WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.320 You domb fell right down that ramm and holesome. Reality 2 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.239 is questionable time and you just can't let it. Goldy 3 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.480 do right here put it on the show with paring 4 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.920 normal overload, with Southern hospitality. Haunt and murder may have 5 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:32.640 him one discussing immortality locations where a short past history 6 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.320 that comes to light your village with a knack or 7 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:37.840 happy thing to go to sect night hope, but they 8 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:39.799 get to be by your dealthy too. What has he 9 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.520 turned on the light? Mixing in a little comedy to 10 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:44.320 make sure it all fens is just right? 11 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:45.640 Well? 12 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:48.119 Who the hill billy horror story? 13 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.719 Now here's your home, Jerry his freaks. 14 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.960 Paul said, there's dogs issues. 15 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:03.320 And sometimes they're tent preddy, but never the terrence Tracy 16 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:05.319 is usually we want to thank all of our military 17 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.799 and civil servants all over the world, no matter which 18 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.640 country you represent. Thanks to all you men and women 19 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.599 and service animals for everything you do on a daily 20 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.079 basis to keep us safe and protected. 21 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.400 You got that right. We love you guys so much 22 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:24.400 and we pray for you all every single day. Thank 23 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.319 you so much for everything that you do for this country. 24 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:29.719 It does not go unnoticed. 25 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:35.239 Tracy We like to always remind people that if you're 26 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:39.519 going through a tough time and you're struggling from whatever 27 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.760 mental situation you might be dealing with right now, and 28 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.200 there's so many different ones out there to talk to somebody, and. 29 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.239 If you want to go the other route, you can 30 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.599 call the Crisis hotline at nine eight eight. You can 31 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.159 also text seven four one, seven four one. 32 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.319 We love you guys. 33 00:01:57.719 --> 00:01:59.680 Yep, And you probably heard it on one of the 34 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.760 commerc before, but you can also reach out to better help. Yes, 35 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.719 who was a sponsor of the show. Yes, all right, everybody, 36 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.439 welcome to episode twenty if he'll Billy Horror Stories. My 37 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.800 name is Jerry and I am joined by my wife Tracy. 38 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:16.479 Hey, guys, Merry Christmas. 39 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:18.400 Yep. We want to start off with saying Mary Christmas 40 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.080 to you guys, and thank you so much for the 41 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.520 early Christmas present. We asked you guys to give us 42 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:26.759 some reviews on iTunes and we've gotten nine reviews so far, 43 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.240 which is pretty strong for a short show. Was what 44 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.719 we've been as far as length, and out of the nine, 45 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:34.680 eight of them are five star reviews and there's one 46 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.840 four star reviews. Nothing negative in there, so We're very 47 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.439 happy that you guys came out to help us. 48 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:40.319 That's right. 49 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.759 We really appreciate it because we value your guys' opinions 50 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.199 a whole lot, so keep in coming. 51 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:47.439 I also like to throw out a little thank you 52 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.360 to History Goes Bumped, because not only did they mention 53 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.199 us on the show, but they actually took the time 54 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.039 to give us one of those five star reviews and 55 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.840 was very honest in their very long review, and we 56 00:02:57.879 --> 00:02:58.560 appreciate that. 57 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.159 We do. Thank you so much. 58 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.360 These guys have been great. In the future, they're going 59 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:06.319 to actually have us on their show, which they rarely 60 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.280 have guests like that on the show. But they've asked 61 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.439 us to come on the show in February and maybe 62 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.560 talk about one of the local haunts around here. So 63 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:14.800 when that time comes, we'll let you guys know so 64 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:18.240 you can give us a listen. I want to say 65 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.759 once again, thank you for everything you've done for us 66 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.919 this year. As we close out this year, this would 67 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:24.800 be the last show of the year that we do 68 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.240 because the next show will be on New Year's Day, 69 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.919 and you know, basically, we're getting to do something that 70 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.919 we love doing. We're having fun and you guys are 71 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.360 giving us constant feedback, which makes it even more fun 72 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:38.439 and just makes us want to give you the best 73 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.560 shows possible. And I can promise you that as good 74 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:43.360 as you think it's been so far, it's going to 75 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.680 get better in twenty seventeen because we've got a lot 76 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:46.639 of good stuff planned. 77 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.159 Yeah, we're excited to get to that and hopefully it 78 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.800 has some really good, fun and interesting information for you guys. 79 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.240 I do want to say something. I think it's funny 80 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.680 because next week we mentioned New Year's Day. Actually, on 81 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.520 New Year's Day, I'm going to be marrying my cousin, 82 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:01.879 which may surprise some of you. 83 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.599 You want to talk to me about something. 84 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.840 I'm sure some of you are thinking, well, you live 85 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.560 in Kentucky, it's not really that big of a surprise 86 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.199 to marry your cousin. But that's not what I'm talking about. 87 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.599 I'm actually going to be performing the ceremony. It may 88 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.439 surprise some of you to know that I'm actually an 89 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.839 ordained minister and can perform weddings. So that's the kind 90 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.360 of kind of little what to say. As far as 91 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.439 the minister stuff goes, that's as far as it goes 92 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.560 as marrying people. Don't. I don't think there could be 93 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.279 too many churches that would be thrilled with having me 94 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.079 given their Sunday services. 95 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.519 But let me tell you, he's pretty excited that he 96 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.160 can park in the clergy parking spot. 97 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:39.839 Yeah, that is cool because I do have this. I 98 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.079 do have the stuff that hangs from the rear view mirror. 99 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.079 So if I go to a hospital or something, I 100 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:45.959 can park in the clergy spot and get good spots. 101 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:47.319 But he never does so. 102 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:52.600 No, because usually those spots are already taken by clergy. 103 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:54.920 We wanted to give a couple of shout outs on 104 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.000 this Christmas night. Actually meant to do this one last 105 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.079 week and I forgot, so I dropped the ball on 106 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.759 this one. But Chryl and Riley Peters they live in Nebraska. 107 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.519 Hey guys, Philip Johnson and Tennessee. 108 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:11.399 Hey guys, hey listen. I just want to let you know. 109 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.560 I'm what's part of Tennessee? Are they from, honey? 110 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:14.439 I do not remember. 111 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.160 Well, anyway, we love Tennessee. I don't know if you 112 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.720 guys are anywhere near Gatlinburg or anything like that, but 113 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:22.319 just know our prayers are with you guys and everybody 114 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:22.879 in Tennessee. 115 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:23.839 At this time anyway. 116 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:26.759 So hopefully y'all everybody's going to come back and recover 117 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.240 from all that, and we'll be happy to go up 118 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:30.800 there a spring. It's like our favorite place to go 119 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:31.600 in Gatlinburg. 120 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.360 So yeah, it's where we spend our honeymoon. We go 121 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:37.399 every year there, sometimes twice a year, and we actually 122 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.040 spent a fantastic Father's Day up there. We actually took 123 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.120 my father and Tracy's father up there for a family 124 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.279 get away this past June on Father's Day. So to 125 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.439 see all this happened shortly after, it's very disappointing because 126 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.720 it is one of the country's most beautiful places and 127 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:54.759 it sucks they're going through there. We actually got a 128 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.439 nice letter from somebody right after the fires thanking us 129 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.360 for the show and telling us that the listen to 130 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.240 the show actually helped them. Even though they weren't personally 131 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.360 affected by the fires, a lot of people they knew 132 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.920 were and they were thanking us for the show, and 133 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:08.600 we appreciate it. 134 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.959 Yeah, we really do appreciate that. Our parishure with you guys. 135 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.360 I'd like to give a shout out to Alex Paul. 136 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.079 That's actually my son, but he gave us a brand 137 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.639 new microphone for Christmas, which we're using for this show, 138 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:20.560 so so cute. 139 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:21.759 I wish you guys could see it. 140 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.480 If it sucks and it's not as good as the 141 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.519 other show, so you can blame him for that. But 142 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.720 actually the testing I did on it, I think it's 143 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.000 actually going to be a little bit better, So hopefully 144 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.240 it comes through that way. As usual, we've got some 145 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:40.839 foreign listeners. I want to bring up MJ. Jeriffe in Bangladesh. 146 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.240 I think it's so funny that if y'all could see 147 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.120 his face when he's trying to pronounce this, it's like hilarious. 148 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:52.480 It looks like ga Ron Shrivastava from India. And then 149 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.399 we've got this this is a new country that's popping 150 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.720 up Cheryl Rosemary and Catherine Gonzales from the Philippines. 151 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:00.839 Oh awesome. 152 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:02.560 So now we got some Philippines listeners. 153 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:04.199 Yay, we're glad to have you. 154 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.399 Okay, we were going to talk about and still are 155 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.720 talking about crompus or crampus, depend on how you pronounce it, 156 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.720 because I've heard it pronounce both ways. But I feel 157 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.319 like we can't talk about that unless we first talk 158 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.000 about Saint Nicholas, and it is Christmas, so let's talk 159 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.439 about Saint Nicholas. Are you okay with that? 160 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:26.040 I love Santa. 161 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:28.360 Okay about Santa Claus, I said, Saint Nicholas. 162 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.000 I love Saint Nicholas too. 163 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.199 All right, so let's talk a little bit about Saint 164 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.439 Nicholas and have this whole Santa Claus thing got started. 165 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.680 Saint Nicholas was actually a little boy grew up in Turkey, 166 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.800 which Turkey now was in Turkey then, but he grew 167 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.160 up in Turkey. He was born in March of two 168 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.600 hundred and seventy, so that's a longer seventy and seventy. 169 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:48.480 It's a long time ago. 170 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:49.680 Oh my gosh. 171 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.920 He had rich parents who died of an epidemic at 172 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.040 early age, so he got left all of their money 173 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.639 and he chose to do good with their money. Good. 174 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.000 He became a bishop at a very early age and 175 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.759 was constantly trying to help people out. The problem was 176 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:08.600 when the Roman Empire came in and took over, they 177 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:10.639 weren't real big on Christianity, and they threw him in 178 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.720 jail and then kind of kicked him out of the country. 179 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:15.360 They suck boo. 180 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.360 After he got out of jail, he came back, he 181 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.879 defended his religion as best he could, and then he 182 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.519 even made it more of a point to help out, 183 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.560 you know, as many people as he possibly could. Now, 184 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.279 some of the stories that go around, and this is 185 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:31.600 what started the whole Santa Claus thing is if you 186 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:33.799 you know, back in these days, when you had daughters 187 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.799 and you married him off, you had to have a dowry, 188 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:38.879 which was basically you had to give them money to 189 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:43.120 get started on. And if you were poor and you 190 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.000 didn't have money for your daughters, they were probably going 191 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.559 to be sold into slavery. Well that's not well, I mean, 192 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.480 that's just the way it is. Well, you know, you know, what, 193 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:53.440 are you gonna say? It was two hundred and seventy 194 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:54.080 that's true. 195 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:55.720 That's terrible though, that's terrible. 196 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.679 So what happened There was a really poor gentleman that 197 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.600 had three daughters. And the story goes that Saint Nick 198 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.519 had a open window and he tossed in a bag 199 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.200 of gold and it actually, you know, he did this 200 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.159 three times. He did it for all three daughters at 201 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.120 different times, but the bag of gold each time either 202 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.320 landed in a stocking or it landed in a shoe 203 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.039 that was sitting in front of the fireplace drying out 204 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.279 right there. So yeah, so that's how the whole theory 205 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.279 of stockings and hanging stockings and having stuff put in 206 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.960 them was all because of that tradition back then. So 207 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.799 that's that's one of the stories about Saint Nick. He 208 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.759 also was the type of person that apparently had these 209 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.720 healing powers. How he had them, I don't know. But 210 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.120 one of the stories was that these three kids were 211 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.159 going to Athens Grease and they went and somehow another, 212 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:55.600 this innkeeper from a hotel, he killed them, robbed them, 213 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.720 and he put them in some kind of a pickling jar. 214 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.080 I mean a barrel, not a jar. A barrel drug 215 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:05.039 be kind of small. Well it was a barrel. Well, 216 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.240 it's still a feat on his own. This it's a 217 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:07.919 big old barrel. 218 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.200 Well, that's just awful. 219 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.840 And Saint Nicholas actually stopped at on route to wherever 220 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:15.600 he was going, he stopped in the same end. He 221 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.600 had a dream about this. He grabbed that the innkeeper 222 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.440 and brought him down there, made him confess, and then 223 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.639 somehow another he brought these three boys back to life. 224 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:27.840 Oh wow, yay. 225 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.559 And then another story is from France that these three 226 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.159 kids that were actually they ran away from home or something. 227 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.279 They were killed by a butcher, and he brought those 228 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.080 kids back to life and sent them back home to 229 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:44.200 their parents. So for that reason, he's actually the patron 230 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.440 Saint of the safety of children. Oh so that's what 231 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.279 Saint Nicholas says. But he also on a voyage back 232 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:54.600 to his homeland. It was like a really bad storm, 233 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.399 choppy seas and everything, and he was able to save 234 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.679 some prayers and calm the sea to be able to 235 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.159 get the boat where it needed to go safely. So 236 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.679 he's also the patent's patron Saint of sailors and voyages. 237 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:08.279 He is amazing. 238 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.840 He is amazing. And then because of all of his 239 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.919 gift giving and all of us karen for charity, he's 240 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.639 also the patron's patron Saint of gift giving. So he's 241 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.840 a patron saint of three different things. He became a 242 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.000 saint about one hundred years after he died, which he 243 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.360 died December sixth, three hundred and forty three. 244 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.279 Oh my gosh, that is wild to hear that. 245 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.000 I know, that's like only like six or seven years 246 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:35.759 before you were born. 247 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:41.399 Okay, it's a Christmas I left Hell and to slide. 248 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.200 But because of the fact that it was December sixth, 249 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.840 and a lot of parts over in Germany and Poland 250 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:51.799 and some of the other Eastern Bloc countries over there, 251 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.919 their still biggest gift giving day is December sixth. December 252 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:58.799 sixth is recognized by a lot of sailors. They have 253 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:00.720 the Feast of Saint Nicholas, and that's kind of the 254 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.039 day that they do that we celebrate him right now. 255 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.080 The reason that we tell you that is because we're 256 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:12.639 going to talk about Crampus and Crampis to no. 257 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.759 Wait, you say Crompus and then you say Crampus. 258 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:16.440 I said it was pronounced both ways. I'm trying to 259 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.679 make everybody happy. Oh okay, it's gonna be Crampus for 260 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:22.639 the rest of the show. There's not gonna be wavering. 261 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.159 It's Crampus. And unlike Christen thought that last week, he's 262 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:34.000 not the patron saintan of PMS. Now Crampis. Depending on 263 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:37.200 who you talk to, they say that it goes back 264 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.720 to pagan beliefe even before Christianity, which would have even 265 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.279 been before Saint Nicholas. So Crampis may have been along 266 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.159 before the legend of Santa Claus, because you know, the 267 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:51.759 actual Santa Claus thing. In eighteen twenty three, there was 268 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.600 a poem written. It was called a Visit from Saint Nicholas, 269 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.759 which is, now, do you know what it is? 270 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:58.120 Christmas? 271 00:12:58.120 --> 00:12:59.679 E's the night before Christmas. 272 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:04.879 Oh I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, Oh you know. I guess 273 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:08.879 I'm in my mind thinking that. Honestly, I have never 274 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.720 heard of Crampis ever. I guess it's because I love 275 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.679 Santa Claus so much I wouldn't allow that to enter 276 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:15.399 into my brain. 277 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.840 Well, when in eighteen twenty three, when this poem came out, 278 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.399 it was the first talk of ever talking about sweets 279 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.879 and candy and presence and all that. And from that 280 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.840 is where Santa Claus came. So the visit from Saint Nicholas, 281 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.240 which this guy decided to put a bunch of stuff 282 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.039 that Saint Nicholas never did, is what then turned into 283 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.720 Santa Claus. Okay, So the Santa Claus we know what 284 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.480 today basically came from that poem. Gotcha, So there you go. 285 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:45.200 I love Santa. 286 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.720 Now back to Crampis. The whole thing of Crampis and 287 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:54.080 the reason we brought up Saint Nicholas Is because a 288 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.519 lot of people refer to Crampis as Saint Nicholas's shadow 289 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.679 in a lot of the earlier beliefs, Crampus basically is 290 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:08.360 evil brother. No, but but Crampis was actually a way 291 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:11.080 of making your children behave you know how. A lot 292 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.320 of times now people are like, you know, Santa Claus, 293 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.559 he's watching when you're sleeping, and he's watching it and 294 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:18.960 he knows if you're naughty. Well, back then they just 295 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.679 skipped all that and they just went straight to Crampus, 296 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.039 will come beat your ass and he'll just take you 297 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:28.159 because that's what Crampus would do. Crampus would he would 298 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.000 stuff you into a you know, a bag basically like 299 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.159 a golf bag and zip you up and he would 300 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.759 take you to the underbellies of the earth. What Yeah, 301 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:40.000 and he would bring Well, we're getting ahead of us. 302 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.840 I'm sorry, So let's talk about. 303 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:48.360 Crampus a little bit. Crampis is basically half goat, half demon. 304 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.080 That's a good combination. So the bottom half of his 305 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:57.559 body was goat goat hoofs stood straight up, and the 306 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:00.159 top half of his body was covered with hair dark 307 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.080 and his head had gold horns, big demon style gold 308 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.840 horns coming out of it. He had a long tongue, 309 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.600 forked tongue that would often roll out of his mouth. 310 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.960 So that's me. That sounds enticing to some people, but 311 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.600 she got all excited. I say, a forked tongue. It's Christmas, 312 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:25.759 for God's sake. Stop it. 313 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:30.879 I'm sorry, y'all, Okay, stop saying. 314 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:36.559 So Anyways, what the belief was is, as Saint Nicholas 315 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.440 would roam the streets and hand out gifts to the 316 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:44.279 good kids, Crampus would be right beside him and actually, 317 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.480 you know, torment the bad kids. And like I said, 318 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.879 he would carry you know, every time you saw him, 319 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:52.840 he was he was a demon from the depths of Hell, 320 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.159 so he was always in chains. That was one of 321 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.720 the signature things about crampis he had the chains on 322 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:01.639 him to signify his you know, bound to Hell basically. 323 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.919 But he also carried a you know, a well, I 324 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.720 guess you could say, a bundle of birch sticks, which 325 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:13.360 were basically switches, so he'd just whip your ass with them. 326 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:15.559 Aren't birch twit sticks? 327 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:16.960 Wait? 328 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.840 Aren't those of those white things the white branches? 329 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:20.159 Yeah? 330 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:21.960 Oh, well, at least they were pretty. 331 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.440 Yeah, I'm sure they were pretty. Did you did you 332 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.120 ever have parents or grandparents that. 333 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:31.799 Made you Oh yeah, yeah, plenty of many of times. 334 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:32.519 I hate to admit. 335 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.360 Yeah, my grandma used to make us do. I remember 336 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.320 one year we were so bad. I didn't even have shade. 337 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:39.679 I know. 338 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:41.879 I would always go and get like this little teeny 339 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:44.720 littlest little bitty thing you can. 340 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:46.320 Find, and then they go out and bring back a 341 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.879 whole branch, bring back a pine tree that would beat 342 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:55.440 your ass with a Christmas tree. So this is what 343 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.440 Crampus did, and as yours went on, it kind of 344 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.879 just went to him just being his own. But they 345 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.519 would put out in Germany, in Austria and some of 346 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.160 the Eastern Block countries, they would put out greeting cards 347 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.200 all year long that just had Crampus on there, like 348 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.480 he knows what you're doing. And if you actually look 349 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:11.920 up the internet, you can see a lot of these 350 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.839 original cards, and these cards always depict you know, him 351 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.559 and his horns, and he's holding a bag and he's 352 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.200 shoving kids down into it, or he's he's holding the 353 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.480 kid up and he's pulling it, pulling him by the ears. 354 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.720 Or pulling a little girl by her braid of her ponytail. 355 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.400 Oh my lord, that's terrible. I know, it's kind of 356 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.400 I'm glad I didn't get one of those cards. 357 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:34.880 If I'd known about this years ago, my kids would 358 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:37.440 have been terrorized, because up to this point, all we 359 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:39.559 would do is take them to haunted houses at Halloween 360 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:41.480 and then threaten them if they wouldn't good to take 361 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.400 them back to there. But I didn't know we could 362 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:48.680 do the same thing for Christmas Medaddy. But that's Crampus. 363 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.880 That's that's what he does. And it's, like I said, 364 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:54.319 a lot of people say this goes back before Christianity, 365 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.759 goes back to pagan days, but it's uh, it's kind 366 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.039 of a scary thing when you think about it. And 367 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.799 now we talked about with Saint Nicholas that December sixth 368 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:06.359 is the day that there's a lot of feasts and 369 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.039 there's a lot of festivals and stuff like that. For 370 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:13.000 Saint Nicholas, December fifth, the day before, is Crampus Day. 371 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:17.200 That's there's festivals all over the world that have Crampus 372 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.519 Day to where people dress up like it. I mean, 373 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.119 hundreds of people in the street with the horns coming 374 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.000 out of their head and the forked tongue and all that. 375 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.559 It's it's actually, it's actually pretty graphic. 376 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:30.839 Yeah, well it's obvious. 377 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:37.400 It's obvious. You've lady made it clear. But crampis, I think, 378 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:39.559 is a pretty cool situation. There's a there's a movie 379 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:42.039 I came out twenty fifteen. It's kind of half comedy 380 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:47.200 half horror movie. I haven't seen it myself, saw the 381 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.079 previews for it. It looked like it was kind of cool. 382 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:53.880 Don't really look like that. It followed the true meanings 383 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.480 and beliefs of what Crampus was, because Crampus was basically, 384 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.799 if you were a bad kid, you were getting presents, 385 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:02.319 and not only were you not getting presents, you were 386 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.680 getting your ass beat and you were probably getting taken 387 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:05.440 away somewhere. 388 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:07.759 Oh my gosh, what makes me want to cry? 389 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.559 Well, I know some kids that need that. I know 390 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.359 some I know some kids that if they got their 391 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.160 ass beat and got taken somewhere and came back, the 392 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.400 world be a better place. I'm just saying, well, that's true. Probably, 393 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.559 So I'm not just talking about new direction. I'm talking 394 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.799 I'm talking about mean kids, mean. 395 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.599 Kids, guys it's Christmas. 396 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:32.759 We're not gonna do a real long show. We're gonna 397 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.759 wrap it up. We just want to do something that 398 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:36.559 was kind of fun in the spirit of the holiday. 399 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.000 Tell you a little bit about Saint next, tell you 400 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.799 a little bit about Crampus, and thank you guys for 401 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.759