I Tell Stories
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Superstition: New Years Day
Oh boy boy.
Speaker 2:Happy New Year, right 2025, Podcastlandia.
Speaker 1:Happy one to all of you.
Speaker 2:I know it's hard to believe we've been around this long that we've done a couple of these now, truly, you know well, this will be our third New Year into this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's hard work, guys. It's hard out here for a podcaster in podcastlandia, you know. Since it is the new year, I want to shout out our top countries, which would be United States, germany, south Africa and England, followed closely by Scotland. So good job, guys much love planet earth.
Speaker 1:Globally renowned I tell stories, that's what they call us. Followed closely by Scotland.
Speaker 2:So good job, guys. Much love. Planet Earth yes, globally renowned. I tell stories that's what they call us. It's amazing. I never would have expected such a clamor about this little thing. Me and Owen do, I don't know. It's pretty intense. I don't know what you did on New Year's Day to make you were, you know, in good favor with the new year's gods or the baby or the old guy, whatever it may be. But uh, one thing I did that I seen on this list and I figured we'll just get out of it right away. By the way, we're going to tell you guys about new year's, uh superstitions that will bring you good luck we hope right, because we're all about positivity over here and uh things of that nature. But the one that I did was I woke up early, because I wake up early every day. So I didn't I didn't know about this at the time, but yeah, I woke up early on new year's day. I was up at about six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1:I think that's relatively early so, yeah, that seems early, especially for by some people's standards, after whatever they might be getting into on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2:Right, I know, but like you know what, Obviously I definitely partook in all these New Year's celebrations of the past, okay, when there was a lot of alcohol involved and stuff. But it's like, if you want to start the New Year, right, why would you want to start like, just feeling like total shit? It sounds like yeah, no.
Speaker 1:It seems like a terrible way. I did have some alcohol on New Year's Eve, but I had way more Mexican food, which is I'll take Mexican food over booze any day. Thank you, no, nothing like that. And I did make it to midnight. For the record 45-year-old. That doesn't happen much anymore, but people are just setting off fireworks and I guess I'm not so old that I went out there are you damn kids Shut up. I was just like oh well, I guess I'll make it to Midnight, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sounds of freedom, my friend, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:With Chinese gunpowder Go Marco.
Speaker 2:Yeah, big sense, perfect sense. Hey, check this out. I'm just going to get right into this. Well, because the beautiful Nicole, her birthday is on New Year's Eve, and so that's what I was up to on the eve of the new year. But to be truly lucky, I guess, which I think she's as lucky as they come. But the way to go about this just guaranteed luck is be born on, be burned, don't be burned on this date. Be born on January 1st. Can you tell? We're out of practice sometimes, guys, when I misspeak and such, I'm sure. But yeah, so if you're born on January 1st, you're in good shape.
Speaker 1:Hands down, that just means you're golden, my friend. So I don't know. Yeah, one doesn't have much say in being born on January 1st, but to those who were, yeah, happy, belated, since this will probably come out second or third.
Speaker 2:Nonetheless, there's another one. I'm going to come with some simple ones and, if you want to, you know, step in and tell me some of your, your ones that you found I'd gladly take that step only with your right foot, which, as it says. It's confusing, but many cultures think that if you step into the new year with your right foot leading forward, that it's the right way to step into the new year. I guess I don't know. That's literally as crazy as that is. I don't see any old folklore around this right foot thing, owen.
Speaker 1:I'm not wild about this one. Apparently, in Puerto Rico, to throw a bucket of water out your window is said to bring good luck. But like what if it lands on someone with a gun? Like that doesn't sound like it would Right. And then also apparently sprinkling sugar outside your home, which I was also thinking like do they not have ants in Puerto Rico? Like I'm sorry, I just can't get behind.
Speaker 2:Apparently not.
Speaker 1:Can't get behind these ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know a lot of like stuff, superstitions of sorts, sprinkling powders. You know like brick dust is like a way to keep away evil spirits if you put it in front of your doorway. You know like brick dust is like a way to keep away evil spirits if you put it in front of your doorway. You know, I'm just saying I don't know. Check this one out. I know Boogie did this one. Boogie being the dog of Boogie's Bodega, located in Billings Montana on First Avenue North, I always forget the actual address. My friend, I'm sorry 18-0-2, first Avenue North.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, so 18.02 for 7 or 9.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you. So I know Boogie did this one, but take seven laps around the house. Just whoo whoo, whoo whoo. I'm pretty sure he did. Probably so, yeah, especially being, as you're, a 30,000-step-a-day type of guy. But apparently you know it says you can also run around your room, which just seems kind of fucking lame. If you're going to do this shit, do it right. Podcast land. Get out there and run around the house seven times, hands in the air, screaming woo Right.
Speaker 1:And then I saw in Columbia it's considered good luck at midnight to run around the block as fast as you can lugging an empty suitcase which is supposed to bring you at least one travel adventure in the upcoming year. Adventure in the upcoming year I'm with that. That's cool. Seems a little loony, but the spirit of it, totally, totally with that. Also, in Korea, apparently, sipping soup made with meat, vegetables and rice cakes is said to be good for the soul. Oh, really, soul, soul Korea. Hey, I love Koreans. I don't think I've had the soup, but again, cake is said to be good for the soul. Oh really, ha, soul, soul, korea. Hey, but uh, I love koreans. We don't think about the soup, but again, I'm with this one. Like there's a lot of these, I'm like okay, but uh, I'm a positive. And apparently in haitia, in haitia, in haiti, vacation tradition is to have a pumpkin squash based, uh, soup.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1:It's said to be a symbol of liberation from when the Asians were freed from France Allegedly freed, you know what I mean? Right, still, the remnants of colonialism are ever-present. But anyway, yeah, I'm with the soup on New Year's.
Speaker 2:No, I'm yeah, especially during the cold weather, my friend.
Speaker 1:When I thought Well, Haiti, I don't think, has much cold weather.
Speaker 2:I guess not. But sorry, woof, if you see me right now, that went over my head.
Speaker 1:Now that went over my head.
Speaker 2:Cold Asian winters. Yeah, that one went right over my head. Hey, it's freezing right now in the PNW. Even I swear.
Speaker 1:It's cold here, I think it's 19. Ugh gross. It's fit for ice fishing, which is America's hat to the north of us Montanans, that's tradition, I guess, on New Year's Day, I think of ice fishing. Wow, listen to Drake and go sit in a frozen shed and have fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what did they have, molson, I don't know. Anyway, I had to think about that, hey. What I thought was kind of weird, that I didn't totally agree with initially, was like, don't clean on New Year's day, and it's like what? See, yet again it? To me, this is counterintuitive, because it's like you want. You're starting the new year with a bad habit, similar to like waking up all hung over, you know. So don't clean your house on new year's day, guys, which whatever. But apparently cleaning or sweeping up on new year's day, uh, also means like's Day, also means you're sweeping away the good fortune. And as things have become more modernized, they apply this to even don't do your fucking laundry, don't do nothing, just be lazy on New Year's Day, or, like I went, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Sorry, where is that? Whose philosophy is that?
Speaker 2:I didn't find it doesn't state that one my friend.
Speaker 1:Okay, because in Puerto Rico it's tradition to clean every nook and cranny of your home. Oh well, I like To start off on, I guess. Yeah, so I'm with that Puerto Rican one I don't want to be throwing water on. I'm kind of thinking that everyone in Puerto Rico has a gun, but it'd be my fortune that if I threw some water out it'd probably be somebody you know.
Speaker 2:Apparently this one's Chinese. I just did some quick Googling and that one's Chinese. No-transcript. Yeah, I would love to go to Puerto.
Speaker 1:Rico.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm pretty sure felons are okay and you don't need a passport. Yeah, so that means I'm golden right. So all right, pretty cool man.
Speaker 1:And then did you see what your folks in Denmark, what one of their traditions is.
Speaker 2:No, I did not.
Speaker 1:Enlighten me To smash plates and then go around to, like your friends and neighbors, to ward off bad spirits, and smash plates on their doorstep oh, on their doorstep, okay, yes, not on their head, sorry, yes, okay. No, that might. Yeah, I mean that starts an enemy.
Speaker 2:Those wacky Danes. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know about Denmark anymore. My people's, my people Apparently Pop the Door Open at Midnight is one in the Philippines.
Speaker 2:So it's like you open all your doors and windows and stuff. It doesn't kind of make sense to me. Some of these older ones like this do make sense, whereas it just clears out the bad vibes kind of like you know, especially if it's a colder area you live in, which I don't know about the Philippines, if they ever get cold either, but like I'm assuming not. But yeah, that's what I'm saying, but regardless to them, a cool breeze is probably a warm breeze to us, right? So like it just kind of like pushes all that bad energy out, freshens the house up, and that makes sense to me.
Speaker 2:Also thought is, is this, some of these traditions like may come from far older places, and this comes to me right now, podcast landia, as I'm doing this episode with my good friend owen mcmichael. Okay, and the reason I say this is because, unlike like christmas and a lot of these other like holidays and festivals and such, where the times have jumped around throughout histories, uh, the, the solstice is always the same. You know what I mean, and so they're always celebrating around certain traditions around the same time of year, I would assume. So I bet you, if we were really to do some deep digging in this shit, some of these would make sense way, way back, just way back. That's just a guess, guys. Hey, I don't know what the fuck this is, but it has something to do with New Orleans. Okay, new Orleans, which you know. Whatever, here it's, eat King Cake when the clock strikes 12.
Speaker 2:I don't know what King Cake is but we're going to kind of figure it out. King Cake is that delicious donut-like dessert famous in New Orleans. Do you know what this is?
Speaker 1:I just heard of it recently, I think, maybe when you sent me something about this. Okay, yeah, I just heard of it recently, I think, maybe when you sent me something about this.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, apparently in France. But, I haven't had it. Yeah, it's called Galate des Rois. What do you say? I don't know. I say it like Spanish because I don't know French really, so if I was speaking French and Spanish it would be Galate des Rois. But it's not so, I don't know. And eating it signifies you're satisfied with the end of the Christmas season and ready for a new year, my friend. And if you're lucky enough, apparently there's a slice sometimes that may or may not have a gold coin in it.
Speaker 1:Which is also a tradition in Greece and Romania, to put a coin in to bake kids especially sweets.
Speaker 2:I love that. Apparently, you could also End up eating A tiny plastic baby In this New Orleans tradition, new Orleans, so Yikes, yeah, I don't, that would suck Cause how I eat. I would like Inhale Said coiner baby, like you know what I mean. That would be terrible.
Speaker 1:Galette. Galette de la what? What? That's the king cake. Sorry, oh, thank you, coiner baby. Like you know what I mean, that would be terrible. Galette de Bois what case? That's the king case? Sorry, oh, thank you very much. Did you look it up, galette?
Speaker 2:de Bois, thank you, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you had to do that for our listeners. Yeah, that's for you people.
Speaker 1:Roi would be king R-O-I.
Speaker 2:Oh, really that's crazy. I think Latin king is Rex, rexum, yep yeah.
Speaker 1:All right educational moments for myself yeah.
Speaker 2:Like one of the first. The way I know this is when King Alfred was trying to unify England and propose the idea of English which there is no such thing as an actual English people until this point he started putting out coins that said Angloris Rexum, which literally meant King of the Angles, and that was one of the first ones. Like that, my friend. That's how I know that. Anyway, check this one out, bro. I know you did this yesterday. Whip out your red underwear.
Speaker 2:If you're hoping 2025 will be a spicy year, uh, make sure to slip on some red panties before what the fuck so? Or boxers. I'm assuming this doesn't have to only do with women, I don't know, but apparently red panties everybody on new year's day supposed to wear them. This is a common in latin america. Wearing red underwear on new years is believed to bring passionate relationships for the next 12 months. Uh, it's up to you if anyone else gets to know you're wearing them, I guess. So there we are. That's another one, my friend. There was one that you told me that I was like what the fuck? And I didn't look into it because I kind of wanted you to fill me in, but uh, I believe the french word and Spanish word for it is pan.
Speaker 1:It has to do with that. Oh, the bread. I thought it was in Ireland, though, where you smack bread against the wall to bring good luck. As much fun as I make with my people's cuisine Scottish, Irish and English for the most part it's like yeah, I don't, I'd rather. I don't know, maybe if it's stale bread then, but otherwise it seems like a waste of bread, Like I'd rather just eat it with some Kerrygold, Kerrygold butter, which I was thinking about. Here's the Scottish one, apparently the Isle of man specifically, but first footing is it's very important who the first person that walks through your door, and I'm thinking about that. No one came to the house and like the shop's more. Even though I'm only here three days a week, it's really more home to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it has boogie stamp and my but, anyway, yeah, somebody I hadn't I think I'd seen him years ago, maybe at the old shop and he just just came in and was, yeah, just a really nice guy Like said he was super excited to see how different this place was than everywhere and I was like, okay, that was cool. I was kind of thinking about it. I was like you know, whoever comes in, they're going to be cool. But I was like all right, that was somebody you know. Yeah, but I was like all right, that was somebody you know. Yeah, it was a good way to start the year. No, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1:Typically they're supposed to bring, apparently like a gift of shortbread or whiskey or something. But I can't expect, you know, some random person who just happened to pull up like, whoa, they're open on New Year's Like I should probably bring shortbread and whiskey yeah, might as well. Oh, they're open on New Year's Like I should probably bring shortbread and whiskey yeah, might as well.
Speaker 2:Did you know? I just Might as well. Yeah, you inspired me, my friend.
Speaker 2:In Scotland apparently they call it Hogmanay is the word for the last day of the year, and I don't know Seems like it's relatively Like, they still kind of do that and it comes from like old Norse traditions or Viking comes from like old norse traditions or viking, actually not norse. That's kind of you don't want to say that vikings are encompassed, kind of denmark, norway, sweden, any of these peoples up from there, and including the, they're probably their islamic brothers that rode with them, I'm assuming, because there was a lot of different peoples that were actually vikings, not just a bunch of honkies with braids, my friends, um, that's a real thing. And also in Scotland, because we love our Scottish people. Okay, I don't know why, but we do. It doesn't even have to do with Owen, okay, it's just how it works out, I guess.
Speaker 2:But baking a black bun. Black bun is a traditional Scottish cake for celebrating the New Year, a fruity dessert of shortcrust pastry raisins, currants, brandy and spices. Of course there's brandy in there, okay, with Scotland, and not that singer from the 90s guys I'm talking about, like you know.
Speaker 1:So anyway, nonetheless, here's one I like in Ecuador, which mom loves Ecuador. She's been there at least twice. But burn away your grievances. So it's tradition to, not only for your own sins, but she's been there at least twice, I think twice. But burn away your grievances, so it's tradition to, not only for your own sins, but images of sinister or evil people, and you light them on fire and then also all your past, all the bad stuff you just. It's called a Los Anos Viejos, which translates to the old years. I think I got that right Again. Here we go Spanish, and then Galatea. It's French, but yeah, I could get with that one.
Speaker 2:Right, no shit, not only carry grievances, but burn them away.
Speaker 2:No, that's fantastic. There are some traditions like that. People will do similar things with lanterns during certain times of the year in different cultures. You know those ones like the Chinese ones, but they don't just do it in China, I'm assuming, but like where they kind of burn and it floats in the sky. It's very similar thing, which also made me think that I should look this up for one.
Speaker 2:2025, people, is the year of the snake on the Chinese calendar. I just looked up and the reason I found that out is because when we were reading about the Chinese tradition of not cleaning up, I was like, well, what day does that actually fall on? Because the Chinese new year is different. So, uh, it's supposed to be the 29th of January this year. So on the 29th of January, don't clean your house, people, cause I don't know, you know, I'm just saying you know, just remember that in the next few weeks that on the 29th you shall not clean your house, for good luck, all right, all right, yeah, I know. Just I don't know. Do you have anything that you like to do on New Year's Day? That's lucky to you, or anything like that.
Speaker 1:I mean, honestly, I just really try and have every day of the week, just enjoy it. Yeah, it sounds cheesy, but really it's just sort of like I don't know. To be honest, I'm always just kind of relieved when all the holiday stuff's done with and it's just like we can just go on with the new.
Speaker 2:Right, well, that seems to be how it is for most people, man, I mean except for kids, I'm assuming. Usually, if you have to do anything for the holiday season, like set it up or do shit like that, you are very relieved when it's over with.
Speaker 1:So I agree it just fucks up business stuff sometimes. Yeah, it does, meh, like a few companies Just forgot. They're like, oh sorry, like we didn't say that it was the holidays, and it's like Uh, huh, yeah, whatever. But Anyway, yeah, so you know me, and the holidays Always, ever cheery yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, yeah, the holiday episodes, yeah, always. You know, I was thinking I was like, hey, you know what? I did wear red underwear yesterday, so I'm in good shape. I'm trying to think of the things I may have done. That is the only thing that I can think of. And no, they were not the panty variety, they were just boxers. Okay, owen, you know none of that. Thanks for saying that. Yeah, I have to clarify that for everybody out there.
Speaker 1:So, all that being said, what was your favorite dish? You ate at the thing you went to on New Year's Eve. My friend, I didn't go. I ate so much Mexican food that I just stayed home.
Speaker 2:I took a long nap. You did, yeah, but I thought you went to some. Did you eat out or did you have food at home?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I was going to go to. It was like a stoner party basically, and I just wound up yeah, I didn't eat all day. And then about 1.30 am I met our friend Galen friend of the show, I don't know if he's listening yet, but yeah, and he owns a dispensary here, grows some of the finest cannabis you could ever get your hands on. But we went and ate. He's been by this place, I've been to Santiago's here on Grand Avenue and he lives up in the Heights and he said he'd actually driven by Santiago's and we talked about going to lunch and then I brought it up and he was like okay, you know, and then my neighbors, eddie and Sandra, called and they were actually we've gone to the one on Grand several times, but they were actually up at the Heights one and offered to bring me food when I literally the minute like it was seriously like less than a minute after I'm up with G.
Speaker 2:Oh wow.
Speaker 1:But so we went up there and what did? I had a shredded chicken and bean and rice, burrito beans and rice, on the side, chips and salsa. These peppers, which the lady warned me, were incredibly hot and seemed to kind of snicker when I was like, good, oh, they weren't very hot for me, but they're stuffed with shrimp and cheese, oh wow. And then I also had a pork belly taco. So I went home and, yeah, I was gonna head over to the event about 4 30 and I woke up about almost six and was just like I don't want to move much right now. It makes sense. Yeah, so sorry, that was a long-winded. No, I asked account, but check out Santiago's people if you're ever in Billings Montana.
Speaker 2:Yep, there we are Free plugs. You know that's Seriously, though. I mean, if something's good, you just say it. You don't have to pay us money Not all the time but.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that's great.
Speaker 2:I've heard you talk about that place before too as well, and it's nice to know that there are some good places in Blings to eat with your friends and family.
Speaker 1:Indeed, yeah, man, I'm very appreciative for you and all my family on this New Year.
Speaker 2:My friend, and you're included in this family portion, likewise my brother. Yeah for sure, shout out to a lot of our folks out there like Apocalypse Pit, my big brother, you know. So that's included in the family thing and the home we can, and I don't know we could shout out a bunch people, spooner, some Billings, folks like.
Speaker 1:Hoover up in Missoula. Yeah, for sure, dave, ricky, I mean Billings Dave out in well, in between Livingston and those, yeah, shoot, yeah, we could go on and on, but we love all of you, yeah, for sure, and appreciate you.
Speaker 2:So let's get it. It's 2025, people, let's see what disaster comes next.
Speaker 1:Oh, Jesus, Much love everybody. Yeah, Much love everybody.
