agree with the guys from Yuletide TV podcast.
It’s our Social Distancing episode. We have a few laughs and chat about a few things we’re excited to do when life goes back to normal, plus we read what some listeners are excited about. Stay tuned until the end as we give an update on our tote bag GIVEAWAY. Stay safe everyone.
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The world we knew is now a thing of the past. Whatever you call this thing — a pandemic, the Coronavirus, COVID-19 — it seems to have changed everything.
Does that mean it has changed Christmas too?
While the answer to that question is yet to be written we can safely assume at this point in time, Spring of 2020, that we can look to our Christmases past to see if this has happened before.
It has. In this episode of the Merry Little Podcast we explore the theme of Christmas in Crisis — times when a hard reset of life resulted in Christmas done differently. We find that we have been through this before. Many times.
How do you think it will go? What just might be different? From the American Civil War to World War II we appear to be repeating a pattern.
What do we know about Christmas during the Middle Ages? Turns out it’s kinda hard to find very much information. I talk to two medievalists, Misty Schieberle and Scott Smith, who help me trace what few mentions of Christmas there are in the English tradition.
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A bonus epsiode of the podcast, where Rikki invites other Christmas podcasters to share their holiday insights and love of the season. This time, it’s Todd from the Christmas Clatter podcast!
Take a trip down memory lane and enjoy a bit of history to learn how General Electric lit up the trees, including the National Christmas Tree. Broadcast engineer Jeff Carter joins Rikki Meece with his wealth of knowledge on GE Christmas history.
Happy March! The boys watch and discuss a Jeremy Renner classic, The Town, also starring Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm. Other topics include: how rewatchable Ben Affleck movies are, when Jon Hamm peaked. whether or not someone is SWAT, and what the podcast covers over the next three months.
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This episode is all about using Christmas to cope with Covid-19 craziness. We’ll salute the people who have to work on Christmas, list off the top five 20 second Christmas songs that you can wash your hands to, find a source for daily Christmas goodness, and see what others are doing to spread Christmas cheer in these dark times.
00:00 – 01:41 Intro
01:41 – 02:36 We Need a Little Christmas Now
02:36 – 11:50 Five Golden Things (20 Second Christmas Songs)
11:50 – 14:20 All I want for Christmas is News
14:20 – 22:10 A Salute To People Who Work on Christmas
22:10 – 23:55 Who Sang It Best? (Need a Little Christmas)
23:17 – 25:35 Announcement
25:35 – 27:46 Wrap Up
27:46 – 31:15 Outtakes
Remember, the line for the Christmas Pod Casting Call is, “Welcome to the Christmas Party. So glad you could stop by.” Send at least 5 different readings of the line to Christmas[at]tancast.com. Note: Any audio sent becomes the property of the podcast and may be used on a future episode.
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” United States Marine Band
“Jingle Bells” Performed by Kristen Nowicki
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The 2019 Weird Christmas ghost story is “The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance” by M. R. James. I also get some help with background on James and Punch and Judy puppet shows (which show up in the story) from Jim Moon of the Hypnogoria Podcast.
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This episode is all about vintage Christmas. Rikki speaks with Benjamin Bradley, a passionate antique and vintage Christmas collector, about crèches and nativities. He gives some historical background on how these traditional pieces became a standard in many homes for the Christmas season.