Christmas trees known for being pretty.

Famous for being needily.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why Christmas trees are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of Christmas trees?

I like Christmas. I'm not a religious person, but presents, trees and doors, food, cookies, deer, people breaking and entering through your chimney, sign me up. I like all of it.

I think especially in the United States, we just all think Christmas is great. Like,

not everyone's Christian. Yeah. Some people are even just kind of vaguely culturally Christian

and don't practice. Some people are just not Christian at all. But everybody's like, yeah,

the Christmas stuff's pretty good. It's cool. Well, also, you know, it's like my, so my Jewish

dad is like the most Christmas. He's Mr. Christmas.

He's super into Christmas. I think it's just, it's just fun stuff. And like the Christmas tree,

having a tree indoors is just so delightfully naughty. Like, aha, I've, I, the indoors is outdoors and outdoors is indoors.

What is this? You know, it's, it's interesting because the whole like going to a Christmas tree lot,

getting a giant Christmas tree, putting it on the roof of your car, I'm realizing it's much

more American than I had known. I just thought that was like a global thing of anyone who celebrated Christmas did that.

But here in Italia, it is more common to either get a fake tree, like an artificial tree that's

like smaller, a small live tree, especially when you're in sort of a more, if you're in sort of a

city where you live like in a apartment, I see a lot of people who have sort of artificial trees.

One thing that I found, which this is what I did this year for our little Christmas display, is a

tree fronds. So like not the whole tree, just like they trimmed

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