Accidental babysitting for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nostalgia and memory on Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal and why Stephen Harper is a terrible dinner guest. Plus: how the origins of the ‘Canada is Fake’ movement may lie in the 1995 Referendum.<br /><br />All this and more with political commentator, talk radio legend and author of the new memoir 'Make-up Tips From Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother's Life' Tommy Schnurmacher on a very special holiday episode of the award-winning weekly politics and society interview podcast Unpacking the News.<br /><br />Find Tommy's book on Amazon, at talkradiotommy.com and at better bookstores everywhere.<br /><br />Support the show at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/unpackingthenews" rel="noopener">https://www.patreon.com/unpackingthenews</a><br /><br />Music on this episode includes<br /><br />* 'A Merry Christmas from 1928/1929'<br />* 'Joyeaux Noel', Ginette Reno<br />* 'Le Sentier de Neige', Les Classels<br />* 'Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant', Mitsou<br />* 'Ca Bergers Assemblons Nous', The Stairwell Carollers<br />* 'Noel de Joie', Ginette Menard<br /><br />This conversation was recorded on December 10th and 16th, 2019.

Spirits & Spirituality

The Jewish Living Lab

SPECIAL: A Very Orthodox Jewish Christmas (Unpacking the News ep110 w/ Tommy Schnurmacher)

DEC 18, 201960 MIN
Spirits & Spirituality

SPECIAL: A Very Orthodox Jewish Christmas (Unpacking the News ep110 w/ Tommy Schnurmacher)

DEC 18, 201960 MIN

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Accidental babysitting for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nostalgia and memory on Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal and why Stephen Harper is a terrible dinner guest. Plus: how the origins of the ‘Canada is Fake’ movement may lie in the 1995 Referendum.<br /><br />All this and more with political commentator, talk radio legend and author of the new memoir 'Make-up Tips From Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother's Life' Tommy Schnurmacher on a very special holiday episode of the award-winning weekly politics and society interview podcast Unpacking the News.<br /><br />Find Tommy's book on Amazon, at talkradiotommy.com and at better bookstores everywhere.<br /><br />Support the show at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/unpackingthenews" rel="noopener">https://www.patreon.com/unpackingthenews</a><br /><br />Music on this episode includes<br /><br />* 'A Merry Christmas from 1928/1929'<br />* 'Joyeaux Noel', Ginette Reno<br />* 'Le Sentier de Neige', Les Classels<br />* 'Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant', Mitsou<br />* 'Ca Bergers Assemblons Nous', The Stairwell Carollers<br />* 'Noel de Joie', Ginette Menard<br /><br />This conversation was recorded on December 10th and 16th, 2019.