Picture the face, spiteful old eyes, squinting disapproval, thin blue lips and permanent

scow, dry hollow cheeks, around a cold dripping disappointed beak of a nose.

He sits on his miserable stool, barking his orders, counting his money.

He glares of the joy bursting all around him. Joy because it's

Christmas Eve. And he grows even meaner and harder and colder still. What happened to make him this way? Hadn't he been happy once? Oh yes, and in

love! Engage to a beauty named Bell, employed by the best boss in the world who threw parties

for his staff as they danced the night away.

So where did it all go so wrong?

There's an answer of course, but you have to go back, way back, more than 200 years back, and across an ocean and through the foggy streets of

Victorian England to a time infected by greed and weighed down by stark poverty.

Maybe not so different from our own time.

And here you will meet the original, the O.G. of Meen, the origin story of Ebene

of Ebenezer Scrooge.

You may think you know his tale of woe all the humbug of it,

but most have just had a taste. Now you'll live in the very

words themselves. Join me for Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol.

You can hear the whole story starting Monday, December 11th.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.