Ep 67 - "Only Fools & Horses" pt1 (w/ Adam, Jack, and Steve)
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What’s up, dudes? I’m talking “Only Fools & Horses” with 3, yes 3! great chaps! That’s right! It’s a Christmas Fantastic Four! Adam Parker Sibun from Merry Britsmas, Jack Ford from Total Christmas, and Steve Beech from Uplifting House Sessions join me to talk this British classic! We’ve got Del Boy, Rodders, and Grandad up to their shenanigans on Christmas. Yes, there’s undercooked turkey and green stuff, an afternoon Christmas snooze, and a night out at the club! What could be more Christmasy than that?! So grab your gold chains and your book on body language and enjoy this ultimate British teamup!
In this episode we’ll look into the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues.
We’ll also find out the 5 most popular songs to us in an animated Christmas Light display.
and we’ll close out the episode with a listen to the first chapter of The Audio telling of ‘A Christmas Carol’ on record from my new Christmas record collection.
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Blessed Are The Pure In Heart, For They Shall See God. (The Little Drummer Boy)
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Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! And welcome to the final official episode of April! Can you believe that? We are officially a third of the way through the year! Time is flying!
This week, journey with the elves back to the wonderful world of Rankin/Bass to discuss the 1968 holiday special, “The Little Drummer Boy”! As is always the case when the hosts cover a Rankin/Bass special, opinions are all over the place with this one, with one elf defending the special, one elf enjoying it more than the other Rankin/Bass specials previously covered, and one absolutely hating it. Meanwhile, opinions voiced by our listeners are on opposite ends of the spectrum – people either really enjoy it, or really dislike it; there doesn’t seem to be middle ground!
Discussed in this episode are the racist stereotypes perpetuated by character designs and historical (in)accuracy in this special; the origins of the traditional carol version of “The Little Drummer Boy”; Apple’s recent unveiling event; Michael Keaton’s officially announced return to the role of Batman in the upcoming “The Flash” movie; some fascinating Disney trivia that Anthony learned in a recent episodes of one of his favorite podcasts, “Dis-Order: Every Disney Film“; and much, much more! All of it together makes for a fun, fascinating episode you want to be sure you don’t miss!
Enjoy, y’all! And keep your eyes on your feeds this upcoming Thursday for the next installment of “Another Christmas Story” – Chapter Thirteen, which will be read to you by the awesome and always hilarious Mike Westfall of “Advent Calendar House“!
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Ken Kessler from the Sounds of Christmas talks to singer Michael Sinatra about his Christmas album, An Old Fashioned Christmas, and the plans he has for a follow-up Christmas album, due later this year!
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This week, our guest, Maie Lee, brings us three very famous Christmas songs: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Last Christmas, and All I Want for Christmas is You. Scott and Jay pick an obscure version of each and Maie judges who brought the better track. Artists include Scott Weiland, Captain and Tennille, Jimmy Eat World, Postmodern Jukebox, Kurt Schneider, and The Holophonics.
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Bonus Ep. 15 - Iron Chef America: Ghosts of Holiday Ingredients Past (w/Glen Warren from Season's Eatings)
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The boys take the podcast international with Glen Warren from the Season’s Eatings Podcast to discuss their first ever reality-competition show episode, “Ghosts of Holiday Ingredients Past” from Iron Chef America (available on Hulu). Can they cook up a Christmas Classic or will this episode be headed for the garbage disposal?
Other topics include: Canadian vs. American Christmas, beaver tails, Alton Brown’s looks, cooking stuff, plating, William Shatner, Sam the Eagle, and Glen dispelling some reality TV myths.
Find Season’s Eating on your favorite podcast app or at this link.
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CWFC 080 – Christmas Goes to the Oscars with Alonso Duralde
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On this episode, we have author, film critic, and podcaster extraordinaire Alonzo Duralde on the show. And in honor of this Christmas movie expert joining us, the show is going to be all about Christmas movies. We’ll talk Christmas movie snacks, Christmas movie tropes, and a discussion of Christmas movies at the Academy Awards…and even give out a few awards of our own!
00:00 – 02:05 Intro
02:05 – 03:53 We Need a Little Christmas Now
03:53 – 08:27 Five Golden Things (Christmas movie tropes)
08:27 – 35:34 Alonso Duralde talks Christmas at the Oscars
35:34 – 52:58 The Holidacademy Awards (aka the Christmascars)
52:58 – 55:55 Wrap Up
55:55 – 58:20 Outtakes
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” United States Marine Band
“Jingle Bells” Performed by Kristen Nowicki
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In our April episode, I take a little look at 90s British leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire, explore a range of British covers of the classic Jingle Bell Rock, and discuss the history of the Yule Log, & how it relates to British tradition and culture.
Rice puddings are found in nearly every area of the world. Nothing describes comfort to me than a warm bowl of sweet, sticky rice pudding. This is why the Danes love to have rice pudding during Christmas. As well as tasting delicious, their rice pudding is filled with stories of mischievous gnomes, medieval spices, and the Empress of France. So, grab a spoon and get ready for the history and origin of this creamy Danish favourite: Risengrød.
Episode 2-4: Jimmy Takeuchi "White X'mas - Drum Drum Drum"
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Welcome to the fourth episode of season two of Holly Jolly X’masu! This month, to celebrate my one-year anniversary, I’ll be discussing Jimmy Takeuchi and the Exciters’ White X’mas – Drum Drum Drum. It’s a great album, and their “Jingle Bells” has been part of my intro from the start.
From what I can tell, the album was released in 1976. It took some sleuthing, but based on the catalog number, I’m pretty sure that’s accurate. As you can see from my scan, the cover isn’t in the best of shape. Considering how much I paid, I can’t complain. I considered getting another copy just to have a better scan for this episode, but every affordable copy I found had similar damage. I did find a copy one 8-track and nearly got that, but I don’t have a player so it just would have been a curiosity.
Like I stated in the episode, Jimmy Takeuchi worked with and had ties to lots of the artists whose albums I’ve been buying over the past year or so. In addition to the ones I mentioned, he also crossed paths with Naomi Sagara and Yukari Ito, who were the first two hosts of the Sounds in “S” television show. Yukari Ito had a pair of songs on King Records’ 1963 album, Merry, Merry X’mas, which I covered back in June; while Naomi Sagara’s 1975 album, White Christmas, is one of the better vocal Christmas albums of the 70s. As for Shoji Suzuki, below is the cover of his Swingin’ Christmas, with Jimmy in the center on drums.
Welcome to the 2021 season! We start with talking about the fan favorite topic of Christmas music, in a new series called Christmas Collections. In this episode, Rick Stoneburner shares his love and experience collecting hundreds of Christmas music CDs.
It’s Episode 28 and if my knowledge of numerology is correct, I foresee that this show will be full of the usual stuff.
After last week’s wonderful rendition of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells we revisit the song to learn a bit about it’s origins and Robin sings some of the numerous versions of the song.
We have a fantastic quiz about the book A Christmas Carol. It’s your chance to find out if you know as much as you think you know about this great classic.
Then we look at Bugs Bunny’s Looney Tunes Christmas Tales, 3 Christmas stories, one of which is perhaps the laziest version of A Christmas Carol I’ve ever seen.
If you want to watch it here’s a link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ji4wa
This episode’s recommendation is Advent Calendar House hosted by Mike Westfall. It’s a great podcast that looks at holiday specials, particularly Christmas ones.
Here’s a link: https://adventcalendar.house/
If you want to get in touch, the email is totalchristmas@gmail.com
Or you can visit the website at totalchristmaspodcast.com
"Another Christmas Story" - Chapter Twelve - Christmas Wrapping - As Read By Scarlett Alexandra Of "NetfliXmas Podcast"
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Happy Thursday, Christmas fanatics! Welcome to the thirteenth official installment of “Another Christmas Story“!
This week, Scarlett Alexandra of the always amazing and hilarious “NetfliXmas Podcast” will read to all of you Chapter Twelve of our tale, entitled “Christmas Wrapping”. Within this chapter, we switch back to the perspectives of Joey Nazario and Mary Holiday as they cross paths again for the first time in the decade since their Christmas Eve blowout. Trust us when we say, Scarlett truly raised the bar this episode with her incredible reading of this chapter. And make sure to stay through the end credits to hear some hilarious bloopers of her recording as well!
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 eyes as possible! Make sure to check your podcast feeds for your regular weekly episode on Monday, in which the elves journey back to the wonderful world of Rankin/Bass to discuss the 1968 special, “The Little Drummer Boy”, based on the song of the same name, and next Thursday for the thirteenth official chapter of this story – “Chapter Thirteen: Christmas Time Is Here”, which Mike Westfall of “Advent Calendar House” will be reading to you! In it, we switch back to the points of view of Aaron Rankin and his classmates on their Christmas Eve field trip to New York City!
Minute 56 - Things That Go Bump In The Night Before Christmas (ft. Carrie Kei Heim)
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Joe knocks over a lamp and wakes up Cornelia who catches Joe and Santa in her living room! Plus: wondering where Cornelia gets her toys from (and why she would even ask Santa for toys anyway); noticing all the premature John Lithgow photos in the background; Santa being a bit of a jerk in the book; Jon’s all-knowing Santa theory starts to fall apart or is Santa just bad with names?; and Carrie Kei Heim comments on the ugly Christmas tree in this minute!
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Ep 66 - Prince and “Another Lonely Christmas” (w/ Carie Brown)
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What’s up, dudes? Dig if you will this podcast! That’s right! Carie Brown from the ‘Tis the Podcast group and I are talking the Purple One! “Purple Rain”? Definitely! “Raspberry Beret”? Perhaps. “Another Lonely Christmas”? To the Max! So grab your heels, puffy shirt, and guitar, wrap yourself in a purple coat, and listen to this delirious episode!
Chris from Christmastime In The City Podcast joins Todd to discuss the future of Christmas content on YouTube. As usual, the conversation goes off the rails a tad…
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An Easter Carol by Charles Dickens with guest Gina Dalfonzo
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The Long-Awaited, Over Due Easter Episode is here… and since the Eastern Orthodox Church apparently doesn’t recognize Easter until May 2nd… I guess it’s still early?
Anyway, in today’s episode I have author and blogger Gina Dalfonzo on to talk about Dickens’ The Life of Our Lord, and we end up chatting about A Tale of Two Cities… though I don’t mention it in the podcast, I think Tale of Two Cities might qualify as an “Easter Carol” – a great story to read every year at Easter time!
I also finish reading The Life of Our Lord and offer up a new book recommendation: “Christmas: A Biography” by Judith Flanders.
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That's Right, Bamm-Bamm. Everyone But Fred! (A Flintstones Christmas Carol)
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This week the elves are joined by their good friend Sean Sotka from Christmas Podcasts Podcast, a podcast about all of your favorite Christmas podcasts. Together, have a good time talking Wisconsin, the classic Christmas-made-for-tv-movie A Flintstones Christmas Carol, and unpopular Christmas takes.
