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Well, John Stone Street, happy almost Christmas here. I don't know

if you Anglicans are allowed to say that right now. Is that like a faux pa in, you know,

liturgical circles to say that at this point? We're only a few days away. Surely I can say,

Merry Christmas. Happy Christmas. Well, it is still Advent officially, just for the record,

just for the Anglican record. But speaking of Anglican and British, did you just say happy Christmas instead of British Christmas? Like, I mean, that's the British way to say Merry Christmas. Like, are you, I feel like there's a social circle. I feel like this is coming from either A, you read too much Narnia or secretly deep down. You really do like that John Lennon, you know, Yoko Ono song, you know,

so this is Christmas or, you know, where they say happy Christmas like three times in the

middle of it, which officially was the worst Christmas song in history until train.

We've debated that in past episodes, but I think maybe it's the influence of...

I think we actually agreed on that, though, didn't we?

Didn't we actually agree? Like, it was the most ridiculous song until Train?

I think so. When you finally read the lyrics, you convinced me that the train song was the

worst of all. But no, I think it maybe the influence of Peppa Pig in my life or something

like that. You know, I'm a dad of young kids. So that sort of stuff sort of enters into your life.

Did you hear about the kids who were adopting British accents because of overexposure to

Peppa Pig? So maybe that's where Happy Christmas comes from. Well, there was a moment in our family.

I think my oldest was probably six. And we were like six, four, two, all girls. girls and we listened in and they were definitely playing

in a British accent and it had nothing to do with Peppa Pig it had everything to do with the

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