Okay, it says I'm live now and I want to welcome everybody and Merry Christmas to everybody.

This is yet another in a series of our Alone together for Christmas live streams.

This is a custom I started a few years ago when I was in California and my family was in

Arkansas so I didn't have anybody to be with for Christmas and I thought let's turn that into a

plus because there's a lot of other people in the same situation and so why don't we all get

together for Christmas here on the

here on the internet and we can have an alone together hang out for Christmas.

So the way these work, everybody's welcome.

You don't have to be alone, but if you are alone, you're most welcome. It's especially for you, but it's also for everybody. So glad everybody can join us. Even if you're not able to join us live, I'll be posting this on my YouTube channel afterwards, and

it'll probably be going out in the Mysterious Worldfeet, so you'll have a chance to view it or listen to it later. And typically what happens in these is I take questions. And so if you have questions of any and about basically anything you'd like to ask you know get

them ready I would ask now how you get them to me is you can put them in the

chat alongside the program and here on YouTube and I would ask to make it easy for me to

figure out which are the questions and which are just comments that people are making.

If you could put a cue and a colon in front of your question,

that'll tell me that it's a question for me.

So happy to do that, and we'll get started in just a moment.

I want to mention though that I want to say

a special thanks to Ed and Sonia at Deliveriver Contacts. They're one of our sponsors on

mysterious world and last year they wanted to say they wanted to sponsor the

Christmas live stream and this year they contacted us and so they wanted to do that again. So a very special thanks to Ed and Sonia at

deliver contacts. There are sponsors for the live stream today and they're doing that out of the good of their own hearts.

I would do the live stream whether it had a sponsor or not.

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