It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, and happy day before Christmas, day before Hanukkah starts tomorrow night,

and two days before Kwanza begins on Thursday.

And for today's show, we're doing something special for the holiday that involves no politicians,

no other newsmakers, no other experts, not necessarily holiday-related content, but the guests

for today's show are all you as we go

we will do an all-collar-generated edition of a hundred years of a hundred things

our WNYC centennial series it'll be the best true story from your family from the

last hundred years so think of one that's either funny or meaningful or surprising in

some way or interesting to the wider world for whatever reason, the best true story from your

family from the last 100 years, and we'll invite you to tell it on the air coming up later in the

show. We'll also do an all-call's edition of our climate story of the week,

which we've been doing every Tuesday on the show all this year,

and since this is Tuesday,

we'll do a climate story here on December 24th, like any other Tuesday.

Stay tuned for our climate story caller question coming up.

And again, start thinking about those best family stories. It can even be a best family

joke that's been handed down from the last hundred years, but it can also be super serious.

So think of those for later in the show, your best family story from the last hundred years. But here's

how we begin. We are announcing now the topic for this year's Lairor Prize for Community

Well-Being. If you're asking, what's this? Well, five years ago, I was honored that WNYC

decided to create an award called the Lairor Prize for Community

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