Christmas Unwrapped: Discovering Joy with CHRISTINE TRIMPE

Have you ever wondered how to find joy amidst the chaos of the holiday season? Do you wish to delve deeper into the true spirit of Christmas, beyond the social media posts and the extra traditions? This enlightening episode with Christine Trimp, author of "Seeking Joy Through the Book of Luke," might just be the solace you've been searching for. Christine takes us through her journey of spiritual discovery and transformation, revealing the treasures of peace and joy she unearthed from the Gospel of Luke during each December, a tradition that sparked the idea for her book.

As we navigate the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, Christine's words remind us to slow down and invest our time intentionally in prayer, Bible study, and connecting with God's word. We discuss the unique tradition of Christine's in-laws who celebrate Christmas in August, a testament to the fact that joy and faith do not need a calendar. We also delve into the struggles of the holiday season, punctuating the importance of reconnecting with the true meaning of Christmas amidst the glitter and glamour.


The episode takes a deeper plunge into the essence of joy, discussing how we can cultivate it even during challenging times. The conversation shifts to the importance of starting small when seeking joy, and how elements like prayer, fasting, worship, and scripture can facilitate this journey. We challenge misconceptions about joy, emphasizing the importance of trust in God and His plans. We conclude by highlighting the value of Christian podcasts like Out of the Darkness in providing guidance and inspiration on this spiritual exploration. Tune in for a soulful journey that promises to uplift your spirits and guide you to the path of true joy.

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Speaker 1: 0:00

I love to invite the readers to come on in and seek joy. Let the joy seep into your heart and then go speak it. So I say seek joy, seep joy, speak joy, and that's something that you should be able to remember and take away with you every day.

Speaker 2: 0:21

Hi, I'm Ruth Hubs-Upkin. Welcome to the Out of the Darkness podcast, where we help you navigate life's trials based on faith and biblical truths. My guest today is Christine Trimp, and she is here to talk about joy and how we can find joy through the busy and hectic season of Christmas. She we're talking about her book, Seeking Joy Through the Book of Luke, so join us and find out how you can find joy. Welcome, Christine, to Out of the Darkness today. I am excited to have you back and we are talking about the upcoming holiday season Christmas and yay. Many people are probably not ready for Christmas yet, but we wanna help them get ready for that Christmas season.

Speaker 1: 1:17

Yes, I love the Christmas season.

Speaker 2: 1:20

Yeah, I do too, actually, to be honest, and it's more because I get to have all my kids together in one room and it's Mayim in the house, it's like I have little children.

Speaker 2: 1:35

My youngest is 26, but I sometimes feel like she's six years old and the others are just as young. So it's a good time for us, but we wanna talk about something a little bit different than the usual. What gifts to buy? What to do it's? What can we do to really prepare for Christmas and what Christmas is? And can you tell us a little bit about this beautiful book that you have?

Speaker 1: 2:06

Oh, I would love to. I love to prepare my heart and to help women prepare their hearts for Christmas, for the true meaning, the true spirit of Christmas, and I began digging into the Gospel of Luke back in 2018, during the month of December. Every year, I would read on December one, I would read Luke one, and then, on December two, I would read Luke two, and I started blogging about it. That was the year I also started. My blog was in 2018 and I just wrote little blog snippets about it, and I just I love how Luke, at the very beginning, in the first chapter, he says that he set out to write us an orderly account. And I don't know about you, ruth, but I love things being orderly. I'm a type A person, I'm an accountant so when I like right from the very beginning, when I read that, I was like, oh, this is gonna be great, luke is being orderly about this. So I really loved this new tradition that I started back in 2018. And so I continued blogging each year with it, and the way that the book came to be, which I've titled Seeking Joy Through the Gospel of Luke a Christmas to Calvary Advent Countdown the way the book came to be. I'll share.

Speaker 1: 3:28

That story is the Christmas of 2020 was approaching and I don't think any of us will anytime soon forget Christmas 2020. I remember seeing on the news that we weren't supposed to spend Christmas holidays with our family. I have elderly parents. They weren't. I wasn't gonna be spending Christmas with my elderly parents or my brothers and their families, and I just saw so much weariness around me.

Speaker 1: 4:00

I know that the world was deeply troubled by what was going on and the lyrics, a phrase from the song oh Holy Night. These lyrics kept playing over and over in my mind the weary world rejoices, the weary world rejoices. And I remember crying out to God, saying, yes, we are weary. And the Holy spirit prompted me and reminded me that I know about rejoicing now, like I had just gone through an incredible transformation story myself, which we talked about in our other episode. And, yeah, and my heart was full of so much joy and the Lord prompted me to just write about this joy and so in 2020.

Speaker 1: 4:44

I did. I switched when I was writing about the daily time in Luke and I invited my blog readers, my Facebook readers, to come on a joy-seeking journey with me through the month of December, because we were going to take this chaotic Christmas during COVID and flip it upside down on its head, and we were going to set out and remember what the true meaning of Christmas is all about the good news of great joy, as the angels announced in Luke chapter two.

Speaker 2: 5:14

So that's how the book became to be. It's amazing how you can always find the good in something bad and you know, with God at the helm, it's always so much easier to find that joy, and I love that. Because Christmas has become so commercialized, and we've been saying this for many years. It's not something new, but we tend to become so busy. Even within the church community and amongst believers, we remember that Christmas is about this amazing gift that was given to us.

Speaker 2: 5:57

And yet we become so overwhelmed and we see it on the faces of mothers getting ready for Christmas and on the faces of the fathers preparing for Christmas, or those that are perhaps alone and have no family, no children or, you know, are somewhere far away from home. And I think this is a great reminder that we are to be joyful. And I recently had someone I was away on a missions trip and someone commented there to me and said do you always smile and laugh even when something is wrong? And I said, well, there are a couple of things. One, it's a coping mechanism for me. That's how I deal with things.

Speaker 2: 6:53

But, second since coming back to the Lord and getting a second chance in life. I am happy, I am joyful. It doesn't mean I don't deal with, you know, negativity. It doesn't mean I don't deal with pains or heartbreak. It just means I am able to see past that and have this peace, a God given peace. I was going to say a very weird sense of peace, but it's not weird, it's God given right and I love that. And you know, give us a few tips to, or what is it that you recommend to people to do to start finding this sort of peace and joy during this holiday season.

Speaker 1: 7:49

Well, people might get tired of me saying this all the time when they listen to podcast episodes, but the life transforming thing, the heart transforming thing, the most important thing that you can do is to pick up your Bible and spend time in God's Word daily.

Speaker 2: 8:07

It's truly.

Speaker 1: 8:08

That's where you will find your nourishment, where everything that you need to satisfy the longings in your heart, the cravings in your heart, whatever is missing out from your heart God.

Speaker 1: 8:23

I was talking to a coaching client the other day and she even brought up this God-sized hole that we have in our soul and it was, I was. It was such. I loved hearing that from her, because that is one of the things I'm really passionate about is, oftentimes women, we get overwhelmed, we get in situations, we're going through hardships, we're going through trials, we are comforting ourselves, we're filling those holes in our souls with what it's, all the wrong things, like what Paul writes about in Ephesians 2, where he talks about the cravings of the flesh and how we're just trying to satisfy all that. In my life did that transform? I did not understand the true meaning of joy, the biblical meaning of joy, until I started picking up my Bible every single morning, and I started doing that at the beginning of my health and healing journey and I haven't set it down since. And so that's the one thing that, if I could pass that torch on to anybody who's struggling with whatever is weighing them down, just get into God's word.

Speaker 2: 9:28

Yeah, being intentional about it. Yeah, and I remember too, we kind of started our journey, our health journey, at the same time, and this is what you know like trying to get back our health, trying to get back our lives right. That was my intention, more than the losing of the weight. At that point I wanted to regain my life because I, health wise, was in a really bad place. But, as you did, that was around the same time that I became very intentional with my prayer time and my reading the word of God, but going even deeper than that and starting to do in-depth Bible studies. So I used to have a time of reading my Bible, but I realized that with my intentional prayer, I also wanted to hear what God was saying to me, you know, through the Holy Spirit, through His words in the Scriptures, and that's when I also started to dig into the Word of God and, you know, make it a necessity in my life.

Speaker 2: 10:46

And I think that's where you know we, that's where I leave my burdens and my worries you know, at the feet of God and I also recommend over the holidays is you know we have some great traditions and I love traditions and my children love traditions. There are some things that we cannot do without, and one of you know we have their favorite desserts. If mom doesn't make it or one of my girls, you know one of us doesn't make it, they're not happy. This is, this is what it is, and you know they they love to buy gifts for each other. This is their love language.

Speaker 2: 11:32

Amongst my children, I've come to understand it. It was really difficult as they got older and started to make money and they started to purchase each other gifts and I was like but you know, this is all you guys are doing, too much. You should just. You know you guys have homes, you have families, and I came to understand this is their love language, this is how they love on each other. So I have stepped back from that. It's up to them. They're all grownups, they all know what to do, but I see sometimes certain traditions that we try to do so many things. Right To keep up with social media posts. You know everybody has it and I I think it takes away from that precious time that we have over the holidays and I always say pick and choose your favorite traditions that resonate with your family and stick to those.

Speaker 1: 12:38

Do you have any?

Speaker 2: 12:39

favorite traditions.

Speaker 1: 12:43

You're speaking of food. My, if my mom doesn't make her her stuffing that is heavy enough to spackle walls, my family gets upset. Now I don't eat that anymore. I don't eat bread. Right, Let me tell you, if mom doesn't make that, then my brothers are not happy. But I know I have a favorite tradition of going to my church's Christmas Eve service and the thing that always brings tears to my eyes is the candlelight part of it.

Speaker 1: 13:14

When we say silent night, yeah, that is my absolute favorite tradition and I've been doing that for years. I've been going to the same church off and on when I was a child and now I'm still going to the same church. But it didn't mean as much to me before I had this deeper relationship with Jesus. It just seemed like something you do at Christmas time, like you know, one of those traditions that just have to happen. But you know what the Christmas COVID taught me? This might sound a little strange, but not having to do any of those things, it was kind of like a breath of fresh air. I know that sounds odd, because we were sad that we weren't spending time with our family.

Speaker 1: 14:00

But there was all these other things that went by the wayside that when you look back and you reflect on that and you think like, is that really important? You know, is that part of what we traditionally do? What is the significance of it? Why are we doing that? And I actually kind of appreciated that that slowed down Christmas season. It helps me write my book. I gave it time to write my book for sure. But yeah, I don't know. I could look back on, reflected it and there was. There was something good that came out of it.

Speaker 1: 14:33

I think a lot of people were able to press pause and think you know what is, what is the real meaning of Christmas and why are we doing this and why do we go all out and decorate to the hilt and and all of those things. So I think it gave a lot of people food for thought.

Speaker 2: 14:52

We have a. I have some in-laws that celebrate Christmas in August, in the middle of summer, because they're all over the place, right. They have family in Canada, all across Canada, and then they have family in the US and the and they're a fairly large family, you know, with a lot of children and grandchildren. And you know, in the first time I heard about it I was like you do what, when and? But over the years, like these, these are through marriage, I know them and you know, over the last 30 years, plus years, seeing them do this makes so much sense. They give such a relief over the actual, you know like, christmas holiday of having to. You know, over the, you know like during winter, flying, driving.

Speaker 2: 15:47

You know we have two sides of family, right, you have yours, your husbands. Everybody wants to be, you know, with their family, so this really gives them an opportunity to do that. So I, I have a different tradition in that way that I have one daughter that is married and lives about eight hours away and they, they always want to come home for Christmas. But I've told my children, you know, if you're in laws want to celebrate Christmas with you on the 24th or the 25th, go to them and do it. We'll pick another day with a family. I just need that day with you guys to celebrate, to do our family get together. You know the yearly get together, so to speak, so it's worked out that way. You know, like I think, as parents too with older kids, we need to relieve the pressure on them and for them to allow them to create their own traditions.

Speaker 1: 16:52

Yes, I definitely don't have any intention of making it stressful on my kids, like if I would do it on the 26th as well, just like you.

Speaker 2: 17:01

Yeah, I, yeah, we have to. So let's go back a little bit to your book and tell us a little bit about how we can use our book to to guide us through the holiday season, and I strongly recommend that everybody get their books now order your books and have it in time so that you can start on December, the first.

Speaker 1: 17:26

Right and you could grab it off of Amazon and have it before December 1, because on the morning of December 1, I would love for you to grab your cup of coffee, or whatever hot drink it is that you like to drink, and sit down with your Bible, open up to Luke, chapter one, read Luke chapter one, and then I have a devotion each day to accompany it. The devotions are not very long, but I do leave you with some pondering questions. Where did you find the joy? How are you going to apply what you learned about joy today to your, your day to day activities, like, how can you bless somebody today with an extra dose of joy? And then I end it with a little prayer. But the whole, the big theme of this joy seeking journey is to go in and find the joy.

Speaker 1: 18:16

And scripture, a lot of these chapters use the word. Luke actually uses the word joy, or it's translated into our language as joy, and. But some of those chapters are so hard. In the gospel of Luke, when we, when Jesus is approaching Calvary, the word joy is not used in there. But when you look in between the stories and you see that Jesus went to the cross for the joy, he did that for us, he made that sacrifice for us, and if he did that for the joy, then how can we, you know, sit here and not let that joy seep into our lives, seep into our heart, and not be like the, the, the angels who, who shouted about this good news of great joy? When I experienced true joy for the first time in my life, I wanted to speak about it. For the first time in my life as well. I'm not, as I was never. I'm an introvert, ruth.

Speaker 1: 19:18

Believe it or not, I know we've gotten to know, each other a little bit, but I am an introvert, so being called into writing and speaking and coaching is a complete my mind blow for me because I never would have expected this. But now I love to invite the readers to come on in and seek joy, let the joy seep into your heart and then go speak it. So I say seek joy, seep joy, speak joy, and that's something that you should be able to remember and take away with you every day. And the gospel of Luke is just a wonderful book in the Bible and scripture it's. It shares the entire story of Jesus's life and I love that, especially for some readers that I've heard from that may not have known. Like the the story of Jesus in the gospel, so Luke is is a very good gospel for sharing what he did during his time on earth is fully God and fully man.

Speaker 2: 20:20

Yeah, it's, it's, you know, if we go back to the basics I think that's what it is, you know, like society is telling us if you do this, you'll you'll find joy, and if you accomplish this, you'll be happy. And if you, you know, attain wealth, you'll be happy. If you lose weight, you will be happy. If you get married, you will be, you know, happy. But it's not true, you know, and young people are being deceived by this, and even Christians are falling into this, into this mindset and this trap of finding happiness in all of the wrong places and or the joy, you know.

Speaker 2: 21:10

And I had someone tell me recently well, I can't fake joy, I can't smile when I'm unhappy.

Speaker 2: 21:20

And it made me think about this and I and initially I was like, yeah, you're right, you know it's, it's hard, but I was thinking about it and and you know, the person was I was praying for this person because they have a lot going on in their lives. And as I was praying about this, I thought about it and I said, but it's, it's like a muscle exercise, that first smile will be small, will be difficult, will go against every little ounce of what we're feeling. Right, it's not intuitive to smile through the pain and through the hurt, and yet smiling does something to our, to our mind, and you know it. It laughter is a great medicine and I think we need to get over this. That. You know, being a Christian means that we need to be, you know, I don't know very serious, very. You know there's there's a few ways that it's been described, but I think that I'm not telling people to fake the joy, I'm not telling people to fake happiness, but it's it's those first steps, you know.

Speaker 2: 22:45

Start to read the word of God, as you said, you know, start reading. And, luke, I think I think having a book guide you as your book, you know, through the steps and doing the devotions is a great way to start your own journey to find joy and peace and happiness. Right, because only in Christ will we be happy.

Speaker 1: 23:13

So, right, I don't know, yeah, you know, when I started this joy journey I did some research on joy and you know that joy I found out that joy, despite it being one of the most emotional emotions of human emotions, it's the least studied scientifically. And then also one time I went and I googled statistics about joy and every single headline, not one of those headlines, contained the word joy. It was all happy or happiness. Happy, happy to sell. The world is very confused about joy and that's why I also have a passion for teaching people about biblical joy and true joy.

Speaker 1: 24:00

And after I wrote the book. Actually, during the time I was writing the book, I was going through a significant trial with my family and it dragged on for years to two full years until it came to completion and it didn't end up the way that we wanted it to do it definitely was something that was trying attempting to steal my joy, to rob my joy, but because I had that joy down in my heart to stay, I was able to survive those trials and that storm and I was able to.

Speaker 1: 24:37

What I learned out of that, which blossomed out of the joy and the peace that I had from this beginning journey of spending time in God's Word every day, is what I learned through that trial is that it's my job to trust God and God's job is the outcome. So it's another lesson that we learned. You know there's so many lessons that we spend time in God's Word, but I'm positive that that joy in the Lord is the thing that kept me getting out of bed, especially on those really hard days with our family trials. So, definitely, joy is misunderstood, but as Christians, it's in his word and you will start feeling it in your heart when you you know when you spend time in his word. You spend time nurturing relationship, prayer, prayer, fasting, worship, reading scripture, edifying yourself with Christian podcasts that you like, like this one, you know, just staying in, staying in his presence all day long is is what I love to do as well.

Speaker 2: 25:47

Yeah, I think that you know, the advice that we give to those who are Christians and disciples of Christ is a little bit different than what we would give to someone who hasn't had that renewal in life right, that being born again in Christ. So, you know, as Christians, we have the tools. It's just for us to use those tools and we, and and I'm just as guilty, you know, of excuse me, of not using those tools and and, you know, falling into this despair, but I, I, you know I said this before, but I really compare this and and look at it as a muscle. You know, when we exercise, the first few times, it's difficult, we don't want to do it, we just don't want to get up and move or whatever it is. But once we start, there is that reflex of doing it and we want to do it and we love the feeling of doing it.

Speaker 2: 26:56

And I think that's what it is with the tools that have been given to us prayer, huge proponent of prayer. You know, I that has been, you know what I've been writing about and studying about the last, you know, three, four years, and there's so much to learn and I, I push that all the time. No one understands you the way that God understands you, no matter how bad the situation is, no matter how you feel, take it to the Lord and sit and listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to you.

Speaker 2: 27:36

Take, the word of God, as you said, you know, christine, and and and read it and allow it to speak to you and make that time. It's just we're too busy. You know, I find the busyness right and especially during this Christmas season, we become so busy we forget what we need to be doing. Take those times. You know you made a comment about being, you know, an accountant and liking things to be orderly, and I'm a detailed person and I like my routines and I like things to be in a certain way. It's great. It's great in business, but sometimes it agitates people around you when I when I'm very, you know, like looking into those details, but it what works for me.

Speaker 2: 28:30

When I first started, you know, back in the 2017, 18, was putting prayer in my calendar. I'm not talking about the prayer that we do, you know, like throughout the day. I mean intentional prayer, because if, if I didn't, I'd be too tired at night, I'd get up in the morning and I'd start something and I wouldn't have, you know, I I wouldn't think about stopping and praying. So I put it in my calendar. It worked for me and I know people some people can't do that, but I put it in my calendar and it makes me stop every day at a certain time and every day may be different right, depending on other issues, work. You know whether I'm recording or writing, but I know that every day I spend time with the Lord. You know I spend time studying and I spend time reading the word of God. It's just so important.

Speaker 1: 29:38

Absolutely. I borrow. To borrow a phrase from my pastor I when you be, he encourages people to pick up their Bible and he says it is going to be a discipline at first, but very soon you'll realize it's your daily delight. And I also black out my calendar. I have, from five o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock blacked out for my Bible and beans time that's what I call it, and I don't always wake up at five o'clock in the morning, I sometimes don't wake up till seven, but I've got that time blacked out and that is my protected quiet time. And if I get done with my study a lot of times the Holy Spirit will put some dump something on me. So I use that time for writing as well. So it is, it's protected time. It's important, it's super important to to have that time.

Speaker 2: 30:30

Yes, it is, it's a discipline. You're really, you're right about that, you know, and I, I, we discipline ourselves for so many things.

Speaker 2: 30:41

We also need to discipline ourselves for God's glory, and I think that that is so important and I always just thought, you know, like I'll, I'll open up my Bible when I have time, or I really want to study this, but never had the time for it, but it's. I've gained so much from it, you know, and it has helped me through so much and understanding the importance of of what the word of God is is telling us Is there. Is there a portion of Luke that speaks to you the most? You know, like I know, the whole. It's hard to pick and choose, yeah, but when you were writing your, your book, what, what section, spoke to you the most? Or maybe it's changed since you wrote your book, you know, three years ago to today, and why? Why you know if there's been a change?

Speaker 1: 31:48

Yes, when I wrote the book, the verse that struck me the most was in Luke 2 19, where it talks about Mary pondering and treasured all these things in her heart.

Speaker 1: 31:59

So we were, you know, during that COVID Christmas season. Like I said, it just was like time to breathe and ponder and treasure all these things in your heart, the things that are going on. I have a favorite section from each of the chapters in the Gospel of Luke, but I think one that would resonate with your audience is in Luke 10, where Jesus goes to visit the sisters. Martha and Mary are busy preparing. Well, Martha is busy preparing for his visit, and the reason I can remember Martha, I think of Martha Stewart, who's very hospitable. So Martha's busy, busy, busy getting things ready for Jesus. If there's her Little sister, maybe I don't know for sure she's our little sister, but you know how we feel about our little sister.

Speaker 1: 32:50

Like there's her little sister sitting there at the feet of the Jesus not doing a thing, not lifting a finger, and Martha's not so happy about that and she actually is bold and courageous and goes and talks to Jesus about it. And I love that part too because, like you said, we can share, like God can handle. Yeah, whatever it is that we have on our that's weighing down our hearts, and we can go to him and we could trust him and he can get good guidance. And he did, he, he was, I feel like he was very kind to Martha and Said Martha, martha, you know you're worried about so many things, but Mary is choosing what is better, she's choosing what is best. And that's sitting at my feet and listening to my teaching and just soaking it in.

Speaker 1: 33:38

And I, you know Martha, sometimes gets a bad rap for the story, but I'm pretty sure that she walked away with that, from that story, from that situation, from that time in her life, with a greater and better understanding of truly how compassionate Jesus is for each and every one of us. And it also is a good lesson on Overwhelm during the holiday season. You know just if you spend some time in that, ladies that that story is in Luke, chapter 10. If you spend some time there, are you gonna be a Martha or are you gonna be a Mary? You know what are, what are. How are you gonna balance that out? I believe that we all have to find some kind of balance. You know when we're hosting Christmas dinner and stuff like that, but have you made the time to be a Mary before things get crazy and chaotic and and you know you have 10 grandchildren and Flowing into your door? Things are about to get crazy.

Speaker 2: 34:38

So yeah, I just I love that story as well too and I think it's really applicable to women in the Christmas season, something that we you know it's Taking it a little bit on the humor side of what you were saying. With Mary and Martha, I love to host, I love having people over, I love cooking for people and whatnot, mm-hmm. But I also have to remind myself that I Want to stop and enjoy the laughter and I want to stop and enjoy the people that are in my life, because Some are older, some are moving away, whatever the scenario is, and I just thank God that I have that privilege of mm-hmm, you know, serving and enjoying my, my family. So, yeah, we need to have a good balance of Mary and Martha.

Speaker 1: 35:35

I agree with you there.

Speaker 2: 35:36

Christine yes, christine, to. To wrap things up, tell us how People can get in touch with you. I know that you have recently launched also a course for. Tell us a little bit about that, because I don't want to give the wrong information.

Speaker 1: 35:56

Yeah, as a Christian health and wellness coach, I just launched a brand new program called the sugar freed me weight loss solution and it's a 13 week program to help women bust their sugar cravings, conquer those cravings so that they can start moving Towards their weight loss goals. They're at ultimate weight loss dreams. So I have a way to connect with me is right on my website at Christine trip comm, and there's right at the top of that you can grab my free crush your cravings guide and that'll get us connected and you know I can share more information with you that way. And then, if you're interested in seeking joy through the gospel of Luke, a Christmas to Calvary, advent countdown, you can also find information about that on my website, christine trimpt comm slash joy. It gives you all the details about the book, but it's also available on Amazon.

Speaker 2: 36:50

Yeah, thank you so much, Christine, and I highly recommend everyone to go to Amazon, order Christine's book and have it ready for December, the first and Start and also give Christine your feedback, leave a review for her book and, if you're interested in starting off 20, 24 and I cannot believe I am saying this 2024 in a healthy way, connect with Christine and I am sure I I know I follow more or less the same eating. You know Style that Christine does and I'm telling you you can Get rid of your addiction to sugar and be free of that. That as well. Yes, so 2024 is a good year, started off on the right way. So, christine, I really thank you for being back on here and, you know, starting off our, our Christmas season, oh, with Joey. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 37:54

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2: 37:59

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