Well, hello. Hi. Long time no talk. Well, for some of you, I am still, just so you all know,

uploading every single week on Patreon,

patreon.com slash Liz Explains. So I still podcast all of the time. It feels weird to be like,

oh my God, I've been done this in so long because I do this all of the time every single week.

But long time to see on feathers in my hair. So it is about to be the

holiday season and it is time for the fourth annual. Can you believe it's the fourth year?

Operation Santa. I want to ask you all to donate. So I figured in exchange I would release a

Feathers episode talking about teen mom and not just post an episode

being like, give us money so we can help people.

But just, you know, I was not able to adopt any letters via USPS this year because the website

was garbage.

The traffic was, I guess, really overwhelming it. I tried for three hours, and I,

it just, it would not work. It was so frustrating. So I decided to change things a bit this year.

And instead of this being USPS Operation Santa, this is feathers in my hair. Liz explains at all,

Operation Santa. So I put out a call for listeners whose families

need help this Christmas, and I have adopted six families. These are all listeners. They are going to

say 100% anonymous. I want it to be basically exactly the same as Operation Santa in the past, but this year we are

helping listeners instead of complete strangers, which is really special and lovely. We last year

had a listener family along with the USPS families, and it was so awesome, like getting to send

a listener help. And I know she really appreciated

it and her kids really appreciated it and I'm really happy to be able to do that again this year.

Six is a lot of families. I probably should have limited it at four, but I just, I felt really

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