The Little Drummer Boy, Book II

<p>🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we went on an apocryphal adventure with the story of <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/little-drummer-boy">The Little Drummer Boy</a>.  </p><p>This time, Rankin/Bass drums up an unnecessary sequel from 1976, its busiest year for holiday specials. Join Aaron on a side quest to retrieve the stolen silver bells from a troop of greedy Roman soldiers in the “Rogue One” of Christmas stories.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Brandon Medley (<a href="https://twitter.com/brandmed">@brandmed</a>, 📸 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blessedarethegeek/">@blessedarethegeek</a>)  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. Allen Swift (Melchior) as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulcRiacqpE">Twinkie the Kid</a>.  </p><p>2. Simeon the bellmaker is very loosely based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_(Gospel_of_Luke)">Biblical Simeon</a>, but his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunc_dimittis">Song of Simeon</a> is left out.  </p><p>3. Ray Owens (Simeon) as the voice of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxPfWVVtIRY">Superbook</a>, and Jesus in “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqKTtmOWB7A&t=12m1s">The Flying House</a>.”  </p><p>4. Zero Mostel (Brutus) on “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJNJEjlI_aU">The Muppet Show</a>.”  </p><p>5. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UyngbbrEE">Money Money Money</a>” (not the song from “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMCvBa_M2I">Mamma Mia!</a>”)  </p><p>6. How bad is Brutus compared to the other Rankin/Bass Christmas villains?  </p><p>7. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/do-you-hear-what-i-hear-conjures-images-of-peace-everywhereand-nuclear-annihilation-180979292/">written during the Cuban Missile Crisis</a>.  </p><p>8. Our favorite recordings of “Do You Hear What I Hear?” by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DhlGtnoRs">Copeland</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaB6HsefjZ8"