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How cool that it’s that time of year again! We’re excited! Mushroom FM's 2017 holiday countdown and Christmas party is tomorrow! Starting at 9 AM US Eastern time, 2 PM UK, we'll be counting down the top 100 holiday songs as chosen by you

While we all enjoy the festive tunes, our virtual online Christmas party puts those who have voted in the countdown at Christmas tables, named after the first four reindeer in 'Twas the night before Christmas.

Time is now extremely limited for you to cast your vote in Mushroom FM’s holiday countdown. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that the top of this year’s chart is really close, and your vote will make a difference.

The holidays are all about traditions and rituals. Turkey, mistletoe, Santa, and enjoying Mushroom FM's famous holiday Countdown and Christmas Party. Yes, Hark! Hark and be merry! It's back.

After you have your all-important say, our elves will be making a list, checking it twice, and presenting a 10-hour extravaganza of the top 100 holiday songs as determined by our listeners.

We have an utterly packed, news-filled, music-laden Mosen Explosion for you this week and I can’t wait.

Most important, I’ll be unlocking the accessible virtual voting booth for Mushroom FM’s much-loved top 100 holiday countdown. I’ll explain how you can have your say. Will you be the first person to cast a vote in this year’s event. If you’re on the ball, and tuned in, it just might be you.

A Cuppa At The Mosens is Mushroom FM’s live global blindness call-in show, heard live on Thursday evenings at 7 PM US Eastern time.

This week, join Bonnie and Jonathan as we speak with David Woodbridge. Chances are you’re familiar with David’s voice, as he’s a prolific technology podcaster. We’ll talk with David about his work for Vision Australia and learn about his background. We’ll reminisce about the technology we all once used that has now long gone, and talk about some of the gadgets that have stood out for us in 2017 as we near the year’s end.

Give us chocolate fish at once, after all, how often do you see the word “shan’t” written down these days?

On Sunday at 2 Pm Eastern, 7 PM in the UK, that’s on a Monday morning at 8 AM in New Zealand, The Mosen Explosion is back to bring you a programme of unprecedented goodies.

Hi everyone, you may have noticed that Bonnie and I haven’t been doing our regular week-day shows over the last couple of days. We’re with my family at present as my Mum is seriously ill in the high dependency unit in hospital.

Having taken a much-needed recharge day away from social media, it was only as I sat down to write a post about this week’s Mosen Explosion that I learned of the death of Rich Cavallaro due to complications relating to pneumonia. He was just 28. To say I’m numbed and shocked to the core doesn’t cover it.

Sunday Sunday, can’t fault that day, as the old song says or something. The Mosen Explosion is back with four unique hours of music and conversation.

And now, thanks to the generous engineers at Twitter, if your Twitter client has been updated to support it, you have double the expressiveness in every tweet. Imagine that! Twice the nutrients in every mouth-watering byte! So now you can let your voice be heard even more expressively just by way of a humble tweet! This is progress, but here at The Mosen Explosion, we can’t wait until the Twitter character count is set to 2TB.

We are exploding you on 5 November, which in some countries is known as Guy Fawkes day. It’s full of gun powder, explosions and frightened guide dogs. So there couldn’t possibly be a better day for a Mosen Explosion. Your guide dog is safe with us, though.

On the show this week, more fun with time. If you’re in my part of the world, the show starts an hour later than before, which means we’re now up to 8 AM NZ time, 6 Am in Australia. It’s still of course at 2 PM Eastern, and back to 7 PM UK.