It's absurd.
It perturbs.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (And boy has it been a year!)

Following in the footsteps of show-biz luminaries like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stuart, and the cast of Star Wars, we hosted a (non-denominational) holiday show in front of a live online pseudo-studio audience in 2020.

Broadcasting from their snowed-in virtual holiday cabins, Stuart and Andie entertained guests:
· Santa Zero - originator of the now-infamous SantaCon phenomenon
· Mrs. Claus - founder of Burning Man’s first theme camp, Christmas Camp
· Tubatron and his Flaming Tuba playing a Hanukkah song (David Silverman)
· Reverend Billy and Savitri D of the Stop Shopping Choir

And it wouldn’t be the holiday season without Caveat Magister selling us on Decommodification.

Join us for
· how Krampus cramps us
· how COVID is an 8-foot-tall dominatrix
· how “Gifting” is so close to “Grifting”
· how the Cacophony Society is sooo Kumbaya

in the 5th anniversary of our Holiday Special that is indeed SPECIAL.

Portland SantaCon 1996 / “You’d Better Watch Out”

santarchy.com/youd-better-watch-out-portland-santacon-96/

Cacophony Society: Santasm, Santacon, Santarchy, ad nauseum

talesofsfcacophony.com/santasm-santacon-santarchy-kringle-klot-etc-ad-nauseum/

Tubatron (aka David Silverman)

burningman.org/podcast/david-silverman-so-thats-how-that-started

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Billy_and_the_Church_of_Stop_Shopping

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His huge steel sculptures have graced Black Rock City for decades, then found forever homes in cities, festivals, and private collections around the world.

Hear veteran structural sculptor Michael Christian go deep and wide about his Burning Man art, from a tree of bones to a 65-foot tall tower.

He shares about his installation "Down the Drain," a commentary on human alignment, or misalignment... or maybe it’s about toilets blowing kisses at each other!

He talks with Stuart about the shift from a "lone artist" mindset to community collaboration, and how to get everything done despite a storm or a lost box of bolts.

They tinker with the qualities of hubris and humility. They get real about why they keep returning to the collective happening in the dust.

• How does Michael follow intuition more than a thesis?
• How does he discover the meaning of his art only after he has built it?
• How did ‘out of the box’ thinking become a 30 year career?

These questions are answered with more questions in this episode right here.

https://www.michaelchristian.com

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RootHub (aka Aloha) weaves the core values and shared struggle of building Black Rock City and his work in Hawai‘i. He draws inspiration from the Hawaiian people’s concept of kuleana (responsibility to the land and community).

When he’s not building BRC with DPW, or playing music to amplify people’s stories, he’s diverting food waste from landfills and incinerators into much needed, nutrient-dense soil for growing food. He does this through his companies. The names say it all:

· Full Circle Solutions Hawaii

· Leftover Love Company ("We love your leftovers")

Hear how ingenuity learned on the playa—along with a sense of humor—allows him to overcome hurdles and create meaningful change in BRC and in Hawai’i, even with the naive tourists.

Through sweet story and song, he shares how to combine innovation with tradition, to lift the stone without lifting the weight of the stone.

roothub.com

leftoverloveco.com

fullcirclesolutionshi.com

burningman.org/black-rock-city/infrastructure/dept-of-public-works

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