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Today I am joined by my other Shooting the poo podcast show host from days gone by Ian Mond and we head to Colorado to to celebrate a non-denominational character who visits everyone each Christmas whose maintained a balanced high fibre diet throughout the year, and the 1995 AFL Grand Final.

Today I am joined by 3 very special guests, my 2 children, Jax, & Gee and our cat Maxwell Paws and they share their opinions on Christmas...well the kids do, Max became tight lipped as soon as we pushed record.

Massive Attack returns for its annual Christmas tradition of annoying you with daily podcasts about Christmas.

Mitch couldn't do it alone so put the call out for help And Mitch's co-host from Hey Hey it's the podcast and WrestleRock Commentator Christmas tragic Criss Fresh stepped up to the plate to talk about one of his favorite childhood films, Santa Claus: the movie.

In what is now becoming a bit of a tradition, as the dust settles on another year and another 12 Days of Christmas countdown, we start off the new year by looking back at the old one and going over some of our favourite things including comics, gaming, TV, Movies and new podcasts we’ve started listening to in 2018.

There may be couple of spoilers in there, especially when we discuss the DC Injustice Vs Masters Of The Universe cross-over comic, and “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but other than that we’re pretty safe.

After hoping for a big finish for the 12 days we gave up on our original choice and went back to animations with the 1959 Russian short "A Christmas Visit", which is sometimes also known as "A Christmas Tree" just to be confusing.

It's the story of a young Russian boy who is sad that his weatherman father in Antarctica will miss out on having a tree for Christmas, so with the help of Santa and his magical plane, and some friendly animals, tries to get one there.

There a few versions of this online, unfortunately they all seem a little washed-out as far as colour goes, but you can watch it here on Youtube.

And just for a special Christmas treat, make sure you stick around for the song!

Today we go all educational again with this strange little doco featuring a school teacher, aptly named Mrs. White, taking her class through some Christmas traditions from around the world.

Other than a Riftrax version we couldn't find much online about this, no links on Youtube or other streaming sights, and couldn't even find out what year it actually was made, but we're assuming it was somewhere in the late fifties.

We're getting closer to Christmas and it into the final three days of our countdown, so today for Day 10 we watched the 1936 short, "Christmas Comes But Once A Year". Produced by the Fleischer Studios, this beautifully animated short tells the story of Professor Grampy visiting some sad orphans to brighten up their Christmas day by creating some nifty toys out of household bits and pieces.

There is a very nicely restored version available to watch on YouTube as well.

Christmas is a time for celebrations and having fun, yet today for Day 9 we picked something a little bit more depressing in the 1954 adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" from Castle Films. Freaky Icemen, interpretive dance, a reggae loving Santa and heartless street kids stealing shoes. It's all here in this crazy short film.

And if you don't have Amazon Prime, don't fret, it's all here on Daily Motion.

While some of the picks for this year's 12 days have been entertaining, today for Day 8 it's time to get educated too as we bring you this informative short from 1953 called "Silent Night: A Story Of A Christmas Carol". The title kinda gives it away, as we go back to Austria in 1818 when the song was first composed.

If you are watching along at home, its not just on Amazon Prime, but can also be found here on YouTube.

For Day 7 we head back to the 1940's with this charming little short called "A Christmas Dream", which we think is either from 1946 or 1949 depending on who you believe.

Originally made by Czech brothers Karel and Borivoj Zeman, but then dubbed into English by Castle Films, it features a nice mix of stop motion, 2D animation and live action, and was a pleasure to watch after some of the crap we've seen over the last few days.

This one is all over the internet, but you can find a pretty clear copy over on YouTube.