December 13, 2024 • 17 mins
Christmas is celebrated differently worldwide, so Christie breaks it down for Martha & Karena. Who knew Donald Duck is part of someone's Christmas tradition!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk Talk begins.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Jingle bells, jingle bells, where's your bells?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Robin laid and I cannot find my sleigh bells. And
Blitten and Dasher and Danner and Donner are all so upset.
They have been blowing up my phone texting me where
are your bells? Because they know they're not allowed in
(00:29):
the studio until I send them the signal, which is
the jingle bells. But I cannot find them. So that's
why they're outside the studio right now like pawing at
the door. I'm going to try to find them as
soon as possible. So that's the answer to your question, Christy,
maybe there are the jingle bells.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Maybe your bells are hidden with the Christmas pickle. What's
the Christmas pickle? Well, we will find out in just
a moment on this episode of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Nice welcome to Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. This is
episode number Kaarina of Alaskaz. Please will you do the honors?
I mean, I know, but I just.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, well, just in case you guys did it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
No, Well, I know Martha knows, but Christy, this is
number two hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Thank you. I knew that, but I just wanted to
hear you say yeah. Well, just in case of me
listeners didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's everybody wants to hear Karina say it though, it's
way more fun. So Welcome to episode number two hundred
and twenty six of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. This
is the podcast that unite the morning Live with Christy
Live Crue Christy and Karina of Alaskaz with the Martha
Quinn Show crew, Martha Quinn and Doreena of Alaska. Ah,
(01:50):
that never gets old. Friend Martha Quinn. Here, you know
what we need to do, ladies. We need to have
Ron Michaels join us on a podcast and Clarence Barnes too.
We should do it for just an entire classic kits
at one of three point seven party.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'll bring that would be fun. I think that would
be a jam.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'll bring the punch.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh god, oh, that sounds like punch. I cannot have the.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Jungle juice punch.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That sounds like punch. That will have me in the
Ladies room on the floor. That's what that sounds like.
So Christy mentioned the Christmas pickle, and Christy, I'm glad
that you did bring this up because today's podcast topic
was created by none other than Christy James. If you
were looking at us right now in person, you would
(02:40):
see Christy and her beautiful forty nine ers, not hoodie sweatshirt,
beautiful love it repping. So okay, so let's hear more
about this.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So we all know about the Christmas traditions, or most
of us know about Christmas traditions in the United States.
You heard of Christmas, maybe Kwanza Hanukkah, but there are
Christmas tradition outside of the United States that a lot
of people participate in. So just wanted to kind of
talk about a couple of those that you may not
have heard of, including one called the Christmas pickle.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'm excited to hear about this because I like a
good pickle.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Really I do.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I love pickles.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh, I can't stand up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Really.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, that's a whole nother conversation. But okay, Hello.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In some parts of Germany and actually some people in
the US have started to do this. There's this quirky
tradition where a glass pickle ornament.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm sorry, did you say quirky tradition or gurky?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's funny because there's a gurky pickle, right, it's girkin pickle. Yeah,
that's what.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There's a girk and pickle.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, it's a girkin a pickle. There's a pickle. It's
called a girkin. And that was a pun that Martha
Quinn just made up on the spot because she's thank you.
We'll wait for Karina to catch us.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Hurricane.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Thank you. So it's a glass pickle ornament. It's hidden
somewhere in the Christmas tree in Germany, and the Christmas
tradition is to have kids look for the pickle and
the first kid to find the pickle on Christmas morning
gets an extra present or is said to have good
luck for the year ahead. And they're not quite sure
(04:22):
exactly how this tradition came about, but it's kind of
a cool tradition that people, especially over in Germany, participate in.
So I thought that was kind of cool to share.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, so they.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hang the pickle on their o tannan bound.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't know. Now you're looking up pickles I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Looking up glass pickle ornament. Of course, oh tann and balum,
oh tann and baum. I've never heard of thatch em
ochta leave, and that's how Christmas tree in German. So
they look for their glass pickle on the o tannanbum,
on their tann and bam.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How did you know how to sing oh Christmas tree
in German?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I have no idea. Christy Pik goes so way back
into my really my synapses. I don't know where that
came from.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I have a question. What is a tannenbaumb.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's a Christmas tree in German.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's what she was just saying. She was singing, O German.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Once again. We'll wait for Karina because.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I heard of Karna. Are your headphones working?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I've heard of Tannenbaumb, but I didn't. I never knew
what that meant, because I think it's another.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You're thinking of the royal Tannenbaumb's the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're thinking of a last name. But what she was
singing was oh Christmas tree in German.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is oh tann and baum, oh tann and baumb
achtenben weener Schnitzel, And.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm just blown away. That she actually knew how to
sing that just off the cup. You're amazing, Martha Quinn.
So now our next tradition takes us to Sweden. Okay,
Donald Duck Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No wait, say this again, Donald Duck Christmas. That Shirley
couldn't have started in Sweden though, because Donald Duck is
clear an American icon.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, in Sweden there's a tradition called Kalaianka. I don't
know if I'm saying that correctly, but it basically means
Donald Duck kalai anka. We're on Christmas Eve, families gather
across the country to watch a special TV broadcast of
a Disney cartoon featuring Donald Duck and his friends.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And this has been a.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Swedish Christmas tradition for decades. If you're Swedish and this
is a tradition, you know about this Kalaianka, please leave
us a talk back on our app so that way
we can shout you out. But I guess the broadcast
is a mix of cartoons and then festive chair and
then millions of Swedes like literally tune in to watch it.
It's one of the most watched TV events of the
(06:45):
year in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That is fascinating. So now we know what everybody in
ABBA and Ace of Base is doing in Sweden on Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Dunn, that's cool. That sounds like a fun Christmas. I
want to be a part of. That sounds like a
good time.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
How come we don't get to see this Donald Duck cartoon.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know, and I don't know what particular cartoon
it is, but you know what we do have that
Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer kind of claymation cartoon that
people watch. And then everyone, I know, not everyone, but
a lot of people participate in the TBS a Christmas
Story Marathon because every year, of course they play it
(07:25):
for twenty four hours and it's either TBS or T
and T. And then the other Christmas movie tradition is
the Charlie Brown Christmas which I don't know if you
guys know, this does not show on network television anymore. Yeah,
if you've noticed, it's not on TV because Apple Plus
bought the rights to The Peanuts Gang and so now
(07:48):
if you want to see it, you have to stream it, which.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Is kind of it's not the same, not the same.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, Well, this weekend depending on when you hear this podcast.
It's free. They're streaming it for free, so they're letting
everyone log onto Apple Plus on December fourteenth and fifteenth. Yeah,
you can check it out for free.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And you don't have to do the old free.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Nope, the subscriber info. Yeah no, no, no, no, you
can just log on. You don't have to set anything up.
You can just log on and watch it.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And I do know that Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Let me see if that didn't change. That's a similar
thing that Rudolph the Red Noosrandeer could be seen on
NBC dot com. Oh, I'm so sorry it passed. It
was Thursday, December twelfth. But all of these different streaming
(08:37):
services you have to it's like it's like a scavenger
hunt to find your favorite Christmas shows.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's crazy that you have to go to one channel
to see it. I mean, I guess it showed on
television on one channel, so I guess kind of it's
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But still yeah, but somehow everybody in the country could
watch it because you'd all know, okay, eight o'clock channel
four or whatever channel you know, NBCU was on in
your area. You just gather around it, you know, snooze
you lose if you miss it. But well that's the
same thing with NBC dot Com. They're going to show
(09:14):
it because I guess these streaming services are kind of
aware that they're tampering with a tradition, so they feel
obligated to say, Okay, everybody can watch it for free
or whatever. At this time they know they know they're
tampering with the tradition.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, and finally the last Christmas tradition that I wanted
to bring to the table.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Yes, it's a little cynosis so exciting. Ooh for producer Karena, Yes,
we know that she likes. That is in Austria and
it's called Crumpus.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Have you heard of this festival.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I've heard of Crumpus before, but I can't remember, like
what the festival is about, Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm gonna guess it's about some kind of some kind
of wine.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So I'm gonna guess it is not about wine. There
is a lot of drinking involved, but Crumpus, and they've
done a scary movie, a horror movie called Crumpus. But
basically Crumpus is the antithesis of Santa Claus. It's a
horned demon like creature woo, And Crumpus comes to punish
(10:22):
all the naughty kids during the Christmas season. So Santa's buffer, no, yeah,
Santa's out, you know, given out gifts, spread and Christmas joy.
And then Crumpus comes along and he basically cleans up
and visits the houses where Santa leaves coal. So if
you have coal, that's basically like a marker for Trumpus. Yes,
(10:45):
And so this Crumpus creature, and I mean, he looks frightening.
They dress up every year and they do the Crumpus lough.
I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's
basically a parade of these creatures. And they create these
wooden masks throughout the years, and the masks are so
(11:07):
intricate and they're so beautifully horrifying. I mean, the craftsmanship
of these masks is amazing, but these masks are terrifying.
And so in big cities they have like a Crumpuss
parade and they're like ah, and the little kids are like,
you know, taking pictures of Crumpus. But in the smaller villages,
(11:28):
Crumpus loves go crazy and usually you know, firefighters, police
officers dress up as these Crumpus demons and they go
through the town. They roam the streets, They scare adults
and kids, They like mess up your hair and just
basically wreak havoc. And they have these bundles of sticks
(11:49):
and they hit you with them. This is like a
real life festival. My friend Michelle went and she was like, way, yeah.
She was like, it was the craziest night ever. It
was crazy. She really she said she had so much fun.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I bet, but she.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Was like it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
She was like, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Crazy, terrifying fun. They met a lot of people, but
definitely Christmas tradition that does involve alcohol too, because you know,
like you're running from these like demons of the night
kind of chasing you. So like Halloween, like a haunted house,
but the whole city has kind of taken over, and
that is a Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
People drinking and running around chasing you with sticks. What
could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Nothing? Nothing at all, Nothing I could go wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
If you want to check out what Christy is talking about,
you can google Crompus Parade and Crompus is spelled k
r a mp us and it does look super frightening
and scary.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Do you see those masks? Though, Somebody like usually takes
you know, so much time carving these wooden mantes.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're they're amazing, but they are like terrifying. And if
someone's running up on you with one of those masks
at night with like a broomstick trying to hit you
with it, that is crazy. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, you know. Oh, San Antonio, Texas is going to
have their first Crompus parade this year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, I'm sure it'll be a little bit different than
it is in Austria because I'm sure they go a
little different in Europe. But yeah, my friend went and
she was like, this was the craziest thing, and she yeah,
but she said it was a lot of fun. Really yeah,
she said she had a really good time.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That would be my kind of party.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But she said it was definitely. She couldn't believe it.
She was like, this was insane. But then, you know,
kind of towards the end of the night, the guys
dressed up as the Crumpus, you know, take off their
their masks and they party too, and she's like a
lot of them were really hot.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Well, I will can I talk about a different tradition.
I don't know if you guys know in Mexico, well
because I've been a couple times, but they do las posadas.
So it's nine nights of nine nights of celebration in Mexico.
So what you do is you go around in a
group and you sing, and you go to people's houses
and you're pretty much Carol and then different houses we'll
have pinatas for kids and like a like a yard
(14:22):
party and everybody comes and it's like nine all straight
nights of celebration and singing and breaking all these pinatas.
And then the final night is like, okay, the family
time where you just open your gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
But it's fun, it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I've been like two times before and I was like, what,
we got a lot of people's houses, you know, cause
I never never knew about that tradition until I went
to Mexico and found out. My cousins were like, nope,
this is what we do. We have to celebrate for
nine nights.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's interesting how it kind of combines two traditions. One
is the Christmas caroling and the other the multi night thing.
It's kind of like on a So it's interesting how
they sort of intersect.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah with trigger treating. That's what I thought of too,
because you're going from house to house and you're getting
candy from the pata yeah, and you're saying and roll
it all into line at a party.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And then do you go to the same houses all
nine nights? That sounds like groundhog Day? Oh my god,
here they are again, I know.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Right, No, you actually go to different different people host
these bosadas, So different houses will host, you know, if
especially if it's so.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We say you go to people's houses. I was thinking,
like Christie was thinking, in other words, that you go
from door to door like hot like Halloween or Christmas caroling.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, no, you like it's like, okay, we're gonna go
to Christie's house on Monday.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Then it's going to Martha's house on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But if they don't have nine friends.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Then we walked to well then I mean, I don't know.
It's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But like in Mexico, I only have pasadas for two nights, not.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
To be confused with pasole, but I don't know where
I went.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No, but it doesn't is just the soup it's just
the Mexican soup.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Do you like my Spanish that I just did?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
There?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh, there are such different communities that everyone's friendly, even
if you don't have nine friends.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's like your neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No one's looking at it as like, oh I don't
know so and so I'm going up to her house.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know who she is. It's nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, well, there you go. I think that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Crump on that Wow, not to be confused with getting crunked.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, thank you, crump There it is, there is.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
All right, all right, Well some amazing holiday traditions outside
of what you may celebrate with your family that are
kind of interesting. But the holidays are just all about
creating your own traditions. Whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yes, I love it. That was such a great topic.
Thank you for that. Thank you for Crumpus and Tannenbaum
and posson us. And wait, there was one other way.
Don't tell me, Crumpus, M M. Tanning bound.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Let me give you a hint.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh I know, Donald duck? Okay, yeah, whatever that's called.
What was the Donald duck one that the guys in Abba.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Liked to do?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Calle Unca Yeah, so cool.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Any relationships to Paul you please wrap up the podcast
before goes.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You know, I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I gotta enough said. Any relation to Paul Unca Ah,
she's having my baby. We love Louis much. You love me,
very nice, very nice. On that note, we will wrap
up episode number Karta Alaskaz please six of Talk Talk
(17:45):
with Martha Quinn until next week. I'm Martha Quinn, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Christy, I'm Karina Alaskaz.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Miss you are ready
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk Talk begins.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Jingle bells, jingle bells, where's your bells?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Robin laid and I cannot find my sleigh bells. And
Blitten and Dasher and Danner and Donner are all so upset.
They have been blowing up my phone texting me where
are your bells? Because they know they're not allowed in
(00:29):
the studio until I send them the signal, which is
the jingle bells. But I cannot find them. So that's
why they're outside the studio right now like pawing at
the door. I'm going to try to find them as
soon as possible. So that's the answer to your question, Christy,
maybe there are the jingle bells.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Maybe your bells are hidden with the Christmas pickle. What's
the Christmas pickle? Well, we will find out in just
a moment on this episode of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Nice welcome to Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. This is
episode number Kaarina of Alaskaz. Please will you do the honors?
I mean, I know, but I just.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, well, just in case you guys did it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
No, Well, I know Martha knows, but Christy, this is
number two hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Thank you. I knew that, but I just wanted to
hear you say yeah. Well, just in case of me
listeners didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's everybody wants to hear Karina say it though, it's
way more fun. So Welcome to episode number two hundred
and twenty six of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. This
is the podcast that unite the morning Live with Christy
Live Crue Christy and Karina of Alaskaz with the Martha
Quinn Show crew, Martha Quinn and Doreena of Alaska. Ah,
(01:50):
that never gets old. Friend Martha Quinn. Here, you know
what we need to do, ladies. We need to have
Ron Michaels join us on a podcast and Clarence Barnes too.
We should do it for just an entire classic kits
at one of three point seven party.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'll bring that would be fun. I think that would
be a jam.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'll bring the punch.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh god, oh, that sounds like punch. I cannot have the.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Jungle juice punch.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That sounds like punch. That will have me in the
Ladies room on the floor. That's what that sounds like.
So Christy mentioned the Christmas pickle, and Christy, I'm glad
that you did bring this up because today's podcast topic
was created by none other than Christy James. If you
were looking at us right now in person, you would
(02:40):
see Christy and her beautiful forty nine ers, not hoodie sweatshirt,
beautiful love it repping. So okay, so let's hear more
about this.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So we all know about the Christmas traditions, or most
of us know about Christmas traditions in the United States.
You heard of Christmas, maybe Kwanza Hanukkah, but there are
Christmas tradition outside of the United States that a lot
of people participate in. So just wanted to kind of
talk about a couple of those that you may not
have heard of, including one called the Christmas pickle.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'm excited to hear about this because I like a
good pickle.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Really I do.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I love pickles.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh, I can't stand up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Really.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, that's a whole nother conversation. But okay, Hello.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In some parts of Germany and actually some people in
the US have started to do this. There's this quirky
tradition where a glass pickle ornament.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm sorry, did you say quirky tradition or gurky?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's funny because there's a gurky pickle, right, it's girkin pickle. Yeah,
that's what.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
There's a girk and pickle.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, it's a girkin a pickle. There's a pickle. It's
called a girkin. And that was a pun that Martha
Quinn just made up on the spot because she's thank you.
We'll wait for Karina to catch us.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Hurricane.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Thank you. So it's a glass pickle ornament. It's hidden
somewhere in the Christmas tree in Germany, and the Christmas
tradition is to have kids look for the pickle and
the first kid to find the pickle on Christmas morning
gets an extra present or is said to have good
luck for the year ahead. And they're not quite sure
(04:22):
exactly how this tradition came about, but it's kind of
a cool tradition that people, especially over in Germany, participate in.
So I thought that was kind of cool to share.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, so they.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hang the pickle on their o tannan bound.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't know. Now you're looking up pickles I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Looking up glass pickle ornament. Of course, oh tann and balum,
oh tann and baum. I've never heard of thatch em
ochta leave, and that's how Christmas tree in German. So
they look for their glass pickle on the o tannanbum,
on their tann and bam.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How did you know how to sing oh Christmas tree
in German?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I have no idea. Christy Pik goes so way back
into my really my synapses. I don't know where that
came from.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I have a question. What is a tannenbaumb.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's a Christmas tree in German.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's what she was just saying. She was singing, O German.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Once again. We'll wait for Karina because.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I heard of Karna. Are your headphones working?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I've heard of Tannenbaumb, but I didn't. I never knew
what that meant, because I think it's another.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You're thinking of the royal Tannenbaumb's the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're thinking of a last name. But what she was
singing was oh Christmas tree in German.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is oh tann and baum, oh tann and baumb
achtenben weener Schnitzel, And.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I'm just blown away. That she actually knew how to
sing that just off the cup. You're amazing, Martha Quinn.
So now our next tradition takes us to Sweden. Okay,
Donald Duck Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
No wait, say this again, Donald Duck Christmas. That Shirley
couldn't have started in Sweden though, because Donald Duck is
clear an American icon.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, in Sweden there's a tradition called Kalaianka. I don't
know if I'm saying that correctly, but it basically means
Donald Duck kalai anka. We're on Christmas Eve, families gather
across the country to watch a special TV broadcast of
a Disney cartoon featuring Donald Duck and his friends.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And this has been a.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Swedish Christmas tradition for decades. If you're Swedish and this
is a tradition, you know about this Kalaianka, please leave
us a talk back on our app so that way
we can shout you out. But I guess the broadcast
is a mix of cartoons and then festive chair and
then millions of Swedes like literally tune in to watch it.
It's one of the most watched TV events of the
(06:45):
year in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That is fascinating. So now we know what everybody in
ABBA and Ace of Base is doing in Sweden on Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Dunn, that's cool. That sounds like a fun Christmas. I
want to be a part of. That sounds like a
good time.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
How come we don't get to see this Donald Duck cartoon.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know, and I don't know what particular cartoon
it is, but you know what we do have that
Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer kind of claymation cartoon that
people watch. And then everyone, I know, not everyone, but
a lot of people participate in the TBS a Christmas
Story Marathon because every year, of course they play it
(07:25):
for twenty four hours and it's either TBS or T
and T. And then the other Christmas movie tradition is
the Charlie Brown Christmas which I don't know if you
guys know, this does not show on network television anymore. Yeah,
if you've noticed, it's not on TV because Apple Plus
bought the rights to The Peanuts Gang and so now
(07:48):
if you want to see it, you have to stream it, which.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Is kind of it's not the same, not the same.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, Well, this weekend depending on when you hear this podcast.
It's free. They're streaming it for free, so they're letting
everyone log onto Apple Plus on December fourteenth and fifteenth. Yeah,
you can check it out for free.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And you don't have to do the old free.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Nope, the subscriber info. Yeah no, no, no, no, you
can just log on. You don't have to set anything up.
You can just log on and watch it.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And I do know that Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Let me see if that didn't change. That's a similar
thing that Rudolph the Red Noosrandeer could be seen on
NBC dot com. Oh, I'm so sorry it passed. It
was Thursday, December twelfth. But all of these different streaming
(08:37):
services you have to it's like it's like a scavenger
hunt to find your favorite Christmas shows.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's crazy that you have to go to one channel
to see it. I mean, I guess it showed on
television on one channel, so I guess kind of it's
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But still yeah, but somehow everybody in the country could
watch it because you'd all know, okay, eight o'clock channel
four or whatever channel you know, NBCU was on in
your area. You just gather around it, you know, snooze
you lose if you miss it. But well that's the
same thing with NBC dot Com. They're going to show
(09:14):
it because I guess these streaming services are kind of
aware that they're tampering with a tradition, so they feel
obligated to say, Okay, everybody can watch it for free
or whatever. At this time they know they know they're
tampering with the tradition.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, and finally the last Christmas tradition that I wanted
to bring to the table.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Yes, it's a little cynosis so exciting. Ooh for producer Karena, Yes,
we know that she likes. That is in Austria and
it's called Crumpus.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Have you heard of this festival.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I've heard of Crumpus before, but I can't remember, like
what the festival is about, Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm gonna guess it's about some kind of some kind
of wine.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So I'm gonna guess it is not about wine. There
is a lot of drinking involved, but Crumpus, and they've
done a scary movie, a horror movie called Crumpus. But
basically Crumpus is the antithesis of Santa Claus. It's a
horned demon like creature woo, And Crumpus comes to punish
(10:22):
all the naughty kids during the Christmas season. So Santa's buffer, no, yeah,
Santa's out, you know, given out gifts, spread and Christmas joy.
And then Crumpus comes along and he basically cleans up
and visits the houses where Santa leaves coal. So if
you have coal, that's basically like a marker for Trumpus. Yes,
(10:45):
And so this Crumpus creature, and I mean, he looks frightening.
They dress up every year and they do the Crumpus lough.
I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's
basically a parade of these creatures. And they create these
wooden masks throughout the years, and the masks are so
(11:07):
intricate and they're so beautifully horrifying. I mean, the craftsmanship
of these masks is amazing, but these masks are terrifying.
And so in big cities they have like a Crumpuss
parade and they're like ah, and the little kids are like,
you know, taking pictures of Crumpus. But in the smaller villages,
(11:28):
Crumpus loves go crazy and usually you know, firefighters, police
officers dress up as these Crumpus demons and they go
through the town. They roam the streets, They scare adults
and kids, They like mess up your hair and just
basically wreak havoc. And they have these bundles of sticks
(11:49):
and they hit you with them. This is like a
real life festival. My friend Michelle went and she was like, way, yeah.
She was like, it was the craziest night ever. It
was crazy. She really she said she had so much fun.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I bet, but she.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Was like it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
She was like, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Crazy, terrifying fun. They met a lot of people, but
definitely Christmas tradition that does involve alcohol too, because you know,
like you're running from these like demons of the night
kind of chasing you. So like Halloween, like a haunted house,
but the whole city has kind of taken over, and
that is a Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
People drinking and running around chasing you with sticks. What
could go wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Nothing? Nothing at all, Nothing I could go wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
If you want to check out what Christy is talking about,
you can google Crompus Parade and Crompus is spelled k
r a mp us and it does look super frightening
and scary.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Do you see those masks? Though, Somebody like usually takes
you know, so much time carving these wooden mantes.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're they're amazing, but they are like terrifying. And if
someone's running up on you with one of those masks
at night with like a broomstick trying to hit you
with it, that is crazy. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, you know. Oh, San Antonio, Texas is going to
have their first Crompus parade this year. Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yes, I'm sure it'll be a little bit different than
it is in Austria because I'm sure they go a
little different in Europe. But yeah, my friend went and
she was like, this was the craziest thing, and she yeah,
but she said it was a lot of fun. Really yeah,
she said she had a really good time.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That would be my kind of party.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
But she said it was definitely. She couldn't believe it.
She was like, this was insane. But then, you know,
kind of towards the end of the night, the guys
dressed up as the Crumpus, you know, take off their
their masks and they party too, and she's like a
lot of them were really hot.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Well, I will can I talk about a different tradition.
I don't know if you guys know in Mexico, well
because I've been a couple times, but they do las posadas.
So it's nine nights of nine nights of celebration in Mexico.
So what you do is you go around in a
group and you sing, and you go to people's houses
and you're pretty much Carol and then different houses we'll
have pinatas for kids and like a like a yard
(14:22):
party and everybody comes and it's like nine all straight
nights of celebration and singing and breaking all these pinatas.
And then the final night is like, okay, the family
time where you just open your gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
But it's fun, it's a good time.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I've been like two times before and I was like, what,
we got a lot of people's houses, you know, cause
I never never knew about that tradition until I went
to Mexico and found out. My cousins were like, nope,
this is what we do. We have to celebrate for
nine nights.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's interesting how it kind of combines two traditions. One
is the Christmas caroling and the other the multi night thing.
It's kind of like on a So it's interesting how
they sort of intersect.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah with trigger treating. That's what I thought of too,
because you're going from house to house and you're getting
candy from the pata yeah, and you're saying and roll
it all into line at a party.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And then do you go to the same houses all
nine nights? That sounds like groundhog Day? Oh my god,
here they are again, I know.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Right, No, you actually go to different different people host
these bosadas, So different houses will host, you know, if
especially if it's so.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We say you go to people's houses. I was thinking,
like Christie was thinking, in other words, that you go
from door to door like hot like Halloween or Christmas caroling.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, no, you like it's like, okay, we're gonna go
to Christie's house on Monday.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Then it's going to Martha's house on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But if they don't have nine friends.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Then we walked to well then I mean, I don't know.
It's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But like in Mexico, I only have pasadas for two nights, not.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
To be confused with pasole, but I don't know where
I went.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No, but it doesn't is just the soup it's just
the Mexican soup.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Do you like my Spanish that I just did?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
There?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh, there are such different communities that everyone's friendly, even
if you don't have nine friends.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's like your neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No one's looking at it as like, oh I don't
know so and so I'm going up to her house.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know who she is. It's nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, well, there you go. I think that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Crump on that Wow, not to be confused with getting crunked.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, thank you, crump There it is, there is.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
All right, all right, Well some amazing holiday traditions outside
of what you may celebrate with your family that are
kind of interesting. But the holidays are just all about
creating your own traditions. Whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yes, I love it. That was such a great topic.
Thank you for that. Thank you for Crumpus and Tannenbaum
and posson us. And wait, there was one other way.
Don't tell me, Crumpus, M M. Tanning bound.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Let me give you a hint.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh I know, Donald duck? Okay, yeah, whatever that's called.
What was the Donald duck one that the guys in Abba.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Liked to do?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Calle Unca Yeah, so cool.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Any relationships to Paul you please wrap up the podcast
before goes.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You know, I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I gotta enough said. Any relation to Paul Unca Ah,
she's having my baby. We love Louis much. You love me,
very nice, very nice. On that note, we will wrap
up episode number Karta Alaskaz please six of Talk Talk
(17:45):
with Martha Quinn until next week. I'm Martha Quinn, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Christy, I'm Karina Alaskaz.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Miss you are ready
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