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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all new twenty fourteen Toyota Corolla.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from HowStuffWorks dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the podcast, The Very Special Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Clark, Charles Bryant, Jerry Rowling, and we're here.

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Speaker 1: The Gang's all here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh oh that was hearty. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Man, this is one of my favorite episodes of the year.

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Speaker 1: This and Halloween.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Typically we're recording this one a little early, I feel like,

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Speaker 1: but it's okay.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure we can Postpon's okay? All right, let's

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 1: I think this is is July. This is it weird December? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at least we waited until December. Yeah. This

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Speaker 2: is a good way to kick off the season for us.

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Speaker 1: Agreed.

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Speaker 2: So we have like a whole month to just feel great.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's what the this is all about, Chuck,

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Speaker 2: Feeling great. Yeah, that's that's the Christmas spirit. Feeling great,

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Speaker 2: drinking hot buttered drum. Yeah that's man. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: That put me in a mood for it. I've never

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Speaker 2: had one. I haven't either.

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Speaker 1: Well, I am going to this year.

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Speaker 2: I think I will be joining you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you actually put butter in a drink. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just thought it was called that because it was

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Speaker 2: Like a buttery nipple. Yeah, yeah, that didn't no butter

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Speaker 1: It sure doesn't, all right, but that's coming up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not get ahead of her.

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Speaker 1: No, no, we don't want to spoil the hot buttered rum segment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just wanted to say welcome to the Christmas

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Speaker 2: Extravaganza twenty thirteen. That's right, So Chuck, let's kick it

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You ever heard of a little diddy called Rudolph the

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Speaker 2: Red Nose reindeer?

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Speaker 1: Did he have a very shiny nouse? Yes, he did,

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Speaker 1: and if you saw it you might even say it glows.

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Speaker 2: I think that you could probably say that and people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely have heard of this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, then you might not know that that's actually based

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Speaker 2: on a little poem from just a few decades ago.

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Speaker 2: It's not that old, you know, so much of Christmas

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Speaker 2: stuff is very very old. Sure, but our friends over

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Speaker 2: at Snopes got to the bottom of the origin story

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Speaker 2: of Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we helped, we use their material, but they

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Speaker 1: didn't get to the bottom of it. This is the

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, well it's not like they cracked the case

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas Snopes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, so Rudolph, we're being coy. I know

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Speaker 1: all about this story, but the reason.

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Speaker 2: I had no idea the reason really Yeah, huh okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean I didn't know all the details, but I

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Speaker 1: And this is why we use Snopes because a lot

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Speaker 1: by someone to provide comfort to his daughter as her

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Speaker 1: That's right, not true.

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Speaker 2: No, some of the facts are there, like the man's

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Speaker 2: But it was just it's just a little off. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about this. There is a man named

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Speaker 2: Robert May and he worked for a company called Montgomery Ward, Chicago,

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Speaker 2: Right, And the head of the copywriting division said, you

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Speaker 2: Right, And he said, I don't have a problem with it,

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Speaker 2: I'm in deep, deep, crushing debt because of the bills

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Speaker 2: he went to the head of Montgomery Ward Suel Avery,

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Speaker 2: and in what proves there are Christmas miracles? Yeah, Suell

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Speaker 2: Avery said, you know what, We're going to sign the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's remarkable to think that a company would revert

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Speaker 2: Right, But I think also Chuck, we look back at

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Speaker 2: wasn't until after Robert May secured the copyright. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: The original story. The Rudolph wasn't one of Santa's Reindeer.

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Speaker 2: His parents weren't embarrassed by his abnormality. No, as a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact, it says in this article that he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he wasn't like in the cartoon or in the

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Speaker 2: The original Rudolph was totally fine with himself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just delivering gifts on Christmas night and spots

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Speaker 2: And he did. And when they got back, Santa had

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Speaker 1: And the great news is is that May lived the

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Speaker 1: to work at Montgomery Ward. And yeah, it seemed like

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Speaker 2: He didn't have to work anymore, but he loved what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that, my friend, is a story of Rudolph

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Speaker 1: the Red Nose Reindeer.

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Speaker 2: You were you like friends with this guy's family or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He was known as like the best Sanna, the

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Speaker 1: I mean, really really look like Sanna, not creepy, all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was really really great. And that's a job,

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Speaker 2: Leather gloves, the white ones three hundred bucks. Don't think

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Speaker 1: Wait, what Santa? Have you ever seen that wears leather gloves?

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Speaker 2: Really, you've never seen Santa wearing supple white calfskin gloves.

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Speaker 2: Too, which I didn't know. And it's also to make

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Speaker 1: Oh really it's a lot. Oh yeah, gotcha. Where's Sanna's hand?

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Speaker 2: Interesting, the white really stands out against the red.

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Speaker 2: It's like hair coloring, right, and you want to go

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Speaker 1: At least two sure, yeah, because you know, you get

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If the Kringle Group does anything, they conduct poles

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Speaker 1: I would think that happens once a year at least, sure,

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Speaker 2: You go to Stuff you Should Know dot com.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got one. I need to add to that.

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Speaker 1: I need to find it at my mom's house and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see that.

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Speaker 1: It's good. You might also if you want to be

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Speaker 1: There are many, not many, they're a handful. But the

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Speaker 2: It really is? Okay, like the houses on campus Sana Village, Yes, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: All of the Sanna's there refer to one another as

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Speaker 2: They also learn quite a bit of stuff like how

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the history of Christmas, just so you can acquainted with,

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Speaker 1: Did they say that?

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Speaker 2: I guess some of them do. Others are asked whether

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Speaker 2: is that a boy or girl?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: And it turns out the reindeer should all be girls

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Santa has to describe that to the children.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and Santa learns that at the Charles W. Howard

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Speaker 1: Awesome. I saw a story. I'm gonna have to dig

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Speaker 1: return on your investment? ROI? As I like to say.

443
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,119
Speaker 2: Here, that's what Santa cares about.

444
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, can you get rich?

445
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,199
Speaker 2: Play Santa? Are you asking me? Yeah? I will answer

446
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 2: that no. But you can make a decent enough living,

447
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 2: especially if you're just working for two or three months,

448
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 2: four months these days with the Christmas season starting earlier

449
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 2: and earlier and earlier. Yeah, but just for this amount

450
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 2: of time that you're kind of putting into it, you

451
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 2: can make some Santa's make up to eighty grand more,

452
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 2: make somewhere between eight grand and twelve twenty fifty grand.

453
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in your bigger cities that you're nicer malls,

454
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 1: you're obviously going to find your better Santas that make

455
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,400
Speaker 1: the top dollar. If you live out in the middle

456
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: of Kansas and you have a Hayseed mall, you might

457
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: have kind of a crappy looking Santa that makes like

458
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 1: twenty bucks an hour. Yeah, but hey, you got your Santa,

459
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: and good for you. They all need to be supported

460
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: in peed on with equal vigor. Chuck.

461
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 2: Yes, we've now reached the point where we talk about

462
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 2: hot buttered drum.

463
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is pretty exciting. It is uh and it's

464
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: old as the hills. It is as old of the hills.

465
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,159
Speaker 1: And this is this is something that taught me a

466
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 1: lot about our history in this country, because I did

467
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 1: not know that the United States was a huge rum

468
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 1: producer back in the day.

469
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: Yeah to prohibition. Yep, there's something called Medford rum, which

470
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 2: was the pride of New England. That there's a there's

471
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 2: a distiller that's like reaching the end of the distillation

472
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 2: process as we speak. Yeah, I saw that he was

473
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 2: about to release some Medford rum. Yeah, for the first

474
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 2: time in a while, right, Yeah, Well well yeah, it's

475
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 2: like defunked, and it's been defunk basically been since the

476
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: since prohibition. Yeah, but at one time it was basically

477
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 2: the the heart and soul of the colonial economy. And

478
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 2: some people make the case that were it not for

479
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 2: Medford rum, the colonists might not have had enough dough

480
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 2: to fund the revolution.

481
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, And I didn't know either. If you back

482
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: in the day, if you went north of New Jersey,

483
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: New York, that was like the house drink. You run

484
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: to a pub and it was rum. Yeah, and it

485
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: was dark and kind of funky.

486
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 2: Apparently the rum was not the the taverns.

487
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 1: No, well they were probably dark and funky too, but yeah,

488
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: the rum was uh well, we'll get to that, but

489
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: it was definitely dark rum.

490
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 2: It would get ahead of ourselves here, Chuck. First, let's

491
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 2: talk about the difference between a toddy and a sling,

492
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 2: and one's cold pretty much. Yeah, when you call your

493
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 2: drink a hot toddy, you're using a redundant term. Yeah,

494
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: toddy's hot. Yeah, but you're not even really describing it. Well,

495
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 2: when you're talking about whiskey, a little sugar, lemon, and bourbon,

496
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: that's maybe a bourbon toddy. There's all kinds of totties,

497
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 2: but a yeah, and hot buttered rum is a kind

498
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: of toddy. A TOADI is the predecessor to the cocktail.

499
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 2: And basically it's booze, water and sugar. And if it's hot,

500
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: it's a toddy.

501
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: If it's cold, it's a sling, like a Singapore sling exactly.

502
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: Let's say so, hot buttered rum is in fact the toddy,

503
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: and it's obviously was a hit back then and still

504
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: today because it was cold and back then in New England,

505
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't have the insulation we have today,

506
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: and you would you would want something to warm the belly,

507
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: something maybe make you a little sleepy so you could

508
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: fall asleep. And so what better to include in that

509
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: toddy than.

510
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 2: A little fat, a little bit of butter.

511
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had plenty of cows, so they're like, hey,

512
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 1: we got these churns, we got this butter laying around.

513
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: It's really good stuff.

514
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of rum, got a.

515
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: Bunch of tons of rum, and we have these hot

516
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: seering pokers in the fire.

517
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 2: Which I did not know about until this.

518
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome and I'd love to make one like that. Yeah,

519
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: you know the original way, Oh, yeah, which we'll get

520
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,439
Speaker 1: to in a second. But they said, let's do all

521
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: these in a glass and drink it. And it turns

522
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 1: out it's delicious and buttery and puts you to sleep

523
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: with a smile on your face.

524
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 2: Right.

525
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

526
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: They have no idea who the first person was to

527
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 2: put all of it together, but by the mid eighteenth

528
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: century it was apparently all over New England. Sure, it

529
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: was pretty much everywhere in the colonies.

530
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: George Washington loved the stuff.

531
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, And over time people have decided to kind of

532
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: make it a little more fru food than the original version.

533
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: Sure.

534
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 2: So there's there's a very widespread hot buttered rum recipe

535
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: that includes basically like a spice sweet batter where you

536
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: whip butter, yeah, together with nutmeg, cinnamon, all that stuff

537
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 2: and some sugar, and you replace the butter with that. Apparently.

538
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 2: David Wondrich, who's a cocktail historian over at Esquire Magazine,

539
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 2: says that if you do something like that in parts

540
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: of Maine, you'll be labeled the communist.

541
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: So he's anti batter. Yes, he is a straight up purist. Right, Okay,

542
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: but we're gonna tell you how to make these things.

543
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: But first we should talk about the ingredients. Yeah, you

544
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: want to use unsalted butter, that's a big one. And

545
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: you want to use good butter quality butter, not margarine

546
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: or some shed spread. Right, you want to use like

547
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: real butter, real nice unsalted butter.

548
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you want to the more milk fat, the better.

549
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: And there was a guy who wrote the Gun Club

550
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: Drink Book. His name is Charles Brown, and he suggested

551
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: that in the hot Buttered Rum the butter was there

552
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 2: merely to lubricate the mustache. The author of the article

553
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 2: we read said, no, it's not the case. The butter

554
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: is hagro part of this drink, So use the as

555
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: the best butter you can put your hands on.

556
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of softens the corners, the rough edges

557
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: of this rum apparently. Yeah, some people include h cider

558
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: an apple cider in their drink, which can be done.

559
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: But the purists point out that's just another drink altogether. Yeah,

560
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: don't call it a hot buttered rum. No, it's something else.

561
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: It's a hot sider rum right with butter.

562
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: So, if you are a purist and you want to

563
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 2: make an original og enjoyed by George Washington, Hot Buttered Rum,

564
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 2: how do you make it?

565
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: Well, you want to get dark rum?

566
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that is the key. Yeah, good butter

567
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: is very important, but rum is really important. And you

568
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: were saying that it was a little dark, a little

569
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 2: funky back in the day, and luckily people are still

570
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: making those kinds of rum today. You want some brown rum?

571
00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently, he says. The demirera RUMs from Guyana are

572
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: really a nice way to go.

573
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: They sure are.

574
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Have you ever had that?

575
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 2: Oh?

576
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it good?

577
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not a big rum guy.

578
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: I had a bad experience with it about eighteen years ago.

579
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 2: Oh and you never recovered. Huh.

580
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: I haven't really gone near it since there's I would though,

581
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: for you know, it's been long enough.

582
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 2: The kinds of rum that this guy's talking about, like

583
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 2: anything from Guyana, it's like you could drink it neat

584
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 2: it's good, you know.

585
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to, you know, worked at MEXICALI Grill

586
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: in college and not recommending this people because it's not

587
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: right to drink on the job, but we all drank

588
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: on the job. Yeah, yeah, sure, we drank rum and

589
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: cokes and that was where I drank a lot of

590
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: my rum.

591
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: You went one tok over the line there.

592
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: No, we were we were good. It was a college.

593
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: When you work at a college, barging me drinking while you're.

594
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 2: Right, but what was your what was your bad experience?

595
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: Then? I don't know. That wasn't from that, that was

596
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: from gotcha? Myers rum in New Jersey?

597
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: Oh gotcha? Yeah, Well Myers will work. It's a drum. Yeah,

598
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: if you don't have to spend fifty bucks on rum, no,

599
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: but if you wanna hot buttered rum isn't necessarily something

600
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: you're drinking every night. So maybe this year spring for

601
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: some decent rum. You'll have it around for a while.

602
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: It doesn't really go bad.

603
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: All right, So what's the recipe?

604
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 2: The recipe is as follows, Chuck, you want two ounces

605
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: of good rum, dark rum. You want three to four

606
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: ounces of hot water, one teaspoon of raw sugar. You

607
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: know that sugar and the raw stuff. Yeah that's dem ara.

608
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 2: Oh okay, And then you want some really good unsalted

609
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: butter softened.

610
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

611
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 2: Then what do you do?

612
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of ways. If you want to

613
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: go super old school, you're gonna heat up your mug

614
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: a little bit with some hot water. Just go ahead

615
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: and get the mug nice and chilled or nice and warm.

616
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: You don't want it chilled. You're gonna add your rum,

617
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: sugar and water and about two tablespoons of that butter.

618
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: That's a lot of butter. Yeah, and you want to

619
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: take a hot poker from the fire and plunge it

620
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: into your mixture until it starts bubbling. Yeah, be very

621
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: careful when doing this. Yeah, I don't use your like

622
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: fire poker because it's covered in ash.

623
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't understand it. Like what poker

624
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 2: are you gonna use?

625
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: Well, you're your rum poker. You would have something strictly

626
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: for this. Yeah, but let's get real, that's dangerous. Yeah,

627
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: this is the modern days.

628
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: So if you want to make one that's slightly less colonial,

629
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: meaning it doesn't use a red hot poker to heat everything.

630
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, get your tea kettle on pretty much.

631
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, you warm like a heatproof mug with some water,

632
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 2: hot hot water, and then you dump that out and

633
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: you pour an ounce of water and some sugar and

634
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: you stir it to dissolve, yeah, boiling water. Right after that,

635
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 2: you add the rum, the rest of the water, and

636
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: that butter. Two tablespoons. Man, that's a lot of butter.

637
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: I know, I can't wait to try this, and.

638
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: On both of them, you want to you want to

639
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: grate some fresh nutmeg on top. Yeah, and there's your

640
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: hot buttered room.

641
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: If you want to be a communist in Maine and

642
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: make your batter, uh, you make basically you make your

643
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: spice butter sugar batter and that's sort of like just

644
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: your base, and you can scoop that out and add

645
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: it to each drink.

646
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: Right, it stands in for the butter.

647
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about let's say, if you want to make

648
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: eight servings cup of brown sugar. Man, that's a lot.

649
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: Eight servings. I'm sure there's not a zero missing.

650
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: Seriously, one four ounce stick of unsalted butter, softened, one

651
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: teaspoon of ground cinnamon, I want to half teaspoons of

652
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: ground nutmeg, and one quarter teaspoon of clove. Mix that

653
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: all together in a mixing bowl. And supposedly that it's

654
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: eight servings of your batter. But sounds like it could

655
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: go a little further.

656
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll keep you up.

657
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

658
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: Maybe some people I've seen use ice cream in their batter.

659
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we just I don't know even I'm like,

660
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: that's too far.

661
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: Some might say two tablespoons of butter and a drink

662
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: is too far.

663
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 2: Some may and I think that's the point this holiday season.

664
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: When you're enjoying a hot buttered rum, if your age

665
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: is twenty one or older, you should adjust it however

666
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: you like and make it your own so that it

667
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: gives you a happy holiday season.

668
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: Awesome, Okay, buddy, it's time to round out the Christmas

669
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: episode with a reading. And we did this last year.

670
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: What do we do? The Shoemaker or something? Little Kids

671
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: in the Shoes did some story about some magical shoes

672
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: that were made overnight or something.

673
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: Oh about clothing elves.

674
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can't remember the name of it, but

675
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: it's very It's a classic Christmas story, as is the

676
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Gift of the Magi by O.

677
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 2: Henry, who is one of my favorite authors of all time.

678
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: Yeah really yeah, he makes a great any bar two

679
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: he does, so now, folks, Merry Christmas. Twenty thirteen, a

680
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: reading from Josh and Chuck. The Gift of the matchup

681
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: one dollar and eighty seven cents. That was all, and

682
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: sixty cents of it was in pennies. Penny saved one

683
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer, and

684
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: the vegetable man and the butcher, until one's cheeks burned

685
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: with a silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing

686
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: implied three times. Della counted it one dollar and eighty

687
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: seven cents, and the next day would be Christmas. There

688
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the

689
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it, which

690
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles,

691
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: and smiles, with sniffles predominating, while the mistress of the

692
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second.

693
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: Take a look at the home. A furnished flat at

694
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: eight dollars per week did not exactly beggar description, but

695
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: it certainly had that word on the lookout for the

696
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: Mendicancy squad, go look out for those guys. And the

697
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: vestibule below was a letterbox into which no letter would go,

698
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: and an electric button for which no mortal finger could

699
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing

700
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: the name mister James Dillingham Young. The Dillingham had been

701
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity,

702
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 1: when its possessor was being paid thirty dollars per week.

703
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: Now when the income was shrunk to twenty dollars though,

704
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and

705
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: unassuming d But whenever mister James Dillingham Young came home

706
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: and reached his flat above, he was called Jim and

707
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: greatly hugged by missus. James Dillingham Young already introduced to

708
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: you as Della, which is all very good. Della finished

709
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.

710
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: She stood by the window and looked out dully at

711
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: a gray cat walking a gray fence and a girl backyard.

712
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only one

713
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: dollar and eighty seven cents with which to buy Jim

714
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: a present. She had been saving every penny she could

715
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: for months, with the result twenty dollars a week doesn't

716
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: go too far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated.

717
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: They always are only one dollar and eighty seven cents

718
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a

719
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him,

720
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: something fine and rare, and sterling, something just a little

721
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: bit nearer to being worthy of the honor being owed

722
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: by Jim. There was a peer glass between the windows

723
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: of the room. Perhaps you have seen a peer glass

724
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: and an eight dollar flat. A very thin and agile

725
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence

726
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: of longitudinal strips, obtained a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della,

727
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: being slender, had mastered the yard. Suddenly she whirled from

728
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were

729
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within

730
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let

731
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: it fall to its full length.

732
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 2: Now there are two possessions of the James Dillingham youngs

733
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: in which they both took a mighty pride. One was

734
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's.

735
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 2: The other was Della's hair. Had the Queen of Shiba

736
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: lived in the flat across the air shaft, Della would

737
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 2: have let her hair hang out the window someday to dry,

738
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: just to depreciate her majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King

739
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 2: Solomon bid the janitor with all his treasures piled up

740
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: in the basement. Jim would have pulled out his watch

741
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: every time he passed, just to see him pluck at

742
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 2: his beard from envy. So now Della's beautiful hair fell

743
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.

744
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 2: It reached below her knee and made itself almost a

745
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: garment for her. And then she did it up again,

746
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and

747
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: stood still while a tear or two splashed on the

748
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: worn red carpet, on, when her old brown jacket on,

749
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 2: when her old brown hat, with a whirl of skirts,

750
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: and with the brilliant sparkles still in her eyes, she

751
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 2: fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street,

752
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 2: where she stopped. The sign read Madame Sophrony Hair goods

753
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: of all kinds one flight up. Della ran and collected herself, panting.

754
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 2: Madame large, two white, chilly, hardly looked the sofrony. Will

755
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: you buy my hair, asked Ella. I buy hair, said Madame.

756
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 2: Take your hat off and let's have a sight at

757
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: the looks of it. Down rippled the brown cascade. Twenty dollars,

758
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: said Madame, lifting the mass with a practiced hand. Give

759
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 2: it to me quick, said Della. Oh. In the next

760
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 2: two hours trip by on rosy wings, forget the hashed metaphor,

761
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 2: she was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found

762
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 2: it at last. It surely had been made for Jim

763
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 2: and no one else. There was no other like it

764
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 2: in any of the stores, than she had turned all

765
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain,

766
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 2: simple and chased in design, properly proclaiming its value by

767
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 2: substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation, as all good

768
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 2: things should do. It was even worthy of the watch.

769
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: As soon as she saw it, she knew that it

770
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: must be Jim's. It was like him, quietness and value.

771
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 2: The description applied to both twenty one dollars they took

772
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: from her for it, and she hurried home with the

773
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: eighty seven cents. With that chain on his watch, Jim

774
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: might be properly anxious about the time in any company.

775
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it

776
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 2: on the sly on account of the old leather strap

777
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: that he used in place with the chain. When Della

778
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 2: reached home, her intoxication gave way a little to prudence

779
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: and reason. She got her curling irons out and lighted

780
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made

781
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: by generosity added to love, which is always a tremendous task,

782
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 2: dear friends, a mammoth task. Within forty minutes, her head

783
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: was covered with tiny, close lying curls that made her

784
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 2: look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her

785
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: reflection in the mirror long, carefully and critically. If Jim

786
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: doesn't kill me, she said to herself, before he takes

787
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 2: a second look at me, he'll say, I look like

788
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 2: a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do? Oh?

789
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 2: What could I do with a doll in eighty seven cents?

790
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: At seven o'clock, the coffee was made and the frying

791
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 2: pan was back on the stove, hot and ready to

792
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: cook the chops.

793
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in

794
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: her hand and sat on the corner of the table

795
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: near the door that he always entered. Then she heard

796
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: a step on the stair away down on the first flight,

797
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: and she turned white for just a moment. She had

798
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: a habit for saying a little silent prayer about the

799
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: simplest everyday things. And now she whispered, please God, make

800
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: him think I'm still pretty. She cut her hair off

801
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: right to make money to buy this gift. Yeah, okay,

802
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: got twenty dollars for it, So she looks like Anne

803
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: Hathaway and Lema's.

804
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 2: Rob Yes, all right, but with curly hair.

805
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it.

806
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow. He was

807
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: only twenty two and about to be burdened with a family.

808
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: He needed a new overcoat, and he was without gloves.

809
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter

810
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: at the scent of a quail. His eyes were fixed

811
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: upon Della, and there was an expression in them that

812
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: she could not read, and it terrified her. It was

813
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any

814
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: of these sentiments that she had been prepared for. He

815
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: simply stared at her fixedly, with a peculiar expression on

816
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: his face. Della wriggled off the table and went for him,

817
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: Jim Darling. She cried, don't look at me that way.

818
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: I had my hair cut off in soul because I

819
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: couldn't have lift through Christmas without giving you a present.

820
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: It'll grow out again. You won't mind, will you. I

821
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast.

822
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 1: Say Merry Christmas, Jim, and let's be happy. You don't

823
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: know what a nice, beautiful, nice gift I've got for you.

824
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: You've cut off your hair, asked Jim laboriously, as if

825
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: he had not arrived at that patent fact yet, even

826
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: after the hardest mental labor, cut it off and sold it,

827
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: said Della. Don't you like me just as well?

828
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: Anyhow?

829
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm me without my hair, ain't I. Jim looked a

830
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: round the room curiously. You say your hair is gone,

831
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: he said, with an air all my idiocy. You needn't

832
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: look for it, said Della. It's sold. I tell you,

833
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: sold and gone too. It's Christmas Eve boy. Be good

834
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs

835
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: of my head were numbered, she went on with sudden

836
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: serious sweetness. But nobody could ever count my love for you.

837
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: Shall I put the chops on Jim. Out of his trance,

838
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: Jim seemed quickly to wake. He unfolded his Della for

839
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: ten seconds. Let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential

840
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: object in the other direction, eight dollars a week or

841
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: a million a year, what is the difference? A mathematician

842
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The

843
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them.

844
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: This dark assertion will be illuminated later on. Jim drew

845
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon

846
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: the table. Don't make any mistake, Dell, he said about me.

847
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut,

848
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: or a shave, or a shampoo that could make me

849
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package,

850
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: you may see why you had me going a while.

851
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,479
Speaker 2: At first, white fingers and nimble tore at the string

852
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: and paper, and then an ecstatic scream of joy, and

853
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: then alas quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails,

854
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of

855
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: the Lord of the flat. For there lay the combs,

856
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 2: the set of combs side and back that Della had

857
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 2: worshiped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell,

858
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 2: with jeweled rims, just the shade to wear in the beautiful,

859
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 2: vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her

860
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 2: heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the

861
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: least hope of possession, And now they were hers. But

862
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.

863
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length

864
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 2: she was able to look up with dim eyes and

865
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: smile and say, my hair grows so fast. Jim, and

866
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried,

867
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: oh oh. Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present.

868
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 2: She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm.

869
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: The dull, precious metal seemed to flash with the reflection

870
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: of her brightened, ardent spirit. Isn't it a dandy, Jim?

871
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have

872
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: to look at the time a hundred times a day. Now,

873
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: give me your watch. I want to see how it

874
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: looks on you. Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on

875
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 2: the couch and put his hands under the back of

876
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 2: his head and smiled. Dell said he let's put our

877
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 2: Christmas presents away and keep them awhile they're too nice.

878
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 2: To use. Just at present. I sold the watch to

879
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose

880
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 2: you put the chops on the magi. As you know,

881
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 2: were wise men, wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to

882
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 2: the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of

883
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 2: giving Christmas presents. Being wise, Their gifts were no doubt

884
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 2: wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case

885
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Speaker 2: of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you

886
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 2: the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat

887
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 2: who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures

888
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 2: of their house. But in a last word to the

889
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Speaker 2: whys of these day's, let it be said that of

890
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: all who give gifts, these two were the wisest, Oh,

891
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: all who give and received gifts, such as they are wisest,

892
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 2: everywhere they are wisest. They are the Magi. But do

893
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Speaker 2: you think of that?

894
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 1: I think it was one of the great ironic stories

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Speaker 1: of all time.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's so Henry, he's the master of the ironic twist.

897
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not lame at all. No, he says

898
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: lame late at the end. But that's one of those words.

899
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Speaker 2: It's a little different now he's self deprecating. Yeah, I

900
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 2: get it. Yeah.

901
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, how about that Combs he sold the watch. Yeah,

902
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: but they got the chops.

903
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, the chops. When I was reading that, I was like,

904
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: chops sound pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds real good.

906
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You got anything else? I got nothing else.

907
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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everyone, Merry Christmas for another great year. Buddy

908
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Speaker 1: and Jerry.

909
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Merry Christmas, Chuck, Merry Christmas, Jerry. Jerry says, Merry

910
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Speaker 2: Christmas too, and to all a good night, to all,

911
00:44:59,080 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 2: a good night.

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