I'm blown away.

When Willie speaks, people are like, oh, Willie just being wacky. What are you talking about these obnoxious outrageous stories? Now the people have rallied with me. Before we get to the calls, and I promise guys calls in literally like 30 seconds. Mike, do me a favor, if you don't mind. Just go ask Sealo if he's ever. Have you ever heard of this, by the way? No. Rami, have you? No. Okay, I don't feel like a moron.

Please go as Chris if he's ever. Have you ever heard of this, by the way? No. Rami, have you?

No.

Okay, I don't feel like a moron.

Please go ask Chris if he's heard of this because now the calls are coming in and I feel like a complete idiot.

I've never ever heard of this tradition.

So I'm going to, Rom me, I'm going to need you to punch these in.

Let's start with Darren and Tallahassee, Florida. You're next up with Willie and Jerry.

What's up, Darren?

Not much.

The tradition you're talking about is called the footing tradition.

It's a Scottish tradition that the first, after the ball drops on the first of the new year,

a tall, dark-haired man needs to enter the house.

He comes with coal, shortbread, and whiskey for good fortune in the new year. All right, so I appreciate that very much, Darren. Thank you very much. Do you do the coal in the whiskey? Well, my dad usually drank all the whiskey before he got through the door. The coal, no. He just brought the man in the whiskey. Just the dark-haired man. I mean, he was a dark-haired man. Very dark-haired man. Wow. Carol in Harlem. Good morning, Carol. How are you? Well, thank you. You know, this really solved a mystery for me. I grew up in Pittsburgh. Okay. Hey, Yitzur. I'm in, thank you. I, um, grew where

when we had, uh, New Year's Day would come. We wouldn't go out, you know, we weren't a going

out family and I was a younger child at the time. My dad, this guy would come to the house every New Year's day, the football

game, whatever bowl game would be on. This guy would come every New Year's day and they'd

have a drink because my dad only drank Iron City beer all year. But on New Year's Day, this guy

will come by and they would have a drink, talk a little bit, and he would leave. And I never knew why. And so it was the only day all year? I'm 71 years old. Carol, it was he, so it was only New Year's Day that this guy would come by? That's the only time this guy would come by. I forgot his name. And so you're just learning of... So you didn't know this tradition. Wow. No, I didn't. All right, so you know what, Carol? Thank you very much. I appreciate the call. That actually makes me feel a little bit better because I've never heard of it. She actually lived it and didn't know it was a thing.

Right.

But when I first brought it to your attention, you looked at me like I was... Like you were crazy. Like I lived in a cuckoo house. I just said, Seleo, he looked at me like I had 12 heads. Right. I'm just telling you, there's a village. Clearly there is. There's a village. I Google this and I just send you the Wikipedia article.

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