Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's ho-ho short stuff here on Short Stuff.
That's right. We're stealing one potential thing from our Christmas episode just to do a Christmas-style shorty to get in the spirit of things. And we're going to be talking about holly today, like, you know, the plant. It's a shrub. It can be a tree. It's in North America. It's in Asia. It's in Europe. There are a lot of different species. And like I said, some can be little shorty shrubs.
Some can be big old trees. But everyone knows holly for those waxy leaves that will draw blood and those little crimson berries that grow on them.
Yeah, but there's something about holly that I did not know until I was studying was that they bloom in the spring and early summer. Have you ever seen a holly plant bloom white flowers?
I don't know. My dirty secret is I don't love holly just because it's so pointy and sharp. It's almost like a thorn bush, you know?
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Chapter 2: What is holly and why is it associated with the holidays?
German, I know this one is Steckpalme.
Yeah, I like that one.
But it all probably comes from Proto-Indo-European languages at the base, which is Q-E-L, which means prickly or to prick.
Yeah. There you go. End of root word segment. Yeah.
Wake up, everyone.
So one thing I didn't know is apparently in longstanding tradition, because this is, holly is another great example of how you associate with Christmas. Christians have kind of adopted it with their own kind of symbolism associated with it. But it goes back way further than that. And it's kind of from all over the place because holly grows in not just Europe,
Not just North America, but Asia as well. It's a really well-traveled, well-trod shrub that because it stands out so much in winter, it's usually evergreen. Those leaves are unmistakable. The berries are just so bright red against like a snowy background. It does make a lot of sense that cultures from around the world and over the course of time would have been like that.
I'm going to drape a bunch of symbolism on that plant.
Yeah, for sure. I think a lot of times it's associated through ancient cultures with good luck. In this case, good luck for men specifically because for good luck for women, ivy is that counterpart. And if you've ever heard the English Christmas carol, the holly and the ivy, that's what they're talking about. Yeah, it is, again, a sacred plant from the Druids.
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Chapter 3: What is the symbolism of holly in different cultures?
No, don't do that. But what you could do if you're into carving things, apparently the holly's wood is very hard, great for carving. And a lot of chess pieces can be made out of holly wood because holly wood, which I think is kind of cool because I, my friend, have started playing chess for the first time since probably high school.
Because Ruby is in chess club, and she's asked me to play chess with her. So we've been playing every night, and I'm having a ball playing chess with her. Is that why you picked this episode? No, it's not why, but it's pretty interesting because I dabbled in chess in high school. I was never good or learned any chess. strategy or technique or took any classes or clubs.
So it's all just intuition. And so I'm basically at the point where she is at 10 years old and her, you know, kind of learning strategy a little bit. And so we're like pretty evenly matched and it's just a lot of fun. Like I'm, it's opening brain pathways that I did like strategical pathways that aren't tapped into very much for me. And so I'm really digging it.
And for Christmas, I already threw Don in like a really nice hand-carved chess set for us as a little surprise.
That's cool.
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Chapter 4: Where does holly grow around the world?
How'd she get into chess? Just chess club at school. She signed up for, I have no idea why. Probably some boy was in it that she had a crush on would be my guess.
Has she, she's like, this is going to make his bow tie spin when I join.
I think so.
Has she seen the Queen's Gambit yet?
No, I don't know how much you get into that yet. I bet searching for Bobby Fisher could be a good one though for her.
Okay. All right. We'll start with that. Make sure she sees the Queen's Gambit at some point. All right. One other thing you can do with Hollywood because it's so dense and sturdy is create a walking stick out of it. Oh. And if you carve a walking stick out of Hollywood and there's not a druid on the end, throw it away and start over because you did it wrong.
That sounds great.
You got anything else?
I got nothing else.
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