you know, he's a really nice guy and a very emotional guy. >> jimmy: what does that mean? >> well, he looks so tough. [ light laughter ] you know, you look at meatloaf, he looks like sort of a tough guy. >> jimmy: he just cries his way through the end of the series. >> but he's really -- [ laughter ] no, it's beautiful and that's why is music is so good, i think. i mean, he's a very emotional guy. >> jimmy: yeah, well, so far, so great. i was gonna make a "two out of three ain't bad" joke but -- [ light laughter ] i wasn't keeping count. it's probably nine our of ten ain't bad or whatever. here we go. my man, mark mcgrath. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] young kids like him. >> everybody liked him. everybody liked mark and -- good-looking guy. everybody liked him. >> jimmy: yeah, i like him a lot. hope dworaczyk. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: va-va-va-voom. >> now, hope is the playmate of the year. she's really sort of taking over hollywood. she's been very, very successful and that's unusual, frankly, 'cause usually that doesn't really -- but as you know, she's done very

>> i would take a new guy. chris: we put it to the matthews meter, 12 of our regulars, including john and kelly. a year from now when the primaries start, if sarah palin is running, will mitt romney be in the lead? eight say no and four say yes. john said he won't be in the lead but kelly says he'll be up there. >> these are tough choices. and i think that part of what we were talking about just a moment ago when you can have a wider field where other people's mistakes get some of the attention and the shiny object factor gets attention, then he can remain that, o.k., that's the guy kind of thing. chris: speaking of shiny objects, talked this week with michelle bachman who is a genius for getting publicity. she is so outrageously interesting as a political figure. is she going to actually run for the presidency? >> she's going out to iowa. this is -- is like sarah palin part b. >> there's only one right answer to that question and it's, god, i hope so. she's running for senate. she was kicked out of house leader

a guy who wears glasses is a four eyes, a guy who is a fag is a queer.eemed to have something to offend everyone... >> who cares? >> reporter: ... it became a hit. number one for five years with 56 million viewers at its peak. a divided country was united watching "all in the family." >> people on the left and people on the right laughing together. for the moment they're laughing together, they are one. >> reporter: lear doesn't claim his situation comedy changed anybody's mind, but he says at least it got everyone sitting in the same pew. >> while they're laughing, they're together. this is the important thing. laughter is like a church service. we'd get upset, we'd get crazy and angry, but eventually we saw that the other person was a human being. >> reporter: and that may be a message from archie and mike worth remembering today. >> it's in the bill of rights. >> from the mountains... >> reporter: though we have our differences... >> because we didn't agree with them. >> the oceans wide... ♪ god bless america. >> you're prejudice! >> reporter: john bl

[ cheers and applause ] he's a great guy. a talented and super cool lady.ntry music superstar faith hill is joining us! [ cheers and applause ] wow. and we've got some great, great, great music from cake, ladies and gentlemen! [ cheers and applause ] cake is great. it's going to be good. i'm very excited. you guys, it's time for "late night hashtags." here we go. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: these are lists on twitter where we give you the topic and you send in the tweets. now, yesterday, i started a hashtag called "worst lie i ever told." i asked you guys at home to tweet out the worst, weirdest or lamest lie that you ever told. we got thousands of tweets. i was watching them come in all night. it was great. so, tonight, i thought i'd share some of my favorite "worst lie i've ever told" tweets from you guys. here we go. this first one is from @rachel61. she said her worst lie ever was, "told my 5-year-old cousin the middle finger was sign language for hello." [ laughter ] that's very cruel. oh, this one is bad. @vehicle says, "i told my little broth

. >> yeah, i'm a single guy and i'm playing a father in the movie but immediately -- she's so smartreally tell her -- >> jimmy: from the porn star movie? >> yeah, so she's like -- [ laughter ] she's like "what movie are you making?" and i'm like, "oh, you know -- you know, it's a surf comedy i'm doing with jimmy fallon, you know." >> jimmy: completely, exactly. >> and she was like, "oh, great." and so, one of the things we do -- we went to "color me mime." i don't know if you've ever been there. >> jimmy: i've heard of this. it's a -- >> yeah, it's place where you -- i'd never been there before but it was great to go and -- >> jimmy: what is -- what -- it's a -- >> yeah, it's for kids, where you go to make -- >> jimmy: pottery. >> yeah, you make pottery and stuff, so immediately, elle kind of b-lines to the other room, where i guess she picks her pottery and i was kind of -- they were looking at me like i was crazy with this hair and -- so i was like, "elle, wait up!" you know, "show me the ropes a little bit." and then, she's like, "oh, stephen, this is where we pick our thing." an

>> that's not bad. >> that i have the confidence when a guy is 3000 miles away to say that. no, i interviewed him a number of times. he's a great guy and the new coach of carolina, the panthers. >>> it's tough to make baseball's hall of fame. you got bruce and dennis and probably this guy, trever hoffman who retired today with 600 and 1 career saves. ravera at second for the record is 41 back but retired after a long long career 18 major league seasons. so you'll not see trever come out of the pen any more as we like to say. is pen okay? >> yeah. >> i would say bullpen but you might take that -- >> good night everybody. we'll see yo ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ ♪ and watch day-time dramas at the bus stop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop and smartphone with at&t u-verse tv. now get up to $300 back in promotion cards. at&t. rethink possible.

fort hood, texas. >> he was just a guy with a gun. >> when you look at the guy who was behind 9/11, andou saw what he did with non-nuclear, 19 guys. imagine them witht a wmd. we are in a world we've been thinking about. we are here to prevent the day after. >> this is not the scenario i was looking for. >> we the people, the average, hard-working american people, the patriots who will turn this around. >> hilary clinton is the most admired woman, behind palin and oprah. if not palin, who? mitt romney? >> if -- is she the candidate? i think her chances of being this are small. if you talk to republicans, i don't think there are one in three who will say she has a chance at the nomination. she has a strong constituency. outside of that, she is rather weak. >> she has no chance of winning a general election. why would you want a candidate who will lose against a vulnerable democrat? >> in 2008 they thought she was qualified. >> a half-term governor? >> we see voices high in the party who say this. they say, it started with joe scarborough. he said, call her out. she is unqualified. they ah

fort hood, texas. >> he was just a guy with a gun. >> when you look at the guy who was behind 9/11, andou saw what he did with non-nuclear, 19 guys. imagine them witht a wmd. we are in a world we've been thinking about. we are here to prevent the day after. >> this is not the scenario i was looking for. >> we the people, the average, hard-working american people, the patriots who will turn this around. >> hilary clinton is the most admired woman, behind palin and oprah. if not palin, who? mitt romney? >> if -- is she the candidate? i think her chances of being this are small. if you talk to republicans, i don't think there are one in three who will say she has a chance at the nomination. she has a strong constituency. outside of that, she is rather weak. >> she has no chance of winning a general election. why would you want a candidate who will lose against a vulnerable democrat? >> in 2008 they thought she was qualified. >> a half-term governor? >> we see voices high in the party who say this. they say, it started with joe scarborough. he said, call her out. she is unqualified. they ah

and this car slowed down, a young guy, looked like a nice guy, you know, he only had that a little bit i was like, whoa, man! so, that made me -- i know, it was kind of harsh. so that made me think i should learn to drive, lest i be a californian loser. >> jimmy: really find inspiration anywhere. >> i'm scared of the angry masses. i do whatever they say. >> jimmy: you have to remember to drive on the right side of the road. >> i was in jacksonville about three -- five weeks ago and i nearly -- i went onto slip road for the highway in the wrong lane and that was terrifying. i could have ended my life. i don't know if i'm be deported for saying that, but -- but that could have been really dangerous. >> jimmy: you'll be fine. many of the female celebrities do it constantly here. >> really? which ones? >> jimmy: you know which ones. [ applause ] now, this movie you're in is an animated movie and i hear it's very good. i hear it's really good, called "gnomeo and juliet." elton john is an executive producer. was that fun working with him? >> i didn't meet him until about four hours ago. >> j

he is not some guy in an ivory tower, he is all too human, fold, and it made people connect in a way that has never happened. tavis: we were talking before we start the program, bill withers, great american artist still has a stuttering problem. i grew up with eight stammering problem, had to go to a therapist to get past it, but i knew what it meant to. i raise that because there is a certain insecurity that comes along with that, and it is hard to navigate toward everyday person like myself, but i am not the team. how does the kaine deal with a stutter, stammer, and feelings of insecurity -- how does the king deal with that? >> that is the thing that makes this story exceptional, the fact it becomes an extraordinary intensifying mechanism. i am sure the reason your occupied by kings, you take a private issue and make him king, it is a constitutional crisis, it massively intensifies the stakes. that is the reason it comes back to the story of the monarchy, but in the case of him, what made it interesting is you have a guy standing up to nazism, who is criticizing hitler for this doc

i need a piece of copper wire. so couple of guys would run out and see which streetcar have been bombed and they would go to step off a piece of copper wire and bring it back. and, i'm not going to tell about his escape from berlin because it's so eye-popping, but when he did escape, he ran into the barren at a place with are all being kept in austria. and he said, mr. von brown, or herr von brown, doctor von brown, i have invented a computer and don browne basically said that one night passionate it would never get off the ground. >> host: i just find the backdrop of the war to be cut because a good helper to try to connect the dots to modern-day and distorted by the backdrop of war provided so much more drama that the scarcity resources, the drive. if i get asked you to fast-forward to today, what are sort of the motivators to think of technology today? you mentioned we don't have an inventor that sort of -- >> guest: what mauchly did when he came, carried out atanasoff's ideas from pennsylvania to philadelphia was he carried a so

this is a strong signal of the repositioning. bill daley is the guy who shepherded nafta up through, which is anathema to the union supporters of obama. he publicly opposed financial reform. in 2009, he criticized the administration for its low for a shift. he is a guy who represents exactly the kind of ideological could take that obama understands -- the ideological critique that obama understands it is what harm to them in november. he will not enact an agenda in the next two years the way he did in the past. if he wants to be reelected, he has to go to the center d this is how you signal to move with. >> bill daley is not here to put his ideological and put on the administration. the selection of bill daley says more about barack obama's sense of need. ethical inclination on this administration's part wjla.com -- the whole inclination on this administration's part is to promote from within. bibi daley breaks with that tradition. bill daley is from chicago, but was not part of the obama camp. he opposed barack obama in the 2004 senate primary. he ba

i worked with a guy one time in a movie. he said to the old time director, when i say action, tense up, dam it. you may -- can you imagine saying that to joe montana. there's a difference between intensity and tenseness. i think i become more off hand and you can still have emotional things if you're off hand and more relaxed and maybe -- maybe i'm better as i get older. >> i want to end our conversation where we began. i don't want to be more bid about this. again you got so much stuff left to do. you went there earlier. >> you said it. tavis: if it was early, i want to come back. this movie is about a guy that wants to hear what people say about him while he's living and can still take it in. >> yes. >> so, if robert duvall were to do that, what -- what do you want, hope or expect that people are going to say about you and your life and your legacy? >> whether i'm there or not? tavis: yeah. >> when i'm really gone. i don't know. that's really up to them. tavis: you got to want them to say something. you got to hope. >> hop

like i think that -- i think i may have mentioned to you this before one time, there was a car, a guyad a car service he said when he was in the army in the south, all of those guys in the hills and valleys and rivers, way in the deep south, constantly outscored the new yorkers on the aptitude tests so you cannot gas over these people, you can't. i defend lucas plat by a director who once put him down that said he was like a corn pone hillbilly. >> what did you do. >> i not the dwi's face. not really,. >> rose: what did you do? >> i said what are you talking about? i said you don't know what you are talking about. >> in that manner. >> i god a little hot with the guy. he was a well money director. >> dial that up for me. >> and offered me a part in the movie and turned it down. jesse james movie they did up in canada, but lucas just because he has a very thick -- he tries hard maybe not to get rid of it, the thick, thick alabama accent but a very talented young actor and a bright, bright young -- he married a woman with a young woman a prosecuting attorney from missouri, interesting.

>> that's not bad. >> that i have the confidence when a guy is 3000 miles away to say that. no, i interviewed him a number of times. he's a great guy and the new coach of carolina, the panthers. >>> it's tough to make baseball's hall of fame. you got bruce and dennis and probably this guy, trever hoffman who retired today with 600 and 1 career saves. ravera at second for the record is 41 back but retired after a long long career 18 major league seasons. so you'll not see trever come out of the pen any more as we like to say. is pen okay? >> yeah. >> i would say bullpen but you might take that -- >> good night everybody. we'll see you tomorrow. >> the standards are so high. fee court is now in session. ♪ [ judge ] let me get this straight -- you changed flights in order to get home to your buddies for new year's. and i paid the difference in airfare... plus, i paid a 150-dollar change fee. oh, man! southwest would never do that. how did it cost you 150 dollars to change my ticket? your honor, will we be here very long? 150 bucks for a five-minute transaction?! kid, put it on y

local sworn statements from citizens think this guy is a bad guy. this guy has killed local civilians. every single one of them prosecuted turn them. but from that moment on the local population looked at us and said hey, they are grabbing the right people. when they had confidence in us, confidence in the iraqi government, became change. we couldn't handle the information that they were giving to us but it was unbelievable. so what happened was as we got more information, as we can more effective al qaeda became orbiter to see in the first eight chapters, a couple of marines are wounded, we didn't lose a single marine in the first half of the book. in the second half we take three kia's. so the more effectively work the more marines were being killed. sometimes he wouldn't say necessary that make sense but you got remember that warfare is an art, not size. you can do all the right things and somebody is still going to get you. you can do all the wrong things and nobody will get killed. that's a very important point because a lot of times when i'm w

a guy by the name of russell. recall correctly, russell only lost two races in new zealand in 2003. they were both to a boat called usa 76 and it wasn't a bmw oracle racing team.

when i say and arab nazi i am not talking about a guy running around with a swastika armband. i am talking about it for use in arab lands. i mean 100,000 young jews -- who went to germany and brought the concept that can organize on the german bases and considered themselves action will not cease. the second most popular name for a young child was hitler. today you see some people on the internet whose name is hitler. i will give you an example. a man buys the name of hitler, he is just an ordinary civil servant in egypt in charge of the efficiency. his name is hitler. he was not born in austria, his real name was mohammad, he was a little e. egyptian boy who visited all the mosques of egypt and he was the new savior of the arab people. the posters in the marketplace, your master is ala and on earth your master is adolf hitler. in 1981 and june, just before june 1st, they were told to go into their homes, shush their homes. kissel stay off the phone and turn off the radio and pack their bags for three days. you know the scenario. due to a last-minute -- i will use the word res

a guy began tick kid because he is a liger.r, makes him -- >> reporter: father did a lion. mother is a tiger. >> makes him a liger. >> that's a good boy. >> reporter: for all you nonbelievers they really do exist. >> what are you drawing? >> a liger. >> reporter: as we learn from the film "napoleon dynamite." >> what's a liger? >> pretty much my favorite animal like a lion and tiger mixed. skills and magic. >> hercules. >> come on. >> come on hercules. >> you are ready. you must be hungry. >> stretch them out. >> reporter: hercules is skilled at, well eating. about 100 pounds of meat a day. but to see that muscled magnificent stretched out more than one story tall is magic, indeed. >> the "napoleon dynamite" made an awareness of ligers and made people have an interest in the natural world and made a un corporal come to life. >> reporter: unicorns are mythical but hybrids are very real. what is a mule if not a combination of the horse and dofk ki but a liger? there are only about a dozen in the whole world. >> oh how are you? he

a great actor, a terrific guy and a complicated guy. >> it's fun being someone else. >> of course it'scan do things you can't do if you're yourself. >> i was trying to keep a little tenderness. >> you were very conscious of that. >> whatout want in an interview is passion, sense of humor, ability to explain what they do and a chip on their shoulder. he had all four. >> still of that little boy in you? >> yeah. i never lost it. if i lost it, it would be all over. >>> tragedy is riveting, but at the same time tough. so you're on a high because you know there's a momentous thing going on, and at the same time you wish it wasn't going on. >>> tragedy is riveting, but at the same time tough. so you're on a high because you know there's a momentous thing going on, and at the same time you wish it wasn't going on. >> it's conflicted feelings. >> welcome to haiti, how you can help. mick jagger, jennifer lopez, ringer star, seal, ben stiller and others are here. >> great moment. great idea. producers came up with it. raised $10 million. >> larry, auctioning your suspenders is part of the fundra

a good bit of it. they can slug it out. remember when all those guyst to washington and started pointing at each other? that's what you have here today but i think this report is going to be a good start. i don't think the birds in arkansas have to do with the oil spill but there are tar balls on the beaches all over the place and we'll be dealing with this for a long time. we don't though the long-term health consequences of it. we need at the points of millions of dollars on research, maybe hundreds of millions. this is a long way from over. >> it's still impacting folks all around the region. i talked to someone from grand isle who is saying business is yet to bounce back. we're waiting hoping the tourists will come. >> it's a heartbreaker. if i could bring a utilitarian perspective here. >> as i knew you would. >> i have a truck that's 600 yards to the gallon. glutinous americans who keep sucking up the raw sewage. >> what kind do you drive? >> you name it, i drive it. i drive the big three and then some. i'm a hunter, a trapper, a fisherman, so i

a guy by the name of russell. recall correctly, russell only lost two races in new zealand in 2003. they were both to a boat called usa 76 and it wasn't a bmw oracle racing team. they were triumphant. they went on to defeat team new zealand. for the first time ever of the america's cup -- it moved to europe. the great sailing nation, switzerland. [laughter] i love the suisse. they are good that tennis. they are good that a lot of things. it was russell the first one the -- won the america's cup for new zealand, and then won on behalf of the swiss team. there was a pattern i began to recognize. [laughter] russell is on team new zealand and a windy america's cup. he is on swiss team and they won the america's cup. i had this idea -- [laughter] i sailed a bunch with russell and against him. i decided it was a much better idea to sail with him than against them. i think the record speaks for itself. russell could not be here today. he is ill. he has pneumonia. he apologizes for not being here. russell has been our lead

right if you put a gay guy on a special forces team it's going to be about five minutes you know that's great next slide there's no opportunity for interaction there's no issues there who cares if you put a woman if we put genevieve on. with me to live with my friends we are instantly going to start backstabbing each other to gain favor with her now you're assuming that every other guy there is also going to be straight and some of them i think all over the gays are what having been on the team i can stipulate that that's pretty much what we did and any time we were around when there was a formal competition or right the idea of introducing the dynamic into a situation where it is life and death and now you've got people who instead of that or thinking about are thinking about the what on their journey that silly you are you are a veteran here did you experience men treat you like do you think that's even fair that just because they can't keep it in their pants you should be allowed to serve in a combat unit there are so many places i could start here i think first of all it's really im

you have a guy like michael savage, w has a violent talk all the time. instantaneously he can say something ugly and it is out there. if i can finish. we have a situation this summer were glenn beck called george soros the most evil threat facing america. then they arrested a glenn beck file were heading to san francisco toake out the leadership of that foundation. this is a centrist democrat, gabrielle giffords, this was one of the candidates that sarah palin put up and put crosshairs over their names and districts. that, to somebody that is on hand, means, of crosshairs means take out your gun and go after them. host: sarah palin did express her shock at what happened. this is from the daily news -- it showed that representative giffords was one of the district. politician she thought needed to go. giffords said that when you represent a district that includes the ok corra nothing rprises you in terms of political discourse. guest: i do not disagree that civil discourse is important. i have written things critical of glenn beck of michael savage and te

. >> i think we looked at it carefully, we know tom, is he a heck of a guy and has a lot he wants to do in his career and we will help him. he has been throw a challenging environment there with the raiders and he is -- a guy i have watched coach for a long time and had -- the opportunity to watch him coach on the field, compete against him and have been very impressed. >> a challenging environment working with the raiders. yeah coil would probably agree. >>> tiger woods, tweeti no, g and he lets everybody know it's game time. the former number one announcing he will play in the farmer's insurance open next week down south. joining him, phil mickelson. >>> buzzing in the nba. the trade or not trade of anthony and it looks like he will be staying put in denver at least for the meantime as the nets squash rumors of a proposed deal that would have sent him to new jersey. the nets said the deal took to long to get done and was to expensive. the a's, they should have themselves a great bullpen. they finalize a deal on a two year contract for brian fuentes. he signs for about two years, $1

was a homeless guy, so they arrested him. they brought him before the court. hank gave him a $25,000 bail. he did not have $25,000, so he sat in jail for eight days, and he came back and pleaded guilty. this is really the regular person that is symbolic of ordinary justice. there is a woman who has five kids. she is a nurse. one beautiful spring day she is sitting on the stoop, and she is reading of friends hair, and the police say, do believe -- she is braiding of friends hair, and the police say, and you realize there is a no loitering sign, and she offered to get off, and they arrest her. they bring her before the judge, and they give her a $25,000 bail. she is never given an attorney, and she sits in jail for eight days. she has a relative take care of her five kids. eventually, she comes before the judge. the judge says, we will give you a couple hundred dollars as a fine, if you plead guilty, and we will call it a day. she says ok. she pleads guilty, and she thinks to herself, i will never pay the fine, and she gets the

we've got such a fun show, you guys. e and only -- gosh, i love her every time she comes here. betty white is on the show! [ cheers and applause ] i love her. a very, very funny writer, producer and actor, stephen merchant is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] he's one of the funniest dudes i've ever met. he created "the office," "extras." talented guy. and we've got a performance from the one and only ariel pink's haunted graffiti, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] really good band. really good. they're playing at coachella, those guys. they're all backstage warming up. there's going to be a lot of action. [ laughter ] hey, guys, it's time for the "late night hashtags." here we go. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: these are lists that -- on twitter, where we give you the topic, you guys send in the tweets. now, yesterday, i started a hashtag called "worst date." and i asked you guys at home to tweet out something funny, embarrassing, or awful that happened during your worst date. we got thousands of tweets. we were t

twentieth sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars a sort of like a human wave a. guy came up behind her all of his rifle in all and i saw the front side of an a k forty seven a muzzle flash i am sixteen point zero and i. told my target what i saw. and a bullet hit me in the news and i blacked out came to a few minutes later and. i knew it was shattered. after the fighting ended in the sun came up and they carried me over to the. me and he was sitting up against a tree and he had three bullet holes. in his. good. and. and i think you know. a lot of it was just a matter of. when i started thinking oh i wonder if he had a girlfriend and it was from his mother's going to find things like. this is when you just went through the experience of that nature and you find out that it's all lies and you're just lying to the american people and your silence means that you're part of people. i mean i couldn't be so. to my friends and to the country in general. i don't consider the first but it was the first. was you know. them and put them in the face afterwards. to make. every cas

cause i go -- i mean, you're such a talented guy. drama where basically by the time the play is over the whole house has been ripped to sheds, you know? >> jimmy: yeah. >> the roof falls in from the rain and the dad drives a truck through the side of the front porch and i throw a drill through a wall. and somebody else knocks out a window. and a christmas tree gets thrown. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's very exciting. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i mean, yeah. did have you have a lot of injuries from this? just working on this? >> not yet. >> jimmy: you can -- one thing, another thing that we have in common together is we're both authors. you wrote two great novels. >> thank you. >> jimmy: and they were really good. and i wrote a children's book -- called snowball fight. [ laughter ] it was about 13 pages long. >> nice. >> jimmy: it's well received -- >> yes. >> jimmy: among the kindergartners. >> really? >> jimmy: yeah, absolutely. yeah, yeah, love it. did you ever get into a snowball fight? >> i have been in many snowball fights. >> jimmy: you'

good tune. [ cheers and applause ] we got a great show for you guys tonight. ast one before the holidays. a legendary actor, the one and only james earl jones is here. [ cheers and applause ] one of the funniest stand up comedians ever, dave attell is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] i'm a huge fan. i love that guy. he's the best. [ cheers and applause ] and continuing our week of holiday songs sponsored by pepsi max, aaron neville will be performing! [ cheers and applause ] so excited. happy holidays, everybody. but first, this is the last show before we go on christmas break. it's time for one more edition of that beloved late night of that beloved late night tradition, "12 days of christmas sweaters." here we go! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ 12 days of christmas sweaters this is it. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. every night for the past 11 shows, we've been singling out one lucky audience member to take home a totally awesome christmas sweater from the "countdown to christmas cabinet." before we give away the last sweater, let's take a look at the christmas sweater