Hello, everybody and welcome to a very special pre-Christmas getting hammered with my friend Vic Mattis.

I'm Mary Catherine Ham.

Hello, Vic.

Hello, Mary Catherine. How are you?

I'm all right. I mean, you know, the run-up to Christmas is always hectic. We had a, I think I told you guys

that my kid's school was letting us come watch them in their Christmas performance. Oh, yes. Okay. So, so was it just you guys that

nobody else? I assume you were the only parents there. Actually, it was gratifying. There was a

nice full house. Do you have to mask up in the school? It was masked. It was whatever. But a bit of

a novel experience in this area, in in this era right yeah well just because

like I don't think a lot of schools and and and such oh are doing productions right so we got to do

the thing and I got to say Vic if I were ever to become a supervillain, which could happen,

I will tell everyone my kryptonite now and it is tiny little children singing about Jesus.

Oh, if that would, you mean that would melt your heart. If you were the Grinch, it would expand. Yes, I'm many times at sides. I'm finished. I'm incapacitated. Oh, that's right. So they're not a, so I was going to say, wait a minute, in a public school. Oh, no, no, it's not a public school. Okay. It's like, wow. Well, that's nice. That was, that was lovely. So it it was just a singing it was like a uh just a

selection of songs yes and there's just something about it the children and the choreography

the cute little choreography in the songs and i can't hold it together to the point that i

was glad i had a mask on because it was embarrassing how much I was

crying. You were crying. It brought tears. Well, I mean, not just tears like sobbing. Like, I don't even think,

I don't even think I saw half of my young, my middle kid. She's not my youngest. Did you have your phone?

Were you? I did. I, I recorded a little bit,

but I try to, I try to be in the moment. And also I can't, I can't hold the phone without shaking

because I was crying. You were so emotionally. Well, this has been a very emotionally trying year.

And it culminated in this Christmas spectacular at your school.

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