Episode 0089 - “She Could Make the Pants”

Frank Murphy and Becca James hosted the YouTube broadcast of the Karns Christmas Parade on December 3. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/x3Jf1SqMM5I 

Nancy Anderson wrote in the Shopper News that “Murphy and James are quickly becoming the go-to emcees for Karns events.” They hosted the 2022 Fairest of the Fair contest, as well as the 2021 parade. 

Becca is the Director of Marketing for Knoxville Area Transit. She recently planned holiday events for customers and employees. 

Frank shows Becca some of the old questions from Scholars’ Bowl. He and his wife rewrote the questions for the 2023 season of the show. After Scholars’ Bowl, Frank recorded four episodes of Up Close. He interviewed Sam Venable, Patricia Robledo, Aram Demirjian, and Brian Salesky. 

Frank voiced six characters in the live presentations of the Nativity Pageant of Knoxville. He was Isaiah, Gabriel, Centurion, Shepherd, Wise Man, and Herod. Frank bases the Wise Man’s voice on his neighbor. 

Frank was adding some trash to a bag in his garbage can at 11 p.m. on Monday when his neighbor drove home and pulled into the garage. Frank wonders if the neighbor saw him because he didn’t say hello. 

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Becca noticed that one of Frank’s neighbors has a 12-foot Halloween skeleton dressed in a Santa hat and shirt. At night it looks like the skeleton is placing the star atop an inflatable Christmas tree.  Comedian Matt Ward lives in Ohio and made a Facebook post about people near him who put Christmas decorations on their 12-foot skeletons. 

Becca says her husband would decorate their house like Clark Griswold if she let him. She thought someone cut through their Christmas lights and pasted a photo of the cut wires on Facebook. They later realized that bunnies chewed through the wires. 

Becca and her husband take down their Christmas decorations around New Year’s Day. Frank and his wife are usually late putting up their decorations and therefore keep the decorations up longer. We are still in the third week of Advent. The twelve days of Christmas begin on December 25. Christmastide lasts forty days until Candlemas, which is February 2. Groundhog Day is also celebrated on Candlemas. 

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