Thom Crowe

🎄 It’s Christmas Eve in the Advent Calendar House as we walk through a ring of fire back to 1982 to dance with the Smurfs and watch goodness make the badness go away.  🎙 Thom Crowe from Tis the Podcast and Gerry Davila from Totally Rad Christmas join us for a heaping help of Greedy Smurf’s cauldron of pink pudding.  📺 You can watch “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special” for free on YouTube.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  My son thinks the king of Hyrule is Santa.  I just now learned about Watergate salad.  The Smurfs in theme parks.  Danny Goldman (Brainy Smurf) in “Young Frankenstein.”  Paul Winchell (Gargamel) invented an artificial heart.  The mysterious Stranger may or may not be the actual Devil.  Teaser for a new Smurfs animated series.  ****  📼 Commercial:  The Smurfs at Kings Dominion (1984)  ****  “The Smurfs” and “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special” © 1982 Hanna-Barbera Productions.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.

🎄 It’s time to dust off the cobwebs and get the Advent Calendar House ready for Season 2, featuring a new episode every day from December 1 through Christmas Eve, 2018.  In between commercial teasers for all 24 episodes coming in Season 2 (though not necessarily in order) the members of the all-new Christmas Podcast Network share stories of Christmas music traditions:  ****  🎙 Guests:  Brian Earl (Christmas Past)  Tim Babb (Can’t Wait for Christmas)  Craig Kringle (Weird Christmas)  Duane Bailey (Tinsel Tunes)  Joseph Wade (Christmas Creeps), with Libby Cudmore  Anthony Caruso, Julia Colburn, and Thom Crowe (Tis the Podcast)  ****  Find us at adventcalendar.house.