Day 18 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar,

and our friend Josh Chambers says,

Of all the classic Christmas stories from O'Henry to Clement C. Moore,

and every single jingle Bella in between, which tale would

you want to hear in Rod's inimitable voice? Okay, so I guess all of fiction in the Christmas

realm is our playground here, Zach. And Ethan, jumping out for you?

This was a hard question, because he's read some things.

And I'm going to go with the Polar Express by Chris von Allsburg.

It is a children's book, illustrated children's book.

More of a family book, really. It's for all ages, right?

But it has that narrator point of view, and it has that, you know, spirit of Christmas quality

to it that Rod Serling seemed to love so much. And a Twilight Zone-esque ending with like the bells

at the end and Santa. I don't know if everybody's familiar with the story or not. If you've seen

the Roberts Zemeckis motion capture movie with Tom Hanks from a few years

back, you might be most familiar with it from there.

But now that I think about it, I love to hear you read that, Tom, for the podcast.

Maybe for the Patreon.

Okay, okay.

The thing is, there's no wrong answers to this, is that it's like you would have Rod Sailing

read anything because it just sounds great.

So it's all good stuff.

I'm going to cheat a little bit because this ties very much into something which was kind of monumental for me.

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