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To begin with?

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Welcome to Sound Op sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim Diorgatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sometimes.

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

This week on sound opinions we celebrate the holiday season with our very own Chris Kringle,

Andy Serzan.

It's the 20th anniversary of Andy's legendary Christmas mixtapes,

and he's here to play you a bunch of songs about Christmas,

the likes of which you've never heard.

You're listening to sound opinions, and now it's time for our Christmas spectacular. Oh, the It's that time a year again.

It's that time of year again.

20 years of Andy Surzan Christmas Mix Tapesapes 10 years on this show as of today.

Andy, it's unbelievable that we've had this experience with you.

I don't think Christmas would be the same without Andy Serzan who by day is a vice president at Jam Productions

the biggest independent concert promoter in the United States but by night and on weekends

and in all his spare time he puts together this amazing mix tape every year that has been

Enlightening and bringing joy and weirdness to the Christmas season unlike any we've ever heard before.

Andy, welcome to the show.

Thanks, it's great to be back and it's just to give the listeners an example of how

nostalgic we all are.

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