Michael Foley Explains Christmas Traditions

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

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4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Guests: Brad Birzer, Michael Foley, Christopher Hamilton, & Gad Saad

Host Scot Bertram talks with Brad Birzer, Professor of History and Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College, about Yellowstone National Park at 150. Michael P. Foley, author of Why We Kiss Under the Mistletoe: Christmas Traditions Explained, joins the show to reveal some lesser-known facts about the holiday. Christopher Hamilton, Professor of Chemistry at Hillsdale, tells us all we need to know about gluten. And we hear excerpts from a Hillsdale lecture given by Gad Saad, titled, "The Idea Pathogens Destroying Logic, Science, Reason, and Common Sense".

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0:00.0	From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.
0:25.4	You preserved sweet things, and this was the best way to do it.
0:29.9	Fruitcakes are so old that they're actually mentioned in the Old Testament, and some of them may still be around from the Old Testament.
0:36.2	This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Michael P. Foley.
0:40.4	He's a professor and great text at Baylor University, but also author of the brand new book,
0:45.0	Why We Kiss Under the Missletoe, Christmas Traditions, Explained.
0:49.9	We'll answer a few of those questions and explain some traditions a little bit later on in today's program.
0:55.5	First, we're joined by Dr. Brad Berzer, Professor of History and Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College.
1:03.5	We talk with Dr. Berzer in depth about the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park.
1:12.7	Dr. Berzer, thanks so much for joining us.
1:17.8	Thanks, Scott. Glad to be here. As always, it's great talking to you. We're discussing Yellowstone at 150. Yeah. 2020, the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone becoming a national park. You were at a piece
1:25.6	on this at the imaginative conservative, which people can go back and look at and see some pictures of your wonderful family, vacationing. Ed Yellowstone, you've been there now six times. Yeah, this would have been my seventh, actually. Seven times. So what keeps bringing you back? Yeah, there are a lot of things, Scott. I mean, I love the open vistas that you have at Yellowstone.
1:45.9	There are things that drive me crazy.
1:47.8	So, for example, how crowded it is at Glantyton,
1:51.9	or at Yellowstone National Park in terms of that lodge,
1:56.6	there are so many people there.
1:59.1	And it's overwhelming.
2:00.5	It's a lot like Mount Rushmore.
2:02.6	Mount Rushmore is really kind of the Walmart of national monuments.
2:06.9	And nothing against Walmart.
2:08.7	I don't know where we'd shop without Walmart.
2:11.4	But it's not the place that we always want to have as a destination.
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