Weird Christmas Podcast

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Weird Christmas Food with Glen Warren of the Season's Eatings Podcast Dec 04, 2020

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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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Santa is NOT St Nick - Tom Jerman and Santa Claus Worldwide Nov 26, 2020

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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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Mumblecore Christmas with Stefanie Davis about her film The Christmas Ride Nov 17, 2020

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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:

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

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Krampus with Al Ridenour Oct 31, 2020

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Krampus. Seems like I should have done a show on Krampus years ago, but I was waiting for the right person. And that person is Al Ridenour, author of The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil. This is the definitive book on Krampus, and Al fills us in on all the history and celebrations we could want.

Links mentioned in the show:

The book: The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas
Bone & Sickle (Al's podcast)
- The Krampus episode (Saint, Devil, Sugar-Bread & Whip)

Music:

Carol of the Krampus by The Courtesan and the Cabin Boy

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Christmas Werewolves with Benito Cereno Oct 15, 2020

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Christmas werewolves are a thing. I mean, I don't know if they're REAL real. But people really used to believe they were a thing. So Christmas expert Benito Cereno fills us in on their history

Benito's been on the show before, talking about Christmas comics and the Yule Lads.

Links mentioned in the show:

Benito's werewolf Christmas story, "Two Gifts"
Benito's YouTube channel
- Lives of St. Barbara and St. Nicholas
- Celebrating St. Nicholas Around the World
- and more...
Apocrypals podcast
Benito's site
Bone & Sickle Podcast (episode 30: Loup-Garou, Werewolves in France)

Music this episode:

And check out the Merry Britsmas podcast for all your British Christmas needs!

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Halloween Postcard Collecting with Eric Hinton Oct 02, 2020

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The first podcast episode of the 2020 {shiver} season. We do a bit of deep diving into the world of Halloween postcard collecting which, if you follow me on social media, you know is a small obsession of mine. Eric Hinton runs Halloween Postcards and has collected all, yes, ALL of the Halloween postcards printed before World War 2. We wander around some of the stranger examples and figure out what goes on in the musty corners of our collector-type-brains.

This episode has a video version as well so you can see the cards we're talking about. Head over to my youtube channel here.

Bumper music:

"Happy Christmahanavaloween" by Melanie

"Horror Flick" by Make Like Monkeys

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WC# 25 Christmas and Zen Buddhism, a talk with Brad Warner Jan 09, 2020

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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.

WC #24 Medieval Christmas with Misty Schieberle and Scott Smith Jan 04, 2020

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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.

WC #23 The Ghost Story of 2019, M.R. James' "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance" Dec 30, 2019

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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.

WC #22 Underground Christmas Music with Christmas Underground Dec 19, 2019

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Weird Christmas talks to the indie music blog Christmas Underground about the world of Christmas mixes and how he finds great, unknown Christmas music all year long.

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