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Today we continue our annual holiday series: “Incredibly Strange Christmas Music, Vol.8”- oddball holiday songs we think deserve a second listen.
Come join us for a ride on the strange music holiday train as we look at the roots of Disco with Vince Montana Jr. and the Salsoul Orchestra, Charo and Irving the Disco Duck.
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Over the years we’ve found some oddball holiday songs few have ever heard of that deserve a second listen. Join us as we take a look again at our personal favorites in Incredibly Strange Christmas Music, Volume 7 – flavorful jollies we could listen to all year long.
Listen as we deck the halls with slutty Christmas carols, a fart-tastic take on the Nutcracker, and the incredibly strange relationship between Star Wars and Christmas.
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Let’s take a walk down memory lane of the strange 80s, a time when coked up conservatives ruled every facet of American politics and culture, and our toys were the stuff of nightmares.
Joining us today is the fine ass Sith lord of popular culture and all things girly Robyn Pennacchia who writes about culture news and politics for The Frisky.
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One of our favorite oddball TV Christmas moments is Pee Wee’s Christmas Special, a star studded hour long event that aired in 1988 at the height of Pee Wee Herman’s popularity.
Today we take you inside Pee Wee’s Christmas Special with the she-larious Irene Marquette,
who is putting on a holiday extravaganza inspired by Pee Wee Herman’s Holiday Show complete with variety acts and animation in the Curio Show at Chicago’s IO Theater.
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As they said on the Simpsons, Christmas is the season where people from all religions come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is like an air raid siren during the holiday season, no matter how hard you try, it’s hard to ignore.
Today, gay Jewish rapper Big Dipper joins us to take our insane Christmas quiz. Can you guess which oddball Christmas traditions are real or just really weird?
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The War on Christmas has been fought through the ages and been won time and time again, not by the little baby Jesus, but by Santa Claus.
Today cultural anthropologist Gerald Cole joins us to discuss the unusual origins of Christmas, the battles over the which traditions to keep, the frightening Krampus and the many other demonic companions to Santa Claus.
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Over the years we’ve found some oddball holiday songs few have ever heard of that deserve a second listen. Join us as we take a look again at our personal favorites in Incredibly Strange Christmas Music, Volume 7 – flavorful jollies we could listen to all year long.
Listen as we deck the halls with slutty Christmas carols, a fart-tastic take on the Nutcracker, and the incredibly strange relationship between Star Wars and Christmas.
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Our friend Tommy Holl really enjoys spreading holiday queer by dressing as “The Real Elf” on the shelf. Unlike other elves, Tommy doesn’t rat out all the little girls and boys to Santa by spying on them over the holidays.
Today Tommy Holl joins us to share with us his hjjinks dressing up in red tights and wandering the shopping malls as the real elf.
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One of the great things about the holiday season are the movies! They provide us the opportunity to celebrate with our friends and family with out actually having to interact with them. But closer to our hearts are films use Christmas as a backdrop to stories about fighting, fear, wild sex and murder.
Today Peaches Christ joins us to take a look at some of our favorite movies you may not realize take place during Christmas.
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Mariah Carey is having a hard time Carey-ing a tune lately. The pop diva skipped the rehearsal for NBC’s “Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Special” and it showed.
Today we weigh in on Mariah Carey’s off key Christmas carol – are folks being too hard on her, or do we need to be emancipated from Mimi’s stranglehold over this Christmas classic?