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Podcast: The Joe Santagato Show
Episode: The Dark & Strange History Of Santa Claus
Description: A few weeks ago we were working in the studio, getting in the Christmas spirit, and one of us brought up the fact that it’s weird we have this tradition about a big jolly fat guy who sneaks into our homes and wants kids to sit on his lap. We started wondering where the story of Santa even came. What’s the history and the origin? Who is St. Nicholas and what’s he have to do with Santa? We had already been toying with the idea of putting out a special Christmas episode, so we decided that we’d d...