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Speaker 1: to stuff you should know from house to Forks dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles

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Speaker 1: on the plant. That's that's not how that works. We'll

423
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: explain it to me later. Let's keep things going. Like

424
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: a German bulldog doesn't mean a German Man and a bulldog. Actually,

425
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I'm so sure what happens fine

426
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: closed doors? So Daisy the rat terrier ran off, and

427
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: Vonda Lunstrom said, um, well, I guess that's it for

428
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: for me and being happy. She spent months and then

429
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: just kind of gave up, resigned herself that she would

430
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: never see her dog again, never knew what happened to her,

431
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: and just is like, well, my heart is broken. On

432
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: Christmas Day of that year, she gets a call, and

433
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: this call is from a woman in Knoxville, Tennessee, saying, hey,

434
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: guess what. Oh yeah, I got some Knoxville people here. Huh, well,

435
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: you prepared to be proud of your town because a

436
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: woman from your town found Daisy in Knoxville, Tennessee. She

437
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: had made it miles from Aurora, Colorado to Knoxville, Tennessee.

438
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: No one has any idea how, and showed up on

439
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: this woman in Knoxville, Tennessee's doorstep. Yeah, she said, where

440
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: you from, little dog? And she went Colorado. It's pretty good.

441
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: It's so dumb. I can't believe I did that. Port

442
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: of people. No, she did what you should do, which

443
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: is called the little number on the tag, got in touch.

444
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: It was a rabies tag, so got in touch with

445
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: veterinarian in Colorado. She said, I think I have the

446
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: wrong number. This is a weird area code to be

447
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: calling for a lost dog in my neighborhood in Knoxville.

448
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, it is weird. It's in Colorado.

449
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: And she said, I got a little rat terrier named Daisy.

450
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: And the vet went, what a rat terrier? What are

451
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: you talking about. I don't know how you do it

452
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, lady, but uh, right here in Colorado, we

453
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: breed dogs with dogs. Oh that's not how we do

454
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: it in Tennessee. So he said, I think that we

455
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: have a match here there. This is one of my

456
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: my my clients. And he called up Vonda and he said,

457
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: believe it or not, we think we found Daisy. This

458
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: was this dog was missing in April and this was Christmas.

459
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: So you do the math. Yeah, I had it not

460
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: been Christmas, it would have just been a miracle, not

461
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: a Christmas miracle, that's right, right. So they were reunited,

462
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: and UM, I guess if we've already told the other

463
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: story about the other Christmas miracle, we can kind of

464
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: pull the rug out on this one too. Uh, Daisy

465
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: was reunited with Vonda, and Daisy got home to find

466
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: out that Vonda had replaced Daisy and she had to

467
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: share her house with another dog. That must have been

468
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: pretty awkward for Daisy, Like finally back home and runs

469
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: inside and it's like, oh, this is my spot. You

470
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: haven't been here for a while, so let me tell

471
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: you what the rules are, Daisy. Yeah, and the dog's

472
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: like no, all over that, and I'm about you again.

473
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: Is that our last miracle? That was it? That's what

474
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We didn't amount of order? Right, Thanks everybody.

475
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: We can tell you guys are the hardcore stuff. You

476
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: should know fans because you clapped for that one. So

477
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have noticed the theme

478
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: or not yet, but we're talking a lot about Christmas.

479
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: I've noticed you shifting it. What is Is there a

480
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: rhymer reason? They're never just have it? Okay? I thought

481
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: you were just that was the first time I've ship

482
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: all right, next segments right, wait, now we just graduated

483
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: onto the next you know what that side to get

484
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: cheated and show him your ball? HeiG, everybody get a

485
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: look at a load shouldn't be hearing. So we're we're

486
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: talking Christmas, and what would Christmas be without shoving elbows

487
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: to the teeth, maybe like a little bit choking. You're like,

488
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: oh wait, I can go to jail for that. Over

489
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: the must have toy of the season, and we found

490
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: out that there were not There was a toy that

491
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: spanned not one, but two Christmas seasons. And that toy

492
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: spanned the Christmas is of and and his name was

493
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: Teddy rux Let's go ahead and remember that little guy

494
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: how adorable comes with a cassette in a story book. Yeah,

495
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: and you can buy more cassettes and more story books,

496
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: and more cassettes and more story books because that's how

497
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: they get you, right, That's how they got you with

498
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: Teddy Ruxpen. And he was super groundbreaking at the time, right, Um,

499
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: Teddy Ruxpan. If you don't know what Teddy Ruxpen is,

500
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: he's this guy. But your your kid would put a

501
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: cassette in his back and press play with like sticky

502
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: little chocolate fingers and um, Teddy Ruxben, here we go. Here.

503
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: We don't want to give away the horror that aways

504
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: and Teddy Ruxben would come to life and be like, hey,

505
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: you're my friend, whether you like it or not. Kid,

506
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: And like his eyes would open and close and his

507
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: nose would spin and he would start talking. But he

508
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: would talk, not just you know, babble or just talk

509
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: about his day or something like that. He would talk

510
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: and he would tell a story. Right, I was born

511
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: in a hat box. Right, he was an amazing bear

512
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: that told your kids stories and every kid wanted one.

513
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: But there was actually a pretty great story leading up

514
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: to it, and it was a Disney imagineer named Ken

515
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: Forcey who was the guy who came up with Teddy

516
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: Ruxpen and he worked on him for so long that

517
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: his original idea was for Teddy Ruxpen to have been

518
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: a monkey because he wanted to salute the Space program.

519
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: That's how long the guy's been working on Teddy rock Span. So, uh,

520
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: I hit a little more research into this guy. Like

521
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: you said, he worked at Disney what do they call

522
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: themselves mains? Oh wait, I'm sorry. He actually helped design

523
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: He was one of the designers on the Haunted Mansion,

524
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: So big ups for that best ride ever. And then

525
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: if you're a long time at Lantern, you might remember

526
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: over at where Philips Areena now is is was the

527
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: old Omni CNN and they had the World of Sid

528
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: and Marty Croft, which is this weird LSD fueled amusement

529
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: park indoor amusement park. And he helped design that too,

530
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. Yeah. So, uh, like we said,

531
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: he worked at Disney, and he was like, I've I've

532
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: been to the Hall of Press, and it's why don't

533
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: I just take Abraham Lincoln and wrap him in for

534
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: cut his head off, wrap him in for and I

535
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: think I have a million seller, right, But he works

536
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: in it for a while. And the reason it took

537
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: him so long is because originally Teddy Ruxman came in

538
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: two parts. You had Teddy Rucksman and then you had

539
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: a box, a big, clunky, ugly box with sharp edges

540
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: and would like catch fire. And this box sent FM

541
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: signals to Teddy and then that's how Teddy, with the

542
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: receiver in his face, would talk and move his his

543
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: mouth literal radio signals. He could not have been more

544
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: complicated if he tried, right, So, but also really clumsy

545
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: and cumbersome a two piece set. No kid wants to

546
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: like set up a receiver and like to like twist

547
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: the dials, you know, or they want the hard sharp

548
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: box inside the bear, right, But it wasn't really. It

549
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: was a huge move when they managed to combine the

550
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: two together. And what they figured out was that they

551
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: could use one track and a regular cassette tape to

552
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: record the story Teddy's voice, and then the other track

553
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: they recorded ultra high frequency radio signals that that told

554
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: Teddy how to move his face. It was it was

555
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: connected to a little motor you know, cassettes recording stereo.

556
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: So there's two sides and they just used one to

557
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: sign sin the signal to a little uh motor control,

558
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he could come to life

559
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: and haunt your dreams. And with that he took off.

560
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: They released him in September and they were sold out

561
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: within a month. I think forty three thousand units just overnight. Yeah,

562
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: but this guy was thinking big though, Like he was like,

563
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: this is not a Teddy Bear. Everyone. He created this

564
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: whole backstory and he wanted television shows and movies and

565
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: things to accompany this, and it actually worked. He went

566
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,919
Speaker 1: into the office and said, oh, he's not a bear.

567
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: He's an iliop, which is a species native to the

568
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: fantasy world of Grundo and the people he was selling

569
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: it to areas can you can you just be a bear?

570
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about this today. He got

571
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: a bear that talks like that. You that's seriously all

572
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: you need. He's like, no, no, First of all, he's

573
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: wearing a tunic. Bears and wear tunics. Don't be ridiculous.

574
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: He's an iliot. So it was a pretty big breakthrough

575
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: and in uh Teddy Ruxman started to take off forty

576
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: three thousand units in the first month. Yeah, they sold

577
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: a million within like the first three or four months.

578
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: It was like a hit, so much so that it

579
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: spanned six and nine eight seven Christmas. Yeah, and so

580
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: much so that he did get two specials out of ABC.

581
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. He he tried HBO and they're like,

582
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: that's weird where HBO? But ABC was like sure, why not?

583
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: So in November in December of nine eight five, they

584
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: had to live action Teddy Ruxman specials about this cute

585
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: little iliops from from Grando. Uh. And it came back

586
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: over the years. I mean, here's the deal. Parents hated

587
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: this thing because because I mean it was like seventy

588
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: five bucks back then, which is like a million dollars

589
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: to million dollars and these cassettes because the kids are like,

590
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: well I married that one, I want to hear the

591
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: next one. And they were twelve ninety five a pop

592
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: to get the little book in the cassette, and he

593
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I can write stories all day long. Children. Yeah,

594
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: in the middle of these stories and be like, hey,

595
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: can go tell your parents to go again another cassette,

596
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: tell him tell him this, just say what I'm about

597
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: to say that you will hold your breath until you

598
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: pass out unless you get another cassette today. Okay, all right, okay,

599
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: So anyway, and Grundo, it's always lovely out. That's how

600
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: he would talk, like there was something wrong with them.

601
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: I found a few of these titles too, by the way. Yeah,

602
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: there was one called the mush They all had Colon's too.

603
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: One was called the mush the Mushroom Forest. You can

604
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: be anything you want to be. It's like a Gladwell.

605
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: I wonder what was going on there. Oh, yes, there

606
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: was one in the early nineties. And this is not

607
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: a joke. Everyone grunge music, Colon, tap your feet to

608
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: the beat. You lie that serious, you lie because grunge

609
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: the most toe tapping this genre of music out there.

610
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: And then finally, but also that's a Teddy Ruxmen title.

611
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: What did what did he tell the story? I don't know,

612
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: A bunch of stage dive in iliops, I guess. And

613
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: then finally you know, And Teddy Ruxman came back a

614
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: few times over the years. In fact, I think you

615
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: can still buy them, Like just a few years ago

616
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: there was another company. It was like, sure, we'll buy

617
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: the license, we'll take. There was one finally where he

618
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: jumped the shark that was called this This is the title,

619
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: Teddy Ruxman Visits the Dentist Colin sponsored by Crest. It

620
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: wasn't implied that was the title. Anyway, we have to

621
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: take a message break everybody. I'm kidding. I was making

622
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: a joke about the Crest. Think set down. I do

623
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: have my and my Christmas light me Andy's It's authentic everyone.

624
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: So Teddy Rucks been he went away. The market got saturated.

625
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: There was something called Rapping Rabbit. There was one called

626
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: Blabbering Bear, which is just a terrible name. They did

627
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: zero market research. That's how fast everybody was getting this stuff.

628
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: I would have gotten like that's year's version. Yeah, blabber bear,

629
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: not by your own choice. Oh same here, Bud, I

630
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: know what you mean. Nights at the Round Table. Yeah,

631
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: it looks just like Polo except for a little flag.

632
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: Like the kids at school are not going to buy this?

633
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: Is that the end of that segment. That's the end

634
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: of that. It's going great, it's going not bad. So again,

635
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: we're talking Christmas, and what would Christmas be without the

636
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: most horrific assemblage of monsters that you ever encountered in

637
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: your entire life. Well, if you're scared by this kind

638
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: of thing, if you don't like monsters and they make

639
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: you uneasy, thank you lucky stars that you were not

640
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: raised in Europe, because Europe has the scariest Christmas traditions

641
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: of all time ever, and we're gonna tell you about

642
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: some of them. Yeah. We we talked about this in

643
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: past Christmas specials. How Christmas was um basically go opted

644
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: by Christians from weird pagan holidays with horrific beasts and

645
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, let's turn that into the Birth of

646
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: Jesus and Christmas is wonderful. What about this angry forest?

647
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: Got us three wiseman? That's fine, they're gonna be happy

648
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: to get presents. It's fine. So we're gonna start. You

649
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: can go ahead and move the slide. Yes, we're gonna start.

650
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: An Iceland everyone with the yule Cat. You have to

651
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: say it. You have to say it the in the

652
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: Icelandic chuck that friendly guy. Yes, in Icelandic it is

653
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: uh yo luck. I'm sorry, but say it like the

654
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: York please. Oh yeah, hey, that wasn't bad. It was

655
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: a good or dude, it's oh so quiet and the

656
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 1: faith of the movement and you got to do that.

657
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: She actually records these songs, right, Yeah, there's you can go.

658
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: You can go on to YouTube and look up Yola

659
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: Kuten and and just just guess how it spelled and

660
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: h or icelandic leka. And there's a poem that b

661
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: York has sung that they put to music and it's

662
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: weird and creepy and perfect. But there's this there's this

663
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: this tradition in Iceland that if you are a good

664
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: kid and you do all of your chores and your work,

665
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: and your parents are hard working too, then you as

666
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: a kid will be rewarded with a new piece of

667
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: clothing on Christmas. Right, That's what you're looking forward to

668
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: as a kid in Iceland like it sucks and you're

669
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: happy to have it, because if you don't have new

670
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: socks or new shoes or something, the yule cat will

671
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: come along and eat you on Christmas Eve. We'll eat

672
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: you in your house in front of your family. You

673
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: see that kid, he knows. He's like, there's totally a

674
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: cat behind me right now. And his friends are going nope,

675
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: wearing their new jackets. Members only. We're all good. So

676
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: the whole thing is the UK. This goes from a

677
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: house to house, and I think Christmas Eve for Christmas

678
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: one of the two. I think if you're being eaten

679
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: by the ulk, it doesn't matter. Ul cats looking into

680
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: the windows like you own new shoes, okay, and you're

681
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: awfu limits new apron. I guess it's an article of clothing.

682
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: It's just going from house to house, and then the

683
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: Yule cat will inevitably find some kid who was lazy

684
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: and didn't do their choice so they didn't get a

685
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: new a new a new piece of clothing. Pounced tear

686
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: rip me ow right, ule cat gets it done. But

687
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: there's something really sad about this too. What if what

688
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: if you're like a good kid, and you do all

689
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: your chores, but your parents are not well off. Well

690
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: t s for you. The yule Cat's gonna get you anyway,

691
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: because the yule cat doesn't discriminate. The yule cat just

692
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: goes by whether you have some clothing or not. He

693
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: hates all children. So what's very sweet is if you

694
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 1: read this yule cat poem in the end it says,

695
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: hopefully this will have you give a thought children, two

696
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: kids who are less fortunate than you, so you can

697
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: make sure that they have a new piece of clothing

698
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: around the holidays, so they won't get eaten by the

699
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: yule cat. Right and if not, the blood is on

700
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: your hands, meal, mial, your luck, kudarin. What I love

701
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: about all these is it was when you look at

702
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: the progression. Christmas softened to the point now where it's like,

703
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: well you get cold and you're stocking, And back then

704
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,479
Speaker 1: it was like a cat will come and eat you,

705
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: eat you in front of your family, because it's all

706
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: like good kid, back kid, what are you gonna get?

707
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a president or coal? And back then

708
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: it was like will you live or will you die?

709
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: It's really amazing, all right, for this next one, we

710
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: are going to uh Germany, the home of many horrors,

711
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: a lot Germany and Austria which featured this kind woman.

712
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 1: And I guess her band of her soul leaders. Yeah,

713
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: clearly this is uh Fraul Perkta. Fraud Perkta was a

714
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: witch who would you know, if she thought you were

715
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: pretty good, give you some candy. If she thought you

716
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: were bad, she would cut your you open and tear

717
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: out your guts and stuff you with garbage. That's what

718
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 1: they taught kids. Better not be bad or your guts

719
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: are gonna get pulled out and replaced with garbage by

720
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: fraud Perkta. Yeah, she would visit over the twelve days

721
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: of Christmas because she had a lot of work to do.

722
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: I saw one descriptor that she was often described as

723
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: having one abnormally large foot called a goose foot. I

724
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: haven't heard that one. I don't know it's a good one,

725
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even know what that is. You

726
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: got that? You got the goose foot? Did you have

727
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: a mishap at the Manny Petty place? So the other

728
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: thing is said too, that she would slit their bellies

729
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: open and stuff it with straw. And pebbles like garbage,

730
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: like garbage, because it also makes you think, like what

731
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: kind of garbage like coffee grounds, banana peels or something

732
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: or more like she's composting. All right, okay, but I

733
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: mean that's that's garbage. Remember you have to turn the

734
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: kid every two days exactly, keep it on the sun

735
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: so it gets nice and steamy. Maybe put some worms

736
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: in there too. Well, she was a forest goddess, so

737
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: it makes sense look at her. So for a character, Now,

738
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: who you wanted to run into if you're a bad kid. Alright,

739
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: he's next Germany again. Yeah, if you were in Germany,

740
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: or nowadays, if you're in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, which is

741
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, Uh, you might run into a little guy

742
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: named Belshnickel. Let's bring up Bellschnickel. Guys like that kid

743
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: is not joking around in that photo. This is supposed

744
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: to be fun, holiday fun in Germany. I know, it

745
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: looks like a hostage situation, like an Olympic games. Like

746
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: can you imagine if that guy came in through your

747
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: door and was like, no, not your parents, I'm here

748
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: to see you come here. Wow. So the thing about

749
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: Belshnickel was this Belsh Nickel was like his name means

750
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: either like what does it belts in means to wallop

751
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: in in German? Uh so he either means like walloping

752
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: satan Nick or satan Nick and pelts and first and

753
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: if you um, if you ran across bell Stickle. He's

754
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: like this old kind of woodsy guy who would show

755
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: up a couple of days before Christmas to find out

756
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: whether you were naughty or nice. And he would find

757
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: out like this, he takes the candy, maybe a few

758
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: nuts because again you're like a Pennsylvania Dutch kids, so

759
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: like you'll go crazy for a few walnuts. Even he

760
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: would throw him on to the ground and he just

761
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: wants you like what are you gonna do? And the

762
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: kid who went after, like Augustus Gloop or something like that,

763
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,439
Speaker 1: just jumped onto the ground after the candy. What he'd

764
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: get a switch right to his back, like two days

765
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: before Christmas as part of the Christmas tradition. And that's

766
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: what bells Nickel was doing. He was there to sort

767
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: the naughty kids from the nights. But he's not nearly

768
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: as bad as like fraud character or anything like that,

769
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 1: because he would he would take time with the naughty

770
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: kids and kind of teach them like, no, that's going

771
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: on right there. I think. I think, so this kid's

772
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: about to be uh indoctrinated into the Belschnickel way of

773
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: doing things. He just showed himself to that just right.

774
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: But he would spend time with the kids who were

775
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: bad to basically say this is how you do it.

776
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: Here's some candy. And he was meant to be a

777
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: warning before St. Nick came to say you can still

778
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: be good right before Christmas. I think that's a great warning.

779
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: Uh let's go to the next slide. That's another picture

780
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: of him, just in case you needed some more nightmare fuel,

781
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: and then let's go one more Yes if if that

782
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: sounded familiar to anyone. There was an episode of The Office.

783
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: Everyone knows Dwight Shrude is from Pennsylvania, Dutch Country, and

784
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: so he brought the legend of Belschnickel to the Office

785
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: in an episode. He's pretty good. Uh So moving along,

786
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: We're going to go on over to the Lorraine outside

787
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: Lorraine regions of France. Actually this has nothing to do

788
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: with any of these except that this was a Christmas

789
00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: photo from Germany, the home of Belschnik. Alright, let's get

790
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: away from that, all right, here we go, So Hans Trupp,

791
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: that's Hans trop coming in the window there. Oh it

792
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: is okay, so this is nothing. The next slide will

793
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 1: really kind of give you the feeling of what Hans

794
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: Chops all about. Hans Chop is a man who was

795
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: a rich, wealthy man who decided that he wanted to

796
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: eat children. He was that rich and wealthy, and so

797
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: he was just going to do it. So he waited

798
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: for a kid one day and pounced on him and

799
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: took him and cooked him. Got this far, I was

800
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: about to eat him, and then God intervened and struck

801
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: him down with lightning before he could actually eat the kid.

802
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: But wasn't this a true story? Yes, it was a

803
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: true story. No, but there was really a guy named

804
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: Hans Tropp though, right they I mean, according to legend,

805
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: there was a cannibal, Satanist and Christmas enthusiasts, right who

806
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: was struck down by lightning by God. Okay, okay, so

807
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: Hans trop Um was resurrected as a scarecrow man who

808
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: will come through. Let's go through the next one. In

809
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: the like around Chris Smith's time to make sure that

810
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: kids are behaving so that they are not eaten by him.

811
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: That's the yet another threat Christmas in Germany. Everyone right

812
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: behind me, Well this is France. Actually, Oh all right,

813
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 1: I took off Germany for a minute. Then I thought

814
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: that was Germany. Now, Hans CHOP's my least favorite Christmas figure.

815
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay in France. Everyone with the last one,

816
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: let's switch that slide. Not bad comparatively, right, Like, I'll

817
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: take this guy any day over the rest of them.

818
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: This is how do you pronounce that you're there? The

819
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: frenchie here among us? Perfuitad that last that really finishes

820
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: it all nicely. Uh. This is the French legend. The

821
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:55,720
Speaker 1: name translates to father Whipper. And there was in another

822
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: evil butcher who craved children to eat. This is a

823
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: constant theme in euro around Christmas, and if you listened

824
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: to Our Grimm's fairy Tales or the Graham's Brothers, it's

825
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: a constant theme in children's literature that if you did

826
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: not behave you would be eaten by an adult very sweet.

827
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: So he created children to eat, and he and his

828
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: wife would lure three boys into the butcher shop or

829
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: whether they would kill, chop up and salt these children

830
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: until St. Nicholas comes to the rescue, resurrecting the boys,

831
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: uh and taking custody of the butcher. I love that

832
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: he takes custody. He said, you're with me. Now you

833
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: work for me. I'm St. Nick. Yeah, and he literally

834
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: put him to work. He was not like, you go

835
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: to authorities. He was like, coming back to the North Pole,

836
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: I got something for you. But it wasn't like, come

837
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: on back to the North Pole. I I want you

838
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: to start painting checkerboards for the little boys and girls.

839
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: It was not I like what I like the cut

840
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: of your jib. I want you to come do that

841
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: for me. So he would send him out ahead of

842
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: time to basically Belge Nickel, all the little kids and

843
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: you heard of just do that. Then St. Nick would

844
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: come in and be like, oh, hey, at least I'm

845
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: not parafu it toard, right, you know, I'm St. Nick

846
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: good cop, bad cop. Basically exactly like that, except the

847
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: bad cop had no choice in the matter because he

848
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: was in the custody of St. Nick. And that's France.

849
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: So he needs a drink us too, all right, We

850
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: just so happen to have a bar over here, so

851
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to it now. Alright, everybody, we're moving

852
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: to the bar. Set gets hold on, Oh thank you.

853
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: Chuck's gonna give my thing. I'm going to We're gonna

854
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: talk about hot toddies. Is anybody a hot tottie fan?

855
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: Thank you? Chi, Well, we're hot toddy fans to Chuck.

856
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: Haven't you like not had one before, or you haven't

857
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: had one for a while. I feel like I feel

858
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: like Emily has made me a hot toddy when I

859
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: was sick, because alcoholics like to tell each other that

860
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: it's good for a cold when it's really just like,

861
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: m I'm sick, but I really still like to drink. Right,

862
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, well this is great for that. Just

863
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: put some lemon and honey in it, and you're all sat.

864
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,439
Speaker 1: Josh is the bartender. Why don't you walk us through? Uh? Well,

865
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: first of all, we should talk a little bit about

866
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: where the hot toddy might have come from. So they

867
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: actually don't know. Um, they think possibly it came from

868
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: Scotland Edinburgh, and in Edinburgh there was a well And

869
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: you didn't say that, right, It's right, there was a

870
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: well that everybody drew water from and water is like

871
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: a big feature of the Hot Toddy. And the well

872
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: was called Todd's Well, t o D's Well. And they think, well,

873
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:46,479
Speaker 1: there you go. That's story one. Maybe there's another one.

874
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: In India, they drink a medicinal drink called the Toddy

875
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: t a r the Toddy and it's made from tree

876
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: sat Ye, there's another one. There was a guy named

877
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: Roberts Bentley Todd Bentley Todd. He was a doctor and

878
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: he would prescribe this stuff constantly, whether you were sick

879
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,399
Speaker 1: or not. He'd be like, just drink this. And they

880
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: think maybe he was the inventor of the Toddy. No,

881
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: I like that one. You like that one? Yeah. The

882
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: fourth one that I came across was that it was

883
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 1: invented to make Scotch more palatable to women. And I

884
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: think that's probably where the Hot Saddy came up, so

885
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: they could sell more scotch basically, and then they came

886
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: up with these back stories for it. That's right, So

887
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: you're brewing up some water, Uh, what do we have

888
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: here tonight? I got a little local ryot looks like

889
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: resurgence rye whiskey. Everybody, So if you don't know how

890
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: to make a toddy. It's super easy and it's really

891
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: actually quite good. This show just took a turn to

892
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: the left. But a toddy is just just whiskey of

893
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: some sort. Usually it can be Scotch, could be Irish.

894
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: It can be Bourbon, were in Bourbon or rye or

895
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: something like that. Um, a little sweetener usually honey, some

896
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: citrus and then some hot water. That's it. That's it, right,

897
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: But depending on where you are in the country there

898
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: are variations, of course, when you get geographically specific. Uh,

899
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: in New England you might have one made with clam juice.

900
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: Just kidding. Now they actually use maple syrup instead of

901
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: honey in New England, uh worre else in Ireland they

902
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: use potato water. No, just like we really have gotten

903
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: into dad joke territory. Couple years some people have pointed

904
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: it out and I'm like, my god, that that is

905
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: pretty lazy. I'm like Ireland potatoes right right, iris whiskey

906
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: There in Scotland they use you and McGregor sweat. Well,

907
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: that's that's just heavenly kidding you Scotch and then uh,

908
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: William Faulkner actually had a recipe that used bourbon. I

909
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: don't have a William Faulkner joke. It's very serious, man.

910
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: So tell us what we're doing here, Josh, what do

911
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: we got? So I just put I put about an

912
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: ounce and a half two ounces of this. This um

913
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: jigger doesn't actually say how big it is. But you

914
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: want to put one to two ounces in a couple

915
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: of tablespoons of honey a bunch of lemon, because you

916
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: know that's what makes it. The honey and the lemon

917
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: makes it medicinal. Right, that's right, said the alcoholic. I'm

918
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: gonna put us talking about me, all right. I was like,

919
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: just kid, he doesn't know. I'm gonna put a little

920
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: less than a whole lemon in between the two. And

921
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: then the kuda gross, which I found out means death blow,

922
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: not the final touch. Did you guys know that. I've

923
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: been saying cuda gross my whole life, thinking like, oh,

924
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: it's the final touch. No, it means to cut off

925
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: the head a little bit of water, all right. I

926
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: will say this though, uh jokes about alcoholism aside. Here's

927
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: another one. There are no there are doctors like Mayo

928
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: Clinic doctors that have said there is a little bit

929
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: of legitimacy here. The lemon does help, the honey does help. Warm. Look,

930
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: I know people are like, yeah whatever. Uh. Warm liquids

931
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: help with congestion, they help loosen things up, they help

932
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,280
Speaker 1: stimulate your saliva. Uh. They also said there is a

933
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: a mental mentally desired effect which is just a nice

934
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: warm drink which if you're stressed out around the holidays,

935
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: that can help you potty sick. And the booze And

936
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, are the Mayo Clinic doctors all alcoholics too?

937
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: Because this all sounds like enabling speech. They recommend a

938
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: little nip three times a day. So how is it?

939
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: Have you tried it yet? I know I smelled it.

940
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good, is it? Cheers? Happy holidays? Happy holidays?

941
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: Everybody you like that? That's nice? Does it need anymore

942
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 1: honey or anything? I'll make it right. I think it's perfect. So, uh, well,

943
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: that's our drink. That's a hot toddy and the hot

944
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: tottie what only at Christmas and every other show where

945
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: there's a bottle of booze on the stage? This is

946
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: also delicious. I think we should retire by the fire,

947
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: my friends. We are. We're going to take our hot

948
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: toddies and we're gonna go over and we're going to read. Well,

949
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk first and then we're gonna read a story. Okay, okay,

950
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: seriously this set. I love to have a set like

951
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: this at our house. We get one of these, you

952
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: me little fake fireplace. I feel like I should be

953
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: walking like this during this song tiptoe in so Um.

954
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever really paid attention to the famous Andy

955
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: Williams song is the most Wonderful Time of the Year,

956
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: usually sung by Johnny Mathis. But if you really pay

957
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: attention to the lyrics, he says, there will be scary

958
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: ghost stories and tales of the glory of Christmas is

959
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: long and long ago. I have totally never noticed that

960
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: until you brought me this a week ago. Has anyone

961
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: else heard that and been like, what are they talking about?

962
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: Like this doesn't even make sense. It does make sense.

963
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: You know a little bit about the history of Christmas.

964
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 1: You were very close to your don't be dumb set

965
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: right now, and I need a plank right here. You

966
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: tell him Josh sent you. Yeah, there's that guy. I

967
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: just broke the fifth wall. You think about it, I know.

968
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: So the reason why that song says there will be

969
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: scary ghost stories. Is that um ghost stories were a

970
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: part of um Christmas for eons, for eons, Like remember

971
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: we were talking about like Frau perk to h and

972
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: Belshnickel and all of them, and how they were kind

973
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: of um co opted from pagan lower Um that's where

974
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: Christmas originally came from. Was the winter solstice. And at

975
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: the winter solstice, the the that's the longest night of

976
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: the year, the shortest day of the year, and it

977
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: was typically kind of celebrated by the Pagans as the

978
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: death of the sun. And then the next day it

979
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: was the resurrection of the sun. The sun came back

980
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: and and there was a promise of another year. But

981
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: on this night, on the night of the winter Solstice,

982
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: which usually was around December twenty second, maybe who knows, Um,

983
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: the barrier, the veneer between the living and the dead

984
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: was the thinnest, and so the dead could kind of

985
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: come and go as they please and maybe finish up

986
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: some unfinished business that kind of stuff. Maybe, Um, you know,

987
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: watch with delight as Belshnickel scared the pants off of

988
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: little kids. Whatever you wanted to do, you could do it.

989
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: That night. Yeah, there was is a British humorous name Jerome, sorry,

990
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: Jerome fuzzy. Oh no, wait, his name is Jerome Jerome

991
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: Jerome K Jerome. Yeah, I thought I was reading that wrong.

992
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: His name is Jerome Jerome. Good Lord, what is happening?

993
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: So he sort of explained it around England. Uh, he

994
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: said this, whenever five or six English speaking people meet

995
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: round the fire on Christmas Eve, they stopped telling each

996
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve, but

997
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: to hear each other tell authentic antidoes about specters, I

998
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: love each other. Jerome K Jerome was a wonderful and

999
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: delightful chat. That was great. That's exactly how Jerome K

1000
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: Jerome talked. By the way, specters. There's a very uh,

1001
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: there's a very rare greeny phonograph of him talking, and

1002
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he sounded like. Chuck spen Weeks hearing

1003
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: this apptually it was lost. I saw a bunch of

1004
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: photos and he was doing this and all of them it.

1005
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: So it was well known in Victorian England that ghost

1006
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: stories were part of Christmas. And that actually explains another

1007
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: weird thing if you step back and think about it,

1008
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: why there's a bunch of ghosts in Charles Dickens and

1009
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. Yeah, I never really thought about that because

1010
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: it didn't make sense. I mean, I think it makes

1011
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: sense just because you're born reading that story and seeing

1012
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: those movies. But when you look back, it doesn't make

1013
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: any sense that these ghosts are coming on Christmas Eve

1014
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: because you're in America. Weeks associate ghosts with Halloween exactly.

1015
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: But in Jolly Old England, the specters come out. He's

1016
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: going to keep at it until you guys give him

1017
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: a good laugh. So I just get it over with that,

1018
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: and there were three or four good laughs in there.

1019
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm with you, all right. So um in a Christmas Carol,

1020
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: Jacob Marley comes and it's like Scrooge, don't be like me.

1021
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: He's finishing up unfinished business because he can kind of

1022
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: cross over to the other side. So that's why ghosts

1023
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: pop up from time to time and Christmas stories and

1024
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: Christmas songs. Isn't it delightful? Because it is tradition to

1025
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 1: tell a ghost story around Christmas, which is why we're

1026
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: not doing that. We're going to tell a story about

1027
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: lacas at Hanukkah's right, because we are non traditional. Look

1028
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: at that. Everyone has anyone read this yet? Do you

1029
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: have any Jewish friends in the audience? All right, this

1030
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: is for you, ma'am. So uh. This is a story

1031
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: called Meet the Lacas. Chuck and I just happened to

1032
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: have the hard bound edition in different editions. Is it's up?

1033
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: Time down? Thank you, and we're going to read you

1034
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 1: the story of the Laca family, which hopefully you will love.

1035
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: We haven't even practiced this yet, so we'll see how

1036
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: it goes. Meet the Lacas by Alan Silverberg. All right,

1037
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: let's go forward. Two slides, one more. All right, here

1038
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: we go. You wanna start off for me, I'll start

1039
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: all right? Are you gonna do voices and stuff? I

1040
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's see how it could. Okay, Meet the

1041
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: Loca family. They're just like you and me, except their

1042
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: potato pancakes. That's Lucy Laca and her dog, Apple Sauce, who,

1043
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: despite his name, seems to also be a Laca. So

1044
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 1: Lucy says hello, and Apple Sauce says, I gotta say,

1045
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:31,919
Speaker 1: we are doing a dog name Apple Sauces. Pretty great.

1046
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: It's great, but as you'll find, Apple Sauces a bit

1047
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: of a know it all. You're not. You probably won't

1048
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: like apple sauce by the end of this. All right,

1049
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Speaker 1: moving on, I'm gonna read the top and I'm gonna

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01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: make you read this word. Well. I just happened to

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01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: look it up, so I probably get it partially right.

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01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: Mama and Papa are busy in the kitchen making fried

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01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: jelly dunnut stuft nice. How is that? Man? I'm good

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01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: at check out? Okay. Right next side Lucy's older brother, Lex,

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01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: who apparently was raised on the Teddy Rook's Been Grunge story,

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01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: Lex is reading comic books. Get out of my room,

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01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: he shouts. Lex as a teenager, he doesn't care about anything.

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01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: I don't care, but Lex should care because the lips.

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Speaker 1: Tonight's the night, Lucy sings, she was just turned into

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01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: Neil Diamond. It's the first night of Hanukkah. No, it's not,

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01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: oh right, there's someone else in the lack of family. Yes, Grandpa,

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Speaker 1: Hi there, Tonight's not Hanukkah. Grandpa says, it's Hanka. That's

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01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: what I said. Lucy is confused, as I believe Chuck said.

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01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: We hadn't run through this yet, Hanka. Can I keep going?

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01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: Let me take this one too. Yeah, yeah, did you

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01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: really want this one? No, No, that's Grandpa Grimbles say

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01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: it with me. Huh huh huh Honeka, look at that, Laka.

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01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: So this is when apple sauce comes along to clear

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01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: things up, right, This is about the time when we

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01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: will probably stop liking apple sauce. Actually, both Hanka and

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01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 1: Hanka are right. Holiday's name is Hebrew, everyone, so there

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01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: are different ways to spell it and say it in English.

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01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: I'm a dog named apple Sauce. That was a good

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01:05:52,400 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: apple sauce. Thanks apple sauce, says Lucy, says Grandpa. They're

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01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: still getting ready for Hannock. Everyone, Nika. The Latka family

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01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 1: cooks and sings just wonderful. They're singing the Drado song. Everyone,

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01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 1: Oh Dad, old Dad, old Dredel you know the rest. Yeah,

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01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: it's very nice. We're singing. Don't worry. And they decorate

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01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 1: the house. Look, they've even decorated apple sauce, Apple sauce, like, actually,

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01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: this is more bunting than decoration. And he said, here,

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: apple sauce, eat this. Except for Lex. He still doesn't

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01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: care about anything. I still don't care. I could do

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01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: Lex all day. I'm trying to decide who the villain

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01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: here is? Is it Lex or Apple Sauce? It's Apple sauce,

1085
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: is it? I love you? Knew? Oh yeah, I've disliked

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01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: Apple sauces day one. But you're you're kind of a

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01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: Lex though at the end of the day, aren't you?

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01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: Do you really? I think so? I don't know. I

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01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 1: thought more of a Lucy. I thought you were kind

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01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: of a Grandpa. It's kind of happy got Well, yeah,

1091
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: maybe I identify with Grandpa more sure? Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: So after the Menorah is lit and the drados are

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01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: spun and the guilt gets gobbled, Grandpa plops Lucy onto

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01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: his Latin. Do you want to hear about the miracle

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01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:24,439
Speaker 1: of Hanukah? My little Lucca? And this is the best

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Speaker 1: part everyone. It tells the true story of Hanaka. It's

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01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: not just fun in games, I do, Lucy says, fighting

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Speaker 1: into her last chocolate coin. That's the guilt. Did someone

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01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: just correct my pronunciation of guilt? Grandpa begins with just

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01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: a whisper. First, you need to know about the bees bees,

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01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: Lucy asked. Grandpa nods. Hanaka is a celebration of how

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01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: the Jewish temple was saved from destruction. We celebrate this

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01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: holiday thanks to the brave bees who buzzed and stung

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Speaker 1: and fought to keep our people. Say eight, I'm gonna

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01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: take the despicable Apple Sauce. Okay, I'm pretty sure there

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01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: aren't any bees in the history of Hanukkah or Hanukkah fit,

1107
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: says Grandpa, whose story is this. You're a dog named

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01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: Apple Sauce. I'll do that last part in out and

1109
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:21,919
Speaker 1: if you guys are falling along, so Lucy's eyes widened.

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01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: Were the bees, big, Grandpa? Big? They were huge giants,

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01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: They were megabees. And then Apple Sauce comes in, You

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: mean maccabee's, Grandpa says, No, definitely megabees. And the biggest,

1113
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:42,560
Speaker 1: bravest of them all was Judah Megabee. That's Judah Maccabee.

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01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: He was a mighty warrior and a heroic jew who

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01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: lived in Israel more than two thousand years ago. And

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01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 1: there were no bees, wolfp But too late, Apple Sauce.

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01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:59,600
Speaker 1: Lucy can see it now, Judah and is swarming or

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01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: his warm of giant bees, buzzing and stinging and fighting

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01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 1: to save the Jewish temple and the lines of everyone

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Speaker 1: who worshiped there. And who do you think Judah and

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Speaker 1: his big bees were battling? Grandpa asked, that's easy. It was.

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, everyone, it's alien potatoes. What's the planet's name? Sure,

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Speaker 1: thank you planet. I just thought it was a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why he said planet. I'll explain it later.

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Speaker 1: Zip zip wowie, it's getting too small for my old eyes,

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01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: said Grandpa. Grandpa continues, outer space spuds invaded Earth. Laser

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01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: shot from their eyes, and they had a lot of eyes.

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Speaker 1: Everyone was doomed. This is ridiculous, said Apple Sauce, because

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: he's a cynic. Are you kidding me? The enemy wasn't

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Speaker 1: a bunch of alien potatoes. It was a terrible king

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01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: named Antiochus. Well, it is true. Antiochus demanded that everyone

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01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: believed in the same religion as he did. Apple Sauce

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01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: goes on. So for the Jews, that meant no more

1134
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: studying the Torah, no more celebrating Shabat, and never again

1135
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: worshiping God. King Antiochus and his followers almost completely destroyed

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Speaker 1: the Jewish temple. He was a tyrant. Yep, oh, look,

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01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: he threw a menorah and hit Apple sauce in the

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Speaker 1: head and said, yep, yes, a tyrant agrees Grandpa. Judah

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01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: and the mega bees were trapped by those evil tater

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Speaker 1: tyrants from planet prisoners in their own high They only

1141
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:44,760
Speaker 1: had enough honey to last one day. Running out of honey, No,

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: they were running out of oil. They needed oil to

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01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: keep the temple's eternal flame blowing and burning. And they

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01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 1: weren't bees. Everybody is apple Sauce is gonna find his

1145
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 1: way to a hat box in the desert. I love

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01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: dogs and I hate applesauce. The megabees plotted and schemed,

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01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 1: Grandpa says. And the next morning, when the sun rose

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Speaker 1: on the temple, an enormous wooden dradle stood in the

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Speaker 1: village square. What could it be the alien potatoes, all wondered,

1150
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: And why does it buzz? Lucy waves her arms. I

1151
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: know the megabees were hiding inside the dradle. Lucy was right,

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01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: all right, everyone, let's spend a strong smart luck, says Grandpa. Plits,

1153
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: plats plots. The megabees burst from the draydole and slice

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01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: and whipped and mashed those tater tyrants into tatoes, tattered

1155
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:54,559
Speaker 1: tater tyrants. Lucy asked, try saying that three times. Grandpa says,

1156
01:11:55,320 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: tattered tator tyrants, tattered tator tyrants, tattered tatored tyrants. All right,

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01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: you all get guilt. It's not bad, everybody. And then,

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01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: miracle of miracles, Grandpa says, bringing it down a little bit,

1159
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:17,719
Speaker 1: Juda Omegabee stood in the middle of all those spoiled spots.

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01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: What a waste, he said, And so that great warrior

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01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: added some egg and onion and a pinch of flour

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01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: to make something good from the bad potato. Lacus us

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01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 1: us by apple sauce. Do we have any apple sauce fans? No,

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01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: that's great. I love this dropt okay, I got two

1165
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: people like apple sauce. Lucy's eyes and mouth are wide open.

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Speaker 1: So the miracle of Hanuka is that a long time

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01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 1: ago Megabeas turned alien potatoes into laccas. Is that really true?

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01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 1: Of course it's not true. You go and you keep

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01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: it up with apple sauce on the next one. The

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01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: miracle of Hanakah or Hanukkah is that not only did

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01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: the small group of Maccabee's protect their temple from King

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01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: Antiochus found powerful army, but also the tiny bit of

1173
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: oil left to light the holy minora didn't last for

1174
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 1: just one day. The oil kept the eternal light right

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01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 1: for eight whole days. That's right, you can applaud that.

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01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: That's fine. Lucy points to her families glowing minora, eight

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01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: candle holders, eight days of the Hanakah miracle. And then

1178
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: how do you pronounced that? Shamas? Okay? And the Shamas

1179
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:49,560
Speaker 1: the tallest candle to light all the others. You know what,

1180
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: says Grandpa. I like the dog's miracle. Better me too,

1181
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:56,719
Speaker 1: says Mama, who we all forgot about me too, says Papa.

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01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: The same. I don't care, says Lex. Stuff face with chocolate.

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01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 1: Kelt Lex, you left your room, cries Mama. It's another

1184
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: hank A miracle. And she gives him a hug, squeezing

1185
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: his his beats by dre clean off of his head.

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01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:21,440
Speaker 1: And that is Meet the Wakas by Alan Sibberberg Silverberg.

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01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 1: Do you want to sing? I think we should sing.

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01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: You guys want to sing? Okay, We're gonna sing a carol.

1189
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna lead you guys in singing a carol. And

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01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: we're not joking, okay, And this is uh, this is

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01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 1: how we're closing the show. Everyone, so thank you for

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01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: being here with us. We hope you guys have a

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01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: wonderful Christmas time, a wonderful holiday time. Happy Honaka and

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01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:54,600
Speaker 1: here we go. Wow, what a performance, Chuck like, you

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01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: did great. My friend you did great as well. And

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01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: I think this might be a new annual tradition, my friend. Yeah,

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01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. We did greetings, we

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01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: talked about monsters and miracles. I'm saying a carol together.

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Speaker 1: There was an amazing set on stage. Yeah, man, it

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01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: was great. It was a good time had by. Also, uh,

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: I guess, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, happy holidays, and maybe

1202
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: the tidings of the season greet you with gladness no

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01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 1: matter who you are or where you are. For more

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01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: on this and thousands of other topics. Is that how

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