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Jon Solomon

Dec 24, 2023 5:00 PM – 5:00 AM

Music

With Jon Solomon

For those of you keeping score at home, it is me Jon Solomon, heard every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB...including this one! Requests? Please email me or chime in through the listener chat, champ.

25-Hour Holiday Radio Show! (Hours 1-12)

Welcome back for the 35th year of my 25-hour marathon broadcast on WPRB.

The show will be broken into two playlists, one for hours 1-12 and one for hours 13-25.

The best way to send in your requests is through http://marathon.christmas

You can watch the show (without sound) by pressing play on the YouTube player bellow.

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

#WPRBXmas

WEBCAM AHOY:

5:00 PM		Noah Vail Jon Solomon's Christmas Eve Marathon
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:08 PM		The Sonics Santa Claus Merry Christmas V/A Etiquette Records
5:10 PM		Ladytron All Over By Xmas N All Over By Xmas Cooking Vinyl Limited 2023
5:13 PM		Sabertooth Unicorn Surfs Up it's Christmas Live Nude Santas Volume 7 Really Really Really Sorta Good Records 2023
5:16 PM		Zebra Christmas Morning (Sean Bonniwell Edit) In The Christmas Groove V/A
5:20 PM		Tommy McNamara That's What I Know About Christmas I Think I'm Starting to Like Christmas 2020
5:23 PM		Collars Christmas In the 90s Christmas In the 90s Laundry Rooms 2022
5:27 PM		Air Mack December Beg Forgiveness 2023
5:30 PM		Set Break
5:34 PM		The Brixton Riot All My Friends (Winter Coat) 2023 Christmas Stories https://thebrixtonriot.bandcamp.com
5:37 PM		Set Break
5:38 PM		Aubrey Eels and The Baron Psycho Santa Dam-Nations December 2023 V/A
5:41 PM		Colleen Grant Latin Parang Latin Parang / Parang Jam Soundway Records 2019
5:48 PM		Cheyenne Marrs Santa's Lament N Santa's Lament - Single 2023
5:51 PM		Amerigo Gazaway Be Your Santa (feat. Dillon) N Another Christmas Album Soul Mates 2023
5:54 PM		Daniel Johnson A Recorded Message / Christmas In The Looney Bin Merry Christmas (1988)
5:58 PM		Circuit System Santadan (ft. Snowdan)
6:00 PM		Bunnygrunt Merry Christmas, I DO Want To Fight Tonight Seasoned Freaklings: Thirty Years Of Holiday Hits By The Grand Elves Of Midwest Twee Core
6:03 PM		Set Break
6:07 PM		Outer World Rain, Sleet, Snow 2023 Christmas Stories https://outerworldmusic.bandcamp.com Paul Revere & The Raiders cover!
6:10 PM		Set Break
6:13 PM		Charlie's Hand Movements Snow Globe The Xmas Singles 2014-18
6:17 PM		Casta Christmas Rappin' (Casta's "All-Christmas Beatdown" edit) N The 12 Beats of Christmas (2023)
6:20 PM		Greensleeves This Could Be Christmas (Slow) Slow Xmas 2 V/A
6:24 PM		Jack Benny / Mary Livingston / Mel Blanc Excerpt from "The Jack Benny Program" (December 21, 1947) Rob's 2023 Christmas CD V/A
6:25 PM		Dan Imposter Ring The Bells Rock'n'roll Santa sings Christmas V/A
6:28 PM		DangerWoman Feliz Navidad Holiday Hero 2014
6:31 PM		Buried in Coal I Want a Eponymous Track For Christmas N Heavy Holidays for Heavy Times 2023
6:34 PM		Set Break
6:38 PM		Aux Caroling 10pm Midnight Mass, Christmas 2007 2023 Christmas Stories https://auxcaroling.bandcamp.com
6:41 PM		Set Break
6:45 PM		Wake Up and Smell the Sun Chapter 6 the Anvil and the Angel N The Pedestrian Chronicles, Pt. 2 2023
6:49 PM		Los Tres Sudamericanos Santa Claus Viene a la Ciudad 45
6:51 PM		Helen Love And Ricardo Autobahn The Salvation Army Band Plays Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas (Volume III) V/A
6:55 PM		Five and Tens Joy To The World N Joy To The World
6:58 PM		Titus Andronicus Drummer Boy Drummer Boy Merge Records 2022 Accidentally forgot this one last year...
7:03 PM		Ed's Redeeming Qualities Christmas In Vermont It's All Good News Flying Fish 1991
7:06 PM		Laserguys Holiday at the Yellow House Enda Mere Julepønk i Norge Fucking North Pole Records 2023
7:07 PM		Set Break
7:12 PM		Deth Elf Lacey Chabert 2023 Christmas Stories http://dethelf.bandcamp.com
7:15 PM		Set Break
7:18 PM		XMASX It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year 2023
7:19 PM		Corvair Long Way Around the Sea N Long Way Around the Sea Paper Walls 2023 Low cover.
7:24 PM		Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop Here Comes Santa Claus Here Comes Santa Claus Three Pines Records, Ltd 2021
7:26 PM		The Internationalist (featuring Queen McBean) It's Christmas! It's Christmas!
7:29 PM		August Burns Red Up on the Housetop Up on the Housetop - ABR Records 2023
7:32 PM		Clif Gober and The Dedication Waiting For Santa 45
7:35 PM		El Gato Roboto Merry, Merry Christmas Merry, Merry Christmas / Let's Make Up For Christmas El Gato Roboto 2019
7:38 PM		Set Break
7:43 PM		Jake McKelvie It's Either Xmas or It Isn't 2023 Christmas Stories https://jacobcmckelvie.bandcamp.com
7:46 PM		Set Break
7:47 PM		The Get Arounds Xmas Radio N Xmas Radio Get Around Records 2023
7:50 PM		People Like Us Forever N Sharity! Selected Works of People Like Us 2023
7:56 PM		Nick Watt Christmastime in Moscow Don't Blame the Mirror 2021
7:59 PM		DoedensGarderobe Hooray for Santa Claus Julealbum 2021
8:03 PM		Wayz, age 11 A Jolly Good Time for Christmas With Matthew Reid-Schwartz from Kinski.
8:04 PM		The Sisterhood Fuzzy Wuzzy Cuddly Puppy Christmas Album
8:06 PM		Proton Packs Dan Aykroyd Santa Claus N Dan Aykroyd Santa Claus Mom's Basement Records 2023
8:09 PM		Set Break
8:18 PM		Phil Jackson Christmas Memory 2023 Christmas Stories https://www.instagram.com/sidebradio
8:21 PM		Set Break
8:23 PM		The Wailers She's Comin' Home Merry Christmas V/A Etiquette Records 2013
8:26 PM		Lenny LaCour Twinkle Toes (The Christmas Cha Cha) Twinkle Toes (The Christmas Cha Cha) b/w No Privacy - Single 2023
8:28 PM		DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING HELP DESK Xmas Medley CHRIMBO WITH YOU V/A
8:31 PM		Luscious Jackson Queen of Bliss O Come All Ye Faithful: Rock For Choice V/A
8:35 PM		The Royal Arctic Institute Christmastime Is Here
8:38 PM		Hep Stars Christmas On My Mind Hep Stars Jul Parlophone Sweden 2001
8:40 PM		Katye Kellye and the Interruption Herald, The Punk Rock Elf N Sparkle! Quinterruption Music 2023
8:42 PM		Set Break
8:47 PM		George Korein and the Spleen Merry Krautmas O Tannenbaum (and a happy new year) 2023 Christmas Stories https://georgekorein.bandcamp.com
8:55 PM		Set Break
8:58 PM		Department of Creative Affairs I Wear My Leather Jacket at Christmas I Wear My Leather Jacket at Christmas 2023
9:00 PM		Jack Kim Green Christmas Blues Poems Into Dollars V/A
9:03 PM		black midi Jingle Bell Rock Jangle Bells - A Rough Trade Shops Christmas Selection V/A
9:05 PM		The Littleton Family Band Our Prayer / Just Like Christmas live-12-17-22 Low cover.
9:09 PM		M.Ure Funky Christmas Funky Christmas (Bad Salad Remix) Disques Tchoc 2022
9:12 PM		Chisel If You Believe In Christmas Trees If You Believe In Christmas Trees 2023 Cardinal tune.
9:16 PM		Delightful Young Man Christmas Marathon Wrapped in Green: Christmas Songs
9:19 PM		Set Break
9:23 PM		Leonids Truckin' Trees for Christmas 2023 Christmas Stories https://leonids.bandcamp.com Red Simpson song.
9:27 PM		Set Break
9:28 PM		Swansea Sound Santa Bail Me Out N Santa Bail Me Out Skep Wax Records 2023
9:31 PM		Ronnie Martin Yuletide Cheer N Holiday Fable Velvet Blue Music 2023
9:34 PM		Nopalli Donde Esta N Pieces of Light Desert Sands 2023
9:37 PM		The Bacarrudas Christmas Fun Christmas Fun 2023
9:40 PM		Ben Keith Les Trois Cloches Seven Gates - A Christmas Album By Ben Keith & Friends Warner Records 1994 Featuring Neil Young & Pegi Young.
9:45 PM		"Black Francis" Big Big Sleigh Red-Headed Stepchild Of The Flagpole Christmas Album V/A
9:49 PM		JINGLE JERKS Christmas Tape N SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #13 V/A 2023 "Red Tape" by Circle Jerks reworked for the holidays...
9:49 PM		Set Break
9:54 PM		Joshua Joy Kamensky Christmas Radio 2023 Christmas Stories https://bsky.app/profile/joshksky.bsky.social
9:58 PM		Set Break
10:02 PM		Comet Gain CHRISTMAS RECORDS! N "(I hate) CHRISTMAS RECORDS! E.P"
10:04 PM		Ruth Harley Christmas Is Santa's Funk & Soul Christmas Party, Vol. 4 V/A Tramp Records 2022
10:08 PM		Joe Pera Christmas Tree Lit ft. Mary Lattimore (excerpt one) Drifting Off with Joe Pera
10:11 PM		AC/LeeC Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree
10:14 PM		Life In a Blender Hey Christmas Hey Christmas
10:18 PM		Tiger Village Biblically Accurate Seraphim In The Upper Register Of The Audible Spectrum Gotta Groove Holiday Single 2022 V/A
10:19 PM		The Williams Merry Christmas From Jail This Christmas, the Williams Are on the Knottie List
10:21 PM		Set Break
10:27 PM		Snow Contagion High Tech 2023 Christmas Stories
10:37 PM		Set Break
10:38 PM		The Fuzz & Drums Christmas Knight Chocolate Box Lélélé Records 2021
10:41 PM		Werner Herzog Krampus Memories Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
10:44 PM		The Happy Somethings The Present Don't Mention It 2023
10:46 PM		GROB This Grobmas SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #13 V/A 2023
10:50 PM		Clouds Taste Satanic Little Drummer Boy All I Want for Christmas Is Your Soul Kinda Like Music 2023
10:55 PM		Pylon Reenactment Society Christmas Daze N Christmas Daze Strolling Bones Records 2023
10:59 PM		B Team Living for Christmas N Buy American Faulty Records 2023 Originally released in 1983. Thanks, Jen!
11:01 PM		Set Break
11:06 PM		The Claussies Frosty 2023 Christmas Stories http://daskalteseis.bandcamp.com Bill - bass, guitar Steve Roche - drums, sleigh bells (he recorded it, he was in Saetia) Commie - keyboards, vocals Pethie - vocals Augie - vocals All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.
11:09 PM		Set Break
11:12 PM		Mike Watt + The Bobblymen Surfin' with the Claus N 7" To the tune of a Urinals song!
11:15 PM		Queen City Hooligan Hooligan Christmas (feat. Santa GEE) Hooligan Christmas GEE thAng Music 2023
11:18 PM		Benjamin Shaw It's Christmas Time (For God's Sake) I Got the Pox, The Pox Is What I Got (Remastered and Expanded) Audio Antihero/Old Money Records 2019 Nosferatu D2 cover.
11:24 PM		Crazy Yvonne Parang Soca Christmas JW Records 2009
11:32 PM		Gathered Ghosts The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) Special Holiday Moments Gathered Ghosts
11:35 PM		Barry Richards Baby Sittin' Santa Baby Sittin' Santa Bacci Bros Records
11:37 PM		Vista Blue It's Christmas Time N Christmas Every Day Radiant Radish Records 2023
11:40 PM		Set Break
11:41 PM		Tobias Carroll Faces in the Window 2023 Christmas Stories https://tobiascarroll.com
11:44 PM		Set Break
11:46 PM		Busted Head Racket & Billiam I'm Existential Genetic Southern Hemisphere Christmas
11:47 PM		Seoul Wanderer Haleluayh/Whith Christmas Christmas Carols 오아시스레코드 뮤직컴퍼니 1976
11:54 PM		Set Break
11:55 PM		Ken Forbes and Walter Greene On Delta, On Comet 2023 Christmas Stories
11:58 PM		Set Break
12:00 AM		David Hill (produced by Cameron Flemming) The Tradition 2012 Christmas Stories https://www.davidhillonline.com
12:08 AM		Set Break
12:10 AM		SAVAK I Want Noise For Christmas 2023 Christmas Stories https://savak.bandcamp.com
12:14 AM		Set Break
12:34 AM		The Ramones Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight) N Punk Rock Christmas 12:34 = RAMONES-O-CLOCK!!
12:36 AM		Divide & Kreate Blitzkrieg Santa Fantastic Four V/A
12:39 AM		El Sancho Merry Christmas Joey Ramone Merry Christmas Joey Ramone Guaranteed Death 2023
12:41 AM		Two Inch Winky I Can't Wait For Christmas Christmas Bop b/w I Can't Wait For Christmas
12:44 AM		Angry Snowmans December 23rd Black Coal For Rotten Children
12:46 AM		Ramonesmas Don't Want Coal A Very Snotty Christmas
12:47 AM		The Биты / The Baseball Bats R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Christmas Подарите мне на Рождество Ramones!
12:50 AM		DJ Tenderloin Sha La La - Jingling at the Moon
12:54 AM		Vista Blue I Want New Ramones Songs for Christmas Keep It All Year
12:56 AM		Santa's Little Helper The Sleigh, Sleigh, Sleigh Brought My Presents Today Arbor Christmas 22 V/A
12:59 AM		THE HEY HO HO HO'S Santa Is A Punk Sluggishas Xmastravaganza 9 V/A
1:00 AM		The Krayolas I Wanna Be Your Santa (Acapella Version) N Santa Is On Her Way Box Records 2023
1:02 AM		Mojochronic I Wanna Be Dentated - Blitzen's Bop (The Ramones vs The Three Stooges vs The Ray Conniff Singers) Santastic 7: It's a Wonderful Mash V/A
1:05 AM		Hot Press & the Silent Knights Gobble Gobble Gobble Hey! Born to Roast Hot Press Records
1:08 AM		Alicja Trout Joey Ramone for Christmas Family Nog: A Small Batch Holiday Compilation Volume 3 V/A
1:12 AM		The Queers Ramones Christmas Punk Rock Christmas, Vol. 2 V/A Cleopatra Records 2019
1:15 AM		Alex Lahey Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight) Jangle Bells - A Rough Trade Shops Christmas Selection V/A
1:17 AM		Set Break
1:19 AM		(Big) Black Christmas Santa-Santa / Festive Complexion / Gifts Of Love / Christmastree 2023 Christmas Stories http://nealmarkowski.bandcamp.com FOUR DIFFERENT re-workings of Big Black songs for the holidays!
1:36 AM		Set Break
1:38 AM		Delicious Clam Records Have A Very Misfits Christmas Delicious Christmas 1:38 am = ALL-MISFITS SET! Revised for 2023! Someday, this track will simply transition us between the Ramones set and this one...
1:40 AM		Great Whyte Lyin' Snake I Killed Santa Today
1:41 AM		Angry Snowmans 20 Lights What We Do Is Festive
1:43 AM		Two Inch Winky Gift Givers Joy A.D.
1:46 AM		Christmisfits Astro Santa N SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #13
1:48 AM		Team Amoeba Gratitude N Gobble Gobble Hey! Team Amoeba 2023
1:50 AM		CRANZIG Other SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #8 V/A
1:54 AM		Two Inch Winky Santa Legacy of Nativity
1:56 AM		Misfitsmas Coals 11 Hits From Heaven
1:58 AM		Angry Snowmans I Turned Into A Nutcracker Black Coal For Rotten Children
2:00 AM		The Misfit Toys Figgy Pudding 2018 Christmas Stories
2:02 AM		Two Inch Winky Elves Joy A.D.
2:03 AM		"Glenn Danzig" Twas The Night Before Christmas
2:09 AM		The Chrisfits Yuletide Business
2:12 AM		Two Inch Winky Santa's Workshop Legacy of Nativity
2:14 AM		FROSTBITE B.C. We Are 12/25 CHRISTMAS
2:15 AM		Two Inch Winky Christmas Eve Legacy of Nativity
2:17 AM		Misfitsmas Eat Pie! 11 Hits From Heaven
2:19 AM		Two Inch Winky Cool Yule Joy A.D.
2:21 AM		Christmisfits Santa's Nite Out SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #12 V/A
2:23 AM		AERIALIST Santa 2017 Christmas Stories
2:23 AM		Two Inch Winky Joy To The World Joy A.D.
2:25 AM		The Radish Friends Christmas Eve Positive Christmas Energy
2:27 AM		Angry Snowmans Last Christmas S/T
2:28 AM		Set Break
2:32 AM		The Brown Christmas Pavuchky 2023 Christmas Stories https://thebrownchristmas.bandcamp.com
2:35 AM		Set Break
2:36 AM		TV's Daniel You Can't Spend Christmas Alone You Can't Spend Christmas Alone 2023
2:40 AM		Jo Firestone The Jo Firecast - A Yule Log Jamz WatchAlong with Jo Firestone (excerpt)
2:45 AM		Doug F One Last Christmas (Metallica vs. Wham!) Mashed Christmas I Gave You My Bootie V/A
2:48 AM		MJ Lenderman ft. Karly Hartzman Christmas Steve You Were Alone: An Owen Ashworth Almanac Advance Base cover.
2:51 AM		Hayeminol Gingerbread Kollektivt Selvmord Hærverk Industrier 2020
2:53 AM		Set Break
2:57 AM		George? / Korein! Santa's Always On His Way 2023 Christmas Stories http://georgekorein.bandcamp.com
3:04 AM		Set Break
3:06 AM		The Berlin Wall Peace After X-Mas Where's the Limit? Midas 1983
3:09 AM		The Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Medley: Joy To the World / Deck the Halls / O Come All Ye Faithful / Jingle Bells Christmas Jollies Salsoul Records
3:21 AM		Arlie come as you arlie (the christmas song)
3:24 AM		Shelly Knicks Shelly Knicksmas Shelly Knicksmas 2019
3:26 AM		Dj Ewi Armadillo Dreams of Christmas Armadillo Dreams of Christmas Claysounds 2017
3:30 AM		Wednesday Week Christmas Here What We Had
3:34 AM		GWAR Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend Pit Records 2009
3:39 AM		Set Break
3:41 AM		Bret Saunders What's In The Box??? 2023 Christmas Stories http://bretsaunders.bandcamp.com
3:47 AM		Set Break
3:47 AM		The Photocopies Fell In Love At Christmas Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 The Photocopies 2022
3:49 AM		The Philly Specials Feat Jason Kelce & Travis Kelce Fairytale Of Philadelphia N A Philly Special Christmas Special
3:54 AM		The Terrorsurfs 12345 Gold Rings Dam-Nations December 2023 V/A
3:57 AM		AtinPiano Carol of Ferrix (Andor x Carol of the Bells)
4:00 AM		Charlie's Hand Movements Flambé The Xmas Singles 2014-18
4:06 AM		Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Hoho N Hoho 2023
4:10 AM		THE CRAMPUS All Children Are Bad N SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #13 V/A ("All Women Are Bad" by The Cramps.)
4:13 AM		Set Break
4:16 AM		Cardboard '93 Rusty Roll of Quarters (Live) 2023 Christmas Stories Jeff Schroeck (The Ergs!) - drums Mike Witwer (West Jersey Airport) - guitar Tony Palma (Crystal Violet, Ex-Glazer) - guitar T. (Human Adult Band) - bass/vocals Lyrics by Justin Mank (Ranseur, Human Adult Band).
4:21 AM		Set Break
4:22 AM		The Galaxies Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Merry Christmas V/A Etiquette Records
4:24 AM		Brook Benton Soul Santa Soul Santa / Let Us All Get Together With the Lord Rhino Atlantic 1971
4:27 AM		John C. Worsley Santa When The Claus Fell
4:30 AM		The Not Fur Longs A Gabby Cat Holiday Arbor Christmas: Volume 24 V/A 2023
4:33 AM		Roman Mars A Slow Visit from St. Nicholas Slow Xmas 2 V/A
4:45 AM		Merkel & The Merkelettes Christmas Eve in a Communist Bookstore Merkel and the Merkelettes Sing One Half of a Christmas Classic and a Couple of Songs You've Never Heard Of 2023
4:47 AM		Atrox Sporco Natale Buon Natale Point Zero 2021
4:49 AM		Set Break
4:52 AM		emily light transmission 2023 Christmas Stories http://emily.bandcamp.com
4:56 AM		Set Break
4:58 AM		The Sensible Gray Cells A Stupid Xmas A Stupid Xmas Damaged Goods 2023 Captain Sensible of The Damned and friends.

Chat is archived.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, WPRB! Show starts at 5:00 pm ET!

Yessssss

BAM!!! LET'S KICK IT UP A NOTCH!!! THROW SOME NUTMEG IN THE EGG NOG GUMBO!!!

Hi Jon!!! Here...WE...GOOOOOOOOO!

hey what's good

Let's gooooooooooo.

Jingle jingle

Merry Christmas all!! 🎄🎅☃️

WE ARE MARATHONING, ALL.

Good evening and Merry Xmas DJ Jon Solomon! Good evening and Merry Xmas all listeners! This is my favorite radio night of the year! Greetings all!

@emeril drinking some nog right now. no okra in it

hey folks I'm here. I've got COVID but I can still enjoy the marathon in my isolation/west philly covid bunker! MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL

Bam

Hello everyone!!

Hi Dana and Commie, The Big guns are here..

It's officially Christmas eve now!

Oh yeah!

Feel better, Sebastian!

Hey gang

let's go! merry christmas!

@DanaK throwin some okra in the eggnog gumbo rn, great idea

Jingle jingle, Grinches & Kringles!!!

CB, hope you're on the mend too!

here we go!

Jon Solobot here! Reporting for WPRBXmas XXXV duty. Hello all!

Thanks @Jon just feels like a cold, so not too bad so far, but a double line is a double line....

Season's greetings from Brooklyn!

Okra Nog. The muciligenous nog.

Aw thx Jon 🫶

hope everyone sick gets to feel better soon.i spent last year's marathon in the hospital listening on my phone, so i'm very happy to...not be doing that. audio is better this way.

Welcome back Dana. Mazel Tov

Hype man must come back every year

I <3 bells

Merry Xmas Eve, Jon!

so glad you're doing better this year, Dana K. I still have warm memories of our trip with the gang to Montclair for the Embarrassment screening

DJ B-Syde was the best hype man! That was a great set 🎅

There will be CAFFEINE!

@Dana K! Glad you're *not* in the hospital this year.

Happy 35th, Jon!

Exciting!

Love the t-shirt Jon.

Liz Bot! Yet another PRB DJ Hi

Let's go!

All the bots in my house, Liz & otherwise, are tuned to Solobot and awaiting holiday orders 🤖 🎄

aw thanks sebastian, i loved that little journey too!

Hey Sebastian. Cheers from Norfilly.

Hurrah!

Nog in the streets

My brother in law apparently got me a Cameo from someone named "Drunk Santa 00" for the marathon. Hopefully I can find time to watch it / share it with you amid the chaos!

Greetings everyone!!!

Seasons greetings from the Pacific Time zone y'all!

Brixton Riot get the first premiere slot yet again.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Really great to see so many favorite names here.

oh heck, the Sonics got me spontaneously dancing, despite my sickness and gave me my first smile in 24+ hours. Bless you, Jon! Happy 35th!

Merry WPRBXmas, y'all!

Yooooooo

Hang in there Sebastian! Music Heals!

Another year I have to log in twice to be logged in 😅

Pace yourself, Sebastian!

If this is year 35, that means, yep, I'm old...

Tandy! Hi!

My question is how do I know if stream is behind or ahead? I don't want any spoilers!

DANA! Yayyy

The web stream, Ryan?

1st login goes the way of dryer socks.

It is probably about 15-20 seconds behind the radio which is a touch behind, say, my dining room table.

Listening from Berlin, Germany tonight after many years listening from Philly.

thanks, Alan. And yes I will try, Jon

Ready for 25 hours of 🥴

@Liz Bot ... I suggest we commence the dispensing of Nog. Egg and/or Silicon. Whatever the listeners like!

Yes the web stream. Thank you.

Rhode Island is listening!

Now it officially feels like Christmas.

OH HI from Outer World HQ!

Hi everyone! Merry Christmas! This is a lovely cut!

Hey Jon! It’s officially Christmas Eve now that The Mitchell’s heard the Sonics on your 25 hour radio show!

Listening with my whole family from Berlin.

Tuning in from Riverside, CA!

Hey Maura, Hey Andrew, Hey Yoni, Hey Lizbot!

Cheers, Berlin 🥂

Listening from South Philly - this is my boyfriend Josh's first Xmas marathon. I'm trying to explain things to him without revealing too much.

"So there's this story, and it's about a snail, and...you'll hear it tomorrow."

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Welcome to the Family, Josh! Let the hazing begin!

Drunk Santa 00… meaning there’s Drunk Santa 01, 02… to follow? 😆

Merry Christmas you ol' Jon Solomon's Christmas Marathon and fellow WPRB listeners...!

Merry Christmas chat!

Listening from Bryn Mawr PA, but going out to see some christmas displays, so West Chester PA, Franklin Square, 13th st. Philly, and FDR Park later

I hope to hear a rendition of Feliz Navidad by five fine boys from riverside, CA, the voodoo glow skulls

My personal rule: Never marry anyone who doesn't love the marathon

DENNIS

merry holidays, chatters!

Hey Alana!!!!

BAM jen & all 👨‍🍳♥️📻

I was just going go say, Did anyone hear the latest Mary vs the Movies? The beginning cracked me up.

I was up to date on all podcasts until late last week when Xmas prep conquered all.

Merry Christmas everyone!

bam!🤘🏻🎄

Will catch up before NYE, hopefully.

We’re late getting on because we just recorded an episode.

merry christmas jon!

Damn, hallelujah!

@Alana - WRT the latest Mary Vs The Movies, I believe there was a certain homogeneity of tone

Merry Christmas, dear friends

Merry Mexmas to all!!!

learning alot here about christmas

“Decorate your tree… if you have time”

lol DJ T

I definitely did not have time this year lol

This guy knows a lot about Christmas.

@jon Do you happen to have a time estimate-ish for Man in Red? Absolutely no problem if not!!!

Small Trees = Less time...

signing in from WDC 🎅🎄 merry merry all

Christmas fact: The Gävle goat should burn. Now.

THE WHOLE KITCHEN STAFF IS LINE DANCING

MHR! 💚

Howdy chef! Bam!

The goat is full of birds this year!

Look carefully in the photo I just posted on Instagram for a Gavle Goat ornament my friend Mary sent me!

Chef, I'd say tomorrow morning around sunrise? Roughly?

Dan Wade in the chat!

BAM thank you!!

I would just like everyone to know that during last years marathon I changed my google pic here to Jane Fonda wearing Menorah sunglasses ( I call her Hanukkah Jane Fonda) AND I’VE KEPT IT ALL YEAR. Every email… Hanukkah Jane Fonda 😆

JM!

Yeah, I don’t want to wicker man those birds.

Lizbot - Nooo! the goat is full of birds this year!

Loyal to the Marathon fam

well done, CB!

Looking at the gavle goat livestream, it looks more like the birds are making off with all the straw haha

I pre-celebrated Xmas with the family a couple days ago, so that I may give my FULL attention to the marathon this year.

JS i just need to know what time you'll pay fairytale in new york

Merry Happy to All - thanks Jon for another great 25 hours!

since I'm a sick sad-sack this year I request "Cold White Christmas (In St. Paul)" by Casiotone For the Painfully Alone at some point

What did Jay Gatsby serve at his Christmas Eve party? West Egg Nog

💗🌲💗🌲💗

Greetings

Thx for reminding me about Ladytron.

Hope all is well , and Jon thanks for another year of this. You are the best.

christmas

Just in case I fade …have the alarm set for 12:25 am to wake up in time for the Ramones set

@randy m 🤣🙄

Hello, Pat. It's Chrisssssstmaaaaaaasssssss!

yay for brixton riot!

Where’s the chick who did the whole Marathon in the chat last year? She’s a musician. I think her name starts with an E??

yesss can't wait for the outer world song

Edith Frost? She's in Portugal this Xmas.

The jingle bells are too loud this year!

Noted, Jack. That's an easy fix.

Let me know if it is better next break!

@Dennis Lingg & @donutage - I’ve been watching those birds in the goat for the past couple weeks and the way I see it, the goat is coming down in January anyway, so the good people of Gävle need to play a loud sudden sound to scare those birds out (like they did in Philly when demolishing Veteran Stadium!) and then BURN THE GOAT!

Thanks!😊 love the show

@Patrick I agree

Edith! That’s right!

fifty's nifty

Is Maggie now as old as you when you began this grand adventure?

oh wow, welcome to your 50s, Jon! They're, um, great.

U KNOW IM IN THE KITCHEN

Lizbot: Looks like a Naked Goat! Yikes!

Carl, bingo!

Does Alex Reed have a new song this year?

Jack / all, the bells mix lower but still bell-y?

So Maggie takes over the show next year?

The first marathon of my 40’s! 🥂

Happy 50's Jon!

Who said anything about *next* year...?

Some mad clown is riding a fire truck very slowly through the old hood here in Levittown @ mom's... I has a spishuss..

Happy 50’s Jon!

nice Mark E Smith-y voice. This is Punk f'n rock and i'm into it

Just seeing that West Egg Nog comment @Randy Marthins. Nice!

ooo, I like this song

(I thought the bellz levels were fine before.)

And Steve Hanley-esque bass to boot on the last one. Low low note santa

Thanks, CB. Want to make sure they're not too much for too many.

Jon: In my 50's I found out that's the time to "Floss Like a Madman"...

That Sleaford Mods-inspired song was aces! And hello, fellow chatters!

That's the new djs radio show coming up next season Alan... Floss Like a Madam-Madman

@Alan Pasnyk - Welcome to the newly risqué Gävle Goat: AFTER DARK…which is pretty much all the time in Swedish winter

Earliest I've had to break out the salsa moves on a marathon.

SKM! MHR! JM!! So many pals. Merry Christmas!

Did someone in the chat send me an Xmas Parang mix last marathon? It was great and this was on it.

This 👍

I'm pretty sure "Floss Like a Madman" is an Ozzy record, yeah?

SKM! holy moly, the whole team is back in action

Whoever sent Jon that Xmas Parang mix link please reshare in the chat!

this song is great. we're dancing on the couch at my house.

Xmas Parang mix link please reshare in the chat! - Agreed.

Is that a new Brixton Riot record? I haven't seen that group in a couple of years. One of them's now in a new band called the Make Three.

total salsoul meets Rupa vibes on this and I dig it

Haha Brendan. 💃 Hey!!

The Brixton Riot tune just went live on their Bandcamp!

https://thebrixtonriot.bandcamp.com/track/all-my-friends-winter-coat

Oh yes! That bass line!

That was a good one

Howdy CB! Good to see you again. Recognized the Joan Rivers right away.

Merry Christmas from London, Jon... Managed to tune in from over here.

IT’S JANE FONDA! 😂

but honestly i didn't catch what was "holiday" about that Colleen Grant cut

CHANUKAH JANE FONDA! 😂 😂

Opps! I confused them haha!

@sebastian found the lyrics, answered my own question

Thought that was funky drummer!

This. Is What. I'M TALKING ABOUT! nice job Jon!

Yeah this rules.

Aha! Good work, Sebastian.

Ohhh, this is awesome.

"slip into your chimney"

Hello and Merry Christmas from the Lurkers Union.

Merry Christmas, Mary! Loved the MVM episode of The Dead and its homogeneity of tone

"Be Your Santa" was hot!

Ha! Thank you, Liz Bot! Yeah, my jaw dropped when I heard that

Wait what? Mary did a podcast episode on The Dead? How'd I miss that.

Jon it would not be your show if I didnt mention Ghoel, babe.

+1 on "Be Your Santa" - excellent double entendres for the benefit of our younger listeners...

Christmas in the Loony Bin!

Yeah! The episode came out Thursday. A little early for 12th Night, but close enough.

Should I set up my lil Xmas tree? I was wondering if I would put it up this year. The Tommy McNamara song earlier sort of inspired me when he said “decorate your tree… if you have time.”

Put up the tree @CB.

CB Trust me, Just Do the Tree!!!

Hattie declared that Amerigo Gazaway song is even better than Christmas In Hollis, which it sounds like it sampled near the beginning)

CB Don't worry about how it looks too much..

Haha

If you need some help @CB I can easily come through any of your domicile's walls. Are any of them load bearing?

Stepped out for a few minutes. Did I miss Snaildartha?

loooool this rules

@Jon, didn't you suggest this title?

@sebastian hi!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Daaaaan

*gasp*!

Bunny Grunt was great!

So some of you know every year I have a project… Painting walls, reupholstering chairs etc… This year I’m cleaning up after insect bombing my house earlier ( I blame SEPTA.) I’m doing all the laundry at a house 2 doors from mine. So I’ll be doing this all night, between two houses. Plus vacuum vacuum vacuum. Rinse Wash Repeat. So, the ultimate goal, this year, will be setting up my little dinky Xmas tree with cute new Hanukkah garland my friend got me. Chat lifers, check with me in 7 hrs 🥲✌️

It’s already 4% over!?

Buon Natale a tutte! Greetings from southern Italy, where it just officially became the 25th!

It's my aspirational goal to hear every Sonics song this year!

I agree, Blaise, that Bunnygrunt song was wonderful

1 for unknown quantity, so far

Buon natale, Dan - you may have the early lead in the "listener farthest from NJ" contest

Outer world!!!!

yayyy tracy and kenny

The original is amazing, best Christmas/postal song

Jeff Garis is tuning in from Thailand but I don't know if he's in the chat?

Sure, I could use some help Jon Solobot. Can you do laundry?

Jon - I gave you the original - part of that massive link of stuff - it came from King of Jing-aling! It's awesome!

Bunnygrunt ❤️ I hope Little Feet and the rest of the Marchies were listening!

King, I'll have to dig it up / out post-marathon. Thank you!

Elizabeth! Great to see you here.

Other late period P. Revere Xmas stuff too on there!

We have you on the Bluetooth speakers here in CT now

There's a whole great Paul Revere and the raiders Christmas album

So excited to be listening!

CF - that's it! I just recently downloaded a bunch of stuff from that record - great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgZf0deQx-k

Seems our guitar channel dropped but its there!

Quick link to the Paul Revere original... appropriately faithful cover

Hey Blaise good to "see" you my friend from up north. And good luck with your projects, CB!

Good job @KC

Oooo, my ears are burning…

My Deth Elf "woohoo!" was embarrassingly loud for an empty house 😅

DETH ELF! I KNOW THEM!!!

Aw, you all are sweet.

I'll def. listen to that record between now and late December 2024!

I may have an opportunity in the pipeline for Deth Elf next year...

@Dana K ... weird question but was the name of the 45" you were talking about on your show the other day?

BAM the egg nog gumbo is cookin, who wants to throw on the next ingredient

https://outerworldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/rain-sleet-snow

Outer World cover is live!

Abusing my contacts to get Deth Elf to more people

Chef, how about some dried candied fruit?

Well Chef, what about a candy cane?

Putting in my vote for panettone

Happy Christmas Time! Totally had to address the 800lbs Santa in the room, who clearly has had too many of Chef's candy canes.

candy cane BAM dried candied fruit BAM *audience applause*

I love funky chunky rhythm

If you're not celebrating with a rhyme, are you really celebrating?

panettone BAM

This Kurtis Blow remix is awesome!

Casta did another mix to follow up his prior mix from 20 years ago (which was updated in 2013). The best stuff on it is indeed the best stuff.

Merry Christmas everyone! Man this year flew by but I am so happy to be spending another Xmas eve and day with Jon

oooohhh Guarldi's "Skating"-- but funky!

Clever use of "Skating" there

@Jon Solomon - this is great!

Jon is rad

well that was amazing

I went to High School with a Dan Wade'

McCartney/Guaraldi mashup = which dead guy is rolling harder in theit grave?

last time i checked Sir Paul is still with us

Still think the Wham / Slayer mash up is the all time winner.

No way dude, Paul is dead.

That Vince Guaraldi sample in "Christmas Rappin'" was the best.

@DW I grew up in Alabama, but there are plenty of Dan Wades (including a serial killer.)

Paul is dead - when I was a kid at camp a counselor went over all the stuff - the covers, the lyrics, etc. - and if blew my little mind....

a Jack and Mel Blanc Classic!

Hey John Hastie!

Awesome 35th Anniversary Show, Jon!!!!

Thanks, Bob!

When I was a kid, a radio station in Philly would play old radio shows all Christmas Eve. (And for an hour every other night). I was the only 8 year old Jack Benny fan in my class.

...no one can scream quite like Mel Blanc

Hi Jon!

but Mel Blanc can scream like ANYONE...

...so true...

I'm afraid I'm responsible for this one

Lovin' this Feliz lol

LMAO

Oh wow. There's a slight delay in here between the two WPRBXmas streams I've got going and this song is ... trippy.

omg - i'm dying over here! wtf?! love this

This reminds me of the two squirrels in Baldurs Gate 3

what a voice

this is a BOP

This is amazing

...sing along..

@danwade got it. I was South Jerz growing up. I have to look up the serial killer

Dan Wade - get yourself checked out

Holy cow, Dan.

Bill "TURN THIS UP"

I just found it, I didn't make it

There's a whole album of DangerWoman!

MUCHACHOS

I might pee my pants

...left my ears ringing...

yeah that was rough...

I can't unhear that

The first of many songs to set my greyhounds' teeth completely on edge

FM sigs are still ok though...

someone should do a mashup of DangerWoman and King Diamond

Has king diamond done feliz navidad? Would listen.

This Buried in Coal track is so cool

Hello everyone! Who would win in a cage match, DangerWoman or Wing?

My cat rubbed his ears on the Bluetooth speaker when this Buried in Coal song started. I'm so proud

@commie that would be amazing

@ Jon..Dangerwoman has been featured once or twice on some Aquabats recordings and TV show episodes

Hey Jon and pals

Hey, Mike!

The whole Buried In Coal record is "name your price" - https://buriedincoal.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-holidays-for-heavy-times

Just fed the cats. My partner Andy and I are listening in. Loving the show so far, Jon! Hope you and all here in the chat are well!

@mary love the jack Benny story!

That was lovely.

The ending was so peaceful and relaxing.

@Blaise hah, thank you—I was a very specific kind of weirdo as a kid.

Here's something for the chat. I think if anyone can help me find this it'll be you guys: anyone know where to find a recording of Vine Lee reading "Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus" on KYW 1060 back in December 1976?

Been trying to find it for years but no luck!

Asking my bff, he works at KYW!

It wasn't just aired in 76. They used to play that version every Christmas on the radio. AND it used to be linked online. But the link/player doesn't work anymore?

GRMA @Alana Phelan.

Enjoying listening to the show!

Hi Mike!

hey now. really enjoyed the danger lady. if jose feliciano was dead he'd be rolling over in his grave. or maybe happy for the royalties.

Hey Maura! How are you?

Krista!

Looking forward to new Deth Elf!

Taylor!

Hail Marathoneers! So glad to be listening for another year. Already pretty swell

@iamthelabhras He says it's airing tomorrow and should be online

@donutage hope you like it!

Online after, I guess

Los Tres <3!

Awesome @Alana Phelan! Sorry to press my luck here but quick follow up question: when will it air on KWY?

Keith!

3 1/2 years of Duolingo and I caught about 40% of that.

"Throughout the day, not a set schedule"

oh, I like this one!

So we’ve got WRTI, KWY & PRB fam all up in this chat. Cheers public radio fam. 💋 🥂

Big love to the radio fam 💙

Got it! Appreciate you fielding the question @Alana!!

Already digging this one!

This is great Jon, Love leaning into Christmas music without the usual tropes.

Also digging this one - good one boss!

Hell yeah radio fam

Yoooo

Funk is never a mistake

Yeah, this is excellent.

Well this is a fun funky one! Like Moe's Christmas jam

I see some WKDU and WRSU in the chat, likely a WFMU or two I am forgetting...

Unexpected Christmas fuzz and wah wah

GET DOWN!

I completely forgot to play this one last year due to a mistake with my personal filing system. Rectifying!

okey, this is bizarre & brilliant!

We're loving this Titus Andronicus rewrite of Billy Joel!

I've discovered this year there are many, many, many BJ tribute bands out there

Aux Caroling is live! - https://auxcaroling.bandcamp.com/track/10-p-m-midnight-mass-christmas-2007

I've never been in such a mood for ba-rump-ba-rump-bump.

There's a fan theory that piano man is about a guy playing in a bar but he doesn't realize it's a gay bar

I was actually on WRSU last month, so I can represent it

Same, @Brendan!

Interesting theory about the bar. When I was a kid I always imagined that "bread in my jar" meant that someone stuck a loaf of Wonder bread in it!

Stankface: ENGAGED

" I always imagined that "bread in my jar" meant that someone stuck a loaf of Wonder bread in it!" I imagined stale breadsticks a la Olive Garden

James: and it took me the longest time to figure out what "and the lambsandoxkeptime" meant in the original drummer boy meant..

never knew that was a cover

Drivin' on 9 is a cover 🤯

Yeah it's news to me too that Drivin on 9 wasn't a Breeders original

Alan : LOL

Hallmark moments.

🥹

Thank you, Jon!

Thanks Jon!

Did she defect to that 'MURICA! channel with Candace Cameron Bure?

Lol, Bear

And Mario Lopez as the voice of Zeus

Not as far as I’m aware

thanks Dan! - And Mario Lopez as the voice of Zeus

👋

HELL YEAH

I still laugh sometimes about that "Mario Lopez as the voice of Zeus" track.

Maybe your best?

She didn’t, Eliza. She made at least one new Hallmark movie this year.

That was such a fun song, Mary & Dennis!

no I'M going crazy over Lacey Chabert!

Elf Chabert

That was excellent! Although I must admit I get Lacey Chabert mixed up with Candace Cameron Bure

Alana, its maybe our best that doesn’t feature you on vocals.

Thanks everybody! We’re so glad you liked it!

It's certainly been flying by already!

OMG, 10 hours of bells.

Deth Elf riding an Ise Bar works for me.

Def Elph

https://dethelf.bandcamp.com/track/lacey-chabert

Hi Roffle! You all rested up???

Get that in Lacey's ears somehow!

Always a thrill to be part of the show!

Woah

Thanks for posting the link, Jon!

Hi Alan. Slept in today for sure. :)

Thanks, Laura! I try to keep the Hallmark Cinematic Universe exposure to a minimum while I visit my parents.

Oh my god, I love this.

That Deth Elf song had a great groove, thanks!

the hallmark hanukkah movie is pretty - unintentionally - funny

The real question is, who will be the first to tag Lacey Chabert about the song?

Jake McKelvie has a tune premiering next!

We're all counting on you, Alana.

I literally almost just did it but didn't want to do it without Mary & Dennis okaying it

This is lovely

Alana, you have our blessing.

"Dear Deth Elf, please cease and desist the use of our client's...." kidding. hopefully!

Love this song, Dennis said it reminds him of Low

Fair Use! (One hopes)

DJ T: I’d break down in tears!

There’s a good reason for that 😉

Posted! Let's see if she sees it

I'm sure it will be fine! right?

Hey y’all! Trapped at an extended family holiday party so I can’t tune in at the moment, but wanted to wish you all a festive holiday!

Making my buttermilk pie and realize i have no whiskey, and liquor stores are closed on Sundays and holidays, so I'm up a creek

I doubt Michelle Pfeiffer was paid for all those song mentions of her

If you're near the italian market in south philly Dan Wade you can grab some from me!

Hey, I got my Christmas wish (the Cowboys lost).

Dan, I feel you. I used the last of my cornstarch to make dinner tonight and then realized I need it in three things tomorrow.

And I have no car ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Addie! Happy Holidays!

Tapioca flour is basically the same thing, right, any vegan dessert-making people?

I got my Christmas wish. The Detroit Lions won!

Put on the Xmas hits as you leave!

I love that the Cowboys suck on the road this year!

Thanks Jon! I’ll tune in a bit before bed. Sorry to be missing it!

The Lions are a fun team to watch. Wish Justin Jackson The Ballcarrier hadn't retired in the pre-season.

🤘

Hey Dan Wade - does Drizzly work on Xmas Eve? used it once to send a bottle of booze to a friend's photography opening - very cool service

LOL COWBOYS

I just saw something on Google News about the "50 Greatest Christmas songs of ALL TIME"... I'm so glad and grateful we'll hear NONE of them over the next 25 hours. Thank you, Jon!!!

@Addie: Happy holidays!!

I just went from moshing to gettin' down with it!

Friend of the show Annie Z. wrote a book this season about the stories behind 100x Christmas songs I need to read because she knows what's up.

Curse my puritan roots. I think I just wrote "A Smokey & the Bandit Christmas"

Hey Addie! Merry Christmas!

Bring back talking verses in ‘24.

@Andrew I'm down with that! That was reminding me of some BB King.

When Annie Z. writes a book on something, you know it’ll be the definitive story

Dan, I really want you to write that.

Merry Christmas to all! Tuned in to the marathon here in Philly :)

Mary jumped on duolingo now.

I've never met an Ernesto I didn't like.

question for the chat: what is your favorite *cover* of a post-1964 (so after Spector's Christmas Gift) Christmas song?

Jen just realized that she neglected her Duolingo toda, until that break. There will be Norwegian practiced before midnight.

Time to do a bunch of cornstarch-less prep work. Back later, y'all. If you have to duck out, have a wonderful night and Merry Christmas 💙

Merry Christmas, DJ Pup!

Hey TAndy! Cheers :)

I’m glad I was here for the crazy early years of Jamvent.

Jake is so good.

This submission was a total (welcome) surprise.

Jake!

This is the stuff

Jake rules.

brb, gonna take out my recycling :D

Love this

Hard to resist a song called Xmas Radio...

DJ Pup! How ya feeling?

Nice Vicki Bennett piece! Somewhat hypnotizing me as I wrap presents

this is cool - another choice one Jon

We're now on our way to our hotel to fully commit to the marathon

This is making me wonder if Negativland did any Xmas Plunderphonics...

christmas k hole

I have another station fading in and out as we drove to a friend’s, and I have no idea if I’m hearing this song right or not.

Presents wrapped, first beer cracked, Christmas story marathon about to begin, Jon on the airwaves, this is the good stuff

Feelin better thanks! A recovery holiday this year, quiet and at home

Well, quiet but not… radio silent

Mary, yes, it's like having a Christmas-themed dream or something!

solomon family dance!

Watched this masterpiece last night

Surprisingly few Xmas songs about Trading Places.

🐶

What was the mashup featuring Sinatra

Alright folks, I have to feast on some fishes with some friends, will be back later in the marathon.

People Like Us.

People Like Us is actually a facebook friend! Anyways, Happy Holidays to all of you, I followed a link here from Metafilter, thanks for 35 years of whatever this is!

Back from dinner at our local bar where we shared a shot of cynar with our friend/bartender. Now more nog. Merry b/w happy

Aaron Westendorp - tell People Like Us - really enjoyed that - so trippy and great!

oh, wow, Jamvent!

i think i also am celebrating jamvent

can we get a rundown of previous jam highlights?

caramel cinnamon was delicious!!!!!!

Rejected Jams would be a good band name.

OMG, I think not opening those is the wisest option for sure!

But a bad record label name.

Philly

I mean Phil!!!!!

Seasons evening greetings

Max, did you have a Jamvent fave?

I'd rather do a The Jam advent calendar

Howdy Ossy! Happy holidays

Hi Pup!

I remember that evil knievel toy...

@dana now that's entertainment!

......don't drink and drive like Evil Knievel..

My fav was Quince, and the caramel spread! i put it on a graham cracker with chocolate.

Ha! Quince got accidentally got unopened until moments ago!

So my family is now pretty excited to have it.

Wow!!! I want to hear the review

I loved Evel Knievel when I was a kid. I was the right age for it.

George Korein & The Spleen have the next premiere. It is a doozy!

God I love a song with jingle bells

Greetings from Maine!

Especially when sounding 8bit!

Mmm, chips with a side of tunes

Hi Ossy! Haha, I knew you’d pop up for this excellent chiptunage

Frank! Maine! Hello!

I was here not too long ago, Space Lady Bot, but oh yeah!

Now this is a medley!

Lived in Princeton when I was a little kid. Glad that technology allows me to listen to this marathon 50+ years later.

Rich, glad to reach you wherever you might be this Christmas Eve!

Thanks, Jon! Been in Boston for many years but need to get back to Princeton to see what it looks like now.

This one's putting me in cloud 9

evening Jon! thanx as always....the whole family traveled to Boston and Vermont and all we got was these lousy cases of covid....all 4 of us. We're fine, but positive. Mild colds..

Heya Steven! Feel better! A lot of that going around, was in real Protect Jon At All Costs Mode the past two weeks...

That took a pleasant turn.

crummy Christmas present :(

"hi from Garth" who cannot log into chat

Hi Garth (in abstentia).

Didn't the Hep Stars include Benny from Abba?

It seems it's being taken lightly now, myself included...masks almost ended. You are smart to be diligent

Hey!

Is it too late to get a song in there?? I have been meaning to send it your way. My buddy made a christmas single and we made a video for it.

https://youtu.be/L-DWWvWh-18?si=SIXxUUrmK0ItHhWd

Haha Sponge

It's a Now Fizzing miracle!

This is my first marathon!

@jon have you tried Polar Orange Dry? Its like a fizzy orange juice (similar to Orangina from France, maybe a bit pass pulpy). GREAT, highly recommend

hey ya'll

Welcome!

🎄🎄🎄

Hi Tomi! Have fun

Alessandro, I would love to hear it but I can't preview during the show. Can you please send my way for 2024?

Tomi! Welcome!!

Doubleplus login

James, if it did that's news to me!

😆, Travis 🤖

Chef, it is a good drink but no sugary stuff for me until 12/26!

Recent listener, first time marathoner.

The goat has learned to save itself through avian conservation

Jon, Wikipedia confirms. No wonder the Hep Cats were so melodic!

I’m not much of a christmas person, but I am listening to John Solomon’s marathon on wprb in the middle of nowhere . Well I’m not too far from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, but far off the path.

This is the Christmas show for not really Christmas people

(Leah… 20th year to listen) listening from Maui-Aloha!

Leah! Aloha!

Travis, that sounds terrific.

Welcome aboard!

If it weren't for this marathon I'd be a pretty big scrooge about Christmas tbh

Hello!!!

That's very sweet of you to say, Dana K. My The Jam advent calendar will change that.

The champ Christmas Underground!

That was Thymme Jones from Cheer-Accident on trumpet!

Howdy Jon! Stellar 35'th ya got goin'!🔥

Yo, Bo.

this is the tannenbomb! Tree-mendous! see what I did there? thanks I'll be here all week. that was great!

Thank you so much Jon!

That was great, George!

Damn. I thought we were going to here some rush YYZ

How many years has it been again?

haha @ travis me too

35!!!

You be the authority on you, Jon!

Or a zipper

Yikes!

i think that is YKK

Can't hear the sink, turn it up pls

put a mike on the sink

Ha. Probably

Hello Everyone!

Also, trying to start the " Marathoneer" term. Takers?

im sad i will be working in the morning. i dont want to miss Snaildartha and Lindstrom!

Rob Warmowski is an old familiar name from when George used to go on the Electrical Audio PRF a lot 15 years ago

Cool George! A guy with built in tuners for sure.

Rob is much missed around these parts (and most other parts too save for say Wrigley Field).

Wouldn't a marathoneer be someone who engineers marathons?

iamthelabhras, I have volume and level controls. :)

Hello, @ReindeerUnionRep!

I see what you did there and I'm gonna say huh. But I was thinking of it more like Mousekateer or Rocketeer. Y'know, supporters and riders

The whole family is listening. Family from NJ came down to VA to listen to a radio show from NJ.

Thanks Sebastian and Roffle! I was inspired by the long and longer Little Drummer Boys

Very cool!

HOW DARE. My heart soared and dropped

Lindstrom and the “short” 10-minute version

By that guy who played in Swans I think

What was the Jingle Bells from a couple years ago that made me absolutely lose my shit?

@George, my boyfriend Josh just said your song was his favorite of the show (his first marathon) so far

Marathoneers wear snail ears

Jingle Rock Bell? The greatest song of all time?

Alana, there's a karaoke version of Jingle Rock Bell. It is harder than I expected.

@George, that Lindstrom stuff is just too good! Super influential vibes for Christmas IMHO.

@Yoni Jingle Rock Bell came up at the Atlantic Can work party this year. Jen said her boyfriend sings it “wrong” and it annoys her

i don't think i've ever heard anyone do brian wilson's our prayer - that's amazing

YES! JINGLE ROCK BELL

Howdy Jon! 35th is of 'n runnin'🔥

also jingle rock bell is also my favorite!

🖤 lovely tribute. Mimi forever 🖤

What a great Low cover.

You’re playing it! Thank you, Jon 🙂❤️

Agreed @Carl.

Took me a year, but I aired it Brad!

Just Like Christmas might be the best "new canon" Xmas song of the past 25 years?

Yes. No question.

Agreed

Had to check when it came out (1999) before I posted about it. Lots of terrific covers.

Idk what's going on with the lyrics, but it's still a jammer!

Whoa whoa whoa it’s 9pm already?

@Jon is that Jingle Rock Bell karaoke new? I looked for it but it could also be my algorithm, which hates Boolean searching, would do!

It is linked in this piece...

Why does everything sound like Guided By Voices to me tn?

https://indignity.substack.com/p/jingle-all-the-way

(Sorry, took me a moment to find.)

Correction on the worst of Jamvent! We almost forgot about this one but Lemon-Yuzu may have been the worst of the bunch.

There is a door in my kitchen with very thorough Jamvent rankings and reviews on post-it notes (mostly from the first 10 days of Jamvent).

Jamvent had some disappointers. There were fun flavors that just tasted like normal flavors

Im so glad your household is extremely thorough in testing and reviewing all jams and spreads

You answered my question- was “Christmas Marathon’ referencing the WPRB show

Yeah. Planned to rank all 24 and have a winner at the end but kind of gave up after Day 10.

Wow, my turmeric and nutmeg containers look a lot alike.

I've done that Jam Advent calendar and just used them all for cocktails....

Jamvent seemed to be a bigger hit than the Polar Winter Seasonals were in this household.

Begs the question... Ramones?

What's the question, Roffle?

Self evident my friend!

Also I dunno if anyone else is recording the whole show this year for posterity- but I certainly am

@Dan Wade ... what's the verdict on the tumeric dusted nog?

jon- where do you buy your polar winter seasonals- and are they cans or plastic liters?

@Dan Wade - oops!

Cans / Wegmans.

Does anyone know if the Jamvent jams are available outside of calendar?

I missed if the Ramones are having a play time this year.

Ramones are 12:34am I think, just one Ramones o'clock this year

re: "New Canon" Xmas songs, the Low song is great, but I'm partial to Los Campesinos! "Kindle a Flame in Her Heart" (2010), though it hasn't sparked the volume of (or perhaps any) cover versions.

AH, Thanks Commie!

Commie is correct. Wish I could do 2x sets but the stretch run needs more room!

I'm pleased n touched by you thanking the Band members by name. Very cool n personal.

Thanks for the love Jon, from your pals in the YY Zed. As our King Geddy once said: “a gift beyond price, almost free”

Hip, hip for Swansea Sound!😍

Angelo! Great tune! Glad you could hear it! May be up your way in March...

@Angelo Colussi thanks for the tune!

This song is ridiculously good!

Wow, thanks Dana!

Good luck getting this one out of your head...

Bapa ba BA ba ba BAdababa.

Our pleasure Keith! And Jon thanks again and keep us posted on March visit!

Oh yay! I'm able to reach the site via spinitron! Merry Xmas to one and all! @George Korein -- loved the first of the 4 contributions from you!!!

Oh my goodness I did not know the barracudas did a Christmas version of this song.

Hi Teresa!!

Oh wait they didn't

Thank you for the bada bapa earworm!

I didn't know there was another version!

Hi Commie!!! HO-HO-HO! <3

Minor time stamp issue on the playlist fixed.

Was curious if I could do a Neil Young-inspired set at sunrise, discovered this in the process.

The barracudas - summertime fun vs baccarudas - Christmas fun

Oh! Wild! Thanks, Commie.

I'm curious who the baccarudas are!

Re: Neil set. Did that come together?

Only had this song, one other and a cover (of sorts) so...not yet.

can we put requests in the chat?

Bill fell asleep, I don't know if I should wake him when our song comes on

He's so peaceful

Max, of course!

Loved that!❤

A Santa-with-ennui version of On the Beach called On the Roof could work.

Here We Are In The Years starts with "now that the holidays have come" but that's all I can think of for NY

request for: Homo Christmas by Pansy Division

Omg Gigantic big big sleigh 👍

Max, not 100% that's uh...radio friendly.

Fish, I have a pretty funny impression of a comedian doing NY singing Jingle Bells...

Love this!

Hi Ambrose!! Was having dinner, but Wow that Ben Keith had some Beautiful Steel Pedal..

Santa IS gigantic! Love it!

There is “Star of Bethlehem” by Neil Young

We have 52 weeks to plan.

perhaps a NY Xmas Mash? hmmm....

haha best circle jerks cover

@Alan, Hello! Agreed sir!

Almost sounded like Wesley Willis

gracias senor for the shout out, just an elf trying to help out where I can

Lol I didnt think about that. Thanks anyway!

Excellent hoodie folding! It was perfect.

Neil Young desire NOTED

@Carl TL: Walk On (The Roof), See the Sky About to Snow, Rudolph Blues, For the Toy Styles, Lamplighter Blues, On the Roof, Motion Christmas Pictures, and Ambulance Blues....I tried....

So I also have another req and some sad news. You played a song by Terrence Walsh https://terrencewalsh.bandcamp.com/track/drummer-boy He sadly passed away during the summer this year. He was a beloved friend of my partner and friends.

So it would be nice to request that too

will there be a VU-inspired set this year?

Bout to dip out for a bit to watch his years BBC Ghost Story for Christmas episode

This song ♥️

Donutage, I would expect a VU set plus hopefully the return(s) of the Sabbath and Beastie Boys sets.

Only one misfits set this year, correct?

@eliza Amazing. We need this On the Roof LP for 2024.

nice!

this is british invasion perfection! loving this pop gem!

Christmas Radio is great! Parts kinda sound like winterlong by Neil young so maybe…

This is sweet.

Loved that

Shout out Hebrew School fam 💞

I was sent home for long hair when I was in fifth grade. I totally relate!

how did they let a 15 year old on the radio? Overnight?? wha??

You were in 5th grade in 1983-1984, I think?

Taking a little break to go see Godzilla while my previously-recorded radio show plays on KDU. The future is very silly.

Teresa, my first WPRB show was September of 1988 so...yeah.

Roffle, my hair I should mention mostly grew OUT not DOWN.

I love it! Curly Jew fro? Cool!

We need more teen djs

Man, the 80s were a wild time, weren't they? (I was alive, just a small child)

Rockin’ Christmas Records!

My hair is straighter than the republicans claim to be. lol

Hi Jon! Thanks for staying up all night for the benefit of humanity!

Thanks so much y'all! Here's a link: https://soundcloud.com/captain-automatic/christmas-radio-wprb-exclusive-2023-joshua-joy-kamensky

Even one by the Fall!

Perfect. Thank you, Josh!

I'll let Rabbi Budow you say hi. Have a great marathon!

Voice sounds similar to Dinah Washington

More of a..helmet than fro? I don't know. Have a good photo of it somewhere...

Stephanie!

Christmas Records was great!

@CB -- I agree!

@Stephanie Obodda, that's my sentiment exactly!

Haha Yoni. I’ve listened to Jon while my own Xmas special was airing before too 😆

OM G

Joe Pera is the man!

Jon, my son Sam loves the Fall! He's playing poker next to me. When will the Fall sets be up?

This was from 1980 - https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10150781_10152359394379273_1604094397_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&cb=99be929b-8d691acd&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4dc865&_nc_ohc=ofx0z6kZ96kAX9O_2TA&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&oh=00_AfDPvf4OhlNPPqfPOkWi9-DhVjDzKYR8LF3eida4UgHIfQ&oe=65B0655A

Fall set is tomorrow afternoon.

yay, joe pera

approx time?

BTW the secret weapon voice on Christmas Radio was the amazing experimental harpist Audrey Harrer - check her out when the marathon's over AND NOT BEFORE https://www.audreyharrer.net/

That is a mass rivaling the Saragossa Sea! i LIKE IT!

Steven...noon ET? That's a real estimate.

AC/DC was always a holiday band at heart.

Omg

Bon (Santa) Scott!?!

This remix rules dude

This is brilliant

This is marvelous!

This is the most seamless mash-up, who'd a thunk?!

We laughed out loud at our house!

omg I wish bill was awake

Amazing!

This is quite the mash

Love this

Hannukah show redux. Hilarious!

I tried to pace the first few hours so we kept ramping up. You're on the ramp presently.

This mashup is a special kind of incredible.

Back In…Red?

Actually had to pause Hell's Kitchen to hear this as pure as I can

incredible

And yeah I thought this was an amazingly done cover not a mashup

I'll never unhear this and I'll never want to

That was something else. It was perfect.

Same Commie same!

Great music while I wait for the Alka-Seltzer to kick in

Life in a blender!

You and me both Jeff

Sauteed onions delicious but somehow gave my heartburn. Worth it.

Not sure how you plotted the curve Jon, but man. Plenty goods goin' on.

I am enjoying the ramp-up!

Hey-o! WPRB alum here (98-02), checking in after cooking for my fam (Feast of the Seven Fishes!)

TAndy I'm gonna smell like butter and onions for the next few days

Michael, welcome home!

There's a constant war in the house as I turn devices to WPRB and others change it back to boring junk

My daughter made a delicious soup last night from the Superiority Burger cookbook that tasted just like a latke.

Michael, the secret is to devote different rooms of the house to different Xmas channels. The living room can host the WPIX Yule Log and your study can be a cozy nest of WPRBXmas.

LOVE making the Feast of the Seven Fishes repast! This year, we had so many unforeseen challenges and roadblocks that we ended up replacing FotSF with take-out sushi {*cue sad trombone*}

Happy holidays, Jon!

Latke soup sounds great!

My solution was to lock myself in my room & tell no one to bother me for 25 hours

Welp, I know how I'm going to greet my parents when I call them tomorrow.

About to start our annual tradition of midnight baking (we’re starting early this year because we got old somehow). We always listen to the marathon. One of these days, we’ll record a story about it.

Jon I dunno if you requested it earlier(i've been unable to listen most the day), but I'm trying my best to rip the entire 25 hour stream again in case you need it!

Live, Laugh, Latke

lololol

You and me both, Ross (nice profile pic)

Oh man I missed the Joe Pera excerpt! Watched his 2016 special about choosing a Christmas tree today.

But what about a Christmas Rino, not just a snail?..

Did you open Drunk Santa 00 yet?

Question for ya, Jon… any rough idea on a start time for the JLRP set? Wondering if I need to set my alarm. Not that I’m going to fall asleep, but y’know :-)

Can't post a pic of my Sullivan's Salvage shirt

Brad, that's gonna be after The Fall. It will be long, but I want it to wash over all of us.

CB, I forwarded it to my wife so I will have her press play.

Ugh, well I *was* recording the whole show, but Firefox just crashed on me and I lost the entire recording :(

Nice

Off to bed, good night…hear you in the morning!

How is it possible that the webcam feed is several seconds *ahead* of the terrestrial radio signal?

Nighty night @Bela

HI Bela I'll be hitting the hay soon. I am loaded with yummy Polish food thanks to my mom

That kid from the Claussies is allowed to stay up till 12!

@Ross plug the streaming URL .pls or .asx link into VLC to record at the proper bitrate, only ever stops if the stream dies or WiFi is lost

I used to line-in/loopback record on Audacity but Windows will ruin the audio quality anyway.

Ross, sorry to hear that. I’m recording it off the terrestrial signal with a digital tascam unit.

Good night Jeff, and to all a good night!

Just about two hours until 12:34!

Bill, radio is always at least 15 seconds behind the studio

THAT'S how to do it, Sebastian!

Omg hi Pethie

TAndy: Yeah in hindsight I should have done that. I've always just downloaded the stream directly like a download and it's been fine. First time this has massively backfired on me :(

I've fumbled lots of recordings myself, I understand the pain :(

CB, I have watched it! Deeeeeeeply upsetting and impossible to play on the radio.

I should be recording the show in my office. Fingers crossed.

But as such, some things are best experience in the epherimus.

Helloooo Tandy!

I sadly had to "go to a party" today. If only they understood! lol

Haha Jon, omg 😆

CB, perhaps I'll be able to share it post-marathon but yikes!

Jon I'd love that! I was planning on catching up on everything I missed later in the week

I keep hearing Mary Steenburgen in this story

thx, CB

Oh my!

That was a lovely story.

So that "Add it up" tune by The Violent Femms is off the table next week? Oh well.

hell yeah herzog on the playlist

ah i thought this was john malkovich lmao

OMG! I instantly recognized Herzog's voice!

Ross I’m the back up. Between me and Jon we’ll hopefully get the whole show. The terrestrial signal is finicky here in Philly but thru 20min of pre-show finagling and duct taping of power cords to double as antennae I got it on lock

My friend's 6 year old today: "Santa is kinda mean to bad kids huh? But I guess coal IS pretty useful.”

Stockings are in the pocket of big coal.

They don't know about krampus though

Or Iceland's many deeply concerning Christmas traditions!

Can you imagine Werner Herzog turning up unannounced at your Christmas party?

i just got in bed and am scrolling what i missed and you played ed’s redeeming qualities! aw mannn

Btw bill woke up for a bit and confirmed he wants to be woken up. He's asleep again now

In 1920 coal was top shelf as a home commodity.

go jon!!!

full disclosure there are definitely yule lads in my house, my kid has been in gryla’s pot, and there’s a yule

Krampus is basically the drunk uncle.

cat on my tree

G R O B

Oh grob

Grobmas!

We're GROB-ing through the night!

GROB

BAM

Does GROB do private parties?

GROB

GROB!

This GROBIN' GROBS you GROBBERS!

my favorite niche genre is karaoke songs with long instrumental breaks

GROBBEROSITY ...did I spell that right??

Grobmas seems on a bit

oh man does "this Grobmas" not exist to download somewhere yet? i can't find it

Grob better than spam spam spam...

Ross, it is on this year's SLUGGISHA comp.

Thanks Jon! I just found that :)

google hasn't caught up to the phrase "this grobmas" yet lol

Big tech out to silence GROB.

Captain Ahab played this one on Wednesday and I was delighted.

Ross, I'm glad that I wasn't the only person who looked that up online.

I love when people get way majestic with little drummer boy

This is some very goodness.

Some of GROB's other material is not for radio and some of it is not for anyone!

I'm always trying to send out links to songs to people who aren't listening to the show

I have no idea when enough "Little Drummer Boy" hits my upper limits, but we're not even close yet.

GROB's Three's Company theme song is something else

I may have 30 min more tonight, enjoying it so far. Got to get the gifts under the tree and not make much more noise...

Dang it I missed Grob

There's like 6 other GROB tracks on that SLUGGISHA comp. I've always wondered, Jon, how do you decide which GROB track to play during the marathon? GROB is insanely prolific. Groblific?

GROB will return in: more GROB later this marathon.

Correction: GROB *tracks*.

Some GROB tracks eliminate themselves from consideration due to language / content. I thought this was his 2023 high water mark.

Waiting for that Grob x Dangerwoman collab

For vulgarity or consideration?

This Grobmas was definitely a good pick lol

@Chef Emril Lagasse you just melted my mind.

Oh I first heard this new Pylon track on Friday. It's a delight.

Jon, do the youngins know the ubiquitous Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope by Martin Mull?

Make it happen, Chef!

I bet you could vocode that away, but lot's of work.

Both vulgarity or consideration, @iamthelabhras

i'll invite em both to Emeril Live!

https://imgur.com/a/bOEBp4h

My favorite from last year was Christmas Cowboy by Lil Ugly Mane. I was still listening to that well into August haha.

What a delightfully GROB conjunction of high water marks.

Sugarsidious in his Christmas Snail gathered round the tree

@Brendan, yep that was a delightfully weird one

Looking good, @CPSP.

yknow, GROB is only two letters away from WPRB... curious?!! #GROBtruth

That was nice

@chef big if true! BAM

Wow, haven't heard B Team in forever! Great EP.

Jen from Running Redlights made me aware of this one!

Vanessa Briscoe Hay‘a voice sounded so good on that PRS tune

happy holidays yall! just got settled in from family mas-eve gatherings.

Ross: I have a song called Very Merry Steenburgen about her neurological rewiring that led to her new career writing country hits (true story)

I love Vanessa's voice and how it's changed as she's gotten older

GROB

gROB

Sup Colin it's me, tyler!

Sugar! love the new name! I just cracked open a bill's just now

Wheeeeee

Haha me next!

Merry christmas!

FINALLY

Claussies time, y'all.

We need a paxmas song

Colin! Tyler!

HAHAAAAAAA YEAHHHHHHHH

Claussies forever!

This is such a banger it isn't funny.

Hahahaha this is great

ooooooh, I think I'm a Claussies fan now!

"Premierin' for your hearin'" fabulous

I'm made outta snow! so rocking

This Claussies song is awesome!

This song is great

I will never hear this song and not sing THIS version in my head

All I want for Christmas is a Claussies tattoo

Is this the Commie in the chat? This is excellent!

Clauses rule!

I'm glad I stayed up late and got to hear The Claussies song!

LOVED THAT

That was an awesome song ☃️🤘

Commie Francis is a genius, people.

Oh wait they’re all here 😛

That was awesome!

Aww. I love you too, Jon!

https://daskalteseis.bandcamp.com/track/frosty

Whoah

Mike Watt rules!!!! I love Minutemen.

Frosty Claussy

for mrs lagasse's mom, i'm currently turning a "fantasy pugs" calendar into a "fantasy pugs and post malone" calendar, since she loves him AND pugs and they dont sell that calendar!

THIS!😍

“My names FROSTY! I’m made outta snow! FROSTY!” On repeat in my brain

is this a take on surfin with the shah???

so i'm looking up pictures of post malone to print that aesthetically match each pug month. pirates, knights, sci-fi, etc. then i'll assemble... BAM!!!

Hi, all! Happy holidays!

Wow this just woke me up

Who the HeH put Hardstyle in my Christmas!

Hell yes

This is a power set!

If Santa GEE implies that Rob Gee was involved wouldn't surprise me lol

Aux! Hello!

Dana, it was!

owwwwwwww

This rules lmfao

I would posit, that under the right circumstances, elves ARE hooligans.

This song tryna convince to take addrll, drink coffee and stay up all night w/ Jon

Feels like I’m at a bundesliga match with this one

IT WAS ROB GEE HELL YEAH AWESOME

Max, my daughter (who is trying to sleep one room over) was startled awake by that one too.

Any chance of hearing white wine in the sun?

Whoever sent that in rules

Action Pat, eventually!

Lots of new material to air first.

Jon, I'm stilled stunned at the beauty & majesty of that new Chisel Xmas song. Lovely guitar work ...

But I do love that song.

hey Jon do I need to set an alarm for any tenderloin premiers? I won't publish anything till you play it. Am I safe until say 6:30A tomorrow? thx boss

Rade, it is from the 1990s! B-side to an old single.

You are safe! The song for the [redacted] set will be directly after Snail and Lindstrom.

Oh wow. Ah, I see they were touring again ... so I just assumed.

Can I just say we just raised quite a lot of money for doctors without borders. Thank you everyone, it really means a lot to me.

Oh wow! I will be sure to hype that when I post marathon songs daily starting 12/26....

Bells

Cool - thank you sir! I'll try and make it to Ramones but not sure I can. But I'm an early riser! CF I'll pick up a copy after the marathon - kick a** song

Is this from the same Parang comp?

I'm also off to bed. Catch everyone in the AM. Enjoy!

Sorry I missed the Claussies! I’m very sleepy but I’m going to last as long as these low battery Bluetooth headphones will.

I think this may be my 25th year listening

CB, it was more of a Parang "mix" of videos than a comp but...yes. Remind me when I'm not on the radio and I should be able to find?

Apologies if this was already answered, but is the 1:38 am misfits set the only one this year? Trying to see if I need to stay up

Kevin, it is

Oh dear. Now I have to SQL a bunch. LOL

🍻

Kevin, it is the lone Misfits set this year yes. I couldn't figure out another way to make everything work!

Revised for 2023. A couple new additions (and subtractions).

While it means less sleep for me it is a worthy cause to stay up for

Appreciate it!

I thought this was gonna be a Christmas version of XTC's "Another Satellite" from the intro drums

And by stay up I mean lying in a half awake state in the dark as various people that vaguely sound like Danzig lull me to sleep

@Ross I thought the SAME thing

This is staying up without guilt. atotally justified!

Dana: lol! Glad someone else is on the same wavelength!

I also have XTC on the brain because I got a copy of Andy Partridge’s art book as a gift!

kevin even tho, christmas dinner has been switched to christmas brunch this year, i too am commited to 138

This one rules

Ooh! How's that book?

agrees with tandy very much about the rules

Did someone say SQL?

It’s lovely. A bunch of full color illustrations he did based on XTC songs.

That sounds awesome Dana! Please post a few excerpts as background art during your next show!

Good plan!

solobot!!

I'll have to check it out, Dana!

Sorry Solobot. Didn't mean to keyword you there.

I think I heard this Barry Richards song years ago on Radio Hound.

@Dana, nice!

dont know you stay awake but we are here listening.

A Boy & His Blob. Nice!

such a flawed but amazing classic indeed

Hey, Uno!

Hey Clay (and Tara too)

bwahahahha if you think tara beans is awake at this hour

i just walked in on my mom stuffing stockings. i am stumped as to why she is doing santas job

That Tobias Carroll story had some serious Aickman vibes.

way too go Toby!

Contractual obligations uno!

it’s an egg punk christmas

Clay, then who is "we" ?

Would you like us to assign someone to come stuff your stocking?

+tees me up...... + THE ROYAL WE OF COURSE

Enjoying the show immensely. Thanks, Jon. Merry Christmas!

🥚

Happy Holidays Jon!

Phrasing, Dan

Hey Newtown! Bikes be cool holiday gifts. Just sayin' :)

..sounds like me and my Casio lol..

happy egg punk christmas, everyone

Roffle, oh hell yeah.

@Alan, I have a killer KORG from the 90's Love it!

Merry Crimbus Jon and all!! Loving this bop.

Roffle: Lucky dawg!!!!

this whole track is a vibe

This whole record is one too!!

funky jams!

as much as i’d love to stay up until the deranged hours of the night, my bluetooth headphone batteries have died and I’m too tired to get up and charge them, so it’s to sleep with me. goodnight all! see you for The Fall

Why do I suddenly feel like roller skating?

'nite Dana!!

Sleep well Dana!

This is tight

Jon I found iton Spotify and plan on giving the whole album a listen!

It rules. One of my favorite full listens this season.

egg punks don't "break" dance

I need a Lindstrom remix of this

egg (nog) punx (okay going to bed for real)

Wanderer was well done indeed..

Have we burned all the Linstrom and Ise Bar or is it still on the the table?

From last year, I mean.

Roffle, Lindstrom's up around 10 am! You have time!

Sweet Jon! You deliver dude!

night, dk

...speaking of burning, It's snowing on that "straw" goat..

Will be interesting to see how the in laws like a 40 minute rave up of little drummer boy at 10 am

Iiiiit’s time

I specifically left a party “early” so that I could hear The Tradition.

Such a standard DSM!

Merry Christmas!

BAMMMMMYYYYYY CHRISTMASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

🎅

merry happy!

Merry Xmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas!

🎄Merry Merry All🎄

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas Jon Solomon! Merry Christmas all listeners! I'm off to sleep - Jon I'll see you in the AM. I wish everyone a night of surprises and fun and aural delights

Bam! Backatcha Chef! Merry Christmas!

Im love this piece—and Gift of the Magi(cian)— so much!

Merry Christmas! It’s not truly Christmas until we hear the Tradition!

Merry Christmas Marathoners!

Merry good wishes to everyone!

Merry Christmas all in PRB land!

merry Christmas everyone!

merry xmas

🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅

I was not sure we'd make it to Christmas, yet here we all are.

i admit it's been great listening to this at 9pm on the west coast for many years but it feels *right* at 12am Eastern

Welcome to Christmas Jon!

I've never considered that west coasters get to listen to the show earlier in the day

next year I'm going to hawaii!

@Matthew H. Robb, I used to listen from Washington state. I hear ya!

👏

2 more hours to go for Christmas in Colorado

@ross it changed everything!

I'm always crossing my gingers for a new lcd Soundsystem Christmas song premier

Savak in the house!

fingers too lol

MHR, welcome back to the eastern seaboard!

finger snaps, ginger snaps

@JS ty ty 🎅

SAVAK rolling in fashionably late and still getting named prom king.

George! Be nice to your bones dude! Titanium is spendy!

Are Hall & Oates burying the hatchet to help Santa Rizzo out?

What a pleasure it is every year to welcome Christmas in with this amazing show. I hope that everyone has a beautiful holiday and an amazing New Year! Goodnight!

Christmas! Tidings

Happy to have this show on while I weather my first ever case of covid. woo-hoo Merry Christmas!.

Hall & Oates are burying the hatchet in each other's backs I thought.

COVID? How? Why?

Sorry, Jennifer. No solace but you're not the first person with COVID presently in the chat this marathon Hope you get some rest and feel better soon.

Hey, is the signal out?

Anyone else just lose the online stream?

Jon: Two FM radios no signal

Anyone else lose the stream? Or is it just me?

No sound over here either

I lost the stream too

Out in Asheville

My radio just died

same, on any device

Uh oh. It's dead air not funky drummer

FM go out for anyone else?

No FM and no stream here.

(Also: hi Brad!)

No stream here

No sound

Was also wondering about the sound.

no sound

Jon, are you still in this dimension?

What sound?

Mike!

Out here as well. At least it didn't drop during "The Tradition" or I would have froke out.

Sudden John Cage 4:33 performance.

bummer

Still on FM?

FM is no signal on two separate radios here...

dead air baby

nope the radio is dead too

Lost on stream and radio

A Christmas Tragedy

Has anyone ever done a Christmas cover of "4:33"? Wouldn't it have to be called "12:25"?

Thank goodness for the chat!

Uh oh

lets all pretend we hear the Barking Jingle bEll christmas dogs together.

everyone stay calm!

Mike is headed for the towers with the duck tape!

Santa is blocking the signal.

And JUST when Jon was playing him the new TV's Daniel Christmas song I sent him. Nooooo.

I was digging that JAMC-esque song too. Will we even have a Ramones O Clock

Thanks...a day in and I have no symptoms (yay) kitty cuddles, and Chris is fine, so a happy holiday so far. Except that the sound is off!

@uno clay radio is the theater of the mind!

i'm freaking out

Weirdly I can hear Lindstrøm's Little Drummer Boy...

Music was too good - conspiracy time.

Are we back?

Woof woof woof, woof woof woof.....

Merry Christmas! What do we do?

Nyet

checking in

Today hooray today hooray!

not back yet

God is still pissed at the Ramones.

not on web

say it like a hogans hero...."i hear notvink"

Jon: No FM

Don’t hear on radio

Dennis noooo! lmao

the cam is working so it's not like the internet is down

Debbie’s revenge?

Working on it. No idea what happened.

Stream looks streamy, but no sounds.

No fm signal

xmas is canceled

Years from now everyone will claim they were up for the mysterious year 35 outage

He’s prob scrambling behind the scenes troubleshooting the issue with engineers and likely doesn’t have access to the chat or is too busy dealing with the emergency. Been there.

@Michael McKee Classic Debbie.

Worse than coal in the sticking...someone was extremely bad

I vote we all listen to the Claussies again

No babes.

Crickets...what storm cloud is hovering over Mercer County?

We need a Christmas Miracle

Not a problem with my pushing audio I don't think as it is just silent.

i blame the grinch

ok it IS out. i thought it was just the finicky signal here in philly but now i see webstream is gone too

I'll keep the bells going until we return.

Radio tubes are clogged.

Fish is right.

*runs around waving hands in air* we are so fucked so fucked so fucked!!!!

We thought our Bluetooth speaker had died. We’ve been over here troubleshooting nothing for 5 minutes.

The end is nigh uno!

Still dead. No bells.

Kick a wire?

Houston, we've got a Problem....

YAY

Bells!!!!!

sound!

the bels!

Silent Night cover

Back!

BELLS

Bells!

WE'RE BACK

FM Is OK

Bells are back

back

https://youtu.be/xam01uaj6Vg?si=b0UXVCQyfzVUgeTe

Back!

BELLS!

Yay!

so for every minute that the show is down, does that extend it for that amount of time? and were back

Back in!

Hearing bells now

Sounds back over here.

the bells!

Bells on the stream, nothing on FM

I hear bells!

We’ve got bells

Yr back!

Thank you Santa!

BELLA WILL BE RINGING1

i hear bells on the internet

Getting bells now 🔔

the bells are back!

i hear bells

The ramones are having none of this!

Just hang in there FM...

FM load and clear now!

That 1/2 second of funky drummer gave me a palpitation

Waheyyy!

FM is back

Both stream and radio back

!!!!

Voice and Bells on FM OK

This better not mess with Ramones-o'clock! ;)

applause

I lost it in the middle of TV's Daniel

I think we lost it sometime after SAVAK...?

is was christmas gifting us a moment of quiet contemplation.

The FFC Grinch might want to have a word.

The ghost of Joey Ramone comes thru!!!

I think this sleigh bell pattern is 7 rings long

TIME FOR BARKING CHRISTMAS DOGS

Definitely dropped out before jo started

We form a kool aid cult in collective protest ✌️

was it a Bad Connection

Everyone have a drink

SAVAK wanted noise for Christmas and were given silence

restart! the classic solution!

Crazy reverb?

Just me?

The first technical difficulties in 35 years.

Roffle yes just you I think

Jon Solomon’s 24hr and 50 minutes Holiday Marathon

yeah hes gonna have to go ten min longer SAD

Savak ruled. Matt Schulz is a top 10 all time drummer for me.

Dan <3

I know 10 minutes you can cut

asterisk year

Oh wow Commie! This next tune shoud be quite interesting then! Awesome!

just play the 33s at 45 to make up for lost time

Jon Solvoman

Exercise Time...

Maura!

this marathon gumbo is COOKIN, i've got about 75 gallons of it, take a bowl

"24 hour and 47min holiday radio show?"

It was surely a silent night on the sudden radio pause earlier

Ten minutes of Lindstrøm, Dan?

hi Brad <3 Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

this is the most populated chat i personally have ever seen as a spongecore wprb chatter

Right back atcha

1234!

The first of many best times of the night!

Hi Jen! Fellow Night Owl

@alana never!

Hey! Ho Ho Ho!

GREAT MASHUP

So it's true! The Ramones come every Christmas like good old St. Nick! Beautiful thing!

whoops, sorry for caps!

Every Christmas song should have a Ramones version

Updated version of this one for 2023!

Great Name

Jon: I'll bet that after that outage, you feel like you're 51 and not 50 LOL

Angry Snowmans = the best

If the reindeer have Ear-pods, they on a good nuts jam to this on their way.

Angry snowmans are truly the gold standard of punk Christmas covers

👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳♥️♥️♥️📻📻📻📻📻

They know what's up!

Smart beasts

BAM

Once you have a carrot nose Commie. You become food unfortunately.

Anybody else playing gta vice city while marathoning? BAM

Yes!

How's everyone holding up? Shout out to the west coast listeners. Want to keep the quality high for you too.

No!

Still checkin' out that goat..

How's the goat looking?

Dj tenderloin!!!!

Still going strong, Jon!

Going strong here, eating peanut m&ms

Snowing on almost naked goat

Hey Alan, Are you lookig up tonight?

BAAAH!

Roffle: Only observing the clouds..

...but that goat looks cold, maybe a flamethrower would warm him up..

It''s a mix in Philly too.

Frank is back 🍸

Love the mashup

Goat and a flame thrower sounds like a third world village sacrificing it for good internet.

Ok! Time for me to turn in for a bit. Enjoy the wee hours, chat. I'll see you guys in the AM!

That’s me!

I cooked for six hours and completed nothing. Still not sure how that happened.

Nice. Hey, Michael!

Good night. See you guys for Snaildartha/Lindstrom.

Holding down the hashtag on Mastodon.

A song inspired by the Xmas marathon.

@Alana, It was a con they put in the instructions to keep you in the kitchen.!.

@ Roffle LOL

Merry Christmas from Central Time

Much appreciated, Jim. Could never figure out how to get going there!

Merry Christmas, Dan!

(Which includes Hot Springs)

Hot Springs!

Every year I tune in. Every year I’m amazed at how many new songs I hear.

Jarret, I'm very happy with all the new / new to me stuff I found this year!

Thanks Jon for putting in the effort every year. You make Christmas awesome

This is always the Ramones cover that gets me the most.

The two front teeth, my gosh.

You're just in time, Neal!

Also, JON! Greetings from Chicago! I've been listening from the car, can finally type now.

This song works because Ramones would legit cover all I want for Xmas is my 2 front teeth

I'm honestly surprised they didn't WRITE "My Two Front Teeth."

100% would have been written by DeeDee.

It was originally spike Jones, right?

Uh oh!

Funky gobble drummer gobble

Whew!

FM ok now

That funky drummer didn’t stand a CHANCE

Yeah, that cut out for me too.

This one cable seems to be the culprit, or it is the board itself. Either way, we're going to ride it out.

just for a sec

Back and runnin' 👍

Hi Pethie!!

I can always move to the Barge if I have to but...

Jon, just the other night I had a dream where "11:59 (It's January)" featured PROMINENTLY, and it made me actively excited for the marathon.

Nice.

😍 this!

I'll second that Ambrose

Someday soon we'll be able to go straight from Ramones-o-Clock to Misfits set without a break...

You can go to the barge anytime! Let'er rip!

I don't get an alert when the CODEC goes whatever it went so I have re-configured my laptop view so I can see when the "blue" block might become "red."

If it gets awful, I can do the entire show off my laptop. This is not impossible.

Plan B laptop, great to hear..

I would think you have a dedicated computer. That's just me though.

red and green would be more appropriate

Roffle, I have two laptops going plus an iPad, each for different uses (one is just bells).

Ramfits/Misrones?

See! Smart as I thought! From home too! My Jon!

Dang!😞

I have hit the wall, and want to be awake in time for Snaildartha, so I am off to slerp

once a year jon says "two inch winkie" on the air

Slerp? Sure

time to switch to real bells

Pat, it’s the most wonderful time of the year

He's really short, this elf named Winky.

He's Wee

No Slerp Til...

My god, (Big) Black Christmas

I can't wait to see the cover art on this one!

Just gonna say, it's BONKERS to me that the E-Mu Drumulator does not have a sleigh bell sound in the stock soundcard.

Songs About Festivities

@Mary Jones ...slerpy, slerpy, sleep, sleep?

Geez, Elves on a deth shelf...

Santamizer

Oh, that's good.

Slerp is like sleep only more intense.

(Sound of Xmas)

See, I'm a teethworker, I don't like to make toys.

Sound of Xmas WAS a working title!

Oh my goodness gifts of love

This is magicalllllll

"You got it all, dad! We're gonna gift!"

EXACTLY.

What if I told you there was...one more to come?

I think my neighbors are shooting at something in West Philly!. I hope Santa is OK

Two Elves and a Reindeer

Ha!

What will the fourth be?!?

I'm praying for Racer-X

Okey, this works too!

This one is about visiting family in the suburbs during the holidays.

Where there isn't a whole lot to do.

Neal, these are hella fun!

Like what else can you do when you visit your family? Just sit around, eat, wait around until you can eat again, maybe have a nice fire?

Nice job Neal 👍

Pethie - thank you!

This freaking brilliant

Neal also did the Dead C Xmas tunes *and* the re-work of all of Hex Enduction Hour!

Plus a 20:00+ Wonderful Christmastime among others...

Neal, that's when you hole up in your childhood bedroom and use the janky dial-up connection to troubleshoot a production problem that *SOMEONE* just HAD to push out before going on vacation...

But otherwise, yeah.

Amazingly it is almost misfits time and I’ve managed to stay up

Download for fun here! https://nealmarkowski.bandcamp.com/album/holiday-cheer-where-you-need-it

glad you made it

All proceeds will be donated to the One Tail at a Time Pet Mutual Relief Fund - www.onetail.org/petmutualaid/

Thank you thank you!

Nothing is simple. There it is.

So glad I was still awake for that set!

no THANK YOU

Being the middle-ground between Ramones O'Clock and the Misfits Party Hour (that's what I call it) brings me so much joy. This all does! Thank you Jon!

Neal, it fit perfectly and THAT ART.

This is the track that will one day bridge these two sets!

Happy misfits hour

We got there!

BTW, Hard Times News did a parody story about a misfits Christmas album today

Oh? Link?

9+ hours in, so I re-set the bells loop!

I'm proud of the art!

https://thehardtimes.net/music/misfits-christmas-album-mostly-just-songs-halloween/

Also, it weird that I've wanted that specific bell loop for my archive?

I was hoping for a Ramones album side like Yes. Never happened! A few minutes, and hold on though. Love it! Who cares?

What are bells??

@Neal I think it's just this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ck_Og-R9rI

a new one?

"...Glenn wanted to record ‘Rudolph II,’ which was all in Latin. I just hit record and stepped outside for a smoke.”

Fish - DAAAANG, it's almost TOO easy!

HAHAHA

perfect!

Good night, enjoy the Weird Hours

I think with one exception things won't get that weird this year! I'm prepped for more dancing.

So you moved the coffee table?

Cool!

curious about that one exception

Exception likely around 5:00 am ET?

We will see!

I always think that this year will be different. This year I’ll finish baking, wrapping presents, etc by 8 pm and be able to kick back and relax on Christmas Eve. Instead here I am, still frantically wrapping, getting papercuts. Grateful for the marathon to get through it, esp after everyone else in my house has gone to bed!

Finally, a version of "Bullet" I can listen to with my mom!

still awake woooo

TAndy! Merry Christmas!

Heya, LizBot!

Although at this point in the night, my productivity has dropped off. I just caught myself staring for a solid minute. Hi TAndy!

Hi Jon! I hope a slow drip of seltzer fizz invigorates you through the night!

Another tall glass of bubbling bug juice.

Lizbot! Happy wrapping! Dangerous, but, there it is.

Howdy, late-night crew! My energy is beginning to wane, but I'm not giving in yet!

Merry Christmas!!

When weird creatures wrap your gifts

Also, wrapping mistakes! Count on those for sure!

Tree

I never get that right!

This one is so bonkers.

Jingle Tree Rock Rock

Oh hell yes. I always forget about this gem and am so delighted when it comes on every year

Elvis and Jim Morrison died so that this can live.

I didn't even know Elvis was sick!

@Roffle - 😂, I just wrapped a prog DVD meant for George, taped a Totoro notecard set to it and addressed it to my young niece. But some accidents are happy. Maybe this will be a formative moment in the formation of her music tastes

The sickest.

Gosh yea Liz!

Headed off to bed -- back in the morning. Jon, thanks!

Smart folks will get it! Pass it on!

I'll be here, and soon enough so will you be again.

G'nite Michael.

I’m too beat. I’ve gone into listen-to-marathon ‘til I fall asleep mode. The last few gifts have to wait ‘til later!

My fave misfits song (one of atvLeast

This set is so dumb yet I sing these versions of these songs to mysef year-round!

it's perfect

this is so sick

Commitment to a bit.

I love these so much.

This is awesome, but I fell a nap on the horizon. And yet, not gonna happen!

Going to fall asleep listening to this, sure can't wait for what dreams these will inspire.

See y'all on the internet in a few hours!

Cheers to all.🎇

Nice recovery Jon!

and we're back!

The all Misfits set has at least somewhat revived me

way to find a way to add some tension into the sets this yr, jon lol

@Lizbot, Good morning and Merry Christmas!

"Gratitude" is the new high bar for this stupid tradition that I love so much and really makes the holiday extra special. Thank you!

Merry Christmas, Ambrose!

Jon, you are describing how my FM reception usually works but tonight it's steady here so I think that's my bad, sorry everyone.

I have finished prepping the cornmeal waffles for breakfast. Rejoice.

Lovely!

Christmas spider and Snaildartha should have a meet-up🕷 🎄

vv This!

Tag team champs!

ooo i love this track

did i miss Knockin Da Boots For Xmas?

You did not!

oooooo

a banner year for me

Love Jo

She's the best! Big fan over here.

are you still on ginger soothers, jon?

Not really no.

Jo sounds like she would have fit in with the Peanuts voice cast

This is fire

Ha.

Is there a new layer of parents upon parents upon parents merch this year?

HAHAHA

YES

the deepest of deep cuts lol

HYEAYEAH

The designs this year are robot drummer boy-inspired. As seen at the top of the playlist!

Lord god!

I cannot support any more AI robots.

I want to hear everything this person ever made.

if they are human-generated robots, then i am down

lol @fish

excellent

👏

has anyone found a better way to get updated playlist info than to refresh the playlist.wprb page?

I’m so excited to send the One Last Metallica Xmas song to my bestie tmrw 🥂

There's a Slayer/Wham mashup that is just about as good

It is updated at wprb.com/chat. When you hear a new song refresh and you'll know what it is right away.

yeah that's what i've been doing. and then you have to re-sign into the chat.

That also pushes immediately to the upper left of the WPRB home page. You should not have to re-log in.

😲

minor inconvenience. but i can live with it :)

Didn’t he play the Slayer/Wham last year? Or a few years back? I vaguely recall it

I did. There have been a few!

I have 2 separate windows open on my iPad so I can refresh the one without having to log back into the chat each time

that was a great set! thanks for the repeat!

But right now I’m streaming it thru my phone and the player there updates automatically 🤷‍♀️

looo @cb comin in hot with the info i need lol

@cb is that you, courtney?

Different CB, Betsy.

listen.wprb.com also does update automagically.

copy

all CBs are welcome!

Courtney-Blue yah

Not sure if you know this about Santa, but he's always on the way.

maybe Santa can bring me a snack because i'm up late enough that i am hungry again.

This really the song?

Lol

Santa's needle might be stuck!

he can't want all those cookies, carrots, etc

Is Santa on the way, or...?

Santa loves a good remix

there is only now

Wait Betsy do I know you?

lol i don't know! maybe?

I do not believe you two know each other...until now!

Santa Arrival Paradox

are you from princeton or the tri-state area at all?

I have a friend from high school named Courtney B who listens in and i thought maybe 'twere you

yet the all-knowing Jon Solomon says you are a different CB.

Delco/Philly. I thought you recognized me

Oh ok

Nice to re-meet you ( I remember you from chat last time I think)

hello! nice to see you again : )

I need more Courtneys in my life

Oh that was a George song, that explains everything.

Makes sense now indeed.

oooo i was hoping for some soul/funk

Is that..... is that some knockin i hear?

is that..... might it be knockin of da boots?

for christmas? on deck?

Going to be playing new finds for many hours, I expect.

good night you princes of Maine. you kings of new england. merry christmas marathon! west coast signing off, be back in the am

sweet dreams of sugarplums and Snaildartha, @josh kamensky

You've had a good ride, rest up for the stretch run!

this still rules wooooo

Relentless medley party.

Update: I put on a hoodie.

Thanks Jon! I gotta sleep now. After hearing “Santa’s always on the way” 99999 times I don’t know how I sent it with the title “Santa’s always on his way”

Ha! Keep 'em guessing!

as the owner/custodian of a (somehow still increasing) hoodie collection, I support the addition of a hoodie!

There was a "best way to fold a hoodie" revelation earlier tonight that left us shook.

you get a medley, and you get a medley, and you get a mashup

i mean i hang mine currently.....but i;m listening;...

as a newly re-transplanted PNW'er, I highly approve of this mish mash

i'm not sure what is happening sonically here but i know i love it

i could go for some chips

This next one is so strangely compelling to me.

Hayum!

yeah this is neat.

i feel like late 1990s liz phair vibes but contemporary too

maybe it's just the guitar

interesting vibe

this is my favorite set so far!

wondering when coffee time is

thank you for not listening to my requests and playing the good stuff <3

coffee time? in which time zone are you?

No coffee, just tea.

this is the realest part of the marathon

Glad we're all here for it.

I have listened to your requests, they're on the "after all the new stuff" short list.

RIP Oderus

🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

those bells were neat

A reminder that at 5:00 am ET this playlist will end and you'll need to refresh for the playlist covering the show's final 13 hours...

(You have some time.)

YAASSSSSSS

Good Morning John and everyone. Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday everyone

i haven't actually heard the entire version of this.

oh Kelce bros.

omg this is amazing

Hello, Allan!

Happy to be here listening to your marathon once again this year 👏👏👏

Glad you're on board. Just need to make it to sunrise over here! Two+ more hours.

sunrise will be here soon! Stay strong

Pup, you're the deciding vote - in about an hour should I drop a 75 minute meditation on Linus and Lucy?

Credit to Jason Kelce ...he wrote a beautiful tribute to the late great Shane McGowan that was posted in the Inquirer.

I’m here for it

heck yeah

I sense "yes" and I can always bail but why not do it once??

IT IS DECIDED.

I must try to sleep. Thank you Jon for reliably helping me though These Times for so many years.

Alas, this timed out where my kid is asleep for it...

Fish, you are most welcome.

a 70 minute nap is not the worst idea.

No naps!

of course

Nightmare on Elm Street xmas edition

this is a cool one

lol @dj pup

i'd like a grapefruit

Hi y'all! It's a bright, sunny Xmas morning in southern Italy

Good morning, Dan! Merry Christmas!

Well alas, in this case I’d be gotten by Freddy. Tapping out for now but I’ll join the chat later. Go Jon! Thank you for another xmas-thon

You're very welcome, Pup. Thanks for all you do!

Merry Slintmas🕷🎄

Merry Christmas, Jon! Hope the late night set is treating you ok!

So far so good. One or two weird unexplainable tech issues that didn't set us back too much.

Been good for the last 100 minutes though...

So weird. This happened once before. "Auto-approve" randomly goes on in the middle of the night!

~chat glitch~

I changed no settings! Gremlins!

An Xmas anti-miracle?

heya dan

Hey TAndy!

My daughter, in response to this song: "I think the guy singing it is bad!"

Depends on POV.

This, however, is perfectly blown out

Ha. All in the ear of the beholder!

IM AWAKE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

BAM

What Dan said! Bam!

AWS: Always Wakeup Screaming

Just in case you need to scare off krampus?

Alway wise to be prepared for that inevitability.

High concept

The only concept is high concept.

Make it [the high concept] so

As an aside, the place I'm in in Italy actually has a basilica for st Nicholas. It's very large. They apparently stole his bones from Turkey to bring them here

Wow.

I think I read something about that recently.

The bone-stealing, that is.

Wikipedia says this: "In 1087, while the Greek Christian inhabitants of the region were subjugated by the newly arrived Muslim Seljuk Turks, and soon after their church was declared to be in schism by the Catholic church, a group of merchants from the Italian city of Bari removed the major bones of Nicholas's skeleton from his sarcophagus in the church without authorization and brought them to their hometown, where they are now enshrined in the Basilica di San Nicola."

Seems like you're just the man to return them in the spirit of Christmas. Grab your bone bag and get to work!

Apparently the rest of the bones were taken to Venice during the first crusade. Catholicism is weird

That's wild.

West coast late night check in! Aloha.

Roma Mars is cracking himself up here/

slowman mars

Aloha!

At the very least, clearly someone (maybe me?) needs to write a song about stealing back st Nick.

You have ~51 weeks!

Maybe to the tune of the Flesh Eaters "See you in the boneyard"?

Nice.

emily!!!

You're up! Phew! All my times have been thrown askew so a few things aren't airing when I hoped.

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