Episode 241: How Don Saved the Podcast

This week the boys talk about a sleigh-load of Santa-related news items—merry and otherwise. Then we examine the biggest question of the season: Why has the sale of Grinch decorations surpassed those of Santa this year!?

Pop Culture

• The Times | Santa ‘sacked for being too fat’ after costume fails to fit

Fat Watch

• Oregon State University | What’s it take to be Santa? New research shows that even atypical candidates can be successful in the role

• Chicago Teachers Union | Santa got arrested last night to save youth jobs

• Maui Now | Inclusive Santas ring in the holidays for Hawaiʻi students with hearing and visual impairments

• Houma Today | Native Santa to visit bayou communities. Where to meet him

Main Topic: Changing Christmas Traditions, Santa, and the Grinch

• Walmart's WhoKnewVille Campaign

• Serving Holidays with a Side of Chaos: Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch Meal Is Coming to McDonald’s

• Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Lost Christmas!

Tip: Please Consider... Santa's Husband

• Santa's Husband by Daniel Kibblesmith, Illustrated by A.P. Squach