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everybody. did you hear that? the smooth buttery eggnogy sounds of the james hall choir all morning long. so beautiful. >> brian: awesome, guys, fantastic. >> todd: fills you up with joy. >> brian: going to use that term buttery eggnogy? >> nicole: eggnogy? >> todd: i'm channeling kamala. is joy done? >> brian: rather not. dish watc watching liquid. almost as good as dawn. >> todd: we love dawn in more ways than one. his wife's name is dawn. >> nicole: i know. >> todd: that's why i'm here. >> nicole: now is likening her to dishwashing soap. >> todd: we threw him under the bus. one day before christmas. families gathering around the world. so we asked to you share your family's christmas eve traditions, apparently apologizing will be on kilmeade's this year. your emails are pouring in. goes with michael he bakes

gingerbread cookies for santa and puts them by the fireplace. lives the outdoor christmas leave christmas music playing all night long. >> this is from linda. we gather with friends, family, have the feast of seven fishes and go to christmas eve service. i love that very traditional. very italian. i think i know a lot of people doing that tonight. >> brian: goes back thousands of years. john in ohio says this: we read the christmas story from the bible. then we all share an eggnog toast and go around the room saying what we are grateful for. that's a hallmark movie. >> nicole: do you know why that's so great. feel really only do that on thanksgiving because it's literally in the name thanksgiving, giving thanks. people say why they give thanks. to do that on more than just thanksgiving. that keeps people grounded and humble and makes you remember what it is all about. >> todd: i don't want to throw robin under the bus because i don't want to say she doesn't do that. but here is what she does do.

my girls and i get in christmas pajamas, make hot chocolate and driving around looking at all the christmas lights and decorations. they have been doing that since they were little. they are now 22 and 24 and love it. >> nicole: you will be doing that with your girls. >> todd: they will be driving me around. >> nicole: driving you crazy. >> brian: dad needs to get out of the house. >> nicole: from jenny when i was born my dad wrote me a letter first year as a family. he kept the tradition i received a letter every christmas eve for christmas eve. now all our friends and family receive letters on christmas eve. >> todd: back in the day we did the seven fishes thing and over the course of time. now that we have the kids we are phasing that out temporarily. i would love to bring it back at some point. i could tell you this year it's going to be pretty standard, pretty chill. we are going to do one fish. it is shrimp scampy. now that you know my entire menu. kids will do like mac and cheese

or something like that. i think it's important. we always talk about how important traditions are right now we are not doing it because of kids are a little young. but i think as the kids get older we are definitely bringing it back. >> nicole: brian, would very older kids. you know the chaos of younger kids you make things simpler. >> todd: i tried to say it in a classy way. >> nicole: it does come back full circle. i love cooking big meals for the holidays. every holiday i'm usually in my kitchen. always find me on social media cooking. we are doing a huge sammon, a roast and a goose and duck tomorrow. my kids will be making something. either peeling potatoes, making the pies,doing something. >> brian: have them do that who the is the chef wrote the book how he has recipes where the whole family cooks. they all have a role in it. and then all of a sudden they get invested in it and that means they eat it if you want kids to eat. something good for them. have then make it.

>> todd: as a doctor is 2 years old too young to give my children knives? >> brian: only a doctor could answer that. >> nicole: you know, i will be honest i would not give your 2-year-old a knife. your 2-year-old could probably have some of that shrimp scampy. they could be eating some adult food. >> todd: my kids? >> nicole: last resort, put the food in front of them. >> todd: main ingredient in shrimp scampy is butter. i don't want butter on the walls. my youngest is certifiable. brian, what are you doing? >> brian: none of your business. >> nicole: no joy. >> brian: you know the tradition is happening now. football all day and basketball. so, a lot of people are upset by that professional sports is it taking away from family time? can you sit there and be a good family member and watch five hours of football? and demand silence. >> todd: watch the giants always silence. you don't have to worry about that. they have real teams.

>> nicole: families come together. have the game on the background while everyone is cooking or preparing the meal. today should be about family. doesn't mean you can't have a game on in the background. >> brian: interesting. you got to adjust because kids get older. girlfriends and other people split off. you got to keep the numbers going. make sure it's rotated. people rotating through. you are just a stop on their journey to a series of stops. >> nicole: that's why your house needs to be the fun house, the best house. so you have to work 365 days a year how is your house going to be the best house? >> todd: you guys have really thought this through. i punted to my wife. kids don't get butter on the walls, back to you, amanda. that's how i do it now. >> brian: that's her name? i thought maybe just generic name. what is this father knows best 1950? >> todd: yes. i'm going to have a scotch. >> brian: meet you at the door with an apron. >> todd: have a scotch, sit in my chair.

nobody bother pappa. is he going to be cranky watching his programs. >> brian: from the south? >> nicole: we need to be having a white christmas. we are moving on. >> brian: i just remember, do you know what the great movie is to watch on christmas day? >> nicole: white christmas. >> brian: the waltons. >> carley: loved the waltons. >> todd: carley grew up watching the waltons and fox news. she told me. this can i say this? she only watched the waltons like pat robertson like the 700 club not a joke and fox news. thank you. >> brian: i don't think there is anything else you need. that's it,. >> todd: that's all you need in life. american airlines grounding flights nationwide due to it issues. that's not good today. this comes as millions are under winter weather threat alerts, freezing rain, light snow expected across the northeast and midwest today. >> nicole: come tomorrow, some people may wake up to white

christmas. >> brian: some may not. check in with meteorologist adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. >> adam: some may not. trying to get it to as many folks as i possibly can winter weather currently moving across portions of new england. we got winter weather advisories as a result as well. interior places across new england. that's where you are going to see the most snow. maybe as much as 6 inches. right along the coast. maybe a couple snowflakes mixed in with freezing rain as well. baltimore starting to see some snow. we are really close to it in philadelphia. really close to if in new york city. should be arriving quickly. the bigger concern would be some ice. not a huge ice event. there will be places out there like d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, obviously that makes driving a little bit more dangerous. flying could ultimately be an issue. this winter is moving through. if you took a little while to see your family and get on the road, know that you could be dealing with some travel troubling. those your weather headlines for now, i'm tossing it over to -- i don't know who i'm tossing it

to. >> todd: we will take it. >> brian: the whole couch. >> todd: we will take it. like serious news on this christmas eve. it's not all fun and games. president joe biden facing fierce criticism after comught the system of 37 death row inmates. literally just two days before the families of their victims gather for christmas leaving them in absolute disbelief. >> brian: yep. we are going to talk about this. carley shimkus has the details. >> carley: families of the victims are now demanding an explanation from president biden. marissa gibson, the widow of columbus police officer bryan hurst who was shot and killed by daryl lawrence said, quote: while this is truly distressing news on a personal level for my family it, also feels like a complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system. one of the people removed from death row is jorge aville torres who was given the death penalty after he sexually assaulted and stabbed two girls 8-year-old laura hobbs and 9-year-old crystal tobias in death in 2005.

four years later he strang gelled 20-year-old naval officer amanda well, victims families question the president's decision. squad member, congresswoman ayanna pressley is praising the president's controversial commutations. >> the death penalty has been -- has not been proven to be a deterrent of crime. state sanctioned murder is not justice. and today, what president biden did demonstrated moral leadership, compassionate leadership informed by his own faith and dispirit impact on black people, other marginalized persons. >> while this will be shocking news at any time of the year. of course it's going to weigh on the minds of victim's families as they attempt to celebrate

christmas tomorrow. >> brian: it's amazing how the squad all of a sudden feels as though they have to weigh in. they are back. so this commutation. people say well, the president shows a heart. is he about to go visit the pope. the pope is against the death penalty. this is something good. but does he have -- does the president even have the victim's families in mind when is he going through this again because these stories are all being dredged up again. >> nicole: you know, there is all these debates when it comes to capital punishment, ethical debates, legal debates. at the end of the day, you know, in the interview that you did earlier today, listening to the 1reu78's family speak, they essentially said the person chose to commit the crime that has a known death penalty possibility, a juror of their peers convicted them knowing the possibility of a death penalty. then you have president biden come in and just watching that away just days before christmas. i mean. >> todd: killer in that case.

the individual convicted of the crime literally said when he was arrested and i quote: i -- that he did not deserve to live. he said that he said that to the cops. that he did not deserve to live. even he understood the gravity of his crime and, yet, president biden and the white house have decided that they, wait for it, are above the law yet again. you mention the family. here's what they had to say when i spoke with them last hour. listen. >> i'm still angry. i am upset that this is even happening one man can make this decision even without talking to the victims. without any regard for what we have been through, what we are going through. i'm completely hurt, frustrated and angry. >> she was shown no mercy at all. this man walked into the bank, never said two words to her. shot her three times in total. went and shot her co-worker, katie scene skeen defenseless d

unaware of anything happening. it's just beyond me that -- i can't even believe that this is actually happening commuting of sentences like this. >> i don't think that's that's compassion. the fact that he didn't talk to any of us, the victims of this crime, you know, we trusted the judicial system. we sat through court. i watched my mother be murdered. i watched inches of her body laying on the ground. he doesn't have compassion. for who? a criminal? a accurately? >> todd: so much wrong with this. the fact it was done if the first place and done christmas week. i want to focus interest was limited to know discussion with the families as to ultimately that this was going to happen. definitely no discussion this week. do you know what this reminds me

of? >> nicole: last four years of his presidency? >> todd: not only that what we have seen with so many woke d.a.s across the country. eliminating their victim's justice unit. why would you eliminate that? why would you take the victims out of the equation when they are the ones that are ultimately suffering? as a d.a., that is what your job is, to speak for the victims this is yet another example of victims being removed from the we certainly hope. come next year. places in los angeles george gascon seated in san francisco in new york city. it can't be the way america goes going forward. >> i'm not surprised that the victims did not hear from the president before this. the president hasn't done this in the last four years. look at the families of the afghanistan withdrawal victims. the families when someone who has been murdered by illegal i will grant. the biden administration has more empathies for the criminals than they actually do the

victims and their families. and, if you look at what they ran on president biden vs. president trump, president biden said he wants to commute these criminals and do away with capital punishment. but president trump said he believes in capital punishment is for cop killers and one of those that biden commuted was a cop killer. mind you, several of those that now are no longer on death row. actually killed since being in prison, it's not like they are now reformed and doing well. they have killed again while in prison. >> brian: got to keep paying for them. putting them to death and stopping the bleeding. president trump going to put these people on death row going to get death. he also says i think death penalty for drug dealers. joe biden said you know what? i think i'm going to be a hero and commute these sentences. but he get the death penalty in the 70s and 80's he wasn't. if he wants to do it. where was that conversation? i know he only does a handful of interviews if you went up to george stephanopoulos in your friendly interview and all the other bring up the death penalty

i want to bring that out and introduce it to the people. they would have brought it out so they knew where he stood. now he talks about assault weapons. i want assault weapon ban every place. if this meant so much to him he would have said it from inaugural to today. it doesn't. i go back to the "wall street journal" story. who is making these decisions? i mean, who is making these decisions about 34 of 37 are going to go. what about the 1500 commutations. do you think he went through the list and thought about it. i don't think he made the decision on hunter. he told us he made it over a second. we i think the big story goes back to the "wall street journal" story this guy has been invisible and not there, mia for the last four years. i wonder how many other fateful decisions is he going to make before he leaves because he has three weeks left. meanwhile, you have to tell us what else is happening in the news. >> nicole: that's right. now turning to your headlines starting with a fox news alert. a police officer is dead after a shootout at a grocery store in greensboro, north carolina yesterday.

officials say officer michael who aren was the first to arrive on scene. responding to a call about a possibly armed man inside. after a brief struggle, police say the suspect pulled out a gun and shot him. police say the unnamed suspect tried to flee but was arrested after a short chase. the house ethics committee releasing a report on former florida congressman matt gaetz it. alleges there is substantial evidence he violated house rules, state and federal laws and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, rape, illicit drug use and more. the report comes weeks after gaetz withdrew his nomination for attorney general. hawaii's kilauea volcano erupting yesterday, elevating the volcano alert system to the highest warning levels. one square mile around the volcano was covered with lava. authorities say nearby communities are not in immediate danger because the eruption is contained within volcano's

national park. the last known eruption began in september. the volcano has been continually erupting since 1983. and now, brian's excited to some monday night football. the green bay packers clinching a spot in the nfl playoffs after a 34-0 win against the new orleans saints. it's the first nfl shutout of the season. take a look at packers running back josh jacobs launching a saints safety out of bounds with a brutal stiff arm. >> about to happen. >> injury to musgrave. jacobs. what a drive. jacobs. is out of bounds inside the five. >> nicole: ouch. you can't do that. >> todd: get it to the hone badger, does care about that. >> nicole: helmet is not going to help that headed to the playoffs fifth time in six years and those are your headlines. >> that's a team that knows how to win. down years 500 rotate

quarterback through to jordan love it's amazing they have down this. and amazing certain franchises haven't, like the saints. >> and the team that -- do you know what i find fascinating about that? who owns the packers? the people. the people know what you need to do in football. yes, we did. we practiced it. the giants, not owned by the people. they just disappoint them. green brian i say stay with the coach and gm. too much change. great draft. stay the course. thousand points of light. >> todd: you want sanders. >> brian: i don't. you want a franchise quarterback i don't think it's in this draft. open up the phones and find out can we do that? >> todd: 660. a festivus for the rest of us. we reveal how much the biden administration spent this year and what wasteful government programs made the naughty list. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year ♪ with the kids jingle belling

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arguing for the purposes of national security and freedom, the ownership and control of greenland is an absolute necessity. also demanding lower shipping fees or maybe the actual panama canal. >> we are being ripped off at the panama canal like we are being ripped off everywhere else. a secure -- take it back. that's a good idea. >> brian: yeah, it is a good idea. where would we as a world be where america controls greenland and panama and the canal? what would it look like, the co-host of the big money show brian brenberg. full of natural resources. china has tried to convert a couple of our military bases already. so, why not make an offer they can't refuse? >> brian: this is all about china, right? and have you got strategic interest in greenland. i think actually from a business standpoint the panama canal is

what is really interesting here. china has belt and road initiative. they are going around the globe and investing tens, hundreds of billions of dollars to control infrastructure. that's exactly what they have done with the panama canal. they control two of the most important ports adjacent to the canal. they are the guys building the latest bridges across the canal. it's billions and billions of dollars because that is a choke point for american commerce and the american military. so, it's really smart for trump to say we want a new deal with the panama canal. it might be the fees, more than that it who controls what gets built there and who manages that. more and more of last 7, 8 years it's been china that stepped in with panama and they are the guys calling the shots. >> brian: explain the belt and road theory infrastructure and pay yourself when you get it. developing countries can't pay them off so they take it.

so when you go into africa and they take the airport that they built and the tunnels and the roads and then they give up part ownership of their country for china belt and road initiative. a form of extortion. this is something that needs to be addressed for generations. we have not paid enough attention to central and south america. we built the panama canal. they have breached the contract by giving foreign influence and control. >> exactly. >> brian: some say they haven't. we know different. >> it's so clear. and we are not talking about this at a popular level now until trump says something that everyone says yeah, wait a second. what's going on here. but for years people paying attention people in china have seen people move into latin america. >> brian: it's a void. >> it's choke points. they want spots around the world if you can't go through there or over there, you can't do anything. they want to control that. and you are right, these guys can't pay china back. china says that's fine. don't pay us back. just give us control. that's what they're buying.

>> brian: rand paul put outside festivus list complain about things that pop up around the edges. this is why you have the doge committee. they are going to get rid of pickleball for 12 million, and excuse me for $10,000 for a drag cabaret show way overpriced we could do it for 4. >> i know you have a plan for that. >> brian: especially with the ice skating. these are some of the things rand paul put out. why is it important? >> it's important because you should know -- a free republic where people have control should know what we are spending our money on. and if america says i want to pay for pickleball courts and drag shows and i don't think they do, america should be able to say that but what about is these guys do this stuff in the dark corners. they don't want everybody to ever know about it. yes, maybe only $10,000 or whatever, so what? you shouldn't waste a dime and what doge is doing more than anything else, is taking the flashlight to every one of these corners and say do you know, america, you are spending money on this?

if you don't want to do that, you shouldn't. rand paul is helping with that it's not even about the 2 trillion that musk has promised it's about the fact that nobody -- there is no way a majority of americans want their tax dollars going to this stuff. >> brian: putting billions every day into our debt. that's where most of our money goes. >> adds up. >> brian: service the debt. if you could inform people on a regular basis, then people might get on board and it wouldn't be just a political thing. brian, what is going to be on your show today? >> oh my gosh. >> brian: it is early. >> it early. amazon strike going on is that going to mess up with christmas? is we're going to talk about that. >> brian: starbucks. >> strikes everywhere. christmas message. former father jonathan morris to talk about it the meaning of this day and tomorrow and why we ought to care about that. talking about business. >> brian: check out their show it's great starts at 1:00 on the fox business network and brian plays the man in that show.

>> i, in fact, am the manna show i'm happy to say that. >> brian: between two very important famous anchors. brian thank you, very much. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> brian: santa is hard at work according to reports this christmas eve. last seen delivering giffords in the solomon islands and over to fiji. i hope he has sunscreen. final days of 12 days of giving. today we highlight folds of honor, dan rooney, great organization. you will find out more about it, how to be a part of that great organization, too. don't move, that's a wide shot of our tree. zoom out even more. ♪ treetops glisten ♪ and children listen ♪ to hear the sleigh bells in the snow ♪ our top brands. so, perfecting the holidays... oh, you're good. is easier than ever. lowe's knows how to help you holiday.

when you're in the military you're really close with your brothers and your sisters that are in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles and the things that we did overseas and not everybody can do that. adam! how's it going, brother? we live pretty close to each other. so he's always coming over. when i go to jack's house, we watch a lot of football, hang out. we go outside the friendship has kind of grown into a family i was talking to some vet■s last week amazing how we have these houses where they can come over because they■re in chairs too. carpet and wheelchairs don't mix very well. tunnel to towers, they got rid of all that. they redid my whole bathroom

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♪ guide us to thy perfect lightning nic well, that is the james hall choir performing the christmas classic we three kings. and they have been amazing all morning long. >> brian: yup. nic thick this christmas eve we are wrapping up 12 fay days of giving. today highlighting folds of honor nonprofit provides educational scholarships to families of fallen families and first responders. since inception in 2007 folds of honor 62,000 scholarships worth $290 million. and joining us now are folds of honor founder lt. colonel dan rooney and scholarship recipient steven federico. merry christmas eve, gentlemen. thank you so much for joining me today. >> merry christmas. >> lt. dan, can you please tell me a little bit about why you decided to start folds of honor? >> you know, i look at as we

head into christmas here, first and foremost, you know, celebrating the birth of our lord and xa savior. and what a mission this is. our mission was inspired by god in my heart to reach out to the families of fallen and disabled military and first responders and very much in line with, you know, what jesus went on his ministry to teach people how to fish. so they can feed themselves for a lifetime and go do extraordinary things and, as you mentioned, we are so blessed to get to help these extraordinary people at folds of honor as we head into the holidays. i can think of no better way. because we know many families that serve in the military. and first responders won't be home tomorrow, opening gifts. they will be out on the frontiers of freedom. supporting us, when we dial 911. and we are there to rescue those families when the unthinkable happens. and i know we have got an amazing recipient. one of my favorite people on planet earthr.ederico with us today. >> nicole: steven, tell us about

what folds of honor has done for you and your family? >> merry christmas. it's such a blessing to be here with you all this morning and to share a little bit about folds, an organization that's touched my life and the lives of so many other scholarship recipients. my father was in the united states marine corps from 1982 to 1985. and in 1983, his unit was sent over to beirut, lebanon and it was attacked in what is largely known as the beirut barracks bombing. my father survived that day. but, he lost so many other of his other comrades that day. as a child i watched as my father struggled with a lot of the events he experienced from his time in beirut and i watched as he persevered through those events. one of those lessons that he taught me from his time in the military was to never say can't. never believe i couldn't achieve something. and i eventually went on to college and decided i wanted to become a neurological surgeon and scientist but my family couldn't afford to send me to college.

it was folds of honor that stepped in and supported me with scholarships throughout the remainder of my years in college. and that was so transformational for me. that gift was such a blessing, because it allowed me to focus my efforts instead of trying to find ways to pay my way through school, instead to focus on brain tumor research and i eventually was accepted to medical school at the university of pittsburgh where i'm a third year medical student pursuing my passion of becoming a neurosurgeon and plea of guilty my master thieves at harvard focusing on a pediatric brain tumor and trying to find innovative ways to treat that this wouldn't have been possible without the generous support of folds of honor and our amazing donors. >> nicole: i may be partial i'm married to a neurosurgeon it. takes something very special and a lot of hard work and determination to become one. but you have an interesting story about why you decided to be a doctor. how did your dad motivate you to be a doctor? >> yeah.

he had taught me from a very, very young age to never believe that i couldn't achieve something. that was a lesson that he learned when he was a young man, when he was in boot camp at paris island. and i lost a friend just prior to going to college to a brain tumor. that experience was one of the worst that i have had to go through. i was at all of his doctor's appointments with him and i watched as the doctor told him that there was no cure for his disease. and i wanted to make an impact in the lives of his and so many other patients that suffer with brain tumors. and that was my calling to become a neurosurgeon. and that's why i do what i do. >> it's wonderful. now, dan, one of the things that i love about folds of honor and it's not just about college, it's not just about graduate school. you also support those who want to go to technical and trade school. why is that so important to you? >> well, we look at our country and the diversity of our workplace, and we're not going to tell you hey, what your dream

is we are going to be there to say we are going to support you. whether it's steven going to be a neurosurgeon, or someone that wants to go into the trades. we are standing by them to help them go chase the dream that their parent or spouse has given so much for. and as i mentioned before, as we head into the holidays, people please visit folds of honor.org. this class was 10,000 kids strong. $50 million out the door. we had 7,000 qualified unfunded families, just like stephen's out there that want to go chase their dream and please consider the gift as we head into christmas tomorrow. the gift of an education, which is an roi that goes on for a lifetime as you heard stephen's incredible story. military and first responder families are not created equal. they are heroic in their own right. and we have an opportunity to come alongside of them and honor that sacrifice by providing the gift of an education. >> nicole: that is priceless. to learn more and donate head to

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♪ elig jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. >> brian: this is not any type of video trickery. we are seeing snow on christmas eve that is a live look at new york city. can new york city handle it. de blasio administration. can we handle an eighth of an inch of snow? >> todd: that is the main question.

we are searching for a second source to confirm it is snowing. adam, could you please keep us posted? meantime, if you are looking for a way to shake up the holidays, a cocktail or mock tail might do the trick. so we are joined by mixologist ands and hospitality expert jasn hurt with some of his top. take it away. >> i will make the cherry manhattan here. half an ounce of cherry liquor hearing it's the o.g. of the industry. this is the most awarded cherry lick you're. find half an ounce of investor muted. >> brian: effort toe make it all-american liquor? >> probably best to stay all-american, right? this is what we do. we shake this up. we stir this up and put a dash

of -- stir it. and then we strain this into a nice cocktail glass with a rock. >> todd: really good point, brian. i have been opposed to kazakhstani whiskey. never tastes right next we have the winter ember. this is going to be two and a half ounces of joseph magna cigar blend bourbon. think about that, actually comes with a personal cigar. it really doesn't. you smoke a cigar, have you some bourbon, you can't be mad. we will mix these ingredients, half ounce of. 100 percent natural ingredients from its. >> brian: am let toe cordle. >> not. absolutely not. bourbon in there, stir it and do two dashes of the degra same thing other cocktail. >> can i start singing for you if you like. >> that's okay. >> todd: does it have the smell of the cigar when you taste it

in your mouth. >> pallet just activates when you do that next is the velvet dream. ounce and a half of rum. japanese filtered rum. really really smooth. half ounce of coffee liqueur and go with am rata. who would drink. >> you and i? >> brian: just men. just me and you. can you see us hanging out? >> any day. >> brian: usually that's not the reaction. >> i would love to hang out with you. >> nicole: let's move away from the alcohol. let's try to get to if you want a nonalcoholic alternative. >> brian: by the way is the rage these days. >> we don't want to be like super joe. enjoy the experience. that way you go to mock tails. what we have here. >> brian: carley, pay attention to. this zero proof whiskey right here. no alcohol in it. my favorite is nondairy.

bubble tea? no. >> brian: how could you have milk that's nondairy. >> it's oat milk. >> paija. auto we do an ounce of zero proof whiskey. two ounces. paija oat tea. >> brian: can i try it. >> todd: sapphire, you want to get in there? >> do you this and i will. >> brian: get yelled at in the control room. >> todd: no liquor. >> let me know what you think. >> brian: fantastic. really is. >> nicole: that is actually yummy. >> todd: tastes like vacation. >> nicole: that's very good. >> brian: company is very cool. you have a lot of actors and performers you have a company go do major events and you will use that great personality that you get on the big screen. >> absolutely. my company is called prime time events. actually i created in 2014 to support artists and creatives and people entering the society and working in the gig economy.

looking to support brands like this but create jobs in my community. >> nicole: amazing. >> brian: waiting for that next job you got a job. >> that's it. new york city, baby. >> todd: jason hurt, thank you. go to carley, somebody else who knows a lot about cocktails at the advent calendar. >> carley: love to see it. christmas eve. we are going to check the advent calendar all the way down here and the gift of the day is gift cards from gift cards.com, which is the perfect last minute gift idea with over 350 grandz to choose from. it's the ultimate gift of choice. new this year is the gift cards.com gift card which offers flexibility to pick anything on the site. no fees and exceptions. and instant delivery available at gift cards.com. how about that? >> brian: what is better than that? >> carley: you don't have to panic, gift cards.com is here for you. don't go go anywhere, tracking santa on a fun and busy christmas eve.

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