December 16, 2024 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The countdown to the holidays is happening Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't want it to be over though.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and we're almost a
week away from Christmas. And also Hanukah, yeah, starts on
the Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We got the booze. Okay, we'll focus on Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, I'm sure, but to celebrate we found a Christmas
themed poll.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Update on the.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Question is if Santa Claus had a nationality, which country
would he be from? And new guesses on what the
top answer would be.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He's very white, so some type of European.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm going to go Norway.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Is this realistic or what we want him to be
would be?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I asked you a question. I didn't want questions back
at me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I met Portuguese Santa last year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He was skinny, Yeah, a little too many buttons on. Well,
the number one answer was I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Santa doesn't belong to a country.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
After that, thirty thirty four percent said Norwegian Norway. Ye
fifteen percent said he'd be Canadian. I can see that
because North and then there was a tie between American
and Russian at six percent.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is just American guy? Russian.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Maybe we should start leaving him vodka out, never going
to know.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's fifth of Stolichnaya board. That's obviously Americans took this
poll because the rest of the people said, another country.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know where it is.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You didn't know the name of another country. You can
think of the public education system here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Finnish, Danish, Turkish, who knows, but brook is the Santa
track are going to be on at your house this
year for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We are so excited. The letters went out last week.
It is a big deal. Although I haven't planned a
Sanna like meet up pictures. I haven't planned that yet.
I think we're just gonna do them all this year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Okay, Yeah, that's okay, good. Yeah, we need to bring
tears back. So that's good. Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We got to get to the shot collar question of
the day with a guy who's twenty three and me
says he's Danish above the waist and Elfish below Elfish
ELFI digital.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
H show us your nationality. It's immortal down there.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
It's the holidays, the magical time of year where the
trees go up, stockings are hung, and Mariah Carey defrost
for one live TV performance before going back into cryo hibernation.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
She doesn't fully defrosted.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And while the reindeer are carbo loading for their big night,
we're going to be loading up on something else. And
no it's not eggnog and red Bull cocktails. Brook Oh,
we're stocking up on holiday knowledge for a special Christmas
trivia edition.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Of plenty of twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I can get drunk on that too, Jake.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't doubt you.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Give me a number one through twenty. I'll tell you
a fun fact about the Yule Tide season. You have
to tell me if it's a real fact or just
made up. We'll start with the woman who cuts her
ugly Christmas sweaters into ugly Christmas crop tops. That's Alexis.
Alexis number one through twenty. Please five number five Alexis.
The first artificial Christmas trees in the US were made
(03:34):
in the nineteen thirties using to repurposed toilet brushes.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That means they were used yeah, purpose, m you would
need so many toilet brushes at your house day Maybe
the nineteen thirties you had a small fake tree is
fake tree?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Alexis said, this is false. This is no, that's true.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, it wasn't until the nineteen fifties they begin making
them of aluminium and plastic. People weren't making them at home.
Alexis companies were making them out of the toilet brushes
and selling them to people.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You could clean your toilet with your trees.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
People aren't just buying eighty toilet brushes for Christmas, Mom,
Can we open the presents?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The smell?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Let's go over to Jose out.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Jose held a number number four four Jose. The famous
Mariah Carey song All I Want for Christmas Is You
was originally written as a joke about someone wanting a pony.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's so funny. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Jose said, that's false.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
That is well, it was a funny idea.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The song was always about love.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Mariah Carey came up with the melody and the lyrics
for the song in the early nineties while alone in
the house while It's a Wonderful Life was playing in
the background.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I actually wrote it with another guy.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I won't argue, Jake, Sorry, really sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Okay, Let's go to Brook instead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Brook.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
How at a number two number two Brook. In the
Victorian era, families believe that reflective strands of tinsel would
confuse and repel evil holiday spirits trying to haunt their homes.
This is why some European families still use extra sparkly
ornaments for good luck. Is this true or false?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Interesting? We used to use tinsel, and then I got
out my mom about how it was a waste of
plastic in the world and.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We need.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Decoration like the lights and the positive energy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I thought it was just to reflect the lights, you
know what. Victorian area. Sure, we got all sorts of
evil spirits around.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Let's go true, Brook said, that's true. That is we
made that up. Jeffrey, it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
How about a number have we done eight, Jeffrey. The
day of Jesus' birth is not mentioned in the Bible.
It was originally believed to have taken place on January sixth,
but was moved to December twenty fifth because it was
a better data.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Party or false. Was Jesus a big party guy?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was turning like water into wine and stuff, So
he's definitely a party facilitator. Party of Jason kind of
like a pusher like He's the one that would show
up to the convenience store and buy beer for all
the all the high schools.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How do you think he converted so many people?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Come on, Judas, do a keg stand. Come on here.
It'll be such a pagan party around him. He's got
twelve friends.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm gonna say that Jesus is pro party, so yes,
he'll move the holiday of his birth.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Jeffrey said, that's true. That is true.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
In the fourth century, there were many pagan festivals occurring
on December twenty fifth, so the Christians moved it to
give people an alternative way to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Right, take a shop for Jesus.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We're down to just Jose and Jeffrey. We're talking Christmas trivia. Jose,
Santa's reindeer are all female because male reindeer lose their
antlers in winter. It's true or false?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
This is true? Jose said, this is true.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
It is it's true. Jeffrey, were down a sudden death.
I need one number from you for the win or
the loss. Okay, number nineteen nineteen Jeffrey, Candy canes were
invented to keep children quiet?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Is that true and false?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Pretty much every invention that's supposed to be like a
treat or food is always to promote abstinences, ram crackers,
every like child invention is always to like make sure
that they don't get it on. I'm gonna say that's
not true. It was used for abstinence, Jeffrey said.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Candy canes were not used to keep kids quiet. There
for abstinence, that is, that's true. In the seventeenth century,
a choir master in Germany he handed out white sugary
sticks to children during church as an early form of
parental bribery. Some people couldn't hear the sermon.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And again, you're just looking sucking on it. It takes a.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
While, she said, Jose, you have won today's shut up
A twenty of twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And Jose, you get to choose who get shocked while
singing Santa Baby by earth a Kit.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Who's that going to be?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I'm gonna go with Brook, Oh, Santa Baby, just lamp
a sable under the tree for me, Bannon Apple, good girl,
Santa Baby, And.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
She used her nineteen sixties voice for that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's your shot collar question of the day. We got
your phone tap coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,
The countdown to the holidays is happening Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't want it to be over though.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and we're almost a
week away from Christmas. And also Hanukah, yeah, starts on
the Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We got the booze. Okay, we'll focus on Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, I'm sure, but to celebrate we found a Christmas
themed poll.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Update on the.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Question is if Santa Claus had a nationality, which country
would he be from? And new guesses on what the
top answer would be.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He's very white, so some type of European.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm going to go Norway.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Is this realistic or what we want him to be
would be?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I asked you a question. I didn't want questions back
at me.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I met Portuguese Santa last year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He was skinny, Yeah, a little too many buttons on. Well,
the number one answer was I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Santa doesn't belong to a country.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
After that, thirty thirty four percent said Norwegian Norway. Ye
fifteen percent said he'd be Canadian. I can see that
because North and then there was a tie between American
and Russian at six percent.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is just American guy? Russian.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Maybe we should start leaving him vodka out, never going
to know.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's fifth of Stolichnaya board. That's obviously Americans took this
poll because the rest of the people said, another country.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know where it is.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You didn't know the name of another country. You can
think of the public education system here.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Finnish, Danish, Turkish, who knows, but brook is the Santa
track are going to be on at your house this
year for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We are so excited. The letters went out last week.
It is a big deal. Although I haven't planned a
Sanna like meet up pictures. I haven't planned that yet.
I think we're just gonna do them all this year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Okay, Yeah, that's okay, good. Yeah, we need to bring
tears back. So that's good. Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We got to get to the shot collar question of
the day with a guy who's twenty three and me
says he's Danish above the waist and Elfish below Elfish
ELFI digital.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
H show us your nationality. It's immortal down there.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
It's the holidays, the magical time of year where the
trees go up, stockings are hung, and Mariah Carey defrost
for one live TV performance before going back into cryo hibernation.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
She doesn't fully defrosted.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And while the reindeer are carbo loading for their big night,
we're going to be loading up on something else. And
no it's not eggnog and red Bull cocktails. Brook Oh,
we're stocking up on holiday knowledge for a special Christmas
trivia edition.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Of plenty of twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I can get drunk on that too, Jake.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't doubt you.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Give me a number one through twenty. I'll tell you
a fun fact about the Yule Tide season. You have
to tell me if it's a real fact or just
made up. We'll start with the woman who cuts her
ugly Christmas sweaters into ugly Christmas crop tops. That's Alexis.
Alexis number one through twenty. Please five number five Alexis.
The first artificial Christmas trees in the US were made
(03:34):
in the nineteen thirties using to repurposed toilet brushes.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Wait?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That means they were used yeah, purpose, m you would
need so many toilet brushes at your house day Maybe
the nineteen thirties you had a small fake tree is
fake tree?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Alexis said, this is false. This is no, that's true.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, it wasn't until the nineteen fifties they begin making
them of aluminium and plastic. People weren't making them at home.
Alexis companies were making them out of the toilet brushes
and selling them to people.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You could clean your toilet with your trees.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
People aren't just buying eighty toilet brushes for Christmas, Mom,
Can we open the presents?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The smell?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Let's go over to Jose out.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Jose held a number number four four Jose. The famous
Mariah Carey song All I Want for Christmas Is You
was originally written as a joke about someone wanting a pony.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's so funny. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Jose said, that's false.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
That is well, it was a funny idea.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The song was always about love.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Mariah Carey came up with the melody and the lyrics
for the song in the early nineties while alone in
the house while It's a Wonderful Life was playing in
the background.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I actually wrote it with another guy.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I won't argue, Jake, Sorry, really sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Okay, Let's go to Brook instead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Brook.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
How at a number two number two Brook. In the
Victorian era, families believe that reflective strands of tinsel would
confuse and repel evil holiday spirits trying to haunt their homes.
This is why some European families still use extra sparkly
ornaments for good luck. Is this true or false?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Interesting? We used to use tinsel, and then I got
out my mom about how it was a waste of
plastic in the world and.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We need.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Decoration like the lights and the positive energy.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I thought it was just to reflect the lights, you
know what. Victorian area. Sure, we got all sorts of
evil spirits around.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Let's go true, Brook said, that's true. That is we
made that up. Jeffrey, it's your turn.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
How about a number have we done eight, Jeffrey. The
day of Jesus' birth is not mentioned in the Bible.
It was originally believed to have taken place on January sixth,
but was moved to December twenty fifth because it was
a better data.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Party or false. Was Jesus a big party guy?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was turning like water into wine and stuff, So
he's definitely a party facilitator. Party of Jason kind of
like a pusher like He's the one that would show
up to the convenience store and buy beer for all
the all the high schools.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How do you think he converted so many people?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Come on, Judas, do a keg stand. Come on here.
It'll be such a pagan party around him. He's got
twelve friends.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm gonna say that Jesus is pro party, so yes,
he'll move the holiday of his birth.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Jeffrey said, that's true. That is true.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
In the fourth century, there were many pagan festivals occurring
on December twenty fifth, so the Christians moved it to
give people an alternative way to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Right, take a shop for Jesus.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We're down to just Jose and Jeffrey. We're talking Christmas trivia. Jose,
Santa's reindeer are all female because male reindeer lose their
antlers in winter. It's true or false?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
This is true? Jose said, this is true.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
It is it's true. Jeffrey, were down a sudden death.
I need one number from you for the win or
the loss. Okay, number nineteen nineteen Jeffrey, Candy canes were
invented to keep children quiet?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Is that true and false?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Pretty much every invention that's supposed to be like a
treat or food is always to promote abstinences, ram crackers,
every like child invention is always to like make sure
that they don't get it on. I'm gonna say that's
not true. It was used for abstinence, Jeffrey said.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Candy canes were not used to keep kids quiet. There
for abstinence, that is, that's true. In the seventeenth century,
a choir master in Germany he handed out white sugary
sticks to children during church as an early form of
parental bribery. Some people couldn't hear the sermon.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And again, you're just looking sucking on it. It takes a.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
While, she said, Jose, you have won today's shut up
A twenty of twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And Jose, you get to choose who get shocked while
singing Santa Baby by earth a Kit.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Who's that going to be?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I'm gonna go with Brook, Oh, Santa Baby, just lamp
a sable under the tree for me, Bannon Apple, good girl,
Santa Baby, And.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
She used her nineteen sixties voice for that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's your shot collar question of the day. We got
your phone tap coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,
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