🎄 Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, a snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith.

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🎙 Guest:  

Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek, Star Weirdos).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like Melody Time, starring Dennis Day, (the voice of Parson Brown) as Johnny Appleseed.  

2. Barbara Jo Ewing voiced one of the kids in her only known credit, but somehow IMDb knows her height.  

3. We do the math to figure out how far the wind carried a newspaper from Frosty’s hometown to the North Pole.  

4. Frosty beat The Santa Clause 2 to the “gotta get a wife” plot point by more than 2 decades.  

5. Frosty’s “specifications” for his ideal woman are the same as Sir Mix-a-Lot’s.  

6. Are snow people self-aware before coming to life and stuck in a comatose state?  

7. Jack Frost’s “winter that almost didn’t end” foreshadowed the real-life Blizzard of 1977 by less than 2 weeks.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Freezy Freakies, 1984.  

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“Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.  

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.  
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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