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no super Christmas holidays, spectacular glass, tidings Edition in three days her instinct vision, nice smell a vision that was a real thing. You know yeah it was. It was a great idea that didn't really pen- I don't know about that- well it didn't pan out very well well funny. I know friend. I would forward to this. Every year near me, because, as I said before, I say that my vacation and take an elementary school break for had three weeks at the end of every year. Right It also means you get a bit of a break yells, a de facto decision They have as well, and this is it after in in one hour roughly. You're not gonna, see me again from next year. Yeah, you know I'd like to get small over the holidays. That's comment

plainly, I do too hola. Unhappily I'm secretly find with you in that decision for me, then I particularly want to do so. Aye, sir, you full of cheer glad tidings, while I'm in a cylinder serve this allowed and who knows where discuss how Jerry, are you feeling pretty happy? She is he's good. Just gave a thumbs up, she's fresh face, pretty tell our halls decked! Oh yes, double decker. Well, I guess we should welcome everybody chuck to the Christmas spectacular. Tell you first off to be sure start a fire somewhere in your house, yes put sweater may be put on some slippers put on pajamas. Well some not hamper room, something like that and to stir sit down and enjoy yourself yeah, and nor will we the holiday special rear. We like to cover

afraid we're gonna recover, something which I actually pitch something we had already covered. I've gotta lists of dawn ok great and will then What's wrong in the how it each year, hey also, we should say if there are any little True believers among you, you may not want to let them listen to this one. Well, yeah there I was gonna give of warning. They can listen. However, there is one feature of the show where, where I want your kids to listen to some of the detail. The deep and we're gonna, give you a warning before that comes on yeah, so you can it'll it'll sound like that. Renewing noise at Christmas warning. Alright, let's do it by everybody. Sit back We began our annual Christmas special

who took region dinner over there? slay. Had gone over to worm Catalonia parts of Spain. Parts is participating and there's a catalan tradition. There's a couple of them actually that a really interesting and are scattered, logical, the nature and This one is called cargo Theo. Yeah I had never heard of this, but I put out: and you'll see later in the show. We put out a call on Facebook for some unusual family traditions,

from listeners, and a couple of people mentioned this like saying we don't do this, but I've heard of it and it's really strange yeah I'd stuff. I a thing in large parts of Spain, Portugal, even some parts of ITALY. To from what I understand, but specifically the catalan region of Spain, deal which means poop, blog, basically, in Catalan, is It's a Christmas tradition that starts on December eighth, when family gets around in while they ve gone out. I think either made wonder they purchased a cadet here. Which is a log with a face on it, you get the idea that part of the fine incorrect? some wrong spanish among you, but part of the fund, is making it with the family sure, but I'm shriek and buy them, though as well right for even leave featured even

bought. One fully feature their still, some some ritual that you, the family, have to go through. That would be kind of fine, exactly so with with cargo with the log he's gotta face importantly, he also has to front arms who's. Gonna propped up Riah and when you bring cognitive home. He also has there that the standard, Caroline Red, overhanging hat gap. The Bell Tina yes exactly answered did the family brings him home in on December earthy getting prepared for the Christmas sees at night. They recommend a blanket damn they they basically wrap them from what mounted the waist down in a blanket to keep him warm. I think to keep him warm into maybe incubate what dwells inside of the log yeah because that's where we're headed with us, they feed this thing, Orange, peels

a spanish new, get called thrown the right yeah and apparently, as tradition is held, the more you feed the cargo the more gifts it will bestow to you through the traditional route, which means out of the rear end kids every night, while their caring for cargo to you- and I imagine, probably more than just every night I'll bet. This thing is fed a lot orange pills in Newgate, it and as the Christmas, I guess Christmas day also saw Christmas Eve. They they prepare to extract the stuff from he and they do, thereby by hitting cargo deal with sticks, and they have a traditional chant. You honest units given translation of the chant yeah,

did not the original in English, it translates literally as poop log Whoop Torone haste. Some cottage cheese. If you don't pay well I'll hit you with a stick plug. Once they have beaten cargo deal with a stick enough times there look, blanket and see that ha he's picked out a bunch of candy and treats and gifts and It's an amazing, wonderful little Christmas tradition, it's wonderful, but that's not the only unusual based Caroline Christmas tradition, either. Now. I was kind of surprise to know that those more than one I had already pronounced the coroner Coggan AIR Cargan air. Yet pretty close So this is, this is just a monologue. It's an actual carved, or now you know readily many, occurred,

Doll figurine? That has dropped its pans in his just pooping, yeah and, with the little traditional figuring, there's a little pile of hoop beneath his rear end on the ground. So yet only as a puppy has proved ineffective. The original version it looks like Caroline Peasant, so he also has that red hat is probably smoking. A pipe. And these things are designed to be put into the nativity seen as one of the fingers, along with the holy family. Here has gained a lot of a lot of westerners fanatics, Seven! Don't understand that it's not men, even in a joking manner, wasn't originally. It was meant because the cargo air represented things like fertility or good fortune, or good luck, DNS poop did near, but over time fully involve the night. You can find coggan air figures of all sorts of famous people from Burma. Burma

two on the star wars, crew has a coggan air collection, beer courthouse: did you see it Yeah I saw I mean there are all kinds of pop culture icons now with their pants pull down proving. But did you see that, the star wars when, in particular known, I was again it s. Pretty great see three Pierre has pooped out a. Am I not like a bolt not like one might traditionally finding a stool were now now? not a penal Womack man who knew this Can it be so grass there? Well, I guess we could guess there. He found the stuff so what else can we mention here? There was the world's record, of course, on December tenth, I'm sorry or two thousand and ten, teen foot figurine place than a shopping center, and when the record for the world's largest coggan here yeah in Barcelona, pretty good yeah like

picture. I couldn't find any actual specks on it, but by my estimates, the pile of proof is about three feet tall. We're in the middle of the shopping center, the Morrow Magnum Shopping Centre in Barcelona, nice, where my sister lives in Portugal. Now I'm gonna hit her up and see. She seen any of this action yeah for sure, the males, some coggan airs I'd love why you can order one of mine above as you can get a better deal, should we take a break? No Josh? We shouldn't oh yeah, we shouldn't, because, as of per tradition, Christmas absurd is every it's one. Small little thing we like to do is ad free with a hundred posts more than Christmas right, pilot or slay them head on over and see how Doktor Crampness is doing

yeah overrun out an alpine regions, yes of Austria, so those talking Airbus. It's it's a weird thing, but then it's not any weirder than Santa Claus. If you really look at it now or entry into your home he's the sum no, it's really not, and it actually makes a lot of sense too, because you know Santa Claus oh Gooden, pure and heavy and joy fall, encompasses all the opposite. So, as as it was put in this one Smithsonian article. I read cramped is the year in the faint Next Yang, yeah, and they actually hang out together, we should probably describe cramp is a little bit first, yes, so here's the legend is that Crampness shows up quickly so crampness. He shows up. He shows up in the town the night before December. Six does also known as com, long tongue and claws. The aim, in fact, is derived from the german wherefore, climb belief, yeah,

said: Crampton was that simple so Grandpa's. He shows up He should have been the town the night before December. Six the notice countless knocked or, conversely, and that's also Nicholas Tiger Saint Nicholas Day December Sixes rights of Bishop and December fifth, the knight of the fifth yeah, and you know, like the light in the dark campuses like tenedos, significant to show up show up as well and train ruin the good time right. So why didn't you is like on campus knocked the it goes around and leaves little good in the shoes of good kid you're, an birch, in the shoes of bad kids, ostensibly for their parents to smack Amanda behind right or being banned, but there's another level reserved for the truly bag, kids and that's what crampness is. Therefore,

is there to abduct and torture potentially eat The really bad kids yeah, actually going around with Saint Nick Visitor, peoples, How bad are you, deanery, tortured and even bad or like a crampness level, bad in this his back the first thing I thought it was, of course are observed. The Grimm's fairytales very much sort of a lines with that where children are readily for it up as food for beasts like no one known cared back, then another, they definitely treated their children more harshly for sure there are more like getting lost in the forest, and no one coming to find you going on. Yes, Grandpa's is obviously over the years there been people would then let us abolish. This is not in the modern Christmas spirit. He is the son of the north. God of the underworld, Hell HTML

and during the twentyth century, the catholic church tried to ban cramps. And then more recently, in the nineteen thirty's. When Austria, conservative Christian Social Party came in I came around they. They definitely try to get buzz outlawed, but people would not have it they needed there crampness. Yet I mean Crampness predates Christianity. He has some staying power. You know he was originally like a germanic demon of of a pagan folklore. Here, he did. He would be tough to get rid of him, probably now more so than ever, because some sort of Streisand Effect apparently happening now more people are aware of crampness than ever before, Yankees celebrated big time, people love, em there are many people are either us here a good horror movie, I can't say if it was gonna have seen it, but right it looks good but I hear people heard who get sick of the holidays, being claimed on their throat? For you know after exe

for weeks usually turned a cramp ass. They can find some relief I looked at this other think. As the end of this article, it mentions a couple of weird thing: demons and other countries. Christmas demons and the one in Greece Keller comments or I did you look that up yet yeah. This is crazy. These are little impish demons that speak with a list and eat worms and frogs and things, They only come out at night, they're, afraid of the Sun Fire Holy Water, and then the year they live in the center of the earth and attempt to chop down the tree of life right by Christmas. They emerge to wreak havoc above ground right. Yeah and apparently the one under the legends of the caliph cancer. I is that they can go. After two did you see that

Oh no, I didn't actually but I'll bet. I know where you're going with the well, they can dig, they won't say three, because it's a wholly number supposedly so they allocate the two. So if you want to larger home against these little dumps. We, the calendar on your doorstep, so, they go. Mad train account the holes, they'd so one to one to over and over until they suicide, that Sir it's pretty standard strange. You know you know it is strange, though, to is that I'm better a remedy for protecting yourself against vampires origin vampires couldn't count and they were just go, not strain account like seeds. I think your spouse allow that's right. Yeah, I'm obliterated. They were like generated in Greece too. I think yeah, so it's off a sure fire remedy that this works for everything one size fits all year. Did you see the one about Danny the south african ghost boy? That was really the distance dislike scary. So if you

a kid in South Africa around Christmas time. You need date and keep an eye out for the ghost of Danny. Who is it boy who, whose grandmother made a batch of cookies for Saint Nick and I just couldn't help himself. He ate the whole battle cookies grandmother murdered him in those Gus HANS Christmas insulted so weird tradition really drives home. There were time high in terms of regard for children in the world yeah, you know We finally do right here in twenty. Sixteen yup, no children's murdered don't go? Sterner watch ready for the next marijuana, I'm so sorry about this. One must get in this way. Yeah. I was right on over to tv land.

What exists in our imagination and in color city. California, that's right, of course, you're talking about a Charlie Brown Christmas, in just a little bit of its history. Its one of my favorites after all these years, I still love watching that show and after all, these years is right. It's been on every year, since nineteen sixty five here, which actually the second longest running animated cartoon special in history. Here after its in second place after Rudolf, which came out there before and has run every year since as well. The rank and battered off yes, which is kind of sad Charlie branded, can't come first but its very Charlie, ongoing yes, can a reassuring. Well, that's one of the things always loved about Charlie Brown in the peanuts gang was the focal points as the melancholy behind it. It was never just some happy

lucky dumb staying at what there was always to so much melancholy in path of ass. It was factors it really look out spoke to me as a kid yet, and so I Guess the executives CBS in the agency for Coca COLA were expecting something totally, front from everything that Charles shoulda done up to that point with this Christmas special when they were right yeah. Well, it almost wasn't even ordered those a producer, namely Mendelson, who did a little documentary short about Charles Shalt College boy named Charlie Brown and for the first time, for that little documentary there, the law of animation because previous it had been a comic strip right. And so they just a little bit of animation by gaining bill. Melendez yeah exotic. And so they put that famous jazz piano score above and squarely, which is amazing and

we saw it and they were like hey, maybe the speakers from special. They said: no, no one wanted it yeah, the em? They they Somebody, though, heard about this documentary and which apparently was just lost a history pretty quickly and said Have you guys ever thought of just doing just a straight up Christmas special and apparently Mendelson her the first rule of Hollywood riches. You answer yes right. Every question here of course and he said yes of course, we have an apparently run out trials, shots the next day and then stay. They had. Basically, all the rough outline points of what would become the Charlie Brown Christmas, better, yeah like. We need this music because we love it. We want some ice skating. We want to Christmas pageant and we want- the theme that well sort of religious theme by Charles apparently insisted on that. One yeah he was pretty religious and

definitely insisted on it and again the executives who were waiting with bated breath for this thing liver term or like this is awful What's going on here like this, a super religious, it's not it's not various enjoy full it. It's like you said it has path house, but it's a was animated Christmas, special, the words the laughter going to put a laugh track in yes and they definitely wanted lioness reading from the Bible Outlook, bs Definitely dead in Charleston Nope stay in it. And they also wanted to cast adult voice actors. And a kind of occurred to me that never knew did any of those, so just for quick shot out to some of the characters. Charlie Brown was voiced by Peter actually, neighbourhood, kids and I think iconic voices were just little kids line, scripts for Shea Sally.

If he Steinberg and Lucy was Tracy Stratford and you can go look up there. The recast, if you want, but that would be weird if we read out like eighteen people but the Kids. Actually, so the ones you named were professionals. The other kids were actually neighbourhood, kids and Bill Mendelson, animator and directors neighbourhood. Yes, they were like not just kids. They were legit kids and I'm not feeling Hollywood gives greater, who are actually like thirty, five or forty year. The better, The use of kids is unusual for, and they hadn't really thought it through from what I saw, because some of these kids were so young that they didn't how to read yet, like the kid you played Linus didn't know how to read to you to be told what lines to say yes because he can read this year and Snoopy actually was the one. Only one not voiced by Kitty was voiced by the animator himself was Kennedy. And it was a huge yet, despite the the doubtful

nature of the of the network. It was a big head on Thursday December nineteen sixty five. It was seen literally by half of the audience. Available in the country. Yes, almost half we are basically everyone who had their tv set turned on, and I think eight o clock or whatever on that date. I watched it in the entire country. That's pretty astounding in it, like you said, if the exact that is what the exact start was gonna happen. They thought I was gonna air and then just be gone yet a Peabody won a Emmy award this really says something about the time had finished second place, only two bonanza which says TAT, Americans loved Bonanza Manly, did I watched it? U S been I never did check and lowly rabbit yeah I never get into well I mean your problem. Though hokey for your taste. Probably by that point

little you're, more zawoiski or more sophisticated? I was a very sophisticated, a euro, a work of art. In here a couple of interesting tidbits, Charlie Brown Christmas Is there a bins, some scenes cut throughout the years, notably sponsorship answer? notably Coca COLA, even had fallen Coca COLA sign animated into the show that lionesses thrown into and they cut that out after much for how long several times is. Is it yesterday first few years they cut that cook Well, the sign out of their because other advertising like what the heck were were Pepsi where's my site we're Royal Crown COLA, everyone advertising you could call at, until something else that we needed until mighty. Ninety seven right were they cut out the peanuts gang throwing snow?

that it cannot offence writing to me, for more ads and it wasn't restored until ninety ninety seven well, they do the right thing. Yet that's an important part. And I'll, be watching this year and every year to come to Light Asher Charles, yes chance. It would not be our Christmas vessels we didn't teach people how to make booze new and interesting ways it became a bit of a tradition around here. Oh yeah, they drink, oh yeah I cannot. To make this window. I haven't again yes, yet follow through I dont yeah, although I have to say I still had a hot blooded room Yes, you. My whole problem comes it's an

first thing like I get out the bottle of bourbon and then decide how this, for this is that I really don't even need a glass. I can cut my hair, aided and abetted who had never yeah it's. It's should really put in the effort. This Sweden does sound like a little bit efforts until you really think that it's not that bad, so slow down in the Caribbean. It gets so hot that you wonder, do they know it's cool? this time at all the at yes, yes, they do actually and in the Caribbean in Jamaica in particular, there is a drink, a refreshing, called punch, called Sorrel punch that parity screams Christmas is part and parcel with Christmas down there, but against his heart need something that's cool and refreshing, so we're gonna go with jamaican sorrel punch this year as the Christmas drink, because it sounds pretty great. I do we just start with ingredients

yeah? And we should we should say the first ingredient. Soil can be read, confusing appear in the states. What what's the other soil is apparently a part or a flower of the hibiscus plant, but it's not what those of us in the United States would think of. As the hibiscus flower, the different flower, and you can't use hibiscus flowers or you'll die you'll, be haunted by day the you wanna use straight up, dry sorrel, plant flower Ok, I'm and you can actually find him online for like five six point, I'm like Amazon or if you're, if you have an international market, you can Probably find them there in that whole like cellophane, dried herbs. From other parts of the world. Ok, they're, probably be there, but you want to start with those cup lounges yeah that sounds good. I can do that

you want to get some fresh ginger where it as I do that people find that anywhere. You want to make two one inch, cubes, peeled and then finally child three clothes, Good good night ingredient yeah can tasted in my head. Yes, the guy coming together, Christmassy spices, and then this guy didn't use this some dozen his recipe book, also so that you could at this point add orange peels without the pith. You never want to use the pith within orange. Peel and cinnamon sticks take all these things and you put him in a heap. Proof bow and you, boil five cups of water in a saucepan importer. The sorrel mixture tat. So clear. What you're doing is making a sorrel t, because you let it steep for at least four hours are overnight. You put together your room. I guess

I would say tee is closer than room where the mother batch their eager. You make the mother, none of these things, her applicable. So you let you let the mother batch tea room overnight and endless steep right, and then you want to make a simple syrup, yeah I mean I would say, make your own central, simple, syrupy view your favorite speak indices, outright, sure yeah that'd, be they national, though it doesn't have to be special just want to make a one to one simple syrup, and since this is the Caribbean, you probably wanted to go with them rarer that raw brown, not brown sugar, but brownish in color, but were demographic sugar is probably and went to use, but you make a simple, sir, not a complicated syrup. Now a citizens. Europe some good, Amber rum yeah. I was come on getting the good stuff, because this is Christmas. Guess he at once a year

and then you add for use. Do you take the tea that you ve? Let steep four hours or overnight, strain out the ingredients and there have the tea then you add two at the simple syrup and the rum stirred a little darlin I found them in Europe ice cubes and then go with lime and orange slices, all right. So as far as the amounts we're talking a couple of ounces of the soil flower We already said that the how much ginger three whole clothes, five and three quarters Epps water, three quarters cup of sugar, for your syrup, one half cups of amber rum. Little more. If you're here too and then you know garnish at will. Delicious am I have to make that this year I count Man I have the sorrel ordered

you do already from making it up, maybe and bring it to her. Our holiday, sound, a party, you got it a ring olive added roof to it for some flour, flour and butter. This is floating in clumps in the man that sounds good, so what's up back in the sleigh? It's called alphabet, took longer than I thought: yeah twas heat, this sucker and had over the part of the internet Worried, though so we're back were out of the sleigh and into the frying pan. Actually, that's not true. They made a psychopath cook, something you are in a silly mood today. I am, I think I have ever think I mentally gone on vacation you'd, give

With delirium fire total, I, like it man, you should mainly gone vacation a lot. I think that's a good it's good So we're gonna talk a lot about the about MRS clause. It sort of occurred to me when we were put in this together again, oh it here, Saint Nick all the time, Nowadays, you see his wife in the photo some, but where did you I'm from who is this woman. And I don't know, but she has not been around the end. Time, Santa used to be very The batch. Yeah. I didn't realize that either this article puts it is kind of a loner for its vonny here but yeah he was given a wife. Finally, for the first time in eight forty nine in theirs. American author named James Reese and apparently there's an author named James Reese. That's working today. Oh yes, he's hog there followed a Google search engine passes cannot find any

mention of the other one, but there apparently an author named James wrote a short story entitled a crook legend. And it was published in eighteen, forty, nine. He I wonder why I gave him the right. Don't get me wrong? I love it Why did he get to say? Like you know what in a just right in a mrs clause, I literary licence, yeah yeah. So is it cannon approval from aghast towards Lucas. I think that this guy worked out over time. You know he, I guess so brightly on if only this evil? By into it yeah, sounds like she was kind of a device that he used because he picked out a necessity. In the story. Mister mill clause early delivering, presents to a family right and it. Turns out tat. There is no mister and missus cause. It was really a friendly couple that we was friends with who addressed up as MR and MRS Klass yet

the burn bombs right, so they d the guy turns out to have no imagination whatsoever for a short story. Writer Yes, but she did stick a little bit and then she really started sticking in later years, you start gonna, popping up more and more in magazines and stories And then she said in a big way and in a picture book by Catherine led Bates. And when she really took hold. Everyone is like hey. I love Santa, haven't a wife she supercool he's a strong lady that she the woman behind the man in. Both the whole operation right and who can argue with that? I mean everybody liked the fact that Santa had finally settled down Africa. He wasn't this sewing his what

across the world and chimneys all over the world. Cecily baby I'll give you a ride. Might you know It struck me that I hadn't really realized Chuck Missis this does not have an official first name. Well, look into that. Did you know Finally, apparently with artistic license, you can just name or whatever you want right. Ok, I found as well and there, like you, know, Monica Erika, Marta just Martha. Martha, which apparently is a typo. Was it I don't know. Maybe I was a sure I did know. That was just a variation. No I'm sure it was a variation now, but at the time it was probably a typo gotcha the Brenner didn't have an hour so they're doing exactly. I just forget the My third point is that, when a curse, Sandra that Sandra Clause that sort of ring,

a little better food. You pick you what's your favorite probably reader. I thought I was gonna go it. Or Mary Mary clause. Yeah because a mean also you could say Mary like emmy- are why you're the one I do not agree with. I should say the two: I do not agree with our money, and just not MRS cost money, the clause yeah, weird, it's a little odd, nothing, nothing against the name, Monica wages. For MRS clause, client, you have an ironic as can agree with that one day I think sir, and adjust cadets too. It's just grab its name that has no business being promised. Agreed Charles, you found something. Great internet there. I just found very heartening yet is on its way.

Oh, oh warning, I knew I think he s parents, you may not want your kids to hear this part is not dirty and filthy or weird in any way, but depending on how you run Christmas in your household. If you know what I'm saying we just wanting you fair warning, so will give you what was just do a little Chris Is it fair, like five seconds of good, ok Hopefully you are not a psychopath and you got rid of any little kids who still believe? and hopefully Asia, Jerry, inserted the music from the movie psycho instead of Christmas, me early wonderful get yet people would be like what are they re? Let's go in your stand until we came back so I found this thing. This is actually knew this year, The social needs

this lady named charity Hutchinson had a facebook, that has really taken last I looked earlier, it was cheese had about thirty thousand Likes and has been quite a few times and she had a solution and her family on what the conundrum parents face by lying to their children, ball face lying for years about the existence of a real human sand. Laws as a person right. So she, I guess, tried this with her all this first born recently and thereby last couple years area they felt for her and in a way it's a really great thing to do, but at the same time your basically you're getting out of one lie by creating another different. Why oh no, not really

Kay. I always thought everybody judgments that describe came at the castle, so charity says that you start off by taking you can offer coffee, I didn't realize, the thing that do you think that MR he added neither but apparently so you think you could have for coffee more wherever maybe a milk sure, yeah, let's go with one of those two budget, the kid out- and you just basically say hey. You know what I've noticed you doing a lot of really great kind, compassionate things this year, for example this and that He beat up that boy who pushed down that smaller kid. That kind of thing- The time you lay down that bird, who had no chance of surviving without its mother, just some nice stuff right, and you say you know- sign or daughter. I think you have become compassion enough in old enough to become a Santa Claus

and you drop your MIKE and you leave your kid and starbucks- and you just down the street feeling good about yourself, a car driver of California to start a new life. So so now you say I want you you're not to become Santa Claus and then your kid is like one and you say, get ready for your mind to be blown kid, because guess what here's. The deal was sailor. Santa is a construct Europe. Can basically is which what you're trying to do is say you can come Santa, because Santa is someone who just very kindly in officially gives something to others anonymously. Yes, it is being Santa's. Anybody could be Santa armies. You're want to give to pee

Just for the sheer joy of making other people happy exactly is Santa and but he who does that can be Santa, and so I've got an idea. Why? Don't you try starting starting in out this year. Like just pick somebody you know, I like her, they find out them knowing what's going on something, they really want and then go get a form wrap it up and leave a form, but here's the key. You have to say that its from Santa and the little card or tag can never tell them that it was you. That's pretty good. Yeah enshiu she'd backs it up by making the point that The same is about getting credit it's about just giving for the job of giving and making other people happy for years,

retail so that in that way you become Santa here, and it gives the kid all these lessons that you know understanding about. What's going on around the world and in their own neighborhood, maybe this article says Agus improvidence over their own innocence. It's a great point. I think and she said that it works great with their older kid now that kid is in on it you're trying to help the that the new batch. About to lose their engines. You have no idea everything is. I can- and I thought maybe you know- and I dont, but what was There's some standard way that, besides this, that people reckoning breaking the news to kid, sir, we're on about a standard, there's lots of different opinions on that I put up as Facebook post and generally tangentially really to this end people. I found out their ideas. A monument ethic together most likes was the sky. It was like

He does has never described Santa as a person. He said he always from the beginning describe Santa as a whole. This is a constructive that you don't say, contract you three year old, but if you ask a part of the Christmas Spirit, it's a thing and not a person who literally to your house and he was like The only difference like they love that just as much as I did thinking it was a real guy, and he said you know they see this Christmas specials and they get that it's a mess. Thing, but it's just a part of that. The whole idea of Christmas right, so users can have, can truthful about the whole thing yeah and they still delighted with Sanum when they send them all they aren't like your account struck, that would be great. He would you do part of you would be prepared to your kid. For that. Yeah. Hunting is interesting, though I mean I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, and so I think this over you're crazy, I'm in there

We parents listening right now there are like. I don't want to do this, but this is a pretty get out. So everybody Charity Hutchinson, a pat on the back. check it's almost time foresaw punch, that's right! We're gonna wrap it up here. We crowd source some facebook tradition, from our listeners on you. I asked for specifically unusual traditions, and I waded through waded through the ninety percent that were, not unusual in anyway, and managed to find some pretty interesting things- the oh yeah, so I was I dont know what percentage didn't see, what percentage of the actual idea?

submitted. This is but some people, some pretty cool, little traditions that I just love agreed. So you wanted yeah, so Victoria Chrome. She says that on her father, the family he was was polish as polish routes, and so in order to honour their polish roots. Every year their father makes a poppers meal see instead of the big lavish extravagant thing they made sauerkraut soup, an pirogue ease and the most reasonable price. Coldwater fish available yeah, because It cannot honours like the humble routes that their family. Has here, that's great, so Victoria groom good on you for that one so how about Emily Ruth Vander arcs? Yes, that is actually a lot of people have this. It is a thing there is her mom hides a pickle ornament on the Christmas tree somewhere

and on Christmas morning everybody tries to find it. Whoever finds it first gets a gift and Emily the data it started out to sea. I got her years piece of chocolate and an impersonal dispute to throw it to the ground if we achieve that has gone better over the years, and I think it's like a Starbucks gift card below yeah yeah, I saw a lot of people with a pickle thing, those obviously it's a thing and, as you said, at others regionalized. She said Her husband is a master s at finding the pic on air anyone's at every year, so Champ pickle, Finder, Emily's husband unless Esben too thanks Emily Ruth Vander ARC and a great name just get Evans Total Totten This is pretty good. Her love we're dead, after my parents got divorced. My dad was in charge of getting in wrapping his own Christmas presents for me, my three over sisters and yet hard time knowing what to get us, so he made tradition.

Lying is a Barbie doll every year, along with the gift receipt and he called it. Creative gift card. I just love that basically and are you gonna, take this back, but here here something at least, and he also has a really fun time rejecting traditional Christmas wrapping right so yeah. He would just put it in a garbage bag. Our love is an apparently in his older years. He's like I can. I can do better than the sooner he goes to like, restores invented shops and finds old carpet bags. Rural brief cases that are some and put them in there yeah, that was really super eighties, like delivering a Barbie doll in a brief, came to hear any still doing. It lay still get the barbie there well into adulthood. Now she's points out now he still gets them the Barbie every year. So many the really cool thing in Mr Evans If that is your name, sir, I salute you get so Catherine Joy physically. Yet is a good one.

She said that her husband's family wraps presence. They also reject traditional Christmas paper wrapping paper, so they they cannot like a friendly competition or the going where they find the weirdest thing they can wrap it in my favorite is the unused diaper. Let's get my favorites birthday wrapping paper area, I like it subversive It is extremely thing, like Germany use wrapping paper and the second a user for this particular holier like it. So from Catherine joyfully, keep that go in. I took them this cat may miss Miller. Yahoo, great Christmas morning, tradition with his mom who causes mom. So he probably does come the EU needs a lady to Nick be Nicole. I guess yeah, I think she's from Australia O K,

every Christmas morning. This would actually make a lot of sense that should be from Austria every Christmas morning. Her mom and she get up very early and they go to the beach and Israel The australian clue kicks in before the hordes of people get there These are not very popular in the northern hemisphere in in a Christmas, but she says that they grab a bottle of champagne and a huge bucket of cherries and that they have for breakfast. There is certainly a great Christmas tradition. Let me see this when I love typhoid. I was growing up my mom and father in law. My grandpa would to each other about humbug. Can they both relish disgusting sorry disguising the can derive, gets disgusting. To make it unrecognisable Arap present some more memorable additions to the can you put junk in it was a is worth of grandpas toenails. Then there was a very nice,

a pile of dog poop gathered in January and left to cure until the next December clump of catch its held together by one broken it now, acting as glue love that thank you to unemployed, Ellison, you and so have I Sarah Floor Montes Christmas tradition, there So every year and Christmas Eve for whole family has an ice cream eating contest with Oliver Culling yeah. So whoever finish: a half a gallon of ice cream within an hour and here's the key without throwing it up when this initial amount of cash. She says she didn't say how much she does used the word substantial does that it's nearly impossible to do this and in time been done three times before out of only a hundred attempts and think

they have been doing this for a century. But if you take the number of people who ve tried it over the years yeah you come up with a hundred she meets year. Having so she says that a lot of people can finish but not hold it down and elsewhere. That key comes in certain there's a lot of vomiting going on it. Therefore, my taste house on Christmas Eve here and she posted pictures to she posted a couple. One of the entire family sitting around with each other. On Afghan of ice cream in front of them and then one of a couple of people doing that with her her grandmother dislike bitter, staring at her grandmother, hates it they're gonna do any along she's around very nice. Here's one from Norma Molin. That's really really need. This is not grocer anything our aim, the tablecloth! It goes on the Christmas dinner table every year Everyone signs it with a fabric pen. And I ve been doing since nineteen eighty four, so they They use the same tablecloth able to look back every year. And look at all these memories and

along with obviously people they ve lost over the years and people that they have gained over the years. So That is the super cool is older than most cousins and- and see how much their families grown year by year, nervous, pretty cool, that's really nice. And then about Ryan Bread fields. Yeah, that's a good one, filled, moms family. He recesses of large sicilian bunch ever wider BT toy the guy in the eighties and somehow it just became family tradition for them to dress of the e T, Daul as different character, today. They use it as a Christmas tree top or further grandparents tree ass, pretty great, so easy They might Elvis MBA, Dolly pardon your favorite yeah. Girl and- turns out obviously weirdly, but one of bread field.

Cousins married a member of the friend, I guess the Spielberg family, so they're trying to get them. Pictures of the he dressed up over the years since you're no one's ever try to get Steven Spielberg a funny, easy picture. This one is very sweet. This is from Howie Henderson of Portland She and her husband bought their first house four years ago, just outside of Portland in the very first night there on Christmas, They spent the night in a mattress on the floor the Christmas tree, and she says now we do that every year we bring that mattress back in the living room. On Christmas Eve, and sleep on the mattress by the tree as very sweet lovely, the last one chuck how about you, Alan Whimsies the Christmas Rebecca love, weird families, so her family, It's Christmas route, a beggar, the living room along with the tree. Every year and the whole thing started from a card

when they were living in the UK, and she says that ambassador had come to visit one Christmas time. There are car and everything was going. Nuts and crazy, and apparently Chelsea mom started calling all thing router beggars on parade idols. I love her mom. She bought a route, a vague and put it on the dashboard, the car for the rest of the trip she got home. She made her face for it out of clothes, two cloves prairies on it, and then it became Christmas route. A beggar near this, not just we're dead. We're demands a great deal, You know I got one more Nokia, because God Michel Green Wild. I want to be in her family looting. Because they have a holiday. They invented called pajamas. Oh yeah and I think, he's a suit. You shall see where this is going. It's the day before Christmas Eve. Even

and she said I was necessary since we are travelling for Christmas Day and didn't have a day that was dedicated to to the four of us in our family. So pajamas goes down like this, its immediate family get each other pajamas and change into the pajamas altogether. Well, they're, all wearing of the jobs, in other words, and then they watch Christmas movies and eat breakfast for dinner, which is one very rude things and its lincoln, no holds barred breakfast for dinner. Yes, yes, the cook all day and have a huge breakfast spread like a lot. Waffles, poached, eggs, brioche, you name it here. Whatever you want, you get to have dinner where the Green wilder, but I want to come over but yet sounds pretty great. To just invite me and I'll, be there get me pajamas with feet again.

I got nothin else, so I will carry war. I guess this is the ultra than how well this is great shock. I mean it its efficiently now Christmas time for us right and another wonderful year of stuff. You should know twenty then we're gonna closed the books on this one. If everyone is you do every year for your support? Without you, there would be no us, we really Really don't take it for granted and surely a very special birthday shot out and of people that are born around miss always get shipped off in the birthday department, one of our most delightful and all this must support a fans. Miss Gale Coots, it's a birthday on Christmas Eve, and her husband mark was kind enough to email me because he knows what than she is Gale was wonderful, so happy they gale from Ohio you're the best hope you can meet up some day and sounds good right so

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