Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to The Holiday Cast.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's with us in spirit and everything is merry and bright

and the tidings are glad and the halls are decked and Sanazon is on his way.

That's right.

Our Christmas episode that we look forward to every year, this along with the Halloween episodes

or episodes are two of our favorites and they are both ed free because we insist upon it.

The Christmas has been commercialized enough for doing our bit to reverse that trend just

ever so slightly.

And I think it's been having a measurable effect, don't you Chuck?

I think so, people's fingers are spared that fast forward button for the next 45 minutes.

And let's do this.

For the 25th of the 12th, the 25th of the 12th, my route all makes us yearly ride.

So what are we going to do first?

Maybe the mystery behind the world's most famous Christmas poem?

Yeah.

Did you dig this one up or no?

I believe this was a listener suggestion.

It was.

So this is based on an article by Stacey Conrant in Mental Floss but it was suggested to us by one of our listeners name Adam Steverson.

And thank you very much to Adam for sending this idea in.

And the whole thing Chuck that we're talking about is probably the world's most famous Christmas poem.

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