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All Songs Considered

A Holiday Party For The Ages, From All Songs Considered

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton rented a small cabin in the woods and invited some of their closest friends for what they were sure would be the party of the century.

Transcript

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Hey Robin. Hey Bob. Hey happy holidays. Good to see you. Yeah listen before we eat I wanted

0:08.9

to stop by the store here. I've been saving up to get me a new shoe stereo. What? A

0:16.5

shoe stereo. Look at it. It's battery operated shoes with speakers built in CD player and

0:21.6

the heel. They've also got this tiny turntable with a titanium needle and they're covered

0:26.0

in fur for noise reduction. Oh my gosh this is ridiculous. You don't need any of this

0:29.8

you know it's the season of giving right? Yeah. If you really want to feel good and make

0:34.3

a difference you should give to your local NPR station. I guess that would help. I don't

0:38.4

know make the world a better place. Oh definitely. When you give to your local NPR station

0:42.6

it helps make things like all songs considered new music Friday and tiny desks possible. You

0:47.4

support your station, the station support us and that sends a whole lot of goodness out

0:51.8

into the world. Okay what do I do? Just go to donate.npr.org slash music.

0:57.0

That's right it's so easy. Donate.npr.org slash music and once you're there you can find

1:04.0

the station of your choice and get started. Just be sure to do it before the end of the

1:07.1

month, right? Right. Season of giving and support for the shows you love. Donate.npr.org

1:12.4

slash music. Exactly. Now before we go let's just go ahead and see how loud these shoes

1:16.9

can get. Hey Bob. Oh yes. You are fun. What's your listen to on those headphones man? Oh

1:38.4

I was just listening to a little Led Zeppelin suite huh? Yeah I'm getting really ready for

1:42.8

this party. Look at this place. It's beautiful man. Happy holidays. Look at this. Wow you

1:48.5

really did it. Yeah no I know. Look what's on the tree. Look at the tree. You've got little

1:54.9

sweet tarts on there. Oh man just for me. You bet. Thank you so much. I got to show you

2:01.7

everyone. Oh man. Thank you so much. Yeah. Well I got to tell you I'm not normally

2:09.7

want to get too terribly excited about parties but I'm pretty excited about this one. I

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