265: The Ghosts of A Christmas Carol

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week we're looking at Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," and all its spooky ghosts: Jacob Marley, Past, Present, and Future. But we're not just looking at the original text, we're digging into some of the most interesting adaptations from movies and TV! Creepy Christmas, one and all! For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu265 Support GTTU on Patreon! Depending on the tier you choose, you get one, two, or FOUR full bonus episodes per month, early access to the video version of the show, a private Discord, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/gttupod Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0	Because if she's visited by all the ghosts of the men she's dated, I think that we've got a black widow situation.
0:05.0	Absolutely, it seems like she is a serial killer.
0:08.0	Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother
0:16.6	William. And we are kicking off the Merry Month of December by talking about a
0:20.5	Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and its many film adaptations.
0:24.8	Yeah, probably the Christmas story to some extent?
0:29.2	The Premier Christmas story.
0:30.6	It sort of is.
0:31.6	Yeah, I guess it is. It all goes back to this it feels yeah in some way shape or form
0:36.2	Obviously, there are like you know really iconic Christmas movies and every year around now people like to debate is Die Hard a Christmas movie and
0:44.0	Cramppus is like the hot new trend in the last few years that's become a new Christmas
0:50.0	classic. Yeah I bought myself a crampous sweatshirt from our friend Liz Sowers
0:55.1	Ghost in the Burbs merch shop. Right on. Yep. Sweet. I'm excited. But
0:59.0	Christmas Carol is sort of the one. Charles Dickens. Yeah. Countless adaptations, right. But they all amount to.
1:08.1	Scrooge is a creaky old cantankerous Koot.
1:13.0	And he's going to be visited by three ghosts.
1:17.0	Although just like the Trinity Killer, there's a secret fourth ghost.
1:20.0	That's true.
1:21.0	It's Jacob Marley, which is my favorite ghost right now.
1:25.2	For people who are watching the video version,
1:27.4	I've been so enmeshed in a Christmas carol.
1:30.0	Yeah.
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