2023 Xmas Exchange (with Jill & Josh)

Undressing Underground/Platonic Polyamory

After this year, I'm done tempting fate. We're calling this the Xmas Exchange now. I also don't remember how many we've done, so I'm done trying to figure that out.

Anyway, we're back with Josh and Jill for our annual exchange of the best, worst, weirdest, funniest, and most interesting Christmas music and clips we could compile. This year Josh and Jill really leaned into the worst, but they've got a handful of nice bits I'll be including in future Christmas mixtapes I force upon my friends and family in lieu of gifts, despite no one owning a CD player anymore.

As always, Jill's share includes an eclectic collection of foreign Christmas songs and Josh's includes some of the dumbest shit you'll ever hear. I edited together my choices again, this time focusing on a smattering of high and low brow Christmas movies, specials, and one local news interview. To my surprise, Josh and Jill were really into my editing, so if you want to see that and you're not located in one of the 70+ countries it's banned from, you can see that here, though I should note I had to film my screen for a lot of it (the sound was recorded direct and sounds fine): https://youtu.be/ZpeMWMEG18Q

As for the music, hope you have Shazam downloaded because we forgot to announce pretty much everything again.

At the end we're joined by Jennifer C. Martin, who reads a family favorite, 'Twas the Night Before Redneck Christmas.

Platonic Polyamory will be back in the new year. Everything in my life began falling apart in February just got exponentially worse as the year went on, leaving me mentally and physically incapable of following through on anything, let alone this podcast. But we've got one interview already recorded and a couple lined up for the first few months of 2024.

Happy holidays/New Years/whatever you do.