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Krampus, it's your turn! · Boozy Banter with Friends

• 0:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hello and welcome to boozy banter,
• 0:20
  Diane Black: With friends.
• 0:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm Leyla.
• 0:22
  Trisha Smith: I'm Trisha.
• 0:23
  Diane Black: I'm Diane.
• 0:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: Grab your favorite spirit and join us because shits about to get real.
• 0:37
  Trisha Smith: Whenever you're ready,
• 0:38
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hello.
• 0:41
  Trisha Smith: I guess you're ready.
• 0:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: I was ready. Did the readies are ready?
• 0:46
  Trisha Smith: All right. So how are you? I'm good. We have a guest today,
• 0:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: We do have a guest today. Welcome Bri.
• 0:55
  Bri: I'm back.
• 0:56
  Trisha Smith: We haven't scared you off for,
• 0:59
  Bri: No I love it here. They didn't pay me say that either. I just genuinely love it here.
• 1:04
  Leyla Zmeskal: We kind of paid her with alcohol.
• 1:06
  Trisha Smith: We piled her with alcohol made her say nice things about us.
• 1:11
  Leyla Zmeskal: We're excited to have her today because we're talking about some Christmasy things.
• 1:16
  Trisha Smith: I love Christmas.
• 1:16
  Trisha Smith: I've been saying that for two months. I'm ready for Christmas, I'm ready for Christmas. So yeah, this is this is a good month for me. We're even drinking Christmas cocktails while I'm calling it Christmassy because it's red. But this is Bri's recipe. It is not a Christmas cocktail. It didn't start as a Christmas cocktail
• 1:39
  Bri: It did not it definitely.
• 1:39
  Bri: So basically the cocktail is for you.
• 1:43
  Bri: called, Red, Taylor's version and this is in response to her re releasing her album, Red.
• 1:48
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 1:49
  Bri: And so it has vanilla vodka, cranberry juice, and you can put as a topper ginger beer, sprite, champagne, if you're fancy, and then I also I top it with cinnamon sugar.
• 2:05
  Trisha Smith: That was tasty.
• 2:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: That was a nice little addition, I would say with the cinnamon sugar.
• 2:09
  Bri: Yeah, it's like a nice little texture and it's right.
• 2:12
  Bri: Oh, it's fun. It's very cozy.
• 2:12
  Bri: It's a cozy drink.
• 2:14
  Trisha Smith: It is,
• 2:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: Very cozy.
• 2:16
  Trisha Smith: It's like rimming your glass, but in the glass which I like because I hate that like, you know when you take a drink with some things rimmed and then you have like the weird Joker smile on your rim sugar or whatever.
• 2:30
  Bri: That's why I don't do it.
• 2:30
  Bri: I'm too lazy. I'm like, You know what goes into the drink?
• 2:34
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. So I did it with the caramel apple thing.
• 2:39
  Trisha Smith: And I kept wiping my face because I had like caramel up to here because every time I take a, it was ridiculous.
• 2:47
  Bri: It didn't want you to forget about it. You'll never forget about all of your face.
• 2:52
  Trisha Smith: Exactly. That's one way of putting it.
• 2:55
  Bri: And this is good quick and easy drink.
• 2:57
  Trisha Smith: It was super quick. Yeah, I put mine over ice. I know for you guys I shook your so it was cold. But either way it was, it was really good.
• 3:07
  Trisha Smith: It was really good. And the Sprite was cold, I wasn't all fancy with the champagne, I used Sprite.
• 3:16
  Bri: I mean Sprites good too, you already have alcohol in here.
• 3:19
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 3:19
  Bri: Champagne is like for the, when you're like ooh, family coming over, champagne on top.
• 3:23
  Trisha Smith: Oh, yeah. I need a little extra.
• 3:25
  Bri: Yeah.
• 3:27
  Trisha Smith: So Bri's here today because we're going to talk about Krampus.
• 3:34
  Bri: Krampus.
• 3:35
  Trisha Smith: Which it got us, we started talking about that a couple months ago because a little place in Sanford, little place for us. Hollerbach, German restaurant, they're in Sanford.
• 3:49
  Trisha Smith: They do a Krampus night.
• 3:53
  Bri: Like a Krampus fest.
• 3:54
  Trisha Smith: Krampus fest , is for the whole weekend. It's usually the first weekend of December because Krampus celebrations are usually what the fifth or sixth of December.
• 4:04
  Trisha Smith: Right. And they usually do something and I'm going to be out of town so you know Leyla, I said you should go,
• 4:11
  Leyla Zmeskal: And I'm gonna be out of town too,
• 4:13
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, so that got us started on what is Krampus?
• 4:17
  Trisha Smith: What, how does that start? And we really kind of just know the basics, but we heard that you do a little more, well you know a little more because you,
• 4:34
  Bri: Yes, it is not a strong suit, but it is a suit. I will put it on for you, and tell you and I know. So Krampus and remember like this is not like my culture either. So this is just coming from like my observations, my knowledge, my scholarly research and then you know speaking with other people, but Krampus originates loosely In Germany, and that fifth and sixth situation is he would come December 5, St. Nick would come December 6, and you're on the sixth year, either opening up your gifts or attending to the wounds that Krampus gave you on the fifth. So that was the premise of it. And it's told now, there's variations, but the basics is as he comes along, if you're a naughty boy or girl, you're gonna get hit with a switch, essentially. And then that's it. And then over the years, other cultures kind of grimified it a little bit and made it into something a little bit more demonic, which I'm all for, but a lot of it has to do with the idea that a lot of the Catholic Church did not even want Krampus even be a thing.
• 5:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right.
• 5:43
  Bri: Like no, we're not doing it, it's crazy talk. So he kind of became, he kind of died out for a little bit, and then kind of came back to America. And then it seemed like when Christmas became to commercialize and to festive and to jolly, but underneath it was that thin layer of corporate greed. All of a sudden, there was like this resurgence in Krampus. And everyone's like, yeah, like, Fuck y'all like this is what's going down. And I always tell my kids the reason why Krampus even exists one I love the lap, the light and shadow concept, okay, so like, Krampus is like the shadow side of St. Nicholas. And I love that these concepts are kind of taken away, not in a religious sense.
• 6:23
  Bri: They're just, they're folklore.
• 6:26
  Bri: Um, so it's nothing to do with Jesus or the devil or anything.
• 6:29
  Bri: They're just like their own two separate entities. And it's really interesting, because Krampus does represent Hey, when you're an entitled brat shit happens, like stopping a dick.
• 6:38
  Bri: Like, you know, stop your whining like you should, there should it kind of kind of scares you, essentially. But it kind of scares you into being appreciative and being joyful and really embracing, like the true meaning of Christmas. And what does that look like? And how does that present yourself?
• 6:54
  Bri: And it's no different than, you know, on the three ghosts, visited, you know, Ebenezer Scrooge. And you know, it's that same concept. This is just a little more in your face. Like Krampus is like the metal as fuck version of the holidays.
• 7:07
  Leyla Zmeskal: I support anything metal, actually.
• 7:09
  Bri: Yeah. He's the hero that we deserve. When we get really insane about, we have to do this. And when things become out of obligation, and you really start becoming kind of like a grinch.
• 7:22
  Trisha Smith: You lose that enjoyment.
• 7:24
  Bri: Yeah,
• 7:24
  Trisha Smith: For the holidays.
• 7:25
  Bri: Kramous is like, let's go then. And then, you know, he unleashes all these horrors, you know, upon you and your family.
• 7:31
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 7:32
  Bri: And I support that.
• 7:32
  Bri: And that's kind of how I tell my kids. I'm like, It's not that he's a devil or he's a demon.
• 7:36
  Bri: He's more like a think about your choices and how they affect other people.
• 7:47
  Trisha Smith: I laugh because there's, I think it's an Austria they do a night where, you know, a lot of the men go drinking and they dress up like Krampus and they chase people. It's like, here's an excuse to dress up super scary and get drunk and chase people and it's like, isn't that exactly the behavior?
• 8:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think they kind of like, kinda stop it because there was a lot of drunken rampages.
• 8:19
  Trisha Smith: But they still, they're still places that do it.
• 8:23
  Bri: Yeah, there's more organi, even like locally organized.
• 8:27
  Bri: Yeah, it's organized chaos. It's still chaos. But it's more organized. And you'll see like a lot of vendor events, especially like for our state is really this is really popular. Like I'm even throwing like a Krampus Yule party.
• 8:38
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yep, you are.
• 8:40
  Bri: I know, in a few weeks, you know, and by the way to tell everyone at home, I have like a seven and a half foot Krampus in my living room. So like he's not going anywhere. He's not getting packed away.
• 8:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: I support that fully.
• 8:52
  Bri: Like when it's Valentine's Day that best is gonna be dressed up in hearts and you know, have a crossbow to like ping people. Like when it's St.
• 8:57
  Bri: Patty's Day, pot of gold at his feet, like, I'm good to go for the rest of the year,
• 9:03
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 9:04
  Bri: But I mean, it's kind of like it. He really does like symbolizes this ideology, even though it's kind of scary. He's the scary like bouncer guy who like if you really got to know him, like deep down, he probably has some like unresolved trauma or something. And he's like, I'm a little teddy bear and I'm deserving of love. And now he just acts out like this where he just takes it one step further.
• 9:27
  Trisha Smith: I need to beat some children tonight.
• 9:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: With my birch stick.
• 9:31
  Bri: Like I'm tell, I'm gonna get something for these kids to cry about now.
• 9:35
  Leyla Zmeskal: You know, St.
• 9:35
  Leyla Zmeskal: Nick told me that you were bad.
• 9:37
  Bri: Yeah,
• 9:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: It's my job to step in.
• 9:40
  Trisha Smith: Screw that Elf on the Shelf.
• 9:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: Maybe he's St.
• 9:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: Nick's cop out to like, he doesn't want to deal with all the bad children, so he's like, you know what, let's Krampus deal with it. Krampus at your turn.
• 9:51
  Bri: Yeah,
• 9:52
  Trisha Smith: They need a Krampus Elf on the Shelf. You know, you know how the elf on the shelf reports to Santa?
• 9:58
  Trisha Smith: Well, they need to have one that reports to Krampus.
• 10:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: Which if you think about it, that elf oh the shelf is voyeuristic.
• 10:03
  Bri: Very.
• 10:03
  Bri: It is.
• 10:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: Like a creepy little thing that just hangs around.
• 10:07
  Trisha Smith: Let me tell you, when my kids were little, we did not have elf on the shelf. And I'm very thankful for that.
• 10:13
  Trisha Smith: Because now I have a grandson.
• 10:13
  Trisha Smith: And we have one that visits our home and I want to smash a his little face in.
• 10:22
  Leyla Zmeskal: What elf on the shelf?
• 10:23
  Trisha Smith: Yeah.
• 10:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: I like, wait, what?
• 10:26
  Bri: That got dark quickly.
• 10:30
  Leyla Zmeskal: Man, talking about Krampus brings out a whole other side of you, Trisha.
• 10:33
  Bri: She's ready.
• 10:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's a lot of work to move it every night.
• 10:40
  Bri: It is because my youngest just requested one. But then I'm like, do I want to commit to that? Because the answer is going to be no.
• 10:49
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 10:49
  Bri: So I'm like, is then I've made choices like is the self just as lazy as I am? Maybe, maybe he is. Maybe he's playing dead the whole time.
• 10:57
  Trisha Smith: Maybe. Yeah. So.
• 10:58
  Bri: Corporate America, corporate America got'em. I was working a nine to five. He doesn't have time for your shenanigans anymore. We're done here.
• 11:05
  Trisha Smith: So my daughter, I'm getting ready to go out of town for a few days and my daughter is going to have to be responsible for moving this elf.
• 11:10
  Trisha Smith: So I've been telling her. She puts him to bed. She comes out she turns on the baby monitor and I'm like move the elf. I sent her text the other night cuz she wasn't home. I'm like, make sure when you come home you move the elf, last night move the elf did she move him? No. So I had to move him. And I'm thinking while I'm gone that elf is just gonna sit the same, she better hide him. And just be like, Oh, you must not of found him.
• 11:41
  Leyla Zmeskal: We told you he was watching you.
• 11:44
  Bri: This mission taking longer than anticipated.
• 11:46
  Trisha Smith: Right, right.
• 11:47
  Bri: Ttreacherous guys in the North Pole.
• 11:48
  Leyla Zmeskal: But Donovan is funny about that, he just goes into the other room. He can't see me in this room.
• 11:53
  Trisha Smith: Oh I know. I said for every, every time you're naughty, you know, Santa takes away a presant, and he is currently at zero. Like zero presants, because the child is like,
• 12:06
  Bri: Anarchy is real.
• 12:07
  Trisha Smith: Yeah.
• 12:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: You should glue some horns on the elf.
• 12:10
  Trisha Smith: I know, I need to get a Krampus.
• 12:12
  Bri: Oh, you should say that every time he misbehaves, it's gonna turn into Krampus.
• 12:16
  Trisha Smith: There you go. And then I gotta introduce him to Krampus.
• 12:21
  Bri: He's like, go ahead, watch this little video on YouTube.
• 12:23
  Bri: They'll do my job for me.
• 12:25
  Trisha Smith: I said when you're naughty, all you get is coal.
• 12:28
  Trisha Smith: And he's like, I like coal.
• 12:28
  Trisha Smith: Little turd.
• 12:34
  Bri: It really is like, the whole concept. I know. It's very like popular with all the spooky people like they're the ones who love creepmiss and, and I love like the festive side of things too, like the winter wonderland really pretty. But I actually really admire and appreciate Krampus and we do a lot of things around our house, like I like putting pine like I pick up fresh pine, pine is a very protective herb in witch practices. So I put those up, I do put holly up, I do put mistletoe up, when it's really interesting because mistletoe is also all about prosperity and protection. So it's kind of like he's kind of about that too. So like, I'll hang it in certain places, any of the like my spellwork bottles for that month, always have those herbs, because it's kind of like there is a magic to Christmas. If you took away the presants and you really got down to the basics.
• 13:20
  Bri: There is like this weird feeling you feel that shift. Like Halloween comes to close. And all of a sudden you're like there's something in the air.
• 13:27
  Bri: And we attribute it to Oh, Christmas is coming. You know, screw Thanksgiving. And then we like which is fine like that, sometimes that falls my birthday. I'm not a big fan, but Christmas I can get behind.
• 13:38
  Bri: Because it's one of those things. It's a feeling and it's hard to capture a feeling. And we all feel it even if even if you fucking hate it and you're like, oh fuck, but you still you can feel that shift. Your eyes could be closed, you would not look at a calendar and you would know there's something in the air and kind of Krampus brings that energy to which is why I love it. And I love the concept.
• 14:01
  Bri: And now he's in my home hanging out.
• 14:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Where did you find that?
• 14:04
  Bri: So my partner found that online and I had put it like on like on my wish list. I was like, Oh, I'd really like this.
• 14:11
  Bri: By the way. I had no party planned. I was just like, randomly I woke up one day, I was like, I want to Krampus party and then like a day later because I have to give myself 24 hours. I'm a Sagittarius. I like to give myself a 24 hour cooling off period before doing some things because I will drive my partner insane how quickly. I dyed my hair twice this week, twice, different colors. So pretty pretty out there. So it gave me some 24 hours. I was like yeah, I want to cramp. I want to have a Krampus party and he's like, Okay, I was like and a Yule party it'll be like combined. He's like, Okay, I was like I'm gonna need you to buy me this and he's like, I'm not buying you that. I was like I'm gonna put on my wish list and if you don't buy it Krampus is watching and then honestly, like a couple weeks later, it just I like opened up the door and it was like there.
• 14:57
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 14:57
  Leyla Zmeskal: Aw,
• 14:57
  Bri: Like see now we're both happy. Krampus won't attack you and I'm content cuz I now have a pet Krampus and it is massive, it is seven and a half feet tall. We have family like afraid of it and it does move, like the eyes glow, it like turns back and forth,
• 15:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh that's awesome.
• 15:13
  Bri: And then we have a Sam from trick or treat also in like our foya and it's just kind of like, what is what is happening in the shop of horrors. So much. So much fun to be had when people come over. I just think it's so fun. Everyone should have a Krampus something in their life.
• 15:30
  Bri: I have like Krampus like dishware that someone made. And so I have that like right when you walk in this little clove of hoarder that I allow myself things and I have like a little glass in there and a few other things. But I just yeah, I've watched needs to get on the Krampus bandwagon.
• 15:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think so. But you know, Krampus isn't the only thing. There's a lot of other traditions out there that have just as creepy things just like Krampus I just happened to find some.
• 15:59
  Leyla Zmeskal: I did and I will butcher these names like no
• 15:59
  Trisha Smith: You found some?
• 16:05
  Trisha Smith: one's business so I'll pass it off to somebody so they can probably.
• 16:10
  Trisha Smith: Sorry in advance.
• 16:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'll just see one that I can say,
• 16:12
  Trisha Smith: Ok that sounds good.
• 16:14
  Leyla Zmeskal: Just see one that I could say there's like, which I feel is really interesting,
• 16:18
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 16:19
  Leyla Zmeskal: There's Gryla and the Yule Cat from Ireland. Gryla is a giant org ogre who lives in the cave. During Christmas she emerges to hunt for children which she kidnaps ticks back to her caving cooks them in a vat.
• 16:34
  Bri: These kids really acting up.
• 16:35
  Trisha Smith: I know it's like what are these kids doing that are like.
• 16:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Maybe they have unruley kids? Is that where death metal originated from is Iceland?
• 16:45
  Bri: They have like Iceland and they have those little those three little countries together.
• 16:48
  Bri: They are hardcore,
• 16:52
  Leyla Zmeskal: Norweigic death metal. Yeah,
• 16:54
  Bri: Like it's really insane.
• 16:54
  Bri: They like performing ice caves.
• 16:57
  Bri: I'm like okay,
• 16:57
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah. So maybe they got too too crazy.
• 17:02
  Bri: Yeah, they don't folklore deities just run about.
• 17:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: Gryla also had a variety of companions, including Yule lads.
• 17:11
  Trisha Smith: Oh, What are Yule lads?
• 17:14
  Leyla Zmeskal: Her 13,
• 17:15
  Trisha Smith: They sound like cabana boys.
• 17:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: I don't know.
• 17:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: They're unruly, troll adult children, adult sons. And she has a yule cat which I am not even going to attempt the your cat's name. It's jokin friggin Shoshana you're going to embark on.
• 17:33
  Bri: It has a beautiful ring to it.
• 17:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: It's a long with two dots. I don't say anything that has two dots.
• 17:39
  Bri: I love this character, this folklore deity,
• 17:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Do you?
• 17:43
  Bri: Well, it was on Sabrina as well. But I had done research and yes, it's because she can't have children. And it's a children seeing child related trauma, she didn't have a therapists. So she starts the only thing that keeps her away is burning the Yule log.
• 17:57
  Leyla Zmeskal: Ah,
• 17:59
  Bri: So every winter solstice no matter where you are, you burn this log for 24 hours and though because it is the longest day of the year it's so people think samhain when the veils of thinness. That's not true.
• 18:08
  Bri: That's when the veil starts to thin. It's actually yule the winter solstice when it is the absolute thinnest then isn't it is so insanely thin that you have to protect yourself. So you burn these Yule logs and they burn for 24 hours and it keeps all like negative energies and spirits and people like her away so they don't take your children.
• 18:28
  Leyla Zmeskal: Wow, that's interesting. Also her cats terrifying. It says, it's a massive cat. And he likes to look through town in the dark peering into lighted windows of children's bedrooms. And the only way to save yourself from getting even are eaten is to show that you got clothes for Christmas, because you were good this year. So if you didn't get any new clothes, you leave out old clothes and hope to God that meet his standards. Or the Yule cat will snarf you up.
• 19:04
  Trisha Smith: Most kids today think they were naughty if they got clothes.
• 19:07
  Bri: They be like really?
• 19:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think this was back in the day. This is a house of Bullshit.
• 19:13
  Bri: Yeah. I'm like, I try to put them when they were younger, like in their stocking. But now that there's so much older they're like, No, that's now they're like, No, that's something you have to provide for us your caregiver. I'm like, oh, okay, Mr. Technical. Like I will not be accepting these gifts. Like they need to be gifts, not things you need to provide for me. I was like,
• 19:37
  Trisha Smith: Like, socks.
• 19:38
  Bri: Yeah.
• 19:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm not even gonna say was it. Kallikantzari, they're goblins who spend most of the year underground, trying to bring about the apocalypse.
• 19:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: What countries? This one is from Greece and Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey.
• 19:57
  Trisha Smith: Okay,
• 19:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, during Advent, they come out onto human territory to cause mischief and evil. And they are sometimes described as black furry creatures with tusks and horns.
• 20:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: This is what I found funny about them. They are usually male and grotesquely well endowed.
• 20:18
  Bri: Just in case. I feel like a man wrote that it, clearly.
• 20:25
  Trisha Smith: Who cares.
• 20:27
  Leyla Zmeskal: Grotesquely well endowed, it's so so like offended right now by that.
• 20:34
  Bri: All of these stories though like they're all like when the one of those threads in between them all is if you ever think about like when you think about Christmas, you think about warm fires and you think about warmth and gets cozy. Those are all the things they tell you need to do.
• 20:47
  Bri: So that doesn't happen. So you don't have to meet Krampus. So you don't have to meet. You know any of these folklore deities.
• 20:53
  Bri: But it's interesting if you look at the place of origin, being warm and having fire like in Iceland and Norway a lot more challenging back in the day when it was just so much snow. So it became like, this is your sole purpose. You know, you have to keep warm, even in the 2015 Krampus movie. They're like the fire cannot go out in the moment that chimney went out, craziness and sooner than they had to light it back up again. And that's why you know, Krampus can't come down when there's a fire, he doesn't want his ass on fire. Most people wouldn't.
• 21:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: He's not dumb.
• 21:24
  Bri: Yeah, so like, it's so interesting that the only way to fight them is you have the you know, the festive spirit you have your fire of any kind. I don't know if LEDs gonna cut it anymore. But I have a real fire at my party, as an FYI. I am making the situation we are having a real fire.
• 21:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Wow. That's really cool.
• 21:45
  Bri: With pine cones and things which are also super protective.
• 21:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: Very nice. I know that pine cones are super protective.
• 21:52
  Trisha Smith: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Bri: I love when I see things in the store. And I know that people don't know where it comes from. But like pine cones are very prevalent in Christmas decor. It looks pretty like with their lit up. They're fun. But no one ever thinks about why the pine cones and it's very witchy which is why it always I always help us like yes, Christmas comes from the pagan holidays and Winter Solstice and that's why those things are even the gnomes, gnomes are protective creatures. And now we just given them cute little outfits for every holiday but that's their job. They keep the home safe.
• 22:23
  Bri: They keep your garden safe.
• 22:26
  Bri: They're supposed to be protective energies.
• 22:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: I got that lockdown.
• 22:30
  Bri: I know you, every time I see one now.
• 22:32
  Leyla Zmeskal: I've got like 30 something gnomes up right now.
• 22:34
  Bri: I don't know Jeremy's like on competition.
• 22:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: I know, I keep seeing that, I'm like,
• 22:39
  Bri: I just bought another one.
• 22:39
  Bri: But there was like two,
• 22:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: They're addictive.
• 22:42
  Bri: They are, like there's the Hanukkah gnomes we just bought now we have like a Christmas gnome. And then we have a Yule gnome. And it's just like now I'm just gonna start randomly hiding them. I have like gnome stickers on the garage, gnome ribbons. But in my head. I'm like oh protective entities.
• 22:56
  Bri: That's when the witch in me comes out like oh, we're gonna do this and do that. poinsettias are the same thing. Protection.
• 23:02
  Leyla Zmeskal: I didn't know that,
• 23:03
  Bri: That's why everything is, Christmas is dark. Like the solstice is like take no prisoners. It's very dark.
• 23:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: We were I was just talking about Trisha about that. I said Christmas is fucking creepy as fuck if you think about,
• 23:15
  Bri: Yeah, it's a very intense.
• 23:17
  Leyla Zmeskal: It's really is.
• 23:18
  Bri: And it's interesting, because some people like yes, some people feel very happy and festive. And they're like, you know, elf when it's this time.
• 23:22
  Bri: And then some people feel so melancholy and morose. And it's like they're experiencing the shadow side of what is already naturally there. Because that's it's the longest night of the year on the winter solstice, it's intense, and when the more light you have, and that's why lights are so popular now too, because you're literally illuminating something in the dark. And that's where that whole witchy spiritual component comes in. And that's why I think Krampus is important because he is the shadow side. Like he serves a purpose. You know, Santa serves a purpose but when you really start delving in you're like, wait a second, like cranberries prosperity, you know, Rosemary protective, there's just so many things and also cinnamon is also protective actually put it by my front door. There's so many things from no matter what culture, like you could use whatever grows there naturally. Oh, this is our protection for this culture. And that's why there's so many protective herbs and so many things sounds. So Krampus leaves a bell when he's like marked you. So bells is how we disrupt like negative energies and entities and it's a way to cleanse sound clearing is very popular within the body, within your space. It's why so many of the Carol's there's even a song called Carol of the Bells. It's just those bells tingling, because you know of where this story originated from. It keeps them all away.
• 24:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, a lot of the Christmas carols to have a very dark meaning to them.
• 24:50
  Trisha Smith: Right. Right.
• 24:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah,
• 24:52
  Bri: it's intense.
• 24:53
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, I was reading about Krampus, I was reading that Austria has such in recent years. have had such an influx of immigrants, that they have had to actually put out a video that they show the children that are new to their country, what to expect during the holidays with Krampus.
• 25:15
  Trisha Smith: Because it's such a big part of their culture. And the Krampus costumes, like the masks and the have gotten so scary and elaborate, they're afraid that they're going to scare these new people to their country. So they've actually put out like, an instructional video on how to handle/
• 25:40
  Bri: It's intense, like the It's incredible what they do,
• 25:43
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 25:44
  Bri: It really is, I mean, Universal, who, like it's just, it's wild, how do you and it's beautiful to? Like, they just really, they do all the things.
• 25:53
  Trisha Smith: And these are like, towns, you know, doing this. It's not like a corporation. These are just like town festivities, like Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. But tradition says yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 26:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think like you said, there always has to be the darker side of things that to bring out of the brightness. And you have to kind of have that balance. You know, when you said there, there is that feeling in the air there is that shift of you know, that feeling of magic and crispness. And there is, you know, everybody seems to be a little bit nicer and a little bit friendlier and easygoing, and a little more hopeful of things to come and.
• 26:35
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 26:36
  Bri: I guess when I look at holidays, I look at the spiritual component. So for example, like the pine cone, so we have new year's resolutions, but pagans well before Christianity was a thing, they would take pine cones, they would write their thoughts and feelings, you put it in the pine cone, you do 12 of them, you melt wax over and then you burn that in the Yule log and because pine is protective, it protects what your intentions and what you want to manifest for the next year are and it gives you kindle for the fire, so the fire continues to burn. They would take watches over who allowed the fire to continue. And it's to me I think that is was just so fascinating how even the most Karen of Karen's into Christmas, they never stopped to think about where did this come from?
• 27:28
  Bri: Like, yeah, you can go to any corporate store and you can grab whatever. And I'm all for it like you want to do you want to live your best life. I don't care. You want to have a Christmas tree in March. I don't care you do your business. But it to me, I love educating and trimming like, Hey, this is where this this is not this is not a war on Christmas. This is an illumination of the whole holiday season. Yeah, there's like 186 holidays celebrated all around the world, just in this month alone,
• 27:55
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 27:55
  Bri: Like and there's three that we all kind of know like, we know Christmas, we know Kwanzaa, we know Hanukkah, and then if we do, Yule, that's four. So we have four basics, and not even everyone knows all those four,
• 28:06
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 28:07
  Bri: It's really wild. And I think the more we educate and we showcase the shadow side of Krampus, it kind of allows it to be your anchor to harness your lighter parts. Because now you know, you know all the things you're like, okay, it actually means a little bit more when you're little bit more jovial and happy,
• 28:26
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 28:26
  Bri: And you're like it kind of propagates that notion of being, you know, happy and jolly.
• 28:32
  Leyla Zmeskal: So what are some things that people should do around this time of year to just protect their energy or to bring them prosperity, prestige, you know, whatever.
• 28:43
  Bri: Yeah, prosperity. So we have the pine cone. So that's one thing.
• 28:48
  Trisha Smith: The cranberry we talked about.
• 28:50
  Bri: Talked about cranberries, so I love doing a simmer pot.
• 28:53
  Bri: And I put all my intentions and my different you know, herbs and No one wants to bw, ashy.
• 28:57
  Bri: fruit into this pot and I let it burn and then I also like to add like ramen, I'll do some type of bourbon situation because I feel like that's like offering the good entities in my home like Hey, I got you too, like I have daily offerings anyway for my entities, but this is like a big all over like ah, you know, and when you do like the summer pots, I love using clove. I'll do oranges I'll do lemon to cleanse and then I add a little sugar sweet and all the things and to invite things. Sage, eucalyptus, peppermint, is also really good for prosperity and healing. Sometimes you get to December and you're like fuckin tapped out and you're tired and there's there is no, to me it is Yeah, no one like hydrate, be dewy and just glisten, and it's not a mystery why everyone is sick this time of year, because we are we've done all that we can we've gone like zero to 60 the whole year we get to December like, fuck, and then oddly enough December's the busiest month out of all and you easier in Florida. But everywhere else. I know it's have the least amount of energy.
• 29:52
  Bri: So I'm really big on peppermint snowing and I know you don't wanna drink water. Drink it.
• 29:56
  Bri: because it is healing especially like consuming, it burning, It kind of gets you in a better healing space. Same thing with spearmint. So I love the pots. I love bundling up cinnamon sticks, I do three at a time and I put them in like the four corners of the home, I put them in the closets. Why does it smell really good and it's a bug repellent, but is very protective and it helps to bring about good fortune in the home.
• 30:21
  Bri: I do a gardenia pods that fall to the ground this time of year, I put a red ribbon around that I hang it in like my door way situation that's really great for prosperity as well and it protects the prosperity that's coming in. So it's not just about you're gonna get it, it's like never gonna, you know, manage it well, so it can grow.
• 30:39
  Bri: Those are a few of my favorite things. And I also liked when I think about food, I think about what's a very warm and satiating food. I know we live in Florida, so it's really hard to want to crave hot food. So I do like one time a week I make I don't care if it's hot or not, like don't It's a very healing.
• 30:58
  Bri: give a fuck. Like it's a very like warm hearty, whether it's a soup, or just something that I'm like, it's really feeling it's very, it's always potato based.
• 31:06
  Bri: Always some kind of potato You dehydrated sluts you.
• 31:09
  Bri: situations going on. Some type of garlic is going on. And I do Yeah. I am also speaking to myself. I barely drink any that once a week because I like to remind myself Okay, this is my body is my grounding element to all spiritual forces. I'm a conduit of energy, I need to protect that. And food is an extension of how I protect myself. And it's interesting because most people eat the worst this time of year. And I get it especially if you love sweets and you like to eat bon bons, like completely get it my partner's the same way I have to hide everything I make until it's time to eat dinner, or any food. So I just like hey, listen, this is the year we're like you want all those things cool. But it's like making a withdrawal. And those really nourishing foods is how you're making deposits. And we want more deposits than withdrawals.
• 31:56
  Bri: I don't care about the other 11 months of the year. But December's that one month, I'm like no, no, no, you gotta attend to your spirit. Like how you tend to the flame during Yule you have to attend to your body. And so that's kind of like water. Yeah. So my biggest like, do these things. Oh, and drink fucking water, you dehydrated slut. Like drink water. There's no need for dry skin on top of all of this other stuff.
• 32:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: I barely drink any water.
• 32:46
  Trisha Smith: I know.
• 32:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: I have good intentions. I do.
• 32:50
  Bri: That's the start good intentions.
• 32:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: They don't always work out though.
• 32:54
  Bri: I feel that.
• 32:55
  Leyla Zmeskal: But there's water in coffee.
• 32:56
  Bri: There is, the being vegan has taught me like I don't have to I don't have to drink as much. Because literally everything is like the first ingredient is water. Tofu, water, like, it's just the base for everything. So I feel a little bit better. But deep down, I'm like, I know I need to drink more water.
• 33:13
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm just fooling myself.
• 33:15
  Bri: Like, I really do need to drink more.
• 33:17
  Trisha Smith: Like you were saying the holidays are just that time of year where we need to take care of ourselves, because you try to do so much. I find that December is the month that I neglect myself. I don't drink my water. I don't cook as well because I'm baking and you know, and I'm not eating, cooking, drinking the healthiest because we're going to parties and we're eating out. We're traveling and we have people coming in and you know we're cooking for them and you forget those basics, you know, and just kind of go with the flow.
• 33:56
  Bri: It's true, and even those holiday dinners, it was Thanksgiving, which were vegan already. So already we're starting off. And then the whole like Native American thing. So it's such a multicultural faceted thing. And then on top of all that that I'm dealing with my partner said hey, what's for breakfast and lunch on Thanksgiving? I was like bitch, you're starving until it's dinner. so good luck.
• 34:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: Did he say what's for breakfast and lunch?
• 34:24
  Bri: Yeah, he literally, he's like so what I'm like you're fucking starving and he laughs.
• 34:26
  Bri: He's like, you're joking? I'm like, does this face look like I'm joking? Cuz I'm not. He's like, what? I was like, alright, enjoy your hunger games. I'm not cooking anything more than what I have to do right now. I was like, I have to pack all this and take it to you know your brother's house and we're doing, he's like, I just I was like, sounds like a personal issue.
• 34:48
  Bri: We're done here. And it's kind of like and that really is the mindset for the rest of the year.
• 34:54
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 34:54
  Bri: I'm like, Oh, you want me to do anything at all that involves feeding me any substantial food no, go fuck yourself. I tell that to myself, too. Like, what can I grab,
• 35:02
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 35:03
  Bri: Quickly,
• 35:03
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 35:04
  Bri: Because I bake all day, I cook all day. And apparently I'm doing that for everyone else except me.
• 35:09
  Trisha Smith: Except you.
• 35:10
  Bri: And it's really wild. And it's so interesting. Because even like, my body's like, oh some day's we're on a really high like, yes, we got it. And then other days were like, I don't even know I'm surviving right now.
• 35:21
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 35:21
  Bri: It's really wild.
• 35:23
  Trisha Smith: I haven't eaten 24 hours, but.
• 35:25
  Bri: Yes, and then my partner's had like 10 meals, like where the hell have I been? Like, what am I doing? But yes, we completely forget to take care of ourselves.
• 35:34
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. So I know I did on Thanksgiving. You know, I'm like, I gotta make this huge meal. And by the time dinner rolled around, I'm like, I haven't eaten all day. And now I'm really not hungry.
• 35:46
  Bri: Yes, you didn't stick.
• 35:48
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. So you know, you just gotta gotta pause.
• 35:52
  Trisha Smith: drink that water.
• 35:53
  Bri: Yeah.
• 35:54
  Trisha Smith: Eat that soup.
• 35:55
  Bri: Yeah,
• 35:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: Sometimes when we do try to take time out for ourselves and focus on ourselves, we feel like it's, we're being selfish or, or other people like I like how can you?
• 36:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: How can you only think of yourself? And you're like, Well, wait a minute. Why? Why does it have to have that stigma of me thinking on myself? Why are you gonna be I'm just taking care of myself.
• 36:17
  Trisha Smith: Right? But I think it's because you have people asking you like, all through the year, they won't be like, Where's my food, you know, but then all of a sudden, the holidays come around. It's like, where are my cookies? You know?
• 36:30
  Trisha Smith: And you're like, wait, wait, i'll bake them right now. And you're like, why the fuck am I baking.
• 36:35
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah,
• 36:35
  Trisha Smith: Why don't you bake some cookies.
• 36:37
  Bri: This is a wellness podcast.
• 36:37
  Bri: We went from Krampus to wellness. But talking about Krampus is embracing our shadow side, which is also wellness and spooky at the same time. Just in case listeners were confused.
• 36:50
  Trisha Smith: It's all circling around.
• 36:52
  Bri: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Leyla Zmeskal: Circle back to drink, water you hydrated slut.
• 36:58
  Bri: That came on strong. I know that.
• 36:59
  Leyla Zmeskal: I love that though. I'm not, I'm not knocking that at all. That's probably
• 37:04
  Bri: I used to have a water tracker.
• 37:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: Can we use that as a title?
• 37:07
  Bri: Like that's a t shirt. That a t shirt right now. Drink water, you dehydrated sluts. I mean, it's probably the one thing it's the most basic function of human life. And it's the one thing we all neglect to do. Unless we're bodybuilders and I feel like unless you're a bodybuilder, you don't give a fuck. You're like, whatever I can take, like, hopefully, like I'm hoping sometimes when I'm showering water just falls in my mouth. I'm like, Viscount had a little water. Because we just don't remember
• 37:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: My skin right?
• 37:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah. Like,
• 37:42
  Bri: Oh, the karmis large organ of the body. Yep. Oh, hydrated now.
• 37:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: Free. What's your favorite thing to do at Christmas time?
• 37:50
  Bri: So my favorite thing is I really and this is super sappy.
• 37:54
  Bri: But I love watching movie like Christmas movies. Like I grew up on home alone. I grew up on you know, elf, and, you know, I just turned 34. But like, those movies are instrumental Christmas vacation. Another classic. And I love doing that.
• 38:08
  Bri: And I love like the horror Christmas stuff too. Like that's because I'm a I'm a spooky first. Yeah, so I love those.
• 38:14
  Bri: And I think those are even better than some of like some of the other ones because you
• 38:17
  Trisha Smith: Expect it to be all festive. And then there's some slasher going around and you're like,
• 38:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yes, yes, I've got pompous prick. Yeah. Right?
• 38:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: doesn't deserve it's totally deserved that.
• 38:31
  Trisha Smith: How do you feel about Hallmark movies?
• 38:34
  Bri: You know, it's because I posted about Alright, so I do this thing. And it's funny because No, it's like my routine. But I will go on Hulu.
• 38:41
  Bri: I press the trailer for a Hallmark movie and I in two minutes, I have seen the whole movie. And I just keep going.
• 38:49
  Bri: And I've watched like 13 movies that day. Right now it might have all been like 20 some odd minutes, but I watched 13 movies as far as I'm concerned. They're all the same. Like you don't have to watch them. I don't even know why there are two hours like what's your YouTube channel? You're not even you're not not only you're not reinventing the wheel. Like this wheel is already been shipped.
• 39:10
  Bri: It's sold. We got it. We have this making model. Why is this the exact same thing? Like the only Christmas movie that I have watched in very recent years that I was on Hulu that I actually thought it was super cute. I think it was called happiest season. It had Kristen Stewart in it which she's not my favorite but I had a damn Levi lovey. And it and it was it. It was just a really interesting had God who was in it. But anyways, that's on Hulu. And I think it's called the happiest season and it was like funny and they had like some more like social issues. And I was like but it wasn't preachy and it wasn't super political. But it was like still like a really solid like holiday like there was family stuff in it but it was like funny and cute. And you're like Oh, I like that.
• 40:01
  Bri: Like I don't need you to teach me a lesson I already know guy gets guy guy gets girl girl gets her like I already know that that's of any movie, right? I know that's the end. I don't care but this movie I thought was like clever and it's more like a modern telling, but Hallmark who's working there who was like I don't think there's writers I am convinced these are the same movies they changed Have you noticed that all the characters look exactly the same.
• 40:28
  Leyla Zmeskal: Watch over
• 40:30
  Bri: I haven't even seen like too many like minorities in any of these either. Like they're literally blonde blue eyed, tall, dark and handsome. I work out 10 hours a day, but I'm magically successful with all this wealth. Oh, my fiance died my parents died you know like something stupid. And then they're in a small town Good luck tall you suits working your girlfriend's leaving you for some country boy who's wealthy?
• 40:55
  Trisha Smith: It makes more than you ever well. Wealthy off
• 40:57
  Bri: His tree. Yeah, the tree for his
• 41:00
  Trisha Smith: Arts and crafts or I know we talked we've talked about this a couple episodes
• 41:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: Into watching a Hallmark movie on vacation. I'm sitting I'm sitting there going, I can't believe you damn suckered me. I'm watching the damn house. Hallmark movie.
• 41:15
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, we talked about this on another episode.
• 41:19
  Trisha Smith: And it was one of those things where it was like, you know, once you get in, once you get suckered into one it's like, then you feel like you got to find out what's going to happen, even though you've already called it like an hour ago, right? And then you're like, you know, 30 minutes left and you're like, isn't this all wrapped up?
• 41:37
  Trisha Smith: Yeah,
• 41:39
  Bri: So I will. There's been a couple times and I have done this and I'm willing to admit that I have done this. I have pressed play not on the trailer but the actual movie. And I watch a little bit fast for a little bit. Watch a little bit fast forward a little bit and then I kind of like Oh, so now I've made this two hour drivel and I've made it into like a 30 minute little wrapped up and yeah, I'm like let me edit the movies from now on. I was like I got it going on. So that's the most I do so like when I think about like indie horror and like be gems and like those types of things. Those are like oh, this was fun. This was kitschy this was a little bit more unique.
• 42:14
  Bri: But like I don't even feel Hallmark has that because it is it's almost too cookie cutter where it's not even kitschy anymore. It's just like, come on to perfect.
• 42:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah. Perfect.
• 42:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah. Cue the cue the tragedy of cue, cue this
• 42:31
  Bri: Yeah. Right. It's it's very formulaic. And I say that as someone who writes all the time like it's it's I think that's why I'm like, really was hoping for a surprise like literally anything, anything any surprise.
• 42:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: I really think you should do a Hallmark movie like bright one.
• 42:45
  Bri: I should write one. They're not going to like you because there's gonna be too much stuff like substance with these characters
• 42:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: Already rolled out. And like Krampus can come in and
• 42:54
  Bri: Like kill them. Both are being annoying. Yes. I thought that
• 42:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: I would totally watch that in a heartbeat.
• 43:00
  Bri: I'm like, I mean, maybe one day they'll make it crap. Zuber Krampus is like a love interest.
• 43:03
  Bri: Oh, maybe Krampus
• 43:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: Love interest?
• 43:07
  Bri: I don't know. It has to be like, maybe no. Oh, yeah. So I could go on to or know him or something. We don't know what he's into. I'm just assuming that it's a male to like, I don't even know what if, what if there's no What if it's a Ken situation? That's a whole list of things that we don't even know.
• 43:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, we'll just assume that Krampus was a male.
• 43:26
  Leyla Zmeskal: I feel like
• 43:27
  Bri: I feel like as men feel like they have to be dominating so that I'm like, Oh, this feels like a male. Yeah, yeah. I feel like women are much more like, strategic men are like, I'm breaking into this house because there's no fire. Yeah, that's I feel like that's a male thing to do. Beating children
• 43:40
  Trisha Smith: With hearing machines. Yeah. A woman would knock on the door. Yeah. And try to bribe her way
• 43:47
  Bri: Right. Well hits first hits first. And then if there is, or she's maybe she's just like, No, I'm going to cover them up, then there'd be more.
• 43:54
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, I have this cake. Yeah. Like, here's
• 43:57
  Bri: The secret like, Okay.
• 44:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: Try that.
• 44:02
  Bri: And see that. That's way more effective already. Right.
• 44:05
  Bri: I'd let you I'm like I'm like And I love cake. So I'm like, yes, please come into my speaking. Now I can do whatever you want.
• 44:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: I have Christmas movies that I watch every year.
• 44:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right for it to be Christmas for me.
• 44:23
  Trisha Smith: I think everybody does. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 44:26
  Leyla Zmeskal: I have one cheesy romance Christmas movie though.
• 44:30
  Bri: No, the holiday?
• 44:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: How did you know that?
• 44:33
  Bri: I knew it cuz I'm like, Oh, she's she. She's just enough.
• 44:37
  Bri: But soft enough to like the holiday.
• 44:38
  Leyla Zmeskal: I took like the holiday and I was I didn't think that I would but at the end I'm like, Yeah, kinda like this way.
• 44:45
  Bri: But okay, but honestly, that's kind of a cute one, though. Like, quirky characters.
• 44:48
  Bri: Yes, it's predictable, but it's nice when it came out. There wasn't a lot like that, which is why it did well because there wasn't a lot but now We've just gone too far. Yeah, now we'll just never recover. Yeah,
• 45:04
  Trisha Smith: I did see a movie last night we were watching TV and I saw on Netflix they have a movie called Love hard. It's the one where the curl flies across the country. She's from like, LA. And she flies to New York, like Lake Placid. New York, I think is what I read. Is it Nina? Dobrev. Now I don't know.
• 45:24
  Trisha Smith: But she thinks like the she's meeting up with the guy that she's been chatting with online.
• 45:28
  Trisha Smith: It turns out he used somebody else's profile. Okay, it is and but it reminds me of going back to the 80s here, but do you remember that movie can't buy me love? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, reminds me of that. And I've only seen the preview but it's it's on my list to watch because I do like you our Hallmark movie. I like Christmas movies. I like I said this, you know, a couple episodes ago, I would love to live in a Hallmark movie, where everything is perfect. Your cookies are baked automatically and decorated perfectly and you don't really eat them. And if you do, you don't get any weight.
• 46:09
  Bri: I definitely like that, where I don't
• 46:12
  Trisha Smith: Go outside and it's the perfect temperature whether it's supposed to be cold or supposed to be hot.
• 46:17
  Trisha Smith: Regardless, you're not going to sweat and you're not going to freeze because it's perfect.
• 46:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right? And your hair stays perfect underneath.
• 46:25
  Trisha Smith: No matter what.
• 46:25
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, right.
• 46:27
  Bri: You fall down the mountain and it's so great.
• 46:29
  Trisha Smith: And you know, whoever the guy is, that has to piss you off. 30 minutes before the movies over you know, you shed some tears, but your makeup doesn't run perfect. It is it's like the
• 46:39
  Bri: Best it is Have you seen holiday? No. So you that's a cute movie. And I thought it because it ran through all the holidays. And I was like well then that's how you do it. Now this movie is it's for anything.
• 46:50
  Bri: Valentine's the movie, check Christmas check Christmas check.
• 46:53
  Bri: Like Thanksgiving, there's even a Thanksgiving scene. Like there's every literal holiday in this movie. And it's and I'm like, and it did so well when it came out like yeah, because it's brilliant. Whatever mood you're in Easter nailed it. It's in there. You know, like Fourth of July. Nailed it again. Yeah, you don't see it coming and then it's there. And you're like, Oh my God, that's the movie everyone should be watching right? It's not like it's a fantastic are great. But it I mean, it has a holiday. Yeah, it checks all the literally every
• 47:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: My top favorite is Scrooged that's my tippy top.
• 47:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: I watched that one last because that one is my absolute favorite. favorite Christmas.
• 47:42
  Bri: That's a really that's definitely in my top like high so I can't do like a top three.
• 47:45
  Bri: I do like a top five. That's on it. Christmas vacation. Yeah.
• 47:48
  Bri: Both home alone. So I'm torn sometimes I think I like the second one more, but I don't know if it's because I like New York more. And it just gets me I'm like, Oh, I've been there.
• 47:56
  Bri: I've seen that. And then it like ties it in for me. So on the fence on our for Christmas being a Christmas movie, but I still played anyway. Oh, yeah. That's like alphas fun. Yep. But I mean, I'm also not like a huge Will Ferrell fan, but I thought this is fun. Like it's a silly movie. You know? So those are usually on my list for sure.
• 48:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: Was Kirk Douglas Christmas movie that just came out? Douglas. This occurred.
• 48:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: Maybe no, no. I'm holding on who's who's who's? Oh,
• 48:29
  Bri: That it's the those are like the Santa Chronicles.
• 48:33
  Bri: chronicle that definitely took a it's not equal. What is it?
• 48:39
  Bri: Russell? Kurt Russell,
• 48:40
  Trisha Smith: Kurt Russell.
• 48:40
  Trisha Smith: Okay,
• 48:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: So I was 50%.
• 48:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Incorrect.
• 48:46
  Bri: Yeah, that those movies actually took off. They were
• 48:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: Actually really cute. I like the first one I like
• 48:52
  Bri: I'm not guarding to the galaxy with The Guardian movie.
• 48:55
  Bri: And it's each of the hall. It's a animated one. But Jack Frost is the main character and they each talk of N Santos like I don't say BDSM. But he's covered in tattoos. He's really jacked up. Santa is looking swole and definitely has a BDSM thing going on. But it's a great it's a kids movie.
• 49:14
  Trisha Smith: It's a guardian. I just, yeah, I do I do.
• 49:19
  Bri: So my kids used to really love that movie, too, because that was another one that showed about be it's the spirit. It's the belief in the magic. And I tell people all the time, it's really your magic is your belief. And that's what makes something magical. Sometimes, yes, dirt is just dirt. But if you believe that it's something more than that. Well, then it is because you've said that it is and I think that's what we're forgetting a lot. Even like with Krampus and things like that. It really is comes down to belief and your belief is what causes the magic. And that's really kind of all you need because you make your own magic anyway. So hopefully, people embrace that.
• 49:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think that's a good thing. A good way to keep in mind is, you know, believe in your magic,
• 50:04
  Bri: Right. Believe in your magic. I agree.
• 50:07
  Trisha Smith: I also think that's a great way to tie it up and make another cocktail.
• 50:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: I believe in cocktail magic.
• 50:14
  Bri: Yes. Ditto. All right,
• 50:17
  Leyla Zmeskal: Great. Thank you so much for being on again.
• 50:19
  Bri: But if no one's drinking water after this podcast, we're gonna have words and Griffiths may come for you if you don't drink water. So listen to
• 50:26
  Trisha Smith: No water cocktail.
• 50:26
  Trisha Smith: Yes, it's good to have water, maybe a little vodka
• 50:32
  Bri: And cranberry juice. That's and it's faster
• 50:35
  Trisha Smith: And the water will be in the form of ice. Yes.
• 50:39
  Trisha Smith: Let's go do it.
• 50:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Alright, until next time,
• 50:42
  Trisha Smith: Cheers.
• 50:43
  Bri: Cheers.
• 50:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hey, like what you hear.
• 50:46
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• 50:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: Thanks for listening.
• 50:52
  Trisha Smith: Until next time,
• 50:53
  Diane Black: Late-a.