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Oh, homegrown 8.05. Nice to have you with us. Willie and Jerry are for Boomer and Geo on the fan

and CBS Sports Network built Ford Tubbs Studio. We'll get back. We'll get back to the end. I am,

I'm blown away. I really.

When Willie speaks, people are like, oh, Willie's 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 Seelow if he's 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 the mystery for me. I grew up in Pittsburgh.

Okay. Hey, Ginzer. I'm in, thank you. I grew where when we had, 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.

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