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If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.

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Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.

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Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff.

I'm Josh. There's Chuck. Jerry's here too. We're feeling all jingly and belly because this is the pre-Christmas short stuff. Maybe the best short stuff of the year.

That's right, and we want to thank

Daniel Montgomery listener for sending this idea in indeed as well as our various

sources on this and this could have been a thousand sources because this story is everywhere.

Yeah. But Saturday evening posts, LOC, Fizorg, Smithsonian, 1000 Bulbs.com.

Yeah, I love that one. That's a good one. Yeah, and we're talking about the

advent of Christmas lights which are, they came surprisingly quickly after the

invention of the light bulb itself, after Edison invented the light bulb.

And it was actually an Edison of File, a guy named Edward H. Johnson who was in Edison's Circle who came up with the idea of using

these new electrical bulbs to decorate his Christmas tree.

That's right. Edward Johnson was an inventor and a

businessman and he actually hired Edison when Edison was but 24 years old because

he was like this kid is going places and they ended up working together

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