Nobody Panic - How to Get Involved in Christmas Around the World

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

From Krampus to the Crapping Log, journey with us around the world in Christmas traditions. Let Stevie and Tessa offer a canapé board of traditions you can incorporate this year IF YOU WISH. Or just ...launch these out as facts at the dinner table. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. The time is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace.com. Single ladies, it's coming to London.
Starting point is 00:00:17 True on Saturday, the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true, Saturday the 13th of September. At King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. I'm sorry to everyone, German, who listens to Nobody Panic. Oh, it was German. Welcome to Nobody Panic.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Today. Christmas edition. We're doing the Christmas edition. We've been doing this podcast for a while. Sorry, I'm Stevie and Tessus right here with me saying things like, I didn't know that was German. Just supporting me. Just supporting things like that. So we're going to be doing Christmas around the world.
Starting point is 00:01:15 I can't wait. I'm already chomping at the bit. Should we do an adult thing before we begin? I expect so. I've got a Christmasy one. All right. I made a roast. It's amazing.
Starting point is 00:01:26 I know. Only three people. I was one of the three. That's still massive. I made a roast. Did it get well? Yes. It went well.
Starting point is 00:01:36 No burns on myself or the food. Wow. Food delivered to the table on time. Food good. Then I made a crumble. Oh, no. That's amazing. I know.
Starting point is 00:01:48 I've never made a... We've stopped doing this podcast. I know. You've now transcended. I know. It's too much. actually. I made a crumble. Not only have I never made a crumble before, I've never made a pudding. I've never baked. Interesting. Anything. Right. This was huge. That is huge. Huge. Mine's very, very quick and
Starting point is 00:02:06 easy. Last year I tried to make a gingerbread house and had a nervous breakdown. This year, I made gingerbread and it was like, you know what? I'm going to make gingerbread without the house element. I'm just going to, we're just going to, we're just going to cluck it, cluck it. Crack it into bits. It's gingerbread shards. And then, you know, if I want, I'll just do a, get some icing and I'll do a Christmas tree. I didn't do that. We just had gingerbread shards as like, almost like little gingerbread biscuits. And it was amazing.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Oh, fantastic. Tea, melt in the mouth, amazing. That was BBC good food as well. Unbelievably easy gingerbread. Fantastic. I much prefer that to a house. If anything, I do, actually, my truth is I get very stressed about things made out of food. Yeah, because then you're ruining it by eating it.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's not good. By its nature, death is its only path. And I hate it. Yep. Oh my God. Death is his only path. Christmas.
Starting point is 00:02:55 Okay, Christmas around the world. Tessa, where are you spending Christmas this year? Is it in this country? No, you won't believe where I will be. Tokyo. Tokyo. What? I have got my, bags to myself a gentleman caller.
Starting point is 00:03:13 I've got myself a man on the go. Daylight and light. You're in a long-term relationship. I'm a long-term relationship with a man. And he's bags to himself a brother. Oh, good for him. Well played, sir. And so my boyfriend's brother has bagsed himself.
Starting point is 00:03:30 Tokyo. The whole of Tokyo. His bags himself a job in Tokyo. So good. As an amazing bit of head hunting, and this is a smaller side, but I do share it with you because I think it represents the spirit of nobody panic. He is a lawyer, I think. Yeah. It's certainly business.
Starting point is 00:03:46 So it could be consulting, banking, stockbroking, or law. Okay? and he very good at his job. He got head hunted by another company who offered him at Tokyo. He was as a wife and a little baby. And they were like, we'll get you all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Pay rise, thing, nanny, house, Tokyo. And he was like, yeah, obviously, fantastic. Off I go. Goes back to his company. He's like, sorry,
Starting point is 00:04:07 I've been offered this amazing job. His first company were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, show me the offer. We'll do better. Can you? Isn't that electric? That is really exciting. And it may me be like,
Starting point is 00:04:18 that's the nobody panic. way. Get head hunted. Get head hunted to Tokyo. But just the spirit of being like, hey, think of that of like next time you're like, oh, maybe I don't deserve a pay rise or I don't deserve this. Like your company might be so good. Your company's capable of being like, wait, what's the deal?
Starting point is 00:04:33 We'll give you that. Yeah. So I'm so, so, so excited. And there was a time in my life as a child when I was like, no, no, no, no. Christmas, no, no, you've got to do Christmas here. But now I'm like, ah, you've only got one life. You might as well just explore all of the different options. Do you know a hugely popular Christmas meal?
Starting point is 00:04:57 I did look it up because I was like, oh, I want to be prepared and ready for what we need to do to our hosts for Christmas Day. And I was so surprised I'm actually going to let you just reveal it because my breath was taken away. Yeah, so Christmas is like a relatively new thing in Japan. And basically one of the sort of central tenets to the Christmas meal in Japan is, a KFC fried chicken bucket. So that's what they have. No only do you have it. You have to order it four months in advance to be ready.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Because it's such a huge thing. It became a big thing in like 1974 because KFC did a slogan called like Kentucky is Christmas. And everyone was like, I guess Kentucky is Christmas. And it works so well. You have to order your bucket four months in advance. And now everybody in the country eats their Kentucky Fried Chicken. bucket at Christmas. I can't wait.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Also, they do like special, KFC do special, like, decorations. You know how, like, Starbucks here will have, I mean, I'm sure they do it in Japan as well, we'll have, like, each Christmas festive coffee. They have a different design on the comments. They go, oh, big thing. What's the time?
Starting point is 00:06:07 They have, like, a different one each year, and it's all, like, a lot. I just really enjoy that. I was really not expecting that. And I hear that Christmas Eve is more, almost like a Valentine's Day. It's very for couples. It's very magical.
Starting point is 00:06:18 It's very romantic. Oh, I'm so excited. I can't wait to report back on my KFC. My KFC. My KFC. My KFC. Christmas. I've actually never had Christmas abroad at all, but I'm sort of obsessed.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I'm kind of obsessed with the concept of it. My sister had Christmas in Australia a couple of times. And I think one of the keys to having it in a different country, which is not quite what we're talking about here, but it's still a thing, is to research all the traditions and, like, go hard on it. Because remember last year there was that Twitter thread, which was amazing, about a guy who is not from the UK, and he was having to kind of remain in the UK for Christmas with his flatmates. And so he used the time to kind of find out as much about our Christmas traditions
Starting point is 00:07:03 and did a tweet thread about all the things that he'd noticed. And it was just brilliant to see from the outside. He's Muslim. And so, like, his observations are all things like, observation one, Christmas is a part-time job that you have from me. mid-November to the end of December. When they outside looking at Christmas always seemed pretty simple. I just thought you perpetrate and then gave gifts to family. This is a lie.
Starting point is 00:07:26 That's just observation two. People have very strong feelings about their Christmas traditions. If someone's insisting that a certain food is what you have to eat on Christmas morning because that's their family tradition, do not suggest alternatives. They will stab you in the neck. Also, you can buy, observation three, you can buy yourself a gift, but you cannot stuff your own stocking. This is, yeah, wow. All this sort of stuff.
Starting point is 00:07:47 You can buy yourself a gift. You can, but you can't put it in this. There are two streams of Christmas ornaments. The fillers and the keepers. The fillers are generic. The keepers are meant to be more special and unique. The second stream is stored for your family to be one day, pass on to it onto children. And then he got, my roommates encouraged me to buy my own keeper ornament.
Starting point is 00:08:06 They told me something that would make me smile. I bought this one and I'm very happy. It's an everything bagel. That's nice. That's nice. And then observation takes, ornaments are expensive. Ornaments are so expensive. My mum has been since we were born, has been keeping her ornament.
Starting point is 00:08:21 She buys a new ornament every year for us that she says, one for each of me, I'm my sister. And that she would say that when we left home, she was going to give them to us. We, both of us do not live at home. Have we been given them? Have we fuck? When questioned, she said, they're too nice. Yeah, mine's got something. We've got ones and apparently that they're just in boxes.
Starting point is 00:08:42 And because we've not been able to get them, yeah, she's just got like a box of like little, Very, like Christmas, very wind chimes and stuff, but she didn't say they're too nice. They're too nice. You can't have them. I like them. And when she had the heart, we're like, yeah, fine. There you go. You have them.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Okay. I've got one from, I've got one from around the world. Okay. I would like to share the Catalan tradition of the log that poos. Oh, please. The Christmas crapping log. Oh, great. And it's legitimately called the crapping log.
Starting point is 00:09:15 His name is Kag. I'm so sorry. to the pronunciation, but his name is Kagatio, the crapping log. You smack him with a stick and he craps the presents. Out of his little bottom. You think it's weird that baby Jesus
Starting point is 00:09:29 carries them in. This log will shit the Christmas out. Here is the song, which I will not sing in Catalan but I will translate. Just off the cuff. It goes, poop log. Poop log? Poop log. Log of Christmas.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Don't poop. Salted hair and. earrings. They are too salty. Poop Chorons. Now, question, I don't know what a poop chiron is. I believe it's a ball of nougar, because that's what comes out of the pooh, of the glog first, before the presents. A poop chiron. They are much better. That's the song. Then you hit him with the stick. It's like a bit of it like a piniat, like a Christmas pinata. A Christmas pinaata. I have not got, so the turon is a nougar, traditionally made of egg white, honey and sugar and almonds.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Delicious. Fashioned into rectangles and served into bite-sized peasant. pieces. You leave oranges for him at night and in the morning what would be there? Poo. Peels. So you feed him for weeks. Then on Christmas Eve a blanket is placed on the crapping end away from his face. Then and then it says, then the singing and the beating would commence. You sing and you beat him with a stick. You are sent to an, you, the children are sent into another room to pray. And when you return, the blanket is lifted, revealing both the churon, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the present. Wow, okay. So all over Central Europe, people enjoy carp for Christmas Eve dinner,
Starting point is 00:10:54 but rather than picking it up from the supermarket, traditionalists of this sort of, I guess, tradition, they let the fish live in the bathtub for a couple of days before preparing and eating it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, alive. Yeah, because legend has it, the scales bring luck and good fortune for the coming year. And where's that happening? It's traditionally a lot in Central Europe, but Slovakia. carp for dinner and pop it in the bathtub pop it in the tub for a few days
Starting point is 00:11:23 so no one's washed well I suppose you could have a shower and stood in the water that the carp is in wait you might have a separate shower to you sorry sorry god all right the queen you're right you make a good point if you haven't got a separate shower you're right actually look kids name them
Starting point is 00:11:41 the children name the fish I'd find that very disturbing but then people yeah if you don't they just say here if you don't have a shower, then you can't bathe. And then some people admit to, in their childhood, like, letting the fish go free because they've named them and they've, like, become friend of them and they've lived with them, they are unable to go through with their plans to eat them. Oh, and then what do they do with them?
Starting point is 00:12:04 Just put them in the river. But one of the issues is that carp, which is the traditional issues of the food that they use, are bottom feeders. So a few, which just means that they have, like, you know, stuff that is not nice that they've So the idea that they go in the bath is so that when they swim in the clean water, it flushes mud and gross stuff from their digestive tract. So, but actually, apparently, according to scientists, that would take a lot longer for that to work, so it doesn't really do anything.
Starting point is 00:12:33 God, are they, are they crapping, they pooping out into the bathtub? I guess they are, but then I suppose they're clean it out. And then you rinse the bath every day and give you new water to your carp. Yeah. Baptop carp is one of several traditions, it's time to Christmas Eve. It's also the day children told when baby Jesus brings a Christmas tree. Oh, he brings it? So the baby brings the tree.
Starting point is 00:12:58 And it requires very elaborate subterfuge from the parents who must hide and decorate the tree without the idea of like... There's quite a lot of that. Where are we now? We are still in Slovakia. Slovakia. So in Austria also, and do stop me if I'm wrong. The Crampus, Jesus. No, sorry, before we even get to Crampus, in Vienna, you also have to do Christmas.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Eve, like not a hint of Christmas till Christmas Eve. And then, admittedly, this is in a book I read that was set in 1910. Things could have changed. And there's loads of Christmas market. What am I talking about? Listen. Is Salzburg in Austria? Yes, it is. I think, in this book, it was like
Starting point is 00:13:33 there was no Christmas at all. And then suddenly it was like, and now here it all is overnight. And it had to be this like, big subterfuge. You know, because Jesus bringing it. Or in this case, the Christmas angel. Okay. So, like, it is interesting. How many people there's like this very secret and quite intense aspect. to it.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Very intense. It's also at the same time that baby Jesus is bringing the tree that's when the carp is meant to be killed. So the guard, it's all going isn't it?
Starting point is 00:13:58 So also as well, you're trying to decorate this tree with your kids not noticing. I mean, how big does your house have to be? And then, and then when this is happening,
Starting point is 00:14:07 traditionally it's the father takes the live fish from the bathtub and slices his head off. But, so that means there's only one parent doing the trick. Like, there's a lot
Starting point is 00:14:17 going on. Oh my God, and sometimes they're because the fish are quite big and they move quickly. You have to hit the fish in the head with a mallet. This is horrible. Christ. What big Christmas this is. Yeah. A lot going on. There's actually, I'd say too much going on there.
Starting point is 00:14:30 A lot of option for tears. But they do have, their other dish is potato salad, which I really like, really like potato salad. And you know, and if someone, everyone sits at the table and no one's permitted to get up during the meal, someone leaves the table, even to go to the bathroom, it means there will be a dinner. it means there will be a death in the family before the next Christmas arrives. Well, if you get up, what, during the meal? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:52 And once the meal ends, everyone checks under their plate to retrieve fish scales from the family carp. If you've got the fish scales underneath your plate, then it signifies look for the year ahead. I will share a personal Christmas tradition. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Yes, on Christmas Eve, we read the night before Christmas, which used to be a parent's job. And then when I learned to read, it was my job. And then after many years of pitching that she should be allowed, my younger sister was allocated, I booed from start to finish. Now I was very polite about it. And then everybody fights every year for who gets to read it.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Then one year I sang it in the form of a country and Western song while playing guitar. Great. Do you play guitar? No, I can only play three chords. Nor can I sing. So it was quite a tedious performance. The year after that, I had been doing BSL British Sign Language at university, and so I signed it. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Yeah. I had worked quite hard on it, but I think anybody who does use British Sign Language would have been like, I could, gun to my head. I don't know what this is you're trying to say here. I signed it. And then we did, we've done a, and then last year it was a, it was like a quiz. And you had to say what the word, everyone had to shout at what they thought the words were. Just evolving over here. It's really evolving over time.
Starting point is 00:16:16 It's because we all know it so well that no one can just sit to a reading anymore. Or even if someone does, does the reading, someone else is like, okay, I've got a different, I've got a different version now. I want to do my thing. That's really nice. I do my thing. The very first time I was away for Christmas, I was working in Canada and I was working in a hotel. And even though we were in the snow, and I was so disappointed with the stuff, they just didn't feel like they were doing enough stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:40 And so I was quite a precocious teenager. and I can believe that. We can all believe it. I was 18 and I just was like, I'm doing this now to the, to the hotel. To the hotel. I was like, you're not doing enough for Christmas. The worst. I was the worst.
Starting point is 00:16:55 Yeah, no, I was bad. I was bad. We did create a nice Christmas atmosphere actually. I just was like, we're doing this. Why aren't you doing enough stuff? So on Christmas Eve, if I put a note, a thing up being like, we'll be doing a reading in front of the night before Christmas. The night before Christmas.
Starting point is 00:17:07 And then so many, all these children came. So I was really like, oh, people do want to come to my reading. And I was wearing a little Father Christmas outfit, and I read in front of the fire. And this little girl, really knowing her job, climbed onto my lap and fell asleep. Oh, yeah. And I was like, God, this is electric. But then after it ended, everybody wanted to go. And so, like, various other people had to get up and then also do their reading.
Starting point is 00:17:31 So I feel like that everybody wants a piece of the reading is common. Yeah, no, no, very much so. It's very nice, though, to have such a... I like the idea that you've got such a history with those words, you know? There's so much. The words for me, that's for me is like, that's the only thing that's like a sort of set in stone bit of Christmas. Christmas Day has evolved as everyone's got older. And then various people have tried to, like, take control of the lunch.
Starting point is 00:17:54 My sister attempted the breakfast one time until she screamed, fuck off, there's no more Holland days and threw an egg on the floor. Then, like, you know, as we've all fought for power in our later years, Christmas Day itself is neither here nor there, but Christmas Eve. That's the stuff. That's stuff. Okay, hit me with more. In Austria.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Please. Christmas is a surprise Oh my God, no, it's not No, sadly, it's about the crampus So you know how we have the If you're naughty, you get coal in your stocking They have And when I went to Salzburg
Starting point is 00:18:26 Just before Christmas though It was like 20th to the 24th one year And we read about the crampus And in Salzburg he stalks People dress up as the crampus And he's terrifying, look at him I don't want to look at him I hate the crampus
Starting point is 00:18:40 He stalks and jumps out at people in Salzburg. And so we spent the whole timing like genuinely is this like goat man going to just... Where is... Did you see him? No, we didn't. But you were on edge. But it's just, I think we'd misunderstood and it was just saying that like, if you've been naughty
Starting point is 00:18:58 the crampus will get you. But they do have... So in some places, yeah, men dress up as the scary character for the crampus louth, sorry, for the pronunciation, or translated as crampus ron, in which they parade for the streets to blow off steam and scare naughty kids back into that. Multiple crampuses. Just run around screaming and scaring children.
Starting point is 00:19:18 He's a half-man, half-goat. St. Nicholas gives good kids gifts, and the crampus terrifies the living shit out of them. I'm so afraid of crampus. When my sister went to Australia for Christmas, she was a bit like, what's it going to be like? Barbie on the beach. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:34 You know? Which leads us, neatly to, the Christmas witches. Oh, where's that happening? I'm going. Come on. Russia and the other Slavic countries. It's what a shame. Slavic countries, up for.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Russia, difficult. Difficult time for Russia. Baba Yaga. Okay. Now, in your friend and mine, John Wick, the bad guys refer to him, I think, as Babiaga, and as in, like, the boogeyman. And he's, like, the spooky character.
Starting point is 00:20:00 Listen, John Wait, what a fantastic film. But Baba Yaga is not the boogeyman. She's a woman. She's very clearly a woman. Baguja Yaga is an old witch. She has iron teeth and a longed-hooked nose. She's quite scary. Oh, awful.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Awful bit of business. And she lives in a hut on four massive chicken legs. Sorry, as in the hut is on chicken legs. Yeah, the hut is on four moving chicken legs. Holy shit. Yeah, awful business. She is here to steal children's presents. So you've got to be good because otherwise Baba Yaga's going to get them.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Yeah, I see. God. Now, it's very terrified children here. In Italy, La Bafana, not quite so spooky, but civil. similar witch energy. She rides a broomstick that she used to clean up the ash that she scatters when she drops into houses through the chimneys. Like Santa. Yeah. Oh, even if she hasn't made a mess, Labifana always sweeps the floor before she goes in, symbolically sweeping away the problems of the year before. They often leave her a small glass of wine and a plate with a few morsels of food.
Starting point is 00:21:00 But beware, if she catches you sneaking a peek at her, she'll thump you with her broomstick. What's she doing in the house? Giving you presents. Oh, it is giving presents. Sorry, she's She's good kids stocking. It's like she just comes in sweeps and then like hits the placement leaves. No, it's a good, the good kids get candy and presents in their stocking and bad kids get coal and garlic or a stick. Interesting. But I think, I believe the origin story is that she meets the wise kings on their way to baby Jesus. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:29 And she's like, I want to give me one second and I'll go get a present. And then when she goes back in the house to get her present and when she comes back, they're gone. So she's like, motherfucker, so she tries her best to follow them to give her present to baby Jesus, doesn't get there in time. So along the way, she doesn't know where she's going on who she's looking for, so she gives every child a present in the hope that one of the houses will be baby Jesus. That's nice, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:55 In Iceland, they celebrate 13 days before Christmas and children get presents from 13 different Santa Clauses or Yule Lads. What? The Yule Lads. Each of these lads. has his own different qualities, they're a little bit feisty, but if good children place their shoes in the windowsill,
Starting point is 00:22:12 the yule lads will lead them little gifts inside their shoes. If they haven't behaved, the yule lads give them rotten potatoes. I'm going to go home and put my shoes out. I'm really excited to get into it and steal some traditions. Yeah, you can't steal, yeah. If you're feeling maybe tradition, Christmas this year is looking a little bit different or whatever,
Starting point is 00:22:30 hey, there is a smorgasbord of traditions out there. And if you're really feeling Scrooge and you don't want any part of it, Can I offer you medieval Christmas? Put on the spookiest mask you have. Fuck, anything. Medieval Christmas, please. But they just put on masks. Medieval Christmas in England.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Yeah. Was insane. What happened? Oh, you truly looked like, what's this guy in Nightmare before Christmas? He's wearing a big sack. No, he's a sack. Oh. Boogie Man.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Boogie Man. Boogie Man. That, but like demons, monsters, bits. Mumbing. It was called mumming. And you just went out that night and you were just doing pranks. Anyone was allowed to snog anyone. Everyone was fucking, it was like a set, a big monster sex fest. Moming, Coggleon, if you will.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Mumbing, hoggling and the feast of fools. Yeah, exactly. No presents, no stuff, just getting fucked up dressed as a monster. Well, you'd get, you'd want to do, it was sort of a bit like, as well, bits of it were like trickle treating really. Yes, it has a lot of spooks. Yeah. And you, and you try, you get like, coins in. in exchange for it.
Starting point is 00:23:39 That's like frightening though. Yeah, oh, it was a spooky time. But it wasn't, I don't think they would have considered it spooky so much as they would have enjoyed this like, no holds barred, the peasant be dancing with the king. Yeah. Anyone can be anyone at monster time. This is a, you know, anyway. Or you could do the other thing, which is if you didn't want to put a mask on and go and fuck someone, you could make, you could do the thing where you make a cake. and they used to put a little dried bean in it.
Starting point is 00:24:08 So then it was a coin, but coins are a bit dirty, so I don't know if you wanted to do a coin. But you could do anything. And whoever gets the bean is the person who has all the look at Christmas. So where is the bean? In the cake somewhere. The game was that if you got the bean,
Starting point is 00:24:24 you would become king for the night and you have to make everyone else do like silly forfeits and like wait on you and stuff. Like the epiphany cake. If you find the baby... What's that? You find the baby in the epiphany cake? Yeah, truly.
Starting point is 00:24:33 If you find the baby and the epiphany cake. I'm sorry, you're going to have to explain that more. It's a baby. I was in like a toy baby. A little plastic baby with a crown on it. Plastic baby with a crown on it? Yeah. He's a little, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah. If you find him in the cake, you're the king. Yes. Here's me fanning around with my dried beans. No, God, no. I saw a little baby. I saw someone the other day. That was why they, basically, I saw this thing the day that was like an Amazon
Starting point is 00:24:59 review of a packet of a hundred times. Miniature babies. And it was like, and basically this girl had got them and just pranked her boyfriend by like, when he opened the cutlery drawer instead of all the cutlery,
Starting point is 00:25:14 it was babies. And then she just kept doing them. So then he was like, now my boyfriend is terrified to open or do anything because there is always a baby in it. And she's like, it's 10 out of 10,
Starting point is 00:25:24 highly recommended. But I was like, why would, who makes these fake babies? Epiphany. It's for epiphany. And are they for Christmas? Epiphany.
Starting point is 00:25:33 What's epiphany? What's epiphany? What's epiphany? When the Kings come. Wow. The 12th night. Jesus, didn't dig that from it at all. No, well quite.
Starting point is 00:25:39 I'm too busy sleeping. Yeah. What? Bored. When? Watching 12th night. Right, okay. So like after, yeah, so 25th of Christmas,
Starting point is 00:25:47 25th of December, 12 days later is 12th night. I meant to take the decorations down on the first night. I was always excited and the king's come. The three kings we know today, of course, Baltazar, Gasper and Melchia, thought they must be in the wrong place. However, the fourth king,
Starting point is 00:26:02 known as Hobs and Malt, showed the landlord his wonderful, wonderful beer. In return, he was told the truth about the stable and the manger. Is your beer one from the forecringsbrewery.com? Possibly. And he showed him his beer. Yeah. And we're quite sure that's from the Bible.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah. Yeah. Listen, another fantastically researched and expert podcast coming to you live and free. Can you believe that? This is free. These experts are bringing you free. Yeah, what you're learning there about. about the beer. There's another one called Artaban.
Starting point is 00:26:36 I think that's the one. Yeah. Not hops and malt. Not hops and malt. I just read it. I just read a... And it is from the Four Kings Brewery. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:45 I believe everything. Oh my God. You see signs... So Artaband saw signs in the heavens proclaiming a king had been born. But he missed the caravan. Yep. And he can't cross the desert
Starting point is 00:26:57 with only a horse. So he's forced to sell one of his treasures that he was going to give to the baby Jesus in order to buy the camels and supplies necessary for the trip. Starts his journey, arrives in Bethlehem, too late, and he saves the life of a child at the price of another of his treasures. Oh, good guy, actually.
Starting point is 00:27:12 And then he opened a pub. Oh, it's this. Oh, it's again. That's so funny. Well, it's a similar theme of the, like, people trying to catch up the baby Jesus, or, you know, people would be like, well, let's be nice to everyone, because then you don't know where the baby is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:25 Be it. Listen, listen, listen. That was fun. I learned a lot. I really enjoyed it. I'm going to take a lot of these. I'm going to do the crampus. I was going to walk around and tear other shit out of people.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Guys, listen, do what you like. You know, go for your life. Let's get some new traditions up in this grill. If you yourself have got any fantastic traditions you want to share, or if you're from any of the countries and you've been listening thinking, no, that isn't right at all. No, that's not what we do. We'd love to tell us.
Starting point is 00:27:52 Keep it to yourself. It's Christmas and we're trying our best. We're trying so goddamn out. Please have a magical Christmas. A wonderful epiphany. Get that baby and that cake. Good night.

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