We're spending Christmas in Prison with Hayes Carill & Melissa Carper, Rev. J.M. Gates, Paul Simon, Shane MacGowan & The Pogues, Henry Green, John Mulvaney, Kiity, Daisy & Lewis then heading on A Shortcut to The North Pole

As we finish gathering up the bits 'n pieces of the past year for next week's retrospective mix  "A Shortcut Through 2023"

We look back ten years on "A Shortcut Back Through 2013" Featuring tributes to Nelson Mandela, Lou Reed, Elmore Leonard, Hugo Chavez, James Gandolfini Jonathan Winters, Richie Havens, Ray Manzarek, Taylor Mead, Reg Presley, Bert Stern, Jim Hall, Roger Ebert, Karen Black, Patti Page, Ray Price, Jean Stapleton, Marcia Wallace, Abigail Van Buren, Cory Montieth, Annette Funicello, David Frost, Margarette Thatcher, Van Cliburn, Peter O'Toole, Al Goldstein, Bobby "Blue"Bland, Alan Myers, Harold Camping, Joan Fontaine, Bebo Valdez, Don Shirley, Ed Koch, Eleanor Parker, Paul Walker, Dennis Farina and "Futurama"

"A Shortcut through 2013" includes Barack Obama on the future of healthcare, the disasters in Okalahoma, Boston, and the Government shutdown, John Kerry on Syria's chemical weapons, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on "crack", Kanye West & Mylie Cyrus on "twerking", Edward Snowden on the NSA and information gathering, Paula Dean and Phil Johnson on "I is What I Is", Walter White on "things that might happen", Dick Cheney on "traitors", Conan O'Brian on "real-time" events and time travel, plus segments on the typhoon in the Philippines, the Boston Marathon tragedy, the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman trial, train derailments, car crashes, drones and Marshall law, we'll also hear from Pope Francis, Sarah Silverman, Desmond Tutu, Harry Dean, Richard Nixon, Jesse Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Gene Hackman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Speaker John Boehner with music from Arcade Fire, Jim James, Daft Punk, Primal Scream, Jimmie Guifre, Devo, Jeff Beal, Elvis Costello & the Roots, Tricky, Tosca, The Doors, and Iron & Wine.