26: Some Other Christmas Man (The Lives of St. Nicholas and St. Lucy)

Apocrypals

Chris Sims

Comedy, History

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Good news, friends and neighbors: It's Christmas now! Put your shoes out and brew a pot of coffee because we're going through the lives of the most popular saint ever, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus. Oh, and also St. Lucy, whose life unfortunately had a not insignificant amount of eye-gouging. Plus: Find out which of us is the Paul of Santa and our unsurprising pick for the Worst Christmas Character!

Topics of discussion: Shine vs. Glow, St. Martin's White Horse vs. America, Donkey vs. Horse, St. Nicholas Day vs. Christmas vs. Epiphany, Julian vs. Gregorian, Chris vs. "The Elf", Benito vs. Dominic the Donkey, Grandpa vs. Grandma, Benito vs. Santa Claus, Christkindl vs. the Arrow of Time, Chris and Matt Wilson vs. Kirk Cameron, St. Nicholas vs. Artemis, Curt Connors (the Lizard) vs. his son Billy, St. Agatha vs. Medieval Artists.

Hymnal: "Hooray For Santa Claus" by Milton Delugg

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Mindless and senseless man, why did you agree to the killing of innocent men?
0:04.2	Go at once to see that they are set free.
0:06.6	If you don't, your body will be devoured by worms and your house swiftly destroyed.
0:11.2	The prefect retorted, who are you to face us with such threats?
0:15.9	No, the Holy Man replied, that I am Nicholas, bishop of the city of Myra.
0:21.3	The Golden Legend, the life of St. Nicholas. You were parade for Sandy Clause.
0:39.6	Hooray for Sandy Claw.
0:42.8	Yeah, yay for Sandy Claw.
0:47.9	He's fat and round, but jump and give him and he can climb. Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Apocry Pals.
0:50.4	It's the podcast where two nonbelievers read through the Bible, and we try not to be jokes about it.
0:54.7	My name is Chris Sims.
0:56.1	With me as always, my faithful elf, my reindeer, Benito Serrano.
1:01.5	He has a very shiny nose.
1:03.1	It's true.
1:03.7	I do.
1:04.3	I feel like I should maybe apply some powder of some kind before I go out.
1:09.3	I saw someone.
1:15.7	It might have been the Riker Googling Twitter account that just said,
1:18.1	does Rudolph nose glow or is it shiny?
1:23.5	And that I was purpl-like, I had to sit there for 20 minutes trying to suss it out.
1:28.9	The song does imply that just that it's shiny such that you might say that it glows.
1:35.2	But then how does it help get through the fog on Christmas Eve? Right. True. I would have to,
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