Weird Christmas Podcast Craig Kringle

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Sometimes when you have a podcast, you talk to people who interest you and you don’t worry so much about how it relates to the show or your topic or what your hard-won audience really cares about. So you put out a show that’s all about really, really narrow interests you have. This is half that. The other half is about an amazing book about whether or not you should believe in Santa.
Links from the show:
Does Santa Exist: A Philosophical Investigation (buy on Amazon)
Eric’s blog
Eric’s Wikipedia page…because that’s cool
Eric on Twitter (which is loads of fun)
I’m sure I forgot something
Music from this episode:
“Science Christmas Carols”
“A Christmas Carol” by Tom Lehrer
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“…And scary ghost stories of Christmasses long, long ago!”
Ghost stories from previous years if you’re in a spooky mood: 2019, 2018, 2017
Next year, we should break open this boys’ club with a tale from this…
Links from the show:
Full text of the story, “Between the Lights”
A bit about Benson
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Vol. 4 by Christopher Philippo.
Our narrators this year:
Christohper Stanley (@allthosestrings, author of The Lamppost Huggers which has a a couple Xmas ghost stories of its own)
Kitty Pereira (@itskittypereira)
Sean from Xmas Podcasts Podcast
Jim Moon of Hypnogoria (loads more ghost stories here), who also helped us out last year
Alexandra White (@alexandradw23)
OldManFreakBoy (Check out his radio shows of Christmas music here: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Dr. Calighoulie (Tony Dixon, IG: @tonydixon_art)
Kristy Smith (Twitter/IG: @kristynotkirsty, FB: @kristynotkirsty74)
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Dustin Pari (@dustinpari, DustinPari.com, Ghosthunters guy.)
Fr. Stephen Vrazel (@KeytarCatholic)
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Time to destroy your appetite! I talk to Glen Warren from the Season's Eatings Podcast about weird Christmas food throughout history.

Links:

Season's Eatings Podcast
List of Christmas Podcasts (from Brian Earl's Christmas Past)
Holly Jolly Xmasu (Japanese Christmas music podcast)
Totally Rad Christmas ("Rudolph's Shiny New Year" episode with me)
The Lamppost Huggers by Christopher Stanley (some Christmas horror stories)
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, vol 4 edited by Christopher Philippo

Music in this episode:

"Christmas Food" by Idito the Chicken and Moonpie Nobot

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As a Thanksgiving treat, enjoy a deep dive down the rabbit hole of Santa history with Tom Jerman, author of Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers. This is my favorite book of Santa history, and Tom and I covered a lot of ground.

Links mentioned in the show:

Buy the book!
From Amazon
From McFarland Publishers

Tom's new website A Collection of Santas with new blog posts summarizing topics in Santa history and other treats.
Books mentioned:
The Children's Friend (1821)
Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York (later version)

Glen Warren's Season's Eatings Podcast

Music from the episode:

"Sankt Niklas war ein Seemann" - Freddy Quinn
"Jolly Old St. Nicholas" - Wilf Carter
"Jolly Old St. Nicholas" - Chadron Polka Band

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I'm not usually your go-to source for new movies. But this one is worth your time. The Christmas Ride is a mumblecore (improvised dialogue) film about a ride share driver getting an emotional gut punch on Christmas day. I talked to the producer/director Stefanie Davis, and I hope you'll check it out.
Here's the trailer for a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45euwomp9g&t

You can stream it from Amazon (free with Prime) and Vimeo:

Stream from Amazon Prime
Watch on Vimeo ($4.99 right now...help an indie movie out!)

Cool people!

Starring Daryen Ratté
Writer/Producer/Director Stefanie Davis
Bouncy Boxer Media
The film's twitter
Slacker (Craig's favorite old "mumblecore" movie)

Music:

"This Christmas Life" by Shane Dawson
"Christmas Around the World" by Be Still This Earth

And the promo was for Holly Jolly Xmasu -- a podcast all about Japanese Christmas music. You'll be hearing more from Scott soon. :)

If you’re feeling generous, check out my Patreon page here where you can get all kinds of bonuses throughout the year. You can also buy me a "coffee" ($3 gifts) at Ko-Fi.com.

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