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Brian Laird on WNYC, and to end the show today for our last 15 minutes, little less.

We're going to open up the phones and ask you, what was the news from your holiday parties this weekend?

212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9-6-9-2.

You can also text that number.

We can take your calls on two tracks here.

The first most obvious is what were the major news topics that kept coming up in conversations?

We know a lot of people went to holiday parties this week.

This was, you know, one of the weekends where people have the holiday parties that come before

Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanza where it's so much about family.

So if you went to some kind of holiday party this weekend or in the last few days, maybe

it was even an office party, what were the major news topics that kept coming up in conversations?

212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9-6-9-2. Was it the drones over New Jersey? I'll bet that was one of them.

212, 433, 9692. Maybe it was the end of Taylor Swift's Erez Tour, which wrapped up last week.

Maybe your colleagues or friends talk about Luigi Mandione a lot, obviously facing murder charges

for the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

What news items broke out at your holiday party among your friends or colleagues?

212-433-9-692. And if it was a work party, maybe the news that kept coming up was news impacting your company or your industry.

Help us report.

I don't want any company secrets or gossip about the boss.

Well, you can talk about gossip about the boss if you don't name any names.

But if you're an educator, maybe you discuss whether kids should have cell phones and schools,

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