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Happy holidays everyone.

I'm Stephen Thompson and the pop culture happy hour team is off today. So we are bringing you a very special holiday

extravaganza from NPR Music's All Songs Considered Podcast. In this festive episode, All Songs's annual celebration of the

season returns with a trip to a snowy cabin in the woods as host Robin Hilton and

I attempt to throw a party for the ages. Eggnog will be had, plenty of delightful holiday music will be played,

and some special guests might just drop by. It's a bad idea. Hey,

that's a bad idea.

Hey, Hey buddy Robin Hilton

Helpin Stephen Thompson. Oh my God it's

It's freezing out here.

Come on in!

You can me your coat. You pick the absolute worst possible night to have this party.

Oh man, that's always how it goes, isn't it?

But Robin, you remembered this place, right?

Yeah, yeah, it's exactly the way I remember it from when Bob Boilin and I first came here,

God, it's been like, well, maybe about a decade ago, it's incredible.

Yeah, we got the exact same artificial Christmas tree.

We got the exact same.

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