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Stream Thinking No More Christmas Surprises · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: The art of stream thinking. It's learning how to trust
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  Speaker 1: Today we're reading from December 25th, 2025. It only felt
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  Speaker 1: like a very brief moment, Christmas arriving quicker with each
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  Speaker 1: passing year. Now, is it the marketing that begins in September?
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  Speaker 1: What if it's that darn Christmas in July sale combined
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  Speaker 1: with all those Hallmark movies because it seems like there's
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  Speaker 1: always some sort of festival taking place? What I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: note of are the smaller and smaller Christmas gift lists.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than wanting clothes, bikes, music, tools, and whatever else
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  Speaker 1: we can stuff into our year, this season the focus
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  Speaker 1: has been put on what I need as a necessity.
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  Speaker 1: More than just fashion, style, or fad. No need to
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  Speaker 1: wrap it up in a fancy box. Now we'll accept
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  Speaker 1: cash instead. Uh-oh. But that's what the modern day Christmas
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  Speaker 1: present is. What will it be like next year? Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to that uh-oh. Oh, I do remember
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  Speaker 1: those days. All the way back into the 1980s, I
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  Speaker 1: could do absolutely nothing right when it comes to Christmas
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  Speaker 1: with the one that I married in my first chapter.
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  Speaker 1: And so therefore, it got to the point where it
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  Speaker 1: was just money. Here, you go buy whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: And then what would happen is she would buy it
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  Speaker 1: and then bring it home. And then she wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to wrap it. And then on Christmas Day, that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what would take place. You already knew what was in
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  Speaker 1: the box. See, this also brings back memories of when
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  Speaker 1: I was a child living in Billings, Montana, and we
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  Speaker 1: would snoop through that house and we would find what
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad were going to give us for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And then we would act our way to happiness on
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  Speaker 1: Christmas morning, knowing full well what we got. So this
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  Speaker 1: is not something new when it comes to what we're
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  Speaker 1: sharing at Christmas time. Mom and dad were all about necessity.
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  Speaker 1: The first chapter I had in my life as a
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  Speaker 1: married man was just to do it. Find peace. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Peace for the holiday. Just give her
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  Speaker 1: the money and you have to wrap it up again.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. It doesn't matter where we stand as
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  Speaker 1: long as the moment of receiving is exactly that. A
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  Speaker 1: gift for your heart, even though you cheated your way
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  Speaker 1: to get to that and they already knew what was
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  Speaker 1: in the box. Whew. Whatever happened to surprises? It's not
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  Speaker 1: a modern-day thing. It's been going on since the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of time. I'm Errol, and that's Stream Thinking.