Welcome to this bonus episode of Sound Opinions. I'm Jim D. Riggottis. My co-host is Greg Kott and if you want to be among the first to hear these bonus podcasts become a Sound Opinions member on Patreon like Liz Robertson.

Thanks for your support, Liz. As you know, Greg and I always have so much music we want to share with people. It's ridiculous. We could do three episodes a day every day. Mr. Kott, I believe.

But first, really, for these bonus podcasts, we're going to turn the mic over to our famous Christmas Cringle great digger expert Andy Serzan.

Now, we played on the public radio stations and in the main podcast feed some real wonderful holiday finds for this year from Andy. The reindeer sessions was the name of this year's compilation.

And here's a track we're going to give you as a bonus that was too much for most listeners. This is a true bonus. We'll dive into what that is in a second.

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Hello listeners, it is your friends Jim and Greg coming to you with a throwback to our public radio days. We're doing a pledge drive.

Sort of a pledge drive, mostly not a pledge drive. We're not taking away any content you would normally get from us.

No, yeah, not going to be 20 minutes of us doing this. We're just taking a minute in the podcast to urge you to consider supporting us on Patreon.

You may not be aware, but advertising income for podcasts has been dismalately and things are tough at public radio on good old terrestrial radio too.

We're feeling the bench. No two ways about it. We lost our cornerstone sponsor of 10 years at the end of 2022.

And now we're relying on the support of music fans like you more than ever.

You know, if you've never done Patreon before, don't be intimidated. It's really easy. Just visit patreon.com slash sound opinions.

Choose a level you're comfortable with and we'll get your vote of confidence every month.

We love being an independent show. We love not having any bosses. We love being supported by listeners to whom we mean something.

If Patreon seems daunting, you can go to our website. We have a link to PayPal there too.

But we love having you on board because you get also it's an extra special content if you're a Patreon member. And Greg, I am told by our ACE producers that something like only one in 10 of the regular podcast listeners is a Patreon member.

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