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Oh, hello, everybody, a merry Christmas. So I have not taken a week off from a live episode in literally years and years. And this weekend, I hit, like my social battery just blew up. It exploded. It imploded, if you will. So I am

taking this week off and I'm hitting you with an old, tried and true, nostalgic, classic holiday

episode with my beautiful friend, Heather McMahon, if you haven't had enough of us

bitches by this point. This episode was recorded in 2020 in December. So we must have been like

maybe newish friends. Maybe we had trauma bonded already at this time. Oh no, we were we were

locked and loaded by 2020. Time doesn't

exist to me. Let me just like give you a quick brief update on my life in the past 72 hours.

We are in peak holiday mode. Okay. And I thought I was ready for it. I was not ready for it.

I am decomposing as we speak. I had a party

Friday. I had a party Saturday. I hosted a party last night. Let me tell you about the best $60

that you will ever spend. When I'm back from my holiday sabbatical, I'm going to hit you with

some links, some tips, and some tricks.

In the wee hours of the night, I found this like vintage drink fountain. I can't remember if it was

TikTok shop or Amazon or whatever. And my algorithm has been serving like martini bar, martini bar,

martini bar for a dinner party. I had 12 people over last night. I do a very gentile Hanukkah Christmas, no, a Hanukkah dinner for all of my Goyim friends every year. And they're just, you know, the bar is so low for like their lotka consumption. They don't know like great homemade lotcas. So I just like buy them and then I like pretend I made them and everyone's like, my god Jackie make the best lockas and like you're in the arms of Jesus you've never had like

a real like homemade locka but like love you for it and you know dinner parties are my love language

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