Saturday December 20, 2014
2014 December Holidays edition
Once we got going, Henry had me dive right in about Krampus. I spoke on the various Krampus origins, and Ceiling Cat Barbara Duncan added some information. I pointed out that one can acquire elaborate, custom Krampus masks for local Krampusnacht celebrations. I remembered to report that Trick 'R Treat writer/director Michael Dougherty was making a Krampus feature film, scheduled for a 04 December 2015 release. I also spoke about the awesome Rare Exports feature, in which a Krampus like character is mistaken for an ice-frozen Santa Claus.

CC also did a tongue-in-cheek Quiz as to whether one is on the Good List or Naughty List.
After the first break, CC reported our having listeners "just" in the US, what with holiday parties and being a heavy travel weekend. Later France had listeners come in.
Kat conveyed a December Hannukah ghost story, as well as a similar ghost story she'd personally experienced. Later she told another holiday ghost story.
Henry asked about our favourite Christmas memories. I mentioned our family train set, and Henry asked about slot-car racing. I pointed out how my father owned for a year or two a slot-car parlour, attached to Butler Bowl in Butler, New Jersey.
Kat conveyed a personal story about Santa Claus that took place when Kat was in elementary school, catching her mother putting out the gifts. She also conveyed how she bought her own beany-baby hippo, wrapped it To Herself From Santa, comically baffling both her parents.
Henry regaled a tale as a kid finding holidays gifts, and almost breaking a small rifle he was to receive.
After the second break, CC spoke of the song origins of Jingle Bells, being about drunken sleigh races.
Henry brought up Christmas movies, that many had magic and angels and such, including It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol version following Alistaire Sim version being closest to Charles Dickens' text. Henry mentioned Scrooged. Mentioning Jack Frost, I had Michael Keaton version, not the horror film, or the MSR3K Version.
Henry then brought up the Disney film One Magic Christmas with Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton.
I brought up the heart-warming British rom-com Love Actually, previously of which Henry apparently had never heard.
Henry pointed out many of these holiday movies tended to be on Hallmark and Lifetime. He spoke of a few such as Christmas at Cartwright's, a Doris Roberts TV movie called Call me Mrs. Miracle.
When Henry spoke about the premise for the TV movie Naughty or Nice, Kat was suspicious that the film followed a similar plotline for a Japanese Manga 12-volume book series called Death Note, which ran from 2003-2006, which also had a anime series and a live action movie, even spawning (surprising less expensive separately that as a two film set).
I mentioned seeing Melissa Joan Hart's directorial debut The Santa Con on Lifetime the previous weekend.
Henry told us about North Pole about which none of us had ever heard. Also menioned was a series of Max the Angel TV movies starring Pater Falk as Max, in Finding John Christmas, A Town Without Christmmas, and When Angels Come To Town.
CC mentioned another Peter Falk angel movie being in a German film, Faraway, So Close!, which apparently was a follow up to Wings of Desire.
To my surprise, Henry brought up the goofy Mexican 1958 film Santa Claus about which I'd already spoken at length earlier in the show, pointing out it was recently done at a Rifftrax live event, and is consiidered a classic MST3K episode, not to be confused with the MST3K gang doing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, or when they redid it as Cinematic Titanic, which for a moment CC thought I'd meant.
Kat seemed to remembered one called KISS Saves Santa Claus, though there seems to be no information about that one anywhere. CC conveyed loving White Christmas.
Kat spoke about various December holidays, including but not limited to the Winter Solstice, and Yule, et all. I pointed out I had listed the similarities Jesus birth mythos
I gave out my website's Paranormal View hub page at which one can find the show's respective report pages, and that we're very findable on Facebook, and my Followable Twitter presence, et al.
Kat provided her website, and her @katklockow, the show's @Paraviewradio Twitter presence, her @jinxedcomic Twitter account, her Facebook fan page, her Hunt For Ghosts site, and her Miss Grey graphic novel page.
Henry announced our guest next week would be returning guest John Kachuba and we wrapped out.