Advent 2025 E14 - Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel...

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December 14th. All right. Welcome back, Miller Morning Man House Advent Calendar.

Now we're going to talk about the Jews.

Put on your yannaka. It's time for yannaka.

So in all seriousness Maybe I'm just sheltered Because we didn't live in big

cities But I never knew anyone growing up It's an Indiana thing I didn't even

know I knew a fair amount of Jews Oh well you're so cultured,

Well I knew Here's what I knew They got fucking way more presents than I did

And they got it all December Well yeah Because it's eight nights Or eight crazy

nights And not only did I not know what Hanukkah was, I didn't know what Jewish people were.

So there's that. Well, they didn't go to the Catholic Church.

They knew that. Oh, well, yeah, that's where you were. So they didn't get it.

Likely, if you're Jewish, you probably didn't get molested by a priest like

we did. I mean, you don't know.

No, well, I believe they let rabbis get married.

I don't know. I don't know. Call in.

219-242-80. Tell us how Jews work, and how that works.

We're assuming not, that you weren't. But I mean, I knew about Hanukkah,

and I'm sure I knew Jewish people. You did? I knew, yeah. How?

How did I know about Hanukkah? Yeah. Who told you, your mom and dad?

I don't know where I learned about Hanukkah, but I knew it existed.

I just didn't know anybody that celebrated it. But again, like...

I have zero issues, obviously. I have no memories of Hanukkah as a child.

I mean, you were in East Gary, though.

Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, there would be no reason for me to...

What do you think the Jewish population is today over there?

Well, clearly they... Well, I mean, where I live in the neighborhood,

they used to call it Little Israel.

What? In Portage? No, where I live now.

Oh, and Gary? Well, no, she was in Lake Station. Clearly there were Jewish...

Yeah, they don't let them go across county lines.

You're not going to be safe over there. No, but that's why blue Island.

Uh, there was not many Jews, but Frankfurt, uh, lot was Jews,

a lot of Jews, even though it was a German.

Frankfurt is a German town. It's a German name. I'll tell you what I would convert today.

I'm ready. Sign me up. What religion are you? Zero.

I was going to say you can't convert if you don't have a current one.

I don't know. It's there.

It's old. Can I sign up then? Is it just a volunteer situation?

I think I would be Buddhist if that's a thing.

If I was going to do a religion. Namaste, Jerry. Have you been in that temple? It's beautiful.

Yeah, we've been in there a few times. We seem to know what they're doing with

stuff. Well, it's because they're Jewish.

Oh, wow. Jesus. No, but I guess.

Oh, Jesus was. The main reason I guess we're talking about this is just I never remember.

Like it's not like i ever was you know you always had friends that

did different shit and i never remember like oh yeah i gotta go

home for a seder or you know the

hanukkah dinner yeah no no one like no i never had a friend like that where

where yeah they were like like i never had oh do you want to come over for a

seder or just be like what's that you know like you ever blend like to a friend's

house and like it's just like they were no different or dead church on sunday

Like I was never at a friend's house.

It's like, Oh yeah. Like we got to go light the menorah.

Just never happened. No, no one had a menorah in their like window or whatever. Nope.

And I, um, yeah, I probably was not aware of it until maybe I like early teens, like even that. Yeah.

Cause I wasn't really, really wild because people think we're Jewish though.

Sometimes around the holidays because our Christmas lights are blue and white snowflakes.

But they're, they're shaped, they're six pointed snowflakes.

So people think that they're the star of David, but well, Hey,

shout out to all my Jewish homies. You can't tell. Yeah, I mean. You can't tell.

Like, you can't look at a person and know if they're Jewish.

Yeah, because it's like, it's a weirdly, like, weirdly, like,

ethnicity and a religion kind of, right?

I've Googled it before. If you must know.

Okay, what did Google say? It said exactly that.

Also, there's not, I mean, I'm sure there are out there somewhere,

because there's everything on the internet. It's like, what's your religion? Italian.

Like until adam sandler came out with the hanukkah song there was never like

a hanukkah well dreidel you know dreidel dreidel dreidel i made you out of clay

but i didn't know that song before south park or whatever,

well it was in south park all right well we're trying to get more cultured if

you know any i'm like i'm not an idiot i'm sorry i just this is our experience

right and it's a similar Christmas experience as everyone else because they

have to be Jewish population low they gotta get kids,

Fraulein Miss Pancake over here they gotta get kids gifts,

first rule of Christmas and Hanukkah the kids get gifts I said I want to sign

up I said I want to sign up I'm not Fraulein I'm ready to join you don't have

time to go to fucking church,

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