November 15, 2023 • 49 mins
It's timeeeeeeeee! Mariah is O-fficially defrosted, the Lechon is being prepped, and your favorite space commanders are here to spill all of the coquito. Did you realize a portion of the world celebrates the holidays in their summer season? Or that there are Christmas celebrations that involve piñatas and costumes? Or that the same dish has three different names? Plus, Commander Em makes a quick satellite call to her mom on Earth to set the record straight on her grandma's strict rules for Christmas decorations.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I hate you the same. Let's go to man one,
Ready for wondering.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Launch Jingle Jingle jingle, Oh love with Welcome to this show.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's wow. It is that time of year, isn't it.
You like what you hear? I do, like what I hear.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I really do, even though it doesn't feel like it
here in Miami, where the seasons are summer.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Less summer and hotter summer, true, true and hot. But
we are officially.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
A little more than one week away from Thanksgiving and
the true holiday season of the year. You know how
I feel about this.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That Mariah Carey is defrosted. Where is she the rest
of the year?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I feel like it's a cave but like lined in
like silk or something.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, because I don't really ever see her do anything
until holiday season rolls around, and then it's.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Like bam VR.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
By the way, I notice you're still sporting a little
bit of your meditation voice from last week's episode.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Do you think so? Yeah? It's a very soothing Who
is she? Who was she? I don't know what a
part of her is here today?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Oh well, I can only wish. I can only wish
to fully embrace that version of myself, but I think
that this one is just a little tired.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, we've had a pretty crazy couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Missus Stefan, Yeah, Miss Shining rock Star, Miss viral on
all platforms. Seriously, come on, we're in less than a
week and you have like, what like fifteen million across
I don't even check today. Okay, well deserve it's about time,
a time for that show soon come Today. We're talking
(02:22):
about the joyous spirit of the holidays, and in our case,
the holidays yep. I the holidays are special to me
because I kind of took the lead in like my
immediate family and like you know, especially my mom's house
where I was most of the time to foster and
my family and my sister and I both I think
(02:44):
share that like spirit for the holidays because of that,
because it wasn't like such a big deal in my house.
You know, we had several Christmases with no Christmas tree because.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My mom just no.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
But it's okay, you know, I didn't. I had a
Christmas tree in other places. And then I realize, you
know that I could just give myself, you know, these Christmases.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So now I do. But I love the holidays. I
love cooking.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I love cooking for people I love. I love spending
time with the people that I love. I love colder
seasons and those.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Smells of cinnamon and nutmeg. The colder season that is
one day, and that's.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Why I tend to like to escape too. I'm all
for I'm all for family trips around the holidays.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who was it that said a couple of days ago?
Sorry to be ignorant, but what the hell do you
guys eat for Thanksgiving? I'm like, girl, we eat the
house as vegans, you know. Oh, I'm like, we eat
the house down.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, yeah, you can make any you can make
any typical Thanksgiving side vegans.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm like, have you seen that? Mean that's like beans greens?
So literally, what's your favorite Thanksgiving meal? Okay? Well? Holidays
on the corner?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And what I love about it, especially for us a
lot of the time is that we have a lot
of leftover. So I have two categories of my favorite
because the day of I want to sample everything. I'm
I'm on a Thanksgiving cruise ship. Baby, I am on
the what's it called the Pilgrim. I am in a bonnet.
I mean, I'm in the bonnet buffet. Baby, I want
(04:24):
a little bit of mashed potato, you know, vegan gravy
depending on who made the green bean casserole. I want
your cranberry sauce.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And then you know, which is maybe a lot of
people don't know. In Cuban tradition, we have like le
chong and rice and bean and like now I'm saying,
like a normal side tradition, a normal Cuban side for
Thanksgiving would be like black beans, you know what I mean,
(04:59):
And you pop some.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Those like roasted pick yeah, roasted pick yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
But then the real te, which I really think is
like a millimeter away from my favorite Thanksgiving meal, is
the next day Okay, what I'm talking about is the
Holy Grail, the Trinity of tanks tipping the next day
Thanksgiving leftover sandwich. I'm talking about the perfect bread, all right.
(05:32):
I'm talking about the one that has like the little wikigos,
the holes at the air bubbles so that you know
you're gonna stack the ship up, so you know, you
gotta make sure that it can contain it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's gotta be stick, gotta let it breathe, baby, breathe.
So you got you know your tofurky or if you
eat meat, you know your turkey go a little but
cranberry sauce. Put some mashed potatoes in there. Why are
you scared? Scared? But gravy.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's the whole thing, you know. Put the bread on there,
you toast it, You toast it, and you cut in
a little triangle. You even pop some more sides on
the plate.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Oh yeah, like ah, anyway, Thanksgiving leftover date sandwich.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You know what some people do well when you have
like le chong and I guess you could just do
this with your turkey too. I have seen a lot
of people grab post like Thanksgiving everything post holiday beyond
leong make go Okay that's what Yes girl, All you
have to do is make us outside a taml and
(06:37):
you mix that in with your whatever your meat is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you know they've prepped the meat like two days before. Yeah,
that is off the chain. Wow, How had I never
heard of that?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Of course, my Goha Gina has a pinnacle of Miami,
Miami freaking Latin. That is so cool because I don't
know if you know this about Goachina. Gatchinas literally translates
to the Chinese box and there was this dude, can't
remember the dude's name, who saw Chinese people cooking with
this like wooden box that then they would cover with coals,
(07:11):
burning coals, hot coals in like the fifties, and then
it wasn't until like I want to say, nineteen eighty
five here in Miami he replicated and started to create
like a hatchina. So it was something that like kind
of started to be developed simultaneously between Cuba the island,
and like the people.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kind of emigrated over. They didn't do it in Cuba.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I'm sure some Cubans did it, but it's not like
a typically Cuban thing. It literally is a Chinese box.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Because for us here in Miami is like a year's hey, Thanksgiving,
sometimes parties, you know, maybe a wedding depends, yeah, feeling down,
fire up.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
It's actually really vile, like the pig is like stick
going through his whole body.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Okay, anyway, but.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
They but it does produce very crispy skin, which is
like the most coveted part of lacahachi or peril if
you're from Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, different names
for similar dishes, just prepared slightly differently.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But yeah, so we would have typically that. But that's
my answer your question. That's my favorite things.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Do you prefer to eat the American dishes or the
Latin dishes both?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
First of all, everybody knows you got to go hungry Thanksgiving,
So for your first stomach, for your Cuban stomach, you
have the I'll have some rice.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Wan beans, but I like you don't try to stay
away from them. Oh yeah, because I mean we eat
them all the time. That's the thing. I'll eat all
of it though, I'll make rooms.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Okay, I know, yeah, But for me, it's like, see,
why is it that we only eat the like the
green bean casserole, like all of these dishes, the sweet
potato casserole, which I know you're not the biggest fan of,
but I certainly love, especially when the marshmallows are toasted.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, that's just that's a dish that's a save disguised
as a dessert and it ends up being nice. It's
not a dessert. It's not disguised as a dessert. It's sweet, sweet,
it's got marshmallows on it. But it's like it's good.
It really just respect it just bloods so.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Well with all the other Thanksgiving fixes, enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Like stuffing more for you. Yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I love a herby stuffing. Anyway, Why don't we eat
these things once a year?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I agree? We were talking about the other day. Why.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I think that a lot of people also make it
a thing to like prep They're already off maybe that
weekend or whatever, so they're prepping their food. They're prepping
maybe with people that they love, they're doing friendsgivings, they're
I think a part of it is all the time
that it takes to prep it, even though everybody complains,
I think that's like part of the specialness, you know
(09:48):
what I mean. So I don't think that anybody got
time to you know, be prepping you know, turkeys and
stuff for twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, that's true. I don't know. I don't know. Have
you seen those people that deep fry them?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Deep fried? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I've had deep fright turkey.
It's delicious.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Turkeys are actually it's actually really sad. Do you know
how many turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving annually?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's really messed up. Do you know the num berth?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do you how many?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I want you to guess that I follow a lot
of turkey sanctuaries really like on Instagram. You can follow
it because there are a lot of people that will
rescue turkeys and you know it'll show also how intelligent
they are and loving there anyway, how many turkeys are
massacred for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Annually in the United States has to be millions? Okay,
how many? Five million? Is that your final answer? Ten million?
Is that your final answer? Forty forty million? Estimated forty
million turkeys? An, that's terrible, and a bunch of those
I bet don't get eaten or get thrown now.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
That's so terrible. But there are turkey sanctuaries out there, guys,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh and honestly, till turkey's not that bad. No, and
everybody knows the best parts the.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Rest of the food anyway, So exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Are there any other like holiday traditions, Thanksgiving, Christmas otherwise?
Because I know we celebrate Christmas not even because we're Christian,
because we don't do any of the religious things. A
lot of people in the world do celebrate the religious
element of the Christmas as a holiday. But I do
feel like a lot of us are just.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like it's time to hang out with your family and
give them gifts just because you love them.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
That's another thing, like why do we thanksgiving food once
a year? Like we shouldn't need a day to hang
out with everybody in the family, you know what I mean.
But we talk about it a lot in this podcast,
like life gets chaotic and stuff has been so crazy
that for me personally, I don't even you know, A
lot of the time think about the origin of you know,
(11:57):
these actual holidays or days or religious affiliation.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I think about family.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, and my memories up till now of spending time
with my family, cracking up, having food fights on New
Year's and even cringing at thea when I was not
a vegetarian, and standing over the tinfoil thing that it
ended up and making a sandwich of the skin.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And the meat and the skin God, and you know,
like playing hide and seek with the cousins, you know,
while the while the family argued Cuban politics, you know
what I mean, And your uncle smoked a cigar in
the corner, you know what I mean. Yeah, just like
good times.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, stuff like that that I think that's why I
like to honor it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
And the more that time passed.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I told you the other day, like when my grandma
isn't here, you know, like it's it's a way that
I feel close to her a lot too.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Maybe, yeah, I can imagine. That's another thing about the.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Hometime cry you can cry, No I don't. But anyway,
so we we miss our loved ones.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is hot here. My eyes are sweating. Oh yes,
so hot in this space. There's no the spaces are
missing anyway. I do feel now that i'm thinking about it, though,
that I need to for Christmas get a few of
my family's members therapy. No for them. Well, that came
out wrong, but not really for this specific thing. The decorations.
(13:30):
I don't know what it is about some members of
my family.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Lily and my grandma can p probably listening to us.
I'm sorry, but you know that this is true my grandma.
This is a big memory I have of the holidays.
Not only did she have exact days that you had
to put up her decorations, right, it had to be
put up on that day or else?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Like what day was that? I'm gonna have to call
my mom to remember, but it was like the day
after this, the day after that call. Okay, let's see hello,
How are you good? And you good?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
We are sitting here in outer space and we're doing
an episode.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
About the holidays. And I was remembering Auela, and you know,
thinking about how much I remembered all her rules and
all her special things. And I was trying to remember.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
What were the days that she had set aside for setting.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Up the Christmas tree? Was December eighth? And what was
the reasoning or after?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Because it's the day of black ships, good conception or something?
How she was conceived on the eighth and born on
the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Eight. Oh man, you could have.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Removed the tree until after January sixth in the yellow lays. Uh,
you couldn't put balls and bows on the same tree.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Why that one. I remember very fondly would.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Come and arrest you if you did such things. She
had that calendar that she would hang up every year
and count down the twelve days of Christmas.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yes, we used to call it, Yeah, has intented forest.
And she would mom remember when she would go around
because she had very you had to put. Also, she
had like a ladder decoration of these little you know.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Oh, the snowman had to be at the base of
the tree because he had no legs, and I'm going, well,
how does he climb that?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
She was like major gift wrapper.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Everything had to be done just so you made some ribbons.
She did all the cards and calligraphy.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh yeah. Oh, and the food she had at her house,
she always had the too wrong right, Yes, the had.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
To be a whole plate, a three layer layer like
plate of different tone is.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Anyway, Well, thank you. We were just verifying those dates
so I didn't get them wrong. I love you. I'll
call you later. But you see, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
My goodness, my grandma had yeah at the time. You know,
sometimes people would get frustrated by all her little rules
and things. But you know when those people, yeah, but
when those people are no longer here, that's you know,
you sit around and you laugh about it and you
remember it and you almost want to keep some of
them going.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's so hilarious. So she's so funny, gets you're wagging
her finger. I love that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I love that, And it's actually a perfect segue to
the next part of the conversation. You know that I
do not miss an opportunity to collect a couple of
facts she doesn't. Your mom mentioned a couple of interesting
dates that are actually widely celebrated in Latin America, and I.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Would love to share them with you. I would love
to hear them.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
All right, okay, but you know, before I get into
the facts, I want to mention one thing that we
haven't mentioned. And I think that a lot of us
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sort of forget about because we're just used to Christmas
and Thanksgiving, fall and winter being something that's like a
cold season. We think of it as like, you know,
sweaters and fireplaces. And it's interesting because there are a
lot of countries in Latin America that are in the
(17:47):
dead of summer on Christmas, all of the countries in
the Southern Hemisphere, like Argentina, parts of Chile, Paraguay.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I never thought about that. Yes, the more you know Ecadora,
parts of Peru, Geman is a gem, gem is a gem,
jangle and gems jingles and jim jim wow. I love that.
I love that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And another thing that's also very different between our American
and Latin counterparts is that, like your mom mentioned January sixth,
some countries recognize Santa Claus that we do.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We do.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They just call him Babel, but a lot of countries
don't have, like Santa Claus is a figure in their
holiday traditions, which is why they'll gift exchange on the.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Sixth learning so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Santa Claus is
not a religious figure.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
There's also some that are like scary, like Belchnickel exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, that's a whole culture. Yeah, I don't know what
to be waxy with a stick and ship. Yeah, I'm
going to be moving on. That's what everyone deserves, benicl Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So some of the first this is obviously not an
exhaustive list.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This is just some some that I've gathered that I
found to be really interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So some of the first holiday celebrations actually began as
early as November twenty fourth, which happens to coincide with
American Thanksgiving. Okay, And it's an occasion and nika agua
calledma and it's like a nine day period of prayer
that essentially, in the Catholic tradition, celebrates the preparation or
(19:29):
the days leading up to the immaculate conception of Mary
or the imaculine conception Virgin Mary's immaculate conception. Okay, So
after La Purissima. There is on December eighth this other
celebration called Lightidria, which is like this huge basically celebration
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of fire and food, and there's this collumn in response
that like everybody takes takes part in. That's like ye,
and people reply like on zip or what brings so
much joy? And people shout back, you know, Virgin Mary's conception. Yeah,
And it's really cool because they're saying in the streets
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and people visit each other's altars and they give gifts
and they share suites, and certain cities like Leone will
build like these big you know, they build like this
big dog called Lahiandona that goes around the streets. It
is like this just this big festival celebrating i know,
celebrating the conception of baby Jesus. There's another festival sort
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of similar in Columbia Calledavelitas, which takes place the Immaculate
Conception eve I guess on December.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Seventh, non sex being celebrated.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
And it's really cool because this is they use light
as a way to symbolize, like this, the immaculate conceptions,
So people will put candles and paper lanterns on their
window sills, their bucketies, their porches all over the streets.
Cities will take place on like big displays, and in
some parts of like the Caribbean part of Colombia, they'll
you know, party from December seventh until December eighth, and
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that'll be when they light the candles, like right before
they go to bed, and it's you know, like another
another holiday, another reason to drink and eat and sometime
with your loved ones.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I love that. I love it too.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
And people even will walk along like that Golli River,
which you know they light up with a bunch of
different displays mlitas.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I love that A little day of the little candles.
Isn't that so cute? It is? Yeah, but it looks
so beautiful too.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I bet it does look beautiful. I bet it well
from what from what I did see, it did look beautiful.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So next up, Chronologically, in Mexico, specifically, the Lupe or
Day of our Lady of Guadaloupe is celebrated. And this
is actually super cool because it has some focal or
behind it. So it's believed that in fifteen thirty one
there's what there was this indigenous boy who on Diego,
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who the Virgin Mary revealed himself to and said, you
must build a giant church right where you're standing. And
about one hundred years later this church was built, and
it is actually the Basilica of Guadalupe, which is one
of the largest Christian pilgrimages in the world. That's you know,
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in Mexico City today, was built and that is exactly
that is why that church exists there. And when Diego
later on in two thousand and two, was canonized and
they recognized as a saint, and it is said supposedly
that still they housed this cloak that he was wearing,
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that apparently when the Virgin Mary appeared to him, the
image of her was burned onto the cloak as proof
that he had actually seen her. So the story is
told like this.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So what if what if the cloak? What if that
meant that the conception wasn't so immaculate? After all, that's
not what that meant.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
This was fifteen thirty one, and actually Juan Diego is
the first indigenous person from the Americas to become a saint.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Wow, now we got sennacrus on coins. My gosh, this
is so cool.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I didn't know any like a lot of these things
read either, read either, and I love learning about this.
Thank you continue, Okay, all right, So also in Mexico
and in other parts of the world, of course.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
And if I don't mention your country, please forgive me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's there's actually not enough literature about these, these traditions
that take place on leaternet.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I don't feel.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So there's another festival that that takes place between the
sixteenth to the twenty fourth of December, and it's called
Las Posalas and this is in Mexico as well, and
it's a religious festival. Los bosalas Is translates to the
end or the lodgings, And it's basically celebrating the journey
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that Joseph and Mary did from Nazareth to Bethlehem searching
for a place to give birth to baby Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And in their twelve day journey, the twelve days of Christmas.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
And their twelve day journey, they were consistently denied until
eventually they gave You know, Mary gave birth to baby
Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So what did they do with the partridge and a
pear tree? Let me tell you something. I feel so
bad for these for these for these people because they
get celebrated, oh all every year, but so many people,
and they're not even to enjoy it. You're absolutely right.
(24:47):
I'm so sorry, Jesus and Mary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
So what what happens in Mexico is that these la posalas,
these like parades, these processionals essentially take place, usually led
by a child dress as an angel, and mostly children
but don't join in. Musicians and people join in, and
they're singing songs and they're stopping at these selected houses
and asking to be you know, asking for lodging, and
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they're traditionally told to know they're denied, and they'll sit
say prayers and you know they'll be denied lodging, but
like oftentimes provided refreshments by the way, but they're reenacting.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They're reenacting. They actually need a place, so they do
not like this is a terrible I'm like, they're my
least favorite. You tell the orphans that they can't say
with children dressed in gold and silver robes, you know,
like going okay, God place. I was about to say that,
I do not know. There's a great ending to it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So every this happens every night, and every night, usually
after the professional there was a mass that's held and
at the end of it, guess what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I throw the children in a river. According to this story, No,
they don't. They don't throw the children in the river.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
The children then break star shaped pinadas traditional Mexican star
shaped priniadas because those belies the star that the.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Three keys followed to reach Baby Jesus. And it's filled
with candy and sweetsen you know, go to the razors
and knives. What is wrong with you? I mean the
story starts with there are these orphaned children.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That are going from a house dressed like angels, getting
denied lodging.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
What is this? Not what I said? And this is
a very serious religious tradition. Okay, I'm sorry, No, no, no, listen,
I don't mean to offend anybody. I'm just an asshole.
I'm so do you don't you think the piana part
is sweet? No? I love all of these things. Like,
first of all, again, I love anything that brings people together.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Say their prayers and they you know, they come together
in community.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It involves music, it involves dressing up, which I love
pinatas food doesn't love a good pata, food refreshments and.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
A cute little kid dresses, an angel leading the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I love it either, I mean, okay, sign me up,
there you go. I'm so Sorryso sace December sixteenth through
the twenty fourth. All right, wow, it's a long it's
a long prayer. Yeah, so twenty fourth. We know launche.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, not Chevuena or Christmas Eve, which is I think
I think it's safe to say that in Latin countries
it's really Christmas, even though we call it no chevuena.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
We do celebrate Christmas Day. A lot of people will
go to Mass, and that tends.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
To be a day of like relaxation or you know,
like I think it's more of like a toned down
getting together. But not China is the day that you
party and you eat and you have the feast. Whereas
like Americans traditionally might feast on Christmas Day, we do
that Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I feel like I know a lot of families that
will open even all of their gifts on a.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Lot of people do exchange gifts on Chena and a
lot of most Latin American countries that celebrate Christmas will
give the exchange the gifts on on Christmas. And it's
not just obviously we don't just eat uh let them
that's us as Cubans, but other countries, I mean, we'll
have a bunch of other traditional meals like that. Man.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Of course, at least my experience growing up, there were
a lot of us that gathered.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I love the fact that also as like.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Children of immigrants but who are also share American culture,
we can kind of enjoy both.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And I love the fact that you have all these
days off, why not see your family again, see different
parts of the family, spend time with people that you
don't usually see. Yeah, for sure, you know, I love that.
I think that we should. I feel like we get
so possessive.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Over our family members on the holidays, we'll be like, no,
you have to spend it with me. And I actually
think it would be nice if I if, you know,
like we took trips to spend it with like extended family.
I love to go see my godmother in North Carolina,
spend like a holiday with her and her family.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, she's listening to this, like, oh shit, make the guests. Okay,
continue on your journey here.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Okay, So, of course on Christmas Day, you know that's
people go to church. You know, celebrate religious serifics, but
it really is more like a relaxing family day.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I have one for Christmas Day for you that I
learned about. Tell me it's called Las Patinata's pat No,
it's called Las pati Nada's because in Venezuela. So I'm
going to tell you in Venezuela.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
And unfortunately there's a lot of political unrest there now,
so it hasn't I read this amazing article about how
it hasn't been able to continue this tradition and a
lot of people miss it because it's something that's so
you know, representative of their culture specifically, which is beautiful
and really sad because you know, I hope that there's
(29:48):
a time when they can do it again and feel safe.
But you know, according to their tradition, a lot of kids,
you know, the gifts that they would want and receive
on this day would be like bikes or roller blades
or you know, things of this nature, and like wheels,
write things with wheels. And also something that everybody always
(30:10):
did was go to Christmas Mass, like a lot of
other people do as well, so they would make it
like a mass thing where they would even close the
streets to have everybody ride their new towards or ride
their skateboards or roller blades or whatever to masks.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Wow, you know, so you could like have fun enjoy
your Yeah, that's cool anyway, So we should we should,
you know, like skating and these things. You learn about
all these amazing things like why can't we have a
pinata on Christmas? Then educate your family about Hey, look
this is something that they do. Well it's not on Christmas,
but yeah, and then I'll be like heym, then I
and you lodge and give the fuck out. Anyway, what
(30:49):
happens after Christmas?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Okay, so after Christmas, you're gonna this. This actually might
this might be your actual favorite. Oh so this is
not something that takes place everywhere, but it does take
place has several countries in Latin America and in Spain,
and it's called Ilia de los Santos or the Day
of the Innocent Saints, and it's commemorating according there's no
(31:11):
historical recollection of this, it's only in the Bible. The
story is that King Herod found out that there was
a prophecy for a new child child that would be
born and become King christ Child, and he ordered every
male under two years old to be executed, and they
were actually considered to be the first Christian martyrs.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
What is wrong with the hold on? You're gonna really
like this story? Everybody under too dead? Are you? This
is not the part that you're gonna like. What an episode?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The way that they commemorate and like page tribute to
these children is that December twenty eighth is like Latin
American April Fool's Day.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So it's basically a day where people just play like
tricks and pranks on each other and dance on the
graves of I thought you would like the prank.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
It's like April Fool's Day and Christmas time December twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Okay, yeah, well you know what April Fool's Day and Christmas.
I'm down. Okay, there you go, you like it now?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You know these biblical times and all these you know people.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Rough okay, hello, and you know, all over the place,
all over the world, mostly we celebrate f manual December thirty,
first New Year's Eve. Okay, So this is interesting because
we all, I feel like, tend to celebrate globally in
a very similar way. We have parties, we have food,
(32:36):
we have drinking, we have fireworks.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I don't like newears. You don't like New Year's.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Every year that New Year's passes, it just reminds me
that you I'm closer to death and it gives me
this weird nostalgic feeling, but a bad nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And the countdown makes me nervous. Wow, and I feel
like there's pressure. Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I actually love New Year's. It gives me a sense
of renewal.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, I like Your's Day.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
I like, No, I don't like New Year's Day, New
Years Day stress, New Years Day.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I'm like, all right, I hurry up and like I
go to to the jam. But I gotta start my
diet and I gotta do this and I gotta do that. Meditate. Well,
we went, We went and saw the sunrise on New
Year's Day and that was beautiful. That is beautiful. But
I do like Three Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
But as as Latinos, we have a lot of weird,
funny tradition, like eating the twelfth grape, Yes, the twelveth grapes,
one for every book that's good luck.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The luggage, Hello, the luggage.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Walking around with the suitcase around the plot to go
traveling that year, the color of your underwear.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, I loved you. Guys. The luggage kills me. Don't
screw it over that. A bunch of people around me
growing up, we do the luggage and it was something
that they had to do and they sore a time
or just you have to do it under Year's Eve. No,
it has to be on New Year's Eve. But no,
it has to be like right after New Year's happens, right,
(33:58):
I guess I have to ask. She probably has her
New Year's luggage ready to go, and like my question
is is the luggage pactor? Is it empty? No? It's empty, okay,
because I think you're supposed to be like inviting, inviting
the traveling, and the traveling more accurated. It's like you're like,
got my clothes ready to go.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
You know what they really meant to talk to the
Superstition Council.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Some people hold silver at midnight, so when the clock
strikes twelve, you're already starting the new year, like holding
on to your riches. People burn effigies like symbols of
what the old year represented all over the world, Columbia,
at Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I'm going to do a handstand this year to bring
in the new year.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Chileans eat lentils also for good luck. Some people hang
a toy lamb outside of their house or throw a
bucket of water. Cubans throw a bucket of water out
the window. Oh there's some.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
People hide money all over the house. You know, it's
supposed to be good luck. When you find it, you know, yeah,
you're drunk. So then two days later you're like.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Whoa Or just sweet beeping dirt out out of your house,
or cleaning the house before the new year begins.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Funny of it all great. I love all of them.
I love I love them all honestly. I love things
like that. We too.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
It's it's it's just it just shows like even if
we in other ways don't demonstrate it, or even if
we deny it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Human beings. At the end of the day, are we
hope for magic? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
We really do hope for magic. I believe we are
such dreamers and that's a beautiful thing. So I think
it's cute that we walk around with empty luggages and
eat grapes midnight.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We're yellow.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
That's cute of us.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
The funny thing is that like animals and other things
in nature probably laugh at us.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I think I would do. What are these that they're
like read while all days at the same days for them?
Who knows? But what if they're having their own ceremonies
in the dark that we don't even know about it?
They know we don't. I believe that too, sheeesh geese. Anyway, anyway,
(36:14):
what's afternoon? Year's I don't want it to end? Mousey,
that's my grandma's favorite. Yes, So it's the it's the Epiphany.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's the day that the three wise men found Jesus Christ,
and this is when they gave him the three gifts
Frankinson's Golden merd. So that's why most Latin countries they
a gift exchange takes place on January sixth, and little kids,
it's so they have so many similarities to Christmas. Little
(36:45):
kids will put their shoes by the door. Sometimes they'll put.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like grass for the camels, yeah, the camel.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Basically like you know, and write letters to the three
kings saying, you know, how good they did that year
so they can get gifts. And then the next morning
they wake up to the gifts and families come over.
They have celebrations, and I go to church and it's
basically like Christmas too.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, my grandma loved King's Day.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
She would lure me back to her house with gifts
and then teach me all about Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And another thing that takes place is they eat the
the It's like the sweetbread that has the nuts and
the dried fruit and sometimes actually has the baby.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
It's it's kind of like King's cake.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
That they have New Orleans, right, that's right, has the
little baby cheeses, no baby and the baby cheese.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Ooh, which which is? Which is really cool?
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Because that's another thing that we haven't talked about, is
like the other traditions that we do, like.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Oh my god, the Giant Nativity mind. Literally, as you
were saying, all of a sudden, I got a flashback
of the giant Nativity scene and all these people's houses
growing up like full blown and the little my grandma
had tiny ones and huge ones.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
So a lot of people will not put the baby
gees this in the manger until after like midnight Mass
on December.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Eighth, for the conception of baby cheeses. I'm gonna eat
it like a manual for all these things Yeah, it's
it's really cool. I really like Xmas for Dummies. Yeah,
three or five edition. Hello.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Other than you know the rocas, there's a lot of
other foods that are holiday foods. Okay, so in Mexico,
Venezuela or Salvador, Guatemala, the Damerican Republic, Nicaragua, a bunch
of Latin countries Damalis.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Or a yakas or botles, whatever you call it.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Corn based, a corn based masa that holds their sweet ones, savors, meat, cheese, fruit, vegetables,
whatever you want to put it in, usually steamed in
a corn husk or banana leave.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
We got an expert class to make them, Yes we do.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
We did have an expert shout out to what I
have an expert expert class again. Roasted pig you know
Cuba the r PR.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
We all, we all give it the rr Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
This is actually inspired by the Italian counterpart. Latinos have
the sweet the sweet cake, that sweet cake bread. I
don't know if it's a cake or bread.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It has the dried fruit in it that it's honestly delicious.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
About familys, my brother's family, talk.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
About the family, talk about the family tradition. I and
my brother's in law's Giant's grandparents.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Like the size of a car, like three feet the
size of a car wheel.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It really is a cartwheel, car wheel like the site. No,
it's larger than the car wheel. I think, I don't know.
It's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
We take a huge, like loaf sized piece home and
it's probably like one fifteen.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Which is apple cider, delicious, warm or cold. Coquito. There's
a there's another. There's like a lot of couples.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Coquito is Puerto Rican eggnog with rum and coconut, which
is fire and will destroy eggnog every day of the week.
But Mexicans have their own version from I think it's
from and Cubans gm vier.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Like that's that around egnog it is, it's.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Like it's it's it's coconut based eggnog with rum, yeah, fire, fire, cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
So good and they have vegan vegan coquito.
Speaker 8 (40:52):
People have gifted us so good, so good, which is
essentially do and they serve it with sugar syrup delicious,
delicious to wrong, which is technically Spanish, but I feel
like we've all adopted it and it's like a nugat.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
It nugat. Let's ask serious. I think it's lugnut.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Hey, Siri, how do you pronounce the word that's spelled
n O U.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
G A T nugat. It is nugate. Okay, it's nugat. Okay,
it's nugat. Nugat. It's nu confection made, it's a it's
a nut confection. It's a nugat confection. Anyway, it's a nugatu. Nugat.
(41:46):
Sounds like a little creature. Now, I'm okay. Anyway, Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Banco, which is Pruvian. It's essentially like a milk based
creamy dish similar to which.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Is so funny.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I love words like yeah, which is Christmas punch? Yeah,
Christmas punch with all the fixiens. There's so much typical
Latin traditional foods. Yeah that are just off the.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Chain, delicious, so good. I made with a lot of love,
so always always Yeah, I'm ready to dive into the holidays. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I know that a lot of people passed down recipes too,
which is super special.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, it's it's family, it's tradition. Yeah, they look at us.
Speaker 5 (42:29):
Or like the fight for like who's making the corn bread.
I'll never forget amber gem system.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Where's the car bread? People start like fighting about the
food or like opening their pants or yeah, making new food.
You know, there's something called it's an American thing. It's
like the fruitcake.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
You know, apparently it's like nobody really likes fruitcake, but
everybody gives each other fruitcake.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Yeah, I guess. I mean I've heard a bunch of
jokes about it. How like, I mean, do you like fruitcake?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I don't know if I've ever had fruitcake. It's like sad, sad.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
It's like dry on it on it with like unnecessarily
radioactively colored dried fruit inside of it in the shape
of like a like a boont cake.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Okay, thank you, Yeah, that's what Roca is like.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Well, people don't like it so much that they literally
like have competitions where they roll it down a hill
and like see who can roll it the farthest.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's like launched it stuff. That's awesome fire And I
love when you know you get to create your.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
Own Yeah, we've had it. We've posted Thanksgiving at our place. Yeah,
but I mean like our special Christmas mornings.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You love the Christmas Morning?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
I mean, I love I love everything, time with family,
time with whatnot, you know, like with your cousins, with
your young family.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
But something about the traditions that you make with your
partner or special Yeah, that's your person.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
They're different, you know, so it feels like you're Yeah,
it's like sacred crown.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I have an image of me and like my gay
ass flannel shirt and you've gotten me this dope ass
like corset bell.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
So I put it over my flannel.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Shirt and I think at some point you got me
like these dope pants. I had tried on the pants,
but then I took them off. So I was literally
like pantless in my flannel shirt with my corset, with
our per second, with our morning Christmas prosecco.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, it's so good. That was a great memory, great Christmas. Well,
I hope that everybody else also.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, like we mentioned, it may not be easy
all the time, but take your time that you have
with your loved ones or that be your friends, you know, family, family, Yeah,
the family you choose, you know, people who are there
for you.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Don't take it for granted. Yeah, it's special.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
It is, and look how many years if it feels
like a lot longer than it was or you know,
but there was some time ever we didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Option to be together. True, we have to be it's
not about the gifts, and everybody's like, it's not about
the gifts. It's really nice, isn't. I know? But like
when you when you really think about it, No, I
love I love the gift giving part, you know, I know,
but I like giving the gifts. I like giving gifts.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I love wrapping them, and I love, you know, like
the choosing of them. Yeah, but an opportunity to be
like I know you, like I listen, like listen, I
know you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
I love you.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
Yeah, Like I would rather anybody that really knows me
knows even if you're if you've never drawn one day
in your life, I would rather you take half an
hour and like do a portrait of me, or like
a self portrait of you, and like frame and give
it to me. I think that's like the coolest gift
on the world and you'd barely have to spend any more.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Well that's because yeah, I don't think yes, But also
if somebody got you something that was super cool and
up your alley and costs lots of money, you also
would love it. No, that's why I'm saying, like, it's
just about knowing the person, like knowing what it is,
regardless of the price tag, whether you have the money
to buy something extravagant or not knowing them enough to
know what.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
It is that they'd like. Be full of gratitude, enjoy
your time with your loved ones. Yeah, we're lucky to
have it. We're lucky to have it, and I'm lucky
to have you. And that was really uh. I learned
a lot there, so thank you me too. I'm gonna
start incorporating those thank you guys. You're gonna wake up
and have starpinnatas all over the house and be like,
oh no, I will not feel that way. Oh man,
no way. But before we leave you today, everybody and
(46:11):
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Speaker 5 (46:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Launch Jingle Jingle jingle, Oh love with Welcome to this show.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's wow. It is that time of year, isn't it.
You like what you hear? I do, like what I hear.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I really do, even though it doesn't feel like it
here in Miami, where the seasons are summer.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Less summer and hotter summer, true, true and hot. But
we are officially.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
A little more than one week away from Thanksgiving and
the true holiday season of the year. You know how
I feel about this.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That Mariah Carey is defrosted. Where is she the rest
of the year?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I feel like it's a cave but like lined in
like silk or something.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, because I don't really ever see her do anything
until holiday season rolls around, and then it's.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Like bam VR.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
By the way, I notice you're still sporting a little
bit of your meditation voice from last week's episode.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Do you think so? Yeah? It's a very soothing Who
is she? Who was she? I don't know what a
part of her is here today?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Oh well, I can only wish. I can only wish
to fully embrace that version of myself, but I think
that this one is just a little tired.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, we've had a pretty crazy couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Missus Stefan, Yeah, Miss Shining rock Star, Miss viral on
all platforms. Seriously, come on, we're in less than a
week and you have like, what like fifteen million across
I don't even check today. Okay, well deserve it's about time,
a time for that show soon come Today. We're talking
(02:22):
about the joyous spirit of the holidays, and in our case,
the holidays yep. I the holidays are special to me
because I kind of took the lead in like my
immediate family and like you know, especially my mom's house
where I was most of the time to foster and
my family and my sister and I both I think
(02:44):
share that like spirit for the holidays because of that,
because it wasn't like such a big deal in my house.
You know, we had several Christmases with no Christmas tree because.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My mom just no.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
But it's okay, you know, I didn't. I had a
Christmas tree in other places. And then I realize, you
know that I could just give myself, you know, these Christmases.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So now I do. But I love the holidays. I
love cooking.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I love cooking for people I love. I love spending
time with the people that I love. I love colder
seasons and those.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Smells of cinnamon and nutmeg. The colder season that is
one day, and that's.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Why I tend to like to escape too. I'm all
for I'm all for family trips around the holidays.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who was it that said a couple of days ago?
Sorry to be ignorant, but what the hell do you
guys eat for Thanksgiving? I'm like, girl, we eat the
house as vegans, you know. Oh, I'm like, we eat
the house down.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I mean, yeah, you can make any you can make
any typical Thanksgiving side vegans.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm like, have you seen that? Mean that's like beans greens?
So literally, what's your favorite Thanksgiving meal? Okay? Well? Holidays
on the corner?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And what I love about it, especially for us a
lot of the time is that we have a lot
of leftover. So I have two categories of my favorite
because the day of I want to sample everything. I'm
I'm on a Thanksgiving cruise ship. Baby, I am on
the what's it called the Pilgrim. I am in a bonnet.
I mean, I'm in the bonnet buffet. Baby, I want
(04:24):
a little bit of mashed potato, you know, vegan gravy
depending on who made the green bean casserole. I want
your cranberry sauce.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And then you know, which is maybe a lot of
people don't know. In Cuban tradition, we have like le
chong and rice and bean and like now I'm saying,
like a normal side tradition, a normal Cuban side for
Thanksgiving would be like black beans, you know what I mean,
(04:59):
And you pop some.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Those like roasted pick yeah, roasted pick yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
But then the real te, which I really think is
like a millimeter away from my favorite Thanksgiving meal, is
the next day Okay, what I'm talking about is the
Holy Grail, the Trinity of tanks tipping the next day
Thanksgiving leftover sandwich. I'm talking about the perfect bread, all right.
(05:32):
I'm talking about the one that has like the little wikigos,
the holes at the air bubbles so that you know
you're gonna stack the ship up, so you know, you
gotta make sure that it can contain it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's gotta be stick, gotta let it breathe, baby, breathe.
So you got you know your tofurky or if you
eat meat, you know your turkey go a little but
cranberry sauce. Put some mashed potatoes in there. Why are
you scared? Scared? But gravy.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
It's the whole thing, you know. Put the bread on there,
you toast it, You toast it, and you cut in
a little triangle. You even pop some more sides on
the plate.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Oh yeah, like ah, anyway, Thanksgiving leftover date sandwich.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You know what some people do well when you have
like le chong and I guess you could just do
this with your turkey too. I have seen a lot
of people grab post like Thanksgiving everything post holiday beyond
leong make go Okay that's what Yes girl, All you
have to do is make us outside a taml and
(06:37):
you mix that in with your whatever your meat is.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And you know they've prepped the meat like two days before. Yeah,
that is off the chain. Wow, How had I never
heard of that?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Of course, my Goha Gina has a pinnacle of Miami,
Miami freaking Latin. That is so cool because I don't
know if you know this about Goachina. Gatchinas literally translates
to the Chinese box and there was this dude, can't
remember the dude's name, who saw Chinese people cooking with
this like wooden box that then they would cover with coals,
(07:11):
burning coals, hot coals in like the fifties, and then
it wasn't until like I want to say, nineteen eighty
five here in Miami he replicated and started to create
like a hatchina. So it was something that like kind
of started to be developed simultaneously between Cuba the island,
and like the people.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kind of emigrated over. They didn't do it in Cuba.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I'm sure some Cubans did it, but it's not like
a typically Cuban thing. It literally is a Chinese box.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Because for us here in Miami is like a year's hey, Thanksgiving,
sometimes parties, you know, maybe a wedding depends, yeah, feeling down,
fire up.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
It's actually really vile, like the pig is like stick
going through his whole body.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Okay, anyway, but.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
They but it does produce very crispy skin, which is
like the most coveted part of lacahachi or peril if
you're from Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, different names
for similar dishes, just prepared slightly differently.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But yeah, so we would have typically that. But that's
my answer your question. That's my favorite things.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Do you prefer to eat the American dishes or the
Latin dishes both?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
First of all, everybody knows you got to go hungry Thanksgiving,
So for your first stomach, for your Cuban stomach, you
have the I'll have some rice.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Wan beans, but I like you don't try to stay
away from them. Oh yeah, because I mean we eat
them all the time. That's the thing. I'll eat all
of it though, I'll make rooms.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Okay, I know, yeah, But for me, it's like, see,
why is it that we only eat the like the
green bean casserole, like all of these dishes, the sweet
potato casserole, which I know you're not the biggest fan of,
but I certainly love, especially when the marshmallows are toasted.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, that's just that's a dish that's a save disguised
as a dessert and it ends up being nice. It's
not a dessert. It's not disguised as a dessert. It's sweet, sweet,
it's got marshmallows on it. But it's like it's good.
It really just respect it just bloods so.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Well with all the other Thanksgiving fixes, enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Like stuffing more for you. Yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I love a herby stuffing. Anyway, Why don't we eat
these things once a year?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I agree? We were talking about the other day. Why.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I think that a lot of people also make it
a thing to like prep They're already off maybe that
weekend or whatever, so they're prepping their food. They're prepping
maybe with people that they love, they're doing friendsgivings, they're
I think a part of it is all the time
that it takes to prep it, even though everybody complains,
I think that's like part of the specialness, you know
(09:48):
what I mean. So I don't think that anybody got
time to you know, be prepping you know, turkeys and
stuff for twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, that's true. I don't know. I don't know. Have
you seen those people that deep fry them?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Deep fried? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I've had deep fright turkey.
It's delicious.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Turkeys are actually it's actually really sad. Do you know
how many turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving annually?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's really messed up. Do you know the num berth?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do you how many?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I want you to guess that I follow a lot
of turkey sanctuaries really like on Instagram. You can follow
it because there are a lot of people that will
rescue turkeys and you know it'll show also how intelligent
they are and loving there anyway, how many turkeys are
massacred for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Annually in the United States has to be millions? Okay,
how many? Five million? Is that your final answer? Ten million?
Is that your final answer? Forty forty million? Estimated forty
million turkeys? An, that's terrible, and a bunch of those
I bet don't get eaten or get thrown now.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
That's so terrible. But there are turkey sanctuaries out there, guys,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh and honestly, till turkey's not that bad. No, and
everybody knows the best parts the.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Rest of the food anyway, So exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Are there any other like holiday traditions, Thanksgiving, Christmas otherwise?
Because I know we celebrate Christmas not even because we're Christian,
because we don't do any of the religious things. A
lot of people in the world do celebrate the religious
element of the Christmas as a holiday. But I do
feel like a lot of us are just.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like it's time to hang out with your family and
give them gifts just because you love them.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
That's another thing, like why do we thanksgiving food once
a year? Like we shouldn't need a day to hang
out with everybody in the family, you know what I mean.
But we talk about it a lot in this podcast,
like life gets chaotic and stuff has been so crazy
that for me personally, I don't even you know, A
lot of the time think about the origin of you know,
(11:57):
these actual holidays or days or religious affiliation.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I think about family.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, and my memories up till now of spending time
with my family, cracking up, having food fights on New
Year's and even cringing at thea when I was not
a vegetarian, and standing over the tinfoil thing that it
ended up and making a sandwich of the skin.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And the meat and the skin God, and you know,
like playing hide and seek with the cousins, you know,
while the while the family argued Cuban politics, you know
what I mean, And your uncle smoked a cigar in
the corner, you know what I mean. Yeah, just like
good times.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, stuff like that that I think that's why I
like to honor it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
And the more that time passed.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I told you the other day, like when my grandma
isn't here, you know, like it's it's a way that
I feel close to her a lot too.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Maybe, yeah, I can imagine. That's another thing about the.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Hometime cry you can cry, No I don't. But anyway,
so we we miss our loved ones.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is hot here. My eyes are sweating. Oh yes,
so hot in this space. There's no the spaces are
missing anyway. I do feel now that i'm thinking about it, though,
that I need to for Christmas get a few of
my family's members therapy. No for them. Well, that came
out wrong, but not really for this specific thing. The decorations.
(13:30):
I don't know what it is about some members of
my family.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Lily and my grandma can p probably listening to us.
I'm sorry, but you know that this is true my grandma.
This is a big memory I have of the holidays.
Not only did she have exact days that you had
to put up her decorations, right, it had to be
put up on that day or else?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Like what day was that? I'm gonna have to call
my mom to remember, but it was like the day
after this, the day after that call. Okay, let's see hello,
How are you good? And you good?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
We are sitting here in outer space and we're doing
an episode.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
About the holidays. And I was remembering Auela, and you know,
thinking about how much I remembered all her rules and
all her special things. And I was trying to remember.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
What were the days that she had set aside for setting.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Up the Christmas tree? Was December eighth? And what was
the reasoning or after?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Because it's the day of black ships, good conception or something?
How she was conceived on the eighth and born on
the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Eight. Oh man, you could have.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Removed the tree until after January sixth in the yellow lays. Uh,
you couldn't put balls and bows on the same tree.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Why that one. I remember very fondly would.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Come and arrest you if you did such things. She
had that calendar that she would hang up every year
and count down the twelve days of Christmas.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yes, we used to call it, Yeah, has intented forest.
And she would mom remember when she would go around
because she had very you had to put. Also, she
had like a ladder decoration of these little you know.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Oh, the snowman had to be at the base of
the tree because he had no legs, and I'm going, well,
how does he climb that?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
She was like major gift wrapper.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Everything had to be done just so you made some ribbons.
She did all the cards and calligraphy.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh yeah. Oh, and the food she had at her house,
she always had the too wrong right, Yes, the had.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
To be a whole plate, a three layer layer like
plate of different tone is.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Anyway, Well, thank you. We were just verifying those dates
so I didn't get them wrong. I love you. I'll
call you later. But you see, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
My goodness, my grandma had yeah at the time. You know,
sometimes people would get frustrated by all her little rules
and things. But you know when those people, yeah, but
when those people are no longer here, that's you know,
you sit around and you laugh about it and you
remember it and you almost want to keep some of
them going.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's so hilarious. So she's so funny, gets you're wagging
her finger. I love that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I love that, And it's actually a perfect segue to
the next part of the conversation. You know that I
do not miss an opportunity to collect a couple of
facts she doesn't. Your mom mentioned a couple of interesting
dates that are actually widely celebrated in Latin America, and I.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Would love to share them with you. I would love
to hear them.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
All right, okay, but you know, before I get into
the facts, I want to mention one thing that we
haven't mentioned. And I think that a lot of us
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sort of forget about because we're just used to Christmas
and Thanksgiving, fall and winter being something that's like a
cold season. We think of it as like, you know,
sweaters and fireplaces. And it's interesting because there are a
lot of countries in Latin America that are in the
(17:47):
dead of summer on Christmas, all of the countries in
the Southern Hemisphere, like Argentina, parts of Chile, Paraguay.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I never thought about that. Yes, the more you know Ecadora,
parts of Peru, Geman is a gem, gem is a gem,
jangle and gems jingles and jim jim wow. I love that.
I love that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And another thing that's also very different between our American
and Latin counterparts is that, like your mom mentioned January sixth,
some countries recognize Santa Claus that we do.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We do.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They just call him Babel, but a lot of countries
don't have, like Santa Claus is a figure in their
holiday traditions, which is why they'll gift exchange on the.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Sixth learning so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Santa Claus is
not a religious figure.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
There's also some that are like scary, like Belchnickel exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, that's a whole culture. Yeah, I don't know what
to be waxy with a stick and ship. Yeah, I'm
going to be moving on. That's what everyone deserves, benicl Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So some of the first this is obviously not an
exhaustive list.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This is just some some that I've gathered that I
found to be really interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So some of the first holiday celebrations actually began as
early as November twenty fourth, which happens to coincide with
American Thanksgiving. Okay, And it's an occasion and nika agua
calledma and it's like a nine day period of prayer
that essentially, in the Catholic tradition, celebrates the preparation or
(19:29):
the days leading up to the immaculate conception of Mary
or the imaculine conception Virgin Mary's immaculate conception. Okay, So
after La Purissima. There is on December eighth this other
celebration called Lightidria, which is like this huge basically celebration
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of fire and food, and there's this collumn in response
that like everybody takes takes part in. That's like ye,
and people reply like on zip or what brings so
much joy? And people shout back, you know, Virgin Mary's conception. Yeah,
And it's really cool because they're saying in the streets
(20:10):
and people visit each other's altars and they give gifts
and they share suites, and certain cities like Leone will
build like these big you know, they build like this
big dog called Lahiandona that goes around the streets. It
is like this just this big festival celebrating i know,
celebrating the conception of baby Jesus. There's another festival sort
(20:32):
of similar in Columbia Calledavelitas, which takes place the Immaculate
Conception eve I guess on December.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Seventh, non sex being celebrated.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
And it's really cool because this is they use light
as a way to symbolize, like this, the immaculate conceptions,
So people will put candles and paper lanterns on their
window sills, their bucketies, their porches all over the streets.
Cities will take place on like big displays, and in
some parts of like the Caribbean part of Colombia, they'll
you know, party from December seventh until December eighth, and
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that'll be when they light the candles, like right before
they go to bed, and it's you know, like another
another holiday, another reason to drink and eat and sometime
with your loved ones.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I love that. I love it too.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
And people even will walk along like that Golli River,
which you know they light up with a bunch of
different displays mlitas.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I love that A little day of the little candles.
Isn't that so cute? It is? Yeah, but it looks
so beautiful too.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I bet it does look beautiful. I bet it well
from what from what I did see, it did look beautiful.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So next up, Chronologically, in Mexico, specifically, the Lupe or
Day of our Lady of Guadaloupe is celebrated. And this
is actually super cool because it has some focal or
behind it. So it's believed that in fifteen thirty one
there's what there was this indigenous boy who on Diego,
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who the Virgin Mary revealed himself to and said, you
must build a giant church right where you're standing. And
about one hundred years later this church was built, and
it is actually the Basilica of Guadalupe, which is one
of the largest Christian pilgrimages in the world. That's you know,
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in Mexico City today, was built and that is exactly
that is why that church exists there. And when Diego
later on in two thousand and two, was canonized and
they recognized as a saint, and it is said supposedly
that still they housed this cloak that he was wearing,
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that apparently when the Virgin Mary appeared to him, the
image of her was burned onto the cloak as proof
that he had actually seen her. So the story is
told like this.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So what if what if the cloak? What if that
meant that the conception wasn't so immaculate? After all, that's
not what that meant.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
This was fifteen thirty one, and actually Juan Diego is
the first indigenous person from the Americas to become a saint.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Wow, now we got sennacrus on coins. My gosh, this
is so cool.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I didn't know any like a lot of these things
read either, read either, and I love learning about this.
Thank you continue, Okay, all right, So also in Mexico
and in other parts of the world, of course.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
And if I don't mention your country, please forgive me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's there's actually not enough literature about these, these traditions
that take place on leaternet.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I don't feel.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So there's another festival that that takes place between the
sixteenth to the twenty fourth of December, and it's called
Las Posalas and this is in Mexico as well, and
it's a religious festival. Los bosalas Is translates to the
end or the lodgings, And it's basically celebrating the journey
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that Joseph and Mary did from Nazareth to Bethlehem searching
for a place to give birth to baby Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And in their twelve day journey, the twelve days of Christmas.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
And their twelve day journey, they were consistently denied until
eventually they gave You know, Mary gave birth to baby
Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So what did they do with the partridge and a
pear tree? Let me tell you something. I feel so
bad for these for these for these people because they
get celebrated, oh all every year, but so many people,
and they're not even to enjoy it. You're absolutely right.
(24:47):
I'm so sorry, Jesus and Mary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
So what what happens in Mexico is that these la posalas,
these like parades, these processionals essentially take place, usually led
by a child dress as an angel, and mostly children
but don't join in. Musicians and people join in, and
they're singing songs and they're stopping at these selected houses
and asking to be you know, asking for lodging, and
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they're traditionally told to know they're denied, and they'll sit
say prayers and you know they'll be denied lodging, but
like oftentimes provided refreshments by the way, but they're reenacting.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They're reenacting. They actually need a place, so they do
not like this is a terrible I'm like, they're my
least favorite. You tell the orphans that they can't say
with children dressed in gold and silver robes, you know,
like going okay, God place. I was about to say that,
I do not know. There's a great ending to it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So every this happens every night, and every night, usually
after the professional there was a mass that's held and
at the end of it, guess what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I throw the children in a river. According to this story, No,
they don't. They don't throw the children in the river.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
The children then break star shaped pinadas traditional Mexican star
shaped priniadas because those belies the star that the.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Three keys followed to reach Baby Jesus. And it's filled
with candy and sweetsen you know, go to the razors
and knives. What is wrong with you? I mean the
story starts with there are these orphaned children.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That are going from a house dressed like angels, getting
denied lodging.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
What is this? Not what I said? And this is
a very serious religious tradition. Okay, I'm sorry, No, no, no, listen,
I don't mean to offend anybody. I'm just an asshole.
I'm so do you don't you think the piana part
is sweet? No? I love all of these things. Like,
first of all, again, I love anything that brings people together.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Say their prayers and they you know, they come together
in community.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It involves music, it involves dressing up, which I love
pinatas food doesn't love a good pata, food refreshments and.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
A cute little kid dresses, an angel leading the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I love it either, I mean, okay, sign me up,
there you go. I'm so Sorryso sace December sixteenth through
the twenty fourth. All right, wow, it's a long it's
a long prayer. Yeah, so twenty fourth. We know launche.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, not Chevuena or Christmas Eve, which is I think
I think it's safe to say that in Latin countries
it's really Christmas, even though we call it no chevuena.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
We do celebrate Christmas Day. A lot of people will
go to Mass, and that tends.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
To be a day of like relaxation or you know,
like I think it's more of like a toned down
getting together. But not China is the day that you
party and you eat and you have the feast. Whereas
like Americans traditionally might feast on Christmas Day, we do
that Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I feel like I know a lot of families that
will open even all of their gifts on a.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Lot of people do exchange gifts on Chena and a
lot of most Latin American countries that celebrate Christmas will
give the exchange the gifts on on Christmas. And it's
not just obviously we don't just eat uh let them
that's us as Cubans, but other countries, I mean, we'll
have a bunch of other traditional meals like that. Man.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Of course, at least my experience growing up, there were
a lot of us that gathered.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I love the fact that also as like.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Children of immigrants but who are also share American culture,
we can kind of enjoy both.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And I love the fact that you have all these
days off, why not see your family again, see different
parts of the family, spend time with people that you
don't usually see. Yeah, for sure, you know, I love that.
I think that we should. I feel like we get
so possessive.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Over our family members on the holidays, we'll be like, no,
you have to spend it with me. And I actually
think it would be nice if I if, you know,
like we took trips to spend it with like extended family.
I love to go see my godmother in North Carolina,
spend like a holiday with her and her family.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, she's listening to this, like, oh shit, make the guests. Okay,
continue on your journey here.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Okay, So, of course on Christmas Day, you know that's
people go to church. You know, celebrate religious serifics, but
it really is more like a relaxing family day.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I have one for Christmas Day for you that I
learned about. Tell me it's called Las Patinata's pat No,
it's called Las pati Nada's because in Venezuela. So I'm
going to tell you in Venezuela.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
And unfortunately there's a lot of political unrest there now,
so it hasn't I read this amazing article about how
it hasn't been able to continue this tradition and a
lot of people miss it because it's something that's so
you know, representative of their culture specifically, which is beautiful
and really sad because you know, I hope that there's
(29:48):
a time when they can do it again and feel safe.
But you know, according to their tradition, a lot of kids,
you know, the gifts that they would want and receive
on this day would be like bikes or roller blades
or you know, things of this nature, and like wheels,
write things with wheels. And also something that everybody always
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did was go to Christmas Mass, like a lot of
other people do as well, so they would make it
like a mass thing where they would even close the
streets to have everybody ride their new towards or ride
their skateboards or roller blades or whatever to masks.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Wow, you know, so you could like have fun enjoy
your Yeah, that's cool anyway, So we should we should,
you know, like skating and these things. You learn about
all these amazing things like why can't we have a
pinata on Christmas? Then educate your family about Hey, look
this is something that they do. Well it's not on Christmas,
but yeah, and then I'll be like heym, then I
and you lodge and give the fuck out. Anyway, what
(30:49):
happens after Christmas?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Okay, so after Christmas, you're gonna this. This actually might
this might be your actual favorite. Oh so this is
not something that takes place everywhere, but it does take
place has several countries in Latin America and in Spain,
and it's called Ilia de los Santos or the Day
of the Innocent Saints, and it's commemorating according there's no
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historical recollection of this, it's only in the Bible. The
story is that King Herod found out that there was
a prophecy for a new child child that would be
born and become King christ Child, and he ordered every
male under two years old to be executed, and they
were actually considered to be the first Christian martyrs.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
What is wrong with the hold on? You're gonna really
like this story? Everybody under too dead? Are you? This
is not the part that you're gonna like. What an episode?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The way that they commemorate and like page tribute to
these children is that December twenty eighth is like Latin
American April Fool's Day.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So it's basically a day where people just play like
tricks and pranks on each other and dance on the
graves of I thought you would like the prank.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
It's like April Fool's Day and Christmas time December twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Okay, yeah, well you know what April Fool's Day and Christmas.
I'm down. Okay, there you go, you like it now?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You know these biblical times and all these you know people.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Rough okay, hello, and you know, all over the place,
all over the world, mostly we celebrate f manual December thirty,
first New Year's Eve. Okay, So this is interesting because
we all, I feel like, tend to celebrate globally in
a very similar way. We have parties, we have food,
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we have drinking, we have fireworks.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I don't like newears. You don't like New Year's.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Every year that New Year's passes, it just reminds me
that you I'm closer to death and it gives me
this weird nostalgic feeling, but a bad nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And the countdown makes me nervous. Wow, and I feel
like there's pressure. Oh.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I actually love New Year's. It gives me a sense
of renewal.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, I like Your's Day.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
I like, No, I don't like New Year's Day, New
Years Day stress, New Years Day.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I'm like, all right, I hurry up and like I
go to to the jam. But I gotta start my
diet and I gotta do this and I gotta do that. Meditate. Well,
we went, We went and saw the sunrise on New
Year's Day and that was beautiful. That is beautiful. But
I do like Three Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
But as as Latinos, we have a lot of weird,
funny tradition, like eating the twelfth grape, Yes, the twelveth grapes,
one for every book that's good luck.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The luggage, Hello, the luggage.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Walking around with the suitcase around the plot to go
traveling that year, the color of your underwear.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, I loved you. Guys. The luggage kills me. Don't
screw it over that. A bunch of people around me
growing up, we do the luggage and it was something
that they had to do and they sore a time
or just you have to do it under Year's Eve. No,
it has to be on New Year's Eve. But no,
it has to be like right after New Year's happens, right,
(33:58):
I guess I have to ask. She probably has her
New Year's luggage ready to go, and like my question
is is the luggage pactor? Is it empty? No? It's empty, okay,
because I think you're supposed to be like inviting, inviting
the traveling, and the traveling more accurated. It's like you're like,
got my clothes ready to go.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
You know what they really meant to talk to the
Superstition Council.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Some people hold silver at midnight, so when the clock
strikes twelve, you're already starting the new year, like holding
on to your riches. People burn effigies like symbols of
what the old year represented all over the world, Columbia,
at Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I'm going to do a handstand this year to bring
in the new year.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Chileans eat lentils also for good luck. Some people hang
a toy lamb outside of their house or throw a
bucket of water. Cubans throw a bucket of water out
the window. Oh there's some.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
People hide money all over the house. You know, it's
supposed to be good luck. When you find it, you know, yeah,
you're drunk. So then two days later you're like.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Whoa Or just sweet beeping dirt out out of your house,
or cleaning the house before the new year begins.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Funny of it all great. I love all of them.
I love I love them all honestly. I love things
like that. We too.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
It's it's it's just it just shows like even if
we in other ways don't demonstrate it, or even if
we deny it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Human beings. At the end of the day, are we
hope for magic? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
We really do hope for magic. I believe we are
such dreamers and that's a beautiful thing. So I think
it's cute that we walk around with empty luggages and
eat grapes midnight.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We're yellow.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
That's cute of us.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
The funny thing is that like animals and other things
in nature probably laugh at us.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I think I would do. What are these that they're
like read while all days at the same days for them?
Who knows? But what if they're having their own ceremonies
in the dark that we don't even know about it?
They know we don't. I believe that too, sheeesh geese. Anyway, anyway,
(36:14):
what's afternoon? Year's I don't want it to end? Mousey,
that's my grandma's favorite. Yes, So it's the it's the Epiphany.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's the day that the three wise men found Jesus Christ,
and this is when they gave him the three gifts
Frankinson's Golden merd. So that's why most Latin countries they
a gift exchange takes place on January sixth, and little kids,
it's so they have so many similarities to Christmas. Little
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kids will put their shoes by the door. Sometimes they'll put.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like grass for the camels, yeah, the camel.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Basically like you know, and write letters to the three
kings saying, you know, how good they did that year
so they can get gifts. And then the next morning
they wake up to the gifts and families come over.
They have celebrations, and I go to church and it's
basically like Christmas too.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, my grandma loved King's Day.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
She would lure me back to her house with gifts
and then teach me all about Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And another thing that takes place is they eat the
the It's like the sweetbread that has the nuts and
the dried fruit and sometimes actually has the baby.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
It's it's kind of like King's cake.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
That they have New Orleans, right, that's right, has the
little baby cheeses, no baby and the baby cheese.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Ooh, which which is? Which is really cool?
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Because that's another thing that we haven't talked about, is
like the other traditions that we do, like.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Oh my god, the Giant Nativity mind. Literally, as you
were saying, all of a sudden, I got a flashback
of the giant Nativity scene and all these people's houses
growing up like full blown and the little my grandma
had tiny ones and huge ones.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
So a lot of people will not put the baby
gees this in the manger until after like midnight Mass
on December.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Eighth, for the conception of baby cheeses. I'm gonna eat
it like a manual for all these things Yeah, it's
it's really cool. I really like Xmas for Dummies. Yeah,
three or five edition. Hello.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Other than you know the rocas, there's a lot of
other foods that are holiday foods. Okay, so in Mexico,
Venezuela or Salvador, Guatemala, the Damerican Republic, Nicaragua, a bunch
of Latin countries Damalis.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Or a yakas or botles, whatever you call it.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Corn based, a corn based masa that holds their sweet ones, savors, meat, cheese, fruit, vegetables,
whatever you want to put it in, usually steamed in
a corn husk or banana leave.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
We got an expert class to make them, Yes we do.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
We did have an expert shout out to what I
have an expert expert class again. Roasted pig you know
Cuba the r PR.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
We all, we all give it the rr Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
This is actually inspired by the Italian counterpart. Latinos have
the sweet the sweet cake, that sweet cake bread. I
don't know if it's a cake or bread.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It has the dried fruit in it that it's honestly delicious.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
About familys, my brother's family, talk.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
About the family, talk about the family tradition. I and
my brother's in law's Giant's grandparents.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Like the size of a car, like three feet the
size of a car wheel.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It really is a cartwheel, car wheel like the site. No,
it's larger than the car wheel. I think, I don't know.
It's put it this way.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
We take a huge, like loaf sized piece home and
it's probably like one fifteen.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Which is apple cider, delicious, warm or cold. Coquito. There's
a there's another. There's like a lot of couples.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Coquito is Puerto Rican eggnog with rum and coconut, which
is fire and will destroy eggnog every day of the week.
But Mexicans have their own version from I think it's
from and Cubans gm vier.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Like that's that around egnog it is, it's.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Like it's it's it's coconut based eggnog with rum, yeah, fire, fire, cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
So good and they have vegan vegan coquito.
Speaker 8 (40:52):
People have gifted us so good, so good, which is
essentially do and they serve it with sugar syrup delicious,
delicious to wrong, which is technically Spanish, but I feel
like we've all adopted it and it's like a nugat.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
It nugat. Let's ask serious. I think it's lugnut.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Hey, Siri, how do you pronounce the word that's spelled
n O U.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
G A T nugat. It is nugate. Okay, it's nugat. Okay,
it's nugat. Nugat. It's nu confection made, it's a it's
a nut confection. It's a nugat confection. Anyway, it's a nugatu. Nugat.
(41:46):
Sounds like a little creature. Now, I'm okay. Anyway, Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Banco, which is Pruvian. It's essentially like a milk based
creamy dish similar to which.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Is so funny.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I love words like yeah, which is Christmas punch? Yeah,
Christmas punch with all the fixiens. There's so much typical
Latin traditional foods. Yeah that are just off the.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Chain, delicious, so good. I made with a lot of love,
so always always Yeah, I'm ready to dive into the holidays. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
I know that a lot of people passed down recipes too,
which is super special.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, it's it's family, it's tradition. Yeah, they look at us.
Speaker 5 (42:29):
Or like the fight for like who's making the corn bread.
I'll never forget amber gem system.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Where's the car bread? People start like fighting about the
food or like opening their pants or yeah, making new food.
You know, there's something called it's an American thing. It's
like the fruitcake.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
You know, apparently it's like nobody really likes fruitcake, but
everybody gives each other fruitcake.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Yeah, I guess. I mean I've heard a bunch of
jokes about it. How like, I mean, do you like fruitcake?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I don't know if I've ever had fruitcake. It's like sad, sad.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
It's like dry on it on it with like unnecessarily
radioactively colored dried fruit inside of it in the shape
of like a like a boont cake.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Okay, thank you, Yeah, that's what Roca is like.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Well, people don't like it so much that they literally
like have competitions where they roll it down a hill
and like see who can roll it the farthest.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's like launched it stuff. That's awesome fire And I
love when you know you get to create your.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
Own Yeah, we've had it. We've posted Thanksgiving at our place. Yeah,
but I mean like our special Christmas mornings.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You love the Christmas Morning?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
I mean, I love I love everything, time with family,
time with whatnot, you know, like with your cousins, with
your young family.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
But something about the traditions that you make with your
partner or special Yeah, that's your person.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
They're different, you know, so it feels like you're Yeah,
it's like sacred crown.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I have an image of me and like my gay
ass flannel shirt and you've gotten me this dope ass
like corset bell.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
So I put it over my flannel.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Shirt and I think at some point you got me
like these dope pants. I had tried on the pants,
but then I took them off. So I was literally
like pantless in my flannel shirt with my corset, with
our per second, with our morning Christmas prosecco.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, it's so good. That was a great memory, great Christmas. Well,
I hope that everybody else also.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, like we mentioned, it may not be easy
all the time, but take your time that you have
with your loved ones or that be your friends, you know, family, family, Yeah,
the family you choose, you know, people who are there
for you.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Don't take it for granted. Yeah, it's special.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
It is, and look how many years if it feels
like a lot longer than it was or you know,
but there was some time ever we didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Option to be together. True, we have to be it's
not about the gifts, and everybody's like, it's not about
the gifts. It's really nice, isn't. I know? But like
when you when you really think about it, No, I
love I love the gift giving part, you know, I know,
but I like giving the gifts. I like giving gifts.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I love wrapping them, and I love, you know, like
the choosing of them. Yeah, but an opportunity to be
like I know you, like I listen, like listen, I
know you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
I love you.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
Yeah, Like I would rather anybody that really knows me
knows even if you're if you've never drawn one day
in your life, I would rather you take half an
hour and like do a portrait of me, or like
a self portrait of you, and like frame and give
it to me. I think that's like the coolest gift
on the world and you'd barely have to spend any more.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
Well that's because yeah, I don't think yes, But also
if somebody got you something that was super cool and
up your alley and costs lots of money, you also
would love it. No, that's why I'm saying, like, it's
just about knowing the person, like knowing what it is,
regardless of the price tag, whether you have the money
to buy something extravagant or not knowing them enough to
know what.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
It is that they'd like. Be full of gratitude, enjoy
your time with your loved ones. Yeah, we're lucky to
have it. We're lucky to have it, and I'm lucky
to have you. And that was really uh. I learned
a lot there, so thank you me too. I'm gonna
start incorporating those thank you guys. You're gonna wake up
and have starpinnatas all over the house and be like,
oh no, I will not feel that way. Oh man,
no way. But before we leave you today, everybody and
(46:11):
you unbuckle your seat battles. It's time for our rice
verursazers at work space. All right? What are the truth
and lies of space? Today? Man? All right? The truth
and lies of space?
Speaker 5 (46:25):
Oh, come on, you know they're all truths, all right.
AI chemists, that's right, you heard that right. AI chemists
sifted through millions of molecules on Mars and they found
that in the rocks on Mars. Of those six metallic
elements they are made of, they found that they could
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make three point seven million different other kinds of molecules.
Then the AI chemist redirected its scan towards Earth, where
it found millions and even trillions of farts, Thus farts. Next,
see the Sun's savage surface like never before. In a
(47:05):
new time lapse video by the amazing Miguel Glado, the
Sun can be seen twerking, smiling and throwing that fireball
in a circle.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Savage son, She's a savage all right.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
And last, and this one is very important, guys, time
is running out to add your name to NASA's Europa Clipper,
which will ride to Jupiter's actual moon, Europa.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
The Message in a Bottle campaign offers everyone, including you,
the opportunity to have their name stenciled into the micro
chip bearing in praise.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Of mystery, a poem for Europa.
Speaker 5 (47:43):
They are, however, limiting any language that could be deemed
as inappropriate, So let's hope fingers crossed. Your name isn't
Anita Hardcock or Ben Doverbage, or you can kiss your
dreams of your name making it to Jewrn Goodbye, this
has been Space news.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Isn't that cool? You can send your name to Europa
Ben dover bitch, I mean listen, Uh, people get creative
with names. Have you heard some here? Lesbia Udi Navy Please?
Speaker 4 (48:16):
I wonder where you get your Space news from every week,
but it's always worth it.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
I get it straight from the source, right. I look
out the window over spaceship. Have you looked out these days? No?
In a while, I haven't. I'm feeling actually a little
cabin fever. Well if you looked at then you wouldn't
be questioning on the Space news. Looking forward to landing
for some molodays.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
So yeah, and some food. We'll bring it back in
space and see how it fares. But thank you for
the knowledge. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Thank you for being here, and thank y'all for being
with us too. We shall see you next week on
in our own world. We love you. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
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