Ep. 59 THERE GOES MR. HUMBUG w/ Ellie in the World (Patreon)

Topic: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) + Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge (1951) + Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol (1971) + Brian Henson's The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)Guest: Ellie in the World (@EllieintheWorld)MERRY CHRISTMAS from BISTRO CALIFORNIUMIn this special Christmas episode of Bistro Californium, yeerk is joined by a good friend for an discussion of perhaps the greatest Christmas story of all time + a handful of the best and most beloved of its countless adaptations"Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!""'Because,' said Scrooge, 'a little thing affects em. A slight disorder of the stomach makes em cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!'""The place, London. The time, 1843. The season, that of jollity, of festivity and charity. Holly and berries and goodwill to all men. With perhaps one exception. And it is with this exception that we are concerned in our story. The exception is: Ebeneezer Scrooge.""When a cold wind blows it chills youChills you to the boneBut there's nothing in nature that freezes your heartLike years of being alone""Captive, bound and double-ironedExhausted by the weightAs freedom comes from giving loveSo prison comes from hate"