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Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.

Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra omps,

or building a playlist that will even get your none up on the table.

Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max. Christmas, better with Pepsi Max. This one gets interesting. I'll often comment on events that occurring in the news where there's some historical context to add, and I'll also address

questions from the listeners. But it's rare that the two combine, and I get a chance to tell a pretty interesting story as well.

Real quick, I want to talk to you about the new podcast that I've launched, Vice Presidents of the United States, it's up

on Apple Podcast, it's on Stitcher, you can also get it at Vice Presidents dot Libson, L I B S, Y,

n.

dot com.

Slowly but surely I'm going to be going through the Vice President's.

We've got four Vice President's up there now that we discuss. Oh, He was a man out of place and perhaps out of time.

Born in London, son to a wealthy merchant,

John Tuntstel was now in 1878 in the middle of New Mexico, where he had established a large

ranch.

The Englishman astonished his family with stories of how he was now buckskin clad,

roaming the wild American country with one of those hats and boots and spurs.

Originally, the young man had been sent by his father to participate in a store that his family owned part of in Victoria, British Columbia.

But Tunstall tired of that and fought with his father's business partner. He was also bored with

the Society of British Columbia with the church dances and Victorian dressings of

that world. He spoke his mind and of that

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