This is The Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead.

Merry Christmas, everyone. My name is Chris, and my name is Jason, and this is The Talking

Dead number 565 recorded more or less on Christmas Day, December the 25th, 2021.

Happy holidays, Christopher. Thank you, sir. Happy holidays to you as well. You've

been working off work all week. How's it been going?

Ah, so far so good. I think it's good. I think I found out the the secret to having a

Merry Christmas. What's that? So what you do is, first of all, you have to have a fireplace

and you have fires going. But then what you do is you take a bunch of empty boxes and

you wrap them up early for Christmas and you put them out of the tree as decorations.

All right. And then if you're if your kids or kids are behaving inappropriately, you

just simply pick up one of the presents and throw it in the fire. Tell me, please tell

me you're doing this. No, sadly, haven't had a fire in years, but I think it's a great

idea. And what would be a little less traumatic? I think I might try it. Oh, that's funny.

I like the idea. The sound of that though. You do have a fireplace. Is it a functioning

fireplace in your house? It absolutely is. We have a whole we have a wood shed full of wood.

And the fireplace, we've hadn't had a fire since before Jasper was born. And when we did,

we've had a cleaned and inspected every year by a professional chimney sweep and they

come in and do their thing. And since the last time they were here, we've had a single

fire. So it's probably in pretty good shape. Before we do it again, we'll have them come

in and do it again. But it is good for safety reasons and stuff like that. Yeah. But you

don't want too much career. So it up there and catch your chimney on fire. But everything's

nice and clean. There's not even any animals living in there at the moment. Well, that's

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