This convinced me of Santa's existence for a least another 2 years. "If he's not real sweetie then why is the military tracking his incursions into our restricted air spaces? Think it through"
Did you like believing in Santa? My parents decided to tell my Santa wasn't real my whole life because they didn't want me to not trust them and honestly if they had done the Santa thing I think I'd feel betrayed by them. But I'm genuinely curious if you or anyone who believed in Santa likes that their parents told them he was real to make Christmas more magical when you were younger maybe? It's just hard for me to understand how I'd be ok with my parents lying to my face about anything even if its just for Christmas
@@davidelliott9345 my parents are 100% honest with me about everything but Santa when I was little haha. They worked really hard to make the magic of Santa real, my mom sewed a costume for a friend to wear so I could "meet" him, my dad replied to my letters in my stocking telling me sci Fi theories about how Santa goes all around the world in one night, they even set up an email address for Santa that they ran so I could email him my Christmas list. It was a ton of fun believing in the magic of Christmas. It was definitely a sad day at first when I realized Santa wasn't real, but looking back, I had so much fun believing in him, and my parents worked really hard to maintain that magic for me. So I guess for me I don't see it as a betrayal, more of a sacrifice if anything. They could have told me all the coolest presents were from them, but they gave the credit to Santa because I had fun with it.
@@davidelliott9345 my family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, but I found the idea of Santa very fun and I would’ve liked to have the privilege of being able to believe in Santa. I think I would’ve been okay with being lied to if it let me enjoy some whimsy. Plus, being lied to about a mythical character granting presents isn’t the biggest lie I’ve been told, nor is it the worst offense in the grand scheme of things
NORAD began tracking Santa due to a miss print in a local paper. A company who was advertising phone calls to Santa accidentally printed NORADS number instead of their own in the local paper. NORAD got thousands of calls and instead of sending the calls away they played into it. Every year hundreds of Government Employees volunteer their time to answers the NoRAD Santa hot line and make sure that the program is up and running for the big night. My Father volunteered one year and he said it was the most fun he has ever had during the Christmas time. I sent him this video and he got a real kick out of it. Thanks for the giggle
@@UltimateDillonit started a few dozen years ago on accident All because someone accidentally typed NORADS phone number (saying it was SANTAS phone number) in a newspaper/magazine It was a 1 digit difference between the number they tried to post, and NORADs 😂 They figured out pretty quick what happened when kids started calling like crazy, but they played along Then it became a tradition
I remember in the first years of the public internet, they had a website that "tracked santa" and you could log on and look at where santa was supposed to be in the world. It really helped convince me he existed, and I was a little skeptic lol
I know exactly what you’re talking about!! There was nothing more magical back then than Santa and the internet so combining them 100% convinced me it was accurate and he was real and in the very spot they said he was😂
Fantastic Christmas gift even if it isnt number 1 like it is for me. have a fantastic rest of the year micah can't wait for the finale and whatever you create after that!
The NORAD Santa tracker actually began when a small child called a number on a newspaper which claimed to be Santas phone, the newspaper misprinted the number and the number was actually a top secret one for NORAD. They made it official the following year!
My family comes together with my childhood best friends family every year for Christmas dinner, and we have for as long as I can remember. She is in the Navy. So, for me, it really wouldn’t be Christmas without the United States military
Anyway for anyone who is wondering the reason the norad Santa tracker exists is because a company accidentally put the top secret phone number for norad instead of “Santa’s” the phone number was supposed to tell where Santa was so after a bit of figuring it out norad played along with it and eventually made the Santa tracker
Nice shirt. Dija get it from army surplus? I love how much they can cram into that little store. I got fake grenades for air soft from there. It’s an awesome place! Would visit more often if it was closer.
On Christmas Eve my parents were listening to the radio and it said something like “due to strong winds Santa was blown off course but due to the reindeers strong magic they are all ok and Santa should be expected by midnight. Now back to your scheduled programming” and i literally lost it 💀 it then started playing all i want for Christmas is you and i was literally cackling. I’ve literally never heard an announcement before 😂
Fact: one day there was a poster to call santa to learn his location and they accidently gave the number for a highly secure millitary contact, they were suprised but now they give where santa is aroun the globe every year!
off-topic, but i like to think that Russian Santa (Grandpa Frost) is an entirely different entity from regular Santa Claus. makes for a good video idea
I found another channel called college life shorts that posts the exact same content as these guys, and I just wanted to know if that channel is just American high school shorts’ second channel or a copycat
It's just civilian volunteers, not actual military personnel. It was military personnel receiving a call from a mistyped phone number on a Santa ad that started it, but they couldn't very well keep taking calls from increasing hundreds and thousands of children every Christmas.
It’s actually adorable that a military officer had made up Santa’s location and made updates about it cause some children had called in because of a misprinted poster
yk, I met the daughter of the guy who created norad santa tracker. It was because of some kid who called the pentagon asking to talk to santa because the newspaper had printed an ad that was like "Call this number to talk to santa!" But they got one digit wrong and it was actually the pentagon, lol. True Story
This was actually created by accident. A business decided to create posters to get kids to call and ask where Santa was. But it had a typo and routed to a secret military base. A general started getting mass calls from children
This convinced me of Santa's existence for a least another 2 years. "If he's not real sweetie then why is the military tracking his incursions into our restricted air spaces? Think it through"
Because it’s their job and they nothing else to do so they create fake problems like Santa. It’s also a good way to get more funding.
Did you like believing in Santa? My parents decided to tell my Santa wasn't real my whole life because they didn't want me to not trust them and honestly if they had done the Santa thing I think I'd feel betrayed by them. But I'm genuinely curious if you or anyone who believed in Santa likes that their parents told them he was real to make Christmas more magical when you were younger maybe? It's just hard for me to understand how I'd be ok with my parents lying to my face about anything even if its just for Christmas
@@davidelliott9345 my parents are 100% honest with me about everything but Santa when I was little haha. They worked really hard to make the magic of Santa real, my mom sewed a costume for a friend to wear so I could "meet" him, my dad replied to my letters in my stocking telling me sci Fi theories about how Santa goes all around the world in one night, they even set up an email address for Santa that they ran so I could email him my Christmas list.
It was a ton of fun believing in the magic of Christmas. It was definitely a sad day at first when I realized Santa wasn't real, but looking back, I had so much fun believing in him, and my parents worked really hard to maintain that magic for me. So I guess for me I don't see it as a betrayal, more of a sacrifice if anything. They could have told me all the coolest presents were from them, but they gave the credit to Santa because I had fun with it.
@@davidelliott9345 my family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, but I found the idea of Santa very fun and I would’ve liked to have the privilege of being able to believe in Santa. I think I would’ve been okay with being lied to if it let me enjoy some whimsy. Plus, being lied to about a mythical character granting presents isn’t the biggest lie I’ve been told, nor is it the worst offense in the grand scheme of things
@@WcWZzQMI can't tell if this is serious or not and it's killing me
Santa wants to show us the gift of nuclear fission
Most underrated comment.
Santa is a staunch Atomite.
Fission is outdated it's now nuclear fusion
The Christmas magic🎄
Actually nuclear fusion because modern nukes are thermonuclear hydrogen bombs which employ fission to kick start the main fusion
NORAD began tracking Santa due to a miss print in a local paper. A company who was advertising phone calls to Santa accidentally printed NORADS number instead of their own in the local paper. NORAD got thousands of calls and instead of sending the calls away they played into it. Every year hundreds of Government Employees volunteer their time to answers the NoRAD Santa hot line and make sure that the program is up and running for the big night. My Father volunteered one year and he said it was the most fun he has ever had during the Christmas time. I sent him this video and he got a real kick out of it. Thanks for the giggle
I didn't know that! Thanks for the history lesson.
That's so wholesome. Love it!
You saw the exact same video I did
That’s so sweet 😂
Someone needs to do a documentary
“Santa’s comin in hot this year”
Good job quoting the video and adding nothing
@@magicalunicorn1296good job being annoying
@@michaelbell3612 i mean they aren't lying
@thebestcheetos yeah but it’s still annoying
@@michaelbell3612whats annoying ab it, hes right, nothing was added not even an emoji or somethin
My dad actually was apart of the NOARD Santa Tracker one Christmas Eve. It was really fun to talk to my dad and his coworkers about where Santa was. 😊
Wtf do they track? Or is the job to figure out where he SHOULD be so he can get to all the houses?
@ no no no it’s a little call center so when kids call from around the world they can tell you when Santa is coming from the NOARD tracker.
@@UltimateDillonit started a few dozen years ago on accident
All because someone accidentally typed NORADS phone number (saying it was SANTAS phone number) in a newspaper/magazine
It was a 1 digit difference between the number they tried to post, and NORADs 😂
They figured out pretty quick what happened when kids started calling like crazy, but they played along
Then it became a tradition
“It wouldn’t be Christmas without the U.S. Military!” 😂😂😂😂
I died
NORAD is CANADA too!!!
@@Zack_Taylorthat's what i was thinking
Don’t leave us Canadians out
@ never! It wouldn’t be Christmas without you guys either!😉🎄🎁
Instead of escalating the video throughout like usual, this video just hits you with it!
Just flew in like a missile
Some countries take “secret Santa” to a whole nother level
I remember in the first years of the public internet, they had a website that "tracked santa" and you could log on and look at where santa was supposed to be in the world. It really helped convince me he existed, and I was a little skeptic lol
I know exactly what you’re talking about!! There was nothing more magical back then than Santa and the internet so combining them 100% convinced me it was accurate and he was real and in the very spot they said he was😂
“our taxpayers depend on us to track santa” 💀😂😂
Are you expecting anything else? C’mon, be real, like Santa
“Okay, you’re gonna wanna get in the basement. Santa’s coming in hot this year-“
BRO 😭🙏
“Santa’s coming in hot this year”
😭😭
We watch NORAD over in Ireland at Christmas too 😂
I remember always asking my dad to check it on his computer all day
Santa be dropping a different kind of present this year
Yalls videos are my guilty pleasure 😹
They are just my pleasure
Fantastic Christmas gift even if it isnt number 1 like it is for me. have a fantastic rest of the year micah can't wait for the finale and whatever you create after that!
Ryan finally got his own personal sketch
Him and a another guy from American High have their own channel; I can’t remember the name right now but I think it has crab in the namr
POV me trying to track Santa when I was 8 or 7
i think id love to see him in a comedy movie
Hate when this happens at my high school
“A SECOND REINDEER HAS HIT THE TOW-“
Ryan is so damn handsome 😭😭
Not me actually having NORAD tracks santa tab while I'm watching this
u thick af
This channel is amazing. Well done guys
Bro when I was like 8 I would watch this in bed hoping that it would show Santa like on top of my house
“It wouldn’t be Christmas without the U.S. Military!”
That's the most American thing I have ever heard in my life.
“It wouldn’t be Christmas without the United States Military” 🗣️🗣️🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
I grew up with the Norad Santa tracker and my brother and I would freak out whenever he got anywhere close to where we live
The NORAD Santa tracker actually began when a small child called a number on a newspaper which claimed to be Santas phone, the newspaper misprinted the number and the number was actually a top secret one for NORAD. They made it official the following year!
Yall dont u love watching santa drop millions of presents in the atlantic ocean on the tracker💀
My family comes together with my childhood best friends family every year for Christmas dinner, and we have for as long as I can remember. She is in the Navy. So, for me, it really wouldn’t be Christmas without the United States military
I love your channel so much,because you are way funny 😹
Santa’s really putting the “missile” in mistletoe, huh?
Anyway for anyone who is wondering the reason the norad Santa tracker exists is because a company accidentally put the top secret phone number for norad instead of “Santa’s” the phone number was supposed to tell where Santa was so after a bit of figuring it out norad played along with it and eventually made the Santa tracker
I remember visiting one of the places that contributes to the NORAD Santa tracker, it was neat.
"That's 100% a missile" 😂😂😂
I still look at NORAD, I mean American military and Santa, can it get any more Christmas-y?
I just learned about the norad Santa tracker today and then immediately saw this skit
Is that exo's teaser radar in the background
Nice shirt. Dija get it from army surplus? I love how much they can cram into that little store. I got fake grenades for air soft from there. It’s an awesome place! Would visit more often if it was closer.
'actually we got 8 more santas coming out of north korea.' got me dying 🤣
"Wouldn’t be Christmas without the United States Military"😂😂😂
(early) omg i’ve been wait in so long for ANYONE to do a tracking of santa and this is by a long shot the funniest 😂
“NO! Keep it on, we can do both.”
On Christmas Eve my parents were listening to the radio and it said something like “due to strong winds Santa was blown off course but due to the reindeers strong magic they are all ok and Santa should be expected by midnight. Now back to your scheduled programming” and i literally lost it 💀 it then started playing all i want for Christmas is you and i was literally cackling. I’ve literally never heard an announcement before 😂
"it wouldn't be christmas without the us military"- SO true
This is from Red 1 (it’s a movie)
Fact: one day there was a poster to call santa to learn his location and they accidently gave the number for a highly secure millitary contact, they were suprised but now they give where santa is aroun the globe every year!
This feels like a krab video 😂
I wonder how they plan the route beforehand like since Santa obviously isn’t real like I wonder if it just goes over all major cities
This is what Red One should've been! 😂😂🤣
Back story behind it is really cool
Video idea: That one Boy in a girl friend group vs that one girl in a boy friend group
The NORAD IS tracking Santa, Big Boss was RIGHT
off-topic, but i like to think that Russian Santa (Grandpa Frost) is an entirely different entity from regular Santa Claus. makes for a good video idea
I found another channel called college life shorts that posts the exact same content as these guys, and I just wanted to know if that channel is just American high school shorts’ second channel or a copycat
It's just their second channel. They are copying their college content onto it.
It's just civilian volunteers, not actual military personnel. It was military personnel receiving a call from a mistyped phone number on a Santa ad that started it, but they couldn't very well keep taking calls from increasing hundreds and thousands of children every Christmas.
Is that from dont fight the feeling radar teaser 😆
Only Santa I ever want to see.
I actually love the story of why they started doing this
Santa’s coming in hot this year got me 🤣
Honestly let Santa hit New York😭
Funny because the USSR have a nuclear missile codename Satan.
Or Santa depending on how dyslexic you are.
The 9/11 reference 😂
It’s actually adorable that a military officer had made up Santa’s location and made updates about it cause some children had called in because of a misprinted poster
On flightradar24, they had santa going around, and from what i saw, he got a max speed of mach 27
I'm a grown-ass adult and I still turn on Norad every year to track Santa.
Love how the Military is using 1900s computers
Why does this give Starkid vibes 😂
Man I wish I had those crts they are so expensive now
Fun fact about metal gear solid Peace Walker snake talk about the norad Santa tracker
I actually JUST watched Red zone tonight with my family, so this is pretty funny to see
I love that website❤😊
Coincidentally, this short's name is also the name of an entirely different homemade holiday parody film I've been filming with my husband
Oooo a box monitor! Vintage!
I bet they’re just the drones 😂
Yall make bangers
"mister santa a second reindeer hit the north pole"
A Ryan sketch for Christmas!
Its funny because santa tracker was actually a misprinted phone number on newspapersand sent people to a military line
yk, I met the daughter of the guy who created norad santa tracker. It was because of some kid who called the pentagon asking to talk to santa because the newspaper had printed an ad that was like "Call this number to talk to santa!" But they got one digit wrong and it was actually the pentagon, lol. True Story
we need an episode about those crank pencil sharpeners that eat up colored pencils
I watch this website religiously
wait I live in dc bro... 😢
Oh new york city too?
NORAD Santa is a tradition even though I figured out the myth it’s still funny to track him 😂
where did you even FIND those old monitors?
The real question is where you got those old computers
This should’ve been a five year old stalking Santa
This was actually created by accident. A business decided to create posters to get kids to call and ask where Santa was. But it had a typo and routed to a secret military base. A general started getting mass calls from children
A second Santa has hit the world trade center
Post on Christmas great channel
Amazing Skit 😆😆😆
Me when the misprint on a newspaper's phone number:
i honestly likes the google version more tbh
*liked
Omg hi I have never been this early merry Christmas everybody
That would old CRT monitor is really selling it
Do the computers where you plug in these screens even exist today?
You can plug in a screen to any computer with an adapter
I wouldn’t mind my tax dollars going towards this.
“Wouldn’t be Christmas without the United States military”
Proceeds to shoot down an unidentified flying object over sector 7