On this special extra-length yuletide episode, United Church Canada minister Rev. Christine Boyle joins host Charlie Demers for a conversation on playwright Wallace Shawn's 2017 collection of essays 'Night Thoughts'.

Also: Site C and the BC NDP. Kids, commercialism and Kris Kringle. All this plus a look back at 2017, the garbage year that was.

Editing and production: André Goulet. Special holiday music on this episode includes the National Anthem of the USSR + the Internationale (w/ bells) plus a Christmas-themed recording of 'Wide is My Motherland'.

Big thanks to Galiano Island Books, official bookseller of the 'Well Reds' podcasthttps://galianoislandbooks.com/