Join JT and LeeAnne as they dive into a festive after-hours edition of Barbecue Nation, featuring special guest Graham Kerr, the former Galloping Gourmet. The conversation kicks off with a light-hearted quiz about British Christmas trivia, highlighting the origins of sending Christmas cards, which was popularized by Queen Victoria and her husband Albert. As they reminisce about holiday traditions, they touch on the decline of sending Christmas cards and share personal anecdotes about their own experiences. Graham shares a charming story about his unique Christmas card that celebrates the season's spirit, while JT reflects on a recent trip that revealed the generational gaps in music tastes. The episode wraps up with warm wishes for the holiday season, encouraging listeners to get into the Christmas spirit and enjoy time with loved ones.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
Painted Hills Natural Beef
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Transcripts
JT:
Welcome to Barbecue Nation with JT and Leanne after hours.
JT:
The conversation that continued after the show was done.
JT:
Hey, everybody, it's JT and this is a special version of Barbecue Nation.
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It is brought to you in part by Painted Hills Natural Beef.
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Beef you can be proud to serve your family and friends.
JT:
That's Painted Hills Natural Beef.
JT:
Hey, everybody.
JT:
Welcome to Barbecue Nation after hours.
JT:
And we've got Graham Care, formerly known as the Galloping Gourmet.
JT:
That's how I knew him, met him and all that.
JT:
But now he's a newlywed, so I'm not sure, I'm not sure what official title we need to give you now, but it's always good to, to see you.
JT:
I told you before we came on the air that I had looked up some British trivia, Christmas trivia for you.
JT:
And so there's a test, of course.
JT:
Oh, dear.
JT:
And I'm going to start with something very easy for you and Leanne here.
JT:
The tradition of sending Christmas cards began in, in multiple choice.
JT:
,:
Leanne:
1800.
Leanne:
I, I, I don't see it happening then.
JT:
Okay.
Leanne:
I don't know.
Leanne:
You go first, Graham.
Graham:
I'm gonna.
Graham:
It's just:
JT:
Bingo.
Leanne:
Yeah.
Leanne:
There you go.
JT:
He's a winner.
Leanne:
Very good.
JT:
And hold on.
JT:
Pardon me.
JT:
Swallowed down the wrong pipe.
JT:
And which British monarch you forgot to say.
Leanne:
You forgot to ask.
Leanne:
When did the mailing of Christmas cards go away?
JT:
I don't know.
Leanne:
I mean, how many people send Christmas cards?
Leanne:
When I get a Christmas card, I am just beside myself because it just, it doesn't happen a lot.
JT:
Well, growing up, we got a wall full of them.
Leanne:
Yeah, I remember taping them up and we'd put them all around.
Leanne:
Like the archways in the house.
JT:
Yeah.
JT:
No, now, if we get 10, I think it's a big deal, but confessional here, we send Christmas cards out about once every two or three years.
JT:
We find time to do it.
JT:
We don't take the time.
JT:
We find the time.
JT:
We should take the time.
Leanne:
What about you, Graham?
Leanne:
How many cards have you gotten this year?
Graham:
We've got three cards so far, and we've just tooled up to send about 100.
Leanne:
Oh, there you go.
Graham:
And I was just trying to find the thing on my phone so I could show you.
Graham:
It's the old Hallmark character, which was like a snowman with a, with a hat on and a big smiley face, and it was back in the early 70s.
Graham:
And I got one of these.
Leanne:
Oh, I'll tell you what, you have It.
Leanne:
You have it?
Graham:
No, I will actually get it down.
Graham:
It was on a shelf.
Graham:
Here it is.
JT:
Oh, look at that.
Graham:
Now, what I did is I made this little card thing which says Happy Birthday, Jesus on it.
Graham:
And so.
Graham:
And we photographed that and put it out with a little slogan which says, unto us a child was born.
Graham:
Just that.
Graham:
And we're sending that out, and it just seems.
Graham:
It seems fun.
Graham:
And it's in its 49th year.
Graham:
I did that on the day.
Graham:
On the first Christmas that I became a Christian.
JT:
There you go.
Leanne:
Very meaningful.
Graham:
49 years.
Graham:
Yeah.
JT:
But still, to answer the question, which British monarch popularized the tradition of sending out Christmas cards?
Graham:
Gosh.
Graham:
Who would that have been?
Graham:
I.
Graham:
It.
Graham:
It couldn't have been.
Graham:
No, I give up, Leanne.
Leanne:
Absolutely no idea.
JT:
Old Queen Victoria and her husband Albert.
Graham:
Okay, that makes sense.
JT:
Okay, okay, here's the fun one.
JT:
In which James Bond film.
JT:
Is there a character named Dr.
JT:
Christmas Jones?
Leanne:
All right.
Leanne:
Goldfinger.
JT:
No, Grammy.
Graham:
Oh, no, no, no.
Graham:
I was called the James Bond of the kitchen.
Graham:
So I duck out at this point.
JT:
Okay, okay.
JT:
as the world is not enough in:
JT:
Okay.
JT:
Okay.
JT:
Here's a couple older ones.
JT:
We talked about this in the show a bit, Graham.
JT:
Which British ruler allegedly banned mince pies?
JT:
And I'll.
JT:
I'll give you a hint.
JT:
It was before:
Graham:
Before:
Leanne:
That's hard, too.
JT:
Yeah, I'll give you a hint.
JT:
A man for all seasons.
Leanne:
Still hard.
Leanne:
Well, you're gonna have to tell us.
Graham:
No, tell us.
Graham:
Go on.
JT:
Oliver Cromwell in the:
Graham:
Calling him a monarch.
JT:
I said ruler.
Graham:
Okay.
JT:
Yeah.
Graham:
Thank you.
JT:
Okay, here's an easy one for you.
JT:
What is the name given to small sausages wrapped in bacon?
Graham:
Devils on horseback.
JT:
Well, you may have called them that.
Graham:
But Angels on his bike?
JT:
No, this one doesn't make sense to me because it's not really what the correct answer is, but we'll roll with it anyway, later.
Graham:
Pigs in a blanket.
JT:
Yes, pigs in a blanket.
JT:
Yeah, but see, I always thought pigs in a blanket were.
JT:
They could be sausages, but they had to have some sort of breading around them, like a roll or something.
Graham:
The bacon is the thing.
JT:
Yeah, okay.
JT:
All right, all right.
JT:
Okay.
Graham:
By the way, angels on horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon.
JT:
Oh, okay.
JT:
All right, all right.
Graham:
On horseback are date plums or prunes wrapped in bacon.
JT:
What is yule?
JT:
You always hear yuletide greetings.
JT:
What is the definition of yule?
Graham:
Alone?
JT:
No.
JT:
Well, that's part of it, but that's not the Definition.
JT:
Leanne knows this one.
Leanne:
I don't.
Leanne:
Happy.
JT:
No, no.
JT:
The Yule is a festival celebrated by pagans in dramatic countries between November and January.
JT:
That's the definition of Yule.
Leanne:
Yeah.
JT:
So.
JT:
All right, well, here's another one along those lines.
JT:
Which ancient civilization started the tradition of giving and receiving gifts?
Graham:
One would imagine it would have to be the United States.
JT:
Yeah.
JT:
No, a little before then.
JT:
You.
JT:
You find this hard to believe, but.
JT:
And Leanne, you should know this because you should know this.
Leanne:
The Egyptians close.
JT:
The Romans.
Leanne:
Oh, why would I know that?
JT:
You're Catholic.
JT:
Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay.
JT:
On what date is the twelfth night?
JT:
You know, 12 days of Christmas, all that stuff.
Leanne:
You mean the drummer boys?
JT:
No, actual, actual date of the twelfth night.
Leanne:
Oh, the 24th.
JT:
No, a little later than that.
Graham:
Got to read the 20th.
Graham:
The 14th.
Graham:
So 15th.
JT:
It was.
JT:
It's January 5th.
Leanne:
Wow.
Graham:
Wow.
JT:
Yeah.
JT:
Okay.
Leanne:
Never know that.
JT:
Okay, okay.
JT:
What?
JT:
Who of Mariah Carey, Shane McGowan, shaken Stevens and Jonah Louie were born on Christmas Day.
JT:
I don't even know who half those people are, so I know who Mariah Carey is and I do know who Shane McGowan is, but shaken Steve, Mariah.
Leanne:
Carey was probably born on Christmas.
JT:
Well, she's got the most.
Leanne:
I could see her doing that.
JT:
She's got the most obnoxious, overplayed Christmas song in the world.
JT:
So all I want is for Christmas is you.
JT:
That one.
Leanne:
Graham, do you know who it is?
Leanne:
Is it all the above?
Leanne:
Is he still there?
JT:
Yeah, he's there.
Leanne:
Okay.
Leanne:
He's thinking.
JT:
He's thinking.
JT:
I see his eyes blinking, so I.
Leanne:
Don'T even remember the other names.
JT:
Mariah Carey, Shane McGowan, shaken Stevens and Jonah Louie.
JT:
Which one of those was born on Christmas Day?
Graham:
I don't know any of them.
Leanne:
Yeah, that's right.
Leanne:
That was tough.
JT:
Shane McGowan, I will tell you this.
JT:
We were on a tour bus.
JT:
We went to a luau when we were in Hawaii a couple weeks ago, having a great time and all that went on the tour bus.
JT:
And we had a young Samoan guy who was very funny, lovely kid, and tried to do practice his stand up comedy as we were, as we were driving to the luau, right?
JT:
Because it was about a 25 minute drive.
JT:
And as we're coming back, he starts playing some music.
JT:
Most everybody on the bus was 55 and older.
JT:
I'll put it in that.
JT:
And he said he's playing this music and the bus is just dead silent.
JT:
And he, guys, don't you guys like my music?
JT:
And I Said, don't you have any Bob Seeger?
JT:
And the people on the bus went, yeah, yeah, get some Bob Seger.
JT:
And so he asked.
JT:
He goes, siri, find me some Danny Bob Seger.
JT:
I said, it's not Danny Bob Seger.
JT:
It's Bob Seger.
JT:
And he had never heard of him.
Leanne:
Oh, boy.
JT:
And so he pulls up a song.
JT:
I don't remember which one.
JT:
It was Night Moves or something like that.
JT:
And everybody on the bus, including my daughter and her boyfriend, because she grew up, when I was.
JT:
Was little, I was doing rock stuff, and everybody sang the lyrics except this poor kid on the tour guide.
JT:
You know, he had no idea who Bob Seeger was, and his.
JT:
And so anyway.
JT:
And it was.
JT:
It was kind of ironic that he did that.
JT:
And he said something about Taylor Swift, and most of us on the bus said, we cannot name one Taylor Swift song.
JT:
I have no idea.
JT:
So that's the gap in the music and that little trivia question there for you.
JT:
Anyway, Graham, I want you to have a lovely Christmas.
JT:
Thank you.
JT:
As always, it is just such a delight to talk to you and for you to share your stories and the recipe ideas and all that.
JT:
I think it's just great.
Leanne:
And happy anniversary and Happy New Year.
JT:
Yeah.
Graham:
Thank you.
Graham:
Thank you.
Graham:
We will, I promise.
JT:
Oh, good.
JT:
All right.
JT:
And, Leanne, I'll see you shortly.
JT:
And for everybody listening out there, get your Christmas stuff going.
JT:
And if you're just now thinking about it, you're probably behind the eight ball, so you might want to.
JT:
You might want to think about it a little bit.
JT:
And if you're trying to find a New Zealand lamb, get a hold of Graham.
JT:
He's got good connections.
Leanne:
Okay.
Leanne:
Oh.
JT:
Anyway, that's it for After Hours.
JT:
We thank Graham, and as always, I think.
JT:
And couldn't do it without her anymore, without Leanne.
JT:
And for everybody listening, we appreciate you letting us spend time with you.
JT:
And we'll be back next week with another edition of Barbecue Nation and After Hours.
JT:
Until then, be kind and remember, turn it, don't burn it.
