EPISODE 633： THE POSO BROTHER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
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Jack Posobiec and the POSO Bros discuss their favorite Christmas songs and what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century. Jack and his brother Kev reminisce about growing up in the 60s and 70s and reminisce on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we know Christmas is coming, but before Christmas, the gathering
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Today is Christmas Day, and we are here at Human Events on this special occasion to share
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in this celebration of our Lord's birth with you.
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Now, typically, every year we do the Christmas special.
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Two years ago, we did just myself and Tanya Tay.
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Last year, we did the POSO family Christmas special.
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However, comma, there was one member of the family that we didn't get the chance just
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because of scheduling, logistics, you know how it goes, especially around the Christmas
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So there was one member of the Christmas family that we didn't get to work into the Christmas
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We had my dad, we had my mom, we had Jack Jack.
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So we'll work on him when he gets a little bit older, maybe next year for AJ.
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But Brother Kev, Brother Kev, who's done so much of work here on the program, was not
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And so today, you're getting the POSO Bros Christmas special.
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Kev, I gotta ask, man, what does Christmas mean to you?
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He's got his maestro, he's got his conductor baton out.
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And, no, but, but I gotta say that, you know, growing up in, uh, growing up on Powell Street,
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1400 block, you know, that, um, you know, Christmas has always been for us a time of, of family
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You know, I remember, and it was always centered around church, right?
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It's, it's, you're going to church, uh, either Christmas day or the Christmas vigil mass.
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So the night before midnight mass, of course, St. Pat's and Jack, Jack always sings at church,
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It's like, it's kind of painful to like sit in the pew next to Jack.
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But, uh, it's only, it's only painful because, because you realize how good the choir could be
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He'll sing, and then Jack sings louder than him.
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Well, the cantor, the cantor would be the one singing.
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Anyways, for Christmas, it's usually the only time, it's, I've been getting way better over
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the years, but usually the time when I'm like, all right, you know what, I'm going to sing
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And one of them is Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
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And I love the ones, this, and it's also great because this is when, like, with Christmas
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songs, when we talk about cultural dominance and taking up space, that's one of the things
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is that the Christians just own December when it comes to Christmas music.
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We will dominate the public spaces, dominate the malls, dominate the department stores.
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What do you got for the Satanists out there and for the atheists and everything else?
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We have the best music, and the reason the Christmas music is the best music on the face
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of the planet is because it was literally crafted by angels guiding the hands, right?
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Guiding the hands of the composers and the music makers ever since.
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The first Christmas carols were sung by angels to the shepherds.
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And so that's why they've been trying to replace.
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That's one of dad's favorite parts of the Bible is like, just imagining what that would
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That's why they call it a choir because they are in song for the celebration of the birth
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And, and this is why, by the way, I was going to say that they've been trying to replace
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those traditional Christmas songs with the secular Christmas songs.
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Um, and Carrie gets pushed like crazy because they are trying to make that the main, so I'm
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not against the song, but I'm pointing out that they are trying to replace, replace,
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The original, the original Christmas songs, all of which were in service to our Lord and
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We're going to do caroling to Christ this year.
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There's barbershop quartet, and then there's Poso caroling.
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Like and subscribe to be in the Poso caroling crew.
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Jack Posobiec, Kevin Posobiec, the Poso bros Christmas special.
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And Kev, so, you know, we were talking a little bit as we taped this, um, that, uh, you
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know, this Christmas, it's, it's really important for us to remember Christmas.
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Christmas, not just as the day of the Lord's birth, but we also have to remember the importance
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And we are called in the 10 commandments to make the Sabbath a holy day, not just keep it
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If you go back to the original text and that is the same order that we are given for the
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holidays, the holy days, we are called to make them holy.
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And so let's walk through a little bit of that.
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What are some things that people can do to make the day holy?
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Now, of course, throughout Advent, we do the Advent candles.
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Uh, we go to service on Christmas, of course, or on the Christmas Eve, the vigil mass.
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And, and these, these are of course, ways sitting around praying as a family.
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People know, generally know that, but what are some other things that people can do?
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And as, as we say, to make the day holy, to make the day holy.
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It's, it's, it's, it's actually the whole month really, like by sending Christmas cheer,
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like sending cards to each other, to relatives outside of state that you don't see.
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Uh, mom used to have like the December calendar.
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Remember with the, the little, the little puppets.
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It's, no, we have a different one, but I'm trying to get that one out off of mom.
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I mean, baking, little candy cane cookies, getting together.
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But what you're talking about, what you're talking about are family traditions.
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Family traditions, if not any other time of the year, this is when you would want to do those things.
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Right, so spending time with family does actually make it holy.
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Because we are called in the Ten Commandments, you're honoring your father and mother, you're, you're growing your stronger family, you're being with your family.
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So, familiness, and I say this all the time, be a rebel, start a family, that spending time with family, being with them one-on-one.
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And by the way, that means actively being with family.
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And I'm not, and look, we're all guilty of it, right?
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We're all guilty of, you know, you're, you're, you're together, but what are you doing?
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You're on your screens, or you're doing something, and you're not actually actively spending time together.
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Yeah, it's still the one major American holiday that is centered around, like, some sort of value, right?
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And they try, they're trying to get rid of, yeah.
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They can't break that, except for the Chinese restaurants.
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It took the words right out of my mouth, yeah, unless you want to go get some, some roasted duck or something.
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You know, but, but no, I think you're exactly right.
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Family, friends, uh, you know, so we just had Thanksgiving, right?
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Because most millennials are so empty and vapid.
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Yeah, and it's, like, just all online, all about the pictures, like.
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Right, it's all about the, it's all about the promotion of the thing rather than the thing itself.
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And Hank is, Tom Hanks is just a character anyway.
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So it's, like, it's not even who he is in real life.
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By the way, and if you have kids around, if you've got sons, you've got daughters, you've got nephews, you've got nieces,
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spend time with them, play with them, teach them something.
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And then, of course, the icicles always turned into swords.
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And then they would turn into, like, missiles and projectiles.
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And then dad would definitely get upset because he would be coming out of the door and we'd, like, shoot one at him.
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And, yeah, we'd get in a little trouble with that, you know, snowball fights, whatever it is.
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So if you're ever wondering, that's the way we are, how we are now.
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Well, and I think, yeah, and I think, too, that it's short, right?
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And it's those memories that you're going to have.
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So having a memory like that that we have with me and you and dad and just all the other neighborhood kids who would get involved is completely separate from me sitting down and playing a video game.
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Or me sitting down and being on social media because that's a memory that I have of growing up with actual human beings that is indelible that I'm never going to forget versus can you actively remember, like, every video game you've played?
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I'm not saying don't play games, but I'm just talking about the difference in terms of how it resonates on your life as we look back on our childhood, that those things you remember because that was an actual physical and social interaction that you had with family and friends as opposed to something that just existed on the screen.
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And, by the way, you know, growing up as well, it was, you know, you started with our Christmas tree, right?
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And then I always remember that mom would say, you can open your presents, but you can't play with your presents because we've got to get to the cousin's house, right?
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And then we were going to, and then we went to the one cousin's house and our aunt and uncle here.
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And it was like, it was like, you know, the quest.
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It was the Christmas quest every year to go to all the different aunt and uncles because our aunt and uncles.
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Then we go to aunt Mary's pop-up when he was still with us.
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We would physically go because our family lived that close together.
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I'm saying there's like video games now, like where, I don't know, it might be like Harry Potter video game or some simulation where you can go in.
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And you could like have a snowball fight in the video game.
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Just boys development, like having snowball fights and competing and that.
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Well, so here's, well, here's my question, right?
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So we can talk about this being better, but does that make the day holy?
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And I would say, I guess I would say in a sense.
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Yeah, part of making, I guess we're definitely arguing against technology, like a day where at least you're not on video games.
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And look, like people know, people know, people know I'm pro-technology, right?
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We're running this show on social media right now, as well as terrestrial broadcast and Roku and other things.
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But I think it's the idea of having spending time with your actual family.
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And it's something that, look, as a kid, I'm sure, and we both did.
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We gave mom, we gave mom so much guff about getting dressed because, and she would say this.
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She said, you can't play with your toys until we come back.
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And usually we wouldn't get to play with our toys until the day after Christmas.
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And I used to say I like the day after Christmas because I get to play with all my toys.
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I have the memories of going to be with my cousins.
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And spending time with them and building those family relationships that, guess what, that we still have.
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In fact, we're talking about this year our one cousin, and she's got a whole bunch of kids.
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And we were talking about bringing back the white elephant.
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Remember we used to do the white elephant game?
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So we're talking about bringing that back this year.
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If you don't know what Pollyanna is, it's when all the gifts stay in the middle, and they're wrapped.
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And when it's your turn, you can either steal a gift or take a gift.
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And the stealing of the gifts, which would go to the end of the game, and it got intense.
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There's definitely some people that spent, like, they would not talk to each other until the next Christmas
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We get a little bit rowdy, especially something because you get something good in there, and it's like, and then, because there would always be the white elephant would be like the bad gift, whatever it was.
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And then that would, you know, you're playing tricks on people.
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And then it would always be, I would always do this thing where I would, you remember this?
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I would get something good, and then I would be really quiet, and I would kind of, like, hide it behind my back.
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And then just as everyone would go, I would just kind of be sitting there like, mm-hmm, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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So the one time in all the years when I was living in China and deployed in the military, the one, I only missed one Christmas.
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And the only Christmas I ever missed was when I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay.
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So I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, and I actually, you're right, I did the Pollyanna from Guantanamo Bay over, I think it was Skype, and it was like this really, really bad Skype connection.
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And I was able, so I think Mom would put the gift in front of me, and then that was like my, you know, she basically played as me, and then I was playing Pollyanna from Guantanamo Bay with the rest of the family.
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Right. Well, it was good that year, because I think Uncle Paul got me that year. Do you remember this part?
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Yeah, so he sends me this, like, shoe box thing, right? And it's just a white box.
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And I'm like, yeah, I asked for shoes. Like, I'm going to get that one.
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And I'm like, okay, okay. So I wonder what they could be. And South Park was real popular at that time.
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So I was like, wait a second, maybe they're like, got like the whole crew on there, and
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you know, Converse does some custom patterns. I opened it up, and he's like, well, I know
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So I'd open it, yeah, and we happened to be, like, on a horse farm, and.
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Let me tell you, they were some fresh, fresh kicks.
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Big log of horse manure when we opened the house.
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I remember we had to dig through the hay to get it, and then.
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He was like, I know you kids like South Park and Mr. Hankey, but that was, I mean, I'm telling you.
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It's recorded right here and right here in my heart.
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We'll be back with a little bit more this, the Poso Bros Christmas special.
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And we're back, the Poso Bros Christmas special here, Human Events.
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This special edition, this special Christmas edition, one of the most important days of the year, this holy day.
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And we must remember to keep Christmas as a holy day.
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Keep it holy the same way that you would keep the Sabbath holy, that we keep Sunday holy, that we will, and not just keep it holy, make it holy.
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And Kev, so you were looking up something on this, and I thought it was interesting that you wanted to bring up a reflection on the nativity story in kind of that vein of talking about making it a holy day, going back to the original one.
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Right now, the Christmas story, right, with Ebeneezer Scrooge.
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It's making the rounds online because the original was like-
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So people are saying that it's the first secular story, you know, pushing Christmas, like taking out Jesus, whatever.
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Well, there is a supernatural element to a Christmas story.
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But yeah, there isn't really any Jesus in there.
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Our mom's favorite movie, and we watch it every year.
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If you get a chance to watch, it's only half an hour long.
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And the guy who does Tony the Tiger does the song.
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So the famous line at the end is like, it came without ribbons.
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And then he thought, maybe Christmas didn't come from a store.
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Maybe Christmas perhaps meant a little bit more.
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And then you got the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which gives you the best one minute,
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the greatest single minute of American television in all of history, when Linus just gets up
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And he just, he just, boom, like the single spotlight, all of it.
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And Charles Schultz, who did Peanuts, who did Charlie Brown, he had to fight CBS to include that.
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Because they didn't want, even in the 60s, they didn't want to include it in.
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Everyone knows Charlie Brown Christmas special does obviously famously include that scene.
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Because he said, because if we don't do it, who will?
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It's the Dr. Seuss version is he gets you there, but he doesn't actually explain, right,
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It's just sort of this general vague sense of togetherness.
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And in that, so we as Christians would tie that back to the, what Charles Schultz is saying,
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But in the Dr. Seuss version, it's still, you're right.
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Saves the, saves the, you know, goes to Abraham's bosom, saves Adam and Eve, saves Moses, all
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the prophets, returns back up, triumphs over hell, returns to earth, and was sent to earth
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So anyway, he came into the world and we had got a rosaries out.
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Well, I would say it's rooted in the nativity, this idea that, of course, he had to return
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Well, Joseph and Mary had to return to Joseph's hometown of Bethlehem, his birthplace.
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For the census, the Roman Empire census, and then the imperial census.
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And, you know, and then they stay in the manger because there's no room at the inn.
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The greatest king of all kings, the king from which all other sovereign authority falls,
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was born in the most austere conditions on the face of the planet.
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There wasn't any shiny balloons saying welcome.
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The star was blue because it was the gender reveal.
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They were going to an inn and they didn't even have room in the inn.
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There was no cameras and just prickly straw and it was cold.
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But still, that's how our Lord, who is king, came into this world.
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Obviously, I think you're very tying it to the first beatitude.
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Yeah, it's basically a detachment of materialism.
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So that's like the subtle message in the Grinch.
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All the who's down in Whoville sang just the same in Christmas came.
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He had like a little thing prepared here for the show today.
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And it's also, you know, throw in that movie The Shift, too, like in the Book of Job.
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I guess you're ungrateful later on in life, but just being grateful for what you got, you know, thanking God, and just realizing that he came to earth anyway to do this for us through his son.
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This is something that I've reflected on as a father.
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But then, once Abraham shows that he's willing to do that, what does God say?
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But, but, who does sacrifice their only son for the salvation of mankind?
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He doesn't ask Abraham to carry it out, to go through it.
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He just wanted to make sure that Abraham was willing, and Abraham is.
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Abraham's love for God, that he would be willing to take out his own family.
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And the only person, I guess you could say, that is asked to sacrifice their son is Mary.
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And when Mary becomes willing, right, and this is the enunciation, go back to the mysteries, she becomes willing to embark on this mission from day one, from that moment, nine months prior.
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And, yeah, and to Mary's credit, she didn't want, how many American girls want, like, the perfect, like, hallmark pictures today for birth?
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I'm pro everybody taking these, anything that's pro natalism, pro families, I'm all for it.
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Can you imagine, like, if Joseph was like, hey, listen, we can't go to the hospital.
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Like, you have to give birth on the side of the road.
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So much so that the kings had to arrive to prove.
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Because anybody else walking by would be like, who's this peasant?
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That can't possibly be the savior of all mankind.
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And this is, and this is one reason, of course, that Jesus becomes not accepted.
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They were probably expecting to go to some palace.
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And for me, that's always been, that's always been a huge part of the nativity story,
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is that when the three kings come, the three wise men,
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that they show the respect, that they kneel, they kneel to the altar.
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People need to understand that the manger is an altar.
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And that the, and it's the shepherds, the workers, the working men.
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Then, then there's the gold, frankincense, and myrrh breakdown, too.
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Because it represents, because that's a, it's an embalming entity.
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Like, like, like, like have a know in the comments.
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But, but it's also the shepherds, right, that it's revealed to first, not the princes, not the kings, not the, not the, not the, not the elites.
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It's the working men in the fields, the forgotten man.
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Those are the ones that the angels come to for first.
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And God chooses the shepherds to be the ones come, that come in.
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And, and it says that Jesus is here for you, that Jesus has come for all.
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And from the very first moment, it's the workers.
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That are given that blessing, that blessing to be the first to greet our Lord and Savior when he arrives on planet earth.
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For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior.
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Imagine having the greatest honor that any human could possibly receive to be the first to march into that manger, to bow down and kneel at the feet of the first altar.
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The first altar of Christ, which was the manger, the first altar, to be the first to kneel to the altar of Christ.
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It was not given to the high lords and the elites and the aristocrats.
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It was given to the shepherds, the poor shepherds tending their flocks.
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And if you don't see the intentionality there, if you don't see the parallels to everything that we're doing today, if you don't see what God's plan has always been,
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then I'm telling you, you need to actually read the gospel and see it for what it's really there with eyes to see.
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Speaking of workers, yeah, I was just thinking of like what Joseph must have felt at that time.
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I mean, I'm sure they had faith, but then it was like faith materialized and it's like, wow.
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Or I should say not just a carpenter, but a tecton.
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So this is, so can I explain what's the difference between a carpenter and a tecton?
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A tecton just, he's basically like, I guess it would translate as contractor today, general contractor.
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So in those days it would have been woodworking and stone working.
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Yeah, they didn't have electrical and they probably had basic plumbing.
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The union boys, you know, they've, they've been running for a long time.
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They only had, the Egyptians had the alien technology.
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We got the Egyptian alien technology and I got it in there.
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But no, so, so when, when we're looking at this and we think about reflecting the value
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of poverty and reflect on how Christ calls us to be less materialistic.
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Like, and this is what we're talking about, because you mentioned, you know, gifts before
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And when we give gifts on Christmas, you know, it's not about being material.
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It's not, like we didn't, and you and I growing up in, in Norristown, you know, we didn't grow
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We grew up in a place where you would, you would go sledding up the hill at the hospital.
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You would hang out at the, the closest hill you'd find.
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And then there was Jackson's convenience store.
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And that was one block up from us at the corner.
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The whole town today has been completely destroyed by crime.
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And, um, they, they made it a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, Norristown.
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Cause why would I, um, that pharmacy where we used to go and when you say pharmacy, like
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So you could get like comic books and candy and like other things there.
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Um, that's now like an African food market and, um, the convenience store sells all like
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Mexican food and it's, it's just a different life.
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And they, they took our communities and just smashed it.
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They just smashed all those families, all those communities.
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And when I talk about the family, the tight knit family, and you could walk to Nana's house,
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We could walk to our Nana's house and the other hospital where I was born.
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It's that was raised to the ground, destroyed great meals and families there.
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So you, you could walk to Nana's house, you'd have Christmas dinner there.
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Then you hop in the car and it's a five minute drive to her cousin's house, to aunt and uncle's.
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We used to do, see Uncle Ray ran the, you know, the, the, uh, our farm and.
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And yeah, he's not with us any longer in person, but he has never left us in spirit.
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You know, talk about people having like Christmas lights competitions, like in the neighborhood,
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He would, he would deck out the entire farm, every piece of fencing, horse farm with like
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Every piece of fencing on this farm was covered in Christmas lights.
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And yeah, I'll never forget all those Christmases and Uncle Ray's and, and everything that he did.
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But, but when I think about the town too, where, where we live.
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So the farmers outside of the town, obviously we go there, but then we're growing up and
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It's messing around with the, with the neighborhood kids, you know, getting into it.
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And that's what they've, I feel like they've taken away these things from us because now
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it's all like, oh, you know, you have to be careful in your neighborhoods.
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Don't get in, don't get to know who your neighbors are.
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Either it's fear, either it's the fear of other people or like the fear, the FOMO, like
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Like you pick up your phone, it's like, well, I wonder what, I wonder what the snow looks
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like in Switzerland or the Netherlands or, you know, I wish I was there.
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Well, I think it's also like, cause we talk about it on the show a lot, how they, how they
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went through and smashed these tight knit relationships that we had in these neighborhoods
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through, uh, through moving families out by allowing crime to be rampant in these places
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And that's how, so, cause like people have to say, I say this all the time, the kids that
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we played with growing up were the saint, were the sons and daughters of the kids that
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The house that we grew up in was the house that my father grew up in the house that the
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And Oh, actually in the next segment, we got to tell that story about, about the, uh, about
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We got to tell that story about the roof in the next segment before I forget that, but
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we'll, we'll get to that around the bend down in the tornado.
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Oh, I remember that when the chimney got, I forgot about that one.
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And I remember thinking cause the house we grew up in, it was built in 1900.
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It was a, um, uh, not quite a row home, but it was a twin, which is similar to a row
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It was knocked down and we were all scared because we didn't know if Santa would be able
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And so dad of course had to make sure that it was all fixed up and we knew Christmas
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It took, it really, it really did knock the whole thing out, but this was a beautiful.
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But you're talking bricks falling from the third story though.
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So that was, that was actually legit dangerous.
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The way when homes and woodworking stained glass windows, bay windows, sliding wooden doors
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You know, and this was, this was a home that was built for workers.
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This was a home that was built, that was built because you wouldn't want to live in a home
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It's not like these little cardboard styrofoam houses that they build now.
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This was like a legit home with matchbox with real wood and to see the town.
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And there's so many places like the North, around the Northeast, like there's so many towns
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and cities that have been completely run down, but you drive through or even Detroit,
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you could see it where because of the economic situation, the crime situation being out of
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control that you can drive past these, this incredible real estate, these gorgeous works
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And then we, everybody runs out to the suburbs and you build these like McMansions or matchbook
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And they're all, they're all a little cookie cutter.
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You can't tell if you're in Missouri or Texas or Pennsylvania.
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There's a lot of problems we've got to fix, but I really do think that if we can get our
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towns back on track and we can fix a lot of the problems because we need to rebuild
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communities and the way that you can rebuild communities, it starts with the architecture.
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We have to get, we have to get back to mixed use, by the way, you should be able to have
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a convenience store that's right on your corner.
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You should be able to have a church that's at the center of your town.
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Look, a couple of seconds left here in this segment.
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Oh, a story to share with you about what happened on the roof when Christmas.
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So, over the break, Kevin just mentioned to me, he said, you know, we haven't talked about
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So, Kevin and I used to work at an Italian bakery and a deli known as Corpolis Bakery in
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Arstown, Pennsylvania, and we were your pizza cutters.
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So, your tomato pies, your 30 pieces of tomato pie.
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Yeah, shout out to all our friends and much love to the guys, the boys at Corpolis.
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And we used to go, so people would want their tomato pie fresh in Northeast.
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So, what we would do is we would go in and we would spend the entire night before, so this is December 23rd into December 24th, going in and working in the bakery in intense heat.
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I think we did one periscope of this a couple of years ago, one of the last ones, where we would work 12 hours, 13 hours, 14 hours, making and cutting tomato pies all night long.
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And we did this for over a decade, every single Christmas.
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Christmas Eve, so Christmas Eve, Eve, so the 23rd into the 24th, which is what can I say?
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And you got to be humble and poor in spirit and not record any of it, ever.
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We definitely don't have any videos on a secret YouTube channel that no one will ever find of us working in there, listening to certain particular music.
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Tapes, I'm sorry, we're lost, along with the Black Ledger and the Russiagate files, so we can't find any of those.
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Working in a bakery around Christmas time was for us growing up and the way we did.
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That's something that I think will always be tied to Christmas.
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We knew we were helping other people make that.
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It's not about tomato pie for everybody, but for some people, you could literally ruin it for them.
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If you didn't put the cheese the right way or cut it the right way.
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Some people could get a little particular about their pies.
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But if they weren't particular, you were, like, we were responsible for, you know, we were an accessory to making Christmas, like.
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Trying to give people a good Christmas, you know.
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People want tomato pie, they want their rolls, they want fresh bread, they want fresh meats, the roast beef.
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And we're talking, we would do hundreds of pounds of roast beef.
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Italians would do this, what, the seven dish or eight dish?
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And we saw how they loved it and their passion.
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And the faces of people, and they would light up.
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So, one Christmas, the way our house was, it was three stories, row home twin.
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And so, Kevin's room was the back bedroom on the second floor.
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But then there was a third floor that had a couple of rooms.
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Because back in the Depression, they had broken it down into apartments.
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So, Kevin's room actually used to be a kitchen during that time.
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And then on the upper floor, the third floor, the highest floor, there was an extra bedroom,
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two extra bedrooms, and a bathroom all the way up there.
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But then there was a flat roof over where Kevin's bedroom was.
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I never forget one year where my dad comes to us on Christmas morning and says,
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you guys have got to come up and see what happened on the roof.
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And first, yeah, first, we saw down near the tree that the glass of milk had been drank from.
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My mom used to make this great candy cane cookies.
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But because he has to eat cookies from everybody.
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And there on the top of the roof were these little chewed-off ends of carrots.
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And Dad looks at us and he says, we left some carrots out for the reindeer.
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The ends of the carrots have been left because they were eaten by the reindeer.
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Yeah, that stopped me in my tracks just the other day when you told me.
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And so, from us here, Human Events, the Pozo family, to all of you at home, wherever you are in the world watching this, that is our challenge to you this Christmas.
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If you don't live in a place where there's snow, just be with family.
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Remember Dad used to, or play Pollyanna, white elephant.
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And don't worry about if you got the good shot, or if you don't have whatever.
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Send us in the comments what your Christmas traditions are.
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Remember Dad used to read Twas the Night Before Christmas?
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Dad would read Twas the Night Before Christmas.
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He would have the book open, but then he would be like, saying his own story.
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Whatever it is, tell us what your Christmas traditions are.
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And from my brother Kevin, and myself, my family, and of course, we are pre-taping this,
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But from all of us, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
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Make sure you go and make it holy with your families.
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And by the way, keep an eye outside when you go and open that door, because you don't know
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behind there could be waiting this guy, Kev, with a giant icicle that he's waiting to launch at you.
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What's really true is I'm going to have some rum nog and maybe some mistletoe hanging.