Hello and welcome to best case, worst case.

This is Maureen O'Connell, your host, retired FBI agent, and former member of the FBI's

evidence response team. And with me today is the very handsome.

Oh, I'm sorry, Maureen. It's me today, not the very...

Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. I had you mixed up with someone else. Yeah. How you doing,

Maureen? It's Jim Clementi, retired FBI profile of former New York City prosecutor and writer,

producer of Criminal Minds and Bluebeard on Audible. Well, today, we want to do a little

holiday special. And this is a time of year that

hopefully people get to spend with their families and their close friends and their neighbors,

their communities. Some people don't get to do that. And so we're going to be your little community today.

But because, you know, it's really important that people do interact with each other and be positive.

And I think this is the time of year where most people are.

And most people have a little bit better empathy and understanding for others, and that's a good thing.

And I wish it could have been that way all year round, but unfortunately it isn't.

But anyway, Maureen and I happen to celebrate Christmas, and I'm sure there are people

listening who celebrate Hanukkah or

Ramadan or any number of other holidays. But the fact is that this time of year, this, we call it,

quote, the holiday season, it's a time when, I mean, for me, the most, I don't know, the best part of this season is being able to sort of just hang out with family and friends and to be, you know, to be thankful for our, you know, our lot in life and for our family

and friends. Yes. And if you, if you don't have people who you can meet with and be with

and celebrate with, try to find someone. And, you know, there's a lot of people out there

feeling the same way. There are a lot of, like in our family, we never knew when we were going to

celebrate Christmas or any holiday, really, because so many people were doing, were first responders.

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