Chapter 1: What traditional Christmas themes are explored in this episode?
O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that mourns in body exile here, until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel. O come, thou day-spring, come, and cheer and spirit by thy hand.
Okay, welcome. It's Thursday, 25 December, the year of our Lord, 2025. It's Christmas Day, Christmas morning, in fact. I want to welcome everybody here to the war room. We've got our traditional, I guess we've been doing it for a dozen years now.
over at Breitbart Radio and Breitbart Radio News and the War Room with Patrick K. O'Donnell. It's the combat history of Christmas. We're going to get to Patrick in just a moment. Trevor Comstock. It's a day people spend with family a couple of days. You know, you've got Boxing Day tomorrow. We'll have Raheem do Boxing Day as we always do. Another tradition of the War Room. So Raheem Kassam does Boxing Day. We'll be back for the Saturday morning show. Trevor,
So people, you know, on Christmas Day, able to kind of step back, catch their breath, spend time with family. I've been such a big supporter of what you guys are doing at Sacred Human Health. Talk to me about what you guys have been working on and where people over the next couple of days can go and get some more information to really, you know, take care of the most important thing, your family, yourself, but also your health, sir.
Yeah, great to see you, Steve. Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas to the War Room Posse. A couple of things I wanted to mention. Number one, we are rolling out a new product very soon here. We had to make a couple of changes to the label, but it's basically finalized at this point. So I'm excited to talk about that. But also, I just wanted to mention that we ran our Christmas sale last week just so people could get their orders in time for today. But with that said, too, we are going to extend it all the way through today.
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Chapter 2: How does health play a role during the holiday season?
And tomorrow, so just make sure to use code CHRISTMAS at checkout for 20% off any one-time order. I wanted to mention that before I forget. And then with that too, you know, our towel moisturizer has, since we launched, been extremely popular, as I mentioned quite a few times, and we continue to sell out. We did recently sell out, but I wanted to say that we are now back in stock. We have our team working around the clock to make sure that
orders are being fulfilled. For those who don't know as well, because we still get a lot of questions around it, the tallow moisturizer is handmade with the two ingredients, which is the 100% American grass-fed and finished beef tallow, and then we pair it with the raw manuka honey. That's it. There's no preservatives in it. There's no seed oils or synthetic junk. The tallow is pretty remarkable just because it's almost identical to
to the natural oils that your skin produces. So it absorbs much more deeply as opposed to just sitting on top of your skin, which unfortunately is the case with a lot of other skin care products on the market. And then to take it a step further, it's also loaded with vitamins like vitamin A, D, E, as well as K, which your skin essentially needs to stay healthy and radiant.
So that alone makes it a pretty powerful product. But also one of the questions we get asked a lot is just, you know, who it's intended for. It is intended for both men and women. I use it every day. Obviously I love it, but it works great in scenarios for things like dry skin. Also, if you have like eczema,
or a little bit of skin irritation, redness, as well as just daily skin hydration. And again, you can use it pretty much anywhere, you know, your face, your hands, your body, your neck, pretty much anywhere where you want to use it. And then we pair it with the raw manuka honey, which is a naturally occurring antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and healing property.
Like I said, it's amazing if you have a little bit of seborrhea or redness on your skin or even eczema, it brings that down a lot. We've had a lot of great reviews for people that use it for that intention. But again, if you do want to compare it to your standard skin cream or product, oftentimes if you see products on Amazon or Walgreens, those can be beneficial in their own right, but more oftentimes than not, they just
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the combat history of Christmas?
contain a ton of synthetic and artificial ingredients as well as chemicals that can damage your skin barrier over time so we just wanted to give the raw natural ingredients that actually work to nourish your skin and again it has those great anti-inflammatory properties as well so it's pretty powerful product the reviews and the feedback we've been getting has been amazing I'm really happy about that product and as I had mentioned too we got something really unique coming out soon here which I'm excited to talk about but I just want to touch on the tallow with the time that I had
By the way, the reviews, that's where I want everybody to go to the site.
spend time over the holiday you know weekend all the way through you know we got four days here uh is to make sure people um get access to the information and also read the reviews the strength of the whether it's warpath coffee or sacred human health or merryweather or any of we we tell people put a review up tell us what you really think and then uh we share it with uh we share it with the war and posse but it's the reviews that that that sell these products because
People go to the site, they see the information, then they see the reviews, it absolutely just blows them away. So one more time, where do folks go? Where do the folks go, Trevor?
Yeah, definitely. So you can go to sacredhumanhealth.com and as I had mentioned through today and tomorrow, you can just use code CHRISTMAS at checkout for 20% off any one-time order. If you do subscribe, you're locked into the 10% discount for life until you cancel. But like you mentioned, Steve, feel free to check out the reviews. There's a ton of them and a lot of feedback from the War Room Posse specifically.
Thank you, brother. I appreciate you. Merry Christmas. Thanks for doing this this morning. Yep. Merry Christmas. And a Merry Christmas to you, the audience, every year. Patrick K. O'Donnell, we've been doing this for, what, 12 years? At least, Steve. It's longer than going to DACA. I think it's longer than that. I think it's 2010 or 11 that it started.
Sophia, yeah, so 15 years. How it all blends together, right? 15 years. It does. We did it on Breitbart News Radio, and then we carried it over to the War Room, and so it's been a real tradition, the combat history. Chris, and what we try to accomplish here is to show you that...
And really the most sacred time of the year, one of the most sacred times besides Easter, when families are coming together and something so family oriented that there are Americans that are patriots that have had to sacrifice the ultimate during those times and that the conflict, kinetic activity does not stop, you know, just does not stop.
because of the Christmas season. In fact, sometimes it intensifies and we've got some amazing examples you use. You know, Ken Burns came out with the American Revolution and I don't think it had as large an audience as the Civil War or others. I think Civil War is the one I kind of hold it up to. And I think part of the reason is that they didn't really market to MAGA. I think they went out of the way. PBS went out of the way. I mean, they went a couple of bro podcasts, but that's
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Chapter 4: How did the American Revolution impact Christmas traditions?
was not really the combat or the fighting the american revolution was that 20 years that led up to the american people deciding that institutionally and as a people we had to have our own sovereignty we would break off from the british empire the second part of that the war of independence
was an actual war, because Britain wasn't just letting us going to wander away. We actually had a conflict that took, what, about eight years to actually decide on the battlefield how that, you know, which direction that was going to go. And then the third part, which I call the nation building, and my belief is that went all the way up to the Battle of New Orleans in 1850, that the British finally threw in the towel and said,
Okay, I guess we're not going to stop these guys from being independent. But give us your perspective. We've got a couple of minutes here in the first block. Your perspective of that very first part and leads us to the Christmas on the shores of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, sir.
This is the most, you know, the American Revolution is probably the most significant event other than the birth of Christ and life of Christ. It's an immensely important event. And as you state accurately, the war itself is only part of it. And the actual revolution begins much earlier with the Stamp Act and other things.
there's a series of things and grievances that that cause the colonists to to break from great britain and i mean there's a lot that i get into with the indispensables for instance which is one group of americans that are up in marblehead and their great grievance is they're fishermen but they're being taxed to death
and most importantly from their perspective their boats are being seized or actually their board their boats are being boarded and men are being taken aboard as and kidnapped and basically put into the the royal navy against their will this is called impressment and this is a major grievance that's that takes place the um a major event
Within this, there are a number of atrocities that really magnify the American Revolution. The impressment issue is one, there's the Boston Massacre as another, and then things accelerate. In 1773 and 1774, there is a true revolution of ideas.
that are at the time groundbreaking steve i mean we're talking about the idea of freedom and liberty which they base you know they look at john locke's theories but they also bring in ancient greece and other things and an american version of freedom and liberty kind of emerges at this point uh one thing that is extremely significant that was not brought out
was the importance of gunpowder. And what I mean by that is disarmament. And you can be, you know, you can have all the revolutionary ideas that you want, but if you were defenseless against a major empire like the crown, every revolution, every uprising which occurred prior to 1775 was crushed by the crown. And they saw an opportunity
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Washington face during the Revolutionary War?
battalion commander the willy buell who was in volusia with me in 3-1 and he was uh counseled foreign relations he was the colonel that was there was there one of their the the fellows and he said to me you want to go to the met i said no let's do a combat tour of the battle of brooklyn and you know it was one of the coolest things is to be able to to walk the ground
of a critical battle with somebody you had been in battle with, especially a man that really kind of understood history and tactics strategy. We walked through Greenwood Cemetery where the rolling hills are, you know, the site of some of New York's finest and most infamous characters. But it was also a great battle that took place. The Battle of Brooklyn begins at Greenwood Cemetery in the Heights. And this is where Washington troops
um initially are pinned down by the british as a massive flanking maneuver is going behind them led by cornwallis and lord hall and clinton and uh you know to their utter dismay and horror they realize that they're being flanked and they pull back to a stone house or near it many of the men and they make a last stand uh an american thermopoly takes place here
which buys an hour more precious in history than any other, as one contemporary historian said. And it's at this thermopoly that they prevented the junction of many wings of the British army and the Hessian forces from uniting and smashing the nascent revolution. But hang on. What I want to do is get the Washington Immortals...
the audience took you six seven years to both research and write and you got inspired by this this combat tour you took with willie people should remember you're going over the the battlefield of one of the most important battles in the history of this country because it almost stopped the history of this country in the first 90 days of this country's birth
is now in modern Brooklyn, correct? I mean, you're at Greenwood Cemetery. A lot of people think that's the cemetery where the scene in The Godfather was taken. I think that it was actually in Calvary Cemetery, but it was made to be Greenwood Cemetery where it has so many of the guys, the mobsters are buried. But you also have to go to downtown Brooklyn. But then go to the...
The Indispensables, which I think you followed Washington's Immortals about the regiment from Maryland. You followed that with The Indispensables, right? About the guys from Marblehead? I wrote The Unknowns in between that, and that's my book on World War I. Okay. And The Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, the body bearers that brought back the most decorated men of the AEF. But when Willie and I stopped near the Stone House...
We found an old rusted sign that said, here lie 256 Marylanders, Maryland heroes. And these men, through their effort, they were the only unit, or one of the few units that had bayonets. Their bayonets, the bayonets of the Revolution, the Immortal 400, or Washington's Immortals, make this epic stand. But their mass grave is still yet to be found. And it was there that I thought, well, this is an amazing mystery, an amazing story.
And sent the proposal in along with a book called First Seals. And my editor at the prior book said, we want you to write World War II history. This book will never, you know, one of my worst books was on the Battle of Long Island. I'll never do a book on this. And long story short, I have another publisher and things are going great. And that was one of a tremendously bestselling book.
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Chapter 6: How did the British strategy affect the American forces?
Folks, the lawyers creating that incident, it's an amazing document, it's a fantastic document, but it is a declaration of war. It is a bill of indictment against a king that has led his colony, his countrymen, to basically say, we're breaking off, we're going to be independent. We're not going to have some sort of partnership, we're not going to have a parliament here, we're going to be independent.
But that immediately kicks off, or takes up to the next level, a war that's been going on for over a year, but Lexington and Concord end at Boston and Bunker Hill. The very day that it's signed, or right afterwards, the largest armada, which has kind of come from Nova Scotia, because the British really did retreat for a while to see how this thing would play out, it comes into New York Harbor. Just explain to folks the scale and immensity...
The British had no intention of letting this thing go. I mean, they basically put together the largest military expedition, I think, in mankind's history. There have been other larger, maybe back in ancient times, but for modern times, because the Spanish Armada never really landed, this was one, and it was there to deliver a death blow
to this republic in the first hundred days of its life. Just tell me about the scale of what landed at Staten Island and really went to battle in Long Island.
What I will say before that and before the Revolutionary War is something that is immensely important that I brought out in the Indispensables, and that is something called the Articles of Association. And this is an obscure document that nobody hears about or thinks about, but it's in the fall of 1775, and it declares war, economic war, against Great Britain. It basically boycotts their goods.
and we won't ship anything in or export to them this is a seminal document that unites the colonies as well it's not so much a path to revolution but it's a path to being united against a common front which is the greatest economic power and one of the greatest military powers at the time and it's a incredibly important document it also covers dependency
And the colonists realized that if they were dependent on British goods or dependent on gunpowder or whatever, that they would not have freedom. And that rings true today as much as ever. Dependency is a very important thing to avoid. As you mentioned though, Steve,
In 1776, they pull up with two thirds of the British fleet to Long Island. Most of their army, about 65 to 70%, as well as over 10,000 Hessian members or allies that they hire to crush the rebellion. It's a show of force. They're there to destroy and crush the rebellion.
um initially first they try to negotiate but washington and his lieutenants and battle captains realized that laurel really has no authority to actually have to hear their grievances or to recognize the independence of the united states this is uh and we're going to take a short commercial break here in a moment this force
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Chapter 7: What were the pivotal moments leading to the Battle of Trenton?
My understanding is that the casualty rates of the British army on the day of the assault of Breed's Hill were higher. They did not lose on a ratio as many men until the first day of the Somme in World War I, which is still, I think, the most horrific day of combat.
in in any war um the so the british knew we were tough hombres particularly from entrenched positions walk me through the catastrophic defeat of the american army uh in at long island and brooklyn it's as you mentioned steve the um or frame it bunker hill has a profound impact on lord howell's mind because he sees some of his best
best lieutenants, captains that he is fighting with killed right in front of him as they are attacking Bunker Hill. If there hadn't been a shortage of gunpowder, the Americans may have very well held the hill, but they run out of gunpowder and they're eventually overrun after several assaults.
But it's these massive casualties that really influences Howe in an attempt to preserve His Majesty's troops as well as the German allies that he has. So he's trying to conduct blanking maneuvers whenever possible and avoid another bunker hill or direct frontal assault. And this is where the Washington's Immortals play a key role in the sense it buys them important time.
And then there's not much daylight left to assault the American fortifications at Brooklyn Heights. Had Howe done that, it's very possible that they might have carried the day and basically crushed the rebellion. There was about 10,000 troops that were in Brooklyn.
and and then oh by the way in in in in in at the stone house at the thermopoly because you had the american thermopoly right there with this regiment from maryland they bought them time but just so people understand still the line at brooklyn hill was being pushed back your back is to the water those are familiar with new york understand brooklyn particularly the palisades which is where brooklyn heights where i used to live when i was at goldman right after right after harvard the magnificent part of town to live
You look over to Manhattan, to lower Manhattan, to Wall Street, there's all these 70- and 80-story buildings today. That body of water, the East River, the American Army was backed up. There was no Brooklyn Bridge at the time. There's no way to get off...
There's no way to get off the Long Island, which ends right there in Brooklyn. There's no way to get off. So they bought time to regroup. But when you say regroup, your back is right there to a body of water and you've got the Royal Navy sitting right there. The most powerful Navy in the world is anchored right off the battery in lower Manhattan, correct? Correct.
Indeed, and this is where just some miraculous things take place. There's a massive nor'easter that pelts both armies, and it keeps, I mean, the British lines keep, they use a siege tactic, which is popular today, and they keep advancing their trench line closer and closer to the fortifications. But there's massive amounts of rain coming down, pelting both armies together.
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Chapter 8: How did Washington's leadership influence the outcome of the war?
Isn't it almost providential, so many of the things that happened, the coincidence that you can even get this army, and particularly with no real vessels. I mean, they kind of put this together at the last... This is a hundred times more improbable than Dunkirk, correct? With Dunkirk, they were sending sailboats over and little motorboats and pleasure boats. Here you've got the Marblehead men,
a handful of boats and you got to do it all night and if you don't extract this entire army it's the the the war could be over right then and oh by the way the wind never favored the royal navy to go up the east river behind the defenses and they would have if it did they would have blown apart this small little fleet that john glover had that was bringing off
the uh the army the the nine thousand uh or plus men that were coming off uh you know at brooklyn it's an incredible story
So you're on Manhattan now, and really from September, I guess this is mid-late September, all the way till, I guess, around early December, mid-December, you're basically on one big sweeping move, Manhattan, across the Hudson to New Jersey, and then all the way down, and you're fighting rearguard actions, but...
You're never winning a battle, right? You're just trying to stop your losses and really get the hell out of there. It never collapses into a full route. But and that's one of the things I think what Washington did that was so brilliant to keep an army intact when you're just getting pummeled. But the British are really feel like they're chasing a hound right now, correct?
What happens is they land about two weeks after the Battle of Brooklyn. The evacuation takes place on the night of December 30th, 29th, 30th. They escape to Manhattan. And then there's a lull where there's another round. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Not December 30th. No, not December 19th. You're getting off in Brooklyn in the...
i said september i believe i thought i thought i meant september september september the middle of september they land at murray hill in and around there and they attack manhattan and they uh the army disappears basically again and uh you know there's washington is horrified it's only the the marylanders what's left of them and the marblehead troops and some others that stand and fight but much of the army
is is uh it flees and they make their way towards the harlem heights where they have another defensive line and and there is one glimmer of hope at the battle of harlem heights where
elite british troops the um their light infantry moves out and it's here that uh american riflemen basically surprise these british troops in the battle of harlem heights is an american victory a small victory against these you know the umpires some of their best troops but after that it's just pretty much one defeat after another
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