Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Adam. Welcome back to the show. How's it going?

Going great. Thanks for having us. Yeah, this is fun. We're here to continue our discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

We're going to talk about chapter six and seven.

Is that right? I have that right.

That's what my post-it note says.

And that is infallible.

The infallibility of the post-it note.

So we're going to do that.

First, though, what is your your what is your um what is one

christmas tradition adam that you are most looking forward to this is more of like i need

to get to know adam andrews a little bit wow that's just out of the blue there david i had

no idea that question was coming.

No, that's true.

Well, here's one that when the kids were little,

my wife, Missy, started a little Advent calendar tradition,

and we made little felt figurines or little felt,

I don't know what you call them.

I don't know what you call them. I don't know what you call them.

Tiny people? Felt things, little tiny people, yeah. One for each day of December and there was a little

Bible verse that went with each one that sort of, you know, in the Advent tradition told the story of

salvation and redemption throughout the old and New Testaments. And the kids look forward to

when they were little. And now this year, everybody's kind of grown up.

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