Last year around this time, I was flying to Portland, Oregon to have my first ever Christmas

with my now wife and her family. This was a momentous moment for me because I happened to

be raised in the Jewish faith, at least until my bar mitzvah at which point that all went out

the window. But the point being that I never really understood Christmas. I was surrounded by it.

I was exposed to it being in New York City at this very moment. It's everywhere. But I never really

got it and on it, if I'm going to be completely honest, it kind of annoyed me. Oh really? Yes.

And what I perceived as the commercialism of it, the kind of the arbitrariness of it.

Right, of course. The symbology of it, I mean. And, you know, the Enfax anchors coming on and

declaring that there was a war on it. I just thought like, oh, this is so foolish. But the thing that

annoyed me the most was Christmas music, which I had to listen to for a month everywhere. I went

and it just drove me crazy. This all changed when I actually had Christmas when... Oh, so you came

around. Yes. I mean, totally complete 180. I'm the biggest Christmas nut now. I just finally made

sense to me the smell of the Christmas tree hanging out all day in your pajamas opening presence

and drinking eggnog and just being with your family and loved one. It's amazing. I like, I get it.

I see what it's all about. You're a full convert. I'm a full convert. And with that in mind,

I want to take those Christmas songs that I used to detest and see if there's not something there

that I can find to love and respect. Because after all, this is the pop music that we're going to be

listening to more than any other, at least until December 26th. That's when Christmas is over.

When's Christmas exactly? Let's have ush, we google it. That's Siri. So of all these

tunes, what sticks out the most? Well, I got to be real. To me, the most iconic Christmas song

is Jingle Bells. Yes, yes, definitely. I feel like you've heard it over a million times. You know

how to sing it. And I think what's really interesting about Jingle Bells, I was looking this up. The

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