Family Ties: A Keaton Christmas Carol

<p>🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time. Join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before <i>Back to the Future</i> for a Scrooge Sunday edition of <i>Family Ties</i>, in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Molly Patton (<a href="http://mollypatton.com/">MollyPatton.com</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/molly_patton">@molly_patton</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MoMakesStuffUp">@MoMakesStuffUp</a>).  </p><p>Joey O. (<a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a>, <a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/pages.php?page=words-with-nerds">Words With Nerds</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@imgonnadj24</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqsQ2vPbUM">Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie <i>Noelle</i></a>.  </p><p>2. Chris Hebert (Young Alex) in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX31CuWpVbE"><i>Fuzzbucket</i></a>.  </p><p>3. Justine Bateman as Mallory as the Ghost of Christmas Future is the <a href="https://imgur.com/a/DSXgeMR">Best Dressed Ghost of Christmas Future</a>.  </p><p>4. <a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Zara_(Lois_%26_Clark)?file=Lady_Zara_%2528Lois_%2526_Clark%2529.png">Justine Bateman as Lady Zara</a>, Superman’s long-lost betrothed wife-to-be on <i>Lois and Clark</i>.  </p><p>5. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (Elyse) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the 2015 Lifetime Original Movie, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lifetime/videos/becoming-santa-saturday-at-98c/10153373034734087/"><i>Becoming Santa</i></a>.  </p><p>6. The time I went shopping on Christmas Day in the year 2000 and ended up finding the loneliest Hollywood Video employee.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>📼 Retro Commercial Break:  </h2><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFqc0ft7Vnk">Atari Christmas Commercial</a>, 1983.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎤 And Now, These Messages:  </h2