I feel like we're talking about this the other night. I feel like we've set too high a standard for Christmas over the years with my kids and...

I hear you. Trying to roll it back is difficult. Yeah, it's kind of like the study we're talking about with the mice and the rewards and the cookie and everything like that.

If Christmas has been at this level, anything below it seems disappointing even if that level would have been perfectly satisfying if that's where you had started.

Well, that's straight out of government policy too. If you announce today that every left-handed person in the country, the state, whatever, including myself gets a $10,000 subsidy because scissors are backwards for us and we've been oppressed our whole lives and sometimes we smear ink with our hands.

I mean, that would be a ludicrous expenditure of taxpayer money. But you let that go for five years and then try to cut it. You'll have lefties marching in the street.

Screaming. Oh, fair, unfair. And so, you know, your kids are the same. Have the scissors, they would be saying.

More in general, I'm just worried about the materialism of, you know, what I've created for their view of the world.

It's going to be difficult, but I suggest this this year. December 25th comes. You get up in the morning, they run out to all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed into the living room. You're sitting there with a cup of coffee in your hand. You're reading the newspaper.

They say, Dad, it's Christmas. And you say, yeah, I forgot. We'll do it next year. I say Santa is phony life is hard.

Oh, here's a shovel. Here's a shovel. What am I supposed to dig? It's going to its shock therapy. Santa's phony life is hard. Go back to bed.

Santa's not phony. Santa is fabulous. I hope Santa brings me one of these Van Mooth S3 electric bikes. I scoffed at electric bikes for a while.

Well, so I live in a town that's really into its biking and has some very upscale bike stores. And it seems like it's got as many electric bikes now as non-electric bikes. What exactly do people do with them?

The idea, and like I say, I was a scoffer for a very long time because until fairly recently, Craig the Obamacare lawyer and I would crank up hills. I mean, we would grind up hills for half an hour.

And then plunge down them again. And anybody who used any sort of assist was a was. But now that I'm a somewhat older man, I think I see it. It's bicep.

It's bicep. You're scoffing at the price of them as well. I'm scoffing it. Well, this one's only $2,000. Oh my goodness. Yeah, they they used to be three. Maybe they've gone down to two.

Yeah, they are getting cheaper and they're getting lighter and they're smaller. This Jeff Fowler and the WAPO Jeff Great guy, right? Read him any chance you get.

It's talking about this Van Mooth S3, which you got to come up with a better name. It's $2,000. It looks like an ordinary bike.

I can't have an electric bike helping me get up the hill that's called the Van Mooth.

It's just a kick in the Van Mooth. He says that it looks like an ordinary bike. A motor kicks in when you pedal to get to help you get where you need to go, giving you just enough exercise.

It says to not have to break a sweat. Well, then you're hardly getting excursion all, but I'm sure you can turn it off. My favorite part is your exercise includes not sweating.

Well, that's my electrosy. I have a best of both worlds there, aren't you? No, that's an extremely small motorcycle.

Well, if I'm having a bicycle to get to work in back, I mean, it's my transportation that I want to be cheaper and easier to park than a car. That's the reason I'm doing it.

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