Oh, oh, oh, it's in the singing of a street corner choir. It's going home and getting

worn by the fire. It's true wherever you find love. It feels like Christmas."

Welcome to the Hilo Christmas Special, the weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast.

Hello. I voted for Santa Baby to ring us in because I thought it was quite a sexual

number to get us all feeling a little. I'm so sorry, I won on this occasion because what

you are hearing is the Muppet Christmas Carol soundtrack and I have gone tits deep.

Dolly won by going, I'm really invested in this right now. I am so obsessed with the Muppet

Christmas. Is that the new like? Do you think that's the new like sort of trump card? I'm really

invested in that. I've always really loved that film and for some reason it's having this weird

sort of millennial nostalgic reboot. They all are. I downloaded home alone a couple of days ago.

Oh my god, I love home alone. But I went to a Muppet Christmas Carol sing along

at the Prince Charles Theatre in Soho. Oh, she could see my face still listening.

And me and all my friends, your Muppet masks. What animal we are? I was coming and

the frog and you go along, I cannot recommend it enough and they they have like sub titles.

So you sing along with all the songs and every time that Michael Cain and Scrooge comes on

everyone booze and I loved it. Is that a joking game? No, there was a lot of booze there. I was so

ill that day. So I literally went in my pajamas with this huge coat on, shuffled in, put a

curvy mask on, croaked along to some songs, shuffled out straight back into an Uber home.

I was itching out for two hours just to go there and I loved it so much that I'm going back there

again. So if you're a Muppet Christmas Carol fan, it has brought me extraordinary joy and I just,

it's all I've listened to since is the soundtrack. It's a masterpiece. Ambo wrote about it in last

week's Sunday time. So I'm fucking obsessed. I'm ill on it. You do need more. You do

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