Sketch comedy, personal stories, original music, insightful essays, and short fiction. Life Lab Notes creates and curates episodes that look at life and how it works, and sometimes doesn't work. Each episode is about 15 minutes of entertaining, funny, uplifting, thought-provoking treats.
This is a double-flashback crossover episode! The 2016 Audio Advent Calendar plus its cousin holiday podcast series Twelve Days of Christmas - Regifted!
November 2016. North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre was visited by a merry cast of talented voice actors, musicians, and audience members. There was chocolate (graciously provided by the delicious El Buen Cacao) and a wintry faerie who, with an audience volunteer, would announce each date to start off the story. We recorded twenty-five short, holiday-themed stories that night and the 2016 Audio Advent Calendar was born. It was too good to hear just once, so we reissued it the following year. And now it's back again, with its cheerful silliness and heartfelt hope! We hope you enjoy it again or anew, as much as we did making it!
Winter 2019. We took the gifts listed in that famous carol, and divvied them up amongst our team of crackerjack writers to use as inspiration. The result? Twelve days of funny, moving, original pieces, beautifully performed and produced, for your holiday enjoyment.
Holiday Season 2025. We lovingly remember super-human friend, artist, and writer Sherry Coben. "A Partridge in a Pear Tree - A True Story About My Best Friend Paulette" was written by Sherry Coben and performed by Silvie Zamora. Outro music for this episode is from "The Snow is Falling" by Jerry Ward, used by permission.
Please visit LifeLabNotes.com for information about each date's story, its writer and performers, and the musicians who added their magic.
24 Dec 2025
Audio Advent Calendar Flashback to December 24
It was November of 2016. North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre was visited by a merry cast of talented voice actors, musicians, and audience members. There was chocolate (graciously provided by the delicious El Buen Cacao) and a wintry faerie who, with an audience volunteer, would announce each date to start off the story. We recorded twenty-five short, holiday-themed stories that night and the 2016 Audio Advent Calendar was born. It was too good to hear just once, so we reissued it the following year. And now it's back again, with its cheerful silliness and heartfelt hope! We hope you enjoy it again or anew, as much as we did making it!
You've been given security clearance to enter N.O.R.A.D. on a very important night.
Please visit LifeLabNotes.com for more about this project and the talented folks involved, and a link to the NORAD Tracks Santa site, which is fantastic!
23 Dec 2025
Audio Advent Calendar Flashback to December 23
It was November of 2016. North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre was visited by a merry cast of talented voice actors, musicians, and audience members. There was chocolate (graciously provided by the delicious El Buen Cacao) and a wintry faerie who, with an audience volunteer, would announce each date to start off the story. We recorded twenty-five short, holiday-themed stories that night and the 2016 Audio Advent Calendar was born. It was too good to hear just once, so we reissued it the following year. And now it's back again, with its cheerful silliness and heartfelt hope! We hope you enjoy it again or anew, as much as we did making it!
A very young child shares her holiday for the first time, in "A Chanukah Story," written by Judy Goldstein and performed by Denny Siegel.
Please visit LifeLabNotes.com for information about each date's story, its writer and performers, and the musicians who added their magic.
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