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Welcome to another episode of Light the Fight Patreon.

You guys, I appreciate your support.

As always, thank you for being a special member of Light the Fight.

In fact, you're so special you're

spending your hard earned cash to support what i'm doing here on the podcast so it really means a lot to

me and i apologize for last week not producing um a light the fight patreon episode for you guys

so i owe you guys an extra episode as As you can tell, I'm still trying to

recover. The other episodes, I record them sometimes earlier and can them. So I had some

episodes that I could use. But for you guys, I try to be fresh and current. And sometimes it

backfires like it did the last couple weeks when I was really sick. So I apologize again, but thank you for your patience.

I promise you I'm going to be posting this episode on Patreon.

I'm also going to be using this episode to post for Light the Fight this week.

And later on this week, I'll be doing another Patreon episode.

So stay tuned for that, probably about two or three days and I'll get that out to you guys.

So without further ado, though, today's episode is an episode that I've done in or I haven't done in about two or three years at least a topic and the topic is holiday get-together's family parties

specifically with the assumption that some of you may have families or at least certain family members at family Christmas parties or whatever holiday that you celebrate during this time of year.

Holiday parties in general, there may be people at those holiday parties that you're related to, that you're related to someone who's married to them,

or they have their kids or their boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever it may be,

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