Hey, Dashel.

What?

You want to listen to this?

Yeah.

Who's that guy?

I don't know.

What does he look like?

Brown and white.

My son, Dashel, and I are sharing one of my favorite traditions for getting into the Christmas spirit.

I happen to have a large collection of vinyl records for Christmas time.

And while most of them are vintage albums from the likes of Perry Como and Julie Andrews,

a good many are those old story books that came with an accompanying 7-inch record that narrated the book,

the kind that would begin by telling you,

You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring like this.

Let's begin now. I've had many of them since childhood, and I've added to my collection over the years.

There's Mickey's Christmas Carol, the $6 million-dollar-man Christmas Adventures,

and How Lovely is Christmas, just to name a few.

And then there are those that deliver that perfect mix of Christmas and 80s nostalgia,

like the Pac-Man Christmas story, Care Bears 12 Days of Christmas, and Strawberry Shortcake's A Barry Merry Christmas.

But today, we're getting into a festive and 80s state of mind with one of the most weird

and wild, merry and monstrous stories of them all. The Gift of the Maguai is the first

in a five book and record set telling the story of the 1984 movie Gremlins. And yep, I have the

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