Hey, it's Patrick Corelchi.

And I'm Adriana Cortez and welcome to RPA's Culture Club. And the Happy Christmas,

Happy Christmas, happy holidays.

I guess it's Mary Christmas.

It's Mary Christmas.

By the way, it's Hanukkah, so happy Hanukkah

to all of our Jewish listeners out there.

Yes, we are enjoying our holiday season.

I have to say we've had a little bit of a fiasco.

A tree fiasco. This is a first for us by the way and I blame you. Of course you do. But you know I think it's a good indicator of how America is kind of turning out right now and let's get into it because

I'm sure all you guys have probably already picked your Christmas trees out obviously

Hanukkah started so you already have your monorras out we typically get our

Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving the weekend after Thanksgiving. The weekend after Thanksgiving.

Yes and but this time Thanksgiving came in pretty early. Well I think it was on the

23rd. Yeah so we thought if we get our Christmas tree right now it's going to dry up every year like right after or right around Christmas

The tree is like this crazy fire hazard you know dries can be and that's we're spraying it we're ruining ornaments like we're very very on top of the watering situation

but no matter what we do yes right I am it's still so dry

There's no way around it and you know there's these formulas that you can buy when you buy the tree and it says keep your tree as

hydrated as you possibly can and of course you know people get suckered into it I don think it does anything. I don't know how that keeps the tree more hydrated.

Anyway, so we decided let's wait a week. So we waited a week and

Adriana was pushing. This was the year. she was going to get the tree of her dreams.

I was going to get, see, every year I want to get a Silverton tree.

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