Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 578 of the podcast that celebrates adversity!

This week, Jason Dedrick joins Ian and David for our annual Boxing Day boxtacular! They mulled wine about: Vice-Dedrick; conversation therapy; optical belts and suspenders; repetition breeds contempt; comforting spam; Nazi adjacent; “He’s a potato”; Force hole; one-time offer; consciousness spectrum; his Wickham ways; Dave crushes on Carmilla; ride the Twitter wave; the rogues Tate gallery; paradise lost; germs get in your eyes; the old normal; cold patter; ran out of bulllshit; magic isn’t real; cunning stunts; jugglers juggle; back to Yule days; is it a Christmas movie; Hugh Grant didn’t love, actually; Dave’s Gambit; off-colour mysteries; Jason’s Christmas Nuts saga; Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers; rhymes in times; bad numbers; virtual family; cannery salmon; Santa got lost in Texas; toots sweet; take me to the pilot; and, finally, giggle, dammit.

Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers

1. Etta James – “842-3089 (Call My Name}” – Call My Name, 1966 – 2:18:31
   
   
2. The Partridge Family – “Echo Valley 2-6809” – Sound Magazine, 1971 – 2:24:51
   
   
3. The Marvelettes – “Beechwood 4-5789” – Please Mr. Postman, 1961 – 2:30:47
   
   
4. The B-52s – “6060-842” – The B-52s, 1979 – 2:35:39
   
   
5. Wilson Pickett – 634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) – Atlantic single b/w “That’s a Man’s Way”, 1966 – 2:42:43
   

Question of the Week: What was your first time flying on an airplane?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution you actually kept?

Thanks for listening.

Check out Jason in the touching Danny Fenton Story:

Here is a link to Dave’s latest single-frame web series mania, Carmilla – a Canadian series that ran from 2014 to 2016. Here is the first episode:

What do you mean you weren’t a listener during Dave’s original obsession with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries? Well, if you like Pride and Prejudice, romance or just young people having fun, here is a supercut just for you: