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It's December the 24th. The war on Christmas is over and for the 2015th year in a row, Christmas

has won. Trigger warning. I'm Andrew Clayton and this is the Andrew Clayton show.

War on Christmas. You never stood a chance, you people. It's Christmas Eve. It's our

50th show. Our 50th show. Yay! Come on! We have a tree and it's also the last show of

the year. After this, I'm heading out to celebrate Christmas with my family and forget

all about politics and things like that. So what do we talk about for Christmas Eve?

I'm not going to talk about politics on Christmas Eve. I think I'm going to talk about Christmas.

But it occurred to me as I was thinking about what I wanted to say. Christmas is actually

very hard to talk about. I mean, when you think about what most people say about Christmas,

it's either very sentimental, something that could come out of a commercial for food

and family and all this stuff. Very traditional or it's kind of belligerently religious. I mean,

it's one thing to say it's religious. It's a religious holiday, but also that this kind

of like put that Christ back in the Christmas. Put that Christ back in the Christmas.

You took that Christ back in the Christmas. Somehow just in quite capture. The spirit of

the season for me. So what is it? I mean, Christmas obviously, I don't have to tell you.

It's the story of the Virgin birth and Mary and Joseph. Joseph could have dumped Mary

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