Michael Malice

You know, one of the things I despise about our culture is this, and something I'm fighting very heavily with this book, or at least attempting to, is this glorification of cynicism.

This kind of like, oh, you like this song?

That's cute.

It's stupid.

Whereas Christmas is the one time of year where you could be happy and joyous and kind and people don't get to roll their eyes at you.

They get to stop being too cool for school and they get to be like, I enjoy your friendship.

You're my sister, my brother, my dad, my mom, whatever.

And

It was Ayn Rand's favorite holiday.

I adore it.

And especially Christmas in New York.

And it's just this idea of like, even though we're cold and it's dark outside, it's still this kind of like, it's still cozy.

And let's hope the next year is, because with Russians, Santa comes on New Year's.

So it's kind of like, let's make this next year an even better one.

So it's very much the holiday of hope and joy.

And kindness and benevolence, yeah.

But it's also like giving people material possessions.

Like here, like I value you.

This is something that brings you joy, yeah.

I've got two, my next two appearances on the show, assuming I don't burn this bridge.