Hello and welcome.

Hello and welcome to colors of the dark.

Happy holidays and welcome to our end of year top 10 show.

I'm excited.

It looks like Elric brought liquor.

I brought bourbon.

I brought bourbon.

I have peach tea. I brought bourbon. Christmas bourbon.

I have peach tea. A calming peach tea. No, my year requires bourbon. This is me closing out the year.

Still not done with work. Still have a couple days of work. I just got to get out of the city away from my computer and I will be refreshed in January. I'm not allowed to drink because of,

if you've listened to our Patreon,

I'm sure you've heard me complain about it.

I ended up a couple of weeks ago with like a crazy bad ear infection

that ended up taking my hearing.

And I'm now undergoing all of these tests and procedures,

but I still don't have hearing back in my right ear

and because of the steroids they have me on, I'm not supposed to drink right now.

So calming peach tea.

Because normally you're hardcore.

You're like a I know.

Usually I'm like bruising it up.

No, the few times I do drink is it Disney because I really like the mixed drinks at Disney. And even yesterday, I was like, they've got these cool, like, Christmas-themed liqueurs, like cookies and cream with like a nice little shot in it. And I couldn't sample any of it. So kind of bummed. Or I probably should have. And then it just would have been a really good time on the Incrata coaster, I feel like. I did not know they had alcohol at Disneyland. Oh my God, that's the whole reason. That's why California Adventure is so much better than the regular park, because California Adventure has all the booze, especially during Christmas time because they set up stands all over. Like, you cannot go more than like 50 feet without bumping into like a booze stand at Christmas time. It's amazing.

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