December 25, 2025 • 13 mins
1. Cultural Debate on Santa Claus
- UK museum’s guidance to “decolonize” Father Christmas.
- Santa is criticized for being “too white” and “too male.”
- Suggests changes like:
- Santa working alongside elves to show equality.
- Mrs. (Mother) Christmas taking a more prominent role.
- Removing the “naughty or nice” list, which is framed as colonial and judgmental.
- Links these ideas to broader critiques of patriarchy, colonialism, and Christianity, portraying them as part of a “woke” agenda.
2. Child Rescue Operations
- U.S. law enforcement Operation Northern Lights, which has recovered 43 missing children in Florida and surrounding states.
- Highlights risks these children faced (human trafficking, exploitation, domestic violence).
- Frames the current administration as proactive compared to the previous one, which is accused of neglecting child safety for political reasons tied to immigration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And what do you want from Santa cho Oh, well
that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well you must be a high IQ person.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We need more high IQ people in the country, so.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We definitely need more high IQ.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's so nice to have you with us on the
forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big stories
for you this morning. Forty three missing for to children
have been recovered in what is being described as Operation
Northern Lights. It is bringing children home for the holidays,
and the Trump administration is making sure that other kids
know we're not gonna stop looking for you. We're gonna
(00:42):
find you, and we're going to bring you to safety.
We're also going to deal with a new problem with Santa.
Apparently he's too wide and too male. I wish I
was joking, but this is what the left is doing
to Santa on Christmas. It's a forty seven Morning Update
and it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Story number one.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Holidays. We all are about, at least.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am, and I think probably the majority of you
spending time with your family, right your kids, your grandkids,
your loved ones, your family members, you may not realize,
but they are an awful lot unfortunately of people out
there that they don't have their kids. They are kids
that are lost, They are kids that have been abducted.
(01:24):
There are kids that have been forcing into sex trafficking
and slavery. There are a lot of parents out there
that have kids that have been kidnapped that are exploited.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Thank goodness, this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Administration is fighting hard to bring those kids back home
to get them out of these horrible conditions. A lot
of this was because of miners that we released to
people that we did not vet in this country with
our wide open southern borders. That's part of the problem
and what many people should be very angry about now.
(01:58):
I say that to play for you some of the
successes that we're having that aren't getting the coverage. This
is coming out of Fox ten local news coverage talking
about missing children that were found across Florida and what
they referred to as Operation Northern Lights. This was not
(02:19):
happening under the last regime, but this president has made
it clear we will hunt you down and find you
and we're going to find the children. Well, they found
forty three missing children in Florida, so far in Operation
Northern Lights. And here's how the local media covering it,
the national media not touching it, And you got to
ask yourself the question why.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
This video taken by the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Florida,
shows federal agents and law enforcement officers working behind the
scenes to rescue dozens of critically missing children.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
This was the largest missing child operation ever conducted in
northern Florida, and we're very proud to say that forty
three children will now be home safe for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
According to the US Marshals, through Operation Northern Light, children
ranging from one and a half to seventeen years old
were reunited with their families. Of those include a one, fifteen,
and seventeen year old missing out of Okaloosa County. The
one and seventeen year old were rescued by US Marshals
(03:24):
outside Jackson, Mississippi. The agency says one person was arrested
for interfering with child custody. The US Marshals say the
fifteen year old and the child's abductor were found in Okalla.
The adult was arrested and charged with interference with child custody.
Greg Legedahl, acting US Marshal for the Northern District of
(03:46):
Florida say the children that were saved were critically missing,
meaning they were at risk of violent crimes or other
serious harms like drugs, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, or crime exposure.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
During the course the operation, we ended up recovering children
from multiple states, including Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. We had
a lot of these cases that could potentially lead to
charges of human trafficking, of interference with child custody, and
just a lot of really, really bad situations that these
(04:20):
children had found themselves in.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Leljadal says this wouldn't have been possible without the help
of state law enforcement and local agencies, including Pensacola PD.
Leljadal says, the biggest takeaway from this operation is to
always know what your child is doing, who they are
associating with, and be involved in their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
By the way, where was this help in the last administration?
You think about this forty three missing children that are
now going to be reunited with their families for the holidays,
who are, as they described it, critically missing, meaning they
were at risk of violent crimes, serious harm like drug
sexual exploitation, domestic violence, or crime exposure. Why is it
(05:03):
the last administration completely looked the other way. They didn't care.
They wanted to fundamentally change this country. They wanted to
bring in as many illegal immigrants as humanly possible. And
the reason why they wanted to bring them in is
simple because then they would gain power and hopefully their votes.
(05:24):
One day, they would gain the votes to their friends
that can vote. That's also really really important that you
understand that. And this goes back to I think the
President of the United States of America saying, We're going
to find these kids. We're not going to look the
other way. We will find them, we will protect them.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Now, story number two, Too white and two male.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Woke Museum has now issued a guide to Decolonizing Santa.
They call it Father Christmas. If you thought the less
was going to just sit by quietly as we try
to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and you know,
just have a normal straight Santa Claus, yeah, you'd be wrong.
Santa is not just a man that they say is
(06:12):
too male. I'm not making this up, but they also
say that Santa is just too white.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
There are just three of the major.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Accusations of a wote museum that has made about Father
Christmas and a bizarre guide to decolonizing the man in
red white, and well he's a dude, so that just
immediately he's already in trouble. It is also demanding that
Santa be more understanding and nicer to naughty children less
they fell quote unquote oppressed.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I'm not making this up. It's truly awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The Sun reports that the Brighton and Hub Museums in
the UK is the same people arresting people for putting
out tweets right now that are not like terroristic threats
or just straight up like words against. The government published
a new report on its website suggesting that Santa Okay
should work alongside his elves on the Presence production line
(07:04):
to show that they are equals. If you want to
know why London has fallen and the UK has fallen,
this is why Missus Christmas should also emerge from the
shadows and take her place at his side at a
time when Christmas is being reassessed in many parts of
the world as a symbol of everything it was never
designed to be a part of the group granted over
(07:28):
one point two million of taxpayer cash in October, says
Santa's Naughty and Nice List is teaching children the colonizers
has the power to judge all people, and the time
has come to right the wrongs of centuries of disinformation
and hurtful attitude. So this is your tax dollars at
work there. The post was written by the Museum's Joint
(07:50):
Head of Cultural Change and defines historical records which show
Father Christmas first appeared in English folklore as a spirit
of winter and universal good in the fifteenth century. So
having a naughty list now apparently changes all that. So
you're white, that's a strike against you. Your male that's
a strike against you. And the fact that you're applying
that there's like some sort of good or evil or
(08:11):
good and bad or naughty or nice.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yet you're done. We can't have any of that now.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He has was referencing the carols of Sir Christmas. But
the character, they say, became a distinct personification of Christmas
feasting in the seventeenth century. Notably, and they say in
pamphlets and plays is a symbol against Puritan bands on Christmas.
The mystical figure when then evolved into the modern gift
(08:37):
giver in the Victorian era. When merging with the American
Santa Claus figure, The wote post redefined Santa and points
out a host of quote problems with the accepted character.
Reading the tale of a white Western Santa who judges
all children's behavior has problems. This is literally from their website.
I wish I was joking, I'm not quote. As he
(08:58):
visits each nation, he determined means if the children deserve
presence based on being naughty or nice? But who decided
Santa should be the judge of children's behavior in every community? Now,
let me just pause there and explain to you that
sentence and what the real underlying issue is here. You
notice there's a direct correlation that we're witnessing in the
(09:19):
way that this is being described in the same type
of criticism that you hear from people about Christianity, about
believing in God, believing in Jesus as your ord and savior.
This is the same type of undermining and attacks that
you hear in this scenario. And why, right, like, why
(09:41):
would this be a thing?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Right Like?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Why would this actually like be said the way that
it was said? Because these are the same people that
say there is no God, and that there is no
right and wrong, and that you just always find your
own way as they describe it, right, everyone finds their
own way. You can do whatever you believe in, you
(10:03):
can do whatever you want to do, you can do
whatever you think is your right, your truth right, right,
It's all that right, over and over and over and
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
We see this now It's also interesting as well, this
is happening.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We see the left do what they do when it
comes to hateful rhetoric towards law and order, hateful rhetoric
against ice agents for example in this country, or law
enforce in the UK, or those that are standing up
for securing our borders, right like, the left has no
problem going just like pure rage and as a problem
going pure just anger like just like genuine genuine anger,
(10:43):
and bigotry and hatred like the list goes on and on.
That is something that I think is really important part
as well for people to understand is that this is
the future of these bigots, and they go Santa because
it's pushing their bigger agenda moment, it's pushing their bigger
just hatred towards anyone that believes in faith or in God,
(11:07):
and that's why they describe it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
As he visits each nation, he determines if the children
deserve presence spased on being naughty or nice. But who
decides Santa should be the judge of children's behavior in
every community? Like there is a clear direct attack being
made on faith in Christianity here, Like who you decide
what is right and wrong, what's good and evil? Let's
undermine this and then we can undermine the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They also this group who got over one point two
million of taxpayer dollars tells parents Santa should be a
more diverse character who celebrates cultural exchange quote unquote. Have
Sanna learn about different cultures rather than judge them. Stories
could show him experiencing their traditions. Santa should include some
mother Christmases with the posts in adding patriarchy and colonialism
(11:54):
went hand in hand. The Sun report noted that Senior
Tory MP, one of them, Sir Alec Scholbrooks, said quote,
at a time of goodwill and festive cheer, it seems
woke do gooders would rather everybody was miserable. Then went
on to say, quote this is the worst possible use
of taxpayers funds like I could not agree more. Why
(12:15):
should one point two million dollars go to a group
that is this angry and this hateful and say, and
again it's attack on men that are white. It is
attack on men in general. So that's another problem. Like
it's not just it's men in general as well, So
it's white men, men in general. And the list goes
(12:35):
on and on, and this is this is what they believe,
Like this is the whole ballgame for them. One eight
seven seven three eight, one thirty eight eleven. One eight seven,
seven three eight one thirty eight eleven. This is why
I always tell people, watch where your tax dollars go,
Watch what your tax dollars are being used for, Watch
what your tax dollars are funding. Because the easiest way
(12:57):
for your tax dollars to be abused against what we
believe in is to do exactly what you just heard there,
Like this is the easiest way for that to become
a reality.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now, and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
And what do you want from Santa cho Oh, well
that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well you must be a high IQ person.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We need more high IQ people in the country, so.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We definitely need more high IQ.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's so nice to have you with us on the
forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two big stories
for you this morning. Forty three missing for to children
have been recovered in what is being described as Operation
Northern Lights. It is bringing children home for the holidays,
and the Trump administration is making sure that other kids
know we're not gonna stop looking for you. We're gonna
(00:42):
find you, and we're going to bring you to safety.
We're also going to deal with a new problem with Santa.
Apparently he's too wide and too male. I wish I
was joking, but this is what the left is doing
to Santa on Christmas. It's a forty seven Morning Update
and it starts right now.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Story number one.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Holidays. We all are about, at least.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am, and I think probably the majority of you
spending time with your family, right your kids, your grandkids,
your loved ones, your family members, you may not realize,
but they are an awful lot unfortunately of people out
there that they don't have their kids. They are kids
that are lost, They are kids that have been abducted.
(01:24):
There are kids that have been forcing into sex trafficking
and slavery. There are a lot of parents out there
that have kids that have been kidnapped that are exploited.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Thank goodness, this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Administration is fighting hard to bring those kids back home
to get them out of these horrible conditions. A lot
of this was because of miners that we released to
people that we did not vet in this country with
our wide open southern borders. That's part of the problem
and what many people should be very angry about now.
(01:58):
I say that to play for you some of the
successes that we're having that aren't getting the coverage. This
is coming out of Fox ten local news coverage talking
about missing children that were found across Florida and what
they referred to as Operation Northern Lights. This was not
(02:19):
happening under the last regime, but this president has made
it clear we will hunt you down and find you
and we're going to find the children. Well, they found
forty three missing children in Florida, so far in Operation
Northern Lights. And here's how the local media covering it,
the national media not touching it, And you got to
ask yourself the question why.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
This video taken by the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Florida,
shows federal agents and law enforcement officers working behind the
scenes to rescue dozens of critically missing children.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
This was the largest missing child operation ever conducted in
northern Florida, and we're very proud to say that forty
three children will now be home safe for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
According to the US Marshals, through Operation Northern Light, children
ranging from one and a half to seventeen years old
were reunited with their families. Of those include a one, fifteen,
and seventeen year old missing out of Okaloosa County. The
one and seventeen year old were rescued by US Marshals
(03:24):
outside Jackson, Mississippi. The agency says one person was arrested
for interfering with child custody. The US Marshals say the
fifteen year old and the child's abductor were found in Okalla.
The adult was arrested and charged with interference with child custody.
Greg Legedahl, acting US Marshal for the Northern District of
(03:46):
Florida say the children that were saved were critically missing,
meaning they were at risk of violent crimes or other
serious harms like drugs, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, or crime exposure.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
During the course the operation, we ended up recovering children
from multiple states, including Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. We had
a lot of these cases that could potentially lead to
charges of human trafficking, of interference with child custody, and
just a lot of really, really bad situations that these
(04:20):
children had found themselves in.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Leljadal says this wouldn't have been possible without the help
of state law enforcement and local agencies, including Pensacola PD.
Leljadal says, the biggest takeaway from this operation is to
always know what your child is doing, who they are
associating with, and be involved in their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
By the way, where was this help in the last administration?
You think about this forty three missing children that are
now going to be reunited with their families for the holidays,
who are, as they described it, critically missing, meaning they
were at risk of violent crimes, serious harm like drug
sexual exploitation, domestic violence, or crime exposure. Why is it
(05:03):
the last administration completely looked the other way. They didn't care.
They wanted to fundamentally change this country. They wanted to
bring in as many illegal immigrants as humanly possible. And
the reason why they wanted to bring them in is
simple because then they would gain power and hopefully their votes.
(05:24):
One day, they would gain the votes to their friends
that can vote. That's also really really important that you
understand that. And this goes back to I think the
President of the United States of America saying, We're going
to find these kids. We're not going to look the
other way. We will find them, we will protect them.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Now, story number two, Too white and two male.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Woke Museum has now issued a guide to Decolonizing Santa.
They call it Father Christmas. If you thought the less
was going to just sit by quietly as we try
to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and you know,
just have a normal straight Santa Claus, yeah, you'd be wrong.
Santa is not just a man that they say is
(06:12):
too male. I'm not making this up, but they also
say that Santa is just too white.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
There are just three of the major.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Accusations of a wote museum that has made about Father
Christmas and a bizarre guide to decolonizing the man in
red white, and well he's a dude, so that just
immediately he's already in trouble. It is also demanding that
Santa be more understanding and nicer to naughty children less
they fell quote unquote oppressed.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I'm not making this up. It's truly awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The Sun reports that the Brighton and Hub Museums in
the UK is the same people arresting people for putting
out tweets right now that are not like terroristic threats
or just straight up like words against. The government published
a new report on its website suggesting that Santa Okay
should work alongside his elves on the Presence production line
(07:04):
to show that they are equals. If you want to
know why London has fallen and the UK has fallen,
this is why Missus Christmas should also emerge from the
shadows and take her place at his side at a
time when Christmas is being reassessed in many parts of
the world as a symbol of everything it was never
designed to be a part of the group granted over
(07:28):
one point two million of taxpayer cash in October, says
Santa's Naughty and Nice List is teaching children the colonizers
has the power to judge all people, and the time
has come to right the wrongs of centuries of disinformation
and hurtful attitude. So this is your tax dollars at
work there. The post was written by the Museum's Joint
(07:50):
Head of Cultural Change and defines historical records which show
Father Christmas first appeared in English folklore as a spirit
of winter and universal good in the fifteenth century. So
having a naughty list now apparently changes all that. So
you're white, that's a strike against you. Your male that's
a strike against you. And the fact that you're applying
that there's like some sort of good or evil or
(08:11):
good and bad or naughty or nice.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yet you're done. We can't have any of that now.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He has was referencing the carols of Sir Christmas. But
the character, they say, became a distinct personification of Christmas
feasting in the seventeenth century. Notably, and they say in
pamphlets and plays is a symbol against Puritan bands on Christmas.
The mystical figure when then evolved into the modern gift
(08:37):
giver in the Victorian era. When merging with the American
Santa Claus figure, The wote post redefined Santa and points
out a host of quote problems with the accepted character.
Reading the tale of a white Western Santa who judges
all children's behavior has problems. This is literally from their website.
I wish I was joking, I'm not quote. As he
(08:58):
visits each nation, he determined means if the children deserve
presence based on being naughty or nice? But who decided
Santa should be the judge of children's behavior in every community? Now,
let me just pause there and explain to you that
sentence and what the real underlying issue is here. You
notice there's a direct correlation that we're witnessing in the
(09:19):
way that this is being described in the same type
of criticism that you hear from people about Christianity, about
believing in God, believing in Jesus as your ord and savior.
This is the same type of undermining and attacks that
you hear in this scenario. And why, right, like, why
(09:41):
would this be a thing?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Right Like?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Why would this actually like be said the way that
it was said? Because these are the same people that
say there is no God, and that there is no
right and wrong, and that you just always find your
own way as they describe it, right, everyone finds their
own way. You can do whatever you believe in, you
(10:03):
can do whatever you want to do, you can do
whatever you think is your right, your truth right, right,
It's all that right, over and over and over and
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
We see this now It's also interesting as well, this
is happening.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We see the left do what they do when it
comes to hateful rhetoric towards law and order, hateful rhetoric
against ice agents for example in this country, or law
enforce in the UK, or those that are standing up
for securing our borders, right like, the left has no
problem going just like pure rage and as a problem
going pure just anger like just like genuine genuine anger,
(10:43):
and bigotry and hatred like the list goes on and on.
That is something that I think is really important part
as well for people to understand is that this is
the future of these bigots, and they go Santa because
it's pushing their bigger agenda moment, it's pushing their bigger
just hatred towards anyone that believes in faith or in God,
(11:07):
and that's why they describe it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
As he visits each nation, he determines if the children
deserve presence spased on being naughty or nice. But who
decides Santa should be the judge of children's behavior in
every community? Like there is a clear direct attack being
made on faith in Christianity here, Like who you decide
what is right and wrong, what's good and evil? Let's
undermine this and then we can undermine the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They also this group who got over one point two
million of taxpayer dollars tells parents Santa should be a
more diverse character who celebrates cultural exchange quote unquote. Have
Sanna learn about different cultures rather than judge them. Stories
could show him experiencing their traditions. Santa should include some
mother Christmases with the posts in adding patriarchy and colonialism
(11:54):
went hand in hand. The Sun report noted that Senior
Tory MP, one of them, Sir Alec Scholbrooks, said quote,
at a time of goodwill and festive cheer, it seems
woke do gooders would rather everybody was miserable. Then went
on to say, quote this is the worst possible use
of taxpayers funds like I could not agree more. Why
(12:15):
should one point two million dollars go to a group
that is this angry and this hateful and say, and
again it's attack on men that are white. It is
attack on men in general. So that's another problem. Like
it's not just it's men in general as well, So
it's white men, men in general. And the list goes
(12:35):
on and on, and this is this is what they believe,
Like this is the whole ballgame for them. One eight
seven seven three eight, one thirty eight eleven. One eight seven,
seven three eight one thirty eight eleven. This is why
I always tell people, watch where your tax dollars go,
Watch what your tax dollars are being used for, Watch
what your tax dollars are funding. Because the easiest way
(12:57):
for your tax dollars to be abused against what we
believe in is to do exactly what you just heard there,
Like this is the easiest way for that to become
a reality.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now, and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
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