Twas the Night Before Christmas
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 62K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For nearly 200 years, we have credited the most famous poem of the Christmas season to Clement Clarke Moore. But what if we got the wrong man?
This holiday season: A centuries old family feud, a bold claim from an English professor, and the true meaning of Christmas.
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| 0:50.1 | The lights go up on Main Street of the town where I live. |
| 0:54.8 | People pull their coats a little tighter around them as they go from shop to shop. |
| 1:03.6 | And my colleague, Benadhaff Hartree, shows up to tell me some absolutely crazy story about Christmas. |
| 1:07.3 | Twas the night before Christmas. |
| 1:08.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:09.5 | And all through the house. |
| 1:13.1 | Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse. |
| 1:18.8 | That's right. This, of course, is a visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as Twas the night before Christmas. A poem that Ben has, let's just say, learned a little too much about over the past |
| 1:25.3 | few months. Have you read the Stuart Little version of this, where, to save Stewart's feelings, |
| 1:31.0 | the Little's rewrite it as not even a louse? |
| 1:34.2 | Because they don't want it as too demeaning to mice to have. |
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