#50 Was It Great Or Were We 8? Holiday Edition

About the episode

Kevin and Sean look back on Christmases' past to discuss the holiday hallmarks of their childhoods. Does the stuff that they loved about Christmas as kids stand the pop culture test of time, or have they outgrown it like a pair of footie pajamas? Listen to them as they stroll down memory lane and follow along with them as they play, Had It, Wanted It, or Hated It with the biggest Christmas toys from the 80s and 90s.

Resources & links

• “Jingle Bells” holds the Guinness World Record for the first song ever played in outer space
• “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey is considered the most popular Christmas holiday song
• The world’s first Christmas card was auctioned in 2001 for over £20,000 ($28,000)
• Home Alone is the highest-grossing Christmas holiday movie of all time, making over $285M
• “Jingle Bells” was originally written as a Thanksgiving song
• 1.3 billion holiday cards are sent every year
• A Christmas Story movie 
  • TNT 24 hour marathon
  • House museum in Cleveland
• Mr Christmas Mickey Marching Band Musical Bells - Disney (YouTube)
• Home Alone Backpack and Talkboy
• The Captioned Life Podcast website

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Show credits

• Kevin Stahlecker - Cohost, producer, Gamemaster
• Sean Winningham - Cohost, producer, media editor 
• Image used in show: "Comic Books" by Steven Miller, used under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original.

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SHOW CREDITS

• Sean Winningham - Host, producer, & editor
• Image used in the show by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
• Music used in the show: “Fine Line” by Geographer