Merry Christmas in July you beautiful people.

This episode starts with our weekly quiz.  Do you know what colour mistletoe berries are?  If you do, you'll get at least one question right.  If you don't....   what?  of course you know what colour they are.

Then we have a Story of Shame sent in by the mom of our podcast mascot Elmer, Jennifer Kay.

This week the Do You Hear What I Hear from our podcast barman, Bob Baker, is all about Nappies.

Then I talk about Christmas in July, the history of where it (possibly) originated and how it evolved.

Then I look at 8 different songs that all share the same title:  Christmas in July.
Here they are if you want to listen to the whole song:

Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlaG9MYXlI

Alex the Astronaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF7V4LJN-1w

Lizzie Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Lrt6tK9Bg

Englewood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ux4CP2jH28

The Therapy Sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCcj6nYIk8&t=142s

The Ego Trippers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-hFoGEM6E

Sufjan Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30yerxlGZA

Nik Whitcomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if1tGjGz2ZY

This episode's version of A Christmas Carol is The Jetsons Christmas Carol and if you want to listen to it, you'll have to check out the latest episode of The Advent Calendar House Podcast with Mike Westfall.
Here's a link:
https://adventcalendar.house/

This episode's recommendation is a very funny podcast called Wheel of Misfortune hosted by Alison Spittle and Fern Brady.   If you don't mind a bit of bad language, you're sure to find it very funny.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08m3z73/episodes/downloads

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Merry Christmas