Day 12: We try to make more accurate donkeys in Nativity displays catch on like a certain elf on a certain shelf by revisiting the 1977 Rankin/Bass special, Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey.

On this episode

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), slave-driving stable owner who sounds like he belongs on Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames), animal-inspiring and video game-eating cherub.
• Brandon Medley (@brandmed), Santa’s favorite snow plow puller from Blessed Are the Geek.

Topics and tangents

• Roger Miller performing Do Wacka Do in 1966 with another guitarist, Stubbs, who’s wearing a Batman T-shirt.
• Roger Miller’s Whistle Stop intro to Disney’s Robin Hood is secretly the Hamster Dance.
• Tilly’s ascension back to heaven is strikingly similar to Poochie’s exit from The Itchy and Scratchy Show.
• Mary has “the Glow” from The Last Dragon.
• Annalee Santa dolls.

Previous episodes of this podcast mentioned

• S1E1: Frosty the Snowman
• The First Easter Rabbit
• S2E5: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

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