Episode 41: A Flintstone Christmas (1977)

This holiday season we’re traveling back to the town of Bedrock for A Flintstone Christmas (1977), a slapdash holiday special featuring everyone’s favourite modern Stone Age family. In this episode we ask hard-hitting questions, like why or how does this pre-Christian society know about Christmas, and why does Santa exist in the Stone Age with 1970s technology? But in the end, this special left us with more questions than answers. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: The world’s oldest shoes – Fort Rock Cave sandals: https://pages.uoregon.edu/connolly/FRsandals.htm Trinkaus and Shang, 2008, Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.002 Kevin Can F**k Himself trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubiQsc9Hw8 Fun reindeer facts: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/fun-facts-about-reindeer-and-caribou Reindeer see in ultraviolet light: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20519-reindeer-gained-uv-vision-after-moving-to-the-arctic/ A beginner’s guide to Amanita muscaria mushrooms: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/a-beginners-guide-to-amanita-muscaria-mushrooms/ No, Santa wasn’t a mushroom-tripping shaman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQE_6y2lQyg