Hey everyone Jody here up next we're bringing you the conversation we had last year around this time about the history of the war on Christmas.

It was a really great chat and it still holds up though you will notice there was no

mention of the fact that the Christmas tree outside of Fox News studios burned down

that happened this year and an interesting new wrinkle in the war on Christmas

I suppose.

But we're giving ourselves a little bit of time off this holiday.

Hopefully you are as well.

We're running this again.

If there are any dated references, that is why you will also notice

that Kelly is not on this episode because she was not one of the co-hosts of this show at that point

But we've had a ton of new listeners since this first aired so it might be new to you I also just re-listened getting ready to run this and I found it quite interesting. So here we go. This is with special guest Michael Hobbs at the time he was the host of the

podcast You're wrong about and the podcast maintenance phase. He still left you're wrong about and the podcast maintenance phase he still left you're wrong about but anyway enough preamble this holds up really interesting conversation here we go

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

And now this is usually the part of the intro where I say a date and a year and a specific

moment that we are discussing but we're doing something a little different during

the holidays so this is actually part one of a two-part episode we are

doing about the war on Christmas the idea that Christmas in America is

under assault especially from forces on the cultural and religious left.

At this point talking about the war on Christmas on say Fox News is as much of a Christmas tradition as you know

celebrating Christmas itself but there are lots of interesting history points along the way lots of moments to

discuss and dates to discuss so here to do that as always is Nicole Hemmer of

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