Podcasts about western christmas

Merry Christmas to you! I hope it's filled with love and music, and that 2025 brings you all the best. This third Christmas episode really leans into the music and poetry of the season. In it I share a scene from a classic Western Christmas story, some vintage audio from a 1987 Wheatland WY radio show, a Christmas poem I wrangled off the internet, as well as contemporary music by a young Mennonite choir in my community.  For more Christmas Spirit check out the 2023 and 2022 Christmas episodes. You can find more information and resources in the shownotes. 

早いもので師走ももう中盤、様々なイベントで心踊る時期ですが、今週のちーちゃんとやっこは、この季節の贈り物について、日米両国の文化を見ながら語り合います。 Dive into the festive spirit with Yakko & Cheechan in this week's episode as they unwrap the enchanting world of holiday gift-giving traditions in Japan and the United States!

Welcome to episode 74 of Holly Jolly X'masu! In this episode, I'll be talking about the Christmas flexi-discs released by the confectionary company, Juchheim. When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to spin on my record player was “It's A Super Spectacular Day” from the 1980 Mad Magazine Super Special. A few years later, it was superseded by “I'm A Boinger” from the Bloom County collection, “Billy And The Boingers Bootleg.” Thanks to those and a few other I had, I've always had an affinity for flexi-discs. When I started collecting Japanese flexis, I bought up all the affordable ones I could find. I soon got the point where most of the ones I'd see show up for auction that I didn't already have were the really scarce ones. I've managed to get quite a few of them, and some of the music on them is outstanding. The Chieko Sogawa and Motoyuki Suzuki flexis are some of my favorites. They feature top-notch jazz from extremely obscure artists that you literally can't hear unless you buy the original disc. It's the sort of thing that got me into collecting. I hope you enjoyed this episode and my glimpse into the world of Japanese Christmas flexi-discs. Some the music that can only be found on flexi-disc really rivals the best of my vinyl albums, and I look forward to sharing them eventually. Join me back here on the 25th for what will likely be my last Black History Month episode, at least until Chris Hart releases another Christmas album. I'll be talking about Chris Hart's “Christmas Hearts 2,” which features another mix of popular Japanese and Western Christmas tunes, as well as an original or two. If you liked his first album, you're sure to enjoy this one as well. As always, any feedback on this episode would be appreciated. If have any suggestions, or if you'd like to recommend a song or album for a future episode, drop me a line and let me know. Remember, I've added a button to my Ko-fi page. If you'd like to support me one cup of coffee at a time, a donation is only $3. I've also opened a Redbubble store. I only have a couple designs up, but keep an eye on it as I'll be trying to add more. Half of any proceeds or donations received will be donated to support the people of Ukraine, while the rest will be used to purchase new Japanese Christmas music to review for future episodes. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And if you get a chance, leave me a review on iTunes. Thanks!  

In this episode, Abrham tries to break down the ideologies and terminologies we have come to accept as factual reality within Christmas celebration as time goes on i.e. things like the Christmas tree, jingle bells and so on. Merry Christmas to all. - Yafet is on Hiatus If you enjoyed this episode, give us a 5-star rating and let us know what you think in the review also, don't forget to share if you found it enjoyable for more information, check out our telegram channel :- https://t.me/ShowNote_Miinds you can access pdf files of our show notes there.

With Christmas around the corner, today's Barbershop Talk is all about our experience with Christmas. We talk about what Christmas was like for us growing up, how Christmas in the East is much different from the West, how we celebrate it now, and our plans for this year. We break it all down in this fun episode. In this episode, we discuss:Timestamps:0:48 - Leo talks about getting Covid recently1:12 - New York experiencing a massive wave of Covid infections 2:40 - Leo is going to buffalo for Christmas with his girlfriend 3:15 - Christmas is different from Christian Christmas 3:58 - Leo talks about experiencing three different types of Christmas4:15 - Leo talks about celebrating Christmas in Hong Kong5:25 - In Asian culture, Christmas was more about holiday bonuses, holiday parties, and it was time not to spend time with family 5:58 - Eastern Christmas vs. Western Christmas is different 7:00 - Japan celebrates Christmas with a KFC meal 8 - Mike talks about what his Christmas was like 10:40 - What kind of tree did we have 12 - Growing up with sleet in Texas 13 - Leo describes his family experience with Christmas 14 - Christmas traditions were with girlfriends and friends 16 - Leo talks about converting to Christianity 18:35 - Feliz Navidad20:54 - Leo's first time learning about a Christmas stocking 22 - Mike never knew what the purpose of a Christmas stocking was 25 - Christmas has become this commercialized event that brings stress and problems 27 - Are you a hard person to shop hard?30 - What we're doing for Christmas this year 33 - Wearing Christmas attire for Christmas HOW TO RECEIVE EXTRA BENEFITS & CONTENT, BECOME A PATREON BELOW:https://www.patreon.com/asianmenswearSOCIAL MEDIA:The Asian Menswear Podcast -- @asianmenswearpodMike Tran -- @asianmenswearLeo Chan -- @levitatestyleCONTACT US:asianmenswearpodcast@gmail.comJOIN THE OFFICIAL ASIAN MENSWEAR COMMUNITY ON DISCORD:The Official Asian Menswear CommunitySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/asianmenswear)

"A WESTERN CHRISTMAS IN THE OLD DAYS. BY MRS. W. H. CORNING. Christmas week there was no school, but such a succession of dining days, and visiting days, and day parties, and night parties, that Fanny, who looked forward to the week as a season of rest, thought that the regular routine of school duties would be less fatiguing. Christmas at La Belle Prairie was the one jubilee of the year, something to be talked about for six months beforehand, and to be remembered as long after. It was a time of feasting and recreation for both master and servant. Days before, preparations commenced in the kitchen. Various smells issued from thence—savory smells of boiled, baked, and roasted meats; and sweet delicious smells of warm pastry and steaming cakes. Aunt Tibby was rolling pie-crust or stirring cake all day long, and the chopping of sausage-meat, the pounding of spices, and the beating of eggs were constantly heard. Everything was carried on with the greatest secrecy. The children were all kept out of the kitchen, and when "somefin' good" was to be transferred therefrom to Miss Car'line's store-room, Aunt Tibby came sailing in, holding it high above the reach of the curious little heads...." ... this is an old Western Christmas story published in 1895. I thought it you'd like it. I've read all your emails & promise I'll be back in person real soon! For the moment - enjoy the story. And if you want to drop me a line you can do so at wrf@mail.com. Merry Christmas!

In this episode we kick off the Christmas season (the -ber months) first with a new feature! I'm giving a Christmas movie recommendation, a TV episode/special recommendation and a Christmas book recommendation at the start of each episode, please commend and email us with how you think the recommendation went! Next, we take a look into the Russian Santa Claus: Ded Moroz, also known as Grandfather Frost. With a deep history going back well before Saint Nicholas and many Western Christmas figures, this magical man has a fascinating history and a great story as well. We also talk about some related Eastern European characters and finish with part 3 of the story of Santa Claus and how he knows so many languages, how did he learn them and why? Links:Veliky Ustyug (Ded Moroz's home)Troika (three horse sleigh)Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden)Bozic Bata (Christmas Brother from Serbia)Special thanks to:The Christmas Song/Heaven/Slow 3/4 Song by Peter Evans, Tom Blancarte, and Brandon Seabrook - CC by 3.0Santa Claw11010s is Coming by Ergo Phizmiz - CC by 3.0holiday by Dee Yan-Key - CC by 3.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lostchristmaspodcast/message

How To Eat Your Christmas Tree: Delicious, Innovative Recipes for Cooking with TreesBy Julia Georgallis Intro: Welcome to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book with Suzy Chase, he's just a home cook in New York City sitting at her dining room table, talking to cookbook authors.Julia Georgallis: I'm Julia Georgallis and I'm the author of How To Eat Your Christmas Tree cookbook.Suzy Chase: There is this BBC One documentary that was released in 2017, I believe, called Judi Dench. My Passion For Trees, and I saw an excerpt and she has such reverence for trees. It's so easy to take trees for granted, but Dame Judy discusses how she touches her trees she talks to her trees, she loves her trees on her six acre property. Her lifelong fascination with trees started when she was little. When did you get interested in trees?Julia Georgallis: I've always been really interested in nature and I've always really loved plants and taking care of plants and I'm also really interested in edible plants like foraging and keeping herbs. So I recently moved back home with my mum in September and I brought with me a sourdough starter. I brought with me my kombucha, and then I brought about 20 plants home with me. So it really started in a big way when I left home, but it's kind of just got progressively more and more as I've gotten older, really.Suzy Chase: First when I saw the title of this cookbook. I was like, what? But then after I started reading it, you made me think about things I've never thought of, like 40 million trees are cut down per year at Christmas time. That is an astounding number and I've never looked at it as wasteful. Can you talk a little bit about that?Julia Georgallis: I think it's not just about Christmas trees. I think we do kind of waste a lot of things, especially around Christmas. Christmas is a particularly wasteful time of year. And this book is it's, you know, obviously the title is How To Eat Your Christmas Tree so it's very much about Christmas trees, but it's also about thinking about how we waste things in general and how we could reuse things and look at things in a different ways, including the plants that we keep and the food that we eat.Suzy Chase: I'd love some tips on how to have a more sustainable Christmas.Julia Georgallis: There's actually quite a lot of things you can do. And funnily enough, when I started this project in 2015, having a sustainable Christmas, wasn't really something that people were really discussing, but now there are so many things you can do. So for example, you could cut down on your meat intake. I'm not saying that you forego the Turkey completely, if you really, really want to eat Turkey on Christmas day, fine, but you know have you ever thought about maybe not eating so much meat in the run-up till Christmas? There's also things like ditching Christmas wrap and maybe not sending Christmas cards, which maybe people don't really do anymore anyway, but those things really, really are quite wasteful. I've also got a recipe in my book for edible Christmas decorations because Christmas tree decorations are so, so wasteful, including Christmas tree lights they're really, really unsustainable, just the way they're made and also the fact that they run on quite a lot of energy. There's quite a few little things that you can do to make your Christmas a little bit more sustainable overall.Suzy Chase: So what's one edible Christmas tree decoration we could do. Off the top of your head.Julia Georgallis: Well, you could do things like gingerbread cookies cause they obviously they keep for a long time so they would, they would last really nicely on your tree. But then in the book I've also got some edible Christmas tree decorations, which can also be eaten by birds if you want to have your tree outdoors, if you have the room or if you have a garden and those are basically seed balls. So you could make seed balls, energy balls, that kind of stuff.Suzy Chase: Can you talk a bit about how cultures around the world see evergreens?Julia Georgallis: Yeah. So this is something that I really enjoyed writing about actually in the How To Eat Your Christmas Tree book, because I haven't just focused on the kind of standard Western Christmas trees like pine, fir and spruce. And I've also looked at things like bamboo, which is very, very surprising to a lot of people because in the East, in Korea and Japan in China, the pine, the plum and the bamboo are kind of known as the three friends of winter and these three plants are seen in a very similar way to how we see pine, fir, and spruce. So they're symbols of longevity, they're really plucky, they're really hardy plants and then also I've written a lot about Juniper, which is a cousin of, of pine and the fir and the spruce and that again is quite a plucky plant. And then there's also the olive, which I refer to as the OG Christmas tree, because the Romans and the Greeks used to decorate their houses around winter time with olive branches, because olives are also symbols of everlasting life.Suzy Chase: Can you describe the flavor profiles of fir, spruce and pine?Julia Georgallis: Oh, uh they're delicious. So I'll start with spruce because that's my favorite tree to eat. So it's, it's really kind of in a way of vanilla-y and I actually recently discovered because I was always a bit baffled as to why my spruce ice cream tasted of vanilla and I actually recently found out that kind of artificially produced vanilla used to have notes of spruce in it as well. So that's the kind of flavor profile that we're dealing with with spruce. And then fir is a little bit more zesty it's a bit more grassy and pine is much, much more delicate than the other two. So pine is, it's very delicate it's quite woody.Suzy Chase: Ya know, it's funny because when I think of pine as a flavor, I think of Pine-Sol the cleaner, do you guys have Pine-Sol?Julia Georgallis: Yeah. And that's the thing that people really think about because they, they always associate pine with like the Christmas tree shaped car smell things that you put on your dashboard.Suzy Chase: And it's such an invasive smell! So it was interesting that you said that pine is a little softer.Julia Georgallis Yeah. Pine is the softest out of the three, like when you boil up the needles, because initially when we first started this project, that was the first thing that I did I boiled up the needles to see what they tasted like and pine doesn't really taste of much when you boil it up, unless you add kind of other things to it. But yeah, I was surprised as well, really.Suzy Chase: So I guess the pine smell is made up.Julia Georgallis: It does smell quite different to how it tastes. And I don't know why, because in a forest it kind of smells a lot more expansive, you know.Suzy Chase: Can we tell if a tree is poisonous to eat?Julia Georgallis: No you can't, but yew's which kind of look a little bit like pines are poisonous so just make sure you're not eating a yew tree. And the other thing is a lot of people will buy trees that haven't been grown in an environment, which means that you can eat them. So quite a lot of trees are sprayed with things, with paint, with all kinds of chemicals so just make sure that if you are buying your tree and you plan to eat it, that you buy it from somewhere that sells organic and nicely treated trees.Suzy Chase: Can you talk about page 126 for a minute, about how we do seek out an edible Christmas tree?Julia Georgallis: Buying an edible Christmas tree it's a little bit like how you are encouraged to buy your food you know, it's like buying an organic Apple for example, or, or something that's been grown in a nice way without lots of pesticides. So in my book, I do have a little section in the back as to where you can buy edible Christmas trees around the world. In the States, you can buy your Christmas trees from the National Christmas Tree Association RealChristmasTrees.org. There's different organizations around the world which are doing really nice things with buying edible Christmas trees. So in Portugal, you can rent your trees from the country's fire service. And they're all kind of nicely grown trees, which I thought was really lovely.Suzy Chase: So you can rent your tree in Portugal?Julia Georgallis: You can rent your tree yeah and you can. You can rent it. They are nicely grown in forests. And then once you're done with it, then the fire service will come and take it away for you dispose of it nicely.Suzy Chase: Then cue the post-Christmas world, where as you put it, it's nothing like the pre-Christmas world everything is glum we're fatter we're poorer, and we're still a bit hung over. We must repent for all the fun we've had and to top it off the mass, throwing away of millions of little trees, commences. What are the five ways to recycle our Christmas tree?Julia Georgallis: So the five ways to reuse your Christmas tree, you can recycle it if you contact your council and check with them, how it's best to recycle your tree. You can also contact your nearest Christmas tree farm for example. Make friends with your local Christmas tree farmer. Where I buy my Christmas trees from to eat they turn their Christmas trees into kind of like horse jumps and all kinds of things, which is quite nice. You can donate your tree to a local zoo or a safari park or any park in your area. I mean, I think the really nice thing to do with your tree is to, if you can, repot it and replant it, and then you can have a tree for next year, it's, it's almost like you're growing a tree that will kind of live alongside you. You can also dry the branches and use them as decorations or make a dried wreath for next year or I would really love to see more people talking to their local florists and see if the florists can do something with some nice pieces of pine and fir and spruce.Suzy Chase: Christmas tree vinegar is by far the easiest way to reuse your tree. Can you describe this recipe? That's on page 45 and this also makes a great gift.Julia Georgallis: Oh yeah. I love this recipe. It is super, super easy. So all you need is a couple of large kilner jars or a mason jar. You will also need about two liters of good quality side of vinegar and roughly 200 grams of fir, pine or spruce and you'll take the needles from your, fir, pine or spruce you will sterilize your glass jar, and then once your glass jar is sterilizing, you'll prepare and finely chop the needles. So there's also a little section in the beginning of my book for how to prepare the needles properly, but it's really easy you basically just snip them off the brunch. And then once your glass jar is sterilized you'll pour the vinegar into large sauce pan heat over a medium heat until it's warm, but not, not quite boiling and then add all the chopped needles to the jar and pour the vinegar over that. Once that's all in the jar, you'll tightly seal your jar and leave it to infuse for at least two weeks, but you can infuse it for up to three months. And so obviously if you leave it for three months, it will be stronger. And you'll kind of know when your vinegars infused because all the needles sink slowly to the bottom of the jar. So once it's infused, you'll use a fine sieve to strain out all the needles and pour the strained vinegar into a new sterilized jar. And then once you've actually made this infused vinegar, it lasts for ages. It can last until next Christmas. So you could potentially make all your vinegar in January for next Christmas and I think that's a lovely, lovely, festive gift.Suzy Chase: Ash is used in cooking all over the world. As home cooks how can we use it?Julia Georgallis: It's much easier to use ash than even I actually thought it was. You basically char your branches. I mean, in this case, Christmas trees, but I guess you could use other types of tree as well. So you put your branches inside your oven, turn your oven up until your branches turned black, essentially. And then you blitz your branches with a hand whisk and then you have ash to use in delicious ways. I've got some recipes in my book for the Burnt Ash Cauliflower, there's Ash Baked Vegetables, Ash Honey Glaze, which I really, really love that's really, really simple to use and you can use that on meat or fish or vegetables, or even pastries actually. You can kind of do lots of different things with it and it gives this really lovely, smoky, quite expansive flavor. You can really taste the kind of pine and the spruce and the fir in the ash. Yea ash is much easier to cook with than I even imagined, to be honest with you.Suzy Chase: So you wrote in the scent of pine essay, which I love by the way you wrote "On a metaphysical level, the forest humbles us, gives us perspective and sparks creativity, making appearances in every creative pursuit of man poems, literature, folklore, religion, and belief systems, art, music, and dance as a place of magic and deep contemplation and an enabler of ritual." What is the most powerful magic that trees have?Julia Georgallis: Yeah, it's the smell, isn't it? It's the smell of a forest. The fact that it can transport you backwards in time and that's quite powerful, isn't it? I suppose, because there's so many different memories that, that sparks for me anyway. And I think for a lot of people, you know, what I really love about my own memories of pine is that they're at different parts of my life and they're in all parts of the world. And they're also at all times of year, like pine forest in the summer in Sweden, you know? And so it's this lovely kind of amalgamation of all different, lovely memories. It's great.Suzy Chase: Pine for me kind of evokes kind of like a romantic loneliness. I grew up in Kansas and it's flat and to me, the flatness is super comforting but then when I get into a forest, it hits me as very lonely. Isn't that weird?Julia Georgallis: Yeah you know, that's the opposite of what I think of them as. You know my first memory of pine is we have some land in Cyprus where my family are from, and my first memory of pine is going and sitting under the pines in the summer and everyone goes and sort of drinks their coffee and plays cards and things and it's kind of very sociable. And, you know, I imagine kind of pine forest by the sea in Sweden, where everyone's kind of running around and going to the beach. So it's kind of the opposite of your memories actually, which is really nice,Suzy Chase: But mine is kind of like a romantic loneliness.Julia Georgallis: Yea like a comforting loneliness.Suzy Chase: I made your recipe for Pine Nut and Chocolate Brownies on page 94. Can you describe this recipe?Julia Georgallis: That's a funny recipe actually, because I think a lot of people don't put two and two together that pine nuts are from a Christmas tree.Suzy Chase: I know! Last night my husband and I were talking about it I said, Bob, have you ever made the connection of pine nuts to pine trees? And I thought, he'd be like, yeah, it doesn't everyone. And he was like, no.Julia Georgallis: No one does. it's so funny. That's why I love this recipe so much because it kind of draws people attention to the fact that Christmas tree is a part of our lives all year round. But this, I mean, I love this recipe it's based on an Italian dessert called, Torta al cioccolato con pignoli. And I love the fact that the combination of the oils in pine nut kind of make this brownie really, really fudgy and very creamy because pine nuts are quite creamy, so super easy to make. So you just need kind of a lovely dark chocolate, and handful of pine nuts. And you end up with this really gooey brownie. It's great.Suzy Chase: Now for my segment called Last Night's Dinner, where I ask you what you had last night for dinner.Julia Georgallis: Oh, so last night, well, I'll start with what I had for lunch because it feeds into last night's dinner, but I had a plate of mussels for lunch in butter and garlic and coriander. And I kept the kind of juice from the muscles that I made for lunch, and I warmed up some rice in it so it was kind of like fishy and garlicky rice and then I made a kind of soy sauce formula with spring onions, chop that up put that in the rice and use half an avocado and lemon and a little bit of sesame oil. So I had egg fried rice basically with some leftovers.Suzy Chase: Yum. That sounds amazing. Where can we find you on the web and social media?Julia Georgallis: So you can find information about my work on JuliaGeorgallis.co.uk. And I'm also on Instagram, which is @JuliaGeorgallis. I am actually launching a new project for all of my food research to sit on. And that's also on Instagram, it's called @TheEdibleArchive so it's TheEdibleArchive.org and that will be launching in January.Suzy Chase: Well, this has been eye opening. Thanks Julia, for coming on Cookery by the Book podcast and Merry Christmas to you.Julia Georgallis: Merry Christmas, Suzy. Thank you so much for inviting. I really, really like your podcast.Outro: Subscribe over on CookerybytheBook.com and thanks for listening to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book.

In this special Christmas Episode David and Grant discuss the Russian letter Ë and recall celebrating Western Christmas as well as Orthodox Christmas while living in Russia.

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It’s hard to say which is more offensive to our ideas of getting ready for the holidays: Advent or John the Baptist. They both ruin the Western Christmas spirit. But even if your manger scene at home has the baby Jesus lying with hands raised up towards you, with a smile, there is no way to get rid of the insubordinate figure of John the Baptist announcing the coming wrath with the arrival of this beautiful baby. What are we going to do with this embarrassing guy? Pastor Joe has some ideas.

Ash-Lei files suit against her brother Josh. Their family does a gift exchange for their Ukrainian Christmas celebration every January. Josh has already opted out of participating in Western Christmas gift giving. He would also like to opt out of the Ukrainian Christmas gift exchange. But Ash-Lei says he should participate. Who's right? Who's wrong? Thank you to Travis Pelham Boozer for naming this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.

• ❑ Opening WordНу, здравствуйте, мои дорогие слушатели = Well, hello, my dear listeners! Как вы поживаете? = 'How are you?''Как вы поживаете' is basically the same as 'Как дела'. The difference is in the use. I'd never say 'Как дела' to a person I just met, or to someone who's a lot older than I am. 'Как дела' is reserved for close friends, family and children. The use of 'Как поживаете' in turn is more appropriate when addressing people much older than you, groups of people, someone you don't know very well, or simply to show respect. So, как вы поживаете? У меня всё хорошо. (I am doing fine). Are you ready for another spoonful of Russian today?• ❑ Lesson#14 - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!It would be more than appropriate to teach you a few Christmas and New Year-related phrases. Many of you probably know that Russians have always been big on celebrating the New Year's rather than Christmas. After the 1917 Revolution, Christmas was banned throughout Russia, along with other religious celebrations. In 1992 the Christmas celebration was revived and announced to be an official state holiday. Note that the Orthodox Christmas falls after the Western Christmas on the 7th of January! Together with the Russians the Orthodox Christmas is celebrated by Romanians and Serbs, while the Greeks adopted the Western Christmas.Did you know that the New Year holiday has been celebrated in Russia for more than 300 years? It's Peter the Great who established the New Year celebration on the 1st of January. In his documents the evergreen trees were considered the main decoration for the holiday. That will explain my choice for today's song later. But let us turn to Russian Christmas and New Year vocabulary. Now, during the time right before the New Year holiday people say 'С Наступающим Новым Годом' literally 'With forthcoming New Year'. But I'd translate is as 'Happy Holidays'!Natalia: Джулия, с Наступающим Новым Годом! (S Nas-too-pah-you-schim Novym Godum)Julia: И тебя тоже, мам.(Ee te-byah toh-zhah, mum) = ('You, too, Mom.')When the clock strikes 12 on January 1st, it's safe to yell out: 'С Новым Годом!' You can hear people saying 'С Новым Годом' well into February. Especially to the ones they haven't seen since the previous year:)'Merry Christmas' will be 'С Рождеством Христовым' (S Rozh-deh-stvom Khris-to-vym). I do not remember the particulars of the Russian Christmas celebration, since I left Russia in 1995. But I did some research on the subject and compiled some facts that I hope you'll find interesting. You can find the text file 'Russian Christmas' in my 'downloads' section.Once again, if you want to wish someone a Merry Christmas, say 'С Рождеством Христовым!' And if you want to wish a Happy New Year, say 'С Новым Годом!' But all through the holiday season 'С праздником' (S prahz-knee-kom) will be always appropriate and timely.'С праздником, дорогие товарищи! :))))))) Well, maybe not that official... 'товарищи' means 'comrades'.'С праздником, друзья!' ---- 'Happy holidays, friends!' Now, that's more like it.• ❑ Song"В лесу родилась ёлочка" ("A Little Fir Tree's Born") performed by a children's choir.This is the most popular Russian New Year's song. Every Russian knows it. It's something that no winter holiday can do without. The author of the lyrics is a school teacher, who was also a librarian: Raisa Adamovna Kudashova. The song was born in 1903 and since then it brings joy and excitement to Russian kids just like that little fir tree from the song......"В лесу родилась елочка"В лесу родилась елочка,
В лесу она росла,
Зимой и летом стройная,
Зеленая была.
Зимой и летом стройная,
Зеленая была.Метель ей пела песенку: 
"Спи, елочка, бай-бай!"
Мороз снежком укутывал:
"Смотри, не замерзай!"
Мороз снежком укутывал:
"Смотри, не замерзай!"Трусишка - зайка серенький
Под елочкой скакал.
Порою волк, сердитый волк,
Рысцою пробегал.
Порою волк, сердитый волк,
Рысцою пробегал.Чу! Снег по лесу частому
Под полозом скрипит;
Лошадка мохноногая
Торопится, бежит.
Лошадка мохноногая
Торопится, бежит.Везет лошадка дровеньки,
А в дровнях старичок,
Срубил он нашу елочку
Под самый корешок.
Срубил он нашу елочку
Под самый корешок.Теперь ты здесь нарядная,
На праздник к нам пришла,
И много, много радости
Детишкам принесла.
И много, много радости
Детишкам принесла------------------------------------------------------(the English Translation)In the woods a spruce was born,
It was growing in the wood
In summer and winter
it was straight and green.

The blizzard sang it a lullaby:
Sleep dear spruce, sleep tight!
The frost put snow around it
 saying:Don't freeze!

The timid grey rabbit
hopped under the tree,
From time to time
The angry wolf just trotted by.

Hush, listen! Deep in the woods
Snow scratches under a sleigh.
A heavy horse 
Runs smoothly.

The sleigh carries firewood,
and in it was an old man
He chopped it down
at the very roots.

And here it is,all dressed up,
it's come to us for the holiday
And lots and lots of happiness
it brought to the children. And here is the same song performed by my 10 year-old Emily: • ❑ Closing WordВот и всё. That's it.А я прощаюсь с вами и говорю вам 'Счастливого Рождества и с Наступающим Новым Годом!' (I am saying 'good-bye' and 'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!') Увидимся в следующем году!('See you next year!')

The Podcast On Fire Network crew (as many as we could rope in) gather to ring out the year! Kenny B, Stewart Sutherland, The Great Lord Joshua Regal, Phil G, Dr. Lam and Tom K-W (in a cameo) talk of some of their beloved Eastern and Western Christmas movies, including out of left field choices […]

3 days ago today I thought about making today’s episode. Today I made today’s episode. I’m proud of this continuing distribution of telling you what I like. By the way I’ve been drinking Gin, podcast production works best this way. This episode is mostly Rock orientated. I Googled “Country and Western Christmas songs” but then closed the tab when I realized I could also Google “Enormous Boobs” So I did that instead. Jingle bells indeed.