** "I'm hoping that listening to my album as well as other Christmas albums at this time, will help connect all of us - regardless of who we voted for..."

Alicia Witt Talks Longlegs, Her Music, Movies, And Her Creative Process Musically - and her latest gothic screen venture Longlegs, going toe to toe with Nicolas Cage for that wild and weird encounter.

Witt, who visits the show from time to time, started out as a seven year old portraying strange and scary Alia in David Lynch's Dune, and is known as well for Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, Nashville, Citizen Ruth, The Walking Dead, Orange Is The New Black, and the disturbing slavery drama resurrecting a horrifying buried past, Alice.

Along with that devilishly dark dramedy, just as relevant in this immediate moment in time concerning the corrupt corporate medical industrial complex, I Care A Lot - and her turn as devious senior care accomplice 'Doctor Karen...'

** "These billionaires said, wait a minute. there's the man with the power, we'll kiss his ring and bend the knee - it has to be a lesson to the working class..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon Dives In...It's the Christmas season, and the three wise men have appeared bearing gifts - oh wait. Three wiseguys actually, and no frankencense, myrr or gold. But rather billionaires Bezos, Zuckerberg and Sam Altman showering Trump with inauguration millions.

** "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner - a symbol of the darker side of society..."

A Christmas Carol Isn't Just A Story - Dickens was deeply affected by the mass horrors of the Industrial Revolution, and the poverty he saw around him - and used his writings to highlight social injustices.

While likely to turn over in his grave, if catching sight of how his literary denunciation of the evils of the monied class, were today lining their pockets in the millions - exploiting his writing for enormous profits.

With connections to debtors prison, a childhood working in a boot blacking factory, tuberculosis, rickets, cold hearted greed, Scrooge's real life persona dining on a partridge that had already been chewed on by rats - and another suspect, The Gloucester Miser, an infamous banker tied to 'local lore rumors of his ghost haunting his bank after his death...'

** "You might know me as the girl who dumped her fiance for her puppet. That's right - I'm the puppet girl from My Strange Addiction..."

UK Desk: Our guest is April Brucker, a woman of many talents - actress, author, comedienne, and ventriloquist...