Meagan & Sarah’s December Favorites To Watch / Listen / Read: Episode 31
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Have you been meaning to watch old holiday film classics but never get around to it? Or are you just as disturbed as we are by some of the mid-century Christmas TV programming (looking at you, Rudolph)? In Episode 31 Meagan and Sarah talk about our favorite – and not-so-much – holiday movies, TV, books, and music. Join us!
LINKS MENTIONED:
MOVIES & TV
- It’s a Wonderful Life, Holiday Inn, and White Christmas
- Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 version and the 1994 remake)
- The Snowman
- Annie (the 2014 version)
- Love Actually
- A Christmas Carol (the 1984 version)
- The Polar Express
- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (the 1966 animated version)
- Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas and Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
- Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, and A Christmas Story
- One Magic Christmas (favorite listener award goes to anyone who also watched this movie as a kid!)
- The Nutcracker (the 1993 Macaulay Culkin version and the 1977 version with Baryshnikov)
BOOKS
- A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) – FREE on Kindle!
- The Christmas Magic (Lauren Thompson)
- The Little House series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
- Books by author Jan Brett
- The Nativity (Julie Vivas)
- Oh, What a Christmas! (Michael Garland)
MUSIC
- Meagan’s Christmas Hour (Spotify playlist)
- Come Let Us Adore Him and Sing Noel (The Lower Lights)
- Sarah likes this version of The Nutcracker (The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
OTHER STUFF
- ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas 2015 Schedule
- 25 Christmas Movies You Can Stream (Digital Trends)
- Best Holiday Movies for Kids (Commonsense Media)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are welcoming a new sponsor today, |
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| 0:04.7 | Tis the Grinch holiday talk show. |
| 0:07.2 | I know that this time of year, |
| 0:08.6 | a lot of us are looking for fun holiday media |
| 0:11.1 | that we can listen to with our kids in the room, but that's also fun for us. |
| 0:15.4 | This show really has all the bases covered. |
| 0:17.8 | Coming to you live from the top of Mount Crumpet, Tis the Grinch Holiday talk show is hosted by Saturday Night Lives James Austin Johnson as the famous curmuggen, The Grinch. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh Megan, I can totally see my whole family getting into this show together. You can listen every week as the Grinch |
| 0:33.6 | goads hilarious celebrity guests as they try to get the Grinch to turn his |
| 0:37.9 | sour Grinchy frown upside down. Will they succeed or will he roast them like chestnuts on an open fire and make the |
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| 0:54.0 | You can listen to Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show early and ad free right now by joining |
| 0:59.0 | Wundery Plus. Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a mom of three kids ages two, five, and seven, and I live in Southern California. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm Megan, I am the mom of five kids ages six through 17 and I live in |
| 1:17.7 | Michigan this is the mom hour part of the Life Listen to Network. |
| 1:29.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 31 of the Mom Hour. I'm Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey Sarah. |
| 1:33.0 | How are you? |
| 1:34.0 | I'm good. |
| 1:35.0 | Good. |
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