Advent 2025 E1 - Grandma got run over by a Burro...

Just for you. A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows.

Hello, the Breakfast Bunch, and welcome to our holiday edition of the Miller Morning Madhouse.

And our gift to you this Christmas is an advent calendar, a minor daily dose

of all the wackiness here at the Miller Morning Madhouse, 24 days of our things about the holidays.

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And Miller Community Theater where we just wrapped Almost Maine.

A very successful run. It was great. An upcoming 2026 season.

My personal favorite Little Shop of Horrors, April. Um, you're in town.

This breakfast club is very fond of urine. So we'll be doing you're in town in July.

I hope I can audition for that.

And also hope and gravity in November, a sweet play.

Um, so if you are not a singer, that one, that one might be right up your alley,

but also if you know any singers, please send them our way, uh,

and watch for auditions, audition announcements on social media or MillerCommunityTheatre.com.

December 1st and

Now a childhood memory from jerry pancake about the holidays.

All right i'm gonna tell you a little bit about the time we moved because of a christmas song

and that time i was in kindergarten i

was a little kid i wore a clip-on tie i wanted to

be mr rogers like i put on

that little cardigan when i got home it was probably super

fucking adorable i had two different pairs of shoes all

the stuff right so comes

the time of the christmas program and all the parents and

the grandparents everybody gets really excited because i'm like the like the

kid like i'm i'm gonna be performing and we you practice back then for these

programs like for weeks and weeks and weeks and i thought we sang beautifully

you sang um like Deck the Halls,

I think, and then Feliz Navidad,

which is a Mexican Christmas song,

apparently, which I didn't really even realize because I was just a kid.

So then after that, we lived in Blue Island. This was about 1978.

Almost all of my family, like we could go to any house on the block and it was like family.

It was a DeSanto, which was my mother's maiden name.

So we could go to um any relative we had a little candy store it was all walkable

the school was literally less than a block from our house you know what happened

after that felice navidad

We moved like 20 miles south why

Did you move

My grandma said that mexicans were taking over the

We only had one Mexican kid, and his name was Scotty. So they gave him an American name.

Fit right in. He was across the street.

Everybody else was relatives of us. And we moved to fucking Frankfurt,

which had one stoplight that was blinking.

And it smelled like duck shit. The whole town?

Our subdivision, because they had a water treatment plant in the middle of the subdivision.

So it smelled like shit. I had to ride my bike like two miles to grade school.

And then the middle school wasn't even close enough to ride a bike or walk to.

You had to just take a 30-minute bus ride to it.

So thanks, Mom and Dad, for moving because you didn't like Mexicans.

And that was a childhood memory from Jerry Pancake.