All I'm going to be able to be is a joke. Hello, everybody is it a chopin.

It's Monday, December 16th, and Felix and I here at Trapot Trap House are simply having a wonderful Christmas time because we are ending out the year with all of our returning champions, all of the fan favorites. And today is no exception because returning to the show is the great David Roth. David, welcome back to the

program. Hey, thanks for having me. Now, David, right at the jump of this episode, there's an issue

that when I saw news reports breaking about it, my first thought was, I need Roth to write about

this. And lo and behold, you did. And the story that I'm talking about

is the curious case of drones over the great state of New Jersey. And you just wrote about it

for a defector yesterday. And the headline here, it's time for a little recreational mental

illness in New Jersey. And you begin with this great sentence.

There's a kind of hush that is specific in old growth suburbs, a quietness that is more

vast and more inherent than any disturbance that kind of place can kick up.

David, the phrase old growth suburbs was just so perfect.

But like, what is going on with drones over New Jersey, people seeing drones over New Jersey?

And has the Iranian mothership landed?

So this is, there's, I should be clear about this that I, because I did get a little bit dinged for it on social media that like old growth suburbs.

I think you kind of know what that

term means it's like a suburb that has like stores in a downtown area as opposed to one that is

sort of warily circling a large big box store like that is a newer type of suburb to exist but

the sightings are mostly not happening in the part of New Jersey where I grew up,

which is North Jersey. Not to say that they haven't, that, you know, like the drones haven't gotten

there yet. I think there's just more like pollution from the city nearby. But so much of the

sightings have been in what I think is like the most deranged part of New Jersey, which is quite an

honored, like great like metro wildwood, like the most deranged part of New Jersey, which is quite an honor. Like great like

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