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America. Welcome to I Christmas, I'm your

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House and As As and I really

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hate Christmas because sex or just believe

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me. Today. We're.

1:38

Going to be talking Christmas traditions which I

1:40

think are the worst part about Christmas Doll

1:43

the expected to do. We're gonna talk about

1:45

Christmas traditions we've had in our lives are

1:47

Don't I like Christmas traditions? all of the

1:49

world? Where help me today. Will. Be

1:51

a very special guest. You. Seen

1:54

him on Comedy Central. Ah,

1:56

You've seen and right for the Conan O'brien show.

1:59

He's one of my. Era comedians. Yup, Welcome.

2:01

Skyler Higley to the show

2:04

or you don't money say

2:06

I'm good Nino Merry Christmas

2:08

season time New happy holidays

2:10

You biggest. Whoa whoa Whoa.

2:12

In an awful i'm a lake in the

2:14

Kwanza in less than how they go, Know

2:16

it? Bell was thousand dollars racist. We

2:18

start with racism as hilarious. Gotta start with

2:20

it's me Man, it is me when I

2:22

gotta start with three hundred late. Told me

2:25

not to bring you in and I. Got

2:28

out of Sarah? Have to have one racist episode this

2:30

as well. I'll do it. And. The

2:32

South will rise again.

2:34

Jesus, I will have

2:36

access. To

2:39

the okay ah Skyler so you

2:41

have an abnormal of bringing his

2:43

when I would call it was

2:45

was like what's your relationship The

2:47

Christmas. With. The Way you grew up. The one.

2:49

eight hundred. Lightly explain that to all the

2:51

of as listener that might not know. About

2:54

where you're from and of well yeah

2:56

if I love basically here's appears will

2:58

start. I. Feel.

3:01

Like Christmas I don't like Christmas

3:03

act Brownie taking. I could

3:06

I could say hates but then I'm

3:08

also going to walk. That bet them

3:10

sign up overcome. I hate to get

3:12

back to enjoying some set by doing

3:14

so this right into their so little

3:16

to enjoy to for I'm not going

3:18

a walker and I wanna hate Christmas

3:21

and I do but I'm like mitt

3:23

meet with a work on it's also

3:25

ah I'm going back into the Grinch

3:27

movies so. Ah yeah I

3:29

grew up Mormon with wipes Mormon parents

3:32

I was adopted stylers lack of are

3:34

listening to this by white people Yeah

3:36

you probably can't tell if you just

3:38

listening but listen to monitor Clarissa. Yeah.

3:41

So. Black. Adopted into

3:43

a white Mormon family in Salt Lake

3:46

City, Utah. and you know Mormons are

3:48

Christian but they are really big. oh

3:50

hard for that. Like they're intense about

3:52

it News and ah they like a

3:54

special so thing on Christmas. yo

3:57

like the christmas so Under

4:00

the mistletoe and you put it in a stocking

4:02

or something like that. It's mistradition in the Mormon

4:04

household Why

4:06

are there like certain religions you can just

4:09

make fun of like I mean Mormonism is

4:11

definitely one more Scientologists

4:13

like you can just make fun of them. Well,

4:15

cuz those are the ones that are definitely fake

4:17

like the other ones We

4:20

don't know The

4:22

ones that have like old books like you can't make

4:24

like you can't just make fun of a Muslim like

4:26

if you make fun Of a Mormon, but you just

4:28

can't know that yeah But and

4:31

because that came from you know

4:33

other places whatever there they they've

4:35

experienced a lot and it's like

4:37

thousands and thousands of years of

4:39

history and how like it goes

4:41

back to like deep like Primordial

4:43

type shit with their cultures were

4:45

being developed out of like these

4:47

religions and Abrahamic religions off-limits

4:49

You can't make fun of right. You believe

4:51

ism just some fucking yeah, just dude made

4:53

it up Yeah, if you believe it sounds

4:56

like a sci-fi novel you getting these jokes,

4:58

bro Yeah, man, that's not you can you

5:00

can make fun of those and any new ones

5:02

that come up We can definitely go for those

5:04

the spaghetti monster all that Yeah,

5:06

like all that like weird like starseed

5:08

stuff that they're doing like that that

5:10

weird Scientology offshoot where they're like you're

5:13

from the stars. It's so weird. Whoa,

5:15

so how'd you got spinoffs now? Yeah,

5:17

man Well, I think there's like just

5:19

a couple like space religions that are

5:21

like similar to Scientology where somebody wrote

5:24

like a Science fiction book

5:26

and then people were like, yeah

5:28

this one this one Hollywood and

5:30

these goddamn sequels They're

5:33

never good never why did you reboot

5:35

Scientology? It's not as good as the

5:37

original the hangover to of religions It's

5:43

crazy, so yeah Mormonism is the

5:45

spin-off of Christianity It's the it's

5:47

the rebooted, you know fuller house

5:50

of like mainstream Christian Stuff

5:52

and look Mormonism is it's too

5:55

much and they we didn't have

5:57

any like their Christmas is not

5:59

different in any way to

6:02

like with Mormonism versus

6:04

the rest of like mainstream

6:06

Christianity. It's just that you

6:08

know people were celebrating like

6:11

the Jesus part of it. Right. And

6:14

really going for baby Jesus,

6:16

manger. There

6:18

was no room at the inn. Right. Some

6:21

dude showed up because they saw some

6:23

stars. There was some

6:25

animals and shit that showed up because

6:28

they were, they were, you know, it was like

6:30

a whole party. Right. And then

6:32

he was, he was born and that is

6:34

the reason for this season and don't forget

6:36

it. And that's basically. And so Mormons do

6:38

that. Yeah. They're

6:40

good. They go hard for it too. Did they

6:42

celebrate Christmas like any different? Right. No, it's like,

6:44

I mean, I would say it's the same as

6:48

opposed, you might get, I would have

6:50

to think about it. There might be

6:52

some different like things about it where

6:54

somebody mentions like, oh yeah. And

6:57

then, you know, in America when Jesus

6:59

came back, whatever, that's mostly like, you

7:01

know, Easter type stuff from the resurrection

7:04

that gets more weird because of Mormonism

7:06

because that was after the point where

7:08

he like supposedly came back from the

7:10

dead. And in Mormonism after that, you

7:12

know, he like rises back into heaven

7:14

and then Mormonism says, and then he

7:16

like plopped back down in America

7:18

and was like, I'm here. Guess what? I

7:21

just died for my sins. What's up? And

7:23

that's like a part in the Book of Mormon,

7:25

like is all like building to that. It's like

7:27

this, you know, side narrative, like

7:30

a different characters in another place. And

7:33

it's all, they're all talking about all the Messiah

7:35

is going to come. The Messiah is going to

7:37

come. And then like, you know, sort of like

7:39

halfway through at like the climax,

7:41

Jesus comes down and he was like,

7:43

I just got up to some other

7:45

shit, but here I am. Like you

7:47

guys said, is that what it

7:50

actually says in the book? That's

7:52

exactly word for word. His dialogue.

7:54

Hmm. Do you have any fun

7:57

fond memories of Mormon Christmas or more

7:59

or most? They

12:00

all got together and got racist and stuff.

12:02

Yeah. Nobody was getting racist when

12:04

they were playing Sly Cooper, you know? Exactly.

12:07

So it was a PS2 for

12:10

sure, because I was like, oh,

12:12

this is a new generation of games. It was

12:14

a big deal when PlayStation 2 came out. Yeah.

12:18

I was hyped. That was good. That

12:20

was probably, that's the one that comes to

12:22

mind the most. The

12:24

worst gift? I

12:27

don't know. I've gotten quite a few that

12:29

are bad but

12:31

forgettable, where it's like, not only did

12:33

I get it, but I'm like, I'm

12:36

not even going to remember what this

12:38

is. Yes. I

12:40

don't even, it's like there's so many, I

12:43

feel like forgettable Christmases I had as far

12:45

as gifts were concerned. So I was like,

12:48

yeah, OK. And I also, I don't want to,

12:50

speaking of being broke, I'm like, my mom was

12:52

doing her best those times, so I'm not going

12:54

to really hate like that. But I'm like, yeah,

12:58

I don't really remember. You never got a

13:00

bad gift from like an ex or anything? I

13:04

got like, I remember there

13:06

was stuff that, I

13:09

mean, this is also going to sound sad, but like

13:11

my grandma, I hope my grandma doesn't listen to this

13:13

episode. But my grandma, my grandma would

13:15

like knit some stuff where it would be like,

13:17

and it's not socks, but it's literally like, what

13:20

is this? Like you knitted this,

13:22

but I don't know even like what it

13:24

is. It's like kind of a glove, but

13:26

it doesn't have any finger holes. So it's

13:28

just like a hand warming thing.

13:32

Like you want me to wear these? I'm

13:34

supposed to wear this? Like one of those like cat girl,

13:36

like what is this? Oh my

13:38

god. Yeah. She was just

13:40

amateur knitting and was like, yeah, OK. You

13:42

can have that as a gift. She tested it out on

13:45

you. That's funny. Wow. I

13:47

hope she listens to this. She's ungrateful. No,

13:50

she was great. I'm so glad that she,

13:52

I'm so glad that she took the time,

13:54

but also like, I don't know. Also the

13:56

amount of like gift cards I got from

13:59

like, you know. Like step families

14:01

and stuff just being like here's it, you know,

14:03

five dollar gift card to Starbucks It's like what

14:05

the fuck am I gonna do it? Yeah For

14:09

Christmas you could have just done nothing or

14:11

just hammy five dollars. Yeah, I don't know

14:13

Do you have do you have any

14:15

like favorite Christmas traditions growing up like mistletoe

14:18

elf on the shelf? the

14:21

thing about the Christmas traditions is like

14:25

We certainly had them but

14:27

looking back I Don't

14:30

feel like I look back that fondly on any it

14:32

just kind of felt like another thing that we were

14:34

doing like obviously as a Kid they're like counting down

14:36

to Christmas. You're getting more and more excited or whatever

14:38

Yeah, you just want to open gifts all the other

14:41

shit is just like, okay, right, but

14:43

then it's like on that Tradition

14:46

stuff. It's like well, I don't really get

14:48

there was some dumb ones. I remember. Okay,

14:50

this is dumb I remember

14:52

my my family one

14:55

of my white families You

14:57

had multiple yeah, it was my

14:59

mom's side and my dad's side There's

15:02

a slightly more kind

15:04

of redneck. He said but not really redneck, but

15:06

just a different kind of white and We

15:10

would all get together and they would play this

15:12

game and they probably still do it too I

15:14

don't talk to them but we have played this

15:16

game called the the just like cereal game where

15:18

everybody would get a cereal box and Then

15:21

maybe there would be like they would all

15:23

be wrapped up and we'd unwrap the cereal boxes

15:25

we always sitting around in like a big circle

15:28

and then everybody would like choose a box to

15:30

unwrap and then Then

15:33

we would end up like swapping cereal boxes

15:35

and whatever. It's like a big family game

15:37

Wow that seemed to have no because it

15:39

was all just like box

15:41

of cereal So I'm like, I guess it's not

15:44

even cool I can only imagine how boring it

15:46

was to play that game because halfway through your

15:48

story. I got so bored It was a boring

15:50

game and it's not a good story. Yeah, I

15:52

was ready for you to wrap that one up.

15:55

That was terrible Yeah, it was a that's a

15:57

one like specific family tradition. That's like yeah, this

15:59

is But that's the thing about

16:01

a lot of Mormonism and just whiteness

16:04

in general is just like this is

16:06

just boring This is just bland. There

16:08

is nothing to this like we're like

16:10

celebrating but like this Thanksgiving

16:14

bro, it's Holiday

16:16

no, wait, wait, wait, I'm gonna do Thanksgiving

16:18

like that. Here's why I had a white

16:21

family. Okay, you probably eaten black food No,

16:27

stop blaming them white folks you grow a YouTube you

16:29

could you could have figured something out I Could

16:31

for you gonna make a turkey, right?

16:34

That's what and that's on me you want to

16:36

meet the technology was available a self starter You just

16:38

want to just want to blame

16:40

all the white people in your life That's the

16:42

problem you and they're at fault that I'll blame

16:44

them for all your giving is a wonderful holiday

16:47

I like drinking and I like watching football. That's what I

16:49

think about Okay, I

16:52

mean that's good Thanksgiving is also less pressure too.

16:54

That's I think that's why I like it It's

16:57

not a lot of pressure. There's just a pressure what

16:59

Christmas that comes with Christmas You know, I'm saying there

17:01

is sorry that you gotta get it, right? Yeah, if

17:03

you don't really care You gotta kind

17:05

of do it. I don't know man white people

17:07

snap whale phone the shelf. I think that's just cool I

17:10

think the elf on the self is a representation

17:13

of the surveillance state and I don't like it.

17:15

All right I don't know.

17:17

I don't like it the authoritarian white fascists

17:19

are like this elf is going to watch

17:21

you You better be good. Also, fuck Santa

17:23

for that reason. Some children need to be

17:26

watching me Some

17:28

I mean sure sure I'm some very

17:30

bad kids They need

17:32

to have they needed more than an elf watching

17:35

them. I don't know man. This sounds like you're

17:37

Christianity talking. Yeah It's like yeah, it's good to

17:39

be watched and judge. I like it. I'm like

17:41

it. It keeps you out of trouble You know

17:43

elf on itself is a snitch. He's a fucking

17:46

snitch and you don't like it some of the

17:48

greatest people ever was snitches, man Like

17:53

who um, I'm

17:56

not gonna say it there you go. Oh

17:58

could see so you're I'm

18:00

not gonna snitch, but them. Okay.

18:03

You know what I'm saying? Like, Vinny Dick Arnold. Sounds

18:05

like something to snitch with. I'm not a snitch, but

18:07

great people were snitches. Vinny Dick Arnold. Okay.

18:10

Great guy. All right. I

18:12

don't really know if I, no, no. So

18:15

great it was- If you snitch into the British, right?

18:17

I can't, I can't go- Oh, I thought it was

18:19

the other way around. No, no, no. He was, he

18:22

was, right? I think he was

18:24

like all the British aside. I used to

18:26

show up drunk in high school, so I'd

18:28

look. That's not my fault. I was destined

18:30

to be a comedian. No,

18:32

I mean, I think Elpham and Shelf was cool. I

18:34

just, all the memes on the internet are hilarious. So

18:37

I like that, but they'll be like not Elpham

18:39

and Shelf, but there's this one. There's

18:41

this one. It's just like

18:43

somebody quip artist. They put a

18:46

black dude on a gun on the trigger. Man,

18:50

come on. I was like,

18:52

y'all are wild, bro. It's

18:55

a great time. Christmas is amazing. Oh.

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20:04

We got some Christmas traditions that

20:07

we have looked

20:09

up all around the world. And so for

20:11

all of y'all that are going, I haven't

20:13

read any of these. Half of

20:15

these are just going to be blackface if it's around the world.

20:18

I know. I just, just

20:20

for everybody here, we are not making fun of

20:22

these countries. We're not making fun of

20:24

their traditions. We are just two

20:26

people reacting. We'll see. Two people

20:29

reacting to things that we've never seen

20:31

before. Okay. That's all we're doing.

20:34

But I think, I will say, I think Jewish people got

20:36

the best Christmas tradition. Not

20:39

doing it. I think that's the best one.

20:41

They just eat Chinese food and mind their business. I

20:44

love it. So

20:46

this one is in Guatemala. It's

20:49

called Burning the Devil. Oh,

20:51

I like this one. Yeah. Burning

20:53

the Devil is a tradition held every

20:55

December 7th. Eight o'clock

20:57

in the evening sharp, families build

20:59

bonfires outside their homes and

21:02

burn effigy of Satan. It

21:04

is a tradition that many Guatemalans take

21:06

part as a way to cleanse

21:08

their home from devils that lurk in their home,

21:11

creeping behind the furniture or hiding under the bed.

21:14

Here's what I like about this one. It

21:16

feels like something that you could do like any

21:18

time of the year. Like

21:21

when you really need it, you're like, you

21:23

know, I'm feeling down. I'm feeling fucked up.

21:25

Let's go Burning the Devil real quick. That's

21:27

probably really cathartic. I

21:30

just, I hope my grandma never sees this. This is some shit

21:32

she would make us do. She's

21:34

like, yeah, you know what? We should be Burning

21:36

the Devil. Exactly.

21:39

All right. This one's Japanese and it's called

21:41

KFC. Rather

21:43

than gathering around the table for a turkey dinner, families

21:46

head out to their local KFC, Kentucky

21:48

Fried Chicken. The

21:50

tradition began in 1974 after

21:54

a wild successful marketing campaign called, I

21:56

don't want to speak Japanese. I can't

21:58

say that, but it means Kentucky for Christmas. The

22:01

fast food chain has maintained its

22:03

Yuletide popularity, causing some people

22:05

to order their boxes months in

22:07

advance, or stand in two hour

22:09

long lines to get their finger licking good

22:11

food. I did not know that.

22:15

I didn't know that. First of all, I

22:17

didn't know there were KFCs in Japan. Man,

22:19

they got KFCs in McDonald's everywhere. That's

22:21

true, but I just never thought of it.

22:24

First of all, I would say, yeah, of

22:26

course McDonald's is in Japan. I didn't know

22:28

KFC was really killing it

22:30

like that internationally. Since the 70s,

22:32

bro. This is

22:34

crazy. Yeah, and they love it so much.

22:36

It's weird that you can

22:39

love fried chicken so much as

22:42

a country and as a culture and then also

22:44

hate black people. That's

22:46

crazy. Look,

22:49

if black people do some shit where it's like, we

22:51

all gonna order fried chicken for Christmas, come on. The

22:53

jokes that would come from that. But this is funny.

22:55

It was just a really good marketing campaign in 1974.

22:57

That's wild. And it's just what

22:59

they do. Well,

23:04

a lot of our traditions and

23:06

what we're about culturally, I

23:10

wish I could think of an example, but I feel like a lot

23:12

of shit is just a result of

23:14

a great marketing campaign. Marketing is everything, bro.

23:17

Imagine standing in line for two hours

23:19

on Christmas to get some chicken. I'm

23:23

gonna look up a YouTube video of that. I

23:25

just gotta see that shit. That would be hilarious

23:27

to see. That's awesome. Please, boy, I gotta see

23:29

the line. Just

23:33

waiting around all night

23:35

like a Black Friday thing or like a bucket

23:37

of chicken. And it's just like – and KFC

23:40

is just doing this. It

23:43

feels a little sinister. No,

23:45

it's – oh, it's all

23:47

sinister. That's like thousands and thousands

23:49

of chickens being slaughtered for Christmas.

23:51

It doesn't even make sense. That

23:54

should be the next chicken run. They're

23:56

getting a little some KFC in Japan. They find out they're

23:58

going to Japan. Yeah, that should be the next one. Man,

24:00

and there's so much better like food

24:03

that they could eat

24:05

in Japan that they make Just

24:08

so much better available Popeyes got a drop

24:10

of marketing campaign in another country now, right

24:13

fight back They got to

24:15

do it. Like if you just find out like everybody's Popeyes

24:17

for Christmas in Mexico. I guess it would be hilarious Okay,

24:21

they're pulling up also weirdest an American thing

24:23

and that's the weirdest thing about it to

24:25

me Like you they

24:27

have fried chicken. Oh Lines

24:30

are crazy. Don't they have cat food chicken

24:32

too like yeah Wow,

24:36

this is wild There's so

24:39

many people at this KFC. Yeah,

24:41

y'all if you listen it is YouTube Google this

24:43

shit KFC is

24:46

is Christmas in Japan. That's

24:49

wild Now

24:52

this next one is Austrian

24:55

Which is like I love Austria they

24:58

that's what the sound of music comes from one

25:00

of my favorite movies Very good movie. You should

25:02

check it out. Oh, is

25:04

that where the ladies like dance in the field

25:06

sitting around? Yeah, man, Julie and her best respect.

25:08

I have that lady. What is wrong with you?

25:11

I haven't seen it I said, what am I supposed to call

25:13

her? You need to do better? Austria

25:16

I'm not an ally. Yeah, you're not in

25:18

Austria They

25:20

have a legend a devil like creature called

25:22

Krampus. I'm sure you've heard of Krampus. Mm-hmm

25:25

He joins their st. Nicholas festivities

25:28

on December 6th children are asked for

25:30

a list of their good and bad deeds Good

25:33

children are rewarded with sweets apples and

25:35

nuts and bad children. Worry

25:37

what Krampus might bring on Christmas morning

25:39

Why are so many traditions just like

25:41

let's scare children just punishment just straight

25:43

up. Oh my god That's what Crampus

25:46

looks like. Oh, oh, yeah, Krampus looks

25:48

bad Krampus is Krampus tips a little

25:50

bit into like oh, this is one

25:52

of the blackface ones That's so scary.

25:54

Yeah. Oh, if I was a child,

25:57

I would be so upset Yeah,

26:00

that was like a lot of like religion and tradition

26:02

things are just like scaring children like I remember when

26:04

I was a kid and we went on

26:06

this like church youth conference thing and

26:10

This dude wrote this book called like he

26:12

was called 23 minutes in hell or something like

26:14

that Whoa, this dude

26:17

had like a nightmare And basically

26:19

he said that like God took him to hell for a

26:21

day so he could see what it was like So

26:23

he could wake up and tell everybody What

26:26

was what was hell like so he just

26:28

like started describing how like dark and eerie

26:30

and slimy it was and how hot it

26:32

was And like all these like evil creatures

26:34

and started naming like celebrities that he saw

26:36

burn. Yeah, I knew it I knew there

26:38

would be somebody that they like and then

26:40

the gay people over here That's in the

26:42

hail essentially what they were trying to do

26:45

And and I just remember the whole arena of

26:47

children are just like quiet like we were all

26:50

just like scared But you just said all these

26:52

things like I remember things like that, but like

26:54

that's that's that's that's about that though Is

26:58

that you remember that book heaven

27:00

is for real that that little

27:02

white boy wrote? Yes wrote quote

27:04

unquote I mean he painted Jesus

27:07

Right, but that was supposed to be

27:09

near-death experience and then he ostensibly Translates

27:12

his experience and whatever this dude just had

27:14

a dream and was like yeah, that was

27:16

real and everybody believed it And

27:18

everyone's like oh, that's what hell is like we

27:21

should scare these kids, but you just had a

27:23

nightmare, bro Why are you making that our problem?

27:25

Fucking sleep aids dude, you can't make

27:28

that every child's problem Just traumatized some

27:30

kids because you have mental health issues.

27:32

I was very traumatized. That's

27:34

awful It was looking back

27:36

at one of the worst days of my childhood It

27:38

was very like oh, yeah, the Krampus kills you in

27:40

your dream you die in real life What the fuck

27:43

cuz I think I like just started smoking weed for

27:45

like the first time too I'm

27:47

going to hell. I'm going I'm going yeah,

27:49

it was terrible Okay, this

27:51

next one is Italy. So this is my people. I'm

27:53

Italian Here's how I

27:55

thought you were Irish. What are you? Are you everything? Irish

27:58

bro Yeah,

28:01

you can, but I don't like it. Sorry

28:04

I like the departed and the godfather. Sue me,

28:06

bro. Like, but yeah, this is Italian.

28:08

This is the Feast of the Seven Fishes. I've actually heard

28:10

of this one. Never participated. But

28:14

the Feast of Seven Fishes is an

28:16

Italian-American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes

28:18

of fish and

28:20

other seafood. It's not

28:22

a feast in the sense of holiday, but

28:25

rather a grand meal. Isn't that just a

28:27

feast? Christmas Eve is a

28:29

vigil or fasting day, and the

28:31

abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from

28:33

meat. Okay, I thought I was gonna say something

28:35

else. From meat. Well,

28:38

wow. That's crazy. Until the

28:40

Feast of Christmas Day itself, the meal

28:42

includes seven or more fishes that are

28:44

considered traditional. Seven fishes

28:47

as a fixed concept or name is unknown

28:49

to Italy. In some Italian-American families,

28:51

there is no count of the number of

28:54

fish dishes. Okay. And

28:56

the custom of celebrating with a simple fish reflects

28:59

customs in what were historically impoverished regions of southern

29:01

Italy. Yeah, a lot of this stuff comes from

29:03

like, yo, we was poor and didn't have shit,

29:06

so this is what we're gonna eat, because it's

29:08

all- Well, here's the thing. For

29:10

me, when I hear this, I'm

29:12

like, oh, huge surprise. The Italians'

29:15

tradition is just eating

29:18

a bunch of food. Hey, don't you talk about

29:20

my people like that. That's what y'all do for

29:22

everything. Okay. The whole

29:24

tradition of every single- And-

29:27

Oh, yeah, let's have a feast. Yeah, okay, your

29:29

feet- Italians are living good. I'm not hating. I'm

29:31

just saying, oh, yeah, this one's a- this kind

29:33

of feast. It's like, yeah. Hey, you- Austria had

29:36

Krampus. They created a whole fictional character, and then

29:38

Australians like, what if- or Australians, Italians like, what

29:40

if we- what if we just eat seven fish?

29:42

All right, you got one more time to talk

29:44

about my people, bro. It's-

29:47

hey, they're living right. That's what I'm

29:49

saying. Exactly. I was speaking

29:51

with like, Italian figures. You know Mario? You

29:53

know what that is? Super Mario? Yeah. Or

29:56

Mario like, the singer or the super? No. The

29:58

Super Mario. Super, okay, yeah. So you know

30:00

in the game he says like it's a

30:03

me Mario you know that thing that's not

30:05

him being Italian going It's a me you

30:07

might know it's Japanese. There's a he says

30:09

he says it's sue me so Japanese word

30:11

Mario. Oh Thanks,

30:13

super. He's just saying his own name

30:15

because he's a Pokemon like that's weird

30:17

exactly. He's not introducing himself No, he's

30:19

not saying Mario. Yes, but everybody just

30:22

like he's Italian That's

30:24

like his DJ Khaled coming in he was

30:27

like it's just super Mario It's just drop

30:29

in this is just his drop, but

30:31

everybody thought like oh, he's Italian. So he says it's

30:33

a me mark No, what about

30:35

when Luigi's just like it's Luigi? Cuz

30:38

you know how Luigi come here. We just

30:40

Luigi time, right? Oh, I

30:42

don't know. I don't know I

30:44

just feel like here you go again

30:46

not being educated on my people, bro Yeah,

30:49

I don't know Italian American history. I'm

30:51

gonna these guests Jesus Christ Hey,

30:53

I didn't finish college. He's oh, I

30:56

don't know finish college. So

30:58

this next one is Colombian It's

31:00

called day of the little candles Little

31:03

candles day is a widely observed religious

31:05

holiday in Colombia It is

31:07

celebrated on December 7th on

31:09

the eve of the immaculate Conception because

31:11

we believe in that it's

31:13

a public holiday in Colombia This day is

31:15

the unofficial start of the Christmas season in

31:18

the country on this night People

31:20

place candles and paper lanterns on

31:23

window seals balconies porches sidewalk streets

31:25

parks and squares In

31:28

honor of the Virgin Mary because virginity

31:30

is something that should be celebrated Skylar.

31:32

Mmm. Yeah, I always do December

31:34

8th, it is not allowed to work Yeah

31:37

on December 8th It is not allowed to

31:40

work and it is customary for houses to

31:42

hoist a white flag with the image of

31:44

the Virgin Mary all day They also hold

31:46

numerous events from fireworks shows to competitions So

31:50

they just celebrating virginity. Yeah, they

31:52

like a comic-con or something. Yeah in that wild

31:54

how like They like it is

31:57

celebrating virginity on this one day, but any other

31:59

day you get roasts for me and a

32:01

virgin right yeah exactly but that the whole thing

32:03

they're like hey today is cool though welcome to

32:05

Columbia if you're a virgin it's like your day

32:07

that's like the theme of

32:10

like every dude comedy in the 2000s like 2001

32:12

like 2008 was like this dude's a virgin

32:15

like yo what if someone was a virgin

32:17

that'd be crazy right yeah and I was

32:19

like and I was in that time like

32:21

yeah I'm I'm definitely a virgin and I'm

32:23

supposed to stay a virgin like it doesn't

32:25

seem that was also the thing growing up

32:27

Mormon is that they were like talking about

32:29

like Oh virgins and I'm like that

32:31

does not seem that isn't that what we're

32:33

supposed to know like so I remember being

32:35

a kid right I was in church all

32:37

the time so when 40-year-old virgin came out

32:39

I was just like yeah so he doesn't

32:41

have a wife yeah oh so he's going

32:44

to heaven so he's going to heaven it'll

32:46

be I was like he's going to be

32:48

embraced by our Lord and Savior I was

32:50

not a comedy premise what is Judd Apatow

32:52

making fun of here there's no comedy

32:55

here at all he that man should be a

32:57

virgin he's not married yeah if

33:00

he and if he if he what

33:02

by the end of the movie he's like going to

33:04

hell that's like not good that's what

33:06

I was like I'm boycotting this movie there's so

33:08

many I remember there's so many things like as

33:10

a kid I was like I'm boycotting this is

33:12

like you don't have any money you're 12 did

33:14

you do you were boy I remember I would

33:17

be I would be doing that but like I

33:19

wouldn't even think that I was calling it boycotting

33:21

but I just like know it was bad cuz

33:23

the whole culture was doing it right so I'd

33:25

be a kid being like looking at people smoking

33:28

cigarettes and I'd be like I'm never gonna smoke

33:30

cigarettes that's gross I'm like seven years

33:32

old just judging whoever like and I'm

33:34

like nobody is offering me

33:36

a sick they're like if someone offers you a

33:39

cigarette who was offering me a cigarette like happening

33:42

at all I haven't had a tough day in your life

33:45

you don't know no you're not yeah what do I

33:47

need what did I get home from my like fucking mining

33:49

job and like we need to take some no

33:52

it's always funny thinking about like cuz

33:55

like there's like music music and movies

33:57

and stuff like I remember when

34:00

Who is it more like when Tyler the Creator like

34:02

first came out? He was like one of

34:04

those people churches were like he ate a bug in a

34:06

video and had a upside down Stay

34:09

away from it and now I give him my

34:11

money every time he comes to the arena Really?

34:15

But every show there was a

34:17

lot of like quote unquote like demonic stuff

34:19

Yeah, everything was like yeah, there's like you

34:21

better you

34:24

know don't listen to that like rap

34:26

music and stay in Boy Scouts and

34:28

That's all you're allowed to do right.

34:30

I had a pastor tell my mom

34:33

Barney the dinosaur was demonic He

34:35

called him a jolly purple demon

34:37

to steal your children. That was

34:39

Krampus to him right now is

34:41

he? I I

34:44

I was told that It

34:47

was a little arbitrary. It was weird, but I

34:49

remember being told that Pokemon

34:52

was demonic. Yes, I remember that

34:55

Pokemon were demons. Yeah And

34:59

then also like Power Rangers for

35:01

some reason what word yeah Rangers

35:05

here's why like the Power Rangers seemed

35:07

so Christian right like you could looking

35:09

at them You're like those are virgins.

35:12

Yes, they would be fighting stuff like

35:14

virgin style Exactly and yet they were

35:16

demand. I don't know. I wasn't allowed

35:18

to watch it though No, very very

35:20

virgin ask of just like why

35:22

are you taking karate classes in the middle of the

35:24

day? There's we have to be smoked there's all kinds

35:26

of shit You could be getting into as a teenager

35:29

like they gotta fight those green light green

35:31

monster power Rangers like when when they're not

35:33

The Power Rangers they just seem like a

35:35

youth group. Oh That's

35:37

exactly always just wear the same color all

35:39

the time. Yeah They're hanging out

35:41

singing about Christ with an acoustic guitar before

35:43

they go fight a villain I used to

35:45

talk about this on stage, but he's like

35:47

obviously like none of the Power Rangers

35:50

had a black mom right I

35:53

don't think so. How does like no

35:55

one ask any questions ever like

35:58

there's these superheroes that? all wear the

36:00

same colors, you all always wear the

36:02

same colors and you're always missing school and

36:04

you come home smelling bad. And

36:07

it's just like you open the kid's closet and he

36:09

has nothing but blue, he's not a crip, like what

36:11

are we at? Right, like he's not

36:13

in a gang. Yeah, you're not in a gang but you

36:15

wear the same color every day. Like some questions need to

36:18

be asked here. Right. I

36:20

don't know, maybe that was like their family's thing.

36:24

If they're a youth group then that's probably why they got away with it.

36:27

Yeah, it's true. I didn't really ever, like

36:29

I never watched it. I see clips of it now and

36:31

I'm like people were watching this. You didn't watch it growing

36:33

up? No, I was not. Have you

36:35

ever seen the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie? I

36:38

haven't, no, I haven't seen the movie. I've only seen

36:40

Power Rangers clips for real. Bro,

36:43

oh my god. Does it hold up? There's

36:46

no way. It holds up when you like it as

36:48

a child. Like I would, no

36:51

way would I ever be like bro you gotta

36:53

go watch the Mighty Morphin. Power Rangers. You

36:55

gotta go watch what Zordon tells them.

36:57

You don't, please don't know. I didn't

36:59

do anything. Yeah, Zordon is like this

37:01

dude in a tube. He's

37:09

just this huge head and he talks to

37:11

them from a tube. Now are

37:13

the Power Rangers, I found, I sound very

37:15

stupid right now. Are they the

37:17

ones that all when they get like really

37:19

powered up like they mash their bodies together

37:22

and become like a bigger. Yes

37:24

Skyler, you're shitting on my childhood right now but yes.

37:27

I'm not shitting on it, I was asking a question.

37:29

If it sounds like it's shitting on it maybe that

37:32

draws some questions about the quality of the content.

37:35

Yes, they combine their vehicles and

37:37

become a Megazord. And

37:40

then they fight. I can

37:42

see why they told me that something

37:44

called Megazord was demonic. Yeah. All

37:48

these kids are different races getting together.

37:50

That was the other thing about more.

37:52

They're so subtly white supremacist that they're

37:55

like, yeah, that

37:57

multiculturalism is a little Time

38:07

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participating McDonald's. Alright,

38:39

so this last tradition is

38:41

called celebrate Christmas on January 7th Ethiopia. So

38:44

basically these niggas are just late. I don't

38:46

really understand. Ethiopia.

38:49

Any Ethiopians listening that no okay.

38:51

Ethiopian Christmas is celebrated on the

38:53

7th of January. Shout out to

38:55

Monk. He's

38:59

probably got a listen to this. Hey

39:02

man, tell me all about your Ethiopian Christmas. I'm

39:04

gonna call him on January 7th and see if

39:06

he's celebrating. Ethiopian Christmas

39:08

is celebrated on the 7th of January

39:10

on the Gregorian calendar. Is that

39:13

the one we use? Yes. Okay.

39:15

I don't know why it's Gregorian but. Okay. Who's

39:18

Greg? I don't know. Opportunists

39:21

are expected to partake in a 43 day

39:24

fast known as

39:26

I'm just it's called the fast the

39:28

prophets. During this period how

39:31

believers must abstain from

39:33

all nonvegan products and psychoactive

39:35

substances, including alcohol. I'm out,

39:37

and can only consume 1

39:39

meal per day during

39:42

the festivities. A traditional thin white

39:44

cotton garment tapered with brightly colored

39:46

stripes on either end

39:48

called a Nutella is worn. like

40:00

damn, KMC and Nutella out. Oh,

40:04

Christmas Eve or the God of

40:07

Christmas, Ethiopians attend overnight mass, usually

40:10

starting around 6 p.m. and finishing at 3 a.m. Man, I

40:12

used to do shit like that, staying at church all night.

40:14

That's not fair to children. Did

40:17

you ever fast for anything? Oh yeah. Every

40:19

January, the start of the

40:22

year, my church would do

40:24

this thing called the Daniel fast, which was

40:26

like- Well, who was Daniel? Daniel

40:28

from the Bible. Oh,

40:30

what did he do? He, so Daniel- He

40:33

wasn't the whale nigga, right? No, he was- That was

40:35

Jonah, bro. That was Jonah, that was a Daniel. Daniel

40:37

and Jonah, two different things. Daniel

40:39

was a lion, that's a different animal. Daniel

40:42

wasn't a lion, it's good, Skyler, look at you.

40:45

Daniel was- I read the Bible too,

40:47

bro. Daniel was thrown in the lion's

40:49

den, but, so Daniel was captured

40:52

by the Babylonians. So

40:54

like he wasn't of the people in that

40:57

country, until he was working in the kingdom. And

40:59

basically the way the Bible says

41:02

it, Daniel was stronger and healthier

41:04

than the people working in the kingdom. And he told

41:06

the king, because he was on this strict

41:08

diet. And so Christians

41:11

do this thing called the Daniel fast, once

41:14

a year, for 21. Because basically Daniel

41:16

told everybody to eat like him for like 21

41:18

days or some shit like that. And

41:21

then, yeah. So that's what

41:23

Christians do. So yeah, every January growing up,

41:25

we couldn't eat meat, eat

41:28

dairy, fast food, sugar,

41:30

all that type of shit. We can only eat fruits

41:32

and vegetables for the first 21 days of the year.

41:35

Damn. Damn. Yeah,

41:37

bro. 21 days all day. I always used to feel

41:40

bad for my dad, because my dad's birthday is the

41:42

first week of January. Oh

41:44

man. He never got to eat

41:46

what he wanted on his birthday. I always feel so-

41:48

And was he committed to it? He was committed to

41:50

it. He was probably like sneaking shit, like we were

41:52

all around- I wasn't around so much shit. I

41:55

remember one time he really wanted to do this big

41:57

like go-kart birthday. It was so

41:59

dope. I was a kid and watching

42:01

all these adults come hang out with my dad

42:03

to drive go-karts and race them for his birthday

42:05

was hilarious. They brought

42:07

him this cake out, like my mom brings him this cake,

42:09

they're like, he blew the candles out and then they wrapped

42:11

the cake up and took it back. Because

42:14

he couldn't eat it. I

42:16

felt so bad. He didn't need to do that. I was like,

42:18

this is a grove man. He didn't need to eat it. You

42:20

can eat his cake bro. Just, I mean

42:22

at that point, just pull up a picture of

42:24

a cake on the computer or something and be

42:26

like, see, there you go. You

42:28

don't need to do all that. Come on.

42:31

So after fasting on this popular pastime

42:33

on Christmas day, they play a traditional

42:35

sport called Yerferis Gux.

42:38

The game is played on horseback and

42:41

it involves combatants throwing ceremonial

42:43

spears at each other and

42:46

then attempt to knock their opponents off their steeves. So

42:48

imagine not eating all month and then literally hit you

42:50

with a spear. Nah, we fighting bro. I mean, you're

42:52

so mad. I don't care. First of all, when you

42:54

said they were going to play a sport after

42:56

not eating, I'm like, there's no way they have

42:59

the energy for that. But it makes sense. They

43:01

got like the horses, but I would still be

43:03

like, why? I'm not

43:05

in the mood for this to

43:08

get on this horse. I guess that's all you

43:10

have to do if you're not eating. And the

43:12

other thing that sucks about this whole fast is

43:14

eat the open food is good. It's so good.

43:17

We ate it together. We were there with mugs.

43:20

That is so good. I love it. And

43:22

to not have to eat that for like the whole, however

43:24

long it is, 21 days. No,

43:26

that was your thing. I'm trying to

43:28

think. Do Mormons fast too? We

43:32

did this thing called

43:34

fast Sundays, which is like the first

43:36

Sunday of every month when we were...it's

43:39

intricately connected to like the tithing system

43:41

in Mormonism. But on Sundays, they wanted

43:43

you to fast like...or every one Sunday

43:46

a month, they wanted you to fast

43:49

like I think all morning and like into

43:51

the evening. And then you would usually like

43:54

direct your fasting energy at something

43:57

like your fasting for this reason

43:59

and somehow... how not eating

44:01

helps the prayer juice be

44:04

stronger or something. Or if

44:06

something was going on, sometimes they

44:08

would have a special

44:12

fast. Fasting

44:14

was like a special power-up

44:17

kind of. Yeah, that's how they look at it. To

44:20

fast to get some extra,

44:23

extra power to God. I don't know. Yeah.

44:26

They say, make sure during your fast you

44:28

pray more. Because

44:31

if you don't pray while you're fasting, it doesn't

44:33

count. You're just starving yourself. I was like, well,

44:35

I don't believe in this shit. Can I just

44:37

eat? Can I just have food?

44:39

My question is, if you jerk

44:41

off during your fast, does that mean

44:44

you go to extra hell? You

44:46

definitely do. Okay, that makes sense.

44:48

That's how it works. My

44:51

favorite tradition, I think we went through it. I don't think any

44:53

of these top elf on the shelf. I'm sorry. The

44:56

KFC in Japan, I think is pretty interesting.

44:58

KFC, because that's the one that I would

45:00

do. I wouldn't fuck with Krampus.

45:03

I would be mad as fuck trying

45:05

to do some sport after not eating.

45:08

For 43 days. Yeah, get some KFC.

45:10

KFC is the best chicken. No, but it's

45:12

decent chicken. I wonder if it's better in

45:15

Japan. Because you know some fast food places,

45:17

they're just better in other countries. Oh, I

45:19

bet you anything it's better in Japan. I

45:21

really bet it is. I

45:24

feel like it's got a strong... Because you're not going

45:26

to connect that to... Imagine doing that here,

45:28

if you were going to try to connect KFC to Christmas.

45:30

Yeah, if you told everybody to come over and like, hey,

45:33

I'm going to have KFC. I wonder if any Japanese people

45:35

move to America and they wonder why we're not all like

45:37

KFC. Right. Oh, well

45:39

because it's an American thing, if I was

45:41

in Japan and that got marketed to me

45:44

as like, go to KFC for Christmas, I

45:46

would assume that's what Americans would do. You

45:48

probably get here and then you see how

45:50

empty KFC is on Christmas. You're

45:52

like, what the hell is going on? Right. This is

45:54

a weird country, man. Exactly. Weirdos

46:00

not I might have to go to Japan on Christmas just

46:02

to do it. See what I see what it's like Do

46:05

you have any like to end this thing? Do

46:07

you have any funny like Christmas stories you like

46:09

from growing up or no? Nothing

46:12

nothing jumps out as entertaining because

46:14

again Mormon life was not

46:16

really it wasn't like

46:18

an interesting time Yeah, it doesn't sound enjoyable.

46:21

No What

46:23

are you doing for Christmas this Christmas

46:25

well, I don't know yet. I'm

46:28

also not a planner I'll do something.

46:30

I'll probably get really high like that's

46:33

that's what I do nowadays for Christmas is

46:35

I Well, you just

46:37

usually get as high as I possibly can and just

46:40

chill if I'm not with family But

46:43

that's awesome. That's that's probably what I'll do mushrooms

46:45

are great for Christmas You you if you want

46:47

to feel in the Christmas spirit you take some

46:50

mushrooms Absolutely. Yeah, my

46:52

favorite Christmas. I've ever had was

46:55

in 2020 when you couldn't go like every

46:57

time people don't go home You're gonna kill your family

46:59

all this every shit. So I told my

47:01

mom's like hey, I want nobody to die

47:03

Well, that's not true. I don't want anybody to

47:05

die and it'd be my fault You know, so

47:07

I was like I'm gonna stay I'm gonna stay in LA

47:10

my to my roommate left So it was

47:12

just me in the house by myself and

47:15

I ordered a bunch of Chinese food because of

47:17

the Chinese food spot That's across the street. They

47:19

root as fuck. The food is great. They're the

47:21

only place open They had a little tree in

47:23

the in the restaurant Their whole family was like

47:25

they're hanging out for Christmas and they were

47:27

like making the orders went over there got the food ate

47:30

like Take out

47:32

a like a eighth of shrooms. Oh Beautiful

47:34

and I guess beautiful eight just

47:37

pounds of Chinese food just

47:39

chow Maine to the head, bro It was great.

47:41

Yeah, and I just watched Seinfeld all day Yeah,

47:44

that's a great Christmas. This thing is the

47:46

thing that Is the

47:49

thing it's nice about holidays or what we

47:51

should be more oriented Towards

47:54

with holidays. It's not having to do any

47:56

of this like bullshit that you're expected to

47:58

do or all these like tradition That's what

48:00

I was saying. All that stuff is from the past.

48:03

Create your own tradition that you really

48:06

like to do. Do it with your

48:08

friends. Do something really fun and be

48:10

like, this is my Christmas tradition. I

48:12

like it. This is what I'm about.

48:14

Then you can enjoy the holiday and

48:17

it's not all about this consumerist stuff

48:19

or Christian stuff. You

48:21

can do whatever you want and

48:23

have a better time, even if it's

48:25

just chilling or doing something crazy. I love

48:28

how you just did this whole positive

48:30

diatribe to basically say, do drugs with

48:32

your friends. Yeah. Very

48:35

sweet of you. What better time is there? Nobody's got

48:37

work. We all got work. Yeah, we all got work

48:39

off. No, I get it, man. Is there

48:41

anything you like to plug, Skyler? What's

48:46

happening? I don't know. Follow me

48:48

on Twitter and on Instagram. I don't have

48:50

any like... You've been getting some followers on

48:52

Twitter lately. Oh, boy have

48:54

I been. And they love me. And they

48:57

love me. Come and check this out. Yeah,

48:59

check it out. If

49:02

you hate it, then I don't really

49:04

care. My handle is

49:07

Skyler, at SkylerHiggly on

49:09

Instagram, skyler underscore h-i-g-l-e-y.

49:13

And I think, no, the underscores

49:15

on Twitter, the without underscores on Instagram, you can

49:17

find me. You need to publish this. Man, listen,

49:20

I did it backwards. But

49:24

Skyler Higgly on Twitter and Instagram, look me up.

49:27

Y'all go follow Skyler if you want to follow

49:29

him. It won't make me sad at

49:31

all. Do what you gotta do. Just give it a

49:33

chance. Good stuff, man. Just support me, man.

49:35

Just support my goals, man. All right. I'll

49:38

tell you, you don't like Christmas. No,

49:40

I really don't. Would you say you hate it

49:42

or you don't like it? I

49:44

would say I don't like it

49:46

because of, like, it's

49:49

built up on so much. There's

49:51

all this weird, like, white 50s aesthetic

49:54

that is weird. All

49:56

new and white Christmas and jingle bells and,

49:58

you know, that weird, rapey song. I

50:00

ain't like that and then yeah,

50:02

it's also just you know Consumerism

50:05

is weird the expectation is weird you

50:07

just like Yeah,

50:09

yeah, that's like a it's

50:12

like a weird expectation of like alright.

50:14

How solid is your family like you

50:16

know It's like a check-in

50:18

on like how good is your family life? Yeah,

50:21

it's really just like how much money you got and is your

50:23

family still cool. Yeah, no, I feel it.

50:26

So it's not great Cool. Well, I

50:28

hate it. And that's why this podcast is called.

50:30

I hate Christmas over the last four weeks of

50:32

eating Fruitcake that

50:34

tasted terrible I've

50:36

heard some of the worst music imaginable

50:39

train has a Christmas song y'all

50:43

I've talked about Many a

50:45

movie that would not be a

50:47

classic movie if it wasn't set during Christmas because

50:49

I just used Christmas as a gimmick For a

50:51

week storyline and I've talked about

50:53

some of the craziest Christmas

50:56

traditions ever and

50:58

I have to say I still hate Christmas. I

51:00

think it's stupid and Hey,

51:03

that's just how I feel and look but

51:06

what I will say is take

51:08

this time To spend with

51:10

your family and friends and be with the people That

51:13

you love the most because this is the one time of year

51:15

where you don't have to go to work and be a tool

51:17

for Capitalism so enjoy that shit. Yeah,

51:20

have a good time. Thank you guys again for

51:22

listening. See y'all later. Goodbye I

51:25

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51:27

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51:30

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51:32

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51:41

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51:43

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51:57

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52:02

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52:07

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