Unknown: Welcome to the Christmas special
of Fun Fact Friday
David: with Leila and David. That was pretty epic. I agree. I
think we did a good job. All right, that wraps it up. Y'all
have a great Christmas. We'll see you next. No, no.
Unknown: Happy Christmas.
David: Eve. We're recording this. Yeah, Christmas Eve. 2023.
Unknown: I'm sorry, we couldn't get it out sooner.
David: Yeah, we have. We've, I literally, I literally had no
voice on Friday.
Unknown: I literally, I was talking like this. I can Yeah, I
can only whisper. But
when I had the same thing that he had laryngitis, I could
either yell or whisper. Yeah,
David: I couldn't yell. I tried. I tried in the truck. We were we
were out and about doing stuff. And I was like that's all I got
out. So, um, so yeah, we're sorry, we're, you know, we're
late. But folks have a lot to do during this time of year anyway.
So maybe folks aren't even listening yet. So it's Christmas
Eve. And we wanted to talk to y'all about some Christmas facts
and some facts about some traditions. Yeah, we've got some
traditions in our household. But before we go into that, we're
going to talk about some good news. Yeah, once again.
Unknown: So I have a story about Wait. What do we do when?
My gosh, Hello, and welcome to the Christmas edition of Fun
Fact. Friday news.
Welcome. I'm your lead anchor. Leila, I haven't been the lead
anchor in a while. No, you haven't. I have it. So it's
Christmas time. So obviously we have Christmas themed good news.
And mine is about this little girl. She looks to be about
maybe seven ish. And she went to the to go see Santa. And she
couldn't speak to Santa because she's deaf. Or she could that's
not good news in sign. But there was an elf there that signed for
her. And translated from Santa to the little girl.
David: That's awesome, isn't it? I like there was a story a while
back. It was a big viral video. This whole town. There was a guy
there that was death. And like, everybody that lives within a
couple blocks of him all secretly got together and learn
sign language. And then like nobody let on that they were
doing that. And then one day, all of a sudden, everybody's
signing at him. That's awesome. And it just was so it was like
it was heartwarming. That's good stuff. I bet I need to learn
sign language. It's a good thing to learn.
Unknown: I'm learning it. I'm not. I'm not very fluent in it,
but I am learning it.
Yeah, I've seen you. I've seen you. You had an app, right?
I did have an app, but it didn't work very well. So I've just
been using a website called hand speak. Okay.
David: Leila is also learning German and
Unknown: also learning German. First, I'm way better at German
than I am at sign. Yeah,
David: I'll be like, we'll be driving somewhere. And phage
will be in the front seat. And Leila will be in the back. And
we are talking. And we can't make out what she's saying. And
I look back and she's like talking into our Duolingo app on
our phone in German. Talking about apples and
Unknown: my sister is very tall.
David: Alright, give us something in German. Give us
something to talk about your sister being tall
Unknown: is so gross. Like that's, that's the very basic
stuff. Let me pull up a cool sentence that I have.
That's gonna do that while I talk. Okay. She
said that her her mother said that. It was very nice to have
someone else signing for her and actually translating what Santa
says to her. Because she got to live in the moment and she even
got to like record it all happen. happening.
David: Right so she didn't have to do the translation. That's
fantastic.
Unknown: It is. Alright, so we have wall here common see here,
Musial. And so the gang sufficiency though she is our
expressive voice. We Valle Costa del t that he costed seven year
or this is very like she saw talking about buying a shirt.
So are you actually translating that? Are
you just reading it? I'm reading it but I'm printing in my head.
Yeah. Okay. And it's really funny because there's a show
called Oh, hello OS Berlin, okay. And it's like this German
kids show and listen to some of the songs from it. I was
translating in my head, and
David: I'm the smartest woman alive. So I did not get a new
story this week. So I yeah, my good news is it's Christmas.
Whereas they were celebrating or celebrated his lazy. We're
celebrating Jesus's birth, which is in the Gospel, which means
good news. Right. So there we go. Good news. The best news?
Really? Yeah. If you're thinking about it. Traditions.
Unknown: We got very clean. I was going to do it and you're
like, yeah, it was like no,
David: one of our traditions is to always open a gift on
Christmas Eve. Yeah, typically we do it at night, but we
decided to do it earlier today. So bride's mom. Yeah. It's
normally Phaedra. That stops us from just opening all the
presents early. So I got from Leila Yeah. A cool beanie.
Unknown: He got a cool beanie from me. And what I did with it
is I put it inside of a mug, and then wrapped the mug mug inside
of a box inside of another box,
David: and everything was individually wrapped. And it was
fantastic. However, when I reached into the inner box, and
felt a mug shape, I was like, Oh, no. I mean, I love it
because it was given to me with love. But it's another mug. We
have so many mugs.
Unknown: He was very mad at me.
David: I was not mad. I was like Okay, let's see what it is.
Let's see what it is before I make a judgement because it
might be the coolest mug in the world. But then I opened it up
and there was a beanie stuffed in it. And it's a beanie from a
local pub. that a friend of mine owns called well traveled beer
downtown Goldsboro if anybody's in eastern North Carolina, and
yeah, hit up Goldsboro. Go see Sam. At well traveled? Yeah.
Really nice guy grew up with them. Cool place to go. So that
is one of our traditions. Leila, what did you get on our traditional
Unknown: I got a tapestry that I'm very excited about? That. I
haven't hung up yet. Because there's nowhere for me to hang
up.
Yeah, our walls are pretty. Pretty packed. pretty packed.
I'm here to get your help on it. Because I want to hang it on my
ceiling. Oh,
my gosh, what it begins?
I can't reach my ceiling with my stepstool.
David: Yeah, we'll get out of there. No problem. Yeah, we've
got pretty tall ceilings in the house. So what was the other
thing he usually just uses
Unknown: like three step stool to reach my walls and put stuff
up.
David: So while I'm trying to figure out what I was doing,
yeah. Why don't you tell us about one of our own traditions.
Unknown: We always make cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. And
I'm sure if you're a longtime listener to this podcast, you
aren't know that. But it's very fun. I always wake up very
early, like at seven ish. I consider that very early,
sometimes earlier, sometimes earlier. And I make I put the
ball on the wall tray from the oven, and I pop into my parents
room. I'm like, breakfast will be 30 minutes. Okay, and they
probably go back to sleep for 30 minutes.
David: It takes us 30 minutes to get from the sleeping position
to awake to standing.
Unknown: Yeah, so that's why I pop in
David: lots of grunts and you know, joints popping and it get
a little older. I am getting that senior discount now.
Unknown: Oh my gosh.
David: It's so funny. So, one of the other traditions we have I
make this whole episode about our traditions is that we always
break a tradition. So like all of these traditions that we have
of you know, decorating the tree going out to Chinese food on
Christmas Day. We always break one. It's like a rule we have to
break one of our traditions. We don't ever do everything every
year. So that's that's a it frees us up to not feel
obligated to do something if we're just really not in the
mood. So I found talking about Christmas traditions on
parade.com There's an article 40 Best Christmas traditions and
we're just kind of run through them real quick. Okay, are
Leila: you what? Best Christmas traditions? Yeah,
David: so I'm gonna run through and get your opinion on a few.
I've the link is in the show notes. If you want to click it
and go through start at the bottom. I'll start at the top.
And we can kind of get each other's opinions. ugly Christmas
sweaters.
Unknown: Yeah, I'm kind of mad on that one also. It is what it
is some folks like everything is just what Oh, wait. Oh
are here. Sorry. It's the bottom. Yeah. Yeah,
David: it's not. I didn't format that one. No very well. So
matching family Christmas pajamas. We've never done that.
I've never done that. I don't want to kind
Unknown: of lame but also good for you. It's like it's a waste
of money in my opinion.
David: Why don't we bake Christmas cookies as a
tradition?
Unknown: Because they wouldn't be that great. If we got
chocolate chip cookies. That'd be fine. Yeah,
David: Christmas cookies can be any kind of cookie. You as long
as you're eating them near Christmas.
Unknown: I guess. Yeah. Any
David: flavor can be a Christmas cookie.
Unknown: I need to bake cookies for Santa.
David: Yeah, you do. He's gonna be upset. If you don't get
cookies, I gotta
Unknown: go. Grab cookie dough. Yeah, this is a premade stuff.
It
David: works. Um, I like the have you seen I don't know if
they even sell them anymore. They used to have it's like a
tube. And that is just sugar cookies. And you just slice it.
Oh, it has like a Christmas tree or a Santa or something like
that in the middle. Those are kind of neat. And they're super
easy. You just cut them and put them in the oven.
Unknown: A secret Santa.
David: I do like savor Santa. Now. My friends did ticker Santa
this year. So you're saying this without me without her call?
Sad.
Unknown: Like you didn't tell you this last day. So I
David: used to do Reddit Secret Santa until I got off of that
horrible, horrible website. Yeah. That was pretty neat.
Like, it had a huge system of like matching you with other
people. And it was it was just neat. Like they would have a
Christmas wish list. They tell you a little bit about
themselves. And there you go. So I don't I don't understand and
have never heard of this one. It's called hide a pickle
ornament in your Christmas tree. Oh, I've
Unknown: heard of that. Really? Yeah.
David: Okay. Oh, the first kid to find the pickle ornament on
the tree gets to open one of their gifts first.
Unknown: Yeah. All right. I've heard of that. I've never heard
of that.
And Baker yule log.
What's a Yule Log?
Log? Maybe you'll? I don't even know it's a. I think it's like
one of those
David: things. I've always heard it. But I've never seen one.
Unknown: Okay, let me actually look it up like cuz I'm curious.
All right. How's your log? Okay. I don't have a mouse. That's
throw me off. Oh, so we're just like, oh, it's like a Swiss
roll. Oh, so it's just like, Oh, it's a big swiss roll. It's
something I feel like I knew that a
David: big swiss roll. I didn't know it's called a YOLO. And
maybe it's just delicious. We
Unknown: should make this a tradition.
David: Oh my gosh. Talking about log delicious stuff. Oh, there's
a new little cafe in town. I have an
Unknown: idea. I have. Oh my gosh, I just had the best idea
ever. Oh, wait,
here we go. Okay, okay. Okay. Go. So,
we take the premade cookie dough or we make cookie dough. That's
edible. We can like
Okay, good. We make cookie dough that's not edible.
Make cookie dough that's edible. So it doesn't have like eggs in
it, which is fake and I hate it. We take it and we lay it flat
like in a little square. Like like a big like one foot by one
foot square. Okay, and then we take some Nutella. We put it on
it and we roll it up like a Yule Log. Maintenance over Okay,
okay, anyway, and then we roll it up and then we roll it up.
And then we it's a Yule Log. But it's a weird yule log. And we
put like that temper chocolate on it so it cracks when you cut
it. Oh my gosh. I'm so smart.
David: If you want to spend your own money on the ingredients and
do that go for it. Because I feel like it will be a failure.
Oh,
Unknown: what else can you put in chocolate chip cookies just
chocolate gross weight
David: are you making chocolate chip cookies and then putting
Nutella on them? No making sugar cookies. No. What are you doing
then? Chocolate chip cookie dough chocolate chip cookie
dough? Yes. And then roll up Nutella? Yes. And then the
covered whipped cream and marshmallows. No. Okay.
Unknown: You put temper chocolate on it and wait for the
temper chocolate to dry so it's like a hard shell you can put
like what green and cream and marshmallows and if you want I
guess
if you're I didn't make any of the haystacks
you didn't get those are pretty good when you make them.
David: I gotta make a smaller Yeah, I was making them too big.
haystacks are the chow mein noodles. With butterscotch. And,
like, butterscotch melted onto the disgusting thing it does.
But could you basically just pour chow mein noodles into the
melted butterscotch and then put it in little clumps, like a
little haystack. real small, like just like a little bit. I
don't know how to how to explain it. Look at how delicious that
looks. And yeah,
Unknown: you'll log I want one now. I really want why we should
like Walmart easy. They have McAfee Ledoux. Probably not.
Lennar close today.
David: Oh, they close it. Yeah. Okay. We have a new little cafe
we've been hitting up for for pastries and macarons
Unknown: good stuff guess what when and
David: they and they make their coffee right like the fancy
drinks. I got a brown sugar something rather. And it was not
like stupid ridiculous sweet like you go to a lot of coffee
shops and anything flavored. They put so much sweetener in it
that it's like how do you feel about Secret Santa?
Unknown: I just talked about
wildlife. Why am I this far down on the side? Why
are you at the bottom?
I don't know. So
So indulge in a big breakfast we do that? Well, cinnamon buns and
well the thing underneath it says in those Oh, this is number
33 By the way, this magic number being dangling, indulgent, big
breakfast nurses, whether you bake salmon rolls, whip up
pancakes, make an omelet or make muffins make a special treat for
Christmas morning.
David: Okay, so here's here's one that I want to get your
opinion on. Okay. Visit Christmas light displays. Yeah,
no, for me kinda like that, too. We do have one nearby much crap
to do where they have. They have the lights synced up to the
radio station. Oh, yeah. And they play Christmas music. It's
a radio station, transmitting from the house. And it's a low
powered door. You have to be like right in front of the house
to hear it because of regulations. But yeah. You tune
in your radio to it, and the lights sync up with the music.
It's really neat. But once you've seen it once or twice,
you're like, seeing it. I'm so sorry about my voice. You're
off. It's it sounds terrible. I know. I'm sorry. Christmas
movies. What's your favorite Christmas movie? Oh,
Unknown: no.
David: You're like elf. No. Cry National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation. No. Home Alone. No. Okay. Here's a David rant. Oh,
It's a Wonderful Life. Are you familiar with the story of It's
a Wonderful, I
Unknown: never watched it. I've never heard of the story. Okay.
David: So it's this old movie that everybody talks about is
like, the best Christmas movie. And I'm probably gonna get some,
some some bad email from this or whatever. But you know what?
It's just my opinion.
Unknown: It's like your opinion, man. It's a terrible story.
What's the story? Okay, so
David: there's this guy, right? Yeah. And he's like, he works at
a bank. And he doesn't like his life.
Unknown: His wonderful life, though. Poached, calm
David: down. Oh, calm, okay. I can't go into full rant mode
because of my voice. But
Unknown: if you write it out, I can
David: hold on, pause it and write it down. He decides that
he wants to, you know, check out if you know what I mean. He
doesn't want to be around anymore. Yeah. Well, he gets
stopped by an angel. And the angel shows him what the world
would be like, if he never existed. And it goes through and
it shows like all of his loved ones. Like that they're in a way
worse situation. Because he's not there. And then and then he
comes back and he loves his life. So like, that's the story.
And I don't know, I just don't get the appeal of saying I
Unknown: don't like the Christmas story of Christmas
Carol.
David: What I like your Christmas Carol. I know you do.
There's a couple of parts that I would change. I've got notes
Charles Dickens. I've got notes.
Unknown: But can you go to is going to be like Charles
Charles, I'm better.
David: I wrote you down some stuff is gonna just gonna pin it
to your, your headstone here. Just to let you know, I may
rewrite a play of A Christmas Carol does a couple of little
changes. One thing we don't do that we probably should it is
Christmas cards. We get a lot of Christmas cards, but we just
don't ever sit down and write them out.
Unknown: Do you donate Toys for Tots?
David: Um, not Toys for Tots? But we do. We do typically do
some nice things for some folks. Yeah, no, we don't know. Yeah,
we don't like to go into that stuff. Oh,
Unknown: dang it. What? I forgot to take my photo with Santa at
the mall. I had a plan. Is it open? Is it is it open? If it is
we're gonna find out we're gonna find out.
David: What we will do what we can And to post that on our
socials
Unknown: unless we get it if we get it if we get it.
David: Yeah, so, so yeah, those are just some some cool
traditions you can do. I'm trying to think of any other
traditions that I've heard that
Unknown: add special ornaments to your history. Oh yeah.
David: Our Christmas tree is only special ornaments.
Unknown: No, we never we don't have any of the colored balls.
We don't have any snowflakes. I don't have any basic stuff we
have stuff with meaning that if you pointed that one ornament on
our tree, it was like let's do this. We would explain the
David: story. I may not know. Yeah, but Leila well, because it
was hers. Like this year we gained like three or four
ornaments from the Christmas carol play we were a lot of
people were giving out Christmas tree ornaments. And it's great
because they had written on their you know A Christmas Carol
2023 Yeah, you got a little Yeah, a little Are you tired?
Unknown: A little. I want to I want to go to bed so we can time
travel tonight tomorrow. Right? I got a little what's it called?
ornament. No. Photo free Wiseman thing I got what do you call it?
It's just a sit around thing sit around thing. I gotta sit around
thing is a three wisemen? Yeah, it's in the play. The stage
crew, we had a little bit where Bob Cratchit was talking about,
oh, the three wives been giving them gifts. Do you remember how
we were like, We Three Kings.
David: And then the stage manager runs out was like no, no
wrong. Play, run, play. That's next week.
Unknown: Give an ad for the child of promise. Right.
David: So that was fun. Yeah. So I have had multiple people. Yes.
And I'm doing it because it's Christmas. I may release a
better version later. But I've had multiple people request that
I read Luke two from the Bible about the Christmas story. And
I'm going to pause the recording, clear my throat and
come back with the Christmas story. Pasta, the birth of Jesus
from Luke two.
In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census
should be taken at entire Roman world. This was the first census
that took place while Cornelius was governor of Syria. And
everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went
up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem,
the town of David. Luke has he belonged to the house of David.
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be
married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there,
the time came for the baby to be born. And she gave birth to her
firstborn son. She wrapped him in clothes, and placed him in a
manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby,
keeping lots of their flocks by night. And angel of the Lord
appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shown around them,
and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, Do not be
afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for
all the people. Today in the town of David, a Savior has been
born to you. He is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be assigned
to you, you will find a baby wrapped and close and lying in a
manger. Suddenly, a great company of the heavenly hosts
appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory
to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace to those on whom
his favorite rests. When the angels had left them and gone
into heaven, this ever said to one another. Let's go to
Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which our
Lord has told us about. So there you go.
Unknown: I have a mic down.
I hold my voice as best.
Yeah, you did really good. Thank you. I was I was editing the
David: Yes, I like you're just trying to me because the OneNote
is like flickering and changing screen while I'm reading. But if
anybody wants me to read more of that, or any particular verse of
the Bible, I know people like my voice, not to Yeah, not to toot
my own horn but people have told me Well, people have told me
that they liked it. If nobody ever told me I wouldn't be
saying this. But I am definitely willing to read a I'll read
things for you if you need it if you need it. Yeah. So hopefully
when my voice is better Alright, so we are out I think we're
gonna start wrapping it up. We're gonna get get this posted,
and we're gonna run into town and pick up a capital A
Unknown: Christmas presents forgot that we
David: haven't had a chance to kit or forgot about until today.
Yeah, hopefully we can get a picture us Santa.
Unknown: That'd be amazing. I want to get all hippy it up. I
want to get all hyped up and go to like a hippie. Yeah. I think
it'd be fun.
All right, everybody.
We don't usually do it. But it's fun.
David: We did not have any support, which is fine. We
haven't put up we haven't been real consistent with putting out
proper episodes lately. So we get that and everybody also, you
know, Christmas time you're spending a lot of money on gifts
and for your family and loved ones and traveling and, and
that's, yeah, that's more important that we're just we're
out here doing a show. We always appreciate them support, but
everything else matters more. Yes.
Unknown: And we only want your money if you're stable enough to
give
David: it to Absolutely. Yeah. And if you find value in the
show. Wow. Why is the site using two gigs of RAM? Warning y'all.
Parade parade.com is using two gigs of RAM. Oh, that's great.
Unknown: Cranberry spray cranberry add probably. All
David: right, everybody. I think that was all we had. So y'all
have a very Merry Christmas. If you're listening to this after
Christmas. I hope you had a good Christmas. And then New Year's.
Yeah. Happy New Year's. Next episode. Yeah, we'll be doing
our New Year's episode on the 29th and we'll see y'all then.
Bye. Bye, everybody. Oh
Unknown: hey, Kyle. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
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