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. 

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💬 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. 

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“Frosty the Snowman” © 1969 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. 

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.