Advent Calendar House | The Little Drummer Boy

My friend Mike Westfall has an excellent podcast called Advent Calendar House that's all about TV Christmas specials. He was an inspiration for Sleigh Bell Cinema as well as the first guest on it. And he'll be a guest on it again before this year is done. 

Anyway, I've been thrilled to be on a few episodes of ACH and the most recent one releases today where Mike, Brandon Medley, and I talk about the Rankin-Bass special based on "The Little Drummer Boy." It's a weird adaptation with some lovely music and Mike leads a great discussion.

Advent Calendar House | How the Grinch Stole Christmas

If you've listened to the first episode of Sleigh Bell Cinema, you know that the idea of doing a seasonal Christmas podcast was heavily influenced by my pal (and first SBC guest) Mike Westfall's Advent Calendar House. So it was a special treat when Mike invited me to join him and Michael DiGiovanni (The Atomic Geeks, Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit) in kicking off the new season of ACH. We talked in-depth about all three adaptations of How the Grinch Stole Christmas: the great one, the horrible one, and the... well, you'll have to listen to find out what we thought about the other one.