John Bolton - December 25, 2025


Merry Christmas


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Length

6 minutes

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Word count

1,124

Sentence count

1

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Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

1

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In this episode, I talk about the joy of celebrating christmas and the memories of those that have never celebrated it in their lives. I also talk about those who have lost a loved one this time of year.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 hi it's john and welcome to the channel it's great to have you along today thanks so much
00:00:14.600 for clicking on this video of course i'm here with my big blue mug of coffee this morning
00:00:19.940 it is christmas morning december the 25th 2025 i'm in my living room this morning
00:00:27.460 i hope i can get through this video without my cats knocking my camera because they're all circling
00:00:34.560 right now there's that old saying you know you can't herd cats and that is true folks
00:00:39.280 you've got three cats in your room and you try to shush them away they tend to keep coming back
00:00:44.300 but it's really nice to have you along this morning you know just a few short hours ago in this room
00:00:49.720 my kitchen over there my dining room in that area i've had my wife here my family here in in calgary
00:00:56.820 and here in alberta and friends over here last night and we were enjoying some fantastic food
00:01:02.980 we played a whole lot of games last night on our kitchen table and had a lot of laughs and it was
00:01:08.640 really exciting you know what was really nice yesterday is we had a young lady in our home
00:01:14.580 who had never celebrated christmas um never in her whole life her religion didn't allow it she 0.99
00:01:23.220 stepped aside from her religion and she was here with us last night and just had an amazing time
00:01:28.980 you know i i think even if you're not a christian you're not a religious people i think
00:01:34.980 this time of year really shines through and it fills your heart it does with me you know
00:01:39.480 i think i left religion years ago but i i really have faith in something
00:01:44.620 and i really admire people who have a faith in a religion christmas is important to me it is
00:01:51.340 but we had this young lady here last night it was so exciting and she's going to be sitting around 0.65
00:01:56.860 this christmas tree our little pencil tree behind me apparently this is the latest thing folks
00:02:02.660 we just took this out of the box earlier uh well just about a month ago i put this tree up
00:02:09.060 my wife had bought it just after christmas last year i'd never seen it and it started to grow on me
00:02:13.400 but this young lady is going to be with us today and she's going to be opening some presents my wife 1.00
00:02:19.080 went out and bought her some christmas presents so it's going to be so fun to see what happens when
00:02:23.860 she opens up her christmas gifts but that's not what christmas is about i think it's about friends
00:02:28.680 family and faith as well haven't we heard those words a lot this year something that we've heard
00:02:34.380 from the alberta independence movement here paulian said that as well but what i think is kind of
00:02:40.760 important is this uh at this time of year and as i've gotten older you know you start to lose people
00:02:48.140 in your lives and this is when i think about the people that i have lost and i in particular
00:02:54.460 family members i think about my mom and dad a lot at this time of year i was playing christmas music
00:03:02.380 last night and a number of songs came on that made me think of when i was a kid in sarnia ontario on
00:03:11.900 divine street sitting in my mom and dad's living room they had this great big piece of furniture that
00:03:19.400 was their stereo and some of you may remember it was a piece of furniture it was about this long
00:03:24.680 it stood about three feet high had speakers in the front and a record changer in it with a radio
00:03:29.760 and they had a collection of christmas albums and a number of those songs came on last night
00:03:34.640 and it put me back in that place again i can still see my mom and dad's front window
00:03:41.920 and that snow falling down and i can still see my dad carving i think what was the 30th christmas turkey
00:03:51.040 and he passed away a few years ago but i can still see him standing in the dining room at the old house
00:03:56.560 carving up that turkey and i remember when he handed me the knife for the first time so i could
00:04:01.300 carve my first christmas turkey and we've lost other people in our family as well that's what i think of
00:04:06.420 and something else i was thinking of when i was thinking of this young girl
00:04:10.280 being here for the first christmas i think about people right now who have a hard time this time of
00:04:16.280 year because they have lost somebody close to them and christmas just brings back unfortunately bad
00:04:22.780 memories or it's just hard to endure because christmas is in the past meant so much and now
00:04:28.380 that person is gone and if you know somebody who has a tough time this at christmas because
00:04:34.720 it is a very difficult time of the year for some people reach out to them reach out tell them that
00:04:40.680 they're loved or maybe invite them to your home to be part of your christmas and try to make them
00:04:48.120 feel a little bit better at a time that your your feeling is so wonderful and it is so magical
00:04:53.000 but can be so depressing to them so think about that as well you know we've had over the years here
00:04:58.240 in calgary we've been very lucky to have friends here who have never celebrated christmas or who
00:05:03.940 were alone on christmas and to have them sit down to a turkey dinner which our young lady i spoke
00:05:10.680 about earlier is going to do for the very first time today it's a wonderful feeling and you can feel
00:05:15.860 the spirit of the season and i i hope you're having a great christmas i hope you're with your loved
00:05:23.900 ones i hope you're with your friends and i hope that the spirit of the season is in your heart as
00:05:30.280 well that's all it is today we'll get back to the politics um tomorrow okay as we get closer to the
00:05:38.980 new year thanks so much for watching if you like the video please give it a thumbs up told you i
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