a special morning and all of our lives like this morning no more it's going to be a special morning it only happens once a year and when our innocence was bliss oh there was this morning that was this morning yeah and the only thing that mattered was what was downstairs under the tree oh that monster thing you know you know you know that scared the crap out i mean you know we woke up  don we were all in love with life for just a short brief period of time and there was this magical magical force all around us called christmas morning i remember christmas morning and we would out of bed and we would wonder when the bleep mom and dad would wake up and we would look on our doors and we would have sagging socks full of candy and we wondered how santa got into our drawers overnight  and we would all stand at the top of the stair and look down and wait for someone to say we're ready because they were waiting for us downstairs he weren't sure who it was we don't think well we hear what you what if what you wanted for christmas was a brother or sister and fortunately you didn't have to worry about nasty thoughts like that on a morning like that it was all about beauty and honesty and love and one another and we would all and walking downstairs and we would stare at the tree but we could not go near the tree you see we had to walk over to the table who had one of those invisible fences  all those little collars it was a birthday so we had to sing happy birthday do you really think that we would go over to the table where a beautiful manger was laid out and we would hold hands and sing happy birthday to you know who and he would not say thank you but we were very appreciative and there was no candles to be lit because the decorations would go up in flames very quickly so then one by one we would toddle with a capital t over to the tree and we would only be able to open one gift at a time and it always was my damn oldest sister who was first unique but i don't know if i was over there yet you had that surgery and i i opted in to the life and what i've chosen i'm proud of but then each gift would be very carefully unwrapped and we could take between the sixth of us anywhere between six to twelve hours to open every thirty four yes because we all had to shore appreciation to jesus and to santa really for each gift and it was very much a ceremonial event ok alan delish in just a little bit really but but it was magical to really think happy birthday yes we did that is true i remember a couple years ago you did the happy birthday song for christmas  song for all those people who were born near the holidays yes but all feel very sad for those people i would hate that i bet jesus hated it too you know yeah yeah tough life you know all that carrying the cross stuff and you know dying for sins you know it must have been really tough on his birthday we were all very preachy of of one another as well and the evening before we would all learn our native tongue and i had a hard time in our native tongue because i thought it was funny and my father would speak in my native czech language and it would always bussy of laughing  that's right house you have the same time we still do it oh that's beautiful yeah so that was our christmas eve tradition so i'm going backwards in time and then a week before christmas you know but it was a very special is a very special moment and then in september  we had to go back to school so we still were thinking about christmas every moment of the day and then i became a teenager and it all and really and it was just  we were told it or you figured it out or you asked or what you know having older siblings is the worst possible thing in the world when it comes to christmas because they don't know how to keep them secret so they have buz you would think would they take advantage of every innocence possible as a child doesn't know who he should let's play a song ok here's one of our favorite christmas numbers i just want to say happy birthday to everyone and to anyone who's going on december twenty fifth you stupid i mean or sabbath or a down the street oh thank you sarah if you ever listen this her family's jewish so doesn't  remember sarah it don't mean a damn thing because it doesn't swing yeah it's true it's true i got a swing for christmas did you really i was hoping that we all would have special childhood stories but it's not possible for us that's b this crowd oh i could tell you of mine i remember and christmas usually i remember usually my brother i have two brothers and one brother was always trying to campaign for christmas he would actually like drop posters and and say i'm the only kid worth getting a present when you know he wasn't trying they know he wouldn't do that because he thought he felt that he would tell you what you wanted for christmas therefore he would get to that smart so he would put up the whole thing in the campaign you know you want this so he then you he would put up posters all around did you want that by the time they told me i was the youngest so i did what they told me around there  so that's what would happen and then my other brother the middle brother he was kind of hip to it after a while so the christmases that i remember the most that i remember was kind of just me in the middle brother when we would just get up and he would remember him punching me in one time he was smiling he was punching me he said hey what are you punishing me for and it was like christmas morning i mean you couldn't punch him back i never could punch him back still can't punch you you always point to me but so we would go and wake up my parents and then my parents my father always worked night so he's always want to sleep late late late late late but eventually they would like ten ten thirty years something you know i go back to bed and then eventually they would get up and they would say oh ok all right you can go and open gifts now because we were allowed to go but i guess until you know the parents were so there when we would do that and we would open presents so that's the that's the kind of joyful memory that i remember it's that of the christmas morning and then you had to go when we were little we used to have to get up and go to see our relatives christmas morning so you did that kind of opening up and then you had the in the car get to go visit relatives in the city and that was kind of a drag because you know you want to stay home and do your stuff but but that as we got older my older brothers rebelled against that so my mother made us do that the night before and then we didn't go into the city  was an electronic account you later they had kind of just come out and they were there cool is or they just come out in like pocket form they were finally some small ones and and i wanted one so  bad and under the tree was a little box and i got really good for the weeks leading up to christmas steaming that tape for that every day after school for christmas again and then i had to pretend to be surprised that i was still excited it wasn't hard to be excited i just you know so you actually brought it up to steam spot and and you think of you know calculators today that i know what your to exactly are talking to it was probably about you know three inches by four inches and like an inch and a half it you know i know it was not we couldn't afford to hire a shack to sharpen i don't know what the brand was but it had those green you know digital numbers and it sucked through battery power over like nothing no i didn't have any functions other than basic you know plus mine it's multiply devide maybe they hadn't even invented a division by that you know that's the magic of christmas is that that you feel loved no matter how much your story sucks right no matter how small so merry christmas i think virtual hug and merry christmas to you do your thing or and we know there's only one of you yeah is it jesus you know he's always listening know he doesn't always answer but he's always listen when we got the stupid radio show r like one of these rambo kind of a rough and tumble character you get with it used to be god bless the meek in the powerless or whatever now it's god bless the rich and powerful because he already did i dutch reformed and your father mother you can't really synod lutheran is about as close to catholic as you can get without being catholic i mean they basically just gave up guilt and other than that it's you know the same thing that's not  so i'm not catholic because my good catholic grandfather who spent his entire youth in the church because he spoke italian and this albanian dialect of italian and english and latin he went around with the priest he was altar boy he actually would go around with the priest on their daily you know run around town to all the shut ins and he has he could  speak all these languages and so he basically was you know being groomed for the priesthood all these years and then he falls in love with a lutheran girl and instead of accepting this the church they threaten to excommunicate him they refuse to let him get married in the church and he said nuts to you and i became a lutheran so that's why my little branch of my family did not grow up catholic  well evelyn close enough a variant well i never knew that story that's so without that's in i wouldn't be here and it would just be the tom show and that would just you know that would be sad well i think