Speaker 1: Day eighteen of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar, and
Speaker 1: our friend Josh Chambers says, of all the classic Christmas
Speaker 1: stories from o Henry to Clement Seymour and every single
Speaker 1: jingle bella in between, which tale would you want to
Speaker 1: hear in Rodd's inimitable voice. Okay, so I guess all
Speaker 1: of fiction in the Christmas realm is our playground here,
Speaker 1: Zach anythan jumping out for.
Speaker 2: You, this was a hard question because he's read some things.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to go with The Polar Express by
Speaker 2: Chris Van Allsburg. It is a children's book, illustrated children's book,
Speaker 2: more of a family book really, It's for all ages, right,
Speaker 2: but it has that narrator point of view, and it
Speaker 2: has that spirit of Christmas quality to it that Rod
Speaker 2: Seiling seem to love so much, and a Twilight Zone
Speaker 2: skinning with like the bells at the end and Santa.
Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody familiar with the story or not.
Speaker 2: If you've seen the the Roberts Mechas motion capture movie
Speaker 2: with Tom Hanks from a few years back, you might
Speaker 2: be most familiar with it from there. But you know,
Speaker 2: now that I think about it, I'd love to hear
Speaker 2: you read that Tom for the podcast for the Patreon.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. The thing is, there's no wrong answers to
Speaker 1: this is that it's like you would have Rod Sailing
Speaker 1: read anything because it just sounds great. So it's all
Speaker 1: good stuff. I'm going to cheat a little bit because
Speaker 1: this ties very much into something which was kind of
Speaker 1: monumental for me. When I went to sailing Fest last time,
Speaker 1: I decided to to do my presentation about Rod Sailing
Speaker 1: and Christmas because does that soul kind of strong link
Speaker 1: between the two. You know, he obviously loved Christmas and
Speaker 1: he loved Christmas stories and then just that journey. Then
Speaker 1: I went on to think, okay, how am I going
Speaker 1: to do this to Actually I'm presenting you now something
Speaker 1: that hasn't been held in public for over seventy years.
Speaker 1: You know, I felt like Indiana Jones, you know, finding
Speaker 1: this thing. It was in you know, the archives across
Speaker 1: the country in the US, which I wasn't able to
Speaker 1: go to. But through the help of you know, A
Speaker 1: Sailing and Jody Sailing and the archivist there, I was
Speaker 1: able to get this recording to use it on stage.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I mean that story. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a little rough around the edges, you know,
Speaker 1: it's early rod sailing, before he is truly the master.
Speaker 1: But there is a definite joy to it, and there's
Speaker 1: a joy in the way that he speaks here and
Speaker 1: especially at the end. Now, I listened to that thing
Speaker 1: a million times when I put that presentation together, but
Speaker 1: I just never got tired of the joyful voice that
Speaker 1: he had on as he performed. Now, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's completely infitting with the question. But
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, to be able to
Speaker 1: present something that hadn't been heard, you know, to all
Speaker 1: the people at Sailing Fest, and then to get permission
Speaker 1: to play it to the thousands of people who listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast, Man, it doesn't get better than that.
Speaker 1: So that's my sort of answer to that question.
Speaker 2: No, I think that'll work for everybody, especially the people
Speaker 2: who've heard your rendition of it here on the podcast
Speaker 2: and who got to hear it live like myself at
Speaker 2: Rolling Fest. So happy about that. But that's a great answer,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Man,