Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Got a great show plan for you.

As always, but I wanted to start the show by reminding everyone, please check in on people around you.

We keep hearing stories of how powerful it was that someone reached out to someone who's feeling lonely and isolated.

Continue to do that. We're moving into a dark time. Again, it's a pandemic. People are worried about different factors. Seasonal effect of is impacting some people's moods. It's getting dark earlier,

the cold weather. And people are alone and they're isolated and have been now for a very,

very long time. And that can feel even worse and amplified during holiday season,

especially when you're not with your family and while you're maybe seeing

other people not caring about their impact on others and breaking rules and still traveling

and seeing family. Clearly I have no thoughts about that. So check in on people, right? And also

make sure you're focusing on self-care, self-care, self-care, self-care. We're focusing on joy,

pleasure. We're taking rest.

But I wanted to, you know, bear with me because I love stuff like this. So I'm looking at a map.

I love stories like this. It shows people's favorite Christmas desserts, state by state.

I did one of these around our last holiday.

My home state, well, let's go to my home state, actually.

My home state's most popular dessert is gingerbread or cheesecake.

I can't quite relate or make sense of that.

Now where I live, California, is peppermint and chop chocolate chip cookies.

These things are so arbitrary.

They make me laugh. I think my favorite

right here is Washington. Washington State. Skittles? What? I thought they were going to be

baked goods. Skittles. That's pretty cool. Texas also likes peppermint and chocolate chip cookies,

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