WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:48.079 Oh Bedard, Hello, and welcome to the show. This is 2 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.520 the Cult of Conspiracy and I am the Cage to Night. 3 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.079 I'm Raven Lee, and today we are going to continue 4 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:57.920 on this week of holiday cheer and merriment and some 5 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.039 controversy as we go into to some of the more 6 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:04.519 obscure Christmas traditions from around the world. Some of these 7 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.719 are good cult members have probably heard of before. Some 8 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.280 of them I certainly had never heard of before we 9 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.560 started this episode, or if I have. It's one of 10 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.159 those things where you completely forget about and here we are. 11 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.879 You know, some of these we're gonna start off talking about, 12 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.799 like the your Welsh, you know with the horse and 13 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.920 the horse head, the merry Eleude, probably mispronouncing that because 14 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.840 I don't speak Welsh. Hell, Welsh people don't even speak Welsh. 15 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.599 But I can't even place their accent in my mind. 16 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.719 Like I know it's a very distinct accent, but I 17 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.400 cannot feel life me like think about what it sounds 18 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:37.840 like in my mind right now. 19 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.760 Their language has almost no linguistic family ties to any 20 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:42.840 other language on Earth. 21 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:44.680 They just like made it up. 22 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.480 It's it's like Celtic, but it has no bearing as 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.519 far as the Gaelic or the Pictic Celtic languages are concerned, 24 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.799 I've heard reports saying the closest relative is like ancient 25 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.760 Hebrew mixed with some sort of a Gaelic tongue. And 26 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.359 it's like, how the fuck did this happen? Because whales 27 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:05.920 be doing whales shit. That's just where we're at with it. 28 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.639 What I don't it makes no sense to me. 29 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.400 It's amazing to me how languages happen and then they translate, 30 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.319 and then they continue to change throughout time. But they 31 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.360 also have stuff that is stuck around for generations that 32 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.080 make absolutely no fucking sense. 33 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:21.360 And it's like, okay, cool. 34 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.520 All right, it does kind of tie in. And this 35 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.599 is super weird tangent, but in line with Christmas and 36 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.120 things like that. Cross Actually this is a weird Easter tangent, 37 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.000 but whatever, take bear with me here. So Joseph Avermathea, 38 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.719 who if those who don't know, was Jesus's uncle, who 39 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:40.400 was the one that bought and paid for the tomb 40 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:42.719 he was buried, and that was Mary's older brother. He 41 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.919 was a merchant, and he brought in ten from Britannica, 42 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:50.039 which would be where the ten minds were or I 43 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:51.919 mean ten is a mixture of copper and press. But 44 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.840 where that was at was in what would now be Wales. 45 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.080 So to say that there's a weird Hebrew and Gallic crossover, 46 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.759 at least at the turn of the first line AD, 47 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.599 there is some sort of a chain of events that 48 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.520 would lead someone to make such a speculation. I don't know. 49 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.599 I had no idea who that was. I'm not gonna 50 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.719 I was just like, sure, some another another, dude. 51 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.039 I'm really terrible with names. 52 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.560 I have learned this as everybody keeps talking about names, 53 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:19.400 and like people. 54 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.680 Are like, yo, you know this person, this person. I'm like, no, 55 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:23.960 I don't fucking know. These people. Tell me what they did, 56 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.599 and like maybe they'd show me who they look like. 57 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:26.240 And then I'm like, oh. 58 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.400 Yeah, yeah, the faces I got all day? What people 59 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:34.599 have done? Got you their names? I'm like, no idea, nope, nothing, zero, 60 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:35.560 I can't hell. 61 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.080 People will tell me their name and like two seconds later, 62 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:39.719 I'm like, what was that person's name? 63 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.400 Again? Yeah? Oh no, I'm horrible with it. I am 64 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:43.319 sold me. 65 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:44.680 Yeah, don't you remember me. 66 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.080 I was like, yo, I will never forget your face ever, 67 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.759 period ever. Same, but I do not know your name. 68 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:52.400 And then I tried the whole thing of where you 69 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.080 talk back, like you say the name back to the 70 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.039 person as. 71 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.199 You're talking to them multiple times to try to remember. 72 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:02.120 I still am like, Betty, Joe, I haven't got like 73 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.000 house Bunny, repeat it back like a monster, Joe, and 74 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.560 it like helps you. That's not real. That's that doesn't work. 75 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.039 You're supposed to like repeat it back, I think five 76 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:17.639 times within the same conversation, so your brain registers their 77 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.279 name to their associating and I'm like, there's no way 78 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.000 you should see my phone in the people's names in 79 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:28.600 my phone and how they're labeled is absolutely asinine, Like 80 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.959 the most ridiculous, like person through drive through that I 81 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.800 saw Joe, and it's like who I worked. 82 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.000 With a dude for three years. He was like one 83 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.680 of my best friends. I have no fucking clue what 84 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.720 his name was. We still don't talk sometimes, you know. 85 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:52.959 Look, I actually I laugh because I laugh because I 86 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.959 actually lived in this Because so I lived in the 87 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.800 barracks and like I lived with people for you. 88 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.000 With the name time the shirt. 89 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.879 With name tapes on their on their actual uniforms, and 90 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.319 I still was like, who's that guy. 91 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:09.240 Yo. 92 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.879 He lives on the second floor, like halfway down the hall, 93 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.680 you know, so and so oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. 94 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.680 I drink with him at one point. Couldn't tell you 95 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.079 his fucking name because I met him as civilian attire. 96 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.439 People People will like message it like uh, Facebook, request 97 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.319 me or whatever, and I'm like, who are you again, 98 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:28.399 And then I'll see their faces oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 99 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.519 yeah yeah, and I'm like, wait, that's that person's name. 100 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.680 Yeah, how what? And then you meet somebody who, like 101 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.959 you get a total name and you're like, that's obviously 102 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.240 a nickname. All right. Cool. One of my boys, Winter 103 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.600 corn uh, I swear to god Winter corn Yep, that's 104 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.199 his actual legal last name. I thought it was a 105 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:49.439 joke because this dude looked albino, and I was like, 106 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.319 all right, I'm. 107 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:57.040 The most crazy, absolutely insene last names in the Marine Corps. 108 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:01.720 They are the most like made up bullshit fixtional names 109 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.040 like what. 110 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.279 Well names are crazy like that, and especially and you 111 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.959 know that I'm a hater of AI, specifically chat GPT. 112 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.680 But here I was trying to make a crazy Australian 113 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.160 joke and apparently it thinks that I am a vassal 114 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:19.160 to the King of Norway and England, because apparently, according 115 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:22.199 to chat GPT, I am of the liege of Canute. 116 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.519 You mean I was going for country. But chat GPT 117 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.079 was like, Canute, Did you mean Canute? Yes, clearly, clearly, 118 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.879 I am trying to reach out to my homeboy, Canute. 119 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.480 What are we talking about here? Yeah? 120 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.839 Oh man, I want to think about some of the names. 121 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:42.560 I'm going to try to remember this because this is 122 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.480 so not on topic of what we're talking about. 123 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.120 But I got it. It was like a weird like dick 124 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:53.319 names like I like, no, like like the name itself 125 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.120 was Dick something, No, Dick something, and. 126 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.720 The names in the Marine Corps. I would see people's 127 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.600 name tapes and I would stare at them and I'm like, 128 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:04.839 you're really that's really your name. 129 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.759 Somebody somewhere along the way, somehow adopted this name or 130 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.079 made this name being your family's name. 131 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.839 I'm what, Yeah, it's like, it's weird. 132 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.160 It's a weird life out there with your names. 133 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.959 Taking role John Foot Penis Actually it's handcock now, why 134 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.240 none your goddamn business. That's why it's strange. It's the thing. 135 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:31.120 But back to our Christmas festivities. We are now on 136 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:32.360 what day? Three? 137 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:33.600 We all three? 138 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:36.600 So now we are on Christmas Eve, we will be 139 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.160 this will be dropping on Christmas Eve. And this is 140 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:47.519 all about obscure, unique, fun funny, uh interesting traditions around 141 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.319 the world. I don't know if we have any from 142 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.399 back in the day, and I think we have a 143 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:53.279 few that come from like back in the day. A 144 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.959 lot of the traditions have been from way back bled 145 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.920 into future that have kind of shifted and changed over 146 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:02.800 the time. I'm jingling if anybody keeps hearing the bells. 147 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.319 Yeah, I'm jingling everyone, which it's my It's mentioninger Bread. 148 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.199 This is gonna kind of be an all encompassing episode. 149 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:10.839 So if it sounds like it's a shot out of 150 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:12.879 a cannon and we're over here in this country, we're 151 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.120 talking Portugal. Now we're talking Japan. Now we're talking scanned Navy. Look, 152 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.560 just just roll with it. Is the eighty d fucking 153 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:19.720 fever dream on this one. 154 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.279 Just come with us on this journey. 155 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.079 Ooh, and I can't wait to talk about Japan because 156 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.079 I just learned a whole lot about the kernel. What 157 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.279 a raging piece of shit. 158 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.480 Oh oh man, I know if I know a bunch 159 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.879 about him, but I will say I'm excited. 160 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.679 About the poop blog, the poop yeah blog. I'm so 161 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.080 excited because, like, we just have to bring in the poop. 162 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.360 I had no idea about Hanky. 163 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:45.919 Mister Hanky has to come in of Catalonia. 164 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.440 And I feel like in episodes past, in Christmas specials past, 165 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.679 we might have touched on it a bit, but I 166 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.960 don't think we really did much talking about it because 167 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.120 it sounded like it was almost an internet thing. 168 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.159 It does sound like I first, I really thought it 169 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.720 was a joke. So then I actually had to pull 170 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.120 up an actual article all about the pooplog because it's real. 171 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:08.879 It's a thing, and it sounds like. 172 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.879 We're making a joke, like a poop a log like no, no, no, 173 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.240 an actual. 174 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:17.360 It's actually like parentheses poop blog, pooplog. 175 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.720 Like it's a log that you beat it and it 176 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:21.799 shit's presence. We're gonna get to it, you know what, 177 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:22.639 We're gonna get to it. 178 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.320 I'm here for it, and I know there. 179 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.799 Was a whole industry of making these bitches for porcelain, 180 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:27.320 and shit. 181 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:28.279 I'm so excited. 182 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.679 It's a weird one, so good. 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You'll you'll 242 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.480 have days where you might have five people that message 243 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.559 and that's awesome. You'll have other days or there's two 244 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:35.600 hundred unread messages just awaiting you, and it's like, all right, well, 245 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.120 I'll get to it here in a bit now, I 246 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:40.240 have like five other things to do beside the point. 247 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:42.720 If you would like to DM us directly, that is 248 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.240 the best place to do so. Without further ado, I 249 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.519 am going to go ahead and share the screen at 250 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.120 this time and we are gonna get into the wild, 251 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.600 wild world of Christmas, all right. So to start off here, 252 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.080 we are gonna go for taste of home dot com 253 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:02.600 sounds good, sounds homely, and fourteen Christmas traditions you've probably 254 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:04.480 never heard of. And again, some of these you may 255 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.039 have heard of, some of them you may not have 256 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.840 heard of. And I just think it's good to go 257 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:12.480 over the big ones here. Okay, so let's talk about 258 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.440 Kentucky Christmas eating. 259 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:17.159 We're gonna touch on that one here in a second. 260 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.720 Yeah, a matter of fact, we're gonna just skip over 261 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.200 this one for now eating KFC for dinner in Japan. 262 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.080 Apparently it's a huge Christmas tradition. We have a whole 263 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.159 article independent of this one, actually going on deep on 264 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:31.279 that one. So now number two hanging mushroom ornaments on 265 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.759 the tree. And by mushroom ornaments, I do mean like 266 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:36.519 the red ones that look like they're on Mario, which 267 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.639 you know, it's quite whimsical. 268 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:38.799 Get really cute. 269 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.240 Honestly, No, folks who hang mushrooms all over their tree 270 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:46.159 aren't serious fung guy fans. In parts of Germany and Austria, 271 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.600 these red and white mushrooms are said to bring good fortune, 272 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:54.799 known as glux pills. Wow, that's a real thing, all right, 273 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:55.879 the glus pills. 274 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:59.399 You're probably saying, it's so fucking wrong. 275 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.600 I don't know how to say. Okay, maybe if I 276 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.919 said it more angry because it's German glucks poles se 277 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.799 glukes pills. I don't. I don't know either way. 278 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.080 I want to put a hot on everything now because 279 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.320 you don't do I know, but because of Royce. Now, 280 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:17.639 I just want to be like, cospill. 281 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.120 Tell me about it. My last name. It's a motherfucker 282 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:22.919 because it's the ch is supposed to be like, and 283 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:30.200 I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. And then yeah, 284 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.320 but when the German dude got to Louisiana and the 285 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.279 French nuns were like, h our language doesn't have that 286 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:39.399 phlem noise. We got the cud noise though, got that, 287 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.679 and so we do there it is anyway, it was 288 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.960 had the point sotime. The mushrooms are known as glux pills, 289 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.639 which again that just sounds like a pill that you 290 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:49.519 would give a woman to give you that gluck gluck 291 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:53.039 three thousand. But anyway, you'll find these mushrooms adorning trees 292 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:57.759 wreaths and trinkets around the holiday season. Why these showy 293 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:02.080 red mushrooms they grow around the of fur trees, which 294 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:04.759 is also what we would call Christmas trees, which is 295 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.600 pretty cool. And I've heard a bunch of stories as 296 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.519 far as these what you're dying at the glux pills. 297 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.879 I think we call those throat in America. 298 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:21.440 I am, I am, I am focused, and I am 299 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:22.279 paying attention. 300 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:25.600 Very we call that chloroseptic spray here in the States. 301 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:26.799 But you do you Germany? 302 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.960 Hell yeah, just the jokes I want to say right now. 303 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:34.279 I was like, man, I am, I am not a 304 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.759 child tonight, and I am not gonna make some jokes 305 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.039 about shit grown around a tree that sounds like glux pills. 306 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.879 Right right, But anyway, these these mushrooms are of the 307 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:49.080 psychedelic variety though, believe it or not. And so there's 308 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.480 a bunch of depending on the source you go to. 309 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.399 And we're not taking this massive tangent, but hear me out. 310 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.960 Apparently these red mushrooms hanging from trees are the very 311 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.919 beginnings of ornaments, the red ball ornaments that we hang 312 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.519 on trees today, depending on who you ask, right, And 313 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.840 there's this whole story about how the reindeer themselves or 314 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.519 what would draw the sleigh for the medicine man or 315 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:16.120 the shaman who would be bringing mushrooms to these houses 316 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.080 that were all snowed in throughout the winter months and 317 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.919 some of the more northern European areas. 318 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.720 Here's why he's dropping off some shrooms to get high 319 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.799 as fuck as you're bored. 320 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.000 Here's my problem with that, right, Like there's almost there's 321 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.440 a story. There's no historical precedence, there's a story to 322 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.519 go along with that. Bro, you're telling me you got 323 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:36.360 this dude and his wife of the Viking nations, got 324 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.960 eight faral children running around, and you're snowed in. You're 325 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.720 dropping home boy a fucking package of these mushrooms off, 326 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.120 and like that's that's gonna go. And it's like, oh, 327 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.639 down the chimney, it's Santa Claus. It's not it's bullshit. 328 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.279 There's no presence that whatsoever. N Like, oh yeah, damn, 329 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.159 oh they did that. Actually, mushroom ale was like a 330 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.240 whole thing for them, the same way the Native tries 331 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.519 do peyote to like even two year olds. Yeah, the 332 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.200 nac we talked about them. The North American Church. That's 333 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:04.839 the whole thing. I would love to go to one 334 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.160 of their ceremonies. Be honest, it sounds like a rip 335 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.079 snort in good time. But anyway, so yeah, apparently these 336 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.359 red mushrooms grow at the base of fir trees in 337 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:17.480 the Germany and Austria region. Who knew? What? 338 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:18.119 Nothing? 339 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.799 What was that one? You're stilling that glux pill, ain't you? 340 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.880 I am not that gloss pill. I am not. 341 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.640 I felt the FLM was actually necessary. Now that I've 342 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.079 said it like that, No, because of the gluck gluck 343 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.240 three thousand jokes I made. Now you have to throw 344 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.079 FLM on it. Yeah, spit on that that. 345 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:44.200 Oh my, we we are not. We are coronas. We 346 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.680 are not acting like two little shithead marines. 347 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.759 We are we are al tis the season and ship. 348 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.079 We are completely serious about this topic. 349 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.559 So anyway, now let's go on to roller skating to church. 350 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.160 Yo, I'm here for this. So Venezuela be doing the 351 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:00.359 mostest and I'm here for it. 352 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:02.640 We're about to go to war with them, and I'm 353 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.759 here for that too. But also I'm not here. 354 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.920 That's not a bad Let them roller skated church first. Yeah, yeah, 355 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.680 let's still on their parade. Let's wait till after the holidays. 356 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.960 But apparently, in Caracas, Venezuela, their capital city, many energetic 357 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:20.319 Massoers celebrate the Christmas holiday on roller skates. In fact, 358 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.319 there are so many yule tied skaters that some of 359 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.119 the city streets are closed off for traffic from eight 360 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.480 am on Christmas Day to keep the skaters safe. So 361 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:31.079 pretty much from the very early morning on Christmas Day 362 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:33.480 throughout the rest of Christmas, they're like, yo, these roads 363 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.119 are just gonna be shut down because you got too 364 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:37.759 many people out here skating around fun, Like that's so 365 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:38.880 freaking fun. 366 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:40.799 The whole family just gets out there on the. 367 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:42.680 Blaze miss the old skating rinks. 368 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.920 That sounds like a blast so like blastom fucking seventies 369 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.240 music and just be out there vibing like yeah yeah. 370 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.160 Also because of Venezuela, like some hardcore like Rigatone and 371 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.000 like Mangey music, Like yeah, that'd be that shit would 372 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:55.519 be going hard. 373 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.759 Okay, that's a pretty awesome one. I like it. 374 00:18:58.799 --> 00:18:59.519 I ain't mad at it. 375 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:00.759 I need to go Venezuela. 376 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.319 I really hope we like don't go to war with Venezuela. 377 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.480 But Also they got oil and a present that's been talking. 378 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.880 Too much noise for all that oil. But like whatever, 379 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.160 we'll figure out when we get there anyway. Number four, Uh, 380 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:16.160 sharing Christmas wafers with the family, even pets. 381 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:17.119 Is it Poland? 382 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.319 It is Poland? 383 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:19.720 I knew it. 384 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.200 On Christmas Eve, people in Poland break apart thin wafers 385 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:28.359 called a plot a plot key, sure o plotky and 386 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.960 share them with their families. Wafers are passed around the 387 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.960 table as everyone wishes good tidings upon their loved ones. 388 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.920 So I think this is like communial wafers almost, like. 389 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:38.799 They have like the little steamps on them, and they 390 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:41.240 they break them apart and share them with each other. 391 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:42.920 Oh god, it's actually really cute. 392 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:45.640 But what about their pets. They're part of the family too. 393 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:49.160 In many packets of a plot key, you'll find a 394 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:53.000 pink wafer that's meant to be shared with your furry pals. Well. 395 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.240 Traditionally this wafer would have been shared with farm animals, 396 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.240 but today people have Polish extraction, share their dogs, share 397 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.599 with their dogs and cats. Wow, that's really cool. 398 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:04.119 I like it. That's awesome. 399 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:04.839 I like it. 400 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.200 Number five the gym and pickle and that actually on 401 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.559 screen right now is Old World ornaments. 402 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:13.400 You see the little tag it. 403 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:17.079 Yeah, yes, So before we even get to this, so 404 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.440 I my family collects Old World Christmas ornaments, and on 405 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:24.079 screen right now is a traditional pickle from Old World Christmas. 406 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.079 I actually this was my first Christmas ornament for my 407 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.240 own tree. And it's a tradition to give somebody a 408 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:35.680 Christmas ornament a pickle. And I actually have multiple size ones. 409 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:37.680 I have little bitty ones and I have like the 410 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:42.400 big ones. And we have hundreds of Old World Christmas 411 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.519 ornaments because it's just been a family thing to collect 412 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:50.119 them for my entire life. So Germany makes the best, 413 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:53.640 the best Christmas ornaments, I will. I would definitely go 414 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.720 to war with somebody over that. 415 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:58.039 But Germany is pretty. And again I didn't really understand this. 416 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:00.680 I know that a lot of our mayor can Christmas 417 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.359 traditions come from Germany. Fine, maybe a lot of our culture, 418 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:06.400 believe it or not, does come from Germany. Hell our 419 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:11.079 language comes from Germany. But I didn't realize that Germany 420 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:16.200 was the Christmas capital of the world. Undisputed bar nuns. 421 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:18.160 That's that's the way it is. As far as what 422 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:21.680 in America what we think of Christmas, the trees, the lights, 423 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.720 the nutcrackers, all the little things ornaments. 424 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:31.119 Yes, Germany is the capital of the world when it 425 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.160 comes to Christmas. There entire They have an entire Christmas 426 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:38.279 city and it is the most epic. I can't wait 427 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:40.960 to go there. I will go there, hopefully I get 428 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:41.839 to take my mom there. 429 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:45.200 Might put the horse cheese everywhere. Why is that such 430 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.759 a thing. I don't know, I mean, is it good? 431 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:50.480 I've actually never had it. I don't think it is 432 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:52.079 it actually? Is it like the name brand or is 433 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:53.440 it actually made from horse milk? 434 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.480 Might have no idea. I'm not gonna lie to you. 435 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.599 But my dad was obsessed with wanting to go there, 436 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:01.319 and it's a whole thing. 437 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.119 So essent to that video of the dude that went 438 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.400 to the Christmas village and got all the food stops. 439 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:08.960 M m yeah, and for nothing else for my foody soul. 440 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.160 We have to go one day. 441 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:12.599 Oh yeah, I mean I have to go because I 442 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:14.319 would like to take my dad's ashes there. 443 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:16.720 I'm gonna have to like smuggle them in and be 444 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.359 covert and be a covert about it. But my dad 445 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:24.200 was like Christmas was our holiday and is still my 446 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:27.119 mom means like thing we can carry it on. But 447 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:31.599 he wanted to go so badly to Germany. And this 448 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:33.400 was like a huge thing of ours. This was like 449 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.160 our pet, like this was our tradition. Every year we 450 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.400 would go and buy old old world Christmas ornaments and 451 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:41.640 you could. They used to be able to be everywhere 452 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.759 and you could buy them. Now you mainly can buy 453 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:46.880 them online in a couple places. There's some places in Oregon, 454 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.039 like one little shop that's by the coasts that you 455 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:53.440 can buy it. So it's a big deal. Like they're 456 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:57.240 really great ornaments. And my dad was really obsessed with these. 457 00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:59.559 So I when I saw the pickle, I was like, oh, 458 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:01.359 I hung my pickles already on my tree. 459 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:04.079 So I saw the pickles on your tree, and I 460 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.559 just kind of thought, maybe it's just Raven Lee doing 461 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.880 some wild sin on a tree, because why not. You know, 462 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:13.319 if you look at my tree, it's got everything all 463 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:14.240 thrown together. 464 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.200 Because it is a very eclectic tree. 465 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.119 That's that's just how I do it, you know, And 466 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:23.039 nothing against those that do themes. I got nothing nothing 467 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:26.680 but love and respect for that. My tree is primarily Yeah, 468 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.000 there's some ornaments that were like manufactured somewhere. A lot 469 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:31.960 of it is shit my kids made, and it's like 470 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:34.559 it's for say no more, it's going on the tree. 471 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:36.960 It's like I don't care. I don't care, it's going 472 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:37.519 on the tree. 473 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:40.720 This year's theme is the Grench theme, so I'm on 474 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.359 the Grench vibe this year. I have a couple different, uh, 475 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:46.880 different ones. But I don't put out my old World 476 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.039 ornaments just yet because I do not want them to break. 477 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:53.039 So I don't want little tiny hands to grab hold 478 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:54.720 of the said pickle or anything. 479 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:58.160 So let's talk about that hanging a pickle on a tree. 480 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:00.960 The old legend says of a pickle is the last 481 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:03.799 ornament hung on the Christmas tree. The first child to 482 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:06.680 find the pickle gets an extra present. You can make 483 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:10.160 yourself a family legend with the quick pickles that everybody 484 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:11.400 can share on Christmas. 485 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:12.519 M hmm, yep. 486 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:15.359 It was the last ornament I hung on my tree. Okay, 487 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:18.200 was the little pickles, So I love it. 488 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:24.319 Next, we have waiting for Buffana or Buffana the witch. 489 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:28.279 In Italian folklore, Buffana is an old woman who delivers 490 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:32.200 gifts two children on the night of January fifth. Buffana 491 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:35.319 visits the eve or visits on the eve of the 492 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.880 Feast of the Epiphany to fill good kid's socks with 493 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.720 candy and presents. The naughty kids are gifted a lump 494 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:46.079 of coal or a black rock candy. Okay, So basically 495 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:49.000 in Italy they don't have Santa. They have the Christmas Witch. 496 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.759 She comes like after solstice, so like Solstice ends. 497 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.960 Isn't it like December twenty first. 498 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.279 Yes, but then they have like another January fifth, Yeah, 499 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.000 so I believe that they have Santa as well, but 500 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.920 this is but this is there. 501 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:07.759 She comes and brings like yes or no, if you're 502 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:10.160 a good kid or not. So they have like these 503 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:12.319 cute little dolls that they have all over the place, 504 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:13.119 the little witches. 505 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:16.160 Huh. That's kind of cool because I mean, in the 506 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:19.440 American tradition, right, Santa would leave you gifts or a 507 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:22.079 lump of coal. Certain countries from all over the place. 508 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:24.960 They just kind of blend that shit, which is is cool. 509 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:28.559 I mean, I I guess because in Germany Crumpus, although 510 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:29.960 he doesn't leave you coal, he puts you on a 511 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:31.519 sack and beach the shit out of you, doesn't he. 512 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.640 I thought that was Crumpus's whole jam. No, no, no, 513 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.039 that's in France. That's in France. So Papa Noel in 514 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:43.759 France is a skinny dude who carries he runs everywhere. 515 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:45.319 He doesn't have a sleigh or reindy or any of that. 516 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:47.440 He's on foot with sandals, believe it or not. He's 517 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:51.039 rocking those air Jesus, and he's got toys in a 518 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:57.839 thatched read booksack essentially, and he's got a fuck what's 519 00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:59.920 the little dude's name that's always with them. But basically, 520 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:02.839 Papa Noel will give you toys, but this other little 521 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.960 asshole with him will throw you in a bur labsack 522 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:06.680 and beat the shit out of you if you're bad. 523 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:09.799 Yeah I remember that, Yeah yeah, No, Crumpus will take 524 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:12.440 the naughty ones that don't put it, that don't do 525 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.599 the bell, and they don't like do the certain stuff, 526 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:17.599 but he'll take them like he'll take the ones that 527 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.319 don't celebrate Christmas in the right way. 528 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:21.440 Oh, just like full on kidnapping. 529 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:23.640 They don't come back. 530 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:26.039 So so child trafficking. 531 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:32.240 So Italy celebrates Santa Claus known as Baboo Natalie Natal 532 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.599 Natalie not Natal Natal, but it also has unique figures 533 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:42.519 like lab Funna, who brings gifts on the night before Epiphany. 534 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:46.880 Christmas traditions in Italy include regional customs and celebrations that 535 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:49.200 differ from typical Santa Claus narratives. 536 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:50.039 Hmm. 537 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:53.599 Interesting, they actually have like thirteen Christmas traditions that are different. 538 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.400 Well, Italy is a very diverse place, although when everybody 539 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.359 thinks of Italy they think of you know, Sicily or Tuscany. Right, 540 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:02.640 It's like, you gotta understand that the people in the 541 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:05.039 north of Italy are blonde hair, blue eyed, and pati 542 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:07.599 as fuck. The people in Sicily look completely different. The 543 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:10.400 people in Rome are like a weird crossbreed between the two. 544 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.480 Not even talking about Naples, not even talking about you know, Venice. 545 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:19.319 It's they have so many weird pockets of like very deep, 546 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.759 very long standing historical culture. But it's all Italy. So 547 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:25.839 I can understand why they'd have such a diverse, uh, 548 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:28.400 you know, plethora Christmas traditions. 549 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.200 Yeah, they have a whole bunch of stuff. 550 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.240 Actually, if you're going to savoring Italy, they actually have 551 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:37.119 an entire list of all the different things that they 552 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.480 do differently and leading up to Christmas and then after Christmas. 553 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:43.279 Every single day they have something different. 554 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.200 Wow. 555 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:46.119 Yeah, they have a ton of stuff. 556 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:49.440 Lighting of Christmas trees, they do, but they have like 557 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.799 different celebrations leading up to it and what they do 558 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.519 afterwards as well. Start with the Feasts of the Seven 559 00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:58.759 Fishes on Christmas Eve. There's nothing wrong, no wrong way 560 00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:01.079 to celebrate Christmas. But if you want to do it 561 00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:05.920 in the Anthony Bordona way Anthony Bourdaine boardine, I'm terrible 562 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:09.640 with names, okay, then then you start with the Feasts 563 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:13.319 of Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. The traditional Italian meal 564 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.559 is seafood Lover's Paradise, featuring seven different seafood dishes. Yo, 565 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.960 this is where I'm at. I need to be here, 566 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:24.640 seven different seafood dishes. Sign me up, I'm here. And 567 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.559 while this specific seafood can vary, some of the most 568 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:30.200 common include salted cod Nope, you lost IM. 569 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:31.920 About to say wait a minute, just to work clear here, 570 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:35.759 traditional Italian seafood like I've never thought of, like a 571 00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.440 Christmas beast and be like m fish like never one time. 572 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.000 Oh I could fuck with fish all day anytime. 573 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:42.680 Christmas. 574 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:43.640 Yeah, that's a. 575 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:47.599 Spring in summertime thing in the winter yeah, I hear. 576 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:49.839 I hear from the Great White North of Oregon. So 577 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:51.720 like pretty much any day is a fish day for 578 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:52.200 you in it? 579 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.039 Yes, yeah, yeah, no, like I could totally I could 580 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:58.039 totally do it any day. But sardines you lost me 581 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:02.519 at the salted cod and sardines in a minute. Spaghetti 582 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:03.599 with lobster you got me. 583 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.519 Back, ye me back in I'm listening. 584 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.559 So they have different ones. 585 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.039 Yeah, they have different Christmas dinners, they have masses, they 586 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:13.359 have different types of lunches. 587 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:16.519 Spaghetti with lobster. I've actually never considered this. 588 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:18.440 That sounds fantastic to me. 589 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.519 I'm like mac and cheese lobster mac and cheese very much, 590 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.720 very fucking so hard. 591 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:25.240 So was that like white sauce or red sauce spaghetti 592 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:25.799 in the picture? 593 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:28.960 There was no picture. But now I'm now I want 594 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.200 to know. I'm interested. 595 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.480 Now now we have to look into this more good 596 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:37.079 cult members. Okay, stand the fuck bye? Uh moving on in. 597 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:37.839 Uh. 598 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.640 There's a thing of taking a holiday sauna. 599 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:43.359 Okay, well I'm here for that. So wherever this is, 600 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:43.880 I need to be. 601 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:46.119 The fins are all about them saunas. Have you ever 602 00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:46.759 seen frozen? 603 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.359 The sauna is fantastic. And those huts are like be 604 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:52.279 bait that's. 605 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:53.039 A giant barrel. 606 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.920 Yeah, but they're so nice and they're so cozy, especially 607 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.640 when it's cold outside and you go into the sauna 608 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:01.640 and you sit for a bit, and then you go 609 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.960 out in the nice cold. 610 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.519 Oh, it just feels this nice cold, yes, because. 611 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.160 Well when you've sat in a sauna or a steam 612 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.079 room or anything like that for a long period of 613 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:14.599 time and then you go out into the cold ough, it. 614 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:16.640 Feels like a cold plunge. 615 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:21.200 Yes, except like cool plunges. Well, for me, cool plunges 616 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:24.359 are really great for people. I'm a tedy little baby 617 00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:27.519 when it comes to that physical cold plunge. And even 618 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:29.759 in organ when I would go to Brighton Bush and 619 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:31.799 stuff and they would have I'd get it. 620 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:31.960 Now. 621 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.119 The hot springs where they have you know, the watch 622 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:38.359 them call it. It's like a sauna overneath running hot 623 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.839 water that's natural. It gets really really hot in there. 624 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:43.519 And then if you go outside and you could do 625 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.440 the cold plunge, cool off or they have two tubs 626 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.920 or they have two shower heads and you can cool 627 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.599 off and then come back inside and it's it's a 628 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:54.960 vibe and you do want to cool off some, but 629 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.839 I am like a baby when it comes to the 630 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.279 cold plunge. I'll go sit in the snow rather then 631 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.079 actually physically get in the cold ass water. 632 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.000 We're talking about Finland, and there's like no exaggeration, three 633 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.319 feet of stone on the ground. Feel like stepping outside 634 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:09.640 would be a cold plunge. 635 00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:11.359 No, not when you're that hot, though. 636 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.000 Fuck have you ever been inside of one of these, 637 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:16.799 like in an actual outdoor sauna? 638 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.559 Not outdoor? No, I would love to. I do love saunas, 639 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.240 but I also love saunas. Again then stepping out into 640 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:25.480 the hot parking lot to get into my steaming hot 641 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.400 car in Louisiana after doing a sauna. I love the 642 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.640 heat good cold members. If you couldn't tell, I was 643 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:35.759 never intended for the cold, don't let the beard and 644 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:37.960 long hair for you. I was meant for the ninety 645 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.839 five degrees and one hundred percent humidity all year. That's 646 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:41.359 my jam. 647 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.920 He is a tit when it comes to the cold. 648 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.680 But fuck with me in the heat though, yo. 649 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:49.599 But the heat is like it's one of those things 650 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.119 that's just you can't escape it gets. I love sauna's 651 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.039 actually I love wet saunas. 652 00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:56.759 Oh do I love wet saunas. 653 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.519 I've only the only time I'm going to like a 654 00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:00.119 wet saun or anything is like at a gym that 655 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.680 I was going to that how it happened to offer it, 656 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:05.240 which is cool. But yeah, I would love to experience 657 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.920 like actual hot spring saunas one day. I've heard so 658 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.519 many good things about them, and I like and I've 659 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:12.319 done the whole like going into a hot tub and 660 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:14.440 then going into like a cold pool and then back 661 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:16.880 and forth and your muscles get shocked and it feels amazing. 662 00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:21.279 I hate going into cold plunges. 663 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:22.759 I've never done a cold plunge. 664 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.960 Oh my god, I can't. I can't do it. 665 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.160 Like I respect everybody that can, because it's it's awesome. 666 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.440 I want to get one, but I also know that 667 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:33.119 I'll probably try it for the first time and be like, 668 00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:35.640 never mind, this was a waste of an investment. 669 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.720 I feel like you would get one toe in and you'd. 670 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:41.160 Be like probably no, I would have to like full 671 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.480 force just like jump in, and I would not be 672 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.279 able to lower myself. 673 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.480 What would kill me is you'd probably be pissed off. 674 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.039 But like it actually reverses and helps your it helps 675 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.839 your entire system, and it dumbs dope means and everything else. 676 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:57.480 It really help people. I bet it does. I bet 677 00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:57.720 it do. 678 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.240 I think for everybody actually the science. But you probably 679 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:02.920 be like, oh. 680 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:06.000 No, I would be so mad the entire time, so angry. 681 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.759 I can't imagine me getting out and being like, ah, 682 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:11.079 what a good thing I did for myself this morning. 683 00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:12.759 I would be like, this is the dumbest fucking white 684 00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:14.599 people shit I've ever heard in my life. Like I'm 685 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:15.880 just saying, I don't know, I. 686 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:18.319 Want to go to Finland now because a holiday sauna 687 00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.000 is right up my fucking alley. So like, let's go 688 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.119 to Holland or Finland, Holland and Finland, whatever one of 689 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:27.680 those places. I'm sorry everyone that lives over there. 690 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.240 I did not mean to, like you just pissed off 691 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.119 the Dutch in the Finish. At the same time, that's amazing. 692 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:32.759 Group you all together. 693 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:35.440 I love you all very much. From the gray white 694 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:36.240 north of from. 695 00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:43.160 Europe, from my extremely Caucasian brethren. Some of those they true, 696 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.240 they are, they are probably I don't know you are. 697 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:45.920 I'm sorry. 698 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.240 So anyway, taking a holiday sauna in Finland where many 699 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.519 homes have a sauna. It's customary on Christmas Eve to 700 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.119 take a sauna with the family. Here, you thought discussing 701 00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:59.680 politics over dinner could be awkward after the sauna, finns 702 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:03.519 conteknew the evening celebration, presumably clothed. I should fucking hope 703 00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:07.519 skip the sauna and warm up with a Christmas casserole instead. 704 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.000 Bro shit, I'm really from the I am from its 705 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.079 white people's ship. 706 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:17.519 Man hit him with that casserole. That's how you get them, boy. 707 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:19.639 Yeah, I love me some cash role back off. 708 00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.400 I honestly don't know I've ever eaten casserole in my life. 709 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.119 You have eaten cash made cash role if you. 710 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:31.360 Say so, if I believe you, Oh yeah, is that 711 00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:35.199 even a casserole? Though it's a casserole, it's Shepherd's pie 712 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:39.679 with fucking is Shepherd's pie of castle? Right? 713 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:41.079 It should be? 714 00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:42.920 Because if so, then like yo, I grew up on 715 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:48.400 the ship. Okay, oh well, well I am quite Caucasian anyway. 716 00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:50.840 But I feel like other people eat casseroles. I feel 717 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.920 like a lot of people eat cast roles because technically, uh, 718 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:58.760 sweet potato cast roles. You had sweet potatoes the same 719 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.960 ship at I don't like it. Oh my gosh, I'm 720 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:02.880 just saying texture. 721 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:05.559 It's not the taste. Sweet potatoes are great tasting. 722 00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:09.039 I'm just saying, though, that's technically a cast role, green 723 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:09.920 bean cast role. 724 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.679 Why would you put mayonnaise in green bean cast roles? 725 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.000 Ask these white people. I don't listen. 726 00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:23.519 It's mannise in green bean cash. Oh my god, that 727 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:24.559 ship cult members? 728 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:27.400 Do you put mayonnaise in greening castro Because I have 729 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.960 never heard of this Caucasity in my life. 730 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.400 This is this is my problem, This is my problem. 731 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:33.280 What Okay? 732 00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:35.440 We are in the South where random shake gets thrown 733 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:37.679 into things, and let me tell you, if you're not 734 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.960 from here, I have learned through the years to be 735 00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:44.920 very cautious about what I put in my mouth when 736 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:48.440 it comes to food down here, because Lord have mercy. 737 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:51.679 There has been some things that I'm like, it's. 738 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:53.760 Like a cream of something. Instead of that, it's. 739 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:55.360 Cream of mushroom. 740 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:56.679 I do cream and mushroom. 741 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.880 Yeah, no, it's I don't even stand what you're saying. Mayonnaise. 742 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.679 Look, some people, some people's children are just out here, 743 00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:07.679 I hope. 744 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:11.800 As you are doing on your Christmas Eve, if you're 745 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:14.440 listening to us, you are not making green mean castrole 746 00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:15.719 with mayonnaise, because like, what. 747 00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:22.079 So gross. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I can't. I 748 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:23.880 don't like mayonnaise at all. 749 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:29.719 So but I hope that you are making wonderful dishes 750 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.199 and maybe you'll make a couple of random new ones 751 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:34.159 as we get into all of this, why do we 752 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:35.000 have Daffy. 753 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:39.599 Duck in Donald and Daphne Daphne? Okay, so here's the deal. 754 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:46.159 In Sweden a show called calaei unca oach hons, honor oska, god, jewel, 755 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:50.840 holy shit or in English, there you go, Donald Duck 756 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.199 and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas. Hey there 757 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:57.199 it is is a must see TV every Christmas. The 758 00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.960 traditions started in the nineteen sixties and more than forty 759 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:03.079 percent of Sweden still tunes in. I don't know what 760 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:06.039 to say to that, Like, that's a very long thing. 761 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.719 I didn't realize Donald Duck was a vibe anywhere else 762 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:10.599 besides America. 763 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:13.599 I was Daisy's Donald Daisy, I said, Daphney. 764 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:16.079 Daphne, Donald d I got Daffy Duck. I was mixing 765 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.760 that up Daffy Duck, so Donald Daisy. But uh, apparently 766 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.239 Donald and his friends. Wish you a Merry Christmas is 767 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:26.719 something that around half of the country of Sweden still 768 00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:28.679 tunes into every Christmas to see. 769 00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:29.239 Good for them. 770 00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.199 You know, we have our traditions, we have our TV 771 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.760 things that like, you know, our parents generation. It was 772 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.159 like we rooted off the Red First Miracle on thirty fourth, 773 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:40.840 Roodolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Santa Claus coming to Town, 774 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:43.679 Charlie Brown Christmas. These things only came on the TV 775 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:47.599 one time, and like that was only three stations back 776 00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:49.079 in the day. So when that shit came on, it 777 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.000 didn't matter if you're like fourteen, you're coming to sit 778 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:53.480 down and watch with the fam, and like that. 779 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.480 Was a penny, Like Charlie Brown Christmas. 780 00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:55.840 Watch your mouth. 781 00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:00.000 Why I don't why, it's just boring. I've never really 782 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:03.119 liked it. I never really liked Charlie Brown at all. 783 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.199 The monologue from Linus, I believe will probably be the 784 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:08.920 reason why Charlie Brown gets canceled one day. He actually 785 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.960 quotes the Bible, and you know how they be feeling 786 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:14.159 about that these days. So yeah, I. 787 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:16.159 Don't actually remember it. 788 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:17.920 To be honest with you, I haven't watched it since 789 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:19.559 I was a kid, because I've never messed with it. 790 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.360 So shit, it's on at my mom's house probably one 791 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.719 out of every three times we go, even if it's summer, 792 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:28.559 Charlie Brown, Christmas or The Great Pumpkin will probably just 793 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.320 be on the TV for the fuck of it. 794 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:34.960 Really, Yeah, that was my dad's house, would be Westerns 795 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.719 and or war movies on repeat. 796 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.559 That's what you like to watch all the time. 797 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:44.119 So it's a proper jim all right. So now in 798 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.559 India they trim a banana tree. So in India, fur 799 00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:52.159 trees are not as prevalent, obviously, so celebrants make their 800 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.280 make do with what they have banana and mango trees. 801 00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.639 These trees are adorned with lights and ornaments on the streets, 802 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.440 and they're leaves decorate inside people's homes. 803 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:03.559 That's really cool. 804 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:06.320 I like that. Okay, So, like the fake tree is 805 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.800 just not a thing that's made its way to India, 806 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:11.920 I suppose maybe not. Oh no, no no. In South 807 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.679 Africa eating fried caterpillars, let's go. 808 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.000 Oh god, it's so big and squishy? Is that a 809 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:19.719 who hoo grub? 810 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.719 Is that? Who? 811 00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:21.000 Who? 812 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:23.119 What the hell is a who hoo grub? I'm pretty 813 00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:24.519 sure the caterpillar. 814 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:27.719 No, I'm pretty sure they're who Who's so okay? 815 00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:28.639 Are you making this up? 816 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:33.480 I'm really not so there is. 817 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:35.960 I watched a lot of survival shows, and back in 818 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.360 the day there were two dudes, and I know one 819 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.719 of you that's listening is going to message me and 820 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:41.559 tell me who this is. 821 00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.159 So old boy. One of them was barefoot for like 822 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:45.000 twenty five years. 823 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.480 He has a place, almost like a hippie dude. One 824 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:49.239 was like an. 825 00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:53.119 Actual yeah survival jeev even know, God, I can't think 826 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:53.400 of it. 827 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:54.559 Yeah. 828 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.639 So they went to Africa and they had or it 829 00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.320 was South America. I don't want to be misquoting. I'm sorry, 830 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:02.400 it's been south. 831 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:02.880 Of the Equator. 832 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:03.559 Yeah. 833 00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:07.519 They ate grubs that they called whoho grubs, and oh god, 834 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:11.400 I might actually get a little bit mount Nope. So 835 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:13.559 they put them in their mouths and when they bit 836 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.079 into them here. 837 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.599 Yeah, I keep your mouth closed that she'll score it out. 838 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:18.400 Oh my god. 839 00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:19.000 Yep. 840 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:19.360 Nope. 841 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:21.880 So every time I even see something like that, like 842 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:25.000 the amagery, I probably would starve to death. I'm gonna 843 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:26.119 be honest with you. 844 00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:30.480 I am a texture person and just the thought alone. 845 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:31.920 Nope. 846 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:34.280 I'm like, you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna die now. 847 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:36.880 But there's just no way, There's no way I could 848 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:40.880 physically hold that down in my mouth, let alone eat 849 00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:43.960 it and not vomit everywhere. Just from the texture and 850 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.039 the thought process alone, I would I would die. 851 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:49.320 I would crash out. I'm a baby, Leave me alone. People. 852 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.400 Meanwhile, this past weekend, I went to the Saints game 853 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.880 with some former coworkers of mine, and somebody no balls 854 00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:57.559 me to try a scorpion shot. 855 00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:58.880 Okay, I've had those. 856 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.559 But a panel you're supposed to swallow the scorpion with 857 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:04.519 the shot. I didn't. I just chewed it up because 858 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:05.400 like why not? 859 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.079 And then oh my god, the little scorpion ones. 860 00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:10.760 Yeah, Like it's like eating a cricket, y'all. It's no 861 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:11.039 big deal. 862 00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:14.280 And it's like a what like okay, Like I can 863 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.159 deal with crickets ants, I can deal with scorpions. 864 00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.639 Carpenter ants are delicious. They taste like sour apple. 865 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.719 I can deal with them. It's damn grubs that, like 866 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.079 I would, I would crash out. I would actually just 867 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:29.000 you're doing that now? 868 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.320 I am. I am. 869 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:32.679 I really feel some type of way about this and 870 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:35.480 watching that episode. It seared into my brain. 871 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:36.599 I see it. 872 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.119 I didn't see that picture. I'm just like no, no, no, no, no, no. H. 873 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.519 Well, in South Africa people munch on fried Emperor moth 874 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.000 caterpillars on Christmas for extra luck in the coming year. 875 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.679 That sounds like somebody just started to dare somebody one 876 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:56.320 day and it just kind of took like wildfire. Oh, 877 00:41:56.679 --> 00:41:58.920 they may not bring luck, but a batch of Christmas 878 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.800 cookies will certainly bring smiles. You can buy a rabbit's 879 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.320 foot for the luck. Yeah, but you know, and if 880 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.079 you're in South Africa, you do. As a South Africans, 881 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:07.920 I would have no luck. 882 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:08.480 I'm dying. 883 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.719 Oh my god, decorating with spinderweb or. 884 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:14.599 Yeah, we're gonna get to this one. We actually have 885 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:16.920 a whole article about Ukraine in Poland. 886 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:19.320 Yeah, Ukraine and Poland. That's the thing I want to 887 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:20.880 take away from the article. We got pulled up. But 888 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:26.199 all right, next giving the pudding a st Now, this 889 00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:29.079 is interesting. When they say putting, they don't when as 890 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.039 Americans or anything putting, we're thinking of something that's more closely. 891 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:34.519 It came to a custard in the UK. When they 892 00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:40.159 say a pudding that could mean anything from basically like 893 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.840 a cake to spot a dick to something of a 894 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:47.519 more gelatinous nature. Putting in that variety goes a wide 895 00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:50.800 there's a wide gambit here, so giving the pudding a 896 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.760 stir the image shows something like what we might call 897 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:54.360 a fruitcake. 898 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:56.320 It's pound cake essentially. 899 00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.599 In the UK, families all take a turn making the 900 00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.320 chrisp is putting to stir up. Sunday, the Sunday before 901 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:05.800 the start of Advent, families gathered a stir up a 902 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.760 holiday pudding like this plum pudding. Interesting. While the term 903 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:12.639 stir up comes from a century's old Anglican prayer book, 904 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.880 today families have adapted the term and use it as 905 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:18.599 a reason to gather with family. Because these puddings are 906 00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:21.079 a lot of hard work. Everyone takes a turn helping. 907 00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:24.280 Everyone that gives the batter a stir also gets to 908 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.000 make a wish for the coming year. I just actually 909 00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:29.159 watched I told you about the show Tasting History that 910 00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:32.199 I get down with. Yeah, he just made traditional spotted 911 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.000 dick from I think it was like the late seventeen 912 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.519 hundreds or something, and it's this type of pudding where 913 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:41.239 basically you just throw a bunch of shit into a 914 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.400 boil bag and you boil it to get the shape 915 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.400 and it like solidified. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, 916 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:48.639 because that's a really silly name for a dessert. 917 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:51.840 I was just thinking about Doctor Seuss and I was like, 918 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.840 I was thinking about the spotted spotted a watchman call it. 919 00:43:56.760 --> 00:43:59.079 You know, the little bear thing that they wrote a 920 00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:01.039 whole book about that had like spots and no spots 921 00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:02.599 and this and that. And I was just laughing in 922 00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.239 my head because I was like, it's fine, I'm a 923 00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:07.320 child right now. 924 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.880 I get it. But yeah, apparently it is a lot 925 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:11.960 of work. It takes like hours to do it properly. 926 00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:15.000 So I was reading an article actually, I was debating 927 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:18.440 about which ones to use in this episode, and there 928 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:21.280 was a whole article about how the UK is very strict, 929 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:23.800 not strict, but very set in their ways is what 930 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:26.840 it said, setting their ways when it comes to Christmas 931 00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:28.800 traditions and how they adhere to it. 932 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:31.719 But then they'll go to Boxing Day right after that, 933 00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:33.199 and I's like that's completely normal. 934 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:35.599 I actually don't know what Boxing Day is. 935 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:37.880 It's the one day year where people move. 936 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.360 What like physically move their homes, like. 937 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.360 Boxing up their shit, like moving addresses. 938 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:47.519 They have a day for this. 939 00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:50.440 They've selected an entire day where everybody just says, fuck it, 940 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.000 let's move. 941 00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.599 I mean, granted, yes, they'll have people that move throughout 942 00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:56.039 the year, but that is traditionally the day where people 943 00:44:56.039 --> 00:44:58.960 will like move residences. And then I asked this was 944 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.239 a while background. I first heard like, is there boxing 945 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.480 matches like that? 946 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:03.360 I thought that's what you meant. 947 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:05.280 I was like, Oh, cool, it's like a whole boxing 948 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.239 day where they have like boxing matches and they bet 949 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:07.760 on people. 950 00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.719 You would think, no, no, it's just the one day 951 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:14.280 where they'll actually just like move locations or some shit. 952 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.280 Does everybody chime in and help? 953 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:19.800 Uh, well, it's a federal holiday in the UK, so 954 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:21.639 pretty much nobody's going to work, So if you've got 955 00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:23.599 some affairs you need to handle and like move and 956 00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:26.440 all these things. And again I'm sure that like that 957 00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:28.039 was the thing back in the day. It's a lot 958 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:31.280 different these days, but like it's still a federally recognized holiday. 959 00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:32.239 Well that's pretty cool. 960 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:35.000 Finding an orange in your stocking. This is something that 961 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:36.400 we do at my house. As a matter of fact, 962 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.079 oranges are often found in shoes or stockings on Saint 963 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:43.039 Nicholas Day, December sixth. That is not how we do it. 964 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.480 Santa be dropping off an orange in stockings on Christmas? 965 00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:47.920 Why why not? 966 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:50.599 But like, what's the reason for it? 967 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:53.440 The same reason why there's also an assortment of nuts 968 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:54.960 because it's Christmas? 969 00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:58.519 Is there like any symbology behind it. 970 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:00.599 Or just like the same reason why I've been giving 971 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:02.719 my children coffee since they were six months old. Listen, 972 00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:04.840 this's just what we do here. I don't know. I 973 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:06.519 didn't ask questions when it was done for me. I 974 00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:07.199 just said thank you. 975 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:10.880 So here we are still absolutely ridiculous and do not 976 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:11.559 agree with it. 977 00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:12.800 That's fine, you can disagree. 978 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:16.760 Why would so you just randomly put an orange in 979 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:17.280 your kids? 980 00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:20.960 It's at the very base where the toes go, just 981 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:25.320 because it's it's wintertime. Everybody needs an orange during the winter, 982 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.480 vitamin sea and shit, so you just ok. And then 983 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.320 the nuts, Yeah, that's a whole other thing. 984 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:33.400 I mean, the nuts makes sense to me because like 985 00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:35.840 everybody eats nuts during the winter. 986 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.320 And everybody eats cit trist during the winter because that's 987 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:40.119 when it, you know, is ripe. 988 00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:42.199 I don't, I don't know. 989 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:43.159 That's a thing. 990 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.159 You Southerners be doing some weird shit. 991 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:49.239 To be fair, I think that might just be a 992 00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:50.960 me and my household type of thing. 993 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.440 I've never heard one person tell me that this is 994 00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:55.239 a thing down here. Never once. 995 00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:57.400 Oh yeah, that was like. And me and my brother 996 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.000 we actually not like the nutcrackers, like the decorative to 997 00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:03.119 my dad's got like some bad ass like nutcrackers, and 998 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.000 we would get down on like the walnuts, the brazil nuts, 999 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:09.960 the almonds, Oh my god, fresh fresh cracked almonds are 1000 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:12.840 my shit. Also, hazel nuts. I know you don't fuck 1001 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:14.559 with them, but I love them so much. 1002 00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.920 I like the actual nut. I don't like hazel nut products. 1003 00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:19.639 Yeah, it's just not my jam. 1004 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.280 The one that I like, but it's not my favorite 1005 00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.559 is pecan, and I think I just got burned out 1006 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:25.159 on them. 1007 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:27.920 I don't. Yeah, pecans get I like. I like the 1008 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:32.400 jars of the salty mixture of nuts, and I would 1009 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:34.599 we would always fight over which ones that we'd eat, 1010 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:37.000 but we'd have jars of those definitely. When I was 1011 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:37.519 growing up. 1012 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.360 It would be a whole thing at every at every dinner, 1013 00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:41.599 every party, or. 1014 00:47:41.559 --> 00:47:43.360 Just like one in the house and stuff like that. 1015 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:44.840 But that's not I don't. 1016 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.119 I don't think I have anything that I tradition Well, 1017 00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:49.960 the only thing I traditionally cook is I always do 1018 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:54.599 rice crispies, coolat cheese and Christmas decorating cookies. Yeah, like 1019 00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:56.199 those are the things that we do. But I don't 1020 00:47:56.239 --> 00:47:59.360 put anything specifically in my in my families, so. 1021 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.159 They do the gin bread houses, but we eat them 1022 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:05.719 for obvious reasons. But like we'll start. Yeah, oh this 1023 00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:07.920 year my dog got onto two of the three of them. 1024 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.679 I'm falcking pissed about it still, but like it's okay. 1025 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:13.840 She's a she's a fat beast. That English mastiff can 1026 00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:15.920 reach up on most countertops. And I thought they were 1027 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.440 far enough back. They were not. But yeah, we'll make 1028 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.840 gingerbread houses like the first week of December. At some point, I. 1029 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.840 Really did not know that people eat them. I thought 1030 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.960 that people just decorated them and kept them, like every 1031 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.840 every place that I've ever been, people just decorate them 1032 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.360 and then they keep them for like all of Christmas. 1033 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.079 Some people are the only person I know that has 1034 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:39.119 ever actually eaten them. When you told me that, I'm like, 1035 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:40.960 what do you mean you eat these? 1036 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.000 We don't like to sit there and eat the whole thing. 1037 00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:45.119 But like as you know doing going throughout the day, 1038 00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:46.760 like break off a corner of the roof and you 1039 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:48.920 get down on that, you know, and you work your 1040 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:49.639 way down the wall. 1041 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:53.719 I don't know, because that's I make them to decorate 1042 00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:55.639 to put out and then be like look out, get there, 1043 00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:57.239 and that's what I do with them. 1044 00:48:57.400 --> 00:48:59.679 I mean, if that's what you're doing, then why not 1045 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.119 do cardboard and like you could decorate it and put 1046 00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:06.320 away with the Christmas decorations and put that bitch back 1047 00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.840 out next year. And it's a whole thing, you know, 1048 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:12.519 Like I don't sounds just edible. I don't know. You 1049 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.679 dip it in your coffee and shit like that's yeah, 1050 00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:18.840 that's a whole vibe. Well anyway, seeah, were just learning 1051 00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:24.519 things today number fourteen of fourteen before I even see it. Yeah, 1052 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:28.320 keeping an eye out for Crampis. Crampis or Crumpus, sort 1053 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.800 of an anti Santa, if you will, is believed by 1054 00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:33.800 some to be a half goat and half demon that 1055 00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:37.000 comes for naughty children in early December. The legend started 1056 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:39.599 in Germany but later found its way to the US. 1057 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:42.039 As Santa might say, you better watch out. 1058 00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:46.239 I love the whole Crumpus conversation. 1059 00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:48.519 And I do like the movie read one where they 1060 00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:51.760 showed a different side of Crumpus, like he's not He's 1061 00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:56.000 not Satan. He was Santa Claus's half brother, yeah, who 1062 00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.599 was helping him, but then kind of he created the 1063 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.280 naughty List, like that, that legend and Lord the layers 1064 00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:03.559 of it. I like that a lot. 1065 00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:05.800 I actually didn't really like that movie too, so. 1066 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.400 We just got done watching it tonight for like the 1067 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.960 fifth time of the season. It's quickly becoming one of 1068 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.079 our favorite Christmas movies. 1069 00:50:11.159 --> 00:50:12.199 It's a really good one. 1070 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.239 And it brings up Gorilla and the Yule Lads. It 1071 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:19.480 brings in a lot, you know it does anyway, all right, 1072 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:21.360 So that's gonna do it for the first article. And 1073 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:24.480 yes we took side tangents because it's Christmas time, y'all 1074 00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:27.320 tell take it so seriously, have fun with it. Talking 1075 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.639 about the UK and some of these wild traditions, and 1076 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:32.239 like you said, they are very strict with their traditions, 1077 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:36.360 not all of the UK, because Wales is a part 1078 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:40.559 of the UK and they have this thing they have 1079 00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:45.559 the midwinter Majesty of the Merryleude and I'm probably mispronouncing 1080 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.519 that word. As a matter of fact. You know what, 1081 00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:50.159 I want to see if we could find the correct 1082 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.519 pronunciation of it, because I don't want to upset nobody. 1083 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.559 Let's see here, there's a little video that they're showing. 1084 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:03.760 So this is a dude that's dressed up with a 1085 00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:06.400 cloak and bells and he's got. 1086 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.639 A Actually i've actually heard of this before. 1087 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:13.519 Yeah, so he's got a horse. 1088 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:14.920 Come on. 1089 00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:20.199 In traditional el. 1090 00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:26.840 I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. 1091 00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:33.239 N just keep on singing until someone answers the door. 1092 00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:37.840 Oh he's answering. 1093 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:39.840 You. 1094 00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:49.119 The hoss off one weird, isn't he supposed to say? 1095 00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:52.800 So? 1096 00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.880 Basically, they have to sing there, and you have to 1097 00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:56.480 sing back at them, and you let them in, and 1098 00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:58.400 if they don't then they'll pretty much sit outside your 1099 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.280 door and annoy the absolute fuck of you all night long, 1100 00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:03.559 singing louder and louder and or. 1101 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:14.159 Mendo gil uh pen. 1102 00:52:18.119 --> 00:52:20.519 That's Welsh. What is he saying that? That is not 1103 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.800 picked Gaelic, that's not Scott's Gaelic, that's not Irish Gaelic. 1104 00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:26.719 That's Welsh, and that don't sound like no other type 1105 00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:27.239 of nothing. 1106 00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.239 I have no idea what he even just said at all. 1107 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:34.519 He's just describing the tradition, I suppose. But anyway, let's 1108 00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:36.599 see if there's another thing where they might explain how 1109 00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:40.639 it's pronounced. No, no, no, why would they do that. 1110 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:49.360 That's just a thing. Yeah, I'm not going to be 1111 00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:51.360 able to understand these people. But anyway, so if I 1112 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.079 am as pronouncing Mary Lude lloyd load, I don't know? 1113 00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:58.159 Uh is? In the darkest months of the Welsh hear 1114 00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:03.239 a white horse appears the mysterious menacing Mary Lude. Jude 1115 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:06.840 Rogers steps into one of Wales's most eerie midwinter traditions 1116 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:10.840 and uncovers the origins and regional variations of this creature. 1117 00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:14.079 You'll never forget the moment you first see of Mary Lude. 1118 00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:18.119 She has lights or babbles for her eyes. Her mane 1119 00:53:18.159 --> 00:53:21.679 is made of colorful streamers or a whole holly and ivy. 1120 00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.599 A white cloak falls from her skull, which is attached 1121 00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:27.039 to a pole which is held by a person inside it, 1122 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:30.760 and they control the character's mischievous nature, often snapping their 1123 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:34.519 bony jaws at you. Yeah, so what does this mean? 1124 00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.920 The origins of Mary's name are like the horse herself, 1125 00:53:38.159 --> 00:53:43.000 a deeply mysterious. One Welsh translation of it, Jerry Maher 1126 00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:46.639 or gray Mayor, rather connects it to the heritage of 1127 00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:50.639 pale horses in Celtic and British mythology, many of whom 1128 00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:56.840 can cross over to the underworld. Jesus. I'm trying to 1129 00:53:56.880 --> 00:54:00.519 remember how to pronounce these words Rhannon in the Mabi 1130 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:04.119 Geon rode a white horse, for example. It's been a 1131 00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:07.119 while since I did some reading into my Celtic history 1132 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.360 in folklore, so forgive me. The other translations from Mary 1133 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:13.400 lude is gray Mary. Some scholars have linked her to 1134 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:17.199 a legend connected to the Nativity story, of course, a 1135 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:20.880 pregnant horse sent out of the stables. When Mary arrived 1136 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:24.079 to have Jesus, she spent dark days roaming the land 1137 00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:26.960 trying to find somewhere new to have a full Many 1138 00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:30.119 Mary fans believe the character to have come from pre 1139 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:33.599 Christian pagan origins. However, this is impossible to prove, but 1140 00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:36.960 there's definitely something timeless and terrifying about her. 1141 00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.360 Yeah, it's terrifying. I'm looking like, it's not even pleasant 1142 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:43.079 at all to. 1143 00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:46.480 Look at butt in Wales. They just like the foolest thing. 1144 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:51.000 Yeah, it's like stuff of nightmares. But I'm you know, 1145 00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.119 I'm glad they have a tradition then that they've kept alive. 1146 00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:56.119 I mean, a lot of places have lost a lot 1147 00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:57.239 of their traditions, so. 1148 00:54:57.239 --> 00:54:59.719 They got crumpus. That's supposed to terrify your kids. Meanwhile, 1149 00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:01.920 you're supposed to be like super welcoming of the ghost 1150 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:03.880 horse that knocks on your door and sings at you 1151 00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:09.480 until you do something. People get down. People be getting down, 1152 00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:14.280 you know. Anyway, So what does Mary Lewid do? Mary 1153 00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:17.719 is taken around a village traditionally, often between Christmas Day 1154 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:20.519 and the twelfth night. She is dressed with festive lights 1155 00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:24.719 and decorations, and is usually accompanied by an ostler and 1156 00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.360 in some regions like I'm not gonna pronounce that word 1157 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:33.119 uh Yestra Dinglas in the Swansea Valleys. 1158 00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:35.719 Yeah, Wales, she said, I'm not gonna pronounce the U. 1159 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.840 I try. I thought about it. I'm gonna try to 1160 00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:40.920 give you the old college try no fuck all that 1161 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:44.039 Welsh things. When she goes from the regions like Welsh 1162 00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:47.480 Place to the Welsh Valleys, other fault characters like a 1163 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:50.840 gesture and a lady. This brings the tradition closer together 1164 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.559 with the Mummers plays, which we're gonna talk about in 1165 00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.320 a bit, a tradition of performances by the working classes 1166 00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.519 in the eighteenth century. When the groups get to a house, 1167 00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:05.199 they sing Welsh language songs or wastles, or more traditionally 1168 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:09.119 indulged in a ritual called bro How is that a word? 1169 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:12.320 Is pw nco? 1170 00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:14.800 Is that an acronym? Or is that a word? There's 1171 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.679 only one vowel and it's at the very end. 1172 00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:20.360 I you know, I'm just gonna I just spelled it 1173 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.159 out for them, and so put it. 1174 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.480 Is an exchange of rude rhymes with the person who 1175 00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:27.960 lives there. I have seen that tradition too. Basically, they 1176 00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:30.639 will it's like a roast battle, but it has to rhyme, 1177 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:32.480 and the first person to fuck up loses the game. 1178 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:36.400 And it's like it's a whole thing clever Christmas traditions, 1179 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.920 you know, like it with the person who lives there. 1180 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:41.800 If the Mary and her game get entry, the household 1181 00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:44.199 is head to have good luck for the year. Mary 1182 00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.599 is well known to be mischievous, trying to steal things 1183 00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:49.880 and chase people she likes as she goes about her 1184 00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:51.079 bidding Yeah again. 1185 00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:54.000 How's she gonna chase anybody in that garb like you? 1186 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.000 You're gonna lose the head let alone? How are you 1187 00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:56.880 gonna run in that thing? 1188 00:56:57.079 --> 00:57:03.119 It's you know? They away? So where did the tradition begin? 1189 00:57:03.159 --> 00:57:05.119 The first written record of mary Lude is in Jay 1190 00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:08.440 Evans's book from eighteen hundred, a tour through the part 1191 00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:11.559 of North Wales. Although the tradition is best known for 1192 00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:16.880 its practice in Glamorgan and Gwent, it has similarities to 1193 00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:20.400 other hooded animal customs in Britain, like the hooden ing 1194 00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:25.599 in Kent, the broad in Cottswolds, and the old tup 1195 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:29.480 in Derbyshire. Derbyshire. I don't know how these British pronounce it, 1196 00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:32.440 which involved a group of poor people trying to find 1197 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:35.920 food and money in the harsh depths of winter. Entertainment 1198 00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.760 was their method, with a side portion of menace, the 1199 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:42.880 dead horse's skull appearing in shadow at your door, good lord. 1200 00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:45.079 And again they have all these pictures from way back when. 1201 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.519 This picture from nineteen oh four. This is a more 1202 00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:52.880 recent interpretation. Let's see. Okay, this one's more recent as well. Yeah, 1203 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:55.159 that one that we saw the video earlier, that's I 1204 00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:57.559 don't even know what year that's from? But okay, so 1205 00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:01.679 how did the tradition start to change? Welsh Methodists and 1206 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:05.239 other Christian nonconformists criticized Mary Lude in the nineteenth century. 1207 00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:12.199 The bell Blindow, Gwint based Baptist minister Reverend William Roberts 1208 00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:15.559 called her sinful in his eighteen fifty two book The 1209 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:19.079 Religion of the Dark Ages, although he also transcribed twenty 1210 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.679 verses of the Mary's performance, helping to disseminate the tradition. 1211 00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:27.360 In the nineteen thirties and forties, Welsh folkloris Erwith Pete 1212 00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:31.760 found the practice still alive in Cardiff Bridge and langwind 1213 00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:35.840 Neath and other parts of the Glamorgan, despite fears that 1214 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:39.920 it will start to die off. Welsh poets Vernon Watkins 1215 00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:42.280 even wrote a long poem about her in nineteen forty one, 1216 00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:46.000 The Ballad of Mary Lude, after hearing a radio broadcast 1217 00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:50.320 about the ritual in Garth, a village just north of Cardiff. 1218 00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:53.960 His words beautifully captured the mary Lud's frightening aspect. The 1219 00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:57.880 living are defended by the rich warmth of the flames, 1220 00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:02.000 which keeps that loneliness out. His poem goes terrified they 1221 00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:06.119 hear the dead tapping of the pains. Then they rise up, 1222 00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.199 armed with the warmth of firelight. Interesting, only a few 1223 00:59:11.239 --> 00:59:15.000 merry processions were left by the nineteen sixties, including in 1224 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.599 Pedcote near Brigand and Pitchers near Cardiff. I'm probably butchering 1225 00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:21.519 these names, sorry for all of our UK homies that 1226 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:26.400 speak this shit. But later that century some folk club, yeah, 1227 00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:31.000 lantercent Folk Club revived the tradition, as did a family 1228 00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:36.880 in that same city, near Maystegg, who still visit the 1229 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:39.800 old house in in the village with the Mary today 1230 00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:44.599 three generations of landlords have now hosted them. Wow. Other 1231 00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:49.239 popular celebrations also happen in New Year's at Chepstow after 1232 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:52.320 a break in twenty twenty for you know the vid. 1233 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:56.199 I'm sure there's a chapel on a mountain side near 1234 00:59:57.679 --> 00:59:59.360 Launterradal there's a lie. 1235 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.320 Whole It's just like that whole thing and popping up. 1236 01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:07.000 At a local midwinter events Slantern festivals and Wallace. 1237 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:11.280 How do you see it? Wasteles, wasteles, their bubbles, bobbles 1238 01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:14.760 glowing their eyes and tradition shining with new life. 1239 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.719 So don't have natemars. Let yourself be taken into the 1240 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:19.960 darkness and go with Mary towards the light. 1241 01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.559 Okay, so here's one of the gestures that you might 1242 01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:27.440 see traveling with the horse skull and you got the 1243 01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:29.599 dudes with the sticks, and it's just a whole thing. 1244 01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:32.360 And they just sing. And I've heard different stories and 1245 01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:35.159 different traditions. They will sing and sing and sing waiting 1246 01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:37.840 for someone inside the house to sing back to them. 1247 01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:40.000 Doesn't even matter if it's the same song, just singing 1248 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:42.880 something back. And if they are gained entry into the home, 1249 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.920 they get the house, go luck and basically they all 1250 01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:49.400 just get completely shith housed until they feel sated, and 1251 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:51.199 then they go to the next house and do the 1252 01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:51.719 same thing. 1253 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:55.159 And if they seen this tradition actually before, and I 1254 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:56.599 really like it. I think it's cool. 1255 01:00:56.960 --> 01:00:58.480 Usually the head of the house will like join the 1256 01:00:58.480 --> 01:01:00.039 party and go to the next house with them too. 1257 01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.440 And they gather more and more and more men as 1258 01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:04.679 they go, and they like eventually make their way all 1259 01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:05.840 through the town and stuff. 1260 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:08.039 They'd just be looking for any excuse to get ship housed. 1261 01:01:08.079 --> 01:01:10.199 Let me real, that's true. 1262 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:12.239 But I mean it's cool that it's actually been revitalizing 1263 01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:16.039 and brought back and generations are still trying to adhere 1264 01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:18.719 to old ways because I think so many traditions have 1265 01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:22.400 died out, especially as the New Age with technology and 1266 01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:25.079 things like that, a lot of the old traditions are 1267 01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:29.440 just gone. So yeah, it's pretty cool though, And I 1268 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:30.920 didn't know a lot about that, And there's a lot 1269 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:32.920 of weird words that. This is why I had you 1270 01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:34.920 read it, because I was no way would I be 1271 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.079 able to even try again. 1272 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:41.199 Y'all, I barely speak American English, I don't speak British English. 1273 01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:43.280 That we butcher a lot of names on here, there's 1274 01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:43.719 no way. 1275 01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:47.599 Most time most humans can't pronounce Welsh words. Let's just 1276 01:01:47.639 --> 01:01:48.360 be real. 1277 01:01:48.199 --> 01:01:52.119 Here, I'm still confused at the pw that's. 1278 01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:56.400 Nice, pwn coo, pondco pond coo. And I'll bet you 1279 01:01:56.440 --> 01:02:02.400 it's something like, oh, you mean you mean soul. Have 1280 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:05.159 you seen them try to pronounce Irish traditional names? Have 1281 01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:09.440 you ever seen how quava is spelled? No, it's it's 1282 01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:14.400 ridiculous idea anyway, way, So moving on to the next one. Now, 1283 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:17.559 let's go to the Americas for just a moment. As 1284 01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:20.840 we talked about some Native American tribes yesterday on our episode, 1285 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:23.360 this was actually a pretty interesting one that I thought 1286 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:27.559 was worth going deeper on on today's episode, The Iroquois 1287 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:29.360 False Face Society. 1288 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:31.159 I know nothing of this, so. 1289 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:33.960 I don't either. I found that it was a Christmas 1290 01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:37.519 or winter solstice, this time of year type of things, 1291 01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:39.920 so I was curious, what's up with it? So let's 1292 01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:42.360 get into it. Among many coaches around the world, there 1293 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:45.599 are two types of illnesses. First are those which have 1294 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:48.840 a clear physical cause, such as a broken arm. Then 1295 01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:52.159 there are those which the cause is less readily apparent. 1296 01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:57.119 Curing these illnesses often involve ceremonies and spirituality. The Iroquois 1297 01:02:57.159 --> 01:02:59.599 tribes have a number of different medicine societies which can 1298 01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:03.480 perform different curing rights. The Little Water Society, for example, 1299 01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:06.840 dealt with great illness that was usually called in when 1300 01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:10.400 the patient had had a vision of the dwarf spirits, 1301 01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:17.400 that is the little people. Yeah, the I will say that. Yeah. 1302 01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:21.519 And there's like what seven different ones we've heard about, 1303 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.119 and we just watched a video yesterday, I think doing research, 1304 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:27.320 and there's more little people. 1305 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.000 Oh my god. I just found out about a Japanese 1306 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:33.159 crew and if you these people have lived in Japan 1307 01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:36.400 by their own emission, for like seven thousand years. They 1308 01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:40.920 don't look Japanese, they look Russian, and they their old 1309 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.400 folklore talks about stone giants and little people that they 1310 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:49.079 also called giants. But it's there are elves. 1311 01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:51.000 For lack of better words, the ones that they have 1312 01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:54.760 a little figurines for in their houses. 1313 01:03:56.519 --> 01:04:01.760 All over the place. Yeah, I don't know. I think 1314 01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.920 there's something to it. Yeah, I'm not saying which side. 1315 01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:07.920 It could be fae, it could be aliens, could be demons. 1316 01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:08.599 I don't know. 1317 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:15.840 Oh, you're saying that the dwarfs technically is that they 1318 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:17.920 go by now I don't want to know. 1319 01:04:18.199 --> 01:04:20.599 Yeah. Yeah, I'm not talking about like humans who have dwarfism. 1320 01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:23.840 That's not what I mean. I mean the uh, the 1321 01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:27.760 creatures which like in Irish and Scottish tradition would be 1322 01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:31.199 the brownies or leprechauns. Some would call them the elves, 1323 01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:33.840 some would call them the faith folk. There there's so 1324 01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:36.440 many different versions of them. What I'm saying is all 1325 01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:38.760 these cultures around the world, all having their own stories, 1326 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:41.880 and they all very much sound and act alike. There's 1327 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:43.559 probably way more of a kernel of truth to that 1328 01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:46.480 than what our modern interpretations would like us to believe. 1329 01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:48.719 See, and everyone gave me ship for being scared of 1330 01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:49.360 small people. 1331 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:54.960 So, oh my god, I wasn't. I wasn't talking about humans. 1332 01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:57.199 I think fair are size. 1333 01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:03.360 Yeah, oh, I think some could be, some could be big, small, 1334 01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:04.199 all in between. 1335 01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:08.440 Okay, that's a thing, you don't You. 1336 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:10.280 Don't think that they could be our size too. 1337 01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:14.800 Every time they're ever depicted, they are not now in 1338 01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:19.239 modern tick talk, book lore or whatever the hell, But 1339 01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:23.239 like actual traditional historical references, faithfolk are not human. 1340 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:27.920 Sized ever know what they could be? I'm not maybe 1341 01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:31.239 I've never met one, you know, I don't ruin Santa Claus, 1342 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:34.599 Welcome to Christmas conspiracy. 1343 01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:38.880 Yeah, read about some goddamn tribesquoi. 1344 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.440 So apparently, if they had a vision of the dwarf 1345 01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.599 spirits or little people, then the Little Water Society would 1346 01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:46.880 come in and help them with this great illness. The 1347 01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:49.920 healing right would begin by placing tobacco on the fire 1348 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.280 and calling for the spirits of the dwarves. Yeah, I 1349 01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:54.039 gotta get a good buzz going. I feel that fu. 1350 01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:54.400 Yeah. 1351 01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:57.760 In cases of an illness, which modern physicians call dementia, 1352 01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:00.960 the Bear Society would be called in in their healing 1353 01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:04.840 rights the members would dance counterclockwise around the patient. I 1354 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:06.840 don't know what that would do to help heal dementia, 1355 01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:08.719 but I mean, all right, it's only dumb if it 1356 01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.719 doesn't work. I suppose there were times when the patient 1357 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:14.800 would not improve after the ceremony from the healing Society. 1358 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:18.320 In cases of serious illness, when other medicine societies have 1359 01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.639 failed to bring out the cure, the Wooden False Face 1360 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.960 Society would be called in. This society dates back to 1361 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:27.559 a time during creation when the world was ruled by 1362 01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:31.639 mythical beings. The wooden false face masks are made at 1363 01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:32.960 this One of the words I hate, by the way, 1364 01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:36.639 masks words you have to make extra effort to make 1365 01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:43.280 it plural desks, wasps, masks. I fucking hate these words. 1366 01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:47.360 It's a weird thing anyway. These false face masks are 1367 01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:52.000 made from white pine, maple, bass wood, and poplar. To 1368 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:54.599 make a mask, the features are first carved in a 1369 01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:57.599 living tree. During the process of carving the mask and 1370 01:06:57.679 --> 01:07:01.519 cutting it free, a prayer is addressed to the involving 1371 01:07:01.639 --> 01:07:05.320 mask and to the spirit forces which it represents. The 1372 01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.039 mask is then painted and adorned with horse hair. The 1373 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:11.559 new mask is concentrated to human service by placing it 1374 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.039 in the hot coals and ashes of the long house fire. 1375 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:19.199 All the masks are characterized with the distorted features and 1376 01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:22.480 deep set eyes. The noses are bent and crooked. The 1377 01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:25.639 masks are generally painted red and black and have pouches 1378 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.639 of tobacco tied onto the hair above the foreheads. Interesting 1379 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.599 with regard to the symbolism of the mask, they portrayed 1380 01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:35.840 the Great Doctor dwelling at the world's rim, whose broken 1381 01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:38.639 nose and twisted mouth derived from a mythical struggle with 1382 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.639 the Creator for control of the world. The masks are 1383 01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:45.960 symbolized are also symbolized the forest dwelling common faces seen 1384 01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:50.239 in dreams. In addition, some of the masks are beggar masks, 1385 01:07:50.320 --> 01:07:55.519 which caricature neighbors and strangers alike. The masks are not artifacts, 1386 01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:59.079 but living representations of a spirit. One of the rules 1387 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:02.400 governing the care the masks is the need to periodically 1388 01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:04.679 anoint them with a mixture of some flower seed oil 1389 01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:07.519 and animal grease. At the same time, the masks are 1390 01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:11.920 fed white corn mush. They feed them in the off 1391 01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:16.840 season okay, in payment for their services. Tobacco is burned 1392 01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:19.239 for them, and small bags of tobacco are tied to them. 1393 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:22.279 Members of the Wooden False Face Society might be called 1394 01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:24.680 at any time of day or night to perform ceremonies 1395 01:08:24.720 --> 01:08:27.039 for those who are ill. Upon recovery, the patient is 1396 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:31.520 expected to join the False Face Society. Wow, okay, that's 1397 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:33.600 how you get some devout followers of your group or 1398 01:08:33.640 --> 01:08:35.479 your like. This would be like one of those mystery 1399 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:38.159 cults from like ancient Greece or any of these things. 1400 01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:40.520 How do you get a devout follower? Oh, because he's 1401 01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:41.520 also a client. 1402 01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:44.800 Yeah, well, I mean if they somehow magically cured them 1403 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:45.960 of dementia, so. 1404 01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:49.920 You know, I guess sure. 1405 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.800 The actual curing ceremony is sacred and not to be 1406 01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:56.000 shared with those outside the society. Mm hmm. These are 1407 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.800 those mystery schools right. Traditionally, the Wooden False Face Society 1408 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:03.640 would perform two community rituals each year. During the ceremony, 1409 01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:06.479 the story of the False Faces is told. The members 1410 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:09.760 of the society, wearing the masks, then go through the community, 1411 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:14.039 entering the houses and driving out all sicknesses, diseases, and evils. 1412 01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:16.399 At the present time, there are several concerns about the 1413 01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:19.560 False Face masks. First, there are a number of non 1414 01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:22.399 Iroquois artists who are making what they call false face 1415 01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:25.520 masks and selling them to the general public. Second, and 1416 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:27.199 number of false face masks are in the hands of 1417 01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:30.039 the private collectors who do not care for them in 1418 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:33.159 the traditional manner. The Iroquois have called for the collectors 1419 01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:34.960 and museums to return the mask to the tribes so 1420 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:37.439 they can be cared for in a respectful manner. The 1421 01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:40.159 National Museum of the American Indian has returned a number 1422 01:09:40.199 --> 01:09:44.319 of these. The Iroquois Traditionalists Society opposes the sales false 1423 01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:47.079 face masks to private collectors and museums. So this doesn't 1424 01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:49.560 really bring it up. But this was in the right article. 1425 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:50.600 But essentially I was. 1426 01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:52.119 Like, how does this tie in to Christmas? 1427 01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:54.319 So the two times a year where they will do this, 1428 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:56.479 like the one for the entire tribes during the summer 1429 01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:59.560 solstice and during the winter solstice. Okay, so this was 1430 01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:02.079 supposed to brought up in the winter solstice context, but 1431 01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:04.159 this article did not do a good job of explaining that. 1432 01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:06.000 But getting back on. 1433 01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:10.199 I wonder, I wonder if because they carve them while 1434 01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:13.199 they're in the tree, that they believe they have the 1435 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.920 entity or spirit of the trees or some kind of 1436 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:19.039 entity in it, and that's why they feed it and 1437 01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:20.199 care for it the way they do. 1438 01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:22.439 Maybe, but then it's the way it made a mask 1439 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:24.800 after it's put into the coals, which is also. 1440 01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:27.479 They invoke, you know, they invoke some type of spirit 1441 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.279 to be trapped into it to help heal these people. 1442 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:31.640 And so that's why they're feeding it. 1443 01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:35.720 Possibly, But I mean it's like you're feeding it white 1444 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.159 corn mush, which like all right, cool, So even in 1445 01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:41.199 the off season when you're not using this mask, you're 1446 01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:43.600 feeding it and it's just going through it like you 1447 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:46.239 just is it just like the you're going through the 1448 01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:49.039 motions so that the spirit gets it. Sounds like a 1449 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:52.399 mess to clean up afterwards. I don't know. I don't 1450 01:10:52.399 --> 01:10:56.399 know anyway. So now this actually is from CNN, believe 1451 01:10:56.399 --> 01:10:59.720 it or not, The Strange Dark Nights of Romania's Bare 1452 01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:02.119 Day Dancers Bear Dancers. 1453 01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:05.159 Yeah, like they bring bears up into this place. 1454 01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:09.479 No, not exactly, but you might think so. So all right, 1455 01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:12.520 to the outsiders, the site of a troop of dancing 1456 01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:15.239 bears decked out in blood red tassels, stomping through the 1457 01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:17.880 snowy streets of a small Romanian town might be a strange, 1458 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:21.000 almost sinister site, But for those that live in Romania's 1459 01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.720 Eastern Moldova region, the arrival of the bears actually locals 1460 01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:27.960 wearing real bear skins, is a time of celebration. The 1461 01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:31.039 event takes place annually between Christmas and New Year's. It's 1462 01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:34.720 a tradition that until recently, few beyond the tight knit 1463 01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:39.760 rural communities of the Trottis Valley have witnessed. But a 1464 01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:43.960 series of images by New York based photographer Diana zenneb 1465 01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.000 not going to pronounce that name, has captured this mysterious 1466 01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:49.960 ceremony and brought it to a wider audience. She a 1467 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:54.760 former humanitarian aid worker now pursuing photo projects mainly across Africa, 1468 01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:57.760 is half Romanian and lived there until she was eight, 1469 01:11:57.880 --> 01:12:00.600 when her family left as refugees, first to Canada than 1470 01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:02.680 to New York. I think that's supposed to be her. Yeah, 1471 01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:06.119 that's all right there. The bear dances were always one 1472 01:12:06.159 --> 01:12:09.000 of my favorite memories, she'd tell CNN. It's a joyous event, 1473 01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:11.880 although the dancers don't look that way in the pictures. 1474 01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:15.880 They're trying to look fierce because, like you know, totally 1475 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:21.239 so the bear Tamer. Her beautiful images show men and 1476 01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.920 women in full bear costume paradying through or parading through 1477 01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:30.319 the streets in and around her hometown of Muannesty. They 1478 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:34.920 are accompanied by drummers and singing Bear Tamer candid shots 1479 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:39.479 also showed the bear dancers enjoying downtime, smoking cigarettes, sharing drinks, relaxing, 1480 01:12:39.520 --> 01:12:42.359 and even kissing. The bear dancing is meant to drive 1481 01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:46.520 away evil spirits, according to the author here, It owes 1482 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:49.560 its origins to the time when the local gypsies also 1483 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:52.520 known as Roma, would descend into towns from the forest 1484 01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:57.079 in which they lived, bringing with them real bears. That's 1485 01:12:57.119 --> 01:12:58.000 the fucking. 1486 01:12:57.720 --> 01:13:00.319 Gypsy I knew, I said as soon as I I 1487 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:01.880 was like, oh man, the gypsies. 1488 01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:04.880 Well, I mean we're talking Romania. They're called Aroma, And 1489 01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:07.199 apparently the Gypsies would come down from the mountains with 1490 01:13:07.279 --> 01:13:09.880 real bears and use them to drive away evil spirits. 1491 01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:13.159 And the local community's like, huh, what if we just 1492 01:13:13.159 --> 01:13:15.880 like wore the bears skins and did it probably be 1493 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:19.279 safer right? Hell yeah, I mean it's pretty cool though. 1494 01:13:19.439 --> 01:13:22.840 I like it. Townsfolks would pay the gypsies in exchange 1495 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:25.319 for letting the bear cubs walk up and down their 1496 01:13:25.359 --> 01:13:30.279 backs seen as a cure for back ache. Listen, I'm 1497 01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:32.199 not trying listen. Listen, y'all. 1498 01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:34.800 I mean even even the little ones though, have real 1499 01:13:35.039 --> 01:13:38.199 sharp claws, so I'm not just asking for it. 1500 01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:43.159 But all right, I'm not trying to throw shade. But 1501 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:46.800 like the old gypsy woman who is over here telling 1502 01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:49.720 fortunes and telling you how to cure things, Oh yes, 1503 01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:51.920 if you led the bear cub crawl in your back, 1504 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:55.640 it will fix your psiatica bitch, What's that's the dumbest, 1505 01:13:55.760 --> 01:13:56.479 But they would pay. 1506 01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:58.760 Them for It's like maybe the way of it would 1507 01:13:58.760 --> 01:13:59.640 help pop their back. 1508 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.039 You could just give the local fat guy to do that. 1509 01:14:03.720 --> 01:14:05.560 Yeah, but if they don't know, if they didn't have 1510 01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:10.079 knowledge of chiropractic, but the bear cub did. I'm simply 1511 01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:13.000 saying the weight of the bear walking up and down 1512 01:14:13.039 --> 01:14:16.680 their spine would pop it, which does relieve a lot 1513 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:18.880 of people's sciatic nerve issues. 1514 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:21.680 But I feel like you could just get like a 1515 01:14:21.840 --> 01:14:25.079 child to do it. I don't know how much the 1516 01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:26.079 bear cub's way. 1517 01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:28.119 I mean, I don't know. 1518 01:14:28.279 --> 01:14:30.840 It depends on how big they are I guess, I guess, so, 1519 01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:34.600 I mean it makes sense in some way of you know, hey, 1520 01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:37.720 this thing is, you know, doing this, and now my 1521 01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:40.720 back popped and it suddenly feels better, so hey, it 1522 01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:41.439 actually works. 1523 01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:43.279 It makes sense to me. 1524 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:45.600 If nothing else, just for the novelty of like being 1525 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:47.039 able to play around with the bear cub and thing. 1526 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:48.880 It'd be worth it whether it did or didn't pop 1527 01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:49.840 your back, you know. 1528 01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:51.880 I mean, they're super cute, dude. 1529 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:55.399 Bears are terrifying, and they have no no business looking 1530 01:14:55.439 --> 01:14:57.840 as cute as they do for how terrifying they are. 1531 01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:02.000 They are really terrifying, Like they really will fuck you up, 1532 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:05.319 but they're so adorable they are. It's super cute and 1533 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:07.600 I want to touch the dog, but I also don't 1534 01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:12.079 want to. So I've seen way too many bears out 1535 01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:14.159 in person, like in the wild. 1536 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:15.800 I don't fuck with him at all. 1537 01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.680 I still't need a bear rug and then anyone my 1538 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:21.920 laugh or a cape down with a cape. 1539 01:15:22.319 --> 01:15:24.159 The last time I saw a bear, I was actually 1540 01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:26.399 hiking with my child and it was just me and 1541 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:28.680 him out in the woods in the middle of nothing, 1542 01:15:29.560 --> 01:15:33.720 and that was a pretty terrifying experience because he was 1543 01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:37.920 sleeping and I was so who I was so stressed out. 1544 01:15:37.920 --> 01:15:39.560 He was going to wake up and cry and they 1545 01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:41.399 were going to realize that I was right there. And 1546 01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:44.760 it was a whole thing. And man, what kind of bears? 1547 01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:45.880 Black bears? 1548 01:15:46.039 --> 01:15:50.680 Oh they're peaceful. Yeah, you never hear a black bear 1549 01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:54.159 attacking anybody. Yeah, it was a mom with three cups. Yep, 1550 01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:56.119 never mind that would be the only. 1551 01:15:56.439 --> 01:15:59.840 So I was sweating it out because I saw the 1552 01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:02.560 may first and then I saw the head of the 1553 01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:04.600 mom and I was like, fuck my life. And I 1554 01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:07.640 had to like try to figure out how to backtrack 1555 01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:10.359 without her seeing me, without waking up my child. 1556 01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:11.800 And it was a whole thing. 1557 01:16:12.239 --> 01:16:14.479 And I only had like a small gun on me, 1558 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:16.720 and I'm like, this is this is gonna be a thing. 1559 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.359 We're we're gonna fight to the death over here, over 1560 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:21.960 our kids. So I was really stressed. I'm not gonna 1561 01:16:22.000 --> 01:16:22.319 lie to you. 1562 01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:22.640 I was. 1563 01:16:23.079 --> 01:16:24.880 I didn't sleep for like three days after that because 1564 01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:27.960 I was so panicked that my kid was gonna get harmed. Yeah, 1565 01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:30.199 it was a rough It was a rough one. So 1566 01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:32.600 then I didn't hike around there for a good bit. 1567 01:16:33.239 --> 01:16:34.199 Where is that Tunica? 1568 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.199 No, this was this was down the street from my 1569 01:16:37.239 --> 01:16:37.920 house in Oregon. 1570 01:16:38.119 --> 01:16:42.279 Oh oh Jesus, So I know I got black bears 1571 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:45.560 up there? Yeah huh, I mean I knew I had 1572 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:48.159 bears for sure. I didn't know black bears were native 1573 01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:50.800 to Oregon. I thought it'd be more like a well, 1574 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:53.199 I don't want to just thow out Kodiak and grizzly 1575 01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:53.840 and shit, but. 1576 01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:55.800 Like there is grizzly bears that have come down. 1577 01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:58.399 See. I also thought it'd be more of the grizzly variety. 1578 01:16:58.439 --> 01:17:01.319 But hey, good things. Black bears. They're all over the place. Hell, 1579 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:04.680 I've mentioned it before. They just got to such a 1580 01:17:04.680 --> 01:17:07.399 population in Louisiana where there's now a season. 1581 01:17:07.159 --> 01:17:11.520 Lottery estimated thirty thousand black bears. 1582 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:13.239 You learned, so I knew every day. 1583 01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:15.119 Yeah. I was like, man, I know you're making me 1584 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:16.479 question the bear I saw it. I was like, no, 1585 01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:17.439 I know it was a black bear. 1586 01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:17.880 No no, no. 1587 01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:19.520 If you say it was. 1588 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:24.600 Just cougar, cougars will hunt you, like no tomorrow, Yeah 1589 01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:25.319 they will. We have. 1590 01:17:25.800 --> 01:17:28.279 So my dad's where I grew up is in between 1591 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:31.039 two canyons. So if a cannon on each side, and 1592 01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.119 there's a long road, and our property was in between so. 1593 01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:35.640 You got like proper mountain lions and ship. 1594 01:17:36.159 --> 01:17:36.439 Yeah. 1595 01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:39.880 So there was a cougar that decided it felt some 1596 01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:44.439 type of way, and this cougar would wait, I'm not 1597 01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:46.920 kidding at night for me to get home for my job, 1598 01:17:47.319 --> 01:17:49.479 and I would have to sit in my car sometimes 1599 01:17:49.520 --> 01:17:51.880 my truck and not get out because the damn thing 1600 01:17:51.920 --> 01:17:54.960 would sit out there and just like pace around and 1601 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:56.239 like come back and forth. 1602 01:17:56.319 --> 01:17:58.960 And I was, well, yeah, and I this was before 1603 01:17:59.000 --> 01:17:59.560 cell phones. 1604 01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:01.640 Don't do you know how old were you? 1605 01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:04.239 Let's see, I was fifteen. 1606 01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:07.800 Shit, it's probably your dad just didn't sit on the 1607 01:18:07.800 --> 01:18:09.079 porch and be like got you. 1608 01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:11.479 Well, once we figured it out that it was actually 1609 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:13.720 kind of because it was it was stalking the livestock 1610 01:18:14.399 --> 01:18:17.039 behind me into the side of me and stuff like that. 1611 01:18:17.119 --> 01:18:19.680 But this thing would sit out there and it would 1612 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:21.640 it would come I would see it and it would 1613 01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:23.840 come up the because you have to drive up a 1614 01:18:24.279 --> 01:18:26.600 big driveway up a hill and all this stuff, and 1615 01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:28.039 it would just I would see it out of the 1616 01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:29.560 corner of my eye before I got out of the truck, 1617 01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:31.479 and I would watch it kind of like look at me, 1618 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:33.640 kind of wander around, come back. 1619 01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:36.039 I'm like this motherfucker's trying to wait for me. I 1620 01:18:36.079 --> 01:18:37.800 am not getting out of my truck right now. Like, 1621 01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:41.920 there's no way. They're big too. Yeah, they're really big 1622 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:45.279 compared to what people think. No, they're really their paws 1623 01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:49.439 are huge. Nope, Nope, that thing, I swear to you, 1624 01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:50.880 just like outlived everybody. 1625 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:53.760 I don't even know what their lifespan usually looks like. 1626 01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:56.399 I don't know, but I'm telling you that thing never 1627 01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:58.880 got I know that people shot at it. I don't 1628 01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:01.199 know if anyone actually ever or killed it, because I 1629 01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:02.560 would see it every now and again. 1630 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:04.039 Bastard. 1631 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:06.800 I just was worried that I was gonna be eaten. 1632 01:19:06.600 --> 01:19:10.840 By damn mountain. Look that fuck that no way, at. 1633 01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:14.600 Least it wasn't a random crazy panther of Louisiana. Apparently 1634 01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:15.399 that we telling you. 1635 01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:17.319 I'm telling you too. 1636 01:19:17.199 --> 01:19:19.439 We do not have panthers. 1637 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:21.479 We did not. 1638 01:19:22.079 --> 01:19:25.319 I looked it up so much, so much research on this. 1639 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.319 Okay, if you look online, they will say that we 1640 01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:33.039 have no large cats that live in Louisiana. I don't 1641 01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:36.560 give a fuck what the wildlife and fisheries tell you. No, 1642 01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:39.000 And I have them from my own personal experiences. I 1643 01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:42.279 have multiple dudes that I've worked with that have multiple 1644 01:19:42.279 --> 01:19:45.279 trail camps all throughout their personal land that they own. 1645 01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:49.199 We have large long tail cats that live in the state. 1646 01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:52.079 Whether the wildlife and fisheries want to acknowledge that or 1647 01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:53.840 not is up to them. I don't give a fuck. 1648 01:19:53.880 --> 01:19:56.279 I've seen them, and I've seen them with my own 1649 01:19:56.279 --> 01:19:59.880 eyes twice in my life. Here in this parish, we 1650 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:01.720 have them. They're not a lot. It's not like we're 1651 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:05.079 overpopulated or anything like that. They're super elusive. You may 1652 01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:07.319 go your entire life and never see one, but if 1653 01:20:07.319 --> 01:20:08.640 you spend a lot of time in the woods, you'll 1654 01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:10.600 probably see one eventually. Yeah. 1655 01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:13.239 I don't know anybody that is seen besides you saying that. 1656 01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:15.720 And I've looked up so much literature on it because 1657 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:17.520 I was like, there's no fucking way. 1658 01:20:17.319 --> 01:20:20.000 That we have actually a panther that's an African cat. 1659 01:20:20.159 --> 01:20:22.479 I understand this. This is more like a cousin to 1660 01:20:22.520 --> 01:20:26.319 a mountain lion. Okay, I get that, but yeah, no, 1661 01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:28.039 we got them, like for sure. 1662 01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:28.760 Hmm. 1663 01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:32.159 People can believe what the fuck they want. That's fine. 1664 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:35.079 I live in these woods. I know it's up back 1665 01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:38.560 to the bear, back to the bear in Romania, older 1666 01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:40.680 bears be So we got the younger bears that are 1667 01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:42.760 walking on people's backs, and they're super cute, and they're 1668 01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:45.680 paying the gypsies to do these things. Older bears would 1669 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:48.119 be made to dance by being placed on hot metal 1670 01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:50.720 plates that would make them hop up and down. Oh 1671 01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:54.560 how cute, No horrible. And these again, these are the 1672 01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:57.840 gypsies that are doing that. Free for thought. Uh whatever 1673 01:20:57.880 --> 01:21:00.760 this lady's name is says this took place as recent 1674 01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:02.239 as the nineteen thirties. 1675 01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:05.159 Okay, so it's it's been a good hot minute. 1676 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:07.199 Yeah. Well, now they've just got people that are dressing 1677 01:21:07.239 --> 01:21:09.119 the skins, because that's more humane. 1678 01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:15.039 I don't know what's worse. God, damn what I like? Well, 1679 01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:16.920 I mean they're torturing them. 1680 01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:19.239 It's better for the bear to be dead. 1681 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:23.359 Well, it depends that they're like actually over killing them, 1682 01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:25.920 or if it's like a population control kind of a 1683 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:28.239 thing and you get a tag and you only get 1684 01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:31.199 a certain amount. I don't believe in killing bears that much, 1685 01:21:31.239 --> 01:21:33.920 but I you know, depends on how many they are 1686 01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:37.000 overpopulating and things like that. But sure, sure, I mean 1687 01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:39.960 to torture them and make them hop up and down 1688 01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:42.079 on hot plates, burning their feet. 1689 01:21:42.199 --> 01:21:43.560 That's fucked up. 1690 01:21:43.399 --> 01:21:45.439 But the Gypsies have never been known to be super 1691 01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:46.479 kind of animals. 1692 01:21:47.479 --> 01:21:47.880 That's fair. 1693 01:21:48.039 --> 01:21:51.039 No, I'm just saying anyway. Her grandmother, who is now 1694 01:21:51.079 --> 01:21:54.760 in her eighties, recall seeing Roma leading bears on leashes 1695 01:21:54.840 --> 01:21:57.039 down from the forest when she was five or six 1696 01:21:57.159 --> 01:22:00.960 years old. The tradition is very undefined because Roma don't 1697 01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:04.279 write their history down. I've done research, but no one 1698 01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:06.920 can figure out how they went from live bears walking 1699 01:22:06.960 --> 01:22:10.760 on people's backs to people addressed as bears. The costumes 1700 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:14.720 involved in the dance are actual bear skin, so while 1701 01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:18.880 bear dancing was once an exclusive Roma activity, the author 1702 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:21.600 says they've been priced out because a ban on bear 1703 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:23.960 hunting has escalated the price of the skins to up 1704 01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:29.159 to twenty two hundred dollars US. Damn. Most Roma, she says, 1705 01:22:29.239 --> 01:22:32.359 have sold theirs and can't afford new ones. This checks out. 1706 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:36.119 Hard economic times followed the collapse of communism meant an 1707 01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:38.640 end to the days when crowds of bear troops were 1708 01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.800 welcomed in every house of food, drink, and money. Now 1709 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:45.640 fewer groups make pre arranged stops at the homes of 1710 01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:48.560 the community figures or restaurants where they pick up tips 1711 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:51.520 for up to one hundred dollars. Recently, some have been 1712 01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:54.239 able to make more money traveling to bigger cities like 1713 01:22:54.399 --> 01:22:58.319 Bucharest to perform for wealthy clients. Even though the tradition 1714 01:22:58.439 --> 01:23:01.319 is still cherished by locals, the Altar says it's in 1715 01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.319 danger of dying out as local cultures are diluted by 1716 01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:08.159 Western influences and many people leave home. Yeah that's fair. 1717 01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:12.600 So Romania has a problem with our out migration because 1718 01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.680 there are no jobs for people of working age. They're 1719 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.359 all away in Italy or Spain or some other places. 1720 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:21.319 So in rural areas it's most likely the older people 1721 01:23:21.319 --> 01:23:23.439 and very young kids. Everyone else is gone. So this 1722 01:23:23.479 --> 01:23:25.520 could be another reason why the tradition is dying out. 1723 01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:27.680 Yeah, that's pretty much what it talks about. Is it 1724 01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:28.439 dying out? 1725 01:23:29.199 --> 01:23:32.000 But as far as the bear dances are concerned, I 1726 01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:35.359 don't know if this is because over here you see 1727 01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:37.520 like people in the bear costume and it won't let 1728 01:23:37.520 --> 01:23:39.199 me shift to the next picture for some reason. 1729 01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:42.920 Oh there we go. Oh okay, yeah, we got people. 1730 01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:47.239 Wearing actual bearskins doing their dances and things, which. 1731 01:23:47.439 --> 01:23:48.319 That was a mask. 1732 01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:51.239 Did you see that guy's mask that was That was 1733 01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:53.319 a face mask. If I've ever seen it, looks like 1734 01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:53.840 a cleon. 1735 01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:56.760 I don't know what that looks like. But hell yeah, 1736 01:23:57.000 --> 01:23:57.479 trek shit. 1737 01:23:57.800 --> 01:23:58.720 Yeah it's truck shit. 1738 01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:03.800 I believe that. Yeah. Yeah, dudes rocking the bearskins and 1739 01:24:03.840 --> 01:24:06.119 the red scarves and they're just walking around doing their 1740 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:10.560 dances and things, traditional instrumentation and shit. This is cool. 1741 01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:14.000 I mean, hopefully the tradition stays alive and they're able 1742 01:24:14.039 --> 01:24:15.600 to continuously pass it down. 1743 01:24:16.319 --> 01:24:16.880 I like it. 1744 01:24:17.560 --> 01:24:18.760 I do. It's pretty awesome. 1745 01:24:19.079 --> 01:24:22.159 So now let's shift over to how KFC became a 1746 01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:25.520 Christmas tradition in Japan. I will give my spiel on 1747 01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:27.439 the Kernel here in a bit, because boy, I just 1748 01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:30.600 learned more about him. He went from a gunfighter to 1749 01:24:32.640 --> 01:24:37.479 basically a failed businessman multiple times over, prolific womanizer. We'll 1750 01:24:37.479 --> 01:24:38.560 get to all of it. We'll get to all of 1751 01:24:38.600 --> 01:24:41.079 it here in a bit. But anyway, how did KFC 1752 01:24:41.199 --> 01:24:45.920 become a Christmas tradition in Japan? Let's get into it here. 1753 01:24:46.199 --> 01:24:52.960 It started with a dream. Literally. Takishi O Kawara, Yeah, 1754 01:24:53.159 --> 01:24:57.000 the manager of Japan's very first KFC reportedly scribbled down 1755 01:24:57.039 --> 01:25:00.520 an idea at midnight after hearing foreign customers hn't the 1756 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:04.680 lack of Christmas turkey. The next morning, party barrels were born, 1757 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:08.199 family sized buckets of fried chicken, marketed as a holiday 1758 01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:11.680 meal alternative. It was a bold pitch, especially in a 1759 01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:14.960 country with no baked ham tradition, no tree trimming ritual, 1760 01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:18.920 and no long established Christmas dinner. In nineteen seventy four, 1761 01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.079 KFC Japan went national with the now famous campaign not 1762 01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:26.159 going to pronounce that, but it basically means Kentucky for Christmas. 1763 01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:29.600 It wasn't just a catchy slogan, it was a seasonal 1764 01:25:29.640 --> 01:25:34.199 blueprint which began as a workaround quickly gained traction. Suddenly 1765 01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:37.119 KFC wasn't just a fast food chain. It was a 1766 01:25:37.199 --> 01:25:40.000 holiday fixture. And in the list of things you didn't 1767 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.479 know about Kentucky Fried Chicken, it's one of Japan's most 1768 01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:45.560 enduring Christmas brands. 1769 01:25:46.319 --> 01:25:47.600 I love this. 1770 01:25:47.600 --> 01:25:48.560 This is fordicads. 1771 01:25:49.079 --> 01:25:51.159 I didn't even know this and I lived in Japan. 1772 01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:52.720 I mean I lived in Oknawo, so I didn't live 1773 01:25:52.760 --> 01:25:53.279 in mainland. 1774 01:25:53.279 --> 01:25:56.720 But which Okanawa has its own culture separate from mainland. 1775 01:25:56.760 --> 01:25:58.760 Oh, for sure, completely, completely. 1776 01:25:59.159 --> 01:26:01.319 I mean it's let's get into it here, so it says. 1777 01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:03.439 The real genius of the campaign was that it didn't 1778 01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:06.960 try to mimic Western customs. Instead, it gave Japan something 1779 01:26:07.079 --> 01:26:10.520 entirely new, a fun family center tradition that felt festive 1780 01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:14.039 without feeling forced. The original package even came with a 1781 01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:18.039 bottle of wine, nudging the fried chicken into celebration territory. 1782 01:26:18.359 --> 01:26:21.680 In a country without a Christmas dinner playbook, KFC made 1783 01:26:21.720 --> 01:26:24.800 its own. So now let's talk about this a deep 1784 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:27.760 fried Christmas decades in the making. First of all, why 1785 01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:30.439 does the colonel look inherently Japanese in that sculpture. 1786 01:26:31.199 --> 01:26:34.159 I love that it came with a bottle of wine. 1787 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:38.239 I mean fried chicken and wine. Like you talking dirty now, 1788 01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:40.520 because we've got an old japan man. 1789 01:26:41.159 --> 01:26:44.159 Because when I think of KFC, I I'm also thinking, like, yo, 1790 01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:45.439 they might have some cab. 1791 01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:48.399 I'm just saying Netflix and chill kind of vibe. 1792 01:26:50.279 --> 01:26:50.439 Yo. 1793 01:26:50.520 --> 01:26:53.720 You bring that box chicken boy and that wine like 1794 01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:55.359 you only get laid. 1795 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:57.840 You're bringing that bucket of chicken in a bottle of wine. 1796 01:26:58.479 --> 01:27:00.399 That good old Christmas. 1797 01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:03.479 They bring Kentucky into the Japan. It's what it is 1798 01:27:03.720 --> 01:27:05.720 they're bringing the trailer park to Tokyo. 1799 01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:08.199 Like this, This is wonderful tradition. 1800 01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:11.680 Today, Japan's Christmas season doesn't begin with sleigh bells. It 1801 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:22.319 starts when KFC Japan opens pre orders. What slaying them bells? Uh? 1802 01:27:22.439 --> 01:27:25.760 Yeah myself, you're good. 1803 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:30.560 It starts with KMC Japan opens pre orders in late October. 1804 01:27:31.680 --> 01:27:34.840 These people are pre ordering get buckets of chicken in 1805 01:27:35.039 --> 01:27:36.960 October for Christmas. 1806 01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:40.279 N This is so awesome. This is even better than 1807 01:27:40.479 --> 01:27:43.279 like down the street ordering your turkeys like a mom 1808 01:27:43.399 --> 01:27:44.680 in advance because. 1809 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:46.239 They don't have turkeys there, but they do got that 1810 01:27:46.359 --> 01:27:50.039 KFC bucket though they oh my god. 1811 01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:51.439 They got that country chicken. 1812 01:27:53.560 --> 01:27:57.199 Bro, what the fuck? They have timpoora chicken. But that's 1813 01:27:57.239 --> 01:27:59.760 not the point. KFC man was like, listen, I got 1814 01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:02.359 a wild marketing pitch. Just hear me out hear me 1815 01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:03.840 out here we are. 1816 01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:06.760 How did I not know this? And I lived over there? 1817 01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:10.079 Oh whoa? Okay, no, but I keep reading this. Oh shit, 1818 01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:13.000 I just saw the numbers. Okay. So Kentucky for Christmas 1819 01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:16.439 has become a logistical operation as much as a holiday tradition, 1820 01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:20.359 with some customers ordering weeks in advance to avoid standing 1821 01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:24.239 out in line for hours. According to KFC Japan, Christmas 1822 01:28:24.319 --> 01:28:26.520 Eve remains its busiest day of the year, with some 1823 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:30.319 store selling over ten five to ten times more than usual. 1824 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:33.159 In twenty eighteen alone, the chain pulled in six point 1825 01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:36.680 nine billiony in, which is sixty three million dollars in 1826 01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:37.600 just five days. 1827 01:28:37.720 --> 01:28:42.239 Holy shit, sixty three million dollars and five days off 1828 01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:44.479 of the Lord's Chicken of Country Chicken. 1829 01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:47.680 Bro what can good tie is the Lord's Chicken as 1830 01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:50.800 far as that's concerned. But like, hold on, hold on, 1831 01:28:52.000 --> 01:28:53.479 these people in Japan are. 1832 01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:56.960 So really like I like KFC. I'm not gonna lie. 1833 01:28:57.000 --> 01:28:57.880 It used to be better. 1834 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:01.399 Well, I mean, there's a reason for that. The only 1835 01:29:01.439 --> 01:29:03.920 one I went to is one in like in Podunk nowhere. 1836 01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:05.479 That's the last one I've been to, and it was 1837 01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:07.159 really good actually. 1838 01:29:06.760 --> 01:29:10.000 But so I'm gonna give you all a backstory. There's 1839 01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:13.640 also a reason why your boy Dave from Wendy's made 1840 01:29:13.680 --> 01:29:15.439 his store what it is, and it does tie back 1841 01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:18.640 to the Colonel. But anyway, okay, so just break this down. 1842 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:21.039 Just everybody's on the same page as this. Sixty three 1843 01:29:21.079 --> 01:29:26.399 million in twenty eighteen, the chain KFC in Japan, which 1844 01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:28.359 for the record, I didn't even know that they had 1845 01:29:29.399 --> 01:29:34.359 that level of outpost in Japan either, in five days 1846 01:29:34.479 --> 01:29:38.800 because people are thirsty for that that glorious fried chicken 1847 01:29:39.399 --> 01:29:42.399 so much that in five days they made sixty three 1848 01:29:42.680 --> 01:29:47.920 million US. That is that's substantial. They ain't play money. 1849 01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:52.479 That's that's wow, okay, And it's not just buckets a 1850 01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:56.359 fried chicken. KFC celebrated the holiday season with special value 1851 01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:58.279 meals back in twenty twenty two. 1852 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:03.680 Wow, that's twelve million, six hundred dollars a day. 1853 01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:08.359 Yeah, for five days straight, they're making twelve million profit. 1854 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.239 That's okay. Sorry, I just I had tod the quick 1855 01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:13.720 math and I'm like, holy crap. 1856 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:16.520 Yo, I ain't mad at it. I'm I'm stoked that 1857 01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:18.720 KFC has found them a niche market and they're just 1858 01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:22.039 leaning into it. But like, holy fuck, Tokyo, what is 1859 01:30:22.079 --> 01:30:24.680 happening here? Where it's God's zilland when you need them anyway? 1860 01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:28.239 So they have value meals back in twenty twenty two, 1861 01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:33.159 offering everything from whole roasted chicken with stuffing to cakes, sides, 1862 01:30:33.239 --> 01:30:36.760 and commemorative plates. Each year, the party barrel gets a 1863 01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:39.720 new design and some stores even dress up the kernel 1864 01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:42.800 in full Santa regalia. Other parts of the world have 1865 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:46.479 gotten into the fun too. KFC's Christmas treet ornaments debut 1866 01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:50.159 in New Zealand as festive decorations, providing the chain's global 1867 01:30:50.199 --> 01:30:51.680 grip on holiday branding. 1868 01:30:52.039 --> 01:30:54.720 Wait, we need to hit up crypto women and ask 1869 01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:56.760 her if this is a real thing. 1870 01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.680 You know what, I'm jealous. I don't have a KFC 1871 01:30:59.800 --> 01:31:01.239 crew Smiths tree ornament. 1872 01:31:01.319 --> 01:31:02.680 I feel like we can just find one this. 1873 01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:05.319 Come on, man, I actually do you buy my mom 1874 01:31:05.399 --> 01:31:10.720 every year a Starbucks ornament? Like, for like the last 1875 01:31:10.880 --> 01:31:13.319 I don't know, eighteen years, I bought her a store 1876 01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:15.720 Starbucks cup ornament. 1877 01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:19.000 And it was founded in Portland. Right, that's an organ thing. 1878 01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:20.199 I think Seattle. 1879 01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:24.319 Oh sorry specific Northwestern excuse me, don't want to miss 1880 01:31:25.079 --> 01:31:28.479 I don't want to misappropriate your your inheritance, settle your 1881 01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:31.880 your culture there. But anyway, moving on, So what started 1882 01:31:31.880 --> 01:31:33.720 as a clever bit of marketing has turned into an 1883 01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:38.159 annual ritual that is festive, efficient and unmistakably local. Oh 1884 01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:38.960 very much so. 1885 01:31:39.840 --> 01:31:41.800 It was what it was Seattle. I was crazy. 1886 01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:44.199 I was like, man, I know it's not organ Yeah, 1887 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:48.159 I have been corrected. These are not interchangeable dialogues. They 1888 01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.359 are not. They're not They're different, thank you very much. 1889 01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:54.399 So just like Alabama and Georgia, these are completely different places, 1890 01:31:54.439 --> 01:32:00.439 allegedly completely different, with so many cultural differences. Said someone's time, 1891 01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:00.960 I'm sure. 1892 01:32:01.960 --> 01:32:02.039 So. 1893 01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:04.880 Anyway, there are plenty of holiday food traditions around the world, 1894 01:32:04.920 --> 01:32:08.880 but few are as unexpected or as enduring as Japan's 1895 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:13.520 deep fried December. Just don't forget to pre order. Wow, 1896 01:32:14.319 --> 01:32:16.800 So these people are these people are doing the mostest 1897 01:32:16.840 --> 01:32:19.760 with the colonel. So all right, talk to. 1898 01:32:19.800 --> 01:32:21.399 Me about the colonel. What happened with him? 1899 01:32:21.600 --> 01:32:23.880 So he didn't actually start KFC until he was in 1900 01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:24.960 his sixties. 1901 01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:25.920 Oh for real? 1902 01:32:26.119 --> 01:32:31.760 So he was. So he was a prolific cheater on 1903 01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:36.119 his wife, like and was not shy about it. And 1904 01:32:36.239 --> 01:32:38.279 at one point in time she basically took his three 1905 01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:41.880 kids and took off, and he got her back and 1906 01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:44.199 essentially just got right back into the same thing. He 1907 01:32:44.239 --> 01:32:46.239 worked a sales job here and there. He just kind 1908 01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:48.880 of had odd jobs just to make ends meet, and 1909 01:32:48.920 --> 01:32:53.399 one day he decided that he through a weird chain 1910 01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:57.079 of events, he ended up owning a gas station and 1911 01:32:57.399 --> 01:33:00.159 which was cool. I mean he didn't mean to. Essentially, 1912 01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:02.000 he was like a Michelin entire guy at one point, 1913 01:33:02.039 --> 01:33:06.560 and there was a gas station maintenance shop combo. Then 1914 01:33:06.600 --> 01:33:09.079 through a chain of events, he ended up owning the 1915 01:33:09.119 --> 01:33:12.239 gas station. Cool started selling food on the side, and 1916 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:14.640 he realized that if you take this chicken and you 1917 01:33:14.680 --> 01:33:16.800 do it in a pressure cooker, you can cook it 1918 01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:18.920 in eight minutes rather than in a deep fryer that 1919 01:33:18.960 --> 01:33:22.359 would take some like twenty minutes. So he started just 1920 01:33:22.399 --> 01:33:26.479 doing pressure cooking and like dope, cool. Long story is short, 1921 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:30.199 they built an interstate that went completely opposite direction of 1922 01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:33.039 his place. So his business failed and crumbled, and this 1923 01:33:33.159 --> 01:33:36.359 was after the building had burned down twice, so he 1924 01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:40.560 was not necesinarily destitute, but essentially he's like, listen, fuck 1925 01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:43.279 the gas station industry. I know I can make money 1926 01:33:43.319 --> 01:33:47.039 off of this chicken. So for from sixty six to 1927 01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:52.039 seventy years old, this man found two hundred failing businesses, 1928 01:33:52.479 --> 01:33:55.920 failing restaurants and taught them how to make Kentucky fried 1929 01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.399 chicken with his pressure cooker in the back. And it 1930 01:33:58.439 --> 01:34:01.039 wasn't even like these stories became friend chies. They would 1931 01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:03.960 just have on the menu also now serving Kentucky Fried chicken, 1932 01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:08.760 and that was it cool and it worked between sixty 1933 01:34:08.760 --> 01:34:10.840 six and seventy. It took off in a good way 1934 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:13.600 to where he started franchising these stores. But these people 1935 01:34:13.640 --> 01:34:15.760 didn't know how to run restaurants. That's why all of 1936 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:18.239 them were failing. So he brought on this guy to 1937 01:34:18.399 --> 01:34:21.520 teach these restaurants how to run efficiently and keep it 1938 01:34:21.720 --> 01:34:24.399 on brand and all of these things. This guy later 1939 01:34:24.520 --> 01:34:26.520 decided to split off into his own thing. His name 1940 01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:29.640 was Dave. In his restaurant we would now call Wendy's. 1941 01:34:31.039 --> 01:34:33.319 Oh oh yeah, okay. 1942 01:34:33.479 --> 01:34:36.520 He named the restaurant chain after his granddaughter. The original 1943 01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:38.760 Wendy is still currently the CEO with the red hair, 1944 01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:41.800 although she's like, god, she's eating way too much Wendy's. 1945 01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:44.119 But but's at the point, beside the point, okay, So 1946 01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:48.319 cut to KFC. He goes public, he sells his company, 1947 01:34:48.319 --> 01:34:49.880 and he made a few million off of it, and 1948 01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:54.039 that's fine. He also was such a prolific foul mouth 1949 01:34:54.359 --> 01:34:58.439 person because he was a veteran that basically they understood 1950 01:34:58.439 --> 01:35:00.239 if he was walking into the store to like be 1951 01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:03.079 the quality manager. And that was the deal. He sold 1952 01:35:03.159 --> 01:35:05.680 his shares of the company, but he would maintain at 1953 01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:08.880 least a quality assurance, quality control type of position. He 1954 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:11.760 could pop into any location and he got paid somewhere 1955 01:35:11.760 --> 01:35:13.720 between sixteen and eighty K a year something like that 1956 01:35:13.800 --> 01:35:16.680 for this service. They knew if the colonel walked in 1957 01:35:16.880 --> 01:35:19.600 like somebody's getting the ass chewed, if everything is not 1958 01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:22.520 up to snow. And when they went public, the gravy 1959 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:26.199 went off the kilt. They started doing the extra crispy, 1960 01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:29.279 which he called a fried dough ball on top of 1961 01:35:29.319 --> 01:35:31.520 what was once chicken like. He was so mad that 1962 01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:34.880 the standard had dropped. But apparently back in the day 1963 01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:38.840 when he owned a gas station, his gas station was 1964 01:35:38.880 --> 01:35:41.520 in a position where it was like the midway point 1965 01:35:41.560 --> 01:35:44.279 for a lot of bootlegging operations that would go down. 1966 01:35:44.840 --> 01:35:46.720 And also there was other gas stations that were trying 1967 01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:50.039 to take his business, and he got into multiple altercations. 1968 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:53.760 He would throw hands for no reason whatsoever, and that 1969 01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:56.119 was like a known fact as well, and he was 1970 01:35:56.159 --> 01:35:59.159 good at fighting. He also was a lawyer. At one 1971 01:35:59.159 --> 01:36:02.800 point he yeah, he lost his bar when he beat 1972 01:36:02.840 --> 01:36:04.600 the shit out of his client in front of the 1973 01:36:04.640 --> 01:36:05.840 judge in the middle of a case. 1974 01:36:07.439 --> 01:36:10.880 Yo, everything about him except for the prolific cheating I'm 1975 01:36:10.880 --> 01:36:11.319 here for. 1976 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:13.800 I'm not saying he was perfect. I'm saying that he's 1977 01:36:13.840 --> 01:36:17.079 a fucking wild guy. Like there's the story with the lawyer, 1978 01:36:17.079 --> 01:36:19.600 and shit, we're not sure if he beat his client 1979 01:36:19.640 --> 01:36:21.760 with a chair or if the client threw a chair 1980 01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:24.319 at him, but somehow a chair was used as a weapon. 1981 01:36:24.399 --> 01:36:29.720 Dave came out on top and he lost his lawyer license. Okay, yeah, 1982 01:36:29.720 --> 01:36:34.079 the colonel excuse yeah, but uh yeah. So somehow this 1983 01:36:34.159 --> 01:36:36.600 went international to the point of making it to Japan, 1984 01:36:37.199 --> 01:36:40.159 and then one day this homeboy was like, listen, man, 1985 01:36:40.359 --> 01:36:43.479 I got this idea. It's gonna sound weird. Who wants 1986 01:36:43.479 --> 01:36:47.600 fried chicken for Christmas? But hear me out and now 1987 01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:48.239 it is such. 1988 01:36:48.399 --> 01:36:52.199 It's such a cool, like random, weird fluke tradition that 1989 01:36:52.600 --> 01:36:54.199 has taken off and I love it. 1990 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:54.720 It's great. 1991 01:36:55.000 --> 01:36:57.720 What is what is this? What are we doing here? 1992 01:36:58.239 --> 01:37:00.880 We're having some yo, That's what I'm gonna bring. 1993 01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:03.600 Now, I'm gonna go find me a bucket of KFC. 1994 01:37:03.880 --> 01:37:06.640 I'm gonna find me a KFC, get me a tree 1995 01:37:06.760 --> 01:37:12.720 ornament and some wine, and then like, what's up? What's up? Man? 1996 01:37:12.920 --> 01:37:16.319 Sounds like the most white, tragic, whole bucket, whole bottle. 1997 01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:21.600 Fuck the utensils. We don't need the We're here the wine. Christmas, 1998 01:37:21.680 --> 01:37:22.880 y'all for. 1999 01:37:22.880 --> 01:37:25.119 The fucking party. I'm gonna show up in my ugly 2000 01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:28.159 Christmas sweater, yo, but I gotta bring I will say, 2001 01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:30.479 I gotta bring that mashed potatoes and gravy because they 2002 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:32.960 got that ship on point. I love me some mashed 2003 01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:36.920 potatoes and gravy from KFC. If you say so, I 2004 01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:37.439 know you're. 2005 01:37:37.319 --> 01:37:40.520 A no no, no, no no. I used to like KFC 2006 01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:43.279 back when it like when I was younger, before he sold. 2007 01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:48.399 It apparently in like a few years. But the little 2008 01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:50.800 podunk nowhere one, it's really good, but. 2009 01:37:51.039 --> 01:37:53.239 They stopped by one one day. Maybe the standards have 2010 01:37:53.319 --> 01:37:53.840 been red. 2011 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:55.000 I feel about Popeyes. 2012 01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:58.399 Popeye standards has dropped and their prices has skyrockets. 2013 01:37:58.439 --> 01:38:00.720 So ever since they came out with the spicy chicken 2014 01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:04.479 sandwich and like that went viral. That's like all they're 2015 01:38:04.520 --> 01:38:08.560 doing now. They're chicken trash their sandwiches. Okay, but like 2016 01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:13.319 that's anyone anyone. So moving on to the next thing. 2017 01:38:13.399 --> 01:38:16.920 You have the poop one. Let's talk Barcelona. 2018 01:38:17.680 --> 01:38:21.000 Barcelona Spain's pooping Christmas log. 2019 01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:23.720 I'm so happy the wild tradition. 2020 01:38:23.479 --> 01:38:27.560 Of kaga teo. M hm, I'm sure I'm mispronounced that. 2021 01:38:27.600 --> 01:38:30.560 Maybe it's a soft g. I don't know so anyway, 2022 01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:33.000 my first December in Barcelona, when I lived there a 2023 01:38:33.000 --> 01:38:35.920 few years back, I noticed something odd amids the winter 2024 01:38:36.039 --> 01:38:40.399 holiday displays small logs with smiley faces, tiny wooden legs, 2025 01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:43.960 and a red little red capes. I also heard whisperings 2026 01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:47.399 of kaga teo, which sounded like an insult about a 2027 01:38:47.439 --> 01:38:50.279 family member, given that teo in Spanish means uncle and 2028 01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:57.920 CagA translates to poop, so literally, we're talking about poop uncle, uncle, 2029 01:38:57.960 --> 01:39:01.960 poop and uh so. I soon learned that these two 2030 01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:04.439 things are related and have nothing to do with the 2031 01:39:04.479 --> 01:39:10.159 disagreeable relatives. In fact, kagatillo means pooping log in Catalan 2032 01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:14.039 and the official language of Barcelona. In the entire state 2033 01:39:14.079 --> 01:39:17.880 of Catalonium. In early December, families in Catalonia and neighboring 2034 01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:21.800 Aragon place one of these grinning chunks of wood in 2035 01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:25.600 the fireplace or another prominent spot at home, or buy 2036 01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:29.199 the fireplace. Yeah, yeah, they don't burn the poop unkle no, no, 2037 01:39:30.039 --> 01:39:33.520 and pretend to feed it nightly so they can defecate 2038 01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:35.239 little gifts on Christmas Eve. 2039 01:39:36.079 --> 01:39:37.600 I love it so much. 2040 01:39:37.840 --> 01:39:39.199 Yeah, I don't know why. 2041 01:39:39.399 --> 01:39:41.560 So it makes me so happy because it's like such 2042 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:43.000 a cheerful little poop log. 2043 01:39:43.479 --> 01:39:45.119 Yeah. If for any of the cult members that are 2044 01:39:45.119 --> 01:39:47.239 not seeing what we're looking at right now, please come 2045 01:39:47.279 --> 01:39:49.399 to Patreon so you can witness this. 2046 01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:51.560 I'll describe it really quick for those of you that 2047 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:53.880 can't see it. So it is a log that's sitting 2048 01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:58.119 on like a wood Yeah, it's like a wooden log 2049 01:39:58.159 --> 01:40:00.680 sitting on two legs in the front that are taller, 2050 01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:03.079 with two smaller legs in the back. This one has 2051 01:40:03.079 --> 01:40:05.119 a little red cap on its head, kind of like 2052 01:40:05.159 --> 01:40:05.920 the French beret. 2053 01:40:06.039 --> 01:40:06.359 Yep. 2054 01:40:06.439 --> 01:40:07.600 It has a cute. 2055 01:40:07.359 --> 01:40:10.039 Little smiley face with a little nose, and it has 2056 01:40:10.079 --> 01:40:13.800 a little scarf dress situation that's covering like its back 2057 01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:16.079 half so where the poop would be. 2058 01:40:16.840 --> 01:40:19.560 So just so you can understand what we're talking about. 2059 01:40:19.800 --> 01:40:22.960 So the log is sitting squatted dog style here basically, 2060 01:40:23.039 --> 01:40:25.479 and you pretend to feed it every night, and on 2061 01:40:25.560 --> 01:40:28.600 Christmas Eve you lift up the skirt and there's just 2062 01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:30.680 little presents for you and it's shit. 2063 01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:33.960 I really want to do this. I don't really want 2064 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:36.199 to do this. I love it. 2065 01:40:36.199 --> 01:40:39.279 It's so fun, ye know. The kids will probably really 2066 01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:41.479 get a kick out of this, like this is so good. 2067 01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:44.600 Oh my god. You give it something to eat every 2068 01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:47.920 night and it is gone in the morning. Barcelona mother 2069 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:51.840 Monica Vallejo explains Fileto says she and her kids would 2070 01:40:51.840 --> 01:40:54.760 give the log leftovers from dinner or whatever was around. 2071 01:40:55.439 --> 01:40:58.159 She says some families go further to ensure their little 2072 01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:00.640 wooden trunk will actually be able to do the doo doo. 2073 01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:05.600 Pallejo says that these nutrition oriented types might give their 2074 01:41:06.239 --> 01:41:11.479 legit lignious log fiber rich foods like garbonzos and lentils 2075 01:41:11.520 --> 01:41:16.119 so it can poop more presents. They're giving the log 2076 01:41:16.279 --> 01:41:18.520 fiber wise to make sure that it gives them a 2077 01:41:18.520 --> 01:41:19.279 lot of presents. 2078 01:41:20.279 --> 01:41:22.960 What is this, It's healthy poop. They need to make 2079 01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:25.680 sure that poop's healthy. It's on regular tracks, so that 2080 01:41:25.760 --> 01:41:28.680 way they can get their little presents. This is fantastic 2081 01:41:28.720 --> 01:41:29.279 for everyone. 2082 01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:31.560 This is my favorite one so far out of every 2083 01:41:31.560 --> 01:41:33.560 tradition that we have read period. 2084 01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:34.680 This is my favorite. 2085 01:41:34.760 --> 01:41:36.680 The jokes right themselves too, because I can see like 2086 01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:38.880 there's no presence for one day, like what is this? Oh, 2087 01:41:38.920 --> 01:41:42.199 I guess uncle, shit, it's a little constipated. Maybe we 2088 01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:44.600 should give like in reality, like the parents didn't go 2089 01:41:44.600 --> 01:41:46.560 get anything that night. There's like, yo, I don't know, 2090 01:41:46.600 --> 01:41:48.479 feed them fucking fiber. I don't know what to tell you. 2091 01:41:48.520 --> 01:41:49.720 And then on the other hand, if you give them 2092 01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:52.319 too much fiber, I wonder what present diary looks like, 2093 01:41:52.319 --> 01:41:56.479 like what would be like unwrapped presents, like the wrapping 2094 01:41:56.520 --> 01:41:59.840 paper and everything's just all over the place. Just whatever. 2095 01:42:00.159 --> 01:42:01.359 Oh no, man, it's a mess. 2096 01:42:01.359 --> 01:42:04.079 Max so good, all right, continue on. 2097 01:42:04.319 --> 01:42:09.039 Valo is the owner and general manager of Hostle Grouse, 2098 01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:15.960 the eco friendly I've watched your Place boutique in Barcelona, 2099 01:42:16.239 --> 01:42:19.039 where she keeps the cognitive. 2100 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:22.199 Cogatio I don't know why. 2101 01:42:22.319 --> 01:42:25.279 That doesn't sound right, but also called the t O 2102 01:42:25.439 --> 01:42:29.920 Day Nadal or Christmas log in in December as well, 2103 01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:33.000 she says holidays. She says, holiday guests at the hotel 2104 01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:36.279 find the tradition cute and strange. They don't understand it. 2105 01:42:36.319 --> 01:42:39.000 Given the ship, who would understand this? 2106 01:42:41.119 --> 01:42:43.439 I mean, yeah, it's cute, but also like, yo, what 2107 01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:45.359 the fuck are y'all? Doing Barcelona. 2108 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:49.640 Given that Vallejo herself concedes, there's no why. There's no 2109 01:42:49.720 --> 01:42:53.600 reason for the pooping log for foreigner guests, confusion is understandable. 2110 01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:56.000 There's no rhyme or reason. Just go with it, okay. 2111 01:42:56.720 --> 01:42:58.640 The origins of the poop log. 2112 01:42:59.119 --> 01:43:01.399 Okay, okay, you want me to take it? 2113 01:43:01.479 --> 01:43:01.680 Sure? 2114 01:43:01.800 --> 01:43:05.479 Right, As Valeo explains, the practice originated in the countryside. Oh, 2115 01:43:05.560 --> 01:43:08.359 I'll bet there's no way the snooty city folk came 2116 01:43:08.439 --> 01:43:11.680 up with this concept. There's absolutely no fucking way there. 2117 01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:15.079 Families burned a special log over the holidays, representing light 2118 01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:15.920 and togetherness. 2119 01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:17.720 So like you a log, Yeah, no doubt. 2120 01:43:17.760 --> 01:43:19.760 Once it was gone, they spread its ashes in the 2121 01:43:19.760 --> 01:43:22.359 fields in a symbol of fertility and regrowth. 2122 01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:23.560 So pretty much the same. 2123 01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:27.359 Okay. Somehow that growth translated into a log that gets 2124 01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:30.439 fattened up for two weeks in December until it finally 2125 01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:33.880 has to have a movement in a tradition that steeped 2126 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:37.159 into Cataloan cities in the nineteen sixties. Oh, this is 2127 01:43:37.199 --> 01:43:40.359 relatively recent. Okay, this isn't like a long standing tradition 2128 01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:43.159 from way back in the day's years old. So nope, 2129 01:43:43.159 --> 01:43:45.439 in the sixties they're just like al right, I. 2130 01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:48.640 Bet somebody got high as fuck and it was like, hey, 2131 01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:52.199 so this log needs the poop and like we need 2132 01:43:52.239 --> 01:43:54.600 to fatten it up, kind of like a like fatten 2133 01:43:54.720 --> 01:43:55.439 um the. 2134 01:43:55.600 --> 01:44:01.359 Old guy taking a rail of coke log ship presents 2135 01:44:01.359 --> 01:44:03.479 for the kids. It's like, bro, what. 2136 01:44:03.800 --> 01:44:06.479 I was thinking of Hansel and Gretel kind of a 2137 01:44:06.600 --> 01:44:09.119 vibe where like she needed to fatten up them up. 2138 01:44:09.640 --> 01:44:12.319 So like maybe it's just blended a couple of traditions 2139 01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:15.079 together or heard some stories and you know, now we 2140 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:17.359 need to fatten the log up that ships out presence. 2141 01:44:17.439 --> 01:44:20.279 And I am doing this. I am gonna make one 2142 01:44:20.279 --> 01:44:23.520 and post a picture on the coal on the Patreon. 2143 01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:25.279 I'm making one. It's happening. 2144 01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:28.720 Okay, sure, so you'll have you have your Yule log 2145 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:31.079 on the table and you also have the poop log 2146 01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:31.920 by the tree. 2147 01:44:32.359 --> 01:44:34.760 Yeah, it's not gonna it's gonna be what. We're gonna 2148 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:36.479 have a lot of logs going on out of my 2149 01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:42.760 house with my KFC bucket and my wine. Yes, I'm 2150 01:44:42.800 --> 01:44:44.600 having all of it. I'm gonna go out of my 2151 01:44:44.680 --> 01:44:47.560 way to have all of the traditions. I can, you 2152 01:44:47.560 --> 01:44:49.800 know what, just to have a good old time to celebrate. 2153 01:44:50.039 --> 01:44:53.119 Yea, so we are one day when you have grandkids 2154 01:44:53.159 --> 01:44:54.600 that are gonna come over to your house and not 2155 01:44:54.680 --> 01:44:56.399 know what the going on. 2156 01:44:56.439 --> 01:44:59.800 The whole table ship, I'm gonna have like a horsehead. 2157 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:04.840 Oh my god, No, no, the horsehead with the decorations. 2158 01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:06.039 I'm gonna have ulog. 2159 01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:13.720 I'm just showing down a great time. 2160 01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:19.279 This is gonna be the best Christmas ever. But I'm 2161 01:45:19.439 --> 01:45:22.960 so excited, y'all. Oh my god, this is so good. 2162 01:45:23.159 --> 01:45:25.600 This is the thing that's gonna have to happen for sure. Yes, 2163 01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:28.239 we must go out of our wage to do all this. 2164 01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:31.359 There's so many random juggling pieces that don't even make sense. 2165 01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:33.760 But just like Vallejo said, listen, don't question it, just 2166 01:45:33.880 --> 01:45:34.640 fucking go with it. 2167 01:45:34.680 --> 01:45:39.079 To go with it, Okay, who explains the practice originally? 2168 01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:42.560 Yeah, in the sixties. Although you can purchase one of 2169 01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:45.600 these smiling chunks of timber in a store or market, Dude, 2170 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:48.359 they're okay, yeah, because it's making one is just too 2171 01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:52.560 that's too crazy. But they seldom if you scroll, yo, 2172 01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:55.159 they straight up sell this. 2173 01:45:55.800 --> 01:46:00.880 Yes, so they have, Oh they have. They have made masksoplugs, 2174 01:46:01.840 --> 01:46:07.880 they have a whole industry around it, but it says 2175 01:46:08.279 --> 01:46:10.760 the place for parents with young kids to get one 2176 01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:16.399 is where logs come from the woods. Shocker train so 2177 01:46:16.520 --> 01:46:17.680 hard not to laugh, yo. 2178 01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:20.560 The annual search for the hidden log is known in 2179 01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:28.439 Catalonian simply as Concastitians, bro Caucassians or the hunts. So 2180 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:31.119 this is like a whole Christmas tradition instead of going 2181 01:46:31.159 --> 01:46:34.479 to the tree farm cutting down a Christmas tree to 2182 01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:36.840 bring it into your home and decorate a family. You 2183 01:46:36.920 --> 01:46:39.159 got people in Catalonia who are going out into the 2184 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:41.600 woods to find logs. They look like a real shit 2185 01:46:41.720 --> 01:46:45.640 worthy you know what I'm saying. Does that log look hungry? 2186 01:46:46.079 --> 01:46:48.720 Does it look like it will shit? Good presence for us? Brok, 2187 01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:51.279 throw that bitch in the truck. Let's go like that's 2188 01:46:51.319 --> 01:46:51.720 the one. 2189 01:46:52.399 --> 01:46:52.600 Wo. 2190 01:46:53.920 --> 01:46:56.920 So parents could take their kids to a special kagatillo 2191 01:46:57.079 --> 01:47:04.920 forest run by a small band, run by a small business, 2192 01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:09.199 where they've been hidden for the children to find. Oh 2193 01:47:09.239 --> 01:47:12.680 my god, it's a treasure hunt. Small towns in Catalonia 2194 01:47:12.800 --> 01:47:15.880 offer options to find cago tillos in their woods to 2195 01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:19.279 those who would have prepaid about thirty five dollars and 2196 01:47:19.359 --> 01:47:22.359 encourage families to stay afterwards to enjoy a long family 2197 01:47:22.439 --> 01:47:27.000 lunch at a designated restaurant. Yeah, they have whole whole 2198 01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:29.239 winter wonderlands where you can go and find the ship 2199 01:47:29.239 --> 01:47:33.520 log for your family at the forest, Vallejo took her 2200 01:47:33.560 --> 01:47:36.680 boys to. The logs are already decorated with eyes, legs, 2201 01:47:36.680 --> 01:47:39.119 and capes. For her, the forest search is the best 2202 01:47:39.119 --> 01:47:44.159 part of the Cagatillo tradition as that tooting tree. 2203 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:47.239 I fucking can't whoever wrote. 2204 01:47:46.920 --> 01:47:48.760 This, God, damn you get the assignment. 2205 01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:51.840 Yeah, I'm trying so hard not to lie. 2206 01:47:52.000 --> 01:47:54.720 As that tooting tree trunk will belong to your family 2207 01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:58.239 for many holiday seasons to come. Once they have the 2208 01:47:58.319 --> 01:48:03.079 kakatilla at home and being fed each evening, kids actually 2209 01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:06.079 think it's getting bigger. Valleo says. By the twenty fourth 2210 01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:10.199 of December, the kakatilla is gordito or chubby and ready 2211 01:48:10.199 --> 01:48:12.600 to go number two. But the little piece of wood 2212 01:48:12.600 --> 01:48:17.039 who needs some privacy to do his thing, okay. In 2213 01:48:17.119 --> 01:48:20.960 religious families, kids are told to head into the bedroom 2214 01:48:21.159 --> 01:48:24.239 to pray for gifts. Falleo's family is not religious, so 2215 01:48:24.279 --> 01:48:26.359 she used to tell her two boys that the kakatilla 2216 01:48:26.479 --> 01:48:28.960 was shy, and they needed to wait in another room 2217 01:48:29.000 --> 01:48:31.479 for a while. When the kids leave the room, parents 2218 01:48:31.560 --> 01:48:34.640 dash goodies under the log's cape, which can look more 2219 01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:35.319 like a blanket. 2220 01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:38.199 How are they making it look fatter? How are you 2221 01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:39.279 fattening up a lot? 2222 01:48:39.399 --> 01:48:42.479 I guess you're just like playing cognitive dissonance with your children, 2223 01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:46.159 like straight up, like, oh man, that is getting fat. Yeah, 2224 01:48:46.239 --> 01:48:50.880 moment is see see it's like, what the fuck, dude, 2225 01:48:51.520 --> 01:48:52.159 it's a log. 2226 01:48:53.520 --> 01:48:56.039 These kids are like it, you got elves that we need? 2227 01:48:56.239 --> 01:48:57.720 I do be doing the elves on the shelves. 2228 01:48:57.760 --> 01:48:59.680 I didn't say it was like Americans got the damn 2229 01:48:59.840 --> 01:49:00.479 l is everywhere. 2230 01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:01.840 Yo's a new tradition. 2231 01:49:01.920 --> 01:49:04.279 Does anybody else do elves on the shelves like globally? 2232 01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:05.439 So? 2233 01:49:05.520 --> 01:49:07.359 I watched an episode of Shark Tank when they did 2234 01:49:07.439 --> 01:49:09.920 mince on a bench for like the Jews out there 2235 01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:12.680 that want to do their own thing for Hanukkah. Yeah, 2236 01:49:13.039 --> 01:49:15.560 it's not nearly as popular as elf on a shelf 2237 01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:20.359 shakra right now, but apparently that's the thing, and I 2238 01:49:20.359 --> 01:49:24.000 don't know of any other. You're good, I'm so good. 2239 01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:25.479 I'm so good. 2240 01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:28.119 Oh. I have to look this up for you because 2241 01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:31.479 this is the minch on a bench is it's so silly. 2242 01:49:31.479 --> 01:49:33.239 I don't know why I thought about Snoop Dogg with 2243 01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:37.399 ank Yo, Like, I don't know, a little. 2244 01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:42.439 Yeah, mince on a bench. This is a thing that 2245 01:49:42.479 --> 01:49:44.159 you could buy for your Jewish family. 2246 01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:46.119 We have to buy one for Royce. 2247 01:49:46.520 --> 01:49:51.079 Oh kind of looks like maybe if he gets like 2248 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:53.119 when Royce has kids on you know, they got a 2249 01:49:53.119 --> 01:49:56.640 whole moose. He has a buddy who's antlers are the 2250 01:49:56.680 --> 01:50:03.239 Minora No, oh my god, his his his wife Ruth, 2251 01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:10.600 and his daughter Rebecca. Obviously. Yeah, I'm so sorry family. 2252 01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:12.119 I'm trying really hard not to last. 2253 01:50:12.279 --> 01:50:14.640 There's a fucking Minora zebra. What is happening? 2254 01:50:16.279 --> 01:50:16.439 Yo. 2255 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:18.720 The dog's got Drado's for spots. That's supposed to be 2256 01:50:18.760 --> 01:50:22.840 a Dalmatian. Look at this shit. That's great, that's great, 2257 01:50:23.119 --> 01:50:28.319 Oh my god. And for the record, I have no 2258 01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:30.840 idea how popular that is. I remember seeing that with 2259 01:50:30.880 --> 01:50:33.439 Shark Tanker was like, there's no way they're gonna invest, 2260 01:50:33.520 --> 01:50:36.399 and then one of them did, and I'm like, maybe 2261 01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:40.359 I'm just missing the ever present Honka market here, but whatever. 2262 01:50:40.920 --> 01:50:44.560 And yeah, so the elf on the shelf thing, that 2263 01:50:44.680 --> 01:50:46.479 is a newer tradition, and I had to explain that 2264 01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:47.880 to my kids last ten years. 2265 01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:50.439 Maybe I maybe I didn't even do it till the 2266 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:52.319 last four years. 2267 01:50:52.640 --> 01:50:55.600 Earlier four years. I remember hearing about it when I 2268 01:50:55.640 --> 01:50:57.359 was in the Marine Corps, but like, we didn't have 2269 01:50:57.439 --> 01:50:59.760 kids at that time, and when we fed our first kid, 2270 01:50:59.760 --> 01:51:01.920 he was so young he wouldn't have known no different. 2271 01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:04.840 When we got back to Louisiana, it says this is 2272 01:51:04.840 --> 01:51:07.640 twenty fourteen, it had like taken off. 2273 01:51:08.159 --> 01:51:10.640 Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing until really, 2274 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:12.640 I mean I heard it and that I saw some 2275 01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:13.039 people doing. 2276 01:51:13.079 --> 01:51:14.560 I'm like, I don't doing that dumb shit. 2277 01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:17.039 But there's like a whole book that goes with it. 2278 01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:21.439 Now there's movies. Now I have eight elves, so yeah, 2279 01:51:21.479 --> 01:51:22.800 you go abum, and beyond with that. 2280 01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:26.239 There's I have two I have two parents and six babies. 2281 01:51:26.359 --> 01:51:29.079 It's a mess. Yeah, it's a it's a whole thing. 2282 01:51:29.720 --> 01:51:31.520 So I had to explain to my kids, like we 2283 01:51:31.560 --> 01:51:33.560 didn't have Elf on the shelf growing up, and like 2284 01:51:33.640 --> 01:51:37.079 wait why, And I'm like, Santa decided to do it 2285 01:51:37.159 --> 01:51:39.279 just a couple of years back because all y'all kids 2286 01:51:39.319 --> 01:51:41.439 are so bad. He needs to send some extra eyes 2287 01:51:41.479 --> 01:51:45.279 a spile on y'all asses, and they bought it. But like, yeah, 2288 01:51:45.359 --> 01:51:48.600 that's we work better at being kids than y'all. I 2289 01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:50.520 don't know what to tell you. Man, Yeah they got 2290 01:51:50.560 --> 01:51:53.159 they felt some type of way about that. I mean 2291 01:51:53.159 --> 01:51:55.960 it's true though, I mean, hey, anyway, let's talk about 2292 01:51:55.960 --> 01:51:56.399 the ship log. 2293 01:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.560 When when the kids return, the weirdness continues. The children 2294 01:51:59.640 --> 01:52:04.279 have to courage the poop blog to expel the presence 2295 01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:05.560 by hitting it with the stick. 2296 01:52:06.159 --> 01:52:10.479 It sounds aggressive, but it's gentle. The kids don't hit hard. 2297 01:52:10.800 --> 01:52:12.279 You stimulate it to go poop. 2298 01:52:12.359 --> 01:52:15.760 I fucking can I can't emulate the log to ship 2299 01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:20.319 by tapping it with sticks? Why? Why? But for why 2300 01:52:20.399 --> 01:52:22.079 does is that what y'all do to people who are 2301 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:25.039 constabator to start beating with the tongs. It's a movement 2302 01:52:25.039 --> 01:52:25.439 in there. 2303 01:52:25.520 --> 01:52:28.960 You can be four kids at once hitting it, okay, 2304 01:52:29.119 --> 01:52:34.279 recalls Hugo, now a college student, having having a pooplog 2305 01:52:34.439 --> 01:52:37.960 for his pre his preschool classes. Little kids can't hit 2306 01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:40.960 it that hard. It's more about the tradition and singing 2307 01:52:41.000 --> 01:52:44.319 the song. There's a song there, there's a song. I 2308 01:52:44.359 --> 01:52:45.600 can't wait for this all right. 2309 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:50.079 The song has kids asking the poop uncle to poop 2310 01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:53.840 out nuts and turrun, a sticky sweet nougat that's popular 2311 01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:57.680 throughout Spain over the holidays, and specifically not to poop 2312 01:52:57.720 --> 01:53:03.000 out salty fish. Bro What what is happening here? In fact, 2313 01:53:03.039 --> 01:53:07.399 that's pretty much all they get for their efforts. Candies Okay? 2314 01:53:07.520 --> 01:53:08.239 So what? 2315 01:53:08.439 --> 01:53:11.560 Wait? Is there an English translation? Yes? There is? Please 2316 01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:13.399 the poop log song, y'all? 2317 01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:17.159 Ok here we are pooping log almonds and nuggets. Don't 2318 01:53:17.159 --> 01:53:20.399 poop herrings as they are too salty. Poop nuggets as 2319 01:53:20.399 --> 01:53:24.239 they are better pooping log almonds and nugats. If you 2320 01:53:24.239 --> 01:53:27.199 won't poop, I'll hit you with the stick. Wow. 2321 01:53:27.600 --> 01:53:30.840 I don't know. I think that's how it goes. Yeah 2322 01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:35.319 I know, but yeah, so pooping long all, pooping log 2323 01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:36.520 almonds and nuggets. 2324 01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:40.439 Don't poops nuggets. Don't poop herrings as they are too salty. 2325 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:46.319 Pooping nuggets nuggets as they are better. Pooping log almonds 2326 01:53:46.359 --> 01:53:48.239 and nuggets. If you won't poop, I'll hit you with 2327 01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:50.680 a stick is a song that we must sing. 2328 01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:53.680 To the log, to the log to make it shit, 2329 01:53:54.199 --> 01:53:55.079 to stimulate it. 2330 01:53:55.359 --> 01:53:59.560 Candies and presents, Oh my. 2331 01:53:59.479 --> 01:54:01.520 God, this is like the best one ever. 2332 01:54:01.680 --> 01:54:03.359 So that was for the candies. Yeah, and now let's 2333 01:54:03.359 --> 01:54:06.399 talk about it pooping out presents. Okay, the presents are 2334 01:54:06.439 --> 01:54:10.079 small things like sweets. It's not a Sony PlayStation. I 2335 01:54:10.359 --> 01:54:13.279 know why not. But now we're drawing the line on 2336 01:54:13.359 --> 01:54:17.159 what the log can shit Jesus, we're gona wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, 2337 01:54:17.199 --> 01:54:19.640 candies are one thing. You're telling me it's pooping on 2338 01:54:19.760 --> 01:54:23.079 ne xtbox. That's a bit crazy. It's a fucking log, dude. 2339 01:54:23.119 --> 01:54:26.039 I'm here for you. I like it. Uh, the bigger 2340 01:54:26.079 --> 01:54:28.119 the presents, I'm sorry. The bigger presents are giving on 2341 01:54:28.199 --> 01:54:31.960 January sixth, which is celebrated in Catalonia and throughout Spain 2342 01:54:32.039 --> 01:54:35.840 as the Day of Los Res Magos or Three Kings Day. 2343 01:54:36.399 --> 01:54:36.520 Uh. 2344 01:54:36.680 --> 01:54:39.319 It's just as well they aren't any PlayStation since Cago 2345 01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:41.960 Tea is strictly for small kids. Oh, I should hope so. 2346 01:54:42.600 --> 01:54:45.600 Bvalleo says that while most kids can believe in Santa 2347 01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:48.520 Claus or the Three Kings until they are eight years old, 2348 01:54:48.840 --> 01:54:51.640 that's not the case with the Cagatillo. By age four, 2349 01:54:51.720 --> 01:54:54.000 they have a hard time accepting that a salt tree 2350 01:54:54.039 --> 01:54:57.479 trunk can expel presents from its backside. We thank god 2351 01:54:57.920 --> 01:54:59.680 when they are two or three years old, it's like 2352 01:54:59.720 --> 01:55:02.800 matt When they are four years old, it's complicated, says 2353 01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:05.920 in Leo. By the time he was five, Vlao's older son, 2354 01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:09.439 John Paul, who's now fifteen, didn't get why they had 2355 01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:11.600 to keep leaving the room to get more gifts or 2356 01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:14.880 why a log would poop all poop at all. That's 2357 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:18.159 that's fair. By five years, always thinking like huh what now? 2358 01:55:18.600 --> 01:55:23.920 But okay, it's ridiculous, laughed Hugo Valeas as he tries 2359 01:55:23.960 --> 01:55:26.880 to recall if he ever believed in the Kagatillo. It's 2360 01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.479 possible he didn't since only his grandfather was Catalan and 2361 01:55:30.680 --> 01:55:34.199 with his other grandparents hailing from southern Spain, Japan and China, 2362 01:55:34.319 --> 01:55:36.960 so even though he was born in Barcelona, he didn't 2363 01:55:36.960 --> 01:55:39.800 have a defecating piece of wood at home. Only at school. 2364 01:55:40.359 --> 01:55:44.159 In those early school years, he recalls, they fed kagatillo mandarins, 2365 01:55:44.479 --> 01:55:48.479 not leftovers or lentils. For Monica Valo, mandarins are actually 2366 01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:52.000 the end of Cagatillo's process. Kids keep leaving the room 2367 01:55:52.039 --> 01:55:54.560 to pray or just get the log some alone time 2368 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:57.520 to do its biz, and every time they come back 2369 01:55:57.600 --> 01:56:00.239 more small gifts and caramels. Await when Cago to You 2370 01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:04.439 starts dropping mandarins, though the present party has petered out. 2371 01:56:04.720 --> 01:56:07.479 After that, kids in Catalonia and Aragon will have to 2372 01:56:07.520 --> 01:56:10.119 wait two more weeks until three Kings Day to get presents. 2373 01:56:10.479 --> 01:56:13.399 That's when three magi who visited Baby Jesus come bearing 2374 01:56:13.439 --> 01:56:17.720 gifts wrapped boxes, and those magi can carry a Sony PlayStation. 2375 01:56:19.000 --> 01:56:22.880 Okay, I was I'm sorry we laughed so much. 2376 01:56:23.079 --> 01:56:26.880 I am not. That's hilarious and the author understood the assignment. 2377 01:56:27.279 --> 01:56:29.600 Yeah, the author really did us dirty there. 2378 01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:35.039 The author's name is Noel shut Off. Dude. Oh I 2379 01:56:35.079 --> 01:56:40.920 love it. I love it. Okay, okay, wow, now let's 2380 01:56:40.920 --> 01:56:42.479 go to Ukrainian legends. 2381 01:56:42.720 --> 01:56:45.119 Oh Christmas Spider, the Christmas Spider. 2382 01:56:45.600 --> 01:56:47.439 I thought this is kind of cool, so for those 2383 01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:49.760 of you that don't know, I'm terrified as spiders, but 2384 01:56:50.239 --> 01:56:52.520 I actually thought this was kind of cool because they 2385 01:56:52.680 --> 01:56:54.920 decorate their trees and spiderwebs. 2386 01:56:54.680 --> 01:56:56.439 Which I kind of thought was more like a U 2387 01:56:56.680 --> 01:56:58.640 you know, this is hell we I thought it was 2388 01:56:58.640 --> 01:57:01.920 like a nightmare before Christmas thing. It's actually a pretty 2389 01:57:02.399 --> 01:57:05.920 like wild story, but like a good story. So let's 2390 01:57:05.960 --> 01:57:08.479 get into it here. Every Christmas, I love to think 2391 01:57:08.520 --> 01:57:11.640 of the modest Ukrainian home where a little miracle once happened, 2392 01:57:11.960 --> 01:57:14.439 A miracle still found on Christmas trees around the world, 2393 01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:16.960 carried by families like yours and mine. It's a tail 2394 01:57:17.000 --> 01:57:19.640 care through generations, passed from our grandparents to us and 2395 01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:23.159 now share with families far beyond Ukraine's borders. This is 2396 01:57:23.199 --> 01:57:26.840 the Ukrainian I'm not gonna pronounce that because most of 2397 01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:29.600 those letters don't exist in my alphabet. The legend of 2398 01:57:29.600 --> 01:57:33.159 the Christmas Spider a reminder that even the simplest moments 2399 01:57:33.199 --> 01:57:36.439 can shine with a bit of unexpected magic. Let's get 2400 01:57:36.439 --> 01:57:38.239 into Ooh, that's actually a really dope one. 2401 01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:40.960 That is a really pretty ornament. Oh it isn't like 2402 01:57:41.000 --> 01:57:44.279 an all gold, really nicely done ornament. That's a spider. 2403 01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:47.960 That's that's dope. Let's get into it here. So the 2404 01:57:48.039 --> 01:57:51.039 legend of the Christmas Spider. Once upon a time, a 2405 01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:53.600 poor widow lived in a small hut with her young children. 2406 01:57:54.039 --> 01:57:56.439 On a warm summer day, a pine cone fell through 2407 01:57:56.520 --> 01:57:59.159 the roof and, against all odds, took root on the 2408 01:57:59.199 --> 01:58:01.920 floor of the small home. As the seasons passed, the 2409 01:58:02.000 --> 01:58:04.880 children nurture the growing tree, imagining it could be their 2410 01:58:04.960 --> 01:58:07.920 Christmas tree. When winter arrived, the tree grew, but when 2411 01:58:07.960 --> 01:58:11.359 Christmas Eve came, they could not afford to decorate it. Dishearten, 2412 01:58:11.600 --> 01:58:16.119 the children went to bed. Overnight, something extraordinary happened. Spiders 2413 01:58:16.159 --> 01:58:19.119 crawled to the tree and spun delicate webs all over 2414 01:58:19.159 --> 01:58:22.319 the branches. As the first rays of sunlight streamed through 2415 01:58:22.319 --> 01:58:25.560 the windows, the seemingly ordinary webs transformed into strands of 2416 01:58:25.600 --> 01:58:28.479 silver and gold. The wind or, the widow, and her 2417 01:58:28.560 --> 01:58:32.199 children awoke to a glittering tree transformed, and with it 2418 01:58:32.520 --> 01:58:35.319 the fortune of the family changed. From then on, they 2419 01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:39.760 never lived in poverty again. So there's like an image 2420 01:58:39.760 --> 01:58:41.319 on screen right now of like what that might have 2421 01:58:41.359 --> 01:58:43.720 looked like, which is kind of cool. It's got to 2422 01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:45.560 see a little Charlotte's Web action, if you will. 2423 01:58:45.640 --> 01:58:46.399 That's pretty legit. 2424 01:58:47.119 --> 01:58:49.920 So the origin of this folk tale is unclear. Some 2425 01:58:49.960 --> 01:58:52.760 say it travel from Germany, Others insist it is firmly 2426 01:58:52.840 --> 01:58:55.640 rooted in Ukraine. What we do know is that it 2427 01:58:55.680 --> 01:58:58.960 stems from an ancient European belief associating spiders with good 2428 01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:02.119 luck for generations. People believe that brushing away a spider's 2429 01:59:02.159 --> 01:59:03.880 web during brings misfortune. 2430 01:59:04.600 --> 01:59:04.720 Uh. 2431 01:59:05.279 --> 01:59:07.800 This person, who is a curator at the Ukrainian Museum 2432 01:59:07.840 --> 01:59:11.520 in New York, leans strongly toward a Ukrainian origin placed 2433 01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:14.640 in the tradition in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, 2434 01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:18.199 and it's very long story. Many believe that eventually inspired 2435 01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:22.840 us to use tinsil. Really that he believes that that 2436 01:59:22.920 --> 01:59:24.760 might be where actual tinsil came from. 2437 01:59:25.359 --> 01:59:26.479 Wow, I didn't know that. 2438 01:59:26.760 --> 01:59:29.520 Which also again, this as an ornament. 2439 01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:32.279 It's actually really pretty cool cool. 2440 01:59:32.560 --> 01:59:35.600 It's a golden spun spider web, but that is like 2441 01:59:35.880 --> 01:59:36.880 a detailed out. 2442 01:59:37.319 --> 01:59:39.279 I mean, I don't know if it's like a golden lay. 2443 01:59:39.479 --> 01:59:41.840 I don't know, but I love it. Look, you got 2444 01:59:41.880 --> 01:59:44.560 golden glittery spiders on that, bitch. You got some golden 2445 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:46.000 spider webs for the hell of it. 2446 01:59:46.000 --> 01:59:48.239 It would look really good with my dark goth theme 2447 01:59:48.640 --> 01:59:49.319 Christmas tree. 2448 01:59:49.520 --> 01:59:52.319 This will look cool on a Halloween tree and then 2449 01:59:52.600 --> 01:59:53.439 the Christmas tree. 2450 01:59:53.560 --> 01:59:55.199 Yeah, I like it. 2451 01:59:55.359 --> 01:59:58.359 I like it for it. So, you will often find 2452 01:59:58.399 --> 02:00:04.319 tiny spider ornaments known as as povushki yeah, decorating a 2453 02:00:04.439 --> 02:00:07.880 Ukrainian Christmas tree. Traditionally, these were made from simple materials 2454 02:00:07.920 --> 02:00:11.640 like paper, straw or wire. Today, patufki come in all 2455 02:00:11.720 --> 02:00:14.479 kinds of styles. You can find hand crappt in folk designs, 2456 02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:18.680 or even delicate beaded versions. Some households also drape light 2457 02:00:18.920 --> 02:00:21.600 artificial cobwebs across the tree. 2458 02:00:21.960 --> 02:00:23.359 Once again, that's really cool. 2459 02:00:23.479 --> 02:00:26.119 I like it. So today the legend of the Christmas 2460 02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:28.680 Spider feels just as meaningful as it did over a 2461 02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:33.319 century ago. In Ukraine and across the diaspora, this little 2462 02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:36.159 tale still brings a quiet sense of comfort. It reminds 2463 02:00:36.239 --> 02:00:38.960 us that beauty often appears in the most unlikely places, 2464 02:00:39.159 --> 02:00:41.399 and that even the smallest creatures can bring a moment 2465 02:00:41.439 --> 02:00:44.479 of hope when we need it most. And really, that's 2466 02:00:44.560 --> 02:00:47.000 why we continue to tell the story in moments of 2467 02:00:47.079 --> 02:00:51.279 uncertainty or distance, whether from loved ones, loved ones, or 2468 02:00:51.319 --> 02:00:55.119 from our homeland. The image of bare little tree transformed 2469 02:00:55.119 --> 02:00:58.279 by something as delicate as spider webs feels especially powerful. 2470 02:00:58.680 --> 02:01:01.279 It's not a tale of grand jet but of hope 2471 02:01:01.399 --> 02:01:04.840 arriving gently and unexpectedly, and that's something we all need, 2472 02:01:04.880 --> 02:01:08.520 no matter what or where we celebrate Christmas. I like it. 2473 02:01:09.399 --> 02:01:11.760 I really liked that. I didn't actually know the legend. 2474 02:01:12.399 --> 02:01:14.520 I honestly picked it because I thought it was really unique. 2475 02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:17.199 Just I kind of skimmed it and I was like, oh, okay, 2476 02:01:17.279 --> 02:01:19.119 I'm spider web sounds great. 2477 02:01:19.319 --> 02:01:21.319 Want to kind of look into it more. That's actually 2478 02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:22.279 a really sweet story. 2479 02:01:22.560 --> 02:01:24.199 That's also something that I think could go on the 2480 02:01:24.279 --> 02:01:24.880 Christmas tree. 2481 02:01:24.920 --> 02:01:27.359 Regardless, I guess we're gonna have to get some spiders out. 2482 02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:29.680 I'd be like, shocker, I only have like nine thousand 2483 02:01:29.760 --> 02:01:31.600 totes of Halloween, so we're good. 2484 02:01:31.960 --> 02:01:33.199 I'm good for my house. 2485 02:01:33.039 --> 02:01:35.000 Gold spray paint one of the spiders. You already have 2486 02:01:35.079 --> 02:01:37.119 them Halloween's be like, hang a hook from that and 2487 02:01:37.199 --> 02:01:38.520 be like, bom you crying to hear. 2488 02:01:38.600 --> 02:01:41.239 As fuck, I'm gonna have to just do all these 2489 02:01:41.239 --> 02:01:44.039 traditions all at once because as of time of recording, 2490 02:01:44.039 --> 02:01:46.560 we are a few days out from Christmas Eve. Yeah, 2491 02:01:46.600 --> 02:01:49.319 so it's gonna be a whole vibe to slap them 2492 02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:49.840 all together. 2493 02:01:50.279 --> 02:01:52.560 Indeed. Indeed, so now we're going to go down another 2494 02:01:52.680 --> 02:01:54.840 list and we're gonna briefly go over some of these. 2495 02:01:54.880 --> 02:01:56.279 Some of these who already covered, so we're not going 2496 02:01:56.359 --> 02:01:59.319 to touch them. But the strangest Christmas traditions from around 2497 02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:03.079 the world. This is for Regent Holidays dot UK Christmas 2498 02:02:03.119 --> 02:02:06.560 with the KFC in Japan. Are you talking about the Umm? 2499 02:02:07.159 --> 02:02:11.279 What is this one? Next? Hiding broomsticks in Norway? Oh? 2500 02:02:11.359 --> 02:02:12.680 Yeah, this is an interesting one. 2501 02:02:12.880 --> 02:02:16.279 So from a stay in the world's most northern old 2502 02:02:16.279 --> 02:02:18.119 on let me zoom in on. Next, My eyes aint 2503 02:02:18.119 --> 02:02:20.039 what they used to be good cult members? Apologies, I 2504 02:02:20.079 --> 02:02:24.960 need glasses. From a stay in the world's most northerly 2505 02:02:25.079 --> 02:02:29.760 town to sleeping in the bucket list snow resort kirk Kings, 2506 02:02:30.000 --> 02:02:32.119 a winter break in Norway is packed full of unique 2507 02:02:32.119 --> 02:02:36.199 and extraordinary experiences, but for something wholly out of the ordinary. 2508 02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:40.039 In Norway, there is somewhat terrifying tradition of hiding all 2509 02:02:40.119 --> 02:02:43.199 broomsticks in the home on Christmas Eve to prevent witches 2510 02:02:43.319 --> 02:02:45.920 and evil spirits from stealing them. 2511 02:02:46.119 --> 02:02:47.800 Yeah. Have you never heard this one before? 2512 02:02:48.000 --> 02:02:50.479 I haven't y'all. Do y'all know the first time that 2513 02:02:50.560 --> 02:02:53.039 there was ever a witch writing a broomstick was a 2514 02:02:53.199 --> 02:02:57.319 fourteen hundred's manuscript. 2515 02:02:56.439 --> 02:02:59.359 Wasn't it by that one guy that uh went kind 2516 02:02:59.359 --> 02:03:03.039 of crazy on witches And he wrote like multiple manuscripts 2517 02:03:03.039 --> 02:03:06.800 about hunting witches and women and all this stuff very possibly. 2518 02:03:07.279 --> 02:03:10.800 Yeah, that checks out. But sure, so we got to 2519 02:03:10.880 --> 02:03:12.920 hide all the broomsticks that they don't get stolen by 2520 02:03:12.920 --> 02:03:18.000 all them evil winter witches, you know. Okay, hey, why not? Unfortunately, 2521 02:03:18.000 --> 02:03:22.359 we've had this holiday tradition actually verified by a Norwegian person, 2522 02:03:22.399 --> 02:03:25.279 and it seems likely that joy riding witches aren't in 2523 02:03:25.439 --> 02:03:31.199 really reality a feature of Norway's national holiday. Okay, okay, 2524 02:03:31.640 --> 02:03:35.079 but if you're celebrating Christmas in Norway, then jewel board 2525 02:03:35.239 --> 02:03:38.439 all right. Probably yule Board is a festival, a festive 2526 02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:41.560 tradition that you should definitely get on board with, translating 2527 02:03:41.600 --> 02:03:45.039 as Christmas table. If you're invited to yule Board, then 2528 02:03:45.119 --> 02:03:48.359 expect a Christmas party for epic Norwegian proportions with a fee, 2529 02:03:48.439 --> 02:03:52.119 serving traditional roast, pork belly, meatballs and glog. Don't know 2530 02:03:52.159 --> 02:03:53.840 how to pronounce it with the oath the line through it. 2531 02:03:54.079 --> 02:03:58.239 Norway's version of mauld wine. Yeah, that is a Christmas tradition. 2532 02:03:58.279 --> 02:04:01.319 I would like to start doing mauled wine. Just sounds nice, awesome, 2533 02:04:01.319 --> 02:04:04.319 I'm here for it. So all right, hiding the broomsticks 2534 02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:07.000 while Norway's witches might be in hiding the magic of 2535 02:04:07.039 --> 02:04:10.119 Scandinavian Christmas is very real, especially under the glow of 2536 02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:16.600 the northern lights. Our trumso Trumsol winter break lets you 2537 02:04:16.640 --> 02:04:20.479 experience the season and its most magical, from reindeer sleigh 2538 02:04:20.560 --> 02:04:23.640 rides and snowmobile safar as to evenings spent chasing the 2539 02:04:23.680 --> 02:04:25.279 auroras across the art of sky. 2540 02:04:25.560 --> 02:04:28.880 The holiday. What's talk about planning the holiday? There? 2541 02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:33.399 Yeah, nothing beats a K two holiday anyway. So enormous 2542 02:04:33.479 --> 02:04:37.640 Christmas goats in Sweden. Now about to say that, why 2543 02:04:37.640 --> 02:04:39.199 does I feel like this ties into thor. 2544 02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:42.000 There's a lot of different stuff that well, this is 2545 02:04:42.520 --> 02:04:45.239 ties into Yule and Saint Nicholas. 2546 02:04:45.520 --> 02:04:49.199 Mm hmm, okay, let's get into it here. A strange 2547 02:04:49.199 --> 02:04:52.560 tradition's fair A gigantic straw goat statue has to be 2548 02:04:52.640 --> 02:04:54.920 up there. Dating back to Picking times, the story of 2549 02:04:54.960 --> 02:04:57.239 the Yule goat has morphed over the centuries, from a 2550 02:04:57.239 --> 02:05:01.039 sacrifice to a god of harvest to Saint Nicholas's symbol 2551 02:05:01.199 --> 02:05:04.720 of control over evil in the eighteenth or the eleventh century. 2552 02:05:05.159 --> 02:05:07.439 Later it was seen as the giver of gifts, and 2553 02:05:07.479 --> 02:05:11.039 today it's a traditional ornament in Scandinavian countries where a 2554 02:05:11.079 --> 02:05:13.720 straw goat is wrapped in red ribbon and used as 2555 02:05:13.760 --> 02:05:16.279 a decoration when you're certain to pick up from a 2556 02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:20.640 Christmas market in Gothenburg. However, this long Yule Tide history 2557 02:05:20.680 --> 02:05:24.279 has now made way for a very special annual Christmas tradition, 2558 02:05:24.680 --> 02:05:28.680 the Swedish town of Govley's Giant Goat. Every year, an 2559 02:05:28.800 --> 02:05:32.720 enormous goat is constructed in this castle square in Sweden, 2560 02:05:33.000 --> 02:05:36.920 some two hundred miles northwest of Stockholm. This gigantic version 2561 02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:40.399 of the traditional straw Swedish Yule goat stands tall and 2562 02:05:40.439 --> 02:05:43.279 proud in the square for the whole of Christmas season, 2563 02:05:43.880 --> 02:05:48.159 and on its record breaking year, the gigantic straw statue 2564 02:05:48.199 --> 02:05:52.720 measures a whopping forty nine feet tall. Wow. Sadly, most 2565 02:05:52.760 --> 02:05:55.760 of the most year's vandals get to the goat and 2566 02:05:55.800 --> 02:05:58.640 burn it down. Although illegal, it has become a Christmas 2567 02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:01.800 tradition and a pride if the goat is able to 2568 02:06:01.840 --> 02:06:06.479 be destroyed. Yeah, so vandals do this. It's not like 2569 02:06:06.520 --> 02:06:07.840 they're actually wanting it to get back. 2570 02:06:07.920 --> 02:06:08.000 Now. 2571 02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:11.039 I actually have a little you'll goat. Yeah, I have 2572 02:06:11.079 --> 02:06:13.920 a couple of them. I put it out so. 2573 02:06:15.800 --> 02:06:19.239 Very interesting. So fortunately the local fire station is just 2574 02:06:19.239 --> 02:06:21.760 around the corner, and the blaze can usually be put 2575 02:06:21.800 --> 02:06:24.960 out before the goat's skeleton is damaged. The city rebuilds 2576 02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:29.000 the old goat in time for Christmas. The Govely Goat 2577 02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:33.560 has now become damaged or destroyed and astonishing thirty eight times. 2578 02:06:34.079 --> 02:06:38.520 Despite this, it is still it is able. It is 2579 02:06:38.680 --> 02:06:42.119 able keep Okay, they probably it's able to keep. It's 2580 02:06:42.159 --> 02:06:45.800 global fan club updated through advent On X. In order 2581 02:06:45.840 --> 02:06:48.640 to prevent Arson and the Yule Goat being destroyed, more 2582 02:06:48.640 --> 02:06:52.439 elaborate structure security measures are added each year and now 2583 02:06:52.479 --> 02:06:56.159 include a double fence, twenty four hour CCTV, and twenty 2584 02:06:56.159 --> 02:07:00.319 four guard patrol with a canine unit. Wow, after all 2585 02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:03.479 the excitement of Sweden's fiery festive folklore, you might be 2586 02:07:03.479 --> 02:07:06.199 craving a Christmas escape. Yeah, okay, are getting into the 2587 02:07:06.239 --> 02:07:11.079 retreat here, Okay? Men dressed as goats in Romania. We 2588 02:07:11.199 --> 02:07:13.560 just talked about Romania having bears. Now we have dudes 2589 02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:14.399 dressed as goats. 2590 02:07:15.520 --> 02:07:18.600 Who That is an elaborate goat outfit. It's like a 2591 02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:21.279 goat head with I don't even know what to describe that. 2592 02:07:21.279 --> 02:07:23.039 That's like the damn Lama off of Fortnite. 2593 02:07:23.720 --> 02:07:26.159 It does look like the Lama off of Fortnite, with 2594 02:07:26.199 --> 02:07:28.920 the same little rushing side pieces. 2595 02:07:29.079 --> 02:07:32.359 Yeah. M so. Romania is a fascinating country to visit, 2596 02:07:32.439 --> 02:07:34.439 but even more so if you happen to be there 2597 02:07:34.439 --> 02:07:36.760 on Christmas Eve, when you might catch the sight of 2598 02:07:36.840 --> 02:07:40.279 men dressed as goats called copra walking through the streets 2599 02:07:40.279 --> 02:07:43.439 accompanied by singers. The traditional garment warred by the copra 2600 02:07:43.600 --> 02:07:46.560 are brightly colored with a wooden goat mask and sheepskin 2601 02:07:46.680 --> 02:07:49.600 on their back. In some areas, this lively tradition is 2602 02:07:49.640 --> 02:07:52.199 undertaken on New Year's Eve. But whether you get to 2603 02:07:52.239 --> 02:07:58.239 watch it, it certainly makes for an authentic experience. Wow, okay, yeah, 2604 02:07:58.680 --> 02:08:01.560 the way it was own from bucres Yeah yeah, okay. 2605 02:08:01.920 --> 02:08:05.359 Eating raw whale and decomposed awks. It's the green that 2606 02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:09.079 you want to talk about. You know, it sounds so nasty, 2607 02:08:09.199 --> 02:08:13.039 like it's so nasty Greenland with your Viking ass. You know, 2608 02:08:13.159 --> 02:08:17.159 y'all are eating decomposed awks, which is a flightless bird, 2609 02:08:17.840 --> 02:08:21.640 and raw whale. And that's a Christmas tradition for you people. 2610 02:08:22.720 --> 02:08:26.000 I need somebody from Greenland. If this reaches you, I 2611 02:08:26.159 --> 02:08:28.479 need you to talk to us about this. 2612 02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:30.760 This is the spot where Trump wants to take over. 2613 02:08:31.760 --> 02:08:34.039 There's a lot to be said though about the conspiracy 2614 02:08:34.079 --> 02:08:37.279 of Greenland again in it being like the perfect place 2615 02:08:37.359 --> 02:08:40.800 to survive pretty much everything, and also having he bought 2616 02:08:40.840 --> 02:08:43.000 a whole bunch of land over there. You can't fly 2617 02:08:43.159 --> 02:08:45.239 over top of it. There's a whole bunch of treaties 2618 02:08:45.279 --> 02:08:47.159 that have happened. There's a whole bunch of things that 2619 02:08:47.199 --> 02:08:50.640 have gone on about this is the place, yeah to go. 2620 02:08:50.920 --> 02:08:56.760 Y'all are eating raw whale and like rotten birds for 2621 02:08:56.800 --> 02:08:59.960 the hell of it. Because it's Christmas, y'all can have it. Dude, 2622 02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:02.720 y'all can really stop there. Look at this place. Look 2623 02:09:02.720 --> 02:09:03.880 how white and snow it is. 2624 02:09:04.159 --> 02:09:06.760 Yeah, you shouldn't be poaching whales. Just saying I don't think. 2625 02:09:06.640 --> 02:09:09.640 They're poaching them. I think they're allowed to kill them. 2626 02:09:10.279 --> 02:09:12.920 Most whales are protected now because they've been. 2627 02:09:13.359 --> 02:09:16.000 Buy who green Peace. I'm joking. I'm joking. I do 2628 02:09:16.039 --> 02:09:17.239 believe we should protect whales. 2629 02:09:17.319 --> 02:09:19.399 No, there's actually been there's a lot of places that 2630 02:09:19.560 --> 02:09:23.359 even China has whale restriction laws now in some place. 2631 02:09:23.359 --> 02:09:25.680 Oh yeah, you know they're not following that. 2632 02:09:25.960 --> 02:09:28.279 There's actually a lot of things have happened to protect 2633 02:09:28.279 --> 02:09:31.199 the whales because so many of them are going extinct 2634 02:09:31.359 --> 02:09:34.079 or they've pretty much or they've killed off the entire 2635 02:09:34.119 --> 02:09:35.840 population of the types of whales. 2636 02:09:36.279 --> 02:09:36.920 Huh. 2637 02:09:37.000 --> 02:09:40.159 Yeah, No, it's a big thing globally. It has been pushed. 2638 02:09:40.680 --> 02:09:41.920 There's new information. Me. 2639 02:09:42.359 --> 02:09:45.399 Okay, I follow a I belong to a whale thing. 2640 02:09:46.439 --> 02:09:47.439 I'm not shocked, raven. 2641 02:09:47.680 --> 02:09:50.199 Yeah, no, I belong to a whale group. And like 2642 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:52.880 I've I read all about it and stuff. 2643 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:54.560 It's one of those it's like one of those weird 2644 02:09:54.560 --> 02:09:57.560 things that I'm super passionate about. Don't ask, oh whatever? 2645 02:09:58.079 --> 02:10:01.960 Uh did you know that in Greenland, mata and kivak 2646 02:10:02.239 --> 02:10:06.800 are considered a great delicacy reserved for Christmas. Matak is 2647 02:10:06.920 --> 02:10:09.760 whale skin with some blubber attached that is supposed to 2648 02:10:09.800 --> 02:10:12.520 be chewed, but is often just swallowed as it can 2649 02:10:12.560 --> 02:10:16.840 be a little tough. Apparently it tastes like coconuts what 2650 02:10:17.239 --> 02:10:19.000 so they basically they're not even frying it. They just 2651 02:10:19.039 --> 02:10:20.640 like skin the whale and leave a little bit of 2652 02:10:20.680 --> 02:10:22.800 fat on it and it tastes like coconuts. 2653 02:10:23.079 --> 02:10:26.760 Okay, okay, sure, I'm a texture person, so just like, 2654 02:10:26.960 --> 02:10:27.720 oh yeah, that's. 2655 02:10:27.560 --> 02:10:29.560 Why I'm saying they're just they're just swallowing a whole 2656 02:10:29.800 --> 02:10:33.479 Just say fuck it. Kiviak is made from the raw 2657 02:10:33.560 --> 02:10:37.479 flesh of auks, a small Arctic bird. The auks are 2658 02:10:37.520 --> 02:10:40.680 buried in seal skin a long time before Christmas and 2659 02:10:40.680 --> 02:10:42.840 then dug up to eat when they have been when 2660 02:10:42.840 --> 02:10:46.560 they have reached an advanced stage of decomposition. 2661 02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:47.880 Andrew Zimmer did this? 2662 02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:50.479 He ate this? Who? 2663 02:10:50.640 --> 02:10:51.399 Andrew Zimmer? 2664 02:10:51.720 --> 02:10:52.920 Why? Yeah? 2665 02:10:52.920 --> 02:10:54.560 Have you never seen the guy that goes around the 2666 02:10:54.560 --> 02:10:56.039 world and eats all the nasty food? 2667 02:10:56.600 --> 02:10:57.640 Oh? 2668 02:10:58.119 --> 02:10:58.920 The ball guy. 2669 02:10:59.079 --> 02:11:01.680 Oh, I'm obsessed with him, by the way. He's fantastic. 2670 02:11:01.720 --> 02:11:03.880 But no, he ate one of these things. That's why 2671 02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:06.920 I knew as soon as you're reading it. I was like, oh, okay, okay, okay. 2672 02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:10.560 Yeah, So I thought this was going to be closer 2673 02:11:10.600 --> 02:11:13.359 to the fermented shark. And I don't know which country. 2674 02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:16.600 I think it might be Norway that does that, but 2675 02:11:17.000 --> 02:11:17.720 you said Norway. 2676 02:11:17.760 --> 02:11:20.760 Yeah, yeah, they apparently. 2677 02:11:20.359 --> 02:11:22.600 It tastes like coconuts. I can't get over that right now. 2678 02:11:23.199 --> 02:11:26.439 Oh yeah, and then the advanced stage of decompensation. I 2679 02:11:26.439 --> 02:11:28.199 wonder what it tastes like, Like, I wonder what the 2680 02:11:28.279 --> 02:11:30.439 smell is. I wonder if it smells like that stuff. 2681 02:11:30.479 --> 02:11:33.920 That the nastiest tasting or nastiest smelling thing, Moti Durian. 2682 02:11:34.279 --> 02:11:37.800 Yeah, I mean that that fruit smells like rotten flesh, 2683 02:11:38.119 --> 02:11:41.239 and apparently it tastes for people that have the palette 2684 02:11:41.279 --> 02:11:42.159 for it. It's great. 2685 02:11:42.680 --> 02:11:44.720 You know that can that you can open up and 2686 02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:48.560 have ever seen people try to eat? I know that 2687 02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:51.039 I would vomit as soon as that smell would hit me. 2688 02:11:51.079 --> 02:11:55.000 I'd be done. I don't have a weak stomach at all, 2689 02:11:55.119 --> 02:11:57.960 but there it smells and textures will do me in 2690 02:11:58.000 --> 02:11:58.720 any day of the week. 2691 02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:01.960 They make ice cream out of it. There's Durian ice cream, 2692 02:12:03.000 --> 02:12:04.600 you know, for the zombie and all of us. I 2693 02:12:04.600 --> 02:12:10.760 guess you could say ice cream. Yep, zombies are so cool. 2694 02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:17.560 I know, I know, maybe you would like Durian. Maybe 2695 02:12:17.600 --> 02:12:18.800 your palate would probably get down. 2696 02:12:18.960 --> 02:12:21.119 No fucking way I would be able to survive that. 2697 02:12:21.319 --> 02:12:24.039 I don't know, There's no way. But I've smelled those 2698 02:12:24.319 --> 02:12:25.760 those hundred yr eggs before. 2699 02:12:26.079 --> 02:12:30.960 Oh my god. 2700 02:12:29.520 --> 02:12:33.680 I smelled one one time, and the amount of just 2701 02:12:33.800 --> 02:12:35.119 sickness that I had. 2702 02:12:35.159 --> 02:12:37.680 Is that the one that's fermented and young Boy's pissed 2703 02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:40.279 for one hundred years that's what they do. In China. 2704 02:12:40.319 --> 02:12:44.319 They have like young virgin boys pee in a bucket 2705 02:12:44.319 --> 02:12:46.479 and a ferment boiled eggs in this and that's like 2706 02:12:46.479 --> 02:12:48.079 a delicacy for the What is. 2707 02:12:48.119 --> 02:12:50.680 With people and children? Can't they just leave fucking kids 2708 02:12:50.680 --> 02:12:54.720 alone in all capacities, like, just stop, they're gross, leave 2709 02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:56.119 children alone. I don't know. 2710 02:12:56.399 --> 02:12:58.920 It was like Vietnam with the bloat, the fucking duck 2711 02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:00.319 eggs that have the duck in it. 2712 02:13:01.159 --> 02:13:02.439 Oh yeah, i know I've seen that. 2713 02:13:02.560 --> 02:13:03.319 Fuck that. 2714 02:13:04.039 --> 02:13:06.119 Oh man, they ate that on a fear factor. 2715 02:13:06.239 --> 02:13:09.159 I'm sure they did. I'm sure. Meanwhile, Vietnamese people are 2716 02:13:09.159 --> 02:13:11.600 getting down on this. That's a Christmas tradition as well. 2717 02:13:11.800 --> 02:13:14.399 It's like a holiday seasonal thing, and it's like, y'all 2718 02:13:14.399 --> 02:13:17.560 are fucking crazy, but they think we're crazy for not 2719 02:13:17.600 --> 02:13:20.279 getting down on it. The little beak in the little 2720 02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:22.760 it's little feathers is like, you'll fuck you, that's nasty. 2721 02:13:23.439 --> 02:13:26.960 I'm sorry. My texture alone would not allow this, man. 2722 02:13:27.640 --> 02:13:31.119 I'm just I'm not trying to knock your tradition or heritage. 2723 02:13:31.479 --> 02:13:33.720 It's great. Let's go back to. 2724 02:13:33.680 --> 02:13:36.960 This, Let's go back to the decomposed bird. 2725 02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:40.920 Like, let's go back to that blo that's raw and 2726 02:13:40.960 --> 02:13:42.439 that decomposing bird. 2727 02:13:42.720 --> 02:13:45.880 Yeah, because man, the bloat to this transition is actually 2728 02:13:45.880 --> 02:13:48.000 a little closer than you think with the decomposing bird. 2729 02:13:48.119 --> 02:13:50.680 These poor cult members. If you are listening to this 2730 02:13:50.760 --> 02:13:54.399 while you were eating or fixing your holiday tradition. 2731 02:13:54.279 --> 02:13:56.159 Just go back to listen about the poop log. You're 2732 02:13:56.199 --> 02:13:59.399 fine and KFC and KMC and wine there you go. 2733 02:14:00.920 --> 02:14:04.159 Don't fancy it, don't worry. There just is usually barbecue 2734 02:14:04.199 --> 02:14:09.279 cariboo on the menu. Two because yeah, but you know, if. 2735 02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:10.800 You're not, I'm here for it. 2736 02:14:11.000 --> 02:14:13.720 You don't like the raw whale skin or the decomposing bird, 2737 02:14:13.760 --> 02:14:16.479 well we also got caribou barbecue, Like, well, let's do 2738 02:14:16.640 --> 02:14:21.159 that obviously, bro wow it. Or you could always join 2739 02:14:21.239 --> 02:14:24.720 in with the Christmas Eve tradition of wearing national clothing 2740 02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:27.960 to a church service for men that's a white on 2741 02:14:28.199 --> 02:14:32.479 rock or color chosen because of the chosen. For the hunters, 2742 02:14:32.600 --> 02:14:35.319 it would mean they could blend into the snowy landscape. 2743 02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:37.720 Other ways to get into the holiday spirit in Greenland 2744 02:14:37.760 --> 02:14:41.119 include children screaming for Santa at the start of December 2745 02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:44.199 and the terrifying tradition of the entire family telling ghost 2746 02:14:44.199 --> 02:14:45.359 stories on Christmas Eve. 2747 02:14:46.359 --> 02:14:48.439 Oh no, I can ask you it behind that one. Okay, 2748 02:14:48.479 --> 02:14:49.199 that's pretty cool. 2749 02:14:49.960 --> 02:14:53.159 Goods for you. The number six giving treats to the 2750 02:14:53.239 --> 02:14:57.520 Christmas mummers in Latvia. And we mentioned the mummers a 2751 02:14:57.520 --> 02:14:59.279 little bit earlier, but so we're gonna get a little 2752 02:14:59.319 --> 02:15:03.039 deeper into this. In Latvia, mummers roam the street during 2753 02:15:03.119 --> 02:15:07.159 Christmas Christmas time. But what are mummers? We hear you cry. 2754 02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:11.319 A tradition in a number of Northern Hemisphere countries, even 2755 02:15:11.319 --> 02:15:14.960 in some parts of the UK. Mummering because mumming would 2756 02:15:15.000 --> 02:15:18.920 be silly, it's Mummering is when groups get together dressed 2757 02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:21.479 in disguise, going from house to house during the twelve 2758 02:15:21.560 --> 02:15:25.439 days of Christmas. In Latvia, these masked processions are rooted 2759 02:15:25.479 --> 02:15:29.319 in tradition known as kikatas, and although they started to 2760 02:15:29.359 --> 02:15:32.520 disappear in the nineteenth century, they've had something of a 2761 02:15:32.520 --> 02:15:36.520 revival since the nineteen seventies. A kind of moving social gathering, 2762 02:15:36.680 --> 02:15:40.039 the group, dressed in mass depicting animals or more macob 2763 02:15:40.479 --> 02:15:44.399 figures like death and living corpses, are offered food and 2764 02:15:44.479 --> 02:15:47.119 drinks at the houses they visit, and are often invited 2765 02:15:47.119 --> 02:15:51.600 inside retreats in exchange for a dance or performance. If, however, 2766 02:15:52.000 --> 02:15:55.439 the individual is recognized underneath the costumes, then they have 2767 02:15:55.479 --> 02:15:58.439 to remove the outfit. Tradition says that when you treat 2768 02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:00.760 the mummers well, they bring blessing to the house and 2769 02:16:00.840 --> 02:16:05.680 encourage fertility whilst scaring away bad spirits. Another Christmas related 2770 02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:08.560 fact you might not know is that Latvia is thought 2771 02:16:08.560 --> 02:16:12.199 to be the home of the very first Christmas tree. Really, 2772 02:16:12.439 --> 02:16:13.279 I did not know that. 2773 02:16:13.399 --> 02:16:16.239 I didn't know that at all. That's interesting, the. 2774 02:16:16.640 --> 02:16:18.720 Okay, I mean to be honest with you. The earliest 2775 02:16:18.720 --> 02:16:21.039 record I've found of a Christmas tree was in Germany 2776 02:16:21.119 --> 02:16:23.520 in the thirteen hundreds and fourteen hundreds, which we're gonna 2777 02:16:23.520 --> 02:16:25.720 talk about on the episode tomorrow when we talk about 2778 02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:29.159 traditional Christmas and how there are certain pagan ties and 2779 02:16:29.239 --> 02:16:32.159 certain not in the way that you might think the 2780 02:16:32.200 --> 02:16:35.159 earliest record of the Christmas tree is in Germany. But 2781 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:38.040 if they do have some sort of a historical precedence 2782 02:16:38.040 --> 02:16:40.280 that predates that, I would love to hear more about it. 2783 02:16:41.239 --> 02:16:47.879 Let's see Finland's candlelit graveyards and the sauna elf a. Yes, 2784 02:16:48.120 --> 02:16:51.520 there's an elf for your saunas in Finland. 2785 02:16:51.879 --> 02:16:54.600 Well, I mean, we did talk about their Finland tradition 2786 02:16:54.799 --> 02:16:57.760 abo about saunas, so hey, I'm here for this. 2787 02:16:58.239 --> 02:17:00.719 At first glance, this might feel a bit morbid, but 2788 02:17:00.879 --> 02:17:04.040 it is in fact surprisingly uplifting and beautiful too. On 2789 02:17:04.120 --> 02:17:06.840 Christmas Eve, families in Finland visit the resting places of 2790 02:17:06.840 --> 02:17:09.360 their lost loved ones and light a candle to place 2791 02:17:09.440 --> 02:17:12.200 on the grave. Not only does this tradition help people 2792 02:17:12.200 --> 02:17:15.600 to remember those they have lost, it turns cemeteries into tranquil, 2793 02:17:15.680 --> 02:17:18.639 glittering havens of light that some choose to walk in 2794 02:17:18.760 --> 02:17:22.040 just to appreciate their beauty. I could see them. The 2795 02:17:22.079 --> 02:17:26.000 Finish take this tradition seriously. As many as seventy five 2796 02:17:26.040 --> 02:17:29.239 percent of Finnish families take part. A common tradition you're 2797 02:17:29.319 --> 02:17:32.639 likely to associate with a winter holiday in Finland is sauna, 2798 02:17:32.799 --> 02:17:35.159 and with many homes having their own, families will often 2799 02:17:35.159 --> 02:17:39.319 get together on Christmas Eve for a sauna together. Julusauna 2800 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:43.680 Finish for Christmas sauna or Yula sauna probably is a 2801 02:17:43.680 --> 02:17:46.760 tradition in most households. It aims to be relaxing before 2802 02:17:46.840 --> 02:17:49.680 the busyness of Christmas Day, as well as an opportunity 2803 02:17:49.680 --> 02:17:53.479 to pay tribute to the sauna Elf Sauna Tontu by 2804 02:17:53.559 --> 02:17:56.360 leaving him treats and thanking him for keeping the sauna 2805 02:17:56.399 --> 02:17:57.280 tidy and warm. 2806 02:17:58.040 --> 02:17:59.959 I need a sauna Elf. Now, what kind of. 2807 02:18:00.079 --> 02:18:02.520 Treats you're gonna leave in a sweat box that's not 2808 02:18:02.559 --> 02:18:03.319 gonna be nasty? 2809 02:18:03.559 --> 02:18:06.760 Maybe like little towels folded up with a little little water. 2810 02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:07.760 That's the treats. 2811 02:18:07.959 --> 02:18:10.719 Yep, little a little water, A little split serve there. 2812 02:18:10.799 --> 02:18:11.559 That's hilarious. 2813 02:18:11.639 --> 02:18:12.120 I love it. 2814 02:18:12.479 --> 02:18:15.559 Oh man. Okay, so now we've talked about the Icelandic 2815 02:18:15.639 --> 02:18:16.159 Yuel cat. 2816 02:18:16.200 --> 02:18:18.680 Before Juel Cat, we have talked to Yeah, you guys 2817 02:18:18.680 --> 02:18:19.399 did talk about that. 2818 02:18:19.520 --> 02:18:21.040 But what about the rotten potatoes? 2819 02:18:21.440 --> 02:18:22.840 The rotten potatoes. 2820 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:24.000 I didn't know anything about that. 2821 02:18:24.239 --> 02:18:25.680 Okay, so he's not going. 2822 02:18:25.479 --> 02:18:28.639 There, pad children don't get coal and Iceland at Christmas, 2823 02:18:28.719 --> 02:18:31.840 they get rotten potatoes. Okay, Yeah, you read that correctly. 2824 02:18:31.920 --> 02:18:34.799 Icelandic Christmas folklore tells the stories of monsters who live 2825 02:18:34.799 --> 02:18:37.280 in the mountains of these They are the sons of Gorilla, 2826 02:18:37.559 --> 02:18:40.159 known as the thirteen Yule Lads mashievious boys, who come 2827 02:18:40.200 --> 02:18:42.399 to visit children on thirteen nights and lead up to Yule. 2828 02:18:42.840 --> 02:18:46.680 In what is a similar holiday tradition to Advent calendars, 2829 02:18:46.719 --> 02:18:49.920 Icelandic kids place a shoe on their windowsill with the 2830 02:18:49.959 --> 02:18:53.680 Yule lads leaving gifts to children who've behaved, and rotten 2831 02:18:53.680 --> 02:18:55.040 potatoes for naughty children. 2832 02:18:55.719 --> 02:18:56.399 I'm doing this. 2833 02:18:56.920 --> 02:18:59.200 I'm not mad at I'm doing this because like we 2834 02:18:59.239 --> 02:19:01.600 don't wide our homes with coal anymore. But like, I 2835 02:19:01.639 --> 02:19:03.719 bet I could find a bag of old potatoes somewhere. 2836 02:19:04.040 --> 02:19:06.200 I'm just gonna leave them out. I'm gonna hide them somewhere. 2837 02:19:06.559 --> 02:19:08.440 I'm gonna put them in the forest down the street 2838 02:19:08.600 --> 02:19:10.040 and then I'll just go there and get them. 2839 02:19:10.440 --> 02:19:13.399 In the forest. Yeah, you could just like leave them 2840 02:19:13.440 --> 02:19:15.239 in your garage and just let. 2841 02:19:15.479 --> 02:19:17.360 No, because I'm sure them kids are gonna be like, 2842 02:19:17.479 --> 02:19:21.280 would you gotten here? Smells like, oh he does rotten potatoes? 2843 02:19:21.280 --> 02:19:21.840 I know this. 2844 02:19:22.000 --> 02:19:24.520 And put them in their good shoes too, they gotta 2845 02:19:24.559 --> 02:19:25.040 go to school. 2846 02:19:25.079 --> 02:19:28.799 Smell the nikes. Yeah, fuck your creases. 2847 02:19:28.799 --> 02:19:30.639 I won't put potato. 2848 02:19:32.799 --> 02:19:35.840 For those with children that are in the teenage years. 2849 02:19:35.920 --> 02:19:39.479 You will understand this reference very much so. And them 2850 02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:42.719 creases can't crease the nikes, dude. Yeah, they even sell 2851 02:19:42.760 --> 02:19:47.159 anti crease things. To insert into them because God forbid 2852 02:19:47.159 --> 02:19:48.319 they crease them shoes. 2853 02:19:48.760 --> 02:19:52.479 That's so silly, but anyway, yes, uh so. Grilla and 2854 02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:55.920 the Yule Lads also have a pet called the mule cat, 2855 02:19:56.000 --> 02:19:59.079 a giant, vicious animal that prows the snowy countryside. The 2856 02:19:59.079 --> 02:20:01.799 holiday tradition of mule Cat is thought to go way back, 2857 02:20:02.280 --> 02:20:05.040 though there are only written mentions of the mythical creatures 2858 02:20:05.040 --> 02:20:09.000 since the nineteenth century. The story goes that farmers would 2859 02:20:09.399 --> 02:20:12.280 reward their workers with new clothes for getting their work 2860 02:20:12.280 --> 02:20:14.719 done in time for Christmas. Those who didn't would be 2861 02:20:14.760 --> 02:20:15.879 eaten by the mule cat. 2862 02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:20.360 Mm hmm. Yeah, there's a lot more to it, but. 2863 02:20:20.360 --> 02:20:22.280 Yeah, this I'm just saying. You can imagine being an 2864 02:20:22.280 --> 02:20:23.239 adult working out. 2865 02:20:23.799 --> 02:20:25.840 It has a theme for clothes. Man, I love the 2866 02:20:25.879 --> 02:20:27.159 mule cat. It's great about that. 2867 02:20:27.200 --> 02:20:29.079 If it's like, if you're wearing tattered clothes, the cat 2868 02:20:29.079 --> 02:20:30.000 will like fuck you up. 2869 02:20:30.120 --> 02:20:32.280 Yeah, Like it has a whole there's a whole story 2870 02:20:32.319 --> 02:20:35.159 about the cat and clothes and and we'll have to 2871 02:20:35.159 --> 02:20:36.319 talk about tomorrow. 2872 02:20:36.200 --> 02:20:41.040 For you Jesus. Okay. Now, in early Christmas in the Philippines, 2873 02:20:41.440 --> 02:20:44.360 from tropical beaches to bustling city, streets. A festive break 2874 02:20:44.360 --> 02:20:47.239 in the Philippines is full of vibrant sights, sounds, and experiences, 2875 02:20:47.559 --> 02:20:50.280 but for something truly extraordinary, the Philippines holds the world 2876 02:20:50.360 --> 02:20:53.600 record for celebrating the longest Christmas season on the planet. 2877 02:20:54.159 --> 02:20:57.399 That's right, Filipinos start decking the halls as early as September. 2878 02:20:57.559 --> 02:20:59.719 Oh, I forgot. I remember this now, and. 2879 02:21:00.200 --> 02:21:03.000 Of spirit often stretches all the way through to January. 2880 02:21:03.440 --> 02:21:06.719 Expect twinkling lights adorning streets, shopping malls and homes with 2881 02:21:06.799 --> 02:21:11.399 colorful paroles, traditional star shaped lanterns lighting up every neighborhood. 2882 02:21:11.479 --> 02:21:15.559 Christmas songs fill the air almost year round, from jeepneys 2883 02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:19.000 and radio stations to restaurants and markets, creating a joyful 2884 02:21:19.000 --> 02:21:20.360 soundtrack to daily life. 2885 02:21:21.280 --> 02:21:24.719 Honestly, I would not be mad at this. I'm not 2886 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:26.239 gonna lie to you. I would be pretty pumped. 2887 02:21:26.479 --> 02:21:29.639 Yeah, I'm not mad at that at all. Anyway, I 2888 02:21:29.799 --> 02:21:32.559 think we only yeah, now, we have the solstice traditions. 2889 02:21:32.600 --> 02:21:34.000 But you know what, I think we should save it 2890 02:21:34.040 --> 02:21:34.479 for tomorrow. 2891 02:21:34.559 --> 02:21:36.000 I think we will. I think we are going to 2892 02:21:36.079 --> 02:21:40.280 save that for tomorrow. As a matter of fact, so 2893 02:21:40.319 --> 02:21:43.559 any of a good cult members this has been a 2894 02:21:43.639 --> 02:21:47.959 wild ad d fever dream through all of the crazy 2895 02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:52.200 Christmas traditions from around the world. Some of these I 2896 02:21:52.239 --> 02:21:54.479 actually might start implementing at my house. Some of these 2897 02:21:54.520 --> 02:21:56.559 are going to be left exactly where I found them. 2898 02:21:57.040 --> 02:21:59.440 The whale blubber can stay there, they can keep. 2899 02:21:59.239 --> 02:22:04.440 That stand by for my pooplog. Also my potential sauna 2900 02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:09.200 elf and your KFC, my KFC and the wine. Yep, 2901 02:22:09.840 --> 02:22:13.079 it's happening. Why not, right, I'm here for all of this. 2902 02:22:13.360 --> 02:22:17.639 Tis the season, as they say, Uh well, yeah, there's 2903 02:22:17.639 --> 02:22:19.840 so many logistical things of that poop log that just 2904 02:22:19.879 --> 02:22:20.760 don't make sense to me. 2905 02:22:21.040 --> 02:22:24.079 Love this, Like, I don't have anybody that would actually 2906 02:22:24.159 --> 02:22:26.879 like fall for this, but I think because I'm gonna 2907 02:22:26.879 --> 02:22:29.280 explain the tradition and we're just gonna have fun with it, 2908 02:22:29.520 --> 02:22:31.559 and maybe we'll like put the elves hiding out at 2909 02:22:31.559 --> 02:22:34.000 the back of it, like sticking out the back. 2910 02:22:35.719 --> 02:22:36.959 I just fucking with them. 2911 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:38.360 Oh my god, I. 2912 02:22:39.760 --> 02:22:41.680 Can't wait for this. This is gonna be a glorious 2913 02:22:41.680 --> 02:22:44.360 time Tomorrow's Tomorrow's plan of. 2914 02:22:44.319 --> 02:22:48.120 Attack is to get me a log at least one. 2915 02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:50.280 At least one, I might need to poop blogs for 2916 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:50.879 the fun of it. 2917 02:22:51.120 --> 02:22:56.840 Oh my godside your door you did, I'm. 2918 02:22:56.719 --> 02:22:59.360 Gonna bring it over, Bring it over and put it 2919 02:22:59.399 --> 02:23:01.840 like in this dicky note on it and says from 2920 02:23:01.879 --> 02:23:03.120 my elves to your elves. 2921 02:23:03.239 --> 02:23:06.639 Bro my, my fucking your youngest, my four year old 2922 02:23:06.680 --> 02:23:10.000 is gonna be like dead. What is this? I'mna be like, yes, 2923 02:23:10.200 --> 02:23:15.760 go grab a stick. I'll explain later. Let's go dropping 2924 02:23:15.760 --> 02:23:18.079 no caramel? Is it gonna be dropping hersh's kisses? Because 2925 02:23:18.079 --> 02:23:19.719 there's more than one joke that could be made here, 2926 02:23:19.760 --> 02:23:22.399 if you know what I'm saying. A couple of milk duds. 2927 02:23:26.239 --> 02:23:29.920 All right, I'm sorry. We have laught so much this episode, guys, 2928 02:23:29.920 --> 02:23:31.479 and I hope you drop some shit. 2929 02:23:31.840 --> 02:23:33.440 Oh oh my god, there's so manys. 2930 02:23:33.479 --> 02:23:38.000 Paull Uh laughed with us during this fun, crazy eight 2931 02:23:38.120 --> 02:23:43.680 D situation that is the unique and colorful histories around 2932 02:23:43.719 --> 02:23:44.120 the world. 2933 02:23:44.280 --> 02:23:47.159 Indeed, good cult members. As we wrap up this episode 2934 02:23:47.159 --> 02:23:49.000 giving all the shameless plugs. 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Talk to your financial advisor, 2952 02:24:30.079 --> 02:24:32.159 talk to your accountant whoever is handling your retirement and 2953 02:24:32.200 --> 02:24:33.959 ask them what they think about it, and you let 2954 02:24:33.959 --> 02:24:36.399 me know what they say. Okay, gold and silver prices 2955 02:24:36.440 --> 02:24:38.959 are skyrocketing, but it's still affordable. To get your hands 2956 02:24:38.959 --> 02:24:41.239 on some of this right now while you can. It 2957 02:24:41.319 --> 02:24:43.879 is an excellent Christmas gift to get somebody last minute. 2958 02:24:44.120 --> 02:24:47.440 Get them a account made with cocsilver dot com and 2959 02:24:47.440 --> 02:24:49.440 you fill out your information. Our homeboy, Wayne Clark will 2960 02:24:49.440 --> 02:24:50.879 be the one to reach out to you and get 2961 02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:53.399 you squared away, But in other ways you can support 2962 02:24:53.399 --> 02:24:54.879 the show. Good cult members, let us know what you 2963 02:24:54.879 --> 02:24:58.040 think about all these crazy, obscure Christmas traditions would be 2964 02:24:58.280 --> 02:25:01.639 too Please hit the five stars, hit the Shares of 2965 02:25:01.639 --> 02:25:03.760 life describes common lego post review shares, it the friends 2966 02:25:03.760 --> 02:25:05.680 and family shares. If we're here's the deal. The more 2967 02:25:05.680 --> 02:25:08.319 activity the algorithm sees across all of our listening platforms, 2968 02:25:08.440 --> 02:25:10.319 the more we get promoted to more potential listeners who 2969 02:25:10.399 --> 02:25:12.840 could then become potential COLT members. Actor ast you finally, 2970 02:25:12.840 --> 02:25:14.399 as and gentlemen, why are you ready to go check 2971 02:25:14.399 --> 02:25:16.239 out Minimistics Johnson's other show and give them the same 2972 02:25:16.280 --> 02:25:17.760 lever respective over there with the five star reviews and 2973 02:25:17.760 --> 02:25:20.040 the positivity in the comments. Come check out The Cage 2974 02:25:20.040 --> 02:25:21.879 to Night and come to each of us for our 2975 02:25:21.920 --> 02:25:24.799 individual patrons. We host every Wednesday night, nine pm Central. 2976 02:25:25.000 --> 02:25:26.600 Links to those are in the description. 2977 02:25:26.319 --> 02:25:28.520 As well, and we thank you for everybody's already gone 2978 02:25:28.520 --> 02:25:32.680 and done so with all of these wild topics being discussed, 2979 02:25:33.239 --> 02:25:37.360 this was another beautiful episode of the Coat of Conspiracy 2980 02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:40.239 and I'm the Cage to Night and Raven and there's 2981 02:25:40.280 --> 02:25:41.639 one very important, extremely. 2982 02:25:41.440 --> 02:25:43.399 Vital piece of Vent makes me do, learn just as 2983 02:25:43.520 --> 02:26:21.040 soon as humanly possible. Speak no bay off