Hello?

Hi, John.

Merry Christmas, Merlin.

Merry Christmas, John.

You got all your holiday shopping done?

Oh, you know, this was the first year where I, at least for my little girl, I started stockpiling Christmas presents a long time ago. Oh, I have an anecdote. John, let's just say what we've got to say. This is our very, very special annual. We never miss it. We look forward to this all year. This is our very, very special Christmas Day episode. It really is. It really is fun,

and you guys should go back and listen to all the Christmas episodes. All the great Christmas

episodes. No, we just got to be, we got to be straight with our listeners that we don't want

you to miss a drop of this goodness. So we're pre-recording the episodes that will run on Christmas

Day and New Year's Day. And so, you know, we'll have these ready to post. So if anything happens, if there's any kind of, I know you and Ken are working on what to do in the event of an apocalypse. So hopefully these will live on beyond us. But if it seems a little strange, it's because we're recording them a little early. We recorded these in June. In June. Oh, my gosh. It's so hot. Yeah. It's just so hot. Okay. Here's the thing. Okay. I had reason to go to a retail store. I want to say it was probably maybe before Thanksgiving, but for the sake of our we'll say it was right after Thanksgiving. I think it was before Thanksgiving. I went in, I was greeted by someone in the story. You know what that person said to me? You know what they said? They said, y'all done with your Christmas shopping? Hmm. Y'all done with your Christmas shopping. You know, I was like, What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, I hope no one told you to say that,

because that's a horrible thing to say to someone. No one's ever finished with their, especially then.

I, I mean, like, as we record this in June, um, I'm kind of just really getting into the,

into the swing of it now, But are you being straight up?

Are you,

have you been thinking ahead about your little girl's Christmas?

Well, yeah.

And I think it started back, it started back around Halloween.

Well, actually, no, I think.

So I made the mistake of celebrating her half birthday when she was three

or something like that.

You feel like you've created a precedent there.

I did.

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