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The Popdose Podcast: Episode 4

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Don’t know what to get your friends and loved ones for the holidays this year? If they’re lovers of merriment, obnoxious humor and immature behavior, we can think of no better gift than The Popdose Podcast, Episode 4! Sure, it doesn’t cost anything to give as a gift, but that just leaves you more money to spend on yourself this season. Because let’s face it — you’re worth it.

In this episode, our illustrious hosts discuss — you guessed it — the holiday season, from gifts to music and everything in between. You’ll also find out exactly how Cabbage Patch Kids are born. We only wish we were making this up. Please leave us your thoughts in the comments, and if you like the show, please leave a review on iTunes. Enjoy!

The Popdose Podcast, Episode 4: Cabbage Section (1:01:45, 70.7 MB), featuring Jeff Giles, Jason Hare, and Dave Lifton.

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Show Notes

0:00 Intro, leading into a varied holiday discussion. We start by discussing the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Jason’s emotional attachment to the 3-D Santa Claus. We also discuss Jeff’s daughter and her newly-found Christmas spirit (much to Jeff’s dismay), Christmas in NYC, Yule a Go-Go, tonight’s Acoustic ’80s Christmas Show, Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” and the In Harmony and In Harmony 2 albums, the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” Jeff Vrabel’s hatred of “Wonderful Christmastime” and everything else except for Jimmy Buffett, Buffett’s Christmas album, Carly Simon’s Christmas album and the Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas album, Carly Simon’s new album and the unfortunate cover, unnecessary covers of “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” heckling a Five For Fighting concert, Wing’s Christmas album and last year’s Mellowmas finale, and the end of a very, very long sentence. Finally, come join the Facebook group page for the Popdose Podcast!

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Basement Songs: Five for Fighting, “Superman (It’s Not Easy)”

I don’t have anything profound to add to the many comments and editorials you are going to see and hear today. All of you fine readers that come to Popdose frequent the site for the wit and insight of the talented writers who work here (for free). And of course, there is the music. On 9/11/01, for many of you, music became a way to block out the horrors we were witnessing, a way to heal, and a way to pay tribute to the fallen heroes of that day.

Seven years after the attacks on New York City and Washington DC, and on United Flight 93, I am still saddened by the loss of life. While I was not directly affected by these acts of terrorism, it still haunts me. I am saddened not just for the lives of the victims riding in those planes or unfortunate enough to be at their work desks, but also for the policemen, firemen, EMT workers, and volunteers who were trapped in those collapsing buildings as they tried to do their jobs and save lives.

I don’t know anybody who died that day, yet on that morning and the days that followed, we were all brothers and sisters, a family, for a brief spell. Sadly, the attacks soon became propaganda. Each time a politician tries to use the 9/11/01 attacks for their own agenda, it is a vile, disrespectful act that should be silenced immediately. I have no tolerance for this and neither should you.

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