The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Christmas carols have a storied, strange history. Join the guys on the last day of 2019 as they crack open the eggnog and dive into the ridiculous histories of some of the season's most popular Christmas songs, from the story of 'Hopalong boots' to the weird tradition of wassailing.
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| 1:04.0 | Hi, I'm Danny Shapiro, host of the Hit Podcast Family Secrets. Each episode explores a long-held |
| 1:09.7 | family secret that has finally come to light. Find out what keeps millions of people tuning in |
| 1:14.5 | to hear astonishing stories about the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from |
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| 1:34.0 | Radiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 1:43.2 | Welcome to the show, Radiculous Historians. As always, thank you so much for tuning in. As is our want, |
| 2:09.2 | it is past Christmas. It's the very last day of the year, so we're going to crack open some |
| 2:15.5 | homemade eggnog into a Christmas episode just a few days late. I'm Ben. I am the first Noel. |
| 2:23.0 | And the last one. Okay, so I am opening this. A super producer, KC Paggram, you noggin up, man. |
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