’Twas the Night Before Christmas

<p><strong>Day 3:</strong> Turn back the clock till it goes ~~kerplunk~~ <em>kerplooey</em> to make some time for Rankin/Bass’s 1974 retelling of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” from the perspective of the mouse and his know-it-all nerdy son.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), the Advent Calendar House’s eccentric mayor.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>) from <a href="http://ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Words_W_Nerds">Words with Nerds</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li>The worst thing we’ve broken that ruined multiple peoples’ day.</li> <li>We prepared for this episode by listening to Green Day’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerplunk_%28album%29">Kerplunk</a>!”</li> <li>South Park covered the song “<a href="http://southpark.cc.com/clips/152546/even-a-miracle-needs-a-hand">Even a Miracle Needs a Hand</a>” in the year 2000.</li> <li>Albert reminds us of a young Julia Stiles in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_uX1PvfMs">Apple Jacks cereal commercial</a> from the 1990s.</li> <li>We somehow get onto tangents that include Dusty Rhodes’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py4aMK3aIU">Hard Times</a>” promo.</li> </ol> <hr /> <p>The Advent Calendar House is on the web at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house">adventcalendar.house</a>, on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/adventcalhouse">@adventcalhouse</a>, and part of the <a href="http://christmaspodcastnetwork.com">Christmas Podcast Network</a>.</p>