Christmas can be quite nostalgic for so many of us. The traditions, songs, aromas or ornaments can trigger memories and feelings. Documentarian and broadcast engineer Jeff Carter joins Rikki Meece to talk about the power of nostalgia.
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Author: Rikki Meece and Mary Richards, Christmas Podcasters
Title: SBMX Christmas Nostalgia Part 1
A few weeks ago we publish our first rankings. Now is the time to disclose our efforts to establish ratings for Christmas podcasts. Ratings are a much more complex thing than mere rankings, which more are less are a competitive measurement of podcast activity.
Early in September 2020 we formed a focus group to analyze Christmas podcasts.
Our goal is to provide a structure rating of Christmas podcasts based on the following criteria:
Like nearly everything, podcasting for Christmas comes at a different standard.
Just as Christmas movies, music, books and websites are unique compared to their non-holiday counterparts, we believe Christmas podcasts are similarly set apart.
Our goal with this endeavor is to provide a solid reference point for the Christmas community seeking entertainment in Christmas podcasts. We do not believe these ratings are needed to identify “the best” of Christmas podcasts but rather to inform about how they differ. We want to provide a resource that separates Christmas podcasts for their varying qualities so that listeners can make informed choices.
This is needed because Christmas podcasts are exploding in number and popularity.
By focusing on the criteria above (and more) and sharing that information we believe we can better steer the Christmas consumer to the Christmas content they want.
They are Christmas experts who run websites and social media channels. Some are an authority in podcasting overall. A few are Christmas manufacturers, educators, or authors. Some are even Christmas industry journalists, and significantly engaged Christmas enthusiasts.
More than 60 individuals have been recruited to this effort.
We will NOT be disclosing the names of those involved or their individual responses to the polling. We are determined to gather their feedback without fear of influence.
Their job is to go and experience your podcast as a listener. They will download your episodes, read your notes, watch your social media chatter and keep up with your content.
Then they will record their experience and share it with us, using the criteria above. Our collective goal is to come up with a simple, solid rating of your podcast.
This is not work for just anyone. This is work for someone who is closely connected to Christmas online or in a business pursuit who just happens to NOT be a Christmas podcaster themselves.
If you are such an individual or know of one whose feedback to this effort would be of value, please contact us. Please do not submit names of any Christmas podcaster, they cannot, of course, be considered or involved in this effort.
While this will be an ongoing effort the initial evaluation period goes through January 2021. We will not post gathered ratings until after than time. Ratings will be upgraded on a quarterly basis thereafter and as new podcasts are released.
Naturally all podcasts will want to rate well in this survey. What can a podcast do now to ensure that?
The round up this week of Christmas Podcasts includes:
New Podcast: Feliz Christmas Merry Navidad Podcast – The Bilingual, Multilingual Podcast. Host Manny talks about traditions, toys, foods and has guest hosts from different Christmas Podcasts. A Great podcast from a Puerto Rican perspective. Manny has a lot of enthusiasm for Christmas.
This week’s episodes:
10/16 – Feliz Christmas Merry Navidad – Paving the Road to Christmas
10/17 – Total Christmas Podcast – The Gift of Christmas
10/18 – Christmas Hall of Fame Podcast – Podcast Bio: Charles Dickens
10/19 – Merry Britsmas – Creepy Welsh Creatures & Christmas Devils
10/19 – Tis the Podcast – The Munsters Scary Little Christmas
10/19 – Totally Rad Christmas – Bonus Episode – The Christmas Ride
10/19 – Totally Rad Christmas – Newhart (with Todd Killian)
10/20 – Christmas Clatter – Give Me Dressing with Turkey Smashed in There
10/21 – A Cozy Christmas Podcast – Christmas in Space! With Special Guest Sam Weller
10/21 – NetFlixmas Podcast – Christmas with a Prince
10/21 – Santa by the Minute Podcast – Minute 30 Officially Santa
10/21 – Christmastime in the City – Halloween in New York City
10/23 – Totally Rad Christmas – The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree
Podcaster Spotlight: Mike Westfall of Advent Calendar House
In the fourth episode of 12 Days Pod, Dan and Cara discuss why this movie is shot at such a strange angle, Cara’s appreciation for Ron Howard, and which Hogwarts House the Grinch belongs to.
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Author: 12 Days Pod
Title: 4. How the Grinch Dismantled Capitalism
What’s up, dudes? Jason Rhodes from Holidays Unknown joins me this week to discuss the wonderful animated ” The Berenstain Bears’ Christmas Tree”! This is a good one! There are the rhyming couplets, Papa’s big toe, a spinning axe thrown by an eagle that looks like the glaive from “Krull”! I mean, what an ending! Don’t forget to vote in Gag Me with a Spoon! Can’t miss this one!
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Author: Gerry D
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Author: Chris & Kris
Title: Halloween in New York City
Jack from Total Christmas Podcast joins us for this big minute where the Ancient Elf officially declares Claus will be from here on known as “Santa Claus”. Jack gives us a UK fan’s perspective of growing up with the movie and more about the actors who played elves Groot (Don Estelle), Gooba (Melvyn Hayes), and Goobler (Dickie Arnold). Join us as we discuss Minute 30 of Santa Claus: The Movie (1985).
Our Podcast Website: https://binstoybin.wixsite.com/binstoybin/santa-by-the-minute-podcast
Total Christmas Podcast: https://www.totalchristmaspodcast.com
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Author: santabytheminute
Title: Minute 30 – Officially Santa (w/ Jack from Total Christmas Podcast)
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Author: netflixmaspodcast
Title: Christmas with a Prince, feat. Jacob Erdman – The Book was Spicier
Halloween and Christmas meet together in space!
Today’s episode is an interview with author and classic science fiction/fantasy author Ray Bradbury’s official biographer, Sam Weller. He has just published a new collection of gothic short stories called Dark Black. It’s a book that will get you into the Halloween mood! There’s also a new audio drama podcast called The Way We Haunt Now. https://hauntnowpod.com/
In the episode we talk about these two short stories – if you’d like to read them you can find them online. They are pretty short and won’t take long to read.
The Gift https://classic.esquire.com/article/1952/12/1/the-gift (the picture that Weller talks about in the interview is also on that page.)
The Star https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
The Way We Haunt Now https://hauntnowpod.com/
Dark Black https://hatandbeard.com/products/dark-black
Artist Dan Grzeca: https://www.dangrzeca.com/
A Lot Like Christmas: https://www.amazon.com/Lot-Like-Christmas-Stories-ebook/dp/B01N6RFENJ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=A+lot+like+christmas&qid=1603205945&sr=8-2
Contest Winner! Congratulations to Rachel Rogers, she has won the Scrooge Ornament!
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Author: ArtK
Title: Christmas in Space! with special guest Sam Weller
Weekly episodes in the Ber Months continues! This week Todd is joined by Glen Warren of the Seasons Eating Podcast for this installment of Christmas Conversations.
Seasons Eatings is a podcast that discusses the history and preparation of all the food we love at the holidays.
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Author: Todd Killian
Title: Give Me Dressing With Turkey Smashed In There
What’s up, dudes? This week I head down Papa Elf Ln and talk “Newhart” with Todd Killian from the Christmas Clatter Podcast! It’s a perfect blend of coziness and humor! No Larry, Daryl, and Daryl? That’s ok! We’ve got no room at the inn for Joe and his pregnant wife as well as the Wiseman brothers! Don’t forget to vote in Gag Me with a Spoon! Gotta catch this ep!
Listen to this episode of Totally Rad Christmas
Author: Gerry D
Title: Ep 33 – Newhart (w/ Todd Killian)
What’s up, dudes? 2020’s been a crazy year, so here’s a bonus episode for you! I got to talk with Stefanie Davis, the director of the new Christmas film “The Christmas Ride”! We really get into it! Wanna know how it was made? Sit back, listen, and marvel at this masterful mumblecore movie! Ooh! Alliteration! I should do that more often! Don’t forget to vote in the To the Max segment! Check it out, and be sure to catch “The Christmas Ride” when it comes out!
https://youtu.be/Y45euwomp9g
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Author: Gerry D
Title: Bonus Episode – The Christmas Ride (w/ Stefanie Davis)
In the first full-length episode of TGI Podcast, we talk about the Season 3 episode of Full House titled Divorce Court. Will the first episode be deemed a “You got it dude!” or a “No way Jose”? Tune in to find out!
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Author: Matt Eurich
Title: A Full House Halloween: Divorce Court
This week, Julia, Thom, and Anthony settle in to discuss the 1996, made-for-television holiday film, The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas! Though this un-inspired movie leaves a lot to be desired, the elves enjoy reminiscing about the original 1960’s sitcom that inspired it, along with other old TV shows from that era that they grew up watching in re-runs thanks to Nick at Nite. Besides tuning in to discuss the merits and flaws of this movie, which is unquestionably a Christmas film, join the hosts as they reveal whether they were bigger fans of The Munsters or The Addams Family – in addition to I Dream of Jeannie or Bewitched; listen to Julia and Anthony discuss The Haunting of Bly Manor in non-spoilery terms; laugh at multiple failed attempts to hum/sing various TV show themes out of tune; agree or disagree with their suggestions for who should be re-cast in a Munsters remake; and ponder the hardest question of the week yet, courtesy of Reddit user GaryBlauman – “If you had to rank your top 3 Christmas movie musical scores, how would you rank them?” In addition, get excited as the elves reveal a slew of exciting movies coming up on their schedule, and stay tuned through the end credits to not only get a preview of the Goo Goo Dolls’ brand-new cover of Let it Snow (from their first-ever, upcoming Christmas album, It’s Christmas All Over, which drops on October 30th!) but to also hear four bloopers from this fun, nostalgia-filled episode! So settle in with your favorite holiday drink, open those windows to let that Autumn air blow in, enjoy the show, and get excited that we’re nearly out of October already and that much closer to Christmas!
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Author: Anthony
Title: Episode 168: All Eddie Needs Is An Old-Fashioned, Transylvanian, White Christmas.
In this episode as we get spooky for October with a strange Welsh New Year creature, a Devil of Christmas from Inside No 9, and the most horrifying festive songs in British history: the comedy christmas novelty hit!
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Charles Dickens has a most amazing run in the history of Christmas. His greatest Christmas work, A Christmas Carol, has seen continuous play on stage, on film and in print since December 1843.
How many other literary works can you think of that has that kind of history, popularity and staying power? And that’s the thing: we see no end to his run.
Charles Dickens is as worthy of a candidate for the Christmas Hall of Fame as anyone.
He was born at just the right time, in just the right place and his career followed an arc in the emergence of publishing technology that made it possible for Charles Dickens to become the first media superstar of worldwide acclaim.
Born in 1812 Dickens enjoyed a pleasant childhood before things took a devastating turn for his family: his father was cast into debtors prison. Young Charles and at least one of his siblings had to find employment in order to help the family survive. He began work at the tender age of 12 at the peak of work abuses to both adults and children at the beginning of the British industrial revolution.
His experiences between the ages of 12 and 20 would color the pages of his later written works. Just as he wrote in A Christmas Carol, the themes of ignorant, poverty, want and neglect were ones he would not shy away from.
Dickens had developed a love of theater, attending frequently and dabbling here and there in acting. He was well known among his friends and work associates as clever, funny and a great mimic.
These were passions he quite nearly pursued as a career. But along with his scholarly pursuits came a course in a system of shorthand that proved useful to journalists. He worked for a time as a political reporter then as a columnist and satirist penning a regular column detailing fictional story lines.
This was where the writer in Dickens began to flourish and before long his works of fiction in England’s press began to develop a lucrative following. He began to publish and soon was one of England’s leading authors. He married and started a large family.
As he matured he naturally did battle with publishers, who he felt were taking more than their fair share of the profits. Some historians portray Dickens as nearly broke and desperate when he wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. This is a distortion. While Dickens was at a career crossroads at about the age of 30 he was also in need of finding more profitable shares of his creations. Due to a dispute with a publisher, he decided to self-publish A Christmas Carol.
Self publishing didn’t pan out for the first edition of A Christmas Carol but it did in subsequent editions. In fact, it took Charles Dickens and his family to a whole new level financially and that changed both his outlook and his economic prospects.
A Christmas Carol made him permanently viable and made publishing everything else he would create in the future easier. Dickens went on to a successful and lucrative career as one of the biggest literary stars of the 19th century.
But it was A Christmas Carol that defined him both in his time and in ours. For the rest of his life he would tour frequently, “doing readings” of his work which meant acting out the characters in different voices and mimicking their behaviors. Here is one review of a performance of Charles Dickens performing A Christmas Carol:
By the time Dickens died in 1870 he was a superstar on both sides of the Atlantic. Christmas simply was not Christmas without Charles Dickens.
That is still true.
Listen to this episode of the Christmas Hall of Fame Podcast
Author: Jeff Westover
Title: Podcast Bio: Charles Dickens
Sean’s Christmas Podcasts Round Up for October 10th-16th 2020:
New to ChristmasPodcasts.com: Holly Jolly Xmasu. Launched in April of 2020, Holly Jolly X’masu explores the world of Japanese Christmas music.
New episodes of Christmas Podcasts:
9/25 – Holly Jolly Xmasu – Christmas Tenor Mood
10/10 – Seasons Eatings Podcast – Sweet Potato
10/11 – Christmas Hall of Fame – Podcast Bio: Jesus Christ
10/12 – A Cozy Christmas Podcast – Christmas in Australia
10/12 – Tis the Podcast – The Coca Cola Santa is Just a Hoax
10/12 – Jingle Jank Podcast – Depressing Christmas Songs
10/12 – Totally Rad Christmas – Married with Children Part 1 (with Scott Newman)
10/13 – Christmas Clatter Podcast – Merry Melee 1
10/14 – Merry Little Podcast – Classic Christmas Movies That Suck
10/14 – NetfliXmas Podcast – Christmas in the Smokies – Girl, Your Jellies Won’t Save Your Farm
10/14 – Santa by the Minute Podcast – Minute 29 – Endless Nights and Hatless Elves
10/14 – Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Podcast – Christmas For Seniors
10/14 – Weird Christmas Podcast – Christmas Werewolves with Benito Cereno
10/15 – Christmas Podding – Christmas Calories. What are We Really Eating This Year
10/15 – Totally Rad Christmas – Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (with Jack Ford)
This week’s podcaster spotlight is Craig Kringle of Weird Christmas Podcast
Welcome Back, you beautiful people. It’s Episode 15 and this show is jam packed with the usual stuff.
I’ve roped in an expert gift-buyer to suggest 3 different gifts that are perfect for anyone, then Robin and Juno each make up a Christmas song.
Then it’s my idea for a Christmas gift. Why not get your loved one a personalised plant pot and a plant ? There are plant pots to suit everyone.
Then our Anonymous Technology Correspondent shares the story of the worst Christmas present his dad ever received, and it’s a doozy.
Back in 1995 a host of the most lightweight popstars in the UK all joined together to record a charity single for the charity Childline. The song was called The Gift of Christmas and it was a bit naff to be honest. What I really enjoyed was watching them (or the ones who could be bothered to turn up) mime along to it on Top of the Pops.
The Yule Lad we look at this episode is called Skyr Gobbler, and listen while your host gobbles what he believes to be skyr (which is a type of Icelandic cheese).
The recommendation is Santa by the Minute. It’s a lovely podcast where the two hosts, John and Bin, discuss the Christmas classic Santa Claus The Movie one minute at a time.
Here’s a link: https://santabytheminute.podbean.com/
If you want to get in touch you can email us at totalchristmas@gmail.com or visit the website totalchristmaspodcast.com.
Merry Christmas
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Title: Episode 15 – The Gift of Christmas
