December 30, 2024 • 43 mins
We've fallen on New Years, and that means John has taken the easy shot and nailed it with New Years traditions from around the world. Join us as he takes Aaron and Sean through some of the most common, and some of the weirdest, traditions that New Years Eve (Old Years Day) has to offer. You can also get treated to Aaron's beautiful singing.
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(00:00):
Hello. Cheeky-verse.
It's New Year's Eve.
If you're listening on release
day, this is the last timeyou hear us all year.
Oh, yeah. Good one.
Good one!
No, I'm not ready!
Here at Cheeky Tales,
we've started the traditionof Sean’s Medley of Madness
that happens every new year.
Are you trying to giveyourself a thing?
(00:21):
He is. Good.I'm on board with it.
No, I’m not giving myselfa thing.
But we've already recorded that.
Yes. So this is not theMedley of Madness.
Don't break the illusion.
Immersion.
But what about more traditionaltraditions?
Let's explore thison this episode of
Cheeky Tales!
(00:52):
Are we going to talk aboutHogmanay?
You know,I can just edit it out.
Okay. Covering the might.
So, you know, to edit it out.
I don't know.You can talk about that.
I have admitted itfrom this episode.
I can I can definitelytalk about that. I may
give you the fall for that one.
Hi, I'm your hostthis episode, John
with me is Aaron Ashley.
(01:14):
For a living.
My co-hostAaron for this episode.
Come on. It was right there.
Producer. Sean. Producer. Sean.
Definitely.Do you have to go back?
Think so difficult.I do a lot of producers.
I may not. Actually.Ever. Yeah, I.
I can't believeI won't see you guys.
For the rest of the year.
I'm not readyfor a whole episode of that.
(01:35):
For all you avid YouTube fans,and people that actually
watch our video podcasts,I'm looking at Sam West.
That's about it.
Wow. People that I know that
actually go out of their wayto watch the video ones.
You'll noticethat I have some new equipment.
Yeah, you
might also be able to hear itif you're using your ears. Yes.
And it's not backwards.
(01:56):
What do you think?
I remember?
That's the point.
I'm saying that everyone'sgoing to hear that he's got.
Doesn't matter.
Everyone will hearthe difference
that I have a new microphone.
But I can finallystop the whingeing.
What about our,
people who watched the episodewith subtitles can't hear?
I really hopenobody's doing that.
The subtitles are not great.
(02:18):
No, the auto captioningsubtitles are absolutely.
It's a funny thingabout Nazis. Once.
That said,it said a lot of awful things.
It said the b r worda couple of times.
Yeah, it's. It's not great.
It doesn't pick thingsup. Great.
So let's talk about New Year'sEve or as
some as it may have ten.
(02:40):
Used to being called 908.
All these day old years.I like that.
Did you knowNew Year's Eve was once called?
Oh, no, I did. No, I didn't,but I like that a lot more.
Let's listen.
Can we all agreeas a cheek of us?
I'm happy to call it.I only call it Old Year's.
I'm happy to call.
It always does. Yeah.
Except for the rest of thisepisode where I've written down.
(03:01):
Everything you just control ffun place.
Cheeky title says yesto Aldi's day and Tony's Eve.
We say no thank you.
So let's have a
look atthe origin of New Year's Eve.
If you go back to the BigBang now.
It goes from 919.
Grace, these guys,whether or not you.
Came out of the.
(03:22):
Celebrations, go back over4000 years to the Babylonians.
Okay.
I'm sure that it goes backa few more years than that.
This is the first recordedcelebration of a new year.
The first new moonfollowing the verbal equinox.
Which was what verbal?
Okay.
It's okay.
I know what that isbecause I've written it down.
(03:43):
It was in order to remember.
If you're listening.John looked at me with like a.
Face and then.
Immediatelylooked and went over it.
And it's in the next sentence.
It's a day in late March
which has an equal amountof sunlight and darkness.
So it's not the shortest.The longest day.
It's the middle day.It's of them.
I'm giving you the two of them.It's the middle. Okay.
(04:04):
Can I script?
I don't remember what you.
Wrote tonight or not. To theI part.
Are we doing a script? I'm not.
I thought it might bean odd script.
I'm going to haveso many episodes done.
It was like last night.
It was, So the verbal equinoxsignaled the new Year
for the Babylonians.
And they marked this occasionwith an 11 day festival
(04:25):
called two.
That's a great name.
I was going to say March like,because obviously it's
the whole New Year's Eve thing.
Being on
sorry all day,
being on the same dayreally only applies
if you use the the currentcalendar that we are.
We're getting this. Year. Yeah.
So the Babylonians
it would have to be thatwhenever they decided it was.
Well they just use the sun.
It was the moon. In the moon.Yep. Correct.
(04:45):
Moon cycles.
Lunar calendar,as you would call it.
And it involved a different
ritual on each of those 11 days,as well as the new year.
The festival celebratedthe mythical victory of the sky
god Marduk over the evil seagoddess team.
It also involvedpromises to the gods.
(05:06):
You just broke my brain.
Well, there's a guy that I watchon YouTube
and his channel name is Tmnt.
Marduk.
That's what that is.
Very cool.
It also involvedpromises to the gods
that they would be betterin the new year,
and to do such thingsas paying debts
or returning partfarm equipment.
Sure. Sounds like resolutions.
There you go. He's onto it.
(05:28):
This festivalalso had a political purpose.
Did they also give up on themby mid-January?
Probably during this time,like January didn't exist
during this time.
I'm thinkingthey would give up mid-April.
During this time,a new king would be crowned
or the current rulersauthority renewed.
Okay. Lucky for them.
So as you just picked up,
(05:49):
that is the originof resolution.
Year's resolution.
Well, that's what's believedto inspire these resolutions.
Well, most cultures aroundthe world link the new year
with an agriculturalastronomical event.
There was one exception.
Egypt.
Their new year would begintheir flood.
Correct.
(06:11):
Their year would beginanew with the annual
flooding of the Nile.
This still happens every yearwith monsoon season.
Heavy rain in the EthiopianHighlands area, causing the Nile
to swell and flood as the watermakes its way downstream.
I always assumed it was likesnow somewhere melting.
Just a lot of rain in Ethiopia.
(06:32):
January 1st, as Sean mentionedearlier, became the start
of the new year in 45 B.C.,when Julius Caesar,
whose claim to famewas inventing Caesar salad
time.
You're getting one of sangria.
Shout out to a real legend.
(06:52):
We're just.
Gonna let this one play upfor some salad.
Bro. You.
You know, we're all so sorefrom our cheeky excursion
the other day. Not.
I got a little bit of soreness.
You didn't work hard enough.Then I'll.
Causehe bowled ten balls and the.
Ball went, sat down.
I bad at first. Thank you.
Do you want to continuethat story? You just.
No. I'm sorry. I'm so mad. Okay.
Yeah. We all knowit's from Caesars Palace.
(07:14):
He alsoinstated the Julian calendar.
Whichadded 61 days to make the year
365 days long from 304 days.
Yeah. Justin, you do the math.
Yeah, 61 days.
March was the first month.
That's where I September Sept.
Meaning seven is nownine. Used to be seven.
(07:34):
Right. October. November.
Decembermeaning seven. Eight. 910.
But now they.
Nine. Ten. 11. 12.
I guessI'd never thought about that.
Like I knew Sept was seven,but I never thought
about the fact that it was monthnine. Yeah.
I had definitely thoughtabout October being ten.
Yeah. Anyway, blow your mind.
(07:55):
So yeah,
this introduced January,named after the Roman god Janus
in February,named after the Roman god.
February?
Yes it is.
Janus is generous.
Child.
The yearbefore this implementation.
46 BCE.
Let that go. Could havejust let that go. I did it
the yearbefore this implementation.
(08:17):
46 BCE was knownas the Year of Confusion.
Okay.
I can imagine that.
That would be very confusingif that would just like
I had the calendarschanging next year.
Or is it because ofsome other weird thing?
It was because of some otherweird thing?
Yes. It was a 445 day.
Year that was just longer.
It was 445 days long,
and it was to realignthe calendar
(08:39):
with the astronomical timing.
How annoying would that be?
Just in the olden days.
Imagine letting everybody know
that it would take you 445 daysto get around
everybody on the camelto tell everybody that.
Especially because this was inRome and Rome was massive.
Yeah, they were pretty goodat passing on information.
And also, I guess there'sthe other aspect though, right?
(08:59):
So let's talk this preenlightened era, which it is.
They would have been in thelet's say the majority of people
just didn't care.Yeah. They were like.
Well they couldn't raids like.
Well maybe they couldwrite Rome.
You knowthey probably just didn't care.
Like yeah, yeah.
One of them was like, go outin the field when it's hot.
And, you.
Know, right nowin the age of information,
(09:22):
we can not necessarily have it,but we can pretty much
care about everythingbecause we have the ability
to know about everything.But back then you just let
I don't I don't care.
Yeah. Oh might matter.
Oh might make a kniveslike in his blacksmith factory.
It's not like he's like, ohI'm backing up my annual leave.
But, hey,
he doesn't knowhe's not getting ready
to do his taxesfor the financial year.
(09:42):
He's just like, whatever.
I'm right. I'm good.
So happy.
Got cranky at thatbecause it also happened 1628
years lateras the Julian calendar
overestimated the solar yearlength by 11 minutes.
This discrepancy accumulatedover the years, and in 1582,
Pope Gregory the 13thshifted the calendar 11 days.
(10:06):
So October 5thbecame October 14th.
So they went from October 4thto October 14th.
Oh, so they justwent forward to 11.
They missed by 11 minutes.
So the Julian calendar was11 minutes longer than the solar
time. Minutesis in like minutes. Minutes.
Not anything. So over
1600 years
(10:27):
that equivalentto about 11 days.
So at some pointeveryone would have been like,
ash, it's midnight and it's it'snine in the morning.
Correct?
That that is more infuriatingthe night.
Because time would be differenttoday.
Yeah, the timewas still probably worked off.
Solar?
Yes. Yeah.
Clocks at that point, a sundial.
(10:48):
But the calendar. Yeah. Was.Yeah.
That's interesting and kind ofconfusing, but also interesting.
It's not that long ago. Really,when you think about it either.
I mean,
but it's odd to get like yet
minutes representinglike an overlapping days,
which is very odd. It's like.
At what point did they knowjust like you were talking about
sunup, sundown.
Obviously,the lunar calendar was based off
(11:08):
like the lunar calendarwas conceptualized
around the solar calendaras well, like the Lunar New Year
was balanced by the sun.
Well, it's probablythe equinoxes that they noticed.
Yeah, I know, but, like,how did they, like,
get 11 minutes,which then turned into 11 days?
It's interesting because
how did they eventuallythey would have like gained
or lost a day.
It's like the how when the day
starts and ends and,you know, the Sol.
(11:29):
I guess I seewhat you're saying. Yeah.
The sun is not it'snot really relative at this.
Point because like we do it nowwith the leap day.
Like you don't notice the dayschanging.
Yeah.
Because it wasn't a leap day.
And remember that this is overlike 1600 years.
Yeah. It'snot notice it in a lifetime.
Yeah. You would notice it overgenerations.
Well yeah.
(11:50):
And that's the thing like the,the the day
now we're getting intolike we get into,
we just got this bitwe're getting into, like,
we were getting downin the weeds.
I think. You're right.
You're on.
But you got to remember,
I think we're pretty luckywhere we are in Australia.
We sun goes up earlyin the morning.
Sun goes up. Some sun goes downlate in the afternoon.
Yes that's true.
The in Rome,
in the different areas,the normal day and night cycle.
(12:11):
It might be up at twoin the morning
and down at threein the afternoon.
I think I know what you'resaying,
I'm pretty surein the Mediterranean, though,
they're fairly similarbecause they're quite Ecuador.
Equatorial.
They're pretty close.
Fairly close to the equator is.
The other thing to remember
is that they're not likethey're not losing a day.
It's just that their calendarshifted slowly, moves
(12:31):
away from yeah,like where it should be.
Yeah.So you just wouldn't notice.
And then one day you be like,hang on,
isn'tthe Equinox meant to be today?
Yeah, it's actually in ten daystime.
And everyone's like, oh yeah.
Interesting.
It is interestingto think about this.
Yeah. So.
So anyway, yeah, PopeGregory shifted the calendar.
(12:51):
October 5th became October 14th,and this was the introduction
of the Gregorian calendar,which is what we use today.
It also accountsfor the 11 minutes
as well as in introducedthe concept of leap years.
I mentioned earlier.
Sorry. February,the freak month.
That's kind of the,
how we get to January 1stbeing the start of the year.
(13:12):
The resolutions.
What aboutsome of the other traditions?
What are some?
You name one, and I'll cover it.
Can I, can I start by
because I found
all the different namesfor New Year's
Eve in different countries,and there's a few.
Okay.
And. Sorry. What? What for?
For what?
New year's Eve.
(13:32):
Different. Sorry.
I follow this day. Oh.
Also cause a bit.
So obviously we have Hogmanayin Scotland.
OG made Hogmanay, whichwe'll probably talk about later
in Wales.
Or that's probably not saidcolonic because it's Welsh.
It's probably just said,
and that's actually what it is.
Welsh is a confusing language.
No, sorry. Welsh peoplethey know.
(13:52):
They know the language iscrazy's a bad language.
To it?
Yeah they do they. Yeah, yeah.
There's that townthat changed their name
to intentionallybe the longest town
name in the world,so I could get more tourism.
It's like 56 letters.
I'm not going out of my wayto say that.
We got shindriver here and Ukrainian,
and Brunei, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Singapore,it's known as bang.
(14:15):
In Uzbekistan, Turkey andAzerbaijan, it's known as Yunji.
You or your.
But I can't pronounce that one.
A lot of African words.
It's called Karimov
in Austria. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Yeah, that's a governor.
That's a hard one.I always get that removed.
That's going to Croatia, CzechRepublic, France, Germany,
Hungary, Israel, Italy,
(14:36):
Liechtenstein,Luxembourg, Poland, Russia,
Serbia, Slovakia,Slovenia and Switzerland.
It's known as Sylvester.
Stallone
in a bunch.
French speaking countriescalls it calls it, rebellion.
Nice. Other French speaking.
It sounds fun.
French and Italian peaklanguage.
Russians call it cononovo go goda too long.
(14:58):
Japan call it, almost socceror something of that word.
I'm not going to attempt.
I'm not going to attemptto pronounce
Botswana,and Alderney is day all day.
It's kind of hard.
They speak.
I believe they speak Swahiliin Botswana.
I'm not 100% certain.
But however,
it's several words andI'm going to get them all wrong.
(15:18):
All right. Well all right.
So when you think of New Year'sEve tradition,
you name one and I'll cover itbecause the fireworks,
but happens to be the first oneI got here.
Fireworks were invented in Chinaapproximately 200 BCE.
The primitive fireworkswere just bamboo stalks
stuffed with gunpowder.
They were usedin the Chinese New Year
celebrationsbecause they believed the bright
lights and the loud noisesscared off evil spirits
(15:39):
and bad luck.
By the ninth century,Chinese alchemists
learnedhow to create colorful sparks,
which is a foundation for modernfireworks that we know today.
Apparently, like you,just some villager in China,
I'll give you an app plowingyour field all day.
And then you see.
I've got all this gunpowder.Where am I going to store it?
Oh, here's a hollowbamboo stalk.
Well, like know just imagineseeing the first firework.
(16:01):
How scary that would be.
I could imaginethey were storing
gunpowderin bamboo stalks anyway.
And then someone accidentallywent in for just, like, a.
Shot a minute.Oh. That's cool. Yeah,
that'spretty much how it happened.
Yeah, I love how much stuffjust comes from China.
Like you mean nowadays.
No. Like inventions that
we just kind of takefor granted. Now.
(16:23):
A lot of them are from China.
Ancient China worked out.
These were handif it's made in China now.
It's China.
Designed in Texas,made in China. Yeah.
I mean they worked outhow to vaccinate
against smallpoxthousands of years
before anyone in the Westworked it out.
I'm not like all it'sa few decades.
Like something like it was like
(16:43):
literally a thousand yearsor something.
An ancient Chinesedoctor was like,
I worked out how to do howto vaccinate people via exposure
to small amounts of smallpox,and then that gives people
the immune system.
Yeah, yeah,that's that's amazing.
Sean, I'm a new New Year'sEve tradition.
Not makenot. Yet. Not Hogmanay. Okay.
(17:03):
Why don't you give some a nightto everyone else?
I guess the countdowncounting down,
waiting till midnight.
I didn't do that one,but this one is close enough.
The ball dropping in TimesSquare.
Oh, yeah. Yeah,but they're there.
Of course, one of the imagesyou see when someone mentions
New Year'sEve celebration is Times Square
and the giant balldropping at midnight.
This tradition goesall the way back to 1833,
(17:26):
in Portsmouth, England,
where a ball would be droppedfrom a park at 1 p.m.
so that side was itso you could keep the clocks
synchronized or the timekeepers, whatever they had.
So the
every time a second one would beestablished in Greenwich.
Yes, the place of GreenwichMean Time,
but and that timekeeping ball isstill dropped every day today.
At 1:00
(17:47):
in America.
Local legend.
There's a small lighthousetype device in Adelaide.
Actually, at Semaphore Beachthat also did
the ball drop thing.It's still there.
It's heritage listed in there,
like, oh,this is what it was for.
I this is not the onlytwo places this was developed.
Yeah. All overthe place was a common system.
Yeah. Crazy. In America.
(18:08):
The first timeball was introduced
in the United StatesNaval Observatory in Washington.
Time balls. Just such a great.
It's a time ball. Yeah.
Tom's a flat. Disc. Yep.
It was established in Washingtonin 1845, but for New Year
celebrations,it was first introduced in 1907.
Celebrations have been happeningin Times Square since 1904,
(18:29):
but in 1907 fireworkswere banned for safety concerns.
So instead. Make sense? Yes.
Instead.
Newspaper owner
I don't commissionedUkrainian metalworker Jacob Star
to create a 700 pan, 317 kilo,five foot wide on wood ball
that was illuminatedby 100 incandescent light bulbs
and it was loweredmanually down a flagpole.
(18:51):
This has happened every yearsince, except for 1942 and 1943,
but there was a demand
for the wool.
You know, it's a real shameabout Hitler
for a number of reasons,but one is just how do.
We get here?
How do we get here?
The loss of the name Adolf.
It's a nice name.
It's just a shame.
(19:12):
It is quite tarnished.
It a little bit tarnished.
Like nobody'scalling naked Adolf now,
but like it's a nice name.
I think it's fair to leave ittarnished.
I'm not saying bring it back.
I'm just saying it's a shame,
I think. Yeah, that.
I'm not sayingthat's the worst thing.
I feel like saying it's a sad.I feel like we've got.
I feel like we got somethingfor a good many episode
there. It's like things
(19:32):
that were ruined foreverby rubbish people.
That sounds like a great.
That's like a great miniepisode.
Yeah, keep.That a tradition. Boy.
I don't know many
like.
John, if you got one.
Sing honor.
Yes. So he's.
Like, oh thank God. Here we go.
Singing Old Lungs on.
The poem was written
by Robert Burns,a celebrated poet, in 19 1788.
(19:54):
He claimshe transcribed from the song.
He transcribed the song froman old Scottish folk, saying
that he heard an old mansinging one time.
Auld Lang Zaun translatesroughly
to old, long since, oh,for the sake of old times.
The theme of the song is
looking back on past timesand cherishing friendships.
Scottish immigrants
carried the song
all over the world, andit became a staple in the US,
(20:17):
thanks largely to Guy Lombardoand his Royal Canadians.
He first performed it
at midnight during New Year'sEve broadcast in 1929,
and it became a signatureof his annual performance
until the 1970s.
I think that's where Hogg'sharmonizing comes in, too,
so if you want to take itfrom here.
Hogmanay is an old Scottishtradition of Alda's day,
(20:39):
and it's synonymouswith the celebration of
NI in Scottish
It is normally followedby a further celebration
on the morningof New Year's Day,
and in some caseson the 2nd of January,
which is a Scottish bankholiday.
The word Hogmanay is usedmore loosely
to describe the entire periodconsisting of the last
couple of days of the old year
and the first few daysof the new year.
For instance, not all events
held onto the bannerof Edinburgh's Hogmanay
(21:01):
take placeon the 31st of December.
Customs vary throughout
Scotland, usually
include gift giving,visiting the homes of friends
and neighbors,regular attention.
Paid to giving the first foot,
which is the first guestof the new year.
So now going off information,talking about like people
that I know,they always talk about Hogmanay
and like howI guess you would call it loose.
(21:23):
So basically New Year's Eve,everyone just like
literally leaves their doorsopen.
They like, leave them open.And then it's like a whole.
Place to be the first onein people's houses.
Yeah.
It's like,
a like a good luck thingfor the first person to be,
like,
to step foot through the doorand then they like
and it's like, oh,it doesn't matter who you are,
like neighbor.You could be like loose friends.
Come on in, have a cup of tea,have a beer or whatever.
Like they do this whole thingbehind it.
(21:45):
Yet beforeI didn't include that one.
But first footing is a thingto be the first person
to step into the house bringsgood luck.
All right, let's think.
First of all,I'm going to go into some,
lesserwell known traditions later
when I'm just coveringthe big ones, but yeah.
Hogmanay.
What about the first kiss?
Midnight kiss, midnight kiss.
What's better then at the strokeof midnight, a big old smooch.
(22:09):
I'm going to say nothing.
But the kiss at midnight,
highly popularized
by Hollywood romance movies,dates back to ancient Rome.
Of course it does.It is not Toronto.
It is
believed to have its originsin Saturnalia, a pagan festival
which involved a lot of singing,dancing, socializing,
sharing gifts and kissing.
This superstitionwas also believed
(22:30):
that the first interactionof the New Year's
is to set the tonefor the rest of the year.
They also kissed
a lot in European medievaland Renaissance time.
Mass bones were very popular,for New Year's celebrations.
Removing the mask
with a midnight kisssymbolized purification
and the promise of newbeginnings.
Elsewhere in English and Germanfolklore,
(22:50):
failing to secure a midnightkiss was thought to bring back,
to bring bad luck and lonelinessfor the coming year,
so that that covers the wellknown traditions that I had
reading.
(23:16):
So let's have a
look at some of the lesserknown traditions.
And they got light last night.
My students are gonna come upwith some interesting titles.
So look, look for them
to get funny in front of youas we go along.
Colored underwear.
Boy, why did you know thatthere's a tradition of wearing
different coloredunderwear on New Year's Eve,
and that it would influencethe incoming year?
(23:36):
Okay, now I didn't.
This is all on boardfor this one.
This is popular in countries
like Italy, Spain,and parts of Latin America.
Nice.
What color does what I hearyou ask me?
Red. What color does what? Boy?
Thank you.
Red is for attracting love,passion and romance.
Nice.
Yellow is for bringingwealth, prosperity and success
as well as happiness,optimism and positivity.
(24:00):
You could change your midnight.
I got to go.
I just wanted to hear.
Oh, the tradition.
Yep. Yeah.
What is for peace,purity and harmony?
This one is especially popularin Brazil,
where cultural traditionsof welcoming in the new year
with a clean slate.
Oh yeah. Cool. No. No streaks.
I think I have seenthat one way.
(24:21):
Like I think it is Brazilor that New Year celebrations
a lot of peoplewere just wearing, oh, what.
Is a Brazilian girl at work?
I might ask her.
Greennessfor health, luck and growth.
Blue is to attract tranquility,serenity and good health.
Pink is also for love,but more platonic,
so more towards friendship,kindness and affection
(24:41):
and black luck on the way
for power, sophisticationand even seduction.
So what colorare you wearing this New Year's?
A boy. Brown.
The wordseduction is kind of gross.
Yeah.
Because it sounds too much likesuction, and that's a gross.
Word I'm going with.I'm going with white.
I want. Purity. Nice.
(25:02):
That's me. Too.
Okay. 12 grapes.
It may not. What?
A popular tradition in Spainis eating 12 grapes.
I have. Heard this.
You haven't heard that muchabout it, but.
Yeah, it's one grape for eachstroke of the clock at midnight.
Okay. Do you have to eat themon the strokes?
Yes. These guysrepresent the 12 months.
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And you must eat all of themto enjoy unlucky year.
Otherwise, the upcoming yearmight be cruel to you.
Rude. So, yes, you have to eat.
Is it an eternal?
A kind of grape? No. Okay.
So I guess you can.
Say one would be quite annoying.
Yeah,I thought that was interesting.
Takes okay.
In Greece and Mexico,in the Netherlands,
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do they all share a border
or do you say grace?
Mexico and the Netherlands?
I'm throwing it backto last week.
I still had a hissy fit over.
We did. Or didyou end up sorting that one out?
I mean, more or less.
Spoken about it,but I don't know. I'm right.
We kind ofI kind of started chatting.
I kind of started chattingwithout giving enough context
as to what I was shouting about.
(26:05):
And then by that point, we'dalready moved past it too much.
Yeah. So Greece, Mexicoand the Netherlands.
They do share a border.
As well as some other countries,you know.
Mexico,a great huge land border.
Yeah. Sea border baby.
Round dikes, round cakes,specifically round cakes
symbolize the circle of life.
Some would put some trinkets.
Of life.
Some trinketsor coins inside the cake.
(26:26):
Okay, take a break.
You take.
Then,if you were lucky to get it,
you're expected to havegood luck in the coming year.
I'm lucky for the dentist.
My, grandparents actually didlike trinkets in fruitcake
for Christmas.Yeah. Christmas pudding.
If you got that,you got a prize or whatever.
Say my mum. Yeah. Put.
Yeah. My mother had a.
Cake, not put.
He said put.Yeah it was, it's put.
My mum did have a little packetof old sixpence coins
(26:50):
that she would put it. There.
We had coins and as well as liketiny little porcelain dolls.
Okay.
Yeah. Damn. Yeah.
I make themthe same ones used every year.
Yeah.
I reckon if I message mumright now,
she probably still hasher little bag of sixpence coins
that she used to putin the Christmas pudding
because it was considered.Are you. Yawning?
I know it's like830 in the morning.
Oh, God. I thought we were toget through one without a yawn.
(27:12):
No, I haven't even yawned yet.
Jeez, boy.
Also, bring my new FutureMagic Brewing t shirt.
Too much peppermint.
Peach Magic BrewingCo love you stuff this.
We weren't going to drink beerthis morning. It's too. Early.
It's way too early.It's way. Too early for beer.
To. Have coffee.
Yeah. Hence the hence the shit.
Not an alcohol.
Not an Alco. Not an Alco.
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Hashtag tag put.
Bought the drink.
No pork.
A pork pigsymbolized progress in countries
like Austria, Portugal and Cuba.
So eating porkand they've it's common.
These weird countries that havenothing to do with each other.
Having the same traditionrepresents this.
Everything represents something.
How does a pig represent like.And then
in the rest of the world,it's like pigs have disease.
(27:55):
Pigs unclean, pigsunclean. Yeah.
So eating pork is common
to attract prosperityfor the next 3365 days.
What?
Yeah.
Some of this, it'slike someone thought of this
one day and went,yeah, that's a thing.
More eating style.
Legumes. Legumes like greens.
Legumes like super good for you.
They look like old Romancoins and symbolize
financial prosperity.
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That's what it says.Don't shoot me.
I'm the messenger.I think that's true.
That is whyItalians have lentils.
And Americans add black eyedpeas to the dishes.
On New Year's Eve.
They add will.i.amto their dishes.
Yeah, that's that's a thin one.All right.
Or I just this is. I'm just the.
Abstract now.
Keepingdoors and windows open. Yep.
This is okay for spirits out.
(28:37):
Yeah. This is okay for usin the southern hemisphere.
Summertime,
but probably not good
for the northern halfbecause they're in winter.
However, in the Philippinesdoing this
it be not helps
you get rid of thenegative energy from last year
and attract good energyfor the upcoming year.
Right?
Hanging onions on your door.
Locking up on this one.
This also sounds likeanother bad idea,
(28:58):
like leaving your windowsand doors open in winter.
It might not look or smellgreat during New Year's Eve.
However, in Greece this practicemeans growth and rebirth.
Parents would ask their children
to put the onionson their heads to draw.
Good luck for you to come.
The heads? Yep,you said doors to begin with.
Well,it's also hanging on your doors.
And then I think the children.
Additionwe should do onion heads.
(29:20):
Nah, I want to do the next onethat I've got
just burning in the Vikinglongship.
No, I didn't include that one.
But there was a burningof effigies
and scarecrows on top of it.
Yeah, there seems to be.
There's a lot of burning.
Not a lot of like. Oh,get rid of the spirits.
I'm sure traditional Vikingcountries and also just areas
where there are lots of Vikings,actually still do.
One in Edinburghas part of Hogmanay
(29:41):
is they build a longshipand then burn it,
because obviously carrying
around balls of flamingfire is pretty common in
like quite a few different
needs.
A all on the old Aldi is daycelebrations.
And part ofthat is burn and shit.
And so
like the Shetland Islandsand some of the other like small
loose like extra Viking areas.
(30:03):
Yeah, they still burn a longshipas part of Aldi's day
New Year's Eve celebrations,which is pretty cool.
Well, the idea isI burn for that purpose.
Yeah, sorry.They build it for that purpose.
They're not just like,oh, we got this old ship,
old gold going to burn it.
They like, progressivelybuild it there.
Maybewhen they're burning the ship
they can do this next one,
which is throwingwater out the window.
(30:24):
Okay.
Another practicebelieve to ward off
evil spirits is throwing out
or by throwingwater out the window.
This is especially popularin Latin America.
The tradition also symbolizesrenewal,
making it a good wayto say goodbye to the old you.
Stop the new one by
Polka dots.
Nice.
Another onefrom the Philippines is wearing
polka polka dotted clothingand surrounding themselves
(30:47):
with brand itemslike coins and fruit.
It is believed to attractwealth and prosperity.
Okay, I can see myselfwearing a polka dot shirt
with, onionson my head, yearning.
Something to drink, whatever.The window.
Yeah, this is whereI got a little bit silly.
Smashing pumpkins,I mean, plates.
If you find yourselfpartying in the New Year.
(31:08):
Yep. Yeah.
Billy Corgan, love that. Yeah.
If you if you find yourself,picture yourself
partying in the New Yearin Denmark,
you might wake up to somesmashed plates at your door.
Smashing platesagainst the door of friends
and family is said to bring goodfortune.
Thanks, I guess. Yeah. Wake upto, like.
Pick that up.
You walk out for your morningbreath of fresh egg crossing.
(31:31):
Yeah. Glass plates.
I see, you know.
Porcelain plates,trying to plates, whatever.
Jumping off chairs.
Yep. Also from Denmark.
Jumping off a chairat the stroke of midnight.
It's meant to leave behindbad spirits.
I just hope the people
jumping off the chair hasn'thad too many spirits to drink.
Because I could see a very busyemergency room in Denmark.
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Happy birthday to the Grand.
Happy birthday to the grand.
I need you like that.
I threw the restof the cake too.
In Switzerland,
peopledrop a dollop of ice cream
on the ground to symbolizeabundance.
Sure. You're plenty.
Yep, sure.
But just.
You go, you. One.
(32:16):
Big drop of ice creamon the ground.
Meat whisperers.
I would.
Call that a few of them, but,
I don't think that out.
I'm cutting that out.
How about in Belgium?
Farmers will wish their cowsa happy New Year,
Believing it will foster goodfortune and healthy livestock.
(32:38):
I mean, like,people do that with their pets.
Though I think this is just onewe can all adopt.
And just with our local cowsgo out and say, Happy New Year,
I deserve it. Yeah.
There was also that one timeeveryone thought the world
was going to end
because the clocks couldn'tcount from 1999 to 2000.
That kind of just fizzled out,didn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, old Y2K,which is now become like,
(33:01):
synonymous with like an eraand a style as well,
which is really interesting.
Yeah. Okay.
Like when people talk about,like, fashion of the early 20s,
late 90s, it'ssometimes referred to
like culturally, that period issometimes referred to.
As Y2K. Y2K,which is quite interesting.
Yeah.
It is amazing tome how much money got spent.
And like peoplesay like, oh, nothing happened.
(33:24):
It's like, yeah, because peoplespent years preparing for it.
Yeah.
I recently,
someone told me a story,like a story for, like, prison.
A lot of money went outand a lot of money was spent
to gettinga bunch of generators,
put into the prison grandin case the penguin.
Yeah.
Why would people think thatthe generators would still work?
(33:45):
Because that were justlike petrol.
Because they don't runthat. Yeah.
They're not. Yeah.
Feel like people talk about Y2Kas if it was like
all we got duped intospending all this money.
It's like, no,they did the work.
And anything that wasgoing to happen didn't happen.
Yeah, we're Y2K just happened.
What, 24 years later,we had the CrowdStrike.
Man, thatdidn't affect me at all.
(34:05):
It didn't. Really affect. Me.
There was a couple shops closedand that didn't bother me.
It didn't affect. Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm justoutages are more influential.
Than whatI haven't gone into Y2K
in case we want to do itfor future episode.
But that was I don't knowif you want to call that
one tradition.
One year you had. Yeah,it was the scare.
I remember. I do remember thatnew in particular.
I wasn't concernedbecause I was sitting
(34:26):
on the beachat North Stradbroke Island, just
having a good time.
I was watching the DisneyChannel countdown,
and I had my parents
let me stay upbecause I was eight.
They let me just stay upto watch it.
And then when I got to it, yeah.
I, I have vaguememories of that.
I think my parentswere at a party and I was there.
What I remember is actually
like the TV ads for like the pro
(34:50):
that so?
Yeah.
So yeah,
I'm sure there are many more
weird and wonderful traditions
around the worldto usher in the New Year
and say goodbyeto all these day.
And talk about Finland. And.
Okay. Sure.
Yep, yep. Okay.
Light supper is often served,often featuring wieners
and serving of Jansson's
(35:11):
Pastilles, which is also knownas Jansson's.
I did Jansson's temptation,which is a potato
and fish dish which just soundsabsolutely fantastic.
Some municipalities organize
fireworks at consumer fireworks,also very popular.
A Finnish tradition is called.
Oh man, come on Molly.
But dormancy,which is where they melt tin,
(35:34):
which is actually ledbecause they don't have tin.
That's also Germany.
They melt that to predictthe future, predict the.
Future, and then chuck it incold water and then read it.
So like tea leaves that melt it,put it in
cold water and watch it'ssolidifying thing.
Yeah. I'm all about. That.
Yeah.
All interpreting shadowscast by candlelight.
The predictions are however,it says it doesn't
say sometimes it saysnever taken seriously, which I.
(35:57):
Like I do it, I.
Don't know, I think Finland didthe dishes one.
There was another one.
I think Finlandwas one of the countries
where they have like you eatseven, nine or like 13 meals.
Fuck, you eat a lot of.
Crazy amounts of food.
Yeah, just end up spewing. Yeah.
Start the new year sick.
I love actuallyI love this sort of stuff.
Right. Like, I mean, I.
Knew you would. That's whyI'm in this episode for sure.
(36:19):
Like every year for Christmas,you know,
I make a big fussabout trying to do
some different something else.
And it's partly because
I spend Christmas mostly withfriends rather than my family.
I do have family that
I spend Christmas with,but it's not a big thing.
I have my mum and dadand that's it.
So for me,
I spend Christmaswith my friends,
which meansI want to do things differently
(36:39):
because they then have tothen spend Christmas
with their families
and ham and prawns 1500 timescombined between them.
Right?So I like to do different stuff.
KFC Christmas was a big hit,mind you.
That was quite. Excellent.
Korean fried. Chicken, Japanese.
It was an Iranian fried chicken.
Why did you call it KFC?
Because in Japanthey eat KFC at Christmas time.
Because Christmas timeis more like Valentine's Day.
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I love all this stuff.
So the idea of all these
different New Year celebrations,other than just
being real sweaty and drinkingbeer, well,
that's what we do over herebecause it's hot.
It is very. Hot.
It was Estonia that does thisseven, 9 or 12 meals. Oh,
we've also got watching dinnerfor one in Germany.
I wonder if that's something
like threeto every New Year's Eve.
I probably is.
It's a British comedy sketch.
(37:22):
Dinner for one. Yep.
What else we got?
They often it'snot a really tradition.
They often play the Edinburgh
Military Tattoo on SBS onNew Year's Eve in Australia.
There's also SPF, as wellas dropping the ball at
You can sayif there's other places
that do weird thingslike don't pick on
a potato and boys in Indianaor a possum.
(37:43):
Yeah, a possum repertoire.
I'm a palooza.
Ooh, you know what I miss?
I miss the
the like lead upto the reveal of what symbol
that we're going to havein the middle of the story.
Bridge at new needs.
Yeah.
Such a big deal.
Like Sydney in in 2000.
I were like, it's a dove.
And then I think it was a doveagain a few years later
and they were like, adultsdon't bother with this anymore.
(38:04):
Yeah.
I only ever remember
the times withI did a coat hanger because the,
the nickname for the bridgeis a coat hanger.
It's a nice little thing.And they just stopped doing it.
Yeah, they just like fireworks.Go home.
I'm not a giant. I don't oftenwatch the Sydney fireworks.
I like fireworks,but the idea of watching
fireworks on TVdoesn't interest me very much.
Oh, I don't watch it now.
But like it was,it was just one of those things
(38:27):
that was like,oh, this is like the moment
where the new year startsand we get to see what
this like organizational grouphas decided is like the.
Thanksgiving thing, just like.
It's just anice little thing of like,
oh, what's it going to be?Oh, it's, you know, whatever.
He's agood one. I've just found,
Christmaswas forbidden in Soviet Russia.
So these New Yearsbecame the gift giving occasion
(38:50):
for the year.
Presents were deliverednot by Santa,
but by it did more moreso,one more morsel morsels.
Oh, Father Frost, often eatenby his granddaughter.
Snake. No! Go, chica. Anyone?
Everyone ready for anotherround of gift giving?
Actually, speaking of that,we just finished
watching Red one with the kids.
It's actually pretty funny.
Yeah, my dad watched thatthe other night
(39:11):
when he was babysittingmy daughter. It's pretty. Funny.
That's a bit of a surprise.
That's why I went.
He seems like a hot, frosty guy.
Got him just a warehousefull of Christmas movies.
Banging on the walls with bread.
Well, all the countrieshave food related traditions.
Ireland's most interestingtradition
doesn't involve eating.
Instead,
the Irish Bank Christmas breadon the walls of their home.
(39:33):
It's supposed to chaseour spirits.
Okay, get rid of the spirits,baby. Let's.
How aboutwe make up our own tradition
to get rid of bad spirits?
Oh, this is a good one, too.
In Colombia, they, walk around
with empty
suitcases, hoping it was goingto bring wealth and stuff.
Yeah, but just walk aroundthat straight to the I.
How inconvenient.
(39:55):
Anyway. Good boy.
Good app. Thanks.
So what's their time stamp out?
Boy, are they going to hereat the end anyway.
But start this episode roughlyat 1115 New Year's Eve night.
And right nowshould be Happy New Year.
So happy New Year everyone.
We will see you.
I hope this is notthe last thing you're doing.
If you're listening to thisepisode on New Year's Eve,
(40:16):
right?
Just as the clock strikesmidnight, congratulations!
You are officiallyour biggest fan.
Whoever does this,I say that because I've seen it
in the last couple of years.
It's becoming a tradition tostop this movie at this point,
and this thing in the moviewill happen at midnight.
So let's like start AvengersEndgame at whatever.
And when
(40:37):
the click happens at theend is the start to be not. So.
I've seen that tradition
starting different things,
like big crescendo momentsin movies
and happening at the strokeof midnight type of thing.
I do like that as a as an idea.
Don't listen to our podcast.I tell you what.
I tell you what I tell you what.
Cheeky listenersgo out to Kato's. Scare, see.
If you can show me
photographic video evidenceof you listening to this
(40:58):
at the pointthat John says Happy New Year,
which will give him a countdownfor now.
If you somehow timestampthat and can show me video
and saysI will make you a t shirt,
I will make the first personthat can send it in.
I will make you personally at shirt that says Tiki towels.
Biggest damn fan.
But problem isthey're going to be.
They give you that.The timestamps at the.
End of the.
(41:18):
Yeah. So I do this podcast.
Yeah I know that's somethingI'll give on a countdown now.
Two one.
Happy New Year.
Happy October.
Happy to be.
Oh this day happy New year.
This podcast will come with inst
in the linear notes.
Maybe it's likehow can you achieve this?
(41:39):
A description in the descriptionnobody read.
This is going to haveall the start this episode.
But if you're. An avid listener,you listen to it.
On the day that it came out,which is New Year's.
I should have listened to it.
And then you. Listened to ittwice.
You need to turn Markwhat we just did.
I got to do it in the edit.All right.
Do it in the editmode to do it now.
So you knowwhen to look. For it.
No, I went to look for it.
Like I said, that's a cheekytitles guarantee.
(42:00):
You come back.
You, t shirtfirst person, first person.
That's it. Only one.
I will make you a cheeky tale'sbiggest day in Fantasia.
Got to get this shit.
The gantlet has been thrown,
and we're starting our owntradition.
Next New Year's Eve, we'regoing to be doing it again.
Doing it again. And once again.
The first personthat sends in a video
proving that they did it,we'll get a cheeky toast.
Lined us up to have to do a NewYear's Eve episode every year.
(42:20):
You wanted to do a tradition.
We're starting one one
we can't do this
episode every yearbecause we can't guarantee you
on the calendarthat's will come out.
We'll just do the episode beforeNew Year's.
All right,let's start making some
t shirt designsfor the next 15 years. And
that's the episode.
Thanks for listeningor watching.
You can find us on our socialsat Cheeky Pod,
(42:42):
Facebook, Instagram and.
X no, not doing X, not on.
X, not doing x t more.It's on threads instead.
Or you can find us at YouTubeif you're already watching.
If you're listening,you can find us at YouTube.
As cheeky tells pod.
Oh, sorry,if you're watching on YouTube,
you can find us on the podcastplatform of Your choice.
A cheeky spot.Thanks for listening.
I hope you have hada wonderful year and next year
(43:05):
is going to be a good yearfor you.
Let's all get to enjoya big year.
It's a quarterof the century 2025.
You won't hear usuntil next year and next year.
Are you listening in January?Yeah.
In which case. And this point,you lied to us this year.
Good morning to kilos.
Yes. Good night.
(43:26):
Keeping up shots.
Trying to forgetting my song.
I'm really throwing the good.
Yeah, yeah, you did. It.
Hello. Cheeky-verse.
It's New Year's Eve.
If you're listening on release
day, this is the last timeyou hear us all year.
Oh, yeah. Good one.
Good one!
No, I'm not ready!
Here at Cheeky Tales,
we've started the traditionof Sean’s Medley of Madness
that happens every new year.
Are you trying to giveyourself a thing?
(00:21):
He is. Good.I'm on board with it.
No, I’m not giving myselfa thing.
But we've already recorded that.
Yes. So this is not theMedley of Madness.
Don't break the illusion.
Immersion.
But what about more traditionaltraditions?
Let's explore thison this episode of
Cheeky Tales!
(00:52):
Are we going to talk aboutHogmanay?
You know,I can just edit it out.
Okay. Covering the might.
So, you know, to edit it out.
I don't know.You can talk about that.
I have admitted itfrom this episode.
I can I can definitelytalk about that. I may
give you the fall for that one.
Hi, I'm your hostthis episode, John
with me is Aaron Ashley.
(01:14):
For a living.
My co-hostAaron for this episode.
Come on. It was right there.
Producer. Sean. Producer. Sean.
Definitely.Do you have to go back?
Think so difficult.I do a lot of producers.
I may not. Actually.Ever. Yeah, I.
I can't believeI won't see you guys.
For the rest of the year.
I'm not readyfor a whole episode of that.
(01:35):
For all you avid YouTube fans,and people that actually
watch our video podcasts,I'm looking at Sam West.
That's about it.
Wow. People that I know that
actually go out of their wayto watch the video ones.
You'll noticethat I have some new equipment.
Yeah, you
might also be able to hear itif you're using your ears. Yes.
And it's not backwards.
(01:56):
What do you think?
I remember?
That's the point.
I'm saying that everyone'sgoing to hear that he's got.
Doesn't matter.
Everyone will hearthe difference
that I have a new microphone.
But I can finallystop the whingeing.
What about our,
people who watched the episodewith subtitles can't hear?
I really hopenobody's doing that.
The subtitles are not great.
(02:18):
No, the auto captioningsubtitles are absolutely.
It's a funny thingabout Nazis. Once.
That said,it said a lot of awful things.
It said the b r worda couple of times.
Yeah, it's. It's not great.
It doesn't pick thingsup. Great.
So let's talk about New Year'sEve or as
some as it may have ten.
(02:40):
Used to being called 908.
All these day old years.I like that.
Did you knowNew Year's Eve was once called?
Oh, no, I did. No, I didn't,but I like that a lot more.
Let's listen.
Can we all agreeas a cheek of us?
I'm happy to call it.I only call it Old Year's.
I'm happy to call.
It always does. Yeah.
Except for the rest of thisepisode where I've written down.
(03:01):
Everything you just control ffun place.
Cheeky title says yesto Aldi's day and Tony's Eve.
We say no thank you.
So let's have a
look atthe origin of New Year's Eve.
If you go back to the BigBang now.
It goes from 919.
Grace, these guys,whether or not you.
Came out of the.
(03:22):
Celebrations, go back over4000 years to the Babylonians.
Okay.
I'm sure that it goes backa few more years than that.
This is the first recordedcelebration of a new year.
The first new moonfollowing the verbal equinox.
Which was what verbal?
Okay.
It's okay.
I know what that isbecause I've written it down.
(03:43):
It was in order to remember.
If you're listening.John looked at me with like a.
Face and then.
Immediatelylooked and went over it.
And it's in the next sentence.
It's a day in late March
which has an equal amountof sunlight and darkness.
So it's not the shortest.The longest day.
It's the middle day.It's of them.
I'm giving you the two of them.It's the middle. Okay.
(04:04):
Can I script?
I don't remember what you.
Wrote tonight or not. To theI part.
Are we doing a script? I'm not.
I thought it might bean odd script.
I'm going to haveso many episodes done.
It was like last night.
It was, So the verbal equinoxsignaled the new Year
for the Babylonians.
And they marked this occasionwith an 11 day festival
(04:25):
called two.
That's a great name.
I was going to say March like,because obviously it's
the whole New Year's Eve thing.
Being on
sorry all day,
being on the same dayreally only applies
if you use the the currentcalendar that we are.
We're getting this. Year. Yeah.
So the Babylonians
it would have to be thatwhenever they decided it was.
Well they just use the sun.
It was the moon. In the moon.Yep. Correct.
(04:45):
Moon cycles.
Lunar calendar,as you would call it.
And it involved a different
ritual on each of those 11 days,as well as the new year.
The festival celebratedthe mythical victory of the sky
god Marduk over the evil seagoddess team.
It also involvedpromises to the gods.
(05:06):
You just broke my brain.
Well, there's a guy that I watchon YouTube
and his channel name is Tmnt.
Marduk.
That's what that is.
Very cool.
It also involvedpromises to the gods
that they would be betterin the new year,
and to do such thingsas paying debts
or returning partfarm equipment.
Sure. Sounds like resolutions.
There you go. He's onto it.
(05:28):
This festivalalso had a political purpose.
Did they also give up on themby mid-January?
Probably during this time,like January didn't exist
during this time.
I'm thinkingthey would give up mid-April.
During this time,a new king would be crowned
or the current rulersauthority renewed.
Okay. Lucky for them.
So as you just picked up,
(05:49):
that is the originof resolution.
Year's resolution.
Well, that's what's believedto inspire these resolutions.
Well, most cultures aroundthe world link the new year
with an agriculturalastronomical event.
There was one exception.
Egypt.
Their new year would begintheir flood.
Correct.
(06:11):
Their year would beginanew with the annual
flooding of the Nile.
This still happens every yearwith monsoon season.
Heavy rain in the EthiopianHighlands area, causing the Nile
to swell and flood as the watermakes its way downstream.
I always assumed it was likesnow somewhere melting.
Just a lot of rain in Ethiopia.
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January 1st, as Sean mentionedearlier, became the start
of the new year in 45 B.C.,when Julius Caesar,
whose claim to famewas inventing Caesar salad
time.
You're getting one of sangria.
Shout out to a real legend.
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We're just.
Gonna let this one play upfor some salad.
Bro. You.
You know, we're all so sorefrom our cheeky excursion
the other day. Not.
I got a little bit of soreness.
You didn't work hard enough.Then I'll.
Causehe bowled ten balls and the.
Ball went, sat down.
I bad at first. Thank you.
Do you want to continuethat story? You just.
No. I'm sorry. I'm so mad. Okay.
Yeah. We all knowit's from Caesars Palace.
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He alsoinstated the Julian calendar.
Whichadded 61 days to make the year
365 days long from 304 days.
Yeah. Justin, you do the math.
Yeah, 61 days.
March was the first month.
That's where I September Sept.
Meaning seven is nownine. Used to be seven.
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Right. October. November.
Decembermeaning seven. Eight. 910.
But now they.
Nine. Ten. 11. 12.
I guessI'd never thought about that.
Like I knew Sept was seven,but I never thought
about the fact that it was monthnine. Yeah.
I had definitely thoughtabout October being ten.
Yeah. Anyway, blow your mind.
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So yeah,
this introduced January,named after the Roman god Janus
in February,named after the Roman god.
February?
Yes it is.
Janus is generous.
Child.
The yearbefore this implementation.
46 BCE.
Let that go. Could havejust let that go. I did it
the yearbefore this implementation.
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46 BCE was knownas the Year of Confusion.
Okay.
I can imagine that.
That would be very confusingif that would just like
I had the calendarschanging next year.
Or is it because ofsome other weird thing?
It was because of some otherweird thing?
Yes. It was a 445 day.
Year that was just longer.
It was 445 days long,
and it was to realignthe calendar
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with the astronomical timing.
How annoying would that be?
Just in the olden days.
Imagine letting everybody know
that it would take you 445 daysto get around
everybody on the camelto tell everybody that.
Especially because this was inRome and Rome was massive.
Yeah, they were pretty goodat passing on information.
And also, I guess there'sthe other aspect though, right?
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So let's talk this preenlightened era, which it is.
They would have been in thelet's say the majority of people
just didn't care.Yeah. They were like.
Well they couldn't raids like.
Well maybe they couldwrite Rome.
You knowthey probably just didn't care.
Like yeah, yeah.
One of them was like, go outin the field when it's hot.
And, you.
Know, right nowin the age of information,
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we can not necessarily have it,but we can pretty much
care about everythingbecause we have the ability
to know about everything.But back then you just let
I don't I don't care.
Yeah. Oh might matter.
Oh might make a kniveslike in his blacksmith factory.
It's not like he's like, ohI'm backing up my annual leave.
But, hey,
he doesn't knowhe's not getting ready
to do his taxesfor the financial year.
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He's just like, whatever.
I'm right. I'm good.
So happy.
Got cranky at thatbecause it also happened 1628
years lateras the Julian calendar
overestimated the solar yearlength by 11 minutes.
This discrepancy accumulatedover the years, and in 1582,
Pope Gregory the 13thshifted the calendar 11 days.
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So October 5thbecame October 14th.
So they went from October 4thto October 14th.
Oh, so they justwent forward to 11.
They missed by 11 minutes.
So the Julian calendar was11 minutes longer than the solar
time. Minutesis in like minutes. Minutes.
Not anything. So over
1600 years
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that equivalentto about 11 days.
So at some pointeveryone would have been like,
ash, it's midnight and it's it'snine in the morning.
Correct?
That that is more infuriatingthe night.
Because time would be differenttoday.
Yeah, the timewas still probably worked off.
Solar?
Yes. Yeah.
Clocks at that point, a sundial.
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But the calendar. Yeah. Was.Yeah.
That's interesting and kind ofconfusing, but also interesting.
It's not that long ago. Really,when you think about it either.
I mean,
but it's odd to get like yet
minutes representinglike an overlapping days,
which is very odd. It's like.
At what point did they knowjust like you were talking about
sunup, sundown.
Obviously,the lunar calendar was based off
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like the lunar calendarwas conceptualized
around the solar calendaras well, like the Lunar New Year
was balanced by the sun.
Well, it's probablythe equinoxes that they noticed.
Yeah, I know, but, like,how did they, like,
get 11 minutes,which then turned into 11 days?
It's interesting because
how did they eventuallythey would have like gained
or lost a day.
It's like the how when the day
starts and ends and,you know, the Sol.
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I guess I seewhat you're saying. Yeah.
The sun is not it'snot really relative at this.
Point because like we do it nowwith the leap day.
Like you don't notice the dayschanging.
Yeah.
Because it wasn't a leap day.
And remember that this is overlike 1600 years.
Yeah. It'snot notice it in a lifetime.
Yeah. You would notice it overgenerations.
Well yeah.
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And that's the thing like the,the the day
now we're getting intolike we get into,
we just got this bitwe're getting into, like,
we were getting downin the weeds.
I think. You're right.
You're on.
But you got to remember,
I think we're pretty luckywhere we are in Australia.
We sun goes up earlyin the morning.
Sun goes up. Some sun goes downlate in the afternoon.
Yes that's true.
The in Rome,
in the different areas,the normal day and night cycle.
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It might be up at twoin the morning
and down at threein the afternoon.
I think I know what you'resaying,
I'm pretty surein the Mediterranean, though,
they're fairly similarbecause they're quite Ecuador.
Equatorial.
They're pretty close.
Fairly close to the equator is.
The other thing to remember
is that they're not likethey're not losing a day.
It's just that their calendarshifted slowly, moves
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away from yeah,like where it should be.
Yeah.So you just wouldn't notice.
And then one day you be like,hang on,
isn'tthe Equinox meant to be today?
Yeah, it's actually in ten daystime.
And everyone's like, oh yeah.
Interesting.
It is interestingto think about this.
Yeah. So.
So anyway, yeah, PopeGregory shifted the calendar.
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October 5th became October 14th,and this was the introduction
of the Gregorian calendar,which is what we use today.
It also accountsfor the 11 minutes
as well as in introducedthe concept of leap years.
I mentioned earlier.
Sorry. February,the freak month.
That's kind of the,
how we get to January 1stbeing the start of the year.
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The resolutions.
What aboutsome of the other traditions?
What are some?
You name one, and I'll cover it.
Can I, can I start by
because I found
all the different namesfor New Year's
Eve in different countries,and there's a few.
Okay.
And. Sorry. What? What for?
For what?
New year's Eve.
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Different. Sorry.
I follow this day. Oh.
Also cause a bit.
So obviously we have Hogmanayin Scotland.
OG made Hogmanay, whichwe'll probably talk about later
in Wales.
Or that's probably not saidcolonic because it's Welsh.
It's probably just said,
and that's actually what it is.
Welsh is a confusing language.
No, sorry. Welsh peoplethey know.
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They know the language iscrazy's a bad language.
To it?
Yeah they do they. Yeah, yeah.
There's that townthat changed their name
to intentionallybe the longest town
name in the world,so I could get more tourism.
It's like 56 letters.
I'm not going out of my wayto say that.
We got shindriver here and Ukrainian,
and Brunei, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Singapore,it's known as bang.
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In Uzbekistan, Turkey andAzerbaijan, it's known as Yunji.
You or your.
But I can't pronounce that one.
A lot of African words.
It's called Karimov
in Austria. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Yeah, that's a governor.
That's a hard one.I always get that removed.
That's going to Croatia, CzechRepublic, France, Germany,
Hungary, Israel, Italy,
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Liechtenstein,Luxembourg, Poland, Russia,
Serbia, Slovakia,Slovenia and Switzerland.
It's known as Sylvester.
Stallone
in a bunch.
French speaking countriescalls it calls it, rebellion.
Nice. Other French speaking.
It sounds fun.
French and Italian peaklanguage.
Russians call it cononovo go goda too long.
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Japan call it, almost socceror something of that word.
I'm not going to attempt.
I'm not going to attemptto pronounce
Botswana,and Alderney is day all day.
It's kind of hard.
They speak.
I believe they speak Swahiliin Botswana.
I'm not 100% certain.
But however,
it's several words andI'm going to get them all wrong.
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All right. Well all right.
So when you think of New Year'sEve tradition,
you name one and I'll cover itbecause the fireworks,
but happens to be the first oneI got here.
Fireworks were invented in Chinaapproximately 200 BCE.
The primitive fireworkswere just bamboo stalks
stuffed with gunpowder.
They were usedin the Chinese New Year
celebrationsbecause they believed the bright
lights and the loud noisesscared off evil spirits
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and bad luck.
By the ninth century,Chinese alchemists
learnedhow to create colorful sparks,
which is a foundation for modernfireworks that we know today.
Apparently, like you,just some villager in China,
I'll give you an app plowingyour field all day.
And then you see.
I've got all this gunpowder.Where am I going to store it?
Oh, here's a hollowbamboo stalk.
Well, like know just imagineseeing the first firework.
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How scary that would be.
I could imaginethey were storing
gunpowderin bamboo stalks anyway.
And then someone accidentallywent in for just, like, a.
Shot a minute.Oh. That's cool. Yeah,
that'spretty much how it happened.
Yeah, I love how much stuffjust comes from China.
Like you mean nowadays.
No. Like inventions that
we just kind of takefor granted. Now.
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A lot of them are from China.
Ancient China worked out.
These were handif it's made in China now.
It's China.
Designed in Texas,made in China. Yeah.
I mean they worked outhow to vaccinate
against smallpoxthousands of years
before anyone in the Westworked it out.
I'm not like all it'sa few decades.
Like something like it was like
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literally a thousand yearsor something.
An ancient Chinesedoctor was like,
I worked out how to do howto vaccinate people via exposure
to small amounts of smallpox,and then that gives people
the immune system.
Yeah, yeah,that's that's amazing.
Sean, I'm a new New Year'sEve tradition.
Not makenot. Yet. Not Hogmanay. Okay.
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Why don't you give some a nightto everyone else?
I guess the countdowncounting down,
waiting till midnight.
I didn't do that one,but this one is close enough.
The ball dropping in TimesSquare.
Oh, yeah. Yeah,but they're there.
Of course, one of the imagesyou see when someone mentions
New Year'sEve celebration is Times Square
and the giant balldropping at midnight.
This tradition goesall the way back to 1833,
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in Portsmouth, England,
where a ball would be droppedfrom a park at 1 p.m.
so that side was itso you could keep the clocks
synchronized or the timekeepers, whatever they had.
So the
every time a second one would beestablished in Greenwich.
Yes, the place of GreenwichMean Time,
but and that timekeeping ball isstill dropped every day today.
At 1:00
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in America.
Local legend.
There's a small lighthousetype device in Adelaide.
Actually, at Semaphore Beachthat also did
the ball drop thing.It's still there.
It's heritage listed in there,
like, oh,this is what it was for.
I this is not the onlytwo places this was developed.
Yeah. All overthe place was a common system.
Yeah. Crazy. In America.
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The first timeball was introduced
in the United StatesNaval Observatory in Washington.
Time balls. Just such a great.
It's a time ball. Yeah.
Tom's a flat. Disc. Yep.
It was established in Washingtonin 1845, but for New Year
celebrations,it was first introduced in 1907.
Celebrations have been happeningin Times Square since 1904,
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but in 1907 fireworkswere banned for safety concerns.
So instead. Make sense? Yes.
Instead.
Newspaper owner
I don't commissionedUkrainian metalworker Jacob Star
to create a 700 pan, 317 kilo,five foot wide on wood ball
that was illuminatedby 100 incandescent light bulbs
and it was loweredmanually down a flagpole.
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This has happened every yearsince, except for 1942 and 1943,
but there was a demand
for the wool.
You know, it's a real shameabout Hitler
for a number of reasons,but one is just how do.
We get here?
How do we get here?
The loss of the name Adolf.
It's a nice name.
It's just a shame.
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It is quite tarnished.
It a little bit tarnished.
Like nobody'scalling naked Adolf now,
but like it's a nice name.
I think it's fair to leave ittarnished.
I'm not saying bring it back.
I'm just saying it's a shame,
I think. Yeah, that.
I'm not sayingthat's the worst thing.
I feel like saying it's a sad.I feel like we've got.
I feel like we got somethingfor a good many episode
there. It's like things
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that were ruined foreverby rubbish people.
That sounds like a great.
That's like a great miniepisode.
Yeah, keep.That a tradition. Boy.
I don't know many
like.
John, if you got one.
Sing honor.
Yes. So he's.
Like, oh thank God. Here we go.
Singing Old Lungs on.
The poem was written
by Robert Burns,a celebrated poet, in 19 1788.
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He claimshe transcribed from the song.
He transcribed the song froman old Scottish folk, saying
that he heard an old mansinging one time.
Auld Lang Zaun translatesroughly
to old, long since, oh,for the sake of old times.
The theme of the song is
looking back on past timesand cherishing friendships.
Scottish immigrants
carried the song
all over the world, andit became a staple in the US,
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thanks largely to Guy Lombardoand his Royal Canadians.
He first performed it
at midnight during New Year'sEve broadcast in 1929,
and it became a signatureof his annual performance
until the 1970s.
I think that's where Hogg'sharmonizing comes in, too,
so if you want to take itfrom here.
Hogmanay is an old Scottishtradition of Alda's day,
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and it's synonymouswith the celebration of
NI in Scottish
It is normally followedby a further celebration
on the morningof New Year's Day,
and in some caseson the 2nd of January,
which is a Scottish bankholiday.
The word Hogmanay is usedmore loosely
to describe the entire periodconsisting of the last
couple of days of the old year
and the first few daysof the new year.
For instance, not all events
held onto the bannerof Edinburgh's Hogmanay
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take placeon the 31st of December.
Customs vary throughout
Scotland, usually
include gift giving,visiting the homes of friends
and neighbors,regular attention.
Paid to giving the first foot,
which is the first guestof the new year.
So now going off information,talking about like people
that I know,they always talk about Hogmanay
and like howI guess you would call it loose.
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So basically New Year's Eve,everyone just like
literally leaves their doorsopen.
They like, leave them open.And then it's like a whole.
Place to be the first onein people's houses.
Yeah.
It's like,
a like a good luck thingfor the first person to be,
like,
to step foot through the doorand then they like
and it's like, oh,it doesn't matter who you are,
like neighbor.You could be like loose friends.
Come on in, have a cup of tea,have a beer or whatever.
Like they do this whole thingbehind it.
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Yet beforeI didn't include that one.
But first footing is a thingto be the first person
to step into the house bringsgood luck.
All right, let's think.
First of all,I'm going to go into some,
lesserwell known traditions later
when I'm just coveringthe big ones, but yeah.
Hogmanay.
What about the first kiss?
Midnight kiss, midnight kiss.
What's better then at the strokeof midnight, a big old smooch.
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I'm going to say nothing.
But the kiss at midnight,
highly popularized
by Hollywood romance movies,dates back to ancient Rome.
Of course it does.It is not Toronto.
It is
believed to have its originsin Saturnalia, a pagan festival
which involved a lot of singing,dancing, socializing,
sharing gifts and kissing.
This superstitionwas also believed
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that the first interactionof the New Year's
is to set the tonefor the rest of the year.
They also kissed
a lot in European medievaland Renaissance time.
Mass bones were very popular,for New Year's celebrations.
Removing the mask
with a midnight kisssymbolized purification
and the promise of newbeginnings.
Elsewhere in English and Germanfolklore,
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failing to secure a midnightkiss was thought to bring back,
to bring bad luck and lonelinessfor the coming year,
so that that covers the wellknown traditions that I had
reading.
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So let's have a
look at some of the lesserknown traditions.
And they got light last night.
My students are gonna come upwith some interesting titles.
So look, look for them
to get funny in front of youas we go along.
Colored underwear.
Boy, why did you know thatthere's a tradition of wearing
different coloredunderwear on New Year's Eve,
and that it would influencethe incoming year?
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Okay, now I didn't.
This is all on boardfor this one.
This is popular in countries
like Italy, Spain,and parts of Latin America.
Nice.
What color does what I hearyou ask me?
Red. What color does what? Boy?
Thank you.
Red is for attracting love,passion and romance.
Nice.
Yellow is for bringingwealth, prosperity and success
as well as happiness,optimism and positivity.
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You could change your midnight.
I got to go.
I just wanted to hear.
Oh, the tradition.
Yep. Yeah.
What is for peace,purity and harmony?
This one is especially popularin Brazil,
where cultural traditionsof welcoming in the new year
with a clean slate.
Oh yeah. Cool. No. No streaks.
I think I have seenthat one way.
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Like I think it is Brazilor that New Year celebrations
a lot of peoplewere just wearing, oh, what.
Is a Brazilian girl at work?
I might ask her.
Greennessfor health, luck and growth.
Blue is to attract tranquility,serenity and good health.
Pink is also for love,but more platonic,
so more towards friendship,kindness and affection
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and black luck on the way
for power, sophisticationand even seduction.
So what colorare you wearing this New Year's?
A boy. Brown.
The wordseduction is kind of gross.
Yeah.
Because it sounds too much likesuction, and that's a gross.
Word I'm going with.I'm going with white.
I want. Purity. Nice.
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That's me. Too.
Okay. 12 grapes.
It may not. What?
A popular tradition in Spainis eating 12 grapes.
I have. Heard this.
You haven't heard that muchabout it, but.
Yeah, it's one grape for eachstroke of the clock at midnight.
Okay. Do you have to eat themon the strokes?
Yes. These guysrepresent the 12 months.
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And you must eat all of themto enjoy unlucky year.
Otherwise, the upcoming yearmight be cruel to you.
Rude. So, yes, you have to eat.
Is it an eternal?
A kind of grape? No. Okay.
So I guess you can.
Say one would be quite annoying.
Yeah,I thought that was interesting.
Takes okay.
In Greece and Mexico,in the Netherlands,
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do they all share a border
or do you say grace?
Mexico and the Netherlands?
I'm throwing it backto last week.
I still had a hissy fit over.
We did. Or didyou end up sorting that one out?
I mean, more or less.
Spoken about it,but I don't know. I'm right.
We kind ofI kind of started chatting.
I kind of started chattingwithout giving enough context
as to what I was shouting about.
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And then by that point, we'dalready moved past it too much.
Yeah. So Greece, Mexicoand the Netherlands.
They do share a border.
As well as some other countries,you know.
Mexico,a great huge land border.
Yeah. Sea border baby.
Round dikes, round cakes,specifically round cakes
symbolize the circle of life.
Some would put some trinkets.
Of life.
Some trinketsor coins inside the cake.
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Okay, take a break.
You take.
Then,if you were lucky to get it,
you're expected to havegood luck in the coming year.
I'm lucky for the dentist.
My, grandparents actually didlike trinkets in fruitcake
for Christmas.Yeah. Christmas pudding.
If you got that,you got a prize or whatever.
Say my mum. Yeah. Put.
Yeah. My mother had a.
Cake, not put.
He said put.Yeah it was, it's put.
My mum did have a little packetof old sixpence coins
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that she would put it. There.
We had coins and as well as liketiny little porcelain dolls.
Okay.
Yeah. Damn. Yeah.
I make themthe same ones used every year.
Yeah.
I reckon if I message mumright now,
she probably still hasher little bag of sixpence coins
that she used to putin the Christmas pudding
because it was considered.Are you. Yawning?
I know it's like830 in the morning.
Oh, God. I thought we were toget through one without a yawn.
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No, I haven't even yawned yet.
Jeez, boy.
Also, bring my new FutureMagic Brewing t shirt.
Too much peppermint.
Peach Magic BrewingCo love you stuff this.
We weren't going to drink beerthis morning. It's too. Early.
It's way too early.It's way. Too early for beer.
To. Have coffee.
Yeah. Hence the hence the shit.
Not an alcohol.
Not an Alco. Not an Alco.
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Hashtag tag put.
Bought the drink.
No pork.
A pork pigsymbolized progress in countries
like Austria, Portugal and Cuba.
So eating porkand they've it's common.
These weird countries that havenothing to do with each other.
Having the same traditionrepresents this.
Everything represents something.
How does a pig represent like.And then
in the rest of the world,it's like pigs have disease.
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Pigs unclean, pigsunclean. Yeah.
So eating pork is common
to attract prosperityfor the next 3365 days.
What?
Yeah.
Some of this, it'slike someone thought of this
one day and went,yeah, that's a thing.
More eating style.
Legumes. Legumes like greens.
Legumes like super good for you.
They look like old Romancoins and symbolize
financial prosperity.
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That's what it says.Don't shoot me.
I'm the messenger.I think that's true.
That is whyItalians have lentils.
And Americans add black eyedpeas to the dishes.
On New Year's Eve.
They add will.i.amto their dishes.
Yeah, that's that's a thin one.All right.
Or I just this is. I'm just the.
Abstract now.
Keepingdoors and windows open. Yep.
This is okay for spirits out.
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Yeah. This is okay for usin the southern hemisphere.
Summertime,
but probably not good
for the northern halfbecause they're in winter.
However, in the Philippinesdoing this
it be not helps
you get rid of thenegative energy from last year
and attract good energyfor the upcoming year.
Right?
Hanging onions on your door.
Locking up on this one.
This also sounds likeanother bad idea,
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like leaving your windowsand doors open in winter.
It might not look or smellgreat during New Year's Eve.
However, in Greece this practicemeans growth and rebirth.
Parents would ask their children
to put the onionson their heads to draw.
Good luck for you to come.
The heads? Yep,you said doors to begin with.
Well,it's also hanging on your doors.
And then I think the children.
Additionwe should do onion heads.
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Nah, I want to do the next onethat I've got
just burning in the Vikinglongship.
No, I didn't include that one.
But there was a burningof effigies
and scarecrows on top of it.
Yeah, there seems to be.
There's a lot of burning.
Not a lot of like. Oh,get rid of the spirits.
I'm sure traditional Vikingcountries and also just areas
where there are lots of Vikings,actually still do.
One in Edinburghas part of Hogmanay
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is they build a longshipand then burn it,
because obviously carrying
around balls of flamingfire is pretty common in
like quite a few different
needs.
A all on the old Aldi is daycelebrations.
And part ofthat is burn and shit.
And so
like the Shetland Islandsand some of the other like small
loose like extra Viking areas.
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Yeah, they still burn a longshipas part of Aldi's day
New Year's Eve celebrations,which is pretty cool.
Well, the idea isI burn for that purpose.
Yeah, sorry.They build it for that purpose.
They're not just like,oh, we got this old ship,
old gold going to burn it.
They like, progressivelybuild it there.
Maybewhen they're burning the ship
they can do this next one,
which is throwingwater out the window.
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Okay.
Another practicebelieve to ward off
evil spirits is throwing out
or by throwingwater out the window.
This is especially popularin Latin America.
The tradition also symbolizesrenewal,
making it a good wayto say goodbye to the old you.
Stop the new one by
Polka dots.
Nice.
Another onefrom the Philippines is wearing
polka polka dotted clothingand surrounding themselves
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with brand itemslike coins and fruit.
It is believed to attractwealth and prosperity.
Okay, I can see myselfwearing a polka dot shirt
with, onionson my head, yearning.
Something to drink, whatever.The window.
Yeah, this is whereI got a little bit silly.
Smashing pumpkins,I mean, plates.
If you find yourselfpartying in the New Year.
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Yep. Yeah.
Billy Corgan, love that. Yeah.
If you if you find yourself,picture yourself
partying in the New Yearin Denmark,
you might wake up to somesmashed plates at your door.
Smashing platesagainst the door of friends
and family is said to bring goodfortune.
Thanks, I guess. Yeah. Wake upto, like.
Pick that up.
You walk out for your morningbreath of fresh egg crossing.
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Yeah. Glass plates.
I see, you know.
Porcelain plates,trying to plates, whatever.
Jumping off chairs.
Yep. Also from Denmark.
Jumping off a chairat the stroke of midnight.
It's meant to leave behindbad spirits.
I just hope the people
jumping off the chair hasn'thad too many spirits to drink.
Because I could see a very busyemergency room in Denmark.
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Happy birthday to the Grand.
Happy birthday to the grand.
I need you like that.
I threw the restof the cake too.
In Switzerland,
peopledrop a dollop of ice cream
on the ground to symbolizeabundance.
Sure. You're plenty.
Yep, sure.
But just.
You go, you. One.
(32:16):
Big drop of ice creamon the ground.
Meat whisperers.
I would.
Call that a few of them, but,
I don't think that out.
I'm cutting that out.
How about in Belgium?
Farmers will wish their cowsa happy New Year,
Believing it will foster goodfortune and healthy livestock.
(32:38):
I mean, like,people do that with their pets.
Though I think this is just onewe can all adopt.
And just with our local cowsgo out and say, Happy New Year,
I deserve it. Yeah.
There was also that one timeeveryone thought the world
was going to end
because the clocks couldn'tcount from 1999 to 2000.
That kind of just fizzled out,didn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, old Y2K,which is now become like,
(33:01):
synonymous with like an eraand a style as well,
which is really interesting.
Yeah. Okay.
Like when people talk about,like, fashion of the early 20s,
late 90s, it'ssometimes referred to
like culturally, that period issometimes referred to.
As Y2K. Y2K,which is quite interesting.
Yeah.
It is amazing tome how much money got spent.
And like peoplesay like, oh, nothing happened.
(33:24):
It's like, yeah, because peoplespent years preparing for it.
Yeah.
I recently,
someone told me a story,like a story for, like, prison.
A lot of money went outand a lot of money was spent
to gettinga bunch of generators,
put into the prison grandin case the penguin.
Yeah.
Why would people think thatthe generators would still work?
(33:45):
Because that were justlike petrol.
Because they don't runthat. Yeah.
They're not. Yeah.
Feel like people talk about Y2Kas if it was like
all we got duped intospending all this money.
It's like, no,they did the work.
And anything that wasgoing to happen didn't happen.
Yeah, we're Y2K just happened.
What, 24 years later,we had the CrowdStrike.
Man, thatdidn't affect me at all.
(34:05):
It didn't. Really affect. Me.
There was a couple shops closedand that didn't bother me.
It didn't affect. Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm justoutages are more influential.
Than whatI haven't gone into Y2K
in case we want to do itfor future episode.
But that was I don't knowif you want to call that
one tradition.
One year you had. Yeah,it was the scare.
I remember. I do remember thatnew in particular.
I wasn't concernedbecause I was sitting
(34:26):
on the beachat North Stradbroke Island, just
having a good time.
I was watching the DisneyChannel countdown,
and I had my parents
let me stay upbecause I was eight.
They let me just stay upto watch it.
And then when I got to it, yeah.
I, I have vaguememories of that.
I think my parentswere at a party and I was there.
What I remember is actually
like the TV ads for like the pro
(34:50):
that so?
Yeah.
So yeah,
I'm sure there are many more
weird and wonderful traditions
around the worldto usher in the New Year
and say goodbyeto all these day.
And talk about Finland. And.
Okay. Sure.
Yep, yep. Okay.
Light supper is often served,often featuring wieners
and serving of Jansson's
(35:11):
Pastilles, which is also knownas Jansson's.
I did Jansson's temptation,which is a potato
and fish dish which just soundsabsolutely fantastic.
Some municipalities organize
fireworks at consumer fireworks,also very popular.
A Finnish tradition is called.
Oh man, come on Molly.
But dormancy,which is where they melt tin,
(35:34):
which is actually ledbecause they don't have tin.
That's also Germany.
They melt that to predictthe future, predict the.
Future, and then chuck it incold water and then read it.
So like tea leaves that melt it,put it in
cold water and watch it'ssolidifying thing.
Yeah. I'm all about. That.
Yeah.
All interpreting shadowscast by candlelight.
The predictions are however,it says it doesn't
say sometimes it saysnever taken seriously, which I.
(35:57):
Like I do it, I.
Don't know, I think Finland didthe dishes one.
There was another one.
I think Finlandwas one of the countries
where they have like you eatseven, nine or like 13 meals.
Fuck, you eat a lot of.
Crazy amounts of food.
Yeah, just end up spewing. Yeah.
Start the new year sick.
I love actuallyI love this sort of stuff.
Right. Like, I mean, I.
Knew you would. That's whyI'm in this episode for sure.
(36:19):
Like every year for Christmas,you know,
I make a big fussabout trying to do
some different something else.
And it's partly because
I spend Christmas mostly withfriends rather than my family.
I do have family that
I spend Christmas with,but it's not a big thing.
I have my mum and dadand that's it.
So for me,
I spend Christmaswith my friends,
which meansI want to do things differently
(36:39):
because they then have tothen spend Christmas
with their families
and ham and prawns 1500 timescombined between them.
Right?So I like to do different stuff.
KFC Christmas was a big hit,mind you.
That was quite. Excellent.
Korean fried. Chicken, Japanese.
It was an Iranian fried chicken.
Why did you call it KFC?
Because in Japanthey eat KFC at Christmas time.
Because Christmas timeis more like Valentine's Day.
(37:01):
I love all this stuff.
So the idea of all these
different New Year celebrations,other than just
being real sweaty and drinkingbeer, well,
that's what we do over herebecause it's hot.
It is very. Hot.
It was Estonia that does thisseven, 9 or 12 meals. Oh,
we've also got watching dinnerfor one in Germany.
I wonder if that's something
like threeto every New Year's Eve.
I probably is.
It's a British comedy sketch.
(37:22):
Dinner for one. Yep.
What else we got?
They often it'snot a really tradition.
They often play the Edinburgh
Military Tattoo on SBS onNew Year's Eve in Australia.
There's also SPF, as wellas dropping the ball at
You can sayif there's other places
that do weird thingslike don't pick on
a potato and boys in Indianaor a possum.
(37:43):
Yeah, a possum repertoire.
I'm a palooza.
Ooh, you know what I miss?
I miss the
the like lead upto the reveal of what symbol
that we're going to havein the middle of the story.
Bridge at new needs.
Yeah.
Such a big deal.
Like Sydney in in 2000.
I were like, it's a dove.
And then I think it was a doveagain a few years later
and they were like, adultsdon't bother with this anymore.
(38:04):
Yeah.
I only ever remember
the times withI did a coat hanger because the,
the nickname for the bridgeis a coat hanger.
It's a nice little thing.And they just stopped doing it.
Yeah, they just like fireworks.Go home.
I'm not a giant. I don't oftenwatch the Sydney fireworks.
I like fireworks,but the idea of watching
fireworks on TVdoesn't interest me very much.
Oh, I don't watch it now.
But like it was,it was just one of those things
(38:27):
that was like,oh, this is like the moment
where the new year startsand we get to see what
this like organizational grouphas decided is like the.
Thanksgiving thing, just like.
It's just anice little thing of like,
oh, what's it going to be?Oh, it's, you know, whatever.
He's agood one. I've just found,
Christmaswas forbidden in Soviet Russia.
So these New Yearsbecame the gift giving occasion
(38:50):
for the year.
Presents were deliverednot by Santa,
but by it did more moreso,one more morsel morsels.
Oh, Father Frost, often eatenby his granddaughter.
Snake. No! Go, chica. Anyone?
Everyone ready for anotherround of gift giving?
Actually, speaking of that,we just finished
watching Red one with the kids.
It's actually pretty funny.
Yeah, my dad watched thatthe other night
(39:11):
when he was babysittingmy daughter. It's pretty. Funny.
That's a bit of a surprise.
That's why I went.
He seems like a hot, frosty guy.
Got him just a warehousefull of Christmas movies.
Banging on the walls with bread.
Well, all the countrieshave food related traditions.
Ireland's most interestingtradition
doesn't involve eating.
Instead,
the Irish Bank Christmas breadon the walls of their home.
(39:33):
It's supposed to chaseour spirits.
Okay, get rid of the spirits,baby. Let's.
How aboutwe make up our own tradition
to get rid of bad spirits?
Oh, this is a good one, too.
In Colombia, they, walk around
with empty
suitcases, hoping it was goingto bring wealth and stuff.
Yeah, but just walk aroundthat straight to the I.
How inconvenient.
(39:55):
Anyway. Good boy.
Good app. Thanks.
So what's their time stamp out?
Boy, are they going to hereat the end anyway.
But start this episode roughlyat 1115 New Year's Eve night.
And right nowshould be Happy New Year.
So happy New Year everyone.
We will see you.
I hope this is notthe last thing you're doing.
If you're listening to thisepisode on New Year's Eve,
(40:16):
right?
Just as the clock strikesmidnight, congratulations!
You are officiallyour biggest fan.
Whoever does this,I say that because I've seen it
in the last couple of years.
It's becoming a tradition tostop this movie at this point,
and this thing in the moviewill happen at midnight.
So let's like start AvengersEndgame at whatever.
And when
(40:37):
the click happens at theend is the start to be not. So.
I've seen that tradition
starting different things,
like big crescendo momentsin movies
and happening at the strokeof midnight type of thing.
I do like that as a as an idea.
Don't listen to our podcast.I tell you what.
I tell you what I tell you what.
Cheeky listenersgo out to Kato's. Scare, see.
If you can show me
photographic video evidenceof you listening to this
(40:58):
at the pointthat John says Happy New Year,
which will give him a countdownfor now.
If you somehow timestampthat and can show me video
and saysI will make you a t shirt,
I will make the first personthat can send it in.
I will make you personally at shirt that says Tiki towels.
Biggest damn fan.
But problem isthey're going to be.
They give you that.The timestamps at the.
End of the.
(41:18):
Yeah. So I do this podcast.
Yeah I know that's somethingI'll give on a countdown now.
Two one.
Happy New Year.
Happy October.
Happy to be.
Oh this day happy New year.
This podcast will come with inst
in the linear notes.
Maybe it's likehow can you achieve this?
(41:39):
A description in the descriptionnobody read.
This is going to haveall the start this episode.
But if you're. An avid listener,you listen to it.
On the day that it came out,which is New Year's.
I should have listened to it.
And then you. Listened to ittwice.
You need to turn Markwhat we just did.
I got to do it in the edit.All right.
Do it in the editmode to do it now.
So you knowwhen to look. For it.
No, I went to look for it.
Like I said, that's a cheekytitles guarantee.
(42:00):
You come back.
You, t shirtfirst person, first person.
That's it. Only one.
I will make you a cheeky tale'sbiggest day in Fantasia.
Got to get this shit.
The gantlet has been thrown,
and we're starting our owntradition.
Next New Year's Eve, we'regoing to be doing it again.
Doing it again. And once again.
The first personthat sends in a video
proving that they did it,we'll get a cheeky toast.
Lined us up to have to do a NewYear's Eve episode every year.
(42:20):
You wanted to do a tradition.
We're starting one one
we can't do this
episode every yearbecause we can't guarantee you
on the calendarthat's will come out.
We'll just do the episode beforeNew Year's.
All right,let's start making some
t shirt designsfor the next 15 years. And
that's the episode.
Thanks for listeningor watching.
You can find us on our socialsat Cheeky Pod,
(42:42):
Facebook, Instagram and.
X no, not doing X, not on.
X, not doing x t more.It's on threads instead.
Or you can find us at YouTubeif you're already watching.
If you're listening,you can find us at YouTube.
As cheeky tells pod.
Oh, sorry,if you're watching on YouTube,
you can find us on the podcastplatform of Your choice.
A cheeky spot.Thanks for listening.
I hope you have hada wonderful year and next year
(43:05):
is going to be a good yearfor you.
Let's all get to enjoya big year.
It's a quarterof the century 2025.
You won't hear usuntil next year and next year.
Are you listening in January?Yeah.
In which case. And this point,you lied to us this year.
Good morning to kilos.
Yes. Good night.
(43:26):
Keeping up shots.
Trying to forgetting my song.
I'm really throwing the good.
Yeah, yeah, you did. It.
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