'Long December' by Counting Crows (w/ Pat Cassels)

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

How long is it? Every single kid knows exactly how many days are left until Christmas, every harried mom and dad knows how few shopping days are left until the 25th, yet Adam Duritz and The Counting Crows are out here acting like Einsteinian physics applies to the Gregorian Calendar. Can our intrepid and unabashedly festive hosts take the most heartbreaking song in the advent oeuvre and turn it into something that will go on your family's Christmas Eve playlist? Seems impossible!

Guest: Pat Cassels

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Walk-in music: ‘Atlantic City’ by The Band; ‘Latest Record Project’ by Van Morrison; ‘Islands In The Stream’ by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

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0:00.0	This is a head gamma region.
0:06.0	Pat, it is December 1st.
0:08.0	And my question for you is,
0:10.0	do you expect this December to be
0:12.0	a normal length,
0:14.0	a short December or a longer than normal December?
0:16.0	Oh, great question.
0:18.0	Long, long December.
0:20.0	This is a long December.
0:22.0	Yeah, just that.
0:24.0	It's 2022. We've all been through so much
0:26.0	that our distorted notion of what time is.
0:28.0	You know, yeah, it's out the window.
0:30.0	I mean, 2020 was five years long.
0:32.0	I vehemently disagree.
0:34.0	The song rules. I like this song.
0:36.0	But every December is the same length.
0:38.0	Everyone is 31 days.
0:40.0	Yeah, it's not February.
0:42.0	Yeah, it's not like February.
0:44.0	Yeah, it's not like the groundhog isn't coming out
0:46.0	and telling you if it's going to be shorter or longer.
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