1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know Fromhoustuffworks dot com. Hey, 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: before we get on with the Christmas shenanigans, what how 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: about we do a little TV show reminder for the 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: folks out there. We have a TV show called Stuff 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: you Should Know at debuts Saturday, January nineteenth at ten 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: pm after the hour long season three premiere of Idiot 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 1: Abroad with Carl Pilkington and. 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: Ricky Gervais, and then comes to our show. 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: Then comes our show when we're airing two episodes back 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: to back on premiere night. Then following that on Saturday 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: nights at ten pm, you will get to see one 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: episode thirty minutes long. And if you don't have cable 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: in any of that junk, you can get them on 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: iTunes the day after release and watch them there at 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: buck ninety nine. 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: That's right, But there's a Christmas present here. Yeah, the 17 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: first episode you'll be able to get for free iTunes 18 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: today after its premiere. Yeah. 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: And you know what, this is just me talking. If 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: you're going to throw down a buck ninety nine per 21 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: episode for ten episodes or gets nine, you could probably 22 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: upgrade your cable package for that and get Science. 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 2: Channel all bet of. 24 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: Course, you know it's a per month fee. 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, But not only will 26 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 2: you get our great television show stuff you should know 27 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 2: where we play ourselves as podcasters in this fictionalized office 28 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: world that we live in. Yeah, you'll get all the 29 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: other great shows that Science Channel has to offer, including Idiot. 30 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: Abroad, Yeah, and Oddities Through the Wormhole Through the Wormhole 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: of Morgan Freeman. 32 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 33 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: And I watched one on the Hindenburg last night. 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 2: It was really good. 35 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: It just one of their one offs. 36 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 2: Hey, you're saying Hindenburg And what was the other one? 37 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: The nuclear bomb that is off the coast of Savannah. 38 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: There's a show in that that's right anyway, fascinating. 39 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: We're very happy to be on Science and help support 40 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: It's January nineteenth at ten pm. 41 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: Yes, and if people want to hang out with us 42 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: in person, they can come to Brooklyn and do it 43 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 2: on January eighth, Tuesday at the Bellhouse. 44 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: Right, that's right. We are throwing a premiere party slash 45 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: variety show for the TV show, featuring performances by people 46 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: like John Hodgman, people like Lucy Waynwright other special guests. Yeah, 47 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: Lucy's in the show other special guests. There are gonna 48 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: be some other special guests, not performing, just kind of 49 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: milling about. 50 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: In the crowd, hanging out. 51 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: And this all goes down at the Bellhouse in Guanas, Brooklyn, 52 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: January eighth. You actually have to buy tickets for this one. Yeah, 53 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: we're trying to cover costs on this one. Everything else 54 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: has always been free, so we'll get mad at it. Yeah. 55 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: And plus I should tell you like, this is gonna 56 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: be a big show. 57 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's only ten bucks though, so buy your 58 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: tickets at the Bellhouse ny dot com and doors are 59 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: at seven thirty. Showtime is at eight, and that's it. 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: The Bellhouse that is in Guanas, Brooklyn, specifically seventh Street. 61 00:02:55,160 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, so we're done. It's time Chuck, finally for Christmas. 62 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: Yay, It's Christmas. 63 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's 64 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 2: Charles W. Chuck Bryant. And where's a couple of little 65 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: elves ready to do this thing? How do you feel? 66 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 2: And do you have some glad tidenings around you? 67 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: We're not naked elves, which that is foretelling from later 68 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: on in the podcast. 69 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: You're a bespectacled elf. 70 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got glasses at forty one. 71 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: Looks good. 72 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, the aging hipster thing is now full fully formed. 73 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: As it is a velvet jacket. 74 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. They're just for reading in computer stuff. 75 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: Though, and to look cool with because you look cool. 76 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. But I can't walk around to them, well, because 77 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: they're for reading. It's like, you know, i'd mess up 78 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: my eyes. 79 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: Oh I thought you meant like you physically can't, like 80 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: you can't chew gum and walk at the same time. 81 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: No, but I am having to get used to it, 82 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: you know. 83 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: Oh you need to put those on a little chain 84 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: to dangle around your Yeah, you can like look at 85 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 2: a bill like yeah, like an older it's kosher. 86 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: Well, it must be Christmas because it's ninety degrees in 87 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: the studio, right, it's. 88 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: Warm about seventy five degrees outside. 89 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, but the building doesn't know that. No, the building 90 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: thinks it's wintertime. Right, So I'm sweating. 91 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: Yeah I am too, So don't feel bad. Good, So 92 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: it's a little gamy here in our Christmas studio. But 93 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: it is Christmas time, that's right. And like I said, 94 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: we do have glad tidings. 95 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: Of great joy, So. 96 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 2: I guess I don't have anything more to say before 97 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: we get to. 98 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: This to you, let's just kick it off. 99 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: I'm very excited im too. 100 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 3: It is after all, this gets me in the mood 101 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 3: Christmas time, Chuck josh As. 102 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 2: This is our Christmas extravag cans. There's lots of celebratory stuff, 103 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 2: but there's also a lot of really good solid information. 104 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 105 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: Specifically like if you it being Christmas Day and all 106 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: haven't selected a Chris yet, Yeah, we have. We have 107 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: some tips on how to select one and how to 108 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: care for it. 109 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: Really, all kinds of Christmas tree stuff. 110 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: So with Christmas trees, the vast majority of Christmas trees 111 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: sold in the US, yeah, are real trees. And this 112 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: is actually like a huge, huge industry, isn't it. 113 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 4: Uh. 114 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got thirty to thirty five million Christmas trees 115 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: produced a year, and that's worldwide, but about twenty million 116 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: or so of those are produced here in the US, Yeah, 117 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: which is a lot. 118 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: There's also in the United States. The National Christmas Tree 119 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 2: Association that is a thing, says that the industry supports 120 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 2: twenty one thousand growers and employs more than one hundred 121 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: thousand people. Those are job creators. 122 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: This is a crop. Yeah, and that's the way. And 123 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: we'll get into whether or not it's green to have 124 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: an artificial tree or a real tree. But here's a hint. 125 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: It's a crop, and that's maybe how you should think 126 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: of about it. 127 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: Right. It is about a million acres of land are 128 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 2: set aside to grow Christmas trees in the US. 129 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:11,799 Speaker 1: Correct, That is correct? And my stats say Oregon leads 130 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: the United States by a long shot in producing trees 131 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: about six point eight million in two thousand and seven. Yeah, 132 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: North Carolina about three, and then Michigan at one point five, 133 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania one point two, and it just goes down from there. 134 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: But apparently Michigan and Pennsylvania it's like they're they're dropping, 135 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: are there thirty percent down? 136 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 2: Well, every state in the Union except for Alaska has 137 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 2: a Christmas tree farm on it somewhere. 138 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: Why not Alaska is every cold? I don't know. 139 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: I would think that southern Alaska would be able to 140 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 2: grow them. Too cold, they're just too too hardy to 141 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: pay for a Christmas tree. They're like, we'll just go 142 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: get our own. 143 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that. 144 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: We're Alaskans. So while there's what how many how many 145 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 2: did you say we're going to be sold in the 146 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: US every year. 147 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: I think about twenty million million in the US. 148 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 2: Okay, there's still four hundred million growing in the US. 149 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: Because it takes about six to seven years for a 150 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 2: tree to mature to a five to six foot harvestable height. 151 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: How long six to seven years? I understand. Yeah, and 152 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: during that time you're going to have a lot of 153 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 2: shearing going on, which is very important. Yeah. 154 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: Is that what gives it the shape or is it 155 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: already sort of shape like that? 156 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: I think it's already kind of shaped like that. But 157 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 2: then to convert it from that wild Christmas tree that 158 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: never quite does the trick to the hallmark card Christmas tree. 159 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 2: The people who grow these, the fine Christmas tree farmers, 160 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: shear them on a pretty regular basis, and they cut 161 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: off the lateral branches that go out. Then they'll cut 162 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: off the top too, depending on how pointy they want it, 163 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: how wide they want it. 164 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 1: Do you get a real one still? 165 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 2: No? We have an artificial one do Yeah. It's very nice, good, 166 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: just drenched in ornaments. 167 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: That's not when it was pre ornate or ornated. It's 168 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: pre lit, Okay. 169 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: But no, we know we collect our own very special ornament. 170 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: Well, sure, because that's what normal people in society do, right, 171 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: But I didn't know that they made them pre decorated 172 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: as well for the madmen do there. Yeah, that's what 173 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: it said in this article. You can get one fully 174 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: decorated that you just see. 175 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: You've just put your Christmas tree up, and then start 176 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 2: eating your hungry man dinner and then cry Christmas. 177 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: And then bury another body in the backyard. 178 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what that's for. Uh So where did 179 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 2: Christmas trees come from? Right? I mean this seems like 180 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 2: a pretty recent phenomenon, the idea of going to a 181 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 2: Christmas tree lot and buying it. It's actually way older. 182 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. Apparently, like many things Christmas did, is German and tradition, 183 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: and maybe as early as a d. Seven hundred they 184 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: started cutting down trees and putting them in the house. 185 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 2: Yeah. I've always heard the story that it was Martin 186 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 2: Luther who was the first to actually decorate them, though, 187 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 2: oh really with candles, which is a fire has but 188 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 2: that's a long tradition with Christmas trees too. 189 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: He was the first and last to decorate with candles, 190 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: And of course, you know, like all things German, it 191 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: spread to England, which spread to America and that's why 192 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: we eat sauerkrop today. 193 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: Right, And again, you would think that up until maybe 194 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: the fifties or something, when the cities were really starting 195 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: to boom. Well, no, I guess that's when the suburbs 196 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: started to boom, that people went out in their backyards 197 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 2: and cut down trees. Right. But apparently there have been 198 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 2: commercial Christmas tree lots in the United States since the 199 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 2: mid nineteenth century. 200 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that really surprised me. Yeah, I figured for sure 201 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: that people in the eighteen hundreds would just take the 202 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: axe out and cut one down in their own backyard. 203 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 2: Sure, that's a logical thing to think, but no, apparently 204 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 2: we've always relied on guys from that movie A Christmas 205 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: Story to sell us. 206 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: Jeez. I saw a lot the other day in New 207 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: York that was just like on a sidewalk. And then, 208 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: you know, obviously space is at a premium there. I'm 209 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: sure there are lots, like empty parking lots where they 210 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: do this, but it's not like the suburbs. It was 211 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: literally just on a sidewalk. Some dude had set up 212 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: his little farm. 213 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, why not, It's an American tradition. So you've got 214 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: the you've got your your Christmas tree, have it all selected. 215 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: You're like, I like the plump, short one, so I 216 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 2: know that they shear the top off several times in 217 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 2: addition to the lateral branch. Yeah, and I'm going to 218 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: bring it home. But I don't know what to do 219 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 2: with this thing. We're going to tell you because it's 220 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 2: very much like cut flowers. It's a plant that's. 221 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, dying, Yeah. 222 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 2: That you can keep on life support for a little 223 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 2: while by feeding it water. 224 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: That's right, and you should these days, you can get 225 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: the little trunk a little inch or so cut off 226 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: of the bottom of the trunk, yeah, by your Christmas tree, 227 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: dude or dudet probably, but if not, you should do 228 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: that yourself because a fresh cut is what you want 229 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: down there. And I guess the reason is it drinks 230 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: up the water more readily. 231 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's the same thing as bringing home flowers. 232 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: When you get flowers, you want to cut them again 233 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 2: before you put them in the water stems. Yeah, but 234 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: there's actually a rule of thumb for how much water 235 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 2: you want to give a Christmas tree, basically a live 236 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: tree or fresh cut tree as you call them, Yes, 237 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: can drink up to a gallon of water a day. 238 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I am remiss every year. It's it's here's how 239 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: it goes in my house. Oh crap, I haven't checked 240 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: the water in like three days, and I'm going stick 241 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: my finger in there and its dry as a bone. Sure, 242 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: and the needles'll fall off of my hair. Yeah, and 243 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: then I pour water in it and the tree just 244 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: looks at me like, thanks, jerk. 245 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 2: Well, apparently there's a there's a way to handle this, right, 246 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 2: So you get a Christmas tree stand that holds I 247 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: think you want probably up to a gallon what with 248 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: the tree in it? Sure, because a lot of people 249 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 2: will say, oh, it holds a gallon. Well, if you 250 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: put a four inch diameter Christmas tree trunk into that, 251 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: it's going to hold less than a gallon. 252 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: Or it's gonna spill out on your floor. 253 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: And you need to give your tree a court or 254 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 2: a leater of water, depending on where you live in 255 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: the world, for every inch of diameter of the trunk. Okay, 256 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 2: So if you have a four inch diameter Christmas tree trunk, 257 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 2: which is pretty substantial, sure, you want to make sure 258 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 2: that your tree holder can hold a gallon of water. 259 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 2: And you want to add a gallon of water every day. Yeah. 260 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: I used to have heard some sort of like syrup 261 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: or sweetener or something helps, but I'm not sure about that. 262 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: I've never heard that one. 263 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, I've heard that, but I don't know if 264 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: it's true. 265 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 2: Well we'll find out. 266 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I should have looked it up. I 267 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: guess it just hit me. 268 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've not heard that one. Really. That's good stuff. 269 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: But like maybe it's just like a tree for the 270 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 2: for the tree. Yeah. 271 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: Maybe. 272 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: So here's some sat back. So if you if you 273 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 2: don't feel like keeping up with live Christmas tree, you 274 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 2: can always of course go the artificial route. And those 275 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 2: are actually also older than I realized. 276 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: Boo boo artificial trees. 277 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: Man, I'm telling you, your artificial tree is awesome. 278 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: What does it smell like? 279 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: It smells like heaven, it smells like love? 280 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: Or does it smell like PDC made in Asia? 281 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: No, I mean I know what should mean. But we 282 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 2: have like a cinnamon and cinnamon broom behind it takes 283 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 2: care of everything. Does your tree smell like cinnamon? I 284 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 2: don't think it does. 285 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: No, it smells like a tree, a lovely fir tree. 286 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm anti artificial. But I get it. Some 287 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: people don't like the fuss of going out and getting one, 288 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: or cleaning up needles or whatever your reason is. 289 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 2: So chuck. Apparently people have wanted to get around that 290 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: fuss for many, many years. Apparently again in the nineteenth century, 291 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: artificial trees were around. 292 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like it sort of mirrored the Christmas 293 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: tree lot. Yeah, you know, around the same time, I 294 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: guess yea. And they were originally you know, made to 295 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: look like real trees, many which still are. But in 296 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties it got a little crazy, and we 297 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: actually have one of these trees from the nineteen fifties. 298 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 2: You don't put it up, yeah, I put it up 299 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 2: in you. 300 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: Know, it's small. So we have one in the sun room. 301 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 2: So you selectively pooh pooh artificial trees. 302 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: I selectively pooh whoo using an artificial tree in lieu 303 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: of a real tree. So we have our little fifties 304 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: retro with a color wheel the fire hazard tree in 305 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: one room. 306 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 2: What color is it? 307 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: It's silver? 308 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: Nice? Yeah, do you have like the bright colored ornaments 309 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 2: on it and everything? 310 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: We just do like, uh, I think we just do 311 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: like one kind of single red ball not a single ball, 312 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: but one single style all over the tree. 313 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: Very tasteful. 314 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: And it's not like our regular tree we have, you know, 315 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: all of our childhood stuff and the stuff we bought together, 316 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: stuff like that, and our our Exon commemorative and our 317 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: Chevron commemorative ornaments McDonald's ornaments. No, but you know how 318 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: like every corporation on Earth Christmas ornaments. Could you imagine 319 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: if that's all you add. 320 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be kind of sad, that'd be awful. So 321 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: you were saying that a lot of people turn to, uh, 322 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 2: turn to fake trees because of the mess and all 323 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 2: that stuff. There's also another really good reason that people 324 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: increasingly are selecting artificial trees. And there's some really top 325 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: notch artificial, expensive artificial trees out there that look very 326 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 2: much like real trees. Yeah, and it's becoming a growing 327 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 2: alternative for people who are eco conscious. And there's developed 328 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 2: this big debate over whether artificial trees or regular trees 329 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 2: are better for the environment. Yeah, and it seems very 330 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 2: logical if you grow a tree, to cut it down, 331 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: to use a gallon of water a day to keep 332 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: it alive for a few weeks before you throw. 333 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: It out, well, right, throw it out, mulch it. 334 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 2: Maybe not everybody does. I'm just saying it. It seems like 335 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 2: an environmental nightmare. 336 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. 337 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 2: But so the artificial tree would seem smarter. But apparently 338 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: there's a study done in two thousand and nine that 339 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 2: basically said once and for all, like no, actually, depending 340 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 2: on how long you keep your artificial tree, you're better 341 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 2: off getting a real tree every year. 342 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, they did the study in Montreal and they said, 343 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: and they said, this is the most definitive study yet said, 344 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: you have to reuse that artificial tree for more than 345 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: twenty years to be greener. This includes greenhouse emissions, resources, 346 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: human health impacts. Like I said, a lot of fake 347 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: trees contain PBC. They're generally manufactured in Asia and shipped 348 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: over here. You definitely cannot mulch those. No, once you 349 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: get sick of it, it's probably gonna have been a 350 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: what do you call it a garbage lot? 351 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 2: What do you call those? 352 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: Landfill? 353 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: Landfill or field? 354 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: Landfield? Is that no? So, of course the chairman and 355 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: chief executive of Balsam Hill, makers of artificial tree, says no, 356 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: no ours for more green. 357 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, he was saying the point he makes is 358 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: that if you take all of the emissions created by 359 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 2: all of the Americans driving to a Christmas tree lot, 360 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 2: getting their Christmas tree, and driving home, in addition to 361 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: like whatever transportation costs. Because you know, most of those 362 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: Christmas tree lots around here, other trees are coming from 363 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 2: North Carolina. Yeah, and they're being then ami down and 364 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 2: all that. You put all that together, you compare that 365 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: to a ship carrying fifty thousand artificial Christmas trees from China. 366 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 367 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: The artificial trees more environmentally conscious. Yeah, but this study 368 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 2: supported it too, which one Well, the study eventually Oh sure, 369 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 2: over the course of I mean, you'd have to take 370 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 2: care of your tree for twenty years, but yes. 371 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: Well and look at the bright side, your tree will 372 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: then be retro twenty years later. 373 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: You can use nothing but red ornamental exactly. 374 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: So that's all I got except for you know, multier 375 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: trees afterward, because they can end up you know, I mean, 376 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 1: you don't have to do it yourself. Most Citi sub 377 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: programs where you can put it out and they mulch 378 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: it and it'll end up on a playground somewhere, a nice, 379 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: fine smelling playground of Douglas fur or. 380 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 2: If you have an artificial tree, you can reuse it. 381 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, just box it up, put it in the attic, 382 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: use it again next year. 383 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: So, Chuck, you've heard of NORD, the North American Aerospace 384 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 2: Defense Command, Right, I'm a big fan. They're basically like 385 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: the Missile Defense Group for the US and Canada. Yeah. 386 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: I did not know it was a joint effort by 387 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: both countries. I did not know it was US and Canada. 388 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: It makes sense. I have a feeling I'm probably wrong 389 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: that the US like set this all up and then 390 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,719 Speaker 1: told Canada, Hey, we need to put some of our 391 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: stuff up there. 392 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 2: That's a distinct possibility and it'll keep. 393 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,959 Speaker 1: You safe if you just give us that plot of land, right, 394 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: And they said sure. 395 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey. Well, nor AD, famous for tracking missiles, is 396 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 2: also famous for a Christmas tradition of tracking Santa Claus. 397 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: Pretty great tradition. Yeah. 398 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 2: Back in nineteen fifty five, this serendipitous accident happened when 399 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 2: a serious department store accidentally listed CONEAD, which is the 400 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: Continental Air Defense Command, which was the our assessor to 401 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 2: nor ED. The series listed conad's operations hotline as Santa 402 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 2: Claus's number. So all of a sudden, Conad started getting 403 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 2: all these calls from the little kids wanting to talk 404 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 2: to Santa Claus. 405 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: Right, that's right, And instead of being an old curmudgeon, 406 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: the director at the time, Colonel Harry Shop said, you 407 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: know what, We've located Santa Sleigh on the radar here 408 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: and we're tracking him as we speak, no doubt to 409 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: the delight of the dozens of calls received from the 410 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: kids right that year. And it started a little tradition 411 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty eight and all of a sudden it 412 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: was a thing. 413 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, nineteen fifty eight was when Nora d started right. 414 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: Oh before that it was Conad, you're right. 415 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: And then the FAA got in on it, right, And 416 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 2: as of two thousand and six, the FAA clear Santa 417 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: for flight every year, which. 418 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: Is pretty cute. I wonder if they did they just 419 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: say yeah, we're tracking him, or do they put a 420 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 1: little like, you know, realism into it, like if the 421 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 1: sleigh weighed this much and he's traveling this fast. 422 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: Oh, there's like all website you can go to if 423 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 2: you'd like to delight kids science. It's not a dot 424 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 2: CoV slash. Santa brings up all sorts of different stuff, 425 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 2: this whole epic saga about Santa's preparations for his Christmas deliveries. 426 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: And then if you want to track san at home, 427 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 2: you can go to Nora Adsanta dot org. 428 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 5: All right, Josh, let's talk about one of my favorite 429 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 5: Christmas time drinks. 430 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 2: Eggnog as one of my favorites too. 431 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: And I don't drink it much to have about one 432 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: solid cup at my Christmas party. 433 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 2: That's all you have a year? 434 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean how much of that can you drink? 435 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 2: You're totally out of it. 436 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: Plus at the at what you drink a lot? 437 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: You need to open your eyes, buddy, what do you drink? 438 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 2: You can drink more than one cup of eggnoggy? 439 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: Well, I mean when do you drink it besides Christmas? 440 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: Or do you drink it multiple times at Christmas? 441 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 2: Multiple times around Christmas? 442 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, I just I make a batch homemade, of course, 443 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: if you buy it in the cart and I just. 444 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 2: So you make it. Oh, sure, have you tried George 445 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: Washington's recipe? 446 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: No, but that's gonna be on the list this year. 447 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 2: I can tell you that I tried George Washington's recipe 448 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 2: using store bought, but with this booze and it is 449 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 2: out of sight. We'll get to it soon, but let's 450 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 2: talk about eggnog and its origins first. 451 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: All right. They can trace it back to possibly the 452 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: fourteenth century, and of course it was the medieval Englishman 453 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: drinking something known as posset, yeah, which didn't have eggs 454 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: though it was hot milk curdled with ale wine, often 455 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: sweetened and spiced, which sounds really nasty, eh, curdled milk, 456 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: all right. They were trying to get bombed, That's what 457 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: they were trying. 458 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 2: To do, pretty much. And then eventually somebody said, hey, 459 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 2: let's see what happens when we add eggs some. 460 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: Raw and they could make you sick. 461 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. Eventually the wine came to be replaced 462 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 2: by sherry and madeira. And as this this drink that 463 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: eventually became eggnog, became more complex, it became more expensive, 464 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: and over in Europe, basically you had to be rich 465 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 2: to have a decent glass of eggnog. 466 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, became the stuff of I don't know, would 467 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: you say aristocrats or zach wid a little too high flutine? 468 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 2: No? I would say that, okay, And we should say 469 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 2: we want to thank our friends over at Mental Floss 470 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 2: for providing us with this one. This one. Yeah, here's 471 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: our glass of eggnog. Crazy to you guys. 472 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: Boy, I wish I was drinking it right now. Actually, so, 473 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: the first eggnog in the US apparently was drank by 474 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: Captain John Smith. 475 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 2: At his settlement. Yeah, sixteen oh seven. 476 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: Sure, what are you gonna do? Kick back in James 477 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 1: sound have a little agnogs. 478 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 479 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: And because it's the US, we had plenty of eggs 480 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 1: and plenty of booze, so it wasn't like in England, 481 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: and it became pretty popular here. 482 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's still in England. Its popularity went down 483 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: the tubes and even still like some people drink eggnog there, 484 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 2: but not very often. It's very much an American thing, 485 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: even though we totally cribbed it from Europe. 486 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good for us. 487 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 2: And they actually think that the word eggnog. One of 488 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 2: the one of the origin stories for the word was 489 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 2: that it's a contraction of egg and grog, which is 490 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 2: what Americans used to ask the bartenders for at the 491 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: at the end of the eighteenth century. 492 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: Right or came from the word noggin, which was the 493 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: little small wooden mug that they served it in. And 494 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: yet another says a Norfolk slang nog refers to the 495 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: strong ales that were served in those cups. 496 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 2: Yep. 497 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: So somewhere in there lies the word origin. Which one 498 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: do you like? 499 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 2: I like the American contraction? Yeah, eggnog all right, regardless 500 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 2: of where the name came from, the first use of 501 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 2: eggnog to describe this drink came at eighteen hundred and 502 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 2: there's a guy named Isaac Well Junior who described eggnog 503 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 2: as consisting of new milk, eggs, rum, and sugar beat 504 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: up together. Pretty simple. 505 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, he had to put new milk in there, I 506 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: guess because the old version was curdled milk or buttermilk. 507 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, ooh, can you imagine buttermilk eggnog. 508 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: I've never even had buttermilk except in. 509 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 2: When you were bad. 510 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: Things in the ex bad And what makes me drink buttermilk? 511 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: I've only had it in like recipes that I've used 512 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: for cooking and baking, and I might very well like 513 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: it to this day, but I've been so grossed out 514 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: my entire life because my dad drank it and he 515 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: would put like a whole thing of corn bread in 516 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: it and stir it up until it was just a big, mushy, 517 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: goofy mess, and he would eat it with a spoon. 518 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: And I just can't even look at it to this 519 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: day because that grows me out so much as a kid. 520 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 2: I don't blame you. That's the Southern thing, are you sure? 521 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: Oh? I'm positive? Okay, buttermilk with corn bread very big? 522 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 2: Uh? Okay, so uh, washing is very American. 523 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 524 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 2: What's more American than George Washington? 525 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: Not much. 526 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: George Washington's eggnog. Yeah, we have his recipe. He left 527 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 2: his recipe and he must have been sousd when he 528 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 2: wrote the recipe because he forgot to include how many eggs? 529 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 2: But he included everything else. And this is a the 530 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 2: verbatim recipe left by George Washington found in the Mount 531 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 2: Vernon records. 532 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: Okay, yep, may I please? 533 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 2: One court cream, one quart milk, one dozen table spoons sugar, 534 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 2: one pint brandy pint, one half pint rye whiskey, one 535 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 2: half pint Jamaica rum, one quarter point pint sherry. 536 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: So that's two and a quarter pints of liquor. We 537 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: should point out. 538 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: Right, which makes which makes a court in a quarter 539 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 2: court in an eighth. Okay, that's a lot of liquor. 540 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: That's a lot of booze. 541 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 2: I want to point out here that you can you 542 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 2: can do an easy conversion here. If you take the 543 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 2: cream in the milk, that's six four ounces, You take 544 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: the two and a quarter pints, that's thirty thirty six ounces, 545 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 2: and you can do some easy conversion. So basically, if 546 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: you do four, if you do four, if you want 547 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 2: to buy your eggnog, this is my tip here. This 548 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 2: isn't in the recipe. If you want to buy a 549 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 2: commercially made eggnog, you use four ounces of that to 550 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 2: one ounce brandy, one half ounce rye, one half ounce rum, 551 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 2: and a quarter ounce sherry, and you will be pretty 552 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 2: close to Washington's little concoction. A back to the recipe. 553 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: Mixed liquor first, Then separate yolks and whites of eggs. 554 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 2: Add sugar to beaten yolks. Mix well. Add milk and 555 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 2: cream slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and 556 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 2: fold slowly into mixture. Let's set in cool place for 557 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: several days. These days, that would be a refrigerator taste frequently, 558 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: which means go get a buzz every day. Make it 559 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 2: su you'renogs, all right? 560 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, And apparently Georgie Boy loved the stuff. 561 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 2: Oh he did. He loved his liquor. 562 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's why his teeth are all rotten. Nextly, 563 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: that's not true. It might have contributed. Yeah, So if 564 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: you get eggnog in the stores these days, you're probably 565 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: not gonna have a lot of egg in it. FDA 566 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: regulations say that about only require about one percent of 567 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: the final weight be made from solid egg yolks, and 568 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: then egg flavored eggnog. Flavored milk is really just milk. 569 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: It's got maybe point five percent egg yolk. So I say, 570 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: make it yourself. 571 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: It's fun if you do make it yourself. Though, you 572 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 2: want to use pasteurized eggs, because you should. If you 573 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 2: use fresh eggs, you could come down with salmonella. A 574 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 2: lot of people say, well, wait a minute, I'm putting 575 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 2: two and a half pints two and a half two 576 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 2: and a half pints of booze in this concoction. Of course, 577 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 2: it's going to kill all the salmonilla. FDA says, not necessarily, 578 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: don't risk it. Just use pasteurized eggs. 579 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: Don't use pasturized eggs. I should, though, yeah. 580 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: You should. Do you boil your water when your nettie pot? 581 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: Yet no, I live by the seat in my pan. 582 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 2: Well they don't even bother using pasteurized eggs. 583 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: Then I don't look, I'm not the one that's always sick, 584 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: all right? So is that it on eggnog? 585 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 2: Unless you want to tell the story of Judge Garnet 586 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: of Matthews County, should be sure. 587 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: All right. In nineteen hundred, Good Housekeeping ran a story 588 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 1: about the tradition in Virginia, and it had this anecdote. 589 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: So religiously is the custom of eggnog drinking observed? The 590 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: Judge Garnett of Matthews County tells a story of rushing 591 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: in on Christmas morning to warn his father that his 592 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: house was on fire. The old gentleman first led his 593 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: son to the breakfast table and ladled out his glass 594 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: of eggnog, drank one with him, and then went to 595 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: care for the burning building. That is the love of agog, 596 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: Oh and little whip cream on top. Li'll cool whip. 597 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 2: To Josh. 598 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: One of my favorite parts of Christmas because I don't 599 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: have a working fireplace, even though I'm working on that. 600 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: By the way, you see the soot on my hands. 601 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: Oh nice. 602 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been clean at my chimney. 603 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: Very nice. 604 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: It's awful work, by the way, I imagine, and I 605 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: have black lung and I'm sneezing up black boogers. So 606 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: because of all this, one of my favorite traditions is 607 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: the yule log on the TV set. 608 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's actually dates back to nineteen sixty six 609 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 2: when a guy named Fred Thrower, who is a programming director, 610 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 2: realized that a lot, a lot, a lot of New 611 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: Yorkers who subscribe to a station WPIXTV New York didn't 612 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 2: have fireplaces. Yeah, so he figured out, maybe we should 613 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 2: take a video loop of a nice little fire set 614 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: to Christmas music and broadcast that not only does everybody 615 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 2: get a fire in their head else, but we all 616 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 2: get the day off, except for the one engineer who 617 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 2: has to make sure that this is going right. Yeah. 618 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: And I didn't see this in there, but I bet 619 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of people in programming thought this is not 620 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: gonna work. This is a really stupid idea. 621 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it became a pretty big tradition. So Fred 622 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: Thrower came out on top, right, it's right. In two 623 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 2: thousand and four, they started broadcasting it in high definition. 624 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 2: Cable picked it up pretty shortly after cable came around, 625 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 2: and then now you can find it on YouTube. 626 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll watch it on my local cable provider. You 627 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: just searched through during Christmas time and it's the ulog 628 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: right there. 629 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: Do you prefer Christmas music or crackling fire sound? 630 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: I do my own Christmas music, so therefore I prefer 631 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: the crackling. 632 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: Fire sound very nice. Yes, you I like the crackling 633 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: fire myself. Yeah? 634 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, so do they do that? 635 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 2: Do they? 636 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: They don't give you both. 637 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: Not Fred Thrower's neighborhood. It was set to Christmas music. 638 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 2: But if you go like onto YouTube, you can find 639 00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 2: one two three hour increments of just crackling fire. Nice. 640 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: Hey, Chuck, hey Josh. 641 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of a guy named the Grinch? Yes, dude, 642 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: you've seen the Grinch. She stole Christmas many many times? 643 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: Right, How the Grinch stole Christmas? Yeah? 644 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it is how the Grinch stole Christmas. I've 645 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: seen that many times. I've seen the movie. I love 646 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 2: the Grinch. 647 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, the Jim Carrey movie pretty good. 648 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not bad at all. Really got into 649 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 2: the who's blew your mind at the end that it 650 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: all took place on like a molecule and a snowflake. Yeah, yeah, 651 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 2: I was surprised by that spoiler, is it? Well? 652 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: Sure, but who hasn't seen that? 653 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, hopefully no one listening to this. 654 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 2: But we've got the origin story thanks to our buddies 655 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 2: at MPR, right about how the Grinch stole Christmas and 656 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 2: how Ted Geisel aka doctor Seuss created this thing. 657 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently, guys, will it was a little more like 658 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: the Grinch than your average who in Whoville in the 659 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties, he was an illustrator and the very first 660 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: idea of Grinch came about when he was drawing illustrations 661 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: of basically what looked like a boogeyman combined with Sanna. Yeah, 662 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: and it was sort of the first little inkling that 663 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: like a malevolent Sanna was around and spoiling things for people. 664 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: So he was apparently a bit of a curmudget I saw. 665 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: I think one of his daughters said that he was 666 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: Grinch on his bad days, and cat and the hat 667 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: on his good days. 668 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 2: I could see all those based on himself. Sure, sure, Well, 669 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: with the Grinch. He published that in nineteen fifty seven 670 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 2: at age fifty three, and it was pretty much an 671 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 2: an instant success. 672 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, he was literally inspired. Apparently one day he looked 673 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: in the mirror. He was doing a self portrait like 674 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: Rockwell style, where you look in the mirror, and he 675 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: said he looked in the mirror and saw the Grinch 676 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: looking back. It was very much based on his perception 677 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: of himself at least. 678 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, So the book takes off, and then in 679 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six, CBS says, hey, man, let's make a 680 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 2: version of this, a TV movie version. Yeah, And this 681 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 2: is how The Grinch became green, actually thanks to a 682 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 2: guy named Chuck Jones, who made a name for himself 683 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 2: creating characters like the Roadrunner, Wiley, Coyote, bugs, Bunny, just a. 684 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: Name of you. You know, his granddaughter listens, Oh is 685 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: that right? Yeah, she wrote in a couple of weeks 686 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: ago about you know, I can't remember what it was about, 687 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: but she says, by the way, I'm Chuck Jones's granddaughter. 688 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool. 689 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: And I wrote her back, said you're messing with me, 690 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, no, I'm not. 691 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 2: I get that all the time. 692 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: I'm the real deal. 693 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 2: Well, it's a good thing that Chuck Jones came on 694 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 2: board because he ended up being to Doctor Seuss what 695 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 2: Stanley Cooprick was to Stephen King in the Shining. He 696 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 2: took a very classic, awesome idea, yeah, and put the modern, 697 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 2: possibly better spin on it, brought it to life. You 698 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 2: could say that's true people around the world. 699 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, because it wasn't black and white in the book, 700 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: a little pink here and there. But like you said, 701 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,760 Speaker 1: Chuck Jones made him green and apparently changed the face 702 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: a little bit to look like himself from the original book, 703 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: which he said he liked to do and a lot 704 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: of his characters was give a little bit of himself. 705 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,280 Speaker 2: Well, he said that. I heard he subconsciously he snuck 706 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 2: himself in when he looked in the mirror, like Norman 707 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 2: Rwell or Doctor Seuss, to kind of get an expression right, right, 708 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 2: he would end up inadvertently drawing himself as well. 709 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. 710 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 711 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: So the original cut was about twelve minutes long, which 712 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: was too short, so it was up to Jones and 713 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: Geisel to fill it out, and one of the main 714 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 1: ways they filled it out was through Max the dog, 715 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: who Jones felt represented the audience, and Max became a 716 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: much larger character in the short TV short he was 717 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: in the book. Yeah. 718 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 2: He, I mean a lot of stuff hinged on him. 719 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 2: He had to keep the sleigh from going over. That's 720 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 2: a lot to put on a little dog. 721 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 1: It is. 722 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 2: Another thing that brought it to life is the soundtrack. 723 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. 724 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,359 Speaker 2: Narrated and the voice of the Grinch was done by 725 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 2: Boris Karloff. Of all people like they were like, well, 726 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 2: let's see who's the master of horror movies at the time. Ah, yah, 727 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 2: you you come do the voice for this children's cartoon. 728 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: Well, I saw an interview with Chuck Jones and he said, 729 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm glad that that ended up happening because he knew 730 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 1: what a great voice actor he was. And he said, 731 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: not many people, because back then he did a lot 732 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 1: of voices without people knowing it was him. Yeah, because 733 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: you just couldn't google it and find out, you know 734 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: who did that. 735 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 2: As they very aptly put it in this NPR story, 736 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 2: Boris Karloff nailed the story simultaneous, lighthearted and ominous tone. 737 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 2: I think that's pretty fair assessment. 738 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: I agree. 739 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 2: Albert hag wrote the songs and then You're a mean one, 740 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 2: mister Grinch. 741 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: Yeah wrote the music, but guys will actually wrote the lyrics. 742 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 2: Oh he did. 743 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, mean that seems appropriate, Yeah, totally. 744 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,919 Speaker 2: But You're a one mister Grinch, of course was sung 745 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 2: by Thurle Ravenscroft. 746 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: Had no idea and I think, like most people, I 747 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: believe that it was Boris Karloff. 748 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 2: Oh no, it's Tony the Tiger. 749 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:19,840 Speaker 1: But yeah, he was Tony the Tiger Raven's croft. They're great. So, uh, 750 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: Ravenscroft was uncredited in the in the original film, Yeah, 751 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: so was June fora who did Cindy lou Who? And 752 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: apparently Chuck Jones and uh and guys that were both 753 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: like pretty upset about this, and like every interview they 754 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: ever did made sure they pointed out, like it's not 755 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 1: Karloff singing, like he couldn't even sing and June four 756 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: a was Cindy lou Who, And so they tried to 757 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: get it in as many articles as possible. 758 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 2: That nice, Yeah, good for them. Everybody loves the Grinch 759 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 2: except for two brothers, David and Bob Grinch, who lived 760 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 2: in Ridgefield, New Jersey, and wrote a letter to Theodore. 761 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 2: Guys all and said, hey, can you change the name 762 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 2: of the Grinch because that's our last name and everybody's 763 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 2: teasing us. And doctor Seuss wrote back, yeah, and I 764 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,240 Speaker 2: hope that they still have this letter because it read, 765 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 2: I disagree with your friends who harass you. Can't they 766 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 2: understand that the Grinch in my story is the hero 767 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 2: of Christmas. Sure, he starts out as a villain, but 768 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 2: it's not how you start out that counts. It's what 769 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 2: you are at the finish. 770 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: And he sealed it with a kiss. So I've got 771 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: the lyrics here for the classic song and the Grenches 772 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: compared to many things in the song Charming as an eel, 773 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 1: cuddley as a cactus, a bad banana with a greasy 774 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,760 Speaker 1: black peel, an empty hole, brain full of spiders, garlic 775 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: in your soul, a sea sick crocodile, a heartful of 776 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: unwashed socks, that's my favorite one. Or a dead tomato 777 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: squash with multi purple spots. 778 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 2: That's pretty good. 779 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 1: Crooked jerky jockey and he drives a crooked horse. You're 780 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 1: a three decker sauer Kraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce. 781 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 2: I'm very president understand that doctor Seuss wrote the lyrics 782 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:05,839 Speaker 2: of the song. 783 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's different when you read it. When it's sung, 784 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 1: it just sort of goes along you read it. It's like, man, 785 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: this is the work of a madman. So you got 786 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:14,799 Speaker 1: anything else? 787 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 2: No? 788 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: It ran on CBS for twenty two years and then 789 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: TBS acquired it and now you can find it all 790 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: over the place thanks to TBS. 791 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 2: And thank you, mister Brinch. 792 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 1: All right, Josh, I see dangling the missletoe above my head. 793 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: You know what that means? Come over here, give me 794 00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:47,400 Speaker 1: a big smacker. 795 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 2: There's actually there's a procedure to all this. When a 796 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 2: people kiss under the missletoe, the kiss initiator takes a 797 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 2: berry from the missiletoe. 798 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,319 Speaker 1: I never knew that. 799 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 2: And eventually, once all the berries are used up, the 800 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 2: missletoe's used up, there's no longer good luck for kissing 801 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 2: under it. 802 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: That's right, And it's supposed to be good luck for 803 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,319 Speaker 1: married couples, means their marriage will be successful and long. 804 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: Bad luck if you don't and you're a married couple, 805 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,240 Speaker 1: And if you're a single woman who fails to get kissed, 806 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: you will not get married for another year. 807 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,839 Speaker 2: A year don't even bother. And this is a very 808 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,520 Speaker 2: very very ancient tradition. They think that it dates back 809 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 2: to the Vikings, thinking that this was a fertility plant. Yeah, 810 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:35,080 Speaker 2: it possibly. It possibly derives from enemies who would meet 811 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 2: under the missletoe. If they happen to be under a missletoe, 812 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,319 Speaker 2: they would put their arms down and embrace and go 813 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 2: on a cease fire for the day until they took 814 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:45,560 Speaker 2: up arms again the following day. 815 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly like our little story last year, remember that, Yeah, 816 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,399 Speaker 1: the Christmas truth. Actually they partied well into the new year. 817 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. 818 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,840 Speaker 1: I wonder if there was missiletoe it would seem appropriate. 819 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: So what else? It's a source of luck, It is 820 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 1: a sexual symbol of virility, and what else do youy Oh? 821 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,359 Speaker 1: Apparently maidens would place it under their pillow at night 822 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,840 Speaker 1: like a tooth fairy style, But I don't see what 823 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,720 Speaker 1: they would get in return. 824 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 2: They would get to dream of their prince charming. And also, 825 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,840 Speaker 2: if you were a maiden, you could burn some missletone 826 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 2: and find out how your marriage is going to go. 827 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,759 Speaker 2: If it burned very steady and long, you were going 828 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 2: to have a nice, long, happy life with marriage. And 829 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 2: if you if the flames flickered, you might want to 830 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,399 Speaker 2: work a little extra hard. 831 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:47,359 Speaker 4: And that is missletone, Chuck. 832 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 2: You've heard of Santa Claus sinsor Claus Crompus, all those guys, right, Yeah. 833 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 2: Sat Nicholas is the Dutch version of Santa Claus, and 834 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 2: he's not as nice as our American version. In fact, 835 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 2: he had a little help for an elf named Black Pete. 836 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 2: And Black Pete's job was to accompany I know, Saint 837 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,480 Speaker 2: Nicholas on his rounds and to keep up with the 838 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 2: naughty boys and girls. And when they encountered one of 839 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 2: the boys or girls who's naughty, Black Pete would whip them. 840 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,000 Speaker 2: That's the Dutch Santa Claus. 841 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 1: I just yeah, I love it. 842 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 2: Well, you found a great story for us about elves 843 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,479 Speaker 2: that I think we should read word for word because 844 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 2: it's just beyond adorable. 845 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is classic. You've heard this before, right. 846 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 2: I have, but it's been a very long time. 847 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was the same way, and there's been different versions. 848 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,080 Speaker 1: But this is called The Elves and the Shoemaker from 849 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:39,320 Speaker 1: The Brother's Grim and uh. It is our annual Christmas reading. 850 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: Last year we did Night Before Christmas. Yeah, this year 851 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: it's the elves and the shoemaker. So without further ado. 852 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,840 Speaker 2: A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become 853 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 2: so poor that at last he had nothing left but 854 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 2: leather for one pair of shoes. So in the evening 855 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,720 Speaker 2: he cut out the shoes, which he wished to begin 856 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 2: to make the next morning, And as he had a 857 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,040 Speaker 2: good conscience, he lay down quietly in his bed, commended 858 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 2: himself to God, and fell asleep. In the morning, after 859 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 2: he had said his prayers and was just going to 860 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,400 Speaker 2: sit down to work, the two shoes stood quite finished 861 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,040 Speaker 2: on his table. He was astounded, and he knew not 862 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 2: what to say to it. He took the shoes in 863 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,520 Speaker 2: his hands to observe them closer, and they were so 864 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,400 Speaker 2: neatly made that there was not one bad stitch in them, 865 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 2: just as if they were intended as a masterpiece. 866 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,720 Speaker 1: Soon after a buyer came in, and as the shoes 867 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,200 Speaker 1: pleased him so well, he paid more for them than 868 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,239 Speaker 1: was customary, and with the money the shoemaker was able 869 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,879 Speaker 1: to purchase leather for two pair of shoes. He cut 870 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: them out at night, and next morning was about to 871 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,839 Speaker 1: set work with fresh courage. But he had no need 872 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,880 Speaker 1: to do so, for when he got up they were 873 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:46,200 Speaker 1: already made, and buyers also were not wanting who gave 874 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,400 Speaker 1: him money enough to buy leather for four pair of shoes. 875 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 1: The following morning, too, he found the four pairs made, 876 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,000 Speaker 1: and so it went on constantly. What he cut out 877 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,360 Speaker 1: in the evening was finished by the morning, so that 878 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,480 Speaker 1: he soon had his honest independence again, and at last 879 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:02,560 Speaker 1: became a wealthy man. 880 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 2: Now it befell that one evening not long before Christmas, 881 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,799 Speaker 2: when the man had been cutting out, he said to 882 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,799 Speaker 2: his wife, before going to bed, what think you if 883 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,839 Speaker 2: we were to stay up tonight and see who it 884 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,600 Speaker 2: is that is lending us this helping hand. The woman 885 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 2: liked the idea and lighted a candle, and then they 886 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 2: hid themselves in a corner of the room behind some 887 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,480 Speaker 2: clothes which were hanging up there, and watched. When it 888 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,919 Speaker 2: was midnight, two pretty little naked men came sat down 889 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,680 Speaker 2: by the shoemaker's table, took all the work which was 890 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 2: cut out before them, and began to stitch and sew 891 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 2: and hammer so skillfully and so quickly with their little 892 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,840 Speaker 2: fingers that the shoemaker could not turn away his eyes 893 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 2: for astonishment. They did not stop until all was done, 894 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,520 Speaker 2: and stood finished on the table, and then they ran 895 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,240 Speaker 2: quickly away. 896 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: Next morning, the woman said, well, I would have said 897 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,920 Speaker 1: a lot of things, but this is what this lady said. 898 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: The little men have made us rich, and we really 899 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,799 Speaker 1: must show that we were grateful for it. They run 900 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,040 Speaker 1: about so and have nothing on and must be cold. 901 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: I tell thee what I'll do. I will make them 902 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,439 Speaker 1: little shirts and coats, and vest and trousers, and both 903 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 1: of them a pair of stockings. And do thou too 904 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: make them two little pairs of shoes. The man said, 905 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,680 Speaker 1: I shall be very glad to do it. And one night, 906 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: when everything was ready, they laid their presents all together 907 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,279 Speaker 1: on the table instead of the cutout work, and then 908 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,920 Speaker 1: concealed themselves to see how the little men would behave. 909 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:31,200 Speaker 1: At midnight, they came bounding in naked and wanted to 910 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,759 Speaker 1: get to work at once, But as they did not 911 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,120 Speaker 1: find any leather cut out, but only the pretty little 912 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,120 Speaker 1: articles of clothing, they were at first astonished, and then 913 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: they showed intense delight. They dressed themselves with the greatest rapidity, 914 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,560 Speaker 1: putting pretty clothes on and singing. 915 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,560 Speaker 2: No, we are boys so fine. To see why should 916 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,360 Speaker 2: we longer cobblers be. Then they danced and skipped and 917 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 2: leapt over chairs and benches. At last they danced out 918 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,759 Speaker 2: of doors. From that time forth they came no more. 919 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,239 Speaker 2: But as long as the sh shoemaker lived, all went 920 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,240 Speaker 2: well with him, and all his undertakings. 921 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:12,240 Speaker 1: Prospered, the elves and the shoemaker by their brothers grim. 922 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 2: So I guess the moral here is, if you are 923 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:21,799 Speaker 2: ever helped by any unclothed elves, clothe them. That's what 924 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:22,719 Speaker 2: I got from this one. 925 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,719 Speaker 1: That's what I got to. So I've got no listener mail. 926 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,320 Speaker 1: Let's say we should just give our annual glad tidings. 927 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,239 Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, glad tidings to you all. Happy holidays, 928 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,759 Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanza. Yeah, have a tiptop. 929 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,480 Speaker 1: Tent, however you celebrate this time of year, And even 930 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,560 Speaker 1: if you choose not to, I just hope you're feeling great. Yeah, 931 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,279 Speaker 1: we'll put Chuck, sure. 932 00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 2: I wanted to say a very special Merry Christmas to 933 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 2: my lovely wife Umi. It's very nice, uh, and to 934 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 2: your wife as well, Chuck. 935 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:54,680 Speaker 1: Hey, thanks to. 936 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 2: All of our families. Merry Christmas, Yes to all of 937 00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,759 Speaker 2: our listeners. Thank you for a very wonderful, wonderful year 938 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,920 Speaker 2: with you guys, and we look forward to another wonderful 939 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:03,799 Speaker 2: year with you as well. 940 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,600 Speaker 1: Yep, Jerry, do you echo the sentiment? 941 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:07,480 Speaker 2: Absolutely? 942 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas everyone. For more on this and thousands of 943 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:26,239 Speaker 1: other topics, visit HowStuffWorks dot com.