WEBVTT - Josh and Chuck's Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.199 Brought to you by the all new twenty fourteen Toyota Corolla. 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:14.040 Welcome to you stuff you should know from HowStuffWorks dot Com. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.560 Hey, and welcome to the podcast, The Very Special Podcast. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.680 I'm Josh Clark, Charles Bryant, Jerry Rowling, and we're here. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:23.600 The Gang's all here. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:29.160 Yeah. Oh oh that was hearty. Yeah. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.800 Man, this is one of my favorite episodes of the year. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:32.600 This and Halloween. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.080 Yeah. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.320 Typically we're recording this one a little early, I feel like, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:38.519 but it's okay. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.400 Are you sure we can Postpon's okay? All right, let's 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:43.680 do it. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:44.320 Yeah. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:45.680 I'm excited about this. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.120 I think this is is July. This is it weird December? Yeah? 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.199 Yeah, yeah, at least we waited until December. Yeah. This 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.560 is a good way to kick off the season for us. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:56.080 Agreed. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.360 So we have like a whole month to just feel great. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.920 That's right, that's what the this is all about, Chuck, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.640 Feeling great. Yeah, that's that's the Christmas spirit. Feeling great, 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.560 drinking hot buttered drum. Yeah that's man. I'll tell you what. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.560 That put me in a mood for it. I've never 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:11.720 had one. I haven't either. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.160 Well, I am going to this year. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:14.920 I think I will be joining you. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.880 I didn't know you actually put butter in a drink. Yeah, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.360 I just thought it was called that because it was 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:21.800 like buttery or something. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.840 Like a buttery nipple. Yeah, yeah, that didn't no butter 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:25.160 in it. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.280 It sure doesn't, all right, but that's coming up. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:29.759 Yeah, let's not get ahead of her. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.240 No, no, we don't want to spoil the hot buttered rum segment. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.520 Yeah, we just wanted to say welcome to the Christmas 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:44.880 Extravaganza twenty thirteen. That's right, So Chuck, let's kick it 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:45.399 all off. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:46.039 Yeah. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.320 You ever heard of a little diddy called Rudolph the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:50.160 Red Nose reindeer? 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.680 Did he have a very shiny nouse? Yes, he did, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.560 and if you saw it you might even say it glows. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.880 I think that you could probably say that and people 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.960 they would they'd agree. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.880 Yeah, I definitely have heard of this. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:08.320 Okay, then you might not know that that's actually based 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.360 on a little poem from just a few decades ago. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.480 It's not that old, you know, so much of Christmas 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.120 stuff is very very old. Sure, but our friends over 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.240 at Snopes got to the bottom of the origin story 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.480 of Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.000 Yeah, well we helped, we use their material, but they 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:28.560 didn't get to the bottom of it. This is the 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.280 real story that is well known. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.720 Oh okay, well it's not like they cracked the case 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:36.440 Merry Christmas Snopes. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.960 Yeah all right, so Rudolph, we're being coy. I know 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.079 all about this story, but the reason. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.320 I had no idea the reason really Yeah, huh okay. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.000 I mean I didn't know all the details, but I 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.880 knew that it was I knew it was not the version. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.160 And this is why we use Snopes because a lot 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.760 of people have heard the story that it was written 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.640 by someone to provide comfort to his daughter as her 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.360 mother was dying of cancer. Yeah, and then they sold 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.639 it to a department store. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:05.960 Chain and cashed in. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.400 That's right, not true. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.639 No, some of the facts are there, like the man's 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.440 wife was dying of cancer, or he did run it 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:14.200 by his daughter. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.280 True, but and there was a department store in Wall exactly. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.720 But it was just it's just a little off. Yeah, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.440 So let's talk about this. There is a man named 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:30.239 Robert May and he worked for a company called Montgomery Ward, Chicago, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:43.480 Illinois based department store. That's right, and every year Montgomery 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.840 Ward used to give out coloring books Christmas theme coloring 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:47.800 books to kids. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.040 Yeah, they'd buy them and just give them out as 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.600 a little promo gimmick. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.800 Right, And the head of the copywriting division said, you 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.440 know what, we could save a lot of money if 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.920 we just made our own coloring book. But how are 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.000 we going to do this? What will the story be? 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.240 Robert May, you're very good at this kind of thing 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.400 of writing rhyming couplets for children. Why don't you get 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:11.760 to work on this? That's right? 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.800 And he stamped out a cigarette and threw down his 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.440 last glass of scotch because it was nineteen thirty nine 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:19.720 and he was at. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.480 Work, right, you know, at Montgomery Ward. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.600 That's right. And he said, sure, I'll take a stab 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.960 at this. And he kind of nicked a little bit 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.560 from the Tale of the Ugly Duckling. Yeah, and nicked 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.480 a little bit from his own childhood, because apparently he 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.600 was a bit of a small shy child. Yeah, on 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.520 the outskirts, let's say, of the popular crowd, the fringe, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.240 the fringe. And he said, you know what, I think 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.760 I can use this for a story about a little 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.520 reindeer who's also on the outside and on the fringe. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:50.480 But what's the name? 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.840 I'm chuck, Well, this was I think we should use 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.280 an a literative name, is what he thought. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.640 Yeah, because reindeer. Sure, so the first name has to 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.040 be begin with an R raloh. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.960 No, he tried ralloh and they said, you know, that's 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.359 a little too care free. Then they went with Reginald, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.279 and he said that's a little too British. Yeah, so 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.360 let's just go full German with Rudolph. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.640 Yeah, in nineteen thirty nine, why not. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.000 Yeah, I thought that was a little odd that he 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.159 turned down a German name in favor of or a 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.000 British name in favor of a German name. Yeah. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.560 Anyway, I'm sure our British friends find it odd too, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:27.240 that's right. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.040 So then he went on and wrote the story and 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.200 rhyming couplets and did read it to his four year 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.080 four year old daughter, Barbara, who loved it. I think 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.920 it's funny that there's there were four year old's named 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.279 Barbara right back in the day. Such an old lady name. Yeah, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.360 she loved it. And his boss was like, I like it, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.479 but this whole red nose thing, is this a drunk reindeer? 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.760 Because you know, the old gin blossom. I don't know 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.760 if that's Christmas appropriate. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.000 Right, And he said, I don't have a problem with it, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.440 but our customers, Robert May suspected that it was really 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.039 the guy's reservations. Yeah, So he grabbed one of his 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.520 buddies in the copyright apartment and artist and illustrator and 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.440 took him to the zoo and said, see those deer, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.000 make them cute and with a red nose. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.120 Yeah, I bet it's. His first reaction too, was like, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.560 you gotta be kidding me. Yeah, No one's gonna think 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.800 this reindeer is drunk, you jerk. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:22.320 Right exactly. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:22.800 Yeah. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.080 So, with these drawings in hand, these illustrations of a 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.919 cute little reindeer with a red nose and normally red nose, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.080 Robert May got the sign off to go ahead with this, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.359 and he produced this little coloring booklet called Rudolph the 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.880 Red Nose Reindeer, and it was an instant success. Yeah. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.880 By the end of nineteen forty six they had given 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.680 out a total of six million copies. And then, of 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.040 course licensing started to poke their red nose in there 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.400 and say, hey, we'd love to license Rudolf because this 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.839 is a great story. Kids love it. And the creator 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.120 was like, that's awesome, except I don't own it because 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.720 I work for a company and anything I create as 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.040 owned by the company. Even though I created it, I'm 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.920 not going to see any money from it. Right, that 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:10.760 must be terrible. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:16.160 Yeah, and so he went along his saddened way and 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.200 then thought, you know what, maybe I'm going to for 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.400 once in my life, stand up for myself. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:22.520 Yeah. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.960 I'm in deep, deep, crushing debt because of the bills 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.520 that I had to pay to try to keep my 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.440 wife alive, who died of cancer. Yeah, it's been seven 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.400 years of living under this debt. It's just me and 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.600 my daughter. I created Rudolph, let me go ask And 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.880 he went to the head of Montgomery Ward Suel Avery, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:49.520 and in what proves there are Christmas miracles? Yeah, Suell 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.760 Avery said, you know what, We're going to sign the 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.679 copyright over to you, and he did. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.240 Yeah. It's remarkable to think that a company would revert 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.679 rights to a successful thing created by a person. It's awesome, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.040 but I can't identify with how that's possible. I think 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.640 it was a different day and age, I guess. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.680 Right, But I think also Chuck, we look back at 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.600 Rudolph and think it's just this cultural icon. I think 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.080 in nineteen forty six or forty seven, it hadn't blown 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.840 up like that yet. It was still popular, but it 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.000 wasn't until after Robert May secured the copyright. Yeah, that 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.280 the song that we now know and love was recorded. Yeah, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.040 written by his brother in law. Yeah, Johnny Marks just 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.280 happened to know how to do that kind of things right. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.880 And Johnny Marks actually rewrote a lot of the story, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.360 a lot of the details of the story. Same with 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.760 the nineteen sixty five stop motion animation. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.920 Yeah, that was the burl Ives narrated show. It's still 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.960 one of the greatest Christmas specials ever, so great and 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.280 they did take some liberties though, which I thought this 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.200 was probably one of the more interesting parts of the story. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.880 The original story. The Rudolph wasn't one of Santa's Reindeer. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:04.640 No, not at all. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.319 He didn't live in the North Bowl, he wasn't part 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:06.959 of that whole. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.280 Clan, and he wasn't a kid of any of the 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.720 reindeer of Santa's Reindeer, had nothing to do with them. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.840 His parents weren't embarrassed by his abnormality. No, as a 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.720 matter of fact, it says in this article that he 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.400 was raised in a very healthy environment. Yeah, he had 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.880 a positive self attitude. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.120 Yeah, he wasn't like in the cartoon or in the 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.439 stop motion man, he's just like a sad sack because 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.319 he's such a freak, right, you know. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.280 The original Rudolph was totally fine with himself. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:36.640 Sure. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.920 Yeah. And the other big difference is Sanna discovers Rudolph 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:42.600 by accident. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.360 Yeah, he's just delivering gifts on Christmas night and spots 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.280 Rudolph in his room from the Red Glow and it 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.440 happens to be a foggy night. So he's like, hey, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.240 I think I can use this kid to complete my 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:55.920 rounds tonight. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.960 And he did. And when they got back, Santa had 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.440 some words for rudol Off. In the original poem by you, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.480 last Night's journey was actually bossed. Without you, I'm certain 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.200 we'd all been lost. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.680 And the great news is is that May lived the 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.160 rest of his life quite successful and even went back 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.599 to work at Montgomery Ward. And yeah, it seemed like 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:19.959 he had a like, really good life after that. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.040 He didn't have to work anymore, but he loved what 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.400 he did, so he went back to work. Good for him. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.679 Yeah, and that, my friend, is a story of Rudolph 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:27.480 the Red Nose Reindeer. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.240 Chuck. We mentioned Christmas miracles in the Rudolph part. Yeah, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.080 there was something that happened last year in twenty twelve, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.720 Christmas twenty twelve that a lot of people said it 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.560 was a Christmas miracle. At the very least, it was 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.200 a sweet Christmas thing. Yeah. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:56.600 Right, Yeah. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.160 There's a little girl named Mia Maya. I'm not sure, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:01.640 am I a? 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:02.960 Yes? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.240 And she was seven at the time, and she lived 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:11.920 in New York City and we're gonna call her Maya. Okay, Maya. No, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.760 we're gonna call her Maya. Okay. Mia had a dog 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.560 named Marley, who was a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, which 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:23.400 were very cute, adorable sweet dogs. Yeah, and uh, Maya, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.320 did I say may or Maya? I think he said Maya. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.319 I think I said Maya. Ultimately, okay. Mia and her 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.440 mom were shopping for Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.360 they left Marley tied up outside of the store they 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.280 were in, and when they came out, he was gone. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.160 That's right. And thanks to video surveillance another Christmas miracle. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.360 They saw that this jerk stole the dog. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.520 Stole the dog. Did you see the surveillance he picked 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:51.880 it up and walked away with it. Yeah, it was. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.520 The dog was clearly not happy to be manhandled by 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.840 this guy. No, but it's like, I'm a King Charles Spaniel. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:58.360 What can I do? 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.680 That's right? So this sounds like not a Christmas miracle, Josh, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.320 But it sounds like the worst Christmas story ever. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.920 Yeah, it was Christmas Eve that this happened. The girl 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.520 said that she couldn't sleep that night. It was just 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.440 too hard, she said, which is so sad, and she'd 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.400 lost her best friend. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:14.760 Yeah. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.040 All she wanted for Christmas was her dog. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.920 Back, and she got it and her two front teeth. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.480 Right, she's that kind of kid, exactly. So she got 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.440 her dog back thanks to a very nice lady who 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.880 that same day that the dog was stolen, was walking 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.360 through Union Square walking her own two dogs, and she 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.000 noticed a man with a shivering little dog, King Charles Spaniel, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.320 and she just thought they didn't go together. The guy 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.840 was on drugs and this King Charles Spaniel looked like 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.720 it was too good friend. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.920 Basically, well, and it was for sale. Yeah, on Christmas. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.000 So she inquired weird. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.360 She inquired after the dog, and the guy said, I've 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.280 had this dog for years. I just need some money 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.640 and I hate to part with it, but yeah, well 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.000 I will if you give me some money. So the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.199 lady actually coughed up two hundred and twenty bucks cash 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.400 right there on the spot and bought this dog from 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.400 the guy, which is pretty sweet in and of itself. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.760 But she took it a step further. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.800 That's right. She took it to the vet. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:13.280 Yeah. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.360 The dog was microchipped. Yeah, and she got it back 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:15.920 to their owner. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.880 Yeah. The vet called the family and said, we have 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.280 your dog on Christmas Day. It's a Christmas miracle. And 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:28.040 within a few minutes, Mia and her mom went and 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.439 were reunited with Marley. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.120 Yep. And the jerk was arrested. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.400 Brandon Bacon. Yeah, that is a dog stealing Grinch's name. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:36.839 If I've ever heard Brandon Bacon. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.760 Yep. And that is the story unless you have anything 0:13:40.760 --> 0:14:01.880 else of the returned King Charles Spaniel on Christmas twenty twelve. Okay, dude, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.560 now we're to an interesting part of the show where 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.920 we're going to talk about modern day mal Sanna's I 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.199 grew up with what I think was the best mall 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.160 Sanna of all time. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.360 Oh yeah, that's a pretty weighty statement. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.000 The dude at North to cabmol in the nineteen seventies, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.800 I can't remember his name was the most realistic looking 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.840 Sannah I've ever seen. Yeah, he was amazing. He was 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.320 my Sanna. And I will try and find some photos 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.400 to post when we released this of this dude. He 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:31.920 was great. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.200 I didn't have a Sannah. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.080 He's departed now, but he really are. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.280 You were you like friends with this guy's family or something. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.160 No, but they did like a big article on him 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.520 when he died because he was like. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:42.480 Oh he was that good. Huh. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.560 Yeah. He was known as like the best Sanna, the 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.160 best fake Sanna in all the land. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.160 Yeah, and he really he looked the part. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.280 I mean, really really look like Sanna, not creepy, all 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.280 natural with the beard and hair, like there was no 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:57.680 fake fakery going on. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:58.600 Nice. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.040 Yeah, he was really really great. And that's a job, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:03.840 and you can make some decent money doing it. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.680 You certainly can't, and you can also cough up. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.480 A little money trying to get there. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.320 Yeah, depending on how much you want to create the 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.880 illusion that you are Santa himself. You're going to have 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.600 to spend some dough. A Santa suit, a good one 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.840 is going to run you about two grand. The boots 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.840 themselves are going to be about eight hundred bucks. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:24.480 Yeah. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.880 Leather gloves, the white ones three hundred bucks. Don't think 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.280 that hat is free white leather gloves. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 Wait, what Santa? Have you ever seen that wears leather gloves? 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.000 That's creepy. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.640 Really, you've never seen Santa wearing supple white calfskin gloves. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.320 Oh man, we like the little white cotton gloves. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:45.760 Yeah, that's what I've seen too. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.200 I think that's mainly to prevent germs I think. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.960 Too, which I didn't know. And it's also to make 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.760 your hands very visible at all times from what I understand. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:00.640 Oh really it's a lot. Oh yeah, gotcha. Where's Sanna's hand? 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.360 It's right here. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:02.000 See. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:02.880 Yeah. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.320 Interesting, the white really stands out against the red. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.120 Yeah. I never thought about that. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.480 I didn't think about it either. I read it elsewhere. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:14.760 Yeah. Interesting. All right, so you've laid down some serious cash. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.720 If you want a really good theatrical beard. Let's say 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.680 you like that white one in the corner made out 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.720 of yak hair. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.920 Yeah, because I mean, if you want a good sand 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.360 of beard, you have to go to the Yax. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.880 It's gonna be about a grand to twelve thousand dollars. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.440 Or maybe you can grow your own big beard. It's 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.440 still gonna cost you a little money to keep it 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.800 like perfectly white. Yes, you don't want see you red 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.920 in there, No, no salt and pepper. No, you want 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.200 to have a strictly white beard. And that'll cost you 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:45.160 a little bit of money. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.880 Too, Yeah, six hundred bucks. I mean, think about it. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.840 It's like hair coloring, right, and you want to go 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.720 to a good colorist. White's probably the hardest thing to 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:53.320 color hair. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.960 Yeah, And this is all if you just want one 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.440 of each of these things, you're gonna be spending that money. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.120 But as a Santa, you need backup wardrobe. Some of 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.240 these guys have like five or six of these outfits. 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.480 Yeah. Apparently according to a poll by the Kringle Group, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.000 which is basically a trade industry for santas, sure they 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:16.120 the twenty percent of Malsanas have five or six whole 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.080 suits tucked away in case of emergency. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.840 Yeah, so that's like upwards of twenty grand or more Yeah, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.560 an investment to be a Santa. 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.480 And they said in the same pole that most Sannas 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.320 have two at least. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.680 At least two sure, yeah, because you know, you get 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.000 Pete on at noon, you gotta go change so you 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.240 can get Pete on again at three. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.800 Yeah. If the Kringle Group does anything, they conduct poles 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.000 of Santa and they found that a third a third 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.560 of Malsana's have had a child pee on their lap. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.440 I would think that happens once a year at least, sure, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:52.000 don't you think. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.160 Oh yeah, I was surprised. It seemed a little low 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.119 to me too. I thought so, But it's not just 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.399 pe like, there's all sorts of ways that kids spread 0:17:58.440 --> 0:17:59.480 their germs. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.879 Yes, the Kringle Group said seventy five percent of Santa's 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.480 get sneezed on at least once, and forty four percent 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.720 are sneezed on or coughed on up to fifteen times 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:10.040 a day. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.760 Fifteen And I'll bet that's an accurate amount too, because 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.480 I'll bet you count every time. Well it's number fourteen. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.280 Yeah today. Well, and there's no parent that with the 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.280 kid is like really sick and they're like, well, we 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.360 just won't do that this year. The parent's like, nope, right, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:24.760 we're going Yeah, happy or. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.640 Not get out of bed. The kid also may not 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.639 only p on you, cough on you, sneeze on you. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.160 He may scream and tearor on you. And we actually 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.880 have a pretty great slide show on our website called 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.160 twenty three photos of terrified little kids on Santa Claus's lap. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.200 You go to Stuff you Should Know dot com. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.240 Yeah, I've got one. I need to add to that. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.560 I need to find it at my mom's house and 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.560 scan it. But there is one verified picture of me 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.600 classic case, screaming bloody murder on Santa's lap. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:54.560 Yeah, I'd like to see that. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.520 It's good. You might also if you want to be 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.200 a Sandy, you might want to go to Santa school. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.800 There are many, not many, they're a handful. But the 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.680 Charles W. Howard School in Albion, New York open in 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.400