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 Reindeer” special. We couldn't help noticing that the show has a lot of awful themes–for example, the bullying that occurs when a reindeer or a boy is different from 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…
Some of the bullying from the special:
On a more serious topic, an interview with Jim Womack and Dan Jones: