Hello, trash future listeners. Just as a heads up, because Monday and Tuesday are bank holidays

in the United Kingdom, we're going to release this week's free one on Wednesday. In the interim,

there's an unlocked Britonology about the TV show I'm Alan Partridge on the free feed. Also,

the Britonology episode about the 2000s TV show Skins has been unlocked to the $5 feed. If you want even more Britonology,

please enjoy the following preview of me and Milo's discussion of the British tradition of the

Big Christmas Dinner. There's a link in the show notes to the full episode on the Patreon,

as well as links to all the other episodes I mentioned. Hope you're having a great holiday for celebrating,

and thanks again for being

a trash future listener. I'm quite interested in having, I've never experienced an American Christmas

before. And so I'll be here and see how that. I mean, my family kind of like, I have family here

and they are British, but they've lived in America for a long time. So I'm interested to see

what, what it's like. Because I do sort of get the impression that

like Christmas is a bit of an afterthought to Thanksgiving in terms of like size of event.

I mean, it's definitely more of like it's a thing you're going to celebrate with immediate

family. That's my impression. When I was a kid and we lived in Germany, we hung out with friends of my moms who were British

on Boxing Day. But it was, it seemed like, and I got the impression that Brits were the same way,

that Christmas itself seemed like an immediate family and or like a family are visiting for the

holidays. But for us, the big holiday everyone comes home for, you know, extended family, etc.

Gathering for a big dinner is definitely Thanksgiving.

Whereas like, while I've known plenty of people who go see extended family and it's a big gathering

for Christmas, it also feels like it's just as common for it to be just like immediate family or maybe like a handful of

relatives. I would say, yeah, in Britain it's definitely like an extended family. I mean, if you're

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