Hello, and welcome to Fun Fact Friday Christmas edition. Jim
Jim. Jim, Jim. Jingle bells on effects. We'll have another
room. Now it's too late. We missed our chance. And you know
this is live so we can't go back. There's no going back.
There's no editing. Because as I always say, editing is for
chumps.
Right and if you edit your chump, like if you if you're
looking for money, and you go into the editing business,
you're a chump. Like a chump.
So when I'm editing me despod Yeah, you're Yeah, you're a
champ. All right, but it's a little different with an audio
drama, where you have the actors all over the world and yeah,
yeah, you can't.
But there's this thing called discord. So not sponsored, not
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My good news story today after we're done with PayPal is about
a dog it's about a severe cold dog. Circle
received a payment from Valve No, I bought some valves you
did? Yeah board game called Puzzle Quest to to classic.
Somebody was talking about I was like I want to play that again.
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Scott. And I've always wanted to like hire some singers to do
that. But say Dred Scott instead. And it is the Oreo
boost of $19.12 cent. Oreo being invented in 1912. Oh, yeah,
Oreos are the best. I forget
that every single time.
And then today, we received a $5 from Curtis, another monthly,
monthly sustaining donation. And we definitely appreciate all the
support from everybody. And we have received some notes and
clips. And we have, we are going to be going through all of that
next week on our final episode, and like I said, final might not
be final. We may do more. We may pick it back up in a couple
months. Not sure. Yeah. But I'm gonna say final for now. But
we'll never know. Because nobody can tell me what to do.
Especially me. Yeah. Because I am an idiot. So I shouldn't
shouldn't be given myself instructions on what to do.
Anywho. So, Christmas,
we have a decision to make we have a decision to make. Do you
want to do the good news segment first? Or do you want to open
our presents first?
Oh, yeah. Okay,
so since this is the Christmas episode, every Christmas on the
show? I think we've done at once, but about Christmas on the
show. We give each other we exchange gifts on the show.
Right and I got one for you here. Uh huh. Let's let's go
ahead and do the gifts. yesterday. Yeah. So it's a
little bag. Leila got me a gag gift, I think. No, I didn't. So
Leila is handing me what looks like a one foot by one foot
square piece of floor tile. Oh, yeah. Wrapped up in a peanuts
Christmas wrapper. I'm gonna go ahead and open that. I'm gonna
open mine. It's not really wrapped, but it's in a bag.
That's because I don't like wrapping stuff.
It's not a gag gift.
What did you get?
So I Yeah, it's like a fidget spinner. And Rubik's Cube is a
Rubik's Spinner Fidget. Oh, geez.
I'm ripping open packages. Yeah, I can just very ASMR
No, no, no, don't do that. No. Oh, I love this. I love that.
Okay. Oh my gosh, how many layers? Did you rapids? It was
only two. Oh, I like what I'm seeing so far. Yeah, you better
I better. Oh, wow. Yeah,
yeah, I was gonna give that to you on Christmas. But I was
like, Oh, crap. I
don't have anything for the show. It is a Rubik's Spinner
Fidget. Not mine. I'm still opening mine.
But I really liked this. So smooth too.
You can kind of think Elon Musk for that. What? In a roundabout
way. So Elon Musk recently purchased Twitter, the social
media platform, as you might be aware, oh, so he purchased
Twitter and the uncertainty of the future of the platform. They
lost a lot of advertisers. Right?
Crap. I'm so selfish
as I am. As I am. Scrolling through Twitter, I see what's
left of the ads, which is now a bunch of cheap Chinese junk. So
I see one of those. And I go to the website and it's like eight
bucks. And I'm like, All right. Let me see what it cost on other
sites. And it was like four. So I was like stocking stuffer. I
mean, so Leila got me. The Jun Jie Ito collection, a horror
coloring book. ISBN 97817890997 to 00 Yeah, and it is a lot of
the iconic images from the Gingy Ito comics
I suppose sell this How are you supposed
to solve it I don't know how to look it up. This is fantastic.
I'm gonna get my I'm gonna get my markers out and color me some
Jun Jie Ito because I know you love ginger you horrific images.
And I may cut some of these out with a razor blade and put them
in frames. If I like I like color because it's a good size.
It's almost square Yeah, and a lot of the images are full page.
So I can definitely get these these framed. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.
Yeah, it's how you like it.
Yeah, that's fantastic. Thank you so much, Lisa. You're
welcome. I'd give you a hug later, but that would be showing
affection and now we are.
Okay, I was gonna I was gonna give Gingy Ito karma, but I
forgot the plus plus.
So yeah, thank you so much. Let's get in to be good
news. Hello, welcome to the good news segments, Christmas
edition two Christmas edition. So what you get for news, dog?
It's always dog.
It's always dog. Dinosaur with right? You know? What do you
got? A dog is making the internet balanced with joy and
virality. In part because she stream it. She's extremely cute.
And in part because she has a peculiar shape. Peculiar is a
peculiar word, and I hate it. Mo who is a spherical toy poodle,
and his nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram, all of whom are
obsessed with her inability, or an explainable li round shape.
To six year old from Osaka, Japan, has become such an
internet sensation after her owner started sharing pictures
of her online, the enamored following could not get over the
roundness of her coat. And it's just this extremely round dog.
You should post the link in the chat. It'll also be in the show
notes for folks who download and listen later. And eventually,
actually, we'll grab it and put it put it in the folder and Dred
Scott, who does our chapters for us, we'll put it in the chapter
files. So if you're listening on podcasting 2.0 app, you'll see
it as we're talking about
it. Yes, yes. I love toy poodle so much. Because they're so
cute. They're cute.
But like all of those special breed dogs are so expensive.
Yeah. I know. You know, you got to breed them. And you got to do
all this stuff to get it right. There was a guy at the end go on
a tangent here. There's a guy at the pet store the other day had
like six Pitbull puppies. And they were so cute. And he had
them all like in this big wheelie cart. And he was telling
the group the cashier, he's like, Yeah, I've got $15,000 in
this little car.
I seen the same puppy use at the same store. I don't even know if
I was with you.
Yeah, well, that was yeah, you got out to go get some crickets
for the plague. Oh, yes. And, and I was outside in the car. So
my my news story is about a kid and a unicorn. I teased this in
the pre show but a child in California asked her local
animal control department if she could get approval for a unique
pet. Yeah, a unicorn. The child named Madeline sent a
handwritten letter to the county of Los Angeles Department of
Animal Care and Control which they posted on Facebook.
Madeleine asked for approval to keep the unicorn in her backyard
if she could find one. She asked if the department could please
send her a response letter. And they did that and more. This
brought us so much joy. So we thought we would share with
everyone Madeline wrote a letter requesting and there's the
poster there. And then they sent her a pre approved unicorn
license but knowing the mystical creature might be hard to find.
They also gave her a unicorn stuffed animal with a heart
shaped pink license to attach to its color.
Oh my gosh, that's so cute. It is.
That was cute. Quote. It was always rewarding. It is always
rewarding to hear young people who thoughtfully consider the
requirements of providing a loving home to animals
department into quote the department's director, Marcia
May May Etta wrote in a reply letter, quote, I commend your
sense of responsible pet ownership to seek permission in
advance to keep a pet unicorn in Los Angeles County and quote Hmm
Just just teaching them real young for the asking permission
from the from the government. Yeah, well, we're not gonna go
into that. While Madeline easily won approval of her unicorn the
license does not does sorry does come with some rules. The
unicorn must be cared for in compliance with all animal
caretaking regulations set for the Los Angeles County code
titled 10 regular access to sunlight moonbeams and rainbows
and to be fed watermelon apparently it's a favorite treat
once a week. Okay. The Department also said that
unicorns hoard must be polished regularly to maintain good
health. And since unicorns and sparkles now surely go together
Department said any glitter used must be non toxic biodegradable
to ensure the unicorn is good health. Oh, my gosh. Oh, you
know microplastics are a real problem. Yeah. But I thought it
was cute.
I've seen that on the Good News Network.
Oh, yeah. You never brought it to the show? No, because yeah,
the other one is just a just a short little story. Basically,
there's a couple Cassidy and Dylan Scott in Huntsville.
Doesn't say, Huntsville. Which? Which? Huntsville? Probably
Alabama. Yeah. Huntsville, Alabama. They are a married
couple who both share the same birthday. And they had a baby.
What? on their birthday? So all three of men have a birthday.
I would hate that. All three
people. That'd be Christmas to Yeah. Oh, well, everybody shares
gifts on Christmas. And everybody shares gifts on the
birthday. I think it would be great. Yeah, absolutely. You
don't have to worry about oh, crap whose birthday is next? Of
course, it's all over. Now you have to know what time everybody
was born. When you play one of those games. It says the
youngest player goes first. Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say. Or they just all go first.
It's a free for all. When you play Monopoly. That's all me.
You know, he's just grabbing for dice and man. And then in the in
the article. There's a bunch of birthday stats. Like, I think
we've gone through these before on one of our episodes. If you
take the calendar, plus the Leap Day, so 366 days, the least
common days to be born are January 1 and December 25. Yeah,
so January first ranks at number 365 and December 25, ranks at
366. According to styles. Leap Day, which only occurs or occurs
every four years is also uncommon ranking at 347. Other
uncommon birthdays include Christmas even July 4. I
would love to be born on Leap Day. How old would I be right
now?
I'd only be 10. You'd be three.
I wouldn't be three. I could still get on to like those.
You'd be
your third birthday. It wouldn't be you wouldn't be three I'd be
having my 10th birthday.
Present. I wouldn't really get a day to celebrate my birthday.
Hey, what every four years. But you just have to have a mega
mega you have for birthday parties. And one day every every
four years. That would well I mean, it would. It would. It
would all even out. Yeah. All right. So there we go.
That's all good news. Now for our Christmas facts,
or do you wanna do that? Or do you want to talk about the
Christmas movies you were forced to watch in public school?
Okay. public school. Okay. Public school report. Public
school report. So stretch. Now we're back. Okay, I watched
four, five movies this week, but one of them was a documentary
and I fell asleep. The other four were the Grinch. The elf
movie.
Wait, what? Which Grinch? The Earth? classic cartoon. Yeah,
the
classic cartoon. Dr. Seuss cartoon. Okay, because it was my
English teachers favorite. So we watched elf at first. Because
one of my friends brought it in on a CD and oh my gosh, a DVD.
Yeah. Yeah.
They look, they look alike. Yeah.
And oh my gosh, my history teachers, computer or whatever.
The CD player, the DVD player was so loud every time you turn
the volume up, it would go up, up, up, up, up. Or if you like,
put this DVD n, it would go DVD inserted. Oh, like
so the whatever you want to say whatever button you pushed on
the remote, it would audibly say
yeah, or if you how's it went? Pause
it was real loud. It was real loud. It's fantastic.
And we watch Santa Claus and Santa Claus to yesterday because
yesterday was a half day since it was the last day. Yesterday
was really fun. Okay, in depth, descriptions and reviews. All
right. So first three out of 10 Wow. Good concept executed
poorly. And on. It's just overhyped. The visuals on it are
super cool. Like the beginning of it when they're at the North
Pole. Also the decorating scene where he's like decorating the
mall is super cool. But actually, I changed my five out
of 10. Five out of 10. That's a reasonable review for elf, and
then the Grinch. Thank you to seven on the 10. Seven. Okay,
what was good? How
do you feel about the music?
No, no, you're one oh my gosh, we had to hear that all day to
write in different classes and they're all in the same like
part of building. So we would just be doing our science work,
it would be like the door and we were like, Oh, we're watching
the Grinch.
That's a fun movie. I like Mac's the dog.
Me too. We were also doing something with a poem while we
were watching it. So I didn't really watch it this time. But
from what I've watched of it. It's pretty it's a pretty good
story. And I like it. But it's, again, it's a little overhyped.
That would make make sense. Servo is asking, is it for blind
slash deaf people? wouldn't wouldn't make sense for deaf
people. But for blind people. Yeah. It would make sense if
your gives you an indicator. Yeah. And maybe it's like an
accessibility setting that they turned on and don't know how to
turn off. Maybe. Okay, so real quick, Santa Claus. One or two?
Which one's better? Santa Claus two is the Mrs. Claus right? I
think so. Yeah. Brady's gotta get married or whatever.
I like the first one. First one was better. Even we didn't want
to go to lunch.
If it Oh, yeah, I guess if they're not fully deaf, and it's
really loud by default. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes
sense.
Especially if you're turning up the volume, and it's already at
like a set thing. So like the movies like up?
Yeah, well, that means that would validate whether or not
it's actually going up or not. Yeah, however. Yeah, I mean,
that makes sense. That makes sense. Okay, so Santa Claus.
One, close one. Just out of 10.
I give it honestly. I give it an eight or nine. Oh, it was it was
pretty good. It was pretty good. I liked it. I liked
Bernard did Tim Allen
go? Oh, no. He was mad. A lot. And he was like, I'm not Santa
Claus. Rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah?
Wait. Yeah. Yeah, right. And then number two, I don't
remember much about
number two, either, because I was coloring the whole thing
right? Here literally coloring sheets, and she was let us
color.
So we watched one other Christmas movie this week? Uh
huh. We watched diehard we Leila finally got to see diehard.
Okay, so give us a review of that.
Review diehard that was solid nine. That's a pretty good
movie. There was a lot of there was a lot of fire. And yes,
there was a lot of cussing. Yeah. And a lot of violence, you
know, but like, that's kind of what it is. Is there's a loss of
give me the money, you know,
right. But yeah, so the beginning, I was kind of like
watching you while I was watching the movie. And you were
just like, the beginning of it. You're like with this is not
what I was told this would be. And then all the shooting and
stuff starts. And she was she was really into it, then. Oh,
no, what's it going to do now? You know? But better, it was
funny because we paused it so we get up and get a drink or
whatever. And she was like, when's he gonna say yippie? Ki
Yay, because I have a shirt that says you could die on it. And
we're like, it's from Die Hard. And like, literally when we
unpause it, it was like the next line. So that was that was
funny. But it's it's been a tradition for me and my wife.
We've watched that. Most Christmases we don't hold hard
and fast about we have to do this to every tradition every
single year sort of thing. But is this is the first time that
you've sat and watched it with us. So we enjoyed that. Yeah,
now you got to watch two and three and then there's no other
diehard movies. That's it. Two and Three, after three they
stopped making diehard movies, are you sure except for the
fifth element diehard in space, which you have already seen?
Yeah. So this diehard one diehard to Die Hard With a
Vengeance. And then the fifth element Any anyways dad anything
after those three. Anyways dad. Okay, sorry.
We should probably get into fights with
God. We're 25 minutes in Thank you very much. So facts about
Christmas.
Christmas Jingle Bells was the first song we played in space.
Oh, on 16th of December 1965 song, the song Jingle Bells made
history by becoming the first song to be played in space
during NASA's Gemini six a space flight. At least we think it was
the first says you bared.ac.uk A lot of dots.
So why did he say at least we think it's the I
don't know or the unsure. What was he put it on my backside if
they didn't know.
Wow. All right. It's just an odd thing to say like yeah, maybe
maybe he's talking about like Alien music? I don't
know. Who knows. Who knows. What do you think Elon alien music
would be like?
It's probably a lot like Smash Mouth. Yeah.
They kind of look like aliens.
And they talk about you know, walking on the sun and stuff.
So.
Yeah. Aliens. Anyways.
Now I'm gonna have that in my head. I'm gonna have that song
on my wall. Song.
Me too. It was Princess Charlotte, who popularized
Christmas trees in England. Usually when we think about
Christmas trees we think about Prince Albert. Queen Victoria's
consort. No, we don't.
I've never once. Never once in my 40 years on this planet
looked at a Christmas tree and been like Prince Albert, Prince
Albert.
But the first known Christmas tree was set up at Queen's lodge
in winds door, Windsor Windsor in December of 18,000. By Prince
Charlotte shouts 18,000. Yeah.
We got we got alien music and we got future Christmas. far
future. Okay, so servo is this safe to play on our stream? We
just got a link to a musical song called a life pond axiom 20
by axiom 23 And I just want to make sure it's something that we
can click and not have to edit out later. So, while we're out,
no for later, God, okay, thank you. Christmas wasn't always on
December 25. I'm sure maybe most folks know this though. I don't
Well, Chris Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the
actual date of the big event was lost to history. There's no
mention of December 25 In the Bible, so many historians say
Jesus was most likely born in the spring. Some historians
posit the date was originally chosen because it coincided with
a pagan festival of Saturnalia which honored the our
agricultural Gods Saturn with the celebrating and gift giving
tool. So it wasn't always
20/25 Yeah, it was in the spring but yeah, so I knew that was all
comes down to you know we don't I don't know. I don't know if
you got better information as always send a mail
FunFactFriday.com You got one week to forgive us corrections.
Coca Cola is not actually responsible for how we perceive
Santa Claus. Yeah, never. Yeah. What is this site?
What is this site? Gosh, it's like facts made. It's like facts
with a question mark.
College site. This is Hugh bears college towns like the Oh, it's
you. It's from the UK. Why don't we listen to I don't think
British people exist. So this is fake news. Christmas,
Christmas. So this sounds like one of the sites that would have
articles like the sun is going to crash into the earth next
year. And that's a good thing. You know? That's a good thing
after every title of every
Sorry, I've had a cough let's see what some other titles on
this site our Head Chef Anthony scoops National Award. What
is it's from the UK for the UK disdainfully.
No, okay, let's find a different
site. I got one while you're doing that. Evergreens are an
ancient tradition. The tradition of Christmas trees goes all the
way back to the ancient Egyptians and Romans who
decorated using evergreens during the winter solstice to
signify that spring would return. So if you Deck the halls
with the green tree wreaths and evergreen garlin you're honoring
history Yeah, I mean that's, I mean, maybe I am but it's not
why I'm doing it. Doing it because it's a family tradition.
Yeah. that we got from TV probably. Hey, they're putting
up a Christmas tree. It's kind of cool looking. We should do
that.
Right? Yeah
this is from Good Housekeeping law calm ere we go America.
Yeah. This is 25 Interesting Christmas facts for a fun
holiday trivia night. What sounds like this sounds legit.
You know,
that's the side I am on. Gosh, you can think Prince Albert for
your Christmas tree. Good Housekeeping on is as you can
thank Chris Prince Albert for your Christmas tree. I thought
the Greeks and the Romans I thought we were just talking
about the Egyptians and the Romans. It's on the same site.
It's the next fact. Brew UK brew a cup of tea. Trimming your tree
this year as a wrong accent Anywho. brew a cup of tea when
trimming your tree this year to pay homage to its origins once
Prince Albert. When the Prince Albert of Germany got a tree for
his new wife, Queen Victoria of England, the tradition really
took off across the pond. A drawing of a couple in front of
the Christmas tree the first Christmas tree a pillar appeared
in Illustrated London News in 1848. To use the modern parlance
the idea went viral. So they look they go to a country and
they put stuff on it, which is kind of cool. I mean, the
tradition of Christmas trees goes back to Egyptians and
Romans is what I just said it's decorated the Everglades
and then the other British site says it was Princess Charlotte
who popularized because it's present England
anybody knows what what are we even doing here? Oh popularized
Christmas trees. I am losing faith in the information that is
on the internet, too.
Oh my gosh. Charlotte, the German born wife of Queen of
King George the Third. Oh, so this okay, this says Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert. Let's see history of Christmas
trees. I'm so into this now.
Are you gonna get to the bottom of it? Yeah, I'm
getting to the bottom of this. Early Romans, Vikings. Martin
Luther. What is this about? William Bradford. Okay, so I
think it is Queen Victoria and the German Prince. I think what
they're saying is the Romans and the Greeks. Okay, are the ones
that made it
we've got this in the chat looks like it's from his Wikipedia
site. A keyword and modern. Okay, so modern Christmas trees
originated during the Renaissance. In early modern
Germany. Its 16th century origins are sometimes associated
with the Protestant Christian Christian reformer Martin
Luther, who said to have first added lighted candles to an
evergreen tree. So it's just how far you go back and, and what
you want to do there. So thank you. Thank you, sir. Well,
that's why having a chat room is awesome.
I know. So let's see. I'll start at the bottom of this. At the
bottom of the site that we're using. Tinsel has a storied
history. Tensile was invented in 1600 10 or 1610 in Germany and
was originally spun from real silver, making it far from the
chintzy decoration it is now the US government also once banned
tensile because it used to contain poisonous lead but never
fear now it's just plastic. It should still be kept away from
young kids and pets, though
microplastics are a real problem but it's not as bad as lead
gosh, I want some lead tinsel
oh we could probably make that happen you got to make some lead
tensile not contained lead. Yeah, they used to make stuff
every single lead lead in it. Oh my gosh.
Either lead or what was it called?
Mercury know what element okay. What is it called? Is a very,
very
33 arsenic. Our Oh, hold on. What? It's 33. I did a science
project is 33 is the magic number
and arresting the Dutch. That's the title. The Dutch gave us the
idea to leave milk and cookies
we watched we watched the clip on YouTube. It was from the chat
A maletto that has a bunch of short films. It was called a
death in the family. And it was this, this family sitting around
the table and this girl gets up to read a poem and it was just
it was very funny. Because, Helen Oh, try to remember to put
that in the show notes. We got to write that down. Okay, so the
Dutch gave us the idea to leave cookies and milk. If your kids
leave Santa's little snack to keep him sated on his journey
thank the Dutch. On St. Nicholas feast today and December 6,
Dutch children leave him food and drinks and exchange for
gifts he leaves overnight. Dutch the title What is this toxic
element called? It's still pretty vague.
Most of the elements are toxic. your Christmas tree likely
traveled a bit. Unless you cut it down yourself. Your fresh
Christmas tree probably spent weeks out in the ground before
appearing at your local retailer. And there's not likely
much hiking into the woods. involved. Either. 98% sorry,
who? 98% of American trees today grow on farms, mostly in
California, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The country's top Christmas tree
producing states. North Carolina. We grow that me
we've got a Christmas tree farm less than a mile from our house.
Oh, we drive past it all the time. Oh, I'll point it out next
time. Good. Wow, shows how much attention you pay when you're
riding in the backseat. Oh my gosh, we drive past it all the
time. Not every day. But
it's like the person that sells. birdhouses,
oh my gosh, there's there's a person who sells birdhouses in
their front yard. And they're painted with like, different
logos from football teams and stuff. And there's a sense of
the $25. Right. And Leila's like oh, well, they sell bird feeders
there now. It's pretty cool. Right? They have always for as
long as we have lived this for as long as Leila has been alive.
These people been selling bird feeders or bird houses. And
they're fine. Yes. They've always.
No. Oh my gosh.
She just doesn't pay attention. No, I don't. We're working on
that.
I'm just thinking about where we're going.
So hanging stockings started by accident. Oh, you're aware of
that. And that's a good thing. Hanging stockings started by
accident. Legend has it so this may not be a fact. This is
legend. It's British Good Housekeeping. Maybe? Legend has
it we hang stockings by the chimney with care. Thanks to a
poor man who didn't have enough money for his three daughters.
dowries. You want a dowry is kind of so like, back in the
olden days. Like the 1970s. No way before that. A dad who had a
daughter would basically give give gifts of scientists, right?
give gifts to the person who proposed like so like you get to
marry my daughter and have a couple of goats. What? Unless
I've got that backwards. You might have that backwards where
the person married and gave the dad? No, because it doesn't make
sense. I don't know. I have to look into it. Maybe someone in
chat can correct me. Anyway, generous Old Saint Nick dropped
a bag of gold down their chimney one night after the girls had
hung their freshly washed stockings. They're too dry. And
then some of the gold. Some of the gold ended up in the
stockings. They're interesting. Good stuff. So I had a story
from a co worker said that they decided to put their to put
their stockings up early. And she was like, I'm going to toss
some some chocolate in there for the kids. And she decided she
was just going to toss them in there, you know? And didn't
think about the fact that they were going to run the fireplace.
Oh, no, they were in the fireplace with the stockings
above it. So we'll take you out to write her little add on to
whatever Santa was going to put in there. Ended up just a ball
of molten chocolate at the bottom of
Norway. Norway provides the two Tree in travel gar square. Isn't
that like the biggest tree? What was the biggest Christmas tree?
I don't know. I can't. I can't see anything. Go ahead, keep
going. I got a I got something spicy in my eye. Oh
no. Londoners and visitors alike probably know the iconic spruce
that stretches to the sky and trough of travel gar gar square
each year, but few realize it's an equally iconic holiday gift.
Every year since the 1970s. Since 1970 4719 47, three years
ago, the people have normally donated, donate to the tree in
gratitude for Britain for Britain's support for Norway
during World War Two. Now that's what we call goodwill toward
men. That was hard to read.
So yeah, I was right about Valerie's Darth radar said dad
would give money and other valuables to the groom to take
the daughter off his hands. Like, look, I know she's no
prize. I'll tell you what. You take this girl off my hands,
merrier. And I'll give you some stockings full of gold. That
Santa Claus dropped on this chimney the other night. Oh,
wow. But no, that was that was a thing. Like, you know, because
the arranged marriages were more of a thing back in the day.
Yeah. So you know. I'm still trying to get over that. That's
the title thing.
Yeah, once you get once you get the giggles it's tough to and
then of course I had like little you know, you laugh hard and you
start tearing up a little bit so I rubbed my eyes and forgot I
have some spicy oil from some spicy food I was eating,
apparently still on the tips of my fingers. And it burns.
Washington Irving created many Santa's legends. You may know
Washington Irving best for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
featuring them famous. Yeah, but he wrote a lot about St.
Nicholas too. In fact, he's the one who first came up with the
eight tiny reindeer. He loves Santa Claus so much that in 1835
He helped launch the St. Nicholas society of the city of
New York, serving as Secretary until 1841.
All right, so yeah, you said Washington Irving. I'm like I
know that name. I know that name. The Sleepy Hollow. Okay.
I'm gonna look up his Christmas stuff. Because I believe that's
in public domain if it's good, maybe I'll do it for me to spot
yeah, see what it's like.
So I was wrong. Wait, no, I wasn't wrong. But here's the
thing I was talking about. The rockefeller christmas tree is
the tallest gotcha the first Christmas tree at the
Rockefeller Center it looked more like Charlie Brown's than
the rest split in one today it was resplendent. Rest Clendon
resplendent. Art resplendent is fun. Okay, Respondent one today,
construction workers first place a small undecorated tree while
working there in 1931. Two years later, another tree appeared in
its place, this time, draped in lights, and it just kept getting
bigger every year. Today, the majestic tree bears more than
25,000 twinkling lights and sees millions of selfie takers each
season. And it
was a focal point of an episode of HawkEye was a mediocre show.
But it had the big old Christmas tree in it so. Yeah, so your mom
had just texted me? You got the dowry? Right. Couple minutes
ago, she but I didn't I didn't have my notifications on
estimate boundary. That was the thing where the dad pays the
groom. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Candy Canes originated in Germany. National Convention
Confectioners Association says a choir master originally gave the
red and white striped candies to young children to keep them
quiet. During marathon church services. grandmas who still
sneak who still sneak the kids sweets during the droning
sermons. History is on your side. It wasn't until a German
Swedish Swedish immigrant decorated history with candy
canes in 1847 that they became popular as a Christmas candy.
So I'm not big on new trends and modern things and we know
popular ideas we know. But I am a fan of the candy canes that
aren't peppermint flavored. I solved it. Guy you solve the
Rubik's Cube fidget spinner. Good job. So I love the Skittles
flavored candy cane so good. Starburst flavored candy. I love
them. Yeah, I'm a big fan of this friend
said she was gonna get me bacon candy canes. What Don't like
bacon?
That's, that's amazing. Yeah. All right. Do you want to get on
searched up? brave.com not an ad. And look this up. See if
it's a thing or if it's just your friend messing with you
because he knows you don't like bacon.
She sent me a video or picture of it. No, you know, Walmart
site
over the Walmart site. Hmm. I may have checked that out. Maybe
I'll bet it's terrible. I could just take some bacon and shape
it like a candy cane and eat it. Oh, we got it. We got a link
here. Let me click this visual link and oh, yeah, the old
fashioned candy flavored sticks. That's it's not a modern idea.
They've been around forever. I just didn't. They're not shaped
like cans and marketed at Christmas. So that's why I
didn't didn't link that in my head with the root beer one and
the butterscotch was the cotton candy ones are so good. Like
when you go to one of the old fashion stores, you know, and
they have the little stand up front with the different
flavored they're they're like candy canes, but they're not a
cane. It's just a stick. It's like a candy walking stick.
The 2d Fruity the cherry and the cotton candy ones are the best.
Oh, the bubblegum one who are no no, no, no. Don't think of the
cotton candy. That's yeah, butterscotch root beer in cotton
candy. Yes, that's the three food groups that matter. Oh,
yeah. The bubble gum one tastes too much like the antibiotics I
took when I was a kid. So I didn't
doesn't like bacon. That's it. I rage quit. I like a turkey
bacon. I don't like pig bacon. Because it's it's too greasy.
Oh, you just haven't had good pig bacon. It's not that you
just haven't seen good anime. Anything is like gatekeeping the
reverse gatekeeping you want to get everybody into what you're
into? Yeah, that's kind of me. Oh, bacon. Bacon is great. I
love bacon. It's a good thing. But if I eat it too much, I'll
get tired of it. So I don't want to do that. So I think we're
gonna have to wrap up. Oh, four. We're about to hit 15 minutes on
the recorded episode. We will be on live. Probably gonna listen
to some copyright free Christmas music. Definitely. Definitely
copyright free because we don't want to infringe on anybody's
copyrights on our live show. Definitely. So everybody have a
fantastic Christmas, or whatever you celebrate. Just have a have
a good end of December. And hopefully everybody's doing okay
with this dreadful weather going on out in the country. And you
know, what? Used to be like to be safe, used to be like a
thing. And then it turned into like a political thing. But, you
know, just take care of yourselves out there. Yeah, I
think most of our listeners are smart enough to be doing anyway.
So. All right, everybody have a fantastic weekend. And we'll see
you next time. Have a good Christmas. Bye. Oh, that's
loud. Was did we not test it? I didn't test it. Is Kyle here
today even though it's Christmas? Yeah,
yeah, he actually showed up just for us. Oh my gosh,
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