Mike Westfall

Peace on Earth and good will to men, dogs, frogs, bears, chickens, and Miss Piggy. Guests: Bill Hanstock, Carlin Trammel. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The California Raisins make a sleigh out of a dumpster and fly it into space. Guests: Erin Evans, Joey O., Emily Rowley. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

“Whoever invented Christmas trees should be drug out into the street and shot.” —A cartoon for children. Guest: Jeff Somogyi. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

From the author of The Wizard of Oz comes one of the craziest Santa origin stories ever. Guests: Paxton Holley, Brandon Medley. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Sock puppets teach Pat Morita and Alan Thicke about Hanukkah. Guest: Sarah Shay. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The one with the mouse. Turn back the clock till it goes kerplooey for Rankin/Bass’s 1974 Christmas classic. Guest: Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The farthest point from the bright center of the Star Wars universe. Guest: Liz Twachtman. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

3 Mikes review 3 Grinches, from 1966, 2000, and 2018. Guests: Michael DiGiovanni, Michael May. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The members of the all-new Christmas Podcast Network share Christmas music traditions, plus commercials teasing Season 2, starting Dec. 1, 2018! Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The Advent Calendar House presents a dazzling display of magical mischief.  Chad Young creeps in to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Witch’s Night Out,” an often remembered, then forgotten, then re-remembered Halloween classic from 1978.  You can watch “Witch’s Night Out” on Tubi.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  WitchsNightOut.com, the official website.  Anytown Series, a planned sequel, and other holiday specials in development.  Toys “R” Us TV commercial from 1980, featuring ”the Big Bird Halloween costume and the Yoda Halloween costume.”  Ghostbusters Fright Features action figures.  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?  Malicious’s food may or may not have been inspired by Joys of Jell-O.  ****  “Witch’s Night Out” © 1978 Leach/Rankin Productions.  Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.

A star-spangled box-office bomb from 1986 starring the voices of Donatello, Baby Piggy, and King Triton. Guest: Chad Young. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Surprise bonus episode! Not even Easter specials are safe from leaning heavily on Santa. Guest: Brandon Medley. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Who can assemble the best all-star cast of A Christmas Carol? Guests: Sue London, Jonathan MacFarlane, Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The commercial that had a whole commonwealth singing “FIVE CASH FIVES!” Guest: Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Talking babies try to find and stop the “Meanie of Hanukkah.” Guest: Sarah Shay. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Ho-ho-ho, I’m hu-hu-hungry! Guest: Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The 1974 Christmas predecessor to the later Halloween special, Witch’s Night Out. Guest: Chad Young. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

The taste of nuts and honey thaws Scrooge’s icy heart. Guest: Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

We counted all the Muppets in the farmhouse. It’s a lot. Guest: Carlin Trammel (Nerd Lunch). Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house

Happy birthday! Join us as we begin our salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones by attempting to answer questions no one asked about the 1969 Rankin/Bass TV special, “Frosty the Snowman.”  Brandon Medley joins the parade as we try to find out how hard it is to escape a locked greenhouse, when something you throw away stops legally being yours, and how long it would actually take to write, “I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty” a hundred zillion times.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Oatmeal is a perfectly adorable name for a snowman.  Frosty Day in Armonk, New York.  A closer look at the absurdly long and zigzagged train route to the North Pole.  The stupidest places we’ve ever been dropped off.  ****  “Frosty the Snowman” © 1969 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.  Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.