Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Christmas Podcast

The Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Christmas podcast shares the spirit of the season all year long, an "all-things Christmas" podcast. Christmas is our happy place! SBMXmas (Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Xmas) features "Xmas News" followed by a guest interview covering holiday topics from vintage to modern, music/entertainment, foods, decorating, holiday history & more. Rikki & Mary take their broadcasting skills into the podcasting world spreading the Xmas spirit to young & old almost all year long. SBMXmas is the "show for Xmas info!"

Christmas Toys 11/27/2025

Christmas Toys Marketing and advertising experts, Wendy Hansen and Brent Wilhite, join the podcast again to talk about Christmas toys. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/39192205

Wreaths Across America 11/04/2025

Wreaths Across America In honor of Veterans Day, we are joined by Jeff Pierce, Wreaths Across America spokesperson. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38904135

White Christmas Movie Facebook Group 10/27/2025

White Christmas Movie Facebook Group Rikki and Mary both love White Christmas. This episode features Jeff Smith, the admin of the Facebook group page, "White Christmas (1954) The Movie." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38788755

A Carpenters Christmas 10/21/2025

A Carpenters Christmas Junior high history teacher, former radio DJ and friend of the podcast, Eric Taylor, returns to the podcast to talk about the Carpenters at Christmas time as October Christmas music month continues. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38721600

A Jazzy Christmas 10/13/2025

A Jazzy Christmas Josh Graham, aka DJ Joshua, gives us suggestions and help for the best Christmas Jazz music to listen to this season. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38513750

A Sock Hop Christmas 10/08/2025

A Sock Hop Christmas Ken Kessler, with the Sounds Of Christmas podcast and website, takes us back in time to the classic Doo-wop music era and the joy of this Christmas music from the 1950s and early 60s. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38513285

Christmas Traditions Part 3: A Gingerbread House Book 09/30/2025

Christmas Traditions Part 3: A Gingerbread House Book Julie Lavender, author of “A Gingerbread House” talks to us about what started as a fun family holiday project, that became a Christmas tradition, and now shows up in the pages of a children’s book. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38375455

Christmas Traditions Part 2: Fruitcake 09/27/2025

Christmas Traditions Part 2: Fruitcake Glen Eggerts joins us to talk about a special homemade Christmas tradition of fruitcake — and not just any fruitcake. This is a family recipe passed down for many years. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38375425

Christmas Traditions Part 1 09/17/2025

Christmas Traditions Part 1 Jeff Carter, a vintage Christmas lighting expert, is back on the show and joins us to talk about Christmas traditions. Check out his website, GEChristmas.com. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38258480

Christmas Ornaments Part 1 09/12/2025

Christmas Ornaments Part 1 Independent artisan Mike Hurst of Hurst’s Handblown Glass in Ogden, Utah, makes and sells his own handblown glass ornaments. He explains lamp work and talks all about how these beautiful Christmas ornaments are made. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/38190225

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 4 08/05/2025

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 4 Sean Sotka, of MyMerryChristmas.com, producer of MMC "Tracking Santa," and the Christmas Podcasts podcast joins us for the last part of our series, "Making the Perfect Christmas Playlist." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/37675485

Making the Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 3: White Christmas 07/24/2025

Making the Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 3: White Christmas Eric Taylor of the Jukebox Journey podcast joins us to talk about curating a playlist all of versions of "White Christmas." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/37533120

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 2 07/16/2025

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 2 Josh Graham of Dallas Texas, or DJ Joshua, shares what's on his perfect Christmas music playlist and how he came to love Christmas music. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/37427100

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 1 07/05/2025

Making The Perfect Christmas Playlist Pt 1 Gerry Davilla from the Totally Rad Xmas podcast joins us for part one of our Christmas in July series as we look at making the perfect Christmas music playlist. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/37291395

The Dickens You Say 06/14/2025

The Dickens You Say Hear all about the Charles Dickens museum with Benjamin William Bradley, the host of Holiday Home Makeovers on Netflix. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/37008700

A Very English Christmas 05/15/2025

A Very English Christmas We wish you a Happy Christmas and a Merry Christmas with James Cooper from the website , who joins the Sleigh Bells and Mistletoe Christmas Podcast to talk about all things Christmas in England, Great Britain and the U.K. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/36583710

The National Christmas Tree Documentary 12/22/2024

The National Christmas Tree Documentary Jeff Carter, our GE Vintage Light expert, joins us to talk about his documentary, “The National Christmas Tree: A Century of Celebration.” /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/34570250

Claus Universe 12/18/2024

Claus Universe Author Tony Bertauski, the author of the "Claus Universe" series, joins us to talk about his clean adventure and fantasy world he created for young adult and other readers. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/34496450

It's A Wonderful Life Festival 12/11/2024

It's A Wonderful Life Festival Our guest is Kelly Redder, a volunteer and worker with "It's A Wonderful Life Festival." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/34390305

Magical Xmas Tree Tents 12/01/2024

Magical Xmas Tree Tents Ana Marie Dinu, the creator of Magical Underland Christmas Tree Tent, joins us to talk about how Christmas tree tents bring wonder and joy to the holiday, where kids can play, dream, and wait for Santa! /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/34213890

2024 Holiday Viewing LIneup 11/22/2024

2024 Holiday Viewing LIneup Mary interviews Rachel Wagner of Rachel's Reviews and the Hallmarkies Podcast about the Christmas and holiday movies to expect this year in theaters, on TV channels and streaming platforms. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/34102701

Tasting Holiday History 11/10/2024

Tasting Holiday History We are joined by Max Miller, food history YouTuber and author of "Tasting History." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/33865102

A Fogelberg/Backstreet Xmas 11/03/2024

A Fogelberg/Backstreet Xmas Hear the connection between the Backstreet Boys and Dan Fogelberg with Scott Newman of the Tinsel Tunes Podcast. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/33759677

An MTV Christmas 10/15/2024

An MTV Christmas Eric Taylor, radio personality and teacher, tells us all about what the holiday season was like at MTV. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/33468427

Donner vs Donder 10/03/2024

Donner vs Donder "Now Dasher, now Dancer!" and so on until you get to — is it Donner? Or Donder? We get to the bottom of the real name of the seventh of Santa’s eight reindeer with guest Pamela Mccoll, author and expert on "Twas The Night Before Christmas.” /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/33309382

Top TV Commercials 09/22/2024

Top TV Commercials Wendy Hanson and Brent Wilhite from Penna Powers Marketing join us to talk about some of the top holiday commercials on television. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/33154972

Jingle Bell Rocks Documentary 08/26/2024

Jingle Bell Rocks Documentary We pay tribute to the late Mitchell Kezin with Hugh McNally of "Bootleg Xmas." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/32734752

Santa Songs 07/26/2024

Santa Songs Ken Kessler, from The Sounds of Christmas Podcast, and Scott Leopold, from the Holly Jolly Xmas-U Podcast, join us to talk about lots — and lots — of Santa songs. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/32306432

Santa Cons 07/16/2024

Santa Cons Coz Green, author "Through Santa's Eyes" and professional Santa, joins us to talk about Santa Conventions. /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/32155877

The Santa Claus Canon 07/10/2024

The Santa Claus Canon Dan Morris, of Tracing The Path Podcast, asks, what if every Santa Claus story you ever heard was part of one history? He joins us to talk about his comprehensive work, "The Complete Canon of Santa Claus." /episode/index/show/sbmchristmas/id/32076152

Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe Christmas Podcast

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