Episodes

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

Today, journey with the elves to the fictional town of North Pole, Vermont, as they cover the 2021, Peacock original movie, "The Housewives of the North Pole"! 

While Anthony is adamant that this streaming holiday film is standard Hallmark fare, Julia and Thom aren't so sure. Listen as they debate the acting ability of Kylie Richards, the most absurd profession for a "hot guy" in any movie of this genre, whether young love is enough to make you immune to the northern lights, and much, much more!

Also discussed: Thom's upcoming visit to New York; possible costumes this Halloween season; and the upcoming Fall season in general!

This is one really fun episode about one really mid-to-bad movie that you want to be sure not to miss! So settle back and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️ 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, everyone!

In this week's episode of our podcast, join our elf crew as they recount their 4th of July festivities before discussing the classic film, "Independence Day", Jeff Goldblum, home renovation pranks, new nephews, and Threads.

After which, it's time for an exploration of the podcast's first-ever Finnish movie - the enchanting "Christmas Story" from 2007! Embark on a captivating journey with them as they delve into this unique Santa origin story, compare it to other Santa origin tales, and express their appreciation for the rich folklore surrounding the jolly old man himself, Santa Claus.

This is one fun and festive episode that will help cool you off in this hot, hot summer! So, settle back and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! 🎅 🤶 🎄❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! We hope all of our Canadian and American friends are having a great long weekend! To our listeners in Canada - we hope you had a wonderful Canada Day! And to our listeners in America - we hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July tomorrow!

This week, Julia, Thom, and Anthony travel back to the eighties to cover the two Christmas episodes of the beloved sitcom, "Who's the Boss?"! For those who want to watch along at home, the episodes covered are:

• Season 3 - Episode 11 - The Christmas Card
• Season 5 - Episode 8 - A Spirited Christmas

While both episodes invoked a sense of cozy nostalgia for our hosts, one definitely holds up and resonates with them more than the other! Which one? Well, you'll have to tune in to find out!

Also discussed this episode? Anthony's thoughts on "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"; the opinions of all three hosts on the DCU's newly cast Superman and Lois Lane - David Corenswet and Rachel Broshnahan - in addition to their fan-casts for the other main roles of Lex Luthor, Ma and Pa Kent, Jor-El, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen; Fourth of July plans; and much, much more! 

This is one fun episode you want to be sure not to miss! So settle back and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️ 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! As of today, we are officially closer to Christmas 2023 than we are to Christmas 2022! How exciting is that?

To kick off your day, and make the start of your week just a little bit brighter, Julia and Anthony (sans Thom, who was dealing with a power outage) hop across the pond in this episode to cover the animated, 2016 British TV special, "Stick Man" -  based on Julia Donaldson's 2008 children's story of the same name!

Animated British Holiday Specials have been hit-or-miss for the elves - especially for Anthony and Thom - so how does this one compare to "The Snowman" and "Father Christmas" for our hosts? You'll just have to tune in to find out! 

Also discussed this episode: Julia's recent trip to Disney World, movies that Anthony's seen recently, all of the upcoming content coming up on the show, and all of the "Countdown to the Ber Months" milestones that we'll be hitting over the coming weeks - amongst much, much more!

This is one festive episode you want to be sure not to miss! So settle back and enjoy! And, as always, thanks for all of your love and support! ❤️ 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Sunday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy Leon Day! We are officially halfway to Christmas 2023! Can you believe it? The ride will pick up steam from here and the Ber Months will be upon us before we know it!

To mark the occasion, Julia, Thom, and Anthony gather for a very special bonus episode in which they discuss the 2014, Hallmark Channel Original Movie, "A Royal Christmas"! How does it stack up amongst the other Hallmark films the elves have covered over the years? And where does it rank amongst the abundance of other royal holiday films out there? You'll just have to tune in to find out!

Also discussed: Individual summer plans and summer milestones we can all celebrate and count down with to the Ber Months this year!

So settle in beside the air condition to simulate a cool winter breeze and enjoy because this is one fun episode full of holiday cheer you want to be sure not to miss!

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

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! We hope all the dads out there had a wonderful father's day, and we hope all of our American listeners are taking some time this long weekend to reflect on the real meaning and history of Juneteenth as you enjoy your extra day off!

While Julia may still be enjoying a fabulous Disney World vacation with her family, Anthony and Thom decided to record solo to ensure that y'all didn't go another week without a new episode! 

What do Pirates of the Pancreas, Terminator-esque alien snakes, lightsabers dropped perfectly vertically, and uncut versions of "Miracle on 34th Street" all have in common? Christmas celebrations at the Smith-Sanchez house! That's right! This week, Thom and Anthony are delving into the holiday episodes of the extremely popular - and extremely adult - cartoon, "Rick and Morty"! 

For those who want to follow along at home, the episodes covered this week are:

• Season 1 - Episode 3 - Anatomy Park
• Season 4 - Episode 5 - Rattlestar Ricklactica 
• Season 6 - Episode 10 - Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation

This is an episode that's full of laughs, quotes, and definite adult content, so you most-definitely want to listen to this one without any young children present! As for what Anthony and Thom think of "Rick and Morty" in general? You'll just have to tune in to find out - though the answer may surprise you!

Also discussed this episode: "Harry Potter" camp, A.I., Disney's live action remake of "The Little Mermaid", and much, much more! So, settle in beside the air conditioning to simulate those cool Ber-Month evenings, relax, and enjoy this fun installment of "Tis the Podcast"! And, as always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! Wubalubadubdub! ❤️ 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy June! The year is flying by as fast as Santa and his reindeer do on Christmas Eve!

And speaking of Santa...

In this episode, Julia, Thom, and Anthony are joined by Santa Claus himself, Mr. Matt Spaulding of "North Pole Radio"! After catching up on their weeks and laughing about a specific targeted ad that appeared in front of the "Dennis the Menace" episode last week that none of the elves would have willingly put in front of it, the four hosts travel back in time to the nineties to discuss the Chrismukkah episodes of, "The Nanny"! 

If you'd like to follow along, the entire series is available to stream on "Max" and the episodes covered are:

• Season 1, Episode 7: "Christmas Episodes"
• Season 3, Episode 14: "Oy to the World"
• Season 6, Episode 10: "The Hanukkah Story"

Listen as the hosts break down their histories, the cast, and laugh about the exploits that Nanny Fine, Niles the Butler, the dastardly C.C. Babcock, and the entire Sheffield brood get up to in these high-quality holiday episodes! All of this and much, much more are discussed in this extremely fun installment of the show - filled with quotes galore - that you want to make sure not to miss! 

So settle back, blast that air conditioner so you can close your eyes and pretend we're smack dab in the middle of the holiday season, and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all! ❤️ 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Side-Note: While the elves say in this episode we'll be on hiatus the next two weeks, due to Julia's Disney Vacation, Anthony and Thom may get together to record alone so we don't miss the next few weeks! So make sure to keep your eyes on your main feeds the next two Mondays! 

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! And Happy Memorial Day to all of our American listeners! We hope you're enjoying your long weekend and the unofficial kick-off to Summer! Just think, the next season will be Fall and we'll be in our beloved Ber Months! Who says time doesn't fly?

This week, join Julia, Thom, and Anthony as they discuss the 2007, straight-to-home-video film, "A Dennis the Menace Christmas"! Very similar in many ways to "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish", does this one hold up better as a holiday movie for the elves, or is it of the same abysmal quality? Well, you'll just have to tune in to find out!

Enjoy, y'all! As always, thanks for your love and support! 

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! Can you believe that as of today we are officially halfway through May? Leon Day is next month! Time is flying!

After a brief hiatus, the elves are back (before we take another brief hiatus!) and excited to talk all things Christmas! Join them as they cover the 1998, made-for-TV film, "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish" - a movie they are completely baffled by given some of the talent involved, and a movie that made Thom jokingly bring up ending the show!

Also covered this week - new Christmas movies expected later this year; "Beetlejuice 2"; "Ruined!"; the plethora of 'Ber Months Patreon that is already being recorded and scheduled; TV talk; and life in general! So while this week's film may have been tedious to get through, it nevertheless spawned a fun episode you don't want to miss! 

So, settle back and enjoy! As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all!

Side Note - Like with yesterday's bonus Mother's Day episode (which you need to make sure to check out if you haven't yet!), Anthony's audio is a little wonky once again. We're working on getting that fixed so it doesn't happen going forward! Thanks for understanding! 

 

Happy Sunday, everybody! And Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers and mother-like figures out there! We hope you have a wonderful day where you are shown the appreciation and love you deserve!

As we've been on a hiatus the past few weeks, we wanted to drop a special mother's day episode for y'all in your feeds to make it up to all of you! So, join us as we discuss an animated Mother's Day special that's famous to everyone who grew up in the '90's: Season 4, Episode 2 of "Rugrats" simply titled, "Mother's Day"! 

Listen as the elves gather to gush over this groundbreaking children's special, and the "Rugrats" in general, in this fun, heartfelt episode, in which they also touch on their own personal plans for this Mother's Day, recent "Beetlejuice 2" casting, and ask listeners to weigh in on who is the Angelica of the "Tis the Podcast" trio and which Rugrats would correspond to the other two hosts! 

So settle back and enjoy! And - of course - make sure to check your main feeds tomorrow for your regularly scheduled, Christmas-movie programming! 

As always, thanks for your love and support, y'all!

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

This week, Julia, Thom, and Anthony are traveling across the pond to discuss the 2021, apocalyptic, dark-comedy Christmas film, "Silent Night"! It's a fascinating discussion full of philosophical questions because this is the type of movie that raises them. Our usual question remains, however: Is this a Christmas movie or merely a movie set at Christmas? You'll just have to tune in to find out! Also discussed: [HBO] Max's "Harry Potter" reboot; "True Detective" Season 2; Season 3 of "The Mandalorian"; the upcoming "The Penguin" and "The Conjuring" television series; next year's theatrical adaptation of the beloved Broadway show, "Wicked"; the horror movie podcast, "Ruined!"; and much, much more!

This is one fun, jam-packed episode you want to be sure not to miss! So settle back and enjoy, y'all! As always, thanks for the love and support! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

 

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

Due to the elves' busy work schedules, we couldn't get a new episode recorded this week! But never fear! We have a timely, once patreon-exclusive episode dropping for you! 

This past week, [HBO] Max confirmed they are moving forward with a television adaptation of the "Harry Potter" books, adapting one book per season and producing all seven seasons over the course of a decade! Naturally, this elicited a lot of excitement online, and fan-casting has been running rampant!

Well, back in February, when rumors of a potential "Harry Potter" remake began swirling around, Julia, Thom, and Anthony gathered to recast the main adult characters in the series for the then hypothetical series! 

We know what you're thinking! Could anyone ever possibly top Alan Rickman as Snape, Dame Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall, or any of the other incredible, British alumni that were part of the original cast? Probably not. But, we do our best to cast excellent actors and actresses in their own right to follow in those iconic footsteps, adhering slightly closer to the descriptions, personalities, and age ranges as established in J.K. Rowling's beloved book series. The only limitations we set for ourselves were: we couldn't choose the same actor for a role they played previously; and we wouldn't limit ourselves to British thespians. The result? Three very different, but equally as fun, fan-cast lists that we think you'll all enjoy!

So, settle back and enjoy this super fun blast from the recent past you want to be sure not to miss! As always, thanks for your love and support! We love y'all! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas fanatics! We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and hope that the Easter Bunny was good to you all!

This week, Julia, Anthony, and the effervescent Natalie Bickel (that's right, Thom is M.I.A. this week due to dad duties) travel to the north pole to visit the most famous reindeer of all and discuss his 1998, theatrically released film, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie"! 

Does the '90's animation style inject enough nostalgia into the three hosts to make up for the fact that this film has all but disappeared in recent years? How does it fare against the iconic 1964, Rankin/Bass special in their minds, and how does it differ in terms of story? And what exactly has that Busy Bee, Natalie Bickel, been up to since the last time she appeared on the show? All of these answers, and much more, are divulged in this week's episode!

So, settle in and relax because "the mood is right, the spirit's up, we're here tonight, and that's enough" to inject this Mid-April Monday with some much needed Christmas cheer! Enjoy, y'all! As always, thanks for your love and support! 🎅🏻🎄🎁 🦌🦉⛄️🔔🚂 🤶🏻 🎀 ❄️

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics!

This week, the elves gather to discuss the Hallmark-esque satire film, "Christmas with the Campbells" - which is essentially a Hallmark movie if written with Anthony's sensibilities. What did the hosts think of it? Well, that description should give it away! Nevertheless, tune in for the in-depth discussion because it's a fun conversation, as always!

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

Greetings, festive pals!

In this week's episode, our merry elves gather to discuss their spring break experiences, delve into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and catch up on Anthony's Yuletide news! And, of course, they also review the final trio of "Black-ish" Christmas episodes! For those who want to watch and follow along at home, they are:

• Season 5 - Episode 8 - Christmas in Theater Eight
• Season 6 - Episode 10 - Father Christmas
• Season 7 - Episode 8 - Compton Around the Christmas Tree

Enjoy, y'all! And don't miss out on the conversation – let us know what you think of these episodes, and "Black-ish" overall, by joining Anthony, Julia, Thom, and the rest of "Tis the Podcast's" fantastic Christmas-loving community at linktree.com/tisthepodcast.

As always, thanks for your love and support!