An American Christmas Carol

<p>🎄 It’s 1979, by way of 1933 — or the other way around — and the human from Fraggle Rock has broken into my garage with a haunted choir of singing children.  </p><p>Join us as we turn the dial on our haunted time-traveling radio to find Henry Winkler at the height of his fame as the Fonz hiding under multiple layers of makeup as a Scrooge figure in Great Depression-era New England.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Tom Coombs (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/popdaddytom">The Pop Daddy</a>)  </p><p>Scott Leopold (<a href="https://hollyjollyxmasu.libsyn.com">Holly Jolly X’masu</a>)  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXa1JaLNq0w">“An American Christmas Carol” on YouTube</a>, courtesy of Shout Factory.  </p><p>2. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQzbXybPb8g&t=75s">Henry Winkler interview</a> on being asked to play a Scrooge figure.  </p><p>3. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_TT">Ford Model TT</a> truck, in example.  </p><p>4. Dorian Harewood (Matt Reeves/Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzHv6HQj97w">filling in for James Avery as Shredder</a>.  </p><p>5. Today’s TV Trope: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecursiveCanon?from=Main.RecursiveFiction">Recursive Fiction</a> — and “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Identical">The Identical</a>.”  </p><p>6. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0v5TIbTG9Q">Robin Williams on “Sesame Street”</a> showing Elmo different ways to play with a stick.  </p><p>7. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZAFQk2fJI">Sister Kenny</a>,” based on the true story of an Australian nurse.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>📼 Commercial Break:  </h2><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvxEvlalzI">McDonald’s Gift Certificates Christmas Commercial</a>, 1979.  </p><p><a href="https://hollyjollyxmasu.libsyn.com/">Holly Jolly X’masu</a>, your podcast destination for Japanese Christmas music.  </p><p>****  </p><p>“An American