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Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited for the holidays because we're not

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Speaker 1: which is what we do every other time we got

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Speaker 2: You and I have never lived as adults, have never

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Speaker 2: lived in the same city as either of our parents. No,

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Speaker 2: we've always or any other family, any siblings or aunts

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Speaker 3: So that's just what the holidays mean to us.

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Speaker 2: You're getting in the car or you're getting on a

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Speaker 2: plane and you're traveling somewhere else, and this year we're

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Speaker 2: staying right right here in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: I know it's going to be incredible because that doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen often. And instead of us driving, our daughter is

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Speaker 1: going to be driving. She's making the trek across the country. Hey,

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Speaker 1: she's the one who chose to move to the East Coast.

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Speaker 3: That's what she wanted. The consequences, kid, you got to.

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Speaker 2: Pack up and drive ten hours to see your mom

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Speaker 2: and dad on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: She was so grateful when we went out to see

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Speaker 1: her on Thanksgiving and we had to pack up half

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Speaker 1: the kitchen with us to make thanks.

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Speaker 2: Given she's a young adult, her first apart right out

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Speaker 3: She's got a roommate. I'm just gonna say they don't.

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Speaker 4: Have all the supplies need.

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Speaker 2: Like, for example, I wanted to make mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: She did not have a potato peeler, so we brought

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Speaker 2: a potato peeler from home. She did not have a stand,

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Speaker 2: you know, a hand mixer to whip the potatoes into

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Speaker 2: mashed potatoes, so we.

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Speaker 3: Brought that happy to do it. But these are the

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Speaker 3: things that you do.

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Speaker 2: When you travel over the holidays, or at least that

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Speaker 2: we do when we travel over the holidays.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you're giving me Christmas idea Christmas

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Speaker 1: gift ideas right now, kitchen utensils, we should maybe put

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Speaker 1: that on the list.

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Speaker 2: And you know what would happen if we bought our

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Speaker 2: daughter a hand mixer. It would sit in her kitchen

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Speaker 2: ununius until we come next Thanksgiving and decide to make

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Speaker 2: mashed potatoes. So while you think it might be a

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Speaker 2: gift for her, it would really just be a you know,

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Speaker 2: a gift for us, a gift for us so that

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Speaker 2: we don't have to travel with all of our kitchen.

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Speaker 4: Utaxle kitchen supplies.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, she's going to be one of the one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two million Americans that are expected to

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Speaker 1: travel between December twentieth.

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Speaker 4: And January first of this year.

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Speaker 1: That breaks last year's record of one hundred and nineteen

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Speaker 1: million people. So you've got eight million people who are

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Speaker 1: going to be flying. I don't know if I would

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Speaker 1: consider this next stat as traveling. Cruising is up twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent from twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not traveling to see somebody on a cruise

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Speaker 2: unless you've got family in the Bahamas.

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Speaker 3: I guess thing. But you're taking a trip for Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're going to count that.

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Speaker 3: Wait, judges ruling. Yes, the judges have said it's acceptable.

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Speaker 4: Okay, take it.

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Speaker 1: So the demand for cruising up twenty five percent from

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Well, yeah, cruising completely shut down in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: What you want?

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Speaker 3: Big shocker there?

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Speaker 1: Hello, So you've got the average domestic round trip flight

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Speaker 1: costing about nine hundred dollars.

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Speaker 4: They're saying that's seven percent higher than last year.

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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait, wait, say the average domestic round trip

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Speaker 2: flight right now is nine hundred dollars.

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Speaker 4: Now this is the average flight.

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Speaker 3: No, but that's insane.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's ridiculous. To get those smaller flights.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not going to be as expensive seven percent

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Speaker 1: higher from last year. The busiest flying day is December

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Speaker 1: twenty first, twenty second, and then December twenty sixth, twenty eighth,

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Speaker 1: and twenty ninth. The quietest day to fly Christmas Eve

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Speaker 2: One good thing about all the people that will be

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Speaker 2: driving this Christmas. Gas prices are lowest they've been in years,

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Speaker 2: who are traveling on a budget and doing Christmas on

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Speaker 2: a budget. If you're traveling long distances, you'll save a

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Speaker 3: Tank this day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're driving, the lightest traffic days are

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Speaker 1: on the holidays themselves.

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Speaker 4: People are already where they need to be.

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Speaker 2: And we've done that before. Do you remember the one

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Speaker 2: time we flew on Christmas Day? Remind me, we went

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Speaker 1: Our daughter was a baby, and that that was right

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Speaker 1: after nine all was right after.

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Speaker 3: Nine eleven, but there was nobody at the airport.

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Speaker 2: If you have the opportunity to fly on Christmas Day,

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Speaker 2: it was like the best day ever to travel. Their

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Speaker 2: airports were empty. We had the whole plane to ourselves.

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Speaker 2: There was nobody there. It was the easiest flight I've

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Speaker 2: ever had.

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Speaker 3: In my life.

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Speaker 1: Thing that I remember most from that trip is and

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Speaker 1: again this was it was December two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: so keeping a couple of months right after nine eleven,

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Speaker 1: our daughter was just a few months old and she

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Speaker 1: had a little plush toy, a little stuffed animal. Cu

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Speaker 1: beat all and TSA was not having it. They were

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Speaker 1: like giving a full cavity search of that stuffed animal.

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Speaker 1: They were for sure they thought something nefarious was going on.

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Speaker 1: We were like, here's the baby, right here, here's the toy.

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Speaker 2: I was kind of worried that I might be next

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Speaker 2: for that cavity search. I was sweating a little bit, like,

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Speaker 2: I swear to God, there's nothing going on here.

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Speaker 4: We're just trying to see our parents.

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Speaker 3: Just traveling for Christmas. Wants the grandparents to see their grandkid.

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Speaker 3: So please keep your fingers to yourself.

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Speaker 1: And that was also days after that my brother was deployed,

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Speaker 1: because it was right after he was a NIHI.

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Speaker 3: Ex active duty in the army at the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so worst congestion days for driving December twentieth

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Speaker 1: after nine pm and after Christmas. The worst day to

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Speaker 1: travel would be December twenty sixth through December twenty eighth plan.

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Speaker 2: According can you imagine eight million people are flying this

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Speaker 2: holiday season?

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Speaker 3: For is awful?

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Speaker 2: And this is spoken from somebody who traveled for a

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Speaker 2: living for four years.

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Speaker 3: That was my job.

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Speaker 2: I was on an average of three, four, five, even

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Speaker 2: Flying has gotten so awful, so horrendous, so miserable, which.

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Speaker 1: Is why we choose to drive ten hours across the

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine getting on a plane knowing that

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Speaker 2: eight million other people are going to be flying this

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Speaker 2: holiday how uns miserable that.

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Speaker 4: Entire time million are going to be traveling somewhere.

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Speaker 1: The thing about the car is you can select your

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Speaker 1: own music, stop when you need to stop, You got

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Speaker 1: all your snacks. It's it's you know, you're in control

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Speaker 1: of your own destiny.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing with traveling during Christmas time, you're

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Speaker 2: always fighting weather too, so you know it's nothing like

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Speaker 2: you know, getting stuck at your if you're connecting in

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Speaker 2: Nashville and then all of a sudden, you're stuck in

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Speaker 2: your connecting city overnight.

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Speaker 3: That's happened to me many times. Just a flying just

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Speaker 3: no fun.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if flying was ever fun, but I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's ever been as miserable as it is.

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Speaker 1: Well, and this year, according to the Transportation secretary, you

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Speaker 1: have to wear your best clothing.

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Speaker 4: You're not allowed to do it in jammies anymore.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you mentioned weather. I wanted to bring this up briefly.

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Speaker 1: It is supposed to rain tonight and the temperature is

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Speaker 1: supposed to be much colder tomorrow morning. Plan accordingly on

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Speaker 4: You might be dealing with some elements.

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Speaker 2: Well, and here's what I picture tomorrow morning too. All

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Speaker 2: the snow's melting and it's going to rain, and then

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Speaker 2: the temperature is going.

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Speaker 3: To drop very quick quickly.

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Speaker 2: So the likelihood of all of those wet streets freezing correct.

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Speaker 3: Could make for a very interesting commute into the office tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So when you get with your family, any idea what

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Speaker 1: the number one argument is now between parents and children?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, bedtime, it's not bedtime, brush your teeth, it's not homework,

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Speaker 2: eature vegetables, not chores.

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Speaker 1: It is screen time technology the number one cause of

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Speaker 1: fights between parents and children.

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Speaker 4: This is the Kendall and Casey Show. It's ninety three

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Speaker 4: wibc s.

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Speaker 3: Mother have a

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Speaker 4: Blue blue, blue blue Christmas