(3 Dec 2025) ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 2 December 2025 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Leary, actor/comedian - on Elf on the shelf: “My parents used to literally go, 'You guys need - we're gonna hide the expensive whiskey on the upper shelves,' because I had this short uncle who was an alcoholic. And once he had a couple of cheap whiskeys in him, he'd start looking for the expensive stuff. So my parents would go, 'We're gonna hide the expensive whiskey in the bathroom on the top shelf of the