9 Weeks / 65 days until Christmas ("White Christmas" Song Battle)

[00:00:02] [SPEAKER_01] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast.

[00:00:05] [SPEAKER_06] I'm from the North Pole. It's time for Christmas Morning, the daily show where every day is Christmas. Here are your hosts, Bran and...

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_01] Well, well, well. Merry Christmas and welcome to Christmas Morning, your almost daily dose of Christmas. We are getting there. I am Bran. I'm here per usual with my buddy Scott. Scott, Merry Christmas, pal.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00] Merry Christmas, Brandon. We are on the precipice of the dailies and we're standing at that door, aren't we?

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_01] I mean, listen, the holiday season's here and the holiday season is here. Everywhere you go, there's Christmas. Wait, what's that noise? That's the dailies knocking. They're coming. Christmas is everywhere. You go to the stores, Christmas is there. You turn on the TV, you can find Christmas. Christmas anytime you want to. We're here, buddy.

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00] Oh, yeah. The Hallmark Channel has been on since Friday in my house. That's right. On mute. Just look at it. Non-stop. I'm not watching the movies, but I love all the trees and the lights and all that stuff. That's exactly right.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01] It's great. It's great to be here. So good. And it's also good to see that mailbag. It's got a lot in it. It's got a lot. Let's take a look.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_05] Letters. We get letters. We get stacks and stacks of letters.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00] First email is from Thomas Bischoff and Thomas says, they've arrived. And he sent a picture of the Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes, something that I sent you last week, Brand, as I was enjoying them in moderation because of the sugar for me. But man, I love a Christmas tree cake. Was it everything? Was it everything you remembered it? It was for me. It wasn't for my wife. She said, these aren't as good as I remember. And I said, you shut your mouth.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. If you don't have anything to say, don't say it at all.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00] Exactly. Just keep it zipped. But you know what? She did go back for another one later. Well, how bad can they be then? Yeah, exactly. And we have a related email from Rusty Swingle. Rusty says, just a tip. I put two boxes of Christmas tree cakes in the freezer for Christmas in July, and they're not stale at all. I took them out for the summer Christmas celebration and added milk and they were so good. Hope this tip helps. It does. That was a follow-up to me pointing out that you can't just leave them sitting in the pantry. You've got to do something in the freezer

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00] is a great idea. Thank you, Rusty. That is a really good idea. That's where we keep our Kringles. We have a Kringle-related email coming up too. Oh, okay. Very good. The next email is from Lance Garman. Lance says, I'm so glad someone recently let the show know about the new Christmas album by Alanis Morissette. I am sincerely excited about it. Another new album that has piqued my interest is the one by Stephen Page. He is best known as the former lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies, who also had a

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00] great Christmas album in 2004 called Barenaked for the Holidays. And I agree, that was a great album. Great album. His upcoming album is titled Stephen's Greetings, and it will be released on December 13th. And if you want to feel old, pull up the cover of this album and look how old that Stephen Page looks because I've seen the Barenaked Ladies. I was a big fan and he didn't used to look this old. And it's hard when I start looking like all the old people around me.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah, I understand that. Just to clarify, the album release is actually on November 13th, not December 13th. I saw December 13th and I was like, that's late for Christmas album. Okay, cool. November 13th. It's less than a month away.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_00] All right. Well, we'll try to remember that during the day at least. Yeah, he does look old. Lance goes on to say, this of course reminds me of the wonderful documentary from 2017 titled Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas about the songwriters of many classic Christmas songs who were written by Jewish songwriters. I love the stories and several of the performances in that film, including Stephen's version of Silver Bells. Alonzo will be happy to know you can watch the documentary on Canopy. I wasn't familiar with this brand, but I would like to check it out. I love a good Christmas music documentary.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00] It sounds great. I love the idea of this. And then Lance finishes by saying, as for the Norah Jones Christmas album, I like it, but I don't love it. I like it a little less after hearing a comment she made about it on her podcast, maybe while talking with Sarah McLachlan. Norah Jones's podcast is called Playing Along and it's a fun listen, but in the episode, they were both laughing about the fact that the only reason you make a Christmas album is to fulfill the final obligation on a multi-record contract with your label. That's funny. I prefer my Christmas media to be created by those who only do it for the love of the game,

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00] like the Christmas Morning Podcast, of course. Well, thank you, Lance. That's great.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01] We actually also only do this podcast to fulfill our record contract.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_00] I have an email from Jesse Jackson. Jesse says, I ordered my first Kringle ever and I loved it. My wife was having a Bible study class at the house and I was able to surprise her with the bourbon pecan Kringle and her friends loved it. Be warned, it does have a pretty strong bourbon taste. Stop selling, Jesse. That sounds great. Be warned. It's probably not for kids is the point. I'm looking forward to exploring other flavors during the holiday season so I can send a little

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00] love towards the team and DTH. Thank you, Jesse. I really appreciate that. Everybody be like Jesse, help us out here. Don't forget to use promo code CMOCT26 and I'm sure there'll be a new one in November.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_01] That's exactly right. And stay tuned next week. We got a special one week only code, so stay tuned for that. But if you're looking for something, I tried the peppermint brownie Kringle over the weekend. It was my favorite Kringle I've ever had. It was instant holiday, Scotty, instant holiday. So if you're looking for something to try out, throw that in the mix

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00] because it was a game changer for me. Okay. Now that's the traditional blonde colored Kringle, but with a chocolate filling, I'm guessing? It's got a brownie filling and it's got peppermint on top.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01] That sounds great. Brother, it's unbelievable. So I'll go there, order a hundred of those and use the code CMOCT26 to get 10% off that order. You also mentioned to me that Costco has their peppermint bark back. There's too many sweets in my life right now. I'm trying to be good. It's hard when you're sponsored by Kringle though, and there's always Kringle in the office.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00] It's hard when you're diabetic too. Yeah. I have an email from Chris Colpac. Chris says, happy holidays. Here's a follow-up on my on-screen debut in a Christmas movie. A promo picture was released for the film and I am in the background. I'm hoping that I will get some screen time. The holiday season is always awesome, but this will make it extra special. And I took the screen capture that Chris sent us and I put it on our Instagram so you can check it out.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01] Hey, not every day as an extra, you get to be in the promo picture as well. So pretty good call there. I like it. That's awesome. Christmas Cookie Caper is the movie he's going to be in. And that's a December 10th on up TV. So you can look forward to that.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00] Oh, I said Hallmark movie. It's an up TV movie. It's an up TV movie.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01] If you know, if you really want the full experience, go watch the puzzle time mystery from last holiday season, do a double feature and, and, uh, and be on the lookout for Chris

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00] in the background. And then finally, we have an email from Heidi Levine Gonzalez. Heidi says, I'm listening while working in my elementary school performance arts classroom. I teach music, dance and theater to our 310 students ages four through 11 in the Los Angeles area for this year's concert. I decided to change things up a bit rather than choose the performance pieces. Myself. I asked the teachers to choose the songs, dances, recitations, et cetera, that they would like their class to perform. I was curious what you would choose. If you were one of the teachers at my

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00] school, uh, I would like to pose this question to the Christmas morning people. I would love to know what the listeners come up with a few parameters. The performance is on choir risers in a gym and the piece cannot be longer than three minutes. I look forward to hearing your choices and maybe I'll use

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01] them for Christmas of 2027. Any ideas brand? I mean, I always like a sleigh ride because you can do different things with the risers. You know, you can have some of the kids go, nay, have a kid, have a kid hit the blocks. There's lots you can do with sleigh ride.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00] I'm going to provide a, an opinion that may not be super popular, but I don't enjoy hearing kids singing. Heidi, I understand that you do. You've made it your life purpose. That's wonderful. And I'm glad you do it. I've had to sit through many, uh, a concert in my day. The ones that I enjoy are the ones that are intentionally silly because they're always kind of awful to start with. So if you can do something like the, that song, there's something stuck up in the chimney

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00] and I don't know what it is like, okay, you got me laughing. You got me chuckling. That's pretty good.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_01] Okay. There you go. All right. Some good, good feedback there. And while we're, um, before we wrap up the mailbag, Scotty, I am looking over here at the physical mailbag. I already have four packages. I think for the daily episodes, things are getting out of hand. I don't know how we started this tradition of, uh, having stuff mailed to us, but I'm not upset about it. I'm getting very

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00] excited. Uh, so the listeners are doing something this year and we're, we've been mostly left in the dark on it, but it's some sort of advent calendar for the dailies and it's provided by listeners. I'm so excited. This is incredibly thoughtful and we've been told not to open these and that's fine. They're sitting, they're sitting by my desk. I ain't touching them. So I will follow up and find out what the deal is. I'm not sure when we're supposed to open them. So I, I gotta make a note

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_01] to do that. We'll find out. Um, I have no new reviews, Scotty. So we will slide right past that and perhaps slide right past it, uh, for the rest of the year and then pick back up in January when

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00] maybe we have a little influx through the dailies. You could be the last red podcast review of 2026. If you get it in before next week, next week is our last regular season episode before the dailies. And, uh, we have something important to talk about at the end, uh, with that. Yes. Boy, doesn't that sound like we're going to say like, Oh, we're not coming back. Yes. Yes. That's not that it's not that it only has to do with next week's music battle. Don't it's good. It's good news.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00] Uh, all right. I do have a joke. Okay. Why doesn't anyone win the tallest Christmas tree competition

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_01] two years in a row? Um, uh, because the last winner was really prickly. Nope. You were really

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_00] close. Okay. It was because last year's winner is hard to top.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_01] All right. I'll give you that one. It's not bad. I like that. Let's do the countdown. Uh, let's do it. 65 days until Christmas 65. That's pretty low. That's nine weeks. That's nice.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00] I think I saw something the other day on Instagram, the, those like, you know, there are blank blanks until blank. And it was, there are 10 Mondays until Christmas. Whoa, not bad. That's pretty good. I like that 65 days. Well, I mean, we can do that standing in our head and most of those will have daily episodes. That's true. That's true. I mean, we're staring down the barrel of a lot of work, but I do have to admit after years of grumbling about it, I am actually looking forward

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00] to it. We get so much wonderful email from people saying like, Hey, this is part of my Christmas

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_01] tradition now. That's right. Absolutely. Look at you. I know I'm growing as a person. How about that? Your heart is that, is that the heart growing three sizes? That's right. And that's my belly growing three sizes. Oh, I see. From the Kringle. I got it. From the Kringle. Let's see the news. Today is Wednesday, October 21st. Here's the news. Scotty, this is a fun one. We've talked a little

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_01] bit about spirit Christmas, which is the spirit Halloween stores that will be turning Christmas, but evidently it is already begun in certain areas. Spirit Christmas to spin off of the popular spirit Halloween stores is opening its first batch of stores beginning Saturday, October 17th. So it happened this past weekend. Apparently it is going to open over 40 spirit Christmas locations

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01] across 15 states, which is up from last year, which was 30 stores in 12 states. So we're getting there. We're moving. They do have a spirit Christmas website where you can find if there is a store near you. But what I'm gathering from this is that, you know, they're saying the first batch of stores have already opened. So I believe that means that there are some stores that are just spirit Christmas.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_01] They're not like, they're not spirit Halloween's turning into spirit Christmas, which I think is what they did exclusively last year. So there are some already out there, Scotty. Well, that's weird.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00] I went into spirit Halloween just two days ago with my daughter because my wife and daughter went and said, Oh, it was really fun with all the animatronics. And I wanted to see it. And when you go this close to Halloween, it's starting to look a little crummy in there. Half the animatronics were broken, but it was still hopping. There was a lot of people there and the shelves were not necessarily empty. So it doesn't make sense that on, you know, whatever day you mentioned there that you're just going to

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00] like what throw all the Halloween stuff in the wood chipper out back and then pull out all the Christmas. Like, I don't know how it works, but I do have very exciting news, Brandon. Oh, go ahead. My daughter came back from her PT appointment the other day and she said, Dad, the spirit Halloween near my physical therapist says coming soon, spirit Christmas. So I'm going to be able to go and I'm going early. I'm not waiting until like December 4th when there's nothing left.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01] How about that? I don't know what that means because I don't even see Colorado on this list.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00] That doesn't, I know. I don't understand it. Do they add some? Do they just negotiate better deals? I don't know. I hope my daughter's correct. I mean, citation needed, but we'll see.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. You'll have to really put her in her place. Oh my gosh. Yeah. No college for you if you get this wrong. But to answer the question really quickly, only five stores are already open, which is in New Jersey, three in New Jersey, one in Florida, one in Ohio. The rest are opening the first week of November as they transition to spirit Halloween stores into the Christmas. Yeah. That makes more sense to me and I'm fine with that too. Yeah, absolutely. That makes sense. But I like that

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01] we're getting more. It's a pretty good increase from last year. So hopefully that means we are slowly perhaps going to transition all spirit Halloween stores into Christmas in the years to come. So that's

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00] exciting. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but we can hope that that's the direction it's going.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_01] As of right now, it looks like there's only one in South Carolina, which is in Charleston, which isn't helpful to me, but I would, I would like to see one nearby. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get to the Christmas TV minute and today's Christmas music battle and some very serious news here on Christmas morning. Welcome back, everybody. It is great to be here today talking all things Christmas here on Christmas morning. And that of course means

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_01] some Christmas TV, which there's a certain channel that you can turn on anytime you want to and get plenty of Christmas. And I believe you got us covered TV Scotty. I do. And last week we went two

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00] minutes on the Christmas minute. And that was partially because I decided in a fit of terrible ideas to read the year for every movie. I'm not doing that today. I did go through and I picked a bunch of old classic movies, but I'm not going to read the year for each one. You got the internet, you can do that yourself. So here is your Christmas TV minute, courtesy of mostlychristmas.com. Wednesday, 12 PM on Hallmark, Christmas wishes and mistletoe kisses, 12 PM on Hallmark mysteries,

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00] Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane and 2 PM on Hallmark once upon a Christmas miracle. Thursday, 2 AM on Hallmark haul out the holly. It's the only new one I've brought because I just love that movie. 10 AM on Hallmark Christmas getaway, 12 PM on Hallmark, a Christmas detour and 4 PM on Hallmark, a dream of Christmas. Friday, 6 AM on Hallmark, my Christmas dream, 12 PM on Hallmark Christmas under wraps and 2 PM on Hallmark mysteries, just in time for Christmas. Saturday, 2 AM on Hallmark

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00] mysteries, finding Christmas, 12 PM on Hallmark Christmas with Holly, 6 PM on Hallmark mysteries, every Christmas has a story and 10 PM on Hallmark mysteries, Christmas land. Sunday, 12 PM on Hallmark, a Royal Christmas and 3 PM on Fee TV, white Christmas. That's the 1954 movie. Monday, 6 AM on Hallmark family for Christmas, 8 AM on Hallmark, the mistletoe promise, 10 AM on Hallmark, one starry Christmas and 2 PM on Hallmark mysteries, charming Christmas. Finally, Tuesday,

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00] 2 AM on Hallmark mysteries, best Christmas party ever, 6 AM on Hallmark, the perfect Christmas present, 6 PM on Hallmark once upon a holiday. And finally, 8 PM on Hallmark mystery, a bride for Christmas. And that was your Christmas TV minute courtesy of mostlychristmas.com.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_01] Nice. That's a good, good batch of stuff there. Very exciting. And a reminder, I believe, Scott, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but we are not doing TV listings during the dailies. Correct. Again this year. So next week will be our final Christmas TV minute for the year.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00] Yep. And if you're new and you haven't experienced the dailies before, yes, we have an episode every weekday and we try to keep them to 10 to 12 minutes because I don't want this to turn into a chore for everybody to get through. I understand what it's like to have a podcatcher full of episodes that you just can't get to. So we try to keep them short. We only read one email. We don't do the Christmas TV minute and the battle is just you and me.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01] That's exactly right. Speaking of battles, let's get to last week's Christmas music battle results.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00] Oh my goodness. Yes.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_01] It was the original Christmas song battle in last place with 17% of the vote. It's Everybody Knows It's Christmas by Pineyger, which I liked and only 13 others did. So I brought it and I came in last place, which is tough.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00] That's tough. I didn't love this one. It's very distinct. Very, very staccato. But you know, but Hey, a bad Christmas song is better than a good day on the golf course or whatever they say.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01] That is the saying. That's the saying we all know and love a second place with 39% of the vote, a grumpy cat's Christmas wish by elemental magic.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00] This was brought by me and almost 39% of the vote, only four votes behind the winner, but I could not be more happy about losing. And you know why brand? Why? Because the listeners tied it up with only home for Christmas by music city. This was brought to us by Michelle Byerly. So Michelle, you have the honor of knowing that you brought the song. Well, that was picked by the

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00] randomizer that tied it up 12 to 12 to 12. There you go. How about that brand? This is up there with the moon landing and the sequencing of the human genome in importance, right? We're going into the last battle as a tie. Whoever wins next week wins for the year. And I know what you're thinking, because I thought this yesterday when I texted you, Brandon said, Oh crap, we have two battles left. What we're going to do is make the final battle. That's going to be next week. We're just going

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00] to make it an exhibition because we won't have a full episode to announce the winner and congratulate them because the dailies are going to be starting after the songs that are picked this week. One of those is going to make either brand Scott or the listeners, the champion for 2026. How about that?

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_01] This is exactly what I wanted. This is that very exciting. Is this? It's very exciting. And I got to be honest, a perfect song, I believe to be our final real battle to see who decides it. It's

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00] white Christmas. Is there a more Christmassy song than that? I picked white Christmas because snow was in my forecast. Well, no snow happened. A bunch of people did email me and say, I hope you get your snow. It was very thoughtful of you all. I appreciate it. Got my cold temperatures though. I went out into the garage and it was 34 degrees. Wow. Yeah. I was not used to that. And that was surprising. I could have left my Kringles just sitting there on the car. Wow. How about that? I didn't, but I could have,

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01] but you could have. And also this also worked it really well this week because multiple people sent in the same song, which means it automatically gets picked for the listeners and it's not a

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00] randomizer. So this is a true battle. So two listeners picked the song that will be the listener submissions this week. We're obviously not going to tell you what it is because this is a blind competition. What do we have first? That's right. Up first, we have White Christmas by Maul Worf.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_03] I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_03] tree tops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow. In the snow. I'm dreaming of a white

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_03] Christmas. With every Christmas card I write. May your days, may your days, may your days be merry and bright. And may all your Christmases be white. Do, do, do, do.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_00] Brandon, will we get the acapella bump on that one? It's hard to know. That's the question.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01] That's the question. Maul, that's not the sound I would have expected from a group called Maul Worf.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00] No, and I saw the name of the group and I said, that's reminding me of like Darth Maul. And it turns out we've done Maul Worf before. So it's not the first time they've been here. All right. Very good. It's a completely normal acapella group. It's not like people in Darth Maul

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_01] costumes are. I wish. It's not too late, Maul Worf. Up next, we have White Christmas by Damon and Naomi.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_02] I'm dreaming of a water smiths just like the ones I used to know. The treintops glisten and children listen. To hear slay bells in the snow.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00] That is a traditional slow boy.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_01] It's a traditional slow boy with very interesting harmony choices on it. We talk a lot, Scotty, about groups taking a chance, taking a risk, and we'll see if it pays off for Damon and Naomi.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00] Yeah. If you want to hit a home run, you have to swing hard.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_01] Right. Last but not least, this is White Christmas by Steph Morin.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_05] I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to listen. Listen, sleay bells in the snow.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_05] Christmas, Mrs. B. White.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00] Brand a country version. Not bad. Not bad at all. Three very distinct choices. Very different. Nobody's going to say, oh, that was, you know, it was just a toss up between two. No, it's not. Somebody is going to be a clear winner. Do you think you know who's going to win? I actually have no idea. Usually you and I kind of pick it while we're listening to it. Not this week.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01] I got a feeling.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00] Okay. All right. We'll see. We got listener submissions from Mary Pulte, Jesse Jackson, Adam Parker, Kim Gazarek, Jack Unverfurth, Lance Garman, John Rice, Jeffrey Dale, Katie Carollo, Michelle Byerly, and Drew Basek. What a huge crop of people. And we couldn't be more happy about that. Thank you all for submitting. We could not do this without you. And it is the battle. It's exactly how you would want it to go.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01] Absolutely. I can't wait to see who wins out. This is a very exciting battle. Usually it's a runaway. I did look back.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00] The listeners won the last three years, I think. And it's been a blowout. And we talked about one of the possible reasons why is because I was picking which of the listener songs, which introduces a human element to it. So this year it was randomized. And look how it worked out. I would say swimmingly.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_01] Swimmingly indeed. Well, next week is instrumental. It is an exhibition. So it doesn't really count towards anything. But it will be fun to have a little instrumental here.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_00] Yeah. I love the idea of instrumental capping off the year. Yeah. As well. Fantastic. It's just perfect.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_01] So go ahead. Go to band camp and send in some instrumental tracks. And one of them will get played. It'll be a lot of fun. And we also have our party episode, our final Christmas party episode coming out in a couple days. Yeah. Just a few days. And we also have our Halloween evening episode, which will be coming out, I don't know, on the 30th or 31st. I don't know.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00] Probably the 30th.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. To give you guys a little time. So coming back next week. It's going to be a lot of fun. Until then. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00] You're about to hear some ads that help pay for our trip back and forth to the North Pole. Feel free to listen. Feel free to bail now. But either way, thanks for being here.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_04] Ho, ho, ho.