Secret Santa Song Exchange

All Songs Considered

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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When it comes to music, December is overflowing with gifts, but we aren't quite done with the presents. This time, the NPR Music team is giving ... to each other! On this episode of All Songs Considered, our hosts, writers and editors get into a sort of chain-letter, Secret Santa-type gift exchange. The rules were simple: Pick a song from 2024 specifically for one of your colleagues, who then has to pick a song for someone else, and so on, until the gift train comes full circle.

What songs did we pick? How well do we really know each other's taste? You'll have to listen to hear the surprise, just like we did.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
0:04.8	When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.
0:09.8	Planning ahead is truly one of the best gifts you can give your family.
0:13.6	For additional information, visit DignityMemorial.com.
0:20.9	From and peer music, this is all songs considered.
0:24.0	I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:25.3	Okay, so it's kind of a known fact.
0:27.7	I'm a bit of a schemer.
0:29.3	And this year, I am kicking us off with the greatest scheme of all.
0:34.7	We're all going to come in in succession and gift each other, the gift of music,
0:39.5	to another person on the team. But the catch is the other person on the team doesn't know who
0:45.2	they're getting a gift from. They only know who they're giving a gift to. It's going to be a fun
0:50.8	little surprise end of year activity. I like surprises, so I think it's going to be great.
0:58.2	I hope everyone else likes surprises. I have decided to give my gift to Tom Hisinga. He's our
1:04.5	amazing classical expert. No one saw coming, but I think he's going to love the song that I
1:10.5	brought for him.
1:12.0	Hi, Tom.
1:14.5	Did you hear the joke about the two reindeer that walked into a bar?
1:18.9	I think I missed that one, Tom.
1:21.6	Bartender says, hey, why the long faces?
1:25.0	Okay, see, it bombed, kind of bombed twice in a row. So that means it's a good joke.
1:29.3	All right.
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