 Good morning, John! It's very nearly Christmas, and so Catherine and I have come together to answer people's Christmas questions. We like Christmas! I guess we do, yeah. I mean... Taha wants to know, is it like the films? I've never experienced Christmas Day with people who celebrate Christmas. You mean like Die Hard? Because it's exactly like Die Hard. Better fight it to the Christmas party by mistake. What's another good Christmas movie? It's a wonderful life. Well, I haven't seen that one. What? I'll give you the moon, alright? I'll take it. I've seen parts of it. I've never watched the whole thing. I got the sense that it was a real downer, and that's not what I want at Christmas. I mean, there's like feasts, and there's opening presents, and there's stockings, and all the tropes are there. You eat spaghetti with maple syrup. And cotton balls. Whose idea was it to bring a tree inside and then decorate it? Ooh, Germans? Yeah! Well, around that area, because Germany didn't exist. Right, right, but like the Germanic... I think the idea was, it's the middle of winter, and we're depressed, so we need some green up in here. Spring's a long time away. I was reading that they would hang trees from the ceiling. Right. Well, you know, the house was small, so you probably couldn't have a lot of floor space to like... It's a good point. Before they had the trees, and also people who couldn't afford a full tree, would just have like pine boughs. Oh, like the Christmas branch? Yeah. Like, Evan Otter's Christmas branch. Evan has a real love affair with Evan Otter's drug band Christmas. At least there ain't no hole in the washed up. Well, you're talking about it now, which means Catherine's going to cry for a while. Well, we'll be back in a little bit. I'm better. The thing that I have a problem with Christmas is that it comes as done, it's over, bye-bye. Yeah, yeah. And then you're like, huh? Yeah, we did all, we were prepped for so long. I got all this stuff happening in my house now. What do I got to do? Just put it away? Christmas? No, I leave it up for any much most of January. When you can blow on the tree and the needles fall off. Oh gosh, that's too late. That's really dangerous, actually. You shouldn't do that. Have you ever seen a Christmas tree fire? There's lots of YouTube videos. In fact, I'll put one right here right now. I didn't like it. Where do I get last minute Christmas presents? What do you got in your cupboard? Didn't use that soap yet. Oh, here's some Irish spring. Carve it with a knife. Look, and these green and white stripes are tool deodorants to get a man fresh and clean. Did you know that Turtles All the Way Down was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Bloods Feed, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Onion AV Club, Publishers Weekly, and Book List? And it's available at Bookstore near you. That's a lot of lists, John. That's a lot of lists. That's congratulations. That's like all the lists. Are there any more lists? What do people in summer climates do for Christmas? Same stuff. Yeah, I mean without the sweaters probably. Why is it traditional to have a fruit cake? Because the world is terrible. I think it was special to have fruit at this time of year. Where does the fruit come from? Oh, it's dried. You put a bunch of booze in it. That's your mince. Mince? You feed me mince? And it's like being able to eat a fruit in the middle of winter. It's not exactly like it, but it's reminiscent. It's close as you can get. What do Americans do on Boxing Day? What do you call that? We call it the day after Christmas and we go back to work. Oh, thanks. You bring the boxes out, you put all your Christmas decorations in them, and that's Boxing Day. What's the deal with the pickle? Do you know what the deal with the pickle is? Because several people asked about the pickle. Are they messing with us? Is there a Christmas pickle? Is this like Gigi the Christmas snake? Thank you for your questions. Thank you, Catherine, for being here. Any time, not really. This is a once-a-year thing. John, we'll see you on Tuesday. They're banging on the vacant table at like demanding figgy pudding. They're wassailing you asking- Wassailing all over the town? And just eating fruit and getting drunk. And you wasselled at the Wincesauce estate? What? How is it re-frigerator? Why isn't they just called frigerators? Happy Christmas.