Friday, I shared my song “Gemba Claus is Comin' to Town” and I thought I was done posting for the year.
But, my wife and I were watching a recording of the old “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer” special. We couldn't help noticing that the show has a lot of awful themes — for example, there's a lot of bullying that occurs when a reindeer or a boy is different than the rest. I'm not sure how that's an uplifting Christmas tale.
In the special, Santa is pretty skinny. A running joke was that Mrs. Claus was trying to fatten him up for Christmas. Jim Womack from LEI is thin, so the resemblance was even more striking throughout the hour:
Ho, ho, ho! Maybe Santa will bring you gifts from the LEI bookstore…
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On a more serious topic, an interview with Jim Womack and Dan Jones: