A Very Buffoons Christmas

0:10 Oh, hey there, oh hey there. How are you, kate? I'm good. Hey, we're the History Buffoons, that's right. I just wanted to say that right away. I felt like we were going to forget otherwise, oh dear. We'll remember one of these days. We keep saying that and we still don't. Well, mark our words. Please don't Don't hold us to anything. I don't want to be held accountable for remembering what we're supposed to do. So Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you. Yeah, we decided to do a last-minute Christmas episode. Yeah, yeah, we're um. We decided to do like a last minute Christmas episode. Yeah, Cause we figured well, why not? Cause we aren't busy enough.

0:51 Yeah, that's what that means that's the thing is, we are Um cause yeah well things going on, Hi kitty cats. We had a major snowstorm last night, but then, like in the grand scheme of things, it really wasn't no, it was. I mean mainly overnight, which is good for most people, except for people like me who have to wake up at three in the morning and I lost that on four services last night because because of it when it started, yeah, yeah which sucks. But uh, better safe than sorry, I guess for sure but yeah, I mean by I don't know, 9, 30, 10 o'clock.

1:33 Roads are fine again yeah, so yeah which is nice that sun is not letting us down no sun came out. it was good. It was nice to see that for a change instead of the all the gray clouds we've been seeing lately. So, yeah, so that's been good. Yeah, kitty battle. Fight, fight, fight. Frankie and Penny look like they're playing patty cake. It's pretty great actually, because Frankie's on his hind legs. That is awesome. It's like a really tame version of Rock'em Sock'em Robots. That's right yeah, yeah, oh it's. Oh, no, penny, you got his eye, honey was it his eye or his nose, I don't know. Either way, it was his face it was his face penny, that is not nice okay.

2:18 Well, there's never a dull moment in my house um maybe it wasn't. No, I don't think it was. I think it was his nose, but I'm not sure. That wasn't good. Let's move on. Let's move on to a beer. So I have something. So I don't do sours at all, so this will be interesting. This is from Revolution Brewing. It's called Freedom of Speech Session Sour Ale with Peaches peaches yeah, it is a 4.5 alcohol and it says lush peach character, refreshing tart finish those peaches were literally put in a can proudly brewed only it's underlined, only in chicago only yeah so yeah, that's what I'm at I have a great lakes vibatious, juicy, vibatious double ipa.

3:13 I've had their regular vibatious. That's why I wanted to try this one, because I've never I this is newer since my days of selling them are you saying vibatious with a, b? That's literally what I'm saying. yes, they're coming up with new words now. Huh I know that dictionary is going to get thick. All right, cheers to you. Cheers Merry. Christmas, it's at the back of my throat. That's pretty good. That sour is coming through. Oh, I bet it is, but it's good that sour is coming through. Oh, I bet it is, but it's good, I like it. Okay, okay, christmas episode let's do this. I'm not going to ask you a question.

3:54 Oh man, I'm going to ask you one, two, three, four, five questions. Oh dear, I wasn't told I had to study for a test. It actually kind of is. It's a quiz, oh Lord. So I'm going to ask the question but I do not want you to respond For the listeners. If you want to take the episode to think about the answers, I will say the answers at the end. Okay. Okay, so the first question. So ruminate in your mind. All right. First question. First question. I had to swallow first, so ruminate in your mind. All right, first question, first question gotta swallow them peaches what was the first christmas carol broadcast from space?

4:35 oh, jesus number two okay what was the original name of the night before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore? Okay. How many packages does USPS deliver during the holidays, true or false? Jingle Bells was always a Christmas song, and the last one what's the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time? Okay, okay, so y'all ruminate, okay, ruminating so hold on while she burps everybody this. Um, this topic kind of stemmed from my mom.

5:17 Um, she was reading I think she said she was reading the Oregon Trail book, because we grew up in Nebraska and it goes right through there. And she said during Christmas time she had a question for herself. It was basically like why did people start celebrating Christmas in their homes as opposed to churches? And so she did her own research and so she suggested this topic for me. Okay, so I'm actually kind of going to expand a little bit off that and start with, like, the history of christmas kind of thing okay not quite the origin right like jesus christ like we know we don't need that, yeah but um more like modern day christmas it's um christmas traditions throughout history kind of thing.

6:07 Yeah, I guess that's more like what I meant. Okay, so it goes way back. Okay. Early Christians and Roman emperors actually tried to squash pagan practices, closing down sacred places and banning rituals and games that honored pagan gods. Yep, but getting everyday people to change their habits was a little rough. Yeah, I won't say anything. Okay, continue. I don't want to get yelled at again. We tried one thing and I got yelled at for answering, so I'm just going to let you keep going. So there is a thing called Saturnalia. Yeah, Sheldon talks about it. Does he? Yeah, weeldon talks about it, does he? Yeah, we're talking about Big Bang Theory, correct?

6:48 It is absolutely necessary to watch. It is, if you enjoy humor, which we do, great show. So Saturnalia is a super popular pagan festival that's been around for centuries. So it's a week-long Roman festival and it's held in mid-December, around the winter solstice, correct? And it's honoring the agricultural god, saturn. Oh duh. No, it's Jupiter. Oh, I thought it was Mars. And it's celebrated since the 5th century BCE. Wow Is a long time. I mean, that's a long time ago, yeah. So many of its traditions just ended up kind of getting folded into Christmas, correct.

7:30 So Saturnalia involved giving to friends and families gifts like candles and coins and food. Yep, less. Formal clothes were worn, games were played, feasts were enjoyed Pretty much everything I want to do. Play games and feast Exactly. Okay and open gifts. Well, that too yeah. So I don't like things because I have enough of things, but I still like things. You know, I am a product of the times. Okay, okay, moving on, he's looking at me funny, I am a product of the times. Okay, okay, moving on. He's looking at me funny. During the Middle Ages, which is about from 500 to 1500, christmas really took off and it became the biggest holiday of the year.

8:14 A full 12 days, from Christmas Eve to January 5th, was celebrated, and things were generally quiet in the farmlands, and so that's kind of when they celebrated it right. Hence the 12 days of christmas so everyone, rich and poor, decorated their houses with greenery like holly ivy and mistletoe. Yep, so those plants have been special to the celts for ages. Um, and they, they thought that they kind of warded off bad luck and brought fertility. Okay. So you'd often see a huge mistletoe wreath hanging up, which is where the whole kissing under the mistletoe thing comes from, and then you'd pluck off a berry with each kiss.

8:57 Oh, really, yeah, I didn't know that part of it Isn't that cute, that's adorable. It's adorable. What? happens when all the berries are gone. No more kissing oh shit. Yep, you got to wait for New Year's Eve then, I guess. So Yum yum, okay so. That was terrible. Well, christmas centered on celebrating Jesus Christ Superstar With church attendance. It was often mandatory to go, and local churches would put on um special services much like what you would see today. Right there were candlelights and unveiling of ornate altar pieces and there were choir performances and they um added songs and then dialogues, which are called troping.

9:44 I've heard of that word. Really, I have not. I've heard of the word. I couldn't have told you what it meant. Yeah, so troping is just like added dialogue in between songs. Sure, so troping eventually led to the tradition of nativity plays, oh, complete with costumes and sometimes even live animals. Well, I mean, yeah, that makes sense. So people gave gifts at Christmas, inspired by the wise men's gifts. I was going to say that's probably because they didn't have CGI back then. Right, probably Okay, no, yeah, Anyway, sorry, that was random. People gave gifts. Yes, inspired by the three wise men. Frankincense and myrrh and some gold inspired by the three wise men frankincense and myrrh, and some gold.

10:28 Yeah, that's right, good job. Yeah, uh, rich people gave fancy clothes and jewelry, while poor folks were happy with like nicer food, some firewood, simple toys, more like necessities. Yeah, instead of frivolity exactly sometimes people who worked for lords had to give them extra food. Oh, that's a dick move. While the lords might give their workers clothes or winter supplies. Okay. So then there were gifts on New Year's Day. They called them first gifts. First gifts. And people thought they could tell your luck for the whole year. So another thing was first footing, okay, and whoever was the first person to visit your house on new year's day, um, was going to be what the year would tell you.

11:14 So, essentially, people wanted the first person coming to their house to be a dark-haired, flat-footed man. Apparently that was super lucky, really, yeah. So people would go out and sell it and go to each other's houses, and so just the first person who shows up at your door is what your, your future year is going to look like that is weird super. I mean a dark-haired flat-footed man, flat-footed man. Oh man. Okay, he got to have art support issues. No kidding, it's probably from the sandals they used to have to wear. Yeah, so food was a huge deal back then as well.

11:55 Yeah, rich people really went all out serving things like roasted peacock. Must be at a zoo. What Must be at a zoo A swan or even a boar's head, plus salmon, oysters, nom noms for dessert. But dessert they had things like um nuts, oranges, cakes, fruit custards, figs, dates do they have figgy pudding? yes, let's just go with. Yes, yes they also drank um spiced wine, cider and ale, cool. So the big christmas meal was usually like an early lunch, and then they'd have all sorts of entertainment music, acrobats, jesters yeah, oh geez okay, isn't that cool I mean why don't I ever have christmas acrobats?

12:46 what the hell? I feel like I've been missing out my whole life so things could actually get pretty wild at these parties. I would expect, especially with the, the cider and the yeah, the. Ale and all that um, so they would actually pick. So the 12th night, um, the night before, so January 5th, that night would tend to be the biggest parties because it's the end of the 12th night and they would actually pay watchmen to make sure no one wrecked anything. Oh, really yeah, that's funny. So while the wealthy feasted, the poor enjoyed simpler entertainment like cards, dice, carols, music, board games, storytelling, everything that we do I mean, oh hi, I'm poor, how are you?

13:34 A popular game involved finding a bean in a special cake to become king for the day. Oh, do you think that's like the mardi gras cake and the king? what's the mardi gras cake and the king? isn't there like a mardi gras cake, where there's a king hidden inside and whoever has the king is king for the day, or whatever? if there is. I am not familiar with that tradition well, stay tuned for a future episode do you? Do you bring up the hiding, the pickle in the christmas tree at all? I do not okay, I didn't hear about that till I moved to wisconsin I didn't know about that until I met sarah yeah. So churches, um, provided free public entertainment like puppet shows and pageants, and the medieval tradition of helping the less fortunate fortune also continued, with leftovers given to the poor, and some were even invited to like big christmas feasts and stuff like that.

14:33 Nice, okay. So, as the middle ages wrapped up, the church didn't have quite as much control over everyone's lives, um though you still, at the time, had to go to church services by law, by law. That's just wild. But the reformation, which wasn't big on fancy church stuff, made Christmas services a bit less secular. Okay. Spectacular, not secular I was like Spectacular, spectacular. I swear this is my first beer of the day. Mine too you wouldn't know during the time of Queen Elizabeth the first, around 1558 to 1603, holy days, which people were starting to call holidays, were still a big deal, but people were also coming up with more non-religious things to do for fun.

15:30 So Advent used to be a time for fasting before Christmas, starting in late November, but it was turning into more of a countdown to the 12 days of Christmas. Hence the Advent calendar. Yeah, so more kids were also going to school at this point and they would have like two weeks off, so it was like a big countdown for them too. Well, yeah, because they were excited to have off. I mean I would be, I always was. So, I miss those. People would keep getting gifts and being charitable. And then New Year's gifts. New Year's Day gifts were still a big thing as well. Okay. Even Queen Elizabeth got fancy presents. We're talking jewels and grounds and grounds gowns.

16:10 I was going to say like grounds, like coffee rounds. Jewels and gowns. Tiaras Coffee gowns. Tiaras. The regular folk gave things like pins and gloves or fruit. Did you ever see Queen Elizabeth I's gloves? No, she had ridiculously long fingers. Yeah, yeah, like. I'll have to show you a picture sometime, because they still have her gloves. Like yeah. Somewhere, somewhere, wherever the fuck that is that they're kept and they're like weird. She had really weird hands so everyone was looking forward to the feud, the food okay maybe I need more drink people are gonna fight over that.

16:57 The food, the food feud, the food feud. Oh lord, I can't say that too many times um, the christmas feast had gotten so huge that it took way longer to get ready, so the holiday started earlier on Christmas Eve afternoon. Weird. Yeah, and now Christmas Day itself. The 25th was the main day for parties and celebrations. Huzzah. Huzzah. Houses were still decked out with greenery and candles and the Christmas feasts were full of meat and seafood stuff people usually wouldn't eat on like a regular basis, right, they loved pies and spiced fruit cakes, nuts, pickled pork. They called it brawn like I'm pretty sure nathan would like pickled pork.

17:38 He likes pickled. Anything, does he? that's something I could just not get into. I just no, thank you and games cards and other entertainment were still really popular. Sure, the name christmas itself faced criticism during the reformation burp burp due to its catholic connotations, and the puritans even banned the holiday altogether those fucking puritans, yeah no one listened of course, because they're like we've been doing this forever, we're not, we're not gonna stop yeah, so they continue good, good for them the ban was lifted in 1660, uh, firmly establishing christmas as the year's most important celebration.

18:22 Oh, yeah, yeah, so the well. The way we celebrate christmas really jumped forward during queen elizabeth's nope, queen victoria's time, okay, and this is where my mom kind of picked up on on her research gotcha. So queen, queen victoria was, uh, reigned from 1837 to 1901 okay, for time frame's sake. So she brought in a bunch of new traditions that we still do today. The Victorians were really into the idea of a perfect old-fashioned Christmas from the Middle Ages. Trying to bring it back basically. So people kept doing things like going to church on Christmas morning, having big feasts, playing games, giving gifts, big feasts, playing games, giving gifts.

19:07 So just a quick side note establishing the christmas tree tradition in the united king kingdom belongs to um queen charlotte okay so it was thought that um queen victoria's husband, prince albert, brought over the christmas tree. Oh tradition, so it was actually queen charlotte. She was the german wife of george iii, and she set up the first known christmas tree at queen's lodge, windsor, in december 1800 is it true that the germans hang their christmas tree upside down? I? Don't know I've always heard that throughout my whole life. Oh, never looked into it never looked into it no so legend into it. No, so legend has it that Martin Luther, the religious reformer, invented the Christmas tree, I mean I don't think he invented trees, but Okay.

19:55 So the story goes. In 1536, Luther was walking through a pine forest near his home when he suddenly looked up and saw thousands of stars glinting jewel-like among the branches of the trees, and this sight inspired him to set up a candle-lit fir tree in his house at Christmas to remind his children of the starry heavens. How many houses do you think burned down? Oh man? How many houses do you think burned down? Oh man, because, like we put, like when I, like when I was little, the Christmas lights we had, I can't believe our house didn't burn down. Yeah, cause they were like the super hot ones and whatever. Yeah, old, not like the led, like everything is today which burns a lot. It doesn't burn, but yeah, it was a lot, not as hot, whatever.

20:35 But anyways, to finish that, so like the lights we had I remember, like the old bulbs and everything, I can't believe like they didn't burn the tree down. But in his time let's put candles in a fucking pine tree. Yeah, isn't that crazy. That is wild, because that couldn't have. I mean, some people had to burn shit down. Anyways, so by 1605, decorated. Christmas trees had made their appearance in southern germany. An anonymous writer recorded how at you will tie the inhabitants of strasburg set up fir trees in their parlors, okay, and hang there on roses, cut out of many colored paper apples, wafers, gold foil sheets, sweets, etc okay so in other parts of germany um box trees or use or brought indoors at christmas time instead of furs.

21:28 Okay, so, as I said, prince albert queen, victoria's husband, popularized the christmas tree in britain after 1841 okay, he was also german, yeah, and he actually made it a widespread tradition oh nice so there were illustrated magazines that people would read, and they had the royal family in front of their tree yes, in front of their tree. And that's how it spread. That's how that tradition spread okay so they were. They were illustrated in a magazine. Oh, oh wow. That's crazy. And I will have that picture on our social media Awesome. So the decorated fir tree adorned with candles and small gifts soon replaced mistletoe as the central Christmas decoration.

22:12 Okay. So people started singing carols a lot more during Victorian times, with families singing around the piano or groups of carolers going door to door for a treat. They would end up getting treats from people hot pies or a drink or something. Oh for doing what they were doing. They're like thanks for the song, here's a whatever. Yeah, exactly Okay. So carols have been around for a while, but the Victorians really made them popular, digging up really old ones and then writing new ones. Sure, for a while, but the victorians really made them popular, digging up really old ones and then writing new ones sure, plus, they had a better mail system now and they had their first postage stamp called the penny black, the penny black. So sending letters was a lot easier. What's the penny black?

22:52 it was their first postage stamp I got that. Thank you for repeating yourself. Absolutely. That's all the research I have put into that. Thank you very, very much. Let's move on, touche. So that's how Christmas cards kind of took off. They were first introduced in 1843. They were super fancy with pictures and sometimes even ribbons and lace. Oh wow, yeah, a lot of them had snowy scenes, because England had had some really bad winters in the 1830s and 40s and that kind of cemented the idea of the perfect like white christmas can I interject something here real quick from a personal standpoint? yeah, and that. So we have a family friend, and if anyone in my family misses this which I don't think they do, which is kind of sad thanks, family.

23:35 But um, we have a family friend, love this guy to death. I went to germany with him. That just gives it away, because it's not my brother, who's the only other person that went with me. He has some weird theories of life, and one of them was that cardinals migrate south for the winter, and do you like, do you know what? Like? One of the most popular Christmas card scenes is Cardinal in winter, a cardinal in a tree with snow on it and everything. Yeah, so we always joke that we should send him one, but anyways. So carol singing also became popular. So families singing at home and carolers visiting the houses for treats right, Yep, yep, Um.

24:21 So family singing at home and Carol Carolers busy in the houses for treats Right. So while Carol's existed before, the Victorians revived, the old ones wrote new ones. I already read all this. Do you? Do you know what the first ever Carol was? Uh, I don't know if I read that. All right, moving on. Yeah. I wasn't sure if that's something that came up when you were looking at it. No, I did not see that. That's all right. So Father Christmas originates from the 4th century St Nicholas, a gift-giving bishop. A gift-giving bishop. Yes. Okay. The legend of gold delivered via chimney into a sock established the familiar delivery method.

25:03 Oh yeah, so St Nicholas is celebrated on December 6th in many countries, and this was never a thing for my family. Yeah, you had mentioned that, because I told you that we did something for the kids. Yeah. Can you explain what St Nicholas Day is a little bit, or how you celebrated it? But you actually had to crack and everything and usually some chocolate and whatever that we got. But like the orange is a very traditional thing from I don't know from when, but basically all we do nowadays we give them some treats and a little toy or something and we do do that on the night of the fifth, so the morning of the sixth they get it.

25:58 Yeah. But that's all we really do. But my mom cause that's how she was raised too, with the traditional like getting an orange and I think an apple as well, or whatever it was. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember, but um, but yeah, it was just getting like some treats, basically more practical than just like candy, even when I was a kid. But we just give the kids candy that's readily available, it is yeah. So the way we picture Santa Claus got even clearer, thanks to writers and artists. So there was a poem from 1823 called A Visit from St Nicholas, which was Twas the Night Before Christmas.

26:38 Okay. And that really helped create the idea of Santa as a happy, chubby guy who flies around in a sleigh and comes down chimneys. And then there was an artist named Thomas Nast who drew pictures of Santa in the 1800s and those drawings really locked in the image, as with a red suit and the whole North Pole thing. So is it not true that Cocaca-cola made him red? um, so I don't think they made him red, but they really popularized popularized that image. Okay, 100, they did because I mean on all their packaging. Yeah, this time of year it's all santa and whatever, okay, yeah so, as people started having a bit more money, they wanted something special for Christmas dinner.

27:20 So, roast beef was popular in some places Goose as well. A lot of people have ham as well. Yes, exactly Ham, but turkey. This is when turkey became a big thing. Really Not just for Thanksgiving, huh. Yeah, Even families who really weren't able to afford them. They even got turkeys. Oh yeah, did Scrooge buy them for him their christmas meal had all sorts of stuff, so they had soup and oysters, lamb, jelly, fruits, nuts and whatever treats they could manage, sure. And then for dessert there was christmas pudding, but they called it plum pudding plum. I've heard of that yep, and they'd hide a silver coin inside like how they would hide the bean in the cake in the Middle Ages.

28:02 Okay, so this pudding all decorated with holly and they actually set it on fire with brandy or rum. Oh sweet. Yeah, like opa Flambeau yeah. And of course they had mince pies, iced Christmas cake, which came from the spice fruit cake that they used to eat in. Queen Elizabeth's time Yep yep, so Victorian Christmas traditions preserved for future generations by the writers of the period, such as Charles Dickens, who wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. Yes, so the original spiced fruit cake that where, like the fruitcake, tradition came from then.

28:43 Yes, and why did everyone just start hating the fact that people would give out fruitcake? because there's so many better things out there, you're not wrong, you're 100 right. But I always thought that was a weird tradition, but I never knew it like came from victoria victorian times. That's when that started. We are gonna have some pecan pie tonight. Yeah, yeah, but not fruitcake. Nope. Nope. So using Mary M-E-R-R-Y for those who might be confused. Oh, I'm like M-E-R-R-Y what. Using Mary as part of the Christmas greeting is first recorded in 1534. That's that old yeah. I wouldn't have guessed that.

29:23 It was in a December 22nd letter from Bishop John Fisher to Thomas Cromwell. As I say as soon as he said Thomas, I'm like Cromwell. Yes, so John Fisher closed the letter with quote and this our Lord God send you a Merry Christmas. End quote Huh. I didn't realize it was that old. Yeah, so Thomas Cromwell was the chief minister to Henry VIII. There it is. So it is perhaps appropriate to note that Fisher was actually in prison at the time. He was sent to the Tower of London by King Henry VIII because he opposed the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn and took over the Church of England.

30:06 Yeah, well, a lot of people oppose that whole ordeal. So Charles Dickens played a big role in making Merry Christmas the go-to greeting A Christmas Carol. His book used the phrase 21 times. Wow. And the catchy Christmas carols of the time also helped cement the phrase in our minds. Additionally, the changing English language led to a decline in the use of Mary as a standalone word, but it remained prevalent in specific phrasesises, phrases such as merry christmas. Gotcha so worried that merry christmas might sound a bit too rowdy because you remember, like the 12th night and how crazy they could be.

30:50 Yeah, the british upper class, including the royal, stuck with happy christmas like in harry potter, but did you notice in the movies they changed it. They started out with happy christmas and then they I'm like that's sad, Be consistent, goddammit. So this choice stuck around in the UK and might have even helped make Merry Christmas even more popular in America, as because Americans were newly independent and they didn't want to do things the British way. That is true, good point. And that's why we have such different spellings of words between the Americans and the Brits. Well, even just the word gray. G R a E G R E Y. Yeah, which one's American? I use them both interchangeably Cause I don't know.

31:30 Well, cause it doesn't matter, Cause it's the same thing, but I believe the AY is. That's right. I always get it mixed up, so it doesn't matter. So now Mary is tied to Christmas as more cheerful and cozy festivities, etc. Yeah, because people don't say have a fucking Christmas, no, no, not so much. Okay you ready for that quiz? No I will help. Thank you With the answers. Well, because I I'm not gonna get it right okay, what was the first christmas carol broadcast from space? It is very, very popular. Okay, can I? Get a hint um it's noisy mariah carey let me, let me, let me give you a timeframe.

32:21 Jingle Bells that will help. Yes, okay, you said noisy, she's fucking noisy, I'm not wrong. I should have given you a timeframe. Yeah. So Jingle Bells was played on December 16th 1965. Okay, During NASA's Gemini 6A space flight. Nice. Astronauts played it on harmonica and backed by miniature sleigh bells really. Yeah, that's wild okay, I said this one in the story okay, that doesn't mean I remember it what was the original name of twas? The night before christmas by clement clark moore I missed it. A visit from saint nicholas. Okay, after mo first wrote the poem, he read it to his children on Christmas Eve and a friend who was visiting was so impressed that she sent it to the newspaper, who published it in the next year, in 1823.

33:10 Okay, did she get permission? How many packages does USPS deliver during the holidays? I can tell you how many they don't. Oh boy, I mean, it's got to be like we're during the holidays. I can tell you how many they don't. Oh boy, I mean, it's gotta be like we're in the billions. Billions, yeah, five billion 15. Holy balls, billion pieces of mail and about 800 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. That is wild, that is. Man, they better get paid, well, they don't. Okay, true or false, false. Was that your final answer? Yes. Jingle Bells was always a Christmas song, correct?

33:52 False, I knew that one. Jingle Bells was written in the mid-19th century by James Pierpont while he experienced a bout of homesickness homesickness while living in savannah, georgia. So some believe it was originally written for the christmas nope the thanksgiving program at his father's church okay and although jingle bells is now a staple, there's no mention of christmas or any other holiday in the song so when did jingle bell rock come out? some historical accounts report that the tune was first performed for a Thanksgiving service at the church of either Pierpont's father or brother, but the lyrics might have been too risque Too risque? Yes, wow, it's funny you listen to that.

34:33 There's no risque at all in that, so hold on Giving the songwriter's rebellious nature because he was not a family man and that's the during that time you had to be family right, sure, he was. He was off on his own all the time and apparently that was rebellious okay so jingle bells had a little bit of a rebel without a cause attitude. They're less known verses of the song describe picking up girls oh, oh really. Drag racing on snow and a high-speed crash. Wait, there's more verses to it. The lyrics quote go it while you're long, end quote. And the final verse is hardly about a holy or a spirit holy or a silent night.

35:13 So Did you say, when it actually kind of became more Christmassy engaged? I did not say that A time frame. Do you have that or no? Nope, that was not part of my research. Okay, I think we need to rename the podcast. That was not part of my research. So the last one, yes, what's the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time, as of today? White Christmas. False. I know what else. Well, I mean, it's got to be a classic one, but it's, it is not. Elf. No, it is not a classic one. Silent Night, deadly Night what is that?

35:54 I think it's like a horror movie that came out not that long ago or last I don't know 20 years. It is in fact from 2018. 2018. The animated Grinch. That's right. Yes, okay, as soon as you say yeah. It overthrew Home Alone. Yep. Grossing nearly $513 million. Wow, I haven't even seen that one. I've seen the Jim Carrey one. I've seen the original cartoon. I don't care for the Jim Carrey one. Personally I like him. I don't mind it.

36:38 But I like the original animated one with Boris Karloff narrating and all that. But I know someone who would watch that newer grinch with you. I think her name is vesper yes perfect because I think she calls it ginch ginch. Yeah, something like that. I'll watch the grinch with her she would love that because she absolutely is in love with that movie right now because obviously the time of the year and whatever. But and there's a puppy in it well, and she's just, she can I don't know she recognizes more shit like that now yeah because a year ago she's only what a year and four months. Now she's over two, so she absolutely loves it, so yeah so that's christmas through history christmas through history. Yeah, very nice.

37:18 Yeah, it's just kind of funny how, like some traditions came and went and came back and people stuck with some and said fuck you to others. You know like I'm not gonna not do that kind of thing. Let's not get a peacock on on christmas day, please unless we go to a zoo yeah, that's different, all right, so what? do you think of your beer? Uh, it was good. It's been a long time since I had the regular Vibacious and yes, I said Vibacious, not whatever you were thinking? Vibacious, like the actual word. Well, yeah, it's just a new word, I just hit my microphone. Anyways, no, it was good. Not as juicy as I thought it might be, but I don't know why. I thought it would have been more, but no, it was. It was delicious.

37:58 What'd you think of your peach sour? I enjoyed my freedom of speech speech. Speech from from revolution brewery. It's not as sour as I was thinking it was thankfully Cause I. I like sour, but I don't know if I could have a whole drink of sour, so I totally understand. This was a nice introduction to sours. There you go. I totally understand. This was a nice introduction to Sours. Well, there you go. Yeah, that's not too bad, then. Yeah, and it was put there by a man in a factory downtown. Millions of peaches, peaches for me, yep, okay. Nope, this is Christmas, all right, well. Merry Christmas to everybody. Have a wonderful, wonderful day.

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