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New Year's Resolutions, Hilarious Traditions, and a 1% Path to Self-Improvement
Ever tried to train your dog to fetch snacks or master the dark art of folding a fitted sheet? You’re not alone! Join us, Jim, Keith, and I, as we laugh our way through New Year's resolutions that rarely make it past January. We kick off the episode by sharing light-hearted reflections on resolutions and amusing New Year's trivia, while steering clear of divisive topics. Our holiday anecdotes include hilarious eggnog escapades and a debate over the merits of holiday drinks like Bloody Marys versus Canada's Caesar cocktail. It's a celebration of humorous mishaps and festive cheer as we toast to the New Year.
Who knew that a simple 1% improvement each day could lead to a healthier lifestyle? Forget overwhelming resolutions—let's keep it fun and manageable. Our chat takes a turn for the better as we explore small changes for health and the joy of personal growth. From disconnecting from toxic news cycles to embracing healthier eating habits, we promise a refreshing take on self-improvement. Amidst the serious talk, there’s plenty of humor as we ponder peculiar resolutions and celebrate the joy in small victories.
Take a global journey with us as we explore the world's quirkiest New Year's traditions that you won't believe really happen. From the hilarity of Germany's "Dinner for One" to Spain’s grape-eating ritual, and even Denmark's plate-smashing antics, each tradition offers a delightful glimpse into diverse cultures. We venture into Romanian bear costumes and Japanese soba noodles, all while sharing laughs and cultural insights. As we wrap up, we reflect on New Year's themes in pop culture and share our plans for an exciting break before returning with fresh content. So, grab your party hats and join the celebration!
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast, we talk about New Year's resolutions, some New Year's facts and a little bit more. Hey, Scott, count us down to a New Year's beat.
Speaker 2:Thank you Well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 37. If you are joining us for the first time and wondering what we are about, well, we talk about anything and everything, with the exception of two things we don't talk religion and we don't talk politics. These subjects are depressing and start major conflicts amongst people, and we aren't experts, so we don't talk about them. You will get out of this a laugh or two, but no more than three. Welcome to the show. And if you've been with us all year or ever since we started, welcome back. We appreciate each and every one of you guys. So here we go, joining me. As always, he's been like the backbone of the Powers Point podcast. This year, I'm talking about Jim.
Speaker 4:Hello there.
Speaker 2:And also he's been on the show for the last several weeks helping us out and adding a new flair to this, talking about Keith Mackey.
Speaker 4:Hello everybody. Hope you had a great Christmas.
Speaker 2:So this is the last show of 2024,. Guys, how was your guys' Christmas?
Speaker 4:It was very pleasantly uneventful. Another one you said nothing crazy happened. It was it was very pleasantly uneventful. Another one you said nothing crazy happened. It was very mellow. We did our thing and I couldn't have asked for anything any better.
Speaker 2:Nice, nice. How about you, Jeff?
Speaker 1:Pretty much good too. I mean, like Keith said, the older you get, the more you just want everything to go smooth and no fighting and no food get thrown against the wall or nothing bad happen.
Speaker 2:The big question is I'm sure people are going to ask because I'm wondering Jimmy and eggnog, we good this year?
Speaker 1:We have the eggnog and we're going to make sure for New Year's that he just has a little bit. No, he's not going to be down in like 10, 5 or 10 glasses perking an all night.
Speaker 2:Then he's throwing up perking all night or all morning and I haven't had egg dog in so long man it. It makes me want to have some. But what was the drink that people used to put in it? Or rum? Is it rum?
Speaker 1:Rum.
Speaker 4:Southern Comfort, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, southern Comfort makes it, so they make the hard alcohol kind. Yeah, all right?
Speaker 2:I was always wondering because I was like man, I hate rum.
Speaker 1:There's always a drink for you. You just got to find it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Mine's Bloody Mary, but I very well can't mix that with the eggnog, that Bloody Mary but I very well can't mix that with the eggnog.
Speaker 1:That would be gross. Sometimes you could look at the internet has old recipes from like olden times, like a revolutionary war. I think George Washington had a mixture for some eggnog in there that people make.
Speaker 2:I mean, if that makes the Bloody Mary, it'd be like Bloody Mary's eggs. You know that'd be.
Speaker 1:Oh, now you're getting gross.
Speaker 2:Kind of, I know, man, that's what I'm saying. So did you guys get anything exciting?
Speaker 4:For the Canadians. I do believe they would be the Caesar, though Right, I know it's not the same thing, but the Caesar is very popular in Canada. I know that, and I will say that some of the versions of the caesar that they drink to me is absolutely disgusting you know, I, I love, love.
Speaker 2:Bloody mary is spicy, extra spicy, uh, with gray goose. But they do drink it because they use club model juice up there instead of tomato juice. That's's what makes the Caesar a Caesar. But everything else is like the Bloody Mary, except they use like horseradish. And it's gross, man, it looks like styrofoam floating around in there. No, and you drink.
Speaker 1:That's nasty.
Speaker 2:And then they use, like dill, pickle juice. And I'm not trying to do all that stuff, man, just give a vodka juice.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a dare contest. Hey, try that pickle juice in there, try that.
Speaker 2:Oh, they love it, though, they love it. I was at a restaurant called Boston's up there and and they gave me the bloody Caesar. And God, it was awful man. It was the first drink that I ever said I don't want this, and the bartender's, like you ordered it, and now I gotta drink it fast and be drunk. So, uh, because when I don't like something, I have to slam it oh yeah, yeah, they sound terrible, guys.
Speaker 4:They sound terrible. That's good. Anything exciting, um, I don't know, I don't know if anything I would call exciting.
Speaker 4:You know, definitely some useful stuff for everything oh, I'm trying to think of what I even got. Oh, I could say I definitely got something exciting. Uh, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law got together and they have a sublimation printer that they do sort of like the way I do with the t-shirts, but they made me a t-shirt of me and my boy Dally, over here, kind of like hugged up, and it's got. You know what I mean. So that's pretty neat. That was definitely one of my favorite things I got. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Right on, pretty neat that was.
Speaker 2:That was definitely one of my favorite things I got.
Speaker 1:That was pretty cool, right on. Right on, how about you, jim?
Speaker 2:um, I got some uh duke cannon that soap, the real big bricks, yeah, yeah, and some uh beard like beard wash stuff and just some basic guy stuff, not really over the top stuff I got uh like the beard scruff cream and and then the beard oil, and then you go outside in the freezing temperature and it feels like somebody's pulling your beard Cause, like it hardens up and you're like shit, I don't want to break it, man.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry. Have either of you guys ever worked in a freezer?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So you know that feeling of when your nostrils freeze up, when you go through into that absolute cold, the eyebrows and whatnot. Well, one time I was uh going through on one of them, uh driving what do you call it? The pallet jacks that you ride on, and when it went through the curtain a piece of dust got into my eye and it made my eye tear and as soon as it started to tear up, it froze shut, oh my. So I had to like ride that pallet jack around all these, um, you know these aisles and whatnot, to get back out and then get to the bathroom and get some cold water to pour on my eye because my eye was frozen shut, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we used to have these uh reefer vans in, uh in the army, and it was in Africa and we used to keep them, reefer vans in the Army, and it was in Africa and we used to keep them real cold, man, and we'd keep the pop in there and the water and we'd always give the Somalians water. And they kept bugging me, man, and they were asking about pop and some know, some of them could speak English and then we had the Mountain Dew in there. So I told him that he can go inside Got to remember it, don't get cold there, you know. So I told him to go inside, man, and he, he like stepped a couple of feet in man and he's like starts shaking real bad, like he was convulsed. I'm like, damn dude, you dude, hurry up and get it man.
Speaker 1:So this body is used to his temperature outside and then he goes to an environment that his body is not used to. I'm sure he's going to spaz out.
Speaker 4:And it was relaxed. You got to think that his body was relaxed when he walked in. You know you tense up before you get in the cold.
Speaker 2:He didn't know to do that, yeah you know like the temperature there was like 120 in the in the daylight and and gab, you got all the the flak jackets on their uniform and you're working over the stoves and it's really hot, and then at night and we're just freezing their ass off, man, like bad. You look at the thermometer and it's 80. It's jeez. It's because it fell 40 degrees, man. But yeah, in the reefer van man, I think we kept the reefer at like 42 degrees.
Speaker 4:It was nice and cool in there.
Speaker 2:Now we're talking reefer, like the same reefer, I'm thinking right, refrigerated uh, container sign. Yeah, we're not talking about less, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 1:Three he wasn't part of that part of the army.
Speaker 2:He was part of the yeah, okay the other reefer part when you're talking that pharmaceutical grade and then, uh, for christmas I got uh, a lot of uh seasonings to cook with, uh, uh by meat church who's uh who's got a lot of videos online and I tried it out today one of them, and it's pretty good. And then I got a uh like a flat top grill, you know, for indoors, so people just want me to cook eggs and pancakes on them, and so maybe you can do commercials for them and they can give us products, or you give you products and stuff.
Speaker 1:There you go. I'll do Duke Cannon and then, uh, keith's got to think of a company that he wants to promote.
Speaker 4:Yeah, who wants to give me the free chili dogs?
Speaker 2:I like Ducan man. Their soap lasts a little bit. You know what I mean. They're like three times the size of a regular bar soap and if somebody threw that at you it would hurt.
Speaker 1:And it's for the same price as a lot of other companies' little ones, yeah, and it's for the same price of the other company's little ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I, I I got some Sasquatch, dr Squatch, uh soap and that's decent too, but it ain't the size of Duke cannon, you know. So, uh, yeah, so we'll have to advertise them or or, like, make some videos and maybe, uh, a sponsor would pick us up or something, I don't know. Like I said at the beginning, we're going to talk about resolutions, and I got some traditions and we're going to find out what you guys have for resolutions this year and if you've kept any from last year.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back. So every year, millions of people make resolutions for the start of the new year on how to better themselves or setting personal goals for themselves. What have you guys done? And for like 2024, have you kept any resolutions? Do you believe in resolutions or what do you guys got going on?
Speaker 4:I like kind of the idea of a resolution, but not necessarily if it involves some kind of drastic change, because that never works out. You know what I mean Like if if it involves some kind of drastic change, because that never works out. You know what I mean Like if you figure, if you try to change, like maybe 1% a day, little nudges at a time, as opposed to anything like a major 180, man, that's just, it's usually asking for failure and you don't want, and it usually asks for failure right off the bat, man, and you don't want to do that to yourself, you know. So maybe, like I said, small changes, you know what I mean small things, little tiny nudges at a time, you know right, right.
Speaker 2:That's how I feel about this show.
Speaker 1:Just a little bit one percent a day I usually don't like uh, I don't like making resolutions, because when you say them then people like try to hold you to them, like oh you, oh, you're not doing this and they're watching you and you're like you know what? Screw you, I'm trying, okay.
Speaker 2:But mentally you can have them in your head and not tell anybody you know. So like how many have you kept from like the beginning of the year to now? I've gone zero.
Speaker 1:I've just done little improvements over the through the year that I said I was going to try to do. I'm trying to eat better and what really read what's on the packages and ingredients of stuff, and I've been like refusing to buy and eat stuff, and even for our house I've been saying, no, I'm not going to buy that, we don't need, that, that has junk in it or this big long word is really sugar in disguise or like bad for you. So I'm trying to eat better and just, uh, stay active and healthy.
Speaker 2:That's about it you know, with caroline getting sick for diabetes, we're really reading up on the the ingredients and so we go for like no sugar and low carbs. Yeah, try to eat healthier. You know I still eat like a freaking horse man. You know, like I can have a lunch with me taking it to work, and then I'll drive by McDonald's and all that and I still go, man and get food from there, even though my lunch is right next to me.
Speaker 2:You know, like I started out at the gym, I got a gym membership for like three years and I've gone like a couple times this year and I'm like, well, I should cancel. And then I'm like, nah, don't cancel it, fat ass, Get going on the gym. So the gym will work out, not the gym on the host. So, uh, the gym, the workout, not the gym. Uh, on the host.
Speaker 1:Uh. So Another one is uh, I I have is, uh, pretty much that I've hit the big landmark birthday is that I just don't really let stuff get to me anymore, Like worrying about people's feelings and caring and like or not caring, but going out of my way to worry about and stress about stuff. It's just that you're at that age You're like I don't care, I'm not going to worry about you, I'm going to take care of myself and my family and I can. Politics are trying to scare you in TV. I said I don't need none of that stuff, I don't care. I've had people at work yelling me like you didn't hear about this in the news or this going on. I'm like no, they're like everybody in the world's talking about this. I'm like I don't know about it. Man, you're really doing yourself a favor, man. Yeah, so this stress puts so much negativity and junk on your body and it ages you like crazy.
Speaker 2:I don't need that you know, I like going in on social media or people are just constantly bickering, you know, about the presidency, who this, who that, or the Pope did this. The Pope, you know what I mean. And then I love when it's like a big, big chain of fighting, and then I'll say like I'll send my message, like, hey, I lost my keys. Man, has anybody seen them in there, you know, and it kind of like breaks things up just for a second and all of a sudden everybody trolls up on me. This ain't funny.
Speaker 2:And I was like okay, I ruined my wallet too there's nothing you can do, man I was curious to find out different resolutions people have made over the years and I got a couple here for you guys and I want to run them by you, okay. So train my dog to finally fetch snacks instead of the ball.
Speaker 1:Oh, snacks for the owner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bring me my chips.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, that's pretty useful, if nothing else.
Speaker 2:Switched decaf for one day, just to see how it was.
Speaker 4:That's an easy one to keep. Maybe you should do that. Maybe that's the key there set little tiny, little tiny things that you know you can accomplish. Oh, you feel like you feel like a winner every all year. All year, you feel like you're just getting your goals done start using fancy words like persnickety in everyday conversation.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't even hear what that word.
Speaker 2:Stop blaming my farts on the dog.
Speaker 1:Take ownership with your life.
Speaker 2:Finally learn which there, there and there to use.
Speaker 4:That's not that hard though. Yeah, you should have done that already.
Speaker 2:Try yoga.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's always good for advanced age people too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm in dallas page uh start conversations a couple times with.
Speaker 1:So I was abducted by aliens once it'll get people to listen to you more, right replace.
Speaker 2:Sorry I'm late with you are welcome for making a dramatic entrance.
Speaker 1:Stop eating my kids halloween candy, at least in front of them you don't need it, don't need it finally figure out what's in spam oh man, that's gonna be a mystery forever learn how to properly fold a fitted sheet or stop caring.
Speaker 2:Here come the trains in toledo yeah, they are, aren't they?
Speaker 4:I just noticed it right before you said it. Like yep, there they are and here you get a big one what stop taking my phone into the bathroom yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I never do it, if nothing else for sanitary, because they show studies, show how like fecal matter and all the other stuff just floats and flops on there and stuff that's gross yeah, my daughter insists that we close the toilet before we flush it every time the lid goes down. A matter before we flush, yeah then you put it right in your face.
Speaker 2:My Karen she every week she'll take the toothbrushes and throw them in the dishwasher and wash the toothbrushes just to sanitize them.
Speaker 1:Hmm, Well, they got those. Does Japan have those in the bathroom? Public bathrooms, they have those UV drawers or something that you put your phone in and it cleans it for you while you're going to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Man, we need those here, if that's so.
Speaker 1:I think they have them.
Speaker 4:Check your Teemu. I got some interesting stuff over here. Oh, I did forget to mention that it was definitely a Teemu Christmas, heather, thanks to Scott's influence. Oh no, did finally try Teemu out and there was Teemu boxes coming for days straight.
Speaker 2:She's like ten dollars, five dollars yeah, ninety percent off of five dollars, wow, hey, there's some good stuff on timu man and I can't complain on any of it so far I'm gonna be getting timu to get my studio under the stairs studio going. Dude, you can get some good stuff. Honestly, I got stuff from Timu. I buy it just to test it out, and then I get it and I never test it out, go figure.
Speaker 1:It's in your 12,000 square foot attic.
Speaker 2:I started buying off of TikTok now and TikTok and Timu are damn near the same thing. Uh, there's, there's a shop on tiktok that you could buy stuff at, so I bought a 4k capture card off of there for four dollars instead of paying 130 dollars, and it looks like the 130 dollar one. I just want to test it out and see if I can get better stuff off the computer. Every country celebrates New Year's differently, with different traditions, and I know, jim, you said you had some from Sweden For our Swedish listeners out there. We want to celebrate with you and name off some of your stuff and traditions. And I got other countries' traditions. And, jim, what did you find out about Sweden?
Speaker 1:About Sweden. They have one called Watching Dinner for One which is since 1980, since 1980, it's a. It's a video that they have on television. It's the, the countess and the butler. Pretty much this uh rich 90 year old count, uh countress like uh, she's all alone having uh with the butler and she's having dinner or something by herself and the butler is pretending to be different people at the party for her and he's pretty much drinking four different drinks, getting drunker and drunker with the whole thing, and it's pretty funny video. I haven't watched it yet that sounds.
Speaker 2:I watched after Jim sent that to me. I uh, I turned it on. I found it. It's only 10 minutes long. It's short. It is pretty funny. It reminds me a little bit of old slapstick comedy. The butler did an amazing job. I just sent Keith the link to it so he got it.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:All right. Because I know he's going to wonder.
Speaker 1:They also have one called the Reciting of the Poem. They read a poem right before New Year's and they try to time it to where it ends on the New Year countdown. It's called Ring Out Wild Bells.
Speaker 2:Ring Out Wild Bells.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's in that article I sent you. Read all of it. Well, I couldn't read the it. Read all of it. Well, I didn't. I couldn't read the. It was in small print, I didn't have to zoom it and stuff. I'll have to look it up later. And then they have the lighting of the sky, which is the fireworks that they have on New Year's Eve. And then they have another tradition called the throwing of the shoes, and I guess I don't know if it's at the countdown or something, but they throw shoes at the door, everybody there and if the shoe lands facing the door, the front of the shoe to the face of the door, it's either good luck or they're going to be lucky enough to travel somewhere nice or something in the new year. And then, of course, the final one I saw was the listening of the song, which is I don't know if it's so much a tradition, but it's. Some people said they're starting to have a tradition of. It is at the band ABBA singing happy new year.
Speaker 2:They have a song right on, and I was also doing some research on other countries when you sent me to Sweden. How about, in Spain, eating 12 grapes at midnight, one for each time of the clock, to bring good luck for the year?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I can't stop on 12 grapes, man. So is that? I'm a gluten? I just sit and keep eating grapes, man, they're healthy.
Speaker 1:Well, let's hope they don't get drunk and then they choke on them.
Speaker 2:How do you guys feel about this one? It's in Denmark, smashing plates on your neighbor's doorsteps to show affection and friendship. That pisses me off.
Speaker 4:Well, as long as you're the one showing up to clean it, it'd be okay.
Speaker 2:But if everybody liked you and everybody just was emptying out their hodge and destroying every plate and you go out to get the paper in the morning and you're barefoot, yeah.
Speaker 1:There was another one in Denmark. Did you read the other one?
Speaker 2:No air flight.
Speaker 1:yeah, there was another one in denmark. Did you read the other one? No, it was the uh, the jumping off of chairs. At parties, the people try jumping off chairs in unison with the at the midnight to count down and the symbol of jumping forward into the new year in denmark. So could you imagine you're throwing plates around the place and you're jumping off the chairs. You're going to you're going to land in some broken glass and dishes.
Speaker 2:You're going to slide on it and fall down and bust your ass and get all cut up.
Speaker 1:Or everybody's drunk on chairs. Yeah, they're drunk on chairs and they jump off three, two, one. And then like how many people have broken or twisted their ankles and stuff at the midnight? It may explain the wooden footwear of the of the reason everybody's screaming at everybody else's chair and they don't know you broke your leg how about this one?
Speaker 2:guys uh in columbia carrying an empty suitcase around the block to ensure a year full of travel?
Speaker 1:yeah, I heard that one, oh nice.
Speaker 2:So I got me a couple suitcases. I got to pack up and go around the block because Canada's coming back up on me.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:I like day travel.
Speaker 2:See, I like rolling out at midnight, 1 o'clock, when there ain't no traffic and just go.
Speaker 4:No, I meant day travel as far as I'm still coming home that night oh, I gotcha, got ya.
Speaker 2:Uh, I mean, man, I'm only gone for like less than 24 hours and I'm back home after a thousand miles yeah, I would say that is a different definition for you.
Speaker 4:Huh, a day travels a thousand miles. Yeah, fuck it right. Yeah, why not? But still, dude, that's like that's a great story. So you, that was you know.
Speaker 2:You know that was fun I met some cool people, man. I'm glad my transmission didn't go out on me up there. That too, that would have been an issue. How about this tradition in the philipp Wearing polka dots and surrounding yourself with round objects to attract prosperity?
Speaker 1:Sounds okay.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dusty Rhodes would have had it made in the WWE huh.
Speaker 4:Speaking of everything if it didn't have.
Speaker 1:So you gotta yeah they found one in uh, south africa. They throw old furniture out the window in south africa yeah, and it says uh, watch your head it's supposed to bid farewell to old and embrace the new, you throw out old furniture. Uh, it's crazy. You walk in the walk on the sidewalk trying to get home and there's furniture, dodging furniture well, I've been winds.
Speaker 2:If you're 20 stories up now, yeah, I don't need this refrigerator, no more. Throw the whirlpool out, uh, okay, how about, in chile, spending new year's eve in a cemetery to celebrate with deceased loved ones? I know there are places that dig up their loved ones every year and change their clothes and let them have a smoke. What, wait what? They even light the cigarette for them. No, no, no, no. I'll send you the video.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. No, I don't want to watch it.
Speaker 2:They may take the families, take pictures with them, send you the video oh my God, no, I don't want to watch it. You may take the families. The families take pictures with them and they change the clothes.
Speaker 1:You got nothing else to do in your country but digging up your relatives and redressing them.
Speaker 2:And if everybody's doing it, it's got to be a party in the cemetery it is. It's a life celebration when is this at again, it's somewhere in south america.
Speaker 1:I'll send you the video they need to get some internet over there or something there's. You could be been wasting your time doing other stuff.
Speaker 4:You could be listening to us wow, indeed they could, for the debut of aka radio, debut of FBKE Radio.
Speaker 2:Woo-hoo. Plus, how about Scotland First footing? We're the first person to enter the home after midnight. Brings gifts like coal or whiskey for good fortune. I mean, we don't need the coal right, unless it's cold. Bring the whiskey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that if it's preferably inland to have a dark-haired man which could bring uh luck if he comes through your door, the first one through your door so your cheating wife has her boyfriend sneak in and she's like it's just good luck, honey better have gifts hands off the gifts name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got one. In Switzerland, when they count down to midnight on New Year's Eve, everybody throws, drops ice cream on the floor and it's another mess you got to clean up and believe to bring abundance. Good thing they're not that close to other people dropping chairs or jumping off chairs and stuff that'd be interesting one to combine there, jumping off the chairs and dropping the ice cream no, this one's not bad in france, eating a stack of pancakes to ensure a sweet year ahead there you go.
Speaker 4:I am with that, I am with I may, I may implement that one this year. Sounds great. Well yes, it's great right now to be honest.
Speaker 2:I'm making them in the morning, man, so head it out. Right, I got Ireland banging bread against the walls to chase away bad spirits and ensure good luck. Bang it by holding it in your hand and smacking it on the wall, not bang a bang. Sure, good luck. Bang it by holding it in your hand and smacking it on the wall, not bang-a-bang, not a circuit of pie banging.
Speaker 1:Smacking bread against the wall. That's hilarious. Get out Bansky. It'd be Bansky.
Speaker 2:All right, this one's crazy man. How about Estonia Eating up to 12 meals in a day to ensure food would never run out in the new year?
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 2:What are the ties of these meals? I don't know, man. It's like, oh god, I'm on the seventh meal and I got five more to go but pigging out that you're eating the food that you should be saving, shouldn't you?
Speaker 1:isn't that counterproductive?
Speaker 4:right, right, you would think what you got jim I don't know if they're small meals, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I got another one in Ireland okay it's tradition. To what old am I going to read it? Put mistletoe under your pillow, and you put mistletoe, mistletoe under your pillow before you fall asleep on new year's eve, and legend has it it will cause you to dream of your future spouse when's if you're married already out with the old.
Speaker 2:This is for single people that are desperate to get to get hooked up oh, I was gonna say, dude, I just got a whole bushel of mistel.
Speaker 4:I just got something on a belt buckle.
Speaker 1:There you go, you'll meet somebody then.
Speaker 2:How about in Argentina, wearing pink underwear to attract love and to come in here?
Speaker 1:That's a universal sign. Yeah, here's one for Cuba. They throw a bucket of water out the door out the door on New Year's. That was pretty fun. They pretty much they all gather around the bucket and they put their negative energy and bad spirits in it from the past 365 days and they toss them out the front door like dirty water flying out so Turkey if you're the neighbor, don't be coming by and you see buckets of water coming at you and they toss them out the front door like dirty water flying out Turkey.
Speaker 2:If you're the neighbor, don't be coming by and you see buckets of water coming at you. But when you set it up as a kid and you put like tarps down, you know if you live on a hill, you know just jump on like a water slide man. Just wait there until everybody starts tossing the water. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Do you guys have any relatives or do you yourselves shoot, let off rounds on New Year's? My uncle Bob used to do that. My uncle Bob used to do it every year. God rest his soul. I miss that man so much. He used to every when it was. When it'd go midnight, he'd go right to the back, right out the back door and he'd let some rounds off. And I, you know, I know there's people around here that do it too.
Speaker 2:I can't you know, hopefully they're not that close but I wondered if maybe you guys knew anybody that did that too I know in chicago in the news, man, you, you hear like the bullets when they go up, they got to come down and they kill people, yeah. So I mean, if you're shooting in the ground or sand, I I can see it, but you're still going to hit a rock, maybe, and ricochet and shoot your eye out.
Speaker 1:Uh, hobart's neighbor, uh, gary, indiana is very uh every year on that, because when we were kids in the eighties we used to, in seventies and eighties we used to spend the night at my grandma's house and that's, she'd tell you, we're in Calumet Township, we're not in Gary, but it's pretty much all Gary. So we would be out there and we would get pots and pans and we'd run out the house, yay, bang, bang, bang, banging pots and pans, like little kids. And all of a sudden it would sound, like you said, like a whole artillery, just like boom and a whole artillery, just like boom.
Speaker 2:And we'd all just ah, we'd scream and run back in the house, but pretty much gary does that every year the closer you get to the west side of hobart, you pay to add the guns.
Speaker 4:They do that every day. Oh, did they hit guys in the head with machetes heck, yeah, man.
Speaker 2:So I got just a couple more here, romania, dressing as bears to chase away evil spirits. Watch, you're getting a bear costume.
Speaker 1:What? How long has that been going on?
Speaker 2:I don't know, man, but I'm going to order my bear costume off a team who I seen one.
Speaker 1:So is Romania, the originators of the furbies and all those people that dress up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Are these realistic bear costumes? Are they cartoon bear costumes? Are we talking a bunch of Yogi bears? And that Are we, you know real evil spirits don't really know.
Speaker 2:So, uh, any bear suit? Well, it's uh. Yeah, how about you, gentlemen, Again more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the uh in the czech republic. They cut up, they cut apples up. They pretty much cut an apple on new year's eve. They'll cut. The residents will cut apples in half and the shape inside uh tells you what you can expect for the coming year. For instance, while there's is a star is good, and if there's a cross shape with the core and that it might tell that you have a future illness coming oh wow, they bought enough.
Speaker 4:They're right because, uh fact republic, women are incredibly good looking and one time I cut an apple open.
Speaker 2:It looked like someone was flipping me off. So is that? Uh, was that? Tell me, it's not me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was you All right.
Speaker 2:All right, he gets this apple All right. So we got Belarus single women play games to predict who will get married first in the new year.
Speaker 1:What kind of games?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I'm sure there's videos out there on Pornhub. Oh my gosh. So, jim, finish it up.
Speaker 1:You got any more and I got in Italy. They, let's see, they have lucky lentils. They, in Italy, they see, italian see lentils as mini edible coins and they have dinners with uh the luck that will bring you in life for the next year as you eat, uh, instead of just spaghetti and linguine, they have a lentil soup yeah, my mom.
Speaker 2:She used to make me take a spoonful black eyed peas every year. It was the only year we ever. It was the only time we'd ever have black eyed peas every year. It was the only year we ever. It was the only time we'd ever have black eyed peas. Was that New Year's Eve, right at midnight? Shove it in your mouth in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1:They have a tradition is to clean their homes and the cities, the streets top to bottom, from the indoor spaces to the cars and the streets. That way they start off the fresh energy and clean for the new year.
Speaker 2:But aren't they the ones that throw the water out the door?
Speaker 1:No, that's Cuba.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Don't be mixing countries, they'll get yelled at. Fidel's coming China, it's tradition to wear color red for new year's from fans to clothing, to gift packets, to lanterns. The color red is lucky. On new year's in germany they have a custom called oh boy, what is the big word? Gluckershwine? Gluckershwine it translates to lucky pig. They have marzipan treat and they have a pig on top and it could foster good luck in the new year.
Speaker 4:Oh, right on.
Speaker 1:Okay, in Japan they have a new year's tradition by eating a bowl of. Uh, what kind of noodles are they? They're nicknamed the year crossing noodles made out of buckwheat flour. Wow, the, the the Oda soaps, soba noodles, soba noodles oh, it's close, because the long, the long noodles represents long life for the new year, and I think that's about it Kind of wonder what they consider good luck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that you got a full stomach from eating Qualitro Bibus, mars, and so, finishing this up real fast, I got just a couple of movies and TV shows. Call it George B B, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b B's Eve, yeah. Third, ghostbusters 2. Hmm, because it says the climax takes place on New Year's Eve as the Ghostbusters battle the supernatural threat. Bridget Jones' Diary, the Poseidon Adventure, 200 Cigarettes, boogie Nights, sleepless in Seattle, trading Places. I love that movie.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And TV show the Office, season 7, episode 13,. The Ultimatum, seinfeld the Millennium, season 8, episode 20,. Modern Family, the OC.
Speaker 1:Mad Men, how I Met, met your mother, so you can check those out and another one I have got to add to those is the uh the thin man movie series back in the day okay it's a several movies. Yeah, the thin man, they're pretty much. The series is usually a new year's's tradition to watch or the Marx Brothers movie I know a lot of TMC or whoever usually plays a bunch of Marx Brothers movies in a row nice, nice so, but that's all I got, guys, and we're done with the 2024.
Speaker 2:this is it so, jim? Yeah, finish this up with that last quote. Done with 2024. This is it so, jim. Yeah, finish us up with that last quote of the year.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
Speaker 2:Man, that's so true.
Speaker 1:Love it. So if you're thinking these resolutions ain't working, do something you haven't done. Change it.
Speaker 2:That's why this podcast is constantly changing. Also, we are going to be putting the podcast to sleep towards the end of January and starting back up on FAKE Radio so you can go to your Spotify and all the other places and listen to us there. And that's only four episodes and then when we come back, we'll bring the podcast back with us. We've had some really cool guests on and I'm already working on guests for next year. I'd also like to thank Max Wise, cal McCoy, elroy McNeil and Abe Henderson you know they're all part of the FAKE radio gang, yeah, and for the listeners out there again, thank you guys. We appreciate you so much and tune in, because we're only going to get better. I hope We'll talk to you next year. You guys have a good one.
Speaker 4:Happy New Year. Happy New Year everyone.
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