Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us?

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world. Coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

Bit of a different solo show this month.

I'm not even sure if it's going to be one.

I don't know how long this is going to be.

I'm basically just switching on the mic

because I'm sitting with some of the ceremony work I'm doing in advance of the group

journey that the premium members and I do at the beginning of each year and some of this

material it occurs to me might have wider

application so maybe this is a solar show maybe it's a Christmas present you're

welcome I don't know but I say it's a Christmas present because it occurs to me I can make it weirdly seasonal.

So if you have ever been a shop girl and I was one for years, you will know the special hell that is Christmas music and there will always be one quote unquote Carol that is more like your your Manchurian candidate switch right that flips you

into a blood rage and then you kind of come back to yourself in this ruined shop and all these things you've destroyed right?

And for me it is John Lennon's fuck awful, so this is Christmas.

Interestingly for James who still works in retail actually, it's Paul McCartney's wonderful Christmas time

so I don't know what what beef we have

with the Beatles but there you go but for me so this

is Christmas and what have you done another year over a new one just begun.

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