Christmas Made in New England

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 377 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger spend the Christmas holiday unwrapping some iconic toys invented and manufactured right here in New England. Some may surprise you! Your buddies Jeff and Ray wish you and yours a great holiday and happy New Year! We’ll see you back with all new episodes in January.

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0:00.0	Hey, Merry Christmas, Ray.
0:09.2	Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to you, Jeff.
0:11.7	Oh, thank you so much.
0:13.1	You know, I adore this time of year whether you're celebrating Christmas, Kwanza, Yule, Midwinter, Hanukkah, Festivist for the rest of us, or even if you skip it all together,
0:22.2	the winter solstice is a spooky time, a time to come together, make merry feast, and give gifts,
0:28.1	because we're going to need each other to get through the long winter ahead.
0:31.9	Wow, look at that tree. Beautiful. And oh, check out all the presents. We go pretty big here at
0:36.9	the Belanger household.
0:38.0	I blame my mom.
0:39.1	Oh, I get it.
0:40.4	What's the worst present you ever got as a kid?
0:43.3	All right.
0:43.7	So I can't give you specifics, but it was clothes, right?
0:47.0	So maybe it was a shirt, maybe it was a sweater.
0:48.6	But I can promise you, all I really wanted were toys.
0:51.6	Clothes.
0:52.1	Yuck.
0:52.5	I mean, who wants that? Okay, well, I have good news for you, Ray.
0:55.2	Okay.
0:56.0	See all the presents under the tree?
0:57.3	I sure do.
0:58.4	There's nothing in those boxes, but toys, toys, toys.
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