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EPISODE 633: THE POSO BROTHER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
Deliver us from evil!
Merry Christmas!
Today is Christmas Day.
We are here at Human Events on this special occasion to share in this celebration of our Lord's birth with you.
Now typically every year we do the Christmas special.
Two years ago we did just myself and Tanya Tay.
Last year, we did the Poso Family Christmas special.
However, comma, there was one member of the family that we didn't get the chance, just because of scheduling, logistics, you know how it goes, especially around the Christmas time, to get everybody in.
So there was one member of the Christmas family that we didn't get to work in the Christmas special.
We have my dad, We had my mom, we had Jack-Jack.
We didn't have baby AJ, right?
So we'll work on him when he gets a little bit older.
Maybe next year for AJ.
But brother Kev, brother Kev, who's done so much of work here on the program, was not able to be in last year's Christmas special.
And so today, you're getting the Poso Bros Christmas special.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
Kev, I gotta ask, man.
What does Christmas mean to you?
It means adeste fidelis.
I could go on, but I'm not Pavarotti.
Keep going, keep going, come on.
I'm not Pavarotti.
We gotta get the backtrack going.
We do need the backtrack, yeah.
He was like, I'm not prepared for the singing.
I bet you Faz is a Pavarotti fan.
Yeah, producer Faz loves Pavarotti.
I could see him in the booth right now.
He's going.
He's going.
He's got his conductor baton out.
You gotta send it every year.
Yeah, exactly.
You gotta full send.
Full Latin.
Send.
Look at him, he's already conducting.
Yes.
Full Latin.
No, we got the rosaries out.
Yes, sir.
And...
No, but I gotta say that, you know, growing up on Powell Street, 1400 block, you know, that Christmas has always been for us a time of family and a time of reflection, you know, I remember, and it was always centered around church.
Right?
It's, it's, you're going to church, uh, either Christmas Day or the Christmas Vigil Mass, so the night before, Midnight Mass, of course, St.
Pat's, and... And Jack, Jack always sings at church.
I do.
Like, louder than the choir.
Yeah.
It's like... I do.
It's kind of painful to like sit in the pew next to Jack.
It's only painful because you realize how good the choir could be if they had Buso in there.
What's it called?
The lectern?
The guy at the podium?
He'll sing, and then Jack sings louder than him.
The cantor would be the one singing.
At the lectern.
Anyways, for Christmas, it's usually the only time.
I've been getting way better over the years.
Usually the time when I'm like, all right, you know what?
I'm gonna sing too.
And one of them is Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, and I love the ones, this, and it's also great because this is when, like, with Christmas songs, when we talk about cultural dominance and taking up space, That's one of the things, is that the Christians just own December when it comes to Christmas music.
There's no way you can get around it.
We will dominate the airwaves, we will dominate the public spaces, dominate the malls, dominate the department stores.
It's Christmas music everywhere.
The little town of Bethlehem, right?
The Silent Night.
How you gonna mess, what are you gonna do?
We got Silent Night on our side.
Right, what do you got?
For the Satanists out there, and for the atheists and everything else, we got Silent Night.
The best music, and the reason the Christmas music is the best music on the face of the planet is because it was literally crafted by angels guiding the hands, right, guiding the hands of the composers and the music makers ever since.
That's why they've been trying.
The angels sang on Christmas. 100%!
The angels sang the first Christmas songs.
The first Christmas carols were sung by angels to the shepherds.
Yeah.
It's all right there.
It's all right there.
And so that's why they've been trying to replace... That's one of dad's favorite parts of the Bible.
It's like just imagining...
What that would look like, the whole choir, the whole host of angels singing.
The assembled choir.
All of them.
That's why they call it a choir, because they are in song for the celebration of the birth of our Lord, right?
It's called the Choir of Angels.
It's very clear.
And this is why, by the way, I was going to say, that they've been trying to replace those traditional Christmas songs with the secular Christmas songs.
And Mariah Carey gets pushed like crazy because they are trying to make that The main song, I'm not against the song, but I'm pointing out that they are trying to replace Replace, you know, Little Drummer Boy.
We need caroling.
More Pozo Patrol carolers.
The original Christmas songs all of which were in service to our Lord and Savior Christ.
We're gonna do caroling to Christ the Lord.
We're doing TikToks?
I'm not on TikTok.
Wait, is this my Christmas present you got me on TikTok?
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We'll be right back, the Poso Bros Christmas special continues.
All right, you're back.
Jack Posobiec, Kevin Posobiec, the Poso Bros Christmas special.
And Kev, so, you know, we were talking a little bit as we taped this, um, that, uh, you know, this Christmas, it's, it's really important for us to remember Christmas, not just as the day of the Lord's birth, but we also have to remember The importance of the holy days.
Christmas is not just a holiday, it is a holy day.
This is where, of course, the word comes from.
And we are called in the Ten Commandments to make the Sabbath a holy day.
Not just keep it as a holy day, but make it a holy day.
If you go back to the original text.
Amen.
That is the same order that we are given for the holidays, the holy days.
We are called to make them holy.
And so let's walk through a little bit of that.
What are some things that people can do to make the day holy?
Now, of course, throughout Advent, we do the Advent candles.
We have the Advent wreaths.
We have the four candles up.
We go to Mass.
We go to church services.
We go to service on Christmas, of course, or on the Christmas Eve, the Vigil Mass, and these are, of course, ways, sitting around praying as a family, these are ways to make it holy.
People know all that, right?
People know, generally know that, but what are some other things that people can do, and as we say, to make the day holy?
To make the day holy, well, you were kind of getting to it.
It's actually the whole month, really.
By sending Christmas cheer, sending cards to each other, to relatives outside of state that you don't see.
Mom used to have the The December calendar, remember with the little puppets?
We've got one up for the kids right now.
Yeah, the Advent calendar.
The same one, probably.
No, we have a different one, but I'm trying to get that one off of mom.
Baking, little candy cane cookies, getting together.
But what you're talking about, what you're talking about are family traditions.
Family traditions, if not any other time of the year, this is when you would want to do those things.
Right, so spending time with family does actually make it holy, because we are called in the Ten Commandments, your honor your father and mother, You're, you're growing your stronger family.
You're being with your family.
So, familiness, and I say this all the time, be a rebel, start a family, that spending time with family, being with them one-on-one, and by the way, that means actively being with family.
And I'm not, and look, I, we're all guilty of it, right?
We're all guilty of, you know, you're, you're, you're together, but what are you doing?
You're on the screen, right?
You're on your screens.
Or you're doing something and you're not actually actively spending time together.
Yeah, it's still the one major American holiday that is centered around, like, some sort of value, right?
Right.
As opposed to, like, New Year's Day.
It's just... And they try.
They're trying to get rid of... But, you know, Christmas, everybody's closed.
Everybody's closed.
Yeah.
You know?
They can't break that.
Except for the Chinese restaurants.
Yeah, unless you want to go get some roasted duck or something.
What's wrong with your dinner?
It's staring at me.
It's smiling at me.
But no, I think you're exactly right.
This idea of having it be family-centered.
Family, friends, you know, so we just had Thanksgiving, right?
Oh gosh, I forgot about that.
With the Millennials, and it's just so empty and vapid.
Because most Millennials are so empty and vapid.
Yeah, and it's just all online, all about the pictures.
Right, it's all about the promotion of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Exactly, yeah.
Tom Hanks is just a character anyway, so it's like it's not even who he is in real life.
How many of them actually know Tom Hanks?
Stop acting and start living.
Stop acting and start living.
Live your life.
By the way, and if you have kids around, if you've got sons, you've got daughters, you've got nephews, you've got nieces, spend time with them.
Play with them.
Teach them something.
Yeah, sledding, Picking icicles.
Remember that on Powell Street?
We used to get some monsters.
Bigger than that tree there.
We used to go out and crush the icicles.
And then of course the icicles always turned into swords.
And then they would turn into missiles and projectiles.
And then Dad would definitely get upset because he would be coming out of the door and we'd shoot one at him.
We'd get in a little trouble.
So if you're ever wondering, that's the way we are, how we are now.
I think that's needed though, too.
- And I think too that it's sure, right?
And it's those memories that you're gonna have.
- But you know what? - I have a memory of that. - I think that's needed though too.
That's a whole other argument to bring up.
- That's a whole other thing is that-- - Like snowball fights?
Think about though, but here's the difference, right?
So having a memory like that that we have with me and you and dad and just all the other neighborhood kids who would get involved is completely separate from me sitting down and playing a video game or me sitting down and being on social media because that's a memory that I have of growing up with actual human beings That is indelible that I'm never going to forget versus can you actively remember like every video game you've played?
I'm not saying don't play games But I'm just talking about the difference in terms of how it resonates on your life as we as we look back on our childhood that those things you remember because that was an actual physical and social interaction that you had with family and friends and as opposed to something that just existed on the screen.
By the way, growing up as well, you started with our Christmas tree, right?
And then I always remember that mom would say, you can open your presents, but you can't play with your presents because we've got to get to the cousin's house, right?
And then we went to the one cousin's house and our aunt and uncle here.
Then we went to the other aunt and uncle.
And it was like the quest.
It was the Christmas quest every year to go to all the different aunt and uncles because our aunt and uncles...
Aunt Carol's?
Right, so Aunt Carol and Uncle Paul, then we'd go to Aunt Mary's, Pop-Up when he was still with us.
When we were little he was always there.
We'd go to see Pop-Up, we'd see Grandma.
But we would go.
We wouldn't make a Zoom call.
We would physically go.
It wouldn't be a Zoom call.
We would physically go because our family lived that close together.
I'm saying there's like video games now like where, I don't know, it might be like Harry Potter video game or some simulation where you can go in.
Hogwarts Academy.
And you could like have a snowball fight.
In the video game.
It ain't the same.
I'm sorry.
No, it'll never be the same.
Instead of real life.
But I think that's important for boys, too.
Just boys' development, like having snowball fights and competing and that.
Well, here's my question, right?
So we can talk about this being better, but does that make the day holy?
Sure, sure.
I guess we're definitely arguing against technology.
People know I'm pro-technology.
I'm on social media.
We're running this show on social media right now, as well as Terrestrial Broadcast and Roku and other things.
I think it's the idea of having, spending time with your actual family.
And it's something that, look, as a kid, I'm sure, and we both did, we gave mom, we gave mom so much guff about getting dressed because, and she would say this, she said, you can't play with your toys until we come back, and usually we wouldn't get to play with our toys until The day after Christmas, and I used to say I like the day after Christmas because I get to play with all my toys, but you know what?
Now, what do I have in the back of my head?
I have the memories of going to be with my cousins, and spending time with them, and building those family relationships that guess what?
That we still have.
In fact, we're talking about this year, our one cousin, and she's got a whole bunch of kids.
She's got a whole litter of kids, and...
And we were talking about bringing back the White Elephant.
Remember we used to do the White Elephant game?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Pollyanna.
Yeah, the Pollyanna.
So we're talking about bringing that back this year.
You in?
Sure.
If you don't know what Pollyanna is, it's when all the gifts stay in the middle.
And, uh, and they're reps, you don't know what it is, and when it's your turn, you can either steal a gift or take a gift.
And the stealing of the gifts, which would go to the end of the game, and it got, it got intense.
Like, there's definitely some people that spent, like, they would not talk to each other until the next Christmas because of what went down in those Pollyannas.
Yeah, we get rowdy.
We get a little bit rowdy.
We get a little bit rowdy, especially some of the cards.
You get something good in there, and it's like, and then, because there would always be the White Elephant would be like the bad gift, whatever it was.
And then that would, you know, you're playing tricks on people.
Oh, yeah.
And then it would always be, I would always do this thing where I would, you remember this?
I would get something good, and then I would be really quiet, and I would kind of like hide it behind my back.
And then just as everyone would go, I would just kind of be sitting there like...
You came in on the Pollyanna.
Oh, when you were on base one year, it was so popular for us.
That's right.
So the one time in all the years when I was living in China and deployed in the military, I only missed one Christmas.
And the only Christmas I ever missed was when I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay.
So I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay and I actually, you're right, I did the Pollyanna from Guantanamo Bay over, I think it was Skype.
And it was like this really, really bad Skype connection.
Definitely the worst Christmas of my life.
So I think Mom would put the gift in front of me, and then that was like my... She basically played as me, and then I was playing Pollyanna from Guantanamo Bay with the rest of the family.
Right.
Well, it was good that year, because I think Uncle Paul got me that year?
Do you remember this part?
No, no, no.
What did he get?
Yeah, so he sends me this, like, shoe box thing, right?
And it's just a white box.
And I'm like, yeah, I asked for shoes, like, I'm gonna get that one.
You thought it was a pair of kicks?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
New kicks for Kaypo, so... He's like, oh, you're gonna love these.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, okay, okay, so...
I wonder what they could be.
And South Park was real popular at that time.
Of course.
So I was like, wait a second, maybe they've got the whole crew on there.
So what was in the box?
Converse.
Custom patterns.
I open it up, and he's like, well I know you like Mr. Hankey so much.
It's a big log of horse.
So I open it, and we happen to be On a horse farm.
Me and Uncle had a horse farm, and it was a big log of horse manure.
Let me tell you, they were some fresh, fresh kicks.
See what I did there?
Pretty fresh kicks.
Big log of horse manure when we opened the box.
I didn't like that one.
It was fresh alright, it was very fresh.
I remember we had to dig through the hay to get it.
Oh, I wasn't touching any of that.
It had a little hat on it and everything.
Little hat, little smiley face.
And Uncle Paul was just dying on the couch.
He was crying so hard.
He was laughing.
It was amazing.
When he got the Mr. Hankey opener.
He was like, I know you kids like South Park and Mr. Hankey!
But that was, I mean, I'm telling you.
And it wasn't recorded, you know?
And it wasn't, yeah, we weren't filming.
But it didn't need to be.
It didn't need to be.
It's recorded up here.
It's recorded right here and right here in my heart.
Stay tuned.
We'll be back with a little bit more.
This, the Poso Bros Christmas Special.
And we're back.
The Poso Bros Christmas special here.
Human Events special edition.
This special Christmas edition.
One of the most important days of the year.
This holy day.
And we must remember to keep Christmas as a holy day.
If there's any theme today, it's that.
Keep it holy the same way that you would keep the Sabbath holy, that we keep Sunday holy, that we will, and not just keep it holy, make it holy.
Actually make it holy.
Make it a holy day.
Whatever you do, Right, whatever you do, make it a holy day.
And Kev, so you were looking up something on this, and I thought it was interesting that you wanted to bring up a reflection on the Nativity story in kind of that vein of talking about making it a holy day, going back to the original one.
Yeah, yes.
Alright, so stick with me on this.
Right now... I'm with you.
Right now, the Christmas story, right?
With Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Sure.
It's making the rounds online because the original was like... It is?
Yeah, yeah.
I haven't seen this.
What's going on?
So, people are saying that it's...
The first secular story, you know, pushing Christmas, like taking out Jesus, whatever.
Well, there is a supernatural element to the Christmas Carol.
Sure, sure, sure.
So anyway, I was going to... But yeah, there isn't really any Jesus in there.
No.
No.
And there also isn't in the Grinch.
Fair.
Which is also a family tradition.
Favorite movie, and we watch it every year.
We do.
If you get a chance to watch it, it's only half an hour long.
But what's the guy's name?
Boris or whatever it narrates it?
Boris Karloff.
Yeah.
Incredible job.
Incredible.
And it's a cartoon.
It's only a half hour long.
Get to watch it.
And the guy who does Tony the Tiger does the song.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
I had a pipe dream that we should do that.
We should do the voiceovers one day.
We'll do it.
We'll do it.
Tanya Tate even likes the DreamWorks one.
She'll watch that all year long.
So the famous line at the end is like, it came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes, or bags.
You know, the Grinch sat puzzled and puzzled.
And then he thought, maybe Christmas didn't come from a store.
And he puzzled and puzzled.
Maybe Christmas perhaps meant a little bit more.
Yes.
Right.
And then you got the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which gives you the best one minute, the greatest single minute of American television in all of history, when Linus just gets up and goes full base mode, and it's just like, and they wait there, there's the shepherds in their fields, and he just boomed.
Like, the single spotlight, all of it.
And Charles Schultz!
Who did Peanuts, who did Charlie Brown.
He had to fight CBS to include that.
Because they didn't want, even in the 60s, they didn't want to include it in.
And he said, no, we're putting this in there.
Because you're talking about the secular ones.
Everyone knows Charlie Brown Christmas Special does obviously famously include that scene.
And you know what Schultz said?
He said, we're doing this, we're doing this.
And they said, well, why, why?
Because he said, because if we don't do it, who will?
OK.
Because if we don't do it, who will?
OK.
But I get your point.
I'm just saying.
In Grinch, in Grinch, He says it without saying it.
Right, it's the Dr. Seuss version.
He gets you there, but he doesn't actually explain the reason behind Christmas.
It's just sort of this general vague sense of togetherness.
And so we as Christians would tie that back to what Charles Schultz is saying, the actual nativity, but in the Dr. Seuss version, it's still, you're right, to your point, it is still a secular version.
Right, right.
So Christ left the world, he went to the cross for us.
He died.
Painful.
Suffering.
And... Descends to hell.
But he came into the world that way, too.
Right.
Saves the... Goes to Abraham's bosom.
Saves Adam and Eve.
Saves Moses.
All the prophets.
Returns back up.
Triumphs over hell.
Returns to earth.
And was sent to earth on this mission on Christmas Day.
Oh, I see what you did there.
Yeah, you like that?
Yeah, so anyway, he came into the world and we got our rosaries out, so pop quiz.
What's the third joyful mystery?
Jack?
It's this one right here.
That one there.
What's the fruit of the mystery?
It's the nativity.
What is the fruit of the mystery?
I don't have it memorized.
What is it, Kev?
It's poverty.
Poverty.
Why is that?
Even though it's joyful mystery.
Why is it poverty?
Well, of course the idea of poverty is... Being poor in spirit.
Well, I would say it's rooted in the nativity, this idea that Of course, he had to return to... Well, Joseph and Mary had to return to Joseph's hometown of Bethlehem, his birthplace.
For the census.
For the census, the Roman Empire census, and then the imperial census, and so... 100 miles through the desert.
Through the desert.
Pregnant.
With a donkey, and... You know, and then they stay in the manger because there's no room at the inn.
So poverty... Let us not be busy inns.
This Christmas.
The greatest king of all kings, the king from which all other sovereign authority falls, was born in the most austere conditions on the face of the planet.
There wasn't any perfect lighting?
There wasn't any ribbons?
Well, there was one light.
There was one light, that's true, but not like lighting, there wasn't any shiny balloons saying welcome, there wasn't a gender reveal, you know, there wasn't any sanitary bed or any... No, that's why the star was blue!
The star was blue because it was the gender reveal!
There was no water birth options here.
First off, there wasn't even a hospital.
They were going to an inn, and they didn't even have room in the inn.
There were no cameras, and just prickly straw, and it was cold.
But still, that's how our Lord, who is King, came into this world.
And you're tying that to Obviously, I think you're very dying it to, the first, the attitude, blessed are those who are poor in spirit.
Absolutely, yeah.
It's basically a detachment of materialism.
Being able, so that's like the subtle message in The Grinch, as well.
It's like, you don't need the gifts.
You don't need the gifts.
You're right, that is the same message.
They sang just the same.
All the Who's down in Whoville sang just the same in Christmas Came.
See, he planned this all out, guys.
He had like a little thing prepared here for the show today.
I didn't realize you worked this all out.
You asked me to show up, but I gotta show up and take up some space.
You gotta take up space.
Shout out to T. Marshall.
So, yeah, with that, Christ teaches us And it's also, you know, throw in that movie The Shift, too, like in the Book of Job, the same thing happens.
Angel Studios?
For if, I guess, you're ungrateful later on in life, but just being grateful for what you got, you know, thanking God and just realizing that He came to earth anyway to do this for us through His Son.
And sends His Son, right?
And remember this, too, and this is something that I've reflected on as a father.
What does God ask Abraham to do with his son?
To kill him.
To kill him.
Yeah.
As a sacrifice to God.
Yeah.
But then, once Abraham shows that he's willing to do that, what does God say?
He tells him not to.
He tells him not to, and the lamb is there, and then it becomes a sacrifice.
But!
But!
Who does sacrifice their only son for the salvation of mankind?
Yes.
He does not ask Abraham to do it.
He doesn't ask Abraham to carry it out, to go through with it.
He just wanted to make sure that Abraham was willing, and Abraham is.
But he does not make him go through with it.
Well, God was testing his love.
He was testing his love.
Abraham's love for God, that he would be willing to take out his own family.
And God Himself sacrifices his own son.
And the only person, I guess you could say, that is asked to sacrifice their son is Mary.
Because for Mary, she sacrifices her son, and she says she's willing.
And when Mary becomes willing, right, and this is the Annunciation, go back to the Mysteries, she becomes willing First.
She didn't even know.
That's what I'm saying, yeah, and to Mary's credit.
She didn't want- How many American girls want, like, the perfect, like, hallmark pictures today?
For birth, or like- Of course!
And I'm, by the way, I'm pro that.
I'm pro everybody taking these, anything that's pro-natalism, pro-families, I'm all for it.
Mary didn't nag, she didn't complain.
Mary never committed a sin.
Never did any of that.
Can you imagine, like, if Joseph was like, hey, listen, we can't go to the hospital, like, you have to give birth on the side of the road.
And she didn't complain.
Nope.
No.
So much so that the kings had to arrive to prove And the angels had this thing to prove.
Because anybody else walking by would be like, who's this peasant?
That can't possibly be the savior of all mankind.
Can't be the son of God.
It's a stable boy.
And this is one reason, of course, that Jesus becomes not accepted, because people go, and we've been to Nazareth.
And the kings weren't even Christians.
They just had faith in the stars.
That's right, they come from the Orient.
They were probably expecting to go to some palace.
And yet they respect.
And yet they respect.
And for me, that's always been, that's always been a huge part of nativity story is that when the three kings come, the three wise men, um, that they show the respect that they kneel, they kneel to the altar.
They kneel to the altar of the manger and the manger is an altar.
People need to understand that the manger is an altar and that the shep, and it's, it's the shepherds, the workers, the working men.
Then, then there's the gold, frankincense and myrrh breakdown too.
Right, and there's so much symbolism.
Gold means royalty, frankincense means divinity, and myrrh means humanity, I think it is.
Because it represents, because it's an embalming entity.
I think I got it.
Let me know in the comments.
Yeah, let Kevin know in the comments.
But it's also the shepherds, right, that it's revealed to first.
Not the princes, not the kings, not the elites.
The elite aren't the first ones.
Yes.
It's the working men in the fields, the forgotten man, those are the ones that the angels come to first.
And God chooses the shepherds to be the ones that come in.
And it says that Jesus is here for you.
That Jesus has come for all.
The lowest will be the highest.
The last will be first.
And from the very first moment, it's the workers... So true.
...that are given that blessing.
That blessing to be the first to greet our Lord and Savior when He arrives on planet Earth.
Stay tuned.
Alright, we're back.
Human Events, Pozo Bros Christmas Special, where we left off.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, Christ the Lord.
Imagine having the greatest honor that any human could possibly receive.
To be the first to march into that manger, to bow down and kneel at the feet of the first altar, the first altar of Christ, which was the manger.
The first altar.
To be the first to kneel to the altar of Christ.
And that honor was not given to the emperor, it was not given to the kings, it was not given to the high lords and the elites and the aristocrats.
It was given to the shepherds, the poor shepherds tending their flocks.
And if you don't see the intentionality there, if you don't see the parallels to everything that we're doing today, if you don't see what God's plan has always been, then I'm telling you, you need to actually read the gospel and see it for what it's really there with eyes to see.
That honor was given to the workers.
Speaking of workers, yeah, I was just thinking of what Joseph must have felt at that time.
Well, Joseph, he's a carpenter.
It was the creation of the Holy Family.
I mean, I'm sure they had faith, but then it was like, faith materialized, and it's like, wow.
Or I should say, not just a carpenter, but a tecton.
Of course.
So this is, so kind of explain, what's the difference between a carpenter and a tecton?
A tecton just, he's basically like, I guess it would translate as contractor today, general contractor.
He does a little bit of everything.
He does a little bit of masonry too.
So in those days it would have been woodworking and stone working.
Yeah, they didn't have electrical and they probably had basic plumbing.
Why didn't they have electrical?
Yeah, aliens.
That was a different union back in those days.
The union boys, you know, they've been running for a long time.
Right, right.
The Egyptians had the alien technology.
They didn't need that.
Yep, we got the Egyptian alien technology in.
I got it in there.
That's five dollars, I want to bet.
But no, so when we're looking at this and we think about reflecting the value of poverty and reflect on how Christ calls us to be less materialistic, and this is what we talk about Because you mentioned gifts before as well, and when we give gifts on Christmas, it's not about being material.
You and I, growing up in Norristown, we didn't grow up in some rich town.
We grew up in a working class town.
We grew up in a place where you would go sledding up the hill at the hospital.
The hospital's now closed.
You would hang out at the... The closest hill you could find.
You'd hang out at the pharmacy.
So there was Farben's Pharmacy at the corner, there was the dry cleaners, and then there was Jackson's convenience store, and that was one block up from us at the corner.
Yeah, the whole town today has been completely destroyed by crime and they made it a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, Norristown.
I've never even taken my boys, I've never even taken my boys to our block, because why would I?
That pharmacy where we used to go, and when you say pharmacy, like it was like a drugstore, so you could get like comic books and candy and like other things there.
That's now like an African food market.
And the convenience store sells all like Mexican food, and it's just a different life, and they took our communities and just smashed it.
They just smashed all those families, all those communities, and when I talk about the family, the tight-knit family, and you could walk to Nana's house.
We could walk to our Nana's house.
And the other hospital where I was born, that was razed to the ground, destroyed.
Also great meals and families there.
Right, so you could walk to Nana's house, you'd have Christmas dinner there, then you hop in the car and it's a five minute drive to her cousin's house, the aunt and uncle's, and... Oh my gosh, yeah.
Uncle Ray's Christmas parties at the lounge?
We used to do, see Uncle Ray ran the...
You know, our farm and... Big shout out to Uncle Ray.
Huge shout out to Uncle Ray.
Rest in peace.
And yeah, he's not with us any longer in person, but he has never left us in spirit.
And Uncle Ray... You know the talk about people having like Christmas lights competitions like in the neighborhood?
Like this guy... He would deck out the entire farm, every piece of fencing... Horse farm with like what, 300 head of horses at With 300 horses, every piece of fencing on this farm was covered in Christmas lights.
All the trees, all the barns.
Just amazing.
Talk about giving gifts.
Nobody paid him to do that.
He did it on his own, because it was the right thing to do.
Decorate the farm, and Uncle Ray would never start a dinner, not just Christmas dinner, but any dinner.
These weren't the LEDs.
These weren't the LEDs or Bluetooth ones.
They would never start a meal without... You're talking like 100 yard extension cords.
Grace.
Without saying, Grace, and yeah, I'll never forget all those Christmases and Uncle Ray's and everything that he did, but when I think about the town, too, where we live, so the farmers outside of the town, obviously you would go there, but then we're growing up, and it's snowball fights, it's messing around with the neighborhood kids, you know, getting into it.
There's so much joy in that.
Yeah.
fights and there is joy in that yeah and that's what they've i feel like they've taken away these things from us because now it's all like oh you know you have to be careful in your neighborhoods don't get in don't get to know who your neighbors are don't you know become atomized yeah you know they want you either it's fear either it's the fear of other people or like the fear the fomo like the fear of missing out on other things like
You pick up your phone and it's like, I wonder what the snow looks like in Switzerland or the Netherlands.
I wish I was there.
Man, my town sucks.
Well, I think it's also, like, because we talk about it on the show a lot, how they, how they went through and smashed these tight-knit relationships that we had in these neighborhoods through, uh, through moving families out, by allowing crime to be rampant in these places, by destroying the economies, and, and that's how, so, because, like, people don't understand, I say this all the time, the kids that we played with growing up
We're the sons and daughters of the kids that my dad played with growing up.
The house that we grew up in was the house that my father grew up in.
The house that he and his sisters grew up in.
And, oh, actually in the next segment, we gotta tell that story about the roof.
We gotta tell that story about the roof in the next segment before I forget that.
But we'll get to that around the bend.
Which one?
We'll get to it, we'll get to it.
When the chimney got locked down in the tornado?
Oh, I remember that one.
The chimney guy.
I forgot about that one.
No, it wasn't that one.
That wasn't winter.
It was like a mini tornado.
And I remember thinking, because the house we grew up in, it was built in 1900.
It was a, um, uh, not quite a row home, but it was a twin, which is similar to a row home.
Yeah.
We ran to the basement, it was a mini-tornado, it was knocked down, and we were all scared because we didn't know if Santa would be able to come down on Christmas.
And so Dad, of course, had to make sure that it was all fixed up, and we knew Christmas was a couple months away.
They took the whole top of it off.
It really did knock the whole thing out, but this was a beautiful... But you're talking bricks falling from the third story, though, so that was actually...
This was a gorgeous, just a gorgeous home.
The way, when homes and woodworking, stained glass windows, bay windows, sliding wooden doors inside.
Oh yeah, the partition doors to the dining room.
You know, and this was, this was a home that was built for workers.
This was a home that was built, that was built because you wouldn't want to live in a home that you couldn't respect.
It's not like these little cardboard styrofoam houses that they build now.
This was like a legit home.
Matchbox houses.
Yeah, a matchbox with real Would and to see the town and and there's so many places like the north around the northeast like there's so many towns and cities That have been completely run down, but you drive through even Detroit You could see it where because of the economic situation the crime situation being out of control that you can drive past these this incredible real estate these gorgeous works of architecture and
That have just been gutted and then we everybody runs out to the suburbs and you build these like McMansions or matchbook houses or row townhouses.
That's a new thing now.
There's no character.
You can't even tell where you are.
They're all little cookie cutter.
You can't tell where you are.
Everything looks the same.
You can't tell if you're in Missouri or Texas or Pennsylvania.
It don't even matter.
Folks, there's a lot of problems.
There's a lot of problems we got to fix, but I really do think that That if we can get our towns back on track, and we can fix a lot of the problems, because we need to rebuild communities.
And the way that you can rebuild communities, it starts with the architecture, it starts with the layout of the town.
We have to get back to mixed use, by the way.
You should be able to have a convenience store that's right on your corner.
You should be able to have a church that's at the center of your town.
Towns should be walkable.
All this stuff.
Look, A couple of seconds left here in this segment, we'll be right back with a story to share with you about what happened on the roof on Christmas.
So, over the break, Kevin just mentioned to me, he said, you know, we haven't talked about corpolis at all.
Oh boy.
I said, ooh, corpolis Christmas, what's that?
Well, usually this time of year, yeah.
I'm asking you when the 30s are coming out.
Oh, the 30s coming out, yeah.
What's the number this year?
So Kevin and I used to work at an Italian bakery and deli known as Corpoli's Bakery in Arshton, Pennsylvania.
And we were your pizza cutters.
So your tomato pies, your 30 pieces of tomato pie.
They've expanded, they're award winning.
Shout out to all our friends and much love to the boys at Corpoli's.
We think about you every year.
People would want their tomato pie fresh in Northeast.
Everybody wants tomato pie on Christmas.
We are not Italian.
Obviously, we are Polish.
But what can I say?
We grew up with a lot of Italians.
Yeah, I think we got the pass.
We got the ravioli pass.
We have a little bit of a ravioli pass.
My hood pass in Philadelphia expired and now we just have that.
Yeah, that's expiring.
We don't have a cap's hood passes out after 2020.
That's right.
So what we would do is we would go in and we would spend the entire night before.
So this is December 23rd into December 24th going in and working in the bakery in intense heat.
And we still got people.
We used to do videos of this.
I think I did like we did like one periscope of this a couple of years ago.
One of the last ones where we would work 12 hours, 13 hours, 14 hours making and cutting tomato pies all night long.
And we did this for over a decade.
Every single Christmas.
That's right.
Uh, Christmas Eve, so Christmas Eve Eve, so the 23rd into the 24th, which is what can I say?
You gotta, you gotta work for it, you know?
Yep, and you gotta be humble and poor in spirit and not record any of it, ever.
We definitely don't have any videos on a secret YouTube channel that no one will ever find of us working in there, listening to, uh, All the tapes.
Particular music tapes got lost.
I'm sorry we're lost along with the Black Ledger and and the Russiagate files so we can't we can't find those but a lot look what can I say working in working in a bakery around Christmas time was was for us growing up and the way we did.
There was so much dignity in it.
In the greater Philly area.
Dignity of work.
That's another thing for another episode.
That's something that I think will always be tied to Christmas.
Because we knew we were helping other people have a good Christmas.
It's not about tomato pie for everybody, but for some people you could literally ruin it for them if you didn't put the cheese the right way or cut it the right way.
Some people could get a little particular about their pies.
But if they weren't particular, you were, like we were responsible for You know, we were an accessory to making Christmas, like... Trying to give people a good Christmas, you know?
People want tomato pie, they want their rolls, they want fresh bread, they want fresh meats, the roast beef, and we're talking, we would do hundreds of pounds of roast beef, we would do entire vats of beef gravy.
Italians would do the, what, the seven dish or eight dish?
Seven fishes.
Nine, all the fishes.
We would do the seven fishes, we would have the bacala, We would do it all.
We would do it all.
But we would cater to it, probably.
We saw how they loved it and their passion.
And the faces of people when they would light up.
But I gotta tell... Wait, hold on.
Before we end up... Before you're talking about making the day holy.
We're running out of time.
We do make the day holy, but I gotta tell the story of the roof.
Because I promised the story of the roof.
So, one Christmas, the way our house was, it was three stories, row home.
uh, row home twin.
And, uh, so Kevin's room was the back bedroom on the second floor, but then there was a third floor that had a couple of rooms.
Cause back in the, back in the depression, they had broken it down into apartments.
So Kevin's room actually used to be a kitchen during that time.
And then on the, on the upper floor, the third floor, the highest floor, there was an extra bedroom, two extra bedrooms and a bathroom all the way up there.
So, But then, you could, there was a flat roof over where Kevin's bedroom was.
And I remember one year, I never forget one year, where my dad comes to us on Christmas morning and says, you guys have got to come up and see what happened on the roof.
So what happened on the roof, dad?
So we go up there, all the way up and- First, yeah, first- We saw down near the tree that the glass of milk had been drank from.
Glass of milk had been drunk.
And then there was like half a cookie left.
Half a cookie was left.
My mom used to make these great Katie King cookies.
But he has to eat cookies from everybody.
Exactly.
So he's pacing himself.
So we go up to the roof.
There on the top of the roof were these little chewed off ends of carrots.
And we're looking at dad and dad looks at us and he says, we left some carrots out for the reindeer.
And we said, where were the carrots?
We go up, the ends of the carrots have been left because they were eaten by the reindeer and they're just strewn all over the roof.
Over Kevin's bedroom.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You remember that?
Yeah, that stopped me in my tracks just the other day when you told me because it was just like Unlocking a core memory.
Yeah, we unlocked a core memory right there.
Yeah, that's that's the kind of stuff so when And you know what dad was doing?
Fastened it on?
He was making the day holy.
Mm-hmm.
He was making the day holy.
And so from us here, Human Events, the Pozo family, to all of you at home, wherever you are in the world watching this, that is our challenge to you this Christmas.
Don't just have Christmas.
Don't just celebrate.
Make the day holy.
Final thoughts, Kev?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Sing, what I said in the beginning, even if you don't want to.
Have snowball fights.
Yeah.
Go sledding.
Find icicles.
Go somewhere that has snow.
Snowboard.
Be with your family.
Watch the Grinch.
And by the way, if you don't live in a place where there's snow, just be with family.
Remember Dad used to play Pollyanna?
White Elephant?
Yep.
Don't worry about if you got the good shot, or if you don't have whatever.
Just go, just to be there.
Send us in the comments what your Christmas traditions are.
Tell us, do you do gifts on Christmas Eve?
I don't do gifts on Christmas Eve.
I know a lot of people do.
He would make up his own, he would have the book open, but then he would be like saying his own story.
Making his own stories.
Whatever it is, tell us what your Christmas traditions are, and from my brother Kevin, and myself, my family, and of course we are pre-taping this, so we are home with the family right now.
But from all of us, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Make sure you go and make it holy with your families.
And by the way, keep an eye outside when you go and open that door because you don't know behind there could be waiting this guy, Kev, with a giant icicle that he's waiting to launch at you.
No, that's not true.
It's 100% true.
What's really true is I'm going to have some rum nog and maybe some mistletoe hanging Uh-oh!
Uh-oh!
Lady!
Careful, ladies!
He's cutting the mistletoe ambush over here!
I'm leaving.
I'm getting some mistletoe.
Get him out of here!
I'm going to get some mistletoe.
No, we're not doing this.
Cut the show!
Cut!
Angelo, cut the show fast!
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