Okay, Rebecca, welcome to our very special edition of Haunted As.

I'm very excited about this.

Mistletoe and Mayhem.

I love the name already.

And you know what we got.

We got a new theme song for it.

Are you ready?

Yeah?

When you should fill the puns or sparker for.

It's solid jo shame this holiday night.

Cable ron, share the shades.

It's so so in Maham.

You know, why do we not have like a holiday band?

We it should be us.

We could sing these we do now, thanks, drop an album.

Let's see to this.

You know what it sounds like?

What it sounds like one of those nineties sitcom theme songs, like we are peaking around a corner somewhere.

Yeah, I'm like, oh, look look at us getting into a mess.

Oh oh, the cat got into all the presents.

It's like burning down a Christmas tree or beating up a Santa and then turning.

To the camera and doing the It's like, do you do that by any I do that at home by myself?

What I am always pretending that I am on a ninety sitcom?

Oh Jesus, Like you know the full house intro when they're like doing something and then they stop and look at the camera.

I do that at my house alone.

It's dreams.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom, I guess.

So you'll do the just like the free frame and you're like, oh yeah, you mush darn, you're so crazy.

Oh my god, I love that.

That's stupid.

So welcome to Mistletoe and Mayhem.

You were just asking me if I had finished my shopping.

Yeah, which I did.

I did it this morning.

I got a pressed at like nine point thirty.

I was the bitch of them all, first in there ten o'clock and boom boom, I'm out for you.

Thank you, because I know it will ruin you.

Yeah, it's like, there's nothing worse than trying to go to the mall and shop.

And to be fair, this is Christmas Eve eve, right, yes, yeah is when we're taping this.

Like, I gotta tell you, Christmas has already tried to kill me.

It started way back on December tenth.

This has been a nightmare, like so much to do and not enough time to do it.

In well, you were really really sick there for a little bit.

Correct, And then I, for whatever reason, volunteered to have my extended family Christmas at my house yesterday.

No, and then now my husband and I, after we are done doing the podcast today, we are going to go fight for our lives at the mall.

Yeah, try to finish those last gifts before we leave for.

Okay, wait are you going to North Park?

I think so?

Okay, and North Park is like an absolute nightmare.

Of course it is, but I got it.

That's where I was this morning.

And their Santa is the best.

He is the best Santa ever.

First of all, North Park knows how to do Christmas, Yeah, they do.

So he was doing his story time with Santa whenever I was walking down the mall.

Oh nice.

And to be fair, this holiday season, I have been filled with rage, same yeah, rage and anxiety taking turns steering the ship right now.

So I'm just I'm just trying to get all the shit done.

I just went it over with and I'm walking down and they introduced Santa and I don't even see him at first.

I just see kids running over there.

The Santa sings and he starts singing, yes, and he sings really well.

I burst into DearS.

That's Jesus being like, you've been such a bitch this Christmas.

I'm gonna get you with singing Santa.

Seriously.

I was trying, like we drank so hard to hold it back.

I finally just had to sit down and just like, bitch, cry it out, just cry it out.

I'm sitting in the middle of all these kids are all happy, yay, and I'm.

Like, it's good.

I don't have no idea why, but for a moment joy like one ol.

Good for you.

The Christmas spirit that touched my cold dead heart.

I love it, and that's why I completely fell apart.

That has not happened to me.

I am one percent joyless.

Have you seen the meme where it's like Thanksgiving and Christmas being so close together, like we should cancel one of them.

I one hundred percent agree with that.

They kind of did, like they kind of just made it thanks Christmas like it's just kind.

Of it's blurred together.

I don't want that.

Yeah, and it's like it's over a month long.

Now, right, I can't.

I can't do it.

It's too much.

It is too much.

And that's why we want to talk about everything that is not the spirit of.

Christmas, all the tragedies.

I think, and that's part of the reason that you start feeling so crappy around the holidays is that you know you're supposed to not be feeling that way.

I know you're supposed to be touched internally by something really wonderful, like like a breakdown over a mall Santa, But I don't know how.

You can feel joy with all of the like crap that is on your plate for next month.

So that's why we're just going to dig into a little bit of schadenfreud and just talk about look.

At you with your fancy word thank you, and freud how bad it can actually get.

But before we do that, I do want to say thanks to our friend Scott from Arcisa dot com who has been making all of these incredible theme songs and.

They're so good.

Oh, they're so good.

We're so spoiled.

And in fact, somebody on Patreon said this kind of sucks for those of us who want to just make a little janky one for you.

No, we love the janky ones too.

We love them all.

So even though we have these really great, high quality theme songs right now, please don't.

Feel like you can't send one in.

Yeah, absolutely, all right, quick reminder, we've got our top ten of twenty twenty four count Down will happen on New Year's Eve, and then after that we are going to be off until February.

Thank you, Lord baby Jesus.

Seriously, it's the perfect time to become a patron at patreon dot com slash honadayf catch up on all of those pregames before we start releasing new episodes.

Yeah, we're taking the month off, but we'll still be collecting your scary stories or dreams to analyze.

So send all of that stuff to Hauntday of Podcast at gmail dot com.

We will be back February February six, all those new.

Stories, all right, So let's do this.

Let's just get into the mayhem.

We've been doing some research finding some stories, our own personal stories as well, trying to find some of the awfulness around the holidays.

Yes, do you remember back in twenty fifteen, it was like the day after Christmas and there were these massive tornadoes like all throughout North Texas.

I think like nine people died.

It was terrible.

That is the one that hit, I'm not kidding you two blocks from my parents' house.

Yeah, like all of the houses literally two blocks over were flattened.

It was crazy because I remember, ooh sorry, we were down in Bishop Arts having dinner when all the tornado sirens went off, Yeah, and we waited the storm out and then we were driving home.

But I remember thinking, if you were driving this, you would never know if a tornado was coming out because it was pitch black outside.

And that's exactly what happened.

It was like hitting highways.

That was pretty terrible.

We were on our way home from East Texas when it hit.

We had to stop at a gas station and waited out because it had gone from like Farmersville and then down and around yeah, to Rally Area.

That was wild, crazy stuff.

That's kind of dark though I didn't know we were going to go that dark where nine people died.

Yeah, because like I was thinking of one of my own.

Yeah, and it's this is back when I was still in radio and we had the company Christmas party, which were always kind of legendary because the alcohol was a flow.

In, like a flowing and you got a bunch of drunk, mouthy DJs hanging out just I mean, all bets are off.

At this point.

And I don't know, you remember Civil summers, right, yeah, absolutely, which, by the way, Sybil just got a new radio job, so congratulations for.

Her, Kate l if.

Yeah, we're you doing news.

I know, good job, lady.

We're excited for you.

Anyways, she and I, I don't know why.

She's like, come with me to get a get a spray tand and I was like, no good can come from this.

Wait, like after the Christmas party.

After the Christmas party, we've already been there for four hours too.

Long, Sybil, tons of fun not the best influence after you've been drinking hundred percent.

So we go.

We end up at some random tanning place, like we uber there so don't worry everybody, And we decided to get spray tans.

Well, if you don't follow the rules to a tea on a spray tan, it's a total nightmare.

The next day I had like orange drips all the way down my wrist, like my knuckles looked dirty.

Very Christmas.

Yeah, I was like, here's your orange.

Yeah, now youstlete under you look like a gingerbread man.

Yeah, that's exactly a melting gingerbread man.

So my stories were pretty dark, like was so like lighthearted.

Yeah, everybody's dead.

I'm thinking, like Christmas day two thousand and nine, when a guy tried to blow up his underwear on a flight.

Remember this, No, I don't far abdulmutallab.

I'm sorry.

He's on a plane making an approach into Detroit.

When everybody started hearing noises, it sounded like firecrackers.

That's really scary.

It was a bomb that failed to detonate.

So yes, it in his pants.

It was in his underwear.

So he was engulfed in flames, which spread on the carpet and walls.

He deserved that, he did deserve, all you buddy.

Yeah, everybody else was able to exchange to extinguish the flames on him.

The plane landed, nobody else was injured.

Okay, so I'm still thinking like the non life threatening holiday mayhem, like the story that we found on BuzzFeed.

And about five years ago, I spent all Christmas Eve of cooking a huge standing rib roast with all the fixing nice.

My dog, who had a week's stomach, decided to approach my perfectly set table mid meal with my entire family present, and throw up several times.

He then ran under the table with the runs as we scrambled to clean up the mess.

Oh my god, everyone immediately left and it went down as a pretty epic fail, although telling the story is pretty hilarious now.

And that is came in Florida.

This reminds me of like another another family get together in Arkansas in a rental when my cousin brought her brand new puppy.

You were like, oh, and he started doing that thing where he was running in circles, but he was spraying poop as he went everywhere.

Well, you've got all the poop stories I do have.

I swear this one.

Did you know that the Ku Klux Klan was founded on Christmas Eve?

You went to the ca Cake.

I went there.

Yeah.

Eighteen sixty five, six Confederate veterans met in Plaski, Tennessee to formed this secret hate group that was led by Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forest.

Oh my god.

They were so violent that Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act of eighteen seventy one, which gave the president authority to use military force against them.

I did not.

Yeah, I didn't either, Well, because the Supreme Court went in and ruled that that law was unconstitutional in eighteen eighty two.

What.

Yeah, that's some horrible history.

Right there here it is all right, here's a good one from Alexandra.

Be Christmas morning, and we all ran into the family room where the stockings and fireplace were.

We had a real fireplace, so bits of scrap paper were always around to use for kindling.

A piece of it had landed on top of my stocking, so I tossed it aside and found my treasures.

We all compared what we had gotten, and my mom asked me, where's the necklace.

What necklace, I asked, She said, the one on top of the tissue paper.

I responded, Oh, I didn't realize it was a gift.

I tossed it there, and I pointed to the basket filled with kindling.

Then my dad said, and I put it in there.

I pointed to the fireplace.

It was not salvagible.

Oh my gosh, I hope it wasn't like really expensive.

Please be plastic, Please be a child's plastic necklace.

And here's another horrible Christmas event, the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Did you know that this was a thing?

So I did not.

However, you had sent the video and I tried to sit down and watch a little bit of it.

Dear God, it's so bad, so bad.

And guys, we will post that in the Companion blog.

Because the whole thing is available on YouTube.

You can just go and watch it.

It's an hour and a half, y'all.

Would you go and start?

You're like, oh wow, it kind of looks like Star Wars because like the whole staff, not staff, the whole cast is.

On yet Yeah, and then Harrison Ford straight.

Up in it.

Yeah, all of them, Carrie Fish are everybody.

And then it just starts getting really bad.

It's Life Day for the Wookies, which is a holiday, so Chubaca is going to visit his family.

Which I'm gonna tell you that's kind of where I start to lose it because it's like all the Wookies trying to talk.

You don't know what's going on exactly.

They're having these long conversations and nobody knows what they're saying.

Is it intense?

We're not sure.

Yeah.

And on top of the regular staff or cast again, they have Harvey Korman, Jefferson Starship of course, why why Eric Carney and Diane Carroll who has this weird sexy scene with Chubacca's father.

Be Arthur's in there as well.

The art oh, my god, that's amazing.

Let's go back to the sexy scene.

Okay, did you watch the sexy scene?

And I just read about it.

Why is there not a timestamp on the sexy scene?

I would have just cut straight to that.

Who is having the sex?

I don't know.

It's not that they're having sex, it's just said they're like flirting with each other.

And it was supposed to be a holiday special, so it was kind of like, why why do you have this?

This is where the furries have come from.

This is when it started at all.

All right, well, here's a good one, but they want to remain anonymous.

I was a preteen and received a Christmas gift in the mail from a relative I didn't know very well.

It was a doll that prayed when you put it with hands together.

It was nice, but as a tomboy atheist who was afraid of doll, I found this gift quite alarming.

I can understand why.

Yeah, I put it in my closet so I couldn't see it while I was sleeping, and I swear that thing started praying.

In the middle of the night.

Oh long story short, the doll didn't stick around very long.

Anonymous my kids always hated baby dolls, specifically really yes, and people, for whatever reason always give little girls baby dolls.

I had foughten for my niece care.

They shit out of them.

We'd have to hide them in the closet and then it just like give them to Goodwill or something.

I like, I loved a baby doll.

That was not my problem.

My issue was my grandma always gave terrible gifts.

And I have to let you in on this.

I've told this one on the radio a million times because it's one of my favorites.

I think I was ten years old and she gave me a little sexy piece of lacy lingerie.

Not only did she give it to me, but I opened it in front of like twenty something family members, very confused.

What was she thinking?

We do not know.

I don't know, still haven't answer to this day about it.

Yeah, sexy lingerie at ten had to have been an accident.

No, I don't know, but I literally was like, we're just gonna pretend like that ever happened.

Here's another grandma story.

This was from Haley.

My grandma's notorious for giving awful gifts like yours.

One year, she gave us the Bible on VHS.

This was on VHS.

This was in twenty twelve and no one had a VHS player by that point.

He gave me a guitar for my tenth Christmas and then made me pay her back for it.

That is classic grandma.

Yep, it gets it, keeps going.

She gave me a gumball machine with expired candy and she kept the key so she can get the money out of it.

She said.

The money that I put in was payment for it.

But the best one came in the cooking pan set that she gave me with egg residue on it from where she had last used it.

And again that is from Haley Haley.

Oh my god, your grandma's terrible.

Grandma sucks.

I love her for the story aspect of it, but other than that, oh.

Man, I don't want to say names because it's someone close to me.

Their story and their grandma would bring them like gifts from the church bizarre and they got underwear that smelled us.

Oh my, that's bad.

Yeah, that is bad.

Come on, granny, nice level bad.

Go to CVS.

There's always something at sea, really truly is that's a great little gift area.

Yeah, all right.

This next one comes from Chris, who wrote in and said, I took my newish girlfriend to this Stanley hotel for the holidays years ago.

First of all, great choice and nice.

Yeah.

I was excited because I had gotten her some pretty gold earrings and thought that she would love them.

To my surprise, she seemed to genuinely dislike them, though she was really excited when she saw the small wrapped box.

I think I know where this is going.

Then I opened my gift, which was two champagne glasses.

She apparently thought I was going to propose and gave me the glasses so that we could have a champagne toast our trip was pretty awkward after that, to say the least.

But we've been married for twenty six years now.

She married you.

That's congratulations.

Yeah, nice work.

But also, don't ever be presumptive in an engagement.

Do not the only heartache will follow.

No, and don't make jokes about it.

The year that my husband and I got engaged, he gave me a silver ring in a tiny box.

First you gave me that and a shirt because he knew I really was expecting an engagement ring.

He did that as a joke, but It wasn't funny because when I he handed me a ring box and I opened it and there was a silver ring in there.

I was like, all right, well then I don't know what to do here.

I know, so I was trying to put on a happy face, but I'm really pissed.

I was like this rollercoaster of emotions and it was like ha ha ha okay, like my parents ared that.

To me with a dog.

I thought I was getting a dog for Christmas and my mom gave my very last present.

Okay, she brings it in and it's a snow globe with a dog in it.

And I was literally like, are you are you kidding me?

I threw like a fit and.

A dog didn't come running in after that.

No, No, they gave me a dog the following year.

No.

I think she was like, oh we messed up with that one.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Oh okay, this one comes from Nate.

In twenty sixteen, we celebrated Christmas at my in laws and Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

Oha, have you ever been a Progosa Springs?

No?

Is it nice?

It is nice.

There's like they have the hot springs that you can get in and relax the natural hot tubs.

That sounds no, okay, I'll go.

It was Christmas evening and there wasn't much to do at night, so I took both kids to see Rogue One at the local theater.

N I'd already seen the movie and thought it'd be fine for my six year old son and aleven year old daughter.

And it's not a spoiler now to say that all the primary characters die at the end of the film.

So when the movie's over, my daughter Jessica was raving about how awesome it was.

I asked my son Garrett what he thought, and he burst into tears.

Oh no, he said, I didn't know.

That's what war is like.

Now.

This was in front of everybody leaving the theater, and I could fill people staring at us.

We got in the car and I did everything to calm him down.

We talked about themes of heroism, sacrifice, and doing the right thing even if you might die, you know, like conversation for a six year old.

He had calmed down by the time we got back to the house, but then when he went to get ready for bed, we heard him sobbing through the back through doors.

I ended up having to hold him on the couch while he calmed down, and all the while my wife was giving me that way to go stare and trying not to laugh.

It took two years before he would even consider watching Rogue one again.

The entire incident still comes up.

When we were in Colorado at Christmas.

Oh and two days after we saw the movie, Carrie Fisher died.

Oh my god, that is from Nay.

Nay, you poor baby.

I'm so sorry, so sorry, but you know we can't stop here.

We have some amazing office Christmas party stories because they're the best.

Nothing like mixing some booze and coworkers who can't stand each other.

Yes, yeah, this one's from ronster tm on Reddit.

One year, I was asked if I'd be willing to dress up as Santa for our holiday party.

I didn't think I'd be very convincing, but I reluctantly agreed.

Anyhow.

On the day of the party, we were all hanging out in the warehouse having breakfast and eating cookies.

When I told everyone I had to go outside and make a phone call.

I was actually leaving to change into my Santa claustume.

I came back again yelling ho ho ho, and put on my best jolly old man voice.

I handed out gifts, took pictures with the staff, eight cookies, and then said I had to leave because my sleigh was double parts.

After changing back into my work clothes, I walked back into the warehouse and was greeted by a surprising number of people who legitimately thought I'd missed Santa.

Oh, grown adults I had taken pictures with told me how I missed out.

At first, I thought people were just teasing me, But throughout the day people kept asking who Santo was.

That's Ronster t o.

Okay, that's adorable, that's an amazing story.

Yeah, nice work playing Santa.

Good job.

But also if everybody was like, hey, will you play Santa this year, I'd be like, what are you saying?

Like that?

You're fat?

Yes, that's one hundred percent, you're fat and jolly getting the suit?

I know, I'd be like, why why are you asking me?

So hurt?

My feelings are hurt.

This one's from zapfod o seven O seven.

Uh.

They had layoffs immediately after the office potluck one year.

No the gift card that were supposed to be given to the winners, so the cookie contest were taken off the prize table by an executive because they knew that both the first and second place winners were part of the group being laid off.

That's next level awful.

It really can't lets them go out with a prize.

Yeah, and I got to say though, like radio was really bad about they do these pre Christmas layoffs, So this feels very close to home.

Also, at our school's holiday party, the principal got very drunk and then calmly walked over to a troublesome teacher who was also red face drunk.

Great, the principle proceeded to pick his nose wife wipe the booger on the teacher's shoulder, and say you're an asshole, and then he just walked off.

That's over.

The teacher up pretty fast.

Oh that's nasty.

I love it.

Oh that's so gross.

You gotta hope he deserved it.

I know, right, Please be an awful human being that deserved that booger wipe?

All right.

Our next one comes from Jedi Architect.

You know how you can order photo boost for parties?

Oh yeah, yeah, so my old office got one during my first Christmas party there, and apparently my coworkers were going in there and making out, flashing the camera and doing all sorts of bronchy stuff.

Wow, I get it.

I see why.

You sure that no one mentioned that all the photos would be saved and put on a website for everyone to see.

Oh my god.

The site was up for fifteen minutes before the plug was abruptly pulled.

Holy ball.

And you know somebody was flashing boobs in there, boobs, and you.

Know somebody was like cheating.

Yeah, you know, like somebody with like their lover was like, let's go make out.

This will be hilarious.

And then like a husband saw it.

And then another anonymous story our company wants through a massive party in a posh hotel.

Afterwards, it was revealed that we had acquired a two hundred and fifty dollars cleanup bill because someone took a shit in the hotel for your that'll show them.

I am amazed by the amount of people who are willing to take a shit somewhere, you.

Mean, just like random places.

So like, I don't know how I've fallen into this algorithm.

Instagram and TikTok love to give me videos of people sitting on grocery store floors.

That's a thing.

It's a thing.

I had no idea.

I have seen ladies who will just pull their like panties to the side and go, why one out?

Why don't know?

Again?

Baffled?

I am baffled.

Oh my gosh, Please don't.

I don't want that Instagram you know listening.

Don't give me those I don't away from me?

All right, you guys, Sorry to leave you with that in your head.

Holiday.

Yeah, happy holidays man, Christmas.

Thank you everyone for sending in your stories those.

We're all freaking amazing.

I'm actually like, I've got tears.

Are you feeling better?

Yeah?

I am.

I you know what my Christmas joy might be?

Back?

Is it?

I think it might be other people's misery makes me happy.

Well that's great, but we have one more Christmas surprise for everybody.

We're back.

Okay, let's do it.

What is it?

Okay, Crampis.

I don't know how much time we have and we have so many questions for you.

So, first of all, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today.

Okay, first of all, I want to know what does Crampis do when it isn't Christmas?

Oh?

Good?

Question.

Well, yes, Ash, what's horror movies?

Some romantic movies?

Okay, so that's we were wondering.

So like, if crampis dates and if so, what does crampis date?

Does grandpas date women like uh, other monsters?

What are you into shaming here?

Yeah?

Or is it just like well whatever tramps women?

Women?

Okay?

Naughty?

Not?

What do you consider naughty?

I know?

Very ult minded?

That's that's nice.

Let's good to know.

Wait, Rebecca had a really good one.

I do.

We don't know a whole of a lot of about Crampus, but we do know you steal children?

What are you the bad ones?

Do with the bad ones?

It all depends on the sobriety of their naughtiness.

Okay, yes, if they're slightly naughty a couple of saying, you know, go home, you do that again?

Yeah?

So if they're just like rotten to the core, like theres, they're a dexter, you.

Know, in training, but they're very bad basically you don't like, would you.

Date a woman with kids?

Yeah?

Okay, you look really good?

Like what's your skincare routine?

How do you?

Yeah?

Definitely on my days off, I read a lot.

Do you give your hair a hundred brushes every day.

Of course, like Marcia Brady, I have to put a condition or two and all that.

Is there a lot of shedding?

Do you have to go through with like a limp brush through your house a lot?

Oh?

Yes, definitely.

I mean I feel like it's all over the place.

Things are going to get a little hairy with him.

Okay, obviously we know you from your dancing skills, so I'm curious who taught you how to dance?

Did you go to school for that?

Or well, well, actually I don't know how to dance, to be honest, Okay, no.

I feel like you knew enough to get all of these like thirsty ladies hollering for you.

I know that you saw the post that we put up on the Honda Facebook page.

Did you read the comments?

There were like over six hundred comments, which is a lot for us.

Just they want a birching, big time birching.

My favorite one was like I want to cuddle it and make bad decisions.

Since I started as the comments had been very interesting.

I mean I'm try to read all of them.

Has anyone ever said something that offended you?

Has anybody ever taken it too far Yeah.

Well there was one where like, uh me, we decided that you should be the third one.

I think that we are just completely fascinated and maybe slightly thrown off about the love of crampus and monsters in general, Like we went a whole rabbit hole of like the monster porn thing that people are really into it.

I'm like, Mutt, Yeah, what do you think it is that?

Like, why do women like monsters?

That's a good question.

Do you know there is a word for that.

I don't know if I'm going to pronounce you right, but it's terophilia.

Oh, basically the love of a monster.

But there are one actually a real monster, you know, a demon or whatever.

It's just somebody menacing.

There's a whole discussion about would a woman rather run into a man or a bear in the woods, and women always say a bear, And yet we will, you know, we want to cuddle a crampus.

Right, So I don't make sense, It doesn't make sense, as Julie.

And yet I will also admit that when I found that video, I watched it way more times than I probably should.

Go Yeah, of course, yeah, so it's a great video.

You're awesome.

We love your videos and tell everybody where they can find you online on TikTok, Instagram, everywhere.

So if they hadn't had a chance to check out your stuff yet, they can.

I would say, ig is rub on the score you one?

Yes?

Okay, TikTok is Rob on this score YouTube.

Yeah, cram bus, I didn't know this is going to turn into like a something.

Oh I did?

Where are we going?

When?

Where do we need to pick you up?

Let me know?

Thank you so much.

You're actually our final hit on our Christmas mistic was it Mistletoe and Mayhem episode?

So thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and keep in touch.

Yeah, we'll go start walking around in the woods and see if we run into a crampus or a bear first.

All right, I like that?

Oh the five one.

The lights are bright.

It's a fast, merry Christmas night.

But what's that sound?

Sail begins of holiday wonders and.

Nkwards sad.

When you trip, spill the punch or sparkaf.

It's all in God shame on this holiday night, gather around shares a shame.

It's Missoto and maham oh.

Ho.

Sooner