Why is Santa Fat?

warning now we all know that Santa Claus. is real but if you don't want to be. exposed to a conversation that blatantly. States the opposite do not watch this. episode okay do something else right now. click away. seriously okay now that we've got that. out of the way why is Santa fat really. let's talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning all right.

open up your brains I'm about to. dispense some Santa Claus is information. right into it ho ho go why is Santa. Claus fat okay let's go back to the. origins of Santa Claus a lot of people. may already know this he's Loosely based. on an actual Saint from the year 270 ad. that's when he was born St Nicholas this. guy started his life as a monk and then. became the bishop of Myra and he was fat. end of story no uh he we don't know we. don't know he has a little bit of a. double chin there I guess in his.

rendering but you know pretty skinny guy. as far as I got a crease in his neck he. had a reputation for Secret gift giving. and also doing things like putting coins. in the shoes of uh shoes that were left. out for him I don't know why people were. leaving shoes out for him but he put. coins in them and he also had a. reputation for giving away his inherited. Fortune uh to children by throwing coins. and Gifts through their windows so this. dude was just a very jolly giftgiving. guy he's rendered with a beard here St. Nicholas Nicholas now okay you're going.

the historical route what can I just. jump to the fact that Santa Claus eats. so many cookies on Christmas Eve how. could the dud not be fat isn't that. really the reason I'm proud of you. you're applying logic to a situation. like that's true in fact some scientists. calculated that Santa Claus eats about. 38 billion calories every Christmas Eve. but that doesn't really answer the. question that I think only history can. answer is how have we as a society. created a fat version of him that's. really what you're getting at Santa's.

not real he's just a fictional character. not hearing it okay not acknowledging. that um so anyway so then St Nick St. Nicholas soon became known as Center. Claus in the Netherlands and his Legend. be began to spread Center Claus gave. gifts every year to well behaved. children uh and then that so this was. sort of the thing that the Dutch were. doing the center Claus but this this is. a roleplayed legendary type thing this a.

legend of Center Claus kind of spreading. they were celebrating it around. Christmas time well then the Dutch of. course moved across the Atlantic uh to. the new world and they brought the. legend of Centra Claus at the same time. here's Cent Claus by the way he kind he. basically just looks like a bishop in. the Catholic Church you know now English. immigrants obviously too were crossing. the Atlantic Ocean and coming to the new. world and they brought a different. Legend of Father Christmas with them. this guy didn't give gifts but he. wondered from from house to house.

feasting with families feasting okay. yeah yeah so he likeed to eat right and. as you can see he in a rendering here. from the olden times he was very much. like a wizard of the woods almost kind. of like the guy from The Lord of the. Rings ragas yeah but different guy. entirely as a lot of things happen in. America in any culture where there's. bunch of cultures coming together these. two legends fused Father Christmas and C. Claus came together to form Santa Claus.

okay and so Santa Claus was first. described in 1822 in a story that you. all know was the night before Christmas. and all through the house you want me to. recite it not a creature was stirring. not even a mouse mouse dead mouse in the. toilet stockings were hung by the. chimney with St Nicholas soon would be. there they still call him St Nicholas in. the story right but he is introduced. there and it describes him as a portly. elf with a sleigh and eight reindeer so. this stuff that you know about Santa. Claus when you think of him as being.

portly fat and having a Sligh with. reindeer that came about in 1822 and. from that story and also the flying. reindeer yes huh came from that story. well and this is what I'm learning from. the internet this take it all with a. grain of salt but this seems to be the. best information that we can find at. this point of course so. then in uh the mid 18 uh hundreds 1863. there was an editorial cartoonist named. Thomas nass this guy is considered the. father of the American cartoon he was. writing for har Father Christmas of the.

American cartoon no just the father okay. for Harper's Weekly a magazine and he in. 1863 Drew Santa Claus right here and. he's a little bit plump as you can see. this is Santa Claus interestingly he has. like a jacket with stars on it so it's. like a weird like Fourth of July. situation but that's just because it was. like this is the American Santa Claus. and they got Thomas Nas to come back and. draw Santa Claus and uh you know year.

after year and eventually he came out. with this situation right here this is. this is Santa Claus but Santa Claus is. he's big he's he actually got bigger. year after. year okay so okay so we got Santa. getting fat but then cocacola just sends. it totally over the top and creates the. modern Santa Claus that you think about. when you think about Santa Claus in. America 19 you're about to tell me that. Coca-Cola invented the modern Santa. Claus yes in 1931 Coca-Cola asked.

illustrator Haden sunlam sunlam to. create a lovable Santa that would. Embrace children and raid the fridge. while drinking cocacola he would go in. there and he would sip the Coca-Cola. that he got from the fridge and he. actually used a friend of his a live. model his friend Lou Prince who was a. retired salesman just a retired salesman. that is this dude right here just a big. overweight Jolly looking dude with Rosie. cheek cheeks and a white beard and he.

put him so the real Santa Claus there's. two answers to that it's either St. Nicholas or it's Lou Prince a Salesman. well no but you got to understand that. this version of Santa Claus because of. what Thomas Nast had drawn he was in the. psych you know the the the psychology of. Santa Claus people's perception of Santa. Claus so then when Koch came along and. said hey I want to do this he was. thinking about kind of a big dude with a. white beard and a coat and everything. but he created this Santa that you know. as the Santa I mean you look at these.

Coke ads I mean this is the Santa when. you go to the mall you see the Santa. that was basically created by this guy. uh in 19 um 31 and he kept drawing these. until 1964 he also created a very fat. belt to hold back the fat belly and to. me that's the that's the centerpiece of. a good Santa Claus is a belt with a good. height to it yeah and so thank you. Coca-Cola for that well it's got to you. don't want it to pop so the question is. okay so that's why Santa's fat Santa's.

fat because the Dude decided to to draw. him like that now the question is. marketing should Santa be fat do you are. do you like your fat Santa or do you. think hey it's 2013 it's about to be. 2014 and we're health conscious now and. we don't want to celebrate fat Americans. we want to celebrate Americans who are. watching their weight and Santa Claus is. one of those well some well I I see this. two different ways you know if Santa was. my. granddad uh and he was gaining weight. every year I would be like hey.

pop why don't you lay off the cookies a. little bit you know I'm concerned about. your your health your well-being so. that's on one side but on the other side. you don't want some like robust fit trim. guy it's kind of intimidating you you. know you got someone who's got a jolly. belly that shakes when he laughs the. bowl full of jelly type scenario that's. that's that's Winsome that's engaging. that's well that's marketing it makes me. want to drink a Coke well I think it. goes beyond that cuz you think about. overweight comedian.

that you love okay let's I'm just going. to get real here for a second you love. an overweight comedian and then that. comedian loses weight and he doesn't. seem as Charming anymore now good bad. and talking about Drew Carrey on the. prices right Drew Carrey is a prime. example now good bad and different that. is that is a true thing all of a sudden. the dude doesn't seem as approachable. now that he's all fit and trim but he's. done something good for himself he now. he has but see we there's a loophole. because Santa's not real okay okay sorry.

if I just spoiled it for the kids at. home but uh Santa isn't real what he's a. fictional character and he is our one. time that we can celebrate somebody. who's overweight because there's no. actual consequence because he's a. fictional character so of course Santa. should be fat we shouldn't change that. we should make him bigger he rides in a. slave no no no he's a role model for. kids man no he's not nobody wants to be. like Santa since when that people want. to be like Santa I wanted to be Santa. for like really a few minutes one time.

no you wanted to receive things from big. old Santa yeah that's okay I wanted him. to be my granddad I never wanted to be. him exactly and you wanted him to be fat. right right well maybe if he dies and. then he's replac with a skinny Santa. that would be the best way to do it like. you know how in comic book characters. they die let's kill Santa let's bring. back a skinnier one all right if he. loses weight that's a that's a good. story you know what is I'm Ben from nor. England it's time to spin the wheel of.

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