Bizarre Christmas Traditions Around The World

0:01 Hello, bizarre story. Junkies, if you're listening right now, you're tuned into the bizarre AF, where we talked about the strange, the Absurd, the unknown and things that are bizarre, a AF, I'm Kevin, I will be your host today. And like, always we ask that you keep an open mind, keep a skeptical here but keep listening to the facts. As we take you, on our newest Journey bizarre Christmas traditions across the world. Is welcome and Merry, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

1:14 Merry Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Alicia. Merry Christmas, Kevin. And I had a great season. Oh my God. I just love Chris's honestly like my favorite holiday. I know it is. It yours is my favorite? She's no Halloween Halloween has. Yeah, Halloween's, pretty good. Yeah, I love Christmas though. I am so happy and I'm so happy, you Beast. Spending it here with you and our loved ones for this podcast feed. But before we even start, do you mind? I need some Christmas cheer, do you? Yes. So we could, we have all kinds of options. Okay. Okay. So we have audio options. Who? Yeah. That'd be fun. Yes, it's a little creepy.

2:01 The little creepy, like, maybe it's on a haunted doll that might. And if I doing this, And then go. Oh yeah. Like you're spinning of a musical box, right? Ready. Watch this. I'm on my way. Okay, okay. Okay. Oh, very nice time. That's a good. Some great Christmas cheer. Then we have taste? Yes, paste options. Oh yeah, let's cheer. Yes. I, yeah, I need to have some taste option. Okay. So we have a thermos of Christmas cheer. Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. Okay.

2:41 Yes, we brought the Christmas cheer. You know what the Christmas cheer is the sheriff. It's a thing called glow wine. It's from Germany. Me and Dave and I went to Germany just, you know, just a little bit ago. Yeah, actually just a couple weeks ago. Oh my God. It's steaming steaming hot. So I'm trying to not to make so much of a mess, my friends. Let's have our Christmas sweeties. Well, let's just go ahead and reduce. Yeah, guests today. It is Christmas after all. Yeah. And so, First, I'll see what Dave?

3:21 Let's let's introduce dance. David, Dave? Yeah. David has gen, David. I don't know how David. Hi David. Yeah, just close this thing right up to the old God there. Yeah, there you go. Yes, that's Dave. We've been together for quite a while. We've spent so many wonderful Christmas memories together. You actually made this this glue wine or glow wine. Yeah, cool, cool. Join. Yeah, you pronounce it more and more correctly in German. Just the more you drink? Yes, yes, drink, drink, drink. Okay. And then introducing my husband.

4:01 Roy is submerged and hello. Royce Emergen. Hello. The title. Are you a fan of Kevin feel so honored? Yes, you should be. Roy is just such a prince. I always say that he is an absolute Prince. He's been, he's basically like the third member of the podcast really? He is? Yeah, I am. Yes, especially behind the scenes and CTS. Yeah, mmm. So let's have a taste of Christmas. Cheer Christmas is here. Merry Christmas. Oh, that's the mass of our. That's very good, dude.

4:44 You thought it was going to be so disgusting. It's gonna be nasty. Honestly, that's delicious. Actually, we're a little sugary. So this is a little hangover minute blah. You want too much of that, no way. So, you know, another bit of Christmas cheer that we had. Yes, we both got each other little present, we did for Christmas, we did. So I don't know if you can see them. M, but here's our little here's mine, okay. They're like very similarly shaped. They are they the same thing? There's no way. There's no way with that one. Okay. So do you want it? Do you want to open up yours Kevin? And I'll tell you a little bit.

5:27 So I got that in Germany. Yeah and this I saw and it reminded me so I think so. Reminded me of you and and many times like what I see on your guys's screensavers when I'm here. Oh my God, what could it be then? So this is actually handmade in German, it's all German. So I can't read it. Okay, so he's opening it up, opening up the box, the Box. Okay? Yeah, it is fragile. It is official. Oh, my girl, good.

6:18 So you know where that's going to go on the merman Christmas tree? No, I have no, no, no, I'll show it to you. So, it's a total Fang to. Yeah. It's a man with a, it's a torso, really? And a guy in like, a speedo thong, but hand-blown. This is what? Yes, yes, we'll go. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm painted and everything. Yes, Yeah, this is definitely going on our mermaid Christmas tree. You'll see why it's so perfect. Perfect. Yes, I saw that. And I asked the guy said, hey, can you get me this one? He said. Yeah, he's and he said just double-checking, he and he held up the, the Torso. And I was like, yeah, thank you so much.

7:04 Welcome. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. So yours! I know what a fan, you are. What I'm giving you. Oh my God. God. And I'm hoping you don't have it, okay? Because you're such a fan, you might have it. Okay. I'm hoping you don't, I'm sure, I don't know. Let's see. Okay, let's see what it ends up being. Okay, let's see here. Opening it up. I can tell you, I actually do not have this Star Trek Communicator badge, but it is legit. It will show up your phone. Boo. And you tell you talk know, No. Oh my God.

7:46 Oh my God! I'm like I'm such a Trekkie. I know he's talked about this like so many times but holy shit. This is so awesome. You can connect that with your phone. You have to pin it on me. Now, honestly, the whole setup and the voice. Yes. Yeah. Like what would I say? I don't know. I'm excited to figure out what you could do. Well, I think you could beat me up. You can create it. You could. Yeah, you can say that kind of stuff. Yeah. Oh my God, I just hit the crazy girl button. Yeah, so you say something like Alicia to Siri? Yeah Alicia Siri play Harry Styles on Spotify. So the Harry Styles thing. I don't know, I just like coming up. I love.

8:28 Oh my God. Yes, oh yes. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is just fucking amazing. Like look o at how legit it. It's magnetic. It's totally magnetic. Okay. I had no, I'm taking the shut off. Its just, oh my God. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. All right, so this this we're gonna do, you can't see it either. My mom's crawling around on the floor, picking up trash.

9:09 So this episode is Christmas-themed, of course. Oh, you know what we could do? Yeah. Yes, let's do that. Yeah. So for those of you that aren't watching, I think you should be watching. Yeah, it's a great up. Some Christmas theming video stuff. So we're going to do bizarre. Stuff like traditions and things that people do all over the all of the world for the world and they probably what we do. Probably seems bizarre, we're em. Yeah. Yeah, no matter. No matter what. Like, you know, some of the crazy Christmas traditions that you might have might like for you. It's just something you've done every single year, but right, it's really fucking weird, right?

9:53 Okay, I do, you guys have any Christmas traditions that you have done like that. You guys have that might be considered. Ginger. Yeah. Do you Roy do you guys, you know, one of the traditions we actually are going to be talking about. So when it comes up what will say it. But aside from that, I don't know, I guess I was talking to your mom earlier and she was saying that that you guys do open up a present Christmas Eve, right? One present, one present. Yeah, we do that too, that's how I grew up. Yeah, it was is opening up one present a Christmas Eve. Yeah, typically they were pajamas but now as an adult, I have so many damn pajamas including these really nice. Hariyama's, right. Roxy. By the way you to write and I went down.

10:33 The onesie free path and you guys went down the Eleganza. Yes. Both right? Yeah, so, so I guess we share the same tradition all of us do? Yeah. One present Christmas Eve. Yeah. Do you guys have like a nice dinner or anything like that? We will make a yeah we'll make a Something special on Christmas day. You know what Christmas? She's all my Christmas Eve reason we like tonight. He's gonna make this. I'll make new Don Japanese udon noodle soup tonight and we're going to have as cargo as a little appetizer.

11:14 I love it. Try to do something. A little fancier front and fancy and then Christmas Christmas and out to a restaurant. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, the Christmas. You know how they always? Go to eat Chinese. And yeah, they're all. Open, they're always open. Yeah. Yep, that's very, very true. Always, try. Chinese spots are like the only place that are open exact like, of course, right, Chinese takeout. Yeah, right, good. Okay, so we're gonna, we're just gonna go to run down the list. Cool, I'll kick it off, that sounds great and then we'll just go around the room and and let's talk about the bizarre AF things that people do. So in Austria, as if the threat of missing out on presence, wasn't bad enough.

12:01 Austrian kids who end up on, Santa's naughty list? Also, have to worry about Krampus Krampus a horned hairy. Beast is snatches, misbehaving children. It is wicker, basket serving, as Saint Nicholas creepy. And for sir many towns in Austria, specially the Alpine Villages around saw Berg and I don't know, trial trial, trial, celebrate celebrate elevat, Krampus mops and December 5th when dozens of men dressed as half-goat demons parade through the streets. Brandishing sticks and terrorizing children my kind of party.

12:49 This does sound crazy and creepy. Yeah Gary panting I could be crazy and He and scary or like really be very into it. Images of Krampus. I've seen are a little bit more on the creepy side. Yeah, that's right. Not the sexy kind of creepy. Well, and I'll put I'll put some pictures up on our internet, but if you're watching On video, okay. That if you're watching a video, I mean, this dude is scary factors. Yeah. So he has like horns. Like, like, like goat horns, kind, Or not go horns. But some kind of horns that he's like, stag horns. Yeah, super creepy hairy, man.

13:29 That's, that's an Austria and the Alpine. That's how you keep your children in be, in, you know line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Krampus coming. Fuck out the on the Shelf, Krampus. So, next time, we, the next one we have is the pooper and the pooping log in Catalonia. Yeah, so for some inexplicable inexplicable reason catalans, observe not one, but two To based Christmas traditions that will put a smile on your face. Eat feces, right? Yeah. Excuse me species. They says. So, the first is the CAG, Nur roughly. Meaning the pooper figuring of pantsless a peasant, that's laying a cable that's knocked, to a nativity scenes. Alongside Jesus is fucking crazy. So, Jesus, Mary.

14:19 And Joseph in the pooper, right? The second one isn't a conga. Theo or the pooping log, which is a small stick in, with a smile on its face that lives on a dinner table and December and it's fed every day with nuts. Yeah, I'm sure not gonna feed the pooper. It's corn. No doesn't say corn. But sweets and kept warm with a blanket and then gets beaten with sticks on Christmas Eve, to poop out the presence. Really, the, the kids stuck out and pray for presents. Well, Papa gives beat the fed and poop. Boop, do you get the presents out of the FED poop? But you know what, here's the thing you want it, like kids, what are they doing during you know, Christmas eating a shitload of sweets, you kind of want them to get some of that energy out, beat up, eating a beating, a poop log. God crazy.

15:15 Alright Dave, what do you got for us? So I have the Yule Lads of Iceland. Okay, so Icelandic kids don't just get one Santa Claus but they get 13. Mischievous trolls roaming the country in the Fortnight Before Christmas like Snow White seven doors. Each of these 13 year olds Lander has his own personality including nice, this actually sounds very attractive to me. I'll go away sniffer. Hmm, Boone liquor. Nice sausage. Swiper candle. Stealer also would apply the curd gobbler heard, but she's that. Yeah, that's yeah. And the ominously named window peeper, each takes turns visiting children who leave their shoot who lead their shoes in their bedroom window.

16:03 Dropping off pressey, this must be presents presents. Excessive precedents for the good kids, and the writing and writing potatoes for the bad ones. So it's like, that's a rotten potato. Yeah. Why are all the so erotic sounding? Is it just me? And like, yeah. Come on, come on. You fucker gobbler nickname window. Petersburg websites before crazy. All right babe. What do you what do you got for us? My name is Mary Lord Wales. Hmm and this is a Welsh culture is acient and steeped in Superstition. That's true.

16:48 Okay, it's not surprising, therefore, that residents of South Wales. Enjoy parade. Ting and undead horse around their villages, to celebrate the happiest time of year. MMA West sailing display, dating back to probably Celtic times the custom involves draping a white sheet, over a pole with a horse skull attached and knocking on townsfolk's. Doors creepy, no doubt. Giving them the Fright of their lives. The party carrying The Morbid. Effigy then sing. To the residents who are supposed to sing back before, relinquishing some food or drink, there is some debate about whether Mary Lord translates to Holy Mary or gray mare, but either seems equally creepy to me.

17:38 Yeah, I agree. I totally agree with you. Oh, so they go around and just like, oh, hey knock on your door. So you see that creepy horse had? I mean, Yeah, it's super creepy. What does this come from? Where the hell did I get all these horse heads? I was there like a mass killing of horses. Right? Before Christmas to complete. Probably given from France, right? They eat a lot of horse out there. That's very true. Have you guys ever tried horse? Is that a thing do? They totally, do you got it worse? I've never tried it before. I want to try it. I mean had reindeer. When I was in Norway, I don't know. Nothing. It was good. I know I did a reindeer.

18:19 Yeah, I think that they They have. So I think there's a place here in Denver that has a reindeer. Sausage, has Biker Jim's. Don't they have reindeer? Sausage is, yeah, it's like kind of gave me like, like deer, which makes sense. Yeah, it doesn't sense. Sounds gross. Well, it sounds good. Alright, that's I'm up. I think. Yeah, you're up. It's all you. Okay, we're going to talk about Japan. And they love themselves from Kentucky, Fried Chicken, mmm. So I yeah, I know, it's pretty fucking good. So this is the greatest Christmas thing marketing. Try absence Coca-Cola. Honestly popularize the fat jolly red-suited image of Santa Claus as we all know and love and Christmas isn't huge in Japan but ridiculously successful KFC, add in the 1970 70s established his tradition of families tucking into Going into buckets of Fried Chicken on December 25th so they literally go out to KFC.

19:24 That's their tradition. My buckets of KFC and that is their December 25th dinner. That's crazy. I love it. Uh-huh. That sounds really good. I freaking love KFC. Hmm. Like I could eat it every day. What do you like the most the original recipe? Original recipe like the dark meat like the leg or the thigh. Oh my God, love. I love it. I yeah, fuck. Yeah, I'm hungry. I'm hungry. But I am eating these great Christmas cookies. Yeah. Good job Dave. Yeah. Way to go cook says but I saw me. Thank you. Yeah, the next one we have is La Belle Befana, and Italy. So Italian Christmases are actually celebrated with a wine drinking which so we're all wine drinking. I don't know.

20:13 Are we could we? We're not witches yet but we aspire to be. No, I'm a Warlock. But it's true. You need one black mass and then you're in. Okay, Daniel would know. I, okay, so it's that the wine drinking which is not your alcoholic. Auntie, from the doggy side of the family, it's actually 12 Days After Santa's visit, which is when she comes. It's on the Epiphany. The eve of the Epiphany January 5th families, across Italy, actually, leave out. A glass of the VMO and a plate of sausages for La Belle Befana. Who pops down the chimney on her broomstick? They're Savory Santa. I, this is my kind of like, honestly, like can I just be her? I love sausages.

20:57 I love wine. I'm fucking down. So, according to Fork, lure the old lady, who knocked back an invitation from the three wise, men to witness the birth of Christ. That's who she wasn't and was so devastated about, she was actually devastated about missing it. So she spends every Christmastime gliding around the country. Searching for babies, Jesus all We're not sure why she thinks she'll find him in any way and Doling out presents to good, kids, and coal to the naughty ones. Huh? Hmm. Okay. So they like their coal. Yeah. You like that. They're Savory. Because I'm savoring your favorite. Yeah. Same. Same thing, Savory and sweet lovey. Mmm.

21:38 All right David Dave. Okay, Scott being, uh-huh. We got ourselves a radish carving, Mexico. Look at that picture. Yeah, this picture. Okay, sweet. Okay. Each year in the Mexican city of a waka waka the day the days before Christmas or marked within event known as the night of the radishes. Sadly, it's not a low-budget 80s horror movie sounds like a vegetable carving competition. Participants get remarkably creative with everything from nativity scenes too. Fantastical monsters on display as thousands of visitors to send on the city to witness the fun amazing. Yeah. It's Using the radishes in question are grown specially in pumped with chemicals to grow immense, but it all seems a bit futile as The Works. Can only be displayed for a few hours before the veggies. Whether away preservative that's true, getting. That's right.

22:33 Because preservatives, right? So, if you're not tuning in on the video portion, Kevin did show an image of the radish sculpture, which was Mazing if there's one big radishes, like I think it's multiple, right? Has to be multiple radishes but it's like it's almost like a Cthulhu or like some kind of octopus. Monster girl will long. Yeah screaming. Cool. Yep. Will make sure that this is all on links on the system. Yeah, this next one is freaking scary. Okay Roy, take it at, take it away in Newfoundland. They have something called mummering who User groups of friends will Don masks.

23:20 Look at the mask. If you can see the video part of this, okay? Go outside. Visiting various homes, though they may seem frightening to us. The mass are part of the Carol's traditional where it's creepy, right? So once inside the mummer's will perform a song short plays or jokes in exchange for the hosts Hospitality. I sometimes complain about carolers But I'm gladly take too many courses of Jingle Bells over a spooky Mass visitors, like wonder how this kind of stuff gets started by creeps the homemade element of these masks.

24:02 Yeah, just yeah, it's well and yes, with the red and the run the eyes and and call like the murmuring, like that's a movie. Yeah, the mother is tuned in God. All right. So Portugal. A Portuguese households, always set a few extra plates around the table on Christmas day, so that the spirits of the Dead can join them for the annual Feast, they make extra food for the spirits and take them. So they have a successful year. Now, I'm going to give you guys a little personal family tidbit, okay, let's hear it. So used to be the long the longest time. I'm I think she still does it to this day. My mother will always leave a tiny little bit of food on her plate and like, it doesn't matter. Like, she could not be full or full, but like, there's always like something left on the plane, like a bite. Hmm.

25:07 And it could be that she was leaving food for the dead. Oh my gosh. She goes, she's like Portuguese. Mmm, she's not no. Oh gosh. I wish we could ask her, I know it would be great if she was here right now. Well maybe next another, that's another podcast I guess. Okay. She's the one that taught me that. Preservatives or bad? How can I do the whole thing? Okay, so we're moving on to Belgium and France. My friends. We're actually talking about now, you're going to have to forgive me because I'm not very good. Forgive us all okay, okay.

25:53 Perry a futon hard. It's a flogger of bad children. Okay. Sorry to interrupt. Why do all of these weird? Things involve beating children scaring children. All of that. Okay honestly yeah kids are assholes. I think of the assholes you have to hold them accountable for something you're like oh you want to get some presents? You're right. This motherfucker is going to come in and beat the shit out of you if your number is gonna. Yeah yeah yeah well the pooper don't get the pooper, don't watch out for Krampus. All it is all about torch. I mean we still do that today, right? Like Elf on the Shelf? Yeah.

26:35 Oh the owl was watching you and they're going to report back to Sam. And it says you're a bad kid. Then. I mean, I guess it's the same kind of thing, isn't it is. Yeah. Little floggings like immediate, you know, Bobby's immediate that's true. It's not, it's not like a later on. You'll get some call maybe. So when you guys hear the phrase, Santa's Little Helper. What do you guys think of elves? Elves, man? Who flogs bad, right, I think of the symptoms. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Santa's Little Helper was the Greyhound Good dog. Yeah, that's true. That's a good that's a good answer while in Belgium and France st. Nicholas as sometimes known as oh. Yeah.

27:17 Pere Noel and his assistant is Pierre Foo tarred. And the legend says that PR food tard was a Gruff Innkeeper, who killed his wife and children as punishment for his crime. He's forced to be with Santa's assistant who travels with Santa to dispense any punishment to any misbehaving children. Oh my God. So bad for kids. I know poor kids be good or else you're gonna get fucked over live here. Nothing. I'm being. Yeah, you'll get beaten David. Let's hear the next one. Okay, this one's from the former Yugoslavia, okay. Yeah, I was tying up Smothers again. I mean it's all like BDSM shit, dude, it's yeah crazy. Okay, residents of the former Yugoslavia would tie mother's two chairs and sing the song Mother's Day Mother's Thursday, what will you pay to get away?

28:13 Can you sing that? God, I don't know the tune, but would you go to get away? Yeah, those are good. I like me a. I have a knife to I'd imagine demanding that. She give them presents in exchange for untying her. Yeah. What kind of presence is should give me? Well to Yugoslavia sounds. So Mom, we're going to tell you up later. You will have to beg to be released. She just nods weird. Okay, Roy stuff, what do you got something good for us reproduce? Yes, Frau porchetta is based off the Pagan goddess of the Harvest Legends, often portray this slivery, which as a cohort of Krampus, she'll reward good children, but she also inspects the feast being served She will cut open the belly of anyone who has been lazy and stuff them with straw.

29:15 Uh-huh. What do you think of that? That what? Well, at least they've linked it back to Krampus. So we desire connection. Here's the question. Here's the question. So as Frau porchetta is, she just like an insistent foodie? Like she takes being a foodie to like another level, right? Doesn't she? Oh, I'm gonna watch and see what you guys are serving and if it's not To my liking. I'm going to slice your stomach open. She rewards I guess glazing right. But so sure was a good children. Oh yeah. And then you get stuck a straw. I mean it's a random names. Very random God has our tradition.

29:59 Okay well that would be then a grease. Yes Christmas goblins and backed. So the geez see this is why. Why? Calot cowlick, I like to hunt the real 30 Iraq rui rui are malevolent goblins who enter homes through Yule logs to wreak havoc and hurt children. Once again, I know there are two methods of, keeping them out of your home. Okay, keep it in the Yule Log lit. So it's too hot for the evil gnomes to enter, mmm or Placing a colander near the Yule Log to confuse the goblins.

30:48 So apparently this thing can't count past three, so they end up getting stuck counting the holes for our, I've heard of that, they do that all over the place where you have to try to count whole confuse them. Yeah, by counting. Their obsessive, like obsessive compulsive disorder OCD. Okay, maybe these Christmas goblins need to like, I don't know, get medicated or something. So you gotta have a colander nearby. Make sure I have a colander and you got to keep those Yule logs. Burning golly Oh God, there's another horse. Oh no, so we're actually moving on to Bavaria rather the it's the straw Devils mmm-hmm, which is actually, another example of a pagan tradition, that evolved evolved into a traditional Christmas tradition, right? Like so a lot of these Traditions first, start off as Pagan ones and then they're like, oh, looks like the pagans are having a lot of fun.

31:44 Come and be a part of our church. So we're going to take this on as Christian. Um, so a group of Bavarian then converted into beating children, right. By the way, we're going to beat your ill-behaved children as well, so the a group of variance actually dressed as strong monsters and run through the streets. Intentionally scaring their neighbors, the participants actually enjoy ranking the worst. Strong monster. So, I guess it's kind of like a Bavarian version of our crazy, like, ugly, Christmas sweater. So wonder what makes us strong monster worse. Yeah. Is it like less or more? Yeah.

32:26 Yeah. Like you're putting more time into it or less time into it. Right? It's a good question. Interesting. I think it's just the scariest draw. Yeah that's true. Scares me think of a barrier. That means something very specific for sure. Right. Okay. What do we got Dave? Okay so we're going to the Czech Republic. So very adjacent dish. Okay? Throwing a shoe to get a husband, so this could be taken as advisors suppose if it works, okay. Hey, single women single woman in the Czech Republic will turn their back to the front door and throw the shoe behind them. If the shoe lands with its toes pointing towards the house, the women will be married within a year. Mmm, this comic, the garter belt thing. No, I'm okay.

33:09 I'm okay. It'll yeah, the book. Exactly. The same thing. Except it's a shoe. I'm Brides. What do you got? Anything fun. Well in America, we have the Festivus for the rest of us. So maybe we do have a few strange Traditions. Here we do in America, we do festive. Us was introduced in an episode of Seinfeld by the character of freight Cadenza, the holiday features, aluminum poles and events such as an airing of grievances Feats of Strength and labeling. A Festivus Miracles. The made-up holiday has Third, a following and is celebrated on December 23rd. You can even find Festivus poles on sale if you know, where to look.

33:56 So I have to tell you, I got we don't write and I never never watched Seinfeld. You haven't watched Seinfeld. Oh my God, it's so funny. I mean, you do ever so this takes me to this point. Okay. We don't know of this tradition. Yes. And so we're reading all of these other traditions in these other countries. And I wonder if those people are like, what are you talking about? Yeah, what. Yeah, I've never heard of you. I don't beat children. Yeah. Like there's a light only one fire. Yeah, that's true. That does. That's a very that's a very good point if you haven't if you haven't heard of it then. Yeah it's not it's just not right. But okay. So for Festivus it's what's really funny is I think the Airing of Grievances. So like you just like say What kind of like issues you have with people and you can have the floor, but you can take the floor for like, a couple of minutes and you're like, I have some real fucking problems with you. Like you did this and this, and this, and no one can say anything, which is pretty funny.

34:55 So it's like, gives you the ability to just like tell someone fucking off and like, Feats of Strength, it's like, you get drunk and fucking try to fight like, like wrestle people and then the labeling. Do you remember the labeling of the Festivus Miracles? I can't say that. I do see you guys. Watch the show. Fuck, yeah, you're very much aware of what's. This is George Costanza? His dad actually created it. Okay, so yeah, yeah, Frank Costanza. So he, you know, show, yeah, and the show. So he is trying to create his own, his own, like holiday tradition, and basically it's just he's like, kind of an angry like loud, dude. So it's like an, it's an excuse to be an asshole, really during the holidays, and he has like a pole instead instead of a A tree.

35:42 So you have to like go to the the bother of like putting a tree with like ornaments and shit up. It's just like a fucking pole. It's pretty funny. Yeah. But we're already past it. We're past celebrating it so I guess we're supposed to celebrate yesterday, 23rd. Yeah. Snooze, you lose. Okay, because you lose. Let's hear the next one. Kevin. Okay. Let's do what I like the picture. Pretty sexy have us. We have a story afterwards about that. Okay, so Finland Christmas saunas for the dead. So it's common for most humans in Finland thinned Lynde to have a sauna because of frigid weather. I think we've all have seen that, and yes, it's so shouldn't be too surprising. That finished families.

36:26 Enjoy a spa together on Christmas. Morning. What's slightly earier? Is that the keep the sauna warm after Sunset and sunset? In case the deceased relatives stopped by for a visit? Oh, interesting. So they got to keep because the sun is such a thing then. Yeah, they've got to keep a hot sauna going for their dead relatives. Well, it is, it's like, it's a total tradition just there. So Dave and I, you know, not my Munna, we just travel, but we did, we just traveled. I hate when people talk like that but like, honestly, We did so, whatever. But we just traveled to Germany and I didn't realize how big the sauna tradition there is because I've only gone to the sauna like maybe at a spa, right? If you're going for a spa day, also at the gym, like the YMCA, and it's like separate.

37:19 So it's like the woman's son or whatever dry sauna right? Not steam room. So, you know, it's not a big deal. Well, there, everyone gets naked in them. And I got so weirded out because it's like men and women. Everyone's in there. And I was like, oh my God I think our culture, right totally different culture. Like it's whatever it's like whatever like people are laying naked on the because it's not about sex, it's about being lasting. Yeah. And being in the sauna sweating and stuff like that, it's like a healthy thing, right? And I like had, I don't know David. You can kind of tell me like what the I had. Like, I'm kind of panic. I'm like, I don't know if I can do this. This is like too much. Much. So I went to the woman's one first but Dave was like, oh, well, I feel weird being a single dude, going in there alone.

38:05 So, yeah, I suppose, yeah, we eventually got their Merit of Americans are really uptight. I was so uptight and we are. We are really actually like not uptight but I was in that moment course, yes, that's just not our culture. It's not our culture, but it was like nice. When we eventually like when we did. I was like, who fucking cares? I was like, what did you do? I did I Found the courage? And honestly, I just like laid down, like, in the song. I was like just don't look at anyone. Just don't look at me like that. I had my eyes closed the whole time. Not very relaxing. You are relaxed. I was laying down. Yeah it was totally relaxed, you are. Yeah I'm like just don't if you don't look at anyone thing about just yeah just like fucking sweat and like don't look at anyone and you're fine. Yeah, fucking Sweat. Just well.

38:45 Yeah. That's right. That's right. Can't do that. Maybe like these fucking Americans. Do it anywhere. The like, route. I'm Dave. I think I'm out of here. Someone could have helped. Did you know where you were coming? I know. Yeah. All right. Bummer and a half. We'll take care of it. After the episodes Trump. So the next one that we have wait, whose turn is it? Yes, yours mine. I thought so. Okay, so it's Greenland it's actually daish like can I get some more wine? So Greenland's a dining on kiviak or like a delicious decomposing bird and seal meat My God.

39:29 So, like haggis, you know, just like discuss back. So, Quebec is a traditional dish and Greenland, where I'd, I dead Ox, which is a bird are placed inside a hollowed-out carcass of a seal. The seal is actually left to ferment for seven months underneath a rock. So, you know, when you guys are here tomorrow, you know, because Christmas. So just bring this dish next time that someone complains musical it Early eat this. The eat it for sure they eat it. Yeah, absolutely disturbing, it's so gross but they eat it. Because guess what?

40:09 What some of us, you know? Like, weird shit. I mean, have you ever had what is it in? The Philippines. Yes, I think that's the Philippines and they eat the birds that are not born, yet the egg. Yeah, the fetus, like, egg the egg, with the bird that's growing in the Shell. Dude. No. Have, you know, he'll know what is it called? Like a balut egg or something? Yes, I have not eaten it. I can't even if I think that because I'm pretty open minded as far as food and stuff, goes not saunas, but food.

40:50 I'm pretty open minded about it. I think that I would want to say, I try it but I just couldn't get past it. I could I don't think I could. It's the feathers for me. Who is next? Yes. Oh, it's a German German German, because Varian bullshit, I think on the subway, every other person is dressed like this. So now I finally understand. We're aha Germany. So this is about Belsnickel the sadist, I first heard of Belsnickel on an episode of The Office. Interesting. I thought it was so strange. It must have been made up but he's actually common in Germany and even in Pennsylvania, dutch communities.

41:33 Belsnickel is used to scare children into good behavior. You don't say he's an old children, he's an old man with dirty Furs and law and a long beard. He raps on the doors with a or windows with a wooden stick. Makes the children sing songs for him date or answer questions. Mmm. He then tosses candles on the floor and if the child at the child leaps. Oh, sorry, candies. He tosses candies on the floor and have the child leaps to the sweets too quickly. You'll hit them with a stick too fast. So you fast child as Dwight from the office said, he's kind of like Santa, except dirty and worse. So you saw a lot of people dressed up like this guy that I was alive.

42:19 Why because he is kind of creepy to and these I'm sorry these Germans are. They can do some freaky shit. There aren't just some weird shit. I will say yeah it's very, very dark there. So we got really bored and sad. So of course, all of these fucking like all of these Traditions would come up. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna show try to show this weird Picture This dude with this sack, it looks like a dirty slut Klaus from the office. Yeah, terrible. So bad. All right. Roy stirs, what you got me in Germany again? Oh, you don't say. So this one is Nik.

43:02 Roope rocks. Good job. Wow. Great. Is a companion of Saint Nicholas, but he's far from Jolly. Okay. Like Belsnickel, he exits to scare children into good behavior. If you don't say he has children. If they can pray and if they can heal provide them with delicious gingerbread and fruits creepy. If not, he will beat them with a bag of Ashes ashes of what like ashes of dead children or what burnt at the stake. So he's basically bad cop to Santa's good, cop.

43:43 Oh, yeah. Oaks dude, ashes. That's the random ashes ashes. We All Fall Down that was creepy because off-key okay, Slovakia throwing putting at the ceiling. So a poppy seed and honey bread pudding is a traditional Christmas dish at the Slovak areas of Europe, at the end of the meal, the patriarch of the family will take a spoonful of the pudding and fling it toward the ceiling and the more the putting sticks to the ceiling. The better the Harvest will be the following year and a ceiling covered in pudding is the sign of a bad. Bountiful year. Wow. I just think it was a sign of a lot of cleaning that needs to happen or like maggots that are going to be crawling. Just so the next one we have is actually in Iceland and it's the Christmas witch who eats children her name is Maria. She's the actually, the basis of many Christmas myths and Iceland.

44:45 This giant s not just normal woman giant. S has an satiable appetite for human flesh. She is bound to only eat children who must behave. Kevin showing a picture. Yeah, it's so bad. She leaves the mountains. Excuse me. During Christmas time. She actually leaves the mountains to seek out the prey of bad children. So ultimately Christmas must be a very joyous time and Iceland but you know also if you think about And I don't know if they're American fairy tales but American fairy, tales graemea, the Grimm's. Yeah, Grimm's front, if you really think about them. Hazel Hansel and gretel's on Gretel, huh? You know, the which cooking the kids, hmm. I mean, it's all.

45:34 It's all awful, it's all like it's everywhere. Yeah, they start German. I just did German. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are. German also wondering how ill-behaved. Children were, they must have been really bad in Germany, Cheese Louise. Okay, David. Give us our next one. Okay, this is again in Iceland and this is the vicious. You'll cat. The, you'll cat is gree has pet cat who lurks in the mountains and also praise upon human flesh. Oh, that's the woman. We were just talking about better. Yeah, I love humans. The cat will devour anyone on Christmas Day who has not been given new clothes as a gift?

46:17 Sure, that all of your loved ones, get new clothes to avoid this. Terrible feline mmm. Hey Dave, did you get me any new clothes? No, I got you new clothes. I got you new clothes. We're good. Oh no, we're not going with you. We do have an app to cat. Yeah we do pretty sure while yeah we don't have cats with one of them is definitely from Iceland. You can tell it's the accent Roy. You know what this is the last one. I think you guys getting evaced the last. Yeah, last creepy ass again, it's Iceland. Okay, the Yule Lads of Iceland. Mmm, so if you get annoyed by The 12 Days of Christmas, imagine having 13, gnomes, who come into your home during Christmas to steal your belongings.

47:06 Oh, yeah, exactly. The Yule Lads our sons of gray area. All right her again. Yeah. But not so malevolent. She could she doesn't eat anyone right. Either gifts for good children or potatoes for bad ones. Each lad has his own distinct personality. So get what's-her-name Gilly, how do you pronounce that Grill? Guerrilla rila so greatly its children. Yes, she has a cat that lurks in the mountains and plays a preys upon human flesh. And then she has 13 boys, mmm-hmm Who steal your belongings.

47:47 I mean isn't that kind of like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? I wonder if that's like maybe that's like kind of its like the cursor it's like the upside down for maybe it's the upside down for Snow White. These kind of seem at least based on this image pretty similar to some of the other Lads we are talking about. So we got ourself a window peeper meat hook which is an awesome that let's start a band called. Yeah meat hook and then we got the window peeper. Sausage sausage. Swiper. Oh yeah, yeah, they all seem to be kind of similar. Yeah. And what was the goo sucker? Know what was the other one spoon? Liquor spoon liquor sausage? Swiper.

48:28 Yeah. As opposed to a sausage barrier, another episode for sure. Candle stealer. Yes. They do look like. Look, look you tell me that's not the upside down for Snow White. Oh, it's totally. It's totally the upside down. Yeah, I mean they look just like the dwarves show them. The gorilla one. I did. Where he the baby? No, this one here. Second one from the bottom. On the second. One from the bank. That one Oh gosh. The other one, which made her look a lot better. Jeez, Louise. She has like a yeah, she looks hacker door.

49:09 Oh, girl. Girl, we need to take you. We need to get you some self-care, my friend. No, we say to her, what's that? Wow, crazy, you're crazy, girl. Yeah, we do and she's like oh, you want me to eat your children children on your block? Yeah, actually I do well, thanks, you guys. You guys here? Watching the video, we're doing some holiday cheer. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Yeah, yeah. So very lucky to have us here, we are very lucky to have you guys. That is one of our Christmas blessings. Yeah. Alright.

49:52 Well, have a merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. See you next year? Yes, you next year. Bye.