22 - Christmas Special - with "Christmas Past" host Brian Earl

I am joined for a special Christmas episode by the host of the "Christmas Past" podcast Brian Earl and author of the book of the same name. We discuss some of the traditions that make up modern Christmas, and how it got that we. He educates me on how the traditions of Christmas are always changing, and have evolved a lot in the last hundred years are so. I hope you have a bit of fun with this one and enjoy.

Listen to Brian's podcast:

https://christmaspastpodcast.com/

Check out Brian's book:

https://amzn.to/3hNRhDa

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:40 What motivated you to "go deep" on Christmas?
07:35 Evolution of Christmas and layers of traditions
10:05 The Christmas Tree
14:03 Christmas as a multicultural melting pot
19:22 Why don't we have Krampus? - Influences on Christmas
27:53 Brian's favorite Christmas tradition
31:39 "We wish you a Merry Christmas" is awfully pushy
34:00 Christmas under attack? Or just evolving?
39:20 Outro

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