A Smoky Mountain Christmas

<p>It’s 1986, and we’re hiding out in a cabin in the mountains with modern-day Snow White and real-life Christmas angel Dolly Parton. Join us as we try to wrap our heads around this Henry Winkler-directed TV movie that gets really weird really quickly.  </p><p>Full show notes with links at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-smoky-mountain-christmas">https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/a-smoky-mountain-christmas</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guest:  </h2><p>• April Ryley (<a href="https://twitter.com/where2nextapril">@Where2NextApril</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/motherchristmascosplay/">@motherchristmascosplay</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U45-fMjo34"><i>Dolly Parton Meets the Kids</i></a>.  </p><p>• Muppet doppelgänger <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Polly_Darton">Polly Darton</a>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/dolly-parton-saves-life-child-actor-set-christmas-square-t203484">Dolly Parton saved a girl’s life</a> on the set of <i>Christmas on the Square</i>.  </p><p>• Gennie James (Cindy) in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuNyPF09Td4"><i>The Hugga Bunch Movie</i></a>.  </p><p>• Claude Earl Jones (Bartender) in the <i>Seinfeld</i> episode, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJt6jsy1AQ"><i>The Race</i></a>.  </p><p>• Lee Majors (Mountain Dan) and Jean Speegle Howard (Old Woman Jezebel) in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QVJOEwXac"><i>The Night the Reindeer Died</i></a>, the movie-within-a-movie from <i>Scrooged</i>.  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-people-eat-rats">How South Jersey Keeps Muskrat on the Menu</a> (Gastro Obscura).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>📼 Retro Commercial Break:  </h2><p>• 1988 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3fsxkQqBFg">Dollywood Commercial</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎤 And Now, These Messages:  </h2><p>• <a href="https://www.christmasclatter.com">Christmas Clatter</a>,  </p><p>• <a href="https://binstoybinnetwor