We ve been alkalies, he is about which was there's no such thing as a bush now seriously in these oxen dictionary upon the water like says it right up as paragraph no six things, how well known to another absurd and no such thing as a base, a weekly by coming to this week when the asians and aids bar and some no part, my name is down shriver sitting here with manages its key james harkin, Annie Murray. This is our christmas national and once again we gathered round the my proposal, the more favoured backs in the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go. We begin with my facts. My back this week is that the foregoing, on stage to read a christmas carol, Charles dickens, had a warm routine of drinking to champagne in the morning when he woke up, you have two tablespoons of rum. He would have the play, champagne at lunch and then just before he went on stage, he would

sherry which he would makes raw egg into. While the interesting thing is, is that you would think ok, Charles dickens, he pleaded one or two readings of a christmas carol. You, if you look into his biography, you could almost claim that he was as much performers rider he spent years as a performer. He would go on massive towards? Yes, like Michael Mcintyre, you, like a properly always onto one of its tarzan, America got him two point: three million dollars. How much internet is money that in today's vote, so another they need to do is to us is hypnotize his wife or with the roma bags, I think, because that was as well routine. The roma bite him his eyes it was really in tat noses, and so we bring his wife on station show off well yeah he would have? What would he make his wife do

It is my life be able to buy a bay him in every way, which maybe she was doing a regular rooms and argues. That was so. He was really into mesmerism, which I mentioned, because you like people whose names are directly related to the thing that they created an anton mesmer came up with measures which is limited. Mesmer had a big tree in his garden that people would come, and hug announced We're tree hugging came from her claim that he hurt mesmerized, made it given it some of it, his hypnotic animal magnetism did me. Yes, I also pointed her. He also twentieth memorize, the sun again remotely any does. So if you got any sunlight you're getting some of my mesmeric power now

emily was a charlatan. Why I'll just against and christmas carol, so he made no money from it in spite of the fact that it was incredibly populist. So within maybe six weeks, though, five different performances of it on this stage in london all over london differences, but they had not very good. Copyright those and basically pirates stove wise nineteenth century, is the right. The pirates no actual book pirates. What am I saying? Copyright pie, it was. It was pirated, that's what I'm looking for and then he sued, the pirates are gonna, keep using the pirates and they declared themselves bankrupt. So he was left to pay the equivalent of fifty six thousand pounds in modern day money in his own legal fees, because they just folded immediately put aside for him, he did have speaking pirates cowboy connections ties. I was gonna connected right and bigger ones. So what kind of a kind of cool murderous figures for mystery So birch capacities

grandfather was the basis for oliver twist. It is thought so, books Cassidy's great grandfather went in a business with charles dickens, father and ended up falling further. Both ends up in prison together. charles dickens, corrupting butch, Cassidy's grandfathering a beggar on the streets and oliver twist its though he based base it on which countries for ass amusing. I thought he said he was the bassist oliver twist not have and have not abandoned that do you know who scrooge was based on one person they thought it might have been based on. Scrooge was a guy called jeremy wood and he was a very famous miser back in the Day he was such a miser that his coffin was said to be stoned when he died. They all three stoves emphasised in so much. He once went to gloucester to cheeks pre jumped on the back of the hearse, because you don't want to pay for courage,

I chose to die because there was a common policy, now be a good time to save money, also just stoning somebody's governors too late. The moment stone them on their living, don't sell them at all does not advocate but he also would walk down the docks and there would be cool ships going past them. He would just rob small bits of cold came off these ships just so they didn't have to pay for them. The call himself so he's a real miser and they reckoned that's and he's quite famous for at the time as well right, ok Dickens actually bay scrooge on a person might be on him. There's a few other people as well right. There's a good person called jasper, taco button whose in the old curiosity shop and he killed his fourteen wise by ticklish to death, apparently he's based on a real person, amazingly based on a that's

the illustrates a police news of eighteen, sixty nine entitled a wife driven insane by a husband, tickling, her on this guy had filled his wife into thinking. The beans high to a plank would help her back and then what she was secured. She would drive her to insanity with a further to the feet. Oh my god, You can't believe otherwise, though you well you're insane by the end of the first years through you, I I was looking into rituals cause. I just love the idea that that was a thing that is, as I say, dickens did this. He would talk like extend a comedian, and so he would do that every day is not like. This was a random thing. He would get up and have the roman, the champagne in the sherry every single day. While he was on tour- and I don't know how you can sustain doing that, but it turns out that every great writer had some kind of cork of of a rich

for that they would stick to, and I was looking into a fear, those there's some really fun ones. Tommo wheeler tumult bonfire the vanities his thing was he one day had the most amazing. What he said was most inspired burst of writing that he's had in a very long time. He was standing guys window yet disperse riding, and he was in love it so much money to so. I need to recreate whatever I did to lead me to this moment of great writing and- we'll work it out so kept retracing the steps, and then he worked out what it was. It was that night that he did this great burst riding. He was standing by his window looking outside and he was funded. his genitals names? Like only got that, was it fondling, my genitals is what made me come up with these great ideas, so that's now how Tom rights, and we know this as well, because it was in a letter to his editor, where he wrote that his penis remained limp and on aroused when he told us additional I've worked out. What makes me a writer and That's what it is ones of rises, but I dont have relied on alcohol throughout throughout the aid

though tenancy williams, a playwright, tennessee Williams, engine his diary, nineteen fifty seven reads to scotches the bar, then three drinks later in the morning. A daiquiri dirty, dicks, three glass of red wine. At lunch, three of wine at dinner, also green tranquilizer, whose name I do not know. to give one, I think, is good, reserving or something like that. Having about that is when he wrote tat, he was in rehab at the time of genuinely judge you by about uses hopscotch as well. That was because it said he thought that it changed. Microclimate

of his brain people justify and when they discovered speaking of alcohol, that outcome. So a scientist recently discovered with patio, genetics or disease, the kind of gene sequencing that humans throughout the capacity to digest alcohol, successfully way before we deleted. So we thought they we did and about seven thousand b c, and it turns out was about ten million years ago. Now, some we got this gene and that's the reason that we ve survives our ability to propagate. I just alcohol, because all the fruit that was falling from the trees at the time that we need to survive. crossing implementing- and there was a mutation in our ancestors genes, which meant that we could easily not die. That's like a bronze like we ve neanderthals and milk. Apparently milk

new thing to us. Apparently, we ve only been able to ask why always offer people milk, because I'm not in the end a fall in disguise and when they passed the test, I know that's and milk intolerance increases as you get closer to the equator. What's yeah yeah britain is the most lactose tolerant country in the world, most lacking, tolerant blacklist. Tolerance is a mutation and its present prevalence. If, as you get tools the pulse of the earth, why can't I think, isn't this a big job, I'm going off I'm in hot temperatures that sounds stupid, but I think it's true just fridges that is leaving their knocked didn't africa's until very recently, yeah surely makes automatic. Clayton how it's not that I know what I'm saying is that five hundred years ago you wouldn't have, as it would be as easy to kate milk cold and is less of a reason to have a mutation, because milk is drunk less and less farming.

Lastly, we need to wrap up, and we like does anyone else have anything they want at. All I have to add is that ernest hemingway you is now collect another right, alcoholic and his friend George Clinton said that by the time he was dying, his liver protruded, from his belly like a long fat leech which may meaning the? If you don't have that you probably okay very little is known about the fact number two fact limited who is from James. Ok, My thoughts this week is that crap christmas jumpers date back to the romans. What you mean by that

Well, then you need not. She didn't resolve Israel, yes or no christmas, because christmas, because a christmas that book I did have a similar festival called saturnalia. I'm of it was a festival called sick, allow. On the twenty third of december, there was a writer called marshall who wrote about the gifts that you would get around that time, and he said that you would get fish sauce jars of honey, Bottles of wine toothpicks a few other things, and then one of the things was a shaggy nursling of a weaver on the saying about bear. In garments a thing uncouth, but not. to be despised in cold december. So based he was sent in that time of year. People get really horrible jumpers, but they will be happy of them because the weather was so that special poetic isn't. It is not a shaggy, nothing of a weaver guys. It's gonna, be shaggy, nothing ever weave a day on Friday. So do I your shaggy nursling of a week to the office of action and also

saturnalia aristocrats were brightly coloured fabrics and not necessarily matching ones. They were unusual combinations of clothes and the outfit was called the synthesis, which means things being put together, so I think ass, the other strand of the christmas jumper, While we are that's right, this sab comes actually from a press release from the university of reading and I read and they ve they ve got into all this. They also said that people then drank raising wine wine, flavoured with pitch honeyed wine. We the sound nice and also a special wide for loosening the bow, but that's who is accepting glad at dinner? I get the bow loosening nice. That's what whether toilets legislated? Would you like red white all about loose or brown? A packet of oil is working well,

found we, I mean the four of us have found a perfectly preserve roman toilet seat on hatreds. Will we haven't, but they have an image cheating of walls. I have bad bad latrines Today we had the walk there. Barbarians on one side of the wall was, I was like an attack, strategy paper that cities actually about? You know I like many evil towns, yet they I there is that you will throw boiling goin on the people attacking you. Of course I know, would never do that, because I'll is a really precious thing that you. You know you need to keep as other what they would throw his urine and theses. That's all sometimes barley water, but never I am that's one of the best of a cottage private eye, as council being attacked in the different. As a portuguese huge cauldron of all over the side was again chefs wise next them saint resident for god's sake presented.

maybe you pour boiling oil to show how rich you are the same way that we live in ITALY, the elizabethan times these a blackened that he didn't make it showed if he had really rotting t you eating of rich food, maybe views that kind of yeah. I think that was why why was it that sport is not drunk of status? There's another weird style that happened in america when tv, came a massive thing. When people started owning their own personal tv in their houses, I got it from a bill. Bryson book there used to be a type of clothing, cold videos. This was before He is, and you would buy your video to wear someone's house to watch tv and ever we'll be wearing the same thing, because it was such an event to watch tv the house, like a bit like a black rectangular thing with two. Circular patron saint of television as this is going on Ensuring safe home without is saint clair of Assisi. Who is one

the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, and she was sick embed on those there was. What's going on in the other room, and she could. How see the mass happening on the wall on that Eric lot. I made her the patron saint of television wow. What did she say? ass? She saw the mass happening. Is that was it, yes, lifelong surprise change. The china was it at last. All it was another saint from Assisi called saint, its hollis of Assisi, and he is the patron saint of genital diseases, and don't tell me, I might add- is a patron saint of essay. Yes, I have, as it is the nascent george, the patron saint of civil

not yet way from him. No he's like a junior minister in the city, saint Paul, obviously, as a broader brief, as well as the georgians pages out of lepers always are- employers are saint. The tallest was the patron saint of stds, and diseases genitals into thousand in eleven those noxious house in ireland that had his head in a jar supposedly his had a relic on this hold it too. A an american movie star. Are we don't know which movie star was with his fingers? He ain't gonna live opportunity. I say Julia roberts, heads and christmas traditions, there's a welsh christmas tradition? I'm not gonna be able to pronounce shouldn't think happens as much as it happens, willingly morgan, but nowhere else, which marie le wood, which is why A group of drunken revellers would put a horses skull on a stick and then they go round.

Both houses in buying on their doors at christmas, and they sing them carol. Learning how to have a single with. people in the house, and it was like. Competition and then they had to that you in with your horses skull and they have to feed you and then you had to seeing a goodbye Carolyn. Then you would leave your horses sculling due to the next house. It sounds like a really weird version of causing another tradition. Is this? Is an old english tradition cake tossing? Do you know that one of our most, where you just get a perfectly good cake and throw it against wall against, but even seeing how far you can now use that makes a well throw at his post. I ll give you a year without any hunger here, there's another sorry on what the oh just wanted to share their which is the theory of when the sweater began to that's what a vague thing I did. It became the romans or to be more than one website are found. Does it began with nineteenth century british fishermen, because I needed something chunky and heavy to repel wars and keep them warm and that is from a website called dances with

rules they they would make her. Business jumpers for penguins and then they for, while remember that, really those like an oil spill in new zealand. By then they what they wanted, was little jumped upon the penguin sunday wouldn't preen themselves in and when the oil? They got the oil in the mouth if they bring them, so they thought I got a hundred, but they ended up ten fifteen thousand, actually there, no good out anyway, like if you put up the sweater alma ata penguin is not really the best thing today. Best thing to do is just put it in cold water, water among us, ass, thou, how they ve evolved over millions of years to be able to deal with cold weather exactly so now, whenever you send them jumper for penguin they put it on like a toy penguin and they sell in the shop great. Thank you this is a semi unrelated, but they ve done an experiment in the last few months, where they ve put lingerie on rats and see all the employees do arise,

why men are trying to do, but it wasn't no, they put like kind of sexy underwear on rats and then they got them to go and have have sex with male rounds and then, if the same woman came back later than the guy, didn't wanna have sex with the female without hawaiian sexy lingerie. So it's like this in your programme to believe that the second gonna be good with the laundry wearing woman. Then you don't enjoy is march. We don't want to do. with the non monterrey wearing women funding. This proves why men are attracted to women, but doesn't entails and under terrible slogan of workers was trumpery rat experiments to find that stuff is because we are in fact in previous podcast, which was what was it. They were in polyester pants, yeah, yeah rats in protest, pants I don't care. What were they can't get it out? They call the wrong direction if it were a little transferring having sex lives while yes, no male rats like no honestly, you look really beautiful the luxury. I just I don't know who complained to the public.

The company time for number three, and that is anna. Yet my advice is that mail, turkey's blush when they see female turkey's? I really like sway Finally, if the wearing lingerie why? Why do they took his turn him away and ask me anyway, but some people think it's because went up he's global without she takes up a lot of energy and the global is partly strutting ritual to attract women because a sexy thing to do and when they global it causes the blood to rise up and often to their face, and they turn bright red. They really do go bright red but has any business to this new. Do neither turkey snooze, which I find them, would like the wind her? What is it a snoop, this news that floppy biff skin dangles ready far for take his face and the secondary sexual organs, because so, when a turkey's aroused it guessing

with plans and it gets longer and female turkey's fancy. Male turkey's longest nudes, and so that's news- goes right. Add when trying to seduce weight, so they have a thing on their face that when their aroused stands here and it's got no purpose. Nobody knows what that you also have a thing on your face. That extends when you get aroused, I think, is actually doing you have a reptile tissue inside your nose Oh yes, yeah yeah yeah does it increases. That is when you are around a candy, sometimes and there's a thing called honeymoon renatus, which you can get which apparently, when get aroused and make sure sneeze, and some people get us now sneezing, whether aroused what has been a new perspective is already of pinocchio. Your nose does get longer. When you lie, doesn't make you get ten cents a day say your nose. Does it plan to australia way what else when people gets ten times bigger when you're aroused as well ten times Only smiled like

not only does not mean that small yo, yo sunrise, maybe they're big, does under this. I think of cartoons. When my eyes I get bigger, but now by ten times, obviously right, ok, but so could be able to tell if someone, I don't It is noticeable that knows these bulgaria, if you're tacky can't really play it cool with your snoop kenya, that's true and every bush, as well as very open to them, and that because they got us at the top of my head, turns bright blue. Also, when when the around store excited their head. As various broil turn I had blue, so it is actually quite obvious. Women when they hang on, sorry I've? What they've got if you know conventional executives like in that kind of grayish grey good lad? Turkey had yeah yeah it goes like a big boy, their head right, luria, like my jumper bright blue eyes, were pale. Ok

This was a joke, he's a grey right and turkey's were do. We think they were nearly the official animal emblem of america or not. This is a myth. Apparently, breathing is basically tree. The other is that benjamin franklin like them so much. We thought they would noble animals. He wanted them to be the official, my third, the usa. I don't, I don't have it and it was decided that they were going to make a bold eagle. The emblem of the usa then franklin was outraged, and he said it couldn't be boldly go because they have bad moral character. He said you re route. Is georgia saying you may have seen and perched in some dead tree where too lazy to fish for himself? He watches the labor of the fishing pork. When that dinner bird has taken. A fashion is buried business regime. The bull legal pursues him and steals it so, that and said a much more respectable bird and a true native america is the turkey so

why people get debunking, they sprang them, wanted the bird to be rightly wanted it, but I don't think I'm electric using them right yeah he wanted to do not only want to do. We did electrocute turkey's, one occasion he got a crowd together towards doing it and then ended up electric eating himself. Amazing. He wrote to a friend turkey is to be killed. Fraud and is by the electrical shock and roasted by the electrical jack practised at lahti. I gotta go together and he just he was none for the rest of the evening after he gave himself a huge shock and he wrote to his brother saying two nights ago being about a killer turkey by the shock from two large glass jaws. I inadvertently took a hole through my own arms body. Do not make this more black, for I am ashamed to have been guilty of signatories a blunder so sir frankly, secrets thing, though, is that turkey is not nobody really. I mean

Why people, if you put a male turkey, apparently in a room with a model of female turkey, he'll mate with it just as easily as he worked with the real thing, yeah, but He will also do it if you put a turkey had on a stick. He'll also try mate with that yeah, and they didn't expect with all the different bits of a turkey that what which will work and which will work. Freshly severed head on a stick with the most effective. That's why it like the most most while I like you, but I dont know, could you may be lose everything below you are now well yeah. You got that that was the most effective, followed by a dried male head on a state followed by a two year old with its female head on a stick. Is turkey porn heads breasts just cut out the body that less place. still eliciting sexual response was a plain bolsa. What model of ahead

randy stetz knew just go very slightly better. That was your emblem of the. U s: anxieties! Never ask your leg: repress mother does your head, or I have had many. I love When was this, the data it was done in daylight fifties some people at the university of pennsylvania- oh my god, perverts and ahead of us. You know when they say that cutting science budgets around you but we need to put these rats in Brazil is trying to find out if it wants to shaggy head, I kind of get it now. There's a decomposing. The two years in my office will take its go to the buddhist. How are the real budgets

very breast. He now and they much more than a space to be worth something that is have noticed there we're chatting rather syria. Now I saw your computer screens paving creeds. with the waitresses website? Why don't you go much bigger? They ve increased by fifty seven percent in size and nineteen ac. I think because in essence mounting sixty five sorry because we were of the breeding them to have huge breast, because we lack the taste of turkey breast, and this is why, while turkey's laughing in the face of domestic dogs, they can fly, they can fly fifty five miles an hour. I think, while an most medicated turkey's conflict at all, because their social many they can, they can run twenty five

unbelievable while Jesse's your wall, turkey's turkey's can't farm turkey's can't have sex with each other anymore is glad that the two heavy and desert of young a bit distorted have to be they have to be, must and then officially inseminated and the people who is it not cause they're all dubious now going? That's it's probably just a head on a statement, but the people who do it call it milking and is not milking. No milk undress it up. They, then they, then all right that these. Can I read you a brief account of it. They won't. I longer the effects will last for ever. So this is a critical journalists to enter and visited turkey. For me said I was complaining about the impossibility of a journalist getting to see the process. When I had a rustle of feathers beside me, the turkey was already,

upside down and pulls hands he swiftly and cover the whole? Amidst the feathers gave it a couple of weeks and there was the turkey seamen. Looking like a bit of crumbly old toothpaste, we take this said Paul and suck it into a rubber tube is then blown into the vagina, so you have to suck it up with a rubber tube and then poet, up another turkey. Now that's a job I didn't job have. So what makes you think you're cause. I've always been interested in sucking animals even up to you. But if you say the crumbling toothpaste thing to its face, did they can certainly can be quite safe. In my experience,

do you have any act refresh I read of that turkey who lets say you had to turkey's and you, like all tell me, the gender of these to turkey's you can tell which one is a mail which one is female by their pooh, because the poor with a male turkey comes out. viral. Like MR whip ice cream, it comes out. That's where does it that's the kind of way that comes and then a female who comes out in the shape of a jay. So that's that's how you know because they have different. Is this right? James I've got different clock. Asia they have different shape. Clock is another good turkey thing, which I ought she discovered last year and is now a fact that

on the lawn facts to knock you sideways say if you want to buy, it is as though in turkey. The word for turkey means indian bird in india in the word, for turkey means peruvian bird in greece. The word for turkey means french bird and a malaysia whether turkey means dutch chicken said no one had a clue. I was coming from the ruins everley foreign foreign affairs there that they were called turkey's here, because the merchants who sold them across europe will turkey, but of course, that all native to mexico was also say the native americans. Apparently the real origin of the name is perky, so they should be for these. Not turkey's mother, let's go to start calling, I stuck facts. We should move on time to move on to our final factor the evening and

is Andy. My fact is that the composer of the sum jingle bells also wrote the yuletide classic. We conquer all die the genuine song by the same man. His name was james, lord pierpont, and he was an american compose. It was also the uncle of J p morgan, incidentally, the bankers and yeah, and he wrote this year at the summit, a number of others that the lyrics to we can call die, go the war drums beating, prepare for the fight the stump, bigger, northmen exults in his might get on your bride weapons. Your foment a night, and this be our watchword. We Congo die so making and see where it led on was that it was at his difficult second so, which one came first duenna. I think dingle bells code for some of them. We don't know the dates for countries like them,

They wanted to be taken more seriously assets to be right. Anything else is: is that it from your letter sums of money on the christmas name or the aggressive magic aim? A lot of them are in the aggressive military theme, erode our battle flag and strike for the south, and, oh, let me not neglected die because he was on the side of the south in the civil war, and he would he lived in Boston massachusetts originally, and then he moved down, savannah Georgia. I wouldn't witches ways by the civil war and he a load of these songs on behalf of the south as a kind of agitprop thing, dingle bells was the first time we play from space. Was it yeah yeah?

was really it was when Tom stuff it and woolly share our in space was nineteen sixty five. I think that it was a prank, so they said they had seen a kind of floating asteroid or something they were talking to. You know. Mission control would have on the ground floor, something floating in. They were gonna, get and see what it was and it turned out to be this tiny harmonica. It was three eighth of an inch white and then they launched into rendition of single bells on christmas time from space they had originally planned to play, we concur die together. Right, they pretended that they pretended that they saw sunset clauses outright. Did you say that So what happened? Eight, they kind of went down to mission control and said we can see this this war, guy with twelve other figures flying into the earth's atmosphere. They pretended that they could see father christmas, I would emphasise the man I saw them. They made the laser satellites. I said, I see a command module with eight smaller modules in front. The pilots

the command module is wearing a red suit doesn't want us, there's a lot of sort of christmassy elements to space travel. Really that you're lying lying from other makes me wonder about the whole moon landings. Conspiracy, theory of the alarming santa claus so some of the carols? That's all three ships? You know that some three ships, those neck diversity that we don't really sing anymore. We talks about carrying the dead bodies of the three wise men on the ship, How did I, pursuing natural causes. Yes, the idea was that these three wise men were on the boats and they sailed all the way from bethlehem. Now the problem is that bethlehem isn't on the coast People in britain didn't really know where bethlehem laws are in europe. They didn't know they just issued. It was like a seaside results and so the The sun goes, it sailed for bethlehem to cologne. I think it was. But how could you do that each from what he is. The one in Egypt,

Let it snow. Let us know that it's no was written by some car. And jewels stein, they claimed they came up the idea to call themselves during the heatwave by writing the soul, I don't really see how that works out. Do you, like I'm dreaming of a white christmas, was written? I think, next to a swimming pool and early so yeah, the people want to irving balin right white business, sidney you and he was jewish, any right as a sort of an ironic song and they recently did a poll in amerika of people's top twenty five favorite christmas songs and more than half of them are written by jewish people and

these guys are rising, will the gravest presented last year is the last year the year before costa coffee did a pole amongst their customers of what they think is the worst christmas song. That's ever been written in all came out on top is not lift. Richards little toy lies own wine and they ve now banned. It puts worldwide lave nor loud any of their their coffee shops to play cliff richard. So many more well off in berlin tried to get ready stations to ban elvis presley version of white christmas, but then I wonder what it was. I think he's exact words. Were it

profane parody of his cherished yuletide standard. He ordered staff in new york two eyes. Oh, he ordered his own sort of phone radio stations. They don't play this because he thought it was the outrageous negroes wants animals which ones it grows and they have resented was actually at an oak elvis presley love registrations refused to pay Elvis presley sounds when he first became popular because they assume that he was blank and it was tat the time yeah what they also banned him. I don't if this is a myth that might be myth is a myth, is not a mere yet they could only film him so torso above they can show, is likes. His legs were to sexy in the dance moves. They was just shaking two models, mostly his hips yeah. Maybe legs, another problem as yet

the cut out that, like ours all night, you can, you can do below these guys or you can do about the waste yeah, whereas on on turkey, papa pops, they could see the body. That's all you get rid of renders rent. It was nearly cooled. Reginald reginald doesnt scatters already was it wasn't? A sober Julia was coloring book for children and an advertising. I came up with it and I m very critical original, but then he crucially didn't under is two and a half million copies in its first year. This little coloring, but and which is quite nice, varied, are threatening reindeer. It was written by a copy writer who worked for montgomery, would huge department Store- and they just been told they didn't want to spend this money buying christmas gives to sell, so they told their staff to write a christmas, some. So this guy robert

may wrote rudolph the red nosed reindeer and it sold incredibly well made loads of money, and I think you know it was remade into song and the montgomery wards. People in charge, Montgomery ward, gave him all the rights to he hadn't What's it all and he was in trouble- is why about a terminal illness, he was in massive debt and as soon as it was released as a song, they sought him all devised for a hundred percent and they left off the proceeds of that until I think nineteen seventeen when you die, that's my nice. what is known as greater hawk the herald angel sing. The tune is written by mendelson, which possibly know and Mendelson originally route the tune as a tribute to the Gutenberg, Gutenberg printing press. It was. How awesome is the printing press some? Why says, how some of the printing press, Kosovo's holger Harold angels, hey? Guess they re and whether it actually went Gutenberg detroit chemin, zune debtor difficult, artifacts I've well, yeah

I did so the weirdest thing for me about this fact is when you hear someone who's famous for something and then they produced another bit of work that is just so in a dingle bells weakened. Cora die just so different light is like when I found other Barbara Cortland invented a glider that the middle, tree started using was got Barbara cortland. The romance novelist erodes a billion romance novels, also invented a glider, but you could fly in that. The military was that is so good were using it and that's one of yeah. That's it. That's a thing that an and michael action invented, invented a fax machine Michael Jackson, this maxie identity. Most people know this, but he he wrote, the song do the bark man, the Michael jackson's

does know that, but here he wrote the simpson. Some do the bark really than to those shoes that let you kind of stand on aslant as other tat he did. Actually he was a part of that when he slants forward there's a patent taken out where its waited boots and he is he was one of those not like. This is the kind of issue. That's really cool, some sense that you were wearing the world over, like that. I wouldn't is connected. Airlines minnesota the person who made christmas carols cool again. Why, those same francis of Assisi, I believe yes, it was at a time when it was in the thirteenth century, at a time when it was all like very serious, and very somber, and he try to make christmas celebrations fun again He made it so that France's drinking sums that were summoned taverns like fundraising sums, he he made them be rewritten with Chris christmas lyrics

and an undulating. So a few years ago the pope said that he was a playboy francis of Assisi, what he meant While he started off his life, he was a drink journey was a party or, and then he gave away all this stuff to a leper, and the pope actually said that he was when the original play boys from guy. crazy nativity. I think he turned to his into a fund. Theatrical events are decided about. Jesus should be something that we all go and enjoy watching the vatican. They never christmas tree to my team. Eighty two- and I know I think they associated it still being built even think, there's a thing in america than where you call em holiday trees. I've just went regret. This really grandam report, where there was a guy who was a politician who tidy Previous courier come quite remember. What is previous career as and when he died. Apparently was just such a big thing in his life he hated the idea that things were cold holiday trees, any wanted to become christmas trees that when arnold sorts nega spoke at his funeral, he said I swear.

I will make the christmas tree return. There was the report that came out one arnold schwarzenegger promises christmas trees to return in funeral eulogy, we need to wrap up, don't you guys have yea originally a bit of a saucy song. I just wanted to tell you that the second verse goes a day or two ago I thought Take a ride and soon miss fanny bright was seated by my side. The horse was linen. Link, misfortune seemed a lot. He got into a drifted back. Then we got sought, which no one knows what it means is says like you should be upset, but it didn't quite right. I think that's exactly what it means actually yeah right now. The ground is: why go it while young take the girls tonight and seeing the slaves on? Basically, a sleigh was like having a sweet right in the fifties and you'd go everywhere, you know: you'd go up into the hills of to day.

slavery was on bit like some kind of gory dont be involved with yugoslavia rising. Indeed, you know that was that it was very impressive to young lady. You ve got a sleigh for I have just one more thing to yes, which is, moreover, like a feminist mission statement about the wholly in the ivy and the hole in the ivy, the song, as there was always kind of. bugs me, how you know how the end saying of all the trade that are in the with the holy bears, the crown so in holding the ivy the whole is one and the holiest, but of a dick spiky and nasty and actually these days by to medieval times, when the holly represented masculinity, the male foreman, I've with a woman I view, as is weak gentlewoman and the holly. Was this strong and it's very resilient and it represented a man and in medieval villages they was the women would sing, have competitions against the men and they would be the ivy in memory, the holly. So every time women you sing the holly and the ivy, and you finish saying the holly bears the crown you're saying the men of one: that's that's what I'm!

We need to change the way we need to change its honour, trotskyite her on the phone. Where do you, the ivy will rise again. Ok, that's it! That's all of our facts of this evening, thanks so much for listening at home, thanks so much for being here this evening. I, if you want to get in contact with any of us about things that we said during the course of this podcast, you can get us on twitter, I'm on an schreiber land. Andy Andrew hunter, James outside shaped anna, can email podcast occupy dot com. You can also go to add q ipod cast on twitter as well, and we are we'll be back again next week with another up certain no such thing as a first thanks. So much for listening, we'll catch america by I. Thank you no.