Pretty Much Pop #187: Taking Down Santa Claus

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For our annual holiday episode, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al talk about Santa qua mythical and cultural figure, getting into the history of the character, his film appearances, and how the emphasis on kids' belief compares to religious belief. Plus, grading Xmas movies on a curve and Black Santa!

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0:00.0	Hey there. If you enjoy this podcast, perhaps you'd like to sign up for my Cortex in Philosophy class,
0:05.9	delivered entirely online starting in mid-January. For more information, please go right now to
0:11.2	partially examinedlife.com slash class.
0:25.3	Hey, this is pretty much Pop, a Culture podcast.
0:28.9	Ho-ho-ho-hoing all the way down your chimney.
0:30.5	Wow.
0:32.1	That's great.
0:33.7	You just thought of that on the fly?
0:34.2	Wow.
1:04.1	That's professional podcasting right there, man. Showing us how it's done. My man is good. That was really good. It's our annual holiday episode, and today we're discussing Santa. He deserves to be taken down. We're taking him down. You know, the mythological figure, the character. I'm not taking down Santa. I'm not messing with that guy. He appears in many things. He plays a unique role. Maybe that not the unique, but some kind of role in our pop culture, and we have a weird relationship with it, given that we were children at some point.
1:14.7	So, yeah, what can we make of that? That was pretty much the prep. There was no specific movies we had to watch. We're coming to this with our preconceptions, our denominations.
1:17.2	I would like to introduce myself if that's okay.
1:17.9	Same here.
1:19.4	Oh, yeah, all right.
1:20.7	We can introduce ourselves.
1:21.9	They don't know who we are.
1:23.5	Just in case nobody knows who we are. I'm Mark Linson-Myer, ho-ho-hoing down your chin.
1:27.4	No. I'm Mark Linson Meyer. Ho-ho-hoing down your chin. No. I'm Mark Linton-Mire. It is the end of the year.
1:31.7	It is so crazy in the streets. Okay, sorry. Can you tell? I'm Al Baker, writing a list, but getting
1:37.9	checked GPT to check it twice. Oh, good one. My name is Sarah Lynn Bruck, and I still believe that Batman smells and Robin laid an egg.
1:47.2	My name is Lawrence Ware, and I do not trust elves on shelves.
1:52.4	Did you do that? Did anybody do that?
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