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Brian: Brian Lehrer on WNYC, with our first ever Brian Lehrer Show, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, solstice party of the air, because we can't have any of these things in person this year. Now here's how we're going to wrap it up. First of all, those of you who didn't make it on the air with the 32nd holiday cards you wrote, we have a way to take them and we're going to play some more of them through next week, Christmas week, on the show.

If you still want to submit your holiday cards, here's what you do, just text holiday card to 70101, and we'll send you a link where you can record it on your phone, and then we'll play some more of them on the air next week. Just text holiday card, if you wrote one of these 32nd holiday cards to read on the air, thank you for going through the trouble. Since we couldn't get too many of you who did it, text holiday card to 70101.

We've set this up and we'll send you a link where you can record it and we'll play some more of them on the air next week. Thank you for writing those creative holiday cards. Thanks to all of you who did get on with them earlier in the show. If you still want to record yours for possible use on the air next week, text holiday card to 70101. We're going to end our holiday party on the radio now, with our last call-in of the season that we call Shop Listener!. If you sell holiday gifts, now's the time to shout out your business and tell people how to Shop Listener!. Give us a call, 646-435-7280.

This is the free classifieds for listeners that we've been doing for a few years now. We like to think that small business owners in our audience get a little boost and the shoppers get to patronize the business of a fellow Brian Lehrer Show listener, and that's a good thing. Call now, if you sell holiday gifts at your shop, brick and mortar, or all virtual, both welcome, 646-435-7280. It's just our little way of helping our community of listeners as we're all making the decision of where to spend our money.

If we are people who buy gifts, maybe you're attempting to avoid a certain online behemoth that shall not be named. It's our final Shop Listener! of the year, call and shout out the gifts that you're selling, and maybe another Brian Lehrer Show listener will buy from you. 646-435-7280, 646-435-7280. As your calls are coming in, we welcome our final guest for this holiday party who has some businesses that she would like to shout out.

Imara Jones is the journalist in residence at The Greene Space right now, or event space downstairs from WNYC's physical studios. She's also the creator of TransLash Media, which is a site filled with personal stories that aims to end the culture of hostility toward trans people and save trans lives. You can find it at translash.org. Imara has an online event she's hosting on thegreenespace.org website this evening, she'll tell us about it, called Shop Trans, this holiday season. That's why we're putting her in Shop Listener!. Imara, hi there. Welcome to the on air side of New York public radio and thanks for being at The Greene Space with us.

Imara: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now I know why the H in holidays is pronounced as it is. There we go.

Brian: Who knew. Help our listeners Shop Trans. Share a few of your own favorite trans-owned businesses that sell holiday gifts.

Imara: I think people should Shop Trans, it's a mouthful, for very simple reasons. I think one is the fact that, only 1% of small businesses are actually LGBTQ with a fraction of those trans businesses. Often those businesses are started because trans people face so much hostility in the workplace, and through employment discrimination and others. There's really this perfect storm of trans creators and trans small businesses. On top of that, there are just so many great business ideas.

When we went into this project to think about businesses that we would want to bring forth, a wealth of really interesting ideas showed up, especially those in New York. There's Atomic Gold, which is a gold and jewelry making business where it's all reclaimed and it's beautiful and at a high level. There is [unintelligible 00:04:59] who makes prints and photography that are just stellar and mind-blowing, some really, really incredible work on his website.

There's a cosmetics company, BatMe! Cosmetics, soap companies, so many. Just that combination of wanting to do the right thing at the holidays and provide people with really great gifts, it's just a really perfect way to shop trends, and all of the businesses that I just mentioned and so many more are actually on the TransLash website, so translash.org, it's right there on the homepage. Those that will be tonight, those entrepreneurs that will be on tonight at The Greene Space, you can also find on thegreenespace.org as well. It's just a great reason to shop trans this holiday season.

Brian: Great. Shop Trans this holiday season at The Greene Space, you can stream it online, at the thegreenespace.org, that's at seven o'clock tonight for an hour, 7:00 to 8:00. You can RSVP for free on thegreenespace.org and get free tickets, it's part of their Lives at Stake series of events, which The Greene Space's site says it's a series of conversations by and for trans people about the issues affecting their community. Imara Jones, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Have fun there tonight and happy holidays.

Imara: Same to you. Thank you so much for having me.

Brian: We're going to wrap it up with a few more of your Shop Listener! calls so that the rest of you can shop from Brian Lehrer Show listeners, if you haven't bought your holiday gifts yet. Clara in The Bronx, you're on WNYC. Hi Clara, what've you got?

Clara: Hey, I'm calling from Rooftop Reds. We are the world's first commercially viable rooftop vineyard. We're located in the Brooklyn Navy yard. We are actually growing grape vines. They're all red Bordeaux varieties ranging from Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot. When we got shut down in March where a 15,000 square foot rooftop vineyard, where people couldn't come and hang out, we pivoted to a online delivery service, so we're actually delivering wine. www.rooftopreds.com. We have everything from Riesling, Rosé, Sparkling Rosé [inaudible 00:07:18]

Brian: Rooftop Reds from Clara in The Bronx, made from rooftops, in New York City it sounds like, sold out of Brooklyn, thank you so much. Here's what we're going to do, I'm going to tell everybody how you can submit your Shop Listener! businesses to a website because we've created a Shop Listener! map this year with all the shops that we've already collected from our earliest segments, and the ones that you're trying to call in now, but our phones might be crashing, ha ha ha, and find the link to add your own, when you go to that site, at www, don't even have to say www, right? But it's www.wnyc.org/shop-listener-2020.com.

This is both-- as we try to get the phones back. This is both for listeners and for those of you with things to sell, www.wnyc.org/shop-listener-2020.com, wnyc.org/shop-listener-2020.com, all right? You got the slashes and the dashes straight. Next year, we're going to make an easier URL address. So ends the Brian Lehrer Show Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, solstice party of the air, since we can't have any of these things in person this year. Thank you all for your wonderful contributions. We thank all our celebrity guests who stopped by with holiday audio gifts for all of you.

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