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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, A production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Frye and

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Speaker 1: I'm Tracy d Wilson. We talked about Advent calendars this week.

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Speaker 1: We did just something I have been wanting to talk

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Speaker 1: about for a while. It's a little bit tricky because

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Speaker 1: the story of their invention gets told everywhere every year,

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Speaker 1: right Like NPR has a story about it that they

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Speaker 1: seem to just be updating year after year and rerunning.

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Speaker 1: A lot of news outlets run a very abbreviated version

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Speaker 1: of it. A lot of even places that sell things

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Speaker 1: like flowers and chocolates run a version of it. A

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Speaker 1: lot of those site that nineteen oh eight date over

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Speaker 1: and over and there's no nuance there of like that.

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Speaker 1: That's not quite accurate. But I sure love an Advent calendar.

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Speaker 1: Do you do them usually? So when we started talking

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Speaker 1: about doing this episode, I was like, did we really

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Speaker 1: do Advent calendars? That my household, when I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: we had an Advent wreath with the four candles and

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Speaker 1: the one candle in the middle meaning Christmas right at

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Speaker 1: our house. That was a decorative item. The candles were

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Speaker 1: not lit gotcha were they? Can I ask you this?

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Speaker 1: You did? You were not race Catholic? Now what color

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Speaker 1: were the candles? I feel like the candles the four

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Speaker 1: candles representing the four Sundays an Advent were red and

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Speaker 1: the central candle representing Christmas was white. Gotcha because like

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Speaker 1: a Catholic one, it's like, well, if you're at church,

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Speaker 1: it's purple, purple, pink, purple. They all have meanings. But

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Speaker 1: then when you see commercial ones, like I remember we

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Speaker 1: didn't really do Advent calendars or even Advent wreaths growing up,

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Speaker 1: but I remember there being purple and red candles in

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Speaker 1: one of my mom's little things, and I never understood

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Speaker 1: because those purple didn't seem like a Christmas color to

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Speaker 1: me until I was older and then was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: because that's part of the Catholic like vestiments, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: like that color is associated with it. I'm also going

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Speaker 1: to revise my statement. I feel like maybe that might

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Speaker 1: have been a wreath that had beeswax candles, which may

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Speaker 1: have been a reason that they were not actually lit.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in a place that had a Moravian

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Speaker 1: community that had a lot of beeswax candles associated with

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Speaker 1: things done at Christmas, and they tended to be kind

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Speaker 1: of expensive. Any Anyway, we had one at church that

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Speaker 1: definitely like the candles were lit every Sunday along with

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Speaker 1: the other candles that were lit by the acolyte. And like,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember specifically doing an Advent. I

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Speaker 1: have vague memories where I'm like, am I remembering that

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Speaker 1: we actually had an Advent calendar or have I just

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Speaker 1: is my memory splicing it together from descriptions of things.

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Speaker 1: It has felt to me like in the last few

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Speaker 1: years there has then been this proliferation of all kinds

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Speaker 1: of different Advent calendars, and I have usually thought about

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Speaker 1: it too late, and ones that have sounded interesting to

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Speaker 1: me have been sold out. While we were in Barcelona,

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Speaker 1: there was a Carafa market that was my go to

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Speaker 1: first time I walked in there, there was this whole

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Speaker 1: display of Advent calendars and there was specifically a KitKat

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Speaker 1: Advent calendar. Yeah, and I very nearly bought kit Cat

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Speaker 1: Advent calendar. And I did not for two reasons. One

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Speaker 1: reason is that I know my spouse and me we

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Speaker 1: would have eaten that entire Advent calendar, and then we

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Speaker 1: would have our bodies would have felt very bad. I

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Speaker 1: know this about myself. I would have I would have

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Speaker 1: been like, now I have to lie down in this

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Speaker 1: hotel room because I ate, Oh you would have eaten

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Speaker 1: it in one go yes style, no, not advant style.

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Speaker 1: We would have just destroyed it in the hotel room

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Speaker 1: in Barcelona, and then we would have been set and

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Speaker 1: the other reason was had we managed to not do that?

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Speaker 1: The size and shape of the thing was just not

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Speaker 1: going to fit in luggage well to get it back home, gotcha. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's sometimes the trick. So I did not do

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Speaker 1: Advent calendars growing up at all. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that was like a thing that just didn't occur

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Speaker 1: what the logic was there to it. As an adult,

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Speaker 1: remember was for Lent and not Advent, and our church

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Speaker 1: had a Lenten fare at the beginning of Lent. Every

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Speaker 1: chain every day of Lent, and it was made to

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Speaker 1: I super remember, and I'm like, did we ever actually

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Speaker 1: dad for a while had a tradition that he did

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Speaker 1: of like giving my mom a Christmas ornament every day

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Speaker 1: of December leading up to Christmas, which was very sweet,

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Speaker 1: but was not like arranged into a calendar. Really. Here

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Speaker 1: are my picks for best advent calendars of all time.

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Speaker 1: Great I love I have a weird relationship with I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say this goes on the best list, but at

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Speaker 1: Merritt's mentioning lego advent calendars. Mm hmmm. And here's why

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Speaker 1: I love them in theory, but sometimes because it is

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Speaker 1: got to use your imagination to be like, oh this

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Speaker 1: is what that is? Which is fine? Are grocery store

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Speaker 1: I picked one of these up a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and now it's like, I can't imagine going into December

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Speaker 1: without them. They do a Cheeses of the World one

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Speaker 1: h I mean, that's like a controlled substance at my house.

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Speaker 1: That's very into cheese at our house too. I buy

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Speaker 1: two a year because some days the cheese is so

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Speaker 1: good I want a second piece, and I I just

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Speaker 1: want more. I want more cheese Delicious. Highly recommend Cheese

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Speaker 1: of the Year. My number one favorite advent calendar of

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Speaker 1: all time is the Star Wars Droid Factory Advent Calendar,

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Speaker 1: where you get a piece a day to build little

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Speaker 1: three and three quarter action figure scale droids that are

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Speaker 1: in Christmas colors. Sometimes they have additional kooky accessories like

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Speaker 1: a little hat made of holly or a little like

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Speaker 1: a nutcracker look to their design obsessed. It came out

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Speaker 1: did last year. I was hoping they would do a

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Speaker 1: new version of it this year, and they didn't. It's

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Speaker 1: the same version, which is fun, but I want more droids.

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Speaker 1: Droids are like one of my favorite parts of Star Wars,

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Speaker 1: so like that is I will be on my deathbed

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Speaker 1: talking about how great that Advent calendar is absolutely sounds

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Speaker 1: like somebody said, what advent calendar should we make for

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Speaker 1: Holly Fry. I know. The only way they could maybe

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Speaker 1: is if it were somehow related to Greto and other rodients.

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Speaker 1: fun one. I love them. There's also a Life Day

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Speaker 1: Life Day being the primary holiday in the Star Wars

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Speaker 1: which is the originated on Kashik. It's a Wookie holiday

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Speaker 1: where you celebrate love and joy and peace. And they

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Speaker 1: did a really fun, reusable one last year that's like

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Speaker 1: a pop up calendar where you open each each door

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Speaker 1: whole idea is that it's centered around trees. Again, Kashik

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Speaker 1: and I love it. I always find myself though, going

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Speaker 1: should I count back the twenty four days before Life Day,

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Speaker 1: These numbers don't correspond to any calendar date that I know,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not sure i'd make calendars. Yeah, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: love them. They're so fun. I am a big fan

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Speaker 1: of you know, gifts that last, Yeah, gifts that keep

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Speaker 1: on giving. Give them to yourself. It's great. Oh that

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Speaker 1: Droid Factory Advent calendar. Make another one, and make one

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Speaker 1: that's just Galaxy's Edge. They you'd make all of the

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Speaker 1: you started an Advent calendar this year, I hope it's

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Speaker 1: going really fun. If you got the cheeses one, yum.

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Speaker 1: I mean you can get them for anything, right. You

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Speaker 1: can get them for whiskey, you can get them for wine,

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Speaker 1: I tried it. And they also do the tinted Divano,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big wine drinker. I like that one

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Speaker 1: so I'll report back. We had installment number two of

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