1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,880 {\an8}A NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL 4 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,200 Thank you so much! 5 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,840 Thank you. 6 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,920 Thank you. Guys! 7 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,600 Welcome! Nice to have you all here with us. 8 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,920 Especially in the middle of the Christmas season. 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 I'll give you credit for that. 10 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,640 Right now, you could have been 11 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,600 at some Christmas party 12 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,360 lying in your own vomit. But no, 13 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,560 you came to see me in church instead. 14 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,440 Peace be with you. 15 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,320 Isn't that...? 16 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:27,840 I think this period before Christmas is a special time of year, right? 17 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:33,120 A very special, a unique mix of 18 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,040 reflection and antisocial stress. 19 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,520 A sort of reflective stress. 20 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,960 But you're the one doing this to yourself. 21 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,720 Because you always have the feeling, 22 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,560 "I need to finish everything before Christmas. I have to get it done." 23 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,200 "No, that has to be done before Christmas. It's got to be finished." 24 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,320 The personal to-do lists, but also the personal conflicts. 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,600 They have to be sorted out before Christmas. 26 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,240 As if the world is going to end after Christmas. 27 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,640 Got to be done. 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,760 My uncle is a tradesman. He always gets asked 29 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,240 "Can you do our bathroom? But we want it done before Christmas." 30 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,240 He always says, "Yeah, of course, before Christmas. Just not this year." 31 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,760 But it is a special time of year and a joyful anticipation, right? 32 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,080 And to draw out this anticipation, 33 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,360 there are advent calendars, right? 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,880 So that you can freak out a little every day instead of all at once. 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,320 So you can have it little by little. Of course, these days there are 36 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,680 a ridiculous number of advent calendars. 37 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,240 Do any of you do handicrafts? Have you ever made one? 38 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,640 There are people who make them in August. But they keep it to themselves. 39 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,600 They keep it to themselves. Then just before Christmas they'll say 40 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,320 "Yeah, I made some for the whole family, of course." 41 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,640 For the children and then for the parents and the dog. 42 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,520 Where you think, "What kind of psychopaths are you?" 43 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,080 Which I can understand… Ah, someone's got their hand up already. Exactly. 44 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,680 Which I can understand if your partner is kind of sweet. 45 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,560 You do that, at least in the first year of the relationship. 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,400 But usually you find that for the first seven doors, 47 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,040 you have really good ideas, right? 48 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,040 Then you're like, "I'm really a great girlfriend." 49 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,520 "I have super creative ideas." 50 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,520 But after the seventh door… 51 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,680 Then it gets tough. 52 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,200 Then you think, "Yeah." 53 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,480 "Sod it, another Hanuta chocolate wafer." 54 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:28,880 "And another one!" 55 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,880 Oh, he has a hazelnut allergy. "Meh, another one!" 56 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,080 I once had a boyfriend. I think I was 16 at the time. 57 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,040 I made my then-boyfriend 58 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,360 an advent calendar from sandwich bags. 59 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,280 And in some bags there were letters inside 60 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,480 and when you put them together, it spelled "I love you". 61 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,200 Yes. I was super sweet. 62 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,400 But also very, very dumb. 63 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,920 Because there were two problems. 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,840 First problem. 65 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,160 After "I lov…" 66 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,400 It's pretty obvious where that's going. 67 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,720 I mean, what else could come afterwards? 68 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,640 I lo…unge on the sofa? 69 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,200 I'll deliver pizza. 70 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:22,200 I lo…ng to get my belly button pierced. 71 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,880 And the second problem was 72 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,040 I noticed on the 9th of December that, nah… 73 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,400 This guy is not the one. 74 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,560 That was a problem, and at 16 it happens fast, right? 75 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,480 The transition from, "Oh, my God, I'm so in love!" 76 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:42,880 to "Eww, who's that?" 77 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,840 is seamless. 78 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,640 And so, after "I love", 79 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,600 I simply put 80 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:52,920 "Christmas". 81 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,680 His present said 82 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,320 "I love Christmas." 83 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:02,720 Yeah. 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,560 Yeah, why? I always wanted to say it. 85 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,880 Oh, yeah and it's over. 86 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,280 That's a 16-year-old's break-up for you. 87 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,360 You couldn't send a text, but I didn't even answer his calls. 88 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,120 "I dumped him", you'd say now. 89 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,440 I heard recently it's now called "dumping". 90 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,000 You don't break up anymore, you "dump" someone. 91 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:27,600 It sounds so cool, right? 92 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,240 "Dumped." Sounds like you put the guy in a basket. 93 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,240 And then just like in Little Red Riding Hood, 94 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,360 put a plaid napkin on top. 95 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,600 And then dump him off at his mother's. 96 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,320 No, that was not what I'd imagined. 97 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,480 I recently read 98 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:50,240 that advent calendars are just like a normal calendar. A tool for counting. 99 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,640 And in the past, 100 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,760 your advent calendar would be just a bunch of chalk lines. 101 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,000 24 chalk lines 102 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,520 drawn on the wall, and the children were allowed to wipe one away every day. 103 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,600 That was the advent calendar. 104 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:13,800 The children must have leapt out of their feather bed full of anticipation 105 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,720 at 5 a.m. before heading out to dig up the frozen field. 106 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,840 Can you imagine that happening today? 107 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,200 With these spoiled little brats. 108 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,120 "Mom, what kind of advent calendar do I have this year?" 109 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,040 "Apple? Playmobil?" 110 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,600 "No, my son, this year we have something very special for you." 111 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,920 "You're allowed to wipe a line off the wall every day." 112 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,280 "Enjoy." 113 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,960 "Can I at least keep the sponge, mom?" 114 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:56,840 "No." 115 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,440 "And while you're at it, you can also do the kitchen floor." 116 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,320 But at least we had better advent calendars, right? 117 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,480 When we were kids, we had really cool ones. 118 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,320 I mean, there weren't these dumb ones with pictures. 119 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,040 I know a friend of mine just had one with pictures. Poor thing. 120 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,560 But we had the ones with chocolate. 121 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,520 Every day a little chocolate inside. 122 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:28,360 For me it somehow got etched in my mind, "this is the best chocolate in the world." 123 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:29,840 The very best. 124 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,240 Today, I know. No. 125 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,120 That was the most disgusting chocolate in the world, right? 126 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,040 Hey, if you try that again today, then you'll think, "Eww!" 127 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,520 "That tastes like an exhaust pipe." 128 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,840 "That tastes as if someone's left the wrapper on". 129 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,120 Like "Eww, why...?" 130 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,200 And I think that it only tasted so good for us as kids 131 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,560 because you were never allowed chocolate. 132 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,440 I mean your taste buds weren't very well developed. 133 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,160 Of course it tasted like shit. There was petroleum inside, right? 134 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,680 That was inside those little plastic moulds, of course. 135 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,200 Petroleum. You get high from it, right? 136 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,880 Almost the same as sniffing glue, eating petroleum. 137 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,600 You could say that children used to run on fossil fuels. 138 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,920 Today, you have everything as an advent calendar, right? 139 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,520 There are advent calendars with socks. 140 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,280 With Lego, Playmobil, with jewelry. 141 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,480 Cosmetics. They're actually pretty good. 142 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,840 With perfume, with puppies, dinosaurs and… 143 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:36,600 with sex toys. 144 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,840 You know those with… Oh, yes. 145 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,080 Ah, you know this? Alright then. 146 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,400 You pretty much get a sex toy every day 147 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,960 behind the door. But I always think, 148 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,320 "Is that really that cool?" 149 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,480 When you wake up first thing in the morning 150 00:08:54,560 --> 00:09:00,200 and open your eyes, drool on the pillow with that disgusting morning breath. 151 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,600 And the first thing you do, "I'll open up this door 152 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:08,440 and see what I should indulge my body with today." 153 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,720 And on St Nicholas Day, it's a butt plug. 154 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,640 Yeah, on St Nicholas Day there's always something big inside. 155 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,000 With a sex toy advent calendar, you get scared 156 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,760 because you've seen that thing since 1st December. 157 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,040 "Oh, God. What is that?" 158 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,760 And the best thing is you know that everyone who bought this calendar 159 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,640 is going to stick this thing in themselves tonight. 160 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,080 Great experience. 161 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,480 Good, not everyone. Those who already know the calendar wait for the lube. 162 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,320 That comes first at door number eight. 163 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,840 And when you have got so many advent calendars in a family, 164 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,160 then you have to be careful not to get them mixed up. 165 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,880 Otherwise you end up with, "Hey, baby, but that dildo from door number 8, huh?" 166 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,360 "Hey, sorry, but somehow it hurts." 167 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,400 "Yeah, baby, that's the T-Rex from the children's advent calendar." 168 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,000 "Ah, okay, okay. Then, I'll just give it back to them." 169 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,440 Somehow these sex toy calendars are totally stuffy to me. 170 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,600 I don't know why. 171 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:31,560 Perhaps it is something for somewhat prudish people. 172 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,000 For people who are basically prudish but who are also responsible. 173 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,760 But people who say, 174 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:43,680 "Usually, I don't like shoving big objects inside me." 175 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,920 "But, well, that was here inside the calendar." 176 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,120 "We bought it, we paid for it… 177 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,440 and today is St Nicholas Day and we have to celebrate." 178 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,600 "It has to be done." 179 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:05,040 It's not my thing. But I have a friend and she's been longing 180 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,880 for her boyfriend to gift her such a calendar. 181 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,760 She won't buy it herself, it has to be a gift. 182 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,960 She thinks it's great. And one Christmas, he came home and said, 183 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,600 "Baby, I've got you a very special advent calendar." 184 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:19,520 And she was like, "Hell, yes." 185 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,440 And he said, "It's just the thing 186 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,480 to add a little variety to our relationship 187 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,240 and a bit of oomph into our lives." 188 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,520 That'd be the reason for me to break up with someone 189 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,800 if someone starts to talk about "oomph". 190 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,240 "I would like a bit of oomph in our--" Thank you. That's it for me now. 191 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,160 And then she began wonder, "God, what did he get me?" 192 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,920 "What is it? Get it out." 193 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,720 "Is it something with knots? Is it whips, ball bearings?" 194 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,920 And he gets the thing out. An advent calendar 195 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,160 with tea. 196 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,280 Yes. Also exciting. 197 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,800 Very exciting. 198 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,480 "They're wild mixtures." 199 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,200 "Crazy lemon balm peppermint." 200 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:14,160 "Ah, five minutes' brew time? Yes, let me brew for five minutes, yes." 201 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,720 "Oh, calming tea." 202 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:23,200 "Oh, my God, yes. Do me with Earl Grey. Do me Earl." 203 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,840 "Earl Grey"? He must have been the dullest guy ever. 204 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,840 One Shade of Grey. 205 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,920 And my friend is like, "Great." 206 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,480 "Everyone is fucking their brains out at Christmas 207 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,760 and all I get to hang in my cup is a bag of chamomile tea." 208 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,920 "Yep, looks like the T-Rex needs to go back in." 209 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,040 But it's always a bit difficult with Christmas and relationships. 210 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,880 There are lots of problems that can arise. 211 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,040 They say Christmas is celebration of love. 212 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,920 Atheists in particular say that so that they can celebrate it too. 213 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,320 And I can probably speak about this from experience 214 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,400 I went through a Christmas 215 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,960 where I was dumped on Christmas Eve. 216 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,000 Yeah. 217 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:16,040 That was hard. 218 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,200 For 20 minutes, I managed to act as if nothing had happened. 219 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:26,360 But then I broke down sobbing under the tree. And that was disaster. 220 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,480 Maybe some of you get it. 221 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:32,080 That's worse case scenario for a family who, Christmas or not, 222 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,720 don't speak about emotions. 223 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,160 My family was completely overwhelmed. 224 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:42,640 My brother got up and said, 225 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,600 "Okay, I'm going to the kitchen to make everyone a Moscow Mule." 226 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:48,440 That was the only rational thing that happened. 227 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,240 My father stood in front of me. He knew he had to do something. 228 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,200 Stood in front of me, looked at me, 229 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,360 lashed out and hit me really hard in the side and said, 230 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,920 "Now c'mon! You're usually such a strong woman." 231 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,800 He might as well have hit a five-year-old and said, 232 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,640 "Now explain to me the theory of relativity, you are usually so clever!" 233 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,240 And then I was already really like, "What is happening?" 234 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,960 And then my mother got up and I'm thinking, 235 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,720 "Finally! She knows what to do. She understands my emotions." 236 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,240 My mother gets up, goes to the piano. 237 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:30,240 And either due to a subconscious impulse or because she wants to lighten the mood, 238 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,400 she plays the only song she knows by heart. 239 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,080 And it was "My Heart Will Go On". 240 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,800 "Are you fucking serious?" 241 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,360 Okay, she's comparing my love life to the Titanic sinking. 242 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,280 Yeah, how fitting, of course. 243 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,800 And I was lying there under this tree like, "Are you all kidding me?" 244 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:05,840 I cried into the tree. My sobs flooded the house. 245 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:07,280 It was so bad. 246 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,760 And on therapeutic advice, 247 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,640 I have tried to process this terrible situation with a song. 248 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,600 Oh, you sad one 249 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,800 Oh, you agonizing 250 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:37,880 Tearful Christmas time 251 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,160 Boyfriend is lost 252 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,160 He's found someone else 253 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:54,680 And so I cry, how I cry Oh, what woe 254 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,760 Oh, you sad one 255 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,080 Oh, you agonizing 256 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:12,160 Tearful Christmas time 257 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,000 Mama plays the piano 258 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,760 Papa hit me here 259 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,200 So I cry 260 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,520 How I cry, oh, what woe 261 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,280 Thank you very much. 262 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:42,880 Thank you very much. 263 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,080 I'm feeling better already. 264 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,040 But in that moment I thought, "My God." 265 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,600 While thinking back to the Christmases I had as a child. 266 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,120 Because as a kid, Christmas is always wonderful, right? 267 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,840 You're always happy, it's always really great. 268 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,320 But let's not kid ourselves. 269 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,040 As a kid, the most important thing about Christmas is the presents, right? 270 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:10,760 I know that sounds a bit immoral, but if you'd have asked me as a kid, 271 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,280 "What's more important to you at Christmas? 272 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:19,160 That God sacrificed his son for you and all people in the world?" 273 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,800 "Or the new Game Boy?" 274 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,320 It may surprise you to hear 275 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,720 that I said, 276 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,320 "The Game Boy, please." 277 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,600 Yeah, I'm sorry, but what kind of a present is sacrificing your son? 278 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,040 No thanks, man! Are you crazy? 279 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:46,400 That's way too abstract for a child. That you tell that to children, right? 280 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,120 Dear God sacrificed his son for you. 281 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,280 Dude! For me, that's insane. 282 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:58,600 That wasn't at all necessary. I don't even know the guy. 283 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,680 It's not the least bit gruesome, is it? That Dear God let his son die. 284 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,960 First, he banishes him from heaven 285 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:11,720 to some shabby planet where there's just floods, earthquakes and Brussels sprouts. 286 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,720 And as if that wasn't enough, he lets him get crucified. 287 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,160 As a child you're like, "Uh huh, uh huh." 288 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,520 "And that's Dear God." 289 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,480 "Okay, right then, I'll pray to him, sounds cool." 290 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,600 Presents are the most important thing 291 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,040 and that's why the wish lists from me and my brother 292 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,640 got longer and longer every Christmas. 293 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,120 Not because we were materialistic pigs, who couldn't get enough. 294 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:49,280 But because we never got exactly what we wished for, 295 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:52,280 instead, it was always something that was similar. 296 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:57,880 So toys from the flea market, toys other kids have already played with. 297 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,880 Today we call that super sustainable. Really. 298 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,600 But as a kid, you think fuck sustainability. 299 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,040 As a kid, you want the original Barbie from the fucking pink box. 300 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:13,080 And not a Polish copy that someone has drawn pubes on with a Sharpie. 301 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,640 Not even wax strips will get that off. 302 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,720 And that's why we started writing 303 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,960 very exact descriptions of the presents on our wish lists 304 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:28,040 because we thought, "This baby Jesus is a bit dumb." 305 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:32,160 We have to give an exact description. So we didn't just write Barbie, 306 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,800 but the "Original Barbie from Mattel". 307 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,160 "Original packaging. Pink box. Must be sealed." 308 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:46,880 Once, I took one of those Christmas catalogs you get in the mail 309 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,760 and cut out the things and glued them on the wish list. 310 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,960 If we had had the internet, 311 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,480 I would've added everything to my parents' basket and ordered. 312 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,800 If mother had asked, "What do you want for Christmas?" 313 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,040 "It's coming, they'll ring in a minute. It's sorted. It's gonna be delivered." 314 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,480 Yeah, okay. So maybe I wished for a few unrealistic things. 315 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:14,520 I know that now. 316 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:20,200 For example, every year I asked for a pony until I was 17. 317 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,560 Yeah, and I still know how absurd it felt for me as a kid 318 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,120 that I never got one. 319 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,760 I just couldn't understand why. 320 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,960 I thought, "Why can't I have a pony?" 321 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,520 We have a garden. So the pony can graze there. 322 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,120 We have a garden shed, 323 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,120 we can put the lawnmower in the garage and then the pony could live there. 324 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,040 "Why not?" 325 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:43,600 But I didn't get one. 326 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,200 And I remember that at some point before Christmas, my brother said to me, 327 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,320 "I know what you're gonna get." 328 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,280 And straight away I was like, "A pony?" 329 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,640 "Okay, don't say it." 330 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,680 "How big is it?" 331 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,840 And he was like, 332 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:00,960 "It's this big." 333 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,480 I was like, "Oh. How does it feel?" 334 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,680 And he was like, "Very soft." 335 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,360 I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm getting a pony. Oh, my God!" 336 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,960 I really fell asleep every night with tears in my eyes. 337 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,680 I thought up until Christmas that I was gonna get a pony. 338 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,760 And what I got for a present was… 339 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,160 bedsheets. 340 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,360 With a pony print. 341 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,520 My brother was a lousy, mean little sadist. 342 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,440 I may have wanted to suffocate him with the bed sheet. 343 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,680 I may have even tried that, but I'm not allowed to talk about it. 344 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,840 I really did wish for a pony. Really. 345 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,800 And that's why I was obsessed with it. 346 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,760 I imagined it, pictured it, my life with a pony. 347 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,520 And maybe every now and then, I'd tell a few people about it. 348 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,880 Just mention that I had a pony. 349 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,560 As a child I didn't take the truth too seriously anyway. 350 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,760 Just tried it. And when you tell other kids you have your own horse… 351 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,640 well, that makes you very popular. 352 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,080 They freaked out of course, "What?" And I thought that was great. 353 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,880 But I figured out it was best 354 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,920 to only con the kids who didn't come to play at my house after school. 355 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,440 So I realized it's best to tell that to the children from my ballet lessons. 356 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,800 And there I could really lay it on thick. 357 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,440 I told them the best stories. 358 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,280 I thought up a beautiful coat color for the pony, a beautiful name. 359 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,440 I took it to tournaments. 360 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,760 This pony could do tricks. 361 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,960 The girls went crazy. 362 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:42,840 They followed me around. They worshipped the ground I stood on. 363 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,240 Especially the ones who also went horse-riding. 364 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,640 They knew what that meant, to own your own horse. 365 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,280 For them I was Bibi and Tina rolled into one. 366 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,240 And I remember on one afternoon, I had been laying it on really thick. 367 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,080 "Yeah, that's what it's like with my pony" and all the girls were like, "Oh, my God!" 368 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,440 I had a right little entourage behind me. 369 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,680 We came out of the ballet hall. All kids were being picked up 370 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,400 and one girl ran right up to her mother, 371 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,920 "Mom, mom, did you know Caro has a pony?" 372 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,040 And the mother said to me, "Really, you have a pony?" 373 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:20,200 And I felt so sure I was like, "Yeah, man, that's right. I have a pony." 374 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,280 And she was like, "Awesome! Is it here in Cologne?" 375 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:26,440 "Yeah, of course." 376 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:27,920 "Yeah, where is it then?" 377 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,880 And I looked around the parking lot and above the trees I saw the roof of a hall. 378 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,160 "There. There's my pony." And she said, 379 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,360 "Really, your horse is there?" I was like, 380 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,120 "Yep, yep, yep." 381 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,160 And she was like, "Well, that's weird because that's a tennis court." 382 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,600 And I was like, "Mmh, the pony also plays tennis!" 383 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,400 …also plays tennis. 384 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,120 Spoiler alert: I never got a pony. 385 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,600 I had it pretty tough as a child. 386 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,200 But not when I was the one giving presents. 387 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,200 If you are giving presents as a kid, 388 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,320 then you have it pretty easy, right? 389 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,280 As a child, you can give any shit as a present and your parents will go wild. 390 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,840 Really. You can fold a piece of paper and gift to your mother. 391 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,640 "Oh, that's so beautifully folded. Beautiful!" 392 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,000 You don't even really have to make an effort. 393 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:29,560 You paint a shitty picture of the family where they all look like blow-up aliens. 394 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,160 And they're like, "Ah, it's beautiful!" 395 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,720 But I was too lazy to paint. 396 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,920 So instead I made gift vouchers. 397 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,720 But in the beginning, I didn't think about the time and effort for the gift. 398 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,280 My first voucher was, 399 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,760 "One year's help with the housework". 400 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,600 Yeah. My mother laughed a lot. 401 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,880 And after one day I said, "Ah. Ah, I have made a mistake." 402 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,800 And then I worked my way down to something more realistic. 403 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,520 And then I gave a voucher which said, "Will be nice for a day". 404 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,280 Actually I said, "Will be 'nic' for a day". 405 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,360 The "e" was missing. 406 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,080 That was also found in the box, "Will be nic for one day". Should do. 407 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,920 But when you think about it, it could also be interpreted as 408 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,880 "Hello, mom, I will be nice for one day a year." 409 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,080 That means for the other 364 days a year, I won't be. 410 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,120 But in leap years, it'll be 365 days. 411 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,520 That wasn't a present, that was effectively blackmail. 412 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,200 But mothers are not too fussy. 413 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,160 You can give them any voucher as a present. 414 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,480 They think everything is great. 415 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,640 I think that's a kind of self-protection. 416 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,600 That you're always happy. 417 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,200 All mothers say, "Thanks, that's so nice of you. So unnecessary." 418 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,600 I really think it's self-protection 419 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,320 because there's an issue we tend to ignore. 420 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,200 Yeah, due to a certain reluctance. 421 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,280 There's a thing called 422 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,480 "The Gender Present Gap". 423 00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,920 Gender pay gap. 424 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,320 We all know about that. Women get paid less than men for the same work. 425 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,360 But women still get fewer presents. 426 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,720 Men and children get the best presents in the world for Christmas. 427 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,080 Why? Because women have been thinking about it since July. 428 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,240 They write out lists. They have notes on their phone. 429 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,560 That's why kids and men get such cool presents 430 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,840 like a telescope or a bungee rope. 431 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,040 Or a knife-sharpening-course or something. 432 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:32,440 And women get almost nothing. When women get something, it's something practical. 433 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,080 Like a hoover attachment. 434 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,840 That's what mommy gets, a hoover attachment. 435 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,080 Not even kidding. A friend of mine got that as a present. 436 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,880 I think that there are certain things that don't belong in wrapping paper. 437 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,040 And one of those is a hoover attachment. 438 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,200 Yeah but it's mega-ergonomic and super practical. 439 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,840 God! Toilet paper is also super practical 440 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,720 but I don't give that as a Christmas present. 441 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,040 A hoover-- 442 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,680 Women just get practical things, if anything. 443 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,680 Please ask a woman you know, a mother 444 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,040 or family manager, what they got for Christmas last year. 445 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,400 I bet you'll hear something like, 446 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,400 "Well, let me think, my little one painted me a beer mat." 447 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,280 And in the post 448 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,600 I received a bottle opener from our bank's customer service. 449 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,840 Oh, man, that really is something. 450 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,520 That's just great. 451 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,640 That is a crying injustice. 452 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,160 Most of the women I know 453 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,520 would have deserved a shopping cart full of presents. 454 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,080 They are, after all the producers of the whole Christmas thing, right? 455 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,960 Except that in comparison to film producers, 456 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,000 they don't take all the money home. 457 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,000 Yeah. 458 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,720 They produce Christmas. 459 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:01,160 If there was an Oscar award ceremony for Christmas, Christmas festivities, 460 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,320 then every woman would be thanked. 461 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,280 "Thank you. Without you, it wouldn't have been possible, Margaret." 462 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,880 Because they do everything. 463 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,880 They don't just make sure that everyone gets presents. 464 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,000 Without the women, half the family wouldn't know that Christmas is happening. 465 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,080 Because they also tell everyone where, how and when it will be celebrated. 466 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,520 I have a friend who has her own business, as well as three kids. 467 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,160 I saw on her to-do list a point, "Organize Christmas". It was one point. 468 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,840 One point on her fucking list. "Yeah, I'll do it on the side, fuck it." 469 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,080 Women take care of everything. 470 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,040 The party, the decorations, the food. 471 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,400 Meanwhile they also have to worry about keeping peace in the family. 472 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,440 Without them, relatives would fight, 473 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,600 probably an uncle with a cousin or something. 474 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:51,360 Without anyone realizing it, they prevent fist-fights by handing out schnapps. 475 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,920 All the while looking like a bombshell. 476 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,840 And the greatest unrecognized achievement is of course 477 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,320 that whole time they have to act 478 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,440 like it's no problem whatsoever. 479 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,720 Actually the highlight of Christmas shouldn't be the present-giving, 480 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,640 but honoring the woman of the house. 481 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,040 But that's not the case, and if these women dare to say, 482 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,440 "Oh, guys, it's too stressful for me right now, it's too much." 483 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:17,760 "Oh, mom!" 484 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,000 "She's going crazy." 485 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,400 "Just chill. Relax for goodness' sake. It's Christmas!" 486 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,640 Whatever. Perhaps it's our own fault, us girls, because 487 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,800 before Christmas, often we say, with a tinge of panic, 488 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,280 we say things like, 489 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,800 "Hey you, this year, let's not give each other presents, right?" 490 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,400 We won't exchange presents. That sounds easy at first 491 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:50,560 but the problem is with these different definitions of nothing. 492 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,240 What does nothing mean exactly in this sentence? 493 00:29:54,760 --> 00:30:00,160 The fact is, for men, "nothing" means nothing. 494 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:06,800 Nothing as in nothing. Nothing whatsoever. 495 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,720 And for women nothing is "Nothing?" 496 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,160 "Apart from a little something." 497 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,400 "Well, nothing big 498 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,680 maybe a little something that expresses your eternal love for me." 499 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,600 "And that will maybe bring a tear to my eye as I unwrap it." 500 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,480 "But that's nothing." 501 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,800 That's a different definition. 502 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:37,280 Whatever. Perhaps it's just logical that there's this gender present gap. 503 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,800 Because the church has a long tradition of misogyny 504 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,320 and Christmas is all about traditions, right? 505 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,160 So it's just a natural consequence. 506 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,680 It started with the fact that the Catholics invented the perfect family 507 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,040 with no women whatsoever. 508 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,760 Right? The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. 509 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,960 Three boys. Doesn't sound particularly Catholic at first, right? 510 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,480 It's just an apartment share, nothing sexual. 511 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,240 But at least there are no women to bother us. 512 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,240 Of course, in the history of Catholicism, there are a few women 513 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,240 but unfortunately, they're all lousy characters. 514 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,960 It all started with Eve. She got us into deep shit. 515 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,040 Ate the apple. Got us all thrown out of paradise. 516 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,680 You could also say, "Hey, Eve was canny, she was curious." 517 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,680 "She looks beyond her nose, she wasn't a yes-woman 518 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,280 she was inquisitive." 519 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,120 And as far as I am aware, Adam also took a bite of the apple. 520 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,440 But with him it wasn't a problem. 521 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,920 Yeah, okay so they both got punished by being thrown out of paradise 522 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,680 but it was Eve who was punished with the original sin, right? 523 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,320 And not only Eve, but all the women who followed. 524 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,520 So we're all carrying her sin. 525 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,760 Which means unbearable pain while giving birth 526 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,320 and bleeding from our genitals every month. 527 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,920 Yeah, man, we get it. 528 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,120 Little bit of an overreaction. 529 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:19,360 And maybe the gender present gap is consequently just a punishment from God. 530 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,040 And I don't know, I always thought my aunt was talking shit. 531 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,720 My aunt always said, 532 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,280 "Oh, I have never got cool presents like my brother", that's my uncle. 533 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,880 "He also didn't have to help around the house as much." 534 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,520 And my Dad always said, "Fucking bullshit." 535 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,080 We all said, "Yeah, nonsense." 536 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,520 Then, at some point, we were looking at some old slides with our grandma. 537 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,320 From the '60s, Christmas with tons of tinsel. 538 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,400 And you see my uncle in the foreground 539 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,400 with his brand new racing bike, beaming from ear to ear. 540 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,640 In the background my aunt sobbing, with a chocolate bar in her hand. 541 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,720 Really. It probably wasn't even the good one with petroleum. 542 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,960 My aunt had it pretty good, actually. 543 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,920 At least, she didn't get any embarrassing presents. 544 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,320 My cousin once got given an epilator for Christmas 545 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,720 from our grandma in front of everyone. 546 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,080 To be fair to my grandma, she didn't know what it was. 547 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,440 My aunt had wrapped it up for my cousin. 548 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,080 Alas thank God my aunt explained what it was to everyone. 549 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,120 "Yeah, yeah, she's just turned 13 550 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,760 but she already has such long black hairs on her legs." 551 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,240 My grandma was like, "Hey, what kind of thing is that for shaving legs?" 552 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,360 "What kind of newfangled thing is that?" 553 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:51,800 I really ask myself, at what point do you become a grandma? 554 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,600 When are you a grandma or grandpa? 555 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,560 I'm not taking about having grandchildren, but in terms of personality. 556 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:05,120 At the moment, I'm normal. I wear colorful clothes. 557 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,600 But at some point, I will be a grandma and only wear… 558 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,080 beige. 559 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:16,400 Yeah, but not Kim Kardashian beige, but health beige. 560 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,840 When does that happen? 561 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,200 I mean at the moment I still have my own style, I hope. 562 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,000 But at some point that will disappear and then I will dress like a grandma. 563 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,000 When does this happen? How does it happen? 564 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:37,280 And the best thing is that every grandma in every generation looks the same, right? 565 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,920 When I was a child, the grandmas looked exactly the same as they do today. 566 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,240 Always a pleated skirt, a glittery sweater and orthopedic shoes. 567 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,880 Exactly like that. 568 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,440 Does it sneak upon you gradually? 569 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,320 You know? That you just start with beige shoes you think, "Ah." 570 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,840 "That's my kind of thing." 571 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,720 And then it starts moving higher and higher up. Beige pants perhaps? 572 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:07,960 Or is it more of a formal process? You get a letter from the council 573 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,720 and then, you open it and you say, 574 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,960 "Oh, Manfred, it's time. We have to wear beige now." 575 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:22,360 Then you have to take all your colorful sneakers, caps and things 576 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,280 and hand them in to the council. 577 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,080 And then you get a pensioner's vest to wear. 578 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,240 With like twenty pockets. 579 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,880 But what do you do with all the empty pockets? 580 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,280 Where do you get the stuff to put inside them? 581 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,480 Maybe you get a voucher so you can go to Müller's senior outfitters. 582 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,440 Then you get the pensioner's starter kit. 583 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,800 "So, pensioner's pocket content." 584 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,440 "Here, a handful of cough sweets." 585 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,640 "Out of date, of course. Half of them without the wrapper." 586 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:06,000 Then a handkerchief and a shop receipt from 2007. 587 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,440 But you still have 20 more pockets. What do you put in them? 588 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:15,160 Well, you put some sort of wrapped-up food into every single one, of course. 589 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,240 The type of food you put in a Tupperware. 590 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,160 Even eggs. 591 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,120 It's not as if nature has prepacked the eggs perfectly. 592 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,760 Then you put them in a Tupperware and only get them out on ICE trains. 593 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,560 And that's where you eat the eggs. 594 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,760 I recently saw a group of elderly women sitting in the train 595 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,080 all cracking open their eggs. 596 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,640 And I thought, "Gosh!" Somehow, I don't see grandmas anymore. 597 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:47,640 In my experience, older women 598 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:53,160 you only really see them on ICE trains or at family occasions. 599 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:55,240 But when you turn on the TV? 600 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:00,040 Every female presenter over 40 is replaced. 601 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,200 In films, there are loads of young women, of course, but older women? 602 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,640 You can forget Instagram. 603 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:09,880 Somehow it's like they have been sucked out of society. 604 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,720 They're somehow just gone. 605 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,840 As a child, I imagined that was what dying was like. 606 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,960 That you just sort of fade out. 607 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,960 I imagined it a little differently. 608 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:23,800 My grandma always measured my height with a mark on the door. 609 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,080 And always said, "Now, you're this tall." 610 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,080 She would then tell me, "I used to be taller before." 611 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,480 As a kid, I was like, "Huh? How does that work?" 612 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,280 "You grow, but you can't get smaller." 613 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,840 She said, "It's true. In old age, you shrink, you get smaller." 614 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,280 I was like, "Oh, yeah?" 615 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,920 That then started turning the cogs in my brain. 616 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,240 I thought, "Ah, that's what getting old is like." 617 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,680 Getting old is shrinking again and again. 618 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,000 So grandma will keep getting smaller and smaller. 619 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,440 And then at some point, she'll live in a doll's house. 620 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160 Then she'll live in a Lego house. 621 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,160 Then, when we can't find her anymore, 622 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,480 we'll be hoovering, "Oof, something rattled." 623 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:07,920 Oh, no. 624 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,800 Grandma. 625 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,960 I thought that then you're dead. 626 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,800 When you get sucked up. 627 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,520 When my grandma really died. 628 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,520 I was still in church thinking the coffin is way too big. 629 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,520 Or are there a couple of grannies inside? 630 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,280 That's the last time I went to church. When my grandmother died. 631 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,280 I mean, I'm not what you'd call a regular church-goer. 632 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,080 But I think that Christmas is still… 633 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,120 The church is always full for mass at Christmas. 634 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,560 Otherwise there's no one there, even if there wasn't Corona. 635 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,760 But the church is always packed out. 636 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,720 You get the feeling they've been reserving their places since November. 637 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,280 "No, no one can sit here. These seats are for our family." 638 00:38:58,800 --> 00:38:59,920 Packed to the rafters. 639 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,440 Hey, if I had a show 640 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,360 that was empty for the rest of the year, not a soul 641 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,160 but then packed out once a year, 642 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:10,360 I would say, "Guys, we're gonna give the performance of our lives." 643 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,440 "Then, they'll come every day." 644 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,120 "We're gonna entertain them, they won't know what's hit them." 645 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,640 But the Catholic church is like, "Yeah. Or not." 646 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:27,000 "No. Instead let's have the kids perform a play, which is way too long." 647 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,520 "Which everyone already knows." 648 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,880 "And everyone should speak really quietly." 649 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,280 "In a room with ceilings that are too high." 650 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,680 "Oh, and everyone should have their backs to the audience." 651 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:43,000 And then we'll get a gentle woman with a cheeky short haircut to read. 652 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:48,080 She'll read a gentle text out loud. From the Bible, where you think, 653 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:52,600 "Even the best book in the world sounds shit, if you read it like that." 654 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:56,120 "And it came to pass in those days 655 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,840 that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus 656 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,360 that all the world should be taxed. 657 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,520 And this taxing was first made 658 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,920 when Cyrenius was governor of Syria." 659 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,200 No. 660 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,640 And then there's the priest. With each second, you notice that 661 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:29,840 he hates kids. 662 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,040 He hates kids. He just pretends. 663 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,760 He would love to throw Finn-Friedrich out of the first row. 664 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,120 Because he is interrupting the sermon 665 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,240 and hitting his neighbor's head with the hymn book. 666 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,800 But he can't do that because he has to say stuff like 667 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,680 "Christmas is about the miracle of childbirth and love for a child!" 668 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,560 "So let the children come to me!" 669 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,040 But what he'd really like to do is grab Finn-Friedrich and say, 670 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,960 "Shut your mouth, boy. Or I'll smack you with the candlestick." 671 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,360 "If you're not quiet 672 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,360 then Knecht Ruprecht will come and stick long needles in your eyes." 673 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:04,920 Of course… 674 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:15,800 In the Catholic church you have to just be thankful that the priest only hates kids. 675 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,520 That's the lesser of two evils. 676 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:18,680 Well, of course… 677 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,920 Surprise! 678 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,240 People don't really like going to church, because the whole Christmas story 679 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,800 isn't really relevant to our lives anymore. 680 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,000 You sit there as a young person and think, 681 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,400 "What the hell is going on?" 682 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,200 I mean if the Christmas story happened today, 683 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,720 then everything would be completely different. 684 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,040 I mean, it starts with the procreation. 685 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,640 Mary and God would probably have met each other on Tinder. 686 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:49,880 I assume. 687 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,240 Everything would be different. 688 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,640 As if Joseph and Mary would have slept in a barn. Fat chance! 689 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,480 They would have checked into some cool loft from Airbnb 690 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,200 in the completely gentrified center of Bethlehem, obviously. 691 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:04,120 For sure. 692 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,280 As if they wouldn't check out a stable they saw on a hotel comparison site 693 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,120 "Only one star? No, no way." 694 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,240 As if the three wise men 695 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,960 would have come in person all that way just to give the presents. 696 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,520 They would have just sent them with Amazon, right? 697 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,480 Already wrapped as a present. 698 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,880 Where you pay a €79.80 surcharge 699 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,200 just to get them packed in those crappy cloth bags. 700 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:31,360 That's really the easiest way to say, "I have money and I don't care about you." 701 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,720 That's how it would be. Better to just give any crap as a present, right? 702 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,360 We always do a joke Secret Santa, me and my friends. 703 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,760 Joke Secret Santa is the same as normal Secret Santa 704 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,760 except you actually admit how shit the gifts are. 705 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,800 We do that every year at Christmas 706 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,080 but unfortunately, the day before Christmas Eve. 707 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:56,840 Which means that I can't really remember the last few Christmas Eves too well. 708 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,440 Because I always have such a bad hangover on Christmas Eve 709 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,080 that I can't remember. 710 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,760 But we always have to do the joke Secret Santa on the 23rd 711 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,920 because that's the only time everyone is in Cologne. 712 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,640 Nowadays some of them live in China or Hamburg or God knows where. 713 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:12,240 So we can only do it then. 714 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,960 At some point, it just got out of hand. 715 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,200 We started about 20 years ago. 716 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,200 There were six of us and we did the Secret Santa at one of our homes. 717 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,360 Then over the years, 718 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:26,000 more and more people joined us and it just grew and grew over time. 719 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,200 Then there came a point where no one wanted to host it at their home anymore. 720 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,840 "Man, I can't renovate the floor again. Last year, it was so bad." 721 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,000 And then at some point, we started to rent a location on the 23rd. 722 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:42,360 To get a tree. Soon, we had doormen, a schedule 723 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,800 and it became a fixed event, with invitations. 724 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,480 We had teams to decorate the tree and to take it down. 725 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,240 There were even penalties if you forgot to bring your Secret Santa. 726 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,200 Then we got really drunk. 727 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,880 We got so drunk. And every year, I knew that Christmas was going to be hell. 728 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,480 I have to try and nurse my drinks. 729 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,480 I had to try and pace myself with all this alcohol. 730 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:05,920 But I just couldn't do it. 731 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,240 There are people who drink water in between. 732 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:12,560 They drink water. What psychos! How do they do it? 733 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,040 How can you be so in control? 734 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,320 After every shot of booze. "First, some water." 735 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,480 "I always do it like this, a beer then water." 736 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,600 Wow. I always try. 737 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,840 I always think, "Okay, now I'm gonna drink water. Water." 738 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,240 "Definitely gonna get some water." 739 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,520 Then I head to the bar to get some, "Water, water, water", 740 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,360 but when I'm in front of the bar, "Beer! Fuck it." 741 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,560 Then… 742 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,920 Then, at some point, we're listening to Rage Against the Machine 743 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,240 and there's a merry mosh pit. 744 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,040 Then everyone is bouncing around, 745 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,960 everything breaks and you sometimes end up injured. 746 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,840 There were Christmases where I sat there with a black eye 747 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,880 and my brother with a big lump on his forehead. 748 00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,160 Sitting opposite our grandmother at the table and grandma looks and says, 749 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:05,600 "Did you hit each other? And at Christmas!" 750 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:11,440 And we're like, "Yeah, we both fell over yesterday." 751 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:25,520 All of us, all my friends, are always so hungover on Christmas Eve. 752 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,800 That's why we made our own version of a well-known Christmas song. 753 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,440 Just like every year 754 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,640 It happened once again 755 00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:53,400 Knees down on the ground 756 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,280 Vomit hanging from my chin 757 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:03,200 I can hardly move 758 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,840 Can barely stand the pain 759 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,960 Crawling on all fours 760 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,800 The whole way through the house 761 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,800 Parents waiting cheerful 762 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,720 The goose is fully cooked 763 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,720 I'll just keep drinking 764 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:39,600 Until next year 765 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,240 You're welcome to use that one. 766 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:50,680 But… 767 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,800 Drinking at Christmas is, of course, only the culmination of the season. 768 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,280 It starts much, much earlier of course. 769 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,680 Throughout advent, you have to get drunk at Christmas markets. 770 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,600 Every moron wants to go with you to the Christmas market. 771 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,400 "We have to go to the Christmas market, 772 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,000 we really have to." Suddenly, you're stressing about appointments 773 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,440 because everyone wants to go with you to the Christmas market. 774 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,000 It's like peer pressure. 775 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,840 "We've got to do it before Christmas. Got to go to the markets!" 776 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,600 In Cologne, when people say, "C'mon, we're going to the Christmas market." 777 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,520 Then you have to ask, "Which one?" 778 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,200 We've got hundreds of Christmas markets in Cologne. 779 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,000 We've got more Christmas markets than parking spaces in Cologne. 780 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,480 And then you have to drink a lot of mulled wine. 781 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,840 Who actually invented that? 782 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,240 You stand there in the cold 783 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,320 with your cup 784 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,880 and with the first gulp, you immediately burn your mouth. 785 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,120 Your tongue is numb, which isn't a bad thing 786 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,120 because as soon as it cools down by one degree 787 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:47,840 then it tastes like cold feet. 788 00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,480 It tastes just like a hangover feels the next day. 789 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,720 So, slowly, you have that taste in your mouth. 790 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,560 Then I'm standing there already with this half-cold thing, "Ew". 791 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,760 Then after just two seconds, someone comes from the group and says, 792 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,560 "Another round, yeah? I'll get another round. Give me your cups." 793 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,440 And you're standing there like, "Fuck. The guy is like a debt collector." 794 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:10,400 "C'mon, c'mon." 795 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,440 Because he wants to get his fucking deposit back. 796 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,360 I once tipped mine into the snow. 797 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,480 It looked like I threw up blood on the snow, "Everything okay?" 798 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:20,600 "Yeah." 799 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,560 Or you have to chug that shit. 800 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,000 God didn't intend for mulled wine to be chugged. 801 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,840 That's why he created it scalding hot. 802 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,000 Of course you then get drunk from mulled wine. 803 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,920 Which is really a disgusting kind of drunkenness. 804 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,640 I always notice when I've had too much mulled wine 805 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:41,920 because I think, "I could go for some slimy garlic mushrooms right about now." 806 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,240 The rest of the year, I wouldn't give them the time of day. 807 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,120 But at the Christmas market, "Oh, garlic mushrooms." 808 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,320 Right? 809 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,800 Or when you've had enough mulled wine, then for me I slowly start 810 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,200 to think all the crap on the stands is really cool. 811 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,880 You think it's actually really beautiful. 812 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,000 "It's beautiful." 813 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,240 "Wow. It's all made out of felt." 814 00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,960 Felt. The rest of the year I couldn't give a toss about felt 815 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,200 but at the Christmas market, "Felt. Oh." 816 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,920 "Felt shoes too, amazing." 817 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,280 Everything is full of knick-knacks. 818 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,120 You buy them and then they just lay around the house. 819 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:42,920 You think, "Great, I need all of that." 820 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,200 It's like the home shopping channels back in the day. 821 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:47,560 I don't know how they do it. 822 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,640 Back then, when you switched it on, you were like, 823 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:51,400 "Hey, no way!" 824 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,400 There's no reason in the world why I would ever 825 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,480 need to buy a lint fryer. 826 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,680 But then you look at it for ten minutes and think, "Man, I need that thing." 827 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,920 I have to fry my lint. All of it. 828 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,000 It's like that at the Christmas market too, "I need that." 829 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,280 But actually, I really need it. 830 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,040 Decoration from the Christmas market. 831 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,760 I have personally depended on it, if I want everything to be festive. 832 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,760 I can't do it myself. Doesn't work. 833 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,760 I can look at as much Pinterest as I want, but it doesn't work. 834 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,320 I know there are people who can just do it. 835 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,240 There are people who, if you give them just a hot glue gun, 836 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,640 a couple of dried leaves and a bit of material 837 00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:35,800 and they craft, no, they somehow conjure up floral decorations. 838 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,800 You'd think the photographer from Beautiful Homes will be here in a sec 839 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,720 to do an 8-page story for Vogue. 840 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,800 Fuck me! What's that about? 841 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:50,200 The last thing I conjured up from dried leaves was definitely not legal. 842 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,600 It looks so shit when I decorate. 843 00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,000 Really. With me, 844 00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,680 it always looks like a decoration, which was beautiful, fell off the table. 845 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,520 And someone swept it up. 846 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,320 Where people walk by and say, 847 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,400 "Hey, Chief you should have a look at this." 848 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,840 "A candle and a feather. What happened here?" 849 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,160 Or like Black Stories, do you know that? 850 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:20,520 A candle and a feather lying on the floor. What happened? 851 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,880 Was there a break-in? Was there an explosion? 852 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,280 No, Caro was doing crafts. Ah, okay. Cool. 853 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,360 At some point, I called my mother and told her. 854 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,240 I said, "Mom, I'm hopeless when it comes to decorating." 855 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,360 My mom was like, "Yeah, that's great." 856 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,280 "Huh?" 857 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,400 "No, I think it's good that there are some things you can't do." 858 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:42,320 "Yeah, great." 859 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:43,840 "No, it's a good trait to have." 860 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,280 "To be able to say when there is something you can't do. It's good." 861 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,160 You can't do it too often though 862 00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:53,120 otherwise it sounds like you're fishing for compliments. 863 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,520 Just like in school, everyone had a friend like 864 00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:00,600 "Oh, God, I definitely gonna get a 'U'. Oh, what another 'A'?" 865 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,200 "Oh, God." 866 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,680 That's how I always get given cookies at Christmas. 867 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,520 I always get given cookies. 868 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,840 Where you can already see, wow, these are super good cookies. 869 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,280 And you realize that the person who gave them 870 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:15,800 just wants to hear how good they are. 871 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,480 I always get given them with the sentence 872 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:19,720 "Yes, but this year, they turned out really bad." 873 00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:23,680 "Turned out really bad." You think? 874 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,800 "To whom did you give the cookies which did turn out well?" 875 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,600 First of all, how can cookies not turn out well? 876 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,560 It's fat and sugar. It's always delicious. 877 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,640 You can't combine fat and sugar in a way 878 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:38,920 that tastes bad. 879 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,560 That's why it's always over the top, when you bite a cookie and go 880 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,880 "Oh, delicious." 881 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,200 Yeah, of course it's delicious. 882 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,960 It's a cookie. What else would it be, magnetic? 883 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,000 What did you think? 884 00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:52,320 Cookies! 885 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,480 I always take all the cookies I get given, I get a lot 886 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,760 and put them on a huge plate of cookies. 887 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,360 Then people always ask, "Did you bake those yourself?" 888 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,600 At some point, I started to say, "Yep." 889 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:16,000 "With my pony." 890 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,840 "My pony and I, we baked all these cookies." 891 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,840 "No problem. Do it every year. Standard Wednesday people." 892 00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,280 The problem is when you have someone with allergies there 893 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,560 and they ask, "Do they contain nuts?" 894 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:32,880 "Yeah." 895 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,960 "Yeah, probably not." 896 00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:42,040 "Try one and ask me again in ten minutes… 897 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:44,680 if you're still alive." No, not really. 898 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,480 But food is super important at Christmas, right? 899 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,240 Christmas dinner is the highlight. 900 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,280 For everyone it has to be the best food in the world. 901 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:56,960 There are only two camps. 902 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,240 The first is Team Sausage and Potato Salad. 903 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,800 The other one is Team Dead Bird. 904 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,720 Goose, duck or turkey. 905 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,200 Owls. Whatever else there is. 906 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,880 As a kid, I definitely would have been Team Potato Salad 907 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,200 because that's quick to prepare. 908 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,200 For kids, it's a fucking chicane. 909 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,680 This bloody long meal. What the hell? 910 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,240 On Christmas, when you've already been to church, 911 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,760 you want presents. Why do you have to stuff yourself for ages first? 912 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,880 Usually pasta and sauce, or sauce and pasta will do. 913 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,320 But at Christmas, you sit at the table for three hours. 914 00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:33,960 We always had leftovers. 915 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,400 Okay, so we didn't call it leftovers. We said, "raclette." We had raclette. 916 00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,640 It was a stroke of genius by my mother, she didn't have to prepare anything 917 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:45,000 just tear open packets. 918 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:49,320 The disadvantage for us as kids was that it took ages before my dad was full. 919 00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,040 Because he always said, "This isn't anything proper." 920 00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,120 When my father said, 921 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,360 "This isn't anything proper", he meant that it wasn't meat. No meat. 922 00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,600 Of course with raclette, there is only salami, ham, etc. 923 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,200 Not any real meat. 924 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,400 As a kid, you're already full up after half a piece of melted cheese. 925 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,240 You sit there with your hot face at the table, rocking back and forth, 926 00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,080 "When do we get to open presents?" 927 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,600 But you have to wait until your father is full. 928 00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,680 You've already waited to open the 24 doors of the advent calendar. 929 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,640 And now you have to wait for your father to make 24 pans disappear. 930 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,920 At Christmas, we always play games after food. 931 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,840 That's become a well-loved tradition over the last few years. 932 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,320 We always play a game. 933 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:41,880 It may sound a bit weird today, but… 934 00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,120 It's called "Your Mother Top Trumps". 935 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:47,720 It's a sort of like Top Trumps, but you just play it with mothers. 936 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,480 You have to outdo each other 937 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:54,520 in terms of weight, hair, and a number of unsupervised children. 938 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,240 Then you have "Your mom" phrases and everyone has to decide 939 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,840 who has the funniest phrase and you can use those to out-trump people. 940 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,360 The game in itself isn't actually that cool. 941 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,200 But my brother and I laughed our asses off 942 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,240 about the way our parents read out these "Your mom" phrases. 943 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,880 Whenever my father read his phrases out, 944 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,240 he would look straight at my brother to see if it was funny. 945 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,400 Because sometimes he doesn't get the joke. 946 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,280 He sits there at Christmas and says, 947 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:27,080 "Your mother gets hit more often than the door of the job center." 948 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,160 "Was it good?" 949 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:32,320 "Good." 950 00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:39,000 My mother didn't really get it either. 951 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,280 She read them like a dedicated Cologne church wife. 952 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:43,200 She reads like, 953 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:47,440 "Your mom shits on the carpet, 954 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:52,240 sticks pretzel sticks in it and says the hedgehog lives here now." 955 00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:55,680 It's too much. 956 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:02,800 You aren't at your parents as often as you used to be. 957 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,560 A couple of years ago though, 958 00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,000 I was living at my parents for a bit, due to a "situation". And… 959 00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,400 I was terrified about it 960 00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,120 because I thought we're gonna bash our heads in, it will be horrible. 961 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,360 It was actually a wonderful time. It was great. 962 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,880 We spent a lot of time drawing, we had breakfast together. 963 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,920 You sit in the same place you always sat at as a child. 964 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,120 There were five different types of sausage. 965 00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,080 Sometimes I just opened the fridge just to count all the sausages. 966 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,400 None of them were off, none of them had furled up. Nothing. 967 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,560 That in itself was so fascinating. 968 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,560 All of my things were washed, ironed and sewed up. 969 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,760 All of my tops have a hole here. That's just how it is. 970 00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:56,560 I just can't wait for someone to hand me a pair of scissors 971 00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:57,800 when the label starts to itch. 972 00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,600 At some point, I lose my shit 973 00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,920 and then I've ripped everything to shreds. 974 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,800 And my mother sewed everything up. 975 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,080 But there were also moments when I realized, 976 00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:10,960 "Ah, yes." 977 00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,240 "We've really left them alone for a long time." 978 00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,080 For example, at one point, I wanted to take a bath. 979 00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,240 So I was on the first floor and I had just run the bath water. 980 00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:27,640 My mother heard that from downstairs and ran up, screaming on the way, 981 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:32,440 "Do you want to take a bath? Do you want to take a bath? Sorry, you can't." 982 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,240 And I was like, "Eh? Why not?" 983 00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,120 And she came inside, "Yeah, you can't do that." 984 00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,240 "You can't take a bath. The water's too cold for that." 985 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:40,760 "Your dad set it up that way." 986 00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,320 "You can only shower, you can't take a bath." 987 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,600 And I have to say that 988 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,960 I was totally confused 989 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,000 because a couple of years earlier, 990 00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,680 my parents had switched to geothermal energy. 991 00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:59,520 They paid so much money for this geothermal heating. 992 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,040 My dad had worked it out, he'd done the math. 993 00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,240 As soon as my parents turned 90, 994 00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,120 then it would finally pay off. 995 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,880 I even remember how it was built. A bore drill arrived. 996 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:14,400 I thought they're gonna drill for dinosaurs. What the hell? 997 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,440 They drilled a hole in my parent's front garden. 998 00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,000 I'm no expert on geology or heating 999 00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:21,600 but the way I understood geothermal 1000 00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,120 is that they drill through to the Earth's fucking core. 1001 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:28,240 To me, geothermal heating means my parents have a lava-flat rate. 1002 00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:32,560 The water is literally boiling at their place all the time. 1003 00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,640 Why the fuck shouldn't you use it? 1004 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,680 No, my father found out that you can save a few cents 1005 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,040 if you turn it down a little bit. 1006 00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,000 And I was astounded. 1007 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,680 I stood in front of my mother and said, "Wait a second." 1008 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,080 "But you really like having a bath." 1009 00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,320 "You can't take a bath? But you love baths!" 1010 00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,720 My mother is the queen of bath water. 1011 00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,880 Really, when I was a child, she was always taking baths. 1012 00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:58,960 And she said, 1013 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,720 "Well, when I want a bath, I get the pasta pot, the big one." 1014 01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:06,400 "Then I boil some water." 1015 01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:11,840 I go, "And then you walk up the fucking stairs with a pot of boiling water?" 1016 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,200 "You take baths like they did during the war?" 1017 01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,200 What kind of weird situation is that? 1018 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,480 "You can't. Your dad set it up like that." 1019 01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,800 And then, my dad hears our conversation. 1020 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:24,160 I hear him shout, 1021 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,240 "Yeah, yeah, it's fine, I'll adjust it, then!" But angrily. 1022 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,920 And I go, "Why is he angry?" 1023 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:35,560 And with whom? With us? With himself? With the heating, the lava? No idea. 1024 01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:37,680 That's so mad. 1025 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:41,480 You think, "Wow, my parents are so weird." 1026 01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,360 "I love them, but they're weird." 1027 01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,240 I find it so funny. But as a teenager, it's super embarrassing. 1028 01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:52,840 All of your own family make you think, "Oh, God. You're all so strange." 1029 01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:55,200 As you get older, you think, 1030 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,480 "My God. You're so strange." 1031 01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:04,080 "You're freaks, but you're my freaks. Somehow, it's cool." 1032 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:09,360 That's why there are weird traditions in every family. 1033 01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,520 But with us, for example, it's like this. 1034 01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:15,720 When we set up the nativity, it gets put together on the 6th of December. 1035 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,040 Then it stands there, with crib in the stable. 1036 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,080 But for us, Jesus isn't born yet. 1037 01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:28,240 Because, of course, it isn't quite the 24th, yet. We're very logical. 1038 01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:33,880 That's why until he is born, Jesus lies behind the crib. 1039 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:41,520 Other babies lie in the womb but he is just in the back of a dusty cupboard. 1040 01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,240 And at some point, the inevitable happened. 1041 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,120 Jesus was gone. 1042 01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,000 Jesus was gone. Don't know if the cat ate him or what. 1043 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,800 Or if we had hoovered him up? Oh! He's with grandma in heaven. 1044 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:57,840 No idea where he went. 1045 01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,440 Anyway, we, of course, had to replace him. 1046 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,520 I mean you can't have an empty crib on Christmas. 1047 01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,640 How creepy would that be? 1048 01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,480 Someone has to be Jesus! 1049 01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,280 And then we started putting toy figures in there. 1050 01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,280 One year, we had a Playmobil construction worker. 1051 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,520 Really cool. He had a mustache and a shovel in his hand. 1052 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,680 Then, one year, I had Polly Pocket, I managed to get that one through. 1053 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,840 More diversity in the Jesus sector. 1054 01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,600 Then a Happy Hippo from a Kinder egg. That was also good. 1055 01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,360 Then, at some point, we landed by super heroes. 1056 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:31,960 I mean it's hard to follow in Jesus's footsteps. 1057 01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:33,960 You've got to have something to offer. 1058 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,080 It was definitely a job for Batman. 1059 01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,280 Batman was Jesus for three years. 1060 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,000 I mean c'mon. Gotham, Bethlehem, what's the difference? 1061 01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:47,040 And that's somehow more in the spirit of Jesus, this variety. 1062 01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:51,520 Anyone can spread Jesus's message. The message of love. 1063 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,800 Why not Batman? And for me, that is Christmas. 1064 01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,520 Not these old stories from the Bible, 1065 01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,600 but what you experience with your friends and your freaks at home. 1066 01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,280 Everyone has their own, special moment. 1067 01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:07,040 Christmas is different for everyone. 1068 01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:11,240 Never mind if you drink yourself under the table at Christmas. 1069 01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,280 Or if you give your kids cheap Barbies from Poland as presents. 1070 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,280 Or if a brown hedgehog lives in your home on the carpet. 1071 01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:23,160 For me, it's only Christmas when Batman is lying in the crib. 1072 01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:30,960 Silent night 1073 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,640 Holy night 1074 01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:39,320 Batman laughs at God's Son 1075 01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:44,760 Jesus lies somewhere behind the cupboard 1076 01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:49,880 Where no one ever found him again 1077 01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:55,240 Batman the savior is here 1078 01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:58,840 Batman the savior is here 1079 01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,120 Silent night 1080 01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,720 Holy night 1081 01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:11,240 Homemade cookies 1082 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:16,440 In the cupboard some crap made of felt 1083 01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:22,120 Your breath stinks of garlic mushrooms 1084 01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:27,440 Just keep your mouth closed 1085 01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,200 Keep your mouth closed 1086 01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,440 Merry Christmas! That's it folks. Get home safe! 1087 01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,560 Thank you for coming, enjoy the festivities! 1088 01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:45,880 Gift yourself something nice! 1089 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,080 Drink something proper! 1090 01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,280 Silent night 1091 01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,800 Holy night 1092 01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:04,520 I hope you all had fun 1093 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:09,640 Now go out and have a great time 1094 01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:15,000 Remember that baby Jesus Can see everything 1095 01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:20,640 Folks, the show is over 1096 01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:24,600 I'm gonna ride my pony home 1097 01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,560 Merry Christmas! 1098 01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,120 Thank you!