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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.

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Speaker 2: And you just do them because you've always done them.

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Speaker 2: You're like, why are we doing this? Doing it?

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Speaker 1: For example, we recently learned Brook on Christmas morning since

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Speaker 1: her husband and children out pickle hunting, which she swears

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Speaker 1: isn't a euphemism, and then she quotes knocks boots with

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Speaker 1: the neighbors physical snow boots though yes, part of that

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Speaker 1: is true. And then the mailman comes by and checks

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Speaker 1: the oil and it's very weird.

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Speaker 2: At the special present, right, Okay, yeah, but if.

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Speaker 1: That's the odd enough for you. A survey asked be

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

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

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Speaker 1: let's 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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gifting my husband. I hope he's not listening

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Speaker 2: wineglasses this year. Yeah. Can you imagine, Oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, you're like, honey, it's broken glass.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Another one says growing up, each year, when my dad

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Speaker 1: was prepping the turkey, he'd always put the turkey neck

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Speaker 1: through his fly and casually walk around the house, traumatizing everyone.

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Speaker 1: After he passed away, my sister took over the tradition.

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Speaker 1: He's traumatizing in a whole new way. Accidentally grazes it.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry when you bring someone new into the family.

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Speaker 1: More people were sharing their weird family Christmas traditions. This

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Speaker 1: one was every year my boyfriend's parents make a special

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Speaker 1: Nativity scene in their garden shed using literally whatever random

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Speaker 1: objects are around. So smart. The first year I saw it,

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Speaker 1: one of the wise men was a t Rex toy,

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Speaker 1: Joseph was Darth Vader, and baby Jesus was a little

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Speaker 1: red plastic spider.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you know what they're doing it right? Force definitely

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 2: Good luck. Well, they must live somewhere warm that where

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Speaker 2: I grew up there was five feet of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta wait till springtime to get your crade.

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Speaker 1: Makes it worth it. Another one says my family plays

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Speaker 1: the spoon game during the holidays, where we basically pretend

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Speaker 1: my grandma's a witch with magical powers. She goes out

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Speaker 1: of the room. Someone in the room holds a big

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Speaker 1: spoon for a few seconds and puts it down somewhere neutral. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Then my grandma comes back in feels the spoon connects

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Speaker 1: with her spoony spirits and guesses who touched it, and

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Speaker 1: she gets it right every single time there's a track

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Speaker 1: she's got a camera or something weird that she puts

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Speaker 1: the spoon in her mouth case like Kevin like.

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Speaker 2: It does sound like a grandma who's about to eat

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Speaker 2: the children. Ye Andy up In.

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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.

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Speaker 2: That's calling.

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Speaker 1: My mom got it and thought it was so funny

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Speaker 1: that she kept it and regifted it back to me

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Speaker 1: the next Christmas. Now, for the last twenty eight years,

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Speaker 1: it has become the most coveted gift of the day.

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Speaker 1: Whoever gets it.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome to really. In our family, we have a

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Speaker 2: beef stick we've been passing around. It's not it's specifically

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Speaker 2: a slim gym o. My sister in law snuck into

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Speaker 2: our car at some point, so now then we sneak

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Speaker 2: it into her home. Sometimes it gets mail can you find. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really nasty because it's been about thirteen years. It's

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Speaker 2: not liquid, it's more like a white it's straight. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: How does your family attract anybody of the opposite?

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Speaker 2: This is actually my husband's family.

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Speaker 1: These are the weirdest holiday family traditions people share. In

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: We plant the pine cone in a pot and water it,

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Speaker 1: and then overnight it would magically grow into this magnificent, huge,

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Speaker 1: fully decorated Christmas tree. My parents said this planting thing

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Speaker 1: only worked in December, and I didn't realize they were

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Speaker 1: just buying a tree till I was thirteen years old.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like the parents just didn't want the kids

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Speaker 2: to help decorate the Christmas tree.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: each 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 faeral.

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Speaker 2: Hissing money money friends like, I think you guys are

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Speaker 2: kind of missing the spirit.

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Speaker 1: At least they weren't chanting blood. Those were the strangest

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Speaker 1: holiday family traditions that people celebrate every single year. Fee

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Speaker 1: stick phone taps coming up right after this