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

and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too somewhere in spirit.

She may be haunting somebody right now as a ghost of Christmas past.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

And this is our annual stuff you should know holiday special, huh Chuck?

That's right. I tell you what, it's one of if not our favorite episodes of the year mm-hmm uh i will say it's getting harder and

harder to come up with stuff we're delving further out uh into the world and further back in time

yeah yeah this is our anglo-american I guess. Yeah, that's right. European

listeners are going to be pretty stoked. And also, we'd like to point out, this is one of two episodes

of the year where we draw a line in the sand and say, sales, take the day off, no ads for this one.

Yeah, because Christmas is commercial enough. Am I right? Yeah, man, I'm not going to sell

these. No. These belong to you guys, the people. There are gifts. That's right. And by the way, if you hear the tinkle, tinkle of ice, it's because Josh talked to me into making the drink that we're going to, you know, sometimes we have a little Christmas drink that we put out as a part of this episode, and we're doing that again this year. And so I'm having what we call here in the

south a nooner. we have a little Christmas drink that we put out as a part of this episode, and we're doing that again this year.

And so I'm having what we call here in the South a nooner.

I didn't have to try very hard.

What do you want to start with, Chuck?

And also, hats off to Jerry for doing all of the wonderful sound design that makes this Christmas episode so special every year.

That's right. As usual, we're flying by the seat of our pants. What do you say we start with

one of your picks on the Morabians, who we've talked about before on a Christmas episode, I believe.

I don't remember that. We definitely did. It makes sense because they are definitely associated

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