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

Music in this episode:

• "Christmas Food" by Idito the Chicken and Moonpie Nobot

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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

• The Children's Friend (1821)

Music from the episode:

• "Sankt Niklas war ein Seemann" - Freddy Quinn

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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:

You can stream it from Amazon (free with Prime) and Vimeo:

• Stream from Amazon Prime

Cool people!

• Starring Daryen Ratté

Music:

• "This Christmas Life" by Shane Dawson

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. 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

• 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 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"

• Lives of St. Barbara and St. Nicholas

Music this episode:

• "Werewolf Christmas" by Timur and the Dime Museum

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

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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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