Dec. 23, 2024

Twist to The Left or Right? | Monday 12.23.24

Twist to The Left or Right? | Monday 12.23.24

Did you know that major retail stores sell sex toys....for now.  Then we tell you one of the great untold stories of the holidays, The Heist of St. Nick.  Then, we give you a great Festivus list, a voicemail from a long time listener, and cap it all...

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Did you know that major retail stores sell sex toys....for now. Then we tell you one of the great untold stories of the holidays, The Heist of St. Nick. Then, we give you a great Festivus list, a voicemail from a long time listener, and cap it all off with Hookers and Blow. Merry Christmas!

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Christmas 2024: A true story of St. Nicholas that doesn’t make it into the carols.


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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the treehouse. It is our Christmas Show,

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our last live show of the year. The rest of

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the show will be full of merriment and best up

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and just FYI that's u is truly that. It's some really,

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really really good stuff. Every single segment you will enjoy

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because it's best of.

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Yes, ray, it's best of it, and we don't have

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to pull you know, sixty days a year worth of it.

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Some days is ninety actually, to be honest, when it

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hits sixty, we're like, just if it will go live tired,

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We're like, we're out of best of We just we're

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just gonna do the show anyway. Today is Monday, December

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twenty third, twenty twenty four, the day before Christmas Eve,

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which is the day before Christmas. That makes this our

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last live show of the year, and thus making it

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our holiday show or Christmas show. If you're so worried

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about Christmas getting canceled, we have a lot in store

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for you today, including the heist of Saint Nick. You

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do not want to miss this two part story inside

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the Treehouse, the true story about the Heist of Saint Nicholas.

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But first, this might be the last Christmas that you

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can buy stocking stuffers and mom stuffers at CVS. That's

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because the Texas State legislature, I'm sorry, that's because the

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Texas State legislator wants to ban sex toys from family

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friendly retailers like CVS, Walmart, and Target, which leaves some

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of us to say, I didn't realize CVS, Walmart and

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Target had sex toys, but apparently they do.

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We talked about, we talked about that that CVS has

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sells vibrators and things.

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That's that's an aisle. I don't think I've I've typically

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go down. Usually when I go to CVS, it's you know,

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for some toothpaste and celsius or maybe some ibuprofen.

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I didn't know they had a vibrator.

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I'll either.

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We actually, I think it was at the live show

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we did in Arlington we talked about I was quite

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stunned that they had adult toys and CVS.

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But yeah, but I know they have the like the

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like the Trojans.

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Now these are like full on you'd find a New

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Fine Arts type stuff.

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Yeah. Oh, Okay, Yeah.

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This new bill is proposed by incoming Republican Texas state

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representative and former PTA Vice President Hillary Hickland. The bill

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would limit the sale of such items to sex shops

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and strip clubs only.

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Strip clubs.

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Yeah, I don't think you want those at strip clubs.

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I don't think you're allowed to have those.

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I guess that's a new income stream for strip clubs.

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That's not the only stream at the club.

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Change the lap dance game.

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Really sure, I don't think this representative realizes the hole,

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the loophole that she's opening by saying that. But anyway,

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and our great state, the lone Star state, we do

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have a bit of a history when it comes to

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limiting or even banning sex toys. In nineteen seventy three,

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then state legislators passed a law banning the sale of

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sex toys anywhere in Texas. That was updated and softened

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in two thousand and three to allow their sale, but

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made it a crime to own six or more devices.

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But in two thousand and eight that law was declared

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unconstitutional and thus pulled out. There has been some pushback

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to this bill. State Senator Nathan Johnson slammed the potential

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law as a quote grotesque display of misplaced priorities, and

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a newly elected Republican district attorney, Sarah Stogner was critical

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of the idea on social media. Responding to a tweet

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from Hickland, she wrote on X, I see you're still

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obsessed with dildo's. Perhaps you should buy one and try.

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It might make you feel less uptight. That, by the way,

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I'm pretty sure is true, especially because of who said it.

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Because if that name Sarah Stagner sounds familiar to you,

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it's because she first shot to fame on the back

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of a pump jack in a viral TikTok she made

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while running for a spot on the Railroad Commission. Jesus,

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this story has more layers than an orgy. Texas politics

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is fun, man, mm hm. We usually stay out of it,

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but when it's.

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This juicy, literally, yeah, you would really hope the legislature

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as better things to do than this stupid ass bill.

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I'm a firm believer. By the way, I swear I

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should have done like an over under on puns in

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this segment. But I am a firm believer, and government

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can do two things at once, like if you're doing

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one thing and you get outraged they're not doing this

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other thing. I believe government can or at least has

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the ability to do two things at once. They don't typically,

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but they at least could if they really really wanted to.

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So I get the argument on the whole priorities thing.

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So I sort of look at it as you can

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have this type of sort of a pet bill or

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project or cause as long as you get the really

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big stuff taken care of.

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Yeah, which they won't. I mean, in mind you, this

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is a body that meets once every other year, so

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that those eighteen months off are If this, you know,

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is newly elected, please tell me you ran on something

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more profound.

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You know she's running this this Sarah, I'm not Sarah.

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Hillary Hickland ran and was elected on a big part

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of her platform was the protection of children, reforming schools

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and public schools and how they're funded, protecting the border,

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the standard Republican stuff. So that was how she got elected.

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And this is one of those things that's I guess

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near and dear to her heart because I checked out

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her social media profile on x and she mentions in

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there a number of times how kids should be able

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to pick out a toothbrush without seeing sex toys next

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to them, to which my response is, what CVS are

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you going to where the orifice ales have crossed streams

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because they don't usually put the below the waist stuff

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with the mouth stuff. That's usually different aisles altogether.

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But I'm going to go to CBS today.

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I don't know why you can.

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Yeah, I have to see I've never seen the stuff there.

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Yeah, yeah, CBS, Walgreens, Family friendly retailers, Target would be

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included in this Walmart, any of the any of the

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stores Target.

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Look look usually around where they sell condoms and stuff.

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All right, yeap, y'all's targets are different than mine.

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I think it's it's just a matter of what's on

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your list when you go to Target.

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That's true, Okay, that's true.

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I will say this though, if if this new lot

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passes the come and Take It Flag is going to

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get a hell of a makeover.

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It's gonna have some new things flying out of it.

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I can't wait to get that new new shirt.

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middle of our very special Christmas show inside the Treehouse.

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I'm Dan, along with Trey and Raj and Trey. I

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want to give you a very sincere thank you for

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finding the next article we are going to share inside

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the Treehouse. This is a story that I've never heard before,

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and I imagine most people haven't. Yeah, so we are

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now going to share that story with you. But first

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think about how I want to word this. Oh yeah,

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how on the did you find this story? I don't

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even remember. I'll accept that, okay, because as you hear this,

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you also are going to wonder how Trey found this story.

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But at the same time you will be grateful for it,

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all right, all right, So if if everybody is ready

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today in the Treehouse, we want to tell you about

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a Christmas story that doesn't make it into the Carols.

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It's an Ocean's eleven style heist with a Spaceball's inspired

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act of desecrating a man's corpse, but you know, reel

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and stuff. This is the Heist of Saint Nick, written

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by M. T. Anderson for Slate magazine. The Heist of

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Saint Nick. It is a fact, strange but true that

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Santa Claus's corpse was stolen from its tomb. Though Christmas

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Carols inclamation specials have for some reason neglected the heist

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of Saint Nick's dead body, the details of that theft

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actually can tell us a lot about mythmaking and the

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power of stories, however bizarre to shape reality. Plus it's

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just a good tale to tell at holiday parties. The

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gist of it is this. In ten eighty seven, two

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Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first

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to steal the bones of Saint Nicholas, known to us

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as Santa Claus, from a basilica in what is now

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southern Turkey. Why because the corpse supposedly wept a magical

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liquor that would cure all ills if you drank it

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or rubbed it on your body, what some people now

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do with Theegermeister. Anyway, Saint Nicholas was a real catch.

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Forget everything you know about Santa Claus, almost everything we

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as so jociate with him. The North Pole the sled

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the Reindeer is a nineteenth century confection laid on top

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of a much older and sterner figure. The historical Nicholas

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was Bishop of Mirah, a merchant city on the Turquoise

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coast on the edge of the Mediterranean energy and seas.

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He was supposedly imprisoned and tortured during the Great Persecution

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of the Emperor Diocletian. After his death, stories accumulated around him.

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He had fought demons, He sniffed out a serial killer

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who was pickling boys in his meat locker. He had

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saved three girls from prostitution by throwing bags of gold

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through their window late at night, a legend that is

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the origin of his role as a gift giver to children.

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And he had saved many sailors by flying through the

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sky to their aid, daring storms, calming the waves, trimming

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the sails, grasping the drowning by their hair, and teleporting

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them to land for venison. Bari coastal cities on the

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eastern side of the Boot, in the north and south, respectively,

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and dependent on the merchant ships arriving and departing from

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all over the known world, it would be invaluable to

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have a shrine devoted to Saint Nicholas, the patron saint

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of sailors. Businessmen from all over Europe would choose your

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port to set out from if they knew they could

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kneel at the altar of this champion of mariners. It

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was the best of good luck, a guarantee of calm seas,

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and a prosperous voyage. That was the thinking of a

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group of grain merchants on a routine run between Bari

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and the Syrian city of Antioch, which which you may

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remember from the first Gladiator movie. Sitting around one blustery

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day as they crossed the Mediterranean on their three ships,

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they discussed the idea of stealing the Saints' bones when

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they passed Mira, where he was buried, and it was

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a good time to do it. The Christian city, located

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in present day Turkey had just been invaded by the

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Celgic Turks. The whole region was in turmoil. This was

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the time to slip in and steal the body. It

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turned out, though, they were not the only ones with

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this bright idea. As they discussed it in the seaside

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taverns of Antioch, again from Gladiator, where they were loading

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their return cargo, some Venetian sailors overheard and both that

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they in fact were about to plunder the tomb. They

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had all the equipment at the ready crowbars, shovels and mallets.

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They were heading there on their way home to Italy. Now,

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the Barri sailors had been a little anxious about stealing

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the corpse. He was a holy man, after all, and

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saints were supposed to hover around their relics. If you

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steal relics and the saint does not want to go

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with you, it's not a theft, it's technically a kidnapping.

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The fury of a Maritimes saint could lead to storms, maelstroms, krakens,

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all sorts of disasters. But now that the Venetians had

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thrown down the gauntlet, all the reservations disappeared. Venison Bari

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were great economic rivals, and Venice had been getting the

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upper hand with sweet trade deals and a powerful navy. Ari,

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the scrappy underdog, was determined to get its own backs,

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so the three berised green ships set up for Mira, immediately,

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hoping to steal the body of Saint Nicholas before the

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Venetians knew what was happening, and it must have been

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an eerie's site. When they anchored at Mira, Turkish and

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Turkmen raiders not to be confused, with the Tuscan raiders

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from Star Wars had swept down out of the mountains

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a couple of years before. The city itself was now deserted.

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All its population huddled in a fortress up on a

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nearby hills, surrounded by the tombs of their ancestors, and

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they were probably paying tribute to the Turks, some kind

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of protection money, but the truce was uneasy and they

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rarely ventured out of the fortress. This meant only four

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months guarded the tomb of Saint Nicholas down in the city,

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carrying on their ancient duties filling decorative glass vials with

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the ooze that drizzled from his corpse. Cautiously, the Bari

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sailors assembled the task force of forty seven who would

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march on the church, armed with swords for protection and

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sledge tammers for breaking into the tomb. A skeleton cre

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of twenty odd would stay behind and guard the three

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ships in case the Turks noticed them and got hostile.

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The Turks, according to one source, also worshiped the tomb

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of Nicholas. They had been Islamized for only a few

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decades and apparently felt that a holy man was a

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holy man regardless of his precise sect. For both Christians

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and the newly converted Turkish Muslims in the period, there

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was an almost shamanic magical property to the Holy dead

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that went far beyond doctrine. When the Bearist thieves reached

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the walled compound that included the Nicholas Church and its

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abandoned monastery, they posted guards to watch the crossroads and

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make sure no one was coming to stop them. When

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the sailors went into the church, the four guardians assumed

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they were pilgrims, stopping off in the middle of a

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trade route to ask for a prosperous voyage and buy

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a vial of the nick liquor. After all, there was

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a couple of priests with them. That seemed likely enough

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that they were on pilgrimage, and only took a few minutes. However,

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before the sailor's questions about where the body was stashed

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started to seem a little too pointed suspicious, One of

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the guardians demanded, why do you ask all these questions?

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Can it be that you want to take the body?

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Don't you know that we cannot possibly agree to such

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a thing. In fact, we would rather die than permit

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him to be taken. At first, the Bardi cru tried lives.

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They claimed they'd only been sent by the pope to

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seize the body, and they tried bribery one hundred gold

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pieces for the bones. They were horrified. The guards were

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Saint Nicholas's body had lain under the floor of their

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church for seven hundred year. It defined the city of Mirah,

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and they were not about to give it up. So

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the thieves decided it was time to use force. This

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was a big step. They were in a holy place,

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they were worried about curses. Nonetheless, they grabbed the four guardians,

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tied them up. They sent men out into the courtyard

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to watch for resistance, and then, in superstitious fear, they

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asked their own priests, seeing a few chants, asking Nicholas

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for permission to steal him. The heist of Saint Nick

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Welcome inside the tree House. I'm Daniel Malley, along with

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Trey Trendholm and Raj Sharma. We were in the middle

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of something. We now returned to the heist of Saint

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nick A young hothead named Matteo was sick of playing nice.

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He walked to the point in the floor where there

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was apparently a hole for drawing out the sacred oil

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up from Saint Nicholas's corpse, and he started battering it

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with his hammer. Soon other sailors were feeling bolder, and

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they all joined in. They bashed apart the marble floor

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of the basilica and found under it a sarcassav damn

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it messed up that word, and they found under it

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a sarcophagus. There is some possibility that Saint Nicholas's sarcophagus

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survives to this day, with holes drilled in its scalloped

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lid to draw out the oil and telling lye to

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pour holy oil in. It appears that this was the

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method by which the oil was renewed. The guardians of

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the body were pressing their own olive oil in the

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compound in, using it with local mirrh, and pouring it

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through his siphon into the sarcophagus, where it would be

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irradiated by the holiness of the sacred bones and could

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then be packaged for resale gum. Back to Mateo, he

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smashed the lid of the sarcophagus. The sailors found that

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the whole box was welling with dark oil. Unfazed, Mateo

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dunked his arms into the oil and felt around for

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the bones. He was frustrated he couldn't find the skull,

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which was obviously the real git. To the horror of

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everyone who looked on, he lowered himself into the bath

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of oil, drenching his clothes in sacred ecor or ikor herise,

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and fumbled around feeling for the saint's head. I'd like

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to take a brief moment and tell everyone again, this

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is a real story. Now back to it. Modern investigation

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of the bones suggests that in the process he almost

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certainly shattered the ribs and pelvis of Saint Nicholas, which

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he must have been kneeling on. When Aha Matteo found

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the skull, he handed it up, and the two priests

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connected to the heist carefully lay it on a cloak

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to be folded up with the other long bones as

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quickly as possible. The crew wrapped up their ill gotten

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gains and made for the exodus. The four Guardians wailed

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pleasing threats and cursed. Behind them, the armed band walked

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back through the deserted city of Mira toward their ships.

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They would have gotten there without incident, except, of course,

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there's no honor among thieves. They had to stop and

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argue about whose ship would actually carry the corpse. While

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they argued, one of the guardians made his way up

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to the fortress, where the Christian population of Mirra hid

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and sounded the alarm. The people of Mira had suffered enough.

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The city had been overrun. They'd been locked up in

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their fortress for a year, maybe longer, paying tribute so

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they could at least go out in the day to

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tend to their fields and whatever livestock was left. And

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now they're saint. Their city's one claim to fame was

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being carried off by some hooligans from the heel of

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the Italian boot. They poured out of their fortress and

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charged down through the streets of the city, screaming in rage.

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At this, the sailors picked up the pace, trotting toward

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their ships, which were pulled up on shore to the

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south of the city. The bones wrapped in a bundle

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like Santa's, like Santa Claus's bag of toys slapped up

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and down on the back of the priest who carried them,

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drizzling grease down his back. The townspeople reached the ships

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too late. The crew had already scampered aboard. I wish

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it was through the snow. The people of Mira demanded

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the bones back. They wailed and sorrow that their city

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saint was about to sail away to foreign land. Some

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even curse Nicholas himself, the father of the city, for

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abandoning his children. But nothing would persuade the thieves. They

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pushed off and started to row towards open waters. Men

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and women plunged into the sea behind them, grabbing at

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the ship's oars. Back on shore, they found one of

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the Holy Guardians and blamed him for letting the Italians

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snatch the saint, so they beat him to death on

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the shore ah Christmas, But the ships were getting farther away.

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The sailors were almost mocking as they pulled away from Mirra.

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They would not have an easy voyage home. Some of

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the sailors would steal joints and fragments of the saint,

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a transgression that, as they believed caused them to suffer

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through storms and almost capsize, but the Saint was theirs.

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They drove a hard bargain when they got home to Bari.

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All of them were to get a cut of the

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pilgrim income for those who came to pray to the Saint,

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which is one of the reasons we know about the heightst.

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Not only do we have a couple of narratives written

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a few weeks or months after they got back, but

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a full financial account of the annual payments that were

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still being made to their fan families eighty years later.

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A decade after the heist. In the mid ten nineties,

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the Emperor of Byzantium, frustrated at the Turkish invasion of

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his lands to the east, including the region around Mir,

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asked the kings of Western Europe to send armies to

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assist him in pushing back the Turks the barbarian monarchs

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of the Hordes East, a counter evasion we call the

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First Crusade. It was the beginning of two centuries of

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senseless bloodshed in the Middle East that forever tainted Muslim

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Christian relations. A series of disastrous massacres and incompetent defeats

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that still swells the hearts of contemporary white supremacists with pride.

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Many of the expeditions set out from barri where the

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soldiers could pray to Nicholas for calm seas and prosperous voyage.

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The city thrived as invasion forces supplied themselves at the

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merchants stalls of the Port of Saint Nicholas and set

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forth on their mission of destruction. And what about those Venetians,

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the city's great rivals. What happened when they got timehr

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and demanded the bones back? That's a story for another Christmas.

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And this has been the story about the heist of

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Saint Nick. Now we've all learned a little something.

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How have we never come up with a liquor or

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at least a shot called Nick liquor?

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Mmmm?

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Because if you if you have too many and you

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say that wrong, you don't want to slur on that shot.

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And let it be said, we still know what the

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greatest story ever told is, but this may be a

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close second.

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You are in the tree House. Thank you for joining

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us for our very special Christmas episode. I will say

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that the story about the Heist of Saint Nicholas is

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a little long, but it's pretty good and maybe maybe

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in the future, if we ever decide to tell it again,

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find a way to condense it a little bit more

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than than what we already did. But what was it you.

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Noticed, Raj, Well, when you messed up the word starcophagus,

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I was like, man, you don't want to mess up

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nick lickor. I'm just saying that's a that's a bad

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way to end that story.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's one of those that after I read through

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it the first time, about halfway, I was like, you

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know what, I need to read this at least twice

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all the way through out loud, just in case.

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Yeah, because there's some tricky spots. Well, yeah, there's nick

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liquor and then there's white supremacy is in there somewhere,

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And I'm like, you don't want to you don't want

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to combine those two.

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I mean they would, but.

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Yeah, yeah, certainly, yeah, no doubt about that.

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All right.

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So there you have the Great Heist of Saint Nicholas again,

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a true story, which is still fascinating to me. That

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being said, I know it's Christmas and everything, and there

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are other holidays that are happening, you know, Hanukkah, Kwanza,

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but there's also Festivus. And I didn't know until recently

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that our very own Trey Trenholms celebrates Festivus. Now, in

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case you don't know what Festivus is, it's a secular

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holiday that originated in the nineteen ninety seven Seinfeld episode

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The Strike. In that episode, George Costanza's father Frank, introduces

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Festivus as an alternative to Christmas, created to protest the

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commercialization of the season, which, by the way, Festivus is

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celebrated on December twenty third, which is today. Some of

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the traditions of Festivus include no tree. Instead of a

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Christmas tree, you get an undecorated aluminum pole. There's the

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airing of grievances during dinner. Each person takes a turn

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sharing how the others have disappointed them in the past year,

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and finally feats of strength. After dinner, there's a wrestling

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match where the head of the household must be pinned.

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Festivus is fun, man, really is.

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That's just a Indian dinner.

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That's a southern family reunion with lots of nick liquor.

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But again, I'm fascinated by finding out that my friend Trey,

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that I've been friends with for over twenty years, you're

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a Festivus celebrator. And so you went through this entire

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past year and found your complaints and not how hopefully

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not how Raj and I have disappointed, although it's possible,

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but maybe just complaints in general.

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Well it complaints in general. And found a source that

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had compiled some good ones. Some of these heavy on Florida.

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So is this a Florida Festivus.

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It's a Tampa Bay Times Festivus.

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Oh okay, yeah, I guess, so, I guess. I guess

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the entire state would be just too much.

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Well, you know, it's Internet, so it comes from all over,

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but there are at times some heavy Florida influences, which

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gives you. I need to say that, because it has

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to give you some perspective for some of.

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The things got you here, all right, So what do

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you got?

464
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:46.240
All right? So start off with some that just made

465
00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:48.480
me laugh, and then uh, it kind of end with

466
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:56.680
the top five Spotify Spotify Wrap Shows your year review,

467
00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.799
but missus a whole month of listening. Never seen a

468
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.240
Christmas song on the you know, Spotify rap.

469
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:06.920
That's true because that stuff always comes out in mid

470
00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:08.880
December and it's based on eleven months worth of data.

471
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:09.839
That's an excellent point.

472
00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:13.119
I'm sick of shorter and shorter seasons of shows. I

473
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.279
demand every show have a minimum of ten episodes a year.

474
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.079
Why is twenty nineteen Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker

475
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.240
so bad? He resurrected the thirty year dead Emperor so

476
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.960
he could be the grandpa of this nineteen year old.

477
00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:36.839
Oh god, yes, it reminds me of one of the

478
00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.880
greatest memes I saw after that movie came out, That

479
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:41.880
that third one, The Rise of Skywalker, where it's like

480
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:46.039
the original movies, it's like the force flows through you,

481
00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.160
blah blah blah. Cut to jj Abrams. The force comes

482
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.160
from the balls.

483
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:05.279
Artificial intelligence, it's no match for natural upidity. Amen. It

484
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:07.799
is the year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four, and

485
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:09.759
we still change the clocks twice a year.

486
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:17.000
Maybe not for long, maybe not for a long. They

487
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.000
could have passed it this last year, by the way,

488
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.240
they could have passed it. But now I guess I

489
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:23.759
want to make sure that Trump gets credit for it,

490
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:25.599
so they'll maybe they'll pass it this year. I don't

491
00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.279
care past the damn thing. We're all sick of changing

492
00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:28.960
the clocks.

493
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:32.839
Well, then the big debate now is which one do

494
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:34.799
you go to because a lot of people want to

495
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:36.960
do that where you would keep it where it gets

496
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:40.359
darker earlier, and then other people are like, no, let's

497
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:43.119
have it darker later. So that that's a whole nother controversy.

498
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.160
So there's the great divide mourning people versus night people. Yeah,

499
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.839
pretty much, Well that's going.

500
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:52.480
So for those of you who don't know, Publics is

501
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.200
a big grocery store chain in Florida.

502
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.759
It's like their version of a GB.

503
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:01.599
Yes, the Public's cashier provides play by play on every

504
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:05.279
item she rings up. Oh I love this popcorn. These

505
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:09.559
chicken tenders look so good. Next time I'm buying condoms

506
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:12.599
me relax and emodium a d as I await breathlessly.

507
00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:16.000
Here stole their virtues.

508
00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.799
My buddy got fired from a trader Jokes on his

509
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:24.519
first day because the ladies showed up with the bottle

510
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:29.759
of wine and a cucumber. He goes, we've all had

511
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:41.880
days like that. That's a one hundred per century story.

512
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:44.519
His first day, They're like, you gotta go.

513
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.319
He's just throwing his hands up as he escort of Malcohl.

514
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.400
What just spitting the truth. We've all had days like that,

515
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:54.640
just throwing facts.

516
00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.359
Two shoppers having a cart reunion in the middle of

517
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.839
the aisle. Sorry to interrupt your third diatribe about your

518
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.200
least favorite kid, but I need to grab some paprika.

519
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.359
That's when that drives me nuts. And that's that's not

520
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.279
limited to a grocery store. That's just people being completely

521
00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:16.000
unaware of their surroundings and inconsiderate.

522
00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:22.400
Uh, why is it. There's no minimum, no job requirements

523
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:24.720
to run a government agency, But if I want a

524
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.440
job at outback steakhouse, I need three years experience.

525
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:34.119
Truth.

526
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.000
Yeah, blooming Onion is pretty complicated.

527
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:41.960
The number of flamingo pictures, posters, sculptures, signs, and decorations

528
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:46.039
versus actual flamingos in Florida is outrageous. I'd wager that

529
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:50.920
maybe one percent of the county has actual flamingos.

530
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.519
Flamingos, it turns out, are sorry for the pun, but

531
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:57.960
they're kind of flighty and they're kind of hard to find.

532
00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:04.160
Uh huh. I hate full sized flags on cars. I

533
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:08.079
don't want to get killed Final Destination style because some

534
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:13.119
dude figured tinfoil had some electrical tape. It's good enough

535
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:17.559
to secure what's essentially a sail attached to a spear for.

536
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.440
That's not good to Maga very good.

537
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:29.799
That's not.

538
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.680
I like to take anymore. That was really good.

539
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:43.559
I can't stand when the plastic part of a clothing

540
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.440
tag lingers on the fabric and it decides to start

541
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.480
poking me on a random Tuesday afternoon.

542
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:56.000
Yeah man, I love Festivus.

543
00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.559
Yeah, I feel great man dancing around this aluminum pole.

544
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:02.000
I can't I can't wait to see who gets pinned.

545
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.480
The Swanson Meatlow Family pack not only feeds a family

546
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:10.400
of two point five.

547
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.759
I've made my way through a hole asagna by myself

548
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:19.400
from Swansea.

549
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:29.799
Timothy, get it, Timothy shallow May. I still don't like him,

550
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.599
but he's growing on me, and that comes with its

551
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:33.319
own pains.

552
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:39.400
As someone who's currently watching Doom too, I relate to that.

553
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:46.079
My closest Taco Bell closed for several weeks for renovations.

554
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.599
Nobody is going to Taco Bell for the scenery or atmosphere.

555
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.200
Serve me tacos from the back of an old van.

556
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.319
I don't care. Just don't close for weeks at a time.

557
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:05.799
Yeah one too.

558
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:08.280
I love festival.

559
00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.840
Why can't we have a universal standard for which direction

560
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.599
you must twist those twist those little wires that used

561
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:18.320
to close bags?

562
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.039
And how is it that sometimes you think you got

563
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:29.559
it figured out one direction somehow in the middle. It's

564
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:31.960
not supposed to be scientifically possible.

565
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:35.280
I bet I've wasted a thousand hours of my life

566
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.880
twisting those things in the wrong direction before discovering I

567
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:45.400
was going the wrong way. Oh my head.

568
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.199
You're listening to the tree House.

569
00:34:47.840 --> 00:35:08.559
Visit us online that Treehouse on air dot com.

570
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.880
Visit us online at Threehouse on air dot com.

571
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:19.480
You can visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com.

572
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.920
You can visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com.

573
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.480
And while you're there, the microphone on the lower right

574
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:28.400
hand corner, you can click on that to send us

575
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:31.719
some feedback, leave us a message tree House feedback right there,

576
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:34.880
lower right hand corner. Use that microphone on our website

577
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:40.719
Treehouse on air dot com. Just like one person did.

578
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:44.719
And if you had to guess who the first person

579
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:48.639
would be to leave us Treehouse feedback throughout the entirety

580
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:51.199
of the listener base of this program over a couple

581
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:56.000
of decades. Who do you think that would be? Trey, Robert,

582
00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:02.119
Robert Pale? What it's correct, Robert Palell, bless you, sir,

583
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.800
longtime listener, many time caller. Uh, he's the first to

584
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.360
leave us Treehouse feedback right here inside the Treehouse. So

585
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:11.280
let's allow him to do so.

586
00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:15.039
Hey, it's for Bert the Catholic Church. This is regarding

587
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.920
Thursday's show. The Catholic Church will probably have a lot

588
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:21.440
more money from donations they to handle that whole raping

589
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.679
kids problem a little bit better.

590
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:27.719
Yeah, he's responding back to us talking about how the

591
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.360
pope or the church was talking about how they're low

592
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:35.519
on donations and near bankruptcy. And maybe we thought maybe

593
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.440
that's the reason why he was wandering around Rome and

594
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.440
opening up random door thinking they'll find some cash. But

595
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:42.960
Robert brings up a great point. Donations go down if

596
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:46.519
if people feel like you're mishandling the funds or that

597
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:48.880
they're just contributing to the payouts to the kids that

598
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:49.480
you've diddled.

599
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:51.199
Yeah.

600
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:55.400
H so thank you, Robert. We appreciate the first Treehouse feedback.

601
00:36:57.480 --> 00:36:59.199
I don't want to call it a Christmas e version,

602
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:01.280
but it's churchy.

603
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:01.719
At least.

604
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:09.400
Today is Monday, December twenty third, twenty twenty four. Let's

605
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:14.199
celebrate with some Christmas birthdays. I didn't really bother with

606
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.599
the twenty third birthdays because to me, the only birthday

607
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:18.920
on December twenty third that ever mattered was my Pappas.

608
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.320
But he passed away many years ago. He continued to

609
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:27.039
rest in peace. Besides, if he was alive today, he'd

610
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:29.400
be one hundred and three years old. So I think

611
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:30.840
he's better for all of us that he is where

612
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.880
he is. Birthdays for Christmas Eve. If you're curious, We've

613
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:41.079
got Ryan Seacrest. He's fifty. Ryan Seacrest finally hits the

614
00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:45.199
Big five zero on Christmas Eve. Ricky Martin turns fifty three,

615
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:52.800
Dedrich Bater turns fifty eight played Greg Otto on American Housewife.

616
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:56.920
Was Jethrow in the Beverly Hillbillies movie. Was the neighbor

617
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:59.239
in office space who said if he won the lottery,

618
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:05.599
he'd do two chicks at one time. Also, we've got

619
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:11.480
Lee Daniels, creator of Empire. He's sixty five, and Clarence

620
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:15.199
Gilliard he would have been would have been sixty nine,

621
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:18.280
but he passed away in twenty twenty two. He was

622
00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:20.880
THEO the Hacker in Die Hard. Remember he's one of

623
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.480
the first ones. He was Jimmy. He was Jimmy on

624
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.920
Walker Texas Ranger Conrad on the original Mattlock as well.

625
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:34.440
And also he's Sundown in Top Gun, the dude that

626
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.000
rides in the back of the jet. Thank you Christmas

627
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:44.079
Birthdays today. Yeah, Top Gun's racist.

628
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:44.760
The only.

629
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.880
What's that tray? The only black dude, the only and

630
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:51.679
the only time you ever got to see him fly

631
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.639
was after a white dude died. Makes you wonder why

632
00:38:55.639 --> 00:39:01.559
he was there at all. Probably affirmative action selection. Anyway.

633
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:07.960
Christmas Birthdays. Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister. He's fifty three.

634
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:12.199
Singer Annie Lennox from the Eurythmics is seventy, Carl Rove,

635
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:16.559
former presidential advisor, is seventy four. Country singer Steve Warner

636
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:21.880
is seventy, Barbara Mandrel is seventy six, Sissy's Spasic is

637
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:26.760
seventy five. Larry Zonka is seventy eight. And Gary Sandy,

638
00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:31.320
who famously played Andy Travis on WKRP in Cincinnati, turns

639
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.079
seventy nine. Oh and also Jesus of Nazareth. Today is

640
00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.119
his birthday, but he stopped having birthdays at the age

641
00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:41.960
of thirty three. If he were alive today, he would

642
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.400
be roughly twenty twenty four. Pretty easy birthday math right there.

643
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:47.599
Not born in December.

644
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:53.440
Also not born in December. Yeah, that's the beauty of

645
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:56.519
That's like the story of the heist of Saint Nick,

646
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.639
the Nativity story, the birth of Jesus, the you know,

647
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:05.079
killing Jesus, like all these things, they're a little fluid

648
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:08.239
on the timeline. I think the like with Jesus being

649
00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:11.039
killed in the Resurrection, I think that time of year

650
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:13.199
is pretty accurate. I think that's on point. Sorry for

651
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.440
the punt, but his his actual birthday was moved by

652
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:23.039
the Church to coincide with pagan rituals to get hurt.

653
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:25.960
It wasn't even really the church. It was counselor and

654
00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:29.840
I see you, but church people the Bible together.

655
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.480
But the Catholic Church actually moved all the dates over

656
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:35.960
for like Easter and and Christmas.

657
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.960
I think Easter was pretty accurate isn't that right, Trey? See,

658
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.960
Christmas needed to be moved because you don't want to

659
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:44.320
have you know, you don't want to have two gift

660
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:45.679
giving holidays that close together.

661
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:48.400
Well, I mean it's Christ's Mass.

662
00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:51.559
So that's where that the term comes from.

663
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.920
No, kid, Yeah, so that's where it was supposed to be.

664
00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.159
Like you in a dick when you say it like that,

665
00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:01.280
or you being honest compressed that you didn't know that.

666
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:06.320
No, I knew that. Of course it was. It's considered

667
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:11.519
it was in September. It's like, yeah, but when they

668
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:15.239
when they fused everything together, they had to appease the Pagans,

669
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:18.679
and so you know, it was before. That's why. It's

670
00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:21.920
why the crucifixion. The crucifixion and and you know an

671
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.559
Easter bunny somehow go hand in hand.

672
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.400
Yeah. You should also read a great book called Jesus

673
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.840
Died in India. Mm hmm yeah.

674
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:39.800
Would you do you really want that? My dad was

675
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.920
there apparently.

676
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:55.800
Online Treehouse on Air dot com.

677
00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:06.440
You're in the Treehouse Business Online on Air dot com.

678
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.159
You are in the Treehouse on our very special Christmas edition.

679
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.400
I'm Dan along with Trey and Raj and I have

680
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:17.199
two pieces of excellent information before we close the treehouse

681
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.000
for the remainder of the holiday season. The first of

682
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:23.440
which is Trey has a few more Festivus complaints to

683
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:29.880
share with us. But first is the second good news

684
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:32.920
I have for you. I have for you today because

685
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.840
I wanted to do it last year, but Barnes and

686
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:41.000
Noble really sucks at online book ordering compared to Amazon.

687
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:49.039
So I now share with you the book the story

688
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:58.000
Hookers and Blows Save Christmas. A holiday reading. This is

689
00:42:58.039 --> 00:42:59.559
a real book, by the way, and this like I

690
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:03.199
didn't just like make this on my own. Hookers and

691
00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:08.400
Blows Save Christmas, written and illustrated by Monty C. Peppin

692
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:13.400
or Pepin if he's French. It was Christmas Eve in

693
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:17.480
the small town of Pleasant. Everyone was excited to soon

694
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:22.360
open their presence. The weather was cold with deep piles

695
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:27.840
of snow. Police Officer Bob called Hookers and blow. Tom

696
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.239
transport is loaded with cards, candy and gifts, but broke

697
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.360
down out of town and is stuck in snow drifts.

698
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.599
We need all of these presents for the big party today.

699
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:42.639
No problem, said Hookers. We can help right away. The

700
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:46.280
snow was quite deep and covered the road. Blow got

701
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.000
to work blowing and could handle the load. They traveled

702
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:54.119
down Main Street and straight out of town, drove up

703
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:59.519
on Mount Dexter, then all the way down just round

704
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:03.199
the bend. Tom transport soon did appear, all covered in

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snow right up to his mirrors. Blow cleared away the snow.

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It didn't take long. Now hookers could check what might

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have gone wrong. Hookers reached round and popped up Tom's

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big hood, attached booster cables, and said, crank it real good.

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Tom stuttered and sputtered, then started to groan his tired

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old engine. It just might be blown. Tom moaned the

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snow and the hills were maybe too much. I might

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have broken a piston and wore out the clutch. No problem,

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said hookers. I'm a big toe truck, you see. We'll

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get to town quickly. You Blow and me with Tom

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mounted on hookers, Blow plowed through the snow. They headed

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for town, driving careful and slow. Hookers got on the

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radio and called up ahead police officer Bob. We have Tom,

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but his engine is dead. The snow keeps on falling.

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Blow is blowing real hard, but we'll get there in time.

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With candy presents and cards across bridges and train tracks,

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blow leading the way up and down Old Mount Dexter.

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They soon made up the delay. They drove straight up Mount.

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They drove straight up Main Street while everyone smiled. Tom

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loaded with presents for each and every child. They arrived

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at the party and there was a great cheer for

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Hookers and below had made it the best day of

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the year. Two fantastic stories inside the Treehouse for your

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Christmas enjoyment.

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Matt Gates Christmas.

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His Amazon wish list is pretty transparent. And that's not

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all because we want to wrap up our very special

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Christmas edition of the Treehouse today, which is to few

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more of Trey's festivut complaints.

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This one will be near and dear to everyone. Okay,

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00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:16.559
why does every bar have to have a theme? Can't

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the theme just be getting drunk? This next one comes

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from Milton.

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No, no, no, hang on, that needs yeah, that needs

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applause in a salute. Yeah yeah, well said.

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This next one comes from Milton. They don't sell only

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one sock in stores. I'm only short one sock? Why

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am I forced to buy two?

743
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:48.480
That's actually a really good idea. Someone just needs to

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start selling one sock multiple colors so you can find

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one to replace the one that you lost.

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The final one and remember this comes from Florida. Okay,

747
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since winter band books such a problem, and who wants

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to read a band book? Anyway? What happened to just

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listening to the radio? Are watching them march during halftime?

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Took me a second, but I got there. Oh. Thank

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you for sharing those with us today, Cherry. We appreciate

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that it's been a fun year inside the Treehouse, and

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twenty twenty five promises to be bigger and better and

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we look forward to growing with you. Have a wonderful

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holiday season. We'll see you back here in twenty twenty

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five Inside the Treehouse.

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Eight