Episode Transcript
So I used to think it was weird, and then
it became more common. Sally, you told me, I guess
at Christmas time, you guys would make a cake for
Jesus birthday this birthday. Yes, yeah, that seems like the candles,
the whole thing. Okay, yeah, did do you ever do that, Curtis?
Oh yeah, we never did that back in Texas either.
(00:20):
But I know some people have really interesting Christmas traditions,
and that one sounds normal to me. Now a lot
of people do it. Yeah, it's the reason for the season,
they say we've got. And this is not necessarily new.
This has been around for decades. But it's a Christmas
tradition that you might want to try. Called the pooping log.
I pop too much, but it's a custom out of Catalonias, Spain,
(00:44):
and I'm not going to try to pronounce it. But
the name translate as Christmas log, but it's also known
as the poop log or the s word log. I'm
not joking. Here's how it works. In the two and
a half weeks leading up to Christmas, families keep a
regular wood log in the home with a face painted
on it. It also has a red hat. Two wooden
legs in the front and a blanket cover over its
(01:07):
back over its back end. All right, Uh, the log
represents a character who will poop out treats come Christmas Day.
But I'm not making this up. To get the log
to poop, children pretend to feed its scraps of food,
sing to it, specifically a song about pooping out gifts,
(01:28):
and then they beat it with sticks. And then on
Christmas Day, after the singing and the beating, the blanket
is lifted off the Christmas logs back end, and surprise,
it has pooped out gifts forever all the Yeah, it's
the pooping log. Horrible, that's horrifying, And that's what they're saying.
(01:51):
It's kind of like, you know, a pinata, kind of
the same thing. And apparently it's been around for a
few centuries actually, but it's evolve along the way. So
I mean, if you want to try this, it's called
the pooping log. Your kids might enjoy this. Yeah, just
get a log, paint a face on it, put some
legs on it, and then and then put a blanket
(02:12):
on than the elf on the shelf to me, yeah,
see that's kind of played out. Yeah, So if your
kids like oh, mom, the elf on the shelf again.
Now let's do the pooping. Get the doo dooo log.
You can even call it that. It's a doo doo
log with a do do, but with the do dooo butt.
We finally found a decoration I might want
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