Favorite: A History of the War On Christmas (Part 2) w/ Michael Hobbes

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Part 2 of one of our favorite — and most timely — episodes ever. We’ll be back with live episodes in 2022.

Our guest this episode is Michael Hobbes, host of the podcast “Maintenance Phase” and former host of “You’re Wrong About.”

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0:00.0	Hey all, Jody here. A quick reminder that we are running some of our favorite episodes during this holiday break.
0:07.0	So here is part two of the special we did last year on the history of the War on Christmas.
0:12.0	It still holds up. a lot of you have
0:14.0	reached out to say that you missed it last year or you're new listeners to the show.
0:17.3	So that's great. If you hear any dated references or references to it being 2020. That is why I was going to edit those
0:25.6	references out, but honestly I'm not totally convinced that it's not still 2020. So anyway, here's the episode.
0:32.3	Hope you enjoy and stay safe out there.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:41.5	My name is Jody Abergen.
0:45.0	And this is part two of our two-part special on the War on Christmas.
0:50.0	Last episode we talked about the twists and turns in recent years starting with Bill O'Reilly in 2004.
0:56.0	So that was 2004 to 2020 and now we will do everything before 2004 in one episode.
1:04.2	So I don't know, do we want to hook it to a date?
1:06.0	Let's say December 25th, 336 AD,
1:10.0	which many religious scholars point to
1:11.6	is the first date that Christmas was celebrated.
1:13.7	Nicky are we going to go that far back in time?
1:16.0	Look, I think that you can put the chit down on 336 a.
1:19.6	and we can move forward in time pretty quickly.
1:21.6	Fair enough. And was Santa White at that time?
1:24.5	I need to know.
1:25.3	Exactly, an important question.
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