Deck your tidings and get your halls nice and gladded because it’s time for maybe the best episode of the year, where SYSK loosens our ties, puts on our smoking jackets and Santa hats and create holiday nostalgia in real time. Happy holidays, everybody!
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# Stuff You Should Know Holiday Special
Join Josh and Chuck for their annual ad-free Christmas special, where they're diving deep into the fascinating history and traditions behind some of your favorite holiday customs! This year's episode takes you on a journey from the Moravian communities who created those beloved miniature Christmas villages and sparked the tradition of trains around the tree, to the legendary Frost Fairs when the frozen Thames in London became an impromptu winter festival complete with roasted oxen and spiked beverages. You'll also get the full story on Vince Guaraldi, the jazz pianist whose iconic Charlie Brown Christmas music became a gateway drug to jazz for millions, plus an intimate look at the creepy and charming Welsh tradition of the Mari Lwyd—a ghost horse that still visits homes on winter nights to engage in verse battles for entry and blessing. The hosts also share Chuck's homemade pumpkin spice old-fashioned recipe to sip on while you listen.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
1963
26m
★ 6.7
"Lee Mendelssohn, who was starting a documentary project on Charles Schultz that would ultimately be called a boy named Charlie Brown. — Documentary project that led Lee Mendelssohn to discover Vince Guaraldi's music for composing the Peanuts soundtrack."
— Josh
A Charlie Brown Christmas
1965
25m
★ 7.7
"Coca-Cola came around and they said, we want to do this Christmas special, Charlie Brown Christmas, in spring 65. — Classic Christmas special featuring Vince Guaraldi's iconic jazz music that is the subject of extensive discussion."
— Josh
Black Orpheus
1959
PG
1h 40m
★ 7.0
"It was a movie in 1959, a French film called Black Orpheus, and what he did was offer some sort of jazz arrangements. — French film that inspired Vince Guaraldi's album 'Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus' which contained 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind.'"
— Josh
"That was from Seinfeld. Remember he had a girlfriend that he was spitting out food and putting it in his jacket. — Referenced an episode where a character wraps mutton in napkins and stuffs it in his jacket pocket."
— Chuck
Terror at London Bridge
1985
1h 40m
★ 5.4
"a really great 1985 TV movie starring David Hasselhoff called Terror at London Bridge. Definitely worth watching. — Referenced when discussing how the 1831 London Bridge was reassembled in Lake Havasu, Arizona, which inspired this TV movie."
— Chuck
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