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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff and this is the special Christmas

week version of short stuff.

So for this episode Chuck, we're going to do a special Christmas-y themed one that also

you could make an argument as card themed as well.

That's right and we got to give a big shout out to our stuffy snow army member, an old

friend Robert Paulson.

Paulson now sends us Christmas ideas every year as a gift to us I think.

Yeah.

He actually says this is your holiday gift from me so don't expect anything else.

But they're good ideas.

Yeah.

He's like, I just want to make sure that the Christmas episodes never dry up or go away.

So he's doing his part which is pretty sweet.

And he's not the only one every once in a while some other people send some ideas but

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