Hello, it's your old friend slash adversary Helen here.

I missed you listeners and I miss our answer me this festive episodes. I learned so many things over the years about the shitting log and

Rudolph's mucus folds in his red nose and Dr. Suces doctorate and if you want that kind of AMT content just seek out

episodes that were released in December of the years that aren't to me this was on air and we also have a Christmas album which you can find out

aren't to me this dot com but on my other show the illusionist there are also excellent festive episodes so I have

conveniently put a couple of them in your feed today but there are other ones as well at the illusionist.org and in the

pod places there's one about a couple living in New York City who started getting loads of letters delivered to their apartment that were addressed to Santa and they thought we can have to fulfill them

so they had to become Santa since it's very sweet. There's an episode about the different names we have for Santa slash father Christmas slash St Nick and also why people used to send

Christmas cards with meat on them and wasps and a lot of death and there's one from

2020 where singer songwriter and podcasted Jenny Owen Young's and I endeavour to write an appropriate Christmas song

for

the first year of COVID as it turned out and

I'm fortunate that song is still quite relevant in 2021. It's a great song. I wish it was complete obsolete

so I've reckoned you go and listen to those but first from underneath the illusionist Christmas tree is

this episode about Winterville by word for war on Christmas

The war on Christmas when did that start?

Upon the birth of Jesus Christ himself when King Herod ordered all the baby boys in and around Bethlehem be killed in

1644 when Oliver Cromwell's Puritans passed an ordinance prohibiting Christmas celebrations in England in

1659 when the Massachusetts Bay colony Puritans managed to get Christmas burn for 22 years for being a pagan festival or

was it in

Britain's second largest city Birmingham if you picked up practically any newspaper at the time

You would have read the Birmingham City Council had renamed Christmas

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