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We're back, 188 episodes of keeping Canada weird by seeking out and highlighting the unique and offbeat news

stories from the past week. And we got a lot of good ones to break down. But before we get into them,

let me ask, how are you? Anything new in your neck of the woods? Nothing overly exciting or new

or interesting. I'm sorry as a rapport. Okay, well, Halloween is behind us.

We're approaching Christmas. You don't do that this early, right? Are you like a November

1st? The tree is up kind of guy? No, no, no. It's, I respect the Remembrance Day tradition of waiting

until after Remembrance Day. It's to start even considering another holiday.

Yeah, that has really softened over the last several years.

I feel like when I was a kid and when you were a kid at the same time alongside me,

when we were parallel kids, the stores wouldn't do Christmas until Remembrance Day was over.

But now I feel like as they take down the Halloween

stuff, they're bringing out the Christmas stuff like the same day, if not a bit of overlap.

They do. Yeah. It's, it's Christmas stuff now comes out in September roughly. I feel like I see

some, a sprinkle of Santa Claus here, a reindeer there, you know, in kind of a few of the shelves.

And then by October, it's pretty much full on like Christmas, really.

Yeah, it's just like a cornucopia of seasons.

But let's not make Keep Canada weird Christmasy this early in the month.

Let's start getting into the stories, but before

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