{"podcast":{"title":"Out Of Office: A Travel Podcast","slug":"out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743","podcast_index_feed_id":629743,"rss_url":"https://outofofficepod.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.outofofficepod.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/6/6/d/d66d608b6bc46b49/ooo_lowres.jpg","author":"Ryan Davis","episode_count":200,"summary":"Out of Office is a travel podcast hosted by us, Ryan Davis and Kiernan Schmitt. From early childhood, we were each infected with a serious case of wanderlust (among other things.) We define travel broadly, from local day trips to high-flyin' overseas adventures. Every episode, we dig into one topic—ranging from the serious to the silly, the practical to the outlandish—and give advice on how to get out there and explore the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T04:17:49.898081+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743"},"episode":{"title":"Christmas Spectacular Eight","slug":"christmas-spectacular-eight","published_at":"2025-12-22T10:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/christmas-spectacular-eight","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743","url":"https://outofofficepod.libsyn.com/christmas-spectacular-eight","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/outofofficepod/Out_of_Office_Episode_216_XMAS_EPISODE.mp3?dest-id=782160","summary":"On this year's Christmas Spectacular episode of Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Kiernan and Ryan hang up their socks and trade merry greetings. They discuss the official death of the Ugly Ornament Competition, the history of British Christmas crackers (no, they're not crackers), and their favorite Christmas tunes (including a Ryan original).. And for the Anglophiles out there, the boys sing the praises of one of the US's best importers of British goods, happily located right in Acton, MA. Things we talked about in today's podcast: The Bee's Knees British Imports https://www.thebeeskneesbritishimports.com/ V&A Museum history of Christmas crackers https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-christmas-cracker?srsltid=AfmBOopqIG_oE9tXOOtQdsUnnRHXaOH8bPLkOiNC52C9XAlXv0hzY_Kf \"Have Yourself an Out of Office Christmas\" https://www.mureka.ai/song-detail/WX3PuAjGnrbg8mx41mThs2?is_from_share=1 \"Scrooge\" from the Muppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULaNvmjZWxg","meta_description":"On this year's Christmas Spectacular episode of Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Kiernan and Ryan hang up their socks and trade merry greetings. They disc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2771,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/episodes/christmas-spectacular-eight/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/out-of-office-a-travel-podcast-629743/christmas-spectacular-eight.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}