Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Christmas Fun Facts, Part 1

Episode Date: December 19, 2015

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What are you waiting for? A disaster? Do it right now. 8-88-4-1-7-4-40. Christmas fun facts. Let's talk about that. Let's change the tone just a smidge here this morning. It is good grief.

It's Saturday morning already. Glenn's big Christmas show is tonight. Christmas cheer with Glenn Beck at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas. If you are in the area, I would highly recommend that you, we do still have some tickets left. Oh, good, yeah, we do. The doors open at 6 o'clock tonight. The tickets go for anywhere from $45. That includes a copy of the Immortal Nicholas.

You buy a $90 ticket. You get awesome seats and a signed copy of the Immortal Nicholas. $125 tickets gets you even an awesomer seat, a signed copy of the Immortal Nicholas and the Immortal T-shirt, which, by the way, they're very nice and they're very soft. Jessica here at Mercury, her company, printed these. And they're so, that's not that, like, scratchy cotton. It's the nice soft cotton. The $250 ticket, you get the awesomest seats in the world at the Verizon Theater,

plus you a signed copy of the Immortal Nicholas, so you get the T-shirt, and you get a pre-show meet and greet with Glenn Beck and a picture. Yes, even a picture. If you want to get tickets or you just want more information, go to glenbeck.com, and you will see it right there. Glenbeck Christmas cheer right across the top. Christmas fun facts. And these are the, first of all, where does that one go?

We talked about Christmas and writing it X-Mus and the fact that you are not, in fact, taking the Christ out of Christmas. If you write X-Mess, that is a big myth. Actually, X is the Greek letter, Chai and Chai in Christ, and it's, so basically, if you write Christmas as X-Mus, you're fine. You are not, you are not being sacrilegious or anything of that nature. Missletoe.

Missletoe literally means dung twig. But for some reason, hanging a dung twig over someone's head and kissing them does not sound quite as sexy, does it? No. Ebenezer Scrooge's original catchphrase was not bah humbug, but bah Christmas. It just did not have the same ring. Just didn't have that same thing. Christmas carols began as an old English custom called wassling, in which one would toast their neighbors to a long life.

So when you sing Christmas carols, you're bringing joy and wishing good health to everyone that you come across as you go a wassling. And a Christmas Carol, this one is quite fascinating, actually. Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that. After it became successful, he thought, hey, I am on to something here. So every year after that he would write a Christmas story. None of them, of course, were the giant success that a Christmas Carol was.

For instance, he did write The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain, a fancy for Christmas time. That was in 1848. In this tale, a gloomy chemistry professor says things like, another Christmas come, another year gone. More figures in the lengthening sum of recollection that we work and work to our torment till death idly jumbles all together and rubs all out. To which everyone looked and said, what? I don't even know what?

The Battle of the Battle of Life, a love story. This was in Christmas 1846. Perhaps only Dickens could offer up a happy ending to a troubling tale such as this, a missing sister and a sinister elopement scheme all set on a one-time battlefield that still bears the relics of a host of dead men and horses. The cricket on the hearth, a fairy tale of home. Another Charles Dickens book that he wrote. This was in 1845. Almost as popular as a Christmas Carol in its time.

The tale includes a mysterious man in disguise, a dog named Boxer, some possible infidelity, a young blind heroine, as in a girl, not the drug, a nanny, and of course a cricket. That was not nearly as possible or as popular as a Christmas carol.

And the one that he wrote immediately after was The Chimes, a goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in. He wrote this one in 1844. There was a strange tale revolved around a wedding, an orphan, an evil rich man, and some frightening goblins. Or was it all a dream resulting from our protagonist Trotty Vex? having had too much tripe at dinner. This podcast brought to you by My Patriot Supply.

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