December 24, 2024 • 26 mins
Ever been swept away by the holiday magic of New York City? Picture Rockefeller Center aglow and join us as we travel through festive streets, sharing heartwarming stories and comparing Christmas traditions from around the globe. We explore cultural contrasts in holiday celebrations, focusing on the unique customs of Mexico and Spain, and celebrate how Texas has made tamales a holiday staple, reflecting the rich tapestry of cultural influences that define this joyful time of year.
Remember those nights watching "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on TV? We take a nostalgic trip through the world of classic and modern Christmas movies, reflecting on how the way we watch them has changed—from renting at Blockbuster to streaming online. Listen as we uncover the emotional connections to timeless films, discover new favorites like "Last Christmas" with Emilia Clarke and Michelle Yeoh, and discuss Lindsay Lohan's stunning return to holiday cinema. Our conversation is filled with warmth, laughter, and a few debates, particularly about what makes "Christmas Vacation" a hit or miss.
Craving holiday treats? Our festive feast includes everything from rompope to spiced fruit punch, and we don’t shy away from the controversial fruitcake debate. Tune in to hear our take on apple salad, gingerbread houses, and the delightful European Christmas markets of Germany and Austria. We also reflect on traditions like eating 12 grapes at midnight in Spain and Mexico. As we celebrate the post-Christmas season, we invite you to share your own holiday favorites, whether it’s a classic film, a cherished tune, or a beloved family tradition. Let’s wrap up the holiday spirit together with stories of joy, love, and the timeless magic of this festive season.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
it's christmas time in the city.
Well, it's almost christmastime.
It is december 24th.
This is our christmas show, orchristmas eve show, so welcome,
and it'll play all this week.
Enjoy your holidays, whetherit's christmas, hanukkah,
whatever holiday you celebrate,or none of the holidays, yule,
how you say it?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
yule y Yule, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All those holidays.
Wrap them up.
This is our version of aholiday, because we like
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So we are two generations, one mic, and today
we're going to talk about Easterno, just kidding Christmas.
So I love Christmas.
I think it's one of my favoritetimes when we used to live in
New York City.
It's just amazing how the citytransforms during Christmas time
(00:53):
.
It's just magical.
Even the peace smell andeverything else that is there is
just in masks with all thelights, and it's just amazing.
So I just I always thoughtChristmas was really really good
time for me, and growing upbesides of the presents, of
(01:15):
course, but living in differentcountries, it's been a whole
different experience.
Like I grew up in Mexico City,so Christmas in Mexico City it's
a thing that is very different.
When I moved into the US and Iwanted to open my presents on
Christmas Eve, mark said no,like some kind of Nazi present
(01:39):
guard.
I was like what do you mean?
I cannot open my presents.
He's like no, you only get toopen one present.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, there's rules.
You have one present you openon Christmas Eve, then you open
the rest on the Christmasmorning.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Who makes these rules ?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's what we do here.
Yes, that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I wanted to open all my presents all the
time.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, you have to open up in a certain way.
In Spain, you don't get to openthem up until what?
Four days later or something.
They don't give presents onChristmas.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No in Spain, now that we live in Spain, people really
don't give Christmas gifts,because in Spain, the day you
give presents is January 6th,which is Dia de Reyes.
Or, like the Three Wise Men,you know, like how they brought
presents to Jesus, they bringyou presents instead of Santa
(02:25):
Claus and I think, domino'spizza they brought.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm not sure One of those three.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But they, yeah.
So in Mexico we get presentsboth days, like on Christmas,
santa Claus brings the presents,and on Reyes, the three wise
men bring you presents, so it'sdouble presents.
So that's why I wanted all thepresents all the time, but
you're like, no, you can onlyopen one.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, because that's the traditions that we grew up
here with in America and I likethat Back to your point you were
making about New York.
I always tell people that whenpeople say, oh, I want to go to
New York, when should I go, andeverything else, I tell them,
okay, well, you can go.
And you know, the fall is niceweather, early summer is nice
(03:10):
weather, but if you've neverbeen to New York City at
Christmas time, it is magical,it truly is magical.
The snow and the lightseverywhere and you go to
Rockefeller Center and you seethe Christmas tree and you see
everybody ice skating and yousee the's, the, the famous uh
store that plays all the musicand stuff.
Is it sex?
I think, yeah, you standoutside, everybody watches
(03:33):
millions of dollars on that andit's just, it's such a wonderful
thing and it's literally likeit's stuff you see in the movies
yeah so you're like in a liveversion of everything you're up
with watching in the movies andto see that once in your life
you absolutely should go to NewYork City.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, absolutely Like from Home Alone to Elf, every
single thing you see in New YorkCity, like how cold it is and
then the lights everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And the snow.
If you're lucky, you get a nicesnow or something.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We never got snow on Christmas in.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
New York Afterwards, afterwards, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And yeah.
So if you ever want to go toNew York, go in Christmas time,
yeah, because I mean it's cold,yes, but it's a whole other
thing, like you can smellChristmas.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, so you're talking about like so mexico has
different traditions than spain, two different countries.
Everybody thinks they're thesame, but uh, so many people
like, oh, they have mexican foodin spain.
No, they do not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's two different cultures, but so there's also
different cultures, uh, with theholiday traditions yeah, so in
mexico, I know here in the us,or at least here in te Texas,
you guys eat tamales right?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, you eat tamales .
A lot of times you'll eattamales.
Over the last probably 20 yearsthey became a thing like you
don't eat them for yourChristmas meal, but you
generally eat them, like in theholidays leading up to the
Christmas meal, like if you havea lot of people will have free.
There are a lot of parties atChristmas time in America.
So you have your office parties, people have friends parties
(05:09):
and maybe you have a party atyour house where people all come
over or whatever friends,family, and it's leading up to
the actual Christmas dinner.
Maybe that week A lot of people, a lot of people take off, if
they can.
They take off the weeks ofChristmas or leading up to so
they may have pre-parties andone of those pre-party things
would be like oh, it's kind of apotluck thing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We call that posadas.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, so you would have tamales.
A lot of people eat chili,things like that, so you kind of
mix and match stuff.
But that's when they and peoplealways in Texas especially they
order the tamales.
A lot of places are famous formaking them, them and things
like that, so they get theirtamale order, usually if it's a
lady out of the back of her car.
It's going to be pretty good, Iknow right, like the Mexican
ladies.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's the best way you want to get it.
So that's funny because inMexico at least in Mexico City
when I grew up so we always haveour dinner on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So it will be tonight and it's the dinner is like a
Thanksgiving dinner, like turkeyand stuffing and ham and like
the whole whole thing, and thenon the 25th what you will eat is
just like the leftovers and wecall that like recalentado,
which is like reheatingeverything, and that's our
(06:21):
tradition there.
I know in Spain the traditionsare very different too.
I mean, you have Christmasdinner, some restaurants have
Christmas menus, but it'sdifferent.
A lot of people go to mass.
You know like it's a veryCatholic country, so they do the
Christmas mass.
And also in Mexico, a lot ofplaces like Catholic homes.
(06:46):
The tradition is they have ababy Jesus and they like at
midnight they carry him and thensing for him and dress him up
and it's a thing.
So it's like in your Christmasparty you're like passing around
baby Jesus and just it's athing.
(07:06):
I don't know those things Iremember growing up and in Spain
.
I don't know if they do that inSpain, but it's way different
than here in the US.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think in the US it's not really a hard set
rule.
A lot of families do itdifferently.
So like, while in theThanksgiving holiday everybody
eats turkey and their big mealon Thanksgiving.
Now it could be some people eatit early, some people eat it
later, but in Christmas it'skind of split.
You know, some people eat theirChristmas dinner on Christmas
(07:38):
Eve, some people eat it onChristmas Day.
Some people have two dinners.
It's just really different.
We always had it christmas dayand then christmas eve would be
some sort of thing where we'repreparing all the food and then
you're kind of nibbling andmaking little things to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's more about just family getting together and
apparently not opening presents,only one, you have to pick the
one presence you want to, neverthe best one.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Save that for the next next morning.
And that's the thing Everybodywants to, especially kids.
You want to wake up early andget downstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, because Santa Claus comes Duh.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There's I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So there's more presents to pick from.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So you can't open up everything then.
So when Santa Claus coming,when you're in the kitchen
eating, he snuck in the livingroom, put all the stuff in there
.
How are you opening all yourpresents?
That's what I don't get.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, you don't open all your presents.
You open all the presents fromyour family.
Then Santa Claus comes, andthen in the morning you open all
the presents from Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So you're getting a lot of presents apparently.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That is a lot of damn presents you're getting no you
get the presents from yourparents, the presents from your
family, then you get Santa Clauspresents and then you get your
three Weissman presents.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's on a different day.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, that's on January 6th.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
A lot of presents going on.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, exactly.
So that's why I'm alwayswanting to open presents on the
24th Gotcha.
But so, speaking of Christmasand Christmas traditions, I was
reading this thing.
I think it's in Italy.
People correct me if I'm wrong,but in Italy, santa Claus
doesn't bring you presents.
It's an old witch that bringsyou presents.
(09:15):
I think it's like it's.
It's like a Christmas witch.
Yeah, I was reading that Insome places in Italy, like who
brings your presents, but Idon't know if it's exactly on
this day.
There's this like old witchthat brings your presents.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Never heard of that.
I've heard of Krampus, but Ithink that's he kills you or
something.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No, not the same thing, killer clown thing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, you're not the same.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, no, I'm talking about like she brings you
presents.
So because I mean you know,Santa Claus, it's an American
thing, A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's an American thing, so You're welcome, so the
thing with that is oh, thankyou, babe, you gave me freedom
on Santa Claus.
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And so the freedom to open up all your presents on
Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I know Not that much freedom apparently.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But you know, we have our traditions and part of that
is watching cartoons and thingslike that.
We've been watching cartoonssince I, you know.
I realized that like the yearbefore I was born I only know
this because I saw this pop upon like a meme or TikTok or
something born.
I only know this because I sawthis pop up on like a meme or
TikTok or something.
But the year before I was bornwas when Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer debuted on CBS.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Which is such a messed up show.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, when you watch it now, versus watching it as a
kid growing up.
You watch it and you're likeman.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Those reindeers were assholes.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, they were.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Like why it's not so wrong, this poor Rudolph.
He was just this beautifulreindeer with a red nose and
they were all assholes and theyonly liked him when Santa said
oh yeah, rudolph, you're myfavorite now.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And then not, that's when they like him.
Yeah, because he wasn't a coolkid.
That's a messed up message.
Exactly, that's a very messedup message.
So what does that send themessage to the kids If you have
a deformity, you're not welcome.
That's so messed up.
Unless the boss says you'reokay and you're cool.
Now you can be part of the club.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I don't think I've ever watched Rudolph until you
showed it to me a couple ofyears ago.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And I think the first time you did, you started
crying.
You're like they're so mean tothis poor thing I was with
rudolph.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I was like rudolph also like, uh, frosty the
snowman.
I also cried because, oh,spoiler, spoiler alert, he melts
.
I was like no, frosty, why ischristmas so sad in america, in
these old movies, especially theold movies, or charlie brown's
christmas?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
yeah, it's but that was a tradition.
You have to do that, you haveto like.
Still, to this day, I likewatching those old cartoons
which, now, you know, used to.
Up until not even that long ago, you could only see them like
okay, who's going to have themon?
Is it ABC affiliate?
Cbs going to carry them?
Nbc, who's carrying the shows?
Now they're on everything youknow, hulu, max.
You can watch them anytime youwant.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well when I was a kid , we would go to Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
To video to watch the videos.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And you would have to rent them early because you
would run out right, because inMexico it's TV.
They will show them, but dubbed, and they're not good.
So we liked our Christmastraditional movies.
Traditional movies well, Idon't know, when I was growing
up, home alone came right.
It kind of switched.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So when I was a kid, it was all cartoons and
everybody had to watch.
Uh, you know, you had to watchrudolph red-nosed reindeer.
You had to watch santa claus iscoming to town.
You had to watch uh what, uh,frosty.
And there's one more which islike the santa claus coming to
town.
The same.
I forgot what that was, but itwas like there was like four or
five of those that youabsolutely had to watch every
year, I think, and charlie brownwas one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Charlie brown, christmas well, it was later,
but that I call it the 24-hourchristmas movie, because, oh my
god, the christmas story.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That was the funniest thing ever.
So they started, it went on.
A who airs that every year?
Tbs or somebody airs it like 247 it runs literally like 24
hours and she had never seenthis movie and she was
tolerating it for a while, butshe kept coming back and I just
had the tv on for hours and shekept coming back and she goes
how long is this damn moviegonna go on?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
because it was just like different scenes, but but I
just saw the same people.
I'm like dang, this movie hasbeen playing for like 12 hours.
I just didn't see and I justkept thinking this kid keeps
recalling things right, becauseit moves in different pacing.
So I gosh, so I call it a24-hour movie.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you have that.
And then you have the old TVshows that were also famous.
You know, with the JimmyStewart the classic thing he saw
an angel, or angel gets hiswings, or whatever.
There's a bunch of old, oldChristmas movies, miracle on
34th Street, all these things.
And then they started.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I don't think I've ever watched that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The Miracle on 34th Street.
Yeah, that Santa Claus has toactually prove in court that
he's Santa Claus.
I've never watched.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So American, see, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Like if Santa Claus goes to court, it's so American.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well then they had the new generation of movies
that come out, all the currentones that become classics from
your generation, with the HomeAlones, home Alones, and now Elf
is a huge classic.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Elf is a classic.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're not a fan, but I love it.
It A huge classic.
It's a classic.
You're not a fan, but I love it.
It's Christmas Vacation Always.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Watch that Honestly they're so Sorry, they're so
stupid.
I like that one, I just feellike my IQ lowers when I watch
that.
I just I guess I didn't grow upwith that and like those jokes
they make.
And it's so Corny, they're socorny but so wrong, like that
(14:39):
cussing or something.
It's so cringe, no thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You're not a fan of that.
Not a fan, yeah.
But then we found kind of ahidden jewel that you turned me
on to and I love it.
If you haven't watched it, youreally should watch it.
It's Emily Clark from Game ofThrones and Michelle love it and
it's.
If you haven't watched it, youreally should watch it, it's
emily clark from game of thrones, uh and uh michelle, uh,
michelle, yo, you know from uhvarious movies and stuff yeah,
(15:07):
but it's wicked now yeah andwicked but um, it's a really
underrated movie.
It's called last christmas, um,which is the george michael song
and it's it's such aheartwarming movie and it makes
you cry, makes you laugh andit's a really underrated
Christmas movie.
So if you've not watched that,you should watch Last Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yes, watch it.
And I think also the newLindsay Lohan movie was really
good.
The new Lindsay Lohan movie wasso cute you fell asleep, but it
was so cute and I mean, I knowwhat I want for Christmas.
I want to have whatever LindsayLohan had in her face, because
she looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, she's definitely a person that has you
know, you see, all these likeactors and actresses that have,
like, aged really horribly overtime, but something there was
like a magic switch she turnedon Whatever she had.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Santa, Maybe you're listening.
Whatever she had, I want that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Maybe it was all stopping the doing, all the
drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, that's true, she got sober, she got sober got
healthy Besides that, I wantthat Santa.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, she looks fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Or Reyes Magos, if you're listening too, I want
that, but it's amazing Like thatnew movie she had it's called
Our Little Secret is really good.
Another thing that I always seepeople debating here on
Christmas and I don't think itis Die Hard.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh, if Die Hard's a Christmas movie, that's a big.
Yeah, it's totally not a.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Christmas movie.
People, it's not a Christmasmovie.
It happens during a Christmasparty.
That doesn't make it aChristmas movie, right?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's totally not a Christmas movie, people.
It's not a Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It happens during a Christmas party.
That doesn't make it aChristmas movie.
It's a great action movie.
You've got to watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, no, it's amazing.
I think I just watched it nottoo long ago.
Yeah, well, I finally showed itto you for the first time.
It's good, yeah, it's a greatmovie?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I don't know is not.
It's not.
I mean it.
Home alone is right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It happens during christmas and that all that yeah
, well, home alone too, isactually in new york city which
I love, but diehard, I don'tthink it will be a christmas
movie, yeah, but so, so let meask you this so americans like
their eggnog and their hot cocoaor hot chocolate with things
like that and traditional things.
(17:20):
Is there things like that?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, so we had like not necessarily eggnog.
We have something similarcalled rompope, but you have
that all year round, not reallylike just on Christmas time.
We have a thing called pancheor like fruit punch, and it's
delicious, like you make yousimmer a bunch of fruits and
(17:44):
then I guess I didn't do thatbecause I was a kid, but I guess
people spike it with liquor,like maybe brandy, because you
drink it really, really hot.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's like a fruit side With brandy, yeah, so it'd
be like a equivalent of drinkingeggnog with liquor in it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right, and we also have probably like atole, which
is our, our, like what you makewith the corn, like corn, oh
corn, oh my God, the thing thatthickens up things.
Corn Masa, no, baby, corn, theyellow packet Cornbread.
(18:22):
No, Jesus Christ.
No, Sorry people Again.
If you try to think in twodifferent languages, it gets
complicated.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Masa Corn, no Cornstarch.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Cornstarch.
Oh, there we go, cornstarch.
Yeah.
So you make with corn starchand different fruits, and
sometimes with also like cornmeal kind of thing, and then you
make this delicious beveragethat you drink, do you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
have any special like desserts or anything like that
we have probably fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's a thing People do fruitcake, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They do it here too.
I think it's banned in manystates at this point I do like
it.
It's like eat a brick thattastes like nothing.
That's the only gift that youget.
You keep giving away to otherpeople.
It might go around to sevenpeople before somebody actually
eats that thing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I like fruitcake.
Most disgusting thing on theplanet.
I like fruitcake, I like it.
I think you don't like theclove in it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I don't like the texture.
I don't like anything about it.
There's nothing about that thatI like.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We also have.
What other dessert do we have?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They do gingerbread houses and things like that?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, we don't.
That's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Maybe some Christmas cookies and maybe apple salad.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, Apple salad.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, like you make apple with marshmallows and
pineapple.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
They have a thing called frugia or whatever it's
called something like that.
They do something like thathere.
It's a fruit.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, like fruit salad, but this is just apple
marshmallows and kind of likewhipped cream and maybe
pineapple.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, there's something very similar with that
here yeah.
In Spain.
Do you know any traditions thatthey do that are different?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Don't they do a grape thing or something.
That's a new year, that's a newyear's thing in years, and the
tradition is to, with each uhbell ring, you eat a grape.
So that's a thing.
But that's for new year's eve,both in mexico and spain right.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So for new, when new year's rings in yeah, when new
year's so new.
When the clock strikes 12, wehave to eat 2,025 grapes.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, only 12.
Okay, could you imagine?
No, it's like ding grape, dinggrape.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You need to chew fast because otherwise but they do,
have you got to admit.
So we found a grape there.
I'm 61 years old.
I have never in my life had agrape like this.
It was the best grape I've everhad in my life and I've only
found them in Spain and theyonly have them at Christmas time
.
They're little bitty, they'reblack, they're little tiny ones.
There's no seeds, they're sweet.
(20:48):
And when we first had those Iwas like where's this been?
All my life I've never had thisgrape, and I kept, we kept
trying to find it.
After, remember, everyone waslike do you have these grapes?
Oh no, they're only availableat Christmas.
And that was it.
It was like, oh my gosh,they're good, but what a
wonderful fruit.
If you get a chance to try that, it's one of the best grapes
I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Honestly, I don't know what desserts they will
have.
I think they have like Yule.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How do you say that?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
word Log.
It's like a little.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Other than a joke in Christmas Vacation.
I don't know what a Yule logactually is.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's like a little chocolate cake bread that looks
like a log, and then it hasChristmas decor on top.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is it a cookie or cake?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's a cake, it's like a little cake.
Ah, it's a cake Like a Yule log.
Yeah, jesus Christ, but yeah,no, the traditions are
definitely different.
Like we have our little, likeSanta Claus is here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We were in Sweden one time during this time In the
Nordic countries Sweden, finland, norway, scandinavia they have
these little nudes they'recalled.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
They're like these little beautiful, kind of like
Santa Claus, but it's not.
It's like these Christmas elveswhich have, like the little hat
, all the way down.
They don't have eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They remind me of the little what's the cartoon?
The little blue guys, smurfs,smurfs.
They remind me of Smurfs, alittle bit Like Christmas Smurfs
.
They're like Christmas Smurfs.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Maybe, yeah Well, the Smurfs came from there, aren't
they?
Aren't they from that region, Iguess?
And yeah, no, they're fun.
Like in every other place, theyhave, like, their different
traditions.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, those are neat.
When we were up there we'd buysome to take back for Christmas.
Yeah, they also have some greatlike in Europe.
If you can get to Europe forChristmas, oh my gosh, and you
can go to some of those likeGerman towns, austrian towns,
prague.
They have the most beautifuloutdoor festivals for Christmas
and you get to try some amazingdesserts out there that are so
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good.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But you know it's like a winter, it's not like
Christmas.
Christmas because all theseplaces they have like all the
lights and everything, but it'snot like Christmas thing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's more of a winter fest.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, it's more like a winter fest.
I just realized that becauseyou don't see a lot of Santa
Claus everywhere.
You just see a lot of, like,the Christmas colors.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the lights, and the lights and the spirit music.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, the pines, the snow, the music, but each
country has its different kindof of like christmas spirits,
let's say, and traditions, andreally like you have the snowmen
and you have the littlepenguins and but really not, not
like a santa claus thing wediscovered that dessert in
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prague.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Oh my god, it's called trillings or whatever
it's called.
It is the most amazing thingwhere they take these like
pastries it's kind of rolled andthen they slow roast them on a
fire like a fire pit and youtaste that and you're like, oh
my God, that's good.
And then they put a littlecinnamon, sugar or something on
there.
But then last time we had thatbefore.
Then we go back and oh, theyhave different ones now they
You'll go back and say, oh, theyhave different ones now They've
(23:56):
added new elements.
You could get it with ice cream, you could get it with like
whipped cream, there's all kindsof things like oh my gosh, that
is so good.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think the original one is the best.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, but you get it.
There's so many great foods youcan get just in the little
winter markets, yes, and that'sa great place to go.
It's a great time to go to, andalso for americans, if you have
a chance to go on vacation overthere during uh, at that time
of year, it's one of thecheapest times to fly, because
it's so cold.
A lot of people don't go onvacation over there, but if so,
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if you can get away, take aquick trip over there in
december around that time and go.
Go to austria, germany andscandinavia and prague.
See some of those places thathave these truly amazing
Christmas cheer type things.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So, last thing, music .
Do you like the traditionalmusic, the old music?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Because you know that's a big thing for me.
I like my traditional music.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, because when I go every morning I wake up Alexa
or Apple Music play HolidayFair.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you're skipping a million of them.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I don't like.
I like my standard old thing.
I want to hear Andy Williamssing.
I want to hear Frank Sinatrasing, Dean Martin sing All the
ones that I saw on my Christmasmovies growing up as a little
kid.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I like those.
That's the thing.
As far as new songs, I guessMariah Carey is a new song.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I think you have to listen to that, because
she makes $3 million a year offthat one song.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Good for you, Good for you, girl Go girl.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, but I don't Other than like Michael Buble
because I just love his voicetoo.
He reminds me of the old stylesinging.
There's not a lot of currentartists, I go oh, I want to
listen to that current Christmasalbum.
A few songs are Pentonics.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
They make a beautiful song, a few songs, pentonics.
They make a beautiful song, butthey're still singing old
school stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But that's the thing for me.
I'm interested to know what youthink.
Do you like the old,traditional things?
Do you like stuff that remindsyou of being a kid, or do you
like oh, I want to hear some newstuff.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, let us know what movies should we watch
tonight.
I'm going to try to open apresent, if this guy lets me,
more than one.
Let us know what songs are likeyour new favorites for the
holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, and since this actually will run the whole week
after Christmas, whattraditions do you have after
Christmas?
What do you eat?
Leftovers you just take off.
That week you do nothing.
What do you do after Christmas?
You rush into the stores toreturn stuff you don't like.
What do you like doingmas?
You rush into the stores and toreturn stuff you don't like.
What do you like doing like?
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
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We wish you a Merry Christmas.
it's christmas time in the city.
Well, it's almost christmastime.
It is december 24th.
This is our christmas show, orchristmas eve show, so welcome,
and it'll play all this week.
Enjoy your holidays, whetherit's christmas, hanukkah,
whatever holiday you celebrate,or none of the holidays, yule,
how you say it?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
yule y Yule, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All those holidays.
Wrap them up.
This is our version of aholiday, because we like
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So we are two generations, one mic, and today
we're going to talk about Easterno, just kidding Christmas.
So I love Christmas.
I think it's one of my favoritetimes when we used to live in
New York City.
It's just amazing how the citytransforms during Christmas time
(00:53):
.
It's just magical.
Even the peace smell andeverything else that is there is
just in masks with all thelights, and it's just amazing.
So I just I always thoughtChristmas was really really good
time for me, and growing upbesides of the presents, of
(01:15):
course, but living in differentcountries, it's been a whole
different experience.
Like I grew up in Mexico City,so Christmas in Mexico City it's
a thing that is very different.
When I moved into the US and Iwanted to open my presents on
Christmas Eve, mark said no,like some kind of Nazi present
(01:39):
guard.
I was like what do you mean?
I cannot open my presents.
He's like no, you only get toopen one present.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, there's rules.
You have one present you openon Christmas Eve, then you open
the rest on the Christmasmorning.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Who makes these rules ?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's what we do here.
Yes, that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I wanted to open all my presents all the
time.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, you have to open up in a certain way.
In Spain, you don't get to openthem up until what?
Four days later or something.
They don't give presents onChristmas.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No in Spain, now that we live in Spain, people really
don't give Christmas gifts,because in Spain, the day you
give presents is January 6th,which is Dia de Reyes.
Or, like the Three Wise Men,you know, like how they brought
presents to Jesus, they bringyou presents instead of Santa
(02:25):
Claus and I think, domino'spizza they brought.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm not sure One of those three.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But they, yeah.
So in Mexico we get presentsboth days, like on Christmas,
santa Claus brings the presents,and on Reyes, the three wise
men bring you presents, so it'sdouble presents.
So that's why I wanted all thepresents all the time, but
you're like, no, you can onlyopen one.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, because that's the traditions that we grew up
here with in America and I likethat Back to your point you were
making about New York.
I always tell people that whenpeople say, oh, I want to go to
New York, when should I go, andeverything else, I tell them,
okay, well, you can go.
And you know, the fall is niceweather, early summer is nice
(03:10):
weather, but if you've neverbeen to New York City at
Christmas time, it is magical,it truly is magical.
The snow and the lightseverywhere and you go to
Rockefeller Center and you seethe Christmas tree and you see
everybody ice skating and yousee the's, the, the famous uh
store that plays all the musicand stuff.
Is it sex?
I think, yeah, you standoutside, everybody watches
(03:33):
millions of dollars on that andit's just, it's such a wonderful
thing and it's literally likeit's stuff you see in the movies
yeah so you're like in a liveversion of everything you're up
with watching in the movies andto see that once in your life
you absolutely should go to NewYork City.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, absolutely Like from Home Alone to Elf, every
single thing you see in New YorkCity, like how cold it is and
then the lights everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And the snow.
If you're lucky, you get a nicesnow or something.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We never got snow on Christmas in.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
New York Afterwards, afterwards, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And yeah.
So if you ever want to go toNew York, go in Christmas time,
yeah, because I mean it's cold,yes, but it's a whole other
thing, like you can smellChristmas.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, so you're talking about like so mexico has
different traditions than spain, two different countries.
Everybody thinks they're thesame, but uh, so many people
like, oh, they have mexican foodin spain.
No, they do not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's two different cultures, but so there's also
different cultures, uh, with theholiday traditions yeah, so in
mexico, I know here in the us,or at least here in te Texas,
you guys eat tamales right?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, you eat tamales .
A lot of times you'll eattamales.
Over the last probably 20 yearsthey became a thing like you
don't eat them for yourChristmas meal, but you
generally eat them, like in theholidays leading up to the
Christmas meal, like if you havea lot of people will have free.
There are a lot of parties atChristmas time in America.
So you have your office parties, people have friends parties
(05:09):
and maybe you have a party atyour house where people all come
over or whatever friends,family, and it's leading up to
the actual Christmas dinner.
Maybe that week A lot of people, a lot of people take off, if
they can.
They take off the weeks ofChristmas or leading up to so
they may have pre-parties andone of those pre-party things
would be like oh, it's kind of apotluck thing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We call that posadas.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, so you would have tamales.
A lot of people eat chili,things like that, so you kind of
mix and match stuff.
But that's when they and peoplealways in Texas especially they
order the tamales.
A lot of places are famous formaking them, them and things
like that, so they get theirtamale order, usually if it's a
lady out of the back of her car.
It's going to be pretty good, Iknow right, like the Mexican
ladies.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's the best way you want to get it.
So that's funny because inMexico at least in Mexico City
when I grew up so we always haveour dinner on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So it will be tonight and it's the dinner is like a
Thanksgiving dinner, like turkeyand stuffing and ham and like
the whole whole thing, and thenon the 25th what you will eat is
just like the leftovers and wecall that like recalentado,
which is like reheatingeverything, and that's our
(06:21):
tradition there.
I know in Spain the traditionsare very different too.
I mean, you have Christmasdinner, some restaurants have
Christmas menus, but it'sdifferent.
A lot of people go to mass.
You know like it's a veryCatholic country, so they do the
Christmas mass.
And also in Mexico, a lot ofplaces like Catholic homes.
(06:46):
The tradition is they have ababy Jesus and they like at
midnight they carry him and thensing for him and dress him up
and it's a thing.
So it's like in your Christmasparty you're like passing around
baby Jesus and just it's athing.
(07:06):
I don't know those things Iremember growing up and in Spain
.
I don't know if they do that inSpain, but it's way different
than here in the US.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think in the US it's not really a hard set
rule.
A lot of families do itdifferently.
So like, while in theThanksgiving holiday everybody
eats turkey and their big mealon Thanksgiving.
Now it could be some people eatit early, some people eat it
later, but in Christmas it'skind of split.
You know, some people eat theirChristmas dinner on Christmas
(07:38):
Eve, some people eat it onChristmas Day.
Some people have two dinners.
It's just really different.
We always had it christmas dayand then christmas eve would be
some sort of thing where we'repreparing all the food and then
you're kind of nibbling andmaking little things to eat.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's more about just family getting together and
apparently not opening presents,only one, you have to pick the
one presence you want to, neverthe best one.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Save that for the next next morning.
And that's the thing Everybodywants to, especially kids.
You want to wake up early andget downstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, because Santa Claus comes Duh.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There's I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So there's more presents to pick from.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So you can't open up everything then.
So when Santa Claus coming,when you're in the kitchen
eating, he snuck in the livingroom, put all the stuff in there
.
How are you opening all yourpresents?
That's what I don't get.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
No, you don't open all your presents.
You open all the presents fromyour family.
Then Santa Claus comes, andthen in the morning you open all
the presents from Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So you're getting a lot of presents apparently.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That is a lot of damn presents you're getting no you
get the presents from yourparents, the presents from your
family, then you get Santa Clauspresents and then you get your
three Weissman presents.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's on a different day.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, that's on January 6th.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
A lot of presents going on.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, exactly.
So that's why I'm alwayswanting to open presents on the
24th Gotcha.
But so, speaking of Christmasand Christmas traditions, I was
reading this thing.
I think it's in Italy.
People correct me if I'm wrong,but in Italy, santa Claus
doesn't bring you presents.
It's an old witch that bringsyou presents.
(09:15):
I think it's like it's.
It's like a Christmas witch.
Yeah, I was reading that Insome places in Italy, like who
brings your presents, but Idon't know if it's exactly on
this day.
There's this like old witchthat brings your presents.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Never heard of that.
I've heard of Krampus, but Ithink that's he kills you or
something.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No, not the same thing, killer clown thing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
No, you're not the same.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, no, I'm talking about like she brings you
presents.
So because I mean you know,Santa Claus, it's an American
thing, A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's an American thing, so You're welcome, so the
thing with that is oh, thankyou, babe, you gave me freedom
on Santa Claus.
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And so the freedom to open up all your presents on
Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I know Not that much freedom apparently.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But you know, we have our traditions and part of that
is watching cartoons and thingslike that.
We've been watching cartoonssince I, you know.
I realized that like the yearbefore I was born I only know
this because I saw this pop upon like a meme or TikTok or
something born.
I only know this because I sawthis pop up on like a meme or
TikTok or something.
But the year before I was bornwas when Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer debuted on CBS.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Which is such a messed up show.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, when you watch it now, versus watching it as a
kid growing up.
You watch it and you're likeman.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Those reindeers were assholes.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh, they were.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Like why it's not so wrong, this poor Rudolph.
He was just this beautifulreindeer with a red nose and
they were all assholes and theyonly liked him when Santa said
oh yeah, rudolph, you're myfavorite now.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And then not, that's when they like him.
Yeah, because he wasn't a coolkid.
That's a messed up message.
Exactly, that's a very messedup message.
So what does that send themessage to the kids If you have
a deformity, you're not welcome.
That's so messed up.
Unless the boss says you'reokay and you're cool.
Now you can be part of the club.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I don't think I've ever watched Rudolph until you
showed it to me a couple ofyears ago.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And I think the first time you did, you started
crying.
You're like they're so mean tothis poor thing I was with
rudolph.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I was like rudolph also like, uh, frosty the
snowman.
I also cried because, oh,spoiler, spoiler alert, he melts
.
I was like no, frosty, why ischristmas so sad in america, in
these old movies, especially theold movies, or charlie brown's
christmas?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
yeah, it's but that was a tradition.
You have to do that, you haveto like.
Still, to this day, I likewatching those old cartoons
which, now, you know, used to.
Up until not even that long ago, you could only see them like
okay, who's going to have themon?
Is it ABC affiliate?
Cbs going to carry them?
Nbc, who's carrying the shows?
Now they're on everything youknow, hulu, max.
You can watch them anytime youwant.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well when I was a kid , we would go to Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
To video to watch the videos.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And you would have to rent them early because you
would run out right, because inMexico it's TV.
They will show them, but dubbed, and they're not good.
So we liked our Christmastraditional movies.
Traditional movies well, Idon't know, when I was growing
up, home alone came right.
It kind of switched.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So when I was a kid, it was all cartoons and
everybody had to watch.
Uh, you know, you had to watchrudolph red-nosed reindeer.
You had to watch santa claus iscoming to town.
You had to watch uh what, uh,frosty.
And there's one more which islike the santa claus coming to
town.
The same.
I forgot what that was, but itwas like there was like four or
five of those that youabsolutely had to watch every
year, I think, and charlie brownwas one of them.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Charlie brown, christmas well, it was later,
but that I call it the 24-hourchristmas movie, because, oh my
god, the christmas story.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That was the funniest thing ever.
So they started, it went on.
A who airs that every year?
Tbs or somebody airs it like 247 it runs literally like 24
hours and she had never seenthis movie and she was
tolerating it for a while, butshe kept coming back and I just
had the tv on for hours and shekept coming back and she goes
how long is this damn moviegonna go on?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
because it was just like different scenes, but but I
just saw the same people.
I'm like dang, this movie hasbeen playing for like 12 hours.
I just didn't see and I justkept thinking this kid keeps
recalling things right, becauseit moves in different pacing.
So I gosh, so I call it a24-hour movie.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you have that.
And then you have the old TVshows that were also famous.
You know, with the JimmyStewart the classic thing he saw
an angel, or angel gets hiswings, or whatever.
There's a bunch of old, oldChristmas movies, miracle on
34th Street, all these things.
And then they started.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I don't think I've ever watched that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The Miracle on 34th Street.
Yeah, that Santa Claus has toactually prove in court that
he's Santa Claus.
I've never watched.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So American, see, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Like if Santa Claus goes to court, it's so American.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well then they had the new generation of movies
that come out, all the currentones that become classics from
your generation, with the HomeAlones, home Alones, and now Elf
is a huge classic.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Elf is a classic.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're not a fan, but I love it.
It A huge classic.
It's a classic.
You're not a fan, but I love it.
It's Christmas Vacation Always.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Watch that Honestly they're so Sorry, they're so
stupid.
I like that one, I just feellike my IQ lowers when I watch
that.
I just I guess I didn't grow upwith that and like those jokes
they make.
And it's so Corny, they're socorny but so wrong, like that
(14:39):
cussing or something.
It's so cringe, no thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You're not a fan of that.
Not a fan, yeah.
But then we found kind of ahidden jewel that you turned me
on to and I love it.
If you haven't watched it, youreally should watch it.
It's Emily Clark from Game ofThrones and Michelle love it and
it's.
If you haven't watched it, youreally should watch it, it's
emily clark from game of thrones, uh and uh michelle, uh,
michelle, yo, you know from uhvarious movies and stuff yeah,
(15:07):
but it's wicked now yeah andwicked but um, it's a really
underrated movie.
It's called last christmas, um,which is the george michael song
and it's it's such aheartwarming movie and it makes
you cry, makes you laugh andit's a really underrated
Christmas movie.
So if you've not watched that,you should watch Last Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yes, watch it.
And I think also the newLindsay Lohan movie was really
good.
The new Lindsay Lohan movie wasso cute you fell asleep, but it
was so cute and I mean, I knowwhat I want for Christmas.
I want to have whatever LindsayLohan had in her face, because
she looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, she's definitely a person that has you
know, you see, all these likeactors and actresses that have,
like, aged really horribly overtime, but something there was
like a magic switch she turnedon Whatever she had.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Santa, Maybe you're listening.
Whatever she had, I want that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Maybe it was all stopping the doing, all the
drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, that's true, she got sober, she got sober got
healthy Besides that, I wantthat Santa.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, she looks fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Or Reyes Magos, if you're listening too, I want
that, but it's amazing Like thatnew movie she had it's called
Our Little Secret is really good.
Another thing that I always seepeople debating here on
Christmas and I don't think itis Die Hard.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh, if Die Hard's a Christmas movie, that's a big.
Yeah, it's totally not a.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Christmas movie.
People, it's not a Christmasmovie.
It happens during a Christmasparty.
That doesn't make it aChristmas movie, right?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's totally not a Christmas movie, people.
It's not a Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It happens during a Christmas party.
That doesn't make it aChristmas movie.
It's a great action movie.
You've got to watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, no, it's amazing.
I think I just watched it nottoo long ago.
Yeah, well, I finally showed itto you for the first time.
It's good, yeah, it's a greatmovie?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I don't know is not.
It's not.
I mean it.
Home alone is right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It happens during christmas and that all that yeah
, well, home alone too, isactually in new york city which
I love, but diehard, I don'tthink it will be a christmas
movie, yeah, but so, so let meask you this so americans like
their eggnog and their hot cocoaor hot chocolate with things
like that and traditional things.
(17:20):
Is there things like that?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, so we had like not necessarily eggnog.
We have something similarcalled rompope, but you have
that all year round, not reallylike just on Christmas time.
We have a thing called pancheor like fruit punch, and it's
delicious, like you make yousimmer a bunch of fruits and
(17:44):
then I guess I didn't do thatbecause I was a kid, but I guess
people spike it with liquor,like maybe brandy, because you
drink it really, really hot.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It's like a fruit side With brandy, yeah, so it'd
be like a equivalent of drinkingeggnog with liquor in it.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right, and we also have probably like atole, which
is our, our, like what you makewith the corn, like corn, oh
corn, oh my God, the thing thatthickens up things.
Corn Masa, no, baby, corn, theyellow packet Cornbread.
(18:22):
No, Jesus Christ.
No, Sorry people Again.
If you try to think in twodifferent languages, it gets
complicated.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Masa Corn, no Cornstarch.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Cornstarch.
Oh, there we go, cornstarch.
Yeah.
So you make with corn starchand different fruits, and
sometimes with also like cornmeal kind of thing, and then you
make this delicious beveragethat you drink, do you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
have any special like desserts or anything like that
we have probably fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's a thing People do fruitcake, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They do it here too.
I think it's banned in manystates at this point I do like
it.
It's like eat a brick thattastes like nothing.
That's the only gift that youget.
You keep giving away to otherpeople.
It might go around to sevenpeople before somebody actually
eats that thing.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I like fruitcake.
Most disgusting thing on theplanet.
I like fruitcake, I like it.
I think you don't like theclove in it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I don't like the texture.
I don't like anything about it.
There's nothing about that thatI like.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We also have.
What other dessert do we have?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They do gingerbread houses and things like that?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, we don't.
That's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Maybe some Christmas cookies and maybe apple salad.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, Apple salad.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, like you make apple with marshmallows and
pineapple.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
They have a thing called frugia or whatever it's
called something like that.
They do something like thathere.
It's a fruit.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, like fruit salad, but this is just apple
marshmallows and kind of likewhipped cream and maybe
pineapple.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, there's something very similar with that
here yeah.
In Spain.
Do you know any traditions thatthey do that are different?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Don't they do a grape thing or something.
That's a new year, that's a newyear's thing in years, and the
tradition is to, with each uhbell ring, you eat a grape.
So that's a thing.
But that's for new year's eve,both in mexico and spain right.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So for new, when new year's rings in yeah, when new
year's so new.
When the clock strikes 12, wehave to eat 2,025 grapes.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, only 12.
Okay, could you imagine?
No, it's like ding grape, dinggrape.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You need to chew fast because otherwise but they do,
have you got to admit.
So we found a grape there.
I'm 61 years old.
I have never in my life had agrape like this.
It was the best grape I've everhad in my life and I've only
found them in Spain and theyonly have them at Christmas time
.
They're little bitty, they'reblack, they're little tiny ones.
There's no seeds, they're sweet.
(20:48):
And when we first had those Iwas like where's this been?
All my life I've never had thisgrape, and I kept, we kept
trying to find it.
After, remember, everyone waslike do you have these grapes?
Oh no, they're only availableat Christmas.
And that was it.
It was like, oh my gosh,they're good, but what a
wonderful fruit.
If you get a chance to try that, it's one of the best grapes
I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Honestly, I don't know what desserts they will
have.
I think they have like Yule.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How do you say that?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
word Log.
It's like a little.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Other than a joke in Christmas Vacation.
I don't know what a Yule logactually is.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's like a little chocolate cake bread that looks
like a log, and then it hasChristmas decor on top.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is it a cookie or cake?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's a cake, it's like a little cake.
Ah, it's a cake Like a Yule log.
Yeah, jesus Christ, but yeah,no, the traditions are
definitely different.
Like we have our little, likeSanta Claus is here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
We were in Sweden one time during this time In the
Nordic countries Sweden, finland, norway, scandinavia they have
these little nudes they'recalled.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
They're like these little beautiful, kind of like
Santa Claus, but it's not.
It's like these Christmas elveswhich have, like the little hat
, all the way down.
They don't have eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
They remind me of the little what's the cartoon?
The little blue guys, smurfs,smurfs.
They remind me of Smurfs, alittle bit Like Christmas Smurfs
.
They're like Christmas Smurfs.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Maybe, yeah Well, the Smurfs came from there, aren't
they?
Aren't they from that region, Iguess?
And yeah, no, they're fun.
Like in every other place, theyhave, like, their different
traditions.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, those are neat.
When we were up there we'd buysome to take back for Christmas.
Yeah, they also have some greatlike in Europe.
If you can get to Europe forChristmas, oh my gosh, and you
can go to some of those likeGerman towns, austrian towns,
prague.
They have the most beautifuloutdoor festivals for Christmas
and you get to try some amazingdesserts out there that are so
(22:46):
good.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But you know it's like a winter, it's not like
Christmas.
Christmas because all theseplaces they have like all the
lights and everything, but it'snot like Christmas thing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's more of a winter fest.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, it's more like a winter fest.
I just realized that becauseyou don't see a lot of Santa
Claus everywhere.
You just see a lot of, like,the Christmas colors.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the lights, and the lights and the spirit music.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, the pines, the snow, the music, but each
country has its different kindof of like christmas spirits,
let's say, and traditions, andreally like you have the snowmen
and you have the littlepenguins and but really not, not
like a santa claus thing wediscovered that dessert in
(23:34):
prague.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Oh my god, it's called trillings or whatever
it's called.
It is the most amazing thingwhere they take these like
pastries it's kind of rolled andthen they slow roast them on a
fire like a fire pit and youtaste that and you're like, oh
my God, that's good.
And then they put a littlecinnamon, sugar or something on
there.
But then last time we had thatbefore.
Then we go back and oh, theyhave different ones now they
You'll go back and say, oh, theyhave different ones now They've
(23:56):
added new elements.
You could get it with ice cream, you could get it with like
whipped cream, there's all kindsof things like oh my gosh, that
is so good.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think the original one is the best.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, but you get it.
There's so many great foods youcan get just in the little
winter markets, yes, and that'sa great place to go.
It's a great time to go to, andalso for americans, if you have
a chance to go on vacation overthere during uh, at that time
of year, it's one of thecheapest times to fly, because
it's so cold.
A lot of people don't go onvacation over there, but if so,
(24:27):
if you can get away, take aquick trip over there in
december around that time and go.
Go to austria, germany andscandinavia and prague.
See some of those places thathave these truly amazing
Christmas cheer type things.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So, last thing, music .
Do you like the traditionalmusic, the old music?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Because you know that's a big thing for me.
I like my traditional music.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, because when I go every morning I wake up Alexa
or Apple Music play HolidayFair.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you're skipping a million of them.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I don't like.
I like my standard old thing.
I want to hear Andy Williamssing.
I want to hear Frank Sinatrasing, Dean Martin sing All the
ones that I saw on my Christmasmovies growing up as a little
kid.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I like those.
That's the thing.
As far as new songs, I guessMariah Carey is a new song.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I think you have to listen to that, because
she makes $3 million a year offthat one song.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Good for you, Good for you, girl Go girl.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, but I don't Other than like Michael Buble
because I just love his voicetoo.
He reminds me of the old stylesinging.
There's not a lot of currentartists, I go oh, I want to
listen to that current Christmasalbum.
A few songs are Pentonics.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
They make a beautiful song, a few songs, pentonics.
They make a beautiful song, butthey're still singing old
school stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But that's the thing for me.
I'm interested to know what youthink.
Do you like the old,traditional things?
Do you like stuff that remindsyou of being a kid, or do you
like oh, I want to hear some newstuff.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, let us know what movies should we watch
tonight.
I'm going to try to open apresent, if this guy lets me,
more than one.
Let us know what songs are likeyour new favorites for the
holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, and since this actually will run the whole week
after Christmas, whattraditions do you have after
Christmas?
What do you eat?
Leftovers you just take off.
That week you do nothing.
What do you do after Christmas?
You rush into the stores toreturn stuff you don't like.
What do you like doingmas?
You rush into the stores and toreturn stuff you don't like.
What do you like doing like?
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Speaker 2 (26:38):
Don't, I'll come after you.
She doesn't like that at all.
So from our family to yoursMerry Christmas, happy Hanukkah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Happy Holidays, have a great time with your family,
friends and family.
That's what's all.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
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