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Welcome back to The Big weekend show Christmas Special. Every family has their own traditions to make the holiday season special, like picking out a Christmas tree.

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Look at it.

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It really is beautiful, Kik.

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Something else, huh, Russ?

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Yeah, Dad.

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Isn't it cute, Audrey?

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She'll see it later, honey. Her eyes are frozen.

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Most enduring traditions of the season are best enjoyed in the warm embrace of Kith and Kin. The three are the symbol of the spirit of the gridwall family Christmas.

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Whether it's stringing the lights or exchanging gifts, Gen Z and millennials are keeping Christmas traditions alive. According to a recent survey, about a third lean toward the traditional red, green, and silver colors for decorations rather than modern or trendy ones. And Gen Z won't be chopping down their Christmas trees like the Griswold family. About half favor purchasing a fake tree over the 25 % who buy a real one. I thought that was interesting because I thought the young generation would want a real tree. They would want everything to be authentic. Does that surprise you, Kantya?

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It is a huge surprise on this Christmas Eve, Tom. I used to be one of those fake tree guys for a good eight years, and I always thought about all the money I was saving, but you don't get the scent. I need the scent. Two years ago, we went back to real trees, but maybe younger people simply can't afford them. We got a seven-foot tree. We don't have the highest ceilings in the world. It was still 150 bucks. You know what? Yes.

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I just realized it's probably environmentalism. They think chopping the trees down is going to be bad for the environment. That's right. That's what I'm thinking.

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Less air. There we go. We're onto something.

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Okay, let's put this chart up here. Christmas traditions, 59 % watch a holiday movie, 56 % engage in cooking, 53 % baking. That's more than 100 %. But so some people are doing two things on Christmas. 90 %. I love the holiday movies, Anita. We watch Christmas story, and it's a wonderful life. I keep them on a loop all Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. What do you do?

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Well, we bake cookies for Santa. That is our tradition. Yes, we do. And so we'll be doing that tonight. Yeah, we'd love to bake cookies for Santa. And then we have carrots and celery for the reindeer. We put them under the tree. That's great. Okay, we do.

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Do you watch a holiday movie, Lisa?

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Well, sometimes I will on my own, but it's not a family tradition. You have to in the lead up.

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To Christmas. Yeah, I like the holiday.

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I don't. I haven't yet, though. That's something I.

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Need to do. I know people around here at Fox News, they're obsessed with The Griswolds. I don't like those movies. There's too many things going wrong. I don't like bad things happening over and over again.

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You want everything to be.

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Happy and to be free. You wouldn't have much of a movie, though, right? But it's a wonderful life. You want to be depressed for most of Christmas Eve. Watch 99 % of that movie. Only at the very end do you actually feel good about anything, but otherwise it's quite depressing.

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It is the classic redemption story. A 22 % plan to participate in The Elf on the shelf. Do you guys do that? To me, that's even a young-person thing because that's before my time or after my time.

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We do it. Yes. You do Elf on the shelf. The Elf is in our house. Kids like it. The Elf moves around every single night.

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Because how long do you do that for?

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It's a long time, right? You do it from the day after Thanksgiving all the way until Christmas night, and then that's that. But they fly on their own. The parents have nothing to do with their movement. I can attest.

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To that. Have you seen that? You've seen that? Yeah, okay.

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That's it.

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Quite amazing. All right, guys.

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