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Short & Curly

Matt's pick: Is Santa Claus a bad person?

Short & Curly

ABC listen

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Imagine if you were being watched every second of the day to make sure you behaved well. And then you got rewarded or punished depending on how you acted? In this episode, we take a long hard look at Santa Claus, because news flash, we are told he's watching you day and night.

Transcript

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0:00.0

ABC Listen.

0:03.0

Oh, oh, hello.

0:06.0

It's Matt Beard here and I've been asked at the end of the year to haul one of our old

0:12.4

episodes out of the archives to haul one of our old episodes out of the archives to run behind you of an

0:16.8

episode that I really love and I'm really excited to share this with you or maybe

0:21.0

it's the first time you're listening to it which is even more fun. share this

0:23.4

or maybe it's the first time you're listening to it, which is even more fun.

0:29.7

This episode is perfect for this time of year as so much of the world is moving towards celebrating Christmas and a huge part of Christmas are all of the stories

0:36.7

about Santa Claus and presents and carols about lists of naughty kids and nice kids. about the lessons that's teaching us about good and bad, about right and wrong and

0:55.0

about why we do the right thing, what it means and feels like to think that there's

1:01.2

always someone watching to decide whether we've done the right thing or not.

1:04.1

So this episode asks a very big question.

1:09.2

Is Santa Claus a bad person.

1:13.0

Listen to the episode and I'd love to know what you think.

1:16.0

What do you reckon?

1:17.0

Should Santa be put on his very own naughty list?

1:21.0

I hope you have a lot of fun with this episode especially keep an ear out for the

1:25.3

polar bears they're one of my favorite parts. Bye.

1:30.0

For too long we have cowered under the weight of injustice.

1:38.0

For too long we have let one person control our lives.

1:45.0

We have been threatened and bust around,

1:48.7

rewarded for obedience, punished for using our own minds. But no more. Today we take our revenge.

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