#107: Solved You!

In which Lauren & Mattias learn the story behind Lucia and the traditions that have followed. They discuss their recent movie night films and discuss various topics including fluffy flipps and  burnt gingerbread men.

Content:

• Opening
• Pink drinks
• Weekly check in
  • Weight update
• Movie on!
  • Surrogates
  • Jag Kommer Hem Igen Till Jul
• Intermission
• Lucia
  • Traditions
  • History
• Mad Libs
• What’s ruining our lives
• Wrap up

Chapters

• 0:06 Unscripted Roasty Toasty Ghosty Chat
• 13:52 Weight Loss, Movie Reviews, Sibling Rivalry
• 30:27 Lucia's Gory Origins in Sweden

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:06

In a world where everything is unscripted. This is Roasty Toasty.

Speaker 2: 0:15

Ghost Action. You don't have your lines.

Speaker 1: 0:19

No, okay, we don't even have a script so no, we have a general guideline.

Speaker 2: 0:25

We should have memorized our lines by now.

Speaker 1: 0:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 0:28

No, no, nothing, no, all right, do you want to start this? Yeah, how are you feeling? Feeling good.

Speaker 1: 0:35

Yeah, ready, what Ready. Oh, I heard pretty. Are you pretty? How do you feel? Pretty, do you feel?

Speaker 2: 0:41

pretty, do you feel pretty? Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty.

Speaker 1: 0:45

And gay.

Speaker 2: 0:46

Oh, all right, I was thinking you'd feel bright.

Speaker 1: 0:49

No.

Speaker 2: 0:49

But you feel gay.

Speaker 1: 0:51

I feel gay.

Speaker 2: 0:52

All right, do you want to start this?

Speaker 1: 0:54

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 0:55

Today's ghosty drink.

Speaker 1: 0:56

Yeah, I have not seen it.

Speaker 2: 1:00

I shook it up just now.

Speaker 1: 1:01

It's all shook up. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, he's laughing.

Speaker 2: 1:05

Ha ha, ha, ha ha ha. All right, our flavor for today, ooh pink. I was thinking since we have our drunk live Mad Libs tomorrow and we're usually pink themed for our drinks at least our alcoholic beverages are usually pink I figured we'd have a pink ghosty energy drink, sour pink lemonade Huh, cool.

Speaker 1: 1:29

Looks cool. Yeah, there we go, and you can purr.

Speaker 2: 1:35

Purr Gone. Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty. My name is Lauren.

Speaker 1: 1:43

And I'm Matias.

Speaker 2: 1:45

And we're going to be your besties for the next hour or so.

Speaker 1: 1:49

Yep.

Speaker 2: 1:50

Maybe We'll see Matias.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Yes.

Speaker 2: 1:53

How are you doing?

Speaker 1: 1:54

I am tired, but I'm good I didn't even take a sip. No, neither did I. It's gonna be interesting. My glass is wet. Yes, neither did I, it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 2: 2:05

My glass is wet. Yes, it has liquids inside.

Speaker 1: 2:06

Yeah, but it's wet on the outside.

Speaker 2: 2:08

Yeah, I put liquids on the outside.

Speaker 1: 2:11

Yeah, I thought the liquids were supposed to stay on the inside.

Speaker 2: 2:14

Oh, you were wrong.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Yeah, what did?

Speaker 2: 2:16

you think about this one?

Speaker 1: 2:18

Does it taste?

Speaker 2: 2:19

like pink lemonade.

Speaker 1: 2:22

Sour pink lemonade. I really don't know what that is, but it wasn't bad. I kind of liked it. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, you liked it too.

Speaker 2: 2:30

Yeah, and it's pink.

Speaker 1: 2:31

Yeah, this one was a good one. I think this one goes on the shelf. Yeah, since it's pink.

Speaker 2: 2:37

It has to.

Speaker 1: 2:38

All the pink drinks go on the shelf.

Speaker 2: 2:40

So yeah, you're good.

Speaker 1: 2:41

That's cool. How are you?

Speaker 2: 2:43

I'm also good. Are you also tired A little bit? I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm feeling all right. You want to talk about the week?

Speaker 1: 2:53

Yeah, let's do that. Because, this week, we might know exactly what we did last weekend.

Speaker 2: 3:01

I know that I had a gymnastics show yeah that I, I did and you were working I was oh, yeah, okay oh yeah oh yeah, no, I remember what I did afterwards I had a pizza party with my kids in which we got a family pizza for the four of us my three kids and myself. Yeah, my life partner was out on a Christmas dinner with his Colleagues.

Speaker 1: 3:33

Colleagues.

Speaker 2: 3:34

That's a word.

Speaker 1: 3:36

Did you divide the pizza evenly so everyone got like no, no, no Well it wasn't like you get this quarter and I'll take this quarter.

Speaker 2: 3:46

It was more like you take as little as possible and I'll take the rest yeah, that's how I do it that's exactly what happened, and yeah I mean they don't eat much otherwise no, they don't.

Speaker 1: 3:58

I ate most of the pizza I mean a regular size pizza would have been enough.

Speaker 2: 4:02

probably yeah probably, but no, no, no. I was thinking I'm going to be a fun mom and we're going to have a pizza party and it's going to be really fun. No, well, it was fun. We decorated for Christmas.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:19

And we built a gingerbread house.

Speaker 1: 4:23

Nice, it was good, I saw it, good picture. Nice, it was good, I saw it, good picture.

Speaker 2: 4:26

Yeah, you didn't see it in real life though, did you?

Speaker 1: 4:28

No.

Speaker 2: 4:29

No, Because the next day we smashed it and ate it with ice cream.

Speaker 1: 4:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:34

But the fluff that we had randomly gotten, or sorry, you bought, but I ordered it, I did yeah. It makes good glue for gingerbread houses. That's good, yeah, because I was trying to think while I was at the gymnastics show, because my daughter was also a part of it. I wasn't thinking about fluff while doing gymnastics.

Speaker 1: 5:01

So you weren't like fluff, fluff, fluff.

Speaker 2: 5:04

I'm thinking gingerbread houses and fluff. Yeah, when you did like a flip, a flip, you know no no, um, I was thinking, if I don't have like the, the baking glue, or like the frosting glue, whatever you want to call it, or even caramel I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1: 5:26

No.

Speaker 2: 5:27

And I'm pretty sure the fluff would do it because it is messy.

Speaker 1: 5:31

It is.

Speaker 2: 5:32

And it is very, very firm. Yeah, and sticky, sticky, and so we put some in the like little tube things that you would do frosting with, and we use that for the glue and it worked very nicely.

Speaker 1: 5:50

Good.

Speaker 2: 5:51

Yeah, we decorated and everything and we had a really nice evening.

Speaker 1: 5:55

A question about the pizza Okay.

Speaker 2: 5:59

We're going back to pizza.

Speaker 1: 6:00

Yeah, pizza, did you make a house? No, no.

Speaker 2: 6:03

I did not, but that would have been a good idea, yeah.

Speaker 1: 6:07

No, my question was going to be what kind of pizza was it?

Speaker 2: 6:11

We had salami on the pizza. Salami. It's really good, though. I like it.

Speaker 1: 6:16

Oh yeah, you are entitled to like it. Thank you, did I use that word correctly?

Speaker 2: 6:22

I think so Good yeah. What about Sunday? Did you do anything fun on Saturday other than working?

Speaker 1: 6:28

No, then I just went home and had a boring night.

Speaker 2: 6:33

Cool, that sounds nice.

Speaker 1: 6:34

I mean, I just do my sporing stuff Sporing.

Speaker 2: 6:39

No, okay, my boring stuff. Blah, blah blah, Nothing else.

Speaker 1: 6:43

No. Okay, or am I forgetting something?

Speaker 2: 6:46

I don't know. Well, I wasn't there.

Speaker 1: 6:48

No, that's what I'm thinking, and maybe we did something. We went for a walk or something.

Speaker 2: 6:55

I don't think we went for a walk. No, I didn't see you on Sunday.

Speaker 1: 6:58

Okay, good, good, I didn't even want to see you even want to see you.

Speaker 2: 7:06

I didn't want to see you either, but are we fighting?

Speaker 1: 7:08

are we fighting now or were we fighting on sunday? On sunday I was maybe, now maybe both. Yeah, yeah, why not?

Speaker 2: 7:11

I don't know. I'm sure we'll figure it out yeah yeah, we'll come to an agreement at some point. What did I do on sunday?

Speaker 1: 7:19

you should know these things um, I don't know, I don't know either, I don't know either. I hated you then.

Speaker 2: 7:24

Yeah, we were fighting.

Speaker 1: 7:25

I guess yeah.

Speaker 2: 7:27

Well, all I can remember is the gingerbread house.

Speaker 1: 7:31

Yeah, you ate it.

Speaker 2: 7:32

We ate it with ice cream and we watched Elf.

Speaker 1: 7:36

I love that movie.

Speaker 2: 7:37

Or, I'm sorry, my oldest watched Elf, while myself and the other two kids slept on the couch. Okay, yep, that's what happened okay, that's okay.

Speaker 1: 7:49

It's a good movie though it is.

Speaker 2: 7:51

That was that. That was the weekend for you. Anything fun for the week fun for the week not really. We haven't gone to the gym, no, at all.

Speaker 1: 8:00

No, it's been too much of the overtime. Yeah, a lot of overtime now.

Speaker 2: 8:06

I did overtime on Wednesday.

Speaker 1: 8:07

Yeah, oh yeah. You didn't tell people about your doctor's appointment last week. Maybe you want to say that.

Speaker 2: 8:15

Yeah, I did have a doctor's appointment last week, not this week.

Speaker 1: 8:19

No.

Speaker 2: 8:19

What happened? I thought that we were going to decide if I was going to get my knees operated on or not, but instead I was told by this second opinion doctor that I have interesting knees. He finds them very interesting.

Speaker 1: 8:37

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 8:38

And he's going to bring my case to another doctor a fancy doctor in Stockholm, and maybe some other doctors who might have an idea of what is wrong with my knees, Because apparently, well, they are unstable and at first I was told that they were not sitting exactly where they're supposed to be, and this time I was told that they are, but I don't know. It looks kind of weird, I don't know. The measurements were right, but the placement was weird.

Speaker 1: 9:14

Okay.

Speaker 2: 9:14

Or something like that, and he felt the need to let me know that I am big down here in my leg area and small up here in my torso area. I was like, yes, so I've been told.

Speaker 1: 9:32

I haven't noticed.

Speaker 2: 9:34

People like to point these things out. I mean, I have big legs.

Speaker 1: 9:38

So weird to say it's not like you could affect that.

Speaker 2: 9:43

Is it so weird that? I have big legs and a small torso.

Speaker 1: 9:49

I don't know if that's weird, but that he had to point that out.

Speaker 2: 9:53

He's not the only person either.

Speaker 1: 9:55

No, but are all doctors like that? No, I don't know. I wouldn't expect a doctor to say that no, because they should know better.

Speaker 2: 10:04

Yeah, I don't expect a doctor to say that no, because they should know better. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he was just trying to say that I was like big boned in my legs or something I have big bone legs.

Speaker 1: 10:14

Big leg bones.

Speaker 2: 10:15

I have big leg bones.

Speaker 1: 10:17

Leg bones.

Speaker 2: 10:18

Leg bones. I don't know. I don't know what the problem was exactly.

Speaker 1: 10:22

But it's good that he pointed it out for you. Now't know, I don't know what the problem was exactly, but it's good that he pointed it out for you. Yeah, now I know.

Speaker 2: 10:27

Yeah, I was like ah, that's the problem. Yeah, Solved it.

Speaker 1: 10:33

Yeah, exactly, I mean.

Speaker 2: 10:35

Case closed.

Speaker 1: 10:37

You had your suspicions but you didn't know. Now you know from an expert Right he's in. Now you know from an expert Right he said big legs, small torso.

Speaker 2: 10:49

Thank you, Very helpful. Yeah, I wonder who's next. Who's the next person who's going to point out that I have large legs? So far it's been a stranger in a parking lot and my doctor. So what next? My, maybe, yeah, maybe, a bus driver. Hey, you have big legs, yeah you're look at those big legs coming up on my bus.

Speaker 1: 11:14

Yeah, like yes, all right, thank you, big legs. Back in the bus, back in the bus, big legs, the dogs and the big legs back in the bus.

Speaker 2: 11:22

Back in the bus big legs, the dogs and the big legs back in the bus.

Speaker 1: 11:28

The big bones? Yeah, we need the weights back in the bus.

Speaker 2: 11:36

Weight in the back, yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:39

More weight in the back, please.

Speaker 2: 11:42

Alright. Well, that was that. I'm sorry for that. My feelings are hurt.

Speaker 1: 11:46

Yes.

Speaker 2: 11:47

And now we're going to move on. Anything else you want to mention about the week. Today is Friday.

Speaker 1: 11:54

Yes.

Speaker 2: 11:54

And I got a big package today. I wasn't allowed to get it.

Speaker 1: 12:00

No, you couldn't it was a home delivery.

Speaker 2: 12:03

I asked my boss if I'd go receive it from the delivery guy and she said no, you may not leave. So I asked my ex-husband to come by and take it for me. And he had to sign it for me and everything, and he left it in front of the door it was standing. He sent a picture of it standing in front of the door when we got here. It was laying down.

Speaker 1: 12:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:29

And I live in an apartment where you know people will have to go around this box to get up the stairs, and so I'm assuming that was inconvenient. I don't know how it fell over. I hope it's not broken.

Speaker 1: 12:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:43

Anyway, I got a big package, it's a treadmill it is. I'm very excited about it is that from yourself? That is my christmas present to me. Yeah good I get myself the best presents yeah you also get the best present. So from you, from me, yeah I like to think that I'm good at getting presents. I'm not good at wrapping presents.

Speaker 1: 13:02

I am good at wrapping presents.

Speaker 2: 13:04

I just don't do it.

Speaker 1: 13:06

Yeah, but you sure complain about if other people actually wrap their presents.

Speaker 2: 13:16

I'm more judgmental of other people than myself.

Speaker 1: 13:18

Yeah, I wonder if the complaining is your.

Speaker 2: 13:24

It's a reflection.

Speaker 1: 13:25

Yeah, your insecurity about not rapping.

Speaker 2: 13:29

I'm sure that's exactly what it is. Yeah, solved you. Yep, we are answering lots of questions. Today we're on a roll.

Speaker 1: 13:38

Yeah, lauren's going to cry.

Speaker 2: 13:40

I'm going to cry today. Let's do speaking of crying. Let's do a weight update. Oh yeah, let's see who wants to go first.

Speaker 1: 13:51

I can go first. Okay, I lost 1.3 kilograms.

Speaker 2: 13:58

Good job.

Speaker 1: 13:58

Since last week.

Speaker 2: 14:01

I surprisingly, I did lose weight.

Speaker 1: 14:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:04

I lost 0.7. Oh, mean that's good, it's almost one hole kilo oh okay, one hole you lost a hole, I lost a hole kilo kilo yeah a kilo hole almost. Almost, Almost. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, it's been. I mean, after that entire pizza and the ice cream and the gingerbread cake or house, gingerbread house, not cake, it's been difficult, it's still good.

Speaker 1: 14:44

Yeah, you lost weight.

Speaker 2: 14:45

I gained a lot and somehow I managed to drop it.

Speaker 1: 14:51

Yeah, I like the somehow.

Speaker 2: 14:53

Somehow I don't know Somehow I lost it. I don't know how that happened, but it did. Hopefully I don't have to struggle so much this time. I've been trying to be careful.

Speaker 1: 15:04

Yeah, and I hope I can keep going down. That would be good too, yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:09

I'm a treadmill now. I don't have excuses.

Speaker 1: 15:11

No, that's true.

Speaker 2: 15:13

Today is Friday the 13th.

Speaker 1: 15:15

Ooh.

Speaker 2: 15:16

December 13th 2024. It's almost the end of the year.

Speaker 1: 15:21

Yeah, it's Lucia, right, idon.

Speaker 2: 15:40

Today the end of the year, yeah it's lucia right. All right. So today we watched Surrogates, surrogates.

Speaker 1: 15:50

Yes.

Speaker 2: 15:51

And.

Speaker 1: 15:52

Jag kommer hem igen till jul.

Speaker 2: 15:54

Yes, the titles are so long. Yeah, I can't remember them.

Speaker 1: 15:57

Jag kommer hem igen till jul.

Speaker 2: 16:00

I'll be home for Christmas.

Speaker 1: 16:01

Yeah, kind of.

Speaker 2: 16:02

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:02

Yeah, that's what it means.

Speaker 2: 16:04

Yeah, I would like to tell you about surrogates.

Speaker 1: 16:07

Yes.

Speaker 2: 16:07

Surrogates. Yeah, surrogates, surrogates, surrogates.

Speaker 1: 16:11

Yeah, don't ask me about the pronunciation.

Speaker 2: 16:14

Surrogates, yeah, surgeons.

Speaker 1: 16:16

Surrogates, surrogates, surgeons, surgeons Sargents.

Speaker 2: 16:20

Sargents, I don't get it.

Speaker 1: 16:22

No.

Speaker 2: 16:23

I don't understand what's going on.

Speaker 1: 16:24

Is that a corn thing?

Speaker 2: 16:26

Yeah, that's a corn thing.

Speaker 1: 16:28

It's not a corn.

Speaker 2: 16:28

Thing.

Speaker 1: 16:29

No, I think it's a pepper thing. Oh, sergeant.

Speaker 2: 16:32

Sergeant Pepper, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: 16:35

Sargents the Colonel, that's a corn thing.

Speaker 2: 16:40

Oh, that's a pepper thing, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: 16:42

Okay, I think so, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 16:44

No, I don't get it.

Speaker 1: 16:46

But please tell me about surrogates.

Speaker 2: 16:48

Surrogates. Yeah, let's call it that. So this is a movie with Bruce Willis.

Speaker 1: 16:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:56

And.

Speaker 1: 16:57

Did you have a problem with it? I did. Please tell me about the problem.

Speaker 2: 17:01

I'm going to tell you about this movie okay, okay. So in the world, in this world, it's a sci-fi movie, right?

Speaker 1: 17:09

It is.

Speaker 2: 17:09

And everyone has a robot clone of themselves pretty much, yeah, a better version of themselves. A younger version.

Speaker 1: 17:20

Yeah, younger A more attractive version, but they're not fat.

Speaker 2: 17:24

No, the robots aren't fat. Not the people either. Younger, a more attractive version, but they're not fat. No, the robots aren't fat.

Speaker 1: 17:26

Not the people either, somehow.

Speaker 2: 17:29

I'm not there yet.

Speaker 1: 17:30

I'm not there yet. Hold on.

Speaker 2: 17:32

So everyone has this robot version of themselves that goes out and does things for them. Yeah, and Bruce Willis's robot had blonde hair and I didn't like it. No, I wanted to turn off the movie when I saw him with blonde hair and I didn't like it. No I wanted to turn off the movie when I saw him with blonde hair.

Speaker 1: 17:49

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:49

No, I don't like it, but I watched the whole thing anyway.

Speaker 1: 17:53

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 17:54

So what happens is that there's these people who are anti-robots, and I'm not really sure what happens they start, like killing the robots, which makes the the human yeah, the humans die as well yeah they have a special gun that yeah, yeah, and that's the bad people, mm-hmm. And Bruce Willis is trying to save the people.

Speaker 1: 18:27

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 18:28

And yeah, the host humans are not super fat, as they probably should be. Yeah, but they're not super skinny either.

Speaker 1: 18:38

No, not all of them. Not all of them, no, but some are. And yeah, that's so weird to me, but a lot of them were a bit heavier them no, but some are.

Speaker 2: 18:45

And that's so weird to me, but a lot of them were a bit heavier, not super fat.

Speaker 1: 18:49

No.

Speaker 2: 18:51

I would think that WALL-E.

Speaker 1: 18:54

If it would have been my movie, they would have all been like the people in WALL-E.

Speaker 2: 19:00

Yeah, and that would make sense.

Speaker 1: 19:02

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:03

But that's not how it was.

Speaker 1: 19:04

Could you see Bruce Willis in a fat suit running around like he did in this movie?

Speaker 2: 19:10

That would be funny.

Speaker 1: 19:11

Yeah, I want to see that Add some comedy to it.

Speaker 2: 19:14

Why not?

Speaker 1: 19:15

Yeah, why so serious, exactly?

Speaker 2: 19:17

So yeah, that's what I had to say about that.

Speaker 1: 19:20

Okay.

Speaker 2: 19:21

Did you ask if I liked the movie?

Speaker 1: 19:24

Well, I.

Speaker 2: 19:29

I didn't like that. He had blonde hair. No, okay, his robot, at least Exactly the other one didn't have hair at all no, the human version.

Speaker 1: 19:39

Yeah, the older version.

Speaker 2: 19:41

He looked better than his robot.

Speaker 1: 19:43

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:44

Actually I was interested in this movie. It interested me.

Speaker 1: 19:48

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:49

I did like him.

Speaker 1: 19:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:50

The only thing I didn't like was his hair.

Speaker 1: 19:53

Yeah, that was a big problem it was but luckily that robot didn't have all screen time right, he wasn't always there no, he got lost somehow.

Speaker 2: 20:06

We're not gonna tell how what did you think about the movie?

Speaker 1: 20:10

this is the first time I saw this movie oh yeah, um, so it's that's interesting. Interesting, I I have been drinking energy drinks but still pink lemonade yeah, um, no, I'm tired, but I don't know. I never really thought about watching this movie before, but now that I haven't, I must say that I I liked it. It was much better than I thought it would be, so it was actually pretty interesting and, uh, yeah, I I'm glad that we watched this one actually I like when there's movies that we watch for the first time together yeah, this was one of those, and last week was one of those.

Speaker 1: 20:55

That wasn't very good maybe, but that was the Second World War.

Speaker 2: 21:00

Oh yeah, I didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 1: 21:02

No.

Speaker 2: 21:03

So lost, so uninterested yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:05

But no, I did like this one and yeah, the only thing that I found weird was the you know the hair. No, not the hair. That was your problem. My problem was that the people weren't that fat.

Speaker 2: 21:19

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:19

They should have been fatter.

Speaker 2: 21:21

Right, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1: 21:24

Let's move on to. Jag kommer hem igen till jul.

Speaker 2: 21:28

I'll be home for Christmas.

Speaker 1: 21:29

Yes, yeah, the Swedish version. Yes, yeah, the Swedish version. Yes, okay, so it stars Peter Jöbak, who did the Swedish voice for Aladdin. Oh yeah, we heard him, it wasn't last we saw him?

Speaker 2: 21:43

Yeah, Last weekend or the weekend before last weekend? Yeah, okay, that's yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:48

Yeah, we saw him then, or a little bit of him, just a few, maybe like two minutes.

Speaker 2: 21:55

You know, I would have been a lot more excited if we had seen this movie before we saw him.

Speaker 1: 22:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 22:01

But I don't think either of us really knew he was going to be there. No, did you know he was going to be there. No, okay, so it was a pleasant surprise.

Speaker 1: 22:07

Yeah, if I had known, I probably would have put this on sooner.

Speaker 2: 22:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:12

But I kind of like that we watched it today, since it's Lucia here.

Speaker 2: 22:18

Right.

Speaker 1: 22:18

And there's a lot of singing in this one. Yeah, so it felt like yeah, pretty fitting for Lucia.

Speaker 2: 22:24

I feel like I would have been a lot more excited to stay and listen to him had I known who he was. If I was even slightly familiar with him.

Speaker 1: 22:34

Yeah, so this movie is about Peter Jöbak, who is a star? He's a star in the land of USA, United States of America, or he's a world star? Is that a word that I can use?

Speaker 2: 22:51

He's a big celebrity.

Speaker 1: 22:53

Yeah, big shot. Yeah. So and he comes back to his home or to his family this Christmas. He hasn't been back in years. He meets his older brother, who isn't as successful as he is, and there's kind of a rivalry there's tension. Yeah, sibling tension between them and the family in general. They all have their problems. It seems like.

Speaker 2: 23:26

Lots of drama.

Speaker 1: 23:27

Yeah, it's a very dramatic movie.

Speaker 2: 23:29

Like last week's Swedish movie Lots of drama.

Speaker 1: 23:33

Lots of drama. There was more comedy in last week's swedish movie. Yeah, lots of drama, lots of drama. It was more comedy in last week's, though it had some comedy in it, a few quotes here and there. It's more of a drama this one, though they had very special traditions in this one they sang a lot of songs around the table and I want that tradition too. Yeah, and singing around the Christmas tree and everything, and their uncle was like playing the trumpet a lot.

Speaker 2: 24:05

And the like talent show, kind of Christmas show that they would put on for their family.

Speaker 1: 24:11

Yeah, kind of cute.

Speaker 2: 24:13

I like that family. Yeah, kind of cute. I like that idea yeah.

Speaker 1: 24:16

If people didn't interrupt being all dramatic and stuff.

Speaker 2: 24:21

Yeah, that would be nice.

Speaker 1: 24:23

It's an okay movie. It's not my favorite. I wasn't planning on having it on the list, although it's on your side, so it feels like I'm controlling your side as well. Now that's okay. Could have been worse. It could have been better okay, so it's okay all right okay, what? What did you think about this movie?

Speaker 2: 24:43

I like this movie okay it was a good one.

Speaker 1: 24:46

I liked it it was a good one it was a good one.

Speaker 2: 24:49

Yeah, okay, I liked it good, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 1: 24:51

I'm glad that you liked it.

Speaker 2: 24:54

I really like the Christmas show tradition, though we should start that.

Speaker 1: 25:00

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:00

We should do that for New Year's.

Speaker 1: 25:02

Okay, we'll have a.

Speaker 2: 25:03

New Year's talent show.

Speaker 1: 25:05

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:05

Okay, that's what we're going to do.

Speaker 1: 25:07

Okay.

Speaker 2: 25:08

That's the plan.

Speaker 1: 25:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:09

I'm deciding now. Yeah, You'll probably be here for New Year's right.

Speaker 1: 25:13

Yeah, probably Okay.

Speaker 2: 25:15

Would you like to wrap this up?

Speaker 1: 25:16

No, this is what I meant no.

Speaker 2: 25:19

Would you like to take a break?

Speaker 1: 25:21

Yeah, let's take a break.

Speaker 2: 25:22

All right, we're going to do that then. Yeah, and we'll be right back. Yes, hello, hello and welcome back.

Speaker 1: 25:41

Yeah, hello and welcome back. Hello and welcome back. I don't know why I said that, because you already said it, but I felt like it would be fitting if I said it as well, because I don't know what else to say. So maybe you can overlap those when we say it both.

Speaker 2: 26:01

I don't know. No, it sounds like work.

Speaker 1: 26:04

You shouldn't, but it would be funny.

Speaker 2: 26:07

Yeah, maybe We'll see. So part two is this part.

Speaker 1: 26:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:14

Cool.

Speaker 1: 26:14

I'm very cool.

Speaker 2: 26:17

Uh, what are we doing today? Do you know?

Speaker 1: 26:20

Yeah, we had two different suggestions.

Speaker 2: 26:24

And I think that we can get to both of them at some point Okay. But first we have to decide what the first thing is.

Speaker 1: 26:31

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:32

Today's Friday the 13th.

Speaker 1: 26:33

Yes.

Speaker 2: 26:34

We've covered this is, yeah, today's Friday, the 13th. Yes, we've covered this before yeah. But it's also Lucia.

Speaker 1: 26:39

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:40

Which is a Swedish holiday.

Speaker 1: 26:44

Yeah, probably we don't get the day off.

Speaker 2: 26:46

No, so it's not that big of a deal.

Speaker 1: 26:48

No, it's just that we acknowledge Lucia. Yeah, people are singing in church.

Speaker 2: 26:53

We acknowledge Lucia. Yeah, people are singing in church. Well, can you tell me the tradition of Lucia to start off with?

Speaker 1: 27:00

The tradition, I mean they pick out one girl who gets to be the Lucia. And she's like a leader of a bunch of people singing. She wears all white, not a dress, but like a robe robe, yeah, and she has like um crown, uh, with candles in it. She holds her hands like this and I don't even it looks like she's praying right and uh, she's just walking, though she's not singing, she's just walking there.

Speaker 2: 27:33

She's not singing. Oh, she doesn't sing.

Speaker 1: 27:35

She's not supposed to sing Okay, and apparently she's supposed to be a virgin. Oh, I didn't know that before, but you told me.

Speaker 2: 27:43

Yes.

Speaker 1: 27:43

And they said it in a movie.

Speaker 2: 27:45

In Blackjack.

Speaker 1: 27:46

Yeah and yeah. The other people behind her, the people she's leading, they are the ones doing the singing.

Speaker 2: 27:57

Okay.

Speaker 1: 28:00

And most of them are girls, also, with white robes and just holding a candle in their hand. They don't have the crown, it's just a Lucia. They usually have the glitter things.

Speaker 2: 28:19

Like sparkly headbands yeah.

Speaker 1: 28:23

And they call them tärnor Dice, not tärningar.

Speaker 2: 28:29

Oh Okay, they gamble.

Speaker 1: 28:34

Yeah, they roll around on the floor and say six For the virgin, yeah, I'm only a two. Oh no, no, that's not it, okay so.

Speaker 2: 28:53

Ten, or what's that Ten? I don Okay, so Um.

Speaker 1: 28:55

Tan or yes? What's that? Tan Um? I don't know what it is, I just know the.

Speaker 2: 28:59

Can I look? Yeah, sure Okay.

Speaker 1: 29:03

And I'll tell the people about the rest of the people. Sometimes there's a Santa, oh yeah, and also there are. It's a bridesmaid.

Speaker 2: 29:13

Oh yeah, and also there are. It's a bridesmaid.

Speaker 1: 29:15

Oh yeah, that's true, it's a bridesmaid.

Speaker 2: 29:18

That's weird. It's not a wedding, is it? No, no, no.

Speaker 1: 29:22

Okay, so there's sometimes a Santa or several gingerbread men. They are supposed to be three of them.

Speaker 2: 29:33

Oh, okay.

Speaker 1: 29:34

Yeah, they are three. They're supposed to be three, only three. And I remember that I was one of the gingerbread men when I did it in school and I didn't have all brown clothes, so I got to have black clothes and be a burnt gingerbread man, you were burnt gingerbread, okay. Yeah, but yeah, there are also boys or guys that have white robes and a cone on their head, and they call them stjärngossar.

Speaker 2: 30:09

Okay.

Speaker 1: 30:10

And that's like star boys.

Speaker 2: 30:13

Mm.

Speaker 1: 30:14

Yeah, those are the people in the Lucia Torg.

Speaker 2: 30:18

Lucia Train.

Speaker 1: 30:19

Yeah, parade thing, Parade yeah, and that's a popular thing in Sweden, I guess.

Speaker 2: 30:26

Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 1: 30:27

And we get to have some special fika for the day. Yeah, with saffron, saffron.

Speaker 2: 30:33

Saffron.

Speaker 1: 30:34

Saffron and you don't like them.

Speaker 2: 30:37

I don't.

Speaker 1: 30:38

What am I forgetting?

Speaker 2: 30:41

I don't know You're supposed to be telling me.

Speaker 1: 30:43

Okay, no, but I think that's it.

Speaker 2: 30:45

Can we talk about the origin of Lucia?

Speaker 1: 30:49

Okay, the actual story. Did you look that up now?

Speaker 2: 30:52

Yes, Because I heard that it's kind of gory. It's a little horrific.

Speaker 1: 30:59

Yeah, and she has a red band across her stomach. She got stabbed in the stomach or something. Maybe, I think so.

Speaker 2: 31:09

I'm going to tell you it is Friday the 13th.

Speaker 1: 31:12

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:12

And it is Lucia.

Speaker 1: 31:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:14

So I think it's fitting to tell the story yeah, I would say she's.

Speaker 1: 31:20

She was pretty unlucky yeah, it's possible.

Speaker 2: 31:24

I don't actually know, so I'm going to be learning as well okay brought to you by open eyes okay that, that's cool. So the actual origin of Lucia, swedish Lucia, the origin of Swedish Lucia is a blend of pagan, christian and folkloric traditions, with historical and mythical elements intertwined. It has roots in pre-Christian solstice celebrations, medieval saint veneration and later adaptations during the Protestant Reformation. Lots of words.

Speaker 1: 32:00

Okay.

Speaker 2: 32:00

Don't know what I just said.

Speaker 1: 32:01

You know what? Yep, I'm glad I'm not doing the reading this time.

Speaker 2: 32:05

Yes, there's a lot of words, wow, yeah, before Christianity reached Scandinavia, the Winter winter solstice was a significant event. The longest night of the year, often around December 13th in the old Julian calendar, marked a time when supernatural beings such as trolls, spirits and other dark forces were believed to be particularly active. Souls, spirits and other dark forces were believed to be particularly active. Fires and light rituals were used to ward off evil and symbolize the return of the sun. So you're supposed to summon the sun with fire. We should have a bonfire, yeah, to ward off the evil spirits.

Speaker 1: 32:53

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 32:54

And return of the sun. So the name and central figure of Swedish Lucia are derived from Saint Lucia of Syracuse.

Speaker 1: 33:05

Okay.

Speaker 2: 33:05

That's where she's from.

Speaker 1: 33:06

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 33:07

She's from Sicily.

Speaker 1: 33:10

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2: 33:10

She's Italian, that's Sicily, that answers that question. Yeah, what question when Lucia came from.

Speaker 1: 33:18

Okay, yeah, sicily, isn't that like the mafia?

Speaker 2: 33:24

She might have been a part of the mafia.

Speaker 1: 33:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:26

She was a gang leader, but we were wondering where she was from, because she's not Swedish, but she's Italian.

Speaker 1: 33:33

Okay, yes, okay.

Speaker 2: 33:34

Or we were wondering if there were other countries that celebrated as well, that I don't know. Maybe Italy.

Speaker 1: 33:41

Yeah, maybe. I don't know, or they don't really like her, so they're like you, take her Sweden.

Speaker 2: 33:47

Yeah, you can take this one.

Speaker 1: 33:49

Yeah, go ahead, we don't need it.

Speaker 2: 33:56

No one. Yeah, go ahead, we don't need it.

Speaker 1: 33:58

No, lucia was born into a wealthy roman family and secretly converted to christian. Christian, oh.

Speaker 2: 34:02

And so she transformed no man she's a transformer no trans person christianity oh, okay at a a time when Christians were persecuted, she vowed to remain a virgin and devote her life to helping the poor Lucia's, a virgin.

Speaker 1: 34:20

Yeah, we knew that.

Speaker 2: 34:22

Yes, it's been, it's official now. Okay, now we know this is a fact. Lucia was subjected to horrific torture because she refused to marry. Maybe, yeah, but according to legend, this is what happened to her. Her eyes were gouged out, though some versions say she removed them herself to deter suitors. Men.

Speaker 1: 34:48

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 34:49

Possible husbands. Her eyes disappeared.

Speaker 1: 34:53

Yeah, yeah, did she close her eyes?

Speaker 2: 34:58

I think so yeah, like I have no eyes. She was sentenced to be burned alive, but the flames miraculously did not consume her she's a witch, oh, okay, so.

Speaker 1: 35:10

So they um made a crown on her head instead, maybe.

Speaker 2: 35:15

Maybe. Finally, she was killed by a sword to the throat. Oh, to the throat, Yep.

Speaker 1: 35:22

I thought it was the stomach it should be a scarf, a red scarf instead.

Speaker 2: 35:26

That would be more accurate.

Speaker 1: 35:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 35:28

Because of these gruesome elements, lucia became a-sodiated. No, that's not a word A-sodiated, a word Associated, associated.

Speaker 1: 35:35

She became a soda.

Speaker 2: 35:38

Associated with light, as her name means light and vision, often depicted. She's blind, yeah, because.

Speaker 1: 35:49

Blinding light.

Speaker 2: 35:50

Her eyes were gouged out. Yeah, yeah, that usually means blind yeah, um, often depicted, oh my gosh vision. Often depicted holding a pair of eyes on a plate so much of this has been lost over the years.

Speaker 1: 36:12

Could you picture Lucia doing that, holding ice instead?

Speaker 2: 36:16

Oh no, that would be weird if they did that. In Swedish folklore, december 13th was a dangerous night, when supernatural forces were at their peak and animals could talk. People stayed awake and lit candles to ward off evil. Over time, this practice merged with the Christian commemoration of Lucia.

Speaker 1: 36:42

Yeah, did you hear the bunny talk today?

Speaker 2: 36:45

Yeah, he was acting weird. I thought he was whispering in my ear when he was cuddling me. She is a witch. She's a witch. In some early Swedish traditions, Lucia was not a benign figure.

Speaker 1: 37:00

I thought you were going to say banana.

Speaker 2: 37:02

She was not a banana.

Speaker 1: 37:04

Few people know something like that.

Speaker 2: 37:05

Yeah, I guess so, but she was a frightening creature person known as Lucy that should be my name.

Speaker 1: 37:13

Lucy, lucy, lucy.

Speaker 2: 37:15

Lucy. Lucy in the sky. Lucy in the sky. She was thought to ride through the skies on December 13th In the sky. In the sky With diamonds.

Speaker 1: 37:27

Lucy in the sky.

Speaker 2: 37:29

Yeah, yeah, accompanied by evil spirits.

Speaker 1: 37:33

I'm sorry, lucy in the sky with raisins.

Speaker 2: 37:37

Right People believe she punished those who disobeyed solstice customs Solosystem, or failed to prepare for Christmas. That is not okay. No, failing to prepare for Christmas.

Speaker 1: 37:54

You should not fail at that. No.

Speaker 2: 37:57

No, you should not no.

Speaker 1: 37:58

No, you should not.

Speaker 2: 37:59

No, so today, like you said, the Swedish Lucia celebration is a festive, family friendly tradition. Girls dressed as Lucia lead candlelit processions, singing traditional songs. However, the tradition retains echoes of its darker origins, like the crown of candles reflects both St Lucia's martyrdom, martyrdom.

Speaker 1: 38:25

And the solstice Dumb martyr.

Speaker 2: 38:27

Yeah, and the solstice fires and the procession carries a sense of ritualistic order symbolizing the banishment of darkness. So really, it's a blend of light and dark, pagan and Christian, with its gory origins and supernatural folklore lending depth to our current cultural celebration. Huh, and that was that.

Speaker 1: 38:55

Very cool.

Speaker 2: 38:57

And now I want to change my name to Lucia Lucy, lucy.

Speaker 1: 39:00

Lucy, that's my Swedish name. My name to Lucia Lucy, lucy, lucy.

Speaker 2: 39:02

That's my Swedish name.

Speaker 1: 39:03

Okay, lussan.

Speaker 2: 39:04

Lussan. Yeah, what's that?

Speaker 1: 39:07

I don't know, it's like a nickname for I don't know. Is it? I don't know, but it must be a nickname for something. Lucia.

Speaker 2: 39:19

Lucia.

Speaker 1: 39:20

But since your name is Lauren, you should be like Luran.

Speaker 2: 39:25

I don't know.

Speaker 1: 39:25

It doesn't sound great.

Speaker 2: 39:27

No, it doesn't.

Speaker 1: 39:28

Luran Loris, I like that though.

Speaker 2: 39:32

Okay, does that fit me.

Speaker 1: 39:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 39:34

Sure.

Speaker 1: 39:35

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 39:36

All right, we are doing Mad Libs tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 39:39

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 39:39

Did you want to do one?

Speaker 1: 39:41

Okay, just one, just one Okay.

Speaker 2: 39:43

Just one.

Speaker 1: 39:44

Coming up with the words.

Speaker 2: 39:45

You can do that.

Speaker 1: 39:46

Okay.

Speaker 2: 39:47

I want to see if Open Eyes can come up with something Okay.

Speaker 1: 39:50

Okay.

Speaker 2: 39:50

Maybe they can.

Speaker 1: 39:51

Oh, can it be like Christmas? That's what I was hoping for.

Speaker 2: 39:55

Okay, nice Way ahead of you, sir.

Speaker 1: 39:58

Not really. Shut up Okay so you say Christmas, I say Christmas and winter.

Speaker 2: 40:05

Okay, fine Christmas and winter themed mad libs, man lips, man lips, live man lips. Okay, I need an adjective.

Speaker 1: 40:18

Adjective Cold, or maybe it shouldn't be. I was thinking about words that no Christmas words. Okay, hot Opposite, yep.

Speaker 2: 40:31

Adjective.

Speaker 1: 40:32

Sandy.

Speaker 2: 40:33

Piece of clothing.

Speaker 1: 40:34

Bikini.

Speaker 2: 40:36

Okay, noun.

Speaker 1: 40:40

Umbrella.

Speaker 2: 40:41

Adjective.

Speaker 1: 40:42

Sweaty.

Speaker 2: 40:43

Noun Umbrella.

Speaker 1: 40:44

Adjective Sweaty Noun Palm tree.

Speaker 2: 40:47

Adjective.

Speaker 1: 40:47

Sunny.

Speaker 2: 40:48

Animal.

Speaker 1: 40:49

Lion.

Speaker 2: 40:50

Exclamation.

Speaker 1: 40:52

Loud noises.

Speaker 2: 40:54

That's your exclamation. It's just loud noises. Yeah, okay, beverage.

Speaker 1: 40:58

Piña colada.

Speaker 2: 41:00

Food plural oh, Several of these foods.

Speaker 1: 41:04

Hamburgers.

Speaker 2: 41:06

Hamburgers and a holiday.

Speaker 1: 41:09

Midsummer.

Speaker 2: 41:11

All right Ready.

Speaker 1: 41:12

Yes.

Speaker 2: 41:13

Okay, a quick one. Yeah, this one's called a snowy surprise. On a hot winter day, I put on my sandy bikini and ran outside to play in the umbrella. Nothing else I like to do more than play in the umbrella.

Speaker 1: 41:34

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 41:35

I built a sweaty snowman and gave it a palm tree for a nose, that's a big nose. Then I went sledding on my sunny sled shaped like a lion. Very cool, yeah, it was so fast. I shouted loud noises all the way down the hill Loud noises. To warm up, I drink a pina colada.

Speaker 1: 42:10

Pina colada yeah.

Speaker 2: 42:12

To warm up. The alcohol will do it, yeah, and I ate hamburgers. It was the best midsummer ever In the snow.

Speaker 1: 42:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 42:24

The hot snow.

Speaker 1: 42:25

Yeah, it was a winter day.

Speaker 2: 42:27

Yes, yeah, A snowy surprise. I don't know what the surprise was, maybe the loud noises.

Speaker 1: 42:33

Yeah, it was a hot, snowy day.

Speaker 2: 42:36

Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 1: 42:38

That's surprising.

Speaker 2: 42:39

And that's all we had for today. Yeah, I guess, so that's surprising, and that's all we had for today. Yeah, that was fun, it was. A very fun episode I liked it.

Speaker 1: 42:47

I liked it, you liked it Good.

Speaker 2: 42:49

What's ruining your life right now?

Speaker 1: 42:51

Oh yes.

Speaker 2: 42:52

Please tell me.

Speaker 1: 42:53

What's ruining my life? Probably the lack of sleep.

Speaker 2: 42:57

That is a problem. I'm going to agree with you there lack of sleep.

Speaker 1: 43:00

That is a problem.

Speaker 2: 43:01

I'm going to agree with you there. Yeah, also, christmas music ruins my life.

Speaker 1: 43:04

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 43:04

I like it too much, too much, too much, that's all.

Speaker 1: 43:08

Other people don't. Not everyone likes it as much as I do I do.

Speaker 2: 43:13

Good, I'm glad we have that in common.

Speaker 1: 43:15

Yes.

Speaker 2: 43:16

Would you like to wrap this up? Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1: 43:19

Am I doing that? Yeah, okay. Thank you all for listening to us. Thanks to all the people who joined us this past Saturday.

Speaker 2: 43:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 43:31

At the Live Mad Libs. It was a lot of people.

Speaker 2: 43:35

Lots of people. And we had so much fun yeah. It was like a party. Yeah, a little Christmas party.

Speaker 1: 43:40

Mm-hmm yeah.

Speaker 2: 43:41

And that's how we should advertise it A little bit too drunk. Yeah, well, you know, these things happen.

Speaker 1: 43:48

Yeah, what you gonna do. Oh well, I mean, I did not know I would be that sick because of the During the recording. Yeah, I mean Gross during the recording. Yeah, I mean gross. Yeah, I, I don't know, I blame the alcohol. It's. It seemed like it was a bit too old. Maybe, or maybe not the alcohol, but um, you, I, you're too old for the alcohol yeah yeah yeah, no, it was probably fun. Yeah, thank you. Do you want to add something?

Speaker 2: 44:25

um, yeah, we will be back next tuesday. And what number are we at right now? Is this 107? Yeah, crazy, wow, wow, wow. It feels like we just recorded our 100th and we're at 107. Yeah, cool. Yeah, we'll be back next Tuesday with another super amazing episode. Hopefully it'll be really fun. That was that, yep. Thank you and have a good life.

Speaker 1: 44:53

Yes.

Speaker 2: 44:53

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Speaker 1: 44:58

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Speaker 2: 45:09

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Speaker 1: 45:14

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Speaker 2: 45:22

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Speaker 1: 45:25

And we'll be back with another one next Tuesday on a podcast provider near you.

Speaker 2: 45:31

Goodbye Mattias, goodbye Lauren.