The Daily Zeitgeist - The Origins Of New Years Traditions

Episode Date: December 29, 2023

In this special holiday episode, Jack is joined by Supers Producers Anna, Becca and Victor  to discuss the origins of our New Years traditions and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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A production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into American share of consciousness. And it's Friday, December 29th, 2023. That's why it's whatever, because these are like the evergreen episodes, the holiday eps. My name is Jack O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined by some of the finest to ever do it. Super producer, Ana Hosnia! Super producer, Becca Romo hello hello and super producer victor rye

hello wow thanks thanks for the energy everyone um no i'm just joking uh great to have you guys here 2023 is almost out the door um we thought we would do a new year's themed episode i believe last year we looked into the origins of some holiday christmas traditions and this year we're gonna look at some origins of some new year's traditions some myths about new year's and up we're going to look for some traditions we should steal from other countries. Does that sound fun to everybody? So you're promoting appropriation? Go on.

Yes, I am. Always. That's kind of my thing. America is, I don't know, I feel like our traditions are we emerge from our apocalypse bunkers on New Year's Day, watch football, talk about our messianic leaders' particular excuse for this one. Again, not being the year the world ended. But in other countries, this is one i like um so this is from a reddit thread um where it's like new year's traditions from other countries and i don't know what country this is from and maybe it's from the united states also just a

specific region but they say we clean every inch of the house between Christmas and New Year's. Start off with clean house. Love it. And then they also say to get a clean start out with the old and with the new, you throw your Christmas tree in a giant bonfire. Huh. I'm on board. What's everybody think?

I mean, clean house is always a nice, a nice touch. Yeah. Bonfire, as a pyro, love that. But as an environmentalist, might be dangerous. I'm going to say, make sure your tree isn't covered in chemicals and stuff to keep it fresh. Maybe don't burn those chemicals into the air. Take your ornaments off in the Christmas tree lights. It's beyond that, because they spray chemicals onto trees to keep them fresh and stuff.

You've got to be aware of these things, Jack. And that's why you're going to hell. We're starting this recording like 45 minutes into the conversation. But it's the fifth time that Anna has come back to that. That I'm going to hell. I don't know. Victor. All right.

I guess we should just talk about the elephant in the room. When we first started talking about this episode, Victor made up a lie. Oh, no. Where he said, well, and of course we do the tradition of the 12 grapes. And we all pointed out that there's no such thing as that. And he had just made that up. pointed out that there's no such thing as that and he had just made that up. This

motherfucking hacker went back and added references to the 12 grapes to Reddit posts, so it seems like he wasn't lying about that. No, no, no, wait. I guess this is it.

Thank you, Becca. I'm not crazy. I guess I missed that. I hop on after victor had said it and i just said it because it's true it's a latino tradition there we go it's it's once again spoiled by my whiteness because i said it i said it in the meeting and everyone in that meeting is like i've never heard of this this doesn't make any sense why would you do that you guys don't have enough brown friends and that is showing your lack of diversity and inclusion so what i do is i don't have brown friends but then i go on reddit and i read about their traditions and then i steal them i believe that's called i forget what the name for that is

um no but this sounds this sounds like a nice little, I don't know, holistic, healthy tradition where instead of drinking the wine or the champagne, you get the grapes before they've gone bad. And you just eat 12 of them. Am I getting that right? For each ding-dong of the new year 12 you eat one grape um so that way so each ding dong of the new year 12 you eat one grape yeah exactly uh so that way by the time you get to the last one you're on your last grape and then you have a full year of you know health and good vibes you got a handful of grape stem is all you've got.

At least in the tradition, I knew it as, and I'm sorry as I keep moving around as my dog decided to wake up just now and eat the leaves. You're supposed to eat them all under the table before the stroke of midnight, at least in my house. If you eat them all under the table before the stroke of midnight,

which it's actually kind of hard to eat 12 grapes that fast um you are supposed to get i think prosperity for the year or like um i think good relationships and love like you're like you're supposed to like wish upon like whatever relationship goals you have like you should win in prosperity if you can do it there's also another aspect that i never heard about until i was researching for this is that you're supposed to also be wearing red underwear that was a gift to you while eating the grapes i don't know where that came from but it is i found it in multiple of the sources that i was researching. Something borrowed, something new, something, something, something blue. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a wedding tradition, I think? Yeah, that's typically weddings. Yes. So I saw, as I was doing research, I saw a lot of different countries with different colored underpants. Yellow, pink, red.

So shout out to various colors of underpants. Yellow. Pink. Red. So shout out to various colors of underpants. I don't think I have any of those colors of underpants. Yellow. I definitely have yellow, actually. Did they start out as white? They did. I wasn't going to make that joke, but. But yeah, so cleaning.

No, but... But, yeah, so cleaning. The other one that I saw, there's diving into a body of water on the first to just torture yourself. First footing was a new one that I wasn't familiar with. According to this Reddit post, it's an old-fashioned way of bringing good luck for the new year. The first person to enter a house that year

should be a tall, dark-haired man, preferably with whiskey, food, and coal or peat. Sounds like someone's, like, Wattpad, you know? That sounded like a fantasy. Right, yeah. That's like a goal, a dream. Yeah. With, like, just, like, a rock-hard body and just and just like a great smile. Just should be the first person who comes through that door.

Not my husband. Yeah, I don't know. That's fun. Yeah, that was kind of my favorite old tradition is like having specific things about who the first person who comes through your door can be. And like the idea of having to like turn people away because they're not to your specification you are who i was looking for you can come through the fucking window pal but you're not neither tall enough nor dark haired enough anna any traditions sounding good to you um i like grapes. I'll eat a grape.

Grapes are great. Underwear, sure. I'm not very good at planning which underwear to wear, so that'll be tough for me. The whole, like, honestly, I'll do any tradition where you eat. Yeah. But don't come to my house.

You can come to my house, but I won't be there. are also some like that are basically trick-or-treating but for adults where people like go house to house and that that is one with like caroling yeah kind of caroling but it just made me realize like first of all we're in desperate need of like community now as everyone's super lonely um And trick-or-treating's kind of wasted on children because they just go up and do the cute thing and then leave and they don't have

conversations with the people they're going up there with because they're fucking stupid. They're just kids. They don't have shit to offer. But if there was something that was a little bit more low-key and you just like went from house to house and you know got to got to know your neighbors i feel like uh opened

one another's houses to one another uh that could be fun assuming that they were a tall dark-haired man uh it's the only only way they get in my fucking house i'll tell you that much if everyone's going to each other's houses who is going to stay in the houses to greet you oh good question that's just a bunch of empty houses oh yeah question the question on every halloween you know you do some somebody stays home to give out the candy somebody goes out with the kiddos and then you uh switch at some point by the way it's the netherlands who are burning their christmas trees um the netherlands so oh so those trees are probably grown fresh fresh fresh ass trees i feel like they probably don't put chemicals on their trees yeah they don't even they have little dutch elves growing trees i believe so yes yeah

all right let's take a quick break. And then we're going to come back and look at some histories of some of these New Year's Eve traditions. And we'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.

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partying on new year's since uh around 2000 bc not not always on december 31st caesar made that decision and then was promptly murdered um not necessarily for it but uh he switched to our current calendar and then got got murked so they used to do it uh to coincide with the Vernal Equinox in March. Much better time to have a big outdoor party. And it was not one day. It was an 11-day festival that included rituals celebrating the victory of the sky god Marduk over the sea goddess Tiamat and the crowning of the next king. Is there a world where this sort of like roving multi-week party becomes a thing again?

For New Year's specifically or like any holiday? Why not? Like, let's go with New Year's. I will say in Puerto Rico, Christmas is like a three-week party. Like traditionally in the island of Puerto Rico. Let's fucking do that. Christmas is from I think the week before Christmas to like January 8th or 13th.

It's whenever Three Kings Day is. Sorry, bad Catholic over here. I don't remember when Three Kings Day is. But that is how long Christmas is celebrated in Puerto Rico. And it's usually a three week party. Amazing. Go, go, go.

Like, yeah. Have you ever talked to a european person about vacations and they're like oh you don't take like four weeks holiday what is wrong with you yeah i feel like that's what i'm learning about our new year celebration is like actually can we just take more vacation yeah we just like have we just have fucking four-week parties? What are we doing here? I feel like if we tried introducing a four-week party to America specifically, it'd turn into the Fyre Festival or something.

Or it's a nine-month cruise by real Caribbean. Yeah, exactly. As we talked about in a recent episode. Where everyone is alcoholism and gambling addict, and someone's going to to get pregnant and someone's definitely going to die on that cruise. And just gluttony galore. So you happen to have both generational wealth and alcoholism come to the Royal Caribbean cruise. Yeah. Nine months.

Jesus. It took until the 1800s for the tradition of staying up to midnight to catch on but back then it involved going from house to house to get shit faced with your neighbors so like i said there's a precedent here um probably also because like the streets were too dark to like go very far so you know that's pretty late um but yeah we we lost the going house to house part of the holiday in the past century except for halloween um which i feel like halloween's a blast like i just anything so do people carol anymore people don't don't go caroling do you i like occasionally they do and it's not like not everyone goes caroling it's not like you

can assume that there's going to be like there might be some carolers like I'd say we have averaged over the past couple years like one-third caroler per like holiday season like just wherever i am so it's not like do you guys get carolers do you get steady carolers coming to your live in a in an apartment so right never in my life have i seen a caroler in person yeah i was in carol though when i was young i my mom used to make all the neighborhood kids go caroling and then we would rewrite some of the christmas carols to like pokemon related because all the kids were really into pokemon back then so yeah we would do like the 12 days of pokemon and sing it to the neighborhood that's cute that's so fun um i think i think the main thing i want here is for an excuse to close the road like i just close

because that's what i think that's what everybody's craving like it's so much what we want that like we created the post-apocalyptic movie genre to just be like that's our fantasy about walkable cities is just is what post-apocalyptic movies are so that's kind of true like i mean post-apocalyptic movies like usually don't have cars or like there's a lot of them where you're just like walking down a road and it's like what why would that be how things are why isn't everybody like driving where they're going it's because people fucking hate cars secretly and they want they want a world without cars so turn that that's my tradition close neighbor little neighborhood roads.

You can still keep the thoroughfares open. People can drive like five miles per hour if they need to get out of their neighborhood to go somewhere, but otherwise shut the shit down. Kind of like how some places do for trick-or-treating. All right, so that's the history of parties and some ideas I think we should bring back.

Champagne was only invented due to a colossal fuck up. Like there was a one bad year for wine, like very bad. And like the fermentation process was so bad that it like created too much carbon monoxide inside the bottles. So everyone's like this is fucking terrible and then they somehow used branding to trick people into thinking that it was good and so then rich people started drinking it it became popular and in the 1880s it was made available to the masses and marketed as an aspirational beverage which is why it became a thing for new years because so much so many of the traditions are like good luck for being rich this year it

seems like is kind of the the overall vibe um an attempt to manifest riches for the coming year by drinking like a rich person um and so So they immediately marketed it to rich people? Like, they're like, this is a fucked up drink, and then they just try to get rich people to buy it as soon as possible? This is a fucked up drink. You know who'd love this? Those rich people. Yeah.

But I think that's always who you start out marketing a thing to. Yeah. Yeah. And then if that doesn't work you work your way down but i think it needs to catch on with the rich for it to like get enough legs and momentum for it to then become a thing that gets well i feel like only rich people through history and time are the people who have disposable enough income to be like yeah i'll do this goofy ass thing oh let's collect this yeah they're the only people with enough disposable income and time to be like getting normal drunk isn't good enough let's get drunk on the broken wine that has bubbles in it by accident

you know and our writer points out that like the pop of the cork became a new marker for the stroke of midnight uh before that it was always church bells but as society became more secular people associated new year's eve more with getting fucked up and drinking champagne rather than religion as society became more like sort of alcoholics uh with the realization that uh sorry my voice is going away you get very choked up about this yeah excuse me with the realization that um everything was going downhill we had to drink more it's actually you know what i'd love to um really look at is like what when did things start to fall apart in america's day one day one yeah the day like the world came to be talking we all it was like downhill from there yeah isn't that funny it was like so new they were like oh my god this

is amazing and then they were like we must destroy and conquer immediately isn't that fun happy holidays are you guys champagne fans? No You mean champagne freaks? Champagne freaks I was gonna say freaks But I didn't wanna be disparaging To the champagne freaks out there I could be Like if I'm on a private plane

Wow I'm just joking You've changed So much You've changed It's a special Occasion sort of drink I think

I don't just go like Pop the champagne bitches And my partner's like It's Thursday You get sort of drink, I think. I don't just go like, pop the champagne, bitches. And my partner's like, it's Thursday. You get to work in the morning. I think I've made it clear. It's not a surprise to me that it's accidental. As your body immediately converts it to bile the second it goes down your throat. I feel like if you've ever had champagne come back up on you,

it's not. I guess that's kind of true. I really will only drink champagne in a mimosa vibe, you know, like that. Yeah. Yeah. My friend bought me this really nice,

expensive bottle of champagne for my birthday. And I was like, why, why would you do this? I don't know what to do with this. I still haven't opened it. I'm like, yeah,

I don't drink enough alcohol and or champagne to like feel comfortable just opening it, knowing I can't reseal it. And I feel like I need a party, another party, to open it. It is just instant headache for me, like Becca said. The minute it touches my lips, I get a migraine. So I usually try to stay away from champagne. The popping of the cork, though, is so fun. That's one of the great little i don't know also i i discovered recently confetti cannons i had assumed those were

have you ever seen those like the things you like shoot little popper ones yeah little popper but have you seen the ones that like really like explode the shit out like and make a loud like gunshot noise like the big ones right people use them for um like uh wow why am i spacing baby shower baby gender reveal yeah yeah yeah i accidentally got one of those from target i thought it was the kind that just like did an air blast and like blew the confetti out but it was it was a little explosion in there uh smelled gum powder. And just the most fun. Highly recommend those.

Fun little addition to our New Year's traditions at the O'Brien house. I feel like I wouldn't mind if they brought back bell ringing. Oh, the good bell ring. I love when the bells start ringing around town in movies i don't think

i've ever been in a town where it was happening but like well if you live in the ramos household you'll hear a bell ring every hour every 15 minutes technically so from the grandfather clocks in our house like city-wide bell ringing like like Queen Elizabeth was just born or some shit. I feel like there's something fun and quaint about that. It's giving Hallmark movie for sure. Yeah. It's just not possible because nobody wants to hang out in a church that late,

I guess. Or like people who do hang out at churches like are in bed by nine o'clock. But that used to be the way people got down. By ringing bells in churches? Like a Quasimodo character just ringing the bell. That was the only way that people communicated with one another back then.

It was just ringing church bells. And then Old Lang Syne, with one another back right it was just ringing ringing church bells and then old lang sign uh the song that nobody has ever heard while sober uh was written by scottish poet robert burns um but then like it wasn't initially paired with that really sad ass song um which it is like a weirdly melancholy song or a thing that's supposed to be a celebration of a new new dawn a new time a new era yeah i guess i've never really listened to the lyrics i just picture it in the movie new Year's Eve. Yeah. I remember it from the movie where the Poseidon adventure, I think where a giant rogue wave knocks over a fucking cruise ship. But yeah, the song is so sad that it was actually banned by the Union Army during the Civil War

because they were worried. The vibes? Already down. We cannot bring them down further. They thought it would invoke homesickness in their troops. They're like, look guys, everyone's gonna fucking kill themselves if they hear

this song. But let's stick with it as our New Year's Eve theme. Why did they have to ban it? Was everyone trying to sing it? And they're like, just stop singing this fucking song. I want to know what a band like that looks like though. You're already in the havoc of war.

Yeah. How do we get out the word that we also cannot sing? They catch someone singing it out behind the outhouse and then like cut to them being hung. We cannot sing that. Yeah. We were at war. And then there was

it became inextricably linked to New Year's Eve and pop culture because there was a big band leader Guy Lombardo who can forget Guy Lombardo who played it every year on his New Year's Eve show which began in 1929 on the radio eventually ended

as a TV show in 1976 and that's why we have it to this day the radio eventually ended as a TV show in 1976. And, uh, that's why we have it to this day. Old guy Lombardo. But yeah, I don't know. I kind of appreciate it's like it's poignancy,

you know, Christmas is just all sugar, all like sweet songs. Even the sad songs are kind of like modeling and like sweet and like all about how i miss you i love you and this one's just like uh we're only here for a little bit guys we're all gonna be dead uh so that's that's the vibes i get from it anyways i like how you could also i feel like anyone could sing it too like in a group it sounds decent like sounds decent. If a random person tried singing Oh Holy Night or something, that would be a disaster.

But this one, I think everyone can sing it in a group, which I appreciate quite a bit. Let's all try right now. Oh no. I just know the vibe. I don't know the words. I know the vibe, but I don't know the words. I'm like...

My brain always wants to turn it into I was like, I know the song. I'm like... But I always... My brain always wants to turn it into Keep Your Eye on the Grand Old Flag. Like, it has a... You know that song? Keep your eye on the grand old flag. That was a high school band groupie. I kind of get it.

Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the ball drop. We'll talk about New Year's myths. All of it. More. We'll be right back. Bye.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.

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Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.

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We love it, don't we, folks? It is not intended as a visual metaphor for puberty. It was actually invented because fireworks were banned in 1907 after the previous year's uh fireworks just rained hot ash onto new york city streets and everyone was freaked out and in this research was it is that a common notion that people think the ball drop is supposed to be in relation to male puberty uh i think that was just a little i think that was our writer jay mcnabb having a little bit of fun but i feel like that's a joke everybody has made at some point oh i must be in the wrong circle the passage of time i hang out with only women

um it's uh it's very abstract like it is a weird thing that like we we all just kind of accept because it's been the thing since we were kids but to have a ball drop it feels like something out of a modern art exhibit but yeah it was just because fireworks burned people that is the worst compromise ever like you can't shoot off cool fireworks but you could just drop this ball on your reserve and when i first heard about it i thought it was going to be like really kinetic like the ball was going to like fall really fast and fall a great distance and then when i saw it it's just like kind of like goes down slowly and then nothing happens um i don't know i feel like we could feel like we could beat it, folks.

In the research, was there a reason why the ball specifically? You say that's the only thing that they could think of? Yeah. 1907, man. People were dropping balls all over the place. I mean, they were about to drop the ultimate ball by having World War I. That's major fuck major fuck up.

So I don't know. It just unsuccessful, I would say. But it's stuck around because there's nothing else. There are other things though, right? Like what? Don't other cities have other things? Don't other cities have other things? I feel like I'm always just a little underwhelmed by what happens at various New Year's celebrations.

They're like, the ball rise. This one, the ball goes upwards, which makes about the same amount of sense. And then New Year's resolutions can mainly be traced back to early Christians who saw New Year's Day as the traditional time for thinking about one's past mistakes and resolving to do and be better in the future. Classic. Fun. Yeah.

And also, I guess, ancient Babylonians were in there. But yeah, now it's just a way for corporations to try and associate themselves with like aspirational shit. Like Coke produced resolution themed cans in 2021 that look like shit and say, I promise to blank just for you. This one's do better in the picture, which just is so vague and confusing. this one's do better in the picture which just is so vague and confusing yeah it sounds like a bad boyfriend being like i'm sorry babe i promise to like do better for you i learned resolutions were bullshit when i was a freshman in college and my friend tried quitting cigarettes for his new year's resolution and then two weeks later i saw him like double fisting three cigarettes yeah and then just throwing up in the bushes afterwards because like his

tolerance went down and then he just needed it very quickly after so that's when i learned that resolutions became kind of bullshit you know gotta do it i like the idea. Like, I love the, the aspiration of a resolution. I, every year do write down a bunch of resolutions, but, and I like to look back on them, like in December, like I wrote them in January and I would look back at them on this month and be

like, Oh, what did I actually accomplish? What did I not actually accomplish? But I don't try to like hold myself. And I'm so sorry for my audio right now. I don't try to hold myself to them so deeply like I'm not gonna make myself feel bad if I like didn't read the amount of books I said

I was gonna read or like do whatever it's more of a chance to recognize maybe how I've changed as a person or like you know oh these goals were my goals at the beginning of the year but what had about me has changed at the end of the year that like maybe those aren't my goals anymore and it's kind of cool to see if things did go the way i thought they would or or not i don't know i like a good time of reflection i mean i i admire people who are able to make new year's resolutions and stick to like so there's the statistic that 80 of people give up on their resolutions by mid-February. That's so much longer than I would have expected and that I would be making it for something that I just made up as a goal for myself because everyone else is making up goals at that time of year. My hat's off.

My little New Year's hat off to you for making it a month and a half with a new year's resolution that's that's so much further than i would have expected do you want to hear my resolution yeah it's to say less say less yeah i'm done talking to you fools my job what i know my new my resolution is to say less on podcasts. I wish that was Chicha's resolution right now. I think she's making great points. So, yeah, some experts think resolutions are bad for people because they aren't sustainable or realistic, creating a cycle where you become more critical of yourself.

But, I don't know. Don't make me, don't yuck my yum on new year's resolutions. I feel like that's because people, the resolutions themselves don't make like are impossible. Like instead of, oh, I want to read 20 minutes a day.

People go like, I want to read 50 books this year or something, you know? Right. Right. So instead of like doing, oh, I need,

here's the end result. Just do You know? Right, right. So instead of like doing, oh, I need, here's the end result, just do like a little bit every day and then that will be easier to resolve, you know? You gotta make smart goals, you know? Yeah, exactly. Which is why you should

download my app, Smart Goals. So here are a couple myths. First of all, not true that New Year's is the most dangerous day to drive. Probably not the safest either but uh despite all the drunkenness memorial day is actually worse for car accidents followed by

labor day independence day columbus day father's day and cinco de mayo jesus that's dark come on dad jesus christ but so the reason for this think, is because public transit is often made free on New Year's Eve. And so it reduces the number of cars on the road. And also, it's just like more transparently a time for people to go out and drink. And so you're not with Memorial Day or Labor Day. I can see like there's some like oh we were going to a picnic or something with the whole family but then people are still drinking whereas like new year's it's like no you're planning the whole day a lot of the times

around the idea that you're not going to be able to drive home sober or me, you'll be home the whole time playing with your confetti cannons. The joys of sobriety. I really hope you're picking up all that confetti after you shoot it. Nah, it's still there from last year. Oh, boy. It's just on the ground. It is.

So New Year's is the worst day for car theft. Or the best day for car theft. Huh. Or the best day for car thieves. Because, I don't know. I'm assuming, so like a lot of the articles assume that it's because car thieves are drunk and like making bad decisions. But I would assume it's because the people who are getting their cars stolen are drunk and making bad decisions. Right? Like, and just like leaving their car on just

leaving their keys or like yeah yeah or like you went away for the holiday so you've left your car yeah and it's you know people kind of know you're not around and so because i'm sure that happens a lot in in brooklyn like i live on a street that has like alternate side parking or whatever so people obviously leave their cars for like multiple days. And I'm sure if they're like out of town, they're leaving their cars. So yeah, like if you just kind of are watching and you know what cars are around and

how many days they've been, you could be like, but yeah, but the sound of a car being sound of theft, sound of theft real quick. I am looking at the Snopes article and it is confirming what we just talked about of uh there was no specific reason they gave as to why there are but nicb's frank scafidi is quoted stating you motherfucker people get drunk on new year's and that makes many

otherwise ordinary responsible adult adults act like mindless morons and do things they might not do when they're sober. So, yeah. That's so me to like rob a car when I'm drunk. Silly me. I robbed a car. I'm such a Leo. Or it could be because weirdly Christmas is like the lowest time for car theft. Like a week before.

It could be that people like resolved to not steal a car on Christmas. It's like your friend with the cigarettes. They're like, ah, now I'm just going to steal all the fucking cars. I've been without car theft for too long. Double fisting cigarettes. double fisting car theft. So yeah, I don't know. Watch out for car thieves or keep your eye out for good cars to steal this New Year's

would be my advice for everyone. Thank you guys so much for joining for this special year-end episode. This is not the last evergreen holiday episode that you're listening to. It is the last one we're recording.

It's been a pleasure recording with you guys. And yeah, we are back in the new year, back with more holiday episodes in the coming days. Hope everyone's having a great holiday. And we will talk to you all soon. Bye.

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