Hey Small Towneown Pam, this is Paul Holz. Make sure you subscribe to the briefing room with detectives Dan and Dave.

Season 2 is out now. Subscribe now and thanks. How are the holidays? Are you celebrating? Are you not celebrating? I know it can be a

mixed bag this time of year. So wherever you are, I hope you're getting just what you need.

We have a special little treat for you today.

Last year on our Patreon feed,

where you can subscribe for $5 a month

and get all kinds of weekly goodies,

including full episodes early in ad free,

you know, of the regular small town digs episodes.

We put out a recording of Dan, Dave,

Paul, and I reading the Christmas Classic,

how the Grinch stole Christmas.

It's really wonderful.

It is a little piece of magic, and we wanted to put it out on the main feed this year

So all of you could enjoy it so here you go

you go. The Great Shust still Christmas by Dr. Zeus, dedication to Teddy Owens.

Every who down in Huville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of

Hooville, did not.

The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. Now please don't ask why. No one knows quite the reason.

It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be perhaps that his shoes were too tight, but I think that the most likely reason of all

may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

But whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes, he stood there on Christmas Eve, hating

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