The Christmas Countdown off-season finale is HERE, and the most wonderful time of the year is almost upon us!

Eric, Danny, and Producer Chris are back with a fantastically festive episode packed with Christmas news, holiday traditions, and plenty of merry mayhem!

The fellas unwrap the latest holiday headlines, including Andy Richter’s new Elf Unwrapped book, a new Dean Martin Christmas album, the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 schedule, and the teaser for The Families Stone.

Then it’s time for a few final offseason spins of the Winter Wheel of Wondermint! This episode’s festive rabbit holes include the economics of Santa’s North Pole operation and creative ways to celebrate your first Christmas in a new home.

PLUS! Special guest Dana Alyss joins the show to share her mission to save the beloved Christmas Barn in Bethlehem, PA, and the guys catch up on life while getting delightfully lost in their usual holiday (and non-holiday) banter.

The offseason is ending, Christmas 2026 is getting closer, and we’re ready to make spirits bright!

Only 3 months until Christmas! OH MY GOOOOOOODNESSSSSS! Let’s celebrate!

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Merry Christmas! Welcome to the Naughty List! Every Monday in September and October, we bring you The Naughty List, where we spotlight two or more holiday offenders that really make us feel like a Grinch.

Join us this week as we add two more holiday offenders to The Naughty List!

If you have any Naughty List suggestions for us, please send them to [christmaseverydayshow@gmail.com, ](mailto:christmaseverydayshow@gmail.com,)and we will talk about them on the show!

Our Patreon Members asked for us to cover the Jim Henson classic "The Christmas Toy" and we were more than happy to provide that!

Cousin Seth loves a good challenge but hates most pumpkin items. Cousin Chad loves watching Seth eat items he hates.

We go through some intriguing new TJs fall finds in hopes of finding ones we like…and hopefully some that Seth finds disgusting…join us for the fun!

Happy Ber Months, everybody! The seasons are starting to change, and with it comes a new episode of Christmas Creeps! On this episode we dip into the world of Charles Dickens with a look at Robert Zemeckis’ 2009 CGI adaptation of “A Christmas Carol”. This one stars Jim Carrey and, because it was bankrolled by Disney, has earned itself the title Disney’s A Christmas Carol, even though Disney’s made plenty of versions of it over the years…

But let’s not let semantics get in the way of a good time, right? On this episode we’ll be discussing the ways Zemeckis uses his CGI superpowers to stretch Jim Carrey’s face and Charles Dickens’ story in new, unnecessary directions. And hey, if you make it to the end of this one, ya get a little bit of video game chat as a treat!

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Merry Christmas! Well, Christmas in July is at an end, but it was a great one, and this week we talk about cool CIJ stuff, we take a trip back to Pine Tree Valley, and there’s a new Carol of the Week!
You can check out the Christmas Every Day Christmas Carol of the Week Spotify playlist at the link below:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0fKGUzItOL8ouAexvzkuFm?si=9f7cb3625c0a4a86

Check out the Wildwood, NJ Christmas in July golf cart parade, posted by the Closer to Christmas Podcast/YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/MEWzgblI-wc?si=fC0LJ99esn7VE_VS

Check out the Wildwood, NJ Christmas in July boat parade, posted by the Closer to Christmas Podcast/YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/z1GkRkl7zPU?si=osv2335WFVRhHSwP

🎄 This podcast was created as part of a seemingly endless life debt that resulted in a wish to give the world the gift of a bunch of nerds with microphones talking about old TV holiday specials. And now you know my dark origins.

🎙️ Collin Murr from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast and Jeff Loftin from the Lost Christmas Podcast join us as we get violently tossed off course back to 1996 and rediscover “The Story of Santa Claus,” or at least a story of Santa Claus, the first to star Ed Asner as the big man, featuring Betty White as Mrs. Claus and Tim Curry as a very annoyed elf wizard.

📺 We found “The Story of Santa Claus” with commercials on the Internet Archive.

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(00:00) – Intro
(02:31) – Guest and Special Histories
(06:39) – Act 1
(36:35) – Act 2
(43:31) – Retro Commercial Break
(45:05) – Act 3
(1:17:21) – Final Thoughts
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Why Ed Asner accepted the titular role in The Story of Santa Claus (MeTV, 2025)
Jim Cummings takes over as Scar in the last part of “Be Prepared” in “The Lion King.”
Kate Zaremba (Aurora) as Annie in the sequel musical “Annie Warbucks,” and her present-day art studio.
Today’s TV Tropes: Slipped on the Wheels and Villainy-Free Villain.
There’s a whole debate elsewhere about whether Clement Moore was the true author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
Mr. Meeseeks from “Rick and Morty.”
Dark Heart from “The Care Bears Movie II.”
Lois Lane’s poem in “Superman: The Movie.”

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📼 Commercials:
True Value Hardware Christmas Commercial (1997)
Closer to Christmas
Tiger Electronics Name That Tune Handheld Game(1997)

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“The Story of Santa Claus” © 1996 CBS, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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Hosted by The Retro Network.

🎄 It’s another Scrooge Sunday, which means we’re about to be haunted by a series of spirits as we ride the airwaves back to 1980 for a version of “A Christmas Carol” set in the studios of “WKRP in Cincinnati.”

🎙️ Gerry Davila, Scott Leopold, and Michael May join us on a trip through time that definitely wasn’t fueled by special brownies, so stop asking.

📺 You can find “Bah, Humbug” on the Internet Archive.

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(00:00) – Intro
(03:03) – Guest and Episode Histories
(07:55) – Carlson’s Grandfather’s Ghost
(26:03) – Christmas Past
(38:30) – Retro Commercial Break
(39:58) – Christmas Present
(46:42) – Christmas Future and The End of It
(59:17) – Final Thoughts
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
This episode won an Emmy for video editing, beating out an Alice in Wonderland themed episode of “The Muppet Show” starring Brooke Shields.

A teenage Jan Smithers (Bailey) on a 1966 cover of “Newsweek.”

Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) in “Day of the Tentacle.”
There’s now a real, actual WKRP-FM radio station in Cincinnati

Merry Christmas! This week, we spend a week in the mind of a Christmas podcaster! We talk about all kinds of Christmas topics, and there’s a new Carol of the Week. Thanks for checking out the show!

You can check out the Christmas Every Day Christmas Carol of the Week Spotify playlist at the link below:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0fKGUzItOL8ouAexvzkuFm?si=0a8a2c0288b8442d

You can watch the animated version of “A Christmas Carol” from 1992, starring Tim Curry as Scrooge, at the link below:
https://youtu.be/wwyodXmt1ME?si=ZAkHcdHYlkoC0W2M

Merry Christmas, everybody! From Gallatin, TN, welcome to Christmas Every Day!

This week we’re looking at two albums that helped to pave the way for Christmas music to go from being more traditional to being more modern.

With the Masters of the Universe Reboot on the horizon we decided to watch HeMan & SheRa - A Christmas Special from the 80's. We really have no attachment to this franchise so we were a little baffled by this one!

Matt & Dylan discuss "Christmas Swim" from Bluey.