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Father Gregory. Nice work on the pronouns. Thanks. Just doing it. Yeah. Yeah. And what is it? You've got this. I got it. It's unclear, ambiguous antecedents. Yeah, okay. You know, this is classic, like the it. Like, who has that referred to? Okay. Yeah. But this is Advent time. So I've got a question for you. What is it? What's your question? Here it is. I'm eager to know. I'm eager to tell it. You are? No. But you could be. I will be. Okay. Yeah, because it's Advent time. It is exciting. It is. Did you have warning?

We have... you could be. I will be. Okay. Yeah, because it's Advent time. And Advent time is exciting.

It is?

Did you have, warning, we have recorded a number of Advent episodes.

I may have asked this question before.

But here it is.

Did you have an Advent tree or little chocolate advent calendars growing up in your house?

I was hoping you would ask me about the advent tree slash chocolate chocolate.

If we've asked this before, someone in the comments can put the hyperlink to that episode.

But I don't think we have. Or maybe somebody could just make a side-by-side video and then just post it to their social

media accounts and then invite our social media accounts to collaborate on it. That'd be nice,

actually. Oh, yeah, we can outsource the work. So if we did, I've forgotten. So here's the thing.

Yeah. I would say that my family was Catholic, even very Catholic. But when it came to doing things

that required daily attention, basically all we had in us was daily Mass and daily rosary. Things apart from that basically fell off the back of the bandwagon or the back of the wagon. I think it's just the back of the wagon. To fall off the wagon, though, means to, like, drink a lot of alcohol from what I understand. I think the bandwagon, because, like, you think of a band. When I think of a bandwagon, I think of a band on top of a back of a wagon, like a lot of alcohol from what I understand. I think the bandwagon might be right because like you think of a band when I think of a bandwagon I think of a band on top of a back of a wagon like a sort of July 4th you know parade or something like a scene out of Huck Finn so fall off the bandwagon because it doesn't require drunkenness right as far as like trombones hitting you exactly yeah so there are sousaphone involved and um that the raps? That is. Yeah, so it's like a marching tuba. This is stupid instants. Hey, listen. Listeners, if you are sousaphanists, that was said in bad taste. Yeah, sorry, we take it back. Yeah. But it's named after John Philip Sousa. Stars and Strikes Forever. Yeah. Is it because he made one? Maybe. Can't rule it out. I mean, it's a matter of a tuning and instrument so that it produces. Not now. We don't have excess. We don't have the means. Hit reason, man. Start reducing. All right. Maybe reason is. Okay. So, no, so it's like, you know, the thing that wraps around you, which produces the same tonality and timbre as a tuba, and that's like a hard thing to engineer. So kudos to him for having

discovered it. Hey, Mr. Sussaphone. John Philip Sousa. Yeah, kudos to you for having invented

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