1399 – A Christmas Carol, Part 1 | Read With Me
You’ll be spirited off to dreamland faster than Scoots can say, “Flimpit.” May your inner bowl of jelly jiggle and and your chimney sounds be joyous. Thanks for listening!
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Holiday / Read With Me
Semi-Sweet Chocolate
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56739/brief-history-chocolate-chip
https://www.slurrp.com/article/chocolate-chips-a-semi-sweet-history-of-a-baking-staple-1684140879397
Why is Christmas Carol broken up as music?
https://www.reference.com/world-view/charles-dickens-use-staves-instead-chapters-a9534589475437e9
Charles Dickens Illustrators
https://www.charlesdickensillustration.org/
https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/dickens-his-illustrators
http://www.dickenslit.com/dickens-illustrators/
Toothpick History
https://www.thoughtco.com/short-history-of-the-toothpick-4154079
https://slate.com/human-interest/2007/10/a-brief-history-of-the-toothpick.html
https://snackstack.net/2023/02/05/how-toothpicks-got-fancy/
DOWN TO BUSINESS
I kind of know what “Dickensian” means
Getting into the Dickens spirit
Leafing through the Pickwick Papers
PLUGS
Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline
SPONSORS
Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Uncommon Goods; Everyday Dose; Odoo
INTRO
I’m here to be your borefriend (which I’ll explain later)
I’m here because I’m trying to help
I know what it’s like
Some other people don’t get that it’s hard to fall asleep
I just tell myself you’re doing a great job
“99 people saying you’re doing a great job on the wall…”, a song
Speaking to the casper within me
The spirit of Christmas future conveyed me here
Spirit as conveyance
I’m gonna change this up, and we’ll read Christmas Carol now
What in the McDuck is going on?
I’m on the Good (at Meandering) List, for sure
sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou
You can actively listen, passively listen, heck, even barely listen
Explaining show structure and listening preferences
My intros are not bad and kind of semi-sweet
Did I call it A Christmas Story earlier? Whoops
I’ll read about an hour, and we’ll just slowly chip away at A Christmas Carol
STORY
Illustrated by George Alfred Williams
The first picture is Scrooge carrying Tiny Tim around town
A story of Caspery Christmases
Stave 1
Good Old Marley
He’d definitely changed realms
Marley is like a treat that they don’t make anymore
Everything I just thought of got brought back recently
Scrooge and Marley were partners for years
Business Besties
Scrooge would sign a card saying, “Miss You Much”
I’ll say it again, there is no doubt that Marley changed realms
Changing realms is not as playful as in a sleep podcast
You can call me Scrooge or Marley, but don’t call me Al
He has a lot of feelings about shortages
The coal within him nipped his features
Scrooge might even have some creaky, dulcet tones
He carries his low temperature all about him
Nobody ever calls on Scrooge
Even dogs don’t want to sniff Scrooge
Keep your distance, human sympathy!
Let’s say that Scrooge makes a … wakeup podcast
It’s already dark at 3pm
The fog comes pouring in
Nephew comes in
Scrooge doesn’t yet realize how famous, “Bah, Humbug!” will become
Nephew is handsome like a Hanson
Debating the humbugness of Christmas
Living in a world of fools
Everyone should get fake coal (because real coal is actually valuable)
Scrooge doesn’t keep Christmas in his heart at all
Nephew defends Christmas
You can enjoy things without profiting from them
Fellow passengers on Spaceship Earth
Clerk Cratchit involuntarily claps
Scrooge is upset with his nephew
Nephew invites Scrooge to dinner tomorrow
Nephew loves being around his loved ones
Scrooge scoffs at falling in love
Good afternoon!
Nephew wishes season tidings to Cratchit
How ridiculous, thinks Scrooge
Two merry gentlemen enter the office
They’re collecting money for the unfortunate
Scrooge is resistant to this idea
Scrooge says he’ll be put down for 0.0
They assume he wants to be anonymous
He only wants to support people through jobs!
But not everyone can work!
Scrooge dismisses this idea
Fatuous
The Incredible Mr. Flimpit
Scrooge heads home in the evening
The cold is very intense
Laborers hang around a fire
Scrooge sends a caroler packing
The All Day Happiness Podcast that’s in Print
The clerk and Scrooge debate if tomorrow will be off
Scrooge resents having to give Cratchit the day off
Scrooge eats his food and heads home
This is where Marley used to live
All the other rooms in the house are let out as offices
There’s nothing in particular about the knocker on the door
It’s dark, but Scrooge knows where he’s going
Scrooge sees Marley, not the knocker!
Like a bad lobster in a dark cellar
He pauses as he enters
Did I mention that Marley wore pigtails?
He half expected to see Marley’s pigtails bouncing up and down
Scrooge fancies himself a tough guy
He thinks he sees a horse riding down the hallway!
Darkness is cheap and Scrooge likes that
Scrooge loves gruel
All the rooms seem to be as they should be
He puts on his bedclothes and night cap
The fireplace is old and meek, and it takes him a while to warm up
The fireplace is decorated with tiled stories
He can’t let go of the face of Marley
Every bill in the house begins to ring
The sounds of Santa Claus
Then he hears sounds in the chimney!
Joyous Sounds in my Chimney!
The familiar voice of Santa Claus…
It’s Marley, wearing a red suit
A red suit and pigtails!
He’s jiggling like a bowlful of jelly, but he’s not in a bowl
Made of translucent jelly…
Marley, are you wearing a fake Santa beard?
Imitation Santa Claus
Why do you doubt your senses?
More gravy or jelly of you than reality
Scrooge isn’t normally punny like that
Something real and surreal at the same time
Look at this toothpick
Find the bowl of jelly within you, Ebenezer
Laughing like a prototypical Santa Claus
Scrooge is overwhelmed
Let’s take a nap and we can continue this conversation in a little bit
SUMMARY:
Episode: 1399
Title: A Christmas Carol Part 1
Plugs: Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline
Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Uncommon Goods; Everyday Dose; Odoo
Notable Language:
- Conveyance
- What in the McDuck
- The Good (at Meandering) List
- Semi-Sweet Intro
- Caspery Christmases
- Business Besties
- Bah, Humbug
- Handsome like a Hanson
- Zero Point Zero
- Fatuous
- Flimpit
- Like a bad lobster in a dark cellar
- Joyous Sounds in my Chimney!
- Imitation Santa Claus
- The bowl of jelly within you
Notable Culture:
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- Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers
- A Christmas Carol
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- “99 people saying you’re doing a great job on the wall…”, a song
- Santa Claus
- sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou
- A Christmas Story
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- George Alfred Williams
- Hamlet
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- “You Can Call Me Al” – Paul Simon
- The Daytime Bugle, a wakeup podcast
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- Hanson (band)
- Spaceship Earth
- The Incredible Mr. Flimpit
- The Incredible Mr. Limpit
- The All Day Happiness Podcast that’s in Print
Notable Talking Points:
- Illustrated by George Alfred Williams
- The first picture is Scrooge carrying Tiny Tim around town
- A story of Caspery Christmases
- Stave 1
- Good Old Marley
- He’d definitely changed realms
- Marley is like a treat that they don’t make anymore
- Everything I just thought of got brought back recently
- Scrooge and Marley were partners for years
- Business Besties
- Scrooge would sign a card saying, “Miss You Much”
- I’ll say it again, there is no doubt that Marley changed realms
- Changing realms is not as playful as in a sleep podcast
- You can call me Scrooge or Marley, but don’t call me Al
- He has a lot of feelings about shortages
- The coal within him nipped his features
- Scrooge might even have some creaky, dulcet tones
- He carries his low temperature all about him
- Nobody ever calls on Scrooge
- Even dogs don’t want to sniff Scrooge
- Keep your distance, human sympathy!
- Let’s say that Scrooge makes a … wakeup podcast
- It’s already dark at 3pm
- The fog comes pouring in
- Nephew comes in
- Scrooge doesn’t yet realize how famous, “Bah, Humbug!” will become
- Nephew is handsome like a Hanson
- Debating the humbugness of Christmas
- Living in a world of fools
- Everyone should get fake coal (because real coal is actually valuable)
- Scrooge doesn’t keep Christmas in his heart at all
- Nephew defends Christmas
- You can enjoy things without profiting from them
- Fellow passengers on Spaceship Earth
- Clerk Cratchit involuntarily claps
- Scrooge is upset with his nephew
- Nephew invites Scrooge to dinner tomorrow
- Nephew loves being around his loved ones
- Scrooge scoffs at falling in love
- Good afternoon!
- Nephew wishes season tidings to Cratchit
- How ridiculous, thinks Scrooge
- Two merry gentlemen enter the office
- They’re collecting money for the unfortunate
- Scrooge is resistant to this idea
- Scrooge says he’ll be put down for 0.0
- They assume he wants to be anonymous
- He only wants to support people through jobs!
- But not everyone can work!
- Scrooge dismisses this idea
- Fatuous
- The Incredible Mr. Flimpit
- Scrooge heads home in the evening
- The cold is very intense
- Laborers hang around a fire
- Scrooge sends a caroler packing
- The All Day Happiness Podcast that’s in Print
- The clerk and Scrooge debate if tomorrow will be off
- Scrooge resents having to give Cratchit the day off
- Scrooge eats his food and heads home
- This is where Marley used to live
- All the other rooms in the house are let out as offices
- There’s nothing in particular about the knocker on the door
- It’s dark, but Scrooge knows where he’s going
- Scrooge sees Marley, not the knocker!
- Like a bad lobster in a dark cellar
- He pauses as he enters
- Did I mention that Marley wore pigtails?
- He half expected to see Marley’s pigtails bouncing up and down
- Scrooge fancies himself a tough guy
- He thinks he sees a horse riding down the hallway!
- Darkness is cheap and Scrooge likes that
- Scrooge loves gruel
- All the rooms seem to be as they should be
- He puts on his bedclothes and night cap
- The fireplace is old and meek, and it takes him a while to warm up
- The fireplace is decorated with tiled stories
- He can’t let go of the face of Marley
- Every bill in the house begins to ring
- The sounds of Santa Claus
- Then he hears sounds in the chimney!
- Joyous Sounds in my Chimney!
- The familiar voice of Santa Claus…
- It’s Marley, wearing a red suit
- A red suit and pigtails!
- He’s jiggling like a bowlful of jelly, but he’s not in a bowl
- Made of translucent jelly…
- Marley, are you wearing a fake Santa beard?
- Imitation Santa Claus
- Why do you doubt your senses?
- More gravy or jelly of you than reality
- Scrooge isn’t normally punny like that
- Something real and surreal at the same time
- Look at this toothpick
- Find the bowl of jelly within you, Ebenezer
- Laughing like a prototypical Santa Claus
- Scrooge is overwhelmed
- Let’s take a nap and we can continue this conversation in a little bit
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