The 2020 Xmas Show

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

History, Music, Music Commentary, Music History, Music Interviews

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This the 23rd annual ongoing Christmas show…and yeah, I know that 2020 has been a challenging year, but let’s look at some of the good things that happened… Many of us learned to bake bread…drive-in theatres made a comeback for both movies and concerts…sweatpants are now accepted work attire… “Tiger King” was fun, wasn’t it?...and—uh…well, i’m sure there were many other nice things about 2020… Oh!..oh!...less pollution because of less traffic…dog shelters were emptied out because so many people were adopting…we got out for more walks…oh—here’s a good one: Africa was declared free of polio in 2020…that’s definitely brilliant… 2021 will be a transition year…vaccines have to be administered, COVID cases will come down, and by this time next year, we’ll in a much better place…optimism is the best cure for anxiety… So with that...let's dive into some our annual not-so-traditional Christmas show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
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0:39.0	All right.
0:40.5	Let's get this done, okay?
0:44.4	Now, I just want to finish up with 2020 and move on.
0:48.0	I know that's not very Christmassy, but come on.
0:50.9	I mean, this year's been a raging dumpster fire.
0:53.7	It's actually been worse than that.
0:55.3	It's like somebody gathered together a billion old tires doused him with kerosene and lit them up.
0:59.8	No, that's not an exaggeration. I mean, look, the pandemic, economic ruin, the Trump clown show,
1:06.3	most of California got burned up, wildfires in Australia wiping out all those cute koala bears,
1:11.0	the death of democracy in Hong Kong. Ebola came back. We had so many hurricanes that they ran
1:16.5	out of names. There was the explosion in Beirut, George Floyd, Kobe Bryant, the Tokyo Olympics
1:22.0	were postponed, murder hornets, locust swarms in Africa, the mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
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