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HARKpodcast
Your hosts Ian & RJ review and rank every Christmas, Hanukkah, winter, holiday, et cetera song. All of 'em. Even the bad ones. Especially the bad ones.
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Episode 395: Big Sincerity
After a short delay, we're back! And just in time, too. Because it's... the time of year... well, you get it. We are, after ten years of doing this da...
Episode 394: One Must Imagine It's October 3rd
We may never run out of holiday music, but sometimes we do run low on holidays that are funny to talk about. So in this episode, we're celebrating (by...
Episode 393: Skanukkah Skatember
Nah, just kidding, we're not starting another annual month-long theme. Can you imagine? I mean, sure, yes, we can imagine. But we've apparently run ou...
Episode 392: Our Podcast Got Run Over by Jesus, Who Took the Wheel
Buckle up everyone, it's the final AGROBAR episode of 2025, and the guy that they put at the wheel for this one most definitely does not have a licens...
Episode 391: Our Podcast Got Run Over by the Grandma Cinematic Universe
Unforunately, our annual tradition is back! We once again listened to two "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"-related songs, this time exploring Dr....
Episode 390: Birthday Boy's Abdication of Duty
It's Ian's birthday, and he is over it! He has passed along his birthday-boy-song-picking duties to our backlog of listener requests. At least we got...
Episode 389: Summer School
Before we can fully embrace the season, Ian and Jam need to turn in some overdue assignments. We finally listened to a few long-languishing requests,...
Episode 388: Tooth Horror 2 (Teeth Is Bones)
It's Jam from the present here. I've now gotten the tooth removed, so I'mma keep this short. The songs we listened to for this tooth-themed episode we...
Episode 387: Larry Bird In a Pear Tree
Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and basketballers are basketballing. Listen, Ian knows what NBA event aligns with the release of this episod...
Episode 386: A Stranger's Just a Ghost Who Hasn't Died Yet
What makes someone goth? Is it wearing lots of black eyeliner? Or is it spending a lot of time thinking about what a good ghost you'd be? Hopefully it...
Episode 385: Songs About Birds About Christmas
In honour of World Migratory Bird Day, we're listening to two songs about birds! And also, Christmas! "The Gift" by Garth Brooks definitely has a bird...
Episode 384: Three Gees A-Maying
As May approaches, we're celebrating... May, I guess? May. Christmas songs that mention May? Yes. And no, not "May your days be merry and bright". We'...
Episode 383: Keep the Weed in Weedmas
It's that time of year again! And for this rare holiday equinox which sees Easter, Passover, and 4/20 overlapping, we endeavor to cover some weed-tacu...
Episode 382: Blobby Cheekmas
Blobby blobby blobby blobby! Blobby blobby? ...Blobby. Blobby blobby blobby!
...Nah, just kidding. But we did listen to "Christmas in Blobbyland...
Episode 381: Pitchfork Might Break Your Heart
Let's get existential up in here!!! In this episode, we discuss two bummer songs beautifully delivered: "Christmas Eve Can Kill You" by the Everly Bro...
Episode 380: Our Everybodies, Our Everyselves
International Women's Day is right around the corner, and in this episode, women are taking the mic! Uh, a few women, anyway. Performing a pretty spec...
Episode 379: Vaguely Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is almost here, and we're celebrating! Uh, sort of? Most importantly, the songs are good. They're decent. Give them a chance. In fact,...
Episode 378: A Balm on the Bus
As Groundhog Day approaches, we recognize the cultural association of the holiday with the concept of repetition and take some repeat requester's requ...
Episode 377: Vegeta Rap Vejanuary
I don't want to mislead you. We don't actually have any Dragonball Z related holiday hip-hop songs to cover. Sorry. To be clear: we're very, very open...
Episode 376: Danuary
It's our first annual, definitely real and permanent, mark-it-on-your-calendar-for-January-2026 feature: Danuary, a celebration of singer-songwriter D...
Episode 375: Proper Proper Crimbo
Our 2024 milestone episode is here! Aiming to hit the highest of holiday highs, Ian tries to select something dear to Jam's heart, but may have miscal...
Episode 374: Biblically Accurate Krampus
It's almost Saint Nicholas Day, which means it's almost our anniversary, which means it's almost Krampusnacht! We're celebrating with two songs about...
Episode 373: Mrs. The Snowman
With just a few short weeks until the winter holidays hit, Jam and Ian forgo Christmas music to instead ponder some questions posed by the most existe...
Episode 372: Birthday Boi's Video Game Pitch Meeting
It's time to celebrate what is surely the most important and impactful event happening this week: Jam's birthday! That means it's BIRTHDAY BOI'S CHOIC...
Episode 371: Psychobilly, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?
It's Halloween and we're taking some EXTRA SPOOKY* requests! Two tracks off of the Psychobilly Christmas compilation album - "Halloween on X-Mas" by T...
Episode 370: Jesus Died For Our Crocodiles
Sometimes, when you do a year-round holiday music review podcast for nine years, you pitch a ridiculous idea and you kinda just gotta trust the proces...
Episode 369: Taking Care of Nonsense
Listen, at the time of this recording, Sabrina Carpenter's album WAS at the top of the charts. She's still near the top! Top-ish! WE REMAIN RELEVANT
Episode 368: Lower Twang Quotient
It's back to school season and we're back to taking listener requests! That's not really the theme of the episode, but it is true. This week we cover...
Episode 367: Our Podcast Got Run Over by Syllables
Hey, listen. As I'm writing this, Ian and Jam are both very jetlagged. They don't remember why they thought covering these songs would be fun. It was...
Episode 366: Our Podcast Got Run Over by Good Kerning
Savor with us, won't you, the delectable second year of August Got Run Over By a Reindeer? The second year is the brief stage of a made-up tradition i...
Episode 365: Atoning for Our Ska Sins
It's been almost a year, and the time has come. In August of 2023, Ian was incorrect about something. More incorrect than we usually are about things...
Episode 364: I Wish It Was Birthday Today
Ian's birthday has us pondering important questions, including: What does the early 00s sound like? Are British people more excited out of their gourd...
Episode 363: Have Yourself a Merry Little Dance Party
We're about to go on our annual summer break, but we wanted to leave you with something to enjoy while we're away! This episode, we've got two Christm...
Episode 362: Santa Daddy
Ok, yes, we may be burning this title when there are certainly multiple renditions of "Santa Baby" called "Santa Daddy" that we didn't touch in this e...
Episode 361: Hard Listening
It's getting to be that time of year! You know, the time of year when it feels completely wild to tell someone that you listen to a year-round winter-...
Episode 360: Aggressively Fine
Since it's almost Victoria Day (or as Canadians call it, "May Long Eh"), we're talking British Christmas music again -- specificially a few popular tu...
Episode 359: Wage Against the Machine
To celebrate the upcoming International Workers' Day on May 1st, we've got two Christmas songs about: who else? WORKERS, BABY! Well, technically, they...
Episode 358: I Have a Little Weed Day
Our annual 4/20 episode is back, and this year? Good songs only!!! You may be surprised to hear that we were still able to find two good weed-themed w...
Episode 357: Holidays Doth Rule
As per tradition (at least from days of yore when we did episodes weekly), we're using the week of Easter to add some more traditional Christmas music...
Episode 356: Lots In Translation
By request, we're tackling two holiday songs that expand the number of languages and dialects represented in our list. "Jingle Bells" as performed by...