Get ready to embark on a cosmic and culinary journey with us – a thrilling voyage through the mysteries of ancient supermassive black holes and the diverse world of traditional Christmas cuisines. The discovery of a colossal ancient black hole has piqued our curiosity and challenged our comprehension of the universe. As we grapple with the enormity of this celestial beast, we lighten the mood with jokes about moving our podcast to Mars and the humor in gifting beans for Christmas.
Switching gears, we voyage from the edge of the universe to the warmth of kitchen stoves and inviting dinner tables around the globe. We savor the diverse holiday dishes from countries far and wide – from Poland’s traditional meat-free feast to Venezuela’s deliciously sweet and savory bread. We also chatter about Norway’s succulent slow-cooked lamb dish and South Africa’s indulgent Malva pudding. As we tantalize your taste buds and immerse you in unique yuletide food traditions, we assure you, you'll be left hungry for more.
As our festive episode winds down, we dive into a hilarious hunt for the quirkiest Christmas gifts on the web. From possum-flavored candy canes to a mom’s-last-nerve candle, there’s no shortage of chuckles here. You'll be left in hysterics and perhaps even inspired to add some humor to your holiday gift-giving. As we sign off, we share our personal plans for the upcoming Christmas break and extend our heartfelt holiday wishes to you, our dedicated listeners. So buckle in, keep the festive spirit high, and join us on this wild ride. Stay weird with us, and may your Christmas be filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of weird and wonderful moments.
Get ready to embark on a cosmic and culinary journey with us – a thrilling voyage through the mysteries of ancient supermassive black holes and the diverse world of traditional Christmas cuisines. The discovery of a colossal ancient black hole has piqued our curiosity and challenged our comprehension of the universe. As we grapple with the enormity of this celestial beast, we lighten the mood with jokes about moving our podcast to Mars and the humor in gifting beans for Christmas.
Switching gears, we voyage from the edge of the universe to the warmth of kitchen stoves and inviting dinner tables around the globe. We savor the diverse holiday dishes from countries far and wide – from Poland’s traditional meat-free feast to Venezuela’s deliciously sweet and savory bread. We also chatter about Norway’s succulent slow-cooked lamb dish and South Africa’s indulgent Malva pudding. As we tantalize your taste buds and immerse you in unique yuletide food traditions, we assure you, you'll be left hungry for more.
As our festive episode winds down, we dive into a hilarious hunt for the quirkiest Christmas gifts on the web. From possum-flavored candy canes to a mom’s-last-nerve candle, there’s no shortage of chuckles here. You'll be left in hysterics and perhaps even inspired to add some humor to your holiday gift-giving. As we sign off, we share our personal plans for the upcoming Christmas break and extend our heartfelt holiday wishes to you, our dedicated listeners. So buckle in, keep the festive spirit high, and join us on this wild ride. Stay weird with us, and may your Christmas be filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of weird and wonderful moments.
There's a huge black hole up there, dude.
Speaker 2:What are you talking about, bro?
Speaker 1:Apparently. On the 2nd of December, scientists discovered an ancient black hole.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:We're all gonna die.
Speaker 2:It's over. You know what? We thought we could bring you an awesome Christmas episode, but I guess the episode is ending early. We'll have to cancel the show. I don't know what to do for our listeners.
Speaker 1:We justno See. We need to keep at it until we're sucked into oblivion.
Speaker 2:What if we relocate our? Podcast station to Mars.
Speaker 1:Angle matter Black holes is gonna. We should be far Everything.
Speaker 2:No, we should be far enough away.
Speaker 1:No, all nine planets, it's just gonna.
Speaker 2:It's not that big. Yeah, it's huge. I don't think it's that big. Are you sure? No way. Ancient.
Speaker 1:I guess it could stop any minute.
Speaker 2:Well, here's what we could do. See, we could go out to Mars, record a podcast while everybody else is getting sucked up by the black hole. And then we're gonna move back to Pluto and then everything else will get sucked up by the black hole and freeze the death and we just keep moving back out further into the universe. We'll be fine. I'll bring a space heater. We'll be okay.
Speaker 1:Where's the spaceship? How are we getting there? I know a guy, you know a guy.
Speaker 2:I know a guy. Okay, we'll make it work.
Speaker 1:You're more connected than I thought.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she just have no idea of the people that I know.
Speaker 1:Apparently not. Yeah, we'll make it work. Well see, as soon as you're going away from Earth, it's just gonna.
Speaker 2:Oh my Lord. So we wanted to bring you a Christmas episode, but instead of just a Christmas episode, we had to bring some breaking news that literally just broke and I guess nobody's talking about it, because I have not heard one single person talk about this at all, and I thought it was really funny. Actually, you're the one that found it, wasn't it? I found it, you found it, yeah, so let's get right into this and let's hit it. So what's going on, jess?
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna have to read it, because All right Scientists discovered an ancient, supermassive black hole, supermassive.
Speaker 2:Supermassive.
Speaker 1:Supermassive.
Speaker 2:That's one word supermassive.
Speaker 1:Supermassive. So you know it's serious, it's serious.
Speaker 2:When they say supermassive.
Speaker 1:Which poses a major challenge for astrophysicists. No, you don't say.
Speaker 2:Not a threat to the universe, just a challenge to astrophysicists.
Speaker 1:The formation of supermassive black holes remains a mystery, particularly for those that existed early in the life of the universe. However, one idea is that they formed from collapsing gas clouds.
Speaker 2:You know what they say about gas clouds. They formed black holes apparently.
Speaker 1:Well, and they come after eating ramen.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was beans and those. I'm gonna gift somebody some beans this Christmas.
Speaker 1:Don't give me any beans.
Speaker 2:I don't need any beans. You know that is a great Christmas idea we're gonna eventually talk about gift ideas but I think that's a great one. Just wrap up some beans and put them in somebody's stock Bean bag, no, just a can. Just a can of beans A can. Yeah, they won't know what it is. You just wrap it up, make it look like it's a I don't know, like a lamp or something, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Just make it look like cylinder light In the bottom of the lamp.
Speaker 2:It'll be the best Christmas gift they ever got. I don't think they'll agree with that, but at the center of nearly ever galaxy in the cosmos sits a monster, a black hole with mass, million, millions or even billions of times heavier than our sun. When and how these enormous objects formed is an open question in the astrophysics community. This is by big thinkcom, which is a weird name to begin with, but you know they're trying to make us think intelligent, I guess Go ahead.
Speaker 1:Recently, in a paper published in nature, astronomy scientists reported the discovery of an ancient supermassive black hole, one that existed very early in life of the universe. And how's it still there, then? While some enthusiasts have claimed that the observation of these gigantic black holes has disproved the theory of the big bang, this is a hasty conclusion. However, it is certainly true that the existence of very early supermassive black holes will require astronomers to rethink some things. Hey, that's fine.
Speaker 2:I think they're guessing because you know you can't, as far as we know.
Speaker 2:first, off first off, they have trouble. They have trouble getting off the planet. How are they going to measure what a black hole is and where it came from and how it's like, oh, this black hole must have been here at the beginning of the universe. How do you know that? Did you go up there with a measuring stick and just stand next to the black hole and be like, look, hey, this is how much it. You know what. This must be super old. They might as well just walk up there and knock on it and see if it'll make any sound. Yeah, it seems old enough. Supermassive black holes. Most black holes are made when a very massive star burns through its fuel and then collapses under the weight of its own gravity. Pretty cool fact, it was depressed, it collapsed.
Speaker 2:I told you they started to get depression. Stellar mass black holes are typically in the range of five to a hundred times the mass of the sun, which by far should swallow our entire galaxy up.
Speaker 1:In contrast, the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are much bigger. The black really dang. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy called Sagittarius A what the heck there's one right in the middle of our galaxy, of course, why not? Has a mass equal to about 4.3 million on. So what I knew about it was wrong, apparently, but even that pales compared to the heaviest black hole known. Tundin 618, found at the center of a quasar, weighs in on a staggering 66 billion solar masses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, they don't really know. They're just guessing on density and what we can see from here. Mind you, we can't see anything from here.
Speaker 1:Just how we are.
Speaker 2:We are a small speck. If any of you want to study science and all that, we are the smallest speck in the universe compared to all the other universes out there. So if you think you're alone, yeah, think again. We are a dot. I'm going to tell you right now we're just a small dot on this thing that we call space.
Speaker 1:Just how these giant black holes reform remains a mystery even today. While one idea is that individual stellar mass black holes combined, it is difficult to envision that there has been enough time since the universe began 15.8 billion years ago for enough mergers to have occurred to account for the observed distribution of supermassive black holes. And it's even harder to imagine that giant black holes from early in the universe. Well, I bet they did. I bet they'll be here after we're gone too, because apparently they're not sucking things in and destroying stuff.
Speaker 2:I guess, which is what we all thought.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I thought they were the whole time.
Speaker 2:Sure, we all thought they were just like vacuums. It goes into a lot more detail here. Let's see what we got. Let's just I'll just read the next section. All right, j WST weighs in. The James Webb Space Telescope is able to image ancient galaxies, one that existed a few hundred million years after the universe began. In the aforementioned paper, astronomers combined a J WST observation with separate data from the Chandra X-ray office laboratory I don't know yeah, to identify a distant galaxy that contained a supermassive black hole. When black holes absorb matter from the surroundings, the matter heats up as it falls inward and emits characteristic at grace.
Speaker 2:Again, let's let's keep in mind People that half of the stuff in science is just guesswork. They're saying that the universe began a hundred million years and like millions and millions and millions of years ago, but they weren't here, so nobody really knows and they're not going to know. They want to just guess and then they want to call that fact. So sorry, guys, but just don't believe everything you read. But besides that, this is really cool and I always thought growing up black holes, like we just never really talked about them much.
Speaker 1:I was so wrong. Yeah, it was absorb matter.
Speaker 2:They do absorb matter but they're not like.
Speaker 1:Sound like what I thought they were they probably not.
Speaker 2:as you know, in the in the movies they make it think, they make it seem like it's just a vacuum and in like five minutes everything's gone. But that's not the case.
Speaker 2:Just like gravity and everything has its own laws, I'm sure black holes have their own laws as well. And again, there's probably a lot of stuff we don't know about black holes either. So that's, that's crazy. Astronomers were surprised when they found out that the mass of the black hole at the center of the ancient galaxy was about the same as the total mass of the stars in that galaxy. To put this into perspective, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way glad, yet at the center of the Milky Way is only about point one percent the mass of the entire galaxy. Given that this ancient supermassive black hole formed so quickly after the universe began, it cannot have been created by the merging of stellar mass black holes. Instead, another mechanism is required. So, in other words, you know, don't freak out, we're not going to be entering a black hole anytime soon.
Speaker 1:Oh shucks.
Speaker 2:I'm sure like and they're talking like, oh well, this thing formed over, you know, and like grew over hundreds of millions of years. So, yeah, it's not like I don't think we'll even see it in our grandkids lifetime, even see it grow that big. So we'll see, we'll see. They'll keep us up to date, I'm sure. But we had to bring you the News of sometimes they don't really like to talk about science and space, and we thought this article was interesting.
Speaker 1:I'd change it up a little.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's pretty cool. And then if you ever want to study, you know science and black holes, look it up for yourself. This is big think dot. Big think dot com again Hard science and you guys can look it up and you know, kind of come to your own opinion of what you guys think black holes are. I think half of it is we know what it is, but there's, just like the rest of the universe, I think there's a lot of mystery. We don't know.
Speaker 1:No, it's dangerous, as I thought it'd be. If there's one right in the center of the Milky Way, yeah, we're not going to be like out of the universe.
Speaker 2:tomorrow, let's put it that way yeah there's no way It'll be all right. You know, sometimes, though, when I think of black holes, I know one black hole that is very close to me actually.
Speaker 1:This is a children's show. Don't forget, not let I am keeping it family friendly.
Speaker 2:Ok, I just know of one black hole that is very close to me that we can both relate with, and that's my stomach.
Speaker 1:When I'm hungry, I really just want to eat and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat when we're both eating together. If I get too far, my hair man, here we go, finish us off for it.
Speaker 2:OK, I can't finish it. My friend AJ will finish it.
Speaker 1:But there's also what like seven hungry cats yeah, we got plenty of.
Speaker 2:We got plenty of animals.
Speaker 1:It won't go to waste, no matter what.
Speaker 2:No matter what. So that leads me into what we're going to talk about next, which last week of your member. We talked about Christmas traditions, which I thought was pretty cool. Yeah we went over a lot of weird traditions that not just the the US has, but around the world different countries have.
Speaker 1:I think that was only around the world, like not.
Speaker 2:No, we talked about the US too.
Speaker 1:What I forgot.
Speaker 2:This guy Come on.
Speaker 1:Mr Memory guy, this guy.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to edit this out of the show we talked about, the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2:I can't take this guy anywhere. So if anybody wants to install a black hole in the center of our universe right now, I'd be gladly no. So we talked about the Christmas traditions around the world, we talked about the traditions in the US, and we talked about our own personal traditions and what we like to do.
Speaker 1:I have one.
Speaker 2:But what we need to talk about Is, along with traditions, is Christmas food dishes. So one thing I love about Christmas is eating and boys, there's some good food about Christmas time, so let's dive into that next, right here on the WWE and all of you coming back. Welcome back to Weird World Variety.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, sorry for the help Scared.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you are watching with your ears. We'll be right back In the. In the US we have a lot of food that a lot of people like. I'm sure it's different by state. I'm just go go over what me personally like the foods that I've experienced during Christmas. Number one ham. Ham, we love ham at Christmas time, stuffing Sometimes stuff. And yeah, we green beans, ham, mashed potatoes, mashed potatoes kind of similar to Thanksgiving in a way, but like more.
Speaker 1:There ain't much. There's not like certain things.
Speaker 2:I don't think we serve cranberries. I don't remember. I'm pretty sure we don't serve cranberries, but we do during Thanksgiving, and then we'll make just random dishes like that and we'll make some extra ones that go go with it. Like my son likes ham and fries, so he wants fries with his meal and so we make him French fries or you know so little stuff like that. But besides the US and I'm sure you guys have a meal that you're after every Christmas and I'm sure it's delicious we're going to talk about dishes from around the world. Some of these names I'm going to tell you right now. Some of these names I am not going to get correct.
Speaker 2:We're going to do our best. We're going to do our best, but this was actually posted in December of 2020. And I thought it was interesting and I was like, hey, let's take this and let's look at some of the meals that people outside the US are eating around the world. So I was like sweet, this is 15. This is by National Geographic. If you don't know National Geographic, you're probably raised under a rock. This is 15 Christmas dishes from around the world by National Geographic. Here we go. Number one I'm going to tell you right now I don't know how to say this Poland, and it's spelled B, a, r, s, z, c, z. Bart's.
Speaker 1:I'd say or barge, barge.
Speaker 2:Barge is, I don't know, poland's meat free Christmas Eve dinner. Meat free, meat free, yeah Well, I like the meat. But you know what? Hey, more power to him begins with with the first star appearing in the night sky the 12 dish feast, holy cow, wow. Representing the 12 apostles and the 12 months of the year, which traditionally include carp, progri, progies. I'm sorry, I've had progies, I should know how to say it. Phil Dumflin is what progies are? I can't talk. I'm about to be fired from my job, and a selection of fruit and poppy seed desserts kicks off with beet root soup, bart's. So that's what it. That's what it is Right, beets root soup, okay.
Speaker 1:So it's saying all that stuff makes that. I think.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, but this is part. This is the 12 dish feast, so they were talking about the 12 different dishes.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:No, these are 12 separate dishes, bro. These aren't all in the stew because progies are served by themselves, carp progies, fruit, poppy seed desserts, and then the beet root soup is barks. So it's raw. Beets are simmered up in a vegetable stock with vinegar and a touch of garlic, before the whole thing is strained to leave a brightly colored broth. Traditionally they're served with small mushroom filled dumping, dump, dump. I just made everybody laugh in the car right now, dumplings. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:No, please known as.
Speaker 2:Uska, or little ears. Okay, so it's basically uh like a soup broth. Sounds like a soup, broth, served with mushroom dumplings, which okay, I would try the mushroom dumplings.
Speaker 1:I love mushrooms.
Speaker 2:I definitely would the broth? I don't know. I feel like that would be kind of um. I'm not a beats fan. I feel like that'd be kind of sour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not that great.
Speaker 2:I'm not really sure. Um, it might be good. I maybe you just dump. You dump the dumplings.
Speaker 1:Dump the dumpings man. This is gonna be a long episode.
Speaker 2:All right. Number two, what do you got for?
Speaker 1:us, denmark, uh, julesild, I don't know Whether it's pickled, smoked or fried herring is on the menu in Denmark 365 days a year, but Christmas calls for a special kind. Served as a starter during jewel frope cost Christmas lunches enjoyed through just throughout December between friends, family and colleagues.
Speaker 2:I imagine they say it differently.
Speaker 1:Julesild herring is pickled and spiced with cinnamon, cloves and sandalwood. It's best eaten with a wedge of uh rug brode, danish rye bread and a spoonful of homemade rameoulade. Save a little room for the accompanying gravlax and cured meats too, though.
Speaker 2:I'm glad they put some of them in, like apostrophes, uh, or parentheses, so that we can tell what the foods are, because, like the names don't give it away at all, like we don't, we have no clue. Okay, so it's a, uh, it's a fish dish, right? So this is, this is fish.
Speaker 1:Herring is a bird, I think is it. It's either a bird or fish.
Speaker 2:I for maybe you're right. Let me look that up.
Speaker 1:I thought herring was a bird, but maybe you're right, maybe I'm wrong. But you forgot the age.
Speaker 2:I know I'm working on it. Jeez, there we go.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's a fish. That's what I thought I was thinking. Bird, for some reason.
Speaker 2:It does sound.
Speaker 1:It sounds like a bird.
Speaker 2:It does sound similar, Um, yeah so a fried fish dish with you were right, we got rye bread. Um, there's this. Rameoulade is probably a sauce of some kind, I'd imagine it says a spoonful and then. I don't know what gravelax is, but it's got meat with it too. It sounds good. I would try it.
Speaker 1:We don't have to look up both rameoulade and gravelax.
Speaker 2:What do they do with the fish, though, do they?
Speaker 1:says pickled, smoked or fried.
Speaker 2:This one's pickled. It says it's pickled and spiced with cinnamon. I'd have to try that. That actually sounds pretty good. All right. Number three, philippines. Uh, babinka. I want to say Babinka, but I'm not sure. Like I said, we're probably messing these up. Uh, like a travesty. Um, eating for breakfast after Misa de Gallo on Christmas Eve. Babinka is a doughy rice flour cake incorporating coconut, milk, butter and eggs. The most luxurious versions come topped with melted cheese, salted duck egg and a generous sprinkling of grated coconut. It's traditionally cooked over hot coals and a clay pot lined with banana leaves, but you can easily cook this salty sweet cake in a domestic oven using a cake in Huh. So it's a like a sweet and salty cake. Basically. I'd have to try that too.
Speaker 2:Cause it sounds weird, but I feel like those flavors will work, cause we're talking egg, melted cheese, coconut, coconut milk, butter and eggs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that might be torture on my stomach, honestly, Nah.
Speaker 2:I don't think it'd be much different from a regular breakfast dish, but it's a cake, right? That's what I yeah, rice flour cake.
Speaker 1:Well, salty sweet cake is what it is.
Speaker 2:I try it. I don't know, I try it at least once.
Speaker 1:Oh man, here's another hard word. Yours is the next one. Much, much worse, oh man, this list is crazy. For Goa sorbetel Yep. India's western state of Goa was a colony of Portugal for four centuries, meaning Christmas here is very much influenced by Portuguese traditions. In addition to carol singing and life-size nativity scenes, an important part of Goa's Christmas Eve celebrations is sorbetel, a spicy stew. The dish consists of pork, traditionally including the liver and heart, slow cooked, and cinnamon, cumin and Kashmiri chilies, sana, coconut liquor infused rice cakes are the perfect accompanying event.
Speaker 2:And they have a picture right there.
Speaker 1:There's the rice cakes.
Speaker 2:That's the Goa right there in the bowl. That actually looks pretty good. I feel like my body would regret it later, but I feel like it would be a good stew to try. It does look good and it's got the peppers in it. Is that the peppers? What is?
Speaker 1:it Chili somersault yeah that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, yep, I would try that. That looks decent. My body would hate me afterward, but I would try it for sure. Finland Lan.
Speaker 1:You like what that one?
Speaker 2:Lan-tulatiko, lan-tulatiko. I have no idea, I'm not saying that, right yo? Okay, finland enjoys its largest festive meal on Christmas Eve, where roast ham, smoked fish and pickled beetroot salad take center stage. Look, pickled beetroot. There you go. Just as important are the vegetable casseroles that accompany the meat, such as lan-tulatiko, a spiced sweet bake. The sweet is first boiled and mashed, then combined with double cream, bread crumbs, nutmeg and tri-acle, before baking For a golden crisp finish. Save some buttered bread crumbs to sprinkle on top before cooking. So another baked item right there. Okay, so there you go, two baked items. We got a stew in there, we got some fish, pickled fish, and we got some beet soup with some mushroom dumplings, some veggies.
Speaker 2:So we got a little bit of everything on this list. How about Mexico? What's Mexico got?
Speaker 1:Ponce Navadino.
Speaker 2:Navadino Yup.
Speaker 1:If you're abstaining. This Christmas, mexico's Ponce Navadino, or Christmas Punch, offers an alcohol-free alternative to Mald wine. This festive drink, made by simmering fruits such as guava and apples with raw sugarcane, cinnamon and hibiscus, is traditionally served in the run-up to Christmas Eve during Las Pasadas, a week-long celebration. It remembers Joseph and Mary's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem for a panche-con-piquet punch with a sting at a splash of tequila or brandy.
Speaker 2:You know what that reminds me of. So this is their version of the party punch that you would go to, and you see the punch bowl and they got ice cream and stuff in it. So this is their version of the party punch, and it looks like they're a fan of spiking. That too. All right, sicily, bucelato, bucelato.
Speaker 1:I don't know Bucelato.
Speaker 2:Bucelato, that might be right. Actually, I don't know Bucelato. Sicilians know a thing or two about desserts. We have them to thank for cannolis, casada and gelato al pistachio, to name a few. While much of Italy rounds off its Christmas day lunch with chocolate or raisin-filled penatones, sicily is busy preparing Bucelato, a circular cake laced with dried figs, almonds and pine nuts. It owes much of the distinctive flavor to Marsala, a potent, fortified wine that takes its name from the Sicilian city of Marsala, added to the pastry dough before oven baking. That's where Marsala came from. Then I didn't know that Interesting. Right, right, right, right. That's what I was saying. They got the names and then dish was after it. That's pretty cool. Another dessert there you go.
Speaker 1:Number eight, Spain. Sopa de galettes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say sopa de galettes.
Speaker 1:In Spain's Catalonia region, christmas lunch begins with sopa de galettes, a meaty soup bobbing with pasta shells. This dish is a labor of love. The broth, made from a mixture of beef and ham, bones, chicken breast, pigs, charotters and vegetables, has to simmer on a low heat for several hours. Then freshly minced beef and pork are rolled into bite-sized balls and dropped into the broth alongside the all-important galettes, catalonia's beloved giant pasta shells. Oh, okay, that's what they are Pasta shells.
Speaker 2:Pasta shells. Yeah, yeah, they got a picture of it right here here. Look that actually doesn't look too bad, and this right over here looks like You're hungry looking at this stuff. Like the pot roast the way we do that kind of looks like that with the pot roast, and then here's the shell soup. Yeah, it kind of looks like.
Speaker 1:Those look good too. Cheesy soup I don't know what those are those?
Speaker 2:look good. Um, puerto Rico. How about this? Pistales? I don't even know if I'm saying that right. Pistales, pistales, pistales Okay, I'm trying. Puerto Rico celebrates Christmas with a variety of meat-filled dishes, with pernil slow-roasted pork to arroz con gondoles, rice with pigeon peas. What follows is often a plate of pasteles plantain parcels stuffed with ground pork shoulder, okay, wrapped in plantain leaves before cooking. They look similar to Mexicans, or to Mexicos tamales, but Puerto Rican pasteles are boiled with rather than steamed. The best are seasoned with homemade adobo, a mix of garlic, oregano, black pepper and turmeric.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that would be pretty good.
Speaker 2:I would try that. Yeah, and tamales kind of like a.
Speaker 1:Pork shoulder, a fajita or something, maybe, or uh, I don't even know what to compare them.
Speaker 2:If you want to know what tamala is, just go by one.
Speaker 1:I know what tamala is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah go buy some and then you'll know. It's kind of similar to that, but they're saying it's boiled instead of steamed.
Speaker 1:Number 10, Norway pinnick yoke.
Speaker 2:That's my best guess.
Speaker 1:Pinnick yoke. Maybe On the west coast of Norway on 24th of December, the streets filled with the meaty, meaty, sorry meaty smokiness of wood-fired lamb ribs. Pinnick yoke is fire. First driedoh man, I can't talk either First dried, cured or smoked, and then smoked, then cooked Slowly.
Speaker 1:It's like a tongue twister reading these paragraphs, man, this is a mouthful of stuff, then cooked slowly over birch wood until the meat is juicy and tender. They're kind of giving you the step-by-step here. The most traditional accompanying events are sweet and carot mash and sweet lingonberry jam. A shot of akavit, a Scandinavian spirit spice, with fennel caraway and star anise is usually encouraged to man. I haven't.
Speaker 2:Wood-fired lamb ribs. That sounds delicious. I would definitely try that.
Speaker 1:I haven't tried lamb at all, so I'm not.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was pretty good. I need to try it though Venezuela's pan de jamón, a sweet, savory bread born in a bakery in 1905, caracas, caracas.
Speaker 1:Caracas, caracas.
Speaker 2:I am like okay. I thought it was the older pronunciation. That's why I said that I don't know.
Speaker 1:Caracas is a bakery served on Christmas Eve. Pick the hard one this time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, we're like blah blah, blah blah blah. Although it's often available in bakeries throughout December, like a savory Swiss roll, the long loaf, which can also be made with phyllo pastry. It's filled with roasted ham, raisins and green olives, and often accompanied dishes such as jalaacos, boiled corn dough stuffed with meat, and dulce de lechoza, which is a sweet papaya dessert. Oh sounds good For an extra treat. It is Christmas, after all. Add cheese.
Speaker 1:Cheese goes with everything, Just about so Add cheese. Oh, this one sounds a little easier. Number 12, south American Malva pudding Malva pudding.
Speaker 2:South Africa.
Speaker 1:A sponge cake. What?
Speaker 2:You said South American.
Speaker 1:No, did I really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, South Africa.
Speaker 1:Sorry if I said South Africa, south Africa.
Speaker 2:That's a different place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I can't believe I said that Malva pudding, a sponge cake containing apricot jam, is one of South Africa's most decadent desserts. It's reserved for special occasions throughout the year, but Christmas sees variations incorporating brandy or Amarula, a South African cream liquor made from Marula fruit. Now the cake is still hot, as drizzled generously with a sweetened buttercream sauce, giving the golden sponge dessert a gooey caramelized consistency similar to sticky toffee pudding.
Speaker 2:That sounds awesome. I would. Yeah, I would try it.
Speaker 1:Put pretty much any pudding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's hard to like mess up pudding. It is very important Like if you were to take it and be like yeah, this is green bean pudding. Okay, you probably mess up some parties. Okay, you probably would not be invited back to the Christmas party.
Speaker 1:So if you make a really good one, but if you made.
Speaker 2:If you made something like, hey, I'm going to make toffee pudding or I'm going to make chocolate pudding, or you know what I'm going to make a cinnamon hazelnut pudding it's probably still pretty good for the most part. You know what I mean, so that that sounds pretty decent. South Africa yeah, we got you. I would definitely try that.
Speaker 1:Corned beef pudding.
Speaker 2:Corned beef pudding. What's the worst pudding?
Speaker 1:you could take up that would be a food, regular food. Guacamole pudding.
Speaker 2:Put it on your tacos.
Speaker 1:No, no, that's not the worst I could think of, but that was. That was a really funny plan, like what?
Speaker 2:How about cauliflower pudding?
Speaker 1:Cauliflower pudding Something that's not sweet that is pudding. That's bland.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I'm done, because even like a fruit pudding, like blueberry pudding, it still tastes pretty good. Oh, some blueberry pudding, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it still tastes pretty good. I've never had blueberry pudding. I've had blueberry pie and cakes and things, but not pudding.
Speaker 2:We're giving everybody some bad ideas for.
Speaker 1:Christmas Blueberry pudding real, because I want some. I know about yogurt too, but not puddings or blueberry pudding.
Speaker 2:Let's get some blueberry pudding I want rainbow road pudding. You know, like the, you know like the Rocky Road pudding, neapolitan ice cream just being a rainbow Rainbow pudding.
Speaker 1:Why not Rocky Road pudding? There we go. I just don't want my, I just don't want my teeth all ice cream frozen sensitive.
Speaker 2:I'm just thinking how sad Rocky Road pudding would be.
Speaker 1:It'd be so easy. You could literally take vanilla pudding and just add the Rocky Road stuff in. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:But know what, if I had a Rocky Road pudding, here's what I would do, because my little kid, mine brain kicks in and I started venting stuff I would take like the Graham Cracker Crunch or the Cinnamon Toast Crunch and put it in the Rocky Road pudding.
Speaker 1:All you got to do is crush, smash them right and then make it into powder. We get powder with that.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. All right, number 13. It's my turn, isn't it? I think, you got the last one oh no, I sure. Ethiopia Rooster Dorowat I don't. It says Rooster, but that's probably not how they say it Rooster Dorowat, which I think that's how they say it. Orthodox Ethiopians celebrate Christmas or Ghana on. I want to say Ghana, Ghana and Ghana, Because it's Ghana sounds right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's without the G too, so I don't know. On the 7th of January they're 43 day. Fast, which begins on November 25th, is broken with Ethiopia's national dish, rooster Dorowat, a fiery chicken stew with hard boiled eggs. The key to a great watt is the great watt. See, I'm going to start saying that.
Speaker 1:Bear bear.
Speaker 2:Bear bear day I want to say Bear Bear Day, I'm not sure. And Ethan, in Ethiopian spice mix made from finna, greek Godamon and coriander, among other spices, as well as plenty of clarified butter. Forget cutlery for this one. Rooster Dorowat is best mopped up with injura. Ethiopia's beloved fermented flatbread. Okay, yeah, that's not bad. So it's basically like a chicken stew with eggs and you get flatbread. I'm down, yeah, I'm down. I try that for sure.
Speaker 1:You gave me a horribly hard one. Germany, germany, freire Jacques, I mean, freire Zingenboh, I'm serious about this at that right Translating to fire tong punch. Okay, I'm just going to say that now, fire tong punch is no ordinary malt wine. The drink which is served in German Christmas markets throughout December starts as a normal blue, wane warm red wine infused with orange peel, cinnamon and cardamom. But then something magical happens A rum soaked sugarcane, known as sucker hut, is set on fire over the wine, filling the spiced red liquid with drops of caramelized boozy sugar. Alrighty then.
Speaker 2:Fire tong punch. Fire tong punch. Okay, so this is got to. Is this the first drink we've had on the list?
Speaker 1:No, Was there one more. There was another punch. She was like this is probably their version of.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, yeah, the party punch right. The one that we talked about. That's kind of cool too. So this is the second drink that we've had on the list, at least Interesting Fire tong punch. I don't know that kind of like. I know I know what you just read, so it sounds good. But if you just say to somebody fire tong punch it sounds suspicious. It sounds very sus.
Speaker 1:Hey, you like, can you imagine what I'm saying? Hey, you want to try a little fire tong punch, and they go.
Speaker 2:I got the good stuff. We got fire tong punch in the back. You want some?
Speaker 1:And they were like you want to fight Really what?
Speaker 2:No fire tong punch. No, no, no, no, it's a drink. Calm down, bro. Calm down, Bruh Bruh 15, Brazil, Farofa I'm not even sure if that's right, because we've messed up every pronunciation known to man. Brazil's festive dinner begins late on Christmas Eve, often continuing into the early hours of Christmas morning. The meal can include Uh back, which is I don't know how to pronounce it, but salted cod, roasted turkey or chicken and light dishes such as garlic, kale and potato salad. But a recipe that almost always makes an appearance is, for a far, a bread crumb like mix of toasted, uh cassava flour oozing with butter and garlic, which, oh my gosh, that sounds good. Garlic bread and butter. Sign me up. Finishing touches can vary, but smoked bacon, raisins and walnuts.
Speaker 1:That sounds great Okay.
Speaker 2:I would definitely try that. Number one. Number two we've had a lot of bread on this list.
Speaker 1:That's, that seems like that's definitely a Christmas thing, right. Apparently a lot of different breads, and we've had soups. We've had soups, cakes and breads, and soups made the majority of that list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that was just 15 of them. Of course there's tons more, there's tons more. And I mean, if you looked at every country around the world and, you know, asked them what their Christmas, it would be a variety of craziness.
Speaker 1:A variety of craziness. I'm sure Cause variety is here on weird variety. I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it, dude. Yeah, I would try a lot of those dishes. For sure, some of them did seem a little weird. So maybe if you, if it was a little too weird, like maybe the pudding, maybe you would.
Speaker 1:Well, there's the weird and weird variety.
Speaker 2:Maybe you would make that weird dish and you would gift it to somebody else. See what I did there.
Speaker 1:See what I did there.
Speaker 2:So next we're going to talk about weird gifts, gifts Of uh, and this is for everybody that want to. You know you're tired of getting your family and your friends the same thing every year. You kind of want to switch it up. Well, here at weird world variety, we got you coming up. On our next segment, we're going to talk about the weirdest and funniest gifts we could find on the internet and on Amazon and uh, yeah, stay tuned, it's going to be interesting. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what it was. So we scoured the internet we just rampage through the internet and we found some interesting Gifts. I don't know if you would call these interesting, are they? They're just what would you describe a buzz.
Speaker 1:Um, weird is definitely the go-to word, but they're also. They get our rating that we made.
Speaker 2:Yeah so we found some interesting gifts that you might see out and about or you might want to just order Just for your family and friends, just for fun, especially if you want to change it up a little bit. I thought the first one was interesting. I have never really thought of gifting anybody Candy Canes, but if they were my worst enemy I might gift them with these candy Canes.
Speaker 1:Possum flavored candy Canes? We are not joking.
Speaker 2:This is a real product. It comes in a set of six. There is a possum on the front of the candy cane. I don't know if the the flavor. Yeah, so they said the flavor. You were like what were you thinking as far as possum flavor? Like, when you saw this, what was your first thought? Like a meaty, gamey, gamey flavor.
Speaker 1:I don't know how they'd put game in a candy game description it says a pork style flavor pork candy game.
Speaker 2:Imagine bite heated to a candy cane and you get pork.
Speaker 1:I what you know what. It would be hilarious to hang those on a tree and somebody think it's a regular candy cane but don't tell them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't tell them.
Speaker 1:And then they might end it. What the heck is this?
Speaker 2:what you could do, because on the candy Canes there is no lay yeah, not only actual canes if you really wanted to be cruel. I would do that not to give anybody ideas, but you could actually take these out and hide them On your tree and wait for the magic to happen. It might be just one of the funniest Christmas Christmases you've ever had in your life. Oh, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1:I would literally hang them in planes like.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would make me want to spit out whatever I was drinking, but then I would have to avoid all those, those colored candy Canes, so that I Make sure you don't fall for it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'd go after the crazy colored ones, like the green and blue ones.
Speaker 2:I don't fall for it yourself. Yeah, you do do this Second one that we've seen how you feel by a fork jokes. I you know this is something I think like I've seen as a kid. You remember like you used to get like the comic gum With the wrappers, or you get the wrap they call bazooka or something. Yeah, and then you would get gum that would have jokes or have jokes on them. This is kind of the same energy Fart joke, tootie fruity gum tootie being the operative word.
Speaker 2:So every piece of gum has a joke. So I assume or no, maybe it just it looks like a box of gum and it gives you 10 jokes inside. So you get 10 jokes with each box and they're all fart jokes. Oh my gosh. Did we say we don't need to say?
Speaker 1:I don't think they need to say anymore about that oh. Pretty much explains itself.
Speaker 2:I'm not really sure how I feel about the next one. If you have somebody who's a fan of the paranormal or Bigfoot, that it's kind of funny. Oh, I see it's a bag of eight itty-bitty Bigfoot. It's like, if you remember, cowboys and Indians and army man that used to play with as a kid, but it's all Bigfoot. I don't dude, it would be hilarious. What if you took those and you just like hit them around your house and then when you invited friends over, they would just randomly.
Speaker 1:You can make a game out of it who can find Bigfoot?
Speaker 2:And then like if you see Bigfoot, you get a prize. If you see Bigfoot, you get a prize. No, no man, some of these, some of these gifts Okay, this is one of my favorites. I used to get it as a kid. You've ever gotten a lump of coal?
Speaker 1:Only the chocolate, like I mentioned before. Exactly, wait, I used to get?
Speaker 2:I used to get coal, but it was candy.
Speaker 1:I might have got actual cold. I Might have, because I remember working on my memory was foster brother's house once and he had coal Like in his like in front of his house and I think he might have messed with me once and put that in my stocking or whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, along with the fart joke bubblegum, you can also get them the lump of coal bubblegum, tim. And if they ask why, it says right on the 10 Because you've been very naughty.
Speaker 1:Or if it makes your teeth black in there.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know what that? Is still a thing they used to sell those when they're. Like you would brush your teeth or you would have like the gum and you would chew it and make your mouth black.
Speaker 1:Or I wonder if they use that for movies when they make you a small.
Speaker 2:I'm sure, I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure it was like candy or something that they did. Um, how about the grumpy frog? Would you? Would you hang a grumpy frog ornament in your Christmas tree? I?
Speaker 1:Honestly couldn't say I Might if I was feeling froggy.
Speaker 2:Well, if you didn't hang the grumpy frog, you could always hang the goth cat or the jingle. But the ornaments just get weirder and weirder so weird, there's also the hot dog ornament a Krampus a Krampus ornament.
Speaker 2:If you remember our weird stories and traditions from last episode I think it's creepy you'll know about that. Or you can be slightly Narcissistic and egotistical and just get the world's best Christmas tree ornament and put it on your own tree or my tree is the best, or okay, or being nice, if let's not be let's not be too rambunctious here being nice. You could get a bunch of them and start going to your neighbors and hanging up World's best.
Speaker 1:Christmas tree world's best Christmas tree and everybody has them.
Speaker 2:Did you ever see the prank that the housewives did? I saw, I saw online. There was a prank of a neighborhood side story, side note of the housewives in this neighborhood all got together and Decided to gift their husband the same Christmas flannel nope, and then what they did was they had a house party with all their neighbors and Invited and had all their husbands where the same Christmas and. They all walked through the door like they had seen a ghost.
Speaker 1:I Can imagine, like turn of the heads, like now, of course, you know us guys you got one too eventually.
Speaker 2:Eventually, guys will have fun with it right. Yeah so by the end of the night the guys would wait on the last husband and go. One of us, one of us as the other ones walking through the door.
Speaker 1:I'd be trying to trick my wife. Honestly, like my body and like it likes you, come behind Like she thought it was me.
Speaker 2:You could swap different, you know the shirt different sizes and it would look way too small.
Speaker 1:Tap on the shoulder, but it's my body instead of me.
Speaker 2:It'd be great. That's a. That's a funny, that's a funny prank idea Just gift your family and friends all the same sweatshirt. It'll work. I thought you would appreciate this one the beard bobbles beard bobbles. So basically, if you don't know what this is, you can get these kind of almost in any place that sells like dad gifts, but this is Is ornaments for your beard.
Speaker 1:I gotta dye my beard green first, though different colors, and, and then put the bubbles on it. The bubbles.
Speaker 2:So you got a Christmas tree. I have a tree beard.
Speaker 1:You're a tree beard. You're a tree beard with some bobbles, lord of the Rings reference.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Yeah um.
Speaker 2:So they have a nose flute. I don't know how you feel about that, but you know, if you have musical family members you could always gift them the nose flute.
Speaker 1:I got it, dude. I know what that's for. I think for anybody that snores you put.
Speaker 2:It would just be loud and annoying. I'm sure the other funny one we talked about is remember we talked about the pickle in the tree the pickle there are tons of pickle ornaments and some of them yodel like literally a yodeling pickle. I have no idea what the joke.
Speaker 1:I think yodeling is to help you find it on the tree mate. Oh it's it's funny.
Speaker 2:They actually it's like a Bluetooth speaker but it's a pickle and you hang it on the tree and you can make a yodel. I Don't know if, like, anybody gets anxiety or emotional during Christmas, but you can always get your friends the emotional support chicken. Matthew emotional support chicken. The emotional support chicken looks like a rubber chicken with a sweater vest. And then for the kids, you could always get them the naughty pooping elf, which basically it's jelly, it's just an elf toy.
Speaker 2:Don't freak out parents, but it's just an elf toy with jelly beads, which is Hilarious. You know, younger kids think anything toilet humor. They think it's funny. So, oh my gosh, man, like that's hilarious. I'm gonna hop over to Amazon. We're gonna look some stuff up on Amazon. In the first one that I thought was the funniest. Now this popped up on my feed Like weeks ago. So they're pushing this gift. I do not know why, but this is very popular. It is a blanket, just a regular blanket, but the blanket looks like your favorite foods. So one looks like a tortilla. It makes me think like somebody tried to burn his blanket.
Speaker 1:That's what it looks like, but it also could be taken in another way burritos, and then One looks like a pepperoni. Peppery pizza Yep.
Speaker 2:Yes, another one looks like cookies. Who's ordering this stuff?
Speaker 1:I don't know if I would sleep in a food themed blanket, because I just see my cat or a dog just Mavin at it.
Speaker 2:Well, not only that, but you'd be thinking about food. Exactly yeah like, even when you're not trying to eat.
Speaker 1:You'd be like a big ol pepperoni. Oh no, it's a pizza.
Speaker 2:Another great gift you can get your family are the Krispy Kreme jelly beans. The wild assortment comes with one, two, three, four, five different Krispy Kreme donut jelly beans.
Speaker 1:I want to try this that would be interesting.
Speaker 2:Uh, not a big fan of jelly beans, but you know Krispy Kreme jelly man.
Speaker 1:They're making all kinds of jelly beans might be good.
Speaker 2:Or here's one if you got a dog lover in your family or if you're planning a Secret Santa, this is a great gift for a secret Santa. It's called the pooping pouches white elephant calendar, so basically it's a calendar for 2024 or whatever, but it's all dogs Immediately want to return it. We started fights as secrets Santa man. We warned you guys, these are some of the weirdest gifts out there that we found on the internet. How about these squirrel finger puppet? I?
Speaker 2:want those great dude the squirrel finger puppet includes Four legs and one head that you can put on your hands to make it look like there's. It's actually kind of creepy the face mask Santa costume. It basically looks like, if y'all remember, during 2020 or when everybody was made to wear a face mask, it's like that, but it has a Santa beard on it. One size fits all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like the cat ice cubes. That's pretty cool, yes.
Speaker 2:If you have a cat lover in your family or you know somebody who's a cat lover. There is a cat shaped ice cube tray. Basically makes little cats so, but they're ice cubes, um, how about?
Speaker 1:don't an holster, what?
Speaker 2:That's not Okay. Moving on.
Speaker 2:We're not talking about that one, that one's funny Um, how about the moving down here? Um. Another funny one that I thought was great is if you were naughty this year and you did get on your mother's last nerve, you could buy her the mom's last nerve candle. The mom's last nerve candle also states underneath oh look, it's now on fire. So if you ever drove your family crazy, this is a great gift you can get Um. And then the other good one that we talked about uh, that's weird is the universal socket. You and I talk about that a lot. It's a great. Uh, if you look up universal socket, it's basically what looks like a socket, but it has a bunch of um rods in it that change shape depending on the size of the bolt that you're working on.
Speaker 1:When it depressed yeah.
Speaker 2:So when it's pressed in, it changes the shape, grips the bolt, no matter what size it is. I think that's genius. Yeah, it's awesome. Um, some other weird ones scrolling down here. Of course we have pickled flavor cotton candy, I think that's so gross, if you really want it. You really want it to sure now, but I have somebody in your family that loves I would.
Speaker 1:uh, I mean, I love pickles, but I ain't crazy about even pickle cotton candy, yeah it just sounds so weird.
Speaker 2:man Pickle cotton candy, um, or the talking president eight ball. There you go, you can ask it questions, it will answer. Um, another one. What we thought was weird, but kind of funny, is we have animal paws but they're socks, so you can, you, can you know that's a pretty crazy advice Wearing some of those. You can choose. You can choose animal paws socks, so you know that. You know you always have that family member that gets you socks for Christmas, right Well?
Speaker 1:here you go, you can give some animal socks Um.
Speaker 2:Did we talk about this one? I know? I know, but do we? We don't know we don't know why this one exists. This is the beer belly. Like what the? I'm going to say this again the beer belly Fanny pack and is the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 1:I'm going to hide their actual, I guess.
Speaker 2:I think it would just make it worse, or if you didn't have one, make it even bigger. Oh Lord, Um, and then I like some of these. Some of these are really funny. Uh, do not disturb, I'm gaming the. Wasn't there a few others in here we talked about?
Speaker 1:I think that was the page was on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we went. We went to page three, I believe so as we um, there's a universal socket again.
Speaker 1:Super universal socket. Super universal socket.
Speaker 2:Let's see where we were at here. Um, and I'm going to go back to the other one real quick. My grandma probably loved Elvis Presley socks that's true, if you like some Elvis Presley, you can always get the Elvis Presley socks. All right, here we go Um, and with the fart joke gum you can also get the fart whistle.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Which literally looks like a piece of plastic with like the rubber, like you know, the balloon, like a balloon with a hole in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:The balloon material with a hole in it. So you got the fart whistle. So we got anybody that sense of humor, we've got the Sour box of boogers sour box of boogers which is candy. It is gummy candy, but it looks it's got that green and and kind of yellow flavor, like look to it. So it's honestly. They don't look that bad though, cause if that's the picture, it just looks like gummies, yeah, but I think the joke is just the box.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Um, then we have. There's always tons of different jelly beans. There's always tons of different gifts. Um, the other one that we saw down here is the screaming chicken pen the Ancient underpants. Ancient underpants, so if you need underwear on the go, you can grow your own underpants.
Speaker 1:I have not. Even that's an old gag.
Speaker 2:That's like from years and years ago. They used to you sell those, and then we've got candy crickets if you would like to eat some. Actually, you know the candy store in our area. They sell like candy flavored bugs.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I have never had that desire.
Speaker 2:And for all y'all Charlie Brown lovers out there, we got Pet Rock. You can actually own your own pet rock. And look, they got nice packaging. It's got a nice box, nice little nest and everything.
Speaker 1:You know what else? To be easy pet. I don't know if that is a pet.
Speaker 2:Actually is this friend.
Speaker 1:remember that board. That kid carried around an Ed Ed Nettie. Yeah, that's true, With the face, Mr Plank. Mr Plank, you always make a plank for somebody.
Speaker 2:Mr Plank, or you can get your friends baking flavored candy. That's so gross, it sounds so gross. You would want to get your friends bacon flavored candy, I mean. I might Bacon flavored candy man? All right, Well, you know what? That's. Enough silliness. I don't know about you, but I would. Another thing I've seen is those oversized snuggies. Those are Christmas gifts that are flying off the shelves.
Speaker 1:What like a stocking?
Speaker 2:No, like the snuggies like the ones that they would wear the blanket, but it's got a hoodie on it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, there are all kinds of stuff. The gel blasters are popular this year, just like the gel guns oh, shoot Gels. The Nerf guns, I mean. There's just all kinds of stuff. You could probably spend hours and hours oh yeah, Easily looking for gifts online, but for right now that's all we have time for. We have gone way over. But also we wanted to talk a lot about Christmas stuff, because this is this episode. Jess is our Christmas episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to take the Christmas week off.
Speaker 2:Next week we are both going to be gone for Christmas. So next week we will not have a show. We will be with our families enjoying Christmas. Hopefully you are too. We would love to wish everybody out there a very merry Christmas and a happy new year and a happy holidays.
Speaker 1:Happy holidays, all the holidays, whatever holidays you celebrate, also what?
Speaker 2:I'd like to say, safe to say, we will be back after Christmas, so we hope to see you all then and you know, honestly, remember to give and God bless and hopefully you guys are spending time with your family. Thank you for being a part of this show, thank you for listening and from the WWV stay weird. Stay weird, everybody, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1:Merry Christmas, merry Christmas, merry Christmas.