I'm Hello, Internet.

I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

And you're listening to Shmanners.

It's extraordinary etiquette.

For ordinary occasions, hello, my dove.

Hello, dear.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

A time when I'm able to convince my wife the importance of going to the store and buying a bunch of treats.

And I can brand it as like a family event and like it's for the kids and then I eat

and then you eat all the treats listen man yeah they're good I don't know if you know this

but like yeah man candy and cookies and cake and stuff it's really good good. It is good stuff. I'm a big fan of it.

And, you know, in my twilight years now, I've had to cut out so many vices.

And that doesn't include chocolate-covered things.

I'm still allowed.

You love a chocolate covered nut.

A chocolate covered nut, chocolate covered pretzel.

I like things with bits in it.

You know what I mean?

Like, I enjoy the mixture of textures in a thing.

And, like, man, we got this, like, sampler of chocolate-covered pretzels.

It was, like, white chocolate, or yogurt and dark chocolate and milk chocolate.

And then, like, coated, you know, sprinkled with, like, peppermint.

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