The Captain's Log by Captain Kitty (6 Degrees of Cats Podcast)

The Captain's Log by Captain Kitty (6 Degrees of Cats Podcast)

The Captain’s Log entry: Weeks of December 11 - 19, the year of our Lord 2023 🎅🏼🌲🐾🥔

Behind the scenes for our fourth episode on Jólakötturinn, the Christmas or Yule Cat of Iceland!

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Dec 26, 2023
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Happy holidays to all who celebrate the WINTER SOLSTICE and its associated seasonal festivities, inclusive of:

  • Yule!

  • Christmas!

  • Chanukah!

  • Kwanzaa!

As we shared in our latest episode, How the Cat Stole Christmas: Introducing The Yule Cat of Iceland, the winter solstice - which is usually on December 21st - is the shortest day of the year and, correspondingly, the longest night. We’ll get into that after the jump…but first!

  • Wow, thank you so much to Ear Worthy (sign up for Frank Racioppi’s excellent articles now!) for naming us among these amazing indie podcasts in your 2023 Top 10. This really is an honor!!

  • Big thanks to new podfriend Joey Held of Fun Fact Friyay! (his newsletter is purr-fect for all trivia lovers who want to be ready to win Cash Cab!) for shouting us out on his Good People, Cool Things podcast! 

  • And YOU. Thank you! Somehow, our little indie podcast that could has reached thousands of ears and we’re at nearly 5,000 downloads* this year. YOU helped share the podcast with your f…

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