How Murray Saved Christmas

<p>Take a sleigh ride back to 2014 as the fate of Christmas is in the hands of Murray Weiner (rhymes with <i>diner</i>), from the hidden hometown of every holiday mascot… but mostly the American ones.  </p><p>Full episodes with links at: <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/how-murray-saved-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/how-murray-saved-christmas</a>  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 On This Episode:  </h2><p>• <strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), suffering from superficial fractures of his little baby toeses.  </p><p>• <strong>Michael DiGiovanni</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/theatomicgeeks">@theatomicgeeks</a>), Queen Hannah of Bananaland, from the <a href="https://classicfilmjerks.libsyn.com">Classic Film Jerks</a> and <a href="https://popcultureretrofitpodcast.libsyn.com">Pop Culture Retrofit</a>.  </p><p>• <strong>Donnie Storms</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/theatomicgeeks">@boxcar45</a>) from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bronwensghost">Bronwen’s Ghost</a>, who’s got a lot of problems with you people and now you’re going to… wait, wrong show.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents: </h2><p>• Former <i>Simpsons</i> showrunner Mike Reiss’s original books, <a href="https://bit.ly/2Tlxf6o"><i>How Murray Saved Christmas</i></a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/3whHuHl"><i>Santa Claustrophobia</i></a>.  </p><p>• The trimmed half-hour cut of the special removes some bad jokes, but also Murray’s backstory.  </p><p>• Speaking of super offensive things, <a href="https://youtu.be/loxzDcmSVRk">Marc Mero as Johnny B. Badd</a>.  </p><p>• Today’s TV Trope: <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SantasSweatshop">Santa’s Sweatshop</a>.  </p><p>• “Vishnu” takes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Apu"><i>The Problem with Apu</i></a> to a new low.  </p><p>• <a href="https://bit.ly/3pH4gpC">Every LBGT Joke on <i>The Simpsons</i> Ever</a> (as of early 2021).  </p><p>• There’s an actual <a href="https://