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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead, But He Did Star In A Great Christmas Special
Description: Today in 1965, CBS broadcast “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It's one of the iconic TV holiday specials today, but pretty much everyone who put the TV special together thought it was going to be a failure. Plus: today in 2004, a basketball comeback for the books, courtesy of Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady.
Life After Snoopy (Stanford Magazine via Archive.org)
The Christmas classic that almost wasn't (USA Today via Archive.org)
McGrady’s Big Finish Sends Rockets Past Spurs (NBA.com via Archive.org)
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