From Relay, this is Upgrade, the Upgrade, the Upgrade holiday special.

In fact, this is episode 595.

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My name is Mike Hurley, and I have the pleasure of being joined by old St. Nick himself, Jason Snow.

Hi, Jason, sorry, Merry Christmas. Wow, that was a level of enthusiasm.

I was not expecting, but I'm very excited about it.

I really did.

I guess.

It is our holiday special, so you know it's going to be jingles all the way, so I would like to thank our friend Lex for the creation of our wonderful jingles that we use at different episodes throughout the year. I will point you over to lex. Dot Games, which is Lex's games. I'm going to say it's Lex Friedman. It's not that Lex Friedman. Every single time I say Lex Friedman, somebody writes in and says, oh, that Lex Friedman, no, it's a different Lex Friedman. No, it's not. It's the other one. That's right. But, Mike, we don't have time for all of that because... We do not. Jason, what do you think? It's time for Snow Talk. I have a Snow Talk question that comes to us from Drew who wants to know jason do you have any favorite

holiday snacks holiday snacks so this is a this is a food question is it yes there's so much i eat for

christmas there's so much i eat for christmas there's so much I eat for Christmas. Could you grab me a beer?

All right. We have a jingle for the food question. Wait. Where does that come from?

That's Lex.

Wait, did you have that made?

Last year. Yeah. Oh, man. I forgot about that.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Favorite holiday snacks.

Ginger cookies. I love it. I love a ginger cookie. Wait, oh, we've done this before. Yeah. We've done this

whole thing before. That's okay. It's part of the heartwarming charm. We repeat these traditions.

I love a ginger cookie. I asked about this because we just spoke about snacks, right? So Drew wrote in about Hollywood, Hollywood. So I'll do it. So ginger cookie. I asked about this because we just spoke about snacks, right? So Drew wrote in about Hollywood?

Yeah.

So I'll do it.

So ginger cookie, my friend Tina, who is not tuna, makes fudge every year.

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