Hi everybody. Happy Holidays. There's too much light on me I feel. Let's see. We

want to... Hi, I hope everybody's having a grubby holiday. I know that this is the

worst fucking year that ever happened so it's okay if you don't. I also absolve

you of having to talk to any of your relatives and also don't feel bad if you

haven't accomplished anything. I laid like a liken on the floor for several

hours today and then I wept softly to myself and I considered that the major

accomplishment of the holiday season. To all the people who are learning to

ask it weaving and have taught themselves the dulcimer and now speak Portuguese

may I... may I... well invite you to take a long cold drink of this. You think

you're better than me and maybe you are but I've got stuff to do like

jibber and futile anguish. Very important. Am I hearing myself on a radio in Russia

in the 50s? What is that intriguing background noise? It's gone now but it

sounded like a radio play. Anyway here we are this year and Wowsers

McDowish. I'm not going to do a year and wrap up or any of that jazz. I'll leave

that to everyone else. We're just going to have fun tonight and talk about Christmas

times that we've had and other holidays too. We recognize up to three religions

on this show. No fair guessing which ones. Jennifer and I were in Germany years

ago with my boyfriend and we were doing a soccer... no we went for Christmas. We

went to Berlin. Now I know what you're thinking. Really? Berlin at Christmas

time. Why not just invite the brown shirts along and have them decorate the

place. But I'm here to tell you that Berlin at Christmas time is very

Christmasy. First they march all the Polish people out of the capital and then

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