Merry Cringemas everybody! And to live up to that name, we've got a show teeming with awkward first kisses, OfficeMax Santa gifts, and a poem Terri wrote to her boyfriend in 1993. Plus: 90s gifts that wouldn't exist today (hi, answering machines!) and our (least) favorite Christmas movie. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season, and thank you for your support of Generation Artax! More at generationartax.com.

In this episode:

• Kim credits Christmas for her executive functioning skills

• Why we loved getting office supplies from Santa

• The gift that changed our actual lives

• #answeringmachinelife

• Terri's first branding project happened while playing "hotel," which isn't as creepy as it sounds

• Lori's play-by-play of her first kiss, which reads like a screenplay of teenage seduction chicken, and makes us all feel creepy and Lori is mortified

• 20-yr-old Terri gets a watch from her boyfriend

• Kim defends It's a Wonderful Life,

• Why Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas is the best of all time

• Why Polar Express is uncanny valley creepy AF and also just sad

• Kim introduces a new term–holiday edging–and grosses us all out

• The truth about Santa and how Lori ruined Christmas for the kids at school

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