Bonus #160 - Kushmas Brothers Vol. 1 [PATREON PREVIEW]
Stavvy's World
Stavros Halkias
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No, I remembered one of my favorite Christmas traditions, Jewish. |
| 0:03.4 | We obviously did the Chinese food movie. |
| 0:06.6 | What? |
| 0:09.8 | Bringing the stand in. |
| 0:12.2 | No, I know. I'm so envious of the traditional Jewish Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | So I did some, my family did Jewish outreach for much of my life because the big focal point was Christmas Eve. |
| 0:22.6 | But Christmas Day we started going to a movie and a habachi restaurant every Christmas day. |
| 0:27.3 | Wow. |
| 0:27.8 | Habachi. |
| 0:28.8 | But finish your tradition. |
| 0:30.6 | I'd love to get back in. |
| 0:31.4 | So there's neighborhoods around us that like went hardcore. |
| 0:36.3 | So we'd get in our car and we would drive around and look at all the |
| 0:39.1 | Christmas lights yeah but we were like in Lincolnwood I feel is where all the lights were in |
| 0:43.2 | these giant houses and the whole the whole little cul-de-sac was committed some home-alone vibes |
| 0:47.8 | more like animatron multiple floor things in a window like like like it's going through the roof. Like really creative. That's awesome. And so we would like drive around and look at the lights. And I do, I did, I just remembered that and I really enjoyed it. How old were you when you came to America? I was, I was really young. Three. Oh, three. Okay. So you don't have like pre, you don't have Christmas memories as a baby. All your memories kind of happen. Three, I feel like is the cutoff for where your memories. My first memory, though, is before I was three. I will be honest. It's the only memory I have young, but I fell into a fountain with a bunch of like fish when I was like two something. And I remember being in the fountain. I do. That's awesome. I remember me in there. I think it was traumatic enough. Like, I think it was just like, I don't know. Or people said it enough that it's in my brain, but I really feel like I remember it. That's fucking cool. A fountain with fish. A baby memory is fucking sick. Yeah. I have like, I think I was four, my four, three and a half. |
| 1:46.7 | I remember looking at my little brothers on a chair. |
| 1:49.5 | I remember a specific like chair and the light is hitting their heads in a specific way. |
| 1:54.8 | I have that memory in my head still. |
| 1:58.1 | But we do New Year's gifts in my family. Oh, that's a New Year. That's like the Russian Soviet vibe of us, I think. Yeah, that is. There's Papa Frost. Greek people do that too. Yeah. But we just got so Americanized that we were just like. Well, it's awesome because we get all the ornaments and all the fun on sale. And we get all our gifts on sale. and then we kind of have a great time on new |
| 2:17.9 | years and then my sister would go out with her friends all night afterwards on new years yeah like |
| 2:23.2 | we would do we celebrate the old year we do like an 11 o'clock dinner of the old year and then at |
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