Hello you beautiful people, you have been sorely missed.

It’s Episode 12 of the podcast and this week we’re proud to announce we have a Number 1 fan (self-appointed) and he shares his Worst Christmas Present Ever.

As mentioned in the last episode, the wonderful Rachele Teasdale sent through some Aussie Christmas Songs and we find out if your host is familiar with them (spoiler alert: no he isn’t).
Here’s the songs:
He’s the Aussie Santa by Bucko & Champs
https://youtu.be/0sGqk1aYmk8
Christmas Photo by John Williamson
https://youtu.be/ctvh9GVckTE
The Aussie Christmas Song by Batesy
https://youtu.be/FVCCIx0YxOo
Six White Boomers by Rolf Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA
Good King Wally by Bucko & Champs
https://youtu.be/_hcMF3SacCw
White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

This week’s recommendation is also this week’s Santa Claus is NOT Coming to Town.  It’s the excellent Christmas Past Podcast and the presenter, Brian Earl, tells the story of how he discovered the truth about Santa.
Christmas Past talks about the history of all the traditions we love at Christmas, it’s educational and entertaining and the website is also lots of fun.
Here’s a link:
christmaspast.media

Yule Lad of the week is Pot Scraper, he has an ingenious method to help him steal your pots and give them a good scraping, but I can’t help thinking this could all be avoided if people would just clean their pots and pans.

If you want to get in touch you can email us at totalchristmas@gmail.com or visit the website totalchristmaspodcast.com.

Merry Christmas

It’s episode 10 of The Total Christmas Podcast and do we have a show for you?  Do we?  I don’t know, you be the judge.

First we look at Christmas in Australia thanks to our listener from Perth, Rachel Teasdale, she shares a look at the delights she serves up each year for Christmas dinner.  We also pause for a moment to think of those poor older gentlemen who don the white beard and thick red fur coat to be Father Christmas where the temperatures reach around 40 degrees Celsius.

Next we discuss the origin of the term Boxing Day to describe the day after Christmas day.

Then we have a chat with our US correspondent, Scott Newman, and play a number of songs that are outright Christmas classics in the UK, but may not have made the leap across the pond to the US or to any other country for that matter.  See how many you recognise.
Here’s the list of songs I play:

1. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard
2. Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade
3. Lonely This Christmas – Mud
4. Stop The Cavalry – Jona Lewie
5. Merry Christmas Everyone – Shakin’ Stevens
6. Do They Know It’s Christmas (1989) – Band Aid 2
7. Mistletoe And Wine – Cliff Richard
8. Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) – The Darkness

This week’s Yule Lad is Stubby, and honestly, I think it’s a bit unfair that all we know about him is that he’s vertically challenged.

Then there’s a short bit where I beg you, the dear listener, to leave the podcast a review, preferably a positive one.  It’ll only take a minute of your time but it would mean the world to us.

If you want to get in touch or be a part of the show, you can visit the facebook page, email us at totalchristmas@gmail.com or visit the website  totalchristmaspodcast.com

Merry Christmas

It’s Episode 8 of The Total Christmas Podcast, and the emails have been flooding in, all 2 of them.

We have a professional celebrity chef who is going to give us their secret recipe for the perfect Christmas pudding, and then they sing us a song.

This episode’s version of a Christmas Carol is the 1939 radio play, with Orson Welles narrating and Lionel Barrymore as Ebeneezer Scrooge.  If you want to have a listen here’s a link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJ3jINcTR0

In Christmas All Over The World we take a trip up to the far North and look into Christmas in Iceland, and we learn about the Yule Lads.  Plus there’s a quiz, can you tell the difference between a Yule Lad and a Yule Bad?

So there’s all that, and we introduce you to The Total Christmas Drinking game, an exciting way to actually gain some joy from listening to this drivel.

This week’s recommendation is Librivox, a fantastic website where you can listen to free audiobooks that are in the public domain.  There are over 13,000 books to choose from and you don’t have to sign up, you can just go on the site and download a book, it’s all free.  Here’s the link:
https://librivox.org/

If you want to get in touch or get involved, you can contact us by facebook, email totalchristmas@gmail.com or go to the website, totalchristmaspodcast.com

Merry Christmas