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302. TEASER – The Christmas Truce (1914)

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Srsly Wrong

Society & Culture, Comedy, History, News & Politics

4.9518 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this very special holiday bonus episode, Aaron and Shawn talk about the ad-hoc Christmas Truce between 100,000 German and British soldiers during WW1, spitball some utopian policy, and talk about a...

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0:00.0

Blow off this Christmas vinyl, Christmas jazz vinyl.

0:04.0

It's a Christmas tradition to play this.

0:06.0

When the Germans started singing,

0:09.0

Stilnacht, Heiligenacht, I and all the other centuries woke up the other people to come along and see this.

0:15.0

What on earth is going on?

0:17.0

Then, after they finished their carol, we thought, well, we must retaliate, so we sang

0:22.2

the first Noel.

0:23.6

And after we finished that, they clapped and they started an O. Tannenbaum, and we went

0:28.0

on with other carols, first us, then the Germans.

0:31.9

That was Graham Williams, fighting for the British.

0:35.7

Soon after dark, we heard someone in the German trenches shout,

0:38.3

Hello, English, a Merry Christmas.

0:40.3

Soon, all along the line of the German trenches, we heard English, we're friends tonight.

0:45.3

Don't shoot, we won't shoot. We shouted back, we would not fire.

0:50.3

This is such a, maybe this is something like Marianne Williamson could put in her platform.

0:54.8

But what if we just made it mandatory that everyone has to sing together during war?

1:00.4

Like before battles.

1:03.5

Both different sides have to.

1:05.9

Yeah.

1:06.3

And the UN can set up neutral fraternization zones where disarmed people can go to a cafeteria together

1:13.7

and there's like you know like the more from a practical perspective if you're anti-war it's actually

1:19.3

like I thought of this originally through the lens of whoville but like whoville level absurd naive

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