Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, A production of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy d Wilson. We talked about Advent calendars this week. We did just something I have been wanting to talk about for a while. It's a little bit tricky because the story of their invention gets told everywhere every year, right Like NPR has a story about it that they seem to just be updating year after year and rerunning. A lot of news outlets run a very abbreviated version of it. A lot of even places that sell things like flowers and chocolates run a version of it. A lot of those site that nineteen oh eight date over and over and there's no nuance there of like that. That's not quite accurate. But I sure love an Advent calendar. Do you do them usually? So when we started talking about doing this episode, I was like, did we really do Advent calendars? That my household, when I was a kid, we had an Advent wreath with the four candles and the one candle in the middle meaning Christmas right at our house. That was a decorative item. The candles were not lit gotcha were they? Can I ask you this? You did? You were not race Catholic? Now what color were the candles? I feel like the candles the four candles representing the four Sundays an Advent were red and the central candle representing Christmas was white. Gotcha because like a Catholic one, it's like, well, if you're at church, it's purple, purple, pink, purple. They all have meanings. But then when you see commercial ones, like I remember we didn't really do Advent calendars or even Advent wreaths growing up, but I remember there being purple and red candles in one of my mom's little things, and I never understood because those purple didn't seem like a Christmas color to me until I was older and then was like, oh, because that's part of the Catholic like vestiments, et cetera, like that color is associated with it. I'm also going to revise my statement. I feel like maybe that might have been a wreath that had beeswax candles, which may have been a reason that they were not actually lit. I grew up in a place that had a Moravian community that had a lot of beeswax candles associated with things done at Christmas, and they tended to be kind of expensive. Any Anyway, we had one at church that definitely like the candles were lit every Sunday along with the other candles that were lit by the acolyte. And like, I don't I don't remember specifically doing an Advent. I have vague memories where I'm like, am I remembering that we actually had an Advent calendar or have I just is my memory splicing it together from descriptions of things. It has felt to me like in the last few years there has then been this proliferation of all kinds of different Advent calendars, and I have usually thought about it too late, and ones that have sounded interesting to me have been sold out. While we were in Barcelona, there was a Carafa market that was my go to place to get snacks and water and stuff, and the first time I walked in there, there was this whole display of Advent calendars and there was specifically a KitKat Advent calendar. Yeah, and I very nearly bought kit Cat Advent calendar. And I did not for two reasons. One reason is that I know my spouse and me we would have eaten that entire Advent calendar, and then we would have our bodies would have felt very bad. I know this about myself. I would have I would have been like, now I have to lie down in this hotel room because I ate, Oh you would have eaten it in one go yes style, no, not advant style. We would have just destroyed it in the hotel room in Barcelona, and then we would have been set and we would have I just was like no. And then the other reason was had we managed to not do that? The size and shape of the thing was just not going to fit in luggage well to get it back home, gotcha. Yeah, that's that's sometimes the trick. So I did not do Advent calendars growing up at all. And I don't know if that was like a thing that just didn't occur to my parents or if they were probably like that seems like it will make a mess. I don't know what the logic was there to it. As an adult, I'm obsessed what we did that. I do definitely. Foreshore remember was for Lent and not Advent, and our church had a Lenten fare at the beginning of Lent. Every year we done all these Lent activities and one of the things that we did was to make a paper chain that we would tear off one link of the chain every day of Lent, and it was made to look like a caterpillar, and when we got to the last one on Easter, the caterpillar's face would sort of open up and it would become a butterfly. Huh. That I super remember, and I'm like, did we ever actually do some kind of like an advent calendar thing? My dad for a while had a tradition that he did of like giving my mom a Christmas ornament every day of December leading up to Christmas, which was very sweet, but was not like arranged into a calendar. Really. Here are my picks for best advent calendars of all time. Great I love I have a weird relationship with I wouldn't say this goes on the best list, but at Merritt's mentioning lego advent calendars. Mm hmmm. And here's why I love them in theory, but sometimes because it is a small thing. It's like three pieces and you really got to use your imagination to be like, oh this is what that is? Which is fine? Are grocery store I picked one of these up a couple of years ago, and now it's like, I can't imagine going into December without them. They do a Cheeses of the World one h I mean, that's like a controlled substance at my house. That's very into cheese at our house too. I buy two a year because some days the cheese is so good I want a second piece, and I I just want more. I want more cheese Delicious. Highly recommend Cheese of the Year. My number one favorite advent calendar of all time is the Star Wars Droid Factory Advent Calendar, where you get a piece a day to build little three and three quarter action figure scale droids that are in Christmas colors. Sometimes they have additional kooky accessories like a little hat made of holly or a little like a nutcracker look to their design obsessed. It came out last year. It was one of the best things I did last year. I was hoping they would do a new version of it this year, and they didn't. It's the same version, which is fun, but I want more droids. Droids are like one of my favorite parts of Star Wars, so like that is I will be on my deathbed talking about how great that Advent calendar is absolutely sounds like somebody said, what advent calendar should we make for Holly Fry. I know. The only way they could maybe make it a little more specifically Holly Fry, and this is if it were somehow related to Greto and other rodients. That's the only way they could make it more perfectly tailored to my Star Wars obsessions. Yeah, Oh, that's a fun one. I love them. There's also a Life Day one that came out last year for the first time, Life Day being the primary holiday in the Star Wars universe that is associated with kind of the wintery holidays, which is the originated on Kashik. It's a Wookie holiday where you celebrate love and joy and peace. And they did a really fun, reusable one last year that's like a pop up calendar where you open each each door and they're all ornaments on this beautiful tree, because the whole idea is that it's centered around trees. Again, Kashik wookies very tree orienting, and that one is very beautiful and I love it. I always find myself though, going should I count back the twenty four days before Life Day, which is November seventeenth or or the just started on December first and make it like a Christmas thing. And I will say that was a very good exercise that made it so clear to me when I was working on this episode, why you would just say just make it December first to twenty fourth. R There are times when I'm like, did I open one today? I don't know. These numbers don't correspond to any calendar date that I know, so I'm not sure i'd make calendars. Yeah, Oh, I love them. They're so fun. I am a big fan of you know, gifts that last, Yeah, gifts that keep on giving. Give them to yourself. It's great. Oh that Droid Factory Advent calendar. Make another one, and make one that's just Galaxy's Edge. They you'd make all of the Star Wars event calendars in here. Here for it. If you started an Advent calendar this year, I hope it's going really fun. If you got the cheeses one, yum. I mean you can get them for anything, right. You can get them for whiskey, you can get them for wine, you can get them for et cetera. And wine is my segue, because you were mentioning your mom and her sister's right there, diet mountain dew and White's Infidels. I don't know where this came from. Well here's the thing though, right, we just just it's been now a month. We were in Barcelona. One of there are a couple of their drinks that mix things with soda and wine combined. Right, The Calimocho, which is very popular with some members of our group, is coke and red wine. Interesting taste. I'm not a big wine drinker, but I could see where that might make it more drinkable to me. I mean, I tried it. And they also do the tinted Divano, which is a white wine with a lemon soda okay, and has fruit and stuff in it. So like your mom and her sisters were really just being very European. It's what I'm telling you, now, that's right. Lated. I remember you telling me about this drink several years ago and I was like what, And now I'm like, maybe they're onto something. I vaguely remember telling you about this many years ago and the response from you being yeah, I don't even know the right words. But it was not it was not something that was like oh, It was more like ruh. Now I've turned a corner. So now post Barcelona, and I somehow missed this whole category of drinks of Barcelona. You did, Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know either, because like I feel like members of our group were yelling it out at every dinner, like do you have calimojo? And some restaurants don't serve it and some do. Yeah. I tried a lot of things that were new to me while we were in Barcelona, and that was just not not one. Oh man, the tin I preferred, which is interesting because I know, again I'm not a big wine drinker. I like that one a little bit more than the kalimocho. But I'm working on a variation on a kaleimocho that I will report back if it is successful or Okay, really this is a good excuse to just like play with sodas and wines. I guess I do. And you and I did an event recently where we were gifted a small bottle of wine and I did not drink mine. They are on that trip, so I took it home with me and I'm going to use it in one of my experiments, so I'll report back. We had installment number two of episodes inspired by the trip to Barcelona, this one being montu Week Castle. I talked about getting up there by going on a funicular and an aerial an aerial cable car. Yeah, that's not the only way to get up there. We as a group also went up there in a bus on sort of a bus tour of part of Barcelona before we went to I think park. Well, that's correct, and we sort of stopped and had a photo op. It was a different part of Monjuique than where the castle actually is. Also, Patrick and I were going to we had decided this is the thing that we're going to do on our free day in Barcelona. I had kind of worked out the route of how we were going to get there. Going to the funicular. There are signs on the floor of the hallway, which is kind of a long hallway, that tell you from this point it is this many minutes to the funicular right, And I was like, how popular is this finicular? Man? It's because the stadium is up there, so on game days a lot of people get up there via public transportation, and so this is sort of a you know, how much longer are you waiting for the funicular? To get up to this stadium. I also did I think this was also not on our free day, but on the day we left to come back home. Our flight out of Barcelona was not until something like six forty five pm, so we had the morning to continue to spend in Barcelona, and we went to like one last museum and on the way there, I noticed Hebrew on a wall and I was like, oh, what, Like, what's this? Are we in like the are we in the Jewish Quarter? Like I I found like walking around streets in Barcelona to sometimes be very confusing, and I would realize I was in a different neighborhood than I thought I was in, and I was like, is that where we are? And then I realized after working on this episode that no, that was somebody's gravestone that was stolen and used to build a wall. And I was like, well, that that was a horrifying realization to have about Hebrew that I saw as I Yeah, I don't read Hebrew. I don't know what it said. Yeah. This kind of goes along with what we've been saying in our discussions of our Barcelona inspired episodes that there are so many things that we have never heard about that are in some cases wonderful, Like we talked about the art that we had never seen, and then something like this that you would think that is a horrific enough idea that you would think it would have come up in something somewhere. You know, as much history as we've researched, Like there are those moments like that where it's like, not what you're talking about researching, but it pops up as a note because it relates to something else, And this seems like such a an ideological atrocity that it would have come up somewhere, but it didn't, right well, and we had so we re ran our episode on Francisco Franco as a Saturday Classic ahead of this episode coming out, which I think I had meant to mention in the episode itself, just as a sort of that was we just re aired this if people want more information, And I don't think we mentioned the Carlist Wars at all in that episode, because the episode was really more about like Francisco Franco in his life and then his specifically role in all of that, right, And in hindsight, I was like, oh wow, there was this was this was a whole There was a whole very long series of like just internal division and strife and a series of carless civil wars that like I didn't even touch on in that earlier episode, also didn't really mention Catalonia much at all in the there's like a side mention of Catalonia being sort of the last major Republican stronghold outside of Madrid to fall, So yeah, this. I found this episode very challenging to work on because even though I had been there and I had seen this place, and I had like read these museum signs, I was still like, there's gigantic holes in what I understand about the context of this, and it's not stuff we've ever talked about on the show before, so we need to talk about all of it. And at some point I sent this text to my friend Amy, who was a history teacher with a master's degree, and I think I said something like why is the War of the Spanish Succession so messy? And she was I was afraid that there was going to turn out that. I just was she was gonna be like, smart enough, why are you so stupid? Stupid? Well, and though she was like, it is, it is enormously messy, And I think We've said on the show before. That's never my preference to do an episode where I'm gonna have to talk about twenty seven monarchs who are all named the same thing. Yeah, and that's what I accidentally got into with this. I also have a little story that's about Barcelona that has nothing to do with this at all. I am a person who likes gaspacho. I know not everyone is into the cold soup. You and Lisa Simpson, Yeah, I love it. I love gaspacho. Do you know what I'm talking about? I don't think so. She pitches having gaspacho and people kind of look at her. I think it's in the same episode as You Don't Win Friends with Salad, where she's like, it's a tomato soup served ice cold, and everyone like looks at it, like no, Yeah, when all the ingredients for it, or in season, I will buy them at the farmer's market. I will make myself this like delicious fresh gospacho. But like sometimes I want it and I don't have the ingredients, and I don't want to make it because like it's it's better when you chill it afterward. So what I want is to just be able to walk into the grocery store and there's gaspacho and the refrigerator section, and that does not exist in grocery stores here in the United States where I lived, and in the same car for market that I mentioned, I think in the behind the scenes of our other Barcelona episode. I went there one day to get some uh, some water and some snacks. Usually I just bring a water bottle with me when I travel and I fill it up in the sink. But I found the water in our hotel to face taste a little quorini for my taste, and so I was buying bottled water. Uh. And as I was going to the checkout, I saw the sign out of the corner of my eye over refridge section that said gaspacho. And I was like, I'm going to have to come back specifically to look because I was like I had something I had somewhere to be at that, like I did not have time to stop what I was doing. I was like, I'm gonna have to come back and investigate that. And it was a whole, a whole refrigerator, like a whole grocery store refrigerator of varieties of gaspacho, just there to purchase. It was your dream world. It was. I was so excited. And there was like a little three pack of sort of single serving size of Gaspacho that I purchased, and they charged me something like two euros six and I was like, is that has to be wrong? The dreams just two years for two euros And I brought it back with me and I put it in the little fridge in our room, and like I won each day for the rest of the trip, like just had myself a Gaspacho snow act directly from the refrigerator section. I loved it so much. And I know that's a ridiculous thing to be that excited about, but boy, I was like a dream came true for me that day with Gaspacho in the refrigerator section. Did you just tell me it's ridiculous to be excited about finding an iteration of your favorite food that is readily available and inexpensive. I did, And when I said it, I saw the look on your face and I was like, that was a weird Like this is the most important thing, the most important thing, refrigerator Gaspacho up there right, Like I'm not into Gaspacho, but I know this exact experience of like there's a thing that you long for and you cannot find, and then somewhere has it easily accessible right there? Yeah? Now, has the off ramp been painful to suddenly be back in the US and not have access to two pound gaspacho? That's delicious? No, because when we got back home, Chad flipped to winter. Oh perfect, and I no longer want to eat cold soup. I now want like enormous amounts of ramen. That would be preferable. It's for the gaspacho is a summertime thing, and we were it was November when we were in Barcelona, but it was still warm enough, especially by comparison to Massachusetts. That yeah, I was very excited about my gaspacho. That's wonderful. I had no idea this was happening in your life. Well, the rest of us were drinking Keli mocho, you were having a gaspacho. That velation. So yes, Hey, you know, if you like gaspacho in the wintertime, or if you're in the Southern Hemisphere and you want some gaspacho right now, I hope you're able to get it or make it or whatever whatever's coming up on your weekend. I hope that's good too. We'll be back with a Saturday classic tomorrow and something new on Monday. Stuff you Missed in History Class is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, A production of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy d Wilson. We talked about Advent calendars this week. We did just something I have been wanting to talk about for a while. It's a little bit tricky because the story of their invention gets told everywhere every year, right Like NPR has a story about it that they seem to just be updating year after year and rerunning. A lot of news outlets run a very abbreviated version of it. A lot of even places that sell things like flowers and chocolates run a version of it. A lot of those site that nineteen oh eight date over and over and there's no nuance there of like that. That's not quite accurate. But I sure love an Advent calendar. Do you do them usually? So when we started talking about doing this episode, I was like, did we really do Advent calendars? That my household, when I was a kid, we had an Advent wreath with the four candles and the one candle in the middle meaning Christmas right at our house. That was a decorative item. The candles were not lit gotcha were they? Can I ask you this? You did? You were not race Catholic? Now what color were the candles? I feel like the candles the four candles representing the four Sundays an Advent were red and the central candle representing Christmas was white. Gotcha because like a Catholic one, it's like, well, if you're at church, it's purple, purple, pink, purple. They all have meanings. But then when you see commercial ones, like I remember we didn't really do Advent calendars or even Advent wreaths growing up, but I remember there being purple and red candles in one of my mom's little things, and I never understood because those purple didn't seem like a Christmas color to me until I was older and then was like, oh, because that's part of the Catholic like vestiments, et cetera, like that color is associated with it. I'm also going to revise my statement. I feel like maybe that might have been a wreath that had beeswax candles, which may have been a reason that they were not actually lit. I grew up in a place that had a Moravian community that had a lot of beeswax candles associated with things done at Christmas, and they tended to be kind of expensive. Any Anyway, we had one at church that definitely like the candles were lit every Sunday along with the other candles that were lit by the acolyte. And like, I don't I don't remember specifically doing an Advent. I have vague memories where I'm like, am I remembering that we actually had an Advent calendar or have I just is my memory splicing it together from descriptions of things. It has felt to me like in the last few years there has then been this proliferation of all kinds of different Advent calendars, and I have usually thought about it too late, and ones that have sounded interesting to me have been sold out. While we were in Barcelona, there was a Carafa market that was my go to place to get snacks and water and stuff, and the first time I walked in there, there was this whole display of Advent calendars and there was specifically a KitKat Advent calendar. Yeah, and I very nearly bought kit Cat Advent calendar. And I did not for two reasons. One reason is that I know my spouse and me we would have eaten that entire Advent calendar, and then we would have our bodies would have felt very bad. I know this about myself. I would have I would have been like, now I have to lie down in this hotel room because I ate, Oh you would have eaten it in one go yes style, no, not advant style. We would have just destroyed it in the hotel room in Barcelona, and then we would have been set and we would have I just was like no. And then the other reason was had we managed to not do that? The size and shape of the thing was just not going to fit in luggage well to get it back home, gotcha. Yeah, that's that's sometimes the trick. So I did not do Advent calendars growing up at all. And I don't know if that was like a thing that just didn't occur to my parents or if they were probably like that seems like it will make a mess. I don't know what the logic was there to it. As an adult, I'm obsessed what we did that. I do definitely. Foreshore remember was for Lent and not Advent, and our church had a Lenten fare at the beginning of Lent. Every year we done all these Lent activities and one of the things that we did was to make a paper chain that we would tear off one link of the chain every day of Lent, and it was made to look like a caterpillar, and when we got to the last one on Easter, the caterpillar's face would sort of open up and it would become a butterfly. Huh. That I super remember, and I'm like, did we ever actually do some kind of like an advent calendar thing? My dad for a while had a tradition that he did of like giving my mom a Christmas ornament every day of December leading up to Christmas, which was very sweet, but was not like arranged into a calendar. Really. Here are my picks for best advent calendars of all time. Great I love I have a weird relationship with I wouldn't say this goes on the best list, but at Merritt's mentioning lego advent calendars. Mm hmmm. And here's why I love them in theory, but sometimes because it is a small thing. It's like three pieces and you really got to use your imagination to be like, oh this is what that is? Which is fine? Are grocery store I picked one of these up a couple of years ago, and now it's like, I can't imagine going into December without them. They do a Cheeses of the World one h I mean, that's like a controlled substance at my house. That's very into cheese at our house too. I buy two a year because some days the cheese is so good I want a second piece, and I I just want more. I want more cheese Delicious. Highly recommend Cheese of the Year. My number one favorite advent calendar of all time is the Star Wars Droid Factory Advent Calendar, where you get a piece a day to build little three and three quarter action figure scale droids that are in Christmas colors. Sometimes they have additional kooky accessories like a little hat made of holly or a little like a nutcracker look to their design obsessed. It came out last year. It was one of the best things I did last year. I was hoping they would do a new version of it this year, and they didn't. It's the same version, which is fun, but I want more droids. Droids are like one of my favorite parts of Star Wars, so like that is I will be on my deathbed talking about how great that Advent calendar is absolutely sounds like somebody said, what advent calendar should we make for Holly Fry. I know. The only way they could maybe make it a little more specifically Holly Fry, and this is if it were somehow related to Greto and other rodients. That's the only way they could make it more perfectly tailored to my Star Wars obsessions. Yeah, Oh, that's a fun one. I love them. There's also a Life Day one that came out last year for the first time, Life Day being the primary holiday in the Star Wars universe that is associated with kind of the wintery holidays, which is the originated on Kashik. It's a Wookie holiday where you celebrate love and joy and peace. And they did a really fun, reusable one last year that's like a pop up calendar where you open each each door and they're all ornaments on this beautiful tree, because the whole idea is that it's centered around trees. Again, Kashik wookies very tree orienting, and that one is very beautiful and I love it. I always find myself though, going should I count back the twenty four days before Life Day, which is November seventeenth or or the just started on December first and make it like a Christmas thing. And I will say that was a very good exercise that made it so clear to me when I was working on this episode, why you would just say just make it December first to twenty fourth. R There are times when I'm like, did I open one today? I don't know. These numbers don't correspond to any calendar date that I know, so I'm not sure i'd make calendars. Yeah, Oh, I love them. They're so fun. I am a big fan of you know, gifts that last, Yeah, gifts that keep on giving. Give them to yourself. It's great. Oh that Droid Factory Advent calendar. Make another one, and make one that's just Galaxy's Edge. They you'd make all of the Star Wars event calendars in here. Here for it. If you started an Advent calendar this year, I hope it's going really fun. If you got the cheeses one, yum. I mean you can get them for anything, right. You can get them for whiskey, you can get them for wine, you can get them for et cetera. And wine is my segue, because you were mentioning your mom and her sister's right there, diet mountain dew and White's Infidels. I don't know where this came from. Well here's the thing though, right, we just just it's been now a month. We were in Barcelona. One of there are a couple of their drinks that mix things with soda and wine combined. Right, The Calimocho, which is very popular with some members of our group, is coke and red wine. Interesting taste. I'm not a big wine drinker, but I could see where that might make it more drinkable to me. I mean, I tried it. And they also do the tinted Divano, which is a white wine with a lemon soda okay, and has fruit and stuff in it. So like your mom and her sisters were really just being very European. It's what I'm telling you, now, that's right. Lated. I remember you telling me about this drink several years ago and I was like what, And now I'm like, maybe they're onto something. I vaguely remember telling you about this many years ago and the response from you being yeah, I don't even know the right words. But it was not it was not something that was like oh, It was more like ruh. Now I've turned a corner. So now post Barcelona, and I somehow missed this whole category of drinks of Barcelona. You did, Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know either, because like I feel like members of our group were yelling it out at every dinner, like do you have calimojo? And some restaurants don't serve it and some do. Yeah. I tried a lot of things that were new to me while we were in Barcelona, and that was just not not one. Oh man, the tin I preferred, which is interesting because I know, again I'm not a big wine drinker. I like that one a little bit more than the kalimocho. But I'm working on a variation on a kaleimocho that I will report back if it is successful or Okay, really this is a good excuse to just like play with sodas and wines. I guess I do. And you and I did an event recently where we were gifted a small bottle of wine and I did not drink mine. They are on that trip, so I took it home with me and I'm going to use it in one of my experiments, so I'll report back. We had installment number two of episodes inspired by the trip to Barcelona, this one being montu Week Castle. I talked about getting up there by going on a funicular and an aerial an aerial cable car. Yeah, that's not the only way to get up there. We as a group also went up there in a bus on sort of a bus tour of part of Barcelona before we went to I think park. Well, that's correct, and we sort of stopped and had a photo op. It was a different part of Monjuique than where the castle actually is. Also, Patrick and I were going to we had decided this is the thing that we're going to do on our free day in Barcelona. I had kind of worked out the route of how we were going to get there. Going to the funicular. There are signs on the floor of the hallway, which is kind of a long hallway, that tell you from this point it is this many minutes to the funicular right, And I was like, how popular is this finicular? Man? It's because the stadium is up there, so on game days a lot of people get up there via public transportation, and so this is sort of a you know, how much longer are you waiting for the funicular? To get up to this stadium. I also did I think this was also not on our free day, but on the day we left to come back home. Our flight out of Barcelona was not until something like six forty five pm, so we had the morning to continue to spend in Barcelona, and we went to like one last museum and on the way there, I noticed Hebrew on a wall and I was like, oh, what, Like, what's this? Are we in like the are we in the Jewish Quarter? Like I I found like walking around streets in Barcelona to sometimes be very confusing, and I would realize I was in a different neighborhood than I thought I was in, and I was like, is that where we are? And then I realized after working on this episode that no, that was somebody's gravestone that was stolen and used to build a wall. And I was like, well, that that was a horrifying realization to have about Hebrew that I saw as I Yeah, I don't read Hebrew. I don't know what it said. Yeah. This kind of goes along with what we've been saying in our discussions of our Barcelona inspired episodes that there are so many things that we have never heard about that are in some cases wonderful, Like we talked about the art that we had never seen, and then something like this that you would think that is a horrific enough idea that you would think it would have come up in something somewhere. You know, as much history as we've researched, Like there are those moments like that where it's like, not what you're talking about researching, but it pops up as a note because it relates to something else, And this seems like such a an ideological atrocity that it would have come up somewhere, but it didn't, right well, and we had so we re ran our episode on Francisco Franco as a Saturday Classic ahead of this episode coming out, which I think I had meant to mention in the episode itself, just as a sort of that was we just re aired this if people want more information, And I don't think we mentioned the Carlist Wars at all in that episode, because the episode was really more about like Francisco Franco in his life and then his specifically role in all of that, right, And in hindsight, I was like, oh wow, there was this was this was a whole There was a whole very long series of like just internal division and strife and a series of carless civil wars that like I didn't even touch on in that earlier episode, also didn't really mention Catalonia much at all in the there's like a side mention of Catalonia being sort of the last major Republican stronghold outside of Madrid to fall, So yeah, this. I found this episode very challenging to work on because even though I had been there and I had seen this place, and I had like read these museum signs, I was still like, there's gigantic holes in what I understand about the context of this, and it's not stuff we've ever talked about on the show before, so we need to talk about all of it. And at some point I sent this text to my friend Amy, who was a history teacher with a master's degree, and I think I said something like why is the War of the Spanish Succession so messy? And she was I was afraid that there was going to turn out that. I just was she was gonna be like, smart enough, why are you so stupid? Stupid? Well, and though she was like, it is, it is enormously messy, And I think We've said on the show before. That's never my preference to do an episode where I'm gonna have to talk about twenty seven monarchs who are all named the same thing. Yeah, and that's what I accidentally got into with this. I also have a little story that's about Barcelona that has nothing to do with this at all. I am a person who likes gaspacho. I know not everyone is into the cold soup. You and Lisa Simpson, Yeah, I love it. I love gaspacho. Do you know what I'm talking about? I don't think so. She pitches having gaspacho and people kind of look at her. I think it's in the same episode as You Don't Win Friends with Salad, where she's like, it's a tomato soup served ice cold, and everyone like looks at it, like no, Yeah, when all the ingredients for it, or in season, I will buy them at the farmer's market. I will make myself this like delicious fresh gospacho. But like sometimes I want it and I don't have the ingredients, and I don't want to make it because like it's it's better when you chill it afterward. So what I want is to just be able to walk into the grocery store and there's gaspacho and the refrigerator section, and that does not exist in grocery stores here in the United States where I lived, and in the same car for market that I mentioned, I think in the behind the scenes of our other Barcelona episode. I went there one day to get some uh, some water and some snacks. Usually I just bring a water bottle with me when I travel and I fill it up in the sink. But I found the water in our hotel to face taste a little quorini for my taste, and so I was buying bottled water. Uh. And as I was going to the checkout, I saw the sign out of the corner of my eye over refridge section that said gaspacho. And I was like, I'm going to have to come back specifically to look because I was like I had something I had somewhere to be at that, like I did not have time to stop what I was doing. I was like, I'm gonna have to come back and investigate that. And it was a whole, a whole refrigerator, like a whole grocery store refrigerator of varieties of gaspacho, just there to purchase. It was your dream world. It was. I was so excited. And there was like a little three pack of sort of single serving size of Gaspacho that I purchased, and they charged me something like two euros six and I was like, is that has to be wrong? The dreams just two years for two euros And I brought it back with me and I put it in the little fridge in our room, and like I won each day for the rest of the trip, like just had myself a Gaspacho snow act directly from the refrigerator section. I loved it so much. And I know that's a ridiculous thing to be that excited about, but boy, I was like a dream came true for me that day with Gaspacho in the refrigerator section. Did you just tell me it's ridiculous to be excited about finding an iteration of your favorite food that is readily available and inexpensive. I did, And when I said it, I saw the look on your face and I was like, that was a weird Like this is the most important thing, the most important thing, refrigerator Gaspacho up there right, Like I'm not into Gaspacho, but I know this exact experience of like there's a thing that you long for and you cannot find, and then somewhere has it easily accessible right there? Yeah? Now, has the off ramp been painful to suddenly be back in the US and not have access to two pound gaspacho? That's delicious? No, because when we got back home, Chad flipped to winter. Oh perfect, and I no longer want to eat cold soup. I now want like enormous amounts of ramen. That would be preferable. It's for the gaspacho is a summertime thing, and we were it was November when we were in Barcelona, but it was still warm enough, especially by comparison to Massachusetts. That yeah, I was very excited about my gaspacho. That's wonderful. I had no idea this was happening in your life. Well, the rest of us were drinking Keli mocho, you were having a gaspacho. That velation. So yes, Hey, you know, if you like gaspacho in the wintertime, or if you're in the Southern Hemisphere and you want some gaspacho right now, I hope you're able to get it or make it or whatever whatever's coming up on your weekend. I hope that's good too. We'll be back with a Saturday classic tomorrow and something new on Monday. Stuff you Missed in History Class is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.