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Speaker 1: Ah, the holidays time to force your family to come

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Speaker 1: together and show off how weird you all really are.

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Speaker 1: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. And the best

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Speaker 1: way to actually see that is through those unique holiday

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Speaker 1: traditions that, for some reason your family does every single

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Speaker 1: year that aren't really traditional and are sometimes just kind

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Speaker 1: of weird and embarrassing, and you just do them because

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Speaker 1: you've always done them, like you're like, why are we

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Speaker 1: doing doing it? For example, we recently learned Brook on

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Speaker 1: Christmas morning since her husband and children out pickle hunting,

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Speaker 1: which she swears isn't a euphemism, and then she quotes

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Speaker 1: knocks boots with the neighbors physical snow boots though, yes,

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Speaker 1: part of that is true. Part of that, and then

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Speaker 1: the mailman comes by and checks the oil and it's

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Speaker 1: very weird at the special present, right, Okay, but if

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Speaker 1: that's not odd enough for you. A survey asked people

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Speaker 1: to share their strangest family holiday traditions that are unique

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Speaker 1: to them, and there's definitely some weird ones, so let's

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Speaker 1: talk about them. This one says, we play shaker present.

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Speaker 1: That's where you get to shake a present and ask

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Speaker 1: one yes or no question about it per night, and

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Speaker 1: if you figure out what it is before Christmas, you

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Speaker 1: get to open it early. That's risky though. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: gifting my husband. I hope he's not listening wineglasses this year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine, Oh my god, You're like, honey, it's

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Speaker 1: broken glass. Yeah. Another one says growing up, each year,

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Speaker 1: when my dad was prepping the turkey, he'd always put

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Speaker 1: the turkey neck through his fly and casually walk around

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Speaker 1: the house, traumatizing everyone. After he's passed away, my sister

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Speaker 1: took over the tradition. He's traumatizing in a whole new way.

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Speaker 1: Accidentally grazes it. I'm sorry, it's going when you bring

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Speaker 1: someone new into the family. More people were sharing their

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Speaker 1: weird family Christmas traditions. This one was every year my

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Speaker 1: boyfriend's parents make a special Nativity scene in their garden

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Speaker 1: shed using literally whatever random objects are around. So smartt

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Speaker 1: The first year I saw it, one of the wise

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Speaker 1: men was a t Rex toy, Joseph was Darth Vader,

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Speaker 1: and baby Jesus was a little red plastic spider. Wow.

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Speaker 1: What they're doing it right for definitely is with them.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the strangest holiday traditions that people's families

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Speaker 1: did that may have seemed odd to everybody else. This

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Speaker 1: one says one of my exes had a family that

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Speaker 1: did this truly bizarre hunt the Christmas present game hunted,

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Speaker 1: where his parents would wake up super early Christmas morning

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Speaker 1: and go hide presents around the house and out in

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Speaker 1: the garden. Then all the kids had to go and

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Speaker 1: hunt them down. One year, my ex had to climb

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Speaker 1: a tree to get his razor scooter down. He fell

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Speaker 1: and fractured a vertebrae in his back, and they all

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Speaker 1: laughed remembering it. Remember when Jonathan almost died? My mom,

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Speaker 1: I bought your new mattress. It's on the room. Good luck. Well,

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Speaker 1: they must live somewhere warm that where I grew up

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Speaker 1: there was five feet of stomach. You gotta wait till

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Speaker 1: springtime to get your grade. Makes it worth it. Another

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Speaker 1: one says, my family plays the spoon game during the holidays,

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Speaker 1: where we basically pretend my grandma's a witch with magical powers.

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Speaker 1: She goes out of the room. Someone in the room

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Speaker 1: holds a big spoon for a few seconds and puts

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Speaker 1: it down somewhere neutral. Okay, okay, Then my grandma comes

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Speaker 1: back in feels the spoon connects with her spoony spirits

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Speaker 1: and guesses who touched it, and she gets it right

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Speaker 1: every single time there's a tray. She's got a camera.

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Speaker 1: Weird that she puts the spoon in her mouth and

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Speaker 1: tastes like it tastes like it does sound like a

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Speaker 1: grandma who's about to eat the children. Yeah, hear it, candy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Another one says twenty eight years ago, I was one

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Speaker 1: of the first one hundred customers at a grocery store

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Speaker 1: grand opening. My reward was a free can of tinned meat.

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Speaker 1: That Christmas, we had a white Elephant gift exchange with

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Speaker 1: the family, and I wrapped the meat can up as

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Speaker 1: my contribution. That's solid. My mom got it and thought

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Speaker 1: it was so funny that she kept it and regifted

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Speaker 1: it back to me the next Christmas. Now, for the

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Speaker 1: last twenty eight years, it has become the most coveted

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Speaker 1: gift of the day. Who ever gets it. That's awesome

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Speaker 1: to really. In our family, we have a beef stick.

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Speaker 1: We've been passed around. It's not it's specifically a slim gym.

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Speaker 1: My sister in law snuck into our car at some point.

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Speaker 1: So now then we sneak it into her. Sometimes it

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Speaker 1: gets mail. Yeah, that's really nasty because it's been about

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Speaker 1: thirteen years. It's not liquid, it's more like a white

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Speaker 1: it's straight. Yeah, how does your family attract anybody of

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Speaker 1: the opposite? This is actually my husband's family. That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I guess these are the weirdest holiday family traditions people share.

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Speaker 1: In a recent Christmas survey, it says my family tradition

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Speaker 1: was about a week before Christmas, we'd go out to

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Speaker 1: the front yard with my dad to find the perfect

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Speaker 1: pine cone. We plant the pine cone in a pot

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Speaker 1: and water it, and then overnight it would magically grow

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Speaker 1: into this magnificent, huge, fully decorated Christmas tree. My parents

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Speaker 1: said this planting thing only worked in December, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize they were just buying a tree till I

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Speaker 1: was thirteen years old. It sounds like the parents just

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Speaker 1: didn't want the kids to help decorate the Christmas tree. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: mess it up. And finally, somebody wrote, we got to

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Speaker 1: a point where all the children in my family were

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Speaker 1: teenagers and just asking for cash each Christmas. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: instead of letting it be boring, we had them each

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Speaker 1: open individual cards and we'd all chant money, money, money.

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Speaker 1: It's funny to us, but my friend came over for

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Speaker 1: Christmas one year and thought we were absolutely fairalsing money

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Speaker 1: money friends like I think you guys are kind of

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Speaker 1: missing the spirit. At least they weren't chanting blood. Those

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Speaker 1: were the strangest holiday family traditions that people celebrate every

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Speaker 1: single year. Fee stick Stick, We're gonna do your number

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Speaker 1: Brooking Jeffrey in the morning,