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Jon Solomon

Dec 24, 2025 5:00 PM – 6:00 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 1-13)

Welcome back for the 37th year of my 25-hour marathon broadcast on WPRB.

The show will be broken into two playlists, one for hours 1-13 and one for hours 14-27.

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 .mp3
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:08 PM		The Sonics Santa Claus Merry Christmas V/A Etiquette Records 1965
5:10 PM		Bradley Thomas Turner Carol of Hells Bells Haunted Holiday Party Library of the Occult 2025
5:13 PM		Girls Rituals Cold white christmas (feat. marie a) Cold white christmas (feat. marie a) Blacksquares Media 2024
5:17 PM		Frankie Traandruppel A Merry Frankie Christmas A Frankie Christmas EP 2025
5:18 PM		Dolcevita Brothers Christmas Disco Love Christmas Disco Love DBone Productions 2025
5:22 PM		Bill Trac Christmas Past 45
5:26 PM		The Bacarrudas Ring-A-Ding-Ding Ring-A-Ding-Ding 2025
5:29 PM		Set Break
5:34 PM		The Brixton Riot with Peter Horvath Dead Christmas Trees 2025 Christmas Stories https://thebrixtonriot.bandcamp.com/
5:37 PM		Set Break
5:38 PM		Air Mack It's Time for Christmastime It's Time for Christmastime 2025
5:42 PM		aDUBta & the Black Oak Roots Allstars Silent Ska (X-mas Special)
5:45 PM		Eric Jenkins just like christmas (low) ERIQ 2025
5:48 PM		Charles Brown No Friend For Christmas Merry Christmas Baby
5:50 PM		Eyes Lips Eyes Slept in Through Christmas Blue Red B-Sides 2015
5:53 PM		Haunted House Party hang up your stocking A Strange Daisy Christmas V/A Strange Daisy 2025
5:57 PM		Dead Boys (It's Gonna Be A) Punk Rock Christmas [feat. Glen Matlock & Clem Burke] (It's Gonna Be A) Punk Rock Christmas Cleopatra Records 2025
6:00 PM		Set Break
6:04 PM		Aux Caroling Cards 2025 Christmas Stories https://auxcaroling.bandcamp.com/
6:05 PM		Set Break
6:07 PM		Sabertooth Unicorn It's Christmas: Open the Gates of Hell Human Santapede
6:09 PM		Jeff Tweedy Christmas Must Be Tonight Oh. What. Fun. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) V/A Masterworks 2025
6:12 PM		Roland Kirk We Free Kings We Free Kings Hot Record Society 1960
6:17 PM		The Futureheads Wonderful Christmastime Christmas Nul Records 2025
6:20 PM		Alex Maas X MAAS (Take Me Away) X MAAS (Take Me Away) Innovative Leisure 2023
6:24 PM		BIGfoot BEATS Christmas Mensch
6:27 PM		Blagging Jooches Merry Christmas Everybody (original by Slade) Winter Mix. Vol. 15 V/A
6:31 PM		Set Break
6:33 PM		George Korein and the Spleen Sleigh the Night 2025 Christmas Stories https://georgekorein.bandcamp.com/ A cover of “Walk the Night” by the Skatt Brothers.
6:38 PM		Set Break
6:42 PM		Airbourne Christmas Bonus Christmas Bonus Spinefarm 2025
6:45 PM		Talib Kweli Christmas Wrap (edit) Holy Daze Javotti Media 2023
6:47 PM		Wake Up and Smell the Sun We Cannot Be Too Merry Icicle Miner Key Yuletide Trilogy 2025
6:53 PM		Clint Breeze Star Bright Skies I'll Be At The Crib, Vol. 4 2025
6:56 PM		Rocki Lane & The Gross Group Happy Hairy Hippy Harry Claus 60s Christmas Classics Legacy Recordings 2024
6:59 PM		Ralph Champagne Revue Mr. Grinch (feat. Blag Dahlia & Petra Haden) [Instrumental] Grinch Mini Lp MVD VISUAL 2025
7:02 PM		THE XMAS PISTOLS Under Your Tree SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #15 In the style of Sex Pistols "Anarchy In The UK."
7:06 PM		Set Break
7:10 PM		Mr. Dustbin Little Drummer Boy 2025 Christmas Stories https://mrdustbin.bandcamp.com
7:14 PM		Set Break
7:17 PM		Vista Blue Next Christmas Next Christmas Radiant Radish 2024
7:18 PM		Kyle M Mrs. Claus is Getting Down Winter’s Wish Stones Throw 2025
7:22 PM		Merkel and the Merkelettes For Santa's Girth Now That's What I Call Novelty Holiday Music 16 2025 Buffalo Springfield, originally.
7:24 PM		Pizza Party Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (But It's Just the First Two Lines over and Over) A Christmas Album That's Mostly About Beans for Some Reason Hope You're Proud of Yourself Records 2024
7:26 PM		Phil Cook & the Fall Dogs GIVE ME A BREAK GIVE ME A BREAK 2025
7:28 PM		Santa Fresh Ghetto Santa
7:32 PM		WANTON DISREGARD Straight Edge Holidays Bermuda Snohawk 2011 V/A
7:33 PM		Set Break
7:38 PM		Snow Contagion Season's Greetings 2025 Christmas Stories
7:44 PM		Set Break
7:46 PM		The Chesterfield Kings White Christmas Loose Ends: 1989 - 2004 Rare, B-Sides and Unreleased Wicked Cool 2025
7:48 PM		Lord Invincible & The Tropical Spades Sleigh Ride Rob's 2025 Christmas CD V/A
7:52 PM		Riggings Christmas in Oxnard Holiday Card 2024
7:55 PM		Charles Celeste Hutchins Deviation from the Norm will be Punished Unless it is Exploitable Christmawave
7:57 PM		5idelity SausageWithPotatoSaladDay (Würstchen-Mit-Kartoffelsalat-Tag) (Big Band Jazz Edit) KInderlein kommet
8:00 PM		Sister Ray Christmas Believer Royal Mountain 2025
8:03 PM		Teen Mortgage Below The Christmas Tree Below The Christmas Tree Roadrunner Records 2025
8:05 PM		Set Break
8:10 PM		Al's Basement Linus & Lucy 2025 Christmas Stories Guitars: Rich Barnes Al Stavropulos, Ed Seifert Bass: Brenda Sauter Drums: Paul Stavropulos
8:15 PM		Set Break
8:17 PM		ANDEMIC Everyone Is Always Sick Every Single Christmas The Sick Christmas EP 2025
8:22 PM		Dave Soldier Vertigo in the Mall Dave Soldier's Christmas Album EEG Records 2024
8:24 PM		Advance Base Blue Christmas 2 Movie Theater Manager 2025
8:26 PM		Coldcut Santa's House Coldcut's Christmas Break 12"
8:33 PM		A Capella Science Seven Science Carols Seven Science Carols 2024
8:40 PM		El Tiego Once A Year XMAS TAPE
8:43 PM		Delacey Christmas in California Christmas Angel Delicate Flower 2025
8:45 PM		Set Break
8:49 PM		Joke Lifeforms Here Comes Santa Claus 2025 Christmas Stories
8:50 PM		Set Break
8:51 PM		The Dead Milkmen Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes / Here for Now 2025
8:54 PM		DJ Mordecai My Hip-Hop Christmas Wish List Winter Holidays EP 2025
8:55 PM		Dave Pajo 2000 Miles Steve Albini: The Gathering Live performance.
9:03 PM		AKAS Carol Of The Drumz Carol Of The Drumz
9:07 PM		Don Polec SEPTA Christmas Trolley Report 1991 Action 6 News
9:08 PM		Dar Williams I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Santa Version) I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Santa Version) 2025
9:12 PM		El Vez Jingle Bells Jingle Bells 2025
9:14 PM		Set Break
9:18 PM		Red Star Sky I Lost My Job For Xmas (and it sucks) 2025 Christmas Stories https://redstarsky.bandcamp.com/
9:20 PM		Set Break
9:21 PM		The Empty Hearts It's Christmastime It's A Wicked Cool Christmas! V/A 2025
9:25 PM		Major Metals Eyes Wide Shut and Die Hard 2 Eyes Wide Shut and Die Hard 2 2025
9:30 PM		Chrys Jones Christmas Is Here
9:32 PM		BLACK HISTORY MONTH christmas...white christmas Bermuda Snohawk 2007 V/A
9:38 PM		Country Aldente This Christmas Will Run on Its Own This Christmas Will Run on Its Own / I Like You, Doug 2025
9:41 PM		Death Valley Girls Season of Dreaming Slow Xmas 5 V/A 2025
9:44 PM		Frick. Paper Chain. Collection 2 2023
9:45 PM		Set Break
9:47 PM		Mudfroot No Santa Claus 2025 Christmas Stories To the tune of The Death of Pop by The Rub! Incredible. https://mudfroot.bandcamp.com/
9:51 PM		Set Break
9:52 PM		Boyracer I Love Christmas Time Melt The Snow EP
9:55 PM		The Allergies It's Almost Here Allergies Season EP
9:57 PM		Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert A Ghost Story for Christmas Ghost Stories for Christmas Rock Action Records 2018
10:01 PM		GROB Grob Power At Christmastime SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #15 V/A
10:04 PM		Astrosurf Overture Astrosurf Presents...The Nutcracker Suite 2025
10:09 PM		Aaron Gum We Wish You a Moogy Synthmas (feat. Emily Rotolo) Synthmas Classics 2025
10:11 PM		Dre Perish LOVE THIS HOLIDAY Twist Of Fate Strange Daisy Records 2025
10:12 PM		Set Break
10:16 PM		Juliet Fletcher The Mari Lwyd’s Song of the Season 2025 Christmas Stories https://soundcloud.com/julietfletcher/the-mari-lwy...
10:25 PM		Set Break
10:28 PM		Lawndry Krautsmas The Day Has Almost Come - EP 2024 THE FIRST-EVER KRAFTWERK KRAUTROCK CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!
10:31 PM		DJ Tenderloin Neon Christmas Lights 2025 Christmas Stories https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com
10:38 PM		Moth Effect Silent Night Merry Krautmas And A Happy Neu Year
10:41 PM		George Korein and the Spleen Dickens Village Dummies 2023 Christmas Stories
10:46 PM		CyborgSanta Kraftwerk Christmas
10:48 PM		Das Freakout Christmas Love
10:52 PM		Andrew Ford Greg Lake - Believe In Father Christmas (Vocals Only) Mixed Over Kraftwerk's 'Numbers' (Beat Loop)
10:54 PM		Moniker Krautmas Medley Merry Krautmas 2018
10:58 PM		Rosewerk (It's Fun to) Fum Fum Fum 2025 Christmas Stories
11:00 PM		George Korein and the Spleen Merry Krautmas O Tannenbaum (and a happy new year) 2023 Christmas Stories
11:09 PM		Moth Effect Hark The Herald Angels Sing Merry Krautmas And A Happy Neu Year
11:12 PM		[not] KRAFTWERK Xmas Time Insanity
11:19 PM		Dombrance Petit Papa Noël Petit Papa Noël Discolypso 2024
11:23 PM		Bret Saunders Robots Assemble, Robots Unwrap 2025 Christmas Stories https://bretsaunders.bandcamp.com/
11:26 PM		DJ Tenderloin Christmas Calculator 2025 Christmas Stories https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com
11:31 PM		George Korein and the Spleen Fairy Lights (Lichterketten) 2024 Christmas Stories
11:35 PM		Dave Panter Stille Nacht A Very Wrieuw Christmas Vol. 2
11:39 PM		The BV's Krautmas 24 V/A Where It's At Is Where You Are 2021
11:45 PM		Set Break
11:48 PM		Santy Newman Christmas for Busy People 2025 Christmas Stories https://soundcloud.com/santynewman
11:50 PM		Set Break
11:52 PM		Swansea Sound Not My Order All Is Calm 2025
11:54 PM		The Bret Tobias Set For Christ's Sake For Christ's Sake 2025
11:58 PM		Set Break
12:00 AM		David Hill (produced by Cameron Fleming) The Tradition 2012 Christmas Stories https://davidhill.substack.com MIDNIGHT! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
12:08 AM		Set Break
12:11 AM		Winter Damage Reel X(mas) 2025 Christmas Stories https://nealmarkowski.bandcamp.com/
12:30 AM		Set Break
12:34 AM		Ramones Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight) Punk Rock Christmas V/A 12:34 AM = RAMONES-O-CLOCK!!
12:36 AM		Divide & Kreate Blitzkrieg Santa Fantastic 4 V/A
12:39 AM		THE HEY HO HO HO'S Go Li'l Santa,Go SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #15 V/A
12:41 AM		Alicja Trout Joey Ramone for Christmas Family Nog: A Small Batch Holiday Compilation Volume 3 V/A
12:45 AM		Two Inch Winky I Can't Wait For Christmas Christmas Bop b/w I Can't Wait For Christmas
12:48 AM		Angry Snowmans December 23rd Black Coal For Rotten Children
12:50 AM		Ramonesmas Don't Want Coal A Very Snotty Christmas
12:52 AM		The Биты / The Baseball Bats R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Christmas Подарите мне на Рождество Ramones!
12:53 AM		Ramones Ramones Christmas ID Warner Brothers "Yulesville" V/A
12:54 AM		THE BURIAL QUARTET Merry Christmas (I don´t want to fight tonight) Happy Holidays!
12:56 AM		SLEIGHER - Krampus Band "Up On the Blitz Bop"
12:58 AM		DJ Tenderloin Sha La La - Jingling at the Moon
1:03 AM		Vista Blue I Want New Ramones Songs for Christmas Christmas Collection Radiant Radish 2020
1:04 AM		The Ram-Ho-Ho-Ho-nes We Three Kings Of Orient Are A VERY DIY Beach Boys Christmas V/A
1:07 AM		Santa's Little Helper The Sleigh, Sleigh, Sleigh Brought My Presents Today Arbor Christmas 22 V/A
1:09 AM		THE HEY HO HO HO'S Santa Is A Punk Sluggishas Xmastravaganza 9 V/A
1:11 AM		The Krayolas I Wanna Be Your Santa (Acapella Version) Santa Is On Her Way Box Records 2023
1:13 AM		Sleighdriver Gimme Gimme Some Presents Sleighdriver Creep Records 2024
1:15 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
1:17 AM		Hot Press & the Silent Knights Gobble Gobble Gobble Hey! Born to Roast Hot Press Records 2014
1:20 AM		El Sancho Merry Christmas Joey Ramone Jollier Than Thou Punk Rock in Exile 2021
1:23 AM		The Queers Ramones Christmas Punk Rock Christmas, Vol. 2 V/A Cleopatra Records 2019
1:25 AM		Chloe Danger Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
1:27 AM		Set Break
1:31 AM		Josh Kamensky Santa Showdown 2025 Christmas Stories https://soundcloud.com/josh-kamensky/sets/christma...
1:35 AM		Set Break
1:36 AM		Sad13 Dr. Christmas Dr. Christmas
1:38 AM		Great Whyte Lyin' Snake I Killed Santa Today 1:38 AM = ALL-MISFITS SET!
1:38 AM		Set Break
1:41 AM		Angry Snowmans 20 Lights What We Do Is Festive
1:42 AM		Two Inch Winky Gift Givers Joy A.D.
1:45 AM		Christmisfits Astro Santa SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #13
1:47 AM		Team Amoeba Gratitude Gobble Gobble Hey! 2023
1:50 AM		CRANZIG Other SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #8 V/A
1:54 AM		Two Inch Winky Santa Legacy of Nativity
1:55 AM		SLEIGHER - Krampus Band "O Tannenskulls"
1:57 AM		Angry Snowmans I Turned Into A Nutcracker Black Coal For Rotten Children
1:59 AM		The Misfit Toys Figgy Pudding 2018 Christmas Stories
2:01 AM		Two Inch Winky Elves Joy A.D.
2:02 AM		"Glenn Danzig" Twas The Night Before Christmas
2:09 AM		The Chrisfits Yuletide Business
2:11 AM		Two Inch Winky Santa's Workshop Legacy of Nativity
2:13 AM		Fruitcake of Disease Log/Yule Log/Yule 7" 2025
2:15 AM		FROSTBITE B.C. We Are 12/25 CHRISTMAS
2:17 AM		Two Inch Winky Christmas Tree Legacy of Nativity
2:18 AM		Misfitsmas Eat Pie! 11 Hits From Heaven
2:20 AM		Two Inch Winky Cool Yule Joy A.D.
2:22 AM		Christmisfits Santa's Nite Out SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #12 V/A
2:24 AM		AERIALIST Santa 2017 Christmas Stories
2:25 AM		Two Inch Winky Joy To The World Joy A.D.
2:27 AM		The Radish Friends Christmas Eve Positive Christmas Energy
2:29 AM		Christmisfits White Christmas SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #14 V/A
2:30 AM		Set Break
2:37 AM		Industrial Workshop Annelids Fight Psychic Tuberculosis, Folks -- Christmas Eve with William Lee, Celluloid Santa, and Assorted Guests 2025 Christmas Stories https://dihdrecords.bandcamp.com
2:47 AM		Set Break
2:49 AM		Bud O.J. Auges Memoirs Of A Christmas Tree Rob's 2025 Christmas CD V/A
2:52 AM		Sputnik the Band Good King Wenceslas Good King Wenceslas 2025
2:55 AM		Crazy Emma Let's Get It Together For Christmas
2:57 AM		Billy Bragg PUT CHRIST BACK INTO CHRISTMAS
3:01 AM		Cold Slither Cobra Claws Are Coming To Town Cobra Claws Are Coming To Town 2025
3:05 AM		Set Break
3:09 AM		Channel Marker Beast Carol 2025 Christmas Stories https://channelmarker.bandcamp.com
3:12 AM		Set Break
3:14 AM		silver biplanes Christmastime In Outer Space Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club 2025
3:18 AM		Funk Innovators Jingle Bells Let's Go Go Christmas Liaison Records, Inc 1991
3:21 AM		DJ Cummerbund Rebel Navidad
3:26 AM		7 Hour Darkness Invasion Cold White Christmas Cold White Christmas
3:29 AM		Gene Poo Poo Man Anderson Funky for Santa Claus Funky for Santa Claus 2015
3:34 AM		Amy Denio / Spoot Music Sugar Sacks Sugar Sacks 2025
3:37 AM		The Hot Buttered Elves Christmas In A Garbage Can RIP HBE drummer John Francis O’Neill III.
3:39 AM		Set Break
3:42 AM		The Brown Christmas Santa's Snow Squall 2025 Christmas Stories https://thebrownchristmas.bandcamp.com
3:47 AM		Set Break
3:50 AM		Ride the Snake Not a Happy Christmas This Is Fine 2025
3:53 AM		The Homewreckers Santa's Got A Big Ol' Bag Rockin' The Holidays
3:56 AM		Fightmilk I'm Dreaming of a Christmas (Where You Just Explode) Fightmilk & Cookies
4:00 AM		The God Bombs Christmas Fear (Frozen Horror mix) Christmas Fear 2025
4:02 AM		Von Cube Christmas Time Christmas Time Green Monkey 2024
4:06 AM		Hally McGehean Let Me Be Annie For Christmas
4:09 AM		Girlfriend Material It's All In The Mall! Home for the Holidazed: An Eternal Bummer Christmas Volume 6 V/A
4:12 AM		Set Break
4:17 AM		Bela Koe-Krompecher Christmas 2025 2025 Christmas Stories https://belakoekrompecher.wordpress.com
4:24 AM		Set Break
4:25 AM		The Skunks Violent Night Scratch 'N' Sniff
4:28 AM		Reggie Watts God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Reggie Sings: Your Favorite Christmas Classics, Volume 1 Brainfeeder 2024
4:31 AM		DJ Useo Dalek Christmas Go Go ( The Go-Go's vs The Raveonettes) AudioBoots Christmas Mashup Album 2024
4:34 AM		The Happy Somethings No More Christmas Songs No More Christmas Songs 2025
4:37 AM		Catscan Christmas on the Planet of the Apes (The Cassette Tape Era) My Bad 2010: Ten Years of Catscan!
4:40 AM		Bhopal's Flowers Incense Myrrh & Gold Incense Myrrh & Gold/Jingle Bells 2025
4:45 AM		Fuzzrod Nothing's Gonna Ruin Christmas (Radio Edit) Nothing's Gonna Ruin Christmas 2025
4:47 AM		Set Break
4:52 AM		Daniel Baker + The Ministry of Bad Ideas The Christmas Tease 2025 Christmas Stories https://upwardlycreative.com/
4:55 AM		Set Break
4:58 AM		DEAD KHRISTMAS TREES Santa Truck SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #15 V/A Holiday update of Dead Kennedys' "Police Truck."
5:00 AM		Unknown VHS tape Christmas, Woah, Christmas Vintage Annals Archive
5:02 AM		Jeanines Till I See Your Star Tonight Till I See Your Star Tonight 2025
5:05 AM		B.J Snowden The Merry Christmas Hop Holidays With B.J Snowden 98 Records 1997
5:10 AM		Gary Davis Here Comes Santa A Chocolate Star Christmas
5:13 AM		Jeff & Jane Jingle Bells A Boston Rock Christmas V/A
5:16 AM		Inflatable Men All I Want For X-Mas A Dandy Christmas '25
5:19 AM		Set Break
5:23 AM		The Knight Dreams The Beating Heart of Christmastime 2025 Christmas Stories https://theknightdreams.bandcamp.com/
5:29 AM		Set Break
5:30 AM		Les Bicyclettes de Belsize Bad Christmas Cover Version The 12 Days of Christmas Les Bicyclettes de Belsize 2018
5:32 AM		CHRONIC WAVE Christmas Down South SLUGGISHA'S XMASTRAVAGANZA #15 V/A
5:35 AM		mike pajamas I'm Late For Christmas Because of I-95 Winter Mix. Vol. 15
5:38 AM		Home Counties Better Last Year (Home Counties for Christmas) Better Last Year (Home Counties for Christmas) 2025
5:42 AM		Aux Caroling December December / Headphones 2025
5:45 AM		Night Medicine Like A Prayer (For Santa) A Strange Daisy Christmas Strange Daisy 2025
5:49 AM		Tragedy Dear Santa (Bring Me a Goddam Gentleman) #1 Christmas Holiday Party Mix Beautyrock 2019
5:53 AM		Set Break
5:57 AM		Keith Karabin Christmas on My Mind 2025 Christmas Stories https://keithkarabin.com
6:01 AM		Set Break

Chat is archived.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY MARATHON!

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

Hey! Hey!

Merry Marathon everyone!

Yoooooooo let's go!!!!! I'm ready!

I am wearing my just-acquired marathon shirt, the one where the two older people have fallen asleep on the couch

Almost there...

John Peel voice: "The Marathon, the Marathon, the Marathon, the Marathon."

Hell yeah

Hello everyone, buckle up. It's gonna be a bumpy red & green ride!

Yayyyyy!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 HERE…WE….GOOOOOOO!!! 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

It BEGINS

It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas...

Awwww yeah! Once again.... it starts. Thank you John and WPRB!

BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…And HAPPY HOLIDAYS JON, and all you fine Chat Peoples!!!

IT'S TIME EVERYONE!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMASSSSSSSSS

EMERIL!

Hi everyone! Hi Jon! I’m at work at the record store and am playing the marathon over the shop speakers. Customers aren’t gonna know what hit them.

Hey all! Nice to hear the bell loop again!

Grateful to be here after another fantastic year, thank you JON

Jon!!!!

Blast off time!

sup y'all merry merry merry merrry

Bell loop gets me every time

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas Jon Solomon! Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas Chatters! Cheers!

🐌🔥🐐🎄

Hello everyone

Happy to see everyone for another fantastic marathon!

Let’s gooooo

Happy Marathon & Merry Christmas!

this is about to be crazy

🥁 🥁 🥁

Can anyone tell me how to change my square to a fun avatar and not just a boring "S" ?

🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭

Yuletide Greetings all!

Just wrapped a new 2025 marathon T-shirt for a certain someone

Off and running!

🧑‍🚀🌎

Good Yule, Addie!

Hello friends

I soooo want to heart and thumbs up posts liker we're on a phone chat here!

@sebastian, depends how you’re logging in! Are you doing it via Google?

I wore swag today!

herro dere. god bless us everyone.

Sebastian I believe that it corresponds to the google account that you sign in with...l but not positive

addie- yes google

I clicked that clock out button w/the mouse extree hard just now. Whew.... 4 day weekend much needed. Enjoy y'all!

@Addie - Or as Ian Anderson would say, ring out those solstice bells #PhillyProgCabal 🔔

oh brother. this guy.

also second that reacts would be super nice

Hello!!!! Happy Christmas Marathon!

So awake

Merry Christmas Eve Day!!!

Sebastian, I changed it by changing my Gmail/google account profile pic

Then you’ve gotta change your profile image on your Google account. But it doesn’t usually take right away.

arf ! arf !

Proud to be part of that cabal, @Lizbot!

So excited 37 is crazy

I am in top condition for this year’s marathon. Happy day to all!!!

thanks everyone for the tech help!

addie: first Xmas in Philly Happy Happy!!! 2 U & S&S

ayyyyyy gonna rock with ya as much as i can until 3:30 pm tomorrow, been lookin forward to this for weeks! happy holidays jon, chat!

Happy Marathon everyone!!

Congrats to Jon, merry Christmastime and marathon to all!

Anyone else still have their giant head?

And Happy Marathon to you!!

Kraftwerk is TONIGHT?!? wow

This show is Christmas excitement for adults!

We’re getting *extra* show?!! It’s a holiday miracle!

@Alan it’s been so lovely to be back!! Got invited to my neighbors for dessert tomorrow!

@Dan we do! It haunts our basement rec room

Big love to DJ Aneek!

MAURA! LIZBOT! DANA! CB! ADDIE! PAT! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO

@addie: :)))

I have my Solomon Fathead!

@addie "sssolstice snakes" plum - I picture 7 dancing sneks in 7-time dancing to Songs from the Woods in yr home (snake quantity exaggerated for effect) 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

there's a follow up show after the end of the show at 6 tomorrow?

Merry almost Christmas everyone!

Merry almost everything!

Sebastian! Helloooo!

Hello Sebastian :-)

btw #DuvetKnowItsChristmas has moved over to Bluesky for those who enjoy

Guess I better get A few more snakes then @lizbot!

lesgooooooo

I do so love when Christmas does it's Christmas thing.

How's everyone doing tonight?

@ Julian: Yep, a collection

Good to see you Sebastian, surprised we haven’t crossed paths in the neighborhood yet!

I am pumped! Happy Marathon, Jon!

EEEEE that's fanstastic, I'm always sad when it ends at 6

I'm glad to be here for another Christmas Marathon!

Present and accounted for

Kraftwerk theme ❤️🧑‍🎄🤖

WOOOOOOO

Just starting dancing spontaneously over here! so much darkness lately i love feeling light on my feet!

Still kinda shocked that the new theme set is airing tonight and not tomorrow, which is exciting. You're changing things up Solomon! I like it!

I’m in a green sweat suit and eating cookies and happy to be tuned in!

@ Jon: YeeeeeeeHawwwww!! hope you're all caffeinated toooo!!!

Doing great Jon! finishing cookies over here w company

I can not begin to keep up with the chat but I'll get there.

Wrapping gifts, Hattie is making chocolat chaud and cake, smells good in here!

doin good. thanks for once again playing the soundtrack to my xmas, Jon

No time tomorrow, DJ Tenderloin!

The webcam is live at the top of the playlist for those who enjoy.

I heard the intermission show is going nuclear, so I'm just tuned in for the radiation.

No time tomorrow, DJ Tenderloin! - You are a busy man Jon!

Haven't aged a bit from last year sir!

@DJ Tenderloin - Exciting! Looking forward to new Tenderjams!

We are so back

Liz Bot I can't WAIT for you to hear! super exciting...

We ran out of time last year. Christmas Eve is the only place it could go!

And are we yet alive

I love the shirt!

@DJ Tenderloin - 😃

yessssss

Jon it's a puzzle every year - that you in Christmas Miracle fashion solve - every year!

haunted...but holiday. i dug!

I told my family I wrap presents better while listening to the marathon

When do we open up betting on the fate of the Gävle Goat?!

this is a very strong start

Merry Christmas Matthew!

Merry WPRBXmas, everyone!

merry Xmas Dan!

Last I saw, the goat was still standing strong, @lizbot!

woah-- taking the casiotone to new dimensions here with this cover

The goat has survived every year since he was introduced to me by H + G. Someone in Scandinavia needs to do something about that...

Locked in, sledders!!!

@julian b 💯

Owen's youtube concert is great, BTW

Loved your interview with him, Dan. Please share a link for all in the chat.

Spending 364 days of the year trying to fill in time for the show's playlist, spend the last hours of the 365th squeezing stuff in. lol

raooooooooh!

But does "Frankie" say Relax on Xmas?

🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩

oh hell yeah

Get out those seats!

🪩🎄🎅🪩🎄🎅🪩🎄🎅🪩🎄🎅

He says "Teardrop" Sebastian. It is really upsetting.

I had to go out at 4pm for some last-minute Xmas groceries & to pick up a takeout order for tomorrow. Got back home at PRECISELY 5pm. Talk about Christmas miracles!

Christmas booooooogie

That rules. Our seltzer flood sounds like it was nothing compared to your day...

I bells on this one.

I respect the bells on this one

Jon I sincerely hope you have enough seltzer for the marathon

@Alan Parsec Project your screenname made me chuckle!

Starting with some powerhouse jams. Love it!

I do not exaggerate one jot when I say I consider the Marathon a religious experience. It fills me with joy & love!

MHR, we have more than enough and the beauty of a can or two that leaked out is that IT IS JUST WATER.

I second Sebastian! I, Robot, commend yr screenname, @Alan Parsec Project!

Sebastian: It came to me when I was in the bathroom hmmm...LOL

It is really great to see so may familiar faces, marathon pals and year-round listeners here tonight.

Most stuff using the table of elements is watery.

@Jon Solomon - For real. Don’t make me buy a flight to Sweden, people of Gävle! 🔥🐐🔥

I don’t even celebrate Christmas, I just celebrate the marathon!

Something I look forward to every year. Thanks for all you do Jon!

My interview with Owen ashworth (migrating off of spotify in January)

Right off the bat Jon - what the hell is this? amazing

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iKYtGwVYRSrzecAshMllw?si=rsejn2dTRrOfKFIeUt5JFg

this set make me want to dance holding a beer....makes me want to shed a tear in that beer.,,,

The Chat itself is a gift!

@Jon Solomon - Although there was that one year, maybe two years ago?, that BIRDS pecked the goat to death! 💀🐐🦅

I believe Dan Wade of "one message above yours" fame sent me this.

@jon @addie "I don’t even celebrate Christmas, I just celebrate the marathon!" YES! put that quote on next year's shirt!

Dan Wade! Amazing pick

@addie "sssolstice snakes" plum - So true! 🎁 So happy to see everyone here!

good god 😂

Jon this is me celebrating the miracle of deskunking the German Shepherd in less than 3 days.

Not me! But a good guess

Bill Trac is doing a lot of therapy work on this "Christmas Past" song.

i'm a raw and open wound tonight. gonna pour some vodka on it. don't mind the screaming...

Howdy DJ Tenderloin! Will we be hearing a piece by you?

Hey Jon! Thanks for playing The Sonics tonight and every Christmas Eve. You make the season merry and bright. We can’t wait to listen through the night.

@Jon Solomon - Personally, I’m hoping for a “kicked-to-bits” type of goat destruction, to mix it up

Playing this at work (record store, open til 7) when there’s still a bunch of people here last minute shopping is VERY funny

@sebastian flattered!

I hope it is busy!

@Dale hang in there! may the marathon be the self-medication you need!

It's officially Christmas now!!!!!!

Brendan - yes! Kraftwerk set. Super excited!!

Welcome on in, Daniel.

Christmassive: The Christmas Missive

@Dana: Those doggone Fairmounters hehe..

Dana, what record shop are you at?

Looking forward to it DJ Tendy!

@sebastian petsu - not so much an emotional wound...just getting to the age where i cut and bruise easily.

Hi Jon, George, everyone. I needed the marathon so much this year

Hi everyone! Hi Ian! Loooooong time!

whos hungy

Whatcha cooking tonight, Chef??

Happy Set 1 !!

I'm ready to declare this is the best marathon ever

Yes chef!

@George Hello!

👋🏻 Chef Emeril Lagasse! I’ll take some goulash

ooh, i got a new prb tee shirt in the mail a few days ago. it's a christmas miracle.

chef, I'm trying to dry out these oranges but they are taking forever what am I doing wrong?

I think we need to install a cheese vent in the studio

Live cheese?! Amazing.

@jon was that maggie and/or nicole shouting "cheeese!" in the background during that break?

Good evening, Mr. Petsu!

Chef -- I just want to shout bam with you

I got taken out of LDB Challenge by Beck during the Hannukkah set, but I wasn't even mad about it. =)

Watcha making me, Chef?

Great first set to kick off another year. I wasn't expecting the cheese but am just thrilled about it.

Hope there’s a vegetarian option, Chef.

No LDB challenge for me, alas

missus dale and i met at christmas eve in 1988. coincidence?

are The Bacarrudas the barracudas of baccarat?

So looked forward to this and now it’s here!

Cinnamon rolls being stirred behind me.

Hi Sebastian!

"I want to live with a cinnamon roll"

@Blaise hello! Are we getting a new New Birds song this year?

"I would be happy the rest of my days with a cinnamon roll"

Cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing?

Brixton Riot back in the lead-off spot where they belong

Ernest Saves Christmas came out in 1988. Coincidence?

@sebastian put some stuff together, yes. How about you?

that was excellent

I think I’m gonna donate my dead tree to the Philly Goat Project this year.

NICE

Dan Wade - agreed. Brixton Riot makes quality xmas tunes every year

@Blaise I did indeed submit something for this year's marathon.

Brixton riot great track!

A cream cheese is featured, I spread in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight My cinnamon roll

We donated the Lagasse tree to the philly goat project last year, and I closed the car door on my finger, OUCH

is "air mack" a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference?

Hot off the presses!

Whoa a new ep every year!

https://thebrixtonriot.bandcamp.com/track/dead-christmas-trees

Theres a new HVAC contractor in my town named AirMac

George Korein and the slpeeeeeennnn one of my favorite memories was listening to this show maybe 10 years ago and hearing that for the first time

Hope you didn’t lose a nail, Chef!

oh no! Though Philly goat project is, as the kids say, goated

Interesting kippah you’re wearing…

lol "it's time for christmas time" is the right vibe

totally digging this - another great one Jon! It's Time for Christmastime is like Tonight I'm gonna Rock you tonight!

But is it time for Christmas time?

I just got my Christmas gift office chair and I am going to be putting it together. Christmas is work.

@Patrick - wasn't even paying attention to this 😂😂😂😂

"it's time for christmas time" yeah i had the same thought Mr. 'Loin

also the fantom of the opera riff

Tonight We're Gonna Rock You Until It's Time For Christmastime Tonight

@ Hibernal Roffle: I got a Xmas gift that was too much work, so I gave it to someone else...

...It's all about giving..

Jinx drinx DJ Tenderloinius and George!

@Alan, re-gifting is blessed.

Been looking forward to this for like 360 something days

Brian D - I did put a lil' bourbon in my hot tea w/ honey.

oooh, a Low cover. Love a Low cover. (hi everyone.)

Low is creeping its way into mainstream playlists

Bout to make my annual purchase of Jon Solomon Holiday Show merch

🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁

Silent Ska was definitely my [🇯🇲] mum’s favourite

Amazing set!

Beautiful cover of one of my all time favorite Christmas songs. 💖 Eric

good luck Jon! Xmas eve dinner under construction with your soundtrack. thanks so much!

will the family let me put on the marathon in my mother in law’s house? hmmmmm

@ Dan Wade? Have you heard the Low song (or covers of it) in mainstream spots like SBucks etc/?

I picture a holiday tradition where this song is played with community members getting to join in on the drumming

@Sebastian yeah, i heard it in the wild and freaked out a little

Merry Christmas, Charles Brown

Jon, who did this year's incredible artwork?

@Dan Wade-- it's the work of Patrick Rapa!

Patrick Rapa!

Happy Holidays from Pickled Eggs & d.i.h.d. tapes. Beautiful work everybody! :) Peace

It was a real collaborative effort with Jon. you should see how many rough drafts there were

@George Korein — that would make a good entry for next The Night Is Young!

Fabulous work

thank you!

With the color scheme of the flag and the figures in it, is it kind of like a take on the New Jersey flag?

Merry Marathon Jon & lovely Christmas Eve friends !!

Agreed - the family coat of arms / crest is super cool. Nice job Patrick Rapa!

Patrick's shirts have no REALLY rough drafts!

lol juliet

Oh hey, Maggie sighting!!!

Jon / Larry? Is anyone else having trouble accessing marathon.christmas?

Readie! Yuletide greetings!

yeah it's based on the NJ flag, it came to Jon in a dream

Addie!! Happy Yule! 🐍🐍

I wish it was our official state flag!

This is piece is dipping it's toes so weirdly into Christmas! Fucking Love It!

1) Silent Ska was also approved in my home.

marathon.christmas is taking the year off. Hopefully it returns in 2026 (if not sooner).

2) The shirt design is amazing !

Liking this alot - you know I'm a sucker for this kinda Xmas weirdness...

Stick with wprb.com this year.

Marathon should always take a year off.

Merry Righteous Christmas, Readie! 🎄

Readie! LizBot!

Had my nap, having my cheer! Now that I've joined the marathon this year!

Merry merry, LizBot!! 🎅🎊🎄

all the legends!

Solomonathon Jon-cam on the BIG screen!!! Woohoo!

Hey mg!!!!

sup readie!

solomonathon is nice to say

no they're becoming dead boys

lol jannon

Emphasis on the 3rd syllable!

SoloMON - a- thon

Readie! Good to see you here Merry Christmas ! 🎄🎄🎄

instant favorite, this one

As the prophecy foretold!

@Patrick - 100

An hour in, time for my first nog.

Merry merry to Jon and all from London, where Christmas is less than an hour away.

The Labor of love is the thing.

Hi Alan! Nice to be seen! And I say sincerely- where else would I be?!❣️🎄🎅

oh hell yea

OPEN UP THE GATES!

The Bennett family is listening from Bucks County, Happy Merry everyone!

Big mood.

It’s Christmas open up the gates of hell! It’s almost too much to think of how many 5 seconds snippets that would be enough Jon packs into 25 hours

🤘 Happy Holidays, all! 🎅

Looking forward to Kraftwerk inspo set!!!!

Debbie, your timing is immaculate.

heck yes, Jeff Tweedy!

Open the gates of hell! On the 666th day of Christmas my true love gave to meee...

Happy happy DJ DW❣️🤘🏼🤘🏼

Do we know what TIME Jesus was born? People are asking!

The first few notes of this Jeff Tweedy made me think we were about to hear a holiday version of Wish You Were Here!

Nope

Open up the Gates and throw in that Gavle Goat 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

@Alan - You beat me to it!

🦌🔥🔥🔥🔥

LMAO! Hell yeah, Jon! Just in time for the metal merriment 🤘

Jesus was born at 2:30 (tooth hurty. per the Apocrypha, the three wise men were dentists)

@Alan Parsec Project - The new hi-tech goat security gate IS a problem! I’m sure some enterprising Swedish black metal band can find the solution!

Merry Christmas, Readie ❤️💚

has anyone seen Oh. What. Fun., the movie featuring this Jeff Tweedy joint, and is it any good

merry xmas & happy belated hanukkah, jon!!!

Liz Bot: lessee, maybe a Military grade high power laser would work?

Roland Kirk!

Same to you DebbieWebby! 💖💖

I aspire to be one of the kings of 3, but they got it locked up.

I did see OWF but I was informed some of the songs are more winter-based rather than Christmas so are not eligible

plenty of people will tell you "Jesus was a hippy" but right now I'm thinking: he was a beatnik

Free kings! Free key!

This slaps

this is hot

Roland Kirk on every instrument known to man

@DJ Tenderloin, yes!

sometimes you just have to open up the gates

i love that the web site with the answer to "what time was jesus born" is cross examined dot com

Oh wow, I love this Roland Kirk! I have it from a Verve comp, “Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas” (the rest of which is also pretty great).

Yeah Roland is on a roll and rolling

anyway "The growing body of evidence seems to suggest that Jesus was born sometime between 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm on September 11, 3 BC. " Never Forget

Donutage I know that one well

"cross examined" haha

SNEAKY

If gummie is ingested now, will the ingestee fall asleep before Kraftwerk jawn? Asking for a friend

Hmmmmm.

@donutage- thank you. I knew I knew it from someon

I’ve already had mine Readie and I’m doin ok

I lost the Christmastime challenge long ago, I wish I had lost it to this.

Readie - depending upon how full your tummy is - I'd wait till about an hour before the start of the kraftwerk set. or so I hear...

@Readie, LOL!

also this acapella version has my mashup mind going full steam...

Excellent Addie! Duly noted- actionable item during McCartney penned a cappella action

Cheesevent looms!

I don’t think remixes/covers count when it comes to losing the challenge…right?

Nice, DJ tendy ❣️

I also haven’t thought about the Futureheads in a loooong time. Used to love them.

Nope, Dana, only the original counts

i can spot a futureheads arrangement from a million miles away

According to the Whammageddon rules, covers do not count, Dana K!

Hey Roff!! 🎄🎄🎊

RIGHT, Maura? Love them

Thanks, @Addie and @Alana!

The Futureheads Xmas album is...fine. But it has a couple moments!

@Dana, such riches abound.

Dana k!!! Happy happy!!!!

Readie my beloved!

Readie dear!

@Jon have you ever played/have I ever recommended you Edmund Welles's Hymns for Christmas, which comprises much more pleasant arrangements than you might expect, knowing that it is traditional carols arranged for four bass clarinets

It’s lit!

@patrick R - yep- I heard September for the Jesus birth- it would have been too cold for the shepherds to be keeping watch over their flocks on a December night. Allegedly

@Maura haha well played

Josh I'm not sure! It all blurs!

Dana - I played Green Day for you on Monday night as I subbed❣️❣️❣️

@jon In terms of the time of Jesus’ birth (granting various assumptions), there wouldn’t have been any such thing as time of birth at that time of birth. Apparently the night was divided into four watches so if we go with the “it came upon a midnight clear” hypothesis, Jesus was born in the first watch of the night on the night between December 24 and 25 which of course would have been more like sometime in September or October adjusting for 2,000 years of fiddling with western calendars.

Another Slade cover!!!!

jesus

Blurs

that specific mr. wilson was gay, i'm almost positive - he was such a fussbudget.

Slade original is my all time favorite Xmas tune, not sure how I feel about this one, but I respect it

Love the slade covers

Slade, Christmas. Okay!

wasn't there's a weird conceptual version of the Slade song a marathon or two ago, like it omitted some key word or something to throw it off kilter. Anyone else remember it?

Lizbot?

@Sebastian, I remember a cover where "are you hanging up the stockings on the wall" was repeated over and over but to the tunage of the original

Merry Christmas from the Netherlands where Santa just skipped over about a half hour ago!

@Rob YES that's it! thanks for jogging my memory!

George!

37 years. Someone deserves a gold plated cane.

YESSS

@sebastian I’m with you on loving the slade original. They could be so purely joyful and it comes across so cool in that Christmas song

Can’t wait to hear this!

🛷the🌌‼️

@Blaise exactly my thoughts

Hey Dennis!

Gold plated cane for running that is.

amazing choice for cover, discos not dead

Bela!

George this is awesome!

@Sebastian, Dec. 25 2022 at about 7:23 a.m. "Michael M Slade Merry Xmas Everybody but all the lyrics are are you hanging up your stocking". I am glad I was awake for that. I love the original, and Slade in general

Hi Hibernal Roffle! I’ve been in and outta chat whilst wrapping presents!

George, this is great

@Lizbot, that's a wrap.

Thanks Tenderloin and Nick!

Thanks Mary!

merry Christmas Jon and everybody! Do you have Basement 5 "Last White Christmas" on your play list?

@DJ Tenderloin - Delightfully, Tom of Finland has a drawing of a festive dude on sleigh that perfectly suits this song! George found it while looking for a suitable image!

Good luck! Sounds great way over here, thank God for science! Wonderful.

Korein freak of nature on the tide for sure.

i first heard the original at the Key West club in the Gayborhood on a dancefloor surrounded by mirrors and covered in artificial fog. It was magical and I'm LOVING this Christmasification of it. Well done, George! I imagine Santa in black leather with his sack in one hand and a riding crop in the other

Hi Mary! Hi Rob! Hi everyone else!

HEY

George your stuff always sounds so great - you're a good producer! You get great sounds

On Christmas Eve, the north pole man flies southward... to bring pleasure and pain, decked out like Rob Halford

Oh heck George- did you read what i just wrote? great minds think alike!

thanks Tenderloin! I had production assistance from Zach Goldstein and Colin Marston

Hello Lizbot!

@George Korein - The “Hey!s” have major gusto!

Yeah GEORGE!! ❣️

Who runs the world? Santa lives on top. He rules the world with his riding crop

And when you ask the Rob Halford Santa if he got you what you were asking for, he sings, "You've got another thing coming!" ba-DUM-tsssss!

Nice, George

@Sebastian Petsu - Amazing! I can picture it! A magical night in the Gayborhood!

CHEESE! BAM!

Nice George. Thanks Girrge.

Thanks Readie and Sebastian and Roffle and of course Jon!

Off camera?!?

Love those Heys & falalalalas

Ohhhh, all this chat I’ve been thinking there was a vent that was wafting cheese smells.

Hi Mary!! I’m glad you’ve returned from the hinterlands!

after 12 days of cheese you might need an exlax advent calendar...

Yay irish

Yes Mr. Maugeri... he always has another thing coming

Hi Liz Bot!

🇮🇪🧀

Taste the biscuit

A happy cheesevent to all

Hi Rob from Merry Maryland 🦀 🎄!! 🕊️

🇮🇪

Bringing in the cheese!

George, we have done a great job beating this horse to death!

@George@Michael M - Rob Halford's most recent post on IG fits the image we're bringing to mind with Sleigh the Night"

The butcher block couldn't get on the carpet where I am.

Bring the cheese, Bring the funk

Sorry, Dennis!

@Sebastian Petsu - Time for me to follow Rob halford’s IG

The Irish are welcome to pony up Blue Cashel to my doors anytime.

this has serious "minor league hockey team taking the ice" energy

Cheese jams? Cheese biscuits? I think that would count. Sounds delicious. Advent calendars are fun. I got my husband a chocolate advent calendar this year.

Oooh chocolate- good choice DW!

Nick, WELL PUT. Or, ribald TNA wrestler ring entrance.

@Hibernal Roffle - Too bad I didn’t ram a buncha Blue Cashel in my luggage whilst in Cashel…I’m sure Customs would’ve understood!

Hi DebbyWebby! Chocolate & Cheese for all! 🍫 🧀

This gave me 300x more energy to wrap

i do not have enough cheeses for this

Did AC/DC ever actually do an Xmas song?

Blackstar!

Readie, I went all out and got the Fannie May one.

AC/DC have "Mistress for Christmas"

@Sebastian Petsu Mistress For Christmas, of course

@Lizbot. of course. LOL

Normal Is cool.

And don't forget AC/DC's "Christmas Needs (Sold Dirt Cheap)"

Merry Talib Christmas Eve. Just tuning in now. Camping on the Arizona desert.

Happy Holidays, Lizbot! ☃️I second that. That's also very Ween 😆

haven't heard talib kweli in a looong time

Only the best, DW!!✨

I thought I was early, but 5:00 eastern ant 5:00 here.

Sebastian Petsu - ACDC vs. Brenda Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM10A86drpI

Fantastic premiere @George

YOOOO TRAVIS where at !? you hitten any national parks?

Hey Travis!!

Deeply invested in cheesevent.

hey, i like this.

I'm sure English and Irish cheddar are lovely, but give me a good sharp Vermont cheddar any day... one of the few ways I'm a national chauvinist

Blast. I missed Aux Caroling.

Wake Up And Smell The Sun is absurdly prolific with the Xmas tunes.

Thanks Josh!

I have some slightly old Brie in the fridge. Perhaps I should get it out so I feel included in the festivities

Heya, CU!

Hey Jon! What time is the Santa Sabbath block?

also, just purchased Silent Ska off Bandcamp, that was great

Wake Up And Smell The Sun is face alone worth a look.

Howdy!

Great question, Travis. I would guess around noon tomorrow? Post-Lindstrom / Snaildartha.

Reindeer Rumble -> Snaildartha -> Lindstrom -> Sabbath. Something like that!

my mother in law asked if this is a podcast

Right now! Right now! It's time to eat xmas hams! See yall later

Christmas chat, where every comment is a response to a comment 30 or so comments ago. Anyways, great job, George! Hi Liz! Jon, no problem!

I got my buddy into Santa sabbath, so I have ti get him to tuna in then

Late morning is the marathon’s power block.

Thanks Dennis!

definitely ECHL vibes, Nick

Happy holiday to all from warm and windy central WY.

Cheers from North Philly

@michael gudgeon I’m in Quartzsite right now, but may hit up the Grand Canyon on my way back to Colorado next week. I have no agenda besides marathon listening!

Travisj - now that's how you do xmas. jealous. safe travels!

Maggie, I would tell her "it is a radio show."

Frank, are you happy or sad that Wyoming is warm and windy for Christmas? Are you laughing or are you "Cheyenne?" I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! :)

“it’s like. the real radio. actual radio”

I have Christmas Cheesecakes now. What to do, what to do?... Brutal decisions.

Thanks tenderloin. I’ve made it a nomadic desert camping Christmas for the last three years.

Oh my lort, this song is tickling my funny bone.

🧔🏻‍♀️🧔🎅🏼

To be paired with Sparks’ “Moustache”

Wprb is always my road soundtrack. The marathon is perfect for the occasion.

Maybe a parody of Sparks’ “Moustache” about Santa’s beard… 🤔

@liz bot, Swirling the ends is key.

Happy, MM. I endure the cold. It does not bode well for the spring, though; low water in the Big Horn River = sadness.

Love Petra Haden!!

Ooooooh, this is dope!

@ Hibernal Roffle - so true! 🥸

Forgot to ask: levels sound good? I went with a slightly different set-up this year.

Quite good me thinks.

I think things are sounding good boss

Sounds good from here.

XMAS PISTOLS? I'll take that!

Hi from California! It sounds great.

Wasn't pandering, to be clear. The stereo / mono issues from 2024 should be sorted!

Hey Debra!

Better not cry, better not throw out Xmas cards 'till the 4th of July..

Where are you putting your seltzers? Hopefully not right on the table

Everything sounds great from California!

I have a set of coasters with photos of the "big heads" from last year on them now. Someone had them made and sent to me!

there's something very Lemmy about the vocals on this Pistols parody and i dig it

Will listen for another 45 minutes, then we are going on a hike to Chinese food at the famous Hong Kong Lounge

To be clear I made the coasters that was me

Cali style seltzer should be on your marketing platform. lol

Poached pears yummmm

This is also dope!

Poached pairs of what?

@travisj did a 2 week roadtrip to colorado,utah,arizona,wyoming in 2016 visiting a bunch of national parks, some very fond memories! safe travels!

(has anyone made the “…in a row?” joke yet)

Cinnamon rolls are almost making me regret I have only enough spoons to finish the snickerdoodle dough chilling in the fridge

I hit all the Utah parked this March. Perfect time

Headed home from Chinese food at Tiger Noodles.

Hi Maura!! Went to Utah parks for our honeymoon 20 years ago in April--excellent! A little chilly, but empty

in a row?

And a bunch of national parks through the PNW and Montana this summer

Yay Maclock got a shout out

37 years!!

Listening from snowy Boston!

Macintosh? LOL

Hey, that’s me! Third year listening from the desert

i think i went in october, so some was a little cold, but Zion was one of the coolest experiences i've ever had!

37!!!

In a row!

Listening from a private island in Maine!

Private island?? Ok that's elite

missed before but hey dj debbie! and dj stitching pink!

Or rustic

it's both, Debra

Listening from New Haven, CT! ✌️🎅 🎄

I just work here

……. Famously my favorite song…….

As long as it isn’t a private island with files!

Checking in from Corvallis, Oregon. I used to be in the broadcast area and I'm immeasurably jealous that my Mom can listen to it on via the atmosphere

Was just sent a photo of friends listening on the beach in Costa Rica.

im in a retirement village in florida! im about to play some videogames with some childhood friends that share your last name @nick townsend ! big ups!

Listening in SW Virginia.

Hey Jon it’s Chaki listening frlm

CHAKIIIII

CHAKI!

Cooking’ bean burgers at Casa Donut.

Listening from Bentonville Arkansas!

Hi Michael!! ☃️

hi debra!! i’m on long island!

Bang that doggone Drum!!

About time we got to this song.

Oregon temperate rainforest > Arizona desert.

One of them

Merry Christmas Maura!

This drumbeat tho!

Joe Scepi! New Haven represent! (Was there late 80s for undergrad).

7.5 spreadsheets?

Hiya DJ S-Pink! 🎄🎄

I think this cheese feature should happen every year

Can I get spread sheets in the Swag?

Pistol Wavin New Haven!

What kind of drum does the little drummer boy play? ...tiny tom

Deltron! I haven’t heard deltron in a long time. Oregon is my summer trip. Awesome state!

🧀🧀🧀

What, no Wallace & Gromit for Maggie??

wensleydale is a favorite of wallace of wallace & gromit fame

Manchego rules

yay maggie!!

ooh, manchego is v good

Magnanimous!

Bob Weston's favorite cheese!

that was amazing

I camped on the hoe river this year. Right on the shore

Get some quince paste to go with manchego

Manchego Bay

Ooooh I love Wallace and Gromit

Nice job, Maggie!!

If there’s any manchego left, it’s frequently enjoyed with a little honey

christmas forever

bravo, Maggie!

Hi Debra!

cheese, gromit!

George I loved your song earlier

*waves hands like Wallace*

I'm listening from, believe it or not, Maryland

Thanks CB! the song is up now with the graphic so you can see the night being sleighed https://georgekorein.bandcamp.com/album/sleigh-the-night

Bob Weston and my parents spent Thanksgiving together. I'll have to find out if manchego was involved!

"not even Wensleydale?" -Gromit

Happy b-day Baby cheese-us

manchego + quince paste, so good the Spanish came up a name for the pairing. Merrilo. Merry merrilo everyone

Hi Readie!

YEAHHHHH KYLE M!!!!!!!!

@readie 😂

YESSSSSSSS

George Korein - that cover!

Hey Rob!! Tweeet tweeet cheep cheep!

Mrs Lagasse gave me this new Kyle M Winters Wish on vinyl as an early Christmas present, BAM!!!!!

we like the sleighs, the sleighs that go boom

Listening in for the 14th year from semi-localish Nyack, New York. Merry Xmas solomites!

Heck yeah thx George

haha Maura yeah this matches that lackadaisical delivery of the cars that go boom

Hey thx Addie!

Nyack! I was in Olives not long ago!

🤶🤶🤶

Maura, exactly! I'm waiting for Tigra and Bunny to come in!

Man this intro made me think of "walk on the wild side", for what it's worth

Hey Chandler!

"Buttcheeks", an underrated silly word

😂😂

Was not expecting “buttcheeks” but ya always hear something new on WPRB.

Forgive me if this is common knowledge among the faithful… but is this the only known 24 hour Christmas radio show with one dj ? I’m sure it’s the best anyways…

better not

Well lela, you see he's not a DJ. He's a human radio station

watch out!!!!

better watch out not

the Detroit Grand Pubahs make excellent use of the word. "Baby girl, your neckbone looks so tasty. Let me grab ahold of your buttcheeks while you face me"

I think this song may break my son.

Better is good

Fair point daltron:-)

Incredible factoid, George!

I recommend the song. It's called "Ride"

He’s the tointables , the buildin’ the transmitter, the potentiometers he’s every gosh darn thing

i suddenly want a kit kat

was just going to say that

I suddenly want Christmas Underground's son to not be broken.

str8 2 the ghetto

Fishbone "It's a Wonderful Life" is a Christmas song

oh hey, I have peppermint stick Kit Kats here (truly a great seasonal flavor)

Do not twist the man's potentiometers until you hear the word from Jerry the Christmas Snail

ooh this version is sweet with the dubby echoes! Dan Buskirk played a funny version recently by Christian McBride

I think I missed Josh Kamensky saying hi. Hi! A name from the past!

Oh hello everyone!

@Daltron- 😂

OH HELLO

Finally able to tune in! Feliz Navidad from Puerto Rico everyone. Where I never imagined I’d be celebrating Christmas Eve.

JB!

Hi Brad!

Fun fact. Jon Solomon is the reason why the Ringing Rocks in eastern PA ring.

I should go there someday!

merry Xmas Jon and everyone. listening to show in Morocco where it’s already the big day. i tried sending this before hope it works this time. -gene from the Hot Buttered Elves

Puerto Rico! Morocco!

waiting on Antarctica...

Yeah, yell at Christmas.

¡Increased Navidad!

There's the shitty Ringing Rocks out here near Pottstown. I don't recommend it unless you already plan on going roller skating at the nearby rink

@ Jon: I've been to the Ringing Rocks PA def worth the trip, but don't break a leg tho...

I don't think is fair.

Happy Holidays to Jon, et al!! Ready for another 25 hours of fantastic radio!

The one in Bucks i County is cool

GW! Ian!

that touched my heart until the Patriots reference. peace be with you all

wow ❤️

jk tat was lovely

That was a wonderful story.

nice

The Snow Contagion story was lovely

B A M

BAM!

Is the Little Drummer boy sitting in?

"Season's Greetings", snaps.

Merry Christmas everyone! I can’t tell you how good it is to be within the confines of the marathon tonight.

And may owwlllllll your Christmases be white

It does feel cozy in here, doesn’t it?

STEEEEEEEEL DRUMS

Loved the Snow Contagion story

all of a sudden I'm at Sandals! Ha

That story was good. Although I agree with P Rapa - lose the Patriots reference. :)

lol jk jk jk

Hey, we've all known someone with a Patriots keychain at some point.

I just got a blue shell

steely pan

Listen I'm just kidding around. Patriots cheat! Wait, who said that? What?

The Eye's have it.

@Alan Parsec Project - I hit up Ringing Rocks on my way home from the Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA many years ago (after NEARfest) and I didnt have a hammer! PSA: Bring a hammer! That’s how you get those rocks to ring!

Steeleye Dan

@Alan Parsec Project - I did climb around on the rocks though and it was dramatic and cool with a handful of birds of prey overhead, no doubt waiting for me to break my ankle and become carrion

Poke me!

I love this

I'm such a sucker for this kinda thing. like an xmas fever dream

the other reign, dear

Let's get weird!

hymn names

too many eggnog white russians

beware the negnog

@Lizbot, 7 billion apex predators are just walking the streets. lol

ooh this is croony

POTATOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

This sounds like a song from a karaoke episode of Make Some Noise (sung by Zach, of course0

this is classy as all get out

wait, is this AI?

You say potato, I say POTATOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

@Lizbot: Bang them rocks together! They ring because of high iron content.

Oh jeez, I hope not. Have tried real hard to avoid. Had to pass on an Xmas song about Norman Fell for just that reason.

🌭🥗🥔🕊️

so sad. I know how much you like people whose names are sentences.

We do indeed sensor ourselves.

kart off that salat

Gonna make Christmas nachos while listening with my partner in Minneapolis. Hope all is well as can be with you and the family, Jon! Happy New Year everyone!

@Hibernal Roffle - Walking the night, Flying by day, pecking my eyes away on the rocks 🪨

Taylor Gonda! It is a Christmas miracle! Was just thinking about you as my kid and I watched The Sure Thing (a Christmas movie) the other night.

this song is pretty

@lizbot, My eyes, feel like rocks sometimes.

Anything special on Christmas Nachos?

That 5idelity song was damn fun. I'm also trying to figure out if it is real... they are pretty tough to pin down... I did like it a lot...

I wanna know what Santa is putting on the nachos, without a doubt.

Jon you said to remind you about 8PM

Ha! Gonna add that to the holiday watch list this year. Christmas nachos is just what we could make with what we had available in the fridge/pantry, so no! We were so fixated on Xmas day dinner we forgot about Xmas eve!

you really had me in suspense there about whether you were going to try the german

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxucd12X5A

pass Metuchen on the left-hand side

6 7

I don't understand why you'd ask if they're real? Is the video not real?

6' 7"

December 23rd, that Ramones classic

Metuchen should not be spoken of openly.

If you see 'Tuchen, say 'Tuchen.

Hi everybody! Back again for the Xmas show

@alana - Thanks for the detective work. I had only found it on soundcloud... which is 75% AI music lately.

Oh, this is a good cover version

Metuchen, Youtuchen... tuchen me, tuchen you... SWEET CAROLINE BABABA

online listener and I couldn't hear the dishwarsher

Oh, that's depressing

Hi Danosaur!

Hey Rob!

Alana Phelan it would appear you are correct re: 5idelity - after listening to a ton o' xmas music and hearing alot of AI stuff - this year more than ever - it's harder to ascertain sometimes.

Oh... it is. There are labels I've known for years creating back stories for fake bands and "releasing their music." It is wild.

Ain't no touchin' like Metuchen.

Hello from Somerville, MA. Love making this part of our family's Xmas Eve each year. 37 years is just wild

@Rob - I heard an owl hooting outside the other night and thought of you.

Mr. Mayor! Thanks for the invite in the mail yesterday.

DJ Tenderloin - we should start an AI music support group.

Hello Danosaur!

Hello Alana!

Hello everyone!

@Danosaur, neat!

Hi Jon! Happy all the holidays <3

Is that Snoopy on guitar?

My Bandcamp feed suggests that some folks are listening to your show and buying music. The best kind of compliment!

there is something to consider Alana Phelan - what if you are AI, and I am AI, and everything is AI? Like the Matrix? And nothing is real. Crap. Let's not think about that. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all from the soggy confines of the Los Angeles basin!

@Hello Jon!

really diggin this song

Beep boop.

@Patrick - I'm in LA too

I feel like an AI that gives people chronic illness is some bullhonky

This is a great Linus & Lucy. Vince Guaraldi meets VU.

@patrick (LA) yikes, @Danosaur too, I saw a KTLA segment online about it. Take care out there!

The inauguration is being emceed by Somerville resident Mr. Eugene Mirman!

Christmas Underground - AI music support group - YES. I'm sure one day it will be thought of as just another tool. but that day is not today.

soggy? sounds uncharacteristic. "There are no mosquitoes in Los Angle-us! It's a desert!"

Nightmare-athon?

If anybody loved that Riggings track, Al Riggs "Christmas Parade" is a personal favorite.

don't you think Jon should rank us?

pronounced "Los Angullus"

that Linus & Lucy was hopping

@George - Yeah, we got an atmospheric river coming through right now. They're saying 5-6 inches of rain where I live

agreed btw - I love me some Linus & Lucy.

A song for Mary

Al's Basement was a cool discovery. Thanks, Brenda!

Although I guess here too--one roommate in the hospital, one went to the ER a few days ago, another has a cold and is masking in the house, and I'm more dizzy and nauseous than usual and the meds aren't helping. Merry Christmas, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this song is sad but true

I've seen evil in the form of Mosquitoes there George.

Damn Danosaur

Damn-er, Alana

Sorry Alana - that sounds crappy. Hope things improve

Hi Jake!

Merry Happy - to all!

This song is right on the money.

(Danosaur, that's "Damn," with a comma)

This guy's version of Jingle Bells from last year is amazing - one of the best versions ever really

Hi Jon and 25 hour people!

...true, it doesn't precipitate very often here, but when it does it's of biblical proportions. There's a great Bukowski piece about it somewhere...

I lost sound here

Jon FM out on both radios

No sound?

same

@George - Ha! Punctuation does matter

It's a polkadot kind of night

Lost stream too

dad air

same

Went out for me tooo

stream stopped

stream is down

No sound here

oh good it's not just me. Well, I mean bad too.

Ugh back.

Sigh, we’re at a party, Mary will have to check out the song later.

back?

back

fm ok

It's not Christmas anymore. lol'

Back

😅

Yes, back!

now hearing "too much on the plate..."

yes back.

Very odd. The codec just...stopped.

Hey Maura! Sorry I missed you at French Club last week. We will connect one of these times. Maybe we bring Jon there if he's in town on a Friday night this winter for Princeton @ Harvard...

🎄🚽

@patrick - do you think LA is just too pooped to precipitate most of the time?

Hello cool people. Thank you as always for your sacrifice Jon

Hi @jon, hi everyone! That last track was great, the Linus & Lucy jam was great. Sausage & Potato Salad Day is my new jam. Glad to be able to contribute a Xmas song this year about losing my job. I hope it gives you all a chuckle. It’s the best thing to have come out of it all.

Jake I love this idea! Sorry I missed you.

Appreciate you all letting me know right away. That was VERY odd.

Grinch must be messing with the signal

@danosar- my Magic 8 Ball says "highly likely"

Odd is the point.

Jon: same thing happened 2 yrs ago around midnite.

Every time I hear Owen, I feel like I'm home for Xmas...even though I'm so far from home

Advance Base!!!

Yes, but this is a completely new cable!

..Ghost of Xmas past

@jake wilson- are you in some kind of Wilson mayoral caucus with the mayors of Portland and Seattle?

That old cable was frayed, it turned out.

You must be missing those special speckled cable rocks.

👻 !!!

Andemic extremely on point

Sentimetal cable? lol.

It's a shame we didn't get to hear the full song of "Vertigo in the Mall" because what I did hear was very amusing.

I did hang out with the mayor-elect of Seattle last week at a Bloomberg Harvard new mayors program

dug the Andemic track

I was in Portland last month, but did not meet with my mayoral namesake from there sadly

There's been a large number of complete grooves already. Can't stop dancing!

@Jake Wilson, I lived in West Seattle on Alki point. God I miss that!

Zohran did not grace us with his presence sadly

@Michael M, is there a longer version of Vertigo in the Mall than what I have?

Vertigo in the Mall got cut off when the sound went out

Jon, that was the song that was playing when the cable went out.

Ah! Sorry about that.

Gotcha.

This just popped up...

https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/1pv1oie/very_nice_jewish_boy_jon_solomon_is_doing_year_37/

Enjoying the show straight from... Work!

Also...

https://www.metafilter.com/211565/The-holiday-nonhits-keep-on-rolling

Jingle Nobels

Very nice

Ha! @Dan

The song made me amile because it reminded me of last year's "Leave the Bathroom Light on for Santa" when someone had to use the toilet badly from a bad combination of Christmas food!

No Hell No Hell

Hey TAndy! Happy marathon!

🧫👼🔬

👋🏻 TAndy!

🤓 📚!!!

Hey Lizbot & Readie!

That whole Dave Soldier album is like 10 tracks, 14 minutes. Each song a completely different genre

This may be the nerdiest song ever written

is it still looking like 10pm for the kraftkraut set?

Delightful! Nerds unite!❣️

I take that as a CHALLENGE.

Haha!

Hopefully, Edward.

As a nerd, I'm here for it

The competition is fierce Danosaur..

@Danosaur- Same!

thanks jon

I hope the kraftwerk set comes by 10 cuz I may fall asleep. Tendy is old!

OMG "Seven Science Carols" is aMAZing!!! We are both already sharing it around our spheres

this is very cool & trippy btw.

@DJ Tenderloin, you can do it, you can stay up zzzz um, and so can I ;-)

This sounds like a Groove Armada remix

Christmas comes twice a year on Mars hmmm..

Let's call it 10-ish!

Rob from MD - I sadly go to bed early and wake up early - and I can't seem to break out of that cycle.

wakeup for early for kraftwerk

It was beautiful here in SoCal until Tuesday night. We must've angered the rain gods

i think i’ve properly set up my boombox from 1999 to continue listening through the night

I had an idea a while back - I need to work on it - a track specifically designed to be played at sunrise.

Theme and vibe, what's a few hours and such? Such a table of things.

afraid if i move the antenna will stop picking up the signal!

@DJ Tenderloin, I get it. We usually stop listening to radio and get ready to sleep around 10:15 or 10:30.

Tune in! Yule love it!

anyone for 10ish?

LARRY!!!!!

I'm gonna try Rob from MD! I am truly excited for folks to hear the new tracks, and I really want to hear what other folks have done. I"ll try. Unfortunately all the cocaine is gone. I'm kidding. There's still some left. Still kidding. No Cocaine. Stay in school kids!

I love it! We're all Santa Claus!

@Maggie, antenna is key. On many levels.

This is Larry Kwartowitz! he plays in the Spleen of late!

LOL

And again.

Forget Spartacus - I am Santa Claus

he plays in PAK and Cleric

I'm Santa Claus

"Area heroes" 🤣

I thought he said SEPTA clause at first

Santa Claus is coming for my eye?

The Dead Milkmen are utterly ridiculous

The Queen, we never doubted you!

but i like my eye

This is SO Rodney

Sanity Clause

Santa Claus Is Coming sung as a threat

SEPTA Clause should be everyone's new band name for 2026

Me: Is this Rodney? *refreshes playlist* Lol, of course

Sanity clause love it

Keep being you, Rod

alarming stuff

Deceasedd Milkmen.

you can't have my eyes

the septa clause negates the sanity clause

Hermey, the elf who wanted to be a dentist, would be coming for your teeth!

The deceased milkmen, they drank the milk with the plaster of Paris intended for the babies, of course

Gotta watch out for Hermey.

wiki wiki

Love this one. Dead Milkmen forevs.

Laurel, there's nothing worse than an elf who made the wrong career move!

Detachable penis is a fav, my parents wanted a boy I only had girls I have envy

This is nice to hear again.

KMFDM for my dead husband in heaven was his favorite band

Was feeling a bit blue but this music is really perking me up

John S Hall of King Missile (of Detachable Penis fame) posts FIVE new poems every day on instagram

🖤

How many of the misfit toys were the work of Hermey?

Merry Christmas Frank..love you forever

I bet Perry Farrell didn't want his dad to be a dentist though, didn't end well

@jwh when is your song gonna be on?

Sadly, we'll never know how many victims there were from Hermey's hands, as they are still finding misfit toys to this day under various floorboards. It's not pretty.

hi Corey! no clue!

😭

Thank you George, I was kicked off of Instagram. I wasn't very nice too politicians.

John S Hall is an inspiration going back to when I was a teen, I corresponded with him a bit when I was 15 via email

misty over here...

Yeah that's a tough one JWH.

I was in trouble a lot at 15.

Hi Jon! The Marriage clan is listening in Baltimore! 👋

I appreciate that Steve Albini sided with me in the PRF debate over who would win in a fist fight, a caveman or an astronaut

awww ya jon!

Thank you Jon

I did not have drum-n-bass on my bingo card this year.

I'm gonna go cave man because you bash an astronaut in the head with a rock and he's just a pile of mush

nah, fistfight -- no weapons

@Brendan, LOL spot on, me niether!

All right, no weapons. I'm still going caveman. They had to survive wild animals.

Little Drum and Bass Boy

love it

people were saying caveman. I said the astronaut is in very fit condition, eats all kinds of nutrition supplements. the caveman has gone weeks eating weeds since the last time his cohort brought down a mammoth

SARAH!

Swarzenegger Astronaut????

albini said yeah, people think the caveman is like Lou Ferrigno, he probably looks more like Shane Mcgowan

Skinny underfed caveman???

I'm still going caveman like a Trent Reznor caveman going crazy on a astronaut Elon type caveman wins

enjoyed the jungle

not schwarzenegger, but say, Buzz Aldrin.

Jolly trolley!

Don Polec!

Loved your song earlier George!!

Monkeys took a while, but we have telescopes.

this is awesome Jon

Sebastian sent it in!

Sebastian WOULD

i actually met Don Polec at a gas station in Fairmount in Philly

omg my childhood is flashing before my eyes

excellent find, jon!

Nice job Sebastian!

Closer from Trent right vibe for astronaut destruction

Liz and I met Don Polec at an airport in London

yesssssss

...and he really is like that in person

;;

I met Don Polec on a flight back from CA once! At the end of the flight, the pilot announced that a bunch of the checked luggage was incinerated back at LAX and they waited to tell everyone until the end of the flight so people weren’t grumpy the whole flight. Last I saw him he was standing in the luggage claims line for burned/destroyed luggage!

oh i wasn't expecting Richard and Linda Thompson!

R + L Thompson, Santa-fied!

@George Korein- Oh yeah, you’re totally right it was London Heathrow, not LAX. Figures! Heathrow not my favorite!

I did not expect multiple Don Polec interactions in the chat tonight.

this rules

Oh this is so cute

I miss Pierre Robert too, merry Christmas in heaven

I thought she was singing "I wanna see the bride fights tonight"

@ Liz Bot: Wow! bummer, though glad that the whole damned plane didn't burn up...

@Jon Solomon - He was sitting across from us with a large sudoku book

brilliant move by Dar Williams I love this so much (why I kept pushing this song on Bluesky).

Two brides enter...

robert drake usually plays the original narration from the wanamaker light show on his marathon, but i missed it this morning. would a made me cry tho

Love my bluesky

Expectations?

LOL at brides fighting

@Jon Solomon - I chatted with him in the boarding area, and he was very nice. Told him I always looked forward to his Action News segments growing up.

just.. xmas show childhood memory things

Loved Don and Dar

Jeff Buckley lilac wine or any

@ Maggie Schreiter - Don’t know if this came up earlier, but today, for the final Wanamaker’s Light Show before the building goes under construction for years, they resurrected the original John Facenda narration!

Los Saicos cover?! Nice!

Please and thank you

Line for the final Wanamaker’s show was hours long snaking outside the building today. I didn’t even attempt to go.

@liz bot i saw! so delightful

when i was little we

John Facenda narration!

This song wants me to tune the eyeball dials on my TV set.

would go see it and the dickens thing and eat dim sum in chinatown

Since the Queen brought up Trent Reznor... Trent Reznor says... "I am justified... I am purified... I am Santafied... inside you" ...sorry

Me and my wife went this year to the Wannamakers Light show - so weird to see the bldg. - in parts - so empty

ron zertnert

I liked that they had local shops in the Wannamaker building during the light show.

Someone should record something in there (Wannamakers) - you could get a GIGANTIC drum sound I would imagine

BAM!!!!!

Shouldn't they be the Dead Cookies and Milkmen for Xmas?

bam.

Love Kraftwerk saw in Brooklyn

Happy Holidays Commie

C.O.M.M.I.E.!

finally some pittsburgh content

wanamaker drum sound big? come on down to wanamaker's, where we wanamaker drum dreams come true

@DJ Tenderloin (@8:50), maybe if you wear all your marathon t-shirts at the same time, they will keep you awake through the Kraftwerk set?

H/T thanks, Jon

The Commie!

I have your Bandcamp in the playlist but drop a link when it is live!

I will publish it forthwith

this is great

I lost my job for Xmas once and it %&%&&%&%&%&%& sucks

Happy marathon, Commie!!!!!🎄🎅✨

A sad story - a great song

https://redstarsky.bandcamp.com/album/i-lost-my-job-for-xmas-and-it-sucks

yeah, I almost clarified— song great, events bad!

There ya go!

Thanks, yinz

Nice one santa corey

I'm a huge Kubrick fan.

This song is funny

Hi Commie! (and everyone else who just came in, and the ones who came in before when I was making amazing snickerdoodle's, now disappearing into a sugar crash...)

solid use of 'whom'

so moving

Don't hear Dennis Franz get called out in many Xmas songs

Not enough if you ask me.

that lyric jumped out at me

Die Hard ShuuuuuuuuuuuT

I hear ya, Chuck

Awww, yeaaaah! Pea to the Nutz!

ahoy hoy

Hello Jim!

Hi Jim!

Happy holidays, Jon!

I loved tuning in earlier right to the line "Where's the toilet in the mall?"

Hi Commie!

I am unsure. Is it Christmas?

Amazing, Ross.

Brendan, let me check with the band.

They believe so.

I had this feeling it was gonna come back. they're very insistent.

Thank you for the confirmation.

They should check their watches. Jumped the gun a bit.

@santa Corey that was great! sorry about the job

They also got the forecast wrong

@Brendan - Haha!

song rips!

There is a small clump of dirty snow at the end of our street. Willing to count it.

i love these songs that are a trial of patience

Has anybody reworked Black Flag's "TV Party" into "Christmas Party"?

Jon I'm gonna have to owe you a first-timers track next year. I had all the skeleton written up for a spoken word thing that I came up with in the chat last year, but didn't get the time to fully flush it out and record it!

I spent all of 12/26/2024 brainstorming it too lol

Rob...they have!

I am seven dishes away from returning in full force to the marathon

2026, Ross!

goddamn it FISHES

I def feel like I owe something after twenty... eight? years of listening

@Josh - never heard fish used as a unit of time before

Death.....Valley.....Girls.......<3333!!!

You owe me nothing, Ross. That said, look forward to hearing someday!

Good evening..between driving to a family event, the event itself and drive home have caught entire show so far…thanks for the Dead Milkmen and ElVez so close to each other!!

Carlos!

I realized I'm still wearing my wristband from the memorial where Dave Pajo did 2000 Miles.

hey all!

Hi Mike Appelstein!

feel like kraftwerkmas will fix me

hello again. I was out at a gathering away from the radio for a couple hours but happy to see you played the Don Polec SEPTA bit I found and that folks liked it!

Hey, Mike!

May need to set alarm for the 12:34 am se

Set

the polec bit was a hit

Finally able to sit down for a moment, listening to the show in one ear and watching someone stream the SW christmas "special" on Twitch in the other.

Oh boy!

Hot damn!

BAM FROM ALL OF US AT MUDFROOT ❤️❤️❤️ THANK YOU JON

this is kinda meta...

:)))

amazing

one show referencing the other

SANTA Alert 🚨🎅🚨🎅🚨🎅🚨🎅🚨

Imagine my face listening to this for the first time!

WOW. Incredible

Incroyable!

Wow! It had to happen. Brings a tear to the eye!

hi everyone, i'm frantically working on my show for tomorrow but listening during all waking hours i am not doing the non audio parts of prep.

Hi Mike A.!

Wow, "No Santa Claus" is incredible!!!

this is very charming

i mean doing the non audio parts of prep

also hooray for this

Ho Ho Hoooo!

Hey Liz Bot!

This is so special

Here's the Mudfroot bandcamp link! https://mudfroot.bandcamp.com/track/no-santa-claus-death-of-pop

love this

When I'm not busy being a celebrity chef, I'm in Mudfroot making Christmas songs for the marathon

And Chris Mohr!

Hi Mike!

Genius mudfroot

That was perfect.

Please don't tell me there's no SEPTA bus, Please don't tell me there's no SEPTA bus

an auditory demonstration of the Droste Effect

❤️❤️❤️❤️☃️⛄⛄🎄🎄🎄📻📻📻📻

that was the best

Ty all

big fan of that

Love that cover! 🎅🏼

That was exquisite, Emeril

hey Dana K

Boyracer!!!

Christmas Underground, you will never miss Aux Caroling because Santa will bring you a dropbox link.

@Chef I only have one response to that song...BAM!

Chef, the link isn't live yet!

Chef cooked up a Gem!

Alright Chef!

what DOESN'T chef emeril do

haha James Totally that is a common thought

Aha!

That is now an instant classic - Amazing work!

https://mudfroot.bandcamp.com/track/no-santa-claus-death-of-pop

I remember liking a song I heard on the show a year or two or three ago called Xmas in the Hot Tub or something like that, had sort of a 60s girl group big mono sound iirc... I was trying to find that song on YouTube this morning and couldn't find it, though. Did I dream it or do other people remember it

Delish offering, Chef!

Michael, I can check past playlists.

Like, not right now but eventually...

Mudfroot Bandcamp link now live, and thank you everybody and most importantly thank you Jon! BAM!!!!

I wouldn't want to be annoying, but I'll be checking in here and there throughout the night if you happen to find it. Don't give yourself extra work tho, John, you're already working a 25 hour shift on a holiday

God BAM! us, every one.

Nice one, allergies!

Hey y'all. Show's been really killer [like this one!] just wanted to say thanks to all, Jon, especially, ofc. Phone was weird and couldn't say "Merry" til now. Long time listener first time (tonight) writer!

@MIchael Glading (9:53), I remember hearing "Christmas in the Hot Tub" on WHFS out of Annapolis Maryland in the 80s

This Allergies song is nothing to sneeze at

Emeril, once when our kid was very little, a young woman said right in front of her "oh, so are you telling her that Santa is real?" it's like "well I guess we aren't anymore?"

According to journals from the time, I was on WPRB on 12/24/93. On my way back to NYC the next day, “I stopped by PRB briefly on my way to the train. Jon was looking weary.”

!!! Aidan Moffat

Amazing, Mike.

Hello again! Did I miss the Kraftwerk set? 🥺

Coming up in the next 30 minutes I hope.

After Juliet's ace reporting.

@george hopefully any children listening are still in that magical "but what if..." period

Christmas past, Jon.

Sweet. Glad to be here

Did I miss any Tenderloin?

If Jon can’t find Xmas in the hot tub I will happily help write and record it for next year. I will need girls

Woot! Merry Grobmas!

(I ask as I scan the playlist) 😌

Diggin' GROB

Grob not from Maryland

DJ Tenderloin will show up in the Kraftwerk set...twice!

Oh my god Josh! Xmas in the Hot Tub has been an absolute ear worm for me all year

GROB.

I was sending that to *everyone* last year

Little Roger & The Goosebumps – Xmas In The Hot Tub – 45

There it is!

CB (Blue) - tickled that you're looking! No Tendy yet - coming up in the Kraftwerk set - I may not be awake for it - but it's coming!

Grob Mazurek

Also GROB

Nice!

Grob it up

GROB sounds less "grobby" this year? Not a complaint! Glad he found a band he likes...

ooh i like the horns here!

I'm not kidding when I say I have a single bookmark menu item in my face just to launch "Xmas in the Hot tub" lol

Astrosurf!!!

This is a gem, Rosie.

Grobbing through the grob on a grob grob grobbing grob

@Michael Glading, Xmas In The Hot Tub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_BcFrFNyrY

Mr. Glading, in 2024 at 10:16 PM Jon played the 45 'Xmas in the Hot Tub" by Little Roger & The Goosebumps.

I agree! They’re local. Blaise is screenshotting

Oh my god

*GROB

Thank you everybody

I know @aux caroling :) i just wanted to be here for it!

Reminds me of Mummers Day parade

This has made my day

that had some prog energy!

As much as I enjoyed that Eyes Wide Shut and Die Hard 2 track, I was dying to hear that hot tub one again

I missed Grob???

Sorry for distracting ppl tho, great marathon as usual

Yay Astrosurf! This year Scottie Barnes and Jamal shead of the raptors were among the celebrity extras in the Canadian ballet’s nutcracker production

This song really gets me into the Synthmas moog

Gratitude for this Oh Holy Day of Xmas Marathons!

@Dan Wade you did! It was this song though https://sluggishasxmastravaganza.bandcamp.com/track/grob-grob-power-at-christmastime

Hey George; everyone🔔

Hi Jim! With bells on!

Moogy Synthmas to all, and to All a Good Byte

@Liz Bot - Haha!

Are we in the Kraftwerk/Krautrock hour now?

bytes by the kilo

my laptop thought it was funny...

Ross: I believe so..

Who's Emily Rotolo? Any relation to Susan from the cover of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"?

YES!!

Yes! We ARE DEVO

hell yes

DEVO - THX BOSS - IT'S GONNA BE GREAT

Well...it's on your list...Devo (?)

HELL YES!!!! ARE WE NOT GINGERBREAD MEN? WE ARE DEVO!

Awe

I have 4-5 DEVO-centric tracks already. We can do this!

Mari Lwyd! Mari Lwyd!!

Juliet is the best.

Will we be hearing The Latke Lady this eve?

Mary! Mary!

omg i just learned why misfitsmas begins at 1:38

I ran away from a Christmas Eve party to listen to this

I followed

I love horses (is what my name means)

🐮 💀

I missed the official DEVO announcement! But I am counting down the days until it airs next year! DUTY NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Horse-lover Digger

And he/wore a hat, and he/had a beard, and he/brought in the presents so that/no one knew…

Hey George - Want my “Bob 1” pick he tossed me at the Holmdel show this fall for inspiration?!

🐴 💀 that is

@Mary Horse-lover Town I think

<3<3 Mary <3<3 Dennis

Juliet, if you would like a different link in the playlist let me know...

Im so glad Mary is tuned in

Will send you that a-sap!

Always excited for your stories, Juliet.

Yes Liz -- from Bob Prime

Hi Dana K! DEVOtional songs for the holidays! I can’t wait!

We’re in a side room of the party surrounded by fancy scotch in a room that seems like a secret Druid room.

DEVOtional is a good name to use if possible...

Oh my god, General Grievous

@George - A mash-up of Jocko Homo & that Residents Gingerbread Man song - Are We Not Gingerbrean Men?

DEVOtional is the name of the official DEVO fan convention in Cleveland!

Hello there, Mari Lwyd.

Ah right, Dana.

Haha, yah, it’s taken!

So excited for the DEVO set!!!

Hello there, Mari

And hi Liz Bot!

Oh my god, I need to find the Philly Mari Lwyd troop

I’m just repeating you, Jon, feel free to delete all of my comments

Well we got Bala Cynwyd, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Athyn and other Welsh town names just outside Philly!

I just had an idea for next year (not a Devo one though)

Bring it, George

though indirectly Devo-inspired

@Dan this has absolutely made my night

OK I just looked up a mari lwyd and that's the greatest thing I learned about all year

@Mary Jones - seriously! I am VERY interested in finding these people. I wonder if this Mari Lwyd participates in the Parade of Spirits every December??

Yay Juliet!

♥️

@George Korein - Add it to yr growing marathon idea list!

Finally, something wholesome to do with my horse skulls

yeah i got a few in the queue

@Lizbot I bet they do—we need to find this out!

Dalton Wilcox

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Putting on my 3D glasses…

Jon: Not only does Dalton Wilcox host Bonanas for Bonanza, he also just did a one-off episode for Comedy Bang Bang called "Gaga for Gunsmoke"

Liz Bot: Those Welsh names were given after the Pennsylvania Railroad built the main line track out there and named the rail stations..

George Korein: one song every half hour 2026.

hahah

Mother. May Kraftwerk have a stroopwaffel?

Dalton Wilcox is a poet and a great man (who is scared of draculas and frankensteins).

Santa, did you do that? Cheney? Why???

lmao

Legend.

This song is giving me I Monster "Bright Sparks" album vibes

Reindeer on the Autobahn

I always wondered about the Welsh town names. My grandparents lived in Penn Wynne for a long time

now i'm thinking there may be a song coming up called reindeer on the autobahn

🤖🤖🤖

🤖🎄

Jinx on Liz Bot!

this is like the Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder pairing

TENNNNDDDDYYYYYYY 🫡🙌

This is an excellent interpretation of this song.

Thx Boss - it's here - https://djtenderloin.bandcamp.com/album/kraftwerkhristmas-a-kraftwerk-inspired-single

@DJ Tenderloin, there you are!

Love the "Sparkly" part

Everyone - turn off all your lights (except for your xmas lights) and get ready to dance

I love the kraftwerk set already!

Correction: he is *plagued* by Draculas and Frankensteins

🎆🎆🎆🎆

Werk it!

This is splendid!!

That is a very needed correction. Thank you, Dan. I have been falling asleep listening to old episodes of his show recently (not tonight though).

who isn't plagued by Dracs and Franks?

I did NOT expect my daughter would laugh as hard listening to it as she did when we drove to Chicago together. It was the episode with Conan as a guest.

Hi Luther

We are transcending now 🧘‍♀️

Nice work T-Loin!

Beasties!

SO good, Tenderloin! Damn!

Thanks, Tenderloin!

YAYYY

Gracias everybody - much love I send to you all -

Youre my favorite DJT

Still one to come...

yeah that's why i like that somebody - i think in this chat - came up with Tendy.

Hi all! Is there a "Father Christmas Cannot Yell"?

This version makes me think of The Shaggs collaborating with Joe Meek for some reason.

Tendy is good. DJT makes me ill.

There are many things I love about Tenderloins tracks. In particular, his profuse inclusion of Beastie Boy snippets is at the top of the list. Thanks for another great one 🙌

Then Tendy it is

@Tendy, my wife knows the original for your Neon Christmas Lights and loved your take!

Did I start the Tendy? I think so haha 😆😊😊

Oh @mary --- my son in law was thrilled there was a song about Belfana

@Dan oh, that’s fantastic!

CB (Blue) - thx so much. there's a secret re: Beasties and why are they used so much - it's because they released all of their tracks (almost) in acapella versions with the BPM count!

I’m so glad to hear that!

Loving the cosmic kosmiche vibes of this silent night!

staying up for this was the right choice - what a radio gift! love it

Mari Lwyd is now here to re-listen: https://soundcloud.com/julietfletcher/the-mari-lwyds-song-of-the-season

Adding that to the playlist presently.

Thanks Juliet! I thought about the plum pudding rebellion many times this past year

Tendy, and yet another reason to love the Beasties 😍

@Jim Otter, that is an inspired idea.

I'm def hoping for some sorta "I'm the operator of my Santa sleigh and reindeer" song

Another great one George - we did not do the dickens village this time, those tickets were like impossible!

@George Korein, your "Dickens Village Dummies" is great!

Listening! 🤘🏽🎄✨

Thanks Rob and T’loin!

M.O.L.L.Y.!

We walk through the Philly

@Dan Wade This makes me happy; now I'm not the only one! And thank you!!

@Jon, wrt to Black Flag TV Party reworked as Christmas Party, do you remember who did the rework?

🤖 🎅

Ahh the Coldplay Kraftwerk song

Rob, I might have two of them.

Missile Toads *and* Red & Green Flag.

the coldplay kraftwerk song that tricks me everytime into thinking its a death cab for cutie song

😆 michael

eeeehh whadaya doin?

nice

enjoying the heck out of this (just away from chat)

Greg Lake calling the Philly Prog Cabal and Krautrock bands to the summit

@Jon, yay! I'd love to find out who did them. Could you let me know on Bluesky?

Eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn ELF zwölf days of Xmas

This Moniker track......yesssss

Rob, those are the names of the artists. Happy to send your way post-marathon.

@Jon, ty, post-marathon is perfect!! Whenever you have recovered

[WERNER HERZOG VOICE] despite the aching inevitability of crippling holiday depression, this small respite of kraftwerk themed music is an unmitigated success

Rejoining the stream after snacks and a rousing game of Milles Bornes with the in-laws. Boy, do I need a drink.

@Jon, I see the names of the bands now, I scrolled back

Fum fum fum!

Perfect, Jibbles.

Fum fum fun indeed.

JIBBLES!!!!! 😂😂😂😂🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

YES YES YES

Why did it only correct one FUM? I'm leaving it...

First Christmas Eve listening in! I love it!

literal lol

Welcome, Bandit

omg - ca-caw!!

Somehow I knew that was The Spleen.

ja, wilkommen Bandit.

Thx dj

Bandit, so great to have you with us.

George you make such good bloop bleep bloop!

Fum fum fum : https://youtu.be/MdpdAHsDI3c

Thank you!

HELL YEAH BANDIT

Liberal Bandita at larging.

Slow day. lol

Roseanne Carrara - that was fantastic

suite

I just learned that Los Del Rio did Macarena Christmas at some point

Tendy, just saw you put out a new Hanukkah jawn 🙌 wish I had seen it before Shabbatnukah

"Tenenbaum"

Tannenbaum better than Atombaum..

Thanks DJTen.

CB (Blue) that debuted on Jon's all Hanukkah show this year - I need to get you onto my bandcamp list

We have to turn in, sadly. @Jon, ty for this great marathon. @Roseanne Carrara, Fum Fum Fum was fun fun fun

covered in warm blanket of sound and popcorn

Tenenbaum was excellent

Royal Tenenbaums 2001 ‧ Comedy/Drama ‧ 1h 48m

Gads!

Tenet (Ebaumsworld Cut) 2020 - 7h12m

Goodnight Rob!

Getting lost in this set (in a good way).

Thanks T'Loin!

George that track was epic

Rules

+1, loved it

Sweet cycle! Sounds great.

I used all three of the english translations of "O Tannenbaum" lyrics that are on wikipedia, and had Michelle Lordi sing the German

This is the best

🔥🔥🔥❤️

Michelle Lordi sounded amazing - ethereal. and that crazy echo dubby thing at the end - love love love

'Xmas Time Insanity' is fantastic

The bells in "Xmas Time Insanity" take the song to a different level

I MISSED AN ALL HANUKKAH SHOW!?!? 🫨🤯😤

IT IS ARCHIVED!

George,stepping into rabbit holes? lol

Thanks legal Tender! I'll have to pass that along to Michelle!

My Hanukkah was so jam packed and stacked this year.

Uplifting! Those chords!

Shout out Michelle Lordi! She is a friend. Ive played her music for years on my show. 🙌

i remember seeing a parody of the dr dre cover art that said "Dr. Dreidel -- The Hanukk"

Techno Santa time. lol

I’ll check it out Jon, thanks. A belated Chag Sameach to all my fellow heebs

Petit papa : cent % excellent!

robot unboxing video

Robot assembly killin it

just in time for unboxing day

Stuck my head outside, smells very Christmas-y. Wood burning stoves and the like.

Jacobot is working engagements.

Man, it smelled woody fire in Philly the other day!

I'm computing, and composing......

I know it’s Tendy before I see it’s Tendy

beep beep boop boop

@CB - Same! So good!

Practically Residents-ial, my Residents-loving wife says. I agree!

Will the DEVO set next year be called - You Must Christmas?

amazing

Tendy don't miss

Wilhelm scream?!

Just giving away clever here.

Wilhelm scream!

What came first? Jon Solomon’s Holiday Show or DJ Tenderloin and can the two exist without each other?

The samples in Christmas Calculator are truly inspired! A great job!

This song is happening-

Greetings, the online listener jawn topped out at 680 people!

Jon solomon - DJ Tenderloin started in about 2002? 2003?

George, very nice 👏👏👏

DJ Tenderloin did not make my acquaintance until what, 201X?

Old!

that was a very good Calculator, @DJ Tenderloin!

Good night for real! @Tendy, we loved your Kraftwerk reworkings

thx everybody - truly, it fills me with joy that you folks dig it. thx - MERRY CHRISTMAS! And thx Jon Solomon - truly the boss of Christmas

Be well Rob!

You two were meant 2 be 🤝

Thx Rob! Me too - bedtime!

Hm, I think there's a mixup! my "Fairy Lights (Lichterketten)" had guitars and vocals and stuff

Damn George you just keep bringing it! So good. We could mash them both up! George & his tender spleen

ohhhh here it is!

hahaha tender spleen!

This is going somewhere I think. At least fairly familiar.

@DJ Tenderloin - omg, yes! Tender cut of spleen!

Tendy, could I persuade you to stay up until the next break?

digging this but wondering if I should be at midnight mass instead

@Jon Solomon 🐧 (host) Happy 37th holiday marathon! From your youthful looks (on the Jon Cam), I calculate that you inaugurated this noble and praiseworthy tradition at about ... age 4?

this is our midnight mass <3

Heathen's wakeup call. Get yer Jesus or else!

Dan Wade - I want to, believe me, but I'm old and frail, and if I don't go to bed soon how will I get up early for my bible study?

Thank you, Richard! I moisturize!

that was a joke about bible study. I'm a heathen through and through. why what is happening in the next break and when is that?

Gotta get that sleep. I'll email you

Hello again, friends! I confess I took some time off from Marathoning to interact with family.

Sometimes I feel like sam the eagle among you wonderful folks

I trust the midnight tradition is still on the agenda.

Isn’t Misfitmas usually in the Midnight hour?

Oh wait no prob 1:38

Back int the day we would just stay up all night and then some. Kids these days!

It’s gonna be that snail isn’t it?

@ Jon Solomon 🐧 (host) Thanks for sharing your secret, Jon! I'm turning up my radio volume so I can still hear the show while I run to my bathroom cabinet for the Medik8 Advanced Pro-Collagen+ Peptide Cream :-D

Rise repeat.

BVs tune was cool

This is very pleasant and enjoyable

I'm an early riser. Jon - as soon as I'm up and I've got a cup of joe in my hand I'll be checking in. to all you good fine people - now don't stay up too late! A very merry Xmas and much love and peace and joy to all - Auf Wiedersehen!

BAM

Tschüss Tendy

Good nnight Tenderloin — I'm on for the late shift!

Those sleigh bells though Tenderloin. Tough to just sleep through.

Good night.

Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh!",

POP! Represent!

The fawl

Goodnight Sir Loin!

In order of apperance: Tom Lehrer Sabrina Carpenter The Sonics Slayer/Wham Deth Elf The Gogos Bad Bad Hats The Sonics Again Screamer Clauz Randolph's Leap The Fall Allison & Moon King Diamond Iced Shank John Peel Lorne Green KITT Jason Sims Snaildartha Casiotone for the Painfully Alone George Korein Ole Pal Irwin Snaildartha Again Martin Mull Mac McCaughan Stupidity Silkworm Bret Saunders Joel Meeks DJ Tenderloin Snaildartha yet again Lindstrom Half Man Half Biscuit Low H Town Tim Minchin

The Wailers

What is happening?

And ****

I stayed up for you Dan Wade - it's the whole marathon in one song! You know if I had this earlier I could've been asleep a long time ago! Nicely done Santy - and the voice of Zeus!

Them kids on fire.

Mario Lopez mentions so far this marathon = 1

synchronize swatches

or sleepy people - now i'm really off to bed - see you in the morning

Night night. Thx for the goodness

Aw yiss, I got back in time for the the MEATY stuff!

Excited for the Hey Ho

Pretty great stuff

Hey, my Christmas eve is going great. I made crab mac and cheese for my wife and I, then we watched a 1986 recording of How The Grinch Stole Christmas that had the original commercials in it

I worked all day and now my tummy feels icky and I just drifted into sleep for a bit where I had a horrible dream but otherwise everything's good, it's been a pleasant holiday season and the year has been an improvement over previous ones in multiple ways for me, thanks for asking

Goodnight, DJ Tenderloin!

Had to step away for a traditional Homing Alone, fell asleep, now briefly awake before my other annual tradition of randomly waking up to marathon surprises

Thanks again to all who helped make the Kraftwerk set so special...

Been an excellent eve

Did we wake up at the same BAM!, Emeril?

It's a good eve around these parts. Even better with the 25-Hour Holiday show!

My favorite Xmas tradition: enjoying the marathon after everyone falls asleep.

Jon! That krautroxmas set ripped!

Gearing up for Ramones o'clock!

Officially it's...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!❆❆🎄🦌🎄⛄🎄⛄🎄❆❆ to all you fine peoples....

our lips are sealed

The British Twee band Heavenly? The one what did I Fell in Love Last Nite and was in some way connected to Talulah Gosh?

Every year I tell myself I’ll stay up and listen until the weird hours of the night…this year I don’t think I’m making it past Ramones O’Clock

TRADITION TIME!

That Heavenly! Doing a US tour in 2026!

This means Christmas to me, as well!

Weird hours! LA buckle up

It's the story with the Gogos song!

❤🤍💚❤🤍💚❤🤍💚

Merry Christmas!

Is David Hill different from radio host Dave Hill?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I think of this story whenever I hear Our Lips are Sealed now

Merry Christmas, Ossy!

David, this is not the comedian David Hill but the author of The Vapors.

Also thanks Dana for answering my question

And Merry Christmas and other Historic & Happy Mid-Winter Festivals on this (thankfully) Not-So-Silent Night.

Merry Mexmas

Yeah, out of all the weird crazy shit in this world, we stay up for what is normal here. lol

I saw Dave Hill at last summer's huge Tim Cronin benefit in Long Branch.

Merry Christmas

My mom other in law and sister in law used to sing in the midnight mass and we’d always hear this on the way over.

“Mom other in law” works.

the BEST

poor Debbie

Debbies

@Michael Glading - Amelia Fletcher, Mathew Fletcher, Rob Pursey and Peter Momtchiloff were all in both Tallulah Gosh and Heavenly, so big overlap. Just saw the Heavenly reunion show in Brooklyn last year and gonna see the upcoming Philly one!

I missed Heavenly last year but I did get to see Swansea Sound at least! Definitely going to the JB’s show.

@Dennis Lingg - Mom Other…Mother from Another Other?

Some people! LOL

I'd love to see Heavenly... I admit I only know the Heavenly Vs. Satan and a smattering of Talulah singles so I'd have some catching up to do

@Dana K - I was at that Swansea Sound show. Good show, and good opener!

Hi Liz, merry christmas!

24 minutes? Alice's Restaurant!

Mother from an other other

Whaaaat

The lead-in to Ramones O'Clock! The pressure is ON.

Feed back"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE this concept

I look forward to the tradition every year. And yes, every time our lips are sealed comes on....

my interest is piqued!

o m g

water damage wrought by the wet bandits

@Dana K - it was ridiculously hot & crowded in Market Hotel for that Heavenly reunion show, but worth it. Pooh Sticks Hue did Calvin’s part in C Is the Heavenly Option

Jeanines opened for Swansea Sound, right?

Jill Sobule had a lot of great (mostly sad) Christmas songs. Thinking of going to a tribute show in Feb.

De Pesci Mode

Crimminals in love George.

lol

@Dana K - Yes!

I want to step on a pedal.

Saw Water Damage crammed into the tiny space at Century Bar…three years ago?

@Michael Glading - Def worth checking out the rest of Talulah Gosh’s catalog- It’s all on Backwash compilation or Was It Just A Dream?, which is Backwash + demos. I love the video they made for the talulah gosh self-titled single!

This is a journey, but a extremely rewarding one.

12:15 AM means frozen pizza time...

This Xmas shit for sure Jon!

My head is buzzing

https://isitchristmas.com

One day, ONE DAY, Water Damage will make their way up to Chicago.

I’m so mad Yoni isn’t up for this

The Christmas Fugue State is one of my favorite traditions

Neal Markowski you have truly outdone yourself!

Pat, just you wait!

Flying drones was never so much fun.

Thank you, Pat!

@ Liz Bot: Big Talulah Gosh fan here, paid a steep price for their CD but it was def worth it..

🛸

Value is a thing.

beauty, Neal

Somebody tell Thor!

Still astounded at Neal's Hexmas Enduction Hour....

Same, Chris

Aww, thanks! That was a fun one!

The thing about "

"Jingle Bells", is that it's so much better when the melody doesn't change.

One of many reasons I love the marathon: 20 minute drone psych journey to ring in Christmas

yess

@Kevin, and that drummer kid. Yeah.

🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

That was soooooooo goooooooood

Awake without alarm or caffeine

Thank you, Jon!

We're live!

Nice one Neal

woohoo!

Got married this September!

Austin? You had me there! My dream town for the winter, and Seattle in the summer. Nothing better.

1-2-3-4! Ramones o'clock!

Whew, made it to Ramones O’Clock, my night is complete.

Let's gooooo!!!!!!!

1234! Merry Christmas!

Let’s go!

Time Gentlemen.

Thought I’d be going to sleep by now but I am wide awake let’s goooo

Mazel, Bandit

LET'S GO!!

ay oh great show

hey ho ho ho

been listening to the marathon since 1st year. keep on rockin' in the "tree" world :)

fun fact: the 1-2-3-4 countoff "eins zwei drei vier" from Kraftwerk's Showroom Dummies was inspired by the Ramones "onetwothreefour"

Amazing, Bob!

Even the Winter Damage cover art is inspired.

Doin' the Geritol Bob with no regrets.

really fun listen this year, good night and back for more of the same tomorrow

Way to go, Bandit.

Guys, I think he’s coming to town

I always think of my old cat and my dog frenemies duo batting and pouncing on each other when I hear Merry Christmas, I Don’t want to fight tonight. Somewhere in the recesses of my data cloud, I have a video of them play-fighting to that song during a Ramones o’Clock of yesteryear

just bought Reverend Horton Heat's "we three kings" album today. it's a decent one.

CB, santa?

@Lizbot, I love death match cat's and dogs that never really go there. lol Bluff and bluster all the way.

Sort of like most hockey fights

Only fashionably late to my favorite segment. This is gonna be good driving music back home

You too can be a Ramone.

Four new ones in the set this year!

That Two Inch Winky track was like a shot of Caffeine

Yeah, I'm hyped up.

It's totally cool to hop around on this day.

Apology's Neighbors.

I made some coffee to keep me going for Misfitmas. The Ramonesoclock to Misfitmas is crucial to my wellbeing

Lizbot, that’s such a sweet memory. Thx for sharing ☺️

Personal standards count.

I'm off to bed, see y'all in the morning. Great sets! Merry Christmas everyone

Goodnight Vincent. Christmas will be waiting.

"of the famous Ramones."

Ha.

HO HO

LET'S GO!

Krampus on the loose..

Anyone else want to smash a guitar after midnight?

I could, but my friend who lent it to me would be reeel mad..

Totally get that

It was like that when you gave it to me

lol, it was ment to be played that way! lol

This is one of my, if not my #1, favorite Tenderloin mash-up

sure,sure

@CB (Blue) - I was happy to be reminded of my old cat and his shenanigans!

It def. got this Ramones song in my head full-time.

Took my OG LP out of the shrink wrap to enjoy the original.

The running mix. :)

Merry Christmas! Tuned in from home :)

PUPPPPPPPPPPP!

Merry Christmas, Pup! 🐶

Merry CHristmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you awesome WPRB DJ's!!!!

Merry Christmas Pup!

Merry Christmas fellow central timezone people (I'm in Minneapolis) & everyone else.

I love this one

Finally home. Time to bum around till the wee hours put me to sleep!

Merry Christmas, Laurel.

Laurel…..SKOL!!!!

I'll give Santa half my hoagie if he shows up within the next 30 minutes lol, merry Christmas everyone!

Time zones I do not understand, but Merry Christmas!

It's a cookie trading free maket TAndy.

I LOVE THIS ALL SO MUCH 😍🤩 EVERY YEAR

Me the day after the marathon 🤝 ACCEPT ALL COOKIES 🤝 Me visiting a website for the first time

Bold

merry xmas jon & all! neal, if you're still in the chat, winter damage had me locked in a groove rescuing the kitchen counters from rounds of red sauce, baking, and cocktails... what a gift & perfect timing. loved moniker earlier, excited to see what's in store!

This I can relate too Elliot.

That rules, Elliot! Good to see you here.

🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌

Oh that's great - thank you, Elliot!

ayyyy missed the midnight call just got back ! merry xmas all ! w/u tandy you got legs tn !?

Man, that "Two Front Teeth" one gets me every year.

im ready!

ayyyy Michael!

Merry Christmas and Good Morning Jon and Everybody. Who else woke up at 12:30am to wrap presents?

DADs

what's goin on jon! set has been so great man, first year ever ripping it for the long haul this is so great!

Mickey!!

How are ya?

Michael K — midnight wrapping is an honored tradition in my home.

This is an issue when turning up the volume is an issue.

Oops, Mickey K

Hey Jon, doing great and very happy to be listening. Wish I was a little more conscious for the Kraftwerk set, but that's why we do this every year. Hope you and yours are well.

It should return.

merry Christmas to all the lovers of weird out there

No worries donutage, good job guessing my govt name.

BTW, I got my swag-pac earlier. and I just love the hoodie! Fabulous. The colors no one else is wearing T-shirts are fucking priceless too. Brilliant!

kinda feel like jon should sport a beard next year

Nice! Wear in good health!

I really digged the merch this season, the hoodie IS a great color.

We are 1:39

I got there with seconds to spare on my clock!

Guess there is a 30 second delay from my studio to the radio...

Forgot to factor!

I also vote Jon/Beard 2026

30 seconds ago was so last Christmas.

Forever 1:38

Universal time

I had a mustache earlier this year! It was a special thing.

Unless you mean James Beard and I are running as a ticket in '26.

God this set is so dumb and I love it.

I can't hear the originals as originals anymore. They're fully holiday now.

Frank Beard

Butch Beard

Tradition sets in

Getting cold in here, want to put on a hoodie but worried about getting too cozy.

great tunes.

Jon, just wanted to say thanks from Maine. 6th year tuning in after finding your show shooting an apocalypse movie in NJ.

Man, ringing a bell, did I seen ya out in the wild with the 'stache? I can see it in my mind's eye anyway.

Such a fine line between a comfy hoodie and the world.

You might have, Mickey. Was this April maybe?

I got my Holiday show swag earlier; Reindeer Rumble tie-dye tshirt and a Snail hoodie 🫡

Lou and Sandro, great to have you here.

🫡🎄😴 see you all for the reindeer hour

Yet I somehow have missed Reindeer Rumble every year

Looking forward to the acapella Danzig

Nice, CB!

Xtreme

The Zebra hoodie is the boss.

Jon, Spring sounds right. Happy to be here for the Misfits/Danzig stuff.

This has a mix only a mother could love.

The print job on the WPRB Fall 2025 shirt and hoodie this year are well done. Recommend Thread Wolf in Trenton if you ever need shirts made.

Bake me.. cookies!

"Let joy elate me."

nice

Presents wrapped & under the tree. Nothing left to do but slip into the wee--hours marathon fugue state.

OMG, if I special order shirts I'm gonna get arrested.

My first marathon we, the art department, were tuned in on our job-site radio in an abandoned barn while we spray painted motorcycle patches durring an overnight shoot. Jon Malkovitch was out in the field delivering a monolouge where he gets shot by Ruby Modine at the end. I bet if you were a forensic audiophile, you might be able to isolate Jon in the background of that scene.

Sandro, WHAT MOVIE?

Add it to my IMDB!

Ahaha

Amazing tale, Sandro

The survivalist. The worst film John Malkovitch has ever been in. Which i wear like a badge of honor.

At least it wasn't sub par...

Incredible. This is some important Xmas marathon lore.

We wrapped Christmas day

Discovered Misfits and Danzig during the “satanic panic” of the’80s. We tried to figure what his name spelled backwards—Giznad—would mean, but came up with nothing. Anyhoo great stuff Jon

Curious merit. Curious Christmas for sure.

HERE. WE. EFFING. GO

"The palette of sludge and gravel doesn’t help and the performances represent no one’s best here, although it’s nice to see Rhys Meyers back in action after some decidedly low-profile movie roles."

GIZNAD!

HA. That's the best review I've ever seen of that film. But whatever, it rocks. I highly recommend a watch.

Not today, but someday.

I hope whoever this actual is is doing well and has a great life

Perhaps Fake Danzig is on Cameo.

I tried to find who it actually is a couple months ago (because I listen to it throughout the year time to time 😂) and couldn’t find anything more than a radio station as the source

Reading Sandro's tale during "Danzig"'s accapelli = chills

I just don't have a bunch of lifetimes to watch a bunch of movies. But exceptions happen.

Is Giznad really on Cameo or is that wishful thinking?

Wishful thinking / trying to manifest for you.

🧘‍♀️🕯️🔮 thank yew 🔮🕯️🧘‍♀️

Cameo is just a matter of money usually.

Call it whatever after that.

who are these jokers?

WE MAY NEVER KNOW

I hope eating cheesecake after 2am is legal in Philly.

I'll allow it.

Close one...

Sometimes ya just gotta go for it.

When it's Xmas eat cheesecake / Santa opened up the door

How you holding up Jon?

Thanks for asking! Doing OK. A little punchy. Back a touch tight. Jogging in place from time to time.

Y'all?

I love how unserious these songs are. The actual Misfits would HATE THEM.

The Survivalist is on Prime

Hangin'. Wife is snorin'. But gotta stay up to see santa

Hangin in there for a little while longer thx to the coffee. Will likely wear off soon

Jerry Only kinda has a sense of humor I think.

My family usually sleeps downstairs for the marathon but went up after midnight this year. I got a "could you turn it up but not too much" text soon thereafter.

just realized that i want a suite of xmas songs in the style of pearl jam's first album

Yeah I was wondering if Misfits are aware of how many Chrismisfits songs there are out there 😆

i just woke up after being asleep for like four hours. but i’m going back to sleep lol

@”xmas" jim haku, Now I have regrets not saving Santa a piece, THEE Santa. I'm gonna have issues...

HI MAGGIE YOU ARE UP NOW SORRY

feels like the cheese ratings were just an hour ago : /

https://jgtwo.com/2013/12/23/glenn-danzig-scrooges-out-on-misfitschristmas-mashup/

I’ve been rhinestoning an Eagles jersey all night

Learning things when I couldn't get into the chat

If you ever want to not learn things, I am your guide.

Alana, thx for sharing that 😌

Settling into that post-wrapping fugue state mentioned earlier. Misfits leads to Blue Öyster Cult for me for whatever reason, kinda day/night dreaming about a BÖC Christmas set that'll never (need to) happen.

Great misfits set!

Praying I don't sleep through new Deth Elf but that I DO sleep through Jerry again this year

who wouldn't want it to get weird at any given hour?

Jon was making his Nebraska album

Good night all!

Is that what Nebraska is about? Never heard it.

The Lincoln logs.

Year 38: The All-Weird All-Night

Rest up, Alana!

BÖChristmas.

Nebraska is Springsteen' ska album.

not weird,eh? 😀

The Streets of weird are up all night.

Look, we're gonna get weird but we're not gonna get hours of Xmas drones weird...

We are Year 38

Jim 😂

I love it

Oh woah.

Emotionally haunting. He was very inspired by Ghost Town.

Edinburgh, Scotland has entered the chat. Get as weird as you like.

Hey Scotland! 🥂

Heyyyyyyyy Jon & co!

Hey from Philly

So on Eva! lol

Wow using my full government name 😂 hey from my parents house

Goodnight Alana

Staying up way past bedtime

Let's get weird.

KATHERYN.

What I meant to say is there will be GEMS THROUGHOUT.

At least you're papered Katheryn! :)

btw this marathon really whip's the llama's ass https://i.postimg.cc/bJ3Sj3FK/llama.jpg

Is this a preview to "2026: A Lysergic Christmas with Jon Solomon"? Cuz I'm buying a ticket if so.

Woke up in the dark. (Oslo doesn’t see sunrise until after 9am.). The Misfits set was on. God jule everyone.

Funny story my dad didn’t know how to spell my name when I was born so he did the not quite normal spelling. And as such my birth certificate and SSN were misspelled! 😂

This is what my ADHD brain sounds like

Mickey! 😂

@Katheryn, wow. That could be complicated.

I’ve never signed into the chat before but listen every year :)

Hey Oslo from Philly!

Hahaha it was but it got resolved thankfully when I wanted to get a passport years ago 🙏

Welcome Katheryn

I always carry my passport. It has authority to it.

KS it is nice to "see" ya here.

Out of order order!

i'm out after 10 hours; bless you every one

JSP, you're the best.

Restoring order, out of order.

The swing to midnight and then 12:38 is hairpin.

Good dreams JSP

Songs have been lost in the process.

Yes Jon!!! My friend recent moved to Philly and discovered WPRB and it’s now her fav. So cool to see someone discover the station

The best tale, as old as time.

Cut songs are a show unto themselves I bet. Don't know of course, they were cut. But ya know...

"Songs have been lost in the process." I think you've got your title for your book, Jon.

Trust The Process?

I should try and bump the cut favorites forward a year.

This Billy Bragg song (up next) is stellar. Glad it will reach EU ears.

Jon, why does Ai think you are dead!?? 😩😩😩🤣

How many years? lol

You play a song called "The Death of Pop" enough times and AI concludes you perished in May 2020 apparently.

sleep and try to wake for reindeer rumble or stay up . . . decisions, decisions

Also, we'll flip to a new playlist for hours 13-25 at 5:00 am ET! This is your first of many warnings.

Waking up to reindeer shit on the lawn ain't all bad.

Reindeer fumble?

Yeah

Nice!

Billy! An unexpected gem indeed

great that this made the show

bless up jsp!

Wow! Luved that Bragg track..

Wait a Jon droid has been putting together the marathon since 2020?

10110110010

I mean, "no."

Welcome to the digiteria.

The Billy Bragg was appreciated in this corner of the European Economic Area.

Jonobot2000

I think I hopped on 30 minutes late due to timezone confusion or something. ADHD. Something.

It happens.

This piece has so many elements of cool.

Unexpectedly fired up all of a sudden.

Christmastime in Outer Space! Now we're talkin'

I missed about 2-3 hours early on due to phone chatting with friends and family but it’s been technically on the whole show since 5

Your listening will be rewarded!

Oooh, I like this one.

Tuning in again from SF

Time to get some shut-eye though. Gonna try hard to wake up for the VU set!

How is everyone holding up??

Complicated digestion

🤘

Wait I missed Billy Bragg?? Bummer

That song is a must hear, Debra.

Hi Debra. Still going here in North Philly

This is just so mashed

Night Owl here🦉

Is DJ Cummerbund Tenderloins cousint?

Imagine just getting Whamaggeddon'd.

I really liked that for no reason I can fathom.

Hilarious

I assume all DJs are related.

Hey Guelo!

Saint Paul, Minnesota mentioned (obligated to note as a Minnesotan)

"Home was a photograph you taped to your wall."

So true

Perfect 3:30am loonybin tune

Hey Jon checking in late, lost dad this year, been a rough one. Thanks for keeping up the tradition. Really needed it

Oh, A BCD. I'm very sorry. We're here for ya.

Thanks really appreciate it, keep it going brother

You as well.

Oh man holidays are hard. Tradition is very important. Very meaningful

A, lost my Dad in late August out of nowhere. It’s been so rough. I feel ya. Hang in there 💞(btw His initials were BCD.)

Here we are, there we go.

here we are in the middle of the east coast night

Holding hands and all hanging together CB

Hey again Sebastian! Glad we met again in person this past year. ( don’t ask me where but it definitely happened.)

Sebastian, when is a good time to play your piece? Still in my "to play" folder.

Still listening in Victoria, Australia. It's 7:36 p.m. here, and there are cockatoos yelling outside.

Amazing, Stephen.

A, ❤️‍🩹👫

Yesterday we saw a platypus in the wild ... are there any platypus-themed Christmas songs? I've heard a few kangaroo ones.

Jon what’s that one song, you better watch out is repeating the whole song?

You play that yet?

Good (early) morning! Was the Christmas in Saint Paul an Advance Base/Casiotone cover? It’s sounds lovely.

Hello Australia!

Cookie!!!

Condolences to CB and A BCD as well.

And you answered my question!

Thanks Bela

Didn’t we have snow last year?

Thx Bela ❤️‍🩹

It may seem like the right thing to do, but do not release your platypus into the wild. It doesn't end well.

It snowed in Tasmania this morning! A Christmas miracle.

Bela! You're up! Can I air your story next I air I story, please?

Indeed

Oddly, it’s been raining quite a bit here in the desert the last few hours.

Snowed 2 weeks ago

In Jersey

A BCD I think that's Ol' Pal Irwin.

I think it flurried but didn't stick CB.

I remember how floored I was when I first heard the original "Cold White Christmas" on this show 10+ years ago. One of the most visceral evocative sad xmas songs of all time

Jon you play it yet?

I'm saving that for Best of the Marathon. Only new finds for the time being.

Hello rest of the world! Normally, I'd be listening in Nova Scotia, but this year we decided to live the fantasy of the Kinks song Australia. Plus, my partner's an Aussie and a bit homesick.

Sebastian good year going back, was living at home with rents and listening outside in my car that year ha

Yes Jon bingo!!

Oslo had the tiniest of flurries a couple days ago, but it didn’t stick. I am told it is warmer than normal.

Has there been any Death Elf yet?

Deth Elf have something new during the VU set.

Our guest has awoken, and we are going to the Munch Museum. I may make Snaildartha my guided audio tour if we stay until closing.

Merry Xmas from Marseille, France!! Great to wake up to rock on this side of the Mediterranean, thx!! Maggie & Baptiste

Good morning, France!

Bonne Noel!

Oops, Joyeux Noel!

One and all.

Hey France

Stephen as a Canadian, something for you this set.

Jon & chat: Gonna call it a night, or morning or whatever and hit the sackeroo. Superb show, Thanks! bcnu later in the day for sure.🦌Take care!

Rest up, APP!

Night Alan

Ooh, a Canadian Christmas treat! Maybe Honky the Christmas Goose by legendary Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Johnny Bower?

Not Honky, but shout out Honky.

Or Ringo Deer by CHUM-AM DJ Gary Ferrier?

There are a couple of Canadian Beatles-themed Christmas songs.

It’s Shania Twain isn’t it

Shoppers Drug Mart! This is SO Canadian.

MMMuffins!

The It Store was a tamer Canadian version of Spencer's Gifts.

Incredible.

Are all the listeners outside of the Continental United States?

ayy gona get a couple hours, got the player on in the room! catch yall in a few hours!

I’m in North Philly

(I know, it's 4:18 a.m. ET)

Phew, I knew Philly wouldn't let me down.

Philly rarely does.

Philly here, 11+ hours in

Hey Fish 🤝

I drank coffee a little after Midnight so I could last through ramonesoclock and Misfitmas and well, here I still am

Excellent, Fish.

I might keep the first playlist open until six for "I already entered a bunch of upcoming songs here" reasons.

The dread that would happen when I would realize sometimes that I entered an entire 3 hour shows worth of songs into the wrong date

Oof! That's a relatively easy fix here but less so but with two pre-loaded shows...

(For a playlist)

NPR Composer

Yep!

Ah. We use a different system.

I could’ve exported the CSV file and easily imported that data but it excluded the album art and I wouldn’t have that

Respect.

What’s PRBs system? I was tryna find it

Good morning, and merry Christmas

Excellent timing, Dan. Hope you are well-rested this Christmas not-yet morning.

Oh, we're ruled by apes now. Happened while you were aslumber.

I'm ruled by dogs. Hence 4:30

Ah!

As mentioned earlier, I'm ruled by platypi, kangaroos, and several exotic species of birds.

Solomon pull quotes “anything can be scratch n sniff if you put your mind to it.” 🫡

I'm glad that didn't go ignored into the ether.

Bob Wiseman has an album called More Work Songs From the Planet of the Apes, sadly no actual songs about the PotA. But really, aren't *all* songs about a planet of some apes?

I grew up in the hometown of Tonka Toys. (Mentioning since Tonka trucks were mentioned.)

Where are Tonkas from? Tonka, MN?

Mound, Minnesota. Not Minnetonka as some people mistakenly think. Though Mound is on Lake Minnetonka.

I had a kitty named Tonka

Other claim to fame for Mound is hometown of Kevin Sorbo. A park I played in as a kid is named for him now. Ugh.

My parents had a storage locker in one of the big old buildings that was a Tonka Toys factory when I was growing up. (They moved all operations away from Mound years ago.)

Tonka is a good name for a pet.

His full name was Tatonka but I called him Tonka

Minnetonka would make sense!

When the MLB All-Star Game was at Target Field in Minneapolis they had trivia on the scoreboard and said Minnetonka, MN was home to Tonka Toys and . . . uh, I took issue with it. (Mostly just grumbled on Twitter.) I mean, as you said, it would make sense.

Just because it "makes sense" doesn't also mean it is true.

Exactly!

They have Prince but also want to claim Tonka Toys? Selfish

Love random VHS finds like this one. Do the performers even know it is out there?

"Tonka" is the Sioux word for "big". "Minnetonka" means "big water". Thank you.

Interesting!

16 and 18 year old kids still asleep as of 10:25 Greenwich Mean Time (Edinburgh)

I named my kitty Tatonka as in buffalo

(He was fluffy and bullish)

Impressive! Sleep in, young people.

Was wondering about meaning/origin of Tonka earlier thank you Jim Haku!

lol that santa voice was great

Good morning Jon Solomon! Good morning Chatters! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! So, how has the overnight shift been going? What did I miss?

Belatedly noting that Lake Minnetonka is a really interesting lake with an interesting history (and ridiculous shoreline). Wikipedia entry is decent IIRC. And Prince didn't actually baptize himself there. ;-)

Some gems. Planet of the Apes Xmas tune for one!

merry xmas

Pat! Laurel! DJ Tenderloin!

merry apes

ahh, sad I missed POTA - I will assume that track is dedicated to yours truly! Ha. How you doin' boss? Hanging in there? Hey - I think I just heard an F bomb hidden in there - in Home Counties...

Yes, which is why I moved this set to come in before 6:00 am ET!

Can get one through there as long as it isn't describing "the act of love."

Safe Harbor ⛵️

ah got it. no one from the FCC would be up this early...kidding. Listen - I say leave all the f*cks in! Cheers

the act of love between two apes

Mornin 🫡

The harbor remains safe!

FLIP TO THE NEW PLAYLIST, PLEASE!