Listen, your flight’s probably going to be delayed. You’re going to get sick of hearing “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” sooner or later. Santa’s going to give the neighbor kid a drum set.

The important thing is this: You’re going to need things to listen to during this holiday season. So now’s a good time to get to better know our show, “Reveal,” public radio’s new investigative reporting show and podcast.

To help you get acquainted, here’s a podcast mixtape created by our staff.

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If you’d prefer to listen on iTunes, you can subscribe here. Search the feed yourself for the individual podcasts that make up the mixtape:

* Bogus screws ended up in the spines of surgery patients

* Buried in Blue Earth

* Growing hay a world away

* The secrets of church, state and business (first segment on Jehovah’s Witnesses)

* Death in the Bakken

* Oklahoma’s man-made earthquakes

* Rape on the Night Shift

* Secret super water users

* Exposing the horrors on The Mountain

And while the titles of these stories might not exude holiday cheer, remember: They led to positive change in 2015.

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Andy Donohue was the executive editor for projects for Reveal. He edited Reveal’s investigations into the treatment of migrant children in government care, Amazon’s labor practices, rehab work camps and sexual abuse in the janitorial industry. He was on teams that have twice been Pulitzer Prize finalists and won Investigative Reporters and Editors, Edward R. Murrow, Online News Association, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Gerald Loeb, Sidney Hillman Foundation and Emmy awards. He previously helped build and lead Voice of San Diego, served on the IRE board for eight years and is an alumnus of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.