Happy Leon Day, Christmas Fanatics! We are officially halfway to the big day itself! As of tomorrow, we will be closer to Christmas 2021 than Christmas 2020, and if that’s not something for us to celebrate and get excited about, we don’t know what is!

As a special treat to celebrate the occasion, Julia, Thom, and Anthony gather around their mics to discuss the 2014, American, stop-motion animated, Christmas musical television special, “Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas“! How does this adaptation of the Broadway musical that adapted the beloved movie that remains number one on Tis the Podcast’s Christmas canon list four-years in hold up to the original story? Is it filled with holiday cheer, or does this sap all joy from the proceedings? Are Jim Parsons and Mark Hamill able to hold a candle to the performances of Will Ferrell and James Caan? The answers to these questions, and much more, can be found in this extraordinarily fun episode! So blast that air-conditioning to simulate that ‘Ber Month weather, sit back, and enjoy this festive treat!

And if you can’t get enough Christmas during the summer, be sure to check our Patreon (www.tisthepodcast.com/patreon) for more bonus content, plus the next installment of Anthony’s audiobook, “Another Christmas Story” which will drop in your feeds on Thursday – this week, read by the awesome Jay Skipworth of “Film Strip Podcast“!

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

This week, the author of the book himself – our very own, Anthony – will read to all of you Chapter Twenty-One of our tale, entitled “Sleigh Ride”. Within this chapter, Joey and Mary grow closed as they take a ride in a horse drawn carriage throughout a wintry Central Park! (We apologize in advance for the awful “British” accent(?) that Anthony uses when reading the part of 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 eyes as possible! Make sure to check your podcast feeds for your regular weekly episode tomorrow – Leon Day (!) – in which the elves will be covering the 2014, stop-motion-animated-musical, “Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas” in order to honor the occasion! Make sure to check your main feeds on Monday as well for a once-exclusive Patreon episode (to be determined), in addition to next Thursday for the twenty-second official chapter of this story – “Chapter Twenty-Two: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”, which Jay Skipworth of the always amazing, long-running, “Film Strip Podcast” will be reading to you!

Enjoy, y’all!

Todd Killian of Christmas Clatter Podcast stops by to join the elves in a….lively discussion of the 2007 Patrick Swayze film, Christmas in Wonderland, quite possibly our most contentious episode with a guest to date. Poor Todd sustains a barrage of attacks from Anthony for his love of this movie  – will his love survive this episode?

Where do you land – Team Anthony or Team Todd?