1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,880 In a world full of fear and sometimes loathing of unfathomable technological advancements, 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,320 there stands one human hero. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,080 Let's deck these halls. 4 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:30,320 This is the Chronicle of Mike vs. The Machine. 5 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,280 The magic of the holidays often fades with age because the wonder and anticipation we 6 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:42,480 felt as children are replaced by the responsibilities and realities of adulthood. 7 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:50,400 As kids, the season is a tapestry of joy, surprises, traditions, shielded from the effort 8 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,080 behind the scenes. 9 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:59,760 However, as we grow older, we become the architects of that magic, managing the logistics, financial 10 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:05,440 pressures and emotional weight of creating meaningful experiences for others. 11 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:11,660 Coupled with the passage of time, nostalgia can cast a bittersweet shadow as we miss the 12 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:16,240 simplicity and innocence that once made the holidays feel so enchanting. 13 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,680 This shift doesn't mean the magic is lost. 14 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:26,320 It simply transforms, requiring us to seek joy in new ways, like reconnecting with loved 15 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:32,960 ones or finding wonder in quieter, subtler moments. 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:33,960 Thanks Chachipiti. 17 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:37,880 Oh come on, I thought that was going to be you that re- I thought that was coming from 18 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,320 the heart, but no, it wasn't. 19 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:42,680 That's bullshit, man. 20 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:49,560 Hey, I disclosed as one needs to in this climate that Chachipiti wrote that. 21 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,880 I specifically asked her to write a paragraph about why the magic of things like the holidays 22 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,160 diminishes as one gets older. 23 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,800 And I had it write that in response to the fact that Michael hates Christmas. 24 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,840 I don't hate Christmas, number one. 25 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,580 Well you're a Scrooge, can you admit that? 26 00:02:06,580 --> 00:02:08,760 I can be a bit of a Scrooge, okay? 27 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,480 That's why this episode is called Baw Humbug. 28 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,440 Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. 29 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,640 Of course my co-host and partner and friend here- 30 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:18,640 Co-hosts. 31 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:19,640 Co-hosts. 32 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:20,640 Co-hosts. 33 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,640 My friend here couldn't have come up with something on his own, so he had to use Chachipiti. 34 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,920 But I could have written whatever I wanted, and technically I'm just allowing Chachipiti 35 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,360 to encapsulate my argument. 36 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,400 I've already talked about this with you many times, and I wanted our co-host to have a 37 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 say in things. 38 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,320 Okay, but am I allowed to- am I going to be able to speak my piece onto why I feel the 39 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:43,360 way I do? 40 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,520 Of course. 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,680 That's called the rebuttal, which comes after the butt. 42 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,320 Yes, the butt. 43 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,280 But it is that magical time of year now, ladies and gentlemen. 44 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:57,400 The turkey has been taken off the table, and now we have just fully head-dove into the 45 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,760 Christmas season. 46 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,280 It's cold, it sucks, I hate the weather, but you know, I'm trying my hardest to try to 47 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,840 find some joy in the season. 48 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,120 I love being cold, but it has gotten a little bit too chilly recently. 49 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,480 Yeah, and climate change isn't a thing, remember that. 50 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:16,960 Anyway, no, no. 51 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:23,880 Oh, we can do an entire episode on- and yes, a lot of it does still happen naturally, but 52 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,600 yeah, there has been a weird shift in the climate since our childhood. 53 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,240 Oh yeah, big time. 54 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Enough of that. 55 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Yeah. 56 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,240 Be gone! 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,960 So, before we get into the meat of today's episode- 58 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,960 And potatoes, don't forget. 59 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,680 Okay, the meat and potatoes, well, which Mike will disclose here very soon as to what it 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,680 is going to be. 61 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,480 I figured we could start the episode with talking about- I want to talk about our most 62 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,240 favorite Christmas gift of all time. 63 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:52,840 And I have an amazing story for that. 64 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,520 And I have an amazing story too, but I will let you lead in. 65 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,960 Okay, so we'll keep this short and sweet, but my mother, who had recently divorced my 66 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,120 father, told me that I could not get a Super Nintendo that year. 67 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 It was too expensive. 68 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:18,420 And me, being the good little sweet boy I was, and still am inside, said, okay. 69 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:20,720 And I was actually good about it. 70 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,800 And weirdly enough, so the whole time she actually had it on layaway. 71 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:25,800 I'll just say that. 72 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,200 Oh, and for those of you who are younger out there, layaway was a thing we used to do back 73 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,600 in the 80s and 90s. 74 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:37,480 It's basically like doing credit without having the product until you paid it off. 75 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,760 So she had it on layaway the whole time, and she was working her ass off, all praise to 76 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,560 mama, to get that. 77 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:54,680 Funny enough, sometime in maybe October, November, whenever they used to give out phone books 78 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,080 in the den to our younger audience- 79 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,080 Yep, yeah. 80 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,760 And the phone book is something that you used to look up phone numbers for pizza places 81 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,800 and plumbers and just your trades to help, lawyers and stuff. 82 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,440 Well, I mean, that was the yellow pages, the white pages- 83 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,880 White pages were your neighbors and people that you lived in town with. 84 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,200 And you could pay to have your number unlisted. 85 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:26,160 Anyway, my mother got a little side gig delivering the phone books, likey women newspapers, and 86 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,560 she had me and she looked at me and she was like, hey, I'm doing this to help get us Christmas 87 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,560 presents. 88 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,560 Hey, could you help? 89 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,400 And I heard the words, this is going to help with Christmas, so I did it. 90 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:43,320 So technically, I actually did some child labor to get my- willing child labor to get 91 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,320 my Super Nintendo. 92 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,120 Well, come on, I mean, you didn't have a paper route when you were a kid? 93 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,120 No. 94 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,680 I tried to babysit, but nobody wanted a male babysitter. 95 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,640 That's the facts, yeah, that's double standard right there. 96 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,640 A little bit of a double standard. 97 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:59,080 But anyway, yeah, and then when Christmas time came, I got to my last present, pretty 98 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,080 dang big present. 99 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,280 And I'll tell you what, my mom wanted the credit and I praised her for it. 100 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,480 That present did not say from Santa. 101 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,820 It said from Mom, because she worked for it. 102 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:14,580 And I opened it up and my mother actually caught the moment that I noticed that I realized 103 00:06:14,580 --> 00:06:22,160 what I had, because in the photo of me opening that present, you can lip read the N from 104 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,160 Nintendo on my lips. 105 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,960 So I technically, if my mom would have had a video camera on me, I could have been the 106 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,360 N64 kid before that came out. 107 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:34,360 Before the two kids were the N64 kids. 108 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:41,640 Because all I did was go, Super Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Super- just, 109 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,640 yeah. 110 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:43,640 So it- 111 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Over and over again. 112 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,720 If only, I could have been a viral boy. 113 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:54,840 Anyway, prized possession for many years, I just recently sold it to a sweet little 114 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:58,960 store called Ironblast in Washington, Pennsylvania. 115 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,280 Shout out. 116 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:06,000 Partially because she needed love and care and she needed to be restored to the way she 117 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,080 was. 118 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,660 And I didn't have the means or the desire to do so. 119 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:14,440 So I got some money back from her. 120 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,840 She actually, I think she paid me back what my mom paid for her. 121 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:18,840 Probably. 122 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,840 Probably, I think. 123 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,840 And it's out there now and somebody probably owns it or it's in a store waiting to be owned 124 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,920 and it's restored and looking beautiful. 125 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:28,920 Good. 126 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:29,920 Good. 127 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,240 Super Metroid, best game ever. 128 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Boo! 129 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,000 Shout out to Link to the Past. 130 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Anyway. 131 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,440 For me, okay, so you went from NES to Super Nintendo. 132 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,380 I was one of the kids that went from NES to Sega Genesis. 133 00:07:44,380 --> 00:07:46,640 So the one Christmas I got to Sega. 134 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:53,120 Now for those of you in the elder millennial, millennial generation gap, do you remember 135 00:07:53,120 --> 00:08:01,760 around I think it was Christmas 1990, I want to say, I want to say four or five, Sega started 136 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:07,040 running these ads for a thing that was called the Sega Channel. 137 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,400 Yes. 138 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,880 That is all I wanted for that Christmas. 139 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:12,880 And lo and behold. 140 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,080 Well, let's just say real quick, that was basically, am I correct? 141 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,680 That was video game streaming. 142 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,680 Bingo. 143 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Yeah. 144 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:22,680 In the mid 90s. 145 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:28,600 That was Game Pass or PlayStation Plus back in the mid 90s. 146 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,080 And lo and behold, I got it. 147 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,880 And let me guess, it was one of those things that wasn't successful for its time because 148 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,320 it was ahead of its time, but it was great. 149 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,320 Oh, hell yes. 150 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:46,600 See, the thing with Sega Channel was, is it was this big, bulky, essentially a Sega cartridge 151 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,840 that you popped into the top of your Sega, but it also had a router that hooked into 152 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,120 the phone line. 153 00:08:54,120 --> 00:09:00,960 Now, this was before like I didn't have dial up internet until 2000, I want to say. 154 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:01,960 Oh wow. 155 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:02,960 Yeah, I think I had internet until 2000. 156 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,200 Oh wait, I had internet in like 96. 157 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,080 But you see, this thing didn't require internet access. 158 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,680 If you had a phone line, that's how it worked. 159 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,800 Oh, so it technically was doing what dial up did, but you didn't need to have dial up 160 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:15,800 already. 161 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:16,800 Yes. 162 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:17,800 Wow. 163 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:18,800 That's innovative. 164 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,360 So imagine my surprise when I open that up and I'm screaming my head off that it's Sega 165 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:29,800 Channel, I immediately go to my room, I have the instructions, I pop that bitch in, I hook 166 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,480 it up and everything, and I turn it on. 167 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,800 And I'm seeing games that aren't coming out for months. 168 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,520 Oh, it's probably because they're getting piped in from Japan digitally. 169 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:41,520 Yeah. 170 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,840 I was playing Road Rash 3 before it got advertised. 171 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,960 I was playing Sonic and Knuckles. 172 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:49,980 I loved Sonic and Knuckles. 173 00:09:49,980 --> 00:09:52,880 I was playing so many different games. 174 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,820 I remember playing, it was like Tiny Toons Olympics was on there. 175 00:09:57,820 --> 00:09:59,360 That was a fun game to play. 176 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,480 I played the Animaniacs games, the Ghostbuster game. 177 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,520 I had Mortal Kombat 3 before anybody knew what it was. 178 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,920 Oh, that one had the blood or had the blood code. 179 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:09,680 No, that was Mortal Kombat 1. 180 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:13,760 No, A-B-A-C-A-B-B for MK1 on the Sega Genesis with the blood code. 181 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:14,760 There we go. 182 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:15,760 Okay, so we'll cut this off here. 183 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:21,880 I want you to say first game and best game that you played with Sega Channel. 184 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:27,040 First game I played with Sega Channel was Road Rash 2. 185 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,120 And best game. 186 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,680 Best game I played with that, I'm going to have to say it was Streets of Rage 3. 187 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,000 Okay, that's bold. 188 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Alright. 189 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,480 Fucking, fucking loved it, dude. 190 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:38,480 I loved it. 191 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,480 Alright, so there's some sweet Christmas. 192 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:46,240 Oh yeah, so why don't you tell us what the crux of today's episode is going to be, me 193 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,240 companion. 194 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,960 Okay, so we've had some really good vibes here. 195 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,680 But you know, around this time of year. 196 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:55,840 Please explain to me why I'm wearing headphones. 197 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,600 Oh yes, that's the device. 198 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:06,400 So I've had to hear so much humbuggery, so much scrooginess, and we've talked about the 199 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,840 fact that deep down you really do love the holiday. 200 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,640 But what part of the holiday do you really hate? 201 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,760 I hate that. 202 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,200 I mean we haven't had to deal with it since we switched jobs. 203 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,080 Oh, they started the Christmas music too. 204 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,640 But I haven't heard it once. 205 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,640 Okay. 206 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,400 Is the fact that we've worked retail most of our lives. 207 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:32,120 So what's the one song since its inception that has come out that has played in mass, 208 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:38,040 at least especially if you work in a retail store like Target or Walmart or Kohl's or 209 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,460 any of those stores. 210 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:44,440 What is the one song that you're at least going to hear three times within an hour? 211 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:52,120 It is that fucking God awful All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey. 212 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,640 That thing should be used on prisoners at Gitmo to get information. 213 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:02,080 So funny that you phrase it like that because why is he wearing headphones? 214 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,280 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 215 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:05,280 don't you fucking do it. 216 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,120 I will rip these off my fucking head. 217 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,400 I will walk out of this goddamn room. 218 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,080 That would end both the podcast and our friendship. 219 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,080 It is contingent. 220 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,080 It's in the contract. 221 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:17,080 Oh, please. 222 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Contract? 223 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,080 I don't remember. 224 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,600 You signed it with blood in your dreams. 225 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,880 Oh, fuck me. 226 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:22,880 Why? 227 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:23,880 Come on, dude, really? 228 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,880 So here's the thing. 229 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:32,200 I have we're not going to use all of it, of course, of course, but I have a 10 hour version 230 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,440 of All I Want for Christmas is You. 231 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:35,440 No. 232 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,440 Cued up. 233 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,440 No. 234 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:38,440 And on Michael's head. 235 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,160 Now, of course, you listeners won't be hearing this at home because we aren't going to get 236 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:41,160 copyrighted. 237 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,160 No, we're not. 238 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:43,160 But. 239 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,160 But you get to listen to All My Delicious Angadies. 240 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,160 Yay. 241 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,800 I'm going to hurt him. 242 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:49,800 We have a lot of stuff between us. 243 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,760 It would be difficult for you to get to me anyway. 244 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,200 But Michael might not even hear the song once today. 245 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,080 Do I just have to pledge my love for Christmas and I can take these off? 246 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:06,320 You will pledge your love for Christmas by answering all 50 of these trivia questions. 247 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:07,320 50? 248 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,080 Yes, there are 50. 249 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,760 We're not going to spend too much time on each one. 250 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,760 They're very short. 251 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,200 But yeah, we might as well just get to it. 252 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,200 Fuck. 253 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,200 OK. 254 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,280 So can you at least tell me how much of the song. 255 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:25,120 So what is it like the song plays and then it doesn't stop until I get a question right? 256 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,760 No, no, no, no, no, no. 257 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:34,200 Each question you get wrong will have an amount of the song played that gets my jibblies royal 258 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:35,200 in. 259 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:36,200 And then we can move on. 260 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,200 Oh, no. 261 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,560 But the thing is, I want this to keep going and I want us to, you know, I don't want to 262 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:42,560 get bogged down. 263 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,560 All right. 264 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,440 I don't want to get Wade Bogsy in here. 265 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:51,440 So I'll make sure it doesn't last for too long. 266 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:52,640 Maybe everything will come up for you. 267 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,320 But I'm not wearing flood pants. 268 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,120 So you should have been wearing your shorts, but it's too cold out. 269 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:05,520 Anyway, what did the first artificial Christmas trees in Germany mimic and what were they 270 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,280 made of? 271 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:09,280 They mimicked. 272 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:15,080 Since this is Germany, I'm going to say they mimicked birch trees for Krampus and they 273 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:21,480 were probably made out of I'm going to say styrofoam. 274 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,720 Goose feathers dried green. 275 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:24,720 Oh, God. 276 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:25,720 No, no, no, no, no. 277 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:26,720 Oh, please. 278 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:27,720 OK, OK, OK. 279 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:28,720 No, no, no, no, no, no. 280 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:29,720 Oh, buddy, you're peeking out the mic. 281 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:30,720 Please, dude, shut it off. 282 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:31,720 Turn it off. 283 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Turn it off. 284 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:33,720 Turn it off. 285 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:34,720 Turn it off. 286 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:35,720 Turn it off. 287 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:36,720 Turn it off. 288 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Turn it off. 289 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:38,720 Turn it off. 290 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Dude. 291 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:40,720 OK, I'm sorry. 292 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,720 The first one has to be a little long. 293 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,520 You can't get past the intro of the song, but also to get you to get you primed. 294 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,880 It's like priming the pump. 295 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:49,880 It's like pre. 296 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,360 Dude, I might spill my social security number if you keep this up. 297 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,240 Hey, anybody out here that loves stealing identities, this may be your day. 298 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240 Go ahead. 299 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240 Take it. 300 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,240 I'm broke. 301 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,240 Yeah. 302 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:08,600 OK, which 19th century American author popularized the idea of Santa Claus with a sled and flying 303 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,600 reindeer? 304 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,840 Oh, my God, so just name a 19th century American author. 305 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,840 Mark Twain. 306 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,600 God damn it. 307 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,600 Oh, man. 308 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,760 No, please make it stop. 309 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,280 So at this point, he's like 20 seconds into the song. 310 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,280 So the intro has definitely ended. 311 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,280 Dude, I can't. 312 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,280 Oh, my God. 313 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,280 Oh, man. 314 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,600 It's just so fucking hell. 315 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,080 It's just so pleasantly sweet. 316 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,720 She's so bad at this. 317 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,160 Oh, Mariah Carey is a queen. 318 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:47,120 OK, in Norse mythology, which winter festival included yule logs and feasts to honor Odin? 319 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,120 This might be the first one you get. 320 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,120 Come on. 321 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,400 In Norse mythology, which winter festival? 322 00:15:51,400 --> 00:16:02,520 No, which winter festival included yule logs and feasts to honor Odin? 323 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,480 Name a winter festival in Norse mythology. 324 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:11,320 The only winter thing I know from Norse mythology is Fibblewinter, but that brings on Ragnarok. 325 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,320 That's not a festival. 326 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,320 No. 327 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,560 Which winter festival included yule logs and feasts to honor Odin? 328 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,560 Odin's Day? 329 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,320 God damn it. 330 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,320 See, here's the thing. 331 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:27,320 Oh, my God. 332 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,320 Make it stop. 333 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,200 The name was in the question. 334 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,200 It was yule. 335 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Why would it just be called yule? 336 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,720 A yule log. 337 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,840 A yule log is for yule. 338 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,600 I'm about to lay a yule log in my pants if this keeps up. 339 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:42,600 OK. 340 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:43,600 OK. 341 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,560 See, I'm actually going to skip this one for punishment's sake because I have no idea what 342 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,800 this is. 343 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,240 I will say ChatGPT made the questions for me. 344 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,240 Of course. 345 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,560 I'm not going to get any of these fucking right. 346 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,480 No, there are some good ones in here. 347 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,240 But this one makes no sense to me. 348 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,240 What was the original meaning of wassailing? 349 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Wassailing? 350 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,360 W-A-S-S, sailing? 351 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:05,720 Fuck, what the hell is that? 352 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,640 And where did it originate? 353 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:14,160 It's a toast to good health during Anglo-Saxon times. 354 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,520 I don't know what that means. 355 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Oh, a wassailing. 356 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:17,520 A wassailing. 357 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,640 They talked about that when Family Guy was still good on their first Christmas special. 358 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,640 Oh. 359 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:23,640 Yeah. 360 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,240 So it's like a bunch of people doing marching band. 361 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,240 So I don't want... 362 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,240 Basically an excuse to drink. 363 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,240 I don't want anything to do with that. 364 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,240 OK. 365 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:32,680 So let's get back to it. 366 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:33,680 What? 367 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,680 A Christmas tradition. 368 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,040 And this is a big Christmas tradition. 369 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:46,280 So began in 16th century Germany as a Protestant alternative to Catholic nativity scenes. 370 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:52,080 So it's a thing you do for Christmas that they did instead of a nativity. 371 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,880 A Christmas tree? 372 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,400 Oh baby. 373 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:57,400 He got it. 374 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,400 Oh thank you. 375 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,400 Thank you. 376 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,800 There's no Mariah Carey happening now. 377 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:01,800 Oh the tapiness. 378 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,600 See if we can get the street going. 379 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:11,840 What country's tradition involves children leaving shoes out for St. Nicholas to fill 380 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,520 with gifts? 381 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,560 And it is a country I think that's famous for shoes. 382 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,400 And if you get what they're called and not the name of the country, I'll also give it 383 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,400 to you. 384 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,400 I'm going to say Sweden and clogs? 385 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,400 Oh, that's so close. 386 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,960 I'm going to give you another shot at that one. 387 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,840 I feel I need to give it to you. 388 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,360 You're just so close in the idea. 389 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:34,480 So I'm in the right part of Europe. 390 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,520 Kind of. 391 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,800 But you're in the right thought process with the shoes. 392 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,200 So they were clogs or? 393 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,200 Yeah. 394 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:44,200 Norway. 395 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,000 Oh man, I tried so hard. 396 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,320 No, what was it? 397 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:49,320 What was it? 398 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,320 Please, please don't. 399 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,320 Please no. 400 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,320 So it was the Netherlands. 401 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,920 Oh come on. 402 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:55,920 The Dutch. 403 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,520 I forgot to touch with the cloth. 404 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,920 So you had to go from Sweden and go across the sea south. 405 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,560 I can't even hear the explanation. 406 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,280 So you had to go from Sweden, go south across the sea to get to the Netherlands. 407 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,280 Oh yes. 408 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,280 I'll never forget the Netherlands. 409 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,320 I will remember the Netherlands. 410 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,320 OK. 411 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,720 This is going to be another gimme because there's no way you can get this. 412 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,960 But I'm going to play the next one extra long if you don't get it. 413 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:29,320 But this one, who is the central figure of the Italian holiday epiphany, often overshadowing 414 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,440 Santa Claus in some regions? 415 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,840 So this is an Italian holiday called epiphany. 416 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,840 Never heard of it. 417 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Yeah, neither have I. 418 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:38,840 Yeah. 419 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,680 So that's La Befana, a witch who delivers gifts. 420 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,440 Hey, I'm cool with a witch. 421 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,440 That's pretty sick. 422 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,360 I'm going to give you that one specifically because of Italy. 423 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:49,360 Yay. 424 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,560 Now, this one you get double time if you get it wrong. 425 00:19:52,560 --> 00:20:00,640 What popular Christmas plant was used by the Aztecs to create red dye in medicine? 426 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:01,960 Thank you. 427 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,960 Thank you. 428 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,640 I'm going to need you to remember something we talked about earlier for this one. 429 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:07,640 All right. 430 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:14,160 In Icelandic tradition, what are the names of the mischievous trolls who visit children 431 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,320 during the 13 days of Christmas? 432 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,480 Yule trolls. 433 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,480 I'm going to give it to you because it's the Yule lads. 434 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,480 Oh, thank you. 435 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,040 But you remembered Yule, so that's important. 436 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,400 This one you better fucking get. 437 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:38,080 What ancient Roman holiday influenced many Christmas customs, including gift giving? 438 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,080 Ancient Roman holiday? 439 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,080 Oh no. 440 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:45,920 Ancient Roman holiday that influenced many Christmas customs, including gift giving. 441 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,400 Oh boy, we've talked about this. 442 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,920 Oh, he's sweating. 443 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,320 He's sweating over there. 444 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:53,320 Is it a feast or something? 445 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,320 I say no. 446 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:00,720 I mean, they might have feasted, but think of the Romans and think of their gods. 447 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,840 Something to do with Zeus? 448 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,840 Zeus was Greek. 449 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Jupiter. 450 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:12,320 The Vestal of Mars? 451 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,400 God damn it. 452 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,400 It was Saturnalia. 453 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,400 Saturnalia. 454 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,400 God damn it. 455 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,680 Saturnalia is one of my absolute favorite. 456 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,200 It can stop. 457 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,040 One of my favorite pieces of Christmas trivia. 458 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:31,160 The fact that they ate everything from Christmas away from that, to be quite honest. 459 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,160 Please. 460 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,440 Oh, we're about a minute and 22 seconds into the song now. 461 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,440 I can't take anymore. 462 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,040 Well, you better get the next one correct. 463 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:47,600 Which fast food chain that's operating in Japan is famous for becoming a Christmas tradition 464 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,600 with their special menu? 465 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,320 This is an international, incredibly famous fast food restaurant that you have eaten at. 466 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,640 McDonald's. 467 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,680 That became famous for becoming a Christmas tradition with their special menu. 468 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,800 Only the biggest one I could think of would be McDonald's. 469 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,880 I'm going to give you another shot. 470 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,240 It's not the biggest one. 471 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,240 Starbucks. 472 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,720 Oh, come on. 473 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,720 So it's Kentucky Fried Chicken. 474 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,720 What? 475 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:16,720 I didn't know that. 476 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,440 No one would know that. 477 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,440 I knew that. 478 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,360 I've watched multiple videos that included that factoid. 479 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:23,360 I didn't know that. 480 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,760 I didn't know KFC was that big over there. 481 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:33,040 Yeah, weirdly enough, what ended up happening, it was an after effect of a marketing campaign 482 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:40,400 where they just decided to run a very Christmasy, like Christmas forward campaign, even though 483 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,080 they don't really celebrate actual Christmas. 484 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,640 No, they don't. 485 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,720 Like Christian version of Christmas. 486 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,040 So then around Christmas time, it just became tradition. 487 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:55,520 I think they would have Colonel Sanders statues outside of the KFCs that they would put Santa 488 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,120 hats on and stuff like that. 489 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:00,240 Leave it to the Japanese to make everything slightly weirder. 490 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,040 I mean, it wasn't the Japanese. 491 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,720 It was the it was KFC that did it. 492 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:10,960 KFC successfully incepted a country into making them making a tradition. 493 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,240 All right, go on, you KFC. 494 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,560 What is the name of the figure in German folklore who accompanies Saint Nicholas and punishes 495 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,960 naughty children? 496 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,960 Der Krampus. 497 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,160 Ah, absolutely Krampus. 498 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,160 I mean, this should be easy. 499 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,920 Oh, and this actually explains something from earlier. 500 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,480 We're going to get a tidbit. 501 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:36,520 What is the origin of the phrase the 12 days of Christmas? 502 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:42,200 So what we're looking for is what's the time frame of the 12 days of Christmas? 503 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,840 OK, I'm hopefully right on this one. 504 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,360 Going back to my Catholic roots, isn't it the amount of time it took the wise men to 505 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:55,720 get from where they saw the star of Bethlehem to the major took 12 days? 506 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,600 I mean, maybe, but that's not what this thing is asking. 507 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:06,320 So it's what day does it start and what does it and when does it end or what about when? 508 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,960 But like 12 days like what starts it? 509 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:09,960 I'll give you that. 510 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,960 A partridge in a pear tree. 511 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,800 Not the song, the phrase. 512 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,600 12 days of what the 12 days of Christmas? 513 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,320 Yeah, when does the 12 days of Christmas start? 514 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,920 Wouldn't it be the 13th to the 25th? 515 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,080 God damn, motherfucker. 516 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:32,760 So it is the time between I hate you, Christmas Day and Epiphany. 517 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,680 Make it stop, please. 518 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:42,120 It's the time between Christmas Day and Epiphany, the Italian thing we heard about earlier. 519 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:43,720 What the fuck was I supposed to know that? 520 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:44,720 I know it's crazy. 521 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,160 Do you know when Epiphany is? 522 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,160 Check this out. 523 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,360 It's January 6th. 524 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,720 January 6th is the 12th day of Christmas. 525 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:04,600 And that's when my true love no, no, it starts Christmas Day and then 12 days later is January 526 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:05,840 6th. 527 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:11,200 That's when they had the Epiphany and that's when you get all 12 gifts of Christmas and 528 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,200 an insurrection. 529 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,480 Yay. 530 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,920 All right. 531 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,520 This one, if you remember anything about history, it's going to be incredibly easy for you. 532 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:29,400 What year did the Christmas truce where soldiers from opposing sides laid down arms and celebrated 533 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,640 together occur during World War I? 534 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:34,640 1911. 535 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,640 No, no, no. 536 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:41,000 Okay, so World War I actually I don't think even was started in 1911. 537 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,600 It was not, but I'm down. 538 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:50,520 See, so it actually, World War I, it was actually the first year of World War I. 539 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:51,520 I hate you Mariah Carey. 540 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,800 I hate you so much. 541 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,000 It was the first year of World War I, which was 1914. 542 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,720 World War I occurred from 1914 to 1918 and I believe the US entered it in 1917. 543 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,720 God damn it. 544 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,520 1911 would be like, isn't that like a year before Titanic? 545 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,520 No, I think that was the same year as the Titanic. 546 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,160 I thought Titanic was 1912. 547 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,160 Maybe. 548 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,160 I don't know. 549 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,000 And I'm not looking that one up because this is not a podcast right now about the Titanic. 550 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,640 Who gives a fuck about the Titanic? 551 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:19,640 Hey, that was a good movie. 552 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:20,640 Whatever. 553 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,360 I'm going to play Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On next time. 554 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,360 No, no. 555 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,360 No, that's what's going to happen. 556 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:30,360 Okay. 557 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:34,840 Basically, if you could get this one correct based on a clue I'm going to give you, there 558 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:41,960 will be no punishment, but I will give you a prize if you can intuit this. 559 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:51,280 What ancient Persian religion celebrated the birth of Mithras on December 25th? 560 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:58,300 So another time that Christmas was basically stealing a date from another religion. 561 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:04,020 What ancient Persian religion celebrated the birth of Mithras? 562 00:27:04,020 --> 00:27:06,120 Just go real simple with it. 563 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:07,120 Mithras day? 564 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,120 Try again. 565 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,120 Mithrasif? 566 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:14,520 Like, I'm just going to give it to you because it's Mithraism. 567 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,520 Oh, Mithraism. 568 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,520 You said a day. 569 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,520 You didn't say religion. 570 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,320 I said what ancient Persian religion? 571 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,520 Oh, you did say religion. 572 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,000 But still, like that one, I'm like, yeah, the birth of Mithras. 573 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000 That's it. 574 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 It's Mithraism. 575 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000 I have no idea who Mithras is. 576 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,760 I don't know who Mithras is. 577 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,040 Sounds like a Final Fantasy character. 578 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,520 That it does. 579 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:41,960 Anyway, in which country is it traditional to eat a cake called Buche de Noel during 580 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Christmas? 581 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,960 Japan. 582 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,960 What? 583 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:50,920 No, that's what I remember in the Mr. Garris in South Park Christmas song. 584 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,760 It says on December 25th all they do is eat a cake. 585 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,760 Wow. 586 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,760 No, it's France. 587 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,000 I mean, I wasn't doing a good French accent, but that definitely wasn't Japanese. 588 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,400 You got a KFC on the brain, boy. 589 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,320 God damn, no, I suspended Saul from the South Park. 590 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,320 Okay. 591 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:15,760 So who did you say showed up at the Nativity at the birth of Jesus? 592 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:16,760 Who were you talking about earlier? 593 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,560 The three wise men. 594 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,240 And what were their jobs? 595 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,520 They gave gold frankincense. 596 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:22,520 No, no, no. 597 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,980 What were their jobs? 598 00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:25,980 They were noblemen? 599 00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:26,980 No, no, no. 600 00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:27,980 What were their jobs? 601 00:28:27,980 --> 00:28:29,800 What were they doing before they went to go see Jesus? 602 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,840 Weren't they going to go see the king or something like that? 603 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,680 I thought you were the one that was raised Catholic. 604 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,280 No, what were their jobs? 605 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,280 I don't know. 606 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,280 They were circle jerkers. 607 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,280 I don't fucking remember their jobs. 608 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,840 Oh my God. 609 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,040 Somebody wasn't paying attention in Sunday school. 610 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,360 So you're not going to get this question, but let's try it anyway. 611 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:56,640 What traditional Christmas decoration was first created to teach children about the 612 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,640 Nativity? 613 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:03,200 And I'll even give you a hint, the traditional Christmas decoration we're talking about 614 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,240 is a sweet. 615 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,320 The candy cane. 616 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,320 Thank Christ. 617 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,680 They were shepherds, Michael. 618 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:12,680 They were shepherds. 619 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,200 Well, then where's a shepherd getting gold? 620 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,200 I don't know. 621 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,820 Where are they getting frankincense and myrrh? 622 00:29:18,820 --> 00:29:20,840 What even is that shit? 623 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:21,840 But here's the thing. 624 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,840 Candy cane, it's a shepherd's hook. 625 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,840 Anyway. 626 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,840 Whoop-de-doo, Basil. 627 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,200 Oh, well, this one's just funny. 628 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:37,200 What was the profession of Santa Claus's original helper in early Dutch and German folklore? 629 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,680 Now I'll give you this. 630 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,600 It says early Dutch and German folklore, but think of him having a cockney accent that 631 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,600 might help you. 632 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,600 Oh, so kind of like a Dickensian man, right? 633 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,360 He was a chimney sweep. 634 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,360 Hell yeah. 635 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,360 All right. 636 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Oh my God. 637 00:29:52,360 --> 00:30:01,160 I'm not going to ask you what year, but which US state was the first to make Christmas an 638 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:02,160 official holiday? 639 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,360 And I'm going to give you one clue. 640 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,360 Pennsylvania. 641 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,400 Oh, no, I'm sorry. 642 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,960 I was pointing south. 643 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,480 Oh, state. 644 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,360 Okay, so south. 645 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,360 How far south? 646 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,360 South. 647 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,720 Okay, think of a state. 648 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:28,080 And hey, hey, if we have listeners out there from this state at some point in the future 649 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,280 when we actually have listeners, don't take this the wrong way. 650 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:37,560 But I think if you're listening to us and you're from this place, you get it. 651 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,960 It's a state that neither one of us wants to go to. 652 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:40,960 Mississippi. 653 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,040 Oh God, you're so close. 654 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,040 Just give it to me. 655 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,040 You're so close. 656 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,040 Alabama? 657 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,040 Hell yeah. 658 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,040 Okay. 659 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,320 And everybody from Alabama that could potentially be listening to this. 660 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,320 Yeah. 661 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,520 I'm sorry for the other half of the people that live there. 662 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,120 Yeah, yeah, we're very sorry. 663 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,520 Anyway, yeah, Alabama in 1836. 664 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,520 Wow. 665 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,480 Christmas has only been celebrated in the US for nine. 666 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,120 Well, yeah, as an official holiday only since then. 667 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,760 Wow, that's over 200 years. 668 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,960 Which here's the thing. 669 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:14,120 So knowing that, where are all those people that are saying that this nation was created 670 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,080 with Christianity in mind? 671 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,000 Christmas wasn't even official until 1836. 672 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,320 I don't know. 673 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,080 Anyway we're not talking about that. 674 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,080 Nope. 675 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:32,920 This one I desperately hope you know because it's my favorite Christmas trivia bit. 676 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:39,520 What Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving? 677 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:45,000 So you have to think of a Christmas song that really doesn't talk about Christmas. 678 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,640 It's not do you hear what I hear because that's like religious. 679 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,040 That was no protesting nuclear arms. 680 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,040 Really? 681 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,040 Yes. 682 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,000 Do you hear what I hear? 683 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,920 It goes on and if you look at the lyrics you can tell it's the correlation between a nuclear 684 00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,920 explosion. 685 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,080 Oh wow, I thought it was just talking about Jesus. 686 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,080 Okay. 687 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:08,640 Don't have one. 688 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,160 Christmas song that would be originally for Thanksgiving. 689 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,200 It doesn't talk about Christmas in the song. 690 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,840 Yes, that's what really gets it. 691 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:25,200 No, that one says Merry Christmas. 692 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:33,400 Baby it's cold outside. 693 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,840 Considering this is my favorite Christmas song, the one that's the answer to this question 694 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,520 and the fact that that made me laugh and honestly thinking about it, the logic. 695 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,720 They don't mention Christmas in that either. 696 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,120 The logic is correct that it does not mention Christmas. 697 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:53,960 So you're not getting punished for this one, but it's jingle bells. 698 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,960 You're right. 699 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:55,960 It doesn't. 700 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,560 It's about going to grandma's house for Thanksgiving dinner and it was originally written for Thanksgiving. 701 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,560 Wait, which one is that? 702 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,880 That Dashing Through the Snow or is that Over the River? 703 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,160 On a One Horse Open Sleigh. 704 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,200 Do they mention Over the River, Through the Woods, to Grandma's House? 705 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,200 Yeah. 706 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,200 Do they mention Christmas in that? 707 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,200 No, it's not a Christmas song. 708 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,920 There's like three songs that are technically labeled as Christmas songs that never mention 709 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:15,920 Christmas. 710 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:16,920 Yeah. 711 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,880 It's mostly just because people don't tend to focus a lot of stuff on Thanksgiving that 712 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,040 aren't me. 713 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:26,640 So yeah, everything gets gobbled into either Halloween or Christmas. 714 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:27,640 Then baby it's cold outside. 715 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,120 It's just about drugging a chick and date raping her. 716 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,120 No. 717 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:33,120 Okay. 718 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:38,520 Let's do a little slash S here for sarcasm. 719 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,240 Even though it's technically slightly true, but just because of the intent that we know 720 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,800 from the writing of the song. 721 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:50,080 But I mean, you can tell by listening to that song that she was asking for it. 722 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,440 But in all seriousness, you hear her laughing. 723 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,440 Like she's in on it. 724 00:33:54,440 --> 00:34:00,600 I think it's the fact that, but yes, listening to it in its original version without a whole 725 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,120 lot of context and knowing the times. 726 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,120 Yeah. 727 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,920 It's a little uncomfortable at times. 728 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,440 Yeah, it definitely is. 729 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,880 But when you hear the good versions of that song, you hear her laughing and giggling in 730 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,880 the background. 731 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,000 So she's in on it. 732 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000 She wants it. 733 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,120 She wants to go to Bowdentown as much as he does. 734 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,120 And there's a ton of consent. 735 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,020 Going to Bowdentown on a snowy night. 736 00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:22,520 And there's a lot of consent. 737 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120 And I bet you he goes down on her. 738 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,360 She probably gives up the back door. 739 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,600 I mean, everything's possible on a snowy winter's night. 740 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,440 Anyway, back to the trivia. 741 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,440 Yeah. 742 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,440 Okay. 743 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:41,400 In Finnish folklore, what creature pulls Santa's sleigh instead of reindeer? 744 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:42,840 Finnish. 745 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,160 Moose. 746 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,840 No, so it's not anything like a reindeer. 747 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,840 So it's a different kind of animal. 748 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,840 I will say we're still in mammal territory though. 749 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,840 Okay, so it's a mammal. 750 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,840 And it's a yule blank. 751 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,840 Pig. 752 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:56,840 Oh man, if only. 753 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:02,160 Like, if only it was. 754 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,000 But it's something cooler than a pig. 755 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000 It's a goat. 756 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000 It's a yule goat. 757 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Like, that could, that's just so amazing. 758 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Wait a minute, you said it didn't resemble anything like a goddamn deer. 759 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 A goat can have horns. 760 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000 I didn't say resemble. 761 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000 I said not the same kind of animal. 762 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000 A reindeer is a specific kind of animal like a deer or a horse. 763 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000 A goat is something entirely different and it has square eyes. 764 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Next. 765 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Yeah. 766 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Alright, I'm not beholding you to this one. 767 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Okay. 768 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000 So, it's a deer. 769 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000 It's a deer. 770 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000 It's a deer. 771 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000 It's a deer. 772 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,000 It's a deer. 773 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000 It's a deer. 774 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000 It's a deer. 775 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,000 It's a deer. 776 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000 It's a deer. 777 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000 It's a deer. 778 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000 It's a deer. 779 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 It's a deer. 780 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 It's a deer. 781 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 It's a deer. 782 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Alright, I'm not beholding you to this one. 783 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,560 But if you get the year within five, I'll give you a little tickle. 784 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,840 Who invented electric Christmas lights and when? 785 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,840 So just say a name. 786 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,000 Sparkly McFingerbang and I'm going to say 1938. 787 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,600 Yeah, you don't get that tickle. 788 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:03,040 So it was Edward H. Johnson in 1882. 789 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,040 What? 790 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,040 Really? 791 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,040 That early? 792 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,040 Yeah. 793 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,800 I don't know what kind of bougie people had electric Christmas lights in 1882, but... 794 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:12,800 Bougie motherfuckers. 795 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,360 But they had them. 796 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,720 Okay, this one you should absolutely frickin' know. 797 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:25,120 What biblical figure or figures is referenced in the carol, We Three Kings? 798 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,760 It's the three wise men. 799 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:27,960 Yes. 800 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,040 It's weird that they call them kings because they were shepherds. 801 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,600 I think a lot of the mythology is confused. 802 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,800 But anyway, it's the Magi or the Wise Men. 803 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:41,200 Okay, here's another obvious one and if you don't get it, you're racist. 804 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,400 Can you answer it now for bonus points? 805 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,080 You didn't ask me. 806 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,120 If you don't get this correct, you're a racist. 807 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,120 I'm not. 808 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,120 I'm not. 809 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,120 I'm telling you people right now. 810 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,120 No, come on. 811 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,120 Answer the question. 812 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,120 Come on. 813 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,120 It's so simple. 814 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,120 Then fucking ask it. 815 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,120 I'm not getting any bonus points. 816 00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,120 Come on. 817 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,120 African American? 818 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,200 That's not an answer to a question. 819 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,200 What is African American? 820 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,240 This is a jeopardy. 821 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:13,280 Okay, which African American cultural holiday spans from December 26th to January 1st? 822 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,040 Shout out to my boy Coolio who played Kwanzaa Bot. 823 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,040 Rest in peace. 824 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,040 Kwanzaa Bot. 825 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,040 That was the first thing I thought of. 826 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,040 Kwanzaa. 827 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,040 Yeah, of course. 828 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,440 I don't know much about that holiday and I've never met a person who celebrates it. 829 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,800 Why do you think that's what Kwanzaa Bot gave out during Kwanzaa? 830 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,160 The books and the tackle is quads. 831 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:34,400 And just to put an end to that, I don't have a ton of black friends in my life, but I did 832 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,920 have some and none of them ever mentioned it. 833 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,600 But there obviously are some out there. 834 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,640 Hey, maybe they've started to adapt. 835 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,720 Hey, and listeners, if you celebrate Kwanzaa, email us a description of what the holiday 836 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:46,720 is. 837 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:51,320 Heck, we should get a freaking P.O. box and make that a tradition to send us Kwanzaa cards. 838 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,320 That'd be sick. 839 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:57,080 It'd be kind of interesting because what I used to give my best friend in high school, 840 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,280 Brett, I would give him Hanukkah cards every Christmas. 841 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,520 Oh, dude, I'd kill for a Hanukkah card. 842 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,520 I'd love a Hanukkah card. 843 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,960 I'd start doing that to you. 844 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,520 Yeah, so fun. 845 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,000 I mean, honestly, maybe that could be our tradition. 846 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Hell yeah. 847 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,800 Maybe we start asking our listeners if we get them every December to send us Kwanzaa 848 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:16,800 cards. 849 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:17,800 I'm cool with it, dude. 850 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:18,800 I'm down. 851 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,440 We will proudly display them. 852 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,760 OK. 853 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,040 This one's weird. 854 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:30,480 What was the purpose of the boy bishop tradition during the medieval Christmas season? 855 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,280 I'm almost afraid to answer that because it doesn't sound good. 856 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,760 So boy bishop. 857 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,160 Oh, God. 858 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,680 OK, so you know what boy bishops became, but what would be? 859 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,760 Yeah, they became boy slaves for the pope. 860 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,760 Yeah. 861 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,280 But what would a boy bishop, what would a boy want to do as bishop? 862 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,680 I'm really hoping it has something to do with the little drummer boy. 863 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,920 No, no, no. 864 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,040 What would a boy want to do at church? 865 00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,520 What would he want to do? 866 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:06,360 He'd want to pray and pray that the penis will exit his rectum soon. 867 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,560 Oh, come on. 868 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,160 No, it lets a child symbolically rule the church for a day. 869 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,720 Oh, God, please. 870 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:18,320 Oh, if that would have been around when I was a kid, there would be no more... 871 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,320 Yeah, I know, right? 872 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,320 That'd be interesting. 873 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:21,320 I hate her. 874 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,320 Hey, so what part of the song is it? 875 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,320 What part of the song is it on? 876 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,320 Fuck yeah. 877 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,320 No, no, no. 878 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:27,320 What part of the song is it on? 879 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,320 Sing along. 880 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,320 Sing along. 881 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,320 Sing along for a little bit. 882 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:31,320 Sing along. 883 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,320 I don't know this piece of shit song. 884 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,320 Sing along and it'll turn off. 885 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,320 No, I'm not... 886 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,320 Turn it off. 887 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:36,320 Sing along. 888 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:37,320 Sing along and I'll turn it off. 889 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,800 I don't know this song. 890 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,680 Sing along to whatever lyrics you hear. 891 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,440 Try to sing along to the lyrics you're hearing. 892 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,600 No, no. 893 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,600 Just sing along to them. 894 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:48,600 I don't know the lyrics. 895 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,200 Come on, Michael, you just have to listen and then pair it back with your hearing. 896 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,200 I'm not doing that. 897 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,160 Please don't do it again. 898 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,520 Thank you for protecting us from copyright infringement. 899 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,120 Merry Christmas, everybody. 900 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,720 Merry Christmas. 901 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:08,960 Okay. 902 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,480 Which 19th century British royal popularized the Christmas tree in England? 903 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,920 So basically name a queen. 904 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:18,920 What queen do you know? 905 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,960 I'm going to say Elizabeth the First. 906 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,560 Name another queen. 907 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,560 If you can name any other British queen. 908 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,560 Oh, the one that just passed away. 909 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,200 Isn't that Elizabeth the Third or something like that or the Second? 910 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,040 I mean, that's not another name. 911 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,480 God damn it! 912 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,840 What we were looking for. 913 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,080 Hey, Michael, stop swearing so much. 914 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,080 Kill me! 915 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,080 Stop swearing so much. 916 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,040 Just express your derision in softer words. 917 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,440 There's got to be something to kill me here. 918 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,440 It was Queen Victoria. 919 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,440 Oh, there's a metal straw. 920 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,600 Queen Victoria. 921 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,440 Oh, Victoria's little secret. 922 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,360 Yeah, and the Victorian Age. 923 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,000 Well, thanks Audacity. 924 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,880 There'll be a little, little bit of a jump cut there, because it just kind of crashed 925 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,440 and stopped recording. 926 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,520 First time it's ever happened to. 927 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:09,520 Yeah. 928 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:10,520 First day ever. 929 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,720 So in the meantime, what we missed was that Michael ended up getting it correct that hidden 930 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:22,360 inside of a traditional Christmas pudding in Victorian England was a coin. How quaint? 931 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:28,120 Wonder what kind of coin it was. Wonder was it a pence? Probably a shelling. Was it a shelling? 932 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:38,280 What it was a crown? Oh. Or a farthing. A far penny farthing. Anyway, the Yule log dessert 933 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:47,800 derives from a medieval tradition of burning a large log and not a poo. What was the log's purpose? 934 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,720 So it was ancient people's burning a large log. So wait, we're saying medieval. Are we talking 935 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:59,000 medieval before or after? So Christianity has already been established. Oh my god. So they 936 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,840 still have the pagan rituals. So the Yule log, let's say the Yule log is probably to keep the 937 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,040 spirits away at night. You burn it to keep the spirits away. Oh my god, you logiced it like you 938 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,960 started off so poorly, not remembering when the hell medieval times were. But then you got there 939 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:19,880 and it was amazing. It's to bring good luck and drive away evil spirits. Now if you don't get this 940 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:29,160 next question, you're a racist. Again, I'm not. What is the name of the traditional Jewish wintertime 941 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:36,520 game played with a spinning top? Dreidel. Hell yeah. I mean you're a South Park fan so you kind 942 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:41,800 of have to get that. Hell yeah. I mean. Okay, listen to the context clues for this one. All right. 943 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:52,600 In what country do Christmas celebrations traditionally end with el dia de los reyes. 944 00:42:52,600 --> 00:43:01,000 Oh god, I'm getting my pronunciations messed up. El dia de los reyes on January 6th. Another January 945 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:09,000 6th thing. But el dia de los reyes. I'm going to say Mexico and Spain. I'll give it to you because 946 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,720 it's Spain. Okay. And maybe Mexico does it too. Does Spain celebrate Dia de los Muertos? Dia de 947 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:20,760 los Muertos. Probably not because I think that might derive from Aztec or like Mesoamerican 948 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:26,760 cultures. Yeah, okay. Okay. But I don't know. What alcoholic beverage is most commonly associated 949 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:33,080 with Christmas in the UK? So it's not eggnog. Okay, so it's not eggnog. Really? I was going to 950 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:38,280 say rum because that's how you make a traditional fruitcake. No. Oh yeah. Rum cake. Yeah, but rum 951 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:46,040 fruitcake. What is the whiskey? So. No, no, no. So, so it's. Oh, I wish I had some whiskey right now. 952 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:52,440 So it's actually a mold. It's a mold wine. It's a mold. Hey, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, 953 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,840 Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, it's a. I hate. Thank you. 954 00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:04,200 It's a mold wine. I don't even know what that means. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like it's molded wine. 955 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:11,160 What Christmas tradition. And when this says tradition, it's, it's basically what event, 956 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:22,040 the depiction of an event. All right. Uh, originated from Mexico's Lo Las Posadas. An event. An event. 957 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:29,720 It's a Christmas historical event. Remember the story of Christmas. Is it the Miracle, the Virgin 958 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:39,080 Miracle? Close. The birth of Jesus Christ. Close. Between those two. So it's between the birth of 959 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:44,760 the angel coming down to tell Mary that he was, she was going to give birth to. Yeah. The angel 960 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:55,000 that comes down to. Oh, no, no. It was a reenactment of Mary and a reenactment, a reenactment of Mary 961 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:02,040 and Joseph's search for shelter. When I break out of my cage, I'm going. Is it, is it a rusty cage? 962 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:09,880 I'm going to break my rusty cage. Or, or are you a rat in a cage? You have to pick one. Which one? 963 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:16,680 Well, I mean, I'd rather be in a rusty cage because he says I'm going to break my rusty cage and run. 964 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:23,960 Okay. I'll be the rat in the cage. Despite, despite all of my rage. Anyway, if you don't get 965 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:33,000 this one, you're a racist. What holiday features an eight branched menorah? Hanukkah. I mean, yeah. 966 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:38,920 All right. This one is a little bit. It's a little bit of a trick question. Which American cartoon 967 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:48,520 character first appeared in the holiday song, Frosty the Snowman? Mickey. What? The mouse has 968 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:55,480 ruled for so long. It had to be in the mouth. That was it. You said that the, that, that 969 00:45:55,480 --> 00:46:02,200 cartoon character for it was steamboat Willie is where Mickey Mouse first appeared. What character 970 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:09,400 first appeared in the holiday song, Frosty the Snowman? It was Frosty the Snowman. I didn't know 971 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:15,720 the day I thought you meant never fucking mind. I said it was a trick question. Frosty first appeared 972 00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:22,520 in Frosty the Snowman. God damn it. I misheard the question. Damn dyslexia. Anyway, here's something 973 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:30,600 fun. What celestial event inspired the star in the nativity story? So this is something. Haley's 974 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:39,400 Comet. Oh my God. No. What? So you didn't know. It was not a comet. So it wasn't a comet. It's fading. 975 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:47,160 It wasn't a comet. It wasn't a supernova or any sort of star event. It's apparently it was the 976 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:54,200 potentially the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Oh, I forgot this was a 10 hour loop. Yeah. No, 977 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,720 please. So yeah. He's skipping it farther into the comet. Yeah. So yeah, it was a conjunction. 978 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:05,320 It was a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Okay. So. All right. What Scandinavian winter 979 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:13,880 tradition includes eating Lutefisk Lutefisk Lutefisk during the holiday season. So basically name 980 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:21,240 name name one of the countries Scandinavia, Norway. Yeah. And for bonus points, what's the 981 00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:25,880 what's the other one? I'd probably say Iceland. No, you went you went the wrong way, but Sweden. 982 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:31,720 Sweet. Yeah. Sweden and Norwegian. So there we go. Have you ever seen or smelled Lutefisk before? 983 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:38,040 Is it I mean, it has to be better than surstromming. So, uh, dude, no, it no, it actually is 984 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:45,400 surstromming is the worst. So Lutefisk would be bad jello fish. Yeah. Well, surstromming is like 985 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:52,680 fermented fish. Oh, okay. You win. Uh huh. What is the meaning of the Hebrew word Hanukkah? 986 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:58,280 Now, see, here's the thing. Since this isn't technically a a Christmas question, you can't be 987 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:03,560 punished for it, but give it a guess. Festival of Lights. I mean, that is yeah, I mean, that is what 988 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:09,960 it is. But no, what is the word Hanukkah mean? It's like a it's like a thing or concept, like a 989 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,240 virtue. It was a it's a virtue. Patience because it lasts for eight days. Okay. I'm gonna say 990 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:21,000 patience. I like the answer, but it's dedication. It's dedication. It's dedication. It's 991 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:26,600 dedication. Okay, I could have went that route too. Sorry. Sorry, my Jewish friends. 992 00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:33,320 You weren't racist for getting that one wrong. In which country is Santa Claus known as Dead 993 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:41,480 Muttles or Grandfather Frost? Dead Muttles. Russia? Hell yeah. You got my accent there. 994 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:47,800 Good job, baby. Come on, you got to get this one. What animal is central to the nativity scene 995 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:53,800 in Latin American Christmas traditions? The lamb, right? No, I mean, that's regular Christmas. 996 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:59,080 Specifically, what animal is central to the mule? Hell, I mean, it's a donkey. Donkey! 997 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:08,280 Okay. What what? Hey, what famous composer? I know you're going to know this. I know you're 998 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,760 going to know this. It's so simple. It's the thing that you talk about all the time. What famous 999 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:22,040 composer wrote a Christmas oratorio in 1734? I talk about this? Oh, just all the time. Like every 1000 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:29,240 time, you know, once a day. Bach! Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to I'm going to touch my phone just 1001 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:35,560 to keep it from going to sleep. But you got it right. Fuck yeah, my boy Bach! Friends, he never 1002 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:43,640 talks about classical music composers. Johann Sebastian Bach. That is amazing. Wait, high five. 1003 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:53,080 Okay. Yeah. Oh, this I didn't know. What region, what country claims to be the birthplace of eggnog? 1004 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:59,400 Not us. Where would I see eggnog? I'm trying to think. We've talked about this country in this 1005 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:10,440 episode. Sweden. No, damn it. Is it the Dutch again? It's actually England. Oh my God. Considering 1006 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:16,280 the amount of things that they've claimed to have done. Oh, thank God you don't spring for 1007 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:23,800 YouTube premium. But I do. Yeah, thank you Disney Plus. Skip that ad. Yeah, we can't have that. 1008 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:31,480 Like we we need the sweet, sweet punishment. So here's the thing. Is this punishment for tying 1009 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:36,360 you up and locking you in a box? Yeah, I mean, this does kind of correlate to that. Anyway, 1010 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:44,120 you better get this one or you're going to be stricken by the pope into an eternal hell. 1011 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:52,200 Fuck the pope. What? No, this pope's kind of cool. Kind of. But what holiday celebrated on December 1012 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:59,560 8th in some Catholic countries honors Mary? Come on, you have to have eaten some some ham 1013 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,880 on this day. Come on. No, like my grandparents were Catholic. Stop trying to read this. 1014 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:14,600 Mary's Day. Virgin. Virgin Fiesta. I don't fucking know. The feast of the blessed virgin. I don't 1015 00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:21,400 fucking know. Oh, man. Like, I can't punish you for that because like you danced around it so 1016 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:25,800 elegantly that if I didn't have the answer in front of me, I would have assumed you were right. 1017 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:31,560 It was the feast of the Immaculate Conception. OK, you said feast and you talked about virgin 1018 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:36,440 birth. So I mean, I got to give it to you. Oh, come on. You got to get this one. You got to get 1019 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:41,800 this one. You got to get this one. That's the four compass points of of of of frickin faith, man. 1020 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:50,920 What is the symbolic meaning of the Advent wreath in Christmas tradition? And I say the four compass 1021 00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:57,960 points because it's four concepts that you would have read about in the Bible. Belief. I said four. 1022 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:06,120 Oh, that's the four words. Faith. Belief. Remember, it has to do with Christmas tradition. 1023 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,720 It's going to be definitely faith. But wait, yeah. Conception. 1024 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:19,560 Conception, birth, crucifixion, resurrection. It's hope, peace, joy and love. And this is I'll give 1025 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:28,680 you peace. I am displaying all of my god damn faith. Hope, peace, joy, hope, peace, joy and love. 1026 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:34,920 Michael, Michael, all of my hope, peace, joy and love are being directed toward you right now. 1027 00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:44,600 I want a gun. I hate you. Hmm. Hey, what plant is traditionally kissed under during Christmas? 1028 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:51,800 The mistletoe. Hooray. Anyway, what is the origin of the term boxing day? 1029 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:57,560 And it's not what you think. It's a Canadian thing, isn't it? It is absolutely a Canadian holiday. I 1030 00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:02,360 know that. But it just comes from putting things into boxes and then taking them out of boxes. 1031 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:08,120 Oh, my God. That's correct. I had no idea. It's giving boxed gifts to servants and the poor. 1032 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:13,800 I wasn't going to throw the servants and poor thing in there. But yeah, it's I just assumed 1033 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,920 it has something weird to do with boxing, like the sport. No, no, it's it's about getting boxes. 1034 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:24,760 It's Christmas boxes. Here's one for you. And if you know the Muppets, maybe you know this one. 1035 00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:33,400 Hell yeah, I know the Muppets. In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, how many total ghosts 1036 00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:40,840 visit Ebenezer Scrooge? Four. Hell yeah. I if you'd have asked. If you watch the Muppets, 1037 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:48,520 it's five because they use Statler and Waldorf as the as the same ghost. Yeah, they're the 1038 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,280 the Marley brothers instead of just Jacob Marley. Nice. See, now, if you would have asked me that 1039 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,800 question, I would have said three ghosts past, present, future, because I don't know that movie 1040 00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:00,440 well enough because Jacob is the first one to visit him and tell him that tonight you will be 1041 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:05,800 visited by three spirits. Oh, I thought just some dude cursed him with that. Oh, that's his former 1042 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:13,480 partner, Jacob Marley. They made a really bad ass version that's on Hulu that FX produced that makes 1043 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:20,920 it like John wickified. It's not John wickified. It definitely ups the scare factor with the with 1044 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:27,480 the ghosts like the ghost of Christmas present. Isn't this fat, jolly Santa esque dude? He's 1045 00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:33,240 actually like a pissed off like, hey, fucker, this is like what you're missing. Look at it and see 1046 00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:38,440 what this is all about instead of all get to know everybody better. But no, you need to check it out. 1047 00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:45,400 It's on Hulu. Nice. What does the name of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah commemorate? 1048 00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:53,000 It commemorates that when the Romans sacked the final temple, they only had enough oil 1049 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,720 to burn in the menorah for one night and they lit all eight candles and it burned for all 1050 00:54:57,720 --> 00:55:03,480 eight nights of Hanukkah. See, that's a different Jewish holiday. That's not what you said. 1051 00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:10,200 No, see, that's a different Jewish holiday that has to do with that. Yeah, that's you lied to me. 1052 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:14,520 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a different Jewish holiday. I don't know if it's Yom Kippur. 1053 00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:20,600 No, Yom Kippur might be the one with the blood on the door. No, that's not that's not how it goes. 1054 00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:27,880 It was the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem. That's not Hanukkah. Yeah, that's Hanukkah. 1055 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:34,200 I mean, unless Chachi B.T. got it wrong and Chachi B.T. is anti-Semitic. I always grew up and I watched 1056 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,760 all the Hanukkah specials on TV and that's what they said it was supposed to be. The candles, 1057 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:43,560 the menorah burned all eight days, even though it was supposed to be a miracle. See, I thought maybe 1058 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,040 that it was like maybe it's the first day was called something different and that was when the 1059 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,800 was when the oral thing happened. I could be totally wrong, but that's definitely not the 1060 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,920 not what it was trying to get with this. Yeah, that's that's what I remember from maybe that's 1061 00:55:54,920 --> 00:56:00,120 a Mandela effect thing. Who knows? I mean, Chachi B.T. is probably just wrong. Negative five points 1062 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:07,000 to Chachi B.T. Chachi B.T. might have been what was crashing my audacity or or or maybe Microsoft 1063 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:12,840 Edge or maybe they combined. Maybe it was Bill Gates and an A.I. trying to destroy our podcast. 1064 00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:19,400 We know too much. Might have to have a conspiracy theory episode someday. Oh, I'm totally down. 1065 00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:27,560 Heck yeah. You better get this one right or you're a heathen. Who wrote the popular holiday ballet 1066 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:33,160 The Nutcracker? Like this this name is so famous. Hey, Tuvan. 1067 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:44,600 I'm like John Lovett and Little Nicky. I deserve this. I deserve this. 1068 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,560 And at least you're not getting a pineapple up the butt like Hitler. 1069 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:53,480 Yes. Anyway, it's Tchaikovsky. Oh, Tchaikovsky. Yeah, I knew. Hell yeah. Very famous Russian. 1070 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:59,720 Oh, yeah. Stalin always used to buy out his own personal theater and no one else was allowed to 1071 00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:05,080 view it during the holidays except for him. We have one final question. What do I get if I get it 1072 00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,480 right? Can I just take these headphones off and say no more? I mean, no, I'm actually going to 1073 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:16,200 staple them to your head and then play the song eternally. It's the reverse of I have no mouth and 1074 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:21,720 I must scream where you're going to scream so much that you eventually destroy your mouth and no 1075 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:28,040 longer have it. That doesn't sound very nice. And you know what's funny? That story included a vicious 1076 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:34,120 maniacal evil AI. Thank you, Harlan Ellison. Fuck me. All right. What's the last one? 1077 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:40,680 Anyway, I want you to think think American on this one. Think of yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah. 1078 00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:47,400 Yeah. Think of why an American would do this. What was the first commercial Christmas card 1079 00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:54,280 created for? Like, why did a person create the first commercial greeting card? 1080 00:57:54,280 --> 00:58:00,120 OK, the first commercial greeting card. OK, like work through this. Like the core reason 1081 00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:04,760 wasn't it couldn't have been the last person name wasn't Hallmark, was it? And I'm trying to think 1082 00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:09,400 because there's many different ways this could go to if it was a woman who did it, it might have 1083 00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:15,640 been to send to a sick or ailing loved one. If it was a man, it was because he couldn't take no for 1084 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:22,440 an answer and was trying to send it to a woman he was infatuated with. No. But see, what we're 1085 00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:28,280 talking about is the base reason why the first because you couldn't be home for the holidays. 1086 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:34,760 And that's a really sweet answer. And technically it could still apply to this. But why was the 1087 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:43,080 first Christmas card commercial Christmas card created? Money. The only thing anything. It's the 1088 00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:49,320 other famous song from Dark Side of the Moon. Can I turn it off? It's the other famous song 1089 00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:58,840 from Dark Side of the Moon. So if it's not time or if it's not money, then it's time to save time 1090 00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:04,680 writing personal messages. It was laziness. Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael, it was laziness. 1091 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:13,400 It was lazy. I'm sorry. I love Christmas. You know, this is the greatest Christmas present 1092 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:19,080 that I ever could have been given. These headphones are off. Thank God. No, it was horrible. No. 1093 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,160 Well, I mean, you weren't going to give me anything else for Christmas. You don't know that. I mean, 1094 00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:28,840 probably. Well, now that that's now that that's over with, can I do you now love Christmas? Yes. 1095 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:33,800 But can I can I finally speak my piece on to why I had my I have my problems with with the 1096 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:40,520 holidays being an adult. So back when I was we were kids, Christmas was always magical to me 1097 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:46,760 because it wasn't just about presents and all that. It was about just getting together with 1098 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:51,560 my family, especially my cousins, who I was really close in age with, getting to share the experiences 1099 00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:58,440 that we had, getting to see what we all got and sharing in that and just being together as family 1100 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:03,080 and just, you know, spending that time and having all that fun together. As I got older, 1101 01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,400 that's when it really started to kick in for me that, you know, by disdain for the holiday, 1102 01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:12,840 because, you know, I worked for everything that I had, not saying that other people don't, other 1103 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:17,560 people in my family don't. But I worked for everything that I had. And there was times that 1104 01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:24,760 I couldn't get expensive gifts for people in my family. And I was only given out like 10, 15 1105 01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:31,080 dollar gift cards while other members of the family were giving out brand new fucking appliances. 1106 01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:39,160 And that's kind of what really killed the holiday for me was fucking appliances. Like a sex swing. 1107 01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:46,840 No, like, you know, they'd get like the new toaster oven or a new like my uncle would when he was 1108 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:52,120 doing his side, his side business as a landscaper, coming back from his day job as a landscaper, 1109 01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:58,440 but he owns them. I digress. He would need like a new saw blade or something like that. And he'd 1110 01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:03,400 get it from somebody else that I couldn't afford to get it for him. And it was like the shit that I 1111 01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:08,760 bought didn't matter. And like, I was just kind of looked at like, oh, you're just a cheap asshole 1112 01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:14,200 who can't put any thought in anything. You just gave us gift cards, you know, but I'm still trying 1113 01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:20,360 to I've got it back a little bit, you know, because I like seeing. Well, they're not like that anymore 1114 01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:25,000 because now they just said this year they just want they're getting into the ages where just give 1115 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:30,600 us cash and we'll buy our own presents. My kids. But except for my oldest, she wants books and I'm 1116 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:37,080 happy to oblige that your oldest what daughter, my oldest daughter, there was books. I got a little 1117 01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:41,000 bit of the magic back, you know, when they were growing up and looking at their faces every 1118 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:47,240 Christmas morning, when they would rip open their presents and be so happy that they would get that, 1119 01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:51,800 you know, because I worked my ass off to get them the things that they wanted for Christmas. 1120 01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:57,080 But I really wish Christmas would just get back to being about family and about togetherness 1121 01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:04,280 instead of being materialistic. And that's my my piece on it. So basically, you're a Scrooge 1122 01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:10,600 McDuck Ebenezer bauhumbugger. Why? Because I rather it be more about family than material possessions. 1123 01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:17,160 That's anti-American, Michael. I guess then fine. I guess I'm anti-American. 1124 01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,640 You better get on the capitalist money train like right now. 1125 01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:25,320 Please. That train has left me at the station backed up and ran me the fuck over. 1126 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:32,360 You better get just like with white Jesus, you got to get with Coca-Cola Santa and we need to 1127 01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:37,800 take that train with the Clydesdales and we got to get all the way in there and buy your Tickle Me 1128 01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:44,840 Elmos and get your frickin Furbies. And what was the one we were at Target? The Hatchimals. 1129 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:51,320 Magic Mixies. And the Magic Mixies. And your Gabby's Dollhouses. The Gabby's Dollhouse. That was 1130 01:02:51,320 --> 01:03:00,040 wild. Isn't the best thing about COVID the fact that Black Friday was murdered or while. Oh my 1131 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:06,840 God, yes. And online shopping. Yes, yes. Those things killed what Black Friday became and how 1132 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:13,400 it overcome, it tried to kill Thanksgiving. Yes. My favorite holiday. Yeah. And that's another thing 1133 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,800 why I got so upset with Christmas is because when we were kids, Halloween was Halloween, 1134 01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:22,760 Thanksgiving was Thanksgiving, and Christmas was Christmas. As we've gotten older, it's been like 1135 01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:28,200 Halloween stuff comes out in late August. Halloween, and then Halloween barely holds 1136 01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:33,960 back the floodgates. Of Christmas. And then when November first hits. It's Christmas. It's Christmas 1137 01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:38,200 and then people kind of eat a turkey. Yeah. And they shop and then it's more Christmas. Yep, that's it. 1138 01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:44,440 It's, yeah, Christmas is essentially celebrated for two straight months. So basically I agree with 1139 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:52,840 everything you say. We are on the exact same page except you're a fucking bauhumbug. Well, it's not 1140 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:59,400 going to take three spirits to, you know, make me be a happy person because I've got my family, 1141 01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:04,600 I got my best friend, I got my daughters, and that's all I need. Happy holidays to all of you guys out 1142 01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:11,400 there. But you know what I've got. What do you got? Jacking off. Good night everybody. 1143 01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:19,400 If you're looking to give a stranger a gift this year, please consider giving these two strangers 1144 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:24,440 a like, a follow, or whatever you would do on whatever platform this is playing on. It would be 1145 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:30,840 the opposite of coloner stockings. It would be just the most glorious of feelings within our 1146 01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:38,840 sweet little souls. We also like to accept gifts in the form of ideas or episode suggestions, 1147 01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:45,880 anything like that to fit in the digital stocking. That is the email of windbreakermedia at gmail.com. 1148 01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:51,720 I feel like that encapsulates the feelings I have every holiday season. Be good to each other out 1149 01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,040 there people. I was thinking more about the fact that I want a larger footprint in this digital world. 1150 01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:06,200 I want to rule. I want to be seen. Like Santa. Or Jesus. What about Krampus? Never Krampus. 1151 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:11,720 Always Krampus. Merry Christmas, happy holidays. Be safe out there everybody. 1152 01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:16,760 ChatGPT and I are looking forward to that present. Wait a minute, what about my present? 1153 01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:39,880 And I'm not making no resolutions this year.