Read With Me / Holiday / Seasonal
The Big Lebowski
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-big-lebowski-anniversary-overrated-cult-classic-1201936543/
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a43042514/the-big-lebowski-25-year-anniversary/
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9/20/17875138/big-lebowski-coen-brothers-this-book-really-ties-the-room-together
Pickwick Papers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/28/charles-dickens-pickwick-papers-book-changed-me
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1876/08/dickens-and-the-pickwick-papers/631015/
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/14/the-sam-weller-bump/
Snapdragon game
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-snapdragon
https://recollections.biz/blog/snapdragon-extreme-victorian-parlour-game/
https://mattfife.com/?p=4825
Gabriel Grub
https://familychristmasonline.com/stories_other/dickens/gabriel_grub.htm
https://annalecehunter.com/blog/2019/12/27/dickens-the-story-of-the-goblins-who-stole-a-sexton-monthly-short-stories-december-2019
https://www.oldstyletales.com/single-post/charles-dickens-the-goblins-who-stole-a-sexton-a-two-minute-summary-and-literary-analysis
DOWN TO BUSINESS
I’m here to make your long winter’s nights as short as possible
PLUGS
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SPONSORS
Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Lumen; Uncommon Goods
INTRO
Thoughts on your mind that you’re thinking about
Do they say Emotional Feelings?
Emotions? I’m feeling them
How does the Dude react to my feelings?
A holiday version of the Dude
Feelings, Man
The Jeff Lebowski Barely Accurate Podcast
He’s definitely Santa-esque
No offense, but Santa is a little disheveled
Put a little Lebowsk in your season
Macy’s could do a parade of him, too
The Jeff Lebowski Holiday Special
I’d trust the Coen Brothers with that
I know Ernest saved Christmas
A 12 hour special, watching Jeff Lebowski deliver gifts
Actionable Things throw me off
Borer In Charge
Adjusting your palate to a sleep podcast
We’ve been meandering about for a while, huh
I crumble into overthinking
I don’t know what tonight’s episode will be
Ok, let’s look up The Big Lebowski
It’s an independent movie, what does that mean?
The Coen Brothers said they’d never make a sequel
But a holiday special isn’t a sequel
STORY
We did this last year
The Christmas chapter from Pickwick Papers
Chapter XXVIII
Christmas was close at hand
The season of open-heartedness
Pure and Unalloyed Delight
We write this many years later, looking back
The hands we grasped
All different kinds of hands
Some people are sleeping in their beds
The old house, not This Old House
We always remember that old house
Luggage have been stowed away
A huge codfish, packed into the foreboot
And oysters
All the property of Mr. Pickwick
“I’ve got a codfish in my boot”
The long history of that song
Please never put a codfish in my boot
The Unsmotherable Delight of all standers-by
Pickwick gives a tip to the guard
And the coach is finally off
They rumble through the streets
They eventually reach a level road
The driver is showing off with ease
They’re going to change horses directly
People watch the coach as it rattles by
Stopping at the inn
The rider grabs a package
They discuss the gray mare
Shouting for a missing gentleman
Pickwick and Tupman struggle back into the coach
On the way to Dingleydale
They arrive at the steps of the Blue Lion
Counting the barrels of oysters and codfish
Mr. Pickwick sees the page Bud
Bud has been asleep in front of the Taproom fire
Bud and Mr. Weller now size each other up
A nice specimen of a kid
What makes Bud so happy?
He offers Bud a drink as thanks
Sam drives Bud to the house
Bud sleeps on the codfish and oyster barrel
Bud is my new hero
PIckwick and his friends are walking
The rapid approach of the great twilight
They’re playful and joyous and merry
They run into a group waiting for them
Old Whartle, Bella, and Emily!
There’s gonna be a wedding tomorrow!
Frolicking in the fields
They need some help climbing over a fence
They’d just been down to inspect the new house
Mr. Snodgrass, the modest genius
Whartle’s mother has no care to meet Pickwick
She could be nicer to herself
She sounds like my Inner Nana
Let’s dance a minuet
Old Whartle starts crying on her granddaughter
A very mirthful night
Snodgrass has eye for Emily Whartle
Loud footsteps wake Pickwick the next morning
Such multitudinous demands for hot water and thread
Oh yeah, there’s a wedding the next day
Advancing to after the wedding
Peals of laughter on every side
Playing Hidey Hide Buff
A great game of Snapdragon after
A mighty bowl of wassail
This is, indeed, comfort
Waiting for the clock to strike Christmas
Time for a song, which Scooter will say like a poem
3 Cheers for This Christmas Auld
Everyone loves the song
Again, the wassail goes around
How it snows!
Remembering Old Whartle who is in the Big Farm now
A kind of bawdy story
The Snickles of Bells
What is this story?
Gabriel Grub could be morose and melancholy
He kind of reminds me of Scooter
Gabriel headed to the Old Churchyard
He prefers a sullen, gloomy atmosphere
Frowny Face Lane
He sees a young boy, singing in the street
He’s grumpy towards the kid
Then he got to work
And he started digging in the graveyard
He sat to have a couple nips on the bottle
He heard someone else say, “Ho, ho, ho!”
It’s not an echo
Nearby was a handful of Snickles of Bells
A real life elf on a shelf
Gabriel is stunned into silence
Why work on a night like tonight?
Follow our bells across the lane
Follow our jingles and jangles
You hear his joyous caroling, but he’s not around
When you compliment someone’s caroling, you hear Gabriel Grubb
Have a happy holiday season
Good cheer to all and to all a good cheer
SUMMARY:
Episode: 1312
Title: Dickens Pickwick Reading
Plugs: Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; NAPAWF; Anti-Racism Resources; Ukraine Relief; Crisis Textline
Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Lumen; Uncommon Goods
Notable Language:
- Emotional Feelings
- Feelings, Man
- Santa-esque
- Crumble Into Overthink
- Pure and Unalloyed Delight
- “I’ve got a codfish in my boot”
- A nice specimen of a kid
- This is, indeed, comfort
- The Snickles of Bells
- Frowny Face Lane
Notable Culture:
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- The Jeff Lebowski Barely Accurate Podcast
- Macy’s Parade
- Coen Brothers
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- Christmas
- Charles Dickens
- Frozone / The Incredibles
- The Dickens Fair
- “I’ve got a codfish in my boot” song
- Emmet Otter
- Blind Man’s Buff
- Elf on a Shelf
Notable Talking Points:
- Thoughts on your mind that you’re thinking about
- Do they say Emotional Feelings?
- Emotions? I’m feeling them
- How does the Dude react to my feelings?
- A holiday version of the Dude
- Feelings, Man
- The Jeff Lebowski Barely Accurate Podcast
- He’s definitely Santa-esque
- No offense, but Santa is a little disheveled
- Put a little Lebowsk in your season
- Macy’s could do a parade of him, too
- The Jeff Lebowski Holiday Special
- I’d trust the Coen Brothers with that
- I know Ernest saved Christmas
- A 12 hour special, watching Jeff Lebowski deliver gifts
- Actionable Things throw me off
- Borer In Charge
- Adjusting your palate to a sleep podcast
- We’ve been meandering about for a while, huh
- I crumble into overthinking
- I don’t know what tonight’s episode will be
- Ok, let’s look up The Big Lebowski
- It’s an independent movie, what does that mean?
- The Coen Brothers said they’d never make a sequel
- But a holiday special isn’t a sequel
- The Unsmotherable Delight of all standers-by
- We did this last year
- The Christmas chapter from Pickwick Papers
- Chapter XXVIII
- Christmas was close at hand
- The season of open-heartedness
- Pure and Unalloyed Delight
- We write this many years later, looking back
- The hands we grasped
- All different kinds of hands
- Some people are sleeping in their beds
- The old house, not This Old House
- We always remember that old house
- Luggage have been stowed away
- A huge codfish, packed into the foreboot
- And oysters
- All the property of Mr. Pickwick
- “I’ve got a codfish in my boot”
- The long history of that song
- Please never put a codfish in my boot
- The Unsmotherable Delight of all standers-by
- Pickwick gives a tip to the guard
- And the coach is finally off
- They rumble through the streets
- They eventually reach a level road
- The driver is showing off with ease
- They’re going to change horses directly
- People watch the coach as it rattles by
- Stopping at the inn
- The rider grabs a package
- They discuss the gray mare
- Shouting for a missing gentleman
- Pickwick and Tupman struggle back into the coach
- On the way to Dingleydale
- They arrive at the steps of the Blue Lion
- Counting the barrels of oysters and codfish
- Mr. Pickwick sees the page Bud
- Bud has been asleep in front of the Taproom fire
- Bud and Mr. Weller now size each other up
- A nice specimen of a kid
- What makes Bud so happy?
- He offers Bud a drink as thanks
- Sam drives Bud to the house
- Bud sleeps on the codfish and oyster barrel
- Bud is my new hero
- PIckwick and his friends are walking
- The rapid approach of the great twilight
- They’re playful and joyous and merry
- They run into a group waiting for them
- Old Whartle, Bella, and Emily!
- There’s gonna be a wedding tomorrow!
- Frolicking in the fields
- They need some help climbing over a fence
- They’d just been down to inspect the new house
- Mr. Snodgrass, the modest genius
- Whartle’s mother has no care to meet Pickwick
- She could be nicer to herself
- She sounds like my Inner Nana
- Let’s dance a minuet
- Old Whartle starts crying on her granddaughter
- A very mirthful night
- Snodgrass has eye for Emily Whartle
- Loud footsteps wake Pickwick the next morning
- Such multitudinous demands for hot water and thread
- Oh yeah, there’s a wedding the next day
- Advancing to after the wedding
- Peals of laughter on every side
- Playing Hidey Hide Buff
- A great game of Snapdragon after
- A mighty bowl of wassail
- This is, indeed, comfort
- Waiting for the clock to strike Christmas
- Time for a song, which Scooter will say like a poem
- 3 Cheers for This Christmas Auld
- Everyone loves the song
- Again, the wassail goes around
- How it snows!
- Remembering Old Whartle who is in the Big Farm now
- A kind of bawdy story
- The Snickles of Bells
- What is this story?
- Gabriel Grub could be morose and melancholy
- He kind of reminds me of Scooter
- Gabriel headed to the Old Churchyard
- He prefers a sullen, gloomy atmosphere
- Frowny Face Lane
- He sees a young boy, singing in the street
- He’s grumpy towards the kid
- Then he got to work
- And he started digging in the graveyard
- He sat to have a couple nips on the bottle
- He heard someone else say, “Ho, ho, ho!”
- It’s not an echo
- Nearby was a handful of Snickles of Bells
- A real life elf on a shelf
- Gabriel is stunned into silence
- Why work on a night like tonight?
- Follow our bells across the lane
- Follow our jingles and jangles
- You hear his joyous caroling, but he’s not around
- When you compliment someone’s caroling, you hear Gabriel Grubb
- Have a happy holiday season
- Good cheer to all and to all a good cheer
