In honor of the Kentucky Derby (and in the interest of listening to at least ONE good song to re-calibrate our sensibilities), we discuss two horse-themed Christmas tunes. “Sleigh Ride” by The Ronettes is a refreshing treat with way more horse stuff than we remembered. “Hang An Ornament” by Grandaddy and Band of Horses is a bit more meandering in comparison, but still pretty impressive for a band composed of literal horses.
We lose a joke into the ether, discuss the fate of the project after we die in the post-podcast future, and reveal STARTLING new information that will change the holiday romcom world… forever. What does Administrative Professionals Day and two Christmas novelty songs from the UK have to do with all this? We’re connecting the dots this week. Wake up, sheeple. Thanks to Russell for the request!
4/20 nice nice nice it’s the fucking weed day man fuck
This week we listened to “Be Claus I Got High” by Bob Rivers and “I’ll Be Stoned for Christmas” by Dent May. Did you think we were out of weed holiday songs after last year? We are not even out of weed holiday songs *by Bob Rivers*.
We’re typically more of a Santa show (on the Santa/Jesus Christmas spectrum) but this week to celebrate Easter we discuss two modern religious Christmas songs. As far as that description goes, we could have done much worse, but we still end up scratching our heads as we discuss “Mary Did You Know” by Pentatonix and “Who Would Imagine a King” by Whitney Houston. Thanks to Dylan for the request!
We get back into some Hanukkah music just in time for Passover, covering two modern takes on a traditional song – “Ma’oz Tsur/Rock of Ages” by folk musician Julie Silver and “Ma’oz Tzur” by bossa nova band Nossa Bossa Nova.
In what could barely pass as an April Fool’s Day themed episode, we cover two versions of “Santa Baby” because fuck it this holiday is the worst. We come to Taylor Swift’s version by way of an anonymous request, but including Michael Buble’s version is our own damn fault. Things get a little rough for RJ.
An innocuous anonymous request uncovers Ian’s deep-seated bias against a popular band – The Killers. We discuss two of their many Christmas originals – “Great Big Sled” and “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” – and come to divergent conclusions.
As we await spring here in Canada, we take a week to recognize our friends who are right now moving into autumn. Two Australian holiday songs come to us by anonymous request: “How To Make Gravy” by Paul Kelly and “White Wine in the Sun” by Tim Minchin.
It’s International Women’s Day, and so we’re doing songs about Mrs. Claus, goddammit. Santa’s often-nameless wife gets a sort-of kind-of feminist anthem in “Mrs. Santa Claus” by Angela Lansbury. Then there’s “Mrs. Santa Claus” by R Kelly. Guess what that one’s about. Thanks again to Andy for the requests!
This week we cover some punk rock by request: “I’m Getting Pissed for Christmas” by Peter and the Test Tube Babies and “Oi to the World” by The Vandals. Thanks to cs2-6 for the requests! We had a technical issue while recording and Ian did his best to fix it, but the audio quality is a bit off on this episode. Apologies, angels!