Latest / The Karel Show / The True Meaning of Christmas

Transcript

The True Meaning of Christmas · The Karel Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Time is here. No time to fear.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Corilla is so near because show time is here.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: Carilla is the one that you need to know.
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 0:15
  Speaker 5: It's show side.
• 0:29
  Speaker 6: It's here, It's here, Santa's Big night. It is Christmas Eve.
• 0:33
  Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about why we celebrate and what's in
• 0:36
  Speaker 6: the history of some of our favorite songs on this
• 0:38
  Speaker 6: fabulous Christmas Eve, twenty twenty five.
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: Uncensored, unfiltered, fun hinged.
• 0:49
  Speaker 7: It's the Corall Cast. Listen daily on your favorite streaming service.
• 0:59
  Speaker 6: It is the crowd. I am Carrel so very glad
• 1:02
  Speaker 6: you are joining me on this Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December
• 1:07
  Speaker 6: twenty fourth, twenty twenty five. We made it, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:11
  Speaker 6: The holiday season. This is it. This is the peak
• 1:14
  Speaker 6: of the holiday season. The next thing is New Year's Eve,
• 1:17
  Speaker 6: and then nothing until Valentine's Day after that. I'm so
• 1:21
  Speaker 6: glad you're joining me. My little festive background for today
• 1:24
  Speaker 6: and tomorrow. Although with my computer here you can't see
• 1:26
  Speaker 6: the little presents that are back there, but oh well,
• 1:29
  Speaker 6: you still see the tree. I hope you're having a
• 1:33
  Speaker 6: lovely holiday season. I hope you're having a lovely day today.
• 1:37
  Speaker 6: Maybe some of you are craze getting everything ready for
• 1:39
  Speaker 6: tonight or tomorrow. Maybe some of you aren't doing a thing.
• 1:43
  Speaker 6: Maybe you don't even have a tree up and you're
• 1:45
  Speaker 6: just chilling whatever you might be doing. I'm so honored
• 1:49
  Speaker 6: and glad to be here with you on this Christmas Eve,
• 1:52
  Speaker 6: my sixty third Christmas Eve of my lifetime. But I
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: can probably remember what like fifty nine of them. Fifty Yeah,
• 2:02
  Speaker 6: about when you're about four or five is when you
• 2:04
  Speaker 6: start remembering, and you know, before we begin with the
• 2:08
  Speaker 6: history of Christmas and all of that, I just really
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: wanted to let today's show be as nostalgic as you
• 2:15
  Speaker 6: want to be. Look, I grew up poor, but I
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: still loved Christmas Eve. Oh how I loved it because
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: I knew, no matter what, no matter what, the next morning,
• 2:27
  Speaker 6: my parents would still have something special for me. If
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: Mom sold Avon, I might just get avon. You know,
• 2:35
  Speaker 6: I didn't always get the fancy presents, the bicycles, the telescopes.
• 2:40
  Speaker 6: I did get wonderful things though throughout the year's chemistry
• 2:43
  Speaker 6: sets that they won't even sell today because we could
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: blow people up. Oh, wood burning kids where we could
• 2:49
  Speaker 6: literally burn people's eyes out with them. Our toys when
• 2:52
  Speaker 6: we were kids were murderous, weren't they. We could. You know,
• 2:56
  Speaker 6: there's so many different toys that we had that could
• 2:58
  Speaker 6: blow up or blow things up or kill us. Jarts,
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: those outdoor lawn darts charts, I got some of those.
• 3:05
  Speaker 6: You hurled those through the air. If you missed, you're
• 3:07
  Speaker 6: getting pail somebody. But oh well, you know, we all managed,
• 3:10
  Speaker 6: We all lived, and so it was a really nostalgic time.
• 3:15
  Speaker 6: My parents would let me stay up late because at
• 3:19
  Speaker 6: the eleven o'clock news they would lead the news with
• 3:23
  Speaker 6: the Santa Tracker. How many of you remember the Santa Tracker.
• 3:27
  Speaker 6: They would lead the news with the Santa Tracker and
• 3:30
  Speaker 6: it was from Noorad the Air Force. The Air Force
• 3:34
  Speaker 6: kept track of where Santa was. Now, you can't explain
• 3:38
  Speaker 6: to a kid that in order for Santa to get
• 3:41
  Speaker 6: all over the world in one night to deliver toys,
• 3:45
  Speaker 6: he would need a wormhole, or he would need a
• 3:49
  Speaker 6: corn hole, no, no different, Santa, or he would need
• 3:52
  Speaker 6: you know, he would need to travel at the speed
• 3:54
  Speaker 6: of light and noor Ad wouldn't be able to track him.
• 3:58
  Speaker 6: But you couldn't tell a kid that, Oh, no, he
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: was over the North Pole, you know. Oh he's he's
• 4:04
  Speaker 6: heading to to you know, North America. Oh it was.
• 4:08
  Speaker 6: It was magic, is what it was. We were innocent,
• 4:13
  Speaker 6: you know, nineteen sixty five, sixty six, sixty four, sixty three.
• 4:17
  Speaker 6: You know, I was a kid at sixty two and six,
• 4:20
  Speaker 6: born in sixty two, So it was magical times. Christmas
• 4:26
  Speaker 6: was less. When I say less, we didn't have it
• 4:30
  Speaker 6: for months. We had it after Black Friday, and it
• 4:35
  Speaker 6: wasn't as commercial as it is today. It really was
• 4:41
  Speaker 6: more about family and gatherings and yes, presence. Who am
• 4:45
  Speaker 6: I kidding? God? You know how many of you tortured
• 4:49
  Speaker 6: your parents on Christmas morning? I mean, that's what they're
• 4:52
  Speaker 6: there for, right and now I wake up at four
• 4:55
  Speaker 6: thirty in the morning to pee on Christmas morning. As
• 4:57
  Speaker 6: a kid, I woke up at four thirty in the
• 4:59
  Speaker 6: morning to get up and get my presence. Oh, and
• 5:03
  Speaker 6: my parents would always be like, oh, let us make coffee. No,
• 5:07
  Speaker 6: you're not supposed to do anything. You're supposed to mark
• 5:10
  Speaker 6: to the tree, march out to that tree and watch
• 5:12
  Speaker 6: me open my gifts.
• 5:15
  Speaker 8: And that.
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: It was always a big deal. At our house opening
• 5:19
  Speaker 6: the presence. Whether it was one present or five, didn't matter.
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: We got you open one tonight on Christmas Eve. Now,
• 5:27
  Speaker 6: Christmas Eve is more Christmas to me then you know,
• 5:33
  Speaker 6: Christmas Day. Christmas Day is kind of anticlimactic for me.
• 5:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know about you, but remember on Christmas Day
• 5:42
  Speaker 6: tomorrow morning when you would go out and everybody was
• 5:46
  Speaker 6: out playing with their new Christmas gifts. That doesn't happen
• 5:50
  Speaker 6: any but it wasn't that cool when it did. People
• 5:54
  Speaker 6: would have their new bikes, their new skates, their new telescopes,
• 5:57
  Speaker 6: their new this or knew that.
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: If you're not visiting really carell dot com daily, you're
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: missing out. Get the podcast videos and the blug including
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: recipes at really correll dot com. That's really k A
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: R e l dot com.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Show Time is here.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: No time to fear Corill is so near because.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Show time is here. So on with the show. Let's
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: give it a go.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: Corell is the one that you need to.
• 6:27
  Speaker 6: Know, So please share with me down below some of
• 6:31
  Speaker 6: your Christmas Eve memories. I'm sure some of us have
• 6:35
  Speaker 6: had some pretty crappy Christmas ees. I have things have
• 6:39
  Speaker 6: gone wrong, people have died, people are in the hospital.
• 6:43
  Speaker 6: But you know, there is still a magic to it.
• 6:46
  Speaker 6: I don't believe that it was the birth of Christ,
• 6:48
  Speaker 6: and I don't believe in Santa. Well, I believe in
• 6:51
  Speaker 6: Santa's magic, but I don't, you know, believe in a
• 6:54
  Speaker 6: guy breaking into our house, eating our cookies and then
• 6:57
  Speaker 6: leaving us a present, better known as a trespas home invader.
• 7:03
  Speaker 6: But you know, there are some great memories of Christmas
• 7:06
  Speaker 6: Eve and Christmas Morning because they all sort of blend, right.
• 7:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, once it gets dark, that's it. That's it
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: for me. On Christmas Eve, once it gets dark, it's Christmas.
• 7:16
  Speaker 6: That's it. It is Christmas from the time it gets
• 7:19
  Speaker 6: dark on Christmas Eve until nighttime on Christmas Night. And
• 7:25
  Speaker 6: growing up, you know, you don't really think about why
• 7:28
  Speaker 6: are we doing this? What is you know, what is
• 7:31
  Speaker 6: the genesis of this? You don't really think about that.
• 7:34
  Speaker 6: But as I got older, and I know a lot
• 7:37
  Speaker 6: of you know this already or you know some of
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: it or whatever. But since it's Christmas Eve and Christmas
• 7:43
  Speaker 6: Day tomorrow, we're not going to talk politics topics. Donald Trump,
• 7:48
  Speaker 6: you know, I mean, he's getting a lump of coal, really,
• 7:52
  Speaker 6: and he'll be happy with it because he's all about
• 7:54
  Speaker 6: fossil fuels, so so no love of coal for him.
• 7:57
  Speaker 6: Either give him, I don't know, Nockzema to take off
• 8:01
  Speaker 6: his orange makeup. I don't even know what would you give?
• 8:05
  Speaker 6: What would I give Donald Trump for Christmas? A grenade
• 8:08
  Speaker 6: without the pin?
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Kidding?
• 8:13
  Speaker 6: I just it's a holiday cheer. So I wanted today
• 8:19
  Speaker 6: to tell you a little bit about why we are
• 8:21
  Speaker 6: celebrating today. I mean, a lot of you aren't Christian,
• 8:24
  Speaker 6: a lot of you don't believe in Santa Claus, but
• 8:26
  Speaker 6: you're still celebrating. And believe me, long before the Romans
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: decided that this was to be a Christian holiday, we
• 8:33
  Speaker 6: still celebrated this time of year. We certainly did now.
• 8:38
  Speaker 6: It was called midwinter. It was the midwinter festival season,
• 8:43
  Speaker 6: and it was about the summer soul or the winter solstice.
• 8:45
  Speaker 6: Make no mistake, Our solstice was the twenty first, a
• 8:48
  Speaker 6: few days ago. So the midwinter was a natural festival.
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: It was a season, a festival season. And you know,
• 8:58
  Speaker 6: all cultures did it. It wasn't just like the Dutch
• 9:00
  Speaker 6: or the Germans or the no no, no, all cultures
• 9:03
  Speaker 6: back then, except probably African cultures. Because I doubt that
• 9:07
  Speaker 6: it was winter. Same with Australia, you know, they opposite seasons.
• 9:13
  Speaker 6: But in the northern hemispheres there was a natural festival season.
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: Long before Christianity, harvest was stored. Nights were the longest
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: communities gathered for warmth, for light, and for hope. Across
• 9:28
  Speaker 6: Europe and the Mediterranean, winter festivals often shared recurring motifs evergreens, candles, fires, feasting,
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: social release, getting drunk, getting crazy, dancing, and gift getting.
• 9:45
  Speaker 6: Gift giving. Now remember the evergreens, we'll talk about them.
• 9:51
  Speaker 6: So Saturnalia, which you all probably know about, was Roman
• 9:57
  Speaker 6: and it was in mid to late December. It was
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: a feast, the Feast of Saturnalia, and it was honoring Saturn,
• 10:04
  Speaker 6: the god of Saturn. There was a lot of revelry.
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: It was the Romans reay, debaucherist. There was gift giving.
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: There were a lot of things that we do today
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: that they did during Saturnalia. There was also Invictus or
• 10:20
  Speaker 6: soul Invictus, which would mean Sun in Victus. That was
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: in later Roman religious life. Some later sources connected December
• 10:28
  Speaker 6: twenty fifth, Birth of the Unconquered Sun celebration to the
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: same date that Christians picked for Christmas for the birth
• 10:38
  Speaker 6: of their savior, even though he would not have been
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: born in December. Yet historians debate the direction of influence
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: and the evidence basis for that. The earliest clear Roman evidence,
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: and this was invented by the Romans. The actual Christmas
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: was invented by the Romans for a December twenty fifth
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: celebration of Christ's birth. The first one appears to be
• 11:03
  Speaker 6: in the calendar associated with AD three hundred and thirty six,
• 11:09
  Speaker 6: about four years after Share was born. Kidding, so AD
• 11:14
  Speaker 6: three thirty six often discussed via the Fallocian material compiled
• 11:19
  Speaker 6: later on. So why December twenty fifth, you ask, Well,
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: there's two main explanations. The first is the internal Christian
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: calculation theory. March twenty fifth was treated as the date
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: of the Annunciation and sometimes to crucifixion. Adding nine months
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: yields December twenty fifth. Festival competition and cultural overlay theory
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: that was that Christians may have emphasized the date in
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: a culture already rich with midwinter festivals. Later Roman solar
• 11:54
  Speaker 6: observances may have overlapped or competed, so they picked to
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: date that was had things going on, But wasn't the
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: date of the thing going on. They tried to put
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: it around those festivals so they could get people involved
• 12:15
  Speaker 6: Roman empire and appropriation what God absorbed. Christian leaders generally
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: rejected pagan worship, but they did repurpose familial seasonal symbols
• 12:26
  Speaker 6: such as lights, greenery, and feasting into new Christian meanings.
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: In other words, Christians made stuff up what tends to
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: carry towards in later Christmas cultures, public feasting that was
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: a big deal, special meals, celebratory meals with charity, family, greenery, evergreens,
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: and reefs as symbols of life, symbols of hope, and
• 12:53
  Speaker 6: symbols of endurance. During winter, they brought evergreens into their
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: house to give them endurance to get through the winter
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: where it was very bleak and there was nothing green
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: outside and all the crops and plants were dead, and
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: so the evergreen was still green, so they brought into
• 13:09
  Speaker 6: their house as a way of easing the winter and
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: knowing that the spring would be coming. Candles and lights
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: have symbols of guidance, hope, and in the Christian setting,
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: the light of Christ. But basically candles and Christmas lights
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: happened because it got dark so frick and early four
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: in the afternoon, so to make it seem less dreary
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: and horrible, candles and Christmas lights. The modern Christmas tree
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: tradition is strongly associated with Germans speaking Europeans from the
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: sixteenth century. It spread through Britain and the US in
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: the nineteenth century. Early tree decorations commonly referenced in historical
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: include apples, that's why we have red Christmas ornaments, nuts, wafers,
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: paper ornaments, ribbons, and candles. Candles could burn the tree
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: that you know, it was a problem. In the US,
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: the tree became mainstream in the eighteen hundreds. Mass produced
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: ornaments and retail culture accelerated the look we have today.
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: Those started in the eighteen hundreds as well, So that's
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: pretty new here in America. The eighteen hundreds, When you
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: consider Christmas started back in three thirty six, it's pretty new.
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: Before electricity, candles on trees were useful. They were beautiful
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: and extremely hazardous. Electric holiday lighting spread gradually. The US
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: visibility increased with high profile displays, including the White House
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: tree lighting ceremony in the eighteen hundreds, which was so
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: important because many houses still didn't have electricity, so to
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: see the white house light up a Christmas tree with
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: electric lights, that was a miracle. It was like a
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Chris Stmas miracle. Reeths were again the evergreens. They have
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: older classical meanings victory and honor, and they were later
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: a Christian symbol via the Eternity's circle. So Christmas wreath
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: made out of evergreens symbolizes eternity and rebirth because of
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: the green. The advent wreath is commonly traced to nineteenth
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: century German Protestants. Popular accounts credit Johann Heinrich Wickern would
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: the candle reach wreath as a teaching tool? Mistletoe Why
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: do we kiss under the missletoe? Mistletoe had long standing
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: folklore associations in Europe. The kissing custom appears much later
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: and has debated origins. No one's quite sure, except that
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: people were cold and horny, with evidence pointing to Britain
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: in the eighteenth century, and it was popularized in literature,
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: so people did it. They read about it, so people
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: in books stood under missletone and kissed. So people decided
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: they wanted to do it too. Caroling Christmas carols, which
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: we'll talk about in a minute. It historically meant a
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: song linked to a dance that later became strongly identified
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: with religious and seasonal music the word carol, But the
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: word carol just typically meant a song. Wastling and caroling
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: going house to house with songs while drinking tie into
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: older communal seasonal practices and became a Christmas staple over time,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: again not starting until the seventeen hundreds. So some of
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: the traditions are very new. Seventeen hundreds, eighteen hundreds, fifteen
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: hundreds for the Christmas tree, the sixteenth century Germany. Now
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: when it comes to Santa there's some origins there, right, Uh.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Saint Nicholas was a fourth century bishop, so the three hundreds.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Again he became a legendary gift giver. I bet he did,
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: and so he was the basis for Santa Claus. He
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: was a bishop in the fourth century, in the three hundreds.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: The Dutch Center Claus contributes directly to the English Santa
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Claus Center si n tr Klaas Center Claus. Modern Santa
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: with the red suit and the hat and the north
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: pole and the reindeer, is a composite built over centuries,
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: shaped by poems, illustrations, advertising and in pop culture in
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: the nineteenth and twentieth century. So the whole red you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Santa thing that took hundreds of years to really evolve.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: It didn't just happen all at once. There was Santa Claus,
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: but he didn't wear all the regalia and all of that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: He was Center Claus, and he was an emulation of
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: a bishop that lived in the third century that was
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: a tremendous gift giver. Now in the Alpine regions Austria
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: and Bavaria, Crompus appeared. He was a horned figure associated
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: with the Saint Nicholas season, often a punisher. So Center
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Claus or Saint Nicholas brought you the gifts if you
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: were good. Crompus came for you if you were bad.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: So Santa didn't punish bad kids or not give them gifts.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Saint Nick had nothing to do with that. He had
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: a counterpart, Crompus. And so you wanted Saint Nick to come,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: you didn't want Crompus to come. Crompus will be going
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: to the White House this year, not St. Nay. So
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: I hope they're not planning on seeing anybody addressed this
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: way because all they don't see is a horned figure,
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: because that's who deserves Crompus this year. Medieval and early
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: modern Christmas church observances, local feast and seasonal misrule. Seasonal
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: misrule that means partying and community customs vary by region
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: they do. In the nineteenth century, industrialization and print culture
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: helped standardize it all all right, the family, Christmas, the charity, themes,
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: and then of course retail became a part of Christmas
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: in the eighteen hundreds. In the twentieth century, we just
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: ran with it, movies, radio, TV, advertising, we just ran
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: with it. So we really commercialized it, really, really really,
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: so Christmas didn't just drop out of the sky fully formed.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: It's sort of a collage of winter Solstice culture, Roman
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Empire politics, and of course European folklore. The earliest clear
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: December twenty fifth evidence is in a D three thirty six.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: And you know they emulated Saint Nick because he was
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: a good gift giver. Crompus he helped, he did to
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: And I know y'all have a few people that Crompus
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: could go visit this year. I certainly do. Every member
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: of the cabinet should get a visit from Crompus everyone.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: As for Saint Nick, I think each and every one
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: of you deserves a visit from him. I really do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: As we celebrate a sort of religious feast for some people,
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: a seasonal human need for light and togetherness. That's really
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: what this was about. It was like this need we
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: had for light, for togetherness, for debauchery, and so these
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: cultures and cultural phine coming on submerged. We're also going
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: to talk about the history of Christmas carols, who wrote them,
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: who sings, some of your favorites, and some of the
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: really odd history behind from coming up. So don't go anywhere.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: It is Christmas Eve. I am carel spending it here
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: with you, and I'm still.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Poo poo poo happy about that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Oh I really have that, So I'm over joining. I
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: really am really.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Smat no issues. Side.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: By the way, Christmas is basically European. I open my
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: presence Christmas Eve because that's Christmas Morning in Europe, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: if I were in Europe, I'd have to come up
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: with a different reason to open them on Christmas Eve
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: because that's when I like to open presents. You know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I'll save one or two for Christmas morning. But Christmas Eve,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I like to watch Scrooge, watch the nineteen thirty nine
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: version of a Christmas Carol, open some presents, have some
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: vegan eggnog which they just make with almond and coconut
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: milk and some spices, and then have a lovely dinner
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: and then just be with my dog. You know, that's
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: a lovely Christmas. I don't know what you're doing to know?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: What are you doing tonight? What are you doing tonight? Really?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: What are you doing? You're staying home, You're going to
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: see friends, you have family over. Go ahead and tell
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: me in the comments what are you doing tonight? I'd
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: love to hear what are your traditions for Christmas Eve?
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: What do you do to bring in Christmas tonight? If
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: you're Jewish, hey, It'snica. You know, it's interesting how almost
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: all religions have some sort of festival around Christmas. It's Hanukah, Kwanza.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: You know. I don't know the history of Kwansa. That'd
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: be kind of interesting for me to look up what
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: is the history of Kwansa, because I really don't know
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: what the history of Kwansa is. Do you Let's see
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: if we can figure it out here? What is the
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Kwansa history? According Let's see, oh I can't even pronounce it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Kwanza is an annual cultural celebration created in nineteen sixty six,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: so I was four years old by activists and scholar
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: doctor Molana Karenga Kringa, as a way to unite and
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: empower the African American community by honoring their African heritage.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: The name is derived from the Swahili phrase matunda equanza,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: meaning first fruits. Well, here I am who knew it
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: meant first fruits. Mister Kerenga developed Kwanza in the aftermath
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: of the sixty five Watts Rebellion in La, a period
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: of significant civil unrest. His goal was to create a
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: non religious cultural holiday that would reaffirm African values, foster
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: a sense of community, and restore pride among people of
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: African descent who had lost much of their heritage through enslavement.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: The holiday is modeled on traditional African harvest festivals from
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: various cultures, including those of the Ashanti and the Zulu.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: It's observed from December twenty sixth to January first. It
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: centers around seven core principles, known as the Naguzo saba
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Swahili for seven principles, with one principle emphasized each day. Oh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: isn't that interesting? So each day they ruminate on a principle,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: and those core principles are let's see umoja, unity, kumba, creativity.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: That's very interesting. That's a cool thing to celebrate. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: think I like Kwansa. I do. I think I like
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Kwansa and I like the idea of the seven principles.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: That's that's really cool, you know, celebrating unity. The seven
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: principles of Kwansa. They are let's see unity, self determination,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. Well,
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: those are very Christmas y and they're very fabulous. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: they each day from December twenty sixth to January first,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: they celebrate one of those principles. That's really Instead of
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the twelve days of Christmas, they have the six days
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: of Kwanza, and that's that's really quite cool. And as
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: for Hankah, well, you know, do any of you know
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: what Hanukkah really stands for, why they do it? What
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: it is, It's the Festival of Lights, an eight day
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Jewish holiday celebrating the re dedication of the Second Temple
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: in Jerusalem after the Macabean revolt against Greek Syrian oppression
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: in the second century. So the two hundreds so are
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: another one hundreds. So Hanikkah predates Christmas. It's marked by
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: the miracle of oil burning for eight days, celebrated with
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: nightly menora lighting, special prayers, fried foods like lacas and soukaniel, dradle,
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: games and gives. It begins on the twenty fifth oh
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: so on Christmas it begins. Oh no wait of the
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Hebrew calendar that usually falls in November or December somewhere,
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: so it doesn't fall on the same I believe it
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: doesn't fall on the same day.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Every year.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: They light manoras, they eat fried foods, they play with
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: the dredo, they sing. It lasts for eight days and nights,
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: beginning the twenty fifth of keys Lev kis l Ev
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: In twenty twenty five, that would have been Sunday, December
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: fourteenth through sundown December twenty second, So the keys Lev
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: the twenty fifth day of keys Lev, and that was Sunday,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: December fourteenth this year. So it does change every year.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: It's eight days. It's a festival of Light, celebrates burning
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: of oils, celebrates rededication. The word Hanukkah means dedication, commemorating
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: the cleansing and redirection of the temple. That's really cool too,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: that's a cool thing celebrate, as is kwanza, as is Christmas.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: So lots of cultures celebrating this time of year, pagan celebrating, Festivus,
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: celebrating the winter solstice, but all of us celebrating in December,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: to break the monotony, to break up the winter. All right,
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: when we come back, we're gonna talk about the history
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: of some really popular music. One of them is the
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: biggest selling single of all time, and another has very
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: racist roots, and yet we sing it like it's a happy,
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: joyful song. You're not gonna believe that. I didn't believe it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: I just found that out. Just found it out this
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: week that one of our Christmas carols is basically racist.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: So well, I imagine a lava white Christmas. Hello, don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: say brown Christmas or a black Christmas. Dream it's now Correll,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: it's yeah, yeah, yeah, maga's hoping for a white Christmas.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you that right now. All right, so we'll
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: be back to talk about the history of songs on
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: this Christmas Eve. I hope you've already started your Christmas
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Eve tradition, whatever that might be. I hope you're all
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: cozy snugs and bugs and rugs. Or if it's hot
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: where you are, like here in Vegas it'll be seventy.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Maybe you'll spend it by a pool. Who knows. I've
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: spent many of Christmas outside and something in Long Beach.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: We had barbecues on Christmas before. Oh yes, girls, So
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: come right back for part two of the Carell Cast,
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: where we're gonna talk Christmas music Christmas six which is
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: over today by the way, tomorrow no more Christmas, except
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: it's done over. You don't get to hear it on
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: the twenty sixth.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Nope, no, no, it's broadcasting from a completely different point
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: of view yours.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Listen daily to the.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Corell Cast on your favorite streaming service.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Show Time is here. No time to fear Corilla is.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: So near because show Time is here.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Carell is the one that you need to know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: It's show side.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Alrighty, you know you love all the Christmas carols, but
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: do you really know what you're thinking or why we're
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: gonna tell you. It's Christmas Eve here on the Corral Cast. Uh,
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: and I hope you're having a good time. I'm having
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: a ball Ambers and er Santa.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Suit, uncensored, unfiltered, fun hinged.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: It's a Corrall cast. Listen daily on your favorite streaming service.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: All right, what does the Crowdcast? Part two? On this
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Christmas Eve? So glad you are joining me and sharing
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: some time with me, those of you die hard fans
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: that are doing it. Listenership as we know is down
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: over the holidays, but I'm glad you're here, all right.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: So music, there's no two ways about it. Even before
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: it was named Christmas, there was music. It was a festival.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: People danced. And there's been some Christmas carols that have
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. Others are
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: just brand brand new. Some have interesting stories and summer
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: just songs. What's your favorite Christmas carol? By the way,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: and if it's all I want for Christmas? Is You?
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: By Mariah Carey? Do not put that down below? I
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: just don't. But what is your what is your favorite
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Christmas carol? I'd love for you to comment down below
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: and let me know what is your favorite Christmas carol?
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: And do you have any that are just so sentimental?
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: They always get to you because you think of your
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: mom and your dad, or your brother's sister, your wife,
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: your husband, your children, whatever it might be. You know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: there's one that's such a happy song, really, and I
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: sing a rather untraditional one Alexa play jingle Bells by
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: Barbara streisand sure I love those sounds.
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: By Barbara streisand from Apple Music.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Uh huh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way?
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Yo?
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: What fun it is? Do you ride it a one
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: horse open slay? Hey, jingle best, jingle bells, jingle all
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: the way?
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: What fun it is to ride in a one horse
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: open slay? A dashing through the snow in a one
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: horse open sleigh? Or the fields we go leffing all
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: the way? Hey, bells on Bob Tell's ring making spirits bright?
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Oh what fun it is to sing a slayings? Aren't younight?
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Jingle bes jingle bells, jingle a the way?
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: Yo?
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: What fun it is? Do you ride in a one
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: horse open slay?
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: Jingle jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh?
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Of day or two ago, I thought i'd take a ride,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: And soon Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: The horse was lean and lanking. Miss Ford sho seemed
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: his lot. He got into a drifting bank, and then
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: we got upsot upsot.
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: fun it is to ride in one horse open? Say hey,
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: jingle bells, jingle bell jingle all the way. So you
• 33:26
  Speaker 12: get the point a lexa pause music dashing through the
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: fields of night on this happy Christmas night. Off we
• 33:34
  Speaker 12: go through the snow bells are ringing.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: We'll be singing jingle. Oh get up there, Misscember. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: can't move right now. I'm on air. I can't lift
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: up in the chair. Girl, check as you can. You're
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: singing jingle bells like a fool. You can help me.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Oh it's Christmas Eve. I'll help you up. You want
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: to get up? You want all right? Hold on, everybody
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Amber heaves up in the chair. Here we go, Come
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: on up, we go, there we go. Yes only oh see,
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: I'm sid turn enough lights, I'm all because I gotta
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: help my dog up in the chair. Honey, it's Christmas Eve.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: You gotta do it, you gotta do it. Oh. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: then she got down, that bitch, I get up. I
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: pause the show to get my dog up in the
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: chair and she gets down afterwards. All right. So that's
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: a happy song, right, jingle Bells and Barbara's version very happy.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: It was written by James Lord Pierpont in eighteen fifty seven.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: It was originally entitled one Horse, Open Sleigh. Here's the problem.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: James Pierpont was a minstrel show composer, a staunch racist,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: and the song was originally written for adult entertainment, not
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: for children. Peer Pont supported the Confederacy, and minstrel shows
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: of the era were rooted in racism, caricatures, and blackface performances.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: Although the lyrics themselves do not contain any racial language,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: they do have some inferences in there. The cultural context
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: of its creation places the song within a racist entertainment tradition. Now.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Jingle Bells was the first song broadcast from space in
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: nineteen sixty five during the Gemini six mission. It's ironic
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: that you know the horse being lean and lank, Black
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: people couldn't afford. You know, big Steeds fields of white it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Believe me, I've heard it broken down before. It's a
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: racist song and the guy that wrote it big racist,
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: big huge racys. However, most people don't know that, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: they just enjoy it as a celebration of winter and
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: riding around in a sleigh, which most of us have
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: never done.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: I have. I've lived in Maine.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: At Massachusetts, and I've written in a one horse open sleigh. Actually,
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: and I think.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: People you're missing out.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Get the podcast, videos and the blog including recipes at
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: really correll dot com. That's really k A R e
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: l dot com.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Show Time is here. No time to.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Fear Correll is so near because.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Show time is here. So on with the show. Let's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: give it a go.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Carell is the one that you need to know.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: Alrighty, we are looking at some of our favorite Christmas tunes.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: We just found out that jingle Bells written in eighteen
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: eighteen by I'm Sorry, jingle Bells written in eighteen fifty
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: seven by James Lord Pierpont basically is rooted in racism
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: and he was a big racist himself. Predating that another
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: song you all know, Alexa play Linda Edar Silent Night, Sure.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: Silent Night by Linda Edar from Apple Music.
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: Very Beautiful, Sidhilan Night, Holy Night.
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: Ohas calm as bride round Yon, Vegan, molerent Child, holdly.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Fens Tender and mild.
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: Sleep beenven leaf pea.
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: Sleep beIN hevenly be.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it a marvelous song?
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: And this version is very true to the original acquoir
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: and the string instrument. Oh yes, crist the same.
• 38:34
  Speaker 13: You re.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: Hear that cello alexa pause music. I could hear. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: could just listen to that all the time. Now. That
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: song has a very very cool history. It was written
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: out of necessity, okay the mother of invention Joseph Moore
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: and composer Franz Zavr Gruber. It was written in austral Austria,
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: and the reason it was written was because the church
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: and their choir were getting ready for a Christmas Mass
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: and the organ broke huh, and the organ repair man
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: couldn't get there in time to fix it for Christmas Mass.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: It wasn't like they had the Yellow Pages of the Internet.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: They couldn't just look up an organ repair person and
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: what were they to do? So Joseph Moore and Franz
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: Gruber wrote Silent Night for the guitar. Okay, it was
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: the first Christmas hymn written solely for the guitar. Most
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: were written for the organ. This was written for the guitar.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: It was first sung in a very small church, of course,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: after the organ broke. It emphasizes peace and calm during
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: the Napoleonic War era. Now Silent Night was sung in
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: nineteen fourty. In The Christmas Truth of World War One,
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: it is said that the Americans on Christmas Eve and
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: the trenches were literally you're not even one hundred feet apart.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: So they pop up, shoot you shoot, pop back down,
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: pop up on the other side, shoot you, Papa down,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: and so on Christmas Eve, the Americans started singing Silent Night,
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: and the French started singing Silent Night as well as
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: did the Germans, and all of a sudden, the war stopped.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: It stopped. They came out of the trenches. They exchanged gifts.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: They had cigarettes, matches, bullets, but they exchanged what they had.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: They made coffee, which was a big deal. They shared
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: what they had with ea to other and the next
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: day went back to killing each other, not making that up.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: It's a song that stopped a war, and it was
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: written all because they needed something to play on the guitar.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: All right, let's see what's next, Alexa play White Christmas.
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: Sure, White Christmas by Being Crosby from Apple Music.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Christmas just like you where the trees?
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: Oh bang, Alexa stop. So this was written in nineteen
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: forty two for the movie and Berlin Irving Berlin was
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: a Jewish immigrant from Russia. He went on to write
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: with the best selling single of all time, It is
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: the best. Nothing has sold more copies than White Christmas.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: The song reflects nostalgia for an idealized peaceful America during
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: World War Two, and it truly was about the war
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: and having peace for an evening, and soldiers who were
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: over in foreign lands were dreaming of being back in
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: their own land with the white Christmas and all the
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: Christmas things that they knew, because they of course didn't
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: have those. Now, in something very interesting, the version that
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: you just heard is from a nineteen forty seven re
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: recorded master, and that's because the nineteen forty two master
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: by Bing Crosby was used for reproduction so much wore
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: out and Bing had to go back in in nineteen
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: forty seven and re record it so they could make
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: more records, and more records and more records. The song
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: was that popular they wore out the master and five
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: years after it was originally written in eighteen forty two,
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry in nineteen forty two. In nineteen forty seven
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: they had to re record it so they could continue
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: selling it. Isn't that something? Isn't that something? Alexa play
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Deck the Halls?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: Deck the Halls by Nat king Cole from Apple.
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: Music, Jack Thou Falla la la la la la la
• 43:43
  Speaker 15: la tis the Season two be jolly da la la
• 43:47
  Speaker 15: la la la la la la down me now are
• 43:50
  Speaker 15: gay apparel.
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: Falla la fa la la la la.
• 43:52
  Speaker 15: La the engine U Taca Falla la la la la
• 43:56
  Speaker 15: la la la us die.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: That's a very happy song, particularly by Nat king Cole.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: That is a traditional Welsh melody dating back to the
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: sixteenth century, so the melody existed in the fifteen hundreds.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Lyrics were added in eighteen sixty two by Thomas Oliphant,
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: and he just took an old melody and put these
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: lyrics to it in eighteen sixty two. Now Deck the
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Halls was originally a New Year's song. It wasn't a
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: Christmas song, it was a New Year's song. And the
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: fallow Law refrains those were very, very popular in madrigals
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: of all kinds. Now, the plural halls is not meant
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: meaning hallways. Okay, it was what they referred to the
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: big manor houses, as you know each in hall boulet hall.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: So deck the halls means deck all the houses. I
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: know you probably thought deck the halls meant deck the
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: hallways of your home. Nope, houses used to be called
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: halls or manners, and so deck the halls means deck
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: all the houses. As for gay apparel, honey, you know
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: what that means. Alexa played Judy Garland to have yourself
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: a merry little Christmas.
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: Okay, have yourself a merry little Christmas by Frank Sinatra
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: from Apple Music.
• 45:32
  Speaker 16: I said, Judy Garland, did I know, Merry Christmas, Let
• 45:38
  Speaker 16: your farm, let your heart be light.
• 45:45
  Speaker 14: From now, troubles will be out of side, meaning right now.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: We're in trouble.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: You're so.
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: May Chris More gainus McNeil tide. Okay, I'm all for it.
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: From now, troubles we'll be miles away.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: Alexa stuff. So as you can tell, this is not
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: a happy song. The person singing it is troubled our
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: you know, our troubles will be miles away. Let your
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: heart be light meaning right now your heart is heavy.
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: It was written in nineteen forty four by Hugh Martin
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: and Ralph Blaine for the movie Meet Me in Saint
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Louis with Judy Garland, and she sang it and again
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: it was just too damn depressing, you know, of a song.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: So in nineteen forty five, when Frank Sinatra did a
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: cover of it, he actually requested the lyric changes to
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: make the song more optimistic, and Judy in the movie
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: had done so as well, so it was changed twice.
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: Judy changed some of the lyrics in the movie. Frank
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: Sinatra had even more lyrics changed. And you know it's depressing. Now.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: Can you imagine what it would have been if they
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: had left the lyrics. You know, we'll have to muddle through,
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: and we may not have a home and you know
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: all of that. Can you imagine suicidal? You would have
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: slit your wrist. Now. There have been some controversial Christmas songs,
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: songs that created a stir at the time, and were
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: banned from the radio, and this is one such song.
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: Alexa play I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus.
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: Sure, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus by Jackson five
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: from Apple Music.
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: Mom is kissing.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: Mommy's kissing Seta Clau the whore. At least they were
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: under missiletoe.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: She didn't see me creep.
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: He's a stalker. Uh huh, she tickled Santa Clau Alexa
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: buzz music. So when it originally came out in nineteen
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: thirty nine, I'm Sorry in nineteen fifty two, I was
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: written by Tommy Connor. In nineteen fifty two, when its
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: originally come out, the song caused great controversy because of
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: its sexual implications. Now it's told from the innocence of
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: a child, you know, misunderstanding adult behavior. It's not Santa
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: Claus she's kissing. It's dad. He's dressed as Santa Claus.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: That many radio stations of the day refused to play
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: the song, and it wasn't until later in the nineteen sixties.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: But it was free love and everything was groovy that
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: the song really found its core in American Christmas culture,
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: because many deemed it was just too sexual, just too
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: sexual and it kind of is, you know, kissing him
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: under his beard? What else she kissing? She look at
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: his candy cane? What's going on there? All right? Alexa
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: play Jingle Bell Rock see Sham. Listen to me, she
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: listen to me. Alexa play Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, all.
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: Right, Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer by the Countdown Kids
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: from Apple Music.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: Who the hell are the Countdown Kids? The artist that
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: they pick for you sometimes? Right?
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: You know Dan and Ford?
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're all bullies.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: Every Rudolph, every reindeer that just was named was a bully.
• 50:28
  Speaker 13: Those namees Rainier.
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: Am I on the Teletubbies? I feel like I'm on
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: the Teledubbies. Alexis stop, She won't, she loves it, Alexis stop.
• 50:50
  Speaker 9: So.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer was written by Robert el
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: May in nineteen thirty nine, with music added by Johnny
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: Marks in nineteen forty nine. In nineteen thirty nine, Robert
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: el May wrote rudel Off the Red Nose Reindeer, The
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: Story of Rudolph as an insert from Montgomery Wards catalog.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: It was to sell fas the catalog Insert became hugely popular,
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: drove tons of people to Montgomery Wards, and Montgomery Wards
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: decided to capitalize upon that and make little Rudolph dolls
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: and all of this stuff and capitalize on Rudolph. Now,
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: the company very easily could have kept the copyright because
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: mister Mays worked in an outside advertising company and they
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: were clients for ten years.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: No Is shuw.
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: Side, all right, sorry about that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: I ran Lilover, but you know he was an outside
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: advertising agency firm, and he did this Rudolph Insert and
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: Montgomery Wards could have kept the copyright, but they did not.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: In one of the most magnanimous things the corporation has
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: ever done, they gave the copyright back to the family
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: so they could profit off of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: It became very, very popular. It became a Christmas special,
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: as you know, it launched so many Christmas items. But
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: it was originally a promotional giveaway for Montgomery Wards, and
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: of course has themes of bullying, exclusion, and redemption, and
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: those resonated with a you know America that was in
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: war and post war. Johnny Marx was Jewish and wrote
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: many iconic Christmas songs. He wrote the nineteen forty nine
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: music to it, but the lyrics were written in nineteen
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: thirty nine by Robert el May for Montgomery Wards. Now
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: one of my favorite, you know, just favorite play Linda Edar.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: Do you hear what I hear?
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: Okay, do you hear what I hear? By Linda Edar
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: from Apple Music.
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: I love this version. Oh, I love it so much.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: It's very tribal.
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: Do do Do Do?
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Do?
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: Do Do Do?
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: And what I love more is the meaning of this song.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Do you all know why we sing this song? Said
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: the night when to the little Lamb?
• 53:35
  Speaker 15: Do you see what I see?
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: Way up in the sky, little land?
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: Do you see what I see?
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: Stop?
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: Stop? I love this song, Alexa stuff. I will let
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: this entire song play and just sit here and listen
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: to it. Linda Edar, do you Hear what I hear?
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: My favorite version. It's one of my favorite Christmas songs
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: for a very important reason. First of all, it was
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: written the month before I came out. And I don't
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: mean as gay, although you know that was in the seventies.
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: In November of nineteen sixty two. By the way, I'm
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: told I'm a premium gay. They have classes of gays. Now,
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: I'm a premium gay because I never came out of vagina.
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: I was a C section. But I have had sex
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: with women, so I guess that negates that. But anyway,
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: do you hear what I hear? Was written in October
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: of nineteen sixty two by Noel Regne and Gloria Shane.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: It was a desperate prayer for peace during the Cuban
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: Missile crisis. Because I was born in the wake of
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: the Cuban missile crisis in Miami, Florida. It was a
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: terrifying stand off between the US and Soviet Union on
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: the brink of nuclear war. Composer Noel Regney, scarred by
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: his experience in World War Two he had served in
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: World War Two, was inspired by the sight of innocent
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: life in New York City amidst the global tensions, leading
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: him to write lyrics that became a powerful Christmas Carold
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: calling for hope and an end to conflict. The crisis
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: occurred in October of nineteen sixty two. The world feared
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: nuclear annihilation as Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba. Regney's
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: background he was a French World War Two veteran, a
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: Nazi deserter resistance fighter. He understood war's horrors and felt
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: deeply about the fear of humanity losing it again. His
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: inspiration was walking in New York. He saw very peaceful scenes,
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: mothers and babies and felt a profound need for peace,
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: prompting the lyrics. Regney wrote the words and his wife
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: Gloria Shane composed the music, creating a unique collaboration. Released
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: shortly thereafter, the song resonated deeply with a fearful Cold
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: War audience, with drivers reportedly pulling over to listen, making
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: it an instant hit. The Star, the Little said, the
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: Night Wind, to the Little Uh, to the little Lamb?
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: Do you see what I see? A star? A star
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: dancing in the night with a tale as big as
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: a kite. That is a nuclear missile streaking across the sky,
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: contrasting with the songs plea for Peace Now. It was
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: written as a B side for a single, but became
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: a massive success, sending selling millions of copies and becoming
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: a Christmas classic with a strong anti war message. So
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: the star streaking that that's a nuclear weapon? You know?
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: Pray for peace? People everywhere? Do you hear what I hear?
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: You?
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: Know, and what you're hearing. By the way, are the
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: prayers for peace? Do you hear? What I hear? And
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: what you hear is prayers for peace for people everywhere.
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: That song is an unabashed anti war song, a cry
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: for peace on this Christmas Eve. I don't know what
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: music you love. I hope I touched on some of
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: the history of the songs you love. Rocking around the
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: Christmas Tree written in nineteen fifty eight, again by Johnny Marx,
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Recorded by Brenda Lee when she was thirteen years old.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: The song became a major hit years later as radio
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: formats evolved. Blue Christmas Elvis Presley nineteen forty eight again
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: Billy Hayes and J. W. Johnson. Popularized by Elvis in
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: nineteen fifty seven, It has been recorded by more than
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: seventy five different artist nineteen sixty two, again Johnny Marx.
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: He wrote so many Christmas songs, this Johnny marks. It
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: was written for Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tea special.
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: It was performed by Burl Lives, which single handedly propelled
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: it to number one on the charts. And of course
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: the one that makes me cry every year? Do they
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: know it's Christmas. I was there. It was a fabulous
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: recording event. Boy George everybody, every British pop star in
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: the world, George Michael, everybody, Bob Geldoff from the boomtown
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: Rats got them all together for thirty six hours, Paul McCartney,
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: just the biggest stars and it became one of the first,
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: one of the first big songs for charity for Christmas.
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: Written by Bob Geldof and Midgery, it was created to
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: raise money for Ethiopian femine relief. Very impactful. Now it's
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: criticized for simplifying African life and the African realities, but
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: it did launch Live Aid. Live Aid started because of
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: do they know it's Christmas? So Alexa play? Do they
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: know it's Christmas?
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: Sure?
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: Do they know it's Christmas? Original nineteen eighty four version.
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: I was twenty two. I am correl, be who you
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: want to be, so long it doesn't hurt anybody. Merry
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: fucking Christmas, everybody. Oh I'm gonna cry. This song makes
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: me cry every time. I hope you have a great Christmas.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Eve.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: I'll be with you tomorrow with more music. My history
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: of my music tomorrow, songs I've recorded and walked.
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: We must share a smile, Joe.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Throw your arms around.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: KAST on your favorite streaming service
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Save at Christmas time.