Merry Christmas from Bridget & Nick!

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Hello, everybody. It is the night before Christmas, and we knew you know that you need just a little bit more Nick and Bridget in your life. So here we are. We thought it would be super festive to read you a dramatic reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas, which is actually called A Visit from St. Nicholas.

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Because what more could you want for Christmas than Nick and Bridget?

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So here's the rules. We are not prepared for this. We are just stresses me out. We're gonna read this dramatically, and uh we're gonna try and you know do different styles and maybe make the other person laugh a little bit. It's likely I will come up with at least 10 different accents. So uh we're gonna read a little bit and then stop, and the other person has to pick it up. Oh, I'm so stressed out.

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I I need to know page breaks. Okay, here we go. Great, can't wait. Nope, you're starting.

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Twas the night before Christmas went all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, the stockings.

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I can't do this. We're hung by the chimney with care in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.

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The children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

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And Mama in her kerchief. I can't do the same thing. Excuse me. And Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, went out on the lawn.

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Well, there arose such a clatter there, you know. I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I went like a flash.

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Tore opened the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow give a lustre of midday.

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To them objects below. When what to my wandering eyes did appear but a miniature sleigh and ate tiny reindeer, with a little driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment he must be Saint Nick.

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More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came, and he whistled and shouted and called them by name. Now Dasher! Now dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen! I'm Comet!

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I'm Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen. To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, now dash away, dash away, dash away all as leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. When they met with an obstacle mount to the sky, so up on the house grab the courses they flew with a sleigh full of toys in St. Nicholas too.

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And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around down the chimney of St. Nicholas came with a bound.

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He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot. And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back.

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And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes how they twinkled, his dimples how merry. His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow.

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And the beard on his chin was as white as a snow. The stump of a pipe he held light at his teeth and the smoke. It encircled his head like he was Snoop Dog.

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This is great. He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, alright, jolly old elf, and I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.

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A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave to me to know. I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, and filled all the stockings and turned with a jerk and laying his finger aside of his nose.

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And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh to give his team. Ooh, to his team, give a whistle. And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight. Happy Christmas to all and good night.

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That was fun. That was fun. Try that home. Anyway, we uh we're not gonna release our normal Sunday episode. We're gonna take a little break and enjoy some time with our families. So you'll find some episode sometime before the new year. And uh we'll recap how fun and stressful and crazy and insane Christmas was. So we hope you enjoyed this. It's our Christmas gift from us to you. You're welcome. Merry Christmas.