NORAD | 12 Days Ep 11

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950s, Sears printed a catalog ad encouraging kids to call Santa. That ad included a phone number to a Sears hotline. Except there was a typo in the ad. After a flurry of children called NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) wishing to speak to Santa, the base commander was inspired. The command center tracked Santa every Christmas eve since that day. This is episode 11 of the 12 days of TILLN Christmas. Every day until Christmas, we're releasing a new mini-podcast episode about all kinds of holiday topics. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast Want to Support TILLN: https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Advertise with us: https://bit.ly/3FdZirY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the cinematic event of the year. Critics say incredible, jaw-dropping, action-packed with savings.
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0:13.0	So?
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0:18.0	Woo-hoo! I'll get the popcorn.
0:19.6	Get two-to-one cinema tickets every Tuesday or Wednesday with compares the market.
0:23.4	Simples.
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0:26.3	One membership per year, participating cinemas, two standard tickets, only cheap as free.
0:29.3	T's and C's apply.
0:30.2	Hey, so you know how NORAD tracks Santa every year?
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:34.8	Do you know how that started?
0:37.1	Uh, was it they saw Santa? Yeah, he's real. And so, no, so in 195, Colonel Schoop is in the,
0:45.4	which was, it was Kodad at the time. Now it's no rad. And at the time, it was a big plexiglass
0:51.1	thing and they would have different people. They had a big map of the
0:54.8	continental United States and they would mark over where they thought that suspected enemy
0:59.4	satellites and all that stuff were. Right. Enemy Santa's.
1:02.1	Sanalites. Okay. So, but they were so they're tracking, you know, enemy whatever, right? So in that
1:09.9	room, the red phone rings.
1:12.9	And the red phone is a direct line, right?
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