{"id":34983,"date":"2018-11-27T21:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34983"},"modified":"2018-11-27T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:27:11","slug":"ubmp-uncle-bills-melting-pot-holiday-specials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ubmp-uncle-bills-melting-pot-holiday-specials\/","title":{"rendered":"UBMP (Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot) Holiday Specials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then,\u00a0 will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas\u00a0 in December:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Uncle Bill’s X-Mess Special<\/strong><\/em>, featuring Christmas music from around the planet, unusual holiday customs, a laugh or three and other stuff to help you escape the 86th version of that song you just heard 85 times…
\nTuesday, Dec 25 8-9pm Eastern US time (meaning Wednesday, 0100-0200 UTC) on WBCQ 5130 kHz
\n2.\u00a0Uncle Bill’s Rockless New Year’s Eve Special:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>We’ll take a look at some of the more unusual NYE \/ New Year’s Day rituals around the world with appropriate music to go with the countries in question. If you like to wear weird underwear, set fire to things or gorge on grapes, we may have just the thing for you…
\nMonday Dec 31 7-8pm Eastern US Time (meaning Tuesday, 0000-0100 UTC) on WBCQ 5130 kHz<\/p>\n

For Europe, there will also be a New Year’s Eve UBMP special on Spaceline from Bulgaria, details to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then,\u00a0 will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas\u00a0 in December: 1.\u00a0Uncle Bill’s X-Mess Special, featuring Christmas music from around the planet, unusual holiday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-96f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35165,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/ubmp-special-holiday-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":34983,"position":0},"title":"UBMP Special Holiday Broadcasts","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill's Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then, will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas in December: 1. 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