Quietly celebrating a few of the things that make Christmas special.

Credits:

O Come All Ye Faithful, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Good King Wenceslas, Silent Night, and O Holy Night as performed by Mark Bodino are used under a Creative Commons license and are available at jamendo.com.

I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day as performed by Roger McGuinn is in the Public Domain and is available at internetarchive.org and gutenberg.org.

Deck the Halls as performed by WaveMaster is used under a Content License and is available at pixabay.com.

Daytona or bust; Sandcrab Armageddon; Marketing for lazy dads; Old Time Radio; How to know when you're the Jerk at the Bar; Be nice, help, or go away.

Credits:

Opening Theme – Holding Hands performed by Macroform, used by permission. Available at https://www.jamendo.com/track/1863981/holding-hands

Transition Music – Laguna Beach performed by JuliusH, used by permission. Available at https://pixabay.com/music/alternative-laguna-beach-californian-surf-rock-pop-2020/

Transition Music – The Entertainer, composed by Scott Joplin, Public Domain. Available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Frog_Legs_Ragtime_Era_Favorites/04_-_scott_joplin_-_the_entertainer/

Transition Music – Piano Sonata no. 11, K. 331 - III. Alla Turca, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  used by permission. Available at https://musopen.org/music/18-piano-sonata-no-11-k-331/. “Musopen (www.musopen.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.”

Closing Song – Ciro, composed and performed by Lee Rosevere and Chris Zabriskie, used pursuant to a Creative Commons license BY-NC 4.0 International, available at https://archive.org/details/hpr076_Farrago

Some examples of both immediate and delayed empathy involving fake bats, tire guys, and heavyweight champs; Ukulele Ike; Old time stars I did not really talk to but Carson probably did; Norwegian streaming webcams; Muhammad Ali; Carlos Arredondo sings El Coraje.

Credits and Links:

Flirting Whistler (sample) (composer M.L. Lake; performer Conway’s Band), Public Domain, https://archive.org/details/conwaysbandflirtingwhistler.

Piano Sonata no. 14 in C#m 'Moonlight', Op. 27 no.2 – III. Presto (sample) (composer Ludwig van Beethoven; performer Stefano Ligoratti), Public Domain, https://musopen.org/music/2547-piano-sonata-no-14-in-c-sharp-minor-moonlight-sonata-op-27-no-2/.

A Song of Old Hawaii (sample) (Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards), Creative Commons license BY-NC 3.0, https://archive.org/details/hpr048_UnderTheUkuleleMoon.

Trumpet Hornpipe (sample) (Stuart Eydmann), Creative Commons license BY-NC 2.5 UK: Scotland, https://archive.org/details/raretunes_211_trumpet-hornpipe.

El Coraje, (Carlos Arredondo), Creative Commons license BY-NC 2.5 UK: Scotland, https://archive.org/details/raretunes_271_el-coraje.

Geirangerfjord cruise port webcam, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMSc-qqW3To.

Skarsvag, North Cape, Norway webcam, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4kpeZHcke8.

Late night radio; Peter Frampton in concert; What Yevgeny Zamyatin taught me about time and perspective in one paragraph; John tries to be funny; Podcast recommendation - This Is Chicago; Cool stuff on TuneIn Radio.

Opening theme - Holding Hands performed by Macroform

Transition music - Ver Elini Hayvanlar Alemi performed by Hayvanlar Alemi

Transition and Closing Music - Arabesque No. 1 (Claude Debussy) performed by Simone Renzi

A quick overview of what you can expect to hear from The Volume Down Podcast.

Theme music: "Holding Hands" by Macroform. Available for use under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license at https://www.jamendo.com/track/1863981/holding-hands. Used here under full license.