Hello, I'm Basha Cummings and I'm the host of a weekly investigative show called the

Sloan Newscast from Tortoise.

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We take the news slowly and each week the team brings you one investigation that really

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This week we are going to be talking about Christmas slash holiday episodes of television.

Now much like the Christmas movie episode that we did a couple weeks ago, I have just

personally selected my favorites.

It's not the world's favorites.

These are not the world's favorites.

These are not the what is considered to be the greatest episodes of Christmas television

of all time.

That's what you like.

These are the best ones according to me.

Okay.

That's allowed.

And I was telling Dezi that I had this realization when I was on the podcast, pod yourself

a gun, which is a soprano's podcast.

I was talking to the boys about how I generally don't like the Christmas episode of a TV show.

And I realized the reason I didn't like that is because there's always some bullshit

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