About this episode
🎄It’s 1990… or 1962… and a quantum physicist forgot to powder his boss’s underwear. This Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House involves time travel of a different sort as we follow Dr. Sam Beckett on a mission to save a mission, and the soul of the man trying to tear it down. * CONTENT WARNING: This episode briefly discusses the death of actor Charles Rocket and the would-be death of his Scrooge-like character, Michael Blake. **** 🎙 Guests: Erin Evans ( @mserinevans ). Joey O. ( Y-Not Radio , @imgonnadj24 ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Episode guide on Al’s Place. 2. A Christmas story from the Quantum Leap comic: “ He Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good .” 3. Charles Rocket drops an F-bomb on “Saturday Night Live.” 4. “ Bringing in the Sheaves ” on “ The Simpsons ” and “ Batman ” (1966). 5. Polish Christmas desserts piernik and makowiec . 6. Al’s Ghost of Christmas Future costume looks more like Jacob Marley mixed with the Ghost of Christmas Past from “Scrooged.” 7. Goldie Wilson III from “Back to the Future Part II.” **** 📼 Commercial Break: Squarbles (circa 1987). Can’t Wait for Christmas Podcast . **** “Quantum Leap” and “A Little Miracle” © 1990 Universal City Studios, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .