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Bart, are you ready for Christmas?

Am I ready for Christmas?

I'm not.

I'm definitely not. I've always been a big fan of Christmas.

Back when I was religious, it had a very deep meaning for me. But also, I just always

like the accoutrement. I was a very, very big fan of Christmas trees and Christmas carols and

everything. And I still am. Although now, for many years now, we've gone over to England for the

holidays. My wife, Sarah's English. And so we go over and celebrate with them, which I like a lot, but it does mean no Christmas

tree for me.

But I started to get the carols.

And so we're going to go over and we'll spend a couple weeks over there with her family.

Her family is scattered around.

My family here in America is scattered around, which means that every Christmas really is almost literally the 12 days of Christmas. It's like, you're opening presents every day. Because you're training throughout the country. Somewhere or another in England or anywhere. It's like, oh, my God, just goes off wherever. But it's all good. I tend to enjoy holidays. I do like the Christmas

seat. So how about you? You're looking forward to it? Well, I'm not ready, but I'm close.

We're staying home this year. We have my two eldest children and my stepchildren, so they're

having Christmas with us this year, which is lovely. So we will have a house full of children and it will be loud

and chaotic and stressful, but also, I suspect, wonderful. How many kids are going to be there?

Five total. Do you cook an English Christmas dinner or an American Christmas dinner?

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