Jolly old St. Nicholas, lean your ear this way because you're listening to the Quibbler Advent Calendar,

the podcast for anybody who's ever had to work over Christmas.

I'm Heather Pricewright.

And I'm Alex Dallenberg.

And it turns out that a visit from St. Nicholas by Clark Clement Moore.

Yes. Is that right?

Yes.

That is the name of the author of this poem.

Is in the public domain. So what we're going to do today, friends, is we're going to read you

Twes the Night Before Christmas and talk about it, because it turns out we can read the whole poem

and that's fine. So you're going to get to listen to Alex Dellenberg's deeply sonorous tones

read you this classic and pretty goofy Christmas Santa Claus poem.

A dramatic reading with annotations.

Yeah, we're going to gloss it.

But before we start, you're going to hear

spoilers for all of a visit from St. Nicholas, because you're going to hear the whole thing. Does it

kind of spoiling it if you hear the whole thing? No. If you're like, if you go into a movie and

you're like, no spoilers, man. It's like, no, you're going to watch the ending eventually. Oh, God, I hate it when they show me the end of the movie.

Fuck this. You also might, I think probably he'll be okay, but you might hear some little mewing and yelping because there is a new quiblet in the house.

A bub, but, bu, motherf-b-mother fucking puppy.

Name George, who lives with us now, which we can't believe.

It's too good to be true, but he is having a little nap-roll in the other room and hopefully sleeps through this.

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