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Weird And Gross Christmas Traditions From Around The World · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: Say, do you want to take a look at some
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  Speaker 1: twelve of the most unusual Christmas traditions around the world.
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  Speaker 1: The Crampus. So this is a fun one. They made
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  Speaker 1: a movie about that. So ah, that's kind of scary looking.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't seem that Christmasy to me? You gotta be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of feel like kids might like Santa more
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  Speaker 1: than monster Crampus. Monster, But I don't know whatever. In
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  Speaker 1: Austro Bavarian Alpine folklore, the Crampus is Father Christmas's scary friend,
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  Speaker 1: a devilish creature who punishes naughty children throughout the festive period.
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  Speaker 1: The mythical beast, who is hairy with hoofs and large horns,
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  Speaker 1: is celebrated every year on fifth of December in many
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  Speaker 1: cities throughout Germany and Austria in a festival named a
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  Speaker 1: Crampus Knocked So Crampus Night often marked with a parade
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  Speaker 1: in which hundreds dress up as Crampus and chase each
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  Speaker 1: other through the streets. What do you guys think? Are
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  Speaker 1: you pro or anti Crampus? Are you pro or anti Christmas? Demon? Is?
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  Speaker 1: He says? Is it any worse than the Grinch? Well?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if Crampus turns nice
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  Speaker 1: though I mean Crampus, I would say is that it's
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  Speaker 1: scarier than the Grinch, and the Grinch had a dog,
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  Speaker 1: a funny little dog, all right. Catalonia Defecating logs defecating logs.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple of strange Catalan traditions, one of
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  Speaker 1: which is the kagatio, or defecating log m. In the
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  Speaker 1: fortnight leading up to Christmas, a grinning creature is greet
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  Speaker 1: is created out of a small log and placed on
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  Speaker 1: the dining room table. This log must be fed every
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  Speaker 1: day with fruit, nuts and sweets before on Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 1: it's beaten with sticks, excreting its goodies. So fruit nuts
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  Speaker 1: and sweets. I don't know. Does Notter Biden do that,
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  Speaker 1: because if he does, it's filled with crack, although actually
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be filled with crack because he would have
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  Speaker 1: already smoked all the crack before he could put it
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  Speaker 1: into it, so it wouldn't work for the Biden family.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think. Another fecal themed Catalan custom is the kaganar,
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  Speaker 1: a small defecating figurine which traditionally appears in nativity scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Why in nativity scenes what's going on here. In more
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  Speaker 1: recent years, they are sold in stores and Christmas markets
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  Speaker 1: throughout the region have taken the form of just about
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  Speaker 1: any celebrity, from Donald Trump to your least favorite rival footballer.
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  Speaker 1: So oh yes, they're all crapping. They all are squatting
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  Speaker 1: on like a toilet ers. They're all squatting, all of them. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's weird. Doesn't feel very Christmasy to me.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, I don't know. Japan Fried Chickens so
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  Speaker 1: they like KFC at Christmas. They like KFC in Japan
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas. Christmas isn't a national holiday in Japan, but
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't stop a large number of people from celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the festival. Father Christmas or Santa Corusho is said to
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  Speaker 1: have eyes in the back of his head to keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on naughty children, while Japanese Christmas cake is
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  Speaker 1: usually made up of sponge, whipped cream and strawberries. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds nice. In a further spin on Christmas food, many
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  Speaker 1: Japanese people had two branches of KFC on or around
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Day, with the week leading up to twenty five
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  Speaker 1: December reportedly being the chain's most profitable week of the
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  Speaker 1: year in Japan, and I don't know that sounds all
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  Speaker 1: very nice, doesn't it, Ma Christmas Chicken, Santa Santa Kuroshoo Norway.
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  Speaker 1: Hiding your brooms in Norway, it's thought that Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 1: coincides with the arrival of evil spirits and witches. In
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  Speaker 1: a bid to protect themselves, families hide all their brooms
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  Speaker 1: and mops before they go to bed. In Norway, it's
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  Speaker 1: thought that Christmas Eve coincides with the arrival of evil
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  Speaker 1: spirits and witches. They must have met my ex in
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  Speaker 1: laws then, based there at Christmas traditions. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that's the only time evil spirits and witches have showed up,
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  Speaker 1: have arrived at my house. But anyway, Yeah, so hide
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  Speaker 1: your your brooms and mops before you go to bed,
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  Speaker 1: just to be safe, just in case my ex in
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  Speaker 1: laws arrive at your house, all right, m Ukraine spiderwebs
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  Speaker 1: on trees. No, just no, just now, I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: going to eat this. No, just no, don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't like it. Greenland whale skin for dinner. I guess
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  Speaker 1: there's just not a lot to eat in Greenland, is
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  Speaker 1: the problem. So this is just what they have to do.
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  Speaker 1: Can we fancy up the whale skin a bit? If
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  Speaker 1: you think sprouts are bad, you should try one of
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  Speaker 1: Greenland's Christmas delicacies, mattech raw whale skin with blubber. Another
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  Speaker 1: is kivak, which is when a small bird is wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in seal skin, buried for several months, and then eaten
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  Speaker 1: once decomposed. I will repeat, a small bird is wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in seal skin, buried for several months, and then eden
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  Speaker 1: once decomposed. Worst Christmas ever? Who thought that was a
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  Speaker 1: good idea? I could see like, I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's like there's some starvation is happening or something, and
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  Speaker 1: somebody remembers, Oh, yeah, I buried this bird over here
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. I better eat it because I'm starving
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  Speaker 1: to death. Hey this is pretty good. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: get it. How can that? How can that be good?
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  Speaker 1: How can that be good? I don't need to try
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  Speaker 1: it to know that's not good. That doesn't taste good.
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  Speaker 1: Eating a rotten bird, rotting bird in seal skin. I
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  Speaker 1: know that's not good. I don't have to try it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's no like, you know, celebrity chef needs
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  Speaker 1: to go over there and film self eating it for
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  Speaker 1: me to know. I just know already ain't gonna be good.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be bad. There's a reason why people why everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Will you come home and say, hey, honey, what's for
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  Speaker 1: dinner and she says, Oh, it's a bird wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: seal skin that I buried in the backyard for three months. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're having that tonight. There's a reason why that never happens.
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  Speaker 1: We asked somebody, hey, what you have for dinner, and
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  Speaker 1: they say, oh, I had a small bird wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: seal skin that I buried for three months. I'm eating
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  Speaker 1: it tonight. Delicious. There's a reason why people don't eat
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  Speaker 1: that because it's fucking gross. And at Christmas talk about
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  Speaker 1: a way to ruin Christmas. I mean, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if you got the stuffing, you got the Brussels sprouts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got those nice baked potatoes, you got
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  Speaker 1: the cranberry, you know you got the Yorkshire pudding. If
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of that plate is a small bird
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in seal skin that's been buried for three months
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  Speaker 1: and decomposed, frankly, it ruins the whole goddamn dinner. Just
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  Speaker 1: give me all the fixings without the small bird wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in seal skin, buried for three months and is now decomposed.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that can taste good. If it was delish,
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  Speaker 1: people would do it. It can't be delicious. It's literally
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  Speaker 1: a small bird wrapped in seal skin and buried for
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  Speaker 1: three months and then eaten once decomposed. The word decomposed,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. That's a word you don't see on menus. Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason why you don't see decomposed on menus. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You go to a nice restaurant and you don't see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, decomposed chicken or decomposed anything. You know, decomposed pancakes. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason. You go to a restaurant, you look
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  Speaker 1: at the menu and you don't find the word decomposed
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  Speaker 1: on it anywhere, And there's no option. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: special isn't small bird wrapped in seal skin, buried for
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  Speaker 1: several months and then eating once decomposed. What's the special tonight? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Thank god, I was. I was scared it might be
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  Speaker 1: small bird wrapped in seal skin, buried for several months
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  Speaker 1: and then eating one ons decomposed. You go to the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store, you don't see, you know, like there's like
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  Speaker 1: a nice package that's got you know, half a dozen
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  Speaker 1: small birds wrapped in sealskin that have been buried for
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  Speaker 1: several months on are decomposed and ready to eat. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't eat, you know, I don't eat
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  Speaker 1: small birds wrapped in sealskin until they're properly decomposed. This
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  Speaker 1: one isn't decomposed enough. I'm gonna have to send it
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  Speaker 1: back to the kitchen. Oh sorry, I've got to complaint
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  Speaker 1: with my dinner. Yes, the small bird isn't decomposed enough.
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  Speaker 1: Can you bring Can you bring me one that's more decomposed, please?
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason why people aren't doing this. What the
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  Speaker 1: hell is there just nothing to eat in Greenland? Is
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  Speaker 1: there just literally nothing else? Is that just like the
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  Speaker 1: last thing that's left by Christmas? They've eaten everything else.
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  Speaker 1: They're snowed in, they've eaten everything else. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: left is that small bird they wrapped in sealskin and
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  Speaker 1: buried somewhere for several months. Gotta go dig it up now,
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  Speaker 1: can't we have something else? Are they doing this all
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  Speaker 1: the time? Well, it's for dinner, ma, small bird wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in seal skin, buried for several months and decomposed. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: not again. Can we have KFC? We can, but we've
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  Speaker 1: wrapped it in seal skin and buried it for several
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  Speaker 1: months until it's decomposed. We don't eat things unless they're decomposed. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Can we have burgers? We can, but I know they've
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  Speaker 1: been wrapped in seal skin, buried for several months. Now
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  Speaker 1: they're decomposed. Just once. I'd love to eat something that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't decomposed in the ground for three months and wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in seal skin. What's wrong with the people in Greenland?
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  Speaker 1: Literally anything is better than that. Literally anything now, I'll
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  Speaker 1: I'll just eat my shoe. You guys have all the
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  Speaker 1: small bird wrapped in seal skin, buried for several months
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  Speaker 1: and then eaton once decomposed. Anyway, pretty gross, right? How
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  Speaker 1: about this one? Slovakia Pudding throwing In Slovakia, it's a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas dinner tradition for most senior member, for the most
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  Speaker 1: senior men of the family to throw some of the pudding,
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  Speaker 1: usually made from milk, bread, poppy seeds and something sweet,
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  Speaker 1: onto the ceiling. The amount that sticks indicates the luck
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  Speaker 1: everyone should receive in the coming year. I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: they just ever skip throwing the pudding on the on
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling. It seems like a real waste of good
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  Speaker 1: pudding to me. I mean, it's still better than eating
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  Speaker 1: a small bird that's been wrapped in whale skin and
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  Speaker 1: buried in the ground for three months until it's decomposed.
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  Speaker 1: Anything is better than that. It just seems like a
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  Speaker 1: very silly like is that they have like a special
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  Speaker 1: tile on the ceiling or something that they throw the
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  Speaker 1: pudding onto. I wonder if they ever just like, don't
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  Speaker 1: throw the pudding on the ceiling and then say that
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  Speaker 1: they did. Now does everybody just have a big pudding
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  Speaker 1: stain on their ceiling in their houses. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems weird to me. Doesn't make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. Frankly, I think these are all terrible Christmases,
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  Speaker 1: and I think It's Christmas is much better here. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think they're all doing Christmas wrong, and I
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  Speaker 1: rebuke all of them, especially the eating the decomposed bird thing.
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  Speaker 1: Super gross. Anyway, That's all I'm going to say about that.
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