Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

Spooky Season continues this week as Julia, Anthony, and Thom are joined by Gathering of the Geek's Chris Evans (not the Chris Evans, but that Chris Evans), who makes his triumphant return to the show to talk 2025's horror-comedy, The Monkey, based on the 1980 Stephen King short story of the same name! Trust us when when we say this is one fun, funny episode you want to be sure not to miss!

So settle back with your favorite Autumnal drink from Starbucks, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Wednesday, Christmas Fanatics!

We are back with what is becoming a favorite staple of our annual Spooky Season celebrations: 2026's Tis the Podcast Ultimate Horror Movie Bracket!

This year, Anthony is joined by: Kendall and Misty of Two Girls, One Crypt, Matt of North Pole Radio, and Ron, Lindsey, and Ryan of Film Strip Podcast for the ultimate championship bracket to debate, argue, and ultimately figure out which horror movie will take the crown of what we deem 2026's ultimate horror film!

We're switching things up a bit this year though! Instead of Anthony choosing all of the movies for the competition, each show gets their own devision! So North Pole Radio picked all of the films to face off against one another in the Northwest Division, Film Strip Podcast all of the movies in the Southwest Division, Two Girls, One Crypt the Northeast Division, and Tis the Podcast the Southeast Division! It makes for a wide, eclectic range of movies that are definitely representative of the tastes of each show, and makes for some epic debates as the competition gets whittled down!

As always, this episode is an absolute marathon, clocking in at over eleven hours so it'll definitely keep you occupied for a few days at work and a few commutes in the lead up to Halloween! But we promise that, as always, it's filled with laughs, good-natured ribbing, and tons of excellent insight and opinions on some of the greatest(?) films in horror movie history. Trust us when we say this is one you definitely do not want to miss!

We poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this one and appreciate you not only listening, but sharing it too! So settle back with your pumpkin spice lattes, hit that share button, press play, relax, and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

After catching up Colburn family reunions, talking about Anthony's experience at Halloween Horror Nights 35, catching up on movies, and giving their reaction to HBO's latest trailer for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Julia and Anthony continue this journey through Spooky Season 2026 by discussing a bonafide Halloween classic: 1980's, Friday the 13th. Another first time watch for Julia, and one that's been part of Anthony's life for the majority of it, how does this one compare to A Nightmare on Elm Street? And does it even resemble whatsoever the franchise it would eventually become? Tune in to find out! Trust us when we say this is one episode you wanna be sure not to miss! 

So settle back with your pumpkin spice lattes, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy Labor Day! We hope you're all enjoying the long weekend!

Today marks the official start of Spooky Season on "Tis the Podcast", and we're celebrating in a big way: by welcoming our friend Kristin from the always amazing "Holidays After Dark" to talk an undisputed classic: 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm Street"! Listen as they discuss their histories, the movie's origins, what works for them, and what doesn't, amongst much, much more! Trust us when we say, this is one episode you want to be sure not to miss!

So settle back with those Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Relax, and Enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy Last Day of August! We're on the Eve of the 'Ber Months and the official start of Spooky Season! How exciting is that?

Before we transition into Halloween mode for the months of September and October, Julia and Anthony send August off with a bang by finishing their revisit of the "The Office" Christmas episodes via their Superfan Extended episodes! The episodes they cover this week? Season 8's "Christmas Wishes" and Season 9's "Dwight Christmas"! Trust us when we say this one fun episode you wanna be sure not to miss!

So settle back with your pumpkin spice lattes, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Friday, Christmas Fanatics!   As a special bonus treat to kickoff Spooky Season a bit early, and honor the fact that tonight is the official opening of "Halloween Horror Nights 35", enjoy this special bonus episode in which Anthony is joined by Kendall and Misty of "Two Girls, One Crypt" to discuss this years lineup of houses, scare zones, and shows at the event! They also rank their anticipation for each house as they get prepared to step into the fog together later this October together!   Trust us when we say, this is one fun bonus episode you'll want to be sure not to miss! So settle back with your Pumpkin Spice Lattes, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🍂🎃🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! 

This week, Julia and Anthony continue their revisit of the holiday season at Dunder Mifflin Paper Company by discussing the extended, Superfan episodes of "The Office's" Season 6 and 7 episodes: "Secret Santa" and "Classy Christmas"! 

Also discussed: "The End of Oak Street", "Dungeon Crawler Carl", back to school in the Colburn household, Anthony's experience at Universal Passholder Night, updates on the filming of "The Batman Part II", and much, much more! 

Trust us when we see this is one fun, festive, and laugh-a-minute episode you want to be sure not to miss! So settle back, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Tuesday, Christmas Fanatics!

This week, the elves are heading back to Dunder Mifflin for a little Christmas déjà vu! We know we've already talked about The Office's Christmas episodes, but now we're diving into the extended editions, and we think you know these elves aren't complaining about talking the Office.

Anthony, Julia, and Thom kick things off with "Christmas Party", the Season 2 classic featuring Michael's disastrous Secret Santa, an iPod, a teapot, Yankee Swap (or Dirty Santa, or whatever you call it where you live), before heading diving into "A Benihana Christmas" which features one very memorable Christmas card. Then it's off to "Moroccan Christmas," where Phyllis takes control of the Party Planning Committee, Meredith catches fire, Dwight sells Princess Unicorn dolls, and Angela's carefully guarded secret threatens to become very public knowledge.

But this time, we're not just talking about the episodes we already know and love. We're digging into the extended and deleted scenes, the little character moments that got left on the cutting-room floor, and all the extra bits that somehow make these episodes feel even more like Christmas.

Also discussed this episode: pumpkin spice season is upon us; Universal Passholder Night; HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot and its just announced Gilderoy Lockhart casting for Season 2; Ted Lasso; Spider-Man; the increasingly bizarre world of twisted childhood movies; Dungeon Crawler Carl spoilers; Spirit Halloween; Ebenezer and Violent Night 2 trailers; the return of Ghosts; British Christmas specials; the history of Benihana; Danny DeVito/Jimothy; The X-Files; Steve Carell aging like fine wine; and our ongoing inability to stay on topic for more than approximately twelve seconds.

So grab your Christmas sweater, pour yourself something festive, and settle in for another trip to Scranton with your favorite misfit toys.

And yes... Belschnickel is coming.

As always, thanks for listening, y'all! ❤️🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas in July!

Firstly, join us in wishing our very own Julia, everybody' favorite elf, a very Happy Birthday! This show wouldn't be the same without her good cheer and evergreen optimism and cheeriness!

Secondly, listen as the elves finally gather to discuss the Christmas episodes of Cartoon Network's "Regular Show" - a series they've been trying to reschedule repeatedly the past few years. If you want to follow along at home, the episodes discussed are:

Season 4 - Episode 9 - The Christmas Special
Season 6 - Episode 9 - The White Elephant Gift Exchange
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Merry Christmas Mordecai 
Season 8 - Episode 23 - Christmas in Space 

Also briefly discussed: "Evil Dead Burn", "The Invite", Disney's live-action "Moana", and Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey"! 

So settle back, relax, and enjoy! We guarantee this is one festive, laugh-filled episode that will help you start your week on the right foot! 

As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Saturday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy Christmas in July 2026! Can you believe we're here already?

As a special treat to mark the occasion, Julia and Anthony sit down to provide a commentary track for the perennial favorite of the show, "A Charlie Brown Christmas"! After a bit of talk about the "Clayface" and "Avengers: Doomsday" trailers, the two of them count you down so you can hit "Play" at the same time as them and hear their real-time reactions as you watch the iconic Peanuts' holiday special unfolds! 

So settle back, relax, and enjoy! And as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! We hope all of our Canadian listeners had a great Canada Day, and all of our American listeners had a great 250th Fourth of July! As we are officially past the Fourth, now, you know what that means - it's officially Spooky Season! We don't make the rules - we just enforce them! 

That said, "Tis the Podcast" won't be going full spooky until September 1st! As such, after our usual pre-show, catch-up banter, Julia, Thom, and Anthony continue their journey through Stars Hollow by once again talking a show they all love: "Gilmore Girls"! For those following along at home, the episodes discussed this week are:

Season 2, Episode 10: The Bracebridge Dinner

and 

Season 7, Episode Episode 11: Santa's Secret Stuff

Trust us when we say, this one fun, festive episode that is sure to put you in the holiday spirit and help simulate Christmas for you on these ridiculously hot, Summer Days!

So settle back, relax, and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🚂🔔 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️