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Let's get spooky! We're celebrating Halloween with a chilling special, sharing some of our favorite stories of brushes with the unexplained, the unsettling, the eerie, and the ghostly. An episode of the Storyworth podcast, one of our beloved clients, we're so excited to share this awesome episode with the Cheer family.  Check out photos and more details for this episode here! You can get started writing your own life stories with Storyworth here. Follow Storyworth on Instagram and Facebook.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1993, weatherman Phil Conners was sent on assignment to a small town in Pennsylvania. It was the fourth consecutive year that he and his crew were to report on whether or not a local celebrity would see his shadow. That's right, in this episode, the GenXGrownUp podcast is celebrating with the classic Bill Murray comedy, Groundhog Day! Website » GenXGrownUp.com Podcast » GenXGrownUp.com/pod Show Notes Get the movie on Amazon » amzn.to/3rofzUP (affiliate) Then and Now: The ‘Groundhog Day' Cast » bit.ly/3FASDGY Think you know everything about Groundhog Day? » bit.ly/3KiVxnh Here's why ‘Groundhog Day' is the greatest movie ever made » bit.ly/3nA0rCJ Fascinating Interpretations of Groundhog Day » bit.ly/33kZnvR How To Understand The Philosophy Of ‘Groundhog Day' And Live Life By Its Message » n.pr/3IaoGPR All the Groundhog Days: Every possible answer to the movie's biggest question » bit.ly/3A6sI8Z Email the show » podcast@genxgrownup.com Visit us on YouTube » GenXGrownUp.com/yt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of Cheer, Evergreen is pleased to feature the GenXGrownUp podcast. You have to grow older, but you don't have to grow up... Hear from Generation X'ers who spent their childhood immersed in the music, movies, games, and pop culture of the 70s, 80s, & 90s, and all that stuff shaped who they are today as adults. GenXGrownUp looks at yesterday and today through the eyes of Gen X'ers who refuse to grow up. Find out more about their podcast: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/genxgrownup TV shows have a long tradition of presenting a “special Christmas episode” around the holidays. For this show we re-watch some of our favorite Christmas-themed episodes to help get you in the spirit! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownup Discord » GenXGrownUp.com/discord Facebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUp Twitter » GenXGrownUp.com/twitter Website » GenXGrownUp.com Podcast » GenXGrownUp.com/pod Merchandise » GenXGrownUp.com/merch Theme: “Grown Up” by Beefy » beefyness.com iTunes » itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/genxgrownup-podcast/id1268365641 Google » play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iuthetoh4i5abybbnn4em36icwi Pocket Casts » pca.st/8iuL Stitcher » www.stitcher.com/s?fid=146720&refid=stpr TuneIn » tunein.com/radio/GenXGrownUp-Podcast-p1020342/ Spotify » spoti.fi/2TB4LR7 iHeart » www.iheart.com/podcast… Show Notes 100 Best Christmas TV Episodes of All Time » bit.ly/3pjjVKx 50 Classic Christmas and Holiday TV Episodes » bit.ly/3aydsqD Best Christmas TV episodes to re-watch over the holidays » bit.ly/38tk0UU Episodes we talked about in the show: Dragnet Season 1 (1953) – The Big Little Jesus Get Dragnet » amzn.to/3mNJL7O (affiliate) Taxi Season 1 (1978) – A Full House for Christmas Get Taxi » amzn.to/37GtIUY (affiliate) The Bob Newhart Show Season 4 (1975) – Bob Has To Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve In The Hospital Get Bob Newhart » amzn.to/2WzGbmS (affiliate) The Jeffersons Season 4 Episode 15 (1977) – 984 W. 124th St., Apt 5C Get The Jeffersons » amzn.to/3mGgICZ (affiliate) Night Court Season 1 Episode 2 (1984) – Santa Goes Downtown Get Night Court » amzn.to/3mEP0Xi (affiliate) Roseanne Season 6 (1988) – White Trash Christmas Get Roseanne » amzn.to/3nI4Wcy (affiliate) The Office (U.S.) Season 3 (2005) – A Benihana Christmas Get The Office » amzn.to/3mIijZ1 (affiliate) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Season 4 (1993) – ‘Twas The Night Before Christening Get Fresh Prince » amzn.to/3h8Mmrw (affiliate) Email the show » podcast@genxgrownup.com Visit us on YouTube » GenXGrownUp.com/yt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Halloween episode of Cheer, Michael DeAloia, CEO of Evergreen Podcasts, performs the poem Hallowe'en by Joel Benton. We wish you a fun and spooky Halloween! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leah Longbrake, the producer and host of Weddings Unveiled, has interviewed real brides and couples about their journey to the big day. Their story of course starts with the proposal! In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are a few of those romantic personal experiences of how they said ‘I Do!’. Click on the Real Bride or Couple to Hear Their Full Story! Stefanie Paganini Ashley Luu Conrad Nicole Fill Deanna “Dee” Furest Nikita & Carl Manteau Check out Weddings Unveiled with Leah Longbrake every other Wednesday. Download, Follow or Subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Thank you for listening to Cheer! We’d like to acknowledge the Evergreen Team for making this podcast possible. You can listen to Cheer, and more of our podcasts, by subscribing on your favorite podcast app or visit evergreenpodcasts.com. From all of us at Evergreen, we wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evergreen Podcasts is excited to introduce The Katz Walk. Hollywood fashion expert, VIP personal shopper and commentator Joseph "Joe" Katz brings you in-depth interviews with celebrities and influencers about their style and personal experiences. He also shares the best beauty and lifestyle tips and tricks to help you look and feel your best. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien has long been lauded for his imagination. His own children were especially blessed by this gift each Christmas when their father would write them letters seemingly signed by "Father Christmas." With charming sketches and hilarious tales of Christmas-preparations-gone-wrong, these letters include a glimpse at an entire cast of mythical creatures living at the North Pole.  Today, Production Director Brigid Coyne shares some of her favorite excerpts of “Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas,” featuring special appearances from Father Christmas (Michael DeAloia), Ilbereth the Elf (Declan Rohrs), and the North Polar Bear (Julie Fink), this podcast captures holiday magic the whole family can enjoy! Special thanks to Audio Engineer Will Pritts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanksgiving is upon us, and in a time when many people jump straight from Halloween to Christmas, Evergreen is still celebrating Thanksgiving in style. In this episode of Cheer, it’s our favorite cooking show, “The Tasty Apron.” In this episode, Mama Gazpacho is making us one of her favorite Thanksgiving Recipes, Peeping Mushroom Pasta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Ohio’s most haunted house… and Producers-turned-Paranormal Investigators, Julie Fink and Brigid Coyne, decide to pack up some audio equipment and capture what lingers within the boarded up castle walls. What starts out as a fun idea for a Halloween podcast, turns into a ghost hunter's worst nightmare. Disclaimer: No Producers were harmed in the making of this podcast.

For this episode of Cheer, Producer Hannah Leach was on a search to do a spooky cover song, but wanted to find something she'd never heard before – she was happy to find a bone-chilling banger in "She's My Witch" by Kip Tyler. This is her spooky, sultry take.

A dark short story that has been told for centuries, “The Black Velvet Ribbon,” is a tale of love, obsession, deceit, and mystery. This Halloween, gather around the campfire to hear Assistant Producer Declan Rohrs’ dramatic reading of Laura Freeman’s “The Black Velvet Ribbon.”

Premiering October 27 and running throughout Halloween week, GenXGrownUp presents, “Escape Room.” After being invited to attend and try out the pre-opening of an elaborate new Generation X-themed escape room experience, George, Mo, Jon, & Rachel find themselves involved in something much more sinister than anyone could have imagined. Will they make it out in time -- or at all? Hear “Escape Room” for yourself by searching for GenXGrownUp wherever you listen to podcasts.

Evergreen Producer, Julie Fink celebrates this Fourth of July with an inspiring clip from Charlie Chaplin’s first full sound movie, “The Great Dictator.” Charlie’s call for peace in The Final Speech of The Great Dictator provides an excellent road map of how a citizenry can conquer the issues that divide us. It's an impassioned plea for brotherhood and sisterhood and goodwill for all. Happy Independence Day!

Evergreen CCO, David Allen Moss, delivers a colorful portrait of a cherished 1854 war-time era poem to our July 4th celebration. Host of the mindful Wake Up Call podcast and Executive Producer/Creator of the quirky Retrotone News show — Moss recites Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Presented in the voice of fictional news legend, Rodge Bigsby, this timeless throwback production takes us back to the days of radio dramas, in a narrative that captures the spirit of valour and bravery, regardless of the historically tragic outcome. 

Evergreen CEO, Michael DeAloia recites the poem, "I Hear America Singing" by the American poet Walt Whitman, first published in the 1860 edition of his book Leaves of Grass. Though the poem was written on the eve of the Civil War, it presents a vision of America as a harmonious community and brings the true spirit of America to the forefront of our trying times.

This episode of Cheer, we are celebrating Father’s Day by interviewing the experts. We talked to several kids (ages 2-15), who shared their favorite jokes and stories about their dads. From sentimental to goofy, things got a little outta hand! Of course, the kids were hilarious and adorable (let's hope their dads think so too)! Special thanks to Lucy, Illy, Elise, Carson, Logan, Gwen, Jane and Megan for your brilliant insight into fatherhood.

Michael DeAloia, Evergreen's CEO and poet-in-residence, does a dramatic reading of of Matthew Arnold's Eastertide poem, "The Forsaken Merman." In this story Margaret (a seemingly human woman) leaves her merman husband and children when she hears a church's Easter bells, drawn to renew her spiritual life through prayer.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, one of the biggest drinking holidays, producer Sarah Willgrube brings you a drunk rendition of the story of Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick and the myth of how he rid Ireland of snakes. CAUTION: Due to the nature of St. Patrick’s Day, this episode may not be suitable for children and contains adult content, so please listen at your discretion.

This year our Production Director, Brigid Coyne, worked with the Kindergarten students from Padre Pio Academy to record their Christmas pageant performance. With this adorable rendition of "Friendly Beasts" by Charlie and Ira Louvin, the students will melt your heart. Enjoy!

Behold this larger-than-life rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy”, featuring the bass and vocal performance of David Allen Moss,  Evergreen’s Chief Creative Officer. Moss is joined by bandmate and bombastic drummer, Russ Herbert – both members of Cleveland’s  iconoclastic post rock duo, MOSSOM. The arrangement captures the spirit of believing and a story of personal pilgrimage, in a tribute befitting of the journeys we each take in our own quest for peace. 

Every December, in a small city in Sweden, a pair of giant straw goats goes up in the city square and the rest of the world waits to see when and how they will be destroyed. This is the story of the Gävle Goat, told by Producer, Isabel Robertson.

Producer, Julie Fink (a.k.a. Big Jingles) conducts a live broadcast from the North Pole with two of Santa’s top Christmas elves (Audio Director, Dave Douglas & Production Director, Brigid Coyne) as they read some colorful, imaginative (and often hostile) letters to Santa Claus written by real children from all over the world. Let's get frosty!

Account Manager, Conor Standish, brings us a beautiful rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” accompanied by his very own band, The Front Porch Lights.   The song was originally written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and first performed by Judy Garland.    Credit to Front Porch Lights for performing and to Greg David of Sequence Music for recording and mixing the song.

From the 1974 stop motion animated television special, The Year Without a Santa Claus, comes this dazzling rendition of “The Snow Miser & Heat Miser” song. CEO, Michael DeAloia (Heat Miser) teams up with Chief Creative Officer, David Moss (Snow Miser) and are joined by Audio Director, Dave Douglas and Account Manager, Conor Standish for a sprightly background vocal performance... luckily three fourths of this Christmas quartet happen to be professional musicians! Enjoy!

Producer Leah Longbrake reads "The Legend of the Christmas Tree," a heartwarming story about how showing kindness to a stranger led to one of the most beloved Christmas traditions.

Sarah Willgrube, Producer for Evergreen Podcasts reads the children's story "Santa's Stuck."

Dave Douglas, Producer & Audio Engineer for Front Porch Media Network and Evergreen Podcasts, reads "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

Eric Koltnow, Audio Engineer for Front Porch Media Network and Evergreen Podcasts, performs the classic Christmas song "Winter Wonderland."

Paige Koteles, Marketing Manager for Front Porch Media Network & Evergreen Podcasts, reads "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Doug Trostler, Chief Revenue Officer for Front Porch Media Network & Evergreen Podcasts, sings The Chanukah Song by Adam Sandler.

Julie Fink, Producer for Front Porch Media Network and Evergreen Podcasts, reads "The Gift of the Magi."

Conor Standish, Account Manager for Evergreen Podcasts, sings a cover of the hauntingly beautiful "Christmas Song," written by Dave Matthews.

Brigid Coyne, Production Director at Front Porch Media Network and Evergreen Podcasts, reads The Polar Express.

David Allen Moss, Chief Creative Officer of Front Porch Media Network & Evergreen Podcasts reads, "Olive, The Other Reindeer."

Michael DeAloia, CEO of Front Porch Media Network & Evergreen Podcasts reads "The Night Before Christmas."

Join the Evergreen Staff as we celebrate the magic of the holidays through the greatest holiday stories ever told. We bring to life the tales of Christmas classics through enchanting narratives, iconic music and more. It's our way of appreciating Evergreen Podcast listeners... coming Dec. 3rd!