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Today I am joined by 3 very special guests, my 2 children, Jax, & Gee and our cat Maxwell Paws and they share their opinions on Christmas...well the kids do, Max became tight lipped as soon as we pushed record.

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Today I am joined by Brett from the Thoughtless Casual Gaming podcast and he's here to talk about the night and the vengeance of the first Christmas episode of Batman the Animated series.

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Today I step into a big blue box and travel back in time to Podcast with my original Podcast co-host and we bang on about A Christmas Carol, Doctor Who Style.

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Criss Fresh joins Mitch to talk Santa Claus: the movie for the first day of the 2022 12 days of Christmas Specials.

Massive attack is back! Well, sort of. Mitch is back and he's flying solo and by the seats of his pants. the first episode back is a short one.  It's all about He-Man and a couple of other cartoons that may sound a little familiar.   thanks for sticking by and checking it out and welcome to any new listeners. Hope you like it.   Please send any feedback to the Facebook page or to themapodcast@gmail.com and don't forget to review and rate us wherever you can.

As we kick off 2022 we look back to the dumpster fire of a year that was 2021. There were some shining lights though, so in this first part of our double header we look at our favourite gaming and television moments. Be warned, as there may be a couple of spoilers in there as we discuss Tiger King 2, Clickbait, Squid Game and Ted Lasso. Plus Mitch tackles the plethora of Marvel related shows on Disney+.

We'd like to think we've saved the best for last with this offering for Day 12 from the cartoon series "The Real Ghostbusters" from 1986. What happens with a team famous for catching ghosts meet up with Jacob Marley and his spirit friends? Christmas chaos obviously. 

In one of the very first syndicated television specials, Vincent Price narrates today's version of the classic tale, dubbed "The Christmas Carol" from way back in1949.

Just to be confusing we have another movie just titled "A Christmas Carol" again today, however unlike the traditional style we saw yesterday, this is anything but. Starring UK soap star Ross Kemp as Eddie Scrooge, an unscrupulous loan shark, who meets three ghosts who show him the meaning of Christmas in this contemporary telling of the classic tale.

We've seen cartoon mice and excessive backstory, super heroes and tenuous links and super quick silent versions, but for toady for Day 9 we find a very traditional telling of the Christmas Carol story. Made by an Australian production company back in 1982, there's not much we could find wrong with this one featuring the voice talents of Rod Haddrick in the Scrooge role.

A Christmas Carol is usually a story of a not-so-nice man's redemption. In our episode today, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" from 1988, we turn that on it's head in a way only Rowan Atkinson can.

We continue with our 80s bracket today as we take a look back at one of the most popular sitcoms of that decade, "Family Ties" where they do their take on A Christmas Carol in this episode from December 1983. Everyone's favourite yuppie republican, Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox learns the meaning of Christmas thanks to some ghostly persuasion and early 80s special effects.

80's cartoon/toy tie-ins are probably our favourite genre after Christmas Carol variations, so when Mitch found this episode from 1987 of "Bravestarr" that puts a Filmation spin on the Dickens classic, it got added to our short list very quickly. Was it worth it, or did it disappoint?