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On this Monday, can I tell you a Christmas tale?

This should be on the Hallmark movie schedule.

So, 969, I'm 21 years old.

I'm traveling around Europe because I was attending the University of London.

And instead of going back home for Christmas, I said, you know, and I'll take the two or three weeks,

and I'll zip around the continent and see different things.

But nobody else wanted to do that. Everybody else, all the Americans

studying, went home. So I wound up in Vienna on Christmas Eve. My plan was to see the Vienna

Boys Choir at the magnificent St. Stephen's Cathedral for Midnight Bass.

Sounds like a great plan, right? I was jazzed.

So I show up for Mass, and I can't get in because it, like, cost thousands of dollars to attend the Mass to see the boys choir i said are you kidding me i'm

catholic all i want to do is go to mass or christmas eve they go now you got to pay all these marks

austrian currency i said what and so I tried to sneak in.

And I failed.

They had great security.

So I went back to my Pension, and I was alone, Christmas Eve.

And the lady who ran the little hotel where I was, gave me a nice little present, a cake, and a candle.

That was some Christmas.

Hope you enjoy yours. Back in a moment.

Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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