Bullseye Holiday Specatcular! Monkees, McElroys and more!

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Get ready for a bonanza of holiday cheer from Bullseye this week! Micky Dolenz of The Monkees taking about the band's new album "Christmas Party." The group recorded it with a cavalcade of hit-makers like Rivers Cuomo, Peter Buck of REM and more. You'll hear from Christmas movie expert Alonso Duralde - he'll tell you why and how to watch the 37 Christmas movies that the Hallmark Channel produced this year. 37! And that's not all! We also get some advice from the McElroy Brothers (hosts of My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone) about holiday conundrums, and last, but certainly not least, soul singer Sy Smith tells us about the holiday song that changed her life.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jesse. We've got a really fun holiday show coming up. You know, it's getting
0:04.6	to the end of the year. It's the holiday season. Maybe you're feeling generous. Maybe you're
0:09.5	thinking about what charities you want to support before the end of the calendar year.
0:13.7	I hope that you'll take a second and think about supporting your local public radio station.
0:17.8	I mean, 2018 has been a wild ass year. I feel like there has been four major cataclysmic
0:26.4	news changes every day for the past 360, whatever. Think about how many of those you found
0:33.7	out about or got context about from your local public radio station. And think about all
0:39.2	the times that your local public radio station and shows like this one maybe gave you a little
0:43.6	bit of an escape valve, just an opportunity to think about something besides the news.
0:49.8	The end of the year is the perfect time to support that station that brings you Bulls
0:54.0	Eye and brings you NPR news and all the other wonderful things that public radio offers.
0:59.0	Your support is incredibly important. It's what keeps Bulls Eye on the air. You can support
1:04.2	your local station right now. Here's how. Go to donate.npr.org slash Bulls Eye. That's
1:11.4	donate.npr.org slash Bulls Eye. And thanks. Let's start the party.
1:17.6	Bulls Eye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is
1:23.9	distributed by NPR.
1:30.9	I'm Jesse Thorn. Alonso D'Aralde is a film critic. He writes for the rap. He co-hosts the movie
1:37.8	podcast who shot ya. He's the author of several books on movies. He's very highly credentialed.
1:44.7	He is also extraordinarily passionate about one weird thing. You know those made for TV
1:50.7	Christmas movies on the hallmark channel. Alonso is perhaps the world's leading expert on those.
1:57.1	So allow him a real deal authoritative, smart, thoughtful film critic to make the case for watching
2:05.9	them. It is kind of that deal of when you walk into a McDonald's, when you walk into a waffle house,
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