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Well, it is complicated. How are we doing, church? Let's go. Let's go. It is the most wonderful time of the year, but for a lot of us that is met with a lot of chaos,

a lot of complications.

It's complicated.

And I love this time of year.

I mean, I sense all the things that you feel with the weather changing. I love our families, traditions.

I love the different times that we get together. Like some of us see family more in November and

December than all of the rest of the year combined. And so we get to go home and experience those

traditions that we grew up in, or maybe there's

some new ones that have popped up.

One of my favorite is going to my in-laws and doing the gift exchange.

And so do you guys do this where you, like, put all the numbers in a bowl and you draw

the numbers?

It's like called Dirty Santa or White Elephant or Chinese Christmas.

You guys know what I'm talking? What do y'all call that?

What? I've never heard that one. What did y'all say? Yeah, so all the things that I said, right? And we don't,

none of us know what it's called. Okay, so that game, right? And there's always like some dysfunction

that comes around that because it's, it's like somebody always buys a gift that's too nice. And you're like, hey, I thought the limit was this. You know, they intentionally get the gift card that's like $10 over just as a flex, you know. And then there's somebody that shows up with the homemade gift. And, you know, it's like they're tight and they're like, hey, here's, you know, here you go.

I made that at home. And you're just kind of like, really? And then there's the argument around the rules. No, it's frozen after three steals. No, it's three possessions. And then it's like, no, and you're trying to figure out, okay, well, so, and then there's somebody that's like, they're really excited about their gift.

They're like, Uncle Bob, I think you'll love that one.

Oh, yeah, that, so, and then there's somebody that's like, they're really excited about their gift. They're like, Uncle Bob, I think you'll love that one. Oh, yeah, that one in the bag, you know, and then somebody gets a gift that they don't really want, and so, hey, did you see this? You know, and they're trying to pawn it off. Hey, before you dive into there, I think this would look really good in your home, you know. And they're trying to get... So there's all of these different things,

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