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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. It is the holiday week and as you

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Speaker 1: hear this, UH, super producer Casey pegram My writer died

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Speaker 1: better half of the show, Noel Brown and I are

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Speaker 1: on some adventures. We wanted to bring you a classic

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Speaker 1: Christmas story of you know what, no, I'll say it.

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Speaker 1: This is grin chery of the highest order, absolute grin

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Speaker 1: chery perpetrated by none other than organized religion, History's favorite Grench.

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Speaker 1: There we go. Yes, the purity the Puritans had once

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Speaker 1: And today's story today's classic episode is about the time

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Speaker 1: Puritans decided to ban Christmas entirely, So get ready to

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Speaker 1: enjoy that one. But also just a heads up, we

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Speaker 1: will be back UH in full New Year's regalia UH

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Speaker 1: next week, publishing two brand new episodes about some pretty

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Speaker 1: awesome New Year's traditions from around the world and all

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Speaker 1: kinds of great fun trivia and grab baggy type stuff

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Speaker 1: coming up for your listening pleasure. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: please enjoy this delightful Christmas classic. I know it's so

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Speaker 1: Super producer, Casey, can we have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Christmas music? Humbug? There? We are welcome to the show. Folks,

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Speaker 1: my name's Ben. I don't like Christmas. You don't like Christmas? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm the Grinch? What stole Christmas? And then ransomed it

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Speaker 1: Did you see the Halloween special that that freaked me

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Speaker 1: it's a good one. It's a good one, very psychedelic

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Speaker 1: ghosts and stuff and the hackensacks or howan, We're not

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Speaker 1: talking about Halloween today. We're talking about Christmas, right, Christmas,

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Speaker 1: those four it and against it. If you have in

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Speaker 1: holidays in general or this particular holiday, Christmas right, then

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Speaker 1: you may enjoy this episode. Because when we think of

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Speaker 1: time in ridiculous history. And Christmas in the US, by

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Speaker 1: a hugely important annual event. Economically, it's very important to

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