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[4:22] Bryan Plofsky: Hello and welcome back to the official Broadwaysted Holiday Radio Show. Coming together during the holidays this year feels a little bit different, so we're just gonna jingle jangle our way into your hearts. I'm your host Bryan Plofsky, and oh holy night, there's no need to stay silent on this night. In the bleak midwinter, we bring joy to the world with some shepherd's pie and three kings. Not the George Clooney movie, but with the carol of the bells. Ding dong! We're merrily on high as we roll along in the candlelight. But the good King Wenceslas, he's a mean one. Or is he just the first Noel? Look what you did, you little jerk! What's sweeter music than this to make the holiday season unlimited? With us today on the show are your favorite carols, including Kevin, Carol Channing Jaeger.

[5:29] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I thank you, you sweet candy cane man.

[5:32] Bryan Plofsky: And Kimberly, our Carol Burnett game master and unofficial babysitter for the hour. Merry Christmas friends! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! We're gonna get together with our families a little bit later, but tonight it's about great friends, good news, pouring another round, cheerful music, and warm heaters because baby, it's cold outside.

[5:55] Kevin Jaeger: Brutal.

[5:56] Bryan Plofsky: I need to put on a second winter jacket. Even after all these years of living in New York, New York, a hell of a town, this Florida boy isn't ever going to get used to these winters.

[6:07] Kimberly Cooper: Honestly, Kevin, even for us, these northeast winters keep getting worse and worse.

[6:13] Kevin Jaeger: A whole lot worse.

[6:15] Bryan Plofsky: Either nothing happens or everything happens. This feels like an Everything's Coming Up Roses year.

[6:21] Kimberly Cooper: I have an idea. Let's keep it from getting colder by the minute by playing a game.

[6:27] Bryan Plofsky: What a jolly idea! What's the game, Kimberly?

[6:30] Kimberly Cooper: The game today is The Holidays Are Buzzing In.

[6:34] Bryan Plofsky: Get it? Because you have to buzz in.

[6:37] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, you have to turn into a bee.

[6:40] Bryan Plofsky: Turn into a bee.

[6:42] Kimberly Cooper: Buzzy buzzy buzzy all the way over. Okay, I have three rounds of a game inspired by Broadwaysted Christmas plays of past.

[6:46] Kimberly Cooper: Round one is a before and after. Is this what they're called on The Wheel of Fortune?

[6:57] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[6:59] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, I think so. I think they're called before and afters. But i.e. A Christmas Carol Channing. Buzz in with a before and after of a Broadway reference and a Christmas movie. So for instance, A Christmas Carol Channing.

[7:18] Bryan Plofsky: And there are five possible points and we'll just go until we've had fives.

[7:22] Kevin Jaeger: Uh.

[7:23] Kimberly Cooper: Oh god.

[7:24] Kevin Jaeger: A Christmas Drive on the Starlight Polar Express.

[7:27] Kimberly Cooper: Ooh, that's a good one.

[7:29] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, that's a good one.

[7:30] Kimberly Cooper: That is a good one.

[7:31] Kevin Jaeger: The Muppets Take Manhattan Christmas Carol.

[7:35] Kimberly Cooper: Boo.

[7:37] Bryan Plofsky: Boo.

[7:41] Kimberly Cooper: Tunnel of Love Actually.

[7:44] Bryan Plofsky: Alright.

[7:45] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kevin's on the board.

[7:47] Kevin Jaeger: Kevin's on the board.

[7:48] Kimberly Cooper: Acceptable.

[7:49] Bryan Plofsky: Okay, two points have happened. One me, one Kevin.

[7:52] Kimberly Cooper: A Christmas Story Goes On.

[7:54] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, that was a good one.

[7:55] Kimberly Cooper: A Christmas Story Goes On.

[7:56] Bryan Plofsky: That's a good one.

[7:57] Kimberly Cooper: It's a Wonderful The Life.

[7:59] Bryan Plofsky: No.

[8:01] Kimberly Cooper: You can't do that a lot of word in there.

[8:03] Bryan Plofsky: It's a Wonderful Life of the Party.

[8:05] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, excellent.

[8:06] Bryan Plofsky: There you go.

[8:07] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, Bryan has a point.

[8:08] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, Bryan has a point.

[8:09] Kimberly Cooper: Oh.

[8:10] Kevin Jaeger: Some Like It Hot Santa.

[8:12] Kimberly Cooper: It's Hot Frosty.

[8:13] Bryan Plofsky: Hot Frosty.

[8:14] Kimberly Cooper: But yes.

[8:15] Bryan Plofsky: But I love it.

[8:16] Kimberly Cooper: That's great.

[8:17] Bryan Plofsky: Some Like It Hot Frosty.

[8:18] Kimberly Cooper: That's great.

[8:19] Bryan Plofsky: Absolutely.

[8:20] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, that's really good.

[8:21] Bryan Plofsky: Okay.

[8:22] Kimberly Cooper: Hot Frosty.

[8:23] Kevin Jaeger: Oh god.

[8:24] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, Kevin has two points.

[8:25] Bryan Plofsky: Okay, let's do two more.

[8:26] Kimberly Cooper: Is This Home Alone?

[8:28] Kevin Jaeger: Excellent.

[8:29] Kimberly Cooper: Took me a second.

[8:30] Kimberly Cooper: Is this home alone?

[8:34] Kimberly Cooper: Is this Paris or Chicago?

[8:39] Kevin Jaeger: How the Grinch Stole White Christmas.

[8:41] Kimberly Cooper: No.

[8:42] Bryan Plofsky: Boo.

[8:43] Kimberly Cooper: You can't.

[8:44] Bryan Plofsky: I mean technically.

[8:45] Kimberly Cooper: It's a stage show happening at Paper Mill.

[8:47] Bryan Plofsky: No.

[8:48] Kimberly Cooper: I understand.

[8:49] Bryan Plofsky: But How the Grinch Stole.

[8:50] Kimberly Cooper: It has to be How the Grinch Stole.

[8:51] Bryan Plofsky: Christmas Carol.

[8:53] Kimberly Cooper: You can't throw the white in there.

[8:55] Bryan Plofsky: Understood.

[8:56] Kevin Jaeger: Oh.

[8:57] Kimberly Cooper: How the Grinch Stole Christmas with the Cranks.

[9:01] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[9:03] Kimberly Cooper: Wow wow wow wow.

[9:04] Bryan Plofsky: You're telling Kevin he's wrong and then stealing his ideas.

[9:07] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, no, I love that.

[9:09] Bryan Plofsky: I've gotten both of my points.

[9:11] Kimberly Cooper: Die Hard Candy Christmas.

[9:14] Kevin Jaeger: There it is.

[9:15] Kimberly Cooper: Excellent.

[9:17] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, that was a before and after. Kevin won. Kevin won round one. Excellent job.

[9:21] Kimberly Cooper: Round two. This is more Bryan coded. The Holiday Noir. Change the word of a holiday movie or like movie or musical to make it a thriller. My examples were How the Grinch Murdered Christmas.

[9:35] Kevin Jaeger: It's a Terrifying Life.

[9:38] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, great.

[9:39] Kevin Jaeger: A Christmas Slang.

[9:40] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[9:41] Kevin Jaeger: Santa Claus.

[9:42] Kimberly Cooper: Oh yes, that's a great one.

[9:44] Bryan Plofsky: Santa Claus.

[9:45] Kimberly Cooper: That's excellent.

[9:46] Kimberly Cooper: Murder Actually.

[9:48] Kevin Jaeger: Death Actually.

[9:50] Kimberly Cooper: Hot Assassin.

[9:55] Kevin Jaeger: I feel like that movie exists.

[9:57] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, it's out there.

[9:58] Bryan Plofsky: The Horror Day.

[10:00] Kimberly Cooper: The Horror Day.

[10:01] Bryan Plofsky: Yes.

[10:03] Kimberly Cooper: The Scariest Christmas Pageant Ever.

[10:05] Bryan Plofsky: I mean this is a real movie, but It's a Wonderful Knife is always fantastic.

[10:10] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[10:11] Bryan Plofsky: What an excellent title.

[10:12] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[10:14] Kimberly Cooper: Well, you don't get a point because it's real.

[10:16] Bryan Plofsky: It's a real movie, yes.

[10:17] Kimberly Cooper: It's a real movie.

[10:18] Kimberly Cooper: The Monster's Christmas Carol.

[10:23] Bryan Plofsky: This is more real, but Edward Murderhands.

[10:27] Kimberly Cooper: The Nightmare After Christmas.

[10:31] Kevin Jaeger: Die Hard.

[10:33] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, good one.

[10:34] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, yeah.

[10:35] Bryan Plofsky: Thanks, you're welcome.

[10:36] Kimberly Cooper: You're welcome.

[10:37] Bryan Plofsky: I'll be here all week.

[10:38] Kimberly Cooper: Thank you, thank you.

[10:39] Kimberly Cooper: The Princess Switchblade.

[10:41] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, excellent.

[10:42] Kimberly Cooper: Oh yeah.

[10:43] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[10:44] Bryan Plofsky: Okay, that's enough. Bryan wins.

[10:47] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, and our final round is Broad Wasted Um Actually, in which we will do Two Truths and a Lie of our favorite holiday memories from Broadwaysted times.

[10:58] Bryan Plofsky: Okay, my first favorite holiday experience is when we first released the first radio play and just like the experience of the three of us, like having listened to it and being like, oh my god, it's out there. That's so fun. So that's the first one I really cherish.

[11:20] Bryan Plofsky: The second memory that I have that I love is us putting together that manic live show during lockdown where I was doing it from like my bedroom in my parents' house.

[11:34] Kimberly Cooper: Yes, I was in a recliner.

[11:36] Bryan Plofsky: Wait, what? And I made like hot buttered rum and we'd gotten like performers to record like performances of them singing holiday songs and we like cut those into it and like I'd like created an intro and outro video. So it was just like that was an amazing time.

[11:56] Bryan Plofsky: And my other favorite time was when we had that big party at Bryan's apartment when everybody came over from like different guests and stuff. We recorded an episode of us having like a holiday party.

[12:10] Kimberly Cooper: Okay, so the third one was Kimberly's apartment. I don't remember the second one at all, so I think you're lying twice.

[12:18] Bryan Plofsky: I literally don't remember the second one.

[12:20] Kimberly Cooper: I think you're gaslighting me.

[12:22] Bryan Plofsky: It was the holidays like of 2020.

[12:24] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah.

[12:26] Bryan Plofsky: When we did a live show for, it was like broadcast on YouTube live where it was like we did like an hour and 30 minutes like a 90-minute show or an hour show. It might have only been an hour.

[12:40] Kimberly Cooper: And it was like us and like Erin Albano popped in.

[12:42] Bryan Plofsky: I think Hailey popped in. Nikisha had recorded herself singing one of the holiday songs that was in the radio play that year.

[12:50] Kimberly Cooper: Yes.

[12:54] Bryan Plofsky: I genuinely don't remember this.

[12:56] Kimberly Cooper: I don't remember this at all.

[12:58] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[13:00] Kimberly Cooper: Which just proves Kimberly's point that a lot of these memories are very easy.

[13:04] Bryan Plofsky: That's what I mean, guys. This was an easy fun game. The third one happened at Kimberly's apartment. Here are my three.

[13:12] Bryan Plofsky: The first one is the tune to Broadwaysted actually is forever stuck in my head and every holiday I cannot get it out. It is such an earworm. The second one is I don't remember that holiday show. And then the third one is when Kevin and I were sitting in the WeWork to record one of the first holiday shows and people come coming in and I think it was the Broadwaysted Christmas Carol. And then we went to Michael Cerveris' apartment and he recorded all of his Scrooge lines. We stood at like a high top table. You know.

[13:52] Bryan Plofsky: With like all of his Tony's and he recorded the Scrooge part for us. Those are my three. Okay, I will literally never forget that happening of us being at Michael Service's house to be like he's recording a funny stupid radio. Like he's playing he's like being Michael Caine for us, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we're like staring at his Tony Awards while he does this. So like just chill and having fun with us so that actually happened and the first one was about Broadwaysted actually that happens to me too. So I have to be that's real. You don't remember that thing that I slid at all?

[14:34] Kevin Jaeger: No, I don't remember it. That's not crazy. I don't remember at all.

[14:39] Bryan Plofsky: That's so funny. It exists somewhere surely. I'm sure I'm probably turned it into an episode at some point. I literally don't remember it.

[14:47] Kimberly Cooper: Okay.

[14:50] Bryan Plofsky: My three favorite memories are that Broadwaysted actually always gets stuck in my head too and going to record that I will say my favorite part of our live recording was when my Christmas tree started to fall over and I turned my camera off and then I turned it back on and it was very funny. And at the holiday party at my house because it's my old old one-bedroom apartment and getting drunk in my kitchen with Lily Cooper and Haley Petun and just like being fun and hosting. I think I can't play in this because I don't remember the second one happening at all.

[15:33] Kevin Jaeger: I think Lily could only stay for a short time. So it wasn't that I think that's your lie or it wasn't in that apartment.

[15:39] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah, that was the lie.

[15:43] Kevin Jaeger: The lie is that my Christmas tree did not fall over during our live show.

[15:50] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, that's because it didn't happen.

[15:59] Bryan Plofsky: That was the holidays are buzzing in.

[16:03] Kevin Jaeger: Park what was that sir? That wasn't part of the game. Was it?

[16:10] Bryan Plofsky: Definitely not. It sounded like the power going out, but all the recording equipment is still on it feels a lot chillier in here.

[16:20] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, it's almost as if...

[16:31] Bryan Plofsky: Well listeners, here's a holiday ditty that should hopefully keep us warm while we figure out this heating situation.

[16:36] ♪ Musical number: "The Cookie Song" — performed by Joel Chapman ♪

[20:28] Bryan Plofsky: And we're back. Luck has not been a lady tonight. It's broken. The heat is broken. No more heat wave and we're all gonna freeze to death. We just wanted it too darn hot. Sorry listeners, we're gonna have to end this radio show now so we can get home to our warm houses and loving friends and our families that will...

[21:01] Kevin Jaeger: We don't have to do that. I have an idea.

[21:06] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, yeah? Really? Yeah. What's this idea? We can't let everyone down. It's the holiday show we do it every year. It's gonna happen.

[21:11] Kimberly Cooper: Happen sometime and maybe this time we'll win.

[21:16] Bryan Plofsky: So what you're saying is we should push through and keep going because even though it's cold out our radio show has the ability to warm everybody's hearts and in turn warm the studio.

[21:23] Kevin Jaeger: Yes, that.

[21:26] Kimberly Cooper: And my Uber is like 35 minutes away, you know, what else takes 35 minutes and is warm inside?

[21:41] Kevin Jaeger: That was icky but welcome to Kevin's.

[21:46] Bryan Plofsky: Where I mean it's cold so I just I don't know what to do. So we're gonna go pretty quick with this Kevin's corner tonight. So I thought we would play a little lyric memory so the way this is gonna go cats I am going to give you the lyric from a holiday song and I'm going to stop at a certain word and I don't want you to fill in the lyric I want you to fill in the memory that would make sense as like that's the beginning sentence of your memory from a holiday memory of yours either when you're little now something that you love so this is cool. I'll start with uh, Kimberly.

[22:21] Kimberly Cooper: We never start with Kimberly on these kind of things.

[22:29] Kevin Jaeger: True. So I'll let Kimberly go first. That's my present to you this year and...

[22:32] Kimberly Cooper: It's a really thoughtful and generous gift and I appreciate it.

[22:36] Kevin Jaeger: So Kimberly yours is going to be Silent night. Holy night. All is calm. All is blank.

[22:40] Kimberly Cooper: So what holiday memory do you have that you can think of that could start out with silent night? Holy night, all is calm. All is blank.

[22:48] Kimberly Cooper: Well, the first thing that came to mind was doing a living nativity with the youth group at church in middle school.

[22:53] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, please tell.

[22:57] Kimberly Cooper: And I don't have a lot of memories of this because I wasn't like in the youth group for a long time but I remember like getting into the living nativity and I think I wasn't married, but I like let myself be like it's fine because like this shepherdess woman over here is very important.

[23:11] Bryan Plofsky: We love shepherdess or shepherd ass.

[23:18] Kimberly Cooper: Shepherdess.

[23:19] Bryan Plofsky: We love a girl who is not so sure about group commitments, but is totally into an immersive theater experience.

[23:27] Kimberly Cooper: Yes, exactly. I was like and I think we had to like stay still and I was just like everyone is going to be so impressed with us.

[23:38] Kevin Jaeger: That's so funny.

[23:40] Kimberly Cooper: Um, I don't know why but I was like it was cold and I was like we're pushing through it guy.

[23:45] Bryan Plofsky: Yes, just like right now.

[23:48] Kevin Jaeger: Oh, I love it. Oh, okay Bryan yours yours is gonna be I'm gonna give you a hard one jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the...

[23:59] Bryan Plofsky: What?

[24:00] Bryan Plofsky: Way to Plano, Texas where I visited, uh, Jay's family and had like my first like movie Christmas like for real like did it up on you know?

[24:11] Bryan Plofsky: Like I went to church on the 24th then had a big uh dinner on the 24th that night on Christmas Eve and then we uh, you know, you do the stock. They do the stockings that night.

[24:27] Bryan Plofsky: Um, and and you decorate the you get pajamas and you decorate the smaller Christmas tree with all the fun ornaments and then the next day this was before the grandkids um, you would drink mimosas do um monkey bread, but before the grandkids you would actually go in order of like reverse order of birth and it would take all morning to actually open up all the gifts and it was just and then and then uh, we did Chinese food in a movie for me after we did all of that so that was I mean it was like it was fully decked out the house is totally decorated like that was my first like real Christmas experience that was like what?

[25:09] Kevin Jaeger: 2017 or something like that. So yeah that one.

[25:14] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, I love that even before then.

[25:16] Bryan Plofsky: It may have been 2016.

[25:18] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah.

[25:20] Kevin Jaeger: That's an answer I can do Christmas.

[25:22] Kimberly Cooper: Yeah, she can.

[25:26] Kevin Jaeger: Do we pick a lyric for you?

[25:26] Bryan Plofsky: Yeah.

[25:30] Kevin Jaeger: Never was there ever such a Christmas.

[25:30] Kevin Jaeger: Okay, uh, never was there ever such a Christmas as the first Christmas that I had so I when I was very like little we lived in Ohio and then around like fourth or fifth grade. Why oh why we moved to uh, Florida.

[25:34] Bryan Plofsky: Okay.

[25:46] Bryan Plofsky: So I will never forget the first Christmas we spent in Florida because there happened to be like a heat wave that December and so it was like 70 degrees on Christmas day and so all of us came down and got our did normal Christmas where we got our presents and then we were like wait, like we can go outside and play with these now and my parents like I guess yes and so like we went outside and like played with the toys that we'd been given for outside and it was just such a weird experience. We're like I'm wearing shorts, but it's Christmas and there's like Christmas lights on all the palm trees around us and like we thought we were like on Christmas vacation and like now I've come to love it and that's like what I think of Christmas but like I'll never forget that first year when it was like we were all like we're on vacation Christmas learning that that's just how Florida people do it now I go back and it's like 50 degrees and I have like two sweaters on and I'm like god, it's cold.

[26:46] Bryan Plofsky: And for those listening and didn't know what the heck I was talking about never was there ever such a Christmas show just fill your hearts with Christmas with someone that you know at the Radio City Christmas show.

[26:56] Kevin Jaeger: Cats.

[26:59] Bryan Plofsky: TV.

[27:00] Kevin Jaeger: Jingle that I will I sing subconsciously during the holiday season I'll start like singing that out loud and then Jamie will be like you do you know or do you not know you're singing that out loud right now and it's like a 50 50 shot. I know what I'm doing.

[27:15] Kimberly Cooper: That's really funny.

[27:21] Kevin Jaeger: I've only seen their springtime.

[27:21] Bryan Plofsky: Oh when we saw Danny.

[27:24] Kevin Jaeger: I've still never seen the raw Cats Christmas.

[27:24] Kevin Jaeger: Yeah, and this has been Kevin's corner.

[27:26] Kimberly Cooper: Oh, it's so...

[27:26] Kimberly Cooper: Yay!

[27:34] Bryan Plofsky: Well listeners as Kevin's Uber gets closer we're gonna grab some blankets and bedding and uh, I canceled it to stay here with us.

[27:36] Kevin Jaeger: No to book a lift. It's still 20 minutes away though. I think my tears are freezing.

[27:45] ♪ Musical number: "Christmas in Outer Space" — performed by Sheridan Stevens ♪

[30:06] Bryan Plofsky: We're back again, listeners, and we're freezing.

[30:13] Kevin Jaeger: And covered in blankets, and so we just need to get through the end of the episode.

[30:20] Kimberly Cooper: We're huddled together, trying not to get frostbite, dreaming of steam heat.

[30:28] Bryan Plofsky: Should we end the episode now? Can I even move my frozen finger to hit the stop button?

[30:36] Kevin Jaeger: I think it's about time.

[30:39] Kimberly Cooper: No. No, wait. I figured it out.

[30:43] Bryan Plofsky: How to fix the heat?

[30:45] Kevin Jaeger: I couldn't be happier if Kevin had a secret skill in the heat trade.

[30:50] Kimberly Cooper: No. I know how we can make it in a hot honey rag.

[30:54] Bryan Plofsky: How?

[30:56] Kevin Jaeger: The answer was here. All shuffle along.

[31:00] Kimberly Cooper: Kevin.

[31:01] Kevin Jaeger: Sorry. The answer was here. All shuffle along.

[31:06] Bryan Plofsky: Or the making of the musical sensation of 1921 and all that followed.

[31:10] Kimberly Cooper: Thank you. So, what did you find? Like, a dummy's guide to heating apparatuses in the studio?

[31:17] Kevin Jaeger: Or just YouTube it?

[31:19] Bryan Plofsky: Oh, true. You can do that too.

[31:21] Kimberly Cooper: No. It's us. The answer is only us.

[31:26] Bryan Plofsky: It may be a cold and dark time here, but if we stick close to the ones we care about and feed those fires of love, compassion, and empathy, there's no telling how warm we'll come out on the other side.

[31:40] Kevin Jaeger: We need to use each other for strength and resist all the bad things that we try so hard to fight against.

[31:48] Kimberly Cooper: Are you sure you're talking about the heat going out?

[31:52] Bryan Plofsky: I feel like I said this already.

[31:55] Kevin Jaeger: And we're not going to die because we have each other and a community that cares.

[32:02] Kimberly Cooper: You know, I am feeling a bit warmer.

[32:06] Bryan Plofsky: Me too. It's like my body is covered in those hand warmers people put in their gloves at sporting events, I think.

[32:14] Kevin Jaeger: See? It's the power in us that generates the heat and fire.

[32:20] Kimberly Cooper: Wow. Amazing.

[32:23] Bryan Plofsky: Unbelievable.

[32:24] Kevin Jaeger: How's that for a cold Floridian? The cold never bothered me anyway.

[32:29] Kimberly Cooper: Now, this calls for another song. I've got the perfect one.

[32:34] Bryan Plofsky: Here's the new holiday classic, December Embers.

[32:54] ♪ Musical number: "December Embers" — performed by Rebekah Holland ♪

[36:00] Bryan Plofsky: And now we're back for one last goodbye.

[36:11] Kevin Jaeger: The cold couldn't get us, but boy did it try.

[36:15] Kimberly Cooper: We found all the warmth in the people who care.

[36:18] Bryan Plofsky: Now find us on Apple, rate and review us there.

[36:21] Kevin Jaeger: Five stars please!

[36:24] Kimberly Cooper: And thank you!

[36:25] Bryan Plofsky: Now it's the end of our holiday show.

[36:28] Kevin Jaeger: Thanks for your time, we know you must go.

[36:31] Kimberly Cooper: So we raise our glasses to all our chums.

[36:34] Bryan Plofsky: And say all the things like Zoot Do Wop Bum.

[36:38] All: Zoot Do Wop Bum!

[36:42] Bryan Plofsky: Cheers!

[36:43] All: Thank you everyone!

[36:44] All: Cheers!

[36:45] All: Happy Holidays!

[36:48] All: Merry Christmas!

[36:49] All: Happy Birthday!

[36:59] ♪ Musical number: "Christmas Spirits (A Christmas Drinking Song)" — performed by Bryan Plofsky & Rebekah Holland ♪

[40:58] All: Cheers friends, here's to all the years ahead.

[41:02] All: Cheers friends, let's repeat what Santa said.

[41:07] All: Merry Christmas and be kind, learn from all the years behind.

[41:12] All: Now take a swig and raise your Christmas spirits.

[41:37] All: Merry Christmas.