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Hi everyone, I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince.

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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.

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Christmas Day Edition.

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Christmas Day, how about that new logo?

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Yeah, happy holidays everybody.

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We do have a new logo.

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Most of you can't see it because we're a podcast.

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But it's pretty cool.

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So instead of a history buoy, just going to say happy holidays.

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Hope everyone has a good Christmas Day and anything else you're celebrating this time of year.

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And we're going to announce the winner of our giveaway.

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And instead of shouting it out here to the whole world on our podcast,

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the winner will get an email.

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And if they're comfortable, they can let us know if they're all right with us sharing,

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or if they have a picture of the Tumblr or...

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Oh yeah.

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If not, that's totally cool.

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But check your e-ball.

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Just announcing that the giveaway is over and we have selected a winner.

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So check your inbox and make sure you check your spam folder as well.

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Because when I signed up for our own emails, it went to my spam folder.

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So just keep that in mind.

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It may be there.

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Yeah.

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Apparently that's where our emails like to nestle.

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We do have a new logo though.

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I gotta shout it out.

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Emily made it herself.

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Pretty neat.

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Drew it in Procreate.

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Shout out to Procreate.

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Yeah, we have a new logo.

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You can head to our Instagram or our YouTube to take a look at it.

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I think it's pretty cool.

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It's on our very first piece of swag.

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I chose blue because one, I like it.

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And two, you're unlikely to see a lighthouse in that color.

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And so we can't possibly be copying any sort of lighthouse.

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Nice.

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It's our own lighthouse lowdown lighthouse.

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Very good.

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So our episode today is going to be super jolly, hopefully super short,

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but just a little pick me up, something fun.

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And if anyone lives near the lighthouses I talked about today,

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you can look forward to these things around the Christmas season

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because we're doing Christmas time at lighthouses.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I actually chose lighthouses that we have already covered this year.

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So if there's any particular lighthouse you liked throughout this year,

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I may be covering it Christmas time.

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Christmas edition.

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So we're just doing a survey of lighthouses that we've talked about.

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So how it's happening.

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I'm doing Christmas time at lighthouses that we've covered this year.

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Okay, cool.

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The first one that I'm going to cover is Nosset Lighthouse.

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They have a little tradition that they do every year and it's less of a public event.

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It's like volunteer run and by the Nosset Light Preservation Society,

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but spectators are allowed and you can come and watch this whole spectacle unfold.

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So it's the annual hanging of the Christmas wreath.

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Pull up a picture of Nosset Light there with the Christmas wreath that it has every year.

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We know Nosset Light.

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Losset Night.

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This coffee is delicious.

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This is our friend Captain Cecil, right?

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Yes, Captain Cecil's Coffee is based here in Eastham, I think.

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And, or is it East Ham?

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I'm going to say Eastham.

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Now I can't remember.

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I'm pretty sure I remember saying that normally you would say Eastham and now it's actually Eastham.

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So this wreath is now called the David M. Gray Christmas Wreath.

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It's in honor of the president of the Nosset Light Preservation Society who has now passed.

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So now it's like a memorial kind of thing.

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And they started calling it that in 2017.

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He was president until 2013 and then retired.

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And to honor how much he did for the light, the board of directors of NLPS voted unanimously

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to name the wreath after him.

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They do an event.

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They had to postpone it, I think, just a little bit for inclement weather.

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It looked pretty foggy there.

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They hoisted it from the gallery.

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secure the wreath from the top and the bottom of the lighthouse.

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It looks like a table going on.

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They only last, I think, two months.

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It's funny because in pictures you look at it and it looks like not a very big wreath.

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You know, it's just kind of it's not very big compared to the height of the lighthouse.

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It's got a good scale to the lighthouse size.

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I put up a little picture of them working on lifting it up onto the side of the lighthouse.

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This was on December 2nd.

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She said it's real.

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So they make it every year and normally they have to get a new bow.

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I like that bow.

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It's a big old bow.

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Yeah, she said they feel this year that they found a terrific bow supplier from Christmas Designers.com.

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And it's the biggest bow they could find at 36 inches.

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Shout out.

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So she's hoping that they'll be able to reuse this year's bow depending on how it holds up,

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because this is not like a tender area for weather.

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This bow is going to go through some.

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Yeah, some lighthouse stuff.

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So they're hoping they can reuse it, but we'll see.

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I don't even know how a real wreath is made.

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She said it's made with heavy wire or heavy wire frame.

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And then the natural wreath part comes from a local farm that sells trees and wreaths in the wintertime.

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Some evergreen material.

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Six feet tall.

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Six feet tall.

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Three foot bow.

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She doesn't know the exact weight of it, but.

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Heavy.

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I'm glad they do that.

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Captain Cecil's Coffee.

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He participated in.

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The captain himself.

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Cappy.

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So, yeah, that's Nosset Lighthouse at Christmas time.

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The next one we're going to talk about is Montauk Point Lighthouse.

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They have a fantastic Christmas time.

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So usually it's the first Saturday after Thanksgiving at 4 p.m.

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They post about it on their Instagram.

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Montauk Point has a very active Instagram.

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So if you're into lighthouses and you should be because you're listening to us,

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then you should go follow them on Instagram.

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But the first Saturday they have free hot chocolate courtesy of Hampton's Coffee.

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Damn, we missed it.

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I know.

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We don't live there.

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They do a sing along holiday music by Sarah Conway and the Playful Souls Band, I would presume.

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I was going to look up some of their songs, but you know, time just keeps on ticking.

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Each year they also name an honoree for the event.

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And this year was Admiral in quotes, Ed Mitchell's, I think his name is.

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Maybe it's M-I-C-H-E-L-S.

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Sounds like Mitchell's.

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Mitchell's?

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There's no T in there, huh?

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No, and no A, so it can't be Michael's.

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But he was he was listed as a Montauk Harbor legend.

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So I looked a little bit more into him.

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He served at the Montauk Coast Guard Station and worked as Master Chief Petty Officer from 1973.

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This was according to his LinkedIn.

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So he is on LinkedIn.

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Let's go.

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He was hired as a harbor master in 1993 and promoted to the Chief of the Army.

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And since then, he has been working hard to make CPR and AED training certification and

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equipment available to all in the community.

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And I'm sure he did a bunch of other stuff, but it was hard to find.

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That's a nice caption.

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Yeah, but apparently he's very well loved in the community and this honor was well deserved.

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So he's on LinkedIn.

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I wonder if he's a follower of the Lighthouse Lowdown on LinkedIn.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I wonder if he's a follower of the Lighthouse Lowdown on LinkedIn.

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It's unlikely.

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We'll have to connect with him.

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Yeah, I think we should, especially since we're shouting him out on the pod.

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After dark at this event, the lighthouse is lit.

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And I think it's at like 6 p.m.

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But all edges of the lighthouse and Keepers Cottage are lined in lights.

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Oh, that's really cool.

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And that includes the lantern room and the red brown band that Montauk Point has.

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Red brown?

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It's like a brownish red.

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Reddish brown.

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Nice.

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It looks cool.

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Yeah, all the windows.

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They surround all the windows.

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They have a big lit up Christmas wreath.

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So yeah, even the path to the lighthouse is lit up with lights.

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It's nice.

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It's crazy.

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They go all out.

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I feel like I've seen this one before.

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We talked about this maybe last year.

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We talked about this.

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We did talk about this on our Montauk Point episode.

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Or at the end, I shouted out, I put up a picture of Montauk Point in the Christmas time

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because it was very exciting.

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I'm pretty sure it was like not even close to Christmas time.

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But yeah, that's Montauk Point.

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The event is free, but you can donate.

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Donations are encouraged whenever you go and visit.

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And the Sunday after that Saturday at 2 p.m., you can bring your kids to meet Santa

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and enjoy more hot chocolate.

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That's awesome.

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I like free lighthouse events.

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If you have time for time for one more.

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I think so.

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More coverage.

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The screen is a lot brighter on our logo than that nice sunset image.

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Next one I'm going to cover is St. Augustine Lighthouse.

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So this is the one that you did.

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Let's go.

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Pretty recently, actually.

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St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in the United States.

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They go all out for Christmas time.

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It's not just the lighthouse.

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This is like the lighthouse is part of an event for the city that goes on.

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Really?

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Yeah, it's wild.

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I'll talk about it.

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But very little decorating happens on the tower itself.

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They have like some garland and lights going on around the gallery.

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But the grounds are just like totally transformed in their event tides, tidings and trees.

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Wait, was this one that I covered?

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Yeah, you mentioned this one.

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I forgot her name.

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The contact that I made.

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She was super nice.

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So this event goes on from November 22 to January 21.

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So you have a lot of time to check out this event.

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It's part of the Knights of Lights, which is a St. Augustine tradition.

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I don't know how long it's been going on, but it's very exciting.

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A little picture.

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That is cool.

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It's a really nice photo of the lighthouse during Christmas time.

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But the lighthouse itself, I think this year it's called Lighthouse Illuminations or something.

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Maybe it's the company that does it.

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But they have 20 different Christmas trees spread out over the ground.

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So it's like a Christmas tree hunt that you can go do and each has its own theme.

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And I can list them all if you want to.

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No way.

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I was just at Disney in Orlando and they do a similar thing.

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Oh, really?

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They give you a little map so you can hand out and go find the trees.

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I won't say where each of these trees is because I feel like if you're going to go do this,

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you don't want to really want to know where each one is.

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So there is a welcome tree.

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So this one's decorated black, white and red to match the tower's stripes.

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They have shells from the sea, which is beach themed local shells and seaside treasures.

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Nice.

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Keepsake ornaments.

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So that's exactly what it sounds like.

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Shadows in the light.

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They don't describe this one except for that it alludes to its spooky nature.

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An all black tree.

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Yeah, maybe.

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That'd be cool.

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But you're ghoulish.

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Goth tree.

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Like a Halloween tree.

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It's not a phase tree.

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They also have an old Florida tree evokes nostalgia of Florida's past.

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Cool.

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Let's see about that.

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Lighthouses of America.

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This would be my kind of tree.

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The next tree I would say is the most spectacular.

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Oh my gosh.

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And I'll have I have a picture of it next.

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Let's go.

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But this one is inside the tower of the lighthouse.

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And so you have the like spiral staircase all around it.

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But yeah, it's just like a super Christmasy holiday tree.

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Yeah.

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Let's see it.

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Oh cool.

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Yeah.

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And another thing that's special about this time is that you can climb the lighthouse at night,

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which is not usually an option.

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Yeah.

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So this whole event is like you can come and climb it when you normally couldn't.

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That's really cool.

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See people in this picture taking a little climb.

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So is it maybe a 15 foot tree?

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I don't know.

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It's pretty neat.

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It's a very convenient spot to put a tree.

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Yeah.

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That's where the clockwork mechanism would come down to.

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Right.

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Very visually appealing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Super Christmas.

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Very nice.

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I could list the rest of them, but you can also check them out on their website.

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I have a link in our show notes.

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And this is the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum.

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Yes.

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Exactly.

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Big fans.

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Big fans.

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This time of year, all of the buildings on the grounds and also all the buildings in

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St. Augustine are lit up with lights.

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So it looks to be a very fun city to visit in the Christmas time.

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It sounds like they're really into the holidays.

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Yeah.

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Just altruism.

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Super focused, which I don't know how...

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How do you think this tradition came to be?

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It just seems...

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Well, they have the town itself has a good history as well as, well, of course, the lighthouse

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we talked about.

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You should check out our episode.

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But the town having such a long history and being in Florida where it's nice like all

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the time and being on the coast where it's beautiful, they have the beaches, they've

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got the...

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Well, the town's actually on an island.

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Remember, there's the bridge that goes out there.

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Yeah.

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The lions are on the bridge, the Medici lions.

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Anyways, they've got a lot going on and I think it builds into people like I knew some

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people.

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I guess you know them as well that used to go to San...

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Sanibel?

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Yeah.

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San Isabel?

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Sanibel.

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Sanibel.

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I don't know why that sounded wrong.

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Wow.

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Sanibel Island regularly growing up because it was a nice place to escape from Kansas

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and have a nice holiday.

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So I think St. Augustine is a similar type of town.

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Plus, it's got larger cities around it.

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Yeah.

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And it's a very mild, even warm place to spend Christmas.

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So they probably have a lot of vacationers going around this time of year, I would say.

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There was a lot of palm trees with Christmas lights, which is nice.

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Yeah.

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And you can buy tickets for this to go during the day or the night.

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And I think it was $25 per person and can climb the tower.

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So it's kind of...

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I would say it's worth it.

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It's very special.

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Yeah, it'd be a great time to do it.

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Those are three of the main lighthouses we've covered this year that also do Christmas

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events.

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So I just thought I would cover it, give them a little shout out on the pod.

379
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Yeah, I wasn't expecting a recap.

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Look at us.

381
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I know.

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Well, originally I was going to do new lighthouses, but then you get into it where...

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Carried away.

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You see lighthouses that you want to cover and you're like, why would I...

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I would feel like if I was covering them now, I'd have to say something about their history

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because nobody knows which lighthouse I'm talking about.

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But for our followers on the podcast who have heard our other episodes, just like a fun

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little add on for the Christmas time.

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Maybe next year we can fit a wreath to our lighthouse logo.

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Yeah.

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Some little lights.

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An ode to Nosset light.

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Very cool.

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Thanks for this Christmas episode.

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You're welcome.

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I feel very cheery.

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I feel full of joy.

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What is that mug that you bought?

399
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Jolly is just a Christmas word for fat.

400
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Oh yeah, jolly is pretty good.

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Very good.

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Thanks.

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Happy holidays to everybody, all of our listeners.

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We want to thank you for staying with us this year or joining us if you're new.

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We have so much fun doing this podcast and hopefully you'll be able to do it.

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Hopefully you guys enjoy listening to it and you stick around for next year because we

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got a lot more lighthouses to cover.

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More than we can in our lifetime.

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I'm pretty sure.

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Adventures to come.

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So we'll keep going and hope you guys have a great rest of your year.

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Thanks guys.