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I'm reading this awesome book about Christmas Origins, and I think some of you might like it. I chose part of a chapter on elves, since my mouth dropped open more there than in the pages before. Who knows; I haven't finished the book!

This time, I'm presenting the podcast myself, as Krampus is recovering from a joyous Krampusnacht. We're going back to basics with Christmas Origins, and you'll be hearing a lot of cocktail lounge-style carols.

This is a show about Harry Stephen Keeler. A Wonder of the 20th Century. Pay heed, my friends.

I've opened the windows, and cleaned my room. Yes, I'm back, the air is fresh, and the sun is shining.

In which I read from Santa Claus, Last of the Wildmen: The Origins and Evolution of Saint Nicholas, Spanning 50,000 years, by Phyllis Siefker

As a secular society, we must strive to never be lax in our language, and have a firm understanding of what we mean when we utter the dreaded phrase "Happy Holidays," Bill O'Reiily thought he had a Checkmate, Atheists moment when he gleefully pointed out that there are no holidays until Christmas. We poor, poor atheists would therefore be fools to use this greeting. To say the word Christmas should sting like a thousand bees upon our tongues! Well, fear not, oh Godless ones, for there is another sacred day. And that day is Solstice, you dumbass, O'Reilly. Oh and then there's...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This week, I've just got some good food songs and old food commercials for you, with just a little fixing up by Mr. Le Mur.

Giorgio Moroder performed as DJ for the first time ever at Deep Space in NYC, May 21, 2013. He had never DJ'ed before. Moroder, composer of film scores and electro-pop, was first known to me as the guy who, in 1984, colorized and restored the film Metropolis, with music by Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, Jon Anderson, Adam Ant, Cycle V, Loverboy, Billy Squier, and Freddie Mercury. Moroder was responsible for Love to Love You, Baby, Hot Stuff, Call Me, Flashdance, and Take My Breath Away.

As you've probably heard, Jonathan Winters passed away April 11. This is my tribute to him.

I'm not going to tell you what to do with this podcast. I just don't take responsibility. You listen; it's all on you, man.

All right, I suppose you might get a little suspicious, but yes, I was in the hospital again. It's just been a little bit harder these days. So I sought a faith healing, but the CoS doesn't do healings, they do sickenings. And I had to give one to myself. And with a sickening comes a Slack reduction. But with Mondo Diablo, comes Slack. So here it is.

I'm not going to spend too much time sitting here writing this, so you'll just have to find out about it all by yourself. Or go here. http://www.lifeissues.org/willke.html

This week's content comes to us from http://www.everythingisterrible.com/, from the DJ/collage artist Defenestrator III (look for his tag on the posts there). In honor of the great work he does for the collective, or whatever you would call the folks at Everything is Terrible, I will now be posting all my podcasts in 160 kbps. I don't think 82 megabytes is that much for most casual computing. It may put a bit of a strain on my cloud storage, but I think it's the right thing to do. If you don't want to download the music, please check me out on Soundcloud, at https://soundcloud.com/hellbound-allee.

New Year's Eve. Time to clean out the old files and make not a resolution, but a disclaimer again stating that including clips, intentionally or unintentionally,in this podcast, does not constitute endorsement of views or opinions. Especially in this one. Carry on.

It's Christmas again, and since I didn't make that many posts this year, I owe you the worst podcast possible. And this is it. Are you sick of Christmas? I might be, but I'm too darn busy to think about it.