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The world is full of stories, stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of oddities.

Join Pat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth for a strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,

as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.

Happy holidays, freaks, it is Christmas Eve when we're recording this episode

and things are festive and bright here in our house.

We did absolutely intend on getting all of our work done so that we didn't have to do any work today,

but did it happen? No, no, no.

Nope, so we are recording on Christmas Eve. I actually did some last-minute Christmas shopping last night,

and again, as I mentioned in a previous episode, that's by design, so that, yeah, I have to fight the crowds,

but I'm less apt to insist that you open your presence immediately.

So I went out Friday night and I picked up a few things for you that I had planned on getting.

Then walked through the door and told me to get away from you. Yeah, and then I went into the bedroom,

locked the door, I wrapped every single present beautifully, by the way, and then brought them out,

put them under the tree, and insisted that you open them immediately. What is wrong with us? I don't know.

I wrapped those gifts and they stayed wrapped for about four minutes. I could have just given you this stuff,

but I don't know, I guess it just wouldn't be the same. Now, I had a very similar plan where I was like,

I'm going to order this at a specific time so that I know it will arrive on December 23rd.

This is how I'm going to do it. That way, I can wrap it, I can get it under the tree,

and I won't have that much time between the time that it arrives and Christmas Day.

Now, because of the men's storms across the country, it will not arrive in time for Christmas.

What are you going to do? You've opened everything else, so.

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