On this episode, we’ll give you some tips for cleaning up before and after a Christmas party. We’ll count down 5 MORE Christmas plants, read some long overdue emails about sad Christmas songs, and we’ll give you a recipe for Wassail. Speaking of recipes, we’ll also get our first result in our Road to the Christmas Bowl!
00:00 – 01:42 Intro
01:42 – 03:11 We Need a Little Christmas Now
03:11 – 06:44 Five Golden Things (More Christmas Plants)
06:44 – 08:28 Feedback from Our Last Show
08:28 – 12:08 Santa Babb’s Mailbag
12:08 – 13:54 All I Want For Christmas is News
13:54 – 20:23 Cleaning Tips For Your Next Christmas Party
20:23 – 22:05 Road to the Christmas Bowl
22:05 – 24:15 Wrap Up
24:15 – 27:09 Outtakes
“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” United States Marine Band
“Jingle Bells” Performed by Kristen Nowicki
(The embedded player for the episode is bellow the poll and links)
Sleigh Ride – Who Sang It Best Poll
Christmas Plant Photos on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvbMQMZH78V/
Toby Keith’s “Santa I’m Right Here”
https://youtu.be/rZqYUiW5wEY
Christmas Lights by Coldplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rYmzQ8C9Q
It Was The Worst Christmas Ever by Sufjan Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmiPbDkvBQ
When Love Is Gone from Muppet’s Christmas Carol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfI_N0vyxaI
Ingrid Michaelson – Happy, Happy Christmas
https://youtu.be/7azqLYR3KRE
Little Drummer Boy om the West Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqLIH2UiPXg
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Tim! How dare you make me choose between Egg Nog and Hot Chocolate?! Too difficult a choice.
Loving this podcast, I have a long and complicated history with Christmas which I will share with you via email when I have the time, but to be brief. I really appreciate this podcast a lot. I think it’s great. Keep up the good work. Go Cocoa!
Those flowers! I’m a horrible gardener, but I’m gonna try to plant some of those lovely red and white striped flowers (I can’t remember the name, but I’ll go back and listen to the podcast.)
Yeah. I’ll have to see if I can go back and caption the Instagram/Facebook post so I can label each photo
What? No children commenting? They may have had tips for how they would help clean up. Maybe by letting their grandmother take them to her house? You have a lovely wife that definitely knows you very well. Your Mother sounds so nice, but I happen to know why people like to clean silver–instant gratification! They see immediately what a nice job they did. Cleaning the refrigerator, etc.–not so much. Maybe the oven cleaning tip was for the burners on top–they tend to smoke or have a funny smell if they aren’t cleaned out. It might have been mentioned before, but there is a Christmas cactus (originally from Brazil). It’s a cactus but it blooms during the winter. Oh good grief, Hot Cocoa is so versatile and eggnog (gag me). Another great show–miss the boys.
Hot Cocoa! Hot Cocoa! Hot Cocoa!
Tim,
Thank you for using my suggestions. It was a nice surprise hearing about the plants. My vote is for hot cocoa. Eggs shouldn’t be something you drink in any incarnation. Even though I think today’s eggnog doesn’t even have anything resembling an egg in it. Keep up the great work.
“Nobody wants ebola for Christmas”! LOL While I’m certain that statement is true, in light of the reference to cleaning surfaces especially where raw meats had been, I think you may have meant to say “Nobody wants ‘ECOLI’ for Christmas”. Even so I still loved the podcast and I look forward to listening every month.
PS – I once again have been finding egg nogg intermittently in the same Walmart as I did last year when I let you know. Also want to let you know that the local downtown area here has been leaving the Christmas lights up and turned on, on the trees and bushes in the downtown district near the gazebo. They did last year and so far this year. They did take the ones off of the town Christmas tree though.
My family’s love for eggnog is almost illegal. Every year I start looking for some noggy goodness around the last week of September. Apparently Halloween has jumped on the eggnog wagon by having some dairy brands release pumpkin spice eggnog with Halloween decorated cartons. A few weeks after spooky ookie day we just Christmas eggnog. Love hot cocoa, but love me some eggnog a bit more as it’s only available a few months out of the year. Love the podcast, Tim , can’t wait to catch up to this episode as I’m listening chronologically, and am in April 2017! Off season holiday cheers bud!
I Think I like Yule Fools way more than “Waiters”……….fun listening even in June. Add a bit of cinnamon and you almost have glögg.