5...4...3...2...1...HAPPY NEW YEAR GRAB BAG! As we kick out the crap year that was 2021, we wait in the wings with judgement in our eyes to see how 2022 will perform. Will 2022 be all vocal riffs and tricks but with no real voice? Will the new year promise us fame and fortune but just turn out to be a deadbeat dad? Roll up your sleeve as we inject you with the healing booster of laughter and booze in this year ending episode of DEAR POD.

Deck Them Halls, Everyone! Cause it's time to gather around the tree, put on some Mitch Miller and GRAB some CHRISTMAS BAGS. Yes. It's the Holiday Grab Bag Episode. And we can't think of a better way to spend the day than open random holiday gifts that we are certain to return. Now hang on to those receipts, jingle those bells and let's rip into those letters. That's right tear right in. We're not saving the wrapping paper!

Now, don't confuse this GRAB BAG episode just any old Grab Bag episode. Of all the Grab Bag episode's that we have done in the past, I can promise you that this week's episode is one of them. How's that for confidence in your product? Time to turn up the volume and press play!

GUEST ALERT!!! Put on your scarfs and gloves. Fill up the flasks with brandy and bourbon, and warm up those vocal chords. This week we are all going CAROLING! Join us as we welcome Author, Caroler and Wearer of Bonnets, RENAE BAKER, to the lounge as she helps us dissect the real meaning behind some of the most beloved, classic, Christmas carols. If we are lucky, we will finally discover the true agenda of The Little Drummer Boy.

Rum Pum Pum Pum, Indeed!

Did you make a list yet? Did you check it twice? You still have time to give someone the ultimate GIFT this holiday season. If you're anything like my mother, you already did your Christmas shopping back in July. So, get out the wrapping paper because this week a neatly, wrapped. brand new episode is waiting for you in your stocking!

Belly up to the buffet. It's THANKSGIVING! Wait. Scratch that. We're still in a pandemic. We won't be seeing any buffets for a while. But we will see people at the dinner table who we wish weren't there, desserts that no can recognize, and that one aunt who keeps hoarding all of the leftovers. It's your family. Like them or not, you're stuck with them all day. So, let us bow our heads, drink our wine and thank the good Lord that DEAR POD will get us through this holiday season!

Can't live with 'em. Can't live without' em. That's right. I'm talking about your NEIGHBORS. How long are they going to keep their empty trash can at the end of their driveway? Will that man always drink his morning coffee while walking around his property in his underwear? Why does she keep staring at me whenever I cut the lawn? Today...we answer none of these questions.

Keep your drink inside your mouth because this week's GRAB BAG will make you do a spit-take. Whether you are eight months pregnant with triplets or good at craps (not taking one, rolling one) this weeks episode has something in it for you. Just make sure you get the booster shot so there won't be any immediate reaction.

Today's episode comes directly from the fifty yard line on the gridiron we proudly call The Maha'a Tiki Lounge Memorial Stadium. We are talking FOOTBALL! With Erin and Patty as your two Quaterbacks, they're not so much talking about it as being confused by it. Let's go huddle up and see if we can 'Hail Mary' this week's episode between the uprights or whatever you're supposed to with your Tight End.

It's here. The night of horror, candy, poor choices in costumes and most of all...TERROR. It's All Hallows Eve Week and the Maha'a Tiki Lounge is eerily decorated and ready with a bowl of year old, expired candy that we couldn't give out last year during the pandemic. But this is a new, brighter, and more optimistic Halloween. You want to terrify us? Ring our doorbell and say, "Trick or treat! I'm an Anti Vaxer!"