About this episode
🎉 It’s a special, post-Christmas bonus episode of the Advent Calendar House as we turn back the years to 1976 and tip our oversized hat hiding our oversized ears to Rankin/Bass’s first sequel special, in which Rudolph has to save the Baby New Year from a big, angry bird. **** 🎙 Guests: Brandon Medley ( @brandmed , Blessed Are the Geek ). Joey O. ( Y-Not Radio , Words with Nerds , @ImGonnaDJ24 ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Rudolph devolves into a younger-looking reindeer, because the original model may have been lost. But also he seems to forget he can fly. 2. According to our narrator, Father Time ( Red Skelton ), this story begins “on that very same foggy night.” As in Christmas Eve. When Santa’s kind of busy. 3. I learned who Red Skelton was from a joke in a Tex Avery cartoon . 4. The Phantom Tollbooth . 5. Tik-Tok from Return to Oz . 6. Creepier song about time: The Moving Finger Writes from this, or Older by They Might Be Giants ? 7. Ralph Archibold, Philadelphia’s longtime Ben Franklin impersonator . 8. Billy Corgan rides a roller coaster . **** “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .