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Ep. 115 Psychedelic Reindeer Urine · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
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podcast about bathrooms recorded
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from my home bathroom. I'm your host,
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hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
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Welcome back, and Mary. Privy. Christmas.
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it is the holiday season.
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and here on privy, we hope
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you're having the holliest, jolliest
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living holiday that you can get for your money or
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for no money. Just a quick,
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just. I shove so much famous Dave's
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swine into my body this
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afternoon. my family went on a
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little Christmas train excursion today,
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and afterwards we went and got famous David's very
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good barbecue. And, golly,
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I dug on some swine, and
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it's just so much swine,
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and it's very good, but
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it's going to make for quite a situation later.
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I, also want to say that
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I'm here in the Pacific northwest of the United States,
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and for a minute there, it looked like we were going
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to get some truly holiday weather. Like we
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were looking like we were going to get some winter weather.
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we're talking. We were dealing with frost
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every morning. We were dealing with window
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scrapings and what looked like
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the makings of snow. And
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then all of a sudden, December 1
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hits Christmas. Privy. Christmas season
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starts, and it just downpours. Rain. It's
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rainmageddon. flood warnings,
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winter storm warnings. but not
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really because it's like almost 50 degrees. It's insane.
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it's as if it waited for the Christmas season
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to just be wet. And
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it's fine. We live in Oregon. We know what we're
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getting into. But I will
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admit, those days
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of frosty weather,
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I was kind of getting my hopes up that we were going to see
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some white wet,
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but naveray, not yet.
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Also, my beard just got
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stuck in my pop cover on my microphone,
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so that's a fun new feature. there's a first time
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for everything. but this week,
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in the past, we like
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to really focus in for the
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Christmas season and focus in on some
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weird Christmas related
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traditions that, of course,
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have to do with the bathroom. And
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in past episodes, we have discussed
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catalonian Christmas traditions, including
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the. And. And the,
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I think nadal. Ah. Which is like the
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pooping log. It's this little log that poops
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out little guys. it's pretty fun stuff.
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we talked about the Christmas carp that is stored
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in the bathtub.
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we've even ventured out there to talk about where
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Santa poops. Oh, yeah, of
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course we've discussed Mr. Hanky. Now,
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we will be returning for a
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round three on Mr. Hanky. Here on the
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pod, thus continuing
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our adventures in hunter,
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not having seen south park, but venturing
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into south park via the turd that is
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Mr. Hanky the Christmas poo. And that's for another
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time. Last year, we were also joined in
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bathroom by Santa himself.
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He was pretty pissed, and was upset that
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two years ago I had told all the kids to,
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put the xlax in the cookies. So,
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Santa, if you're hearing this, we got a few weeks till
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Christmas, and, I'm telling the kids
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right now, do not
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wink. Put the
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xlax in his
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cookies,
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stir it into his milk. and so
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this year, I'm privy. I went out
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and I kind of started to
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just delve into the
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possibilities for our privy Christmas season.
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What sort of bathroom Christmas wonders are we going
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to find ourselves just merry up to our necks
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with? And what
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I'm finding is, while there are plenty of
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bathroom traditions that relate to Christmas,
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some of them are
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lackluster. And so I was going
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to originally discuss these
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german chocolate pooping pigs, but
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it was relatively hard to find a lot
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of information about these. I heard about them, and then I tried
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to go look them up, and I'm not convinced. I heard
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about them on a podcast where it's like this lady is telling a
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story about her family and how they have this tradition where they
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put out these pigs that poop out little
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german chocolates before the season, and
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it's all over Germany. Well, I assure you, and
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no shade to the woman on, that
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podcast, but it's not that widespread
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because I went looking, and boy, howdy,
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did I not catch any fish.
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I couldn't find anything about german chocolate Christmas
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pooping pigs. I would have loved to. Trust
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me, nothing sounds more thrilling to
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me than the idea of german chocolate Christmas pooping
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pigs. Like, it just sounds good.
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And if it's anything to do with
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what I did at famous David's very good barbecue
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establishment, I might make an
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appearance later. but, yeah, it just was kind
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of difficult to find anything about
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it. And while that's not very interesting,
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there are a number of strange and loosely
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or directly related Christmas traditions out
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there, but none of those, and not all of those directly
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relates to the bathroom. And
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I should also confess
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that as time goes on and we want
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to explore bathroom related Christmas traditions
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more and more, we're going to have to continue to
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stretch our definitions further and further. I think, unless
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people want to start making up wild bathroom Christmas
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traditions, like,
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we're swapping out the coal for something
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brown.
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Oh, baby.
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Waterloo.
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We were pleased to have Santa stop by the show last
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year, and who knows?
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I've Santa proofed
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the recording studio. My bathroom here
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pretty much, I doubt we're going to get a visit from
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Santa. I'm pretty confident that he
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had his piece last year, and he's a
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busy man. You got to let him be. You got to
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let him be.
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but this week on
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privy, to get us into the
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privy Christmas tradition and
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mood and season,
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we are going to discuss something that is
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less a tradition and more of a
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theory tied
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to a very specific moment
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in history.
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Every year, jolly old St. Nicholas
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Claus flies his magical sleigh around the
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world to deliver toys to good girls and boys.
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Nowadays,
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here in the year 2023, here comes angry dad
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rant. we can't say a kid is being bad.
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Santa's taken those toys to girls and boys and
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everything else, I suppose, whether they've been good or
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not. because
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we can't say behavior is bad.
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Oh, all behavior is just
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communication. Yeah, they're communicating
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that they need a whooping. No. but it's just
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like the
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idea of Santa, the naughty and nice
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list. I think that's going away, and I think it's going
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away because we want children,
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and as a result, them, as young
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adults, to be entitled to whatever they want and
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get. so why
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try? But everyone knows
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that, good boy and girl or
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not, Santa travels all over the
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world. We all know. How. How does
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Santa travel all over
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this great world of ours? We're going to say it with
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me on
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3123
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magical reindeer. Now, that's right.
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Now, it's not pixie dust, and it's not elven
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magic. It's magical reindeer.
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and we all know those magical reindeers by
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name. Let's say them. Sleepy, dopey,
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bashful, sneezy, grumpy, happy in
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doc, that's a
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goof. I know that that's not the reindeer's
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names,
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silly. And I don't know if you knew
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this, but they were fixing, like, the
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Disney company when they were getting ready to
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make, their original, like, 1920s or
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1930s snow White, the good one, not the
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nonsense that Disney is fixing to pump out nowadays.
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It's freaking stupid. But
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they were going to have, like, 16
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or 23 reindeers or dwarves.
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Imagine if they were little reindeers running around. But they were
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also had on the docket. Wheezy,
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lazy, jumpy,
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dizzy. Hickey. Say what now,
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Gabby? Nifty? Sniffy?
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What's he sniffing? Swifty.
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Puffy. I wonder
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why we got rid of that one. Stuffy,
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burpee. And not to mention tubby, baldy, defi,
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and shorty. Now, some of
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these were quote unquote canceled before it was
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cool to quote unquote cancel something. looking at you,
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tubby, baldy, defy, and shorty. Like, apparently, we can't say
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those.
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Like, if someone's bald, they bald. Like, it's
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fine. It's not bad.
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It's not a problem. But if you're
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bald, you're bald. Former guest
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and friend of the show, Michael Wall. He is bald.
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He'll tell you flat out, yeah, I'm bald. It ain't
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nothing wrong with it. It ain't nothing wrong with being short, either.
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Everybody, just needs to chill out.
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Conversely,
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the story of Santa would be so much more fun
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if his sleigh were pulled by Snow White,
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seven to 23 dwarves. It'd be so
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good. But no. Santa's reindeer are
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Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, Cupid,
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Donner, blitzen, and
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the most famous Reindeer of all, Rudolph,
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the red nose. Why is
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this nose so red? one of the
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things with these reindeers that
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has been a struggle for some time, and
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we've taken a crack at it over and over in
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the Christmas lore,
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but people have been trying to figure out what makes these
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reindeer fly. Are they magical? Like,
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I've seen reindeer. I've seen reindeer in real life,
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and most of the ones I've seen can't
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inherently fly.
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could you imagine being out hunting and you're out and you're
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walking around in the woods, and you just look up and you just see a
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reindeer just we over top
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of you. It's crazy.
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And for a long time, there have been a lot of theories as
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to how this works. How do these reindeer get.
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I'm looking at the. Oh, there was a farting reindeer on
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YouTube at one point that he gave them jet
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propulsion. I think we've had jet
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propulsion of various types. there's been a
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number of theories. Is it something
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Santa does to the reindeer, for the
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reindeer? I know last year, Santa said he's taking baths with the
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reindeer. Maybe he's, like, farting in the bathtub
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water, and, maybe it's, like imbibing
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the reindeers with magic. maybe
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it's something in the water, quite literally, this bathtub
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water or other water that they're drinking. Or maybe it's
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something in Santa sleigh that when the reindeer are hitched
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to it, the magical properties are extended
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to them. Well,
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a number of theories about how these reindeer are getting up in the
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air have been posited in some tellings of the story.
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Looking at you, Rudolph, the reindeers seem to be
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inherently born with the ability to fly. And
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with enough practice, I'm going to say
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bad parenting and
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I guess bullying the reindeer can figure out
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how to fly. That's kind of the message of Rudolph.
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the reindeer and Rudolph seem to just. They're, like,
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born able to fly, and they just have to realize it.
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in other accounts, the reindeer and Santa
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sleigh seem to be able to fly on a combination
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of magic, usually in the form of Christmas
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spirit, as they do an elf Rocket propulsion,
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also an elf, or by way of magnetic
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influence based on the poles.
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Santa's big magnet. Man, that'd be pretty
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fun. I
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think magnets might
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be the closest thing to magic that exists.
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Like, think about it.
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You take something that's magnetic, you got this
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magnet, and it looks like a rock,
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and you put it next to metal, and it sucks it
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together. Or if you put it next to another
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magnet, it's like pushing the magnet away. It's like there is
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something, propelling that magnet away from
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it. If you didn't understand
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magnets, I don't think I actually understand
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magnets. I think it's something
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about electrons. I don't know. I'm not a scientist, but it's
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hoogity boogity stuff, magnets.
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But many of these accounts state that Santa
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is the one sprinkling or feeding the
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reindeer with flying powder, pixie dust, or
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something. Others, in order to
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explain with science by turning it into
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essentially magic, how Santa delivers all
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those gifts and flies, suggest that
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Santa is warping time and space to do
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so. I think another word for this is a
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portal or wormhole. And I don't think Santa's doing
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this, but something
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that's interesting.
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However, Santa gets
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his reindeer flying today, and I'm
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sure they're taking practice flights, because we're sitting at t
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-20 days until the big day at the release
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of this episode at the beginning of privy Christmas.
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But I want to ask the question,
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did Santa's reindeer always fly?
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And if not, when did they start to
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fly?
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Parents, if you're listening
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and if your young one is listening with
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you and they are looking forward to surprises
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by Santa this year, you may want
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to jump the pod ahead.
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go ahead and pause it now, and
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you can jump ahead to.
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You're going to want to skip ahead till about
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the 33 to 34 minutes,
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mark. Okay,
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and now on with the
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discussion.
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We need to acknowledge something.
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When it comes to Santa Claus, a lot
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of what is happening today
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is story to try to make
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sense of something. The tale of Santa
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comes from all over the place, but it has some
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roots in nordic traditions. In
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fact, this story that we are going,
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this theory that we're going to look at, might shed light on
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a number of our traditions. Again, it's a
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theory, but it is as
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good of one as others.
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The first known depiction of
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Santa using a reindeer on the front of his
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sleigh is in an
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illustrated poem titled old
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Santa Claus with much delight,
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where Santa's sleigh is seen being
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pulled by a single lone
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reindeer. Two years
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later, the famous twas the
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night before Christmas was released,
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depicting Santa's quote, eight tiny
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reindeer. We hit them before. Let's hit them
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again. Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen,
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comet, cupid, Donner, blitzen. Sorry,
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Rudolph, you didn't make the cut on first round there.
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But they decided to ask the
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publisher of that original poem, old Santa
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Claus, with much delight, they said, and it was
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a man named Gilly.
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And so the author of the poem was
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unknown, but William Gilly was the
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publisher of the
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paper that that poem was written and put
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into. And,
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in fact, much of the art in this piece is
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where we get our lore of Santa
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Claus.
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It's where we build the character.
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But they ask this William
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Gilly
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why he had depicted, or
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why the author of the poem
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had depicted Santa as driving a
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reindeer sleigh. And he
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said that the author told them that it was
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about way out north of there,
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out by the nordic and siberian north,
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where many of the native peoples of the lands
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dwell. There are these stories of
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antlerd animals that were said to have
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been able to fly. It
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was later discovered that these were likely the
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native people to Scandinavia and other
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nearby regions. Now,
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at first, it was originally believed that these were
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not actually reindeer, but some sort of a
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cryptid reindeer hybrid
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creature imbued with some sort
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of special power that allows it to fly.
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It's spooky. Think of, like,
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skinwalkers, but it's flying reindeers you
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don't always think of.
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Could. We could get a really creepy
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Santa reboot movie where he's got, like,
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skinwalker reindeer. That could be fun.
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It was also discovered that these
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reindeer, known as Lapland
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reindeer for the region of Scandinavia they come
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from, were known for one
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thing, if Snoop Dogg
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gets zooted on Mary Jane. These
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reindeer were known for tripping
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over some magical mushrooms.
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Record says these reindeer would eat the red
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and white colored mushrooms. The
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name amanita mUscaria. Now,
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Amanita muscaria, this mushroom
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that is native to the region
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contains natural
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hallucinogens. Muskamol. Don't
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know. An ebotanic acid
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along with the protein toxin. Muscarine.
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This is not a magic
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mushroom that makes people tweak their bean
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and flop around the floor. And
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people are growing illegally.
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Those mushrooms, are
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psilocybin mushrooms.
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The toxin in the
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mushrooms that these deer are digging on
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is muscarine. Now,
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it's a lot more toxic.
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Fly, agaric is dangerous
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stuff to that's these mushrooms. Fly agaric. Early
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laplanders, the people of the area and
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Siberians probably took their chances
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with the fungus to while away the knights. The idea
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is that it is
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known as the happiness
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mushroom, and it is believed
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that as technology advanced, it quit
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being used to while the days away.
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It's a less toxic form of
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perhaps entertainment for these people.
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These fungi were relatively rare. Is usually
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reserved for special occasions, holidays, if
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you will. Now, it should be
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noted there are a few things about this
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mushroom that lend this to being credible. First,
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it's real. these mushrooms do, in fact, exist,
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from what I can tell. Second, they are often
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found growing under conifer and other
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evergreen trees in the region. And their
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bright red and white color are reminiscent
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of the red, white, and green that we
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are so fond of in this
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season. Magic
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mushrooms. Merry Christmas, everybody.
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And when I said there were theories about how SAnta's
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reindeer fly, I bet you didn't expect this, but it's
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not the worst. We're not even there yet.
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Because while in these accounts,
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and again, these are all theories,
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but in these theories and accounts,
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the reindeer seemed to be having a swell time of
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it. Apparently, someone of the
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SAMI people tried one of these
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shrooms at one point, and the toxin was too much, and
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they did die. Now,
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the properties, it is
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said the properties are toxic to people outright. And you might
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hear that and say, okay, well, people don't need to eat them.
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That's fine. Let's just stay away from these wild
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mushrooms. Like, let's just chill out. Let
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the reindeer eat them. They like them.
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And also, hunter, how
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does anybody even fly from these shrooms where we're
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getting there? Apparently these
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deer were zoinking so hard
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that some sort of shaman or witch doctor
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or medicine person or something said, we
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have gat to figure out how we can
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have that for ourselves. My
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dude Rudolph is tripping Balls
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deluxe, and we got to
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get a piece of that pie. So
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they did the only thing that made sense. Now, on the count
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of three, I want you
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to take a minute. I want you to think to yourself,
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what do you think they did? The
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reindeer are tripping like woofie.
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They want a little piece. They want something of that.
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What do you think they did on 3123
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go? They drank the filtered mushroom urine of the
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reindeer? Yep. Oh, my
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know, people of
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the past, if somehow the people of
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the past are listening,
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if perhaps a time traveler,
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greetings. If you are that time traveler,
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if somehow you have come forward in time
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or backwards, I'm not going to try to figure out time travel
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stuff. And you have gotten a hold of this
24:38
podcast of all the ones out there. I know.
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but please go back and tell
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people of the past to quit drinking urine. Like,
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just stop. There's so much
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better. Take them Gatorade,
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take them Waterloo Seltzer, take them
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anything to
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replace their desire to apparently drink deer
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urine. I don't understand it, but turns
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out, after
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the deer eat the mushrooms, their body processes
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much of the toxins, and their
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PeA, while stanky
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and still full of those hallucinogenic
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toxins
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has filtered much of what will kill you out.
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Now, in one account
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of this, I should note that this urine is
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round three, because, again, these are theories, and there's all
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sorts of different theories about how this urine gets in the system. M
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but one of these theories said that the rich people in
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the area would boil down the mushrooms, so
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that way they could eat the mushrooms. They would have their
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euphoria, and while they're tripping and
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zoinking hard, they pee in the snow. The
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deer lap that up. They drank the
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rich people's urine, and, then, having
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seen the results of both
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the rich people and the reindeer,
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the poor of society and
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the less cultured of society.
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Get some on round three. P
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I'm skeptical of this third round
26:14
version. Some versions of this
26:17
tale also note that ceremonies were
26:19
heralded by a stick placed upright
26:22
through the smokehole of the shaman's hut, the
26:25
hole through which the spirit of the shaman supposedly
26:28
exited and entered. It's a chimney.
26:31
It's a chimney. It was also common
26:34
for the shaman to offer samples of fly
26:37
agar agaric, that's the mushroom, to his
26:39
flock, samples which were carried in a
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leather sack. It's a
26:45
bag. It's the big bag. According to
26:48
some accounts, the association between these rituals and
26:51
mushrooms was so strong that the shamans
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decorated their fur clothing with red and
26:56
white, the colors of the mushroom. It's
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Santa. So there you have it.
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A cheerful man dressed in red white fur, bearing
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a sack of presents. Add this to the imagery of
27:08
the smokehole and the hallucinating reindeer, and you got
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yourself a jolly old saint Nick.
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Well, similar to the Sami
27:18
people, the Evans people
27:21
share a lot in common. And one of
27:24
their shared notions are a focus on
27:27
reindeer. Now,
27:30
in the area around where the Evans or
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Evans people, I don't know, I don't know how to say it.
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there are these megalithic, quote, reindeer
27:41
stones. Now, some of these megalithic
27:44
reindeer stones date back 3000 years old. They're these
27:47
big, like, rock pillar looking things.
27:50
But on them, on these rocket
27:52
pillars are depictions of
27:55
winged reindeer. Winged reindeer?
27:58
Who had ever heard of such a thing?
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Why? Yet still
28:04
we do not have a reason for why the reindeer
28:06
are flying. What would cause
28:09
these reindeers to take
28:12
flight?
28:14
There's AMPLe EVIDenCe that,
28:17
again, these shaman were drinking reindeer
28:20
urine. And in their culture, the reindeer
28:23
often served as spirit guides.
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You do the sweat lodge thing, you do a
28:31
sweat, and your spirit guide comes to you
28:34
and it guides you into further understanding. That's the idea
28:36
here. And
28:39
during these guided trips, it is often
28:42
said that the reindeer are
28:45
seen to be flying,
28:47
guiding the shaman to various
28:50
gifts. And you can start
28:53
to see how the Santa Claus things
28:56
start slipping in here.
28:58
Psychedelic reindeer urine.
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Coupled that with the idea that as the people
29:05
are drinking this thing, they see
29:08
reindeer and their hallucinations make them
29:11
zoink, and the reindeer start taking off and flying
29:14
around the room.
29:17
The connection is not a straight line,
29:20
and rather, I believe I'm going to give
29:23
you the privy. Cast Hunter Hoover's brief history of
29:26
SantA's reindeer as follows.
29:29
Reindeer exists.
29:31
Reindeer exist in part of the world
29:34
where there are also magic mushrooms of
29:37
the fly agric variety.
29:41
The native people of this region love reindeer
29:44
and view them as a creature to be revered and as
29:47
a guide through life. These
29:49
reindeer at some point ate those
29:52
magic mushrooms through their
29:55
curiosity, an attempt to use,
29:57
quote, all parts of the animal, or
30:00
perhaps pure curiosity or
30:03
mysticism. Some shamans in the
30:05
region of Siberia, or somewhere
30:08
towards our north pole,
30:10
consumed tainted reindeer
30:13
urine, feeling as if they have
30:16
been guided by the reindeer to do so.
30:20
What ensued was the trip of a lifetime, and in
30:23
this DrUG induced state, they
30:26
saw flying reindeer.
30:29
This story of the flying reindeer gets told
30:32
and passed and moves about until
30:34
the unknown author of old Santa Claus, with
30:37
much delight, decides to depict Santa
30:40
who hails from the north, perhaps near
30:43
Siberia, as having a flying
30:46
reindeer as a nod to the old
30:48
shaman stories,
30:51
human imagination and the need to turn Santa
30:54
into a thing of magic and mysticism. And
30:57
let's be honest, capitalism. Like, we got to make some
31:00
money off this Guy. Like, what's the story?
31:02
There fills in the rest.
31:06
And the argument then is this,
31:09
do Santa's reindeer
31:12
fly,
31:15
or
31:17
do those who see his reindeer
31:20
fly? Much like the samian events,
31:23
shamans of old simply perceive
31:25
this as such due to the
31:28
effects of psychedelic reindeer
31:30
urine. Is Santa somehow
31:33
spraying the populace with
31:35
psychedelic reindeer urine to make us perceive
31:39
and believe that the reindeer do fly? Or maybe,
31:42
perhaps it's just those who catch Santa
31:45
in a tirade and he somehow
31:47
spritzes them with psychedelic reindeer
31:50
urine, thus to make them see the reindeer
31:53
fly away.
31:57
Either way, this
31:59
Christmas, leave Santa's deer, some
32:02
carrots, and if you're funny,
32:05
leave a handful of, like, just classic pizza topping
32:08
mushrooms out. It'd be a nice nod for Santa.
32:15
Welcome back, kids. don't worry, your secrets
32:18
are safe with me. Thank you for
32:21
joining us, on this adventure
32:24
down reindeer Lane.
32:27
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