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We thank you for tuning in this Monday morning, December 29th, 2025, inching towards

26. I'm John Paul Flame, joined by Jason Bishop. What's up? What's up, buddy? Merry Christmas in person. That's right, you're back. As I was driving in, I was listening to Replay, and you were lamenting having to get some last-minute gifts. Were you successful? Yes, I was. Well, they were gift cards. Oh, you got some GCs. Yes, I didn't put a lot of thought into it. But yes, we did take care of that.

And they were very happy.

And the stress is over.

You know what?

The gift cards.

The stress is over.

Apparently it's the way to go.

Now, this is not for my own kids, but for my nieces and nephews that we still exchange gifts with that we send to New Jersey.

I think last year I went to the outlets and I got a bunch of like hoodies from the Nike store.

And I thought that was a pretty solid gift.

They're all teenagers to early 20s, right?

I think Olivia is a senior at Virginia Tech.

Can't believe she's a senior already.

Yeah, my nephew is a sophomore at Villanova,

and then my other niece is a senior in high school, right?

So they're in that age, so I set hoodies.

And I thought that was a pretty good gift.

My wife's like, eh, not really.

They might not like that, you know, especially the girls. Girls are very particular, like a Nike hoodie, I think would be fine. But so this year we set them gift cards. and oh my god now it's just via text but they were so much more thankful than last year that i guess

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