Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 25, 2023


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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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we know Christmas is coming, but before Christmas, the gathering
00:00:07.400 of patriots requires your attendance.
00:00:11.540 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, myself, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Roseanne Barr, yeah,
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00:00:57.340 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:01:06.420 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:01:13.140 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:01:16.060 Deliver us from evil.
00:01:17.800 Merry Christmas.
00:01:20.260 Today is Christmas Day, and we are here at Human Events on this special occasion to share
00:01:29.100 in this celebration of our Lord's birth with you.
00:01:33.020 Now, typically, every year we do the Christmas special.
00:01:36.920 Two years ago, we did just myself and Tanya Tay.
00:01:40.000 Last year, we did the POSO family Christmas special.
00:01:43.880 However, comma, there was one member of the family that we didn't get the chance just
00:01:49.500 because of scheduling, logistics, you know how it goes, especially around the Christmas
00:01:53.180 time, to get everybody in.
00:01:55.300 So there was one member of the Christmas family that we didn't get to work into the Christmas
00:01:59.120 special.
00:01:59.500 We had my dad, we had my mom, we had Jack Jack.
00:02:02.180 We didn't have baby AJ, right?
00:02:03.600 So we'll work on him when he gets a little bit older, maybe next year for AJ.
00:02:06.760 But Brother Kev, Brother Kev, who's done so much of work here on the program, was not
00:02:12.260 able to be in last year's Christmas special.
00:02:14.140 And so today, you're getting the POSO Bros Christmas special.
00:02:19.360 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
00:02:22.020 Kev, I gotta ask, man, what does Christmas mean to you?
00:02:25.860 It means Adeste Fidelis.
00:02:31.260 Guys, I could go on, but I'm not Pavarotti.
00:02:34.320 Keep going, keep going, come on.
00:02:35.980 We gotta get the backtrack going.
00:02:37.140 We do need the backtrack, yeah.
00:02:38.620 He was like, I'm not prepared for the singing.
00:02:42.480 I bet you Faz is a Pavarotti fan.
00:02:44.020 Yeah, producer Faz loves Pavarotti.
00:02:46.160 I can see him in the booth right now.
00:02:47.720 He's going, he's going.
00:02:48.880 He's got his maestro, he's got his conductor baton out.
00:02:51.020 You gotta send it every year.
00:02:52.060 Yeah, exactly.
00:02:52.700 You gotta full send.
00:02:53.620 Full send.
00:02:54.920 Look at him, he's already conducting.
00:02:56.400 Yes.
00:02:57.120 Full Latin. 0.90
00:02:57.760 No, we got the rosaries out.
00:02:59.400 Yes, sir.
00:02:59.840 And, no, but, but I gotta say that, you know, growing up in, uh, growing up on Powell Street,
00:03:06.500 1400 block, you know, that, um, you know, Christmas has always been for us a time of, of family
00:03:13.220 and a time of reflection.
00:03:15.280 You know, I remember, and it was always centered around church, right?
00:03:18.780 It's, it's, you're going to church, uh, either Christmas day or the Christmas vigil mass.
00:03:24.800 So the night before midnight mass, of course, St. Pat's and Jack, Jack always sings at church,
00:03:32.240 like louder than the choir.
00:03:34.120 It's like, it's kind of painful to like sit in the pew next to Jack.
00:03:38.520 But, uh, it's only, it's only painful because, because you realize how good the choir could be
00:03:46.200 if they had Broso in there.
00:03:47.220 Like, they have, what's they called?
00:03:48.100 The lectern?
00:03:48.880 The guy, like, at the radio?
00:03:50.360 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:50.380 The lectern.
00:03:50.660 He'll sing, and then Jack sings louder than him.
00:03:53.280 Well, the cantor, the cantor would be the one singing.
00:03:56.220 At the lectern.
00:03:57.020 At the lectern.
00:03:57.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:58.500 Yeah.
00:03:58.780 Yeah.
00:03:59.040 Anyways, for Christmas, it's usually the only time, it's, I've been getting way better over
00:04:04.580 the years, but usually the time when I'm like, all right, you know what, I'm going to sing
00:04:08.380 too.
00:04:09.260 And one of them is Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
00:04:11.900 Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World.
00:04:15.300 And I love the ones, this, and it's also great because this is when, like, with Christmas
00:04:21.320 songs, when we talk about cultural dominance and taking up space, that's one of the things
00:04:26.200 is that the Christians just own December when it comes to Christmas music. 0.55
00:04:30.560 There's no way you can get around it.
00:04:32.620 It's, we will dominate the airwaves. 0.83
00:04:35.180 We will dominate the public spaces, dominate the malls, dominate the department stores.
00:04:40.980 It's Christmas music everywhere.
00:04:43.240 The little town of Bethlehem, right?
00:04:47.380 The silent night.
00:04:48.960 How are you going to mess?
00:04:49.800 What are you going to do?
00:04:50.420 We got silent night on our side, right?
00:04:52.680 What do you got for the Satanists out there and for the atheists and everything else? 0.78
00:04:58.120 We got silent night.
00:04:59.420 We have the best music, and the reason the Christmas music is the best music on the face
00:05:03.980 of the planet is because it was literally crafted by angels guiding the hands, right?
00:05:10.700 Guiding the hands of the composers and the music makers ever since.
00:05:14.420 That's why they've been trying.
00:05:15.560 The angels sang on Christmas.
00:05:16.980 A hundred percent.
00:05:18.000 The angels sang the first Christmas songs.
00:05:20.700 The first Christmas carols were sung by angels to the shepherds.
00:05:24.800 Yeah.
00:05:25.180 Yeah.
00:05:25.380 It's, it's, it's all right there.
00:05:26.980 It's all right there.
00:05:27.920 And so that's why they've been trying to replace.
00:05:29.960 That's one of dad's favorite parts of the Bible is like, just imagining what that would
00:05:34.340 look like.
00:05:34.840 The whole choir, the whole host of angels.
00:05:38.100 The assembled choir.
00:05:40.080 All of them.
00:05:40.300 That's why they call it a choir because they are in song for the celebration of the birth
00:05:45.780 of our Lord, right?
00:05:47.080 It said, it's called the choir of angels.
00:05:49.800 It's very clear.
00:05:51.100 And, and this is why, by the way, I was going to say that they've been trying to replace
00:05:54.660 those traditional Christmas songs with the secular Christmas songs.
00:05:59.740 Um, and Carrie gets pushed like crazy because they are trying to make that the main, so I'm
00:06:05.080 not against the song, but I'm pointing out that they are trying to replace, replace,
00:06:10.440 you know, little drummer boy.
00:06:12.680 We need carolers. 0.87
00:06:13.760 All of it.
00:06:14.300 More Poso patrol carolers.
00:06:16.480 The original, the original Christmas songs, all of which were in service to our Lord and
00:06:22.440 Savior Christ.
00:06:23.940 We're going to do caroling to Christ this year.
00:06:25.720 Christ the Lord.
00:06:26.660 We're doing TikToks?
00:06:27.520 I need, I'm not on TikTok yet.
00:06:29.560 Wait, is this that my Christmas present?
00:06:31.140 You got me on TikTok?
00:06:31.480 There's barbershop quartet.
00:06:32.640 There's barbershop quartet, and then there's Poso caroling.
00:06:36.340 We do have two new Poso bros.
00:06:38.280 So there are four Poso brothers now.
00:06:39.580 Like and subscribe to be in the Poso caroling crew.
00:06:42.920 We'll be right back.
00:06:43.460 The Poso bros Christmas special continues.
00:06:47.760 All right, you're back.
00:06:48.900 Jack Posobiec, Kevin Posobiec, the Poso bros Christmas special.
00:06:53.160 And Kev, so, you know, we were talking a little bit as we taped this, um, that, uh, you
00:06:59.460 know, this Christmas, it's, it's really important for us to remember Christmas.
00:07:02.640 Christmas, not just as the day of the Lord's birth, but we also have to remember the importance
00:07:07.860 of the holy days.
00:07:10.800 Christmas is not just a holiday.
00:07:12.260 It is a holy day.
00:07:13.480 This is where, of course, the word comes from.
00:07:15.760 And we are called in the 10 commandments to make the Sabbath a holy day, not just keep it
00:07:21.080 as a holy day, but make it a holy day.
00:07:23.280 If you go back to the original text and that is the same order that we are given for the
00:07:30.160 holidays, the holy days, we are called to make them holy.
00:07:35.440 And so let's walk through a little bit of that.
00:07:37.900 What are some things that people can do to make the day holy?
00:07:42.620 Now, of course, throughout Advent, we do the Advent candles.
00:07:46.640 We have the Advent wreaths.
00:07:48.540 Um, we have, we have the four candles up.
00:07:51.380 We go to mass, we go to church services.
00:07:53.620 Uh, we go to service on Christmas, of course, or on the Christmas Eve, the vigil mass.
00:07:58.840 And, and these, these are of course, ways sitting around praying as a family.
00:08:02.360 These are ways to make it holy.
00:08:03.600 People know all that, right?
00:08:04.660 People know, generally know that, but what are some other things that people can do?
00:08:09.480 And as, as we say, to make the day holy, to make the day holy.
00:08:14.620 Well, you were kind of getting to it.
00:08:16.420 It's, it's, it's, it's actually the whole month really, like by sending Christmas cheer,
00:08:22.420 like sending cards to each other, to relatives outside of state that you don't see.
00:08:28.880 Uh, mom used to have like the December calendar.
00:08:32.180 Remember with the, the little, the little puppets.
00:08:34.780 We've got one up for the kids right now.
00:08:37.100 You've probably, yeah, the Advent calendar.
00:08:38.580 The same one, probably.
00:08:40.340 It's, no, we have a different one, but I'm trying to get that one out off of mom.
00:08:43.420 I mean, baking, little candy cane cookies, getting together.
00:08:49.860 But what you're talking about, what you're talking about are family traditions.
00:08:53.000 Family traditions, if not any other time of the year, this is when you would want to do those things.
00:08:59.000 Right, so spending time with family does actually make it holy.
00:09:03.180 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.
00:09:11.940 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.
00:09:19.460 And by the way, that means actively being with family.
00:09:22.500 And I'm not, and look, we're all guilty of it, right?
00:09:25.140 We're all guilty of, you know, you're, you're, you're together, but what are you doing?
00:09:29.940 You're on the screen, right?
00:09:31.080 You're on your screens, or you're doing something, and you're not actually actively spending time together.
00:09:37.640 Yeah, it's still the one major American holiday that is centered around, like, some sort of value, right?
00:09:45.080 Right.
00:09:45.340 Like, opposed to, like, New Year's Day.
00:09:47.500 It's just a number.
00:09:48.600 And they try, they're trying to get rid of, yeah.
00:09:51.840 But, you know, Christmas, everybody's closed.
00:09:54.740 Everybody's closed.
00:09:55.760 Yeah.
00:09:56.300 You know.
00:09:57.100 They can't break that, except for the Chinese restaurants.
00:09:59.280 Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:00.540 It took the words right out of my mouth, yeah, unless you want to go get some, some roasted duck or something.
00:10:04.440 And, um, what's wrong with your dinner?
00:10:06.880 It's staring at me.
00:10:07.540 It's smiling at me.
00:10:08.740 You know, but, but no, I think you're exactly right.
00:10:11.380 This idea of having it be family-centered and.
00:10:15.620 Family, friends, uh, you know, so we just had Thanksgiving, right?
00:10:20.400 Like.
00:10:20.820 Oh, gosh, I forgot about that.
00:10:22.040 With the millennials.
00:10:22.620 Yeah, yeah, millennial Thanksgiving.
00:10:24.200 And it's just so empty and vapid. 0.50
00:10:25.540 Because most millennials are so empty and vapid. 0.97
00:10:28.180 Yeah, and it's, like, just all online, all about the pictures, like.
00:10:32.840 Right, it's all about the, it's all about the promotion of the thing rather than the thing itself.
00:10:40.060 Exactly, yeah.
00:10:40.980 And Hank is, Tom Hanks is just a character anyway.
00:10:44.660 So it's, like, it's not even who he is in real life.
00:10:47.420 Right.
00:10:48.220 In a way.
00:10:48.640 How many of them actually know Tom Hanks?
00:10:50.560 Right.
00:10:50.860 Yeah.
00:10:51.340 Right, stop acting and start living.
00:10:53.900 Right, stop acting and start living.
00:10:55.840 Live your life.
00:10:56.380 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,
00:11:01.360 spend time with them, play with them, teach them something.
00:11:05.860 Yeah, sledding, picking icicles.
00:11:10.020 Remember that on Powell Street?
00:11:11.500 We used to get some monsters.
00:11:12.900 We used to get, we used to love, yeah.
00:11:15.400 There were some, like, three, four footers.
00:11:17.400 We used to go out and just crush the icicles.
00:11:19.100 And then, of course, the icicles always turned into swords.
00:11:21.780 Yeah.
00:11:21.880 And then they would turn into, like, missiles and projectiles.
00:11:24.740 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:25.420 And then dad would definitely get upset because he would be coming out of the door and we'd, like, shoot one at him.
00:11:31.380 And, yeah, we'd get in a little trouble with that, you know, snowball fights, whatever it is.
00:11:37.560 So if you're ever wondering, that's the way we are, how we are now.
00:11:41.980 Well, and I think, yeah, and I think, too, that it's short, right?
00:11:45.880 And it's those memories that you're going to have.
00:11:48.800 But you know what?
00:11:49.360 Like, I have a memory of that.
00:11:50.620 I think that's needed, though, too.
00:11:52.260 That's a whole other argument to bring up.
00:11:54.320 That's a whole other thing is that.
00:11:56.080 Like snowball fights?
00:11:57.500 Think about, though.
00:11:58.580 But here's the difference, right?
00:12:00.180 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.
00:12:11.720 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?
00:12:26.380 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.
00:12:45.060 And, by the way, you know, growing up as well, it was, you know, you started with our Christmas tree, right?
00:12:51.140 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?
00:12:58.160 And then we were going to, and then we went to the one cousin's house and our aunt and uncle here.
00:13:02.100 Then we went to the other aunt and uncle.
00:13:03.880 And it was like, it was like, you know, the quest.
00:13:07.020 It was the Christmas quest every year to go to all the different aunt and uncles because our aunt and uncles.
00:13:12.760 That was the best.
00:13:13.520 Right.
00:13:13.960 In carols?
00:13:14.540 Right.
00:13:14.900 So aunt Carol and uncle Paul.
00:13:16.460 Then we go to aunt Mary's pop-up when he was still with us.
00:13:19.920 When we were little, he was always there.
00:13:21.380 We go to see pop-up.
00:13:22.660 But we would go.
00:13:23.540 We wouldn't, we wouldn't make it a zoom call.
00:13:26.100 And we wouldn't physically go.
00:13:26.420 It wouldn't be a zoom call.
00:13:27.500 We would physically go because our family lived that close together.
00:13:30.500 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.
00:13:37.240 Hogwarts Academy.
00:13:37.900 And you could like have a snowball fight in the video game.
00:13:41.740 It ain't the same.
00:13:42.400 I'm sorry.
00:13:42.820 No.
00:13:43.200 Instead of real life.
00:13:44.540 But it's like that's important for boys too.
00:13:46.980 Just boys development, like having snowball fights and competing and that.
00:13:51.320 Well, so here's, well, here's my question, right?
00:13:53.280 So we can talk about this being better, but does that make the day holy?
00:13:57.240 Sure, sure.
00:14:01.120 And I would say, I guess I would say in a sense.
00:14:03.020 Yeah, part of making, I guess we're definitely arguing against technology, like a day where at least you're not on video games.
00:14:09.740 And look, like people know, people know, people know I'm pro-technology, right?
00:14:12.860 I'm on social media.
00:14:13.860 I'm on social media.
00:14:14.640 We're running this show on social media right now, as well as terrestrial broadcast and Roku and other things.
00:14:20.380 But I think it's the idea of having spending time with your actual family.
00:14:26.740 And it's something that, look, as a kid, I'm sure, and we both did.
00:14:31.400 We gave mom, we gave mom so much guff about getting dressed because, and she would say this.
00:14:37.460 She said, you can't play with your toys until we come back.
00:14:40.100 And usually we wouldn't get to play with our toys until the day after Christmas.
00:14:44.760 And I used to say I like the day after Christmas because I get to play with all my toys.
00:14:48.120 But you know what?
00:14:49.260 Now what do I have in the back of my head?
00:14:51.060 I have the memories of going to be with my cousins.
00:14:55.020 And spending time with them and building those family relationships that, guess what, that we still have.
00:15:02.240 In fact, we're talking about this year our one cousin, and she's got a whole bunch of kids.
00:15:08.740 She's got a whole litter of kids. 1.00
00:15:10.620 And we were talking about bringing back the white elephant.
00:15:15.520 Remember we used to do the white elephant game?
00:15:17.540 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:18.740 Yeah, we used to do the Pollyanna. 0.58
00:15:20.440 Yeah, the Pollyanna.
00:15:21.380 So we're talking about bringing that back this year.
00:15:23.140 Are you in?
00:15:24.140 Sure.
00:15:24.400 If you don't know what Pollyanna is, it's when all the gifts stay in the middle, and they're wrapped.
00:15:30.620 You don't know what it is.
00:15:31.420 And when it's your turn, you can either steal a gift or take a gift.
00:15:34.200 And the stealing of the gifts, which would go to the end of the game, and it got intense.
00:15:40.080 There's definitely some people that spent, like, they would not talk to each other until the next Christmas
00:15:45.940 because of what went down in those Pollyannas. 0.98
00:15:49.640 Yeah, we get rowdy.
00:15:50.580 We get a little bit rowdy.
00:15:52.340 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.
00:16:01.160 And then that would, you know, you're playing tricks on people.
00:16:04.120 Oh, yeah.
00:16:04.920 And then it would always be, I would always do this thing where I would, you remember this?
00:16:10.380 I would get something good, and then I would be really quiet, and I would kind of, like, hide it behind my back.
00:16:15.860 And then just as everyone would go, I would just kind of be sitting there like, mm-hmm, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:16:21.560 You came in on the Pollyanna, how?
00:16:24.940 When you were on base one year?
00:16:27.140 So when I-
00:16:27.660 It was so popular for us.
00:16:28.540 The one year, that's right.
00:16:29.640 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.
00:16:35.860 And the only Christmas I ever missed was when I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay.
00:16:40.740 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.
00:16:53.480 Definitely the worst Christmas of my life.
00:16:55.620 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.
00:17:07.700 Right. Well, it was good that year, because I think Uncle Paul got me that year. Do you remember this part?
00:17:13.060 No, no, no. What did he get?
00:17:14.680 Yeah, so he sends me this, like, shoe box thing, right? And it's just a white box.
00:17:20.100 Right.
00:17:20.200 And I'm like, yeah, I asked for shoes. Like, I'm going to get that one.
00:17:22.820 You thought it was very kicks.
00:17:24.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:24.860 New kicks for capo, so.
00:17:26.060 He's like, oh, you're going to love these.
00:17:27.780 Yeah, yeah.
00:17:28.200 And I'm like, okay, okay. So I wonder what they could be. And South Park was real popular at that time.
00:17:34.560 Of course.
00:17:35.180 So I was like, wait a second, maybe they're like, got like the whole crew on there, and
00:17:39.820 you know, Converse does some custom patterns. I opened it up, and he's like, well, I know
00:17:46.500 you like Mr. Hankey so much.
00:17:48.840 So it was a big log of horse.
00:17:50.720 So I'd open it, yeah, and we happened to be, like, on a horse farm, and.
00:17:55.700 Mate and Uncle had a horse farm.
00:17:57.060 Oh, yeah.
00:17:57.360 And it was a big log of horse.
00:17:58.440 Let me tell you, they were some fresh, fresh kicks.
00:18:02.280 Manure.
00:18:02.580 See what I did there?
00:18:03.460 Pretty fresh kicks.
00:18:04.340 Pretty fresh.
00:18:05.080 Big log of horse manure when we opened the house.
00:18:07.980 So, I didn't like that one.
00:18:08.800 I thought it was New Converse.
00:18:10.040 It was fresh, all right. It was very fresh.
00:18:11.920 Oh, yeah.
00:18:12.420 Very fresh.
00:18:12.800 Freshest kicks around.
00:18:13.520 I remember we had to dig through the hay to get it, and then.
00:18:15.860 Oh, I wasn't touching any of that.
00:18:17.520 Yeah, it was a mystery.
00:18:18.400 It had a little hat on it and everything.
00:18:19.800 A little hat, a little smiley face.
00:18:21.040 And Uncle Paul was just dying on the couch.
00:18:23.660 He was crying so hard, he was laughing.
00:18:26.340 It was amazing.
00:18:27.020 When he got the Mr. Hankey, opened it up.
00:18:28.760 He was like, I know you kids like South Park and Mr. Hankey, but that was, I mean, I'm telling you.
00:18:33.680 And it wasn't recorded, you know.
00:18:35.480 And it wasn't, yeah, we weren't filming.
00:18:36.660 But it didn't need to be.
00:18:37.780 It didn't need to be.
00:18:38.460 It's recorded up here.
00:18:39.200 It's recorded right here and right here in my heart.
00:18:41.200 Stay tuned.
00:18:41.780 We'll be back with a little bit more this, the Poso Bros Christmas special.
00:18:49.600 And we're back, the Poso Bros Christmas special here, Human Events.
00:18:53.660 This special edition, this special Christmas edition, one of the most important days of the year, this holy day.
00:19:01.960 And we must remember to keep Christmas as a holy day.
00:19:04.760 If there's any theme today, it's that.
00:19:06.840 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.
00:19:15.540 Actually make it holy.
00:19:17.500 Make it a holy day.
00:19:18.560 Whatever you do, right?
00:19:19.800 Whatever you do, make it a holy day.
00:19:22.880 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.
00:19:40.640 Yeah.
00:19:41.360 Yes.
00:19:41.760 All right.
00:19:42.000 So stick with me on this.
00:19:43.340 All right.
00:19:43.560 I'm with you.
00:19:44.500 Right now, the Christmas story, right, with Ebeneezer Scrooge.
00:19:48.360 Sure.
00:19:48.780 It's making the rounds online because the original was like-
00:19:53.500 It is?
00:19:54.220 Yeah.
00:19:54.980 Yeah.
00:19:55.840 I haven't seen this.
00:19:56.760 What's going on?
00:19:57.700 So people are saying that it's the first secular story, you know, pushing Christmas, like taking out Jesus, whatever.
00:20:08.920 It's like-
00:20:09.920 Well, there is a supernatural element to a Christmas story.
00:20:11.920 Sure, sure, sure.
00:20:13.440 So anyway, I was going to tie that into-
00:20:15.600 But yeah, there isn't really any Jesus in there.
00:20:18.260 No.
00:20:18.920 No.
00:20:19.340 And there also isn't in The Grinch.
00:20:21.980 Fair.
00:20:22.400 Which is also a family tradition.
00:20:23.880 Our mom's favorite movie, and we watch it every year.
00:20:27.940 We do.
00:20:28.200 If you get a chance to watch, it's only half an hour long.
00:20:30.740 But what's the guy's name?
00:20:31.620 Boris or whatever it narrates it?
00:20:33.200 Boris Karlo.
00:20:33.820 Yeah.
00:20:34.660 Incredible job.
00:20:35.860 Incredible.
00:20:36.560 And it's a cartoon.
00:20:38.020 It's only a half hour long.
00:20:39.520 Get to watch it.
00:20:40.160 And the guy who does Tony the Tiger does the song.
00:20:43.980 Yeah.
00:20:44.520 It's amazing.
00:20:46.840 I had a pipe dream that we should do that.
00:20:49.940 We should do the voiceovers one day.
00:20:51.660 We'll do it.
00:20:52.800 Anyways.
00:20:53.100 We'll do it.
00:20:53.540 Anyways.
00:20:53.900 Tanya Tay even likes the DreamWorks one.
00:20:55.660 She'll watch that all year long.
00:20:57.340 So the famous line at the end is like, it came without ribbons.
00:21:01.300 It came without tags.
00:21:02.340 It came without packages, boxes, or bags.
00:21:05.660 You know, the Grinch sat puzzled and puzzled.
00:21:08.280 And then he thought, maybe Christmas didn't come from a store.
00:21:16.060 And he puzzled and puzzled.
00:21:18.060 Maybe Christmas perhaps meant a little bit more.
00:21:22.020 Yes.
00:21:22.260 Right.
00:21:22.800 And then you got the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which gives you the best one minute,
00:21:29.140 the greatest single minute of American television in all of history, when Linus just gets up
00:21:38.300 and goes full base mode.
00:21:40.520 And it's just like, and they wait there.
00:21:43.980 There's the shepherds in their fields.
00:21:45.620 And he just, he just, boom, like the single spotlight, all of it.
00:21:49.220 And Charles Schultz, who did Peanuts, who did Charlie Brown, he had to fight CBS to include that.
00:21:57.420 Because they didn't want, even in the 60s, they didn't want to include it in.
00:22:01.240 And he said, no, we're putting this in there.
00:22:02.640 Because you're talking about the secular ones.
00:22:04.460 Everyone knows Charlie Brown Christmas special does obviously famously include that scene.
00:22:09.260 And you know what Schultz said?
00:22:10.680 He said, we're doing this.
00:22:12.000 We're doing this.
00:22:12.580 And they said, well, why, why?
00:22:13.720 Because he said, because if we don't do it, who will?
00:22:17.020 Okay.
00:22:17.460 Because if we don't do it, who will?
00:22:18.860 Okay.
00:22:19.360 But I get your point.
00:22:20.640 I'm just saying.
00:22:21.500 In Grinch, in Grinch.
00:22:24.140 He says it without saying it.
00:22:26.380 Right.
00:22:26.660 It's the Dr. Seuss version is he gets you there, but he doesn't actually explain, right,
00:22:34.680 the reason behind Christmas.
00:22:36.320 It's just sort of this general vague sense of togetherness.
00:22:41.080 And in that, so we as Christians would tie that back to the, what Charles Schultz is saying,
00:22:47.280 the actual, the actual nativity.
00:22:49.640 But in the Dr. Seuss version, it's still, you're right.
00:22:52.620 To your point, it is still a secular version.
00:22:56.660 Right, right.
00:22:59.280 So Christ left the world.
00:23:01.380 He went to the cross for us.
00:23:02.800 He died.
00:23:03.640 Painful, suffering.
00:23:05.660 And descends to hell.
00:23:07.240 But he came into the world.
00:23:08.900 Saves, right.
00:23:09.800 Saves the, saves the, you know, goes to Abraham's bosom, saves Adam and Eve, saves Moses, all 0.65
00:23:16.060 the prophets, returns back up, triumphs over hell, returns to earth, and was sent to earth 0.61
00:23:22.720 on this mission on Christmas day.
00:23:24.660 Oh, I see what he did there.
00:23:27.300 Yeah, you like that?
00:23:27.920 Yeah.
00:23:29.080 Yeah.
00:23:29.540 So anyway, he came into the world and we had got a rosaries out.
00:23:33.300 So pop quiz.
00:23:34.800 What's the third joyful mystery, Jack?
00:23:38.320 It's this one right here.
00:23:39.980 That one there.
00:23:41.140 What's the fruit of the mystery?
00:23:42.640 It's the nativity.
00:23:43.000 What is the fruit of the mystery?
00:23:47.380 The fruit of the mystery of the nativity.
00:23:49.520 I don't have it memorized.
00:23:50.280 What is it, Kev?
00:23:50.900 It's poverty.
00:23:51.760 Poverty.
00:23:52.240 Why is that?
00:23:53.200 Even though it's joyful mystery.
00:23:55.000 Why is it poverty?
00:23:56.140 Well, of course, the idea of poverty is...
00:23:58.880 Being poor in spirit.
00:23:59.900 Well, I would say it's rooted in the nativity, this idea that, of course, he had to return
00:24:04.920 to...
00:24:05.820 Well, Joseph and Mary had to return to Joseph's hometown of Bethlehem, his birthplace.
00:24:10.940 For the census.
00:24:11.800 For the census, the Roman Empire census, and then the imperial census.
00:24:16.160 And so...
00:24:16.540 A hundred miles through the desert.
00:24:17.780 Through the desert.
00:24:18.200 Pregnant. 0.93
00:24:18.540 The donkey. 0.98
00:24:19.060 Pregnant. 0.88
00:24:20.060 And, you know, and then they stay in the manger because there's no room at the inn.
00:24:25.080 So poverty...
00:24:26.180 Let us not be busy in this Christmas.
00:24:30.160 The great...
00:24:30.900 The greatest king of all kings, the king from which all other sovereign authority falls,
00:24:38.960 was born in the most austere conditions on the face of the planet.
00:24:44.980 There wasn't any perfect lighting.
00:24:49.060 There wasn't any ribbons.
00:24:50.480 Well, there was one light.
00:24:51.720 There was one light.
00:24:52.740 That's true.
00:24:53.380 But not like...
00:24:54.300 Not like lighting.
00:24:55.600 There wasn't any shiny balloons saying welcome.
00:24:58.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:58.700 There wasn't a gender reveal.
00:25:00.720 You know?
00:25:01.700 It wasn't...
00:25:02.460 It wasn't any sanitary bed or any...
00:25:06.360 No, that's why the star was blue.
00:25:07.740 The star was blue because it was the gender reveal. 0.94
00:25:10.060 There was no...
00:25:10.080 Water birth options here.
00:25:13.200 First off, there wasn't even a hospital.
00:25:15.320 Right.
00:25:15.440 They were going to an inn and they didn't even have room in the inn.
00:25:19.060 There was no cameras and just prickly straw and it was cold.
00:25:26.620 But still, that's how our Lord, who is king, came into this world.
00:25:34.880 And you're tying that to...
00:25:37.720 Obviously, I think you're very tying it to the first beatitude.
00:25:42.140 Blessed are those who are poor in spirit.
00:25:43.820 Absolutely, yeah.
00:25:44.800 Yeah, it's basically a detachment of materialism.
00:25:49.400 Being able...
00:25:50.620 So that's like the subtle message in the Grinch.
00:25:53.300 The way that...
00:25:53.800 As well.
00:25:54.560 It's like you don't need the gifts.
00:25:56.160 You don't need the gifts.
00:25:56.980 Right, and you're right.
00:25:57.700 That is the same message.
00:25:58.280 They sang just the same.
00:26:00.700 All the who's down in Whoville sang just the same in Christmas came.
00:26:04.400 See, he planned this all out, guys.
00:26:06.000 He had like a little thing prepared here for the show today.
00:26:09.160 I didn't realize you worked this all out.
00:26:11.380 You asked me to show up.
00:26:14.560 I certainly did.
00:26:15.400 You got to show up.
00:26:16.480 You got to show up.
00:26:17.000 Take up some space.
00:26:17.780 You got to take up space.
00:26:18.920 You got to take up space.
00:26:20.220 Shout out to T. Marshall.
00:26:20.960 So, yeah, with that, Christ teaches us.
00:26:27.140 And it's also, you know, throw in that movie The Shift, too, like in the Book of Job.
00:26:31.320 The same thing happens.
00:26:33.020 Angel Studios.
00:26:33.500 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.
00:26:49.680 And sends his son, right?
00:26:51.700 And remember this, too.
00:26:53.700 This is something that I've reflected on as a father.
00:26:55.940 What does God ask Abraham to do with his son? 0.99
00:27:03.400 To kill him. 1.00
00:27:04.360 To kill him. 1.00
00:27:05.020 Yeah. 1.00
00:27:05.280 As a sacrifice to God.
00:27:06.640 Yeah.
00:27:07.480 But then, once Abraham shows that he's willing to do that, what does God say? 0.90
00:27:14.680 He tells him not to.
00:27:15.960 He tells him not to.
00:27:17.140 And the lamb is there.
00:27:20.260 And then it becomes a sacrifice.
00:27:21.840 But, but, who does sacrifice their only son for the salvation of mankind?
00:27:33.240 Yes.
00:27:33.800 He does not ask Abraham to do it.
00:27:35.840 He doesn't ask Abraham to carry it out, to go through it.
00:27:38.460 He just wanted to make sure that Abraham was willing, and Abraham is.
00:27:41.000 But he does not make him go through it.
00:27:43.840 He was, well, God was testing his love.
00:27:46.820 He was testing his love.
00:27:47.800 Abraham's love for God, that he would be willing to take out his own family.
00:27:51.840 And God himself sacrifices his own son.
00:27:58.760 And the only person, I guess you could say, that is asked to sacrifice their son is Mary. 0.53
00:28:05.860 Because for Mary, she sacrifices her son.
00:28:09.800 And she says she's willing.
00:28:10.900 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.
00:28:29.380 She didn't even know.
00:28:30.880 That's what I'm saying.
00:28:31.620 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? 0.89
00:28:40.380 Of course.
00:28:42.060 And I'm, by the way, I'm pro that.
00:28:43.980 I'm pro everybody taking these, anything that's pro natalism, pro families, I'm all for it.
00:28:49.100 Mary didn't nag. 0.99
00:28:50.380 She didn't complain.
00:28:51.620 Mary never committed a sin.
00:28:52.500 Never did any of that.
00:28:54.580 Can you imagine, like, if Joseph was like, hey, listen, we can't go to the hospital.
00:28:59.000 Like, you have to give birth on the side of the road. 0.97
00:29:00.820 And she didn't complain.
00:29:02.600 Nope.
00:29:03.180 No.
00:29:03.760 So much so that the kings had to arrive to prove.
00:29:08.620 And the angels had to sing to prove.
00:29:11.220 Because anybody else walking by would be like, who's this peasant? 0.99
00:29:14.920 That can't possibly be the savior of all mankind.
00:29:20.040 Can't be the son of God.
00:29:21.160 God, it's a stable boy.
00:29:23.260 And this is, and this is one reason, of course, that Jesus becomes not accepted.
00:29:28.060 Because people go, and we've been to Nazareth.
00:29:30.800 And the kings weren't even Christians.
00:29:32.420 And Nazareth.
00:29:32.880 They just had faith in the stars.
00:29:34.800 That's right.
00:29:35.180 They continue to follow it.
00:29:35.980 That's right.
00:29:36.000 And they come from the Orient. 0.93
00:29:37.220 They were probably expecting to go to some palace.
00:29:39.900 And they, and yet they respect.
00:29:42.260 And yet they respect.
00:29:42.960 And for me, that's always been, that's always been a huge part of the nativity story,
00:29:47.780 is that when the three kings come, the three wise men,
00:29:50.180 that they show the respect, that they kneel, they kneel to the altar.
00:29:56.720 They kneel to the altar of the manger.
00:29:58.620 And the manger is an altar.
00:29:59.940 People need to understand that the manger is an altar.
00:30:02.140 And that the, and it's the shepherds, the workers, the working men. 0.59
00:30:06.380 Then, then there's the gold, frankincense, and myrrh breakdown, too.
00:30:11.540 Right.
00:30:11.920 And there's, and there's so much symbolism.
00:30:13.820 And so gold means royalty.
00:30:16.260 Frankincense means divinity.
00:30:18.760 And myrrh means humanity.
00:30:20.920 I think it is.
00:30:22.100 Because it represents, because that's a, it's an embalming entity.
00:30:25.920 And I think I got it.
00:30:27.380 Let me know in the comments.
00:30:28.640 Yeah.
00:30:29.100 Like, like, like, like have a know in the comments.
00:30:30.860 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.
00:30:39.260 Yes.
00:30:39.800 The elite aren't the first ones.
00:30:41.480 Yes.
00:30:41.740 It's the working men in the fields, the forgotten man.
00:30:46.520 Those are the ones that the angels come to for first.
00:30:49.440 And God chooses the shepherds to be the ones come, that come in.
00:30:55.360 And, and it says that Jesus is here for you, that Jesus has come for all.
00:31:01.080 The lowest will be the highest.
00:31:03.200 The last will be first.
00:31:04.340 And from the very first moment, it's the workers.
00:31:08.140 So true.
00:31:08.840 That are given that blessing, that blessing to be the first to greet our Lord and Savior when he arrives on planet earth.
00:31:19.540 Stay tuned.
00:31:22.060 All right.
00:31:23.140 We're back.
00:31:23.720 Human events.
00:31:25.140 Poso Bros.
00:31:26.160 Christmas special where we left off.
00:31:30.000 For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior.
00:31:37.600 It's Christ the Lord.
00:31:38.460 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.
00:31:59.020 The first altar of Christ, which was the manger, the first altar, to be the first to kneel to the altar of Christ.
00:32:07.600 And that honor was not given to the emperor.
00:32:09.780 It was not given to the kings.
00:32:11.340 It was not given to the high lords and the elites and the aristocrats.
00:32:15.280 It was given to the shepherds, the poor shepherds tending their flocks.
00:32:21.120 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,
00:32:29.860 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.
00:32:37.440 That honor was given to the workers.
00:32:41.260 Speaking of workers, yeah, I was just thinking of like what Joseph must have felt at that time.
00:32:47.000 Well, Joseph, he's a carpenter.
00:32:48.340 It was the creation of the Holy Family.
00:32:50.760 I mean, I'm sure they had faith, but then it was like faith materialized and it's like, wow.
00:32:55.940 Or I should say not just a carpenter, but a tecton.
00:32:58.860 Of course.
00:33:00.480 So this is, so can I explain what's the difference between a carpenter and a tecton?
00:33:04.860 A tecton just, he's basically like, I guess it would translate as contractor today, general contractor.
00:33:10.280 He does a little bit of everything.
00:33:11.320 He does a little bit of masonry too.
00:33:13.100 So in those days it would have been woodworking and stone working.
00:33:16.500 Yeah, they didn't have electrical and they probably had basic plumbing.
00:33:20.480 Why didn't they have electrical?
00:33:23.900 That was a different union back in those days.
00:33:27.200 The union boys, you know, they've, they've been running for a long time.
00:33:31.300 Right, right.
00:33:32.040 They only had, the Egyptians had the alien technology. 1.00
00:33:34.660 They didn't need, they didn't need that.
00:33:36.720 Yep.
00:33:36.880 We got the Egyptian alien technology and I got it in there.
00:33:39.600 That's $5.
00:33:40.120 I want to bet.
00:33:41.860 But no, so, so when, when we're looking at this and we think about reflecting the value
00:33:45.940 of poverty and reflect on how Christ calls us to be less materialistic.
00:33:51.260 Like, and this is what we're talking about, because you mentioned, you know, gifts before
00:33:56.140 as well.
00:33:57.040 And when we give gifts on Christmas, you know, it's not about being material.
00:34:00.820 It's not, like we didn't, and you and I growing up in, in Norristown, you know, we didn't grow
00:34:06.000 up in, you know, some rich town.
00:34:08.020 We grew up in a working class town.
00:34:09.820 We grew up in a place where you would, you would go sledding up the hill at the hospital.
00:34:15.740 The hospital's now closed.
00:34:17.180 You would hang out at the, the closest hill you'd find.
00:34:21.100 You'd hang out at the pharmacy.
00:34:22.640 So there was Farman's Pharmacy at the corner.
00:34:24.700 There was the dry cleaners. 0.98
00:34:26.160 And then there was Jackson's convenience store.
00:34:28.220 And that was one block up from us at the corner.
00:34:31.720 Yeah.
00:34:32.460 The whole town today has been completely destroyed by crime.
00:34:36.980 And, um, they, they made it a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, Norristown.
00:34:41.420 Um, I've never even taken my boys.
00:34:44.260 I've never even taken my boys to our block.
00:34:47.280 Cause why would I, um, that pharmacy where we used to go and when you say pharmacy, like
00:34:53.180 it was like a drug store.
00:34:54.140 So you could get like comic books and candy and like other things there.
00:34:58.460 Um, that's now like an African food market and, um, the convenience store sells all like
00:35:04.280 Mexican food and it's, it's just a different life. 1.00
00:35:09.640 And they, they took our communities and just smashed it. 0.97
00:35:13.840 They just smashed all those families, all those communities.
00:35:18.840 And when I talk about the family, the tight knit family, and you could walk to Nana's house,
00:35:23.860 right?
00:35:23.960 We could walk to our Nana's house and the other hospital where I was born.
00:35:27.740 It's that was raised to the ground, destroyed great meals and families there.
00:35:30.860 Right.
00:35:31.540 So you, you could walk to Nana's house, you'd have Christmas dinner there.
00:35:34.680 Then you hop in the car and it's a five minute drive to her cousin's house, to aunt and uncle's.
00:35:39.800 And.
00:35:40.100 Oh my gosh.
00:35:41.000 Yeah.
00:35:41.780 That's.
00:35:42.400 Uncle Ray's Christmas parties at the lounge.
00:35:44.280 We used to do, see Uncle Ray ran the, you know, the, the, uh, our farm and.
00:35:50.720 Big shout out to Uncle Ray.
00:35:51.880 Huge shout out to Uncle Ray.
00:35:52.920 Rest in peace.
00:35:53.820 And yeah, he's not with us any longer in person, but he has never left us in spirit.
00:35:58.980 And Uncle Ray.
00:36:00.380 You know, talk about people having like Christmas lights competitions, like in the neighborhood,
00:36:05.240 like this guy.
00:36:07.120 He would, he would deck out the entire farm, every piece of fencing, horse farm with like
00:36:12.240 what?
00:36:12.420 The entire farm.
00:36:13.220 300 head of horses at the peak.
00:36:14.500 With 300 horses.
00:36:15.700 Every piece of fencing on this farm was covered in Christmas lights.
00:36:18.720 All the trees, all the barns.
00:36:20.780 Yeah.
00:36:21.800 Like.
00:36:22.840 Just amazing.
00:36:23.640 Talk about giving gifts.
00:36:24.840 You know.
00:36:25.080 Nobody paid him to do that.
00:36:27.240 He didn't.
00:36:27.340 He did it on his own.
00:36:28.140 Because it was the right thing to do.
00:36:29.680 Right.
00:36:29.980 Decorate the farm.
00:36:30.920 And Uncle Ray would never start a dinner.
00:36:32.580 Not just Christmas dinner.
00:36:33.100 And these weren't the LEDs.
00:36:34.360 These weren't the LEDs or Bluetooth ones.
00:36:36.580 They would never, never start a meal without.
00:36:39.300 Talking like 100 yard extension cords.
00:36:41.220 Grace.
00:36:42.080 Without saying grace.
00:36:43.480 And yeah, I'll never forget all those Christmases and Uncle Ray's and, and everything that he did.
00:36:48.640 But, but when I think about the town too, where, where we live.
00:36:52.200 So the farmers outside of the town, obviously we go there, but then we're growing up and
00:36:56.520 it's, it's snowball fights.
00:36:58.820 It's messing around with the, with the neighborhood kids, you know, getting into it.
00:37:04.200 There's so much joy in that.
00:37:05.560 Bicycle fights.
00:37:06.280 And there is joy in that.
00:37:07.640 Yeah.
00:37:07.980 And that's what they've, I feel like they've taken away these things from us because now
00:37:12.600 it's all like, oh, you know, you have to be careful in your neighborhoods.
00:37:16.080 Don't get in, don't get to know who your neighbors are.
00:37:18.980 Don't, you know, become atomized.
00:37:21.540 Yeah.
00:37:21.940 You know, they want you.
00:37:22.780 Either it's fear, either it's the fear of other people or like the fear, the FOMO, like
00:37:27.540 the fear of missing out on other things.
00:37:29.340 Like you pick up your phone, it's like, well, I wonder what, I wonder what the snow looks
00:37:32.960 like in Switzerland or the Netherlands or, you know, I wish I was there. 0.98
00:37:39.060 Like, man, my town sucks. 0.79
00:37:40.760 Well, I think it's also like, cause we talk about it on the show a lot, how they, how they 0.98
00:37:43.880 went through and smashed these tight knit relationships that we had in these neighborhoods
00:37:49.100 through, uh, through moving families out by allowing crime to be rampant in these places
00:37:55.440 by destroying the economy.
00:37:56.860 Not to discount that.
00:37:57.820 Yeah.
00:37:57.920 And that's how, so, cause like people have to say, I say this all the time, the kids that
00:38:04.160 we played with growing up were the saint, were the sons and daughters of the kids that
00:38:10.240 my dad played with growing up.
00:38:13.080 The house that we grew up in was the house that my father grew up in the house that the
00:38:18.260 house that he and his sisters grew up in.
00:38:20.860 And Oh, actually in the next segment, we got to tell that story about, about the, uh, about
00:38:26.640 the roof.
00:38:27.220 We got to tell that story about the roof in the next segment before I forget that, but
00:38:30.300 we'll, we'll get to that around the bend down in the tornado.
00:38:34.880 Oh, I remember that when the chimney got, I forgot about that one.
00:38:37.480 No, it wasn't that one.
00:38:38.240 That wasn't winter.
00:38:39.240 It was like a mini tornado.
00:38:40.360 And I remember thinking cause the house we grew up in, it was built in 1900.
00:38:45.000 It was a, um, uh, not quite a row home, but it was a twin, which is similar to a row
00:38:49.760 home.
00:38:50.080 Yeah.
00:38:50.360 We ran to the basement.
00:38:51.600 It was a mini tornado.
00:38:52.860 It was knocked down and we were all scared because we didn't know if Santa would be able
00:38:56.700 to come down on Christmas.
00:38:57.760 And so dad of course had to make sure that it was all fixed up and we knew Christmas
00:39:03.460 was a couple of months away.
00:39:04.500 They took the whole top of it off.
00:39:06.280 It took, it really, it really did knock the whole thing out, but this was a beautiful.
00:39:09.560 But you're talking bricks falling from the third story though.
00:39:12.180 So that was, that was actually legit dangerous.
00:39:14.300 This was a gorgeous, just a gorgeous home.
00:39:16.580 The way when homes and woodworking stained glass windows, bay windows, sliding wooden doors
00:39:22.960 inside.
00:39:23.140 The partition doors to the dining room.
00:39:25.060 You know, and this was, this was a home that was built for workers.
00:39:29.080 This was a home that was built, that was built because you wouldn't want to live in a home
00:39:33.180 that you couldn't respect.
00:39:34.220 It's not like these little cardboard styrofoam houses that they build now.
00:39:37.760 This was like a legit home with matchbox with real wood and to see the town.
00:39:44.080 And there's so many places like the North, around the Northeast, like there's so many towns
00:39:47.580 and cities that have been completely run down, but you drive through or even Detroit,
00:39:51.320 you could see it where because of the economic situation, the crime situation being out of
00:39:55.940 control that you can drive past these, this incredible real estate, these gorgeous works
00:40:02.000 of architecture that have just been gutted.
00:40:04.880 And then we, everybody runs out to the suburbs and you build these like McMansions or matchbook
00:40:09.880 houses or row townhouses.
00:40:11.660 There's nothing new thing now.
00:40:12.440 There's no character.
00:40:13.200 And they're all, they're all a little cookie cutter.
00:40:16.160 You can't tell where you are.
00:40:17.120 A little cookie cutter.
00:40:17.660 Everything looks the same.
00:40:18.700 You can't tell if you're in Missouri or Texas or Pennsylvania.
00:40:20.980 It don't even matter.
00:40:22.220 It don't even matter.
00:40:23.740 Folks.
00:40:24.400 There's a lot of problems.
00:40:26.400 There's a lot of problems we've got to fix, but I really do think that if we can get our
00:40:30.600 towns back on track and we can fix a lot of the problems because we need to rebuild
00:40:35.960 communities and the way that you can rebuild communities, it starts with the architecture.
00:40:40.840 It starts with the layout of the town.
00:40:42.680 We have to get, we have to get back to mixed use, by the way, you should be able to have 1.00
00:40:46.840 a convenience store that's right on your corner.
00:40:49.220 You should be able to have a church that's at the center of your town.
00:40:52.280 Town should be walkable.
00:40:54.260 All this stuff.
00:40:55.000 Look, a couple of seconds left here in this segment.
00:40:57.620 We'll be right back.
00:40:58.860 Oh, a story to share with you about what happened on the roof when Christmas.
00:41:02.520 So, over the break, Kevin just mentioned to me, he said, you know, we haven't talked about
00:41:09.900 Corpolis at all.
00:41:11.520 Oh, boy.
00:41:12.020 I said, ooh, Corpolis Christmas.
00:41:13.740 What's that?
00:41:14.600 Well, usually this time of year, yeah.
00:41:16.360 I'm asking you when the 30s are coming out.
00:41:18.160 When the 30s are coming out, yeah.
00:41:19.680 What's the number this year?
00:41:21.480 So, Kevin and I used to work at an Italian bakery and a deli known as Corpolis Bakery in
00:41:28.840 Arstown, Pennsylvania, and we were your pizza cutters.
00:41:33.260 So, your tomato pies, your 30 pieces of tomato pie.
00:41:36.120 We're doing phenomenally, actually, right?
00:41:37.640 Yeah, they've expanded.
00:41:38.720 They just won the hers potato chip thing. 1.00
00:41:41.500 Yeah, shout out to all our friends and much love to the guys, the boys at Corpolis.
00:41:45.480 We think about you every year.
00:41:47.000 And we used to go, so people would want their tomato pie fresh in Northeast.
00:41:51.940 Everybody wants tomato pie on Christmas.
00:41:54.060 We are not Italian.
00:41:55.360 Obviously, we are Polish.
00:41:56.680 But what can I say?
00:41:57.420 We grew up with a lot of Italians.
00:41:59.580 Yeah, I think we got the pass.
00:42:01.080 We got the ravioli pass.
00:42:02.360 We have a little bit of a ravioli pass.
00:42:04.300 So, on Christmas.
00:42:05.180 My hood pass in Philadelphia expired.
00:42:08.120 Yeah, that's expired.
00:42:09.420 We don't have a hood pass.
00:42:10.660 It's out after 2020.
00:42:12.260 That's right.
00:42:12.580 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.
00:42:30.000 And we used to do videos of this.
00:42:33.040 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.
00:42:47.700 And we did this for over a decade, every single Christmas.
00:42:51.060 That's right.
00:42:51.480 Christmas Eve, so Christmas Eve, Eve, so the 23rd into the 24th, which is what can I say?
00:42:57.000 You got to work for it, you know?
00:42:58.820 Yeah, yep.
00:42:59.160 And you got to be humble and poor in spirit and not record any of it, ever.
00:43:03.240 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.
00:43:14.940 Tapes got lost in the law.
00:43:16.220 Tapes, I'm sorry, we're lost, along with the Black Ledger and the Russiagate files, so we can't find any of those.
00:43:22.840 But a lot, look, what can I say?
00:43:24.300 Working in a bakery around Christmas time was for us growing up and the way we did.
00:43:30.560 There was so much dignity in it.
00:43:32.400 In the greater Philly area.
00:43:33.320 Dignity of work.
00:43:34.440 Yeah.
00:43:34.720 That's another thing for another episode.
00:43:37.360 That's something that I think will always be tied to Christmas.
00:43:40.840 We knew we were helping other people make that.
00:43:46.200 It's not about tomato pie for everybody, but for some people, you could literally ruin it for them.
00:43:52.420 If you didn't put the cheese the right way or cut it the right way.
00:43:55.720 Some people could get a little particular about their pies.
00:43:58.380 But if they weren't particular, you were, like, we were responsible for, you know, we were an accessory to making Christmas, like.
00:44:08.900 Trying to give people a good Christmas, you know.
00:44:10.860 People want tomato pie, they want their rolls, they want fresh bread, they want fresh meats, the roast beef.
00:44:16.780 And we're talking, we would do hundreds of pounds of roast beef.
00:44:20.360 We would do entire vats of beef gravy.
00:44:22.020 Italians would do this, what, the seven dish or eight dish?
00:44:24.700 Seven fishes.
00:44:25.520 Nine, all the fishes.
00:44:27.160 We would do the seven fishes.
00:44:28.660 Parallel of fishes.
00:44:29.380 We would have the bakala.
00:44:31.260 We would do it all.
00:44:32.740 We would do it all.
00:44:33.280 But we would cater to it, probably.
00:44:35.300 And we saw how they loved it and their passion.
00:44:37.380 And the faces of people, and they would light up.
00:44:39.680 But I've got to tell, wait, hold on.
00:44:40.480 Before we end up.
00:44:41.060 Well, you're talking making the day holy.
00:44:42.840 Wait, wait, wait.
00:44:43.300 Making the day holy.
00:44:44.220 We're running out of time.
00:44:45.300 We do make the day holy.
00:44:46.300 But I've got to tell the story of the roof.
00:44:49.300 Oh, right.
00:44:49.640 Because I promised the story of the roof.
00:44:51.660 So, one Christmas, the way our house was, it was three stories, row home twin.
00:44:57.880 And so, Kevin's room was the back bedroom on the second floor.
00:45:02.820 But then there was a third floor that had a couple of rooms.
00:45:05.240 Because back in the Depression, they had broken it down into apartments.
00:45:09.320 So, Kevin's room actually used to be a kitchen during that time.
00:45:13.040 And then on the upper floor, the third floor, the highest floor, there was an extra bedroom,
00:45:18.240 two extra bedrooms, and a bathroom all the way up there.
00:45:20.880 But then there was a flat roof over where Kevin's bedroom was.
00:45:24.740 And I remember one year.
00:45:25.720 I never forget one year where my dad comes to us on Christmas morning and says,
00:45:30.840 you guys have got to come up and see what happened on the roof.
00:45:34.240 So, we'll have it on the roof, Dad.
00:45:35.420 So, we go up there, all the way up.
00:45:37.500 And first, yeah, first, we saw down near the tree that the glass of milk had been drank from.
00:45:45.560 Glass of milk had been drunk.
00:45:46.780 And then there was like half a cookie left.
00:45:48.460 Half a cookie was left.
00:45:49.680 My mom used to make this great candy cane cookies. 0.97
00:45:52.440 But because he has to eat cookies from everybody.
00:45:55.180 Exactly.
00:45:55.760 So, he's pacing himself.
00:45:57.320 So, we go up to the roof.
00:45:59.520 And there on the top of the roof were these little chewed-off ends of carrots.
00:46:07.960 And we're looking at Dad.
00:46:09.320 And Dad looks at us and he says, we left some carrots out for the reindeer.
00:46:13.780 And we said, where were the carrots?
00:46:14.880 We go up.
00:46:15.880 The ends of the carrots have been left because they were eaten by the reindeer.
00:46:20.180 And they're just strewn all over the roof.
00:46:23.100 Over Kevin's bedroom.
00:46:24.320 Yeah.
00:46:24.960 Yeah.
00:46:25.380 You remember that?
00:46:26.960 Yeah, that stopped me in my tracks just the other day when you told me.
00:46:30.240 Because it was just like, you know.
00:46:32.720 Unlocking a core memory.
00:46:33.800 Yeah.
00:46:34.120 We unlocked a core memory right there.
00:46:35.500 Yeah.
00:46:36.320 That's the kind of stuff.
00:46:37.780 So, when, and you know what Dad was doing?
00:46:43.420 Fastened it all.
00:46:44.400 He was making the day holy.
00:46:46.480 He was making the day holy.
00:46:49.480 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.
00:47:01.700 Don't just have Christmas.
00:47:04.260 Don't just celebrate.
00:47:05.280 Make the day holy.
00:47:08.720 Final thoughts, Kevin.
00:47:09.860 Mm-hmm.
00:47:10.420 Mm-hmm.
00:47:14.100 Sing what I said in the beginning.
00:47:16.240 Even if you don't want to.
00:47:21.000 Have snowball fights.
00:47:23.160 Yeah.
00:47:24.240 Go sledding.
00:47:26.940 Find icicles.
00:47:28.680 Go somewhere that has snow.
00:47:31.820 Snowboard.
00:47:32.300 Be with your family.
00:47:33.340 Watch the bridge.
00:47:34.280 If you don't live in a place where there's snow, just be with family.
00:47:38.100 Remember Dad used to, or play Pollyanna, white elephant.
00:47:41.160 Yep.
00:47:41.820 Mm-hmm.
00:47:42.900 And don't worry about if you got the good shot, or if you don't have whatever.
00:47:47.300 Just go.
00:47:48.320 Just to be there.
00:47:49.360 Send in the comments.
00:47:50.620 Don't have to be perfect.
00:47:51.660 Send us in the comments what your Christmas traditions are.
00:47:54.500 Tell us, do you do gifts on Christmas Eve?
00:47:57.120 I don't do gifts on Christmas Eve.
00:47:58.160 Remember Dad used to read Twas the Night Before Christmas?
00:48:01.460 Read.
00:48:02.200 He would make up his own.
00:48:04.600 Dad would read Twas the Night Before Christmas.
00:48:05.540 He would have the book open, but then he would be like, saying his own story.
00:48:09.200 Making his own stories.
00:48:10.060 Whatever it is, tell us what your Christmas traditions are.
00:48:14.900 And from my brother Kevin, and myself, my family, and of course, we are pre-taping this,
00:48:21.860 so we're home with the family right now.
00:48:24.600 But from all of us, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
00:48:28.600 Make sure you go and make it holy with your families.
00:48:34.240 And by the way, keep an eye outside when you go and open that door, because you don't know
00:48:38.500 behind there could be waiting this guy, Kev, with a giant icicle that he's waiting to launch at you.
00:48:44.760 No, that's not true.
00:48:46.000 It's 100% true.
00:48:47.100 What's really true is I'm going to have some rum nog and maybe some mistletoe hanging.
00:48:52.800 Uh-oh.
00:48:53.520 Uh-oh.
00:48:54.520 Lady, careful, ladies. 0.86
00:48:56.240 He's got the mistletoe ambush over here.
00:48:58.860 I'm leaving.
00:48:59.520 I'm getting some mistletoe.
00:49:00.500 Get him out of here.
00:49:01.420 I'm going to get some mistletoe.
00:49:02.280 No, we're not doing this.
00:49:03.520 Cut the show.
00:49:04.620 Cut Angelo.
00:49:05.460 Cut the show fast.
00:49:06.880 Cut the show.