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🎄It’s 1980, and my spoiled nephew just got beaten in a ski-jumping contest by a bear who’s never seen winter before.  

Join us we fail upward through middle to upper hotel management featuring a simultaneously very mature and very immature conversation about cartoon bears discovering mistletoe. What could be the Jellystone Winter Lodge’s final Christmas carnival manages to wake up Yogi Bear, who hibernates directly underneath it but somehow never knew about it before now.  

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🎙 Guest:  

Bill Hanstock (@sundownmotel, “We Promised You a Great Main Event: An Unauthorized WWE History”)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. This special opens with a typo: The sign reads “Yellystone Park.”  

2. Daws Butler’s Snagglepuss voice was a Bert Lahr impression that was so spot on, Lahr threatened to sue when Snagglepuss started endorsing Kellogg’s cereal.  

3. Hanna-Barbera’s Christmas Sing-A-Long album, featuring songs from this special.  

4. Yogi was in “Casper’s First Christmas” in 1979, so this isn’t really Yogi’s First Christmas.  

5. Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial episode, 2017.  

6. The Wonkamobile.  

7. ClickHole: “Which One of My Garbage Sons Are You?” Clickhole, 2014.  

8. Eddie the Eagle.  

9. Mickey Mouse’s shirtless (and hatless) Steamboat Willie winter look at Disneyland.  

10. “Mean, Sour, Crafty, and Cruel” in “Oliver and the Artful Dodger” and “Smurfs.”  

11. The Zone of Death in the part of Yellowstone National Park that’s in Idaho.  

12. “Christmas Is Here” in “A Flintstone Christmas.”  

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📼 Commercial Break:  

Cocoa Krispies Snagglepuss “Heavens to Murgatroyd” Commercial, circa 1963.  

Bad Princess Movies, a catalogue of terrible movies about princesses and princesses-to-be.  

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“Yogi’s First Christmas” © 1980 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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Robert is on hold for a TVC while Orson worries if re-commencing production on Rust is a wise decision.

In this episode:

• Trailer Droppings: Shotgun Wedding (Jason Moore) - pure insanity!
• Billy Eichner blames straight people for Bros box office failure
• Robert Welles Sings the Movies - the new album!
• The never ending quest for proper credits
• Moofie Review: The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher)

Our next Moofie Review will be... Blonde (2022, Andrew Dominik) 

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Matthew Jenkin
Luke Joslin
Toby Truslove

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In this episode of the Pop Culture SquadCast we spoke with writer Mark Russell. It's been about seven years since Mark burst on the scene with his breakthrough book The Flintstones from DC comics.

Since that time, he has delivered a string of smart, thought provoking stories in the medium including Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Second Coming with Ahoy Comics, Red Sonja from Dynamite Entertainment, Billionaire Island, Not All Robots from AWA Studios, and so much more.

We spent some time in this conversation talking about his two upcoming series which are Superman: Space Age on which he is work with legendary artist Mike Allred. And The Incal: Psychoverse that he is doing with Yanick Paquette.

If you are a fan of Mark Russell's work at all, you know that we had to touch on some current events and nature of human society. It was a lot of fun.

You can find some links and a partial transcription here.