This is the penultimate podcast of 2016.

 

and

 

You can fuck right off, 2016.

Really.  If this year were the year when Dickens’ published “A Christmas Carol,” the ghost of Christmas’ present would look a hell of a lot more like the ghost of Christmas’ past in the actual book.

So fuck this year.  I will not look at the gravestone.  I will not brush the snow away to view the horrifying words etched by Trumpletongues and Trumpeters and Donald Trump and Vlad Putin and the opioid epidemic and cancer and all of the other shit that has me held together so thinly that I’d unravel like a cheaply made Cosby (…fuck that guy too…) sweater and crumble in a pile of liberal tears and useless stocking stuffers.

Oh…hey, we have Mary on this one.  Mary is awesome and she doesn’t deserve all of that anxiety and vitriol above.

Today we talk about Unitarianism, active listening, Christmas cookies, awesome neighbors, beautiful children, and the true spirit of this, and if we can get our shit together, all seasons.

Please listen.  Don’t let my intensity cause you to pause.  This is well worth your time.

Also, John Lennon and the vocal genius of Yoko Ono in, “Happy Christmas (War is Over),” and also Elton John with, “Yellow Brick Road.”

Those are beautiful tunes, and Mary is a beautiful human.

Love yinz!

-G