Hi, I'm Spoon listeners. It is Amy Nicholson and as a gift to ourselves,

Paul and I are taking a teeny vacation. We're going to return on January 12th with a very special

January episode because yes, we are doing John Deelman 23 criedoclombers

1080 Brussels the chantelle acumen film from 1975 that just displaced vertigo as the number one film on the new site and sound

pole, but today we are taking our episode on a Christmas story out of the vault as both a stalking

stuffer and as a tip of the hat to the new sequel a Christmas story to a sequel that comes 39 years after the original and I guess

presumably finds a little ralfi all grown up. I haven't seen it yet myself, but they have my attention.

Some of my attention probably why I am decorating cookies because I just took a class in decorating Christmas cookies and I am all about making a

gigantic mess this year in this episode for people who have not heard it yet. We are going to get into this movie is really curious connections throughout history from Martin Luther King's

I have a dream speech to the challenger explosion. I am not kidding about that. We are also going to ask how does a director condensingly stick it kids tongue to a pole without hurting the kid or his tongue or

a director come and just say suck it up sweetheart. You're going to get hurt, but you're going to get hurt for movie history.

And we will also be briefly joined by a guest the director Michael Dowes who cast our dear friend and wife of the pod June in a film called 8-bit Christmas. A movie that came out last year and now one year in is

Jocking to be positioned as the new holiday classic for this generation. So giddy up Jinglehorse. Let's unspool it.

The year is 1983. Fuego Rock debut on HBO in Japan a new arcade game Mario Brothers is somewhat of a flop. It would be another two years until Mario and Luigi made a name for themselves as video game characters. The US had the highest unemployment since 1941.

Motorola releases the first mobile phone. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space and the hot films of this year are Star Wars. Return of the Jedi flash dance.

The trading places and today's film a Christmas story Amy who's in it what's it about and what was on the radio.

A Christmas story directed by Bob Clark and co-written by Clark Lee Brown and most of all Jean Shepherd the writer and radio personality behind a book of short stories called in God we trust all others pay cash.

And that is the book where the movies have been yet come from.

Jean you know his voice he narrates the Christmas adventures of Ralphie Parker a boy who just needs a few things to be happy. He's got to get rid of local but bullies cut farcas.

He's got to win his teachers love and admiration by writing the best essay in the world. And he's got to convince his parents to buy him an official red writer carbon action 200 shot range model air rifle with compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.

Because he will of course shoot his eye out take a listen.

Next to me in the blackness lay my oil blue steel beauty the greatest Christmas gift I had ever received or whatever received.

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