Christmas Madness
Mon 22 Dec 2025
Shenanigan Report
AJ and Marly would like to acknowledge the terrible tragedy that took place in Bondi during our recording. Our hearts are with the Jewish community as they mourn this act of violent extremism, which targeted a family event on the first night of Hanukkah - a holiday that symbolizes light over darkness and the resilience of faith.
Join AJ and Marly as they talk about skeleton horse rap battles, Christmas spiders, and pooping logs, while mangling the Welsh, Japanese, Icelandic, and Swedish languages! Find out what AI thinks are the top 10 weirdest Christmas traditions, and what it decided was the weirdest among them, and if AJ and Marly agree with it! Then we’ll natter one about our own Christmases while answering Greer’s list of Christmas questions.
Madness Resources and Links
- Little Flowers - Sustainable Christmas trees delivered in Sydney
- The Mari Lwyd
- Wikipedia: Legend of the Christmas Spider
- Eric Barton: Why Japan celebrates Christmas with KFC
- Ragnheidur: The Icelandic Yule Lads
- Wikipedia: Krampus
- The “Caga” Tió: Catalonia’s Magical Christmas Tradition
- Wonderful Christmas Eve Is All About Hiding The Broom
- Gävle’s brilliant Christmas symbol
- The best holiday tradition you’ve never heard of: Venezuelans roller skating to Christmas Mass at sunrise
- Czech Christmas Customs and Superstitions
- Patsy Biscoe: Little Toy Trains
- Atlas Obscura: Candy Cane Lane - Turns out there are multiple Candy Cane Lanes near LA, but AJ thinks her family went to the one in Woodland Hills
It Lives!
AJ has an alive Christmas tree again.
Marly’s Christmas tree was never alive but also looks fabulous.
Music Credits
Special edition holiday-themed intro music, outro music and sound effects from:
- https://uppbeat.io/sfx/wish-you-a-merry-christmas-snow-globe-music-box/162943/42578
- https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/christmas-wind-whoosh-264370/
- https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/christmas-is-christmas-outro-409046/
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