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Our crew gathers 'round the table to celebrate the holiday season by sharing our family memories and traditions. What are some of your favorite holiday comfort foods? Favorite songs? How has church or your religious practices and traditions influenced your connections to the season? Hosts Jim Sims and Beverly Calender-Anderson, music director Tyren Edenburgh, commentator Cornelius Wright, and producer Clarence Boone reflect on their favorite aspects of holiday celebrations in a very lively program. We also feature Christmas music you won't hear on commercial radio - funkster Bootsy Collins reinvents "Silent Night", and Clarence Carter is your "Back Door Santa". Also in this program: our savvy sistah Leila Randle offers tips for a holiday party that won't break the bank on a New Year's edition of "HomeGurl Shopping", an advice column from one black woman trying to survive in a tough economy. As always, Bring It On!

Helen and Sean cover various news items and discuss some of the topics of particular interest to the queer community that have occurred during 2009 as well as make some predictions for 2010. Our featured musical artist is queer Native American singer-songwriter Roger Kuhn with “Every Year Around Xmas Time,” “I Heard There Was a Star,” and “Under the Mistletoe.” bOUT2 is a spinoff podcast of bloomingOUT, Indiana's only out, loud, and proud radio show, a public affairs program dedicated to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Each week on bOUT2 we deconstruct the week's top queer news and talk with guests you didn't hear in this week's bloomingOUT.