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58 - Christmas in a Pandemic? Lemme get some John Candy.

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

John Candy counts as holiday tradition so in an effort to enjoy watching his movies more this year, I wanted to find out how he came up.

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0:00.0

And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 58 Christmas

0:24.4

Stern a pandemic let me get some John Candy. We are going to be covering the

0:29.2

life of the comedic actor John Candy who did pass away in 1993.

0:35.0

But we're gonna do this one.

0:37.2

This guy kind of feels like he's a Christmas thing

0:39.5

at this point in time.

0:40.4

I can't be the only one.

0:41.6

John Candy is sort of a holiday.

0:44.0

Deity? I don't know. He's like a sort of a miss... He definitely belongs in the holiday, so I always end up watching him.

0:50.0

And he makes me laugh every year. And this is the only Christmas I've ever had

0:55.2

was a pandemic going on so I'm still running the same plays we're bringing out the John Candy

0:59.6

I watched Uncle Buck on Friday, made me feel way better.

1:04.0

So we're going to cover John Candy. It's a light topic.

1:07.0

He did pass away at the age of 43, which is young, but I wanted to look into where he came from how did he come up

1:14.2

well I found it he's Canadian did he start like uh there's one pivotal year in

1:20.0

73 that we're gonna cover that I think really made him become stronger

1:26.5

cometically being able to perform in front of a camera and he was really

1:29.2

young that was maybe my favorite part of looking into this is finding out about how John Candy went from a relatively

1:35.6

small town in Toronto or outside of Toronto to Toronto and then Chicago and then where his career

1:41.0

went from there.

1:42.0

And it's a holiday topic.

1:43.7

John Candy is, he belongs around the holidays as far as I'm concerned.

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