Ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 59 of the Reform

Pubcast your weekly podcast where we keep our fireplaces hot on Christmas Eve to keep bearded intruders out.

I'm your scroogged host, Les. I'm your sappy host, Tanner.

So, uh, Tanner, it's that time of year again when hating Santa is the unforgivable

sin. Have you run into it at all? I don't really talk about it very much. You haven't taken a stance?

Well, I mean most of the people that I'm around don't have kids so yeah and I and I go to like a really hardcore

Presbyterian church now and they all hate Santa so it hasn't really we haven't

run into any problems yeah someone in the office yesterday was just being

like negative about everything and I said something about them being negative and they're like you don't even believe in Santa.

I'm like, ouch, all right, I guess.

Is he, it was he claiming to believe in Santa?

Well, just that I'm like, I don't know,

basically once you say that, everybody thinks that you're depriving your children

and of fun, destroying their imagination.

And immediately you're destroying their imagination. fun and

Immediately you're destroying their imagination. Yeah because kids can't have imaginations without Santa Claus.

Yeah.

And then we got in a really long argument in the pub yesterday.

I miss all of this stuff about how Santa, you know,

basically the question was, are we lying to our kids when we tell them about

Santa and a lot you know people were chiming in and talking about the the legend

and you know our myths okay and you know all that which which is those are fine questions you know is a myth

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