About this episode

The hosts celebrate a fictional holiday called Mitchmas by sharing infamous stories and interesting facts.

Josie Margaret Mitchell, Taylor Mitchell Basso, and guest host Mitchell Charles Collins ring in Mitchmas, a made-up holiday celebrating people named Mitchell, by exchanging infamous stories—including a compendium of psychic pets, the surprising history of Christmas tree tinsel, and how a song that came to its writer in a nightmare became Natalie Imbruglia's 1997 smash hit "Torn."

People in this episode

Hosts: Josie Margaret Mitchell, Taylor Mitchell Basso

Guest: Mitchell Charles Collins

Topics covered

• holiday
• infamous stories
• psychic pets
• Christmas history
• music history

Keywords

• Mitchmas
• infamous stories
• psychic pets
• Christmas tree tinsel
• Natalie Imbruglia
• Torn

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Torn

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