Short Stuff: Christmas Lights

12/20/23 • 13 min

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Just three years after the lightbulb was invented a compadre of Thomas Edison thought to use them to decorate his Christmas tree. It set off a sensation that’s gotten more popular each year since.

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Just three years after the lightbulb was invented a compadre of Thomas Edison thought to use them to decorate his Christmas tree. It set off a sensation that’s gotten more popular each year since.

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Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh, there's Chuck Jerry's here too. We're feeling all jingly and belly because this is the pre Christmas short stuff, maybe the best short stuff of the year. That's right. And we want to thank Daniel Montgomery listener for sending this idea in indeed, as well as our various sources on this. And this could have been a thousand sources because this story is everywhere. Yeah, but Saturday evening posts, lo