Don't Open Until Christmas Eve | Sean of the South

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Dietrich brings you a surprise podcast special, intended especially for Christmas Eve night. This episode is for young and old alike. For the socially distanced, the elderly, the quarantined, the newly homeschooled, the unemployed, the sick, and the downhearted. Meant to be savored from a comfortable chair, with eyes closed, lights dimmed, and the twinkly tree glowing in the dark. Whatever you do, do not listen to this episode before the Eve of Christmas. Save it for then.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I'm I'm I'm
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0:28.6	I'm Well, you are listening to Sean of the South, and I'm your host tonight, Sean Dietrich.
1:01.1	We are coming to you live via the radio broadcast airwaves.
1:04.9	The year is 1938.
1:09.7	The date is December the 24th. It is Christmas Eve night.
1:27.2	This broadcast is originally entitled, Do Not Open Until Christmas Eve, but I suspect knowing human nature like I do, that the enthusiasm was too great to contain, and many have indeed already listened to this broadcast weeks and weeks
1:46.8	before December the 24th and that's okay because the year from which I came 2020 a year that was
1:56.7	fraught with peril and heartache a pandemic rages, and in the U.S., 250,000 lives have
2:05.4	been claimed by the virus COVID-19. But this year, 1938, is not wholly unlike the year 2020.
2:17.1	We are five years removed from the Great Depression, a time when
2:21.8	men and women stood in bread lines that were ten miles long just to get a hunk of bread to keep
2:26.9	their children from starving. We are only a few years away from one of the greatest and
2:33.0	bloodiest wars in world history, World War II,
2:38.3	a war which would claim 85 million people. And yet tradition emerged from the Campbell's Playhouse
2:47.6	radio show, Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.
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