Happy New Year, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast known to hog hogmanay!

A special episode this week, as Ian was unable to be on the show scheduled guest Jason Dedrick was promoted from guest to guest host! (We are hopeful that Ian will be back next week.)

David and Jason talk: sudden start; behind the scenes; no fucks given; early archival; Capp sizes; stamped tramp; mixed Peanuts; beware of fire; misleading flood; unseen footage; convincing rhetoric; reproducing garbage; stiff ducks; comics factories; Peyo check; the end of an era; high listener turnover; Dedrick revenge; the sanitarium gap; brotherly love; low rent districts; equally crazy; musical cannons; getting back to chewiness; casual resignation; old folks at home; Christams snow; self-sufficient birds; doves are overrated; back problems; scofflaws; back to back problems; rolling rock salt; your problems are behind you; anti-chiro; formal resignation; icy situation; Dork Shadows – Where There’s a Will; new segment: Dotty about Dallas; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; favourite shopping song; Tchaikovsky’s payola; moveable feast; surreal life; round virgins; rat kings; okay songs; don king cons; the Gentlemen continue; Star Wars potatoes; minute minutes minutiae; quitting xylophones; big promises; and, finally, perturbations.

Question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution that you failed to keep? What is a New Year’s resolution that you successfully kept?Sub-question of the Week: Soon, if not already, we will have the technology to make new movies with old actors who have been dead for years. What are some of the remakes of classic movies using dead actors you’d like to see? (For example, Humphrey Bogart playing the lead in Raiders of the Lost Ark or the Marx Brothers playing the gang in Ghostbusters.)

Thanks for listening.

Here is a list of everyone’s favourite Christmas songs:

From John:

From Louise:

From Ed:

From Chris and Louise:

From Chris:

From Peter (Petey):

From Joseph:

Thanks to everyone who sent in a favourite song. It was a real pleasure to listen to them while compiling the list!