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A Christmas Carol
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If you think about Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, I'm only safe if I have keep all the money and love to myself.
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- Discusses time travel aspects“time travel inspired by Dickens classic novel”2
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Today we're going to be talking about time travel inspired by Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol.
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio · Dec 2022 It may be the first sort of modern literary example of time travel or the implications of time travel.
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio · Dec 2022 And I love Christmas, and I always wanted to write a Christmas story, and I always thought the problem with most Christmas stories are bad. You know, really only "A Christmas Carol" and it is a wonderful life or good Christmas stories.
Andrew Klavan The Rubin Report · Nov 2021 Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol it's the 180th anniversary of the book publication today.
Dave Ramsey The Ramsey Show · Dec 2023 Where and when it comes up
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a famous 1843 novella about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his midnight visitations by ghostly specters that transform his life. On StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson brought up the classic novel to inspire a conversation about time travel, noting that it stands by some measures as the earliest modern literary example exploring the implications of moving through time. Other podcast hosts invoked the story to illustrate behavioral patterns and holiday traditions. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin referenced the book and its central character when discussing holiday reflections and life paths, and later questioned how the intellectual property functions within cinematic universes. Will Storr mentioned Scrooge on How I Write as a prime literary example of a character driven by a rigid theory of control, operating under the belief that safety comes entirely from hoarding money and isolation. Additionally, literary commentators and media figures discussed the work in various contexts, with John Williams mentioning listener suggestions on The New York Times Book Review for holiday reading lists, Dave Ramsey noting the book's publication anniversary on The Ramsey Show, and Jay Shetty touching upon human transformation and narrative reflection.
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Ben Bowlin And I think it's also appropriate in these holiday times thinking about like uh Charles Dickens A Christmas… 2
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“And I think it's also appropriate in these holiday times thinking about like uh Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and Ebenezer Scrooge”
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“last thing on Scrooge does in the world of Scrooge does A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens exist do they discuss it as a piece of intellectual property existing in the world of that film”
Jay Shetty One of the things I love about the book that I think has been done beautifully is you have these short note… 2
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“It's when you talk about in the book, and it just looks like just how it's shocking to me because the things that you're talking about, and then I look at how old you are in that section, I'm like, "What?”
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“One of the things I love about the book that I think has been done beautifully is you have these short notes at the beginning of some of the chapters from people in your life, like your father, your sound engineers, like so many different roles.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson and today we're going to be talking about time travel inspired by Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol 2
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“and today we're going to be talking about time travel inspired by Dickens classic novel A Christmas Carol”
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“so uh written long time ago 1843 and by some of our by some measures it may be the first sort of modern literary example of time travel or the implications of time travel”
Andrew Klavan And I love Christmas, and I always wanted to write a Christmas story, and I always thought the problem with… 1
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“And I love Christmas, and I always wanted to write a Christmas story, and I always thought the problem with most Christmas stories are bad. You know, really only "A Christmas Carol" and it is a wonderful life or good Christmas stories.”
Dave Ramsey Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol it's the 180th anniversary of the book publication today 1
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“Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol it's the 180th anniversary of the book publication today”
John Williams John R heckerman said my personal pleasure would be to assign A Christmas Carol to a holiday period reading… 1
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“John R heckerman said my personal pleasure would be to assign A Christmas Carol to a holiday period reading list”
Will Storr So, if you think about um Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, I'm only safe if I have keep all the money and love… 1
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“So, if you think about um Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, I'm only safe if I have keep all the money and love to myself. That's that's his theory of control.”
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“The uh the Christmas one.”
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“They've been Ebenezer Scrooge, a mom and pop shop.”
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“we also teach um A Christmas Carol Christmas in there”
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“I am so sorry, guys, last thing on Scrooge, does A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens exist?”
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“and as you know you know we carry around our sales record like Marley's ghost in Christmas Carol”
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“You know, it's like all this stuff is happening and um it's like this sort of performance of oh, all of a sudden we care about um what's the name of that little kid from um Christmas Carol? Tiny Tim.”
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“And I know one of the stories that I share in the book is, you know, I like, like I said, we inherit all these things and I had this habit of, that my mother does all the time.”
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“So that empathy has definitely come through in a lot of ways, and I love that this book has assisted that.”
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“It's such a journey because, you know, like you said, and we talk about it, I actually love the story of us in the book a lot because it really, I think, comes through really purely as the experience.”
Passing
“Bah-Humbug is like a famous saying from ‘A Christmas Carol.’ That's like when you stub your toe and you're like, 'Bah-Humbug!' Or if somebody like stole something from you, you'd be like, 'Humbug!'”
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“and then now with Emily's family we have a tradition that they've had for a long time which is they play an audio version of the Christmas Carol Dickens the Christmas Carol and everyone sits around and has like hot chocolate or whatever and no one everyone has to put their phones away”
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“It I was I was with it was like I was you know, Ebenezer Scrooge in Christmas Christmas past. Like I was standing there with my old self”