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Good morning, and welcome to Thursday, December the eighteenth, There
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Jeffery's got all the sounds, and I have for you
my top ten Christmas stories and songs countdown.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We will probably get to about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ten to six or ten to five and count down
our top five stories and songs tomorrow. It's our gift
to you this holiday season, the president of a gift
for our military and for us all. I don't know
if you want to call this a fireside chat, because
it was a state of the Union, because it was
our response to some bad things earlier in the week.
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Maybe we just call it a final say before the holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
He addressed the nation, and very simple, we are making
America great again tonight, after eleven months, our border is secure,
Inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down. Our
nation is strong, America is respected, and our country is
back stronger than ever before. We're poised for an economic
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boom the likes of which the world has never seen. Soon,
we will host the World Cup and the Olympics, both of.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Which I got.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But most importantly, we will celebrate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, there's no question nobody's gonna be able to criticize
the president for lack of energy. He was filled with energy,
he was filled with his side of results. Now we
live in a matrix. Much of this I celebrate. The
left will say this is just another blame game. America
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is not feeling this. They're going to continue to try
to chip away at the president in order to chip
away at the midterm election. It's a smart strategy. It
isn't necessarily any more reality or just another you know,
political theater playing out and we're all caught in the middle. Now,
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there will be an inflation report today and may tick up,
may tick down. They'll be response to that. But affordability.
We went from inflation to affordability. That's the attack, and
that's what the left will respond with. Oh, let me
grant my this is the Atlantic this morning, just to
give you an example of where I'm coming from, and
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then I'll make my point. Move on, because we've got
Christmas from the Atlantic. Donald Trump wants to be known
as a peacemaker, but his attempts at cease fires around
the globe are not holding up, to say nothing of
the war that seems to be being plotted in Venezuela.
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They're going to attack everything about Donald Trump. And you're
going why because, as Red would say, if the Republicans
are going to maintain control of Congress and not end
this momentum, they got to take Donald Trump everywhere and
hold every voter by the hand and somehow make it
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real that Trump himself is on the ballot, and the
Democrats know that. That's why he's all right, they're already
attacking him. Now, what was smart about this? Well, I
think we had a couple of unfore stairs, right. I mean,
I don't want you to get mad at me, but
with the president chose to post on truth, social was
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not politically smart for a man who turned his head
to I know a lot of you like to send me.
He almost died. He almost died. Of course he's mad, yeah,
But a god that had him turn at just the
right moment and spare him, doesn't want him going on
in celebrating his enemy's life or death, but rather celebrate
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the sanctity of life. So it was a big unforced
air and mistake, whether you like someone telling you that
or not. And the Democrats will seek to make that
his deplorable. And then you have Kathy Wiles, who you
were wondering where was she when he was typing that.
She's been spending about an hour a month with Vanity Fair.
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You spend eleven hours hours with an adversarial publication, they're
going to bury you. And they did. And as we
talked about with David Sanada yesterday. You don't want to
go into it, not just a long weekend, but a
holiday that doesn't return until next year.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
With that being the final.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Taste in anybody's mouth of that, the final say, it
was a very smart thing to do. The only negatives
would be that people would go, what was that? We
don't do State of the Unions right before Christmas by
a decorated chimney. Yeah, you do when you've got damage control.
I thought it was a very smart final say, last
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taste before everybody disappears for a while, including Congress. Also,
police in Rhode Island are releasing images of a second
person of interest now in the manhunt for the Brown
University shooter, Nick Reiner, I think, revealing his potential defense
shows up at a Los Angeles court wearing a suicide vest.
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Could insanity or some kind be the pleat to come?
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongina was stepping down. When did
he step in? Because it was late? Wasn't it like April?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Or may? I know?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I got unto the year fog, but that wasn't very long?
And what about for the people that have been announced
as his replacement? While Dan's leaving you're leaving. He's coming
back to his show, But does he come back with
the same credibility. Remember Dan Bongino in particular, made his
big run in hay on Epstein, kind of the way
Candae Owen is on Charlie Kirk's Killer, and now he
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comes back. I'm sure the Left is going to pile
on too, that this is everybody abandoning the administration. Well,
it's still possible. And Thursday Night Football tonight is a
NFC West clash. The Rams and injury are catching up
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with them and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
One of the things that we like to do every
holiday season, now this year is a little different because
somebody started the idea that next year we may begin
a new tradition, which is have a Christmas party for
the Your Morning Show kitchen table here in Nashville, and
everybody's willing to fly in, stay and do it. If
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you're serious about that, we'll get serious and make it happen.
But we have another gift for you that we do
every year, and it's my top ten Holiday Christmas Stories
and songs Spectacular. It's our gift to you and the
reason we do it is usually to prepare our hearts
and minds for the season, and yes, you will need
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a healthy heart and mind this season. We start at
number ten, disproving our theory that all the best Christmas
songs are sung by dead people. Our singer is still
very much alive, and he starts where we start.
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Decorating.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
When you think of your childhood memories, when you think
of your family traditions, it all begins with decorating.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Outside inside.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was first in Christmas Vacation, the movie It's got
to look like the holiday to feel like the holiday.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I have two things on decorations. One, I love them.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I had a very bad experience at a Christmas store
in Gatlinburg over a life sized Santa.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Don't even get me started.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
When I stand before God, it will be my most
embarrassing expenditure.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But it usually comes. And this is kind of a
holiday tradition.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right after we all eat turkey, right after we all
lay down on the cow. And there's just something about
that slumber after a turkey feast with football on, and
that perfect moment when you're just about in a coma,
you know they're you're kind of leaving this world and
entering a different one. Maybe even a little bit of
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a chill. But it's asleep. You can't fight, not like
your grandparents used to say. I'm just going to rest
my eyes. No, I'm going to go into a deep slumber.
And that's when your wife done cleaning the kitchen on
Thanksgiving with no respect for the game of football or coma,
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has a burst of energy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's time to start decorating.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And the guys, that's when we get to either go
under the house or upp in the cold attic and
get all the stuff. I call it the Thanksgiving Day
rude awakening, kind of like when you get a boat.
They say the best two days are when you buy
and sell one. I can't really know, because my cruiser
I remember the day I bought it. I never really
got a chance to sell it due to dire dry rod.
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What would our neighborhoods look like if everyone wasn't doing it?
What our homes look like if our wives wouldn't do it?
Got to start at number ten with an ode to
everyone who makes our homes, our streets, and our communities
look and feel like Christmas, so we can prepare our
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hearts to celebrate Christmas. And who better to do it?
And still alive. Then he's the only man excited about it.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
The holly, the treaty for my spirit falls again.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Stock I need things, the halls again.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Christmas?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Is he playing Christmas music while I'm trying to wake up?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Yes, he is a.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Christmas likes very magic has.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's not a single for him, but sad.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Chant.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Turn on the right, Johnny, his turtles a Frenklin dog.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
So Holly time be hung the sound.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Like mad men doing it all with a cigarette mascotch
and half.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Roll roll sadder growed angel should need a Christmas Nah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
All right, let's just dance around. Now, let's get it
the Christmas parent. Seventy of America has not finished shopping yet.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Here's it even worse debt like me, sixty percent of
America hasn't even started shopping.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh we've got more, Johnny, give me some sprinkle man pulling.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Need laughter, need little scene ringing the red and we
need later Christy.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
All right, there you have at number ten on our
top ten list and Journey of Christmas Stories and Songs.
Johnny mathis owe to all of you that make our
homes and streets look like Christmas. We need a little
Christmas I don't know about you, but I'm in the
spirit now. Moving up one big notch, we head to
number nine. Next booky Boogey Bogey Christmas Movies, A story
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and song coming up. Well, this Christmas we celebrate the
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Speaker 3 (14:24):
In the season of life.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chongo.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Merry Christmas, guys, it's Woody Michael. You are truly blessed
to be able to work with two dear friends Jeffrey
and Red every day, but also many of the listeners
of the year Morning Show that consider you a friend.
It reminds me of what Clarence the Angel told George
Bailey in the movie It's a Wonderful Life. Remember, no
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man is a failure who has friends. So a toast
to Michael, the richest man in Nashville.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
In Philadelphia, I'd like to thank the Morning Show for
making my mornings Mary and Bright and I love when
Michael sings Oh John, she really tickles my heart.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Christmas tells me, yeah, tickles your heart and ages me
that I know a song from the fifties like that.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Oh man, you guys are always the greatest. You're why
we love doing this show. We are.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We're very rich, We're very blessed. That doesn't need anything
to be under the tree this year for any of us,
it's all in our heart. Thank you so much for
those wonderful words.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
President Trump touting the progress of America during his first
year back in office. It was his fireside Christmas State
of the Union chat last night.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Trump took him with the Biden administration while highlighting an
economy that he said was trending upwards. During a primetime
speech at the White.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
House Wednesday, when I took office, inflation was the worst
in forty eight years, and some would say in the
history of our country.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
He started a speech by saying he inherited a mess
when he took office, but has achieved more than anyone
could have imagined. Trump said, current prices are down from
what they were under the Biden administration, and they're working
to lower the price of groceries by Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The House has narrowly passed a GOP health bill that
does not extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
More from Tammy Tricheo.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Wednesday's vote was two hundred and sixteen to two hundred
and eleven, with four moderate Republicans who had broken earlier
from party leaders ultimately voting yes. Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey
was the only member of his party to vote know.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where it's not
expected to pass. That would leave millions of Americans facing
higher healthcare premiums as Congress leaves for the holiday recess.
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I'm Tammy Trichio and.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
The Matrix to decide who to blame.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Nick Reiner appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom in suicide
prevention vest.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
This could be a sign of his potential defense strategy.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
When you hear that he is on suicide watch, you
know that there are mental health issues, and I think
there will be a world question here whether his attorney
when they ultimately enter a plea, are they going to
enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Thursday Night Football Tonight an NFC West Showdown the Rams
and the Seahawks. Ram's got some recent wide receiver injuries,
but it still ought to be a great game. Birthdays Today,
The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Remember when in the seventies
who said this guy is never going to live.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
He's still alive and he looks the same as he
did in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Old eighty two, Keith Richards, Director, Steven Spielberg seventy nine,
Brad Pitt sixty two, Billie Eilish twenty four, and Stone
Cold Steve Austin is sixty one. If you're a birthday,
Happy birthday. So glad you were born. Thanks for making
us a part of your day.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
Hi, I'm actress Lisa Varga and my morning show is
your morning show with Michael del Giordo.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Hey, gang, it's me Michael. You can listen to your
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listen live, but are grateful you're here now for the podcast.
Enjoy Hell yeah Cold, nothing gets by Jeffery.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If I'm coming under your tree and I haven't started
shopping yet, I might be there to pull a gridge. Yes,
Stone Cold. Steve Austin is sixty one today. You know
what Red said to me off the air?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I can't I can't even believe he's sixty one? I said,
can you believe I'm sixty one?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah? Well yeah, and I thought, what did shirk?
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So let's kid, I look sixty one? But how now
can Steve Austin Cold was an athlete? I mean, come on,
so was I forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And then my my third basement from high school, he
came into town and my son was going, wow, tap looks.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Good, and so Nat, what am I going to do?
I'm not vain, but I got it. Just look better
than me.
Speaker 14 (19:08):
Well, I'm just saying if I didn't know him, and
he wasn't your friend, and I saw him, I'd think,
you know, mid forties fifty, And I said, what about me?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, no, you look sixty one. It doesn't sound like
that with his big.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Nas I'm like, wow, thanks a lot, and read did
that right after the listeners are like what he's going
on and on about how blast I am for hand
friends like that, Well, thank you. I guess I look
like an old president. I got this email from Blake.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Michael. I'll say this about Trump's speech. It was fast.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
As someone who retires early, I had to concentrate at
how fast he was talking sort of life or death
difference from Biden, Yes, of course, and by the way
that may have been by strategy.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
There has been a lot of rumblings.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I know, there's been the false attacks from the left
that he's going aging or something's happened to him. He
has been kind of, you know, busy and seemed a
little run down. He had his energy last night, and
that just kind of goes to everything that that was about.
It was about having a final say before the holidays.
So that's why some moments it felt like a state
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of the Union. At some moments it felt like a
fireside chat. At some moments it felt like I want
to give you a different impression from Monday and Tuesday
before you break for the holidays. I think it was
a very smart thing to do by the president. Rhode
Island police are releasing now images of a second person
of interest in the manhunt for the manhunt for the
Brown University shooter, and Nick Reiner appeared in court in
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a suicide vest. That may be a little wink at
what the defense is going to choose. Insanity. And I
don't even think he served six months?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Did he? Did anybody do the math on this for
bonn Gino?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So he I mean he rose to fame for a
long time, but I mean he went through the stratosphere
using the Epstein case, like Candice Owens is doing right now.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
With the Charlie Kirk murder.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Roy's done the math, by the way, on that we
had Roy in WKBN, He's done the math on Bongino.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I did the math, so you don't have to.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
Bongino would have lasted in Trunk's administration approximately twenty eight
scare Mucci's.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Go, wow, that's a much better call than Red telling
me I can't believe or wrestler sixty one when he
can't be your age. But yeah, I think the left
will turn that into they're all fleeing the ship.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
We do something every year called my top ten Christmas
stories and songs. My Holiday gift to you spectacular at
number ten was Johnny Mathis with our ode to all
the Christmas decorating. We got to look like Christmas in
order to feel like Christmas. And for all that make
our streets and communities, and especially those in our homes
that decorate it to perfection, we honor you now at
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number nine the ode to Christmas movies, and there are
so many it's hard to do it. I can tell
you the Christmas story that's one of the Guy with
a Little Gun.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I never really registered with me, but I did love
Christmas vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Later for Christmases would come along and become kind of
a family classic. My north Star and I don't know
if you would call it a Christmas movie, I would
is Family Man with Nicholas Cage because that reminds me
of what's important in life. You're gonna think this is crazy,
but I actually watch that movie once a year just
for that. It has that much meaning to me about
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what life is all about and what really defines us
and what really defines happiness and success. There's a silly
little Hallmark movie called Naughty or Nice with little Chrissy
Kringle and she lives on Candy Cane Lane. That's always
been a favorite of mine, and I think it was
about three years ago I was introduced to Feast to
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the Seven Fishes. Now I realized Feast of the Seven
Fishes won't be everyone's favorite Christmas music, but if you're
an Italian American it will be. So I recognize. For me,
it's a time machine right back to my childhood. My
dad did a post and it was Maudlin. But at
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his age, everybody, you know, Christmas tends to revert to childhood.
Those are the most powerful memories, and all those people
are gone even later in life. His friends are gone,
not my son. Also, mister critical pointed out, why is
he acting like all those relatives are dead? We're all alive.
What does he come visit us?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
But I digress. But it can tend to feel that way.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And when you watch Feast to the Seven Fishes, Oh non,
he's back at the table. Pop, He's back at the table.
It's a scream. But I think one of my all
time favorites has always been a movie that dares to
do something that is really unthinkable. I mean, even movies
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that try to tell three simultaneous stories.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They struggle but in love.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Actually they dare to tell so many stories. Every time
you watch it, you forget one and nothing gets lost
and everything is woven together. And I think the picture
it paints is whether you're ready or not, functional or dysfunctional,
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dysfunctional or not, Christmas is going to arrive, and you're
going to be in the state it's in when it arrives.
And if it's new love, that's great. If it's lost love,
that's not so great. And the brilliance of the movie
is the ability to tell that many stories and tell
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them all very well, and each individual's story paints the
most profound picture. There's the prime minister who falls in
love with his staff member. There's the writer whose wife
cheats on him with his brother, but then he falls
in love with the maid when he's in exile. There's
the old man and wife whose husband is tempted by
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his secretary, the widower whose son falls in love with
a girl at school. The bride and groom, whose best
man is in love not with the groom but with
the bride, as it would turn out, the office worker
who falls in love but is in conflict with a
brother who is institutionalized. There's the porn lighting models who
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eventually fall in love. One of my favorites is the
young brit who says, if he can just get to
America somehow, someway and he chooses Milwaukee with his accent,
he can finally get a girl, and he does.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
He gets three.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But probably the most profound moment is the ending, because
the ending reminds me of a real life.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Moment when my grandmother and my grandfather.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
They would come and Dad and I and my brothers
would go to Ahare Airport and wait for them to
get off the plane. And as we were there, we'd
pass by a Navy guy just sleeping in the hallway,
and you'd see complete strangers hugging as people are getting
off the plane. And that was my first realization, even
at the young age of seven or eight, Wait a minute,
life isn't about me. These people are all having the
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same life I am, and they have all the same
important people in their life that I do, and they
all matter, and the one thing that we all have
in common.
Speaker 14 (26:53):
Is love.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Actually, now, later this song would have way more meaning
for me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
There was a Christmas where our kids wanted these little
Maguay dolls because we turned them on to the Gremlins
thirty years after Gremlins was made. Well, they loved Gremlins
like we love Gremlins. And then they all wanted a
Gremlin for Christmas. That wasn't easy to find, but I did.
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And then making my whole movie, I chose this song
as they were opening the Presence and ending with them
all with their maguay is singing, and then Andrea walking up,
thinking it's a picture when it's a video, put your
personal memory to it. And this Christmas you could be
mourning what isn't there instead of what is? But look around,
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there's a lot that is there. There's a lot that
was there and someone loved enough to bring it there
in the first place. Do you ever think about where
we would be? I get chilled. What would my life
be without Andrea Anna Alex Nicholas Nick's right. Yeah, there's
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a lot of good ones gone, there's a lot of
good ones still alive, and God only knows where we
would be.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Without them. Our old.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
To Christmas movies, our old to all the love that
surround us that God's given us, and a Christmas that's
arrived ready or not.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Beach Boys, I may not always love you.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Good line is there are stars love you. You never
need to dad? Oh, thank you, sir, shit.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Good O.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Me knows what I dream with that V I still
believe me? Who will this show nothing to me? So
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what God would not mean? Jimmy, God of me knows
what I means that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
God and me knows.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Why I believe with that you if you should happen
be me your life would still believe me? The world
that show nothing to me?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
I well.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
When it comes to art, I'm not sure I know
what a masterpiece is. When it comes to music, I do.
It's that the Beach Boys and God only knows.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
One of my all time favorite songs from one of
my all time favorite Christmas movies, Love actually number nine
on our Holiday Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs Spectacular
Our Gift to You. It's forty eight minutes after the hour. Well,
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It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno.
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We're pounding down our top ten Christmas stories and songs,
our holiday gift to you.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
We're at number eight.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Next hour, first thing's first top five stories of the day. Well,
I guess a lot of people and it'll be in
the eyes of the beholder. Will they call this an
awkward State of the Union address in December, a fireside
chat from a holiday decorated hearth, or will they call
this damage control? Hey, even if it is damage control,
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it was smart to do. It's the final say before
the holidays, and the President took it.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
While addressing the nation from the White House, Trump said
the Biden administration allowed too many illegal immigrants to take
opportunities from hardworking Americans.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
One hundred percent, he said, a reverse migration.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
This rising for the first time in decades, and that's
because of the work of his administration. Trump pointed to
places like Minnesota, where he said, in his words, that
Somalians have taken over the state and stolen billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Nick Reiner appeared in the Los Angeles court yesterday, formally
charged for the stabbing death of his mother and father,
Tammy Trihio has more.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
His lawyer, Alan Jackson, spoke outside the courthouse following the appearance.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case. They just need to be thoroughly
but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
At and analyzed.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Prosecute to say, the thirty two year old murdered his parents,
Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, in their Brentwood
home on Sunday. Nick Reiner appeared in a suicide prevention
vest and as defense lawyers requested, no video or images
be taken of him. Nick Rener is being charged with
two counts of first degree murder. He didn't enter a
plea or speak in court. The judge continued his arraignment
to January seventh. I'm Tammy trhio Well.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I always warned if we didn't get questions about when
life begins right, we won't get questions about when life
ends right either.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
At least the questions are popping up now.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Governor Kathy Hokel has signed a controversial right to die
bill making physician assisted suicide legal in New York. For doctors,
they take an oath to first to no harm. There's
the moral implication of taking your life. There's a lot
of questions, and it was a slippery slope with marijuana
for medicinal purposes to recreational. The governor says she's concerned,
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thinks she has the safeguards, but does she.
Speaker 12 (34:50):
The law allows New Yorkers with incurable illnesses in less
than six months to live to request medication to end
their own lives. Three doctors have to sign off on it.
Hocal ed lawmakers put in additional guard rails that include
a mental health evaluation, video of the patient requesting to die,
and the five day waiting period.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
It must be a well informed decision.
Speaker 12 (35:12):
The governor, whose Catholic had missed dealing with a lot
of religious conflict oversigning the bill.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Is that about me?
Speaker 12 (35:19):
A million Yorkers twelve states plus Washington, d C. Have
similar measures. I'm Sarah le Kessler of all the.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
People who could possibly walk away with.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
An oscar next month. Billy Idol, the singer's.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Song Dying to Live from his documentary Billy Idols Should
Be Dead, earned a spot on the Oscar's short list
for Best Original Song. The track is one of the
fifteen to make the short list with a category and
being narrowed down to five songs. A song that made
the short list is Dear Me by Diane Warren form
her documentary Ristless. Nominations for the ninety eighth Academy Awards
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will be announced on January twenty second.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I'm Rknefield. I think I got the sequel down. Keith
Richards ought to be dead. More on that in the moment.
First in sports Tonight, Thursday Night Football from Seattle. It'll
be the Rams and the Seahawks. We're looking for who's
the best in the NFC West.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And basketball. Cavs lost one twenty seven one to eleven. Tollball.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
The grizz won one sixteen one ten over the te Wolves.
On the ice, Fred's lost four to one of the Canes,
Red Wings lost four to one to the Mammoth Kings
lost three to two the Panthers. Did any of our
your morning show cities win?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
The Blues did? They shut out the Jets one to nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Birthdays today, Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones, looking about
like he did at thirty.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Two eighty two.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Director Steven Spielberg is seventy nine, Brad Pitt sixty two,
Billy Eilish twenty four, and Yes Stone Cold Steve Austin.
The Wrastler is sixty one red, same age as me.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
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Good morning, and welcome to Thursday, December the eighteenth, There
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to serve you on Michael del Jona. Red's got the content,
Jeffery's got all the sounds, and I have for you
my top ten Christmas stories and songs countdown.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We will probably get to about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ten to six or ten to five and count down
our top five stories and songs tomorrow. It's our gift
to you this holiday season, the president of a gift
for our military and for us all. I don't know
if you want to call this a fireside chat, because
it was a state of the Union, because it was
our response to some bad things earlier in the week.
(01:23):
Maybe we just call it a final say before the holidays.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
He addressed the nation, and very simple, we are making
America great again tonight, after eleven months, our border is secure,
Inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down. Our
nation is strong, America is respected, and our country is
back stronger than ever before. We're poised for an economic
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boom the likes of which the world has never seen. Soon,
we will host the World Cup and the Olympics, both of.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Which I got.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But most importantly, we will celebrate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, there's no question nobody's gonna be able to criticize
the president for lack of energy. He was filled with energy,
he was filled with his side of results. Now we
live in a matrix. Much of this I celebrate. The
left will say this is just another blame game. America
(02:25):
is not feeling this. They're going to continue to try
to chip away at the president in order to chip
away at the midterm election. It's a smart strategy. It
isn't necessarily any more reality or just another you know,
political theater playing out and we're all caught in the middle. Now,
(02:49):
there will be an inflation report today and may tick up,
may tick down. They'll be response to that. But affordability.
We went from inflation to affordability. That's the attack, and
that's what the left will respond with. Oh, let me
grant my this is the Atlantic this morning, just to
give you an example of where I'm coming from, and
(03:10):
then I'll make my point. Move on, because we've got
Christmas from the Atlantic. Donald Trump wants to be known
as a peacemaker, but his attempts at cease fires around
the globe are not holding up, to say nothing of
the war that seems to be being plotted in Venezuela.
(03:31):
They're going to attack everything about Donald Trump. And you're
going why because, as Red would say, if the Republicans
are going to maintain control of Congress and not end
this momentum, they got to take Donald Trump everywhere and
hold every voter by the hand and somehow make it
(03:54):
real that Trump himself is on the ballot, and the
Democrats know that. That's why he's all right, they're already
attacking him. Now, what was smart about this? Well, I
think we had a couple of unfore stairs, right. I mean,
I don't want you to get mad at me, but
with the president chose to post on truth, social was
(04:17):
not politically smart for a man who turned his head
to I know a lot of you like to send me.
He almost died. He almost died. Of course he's mad, yeah,
But a god that had him turn at just the
right moment and spare him, doesn't want him going on
in celebrating his enemy's life or death, but rather celebrate
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the sanctity of life. So it was a big unforced
air and mistake, whether you like someone telling you that
or not. And the Democrats will seek to make that
his deplorable. And then you have Kathy Wiles, who you
were wondering where was she when he was typing that.
She's been spending about an hour a month with Vanity Fair.
(04:59):
You spend eleven hours hours with an adversarial publication, they're
going to bury you. And they did. And as we
talked about with David Sanada yesterday. You don't want to
go into it, not just a long weekend, but a
holiday that doesn't return until next year.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
With that being the final.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Taste in anybody's mouth of that, the final say, it
was a very smart thing to do. The only negatives
would be that people would go, what was that? We
don't do State of the Unions right before Christmas by
a decorated chimney. Yeah, you do when you've got damage control.
I thought it was a very smart final say, last
(05:38):
taste before everybody disappears for a while, including Congress. Also,
police in Rhode Island are releasing images of a second
person of interest now in the manhunt for the Brown
University shooter, Nick Reiner, I think, revealing his potential defense
shows up at a Los Angeles court wearing a suicide vest.
(06:01):
Could insanity or some kind be the pleat to come?
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongina was stepping down. When did
he step in? Because it was late? Wasn't it like April?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Or may? I know?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I got unto the year fog, but that wasn't very long?
And what about for the people that have been announced
as his replacement? While Dan's leaving you're leaving. He's coming
back to his show, But does he come back with
the same credibility. Remember Dan Bongino in particular, made his
big run in hay on Epstein, kind of the way
Candae Owen is on Charlie Kirk's Killer, and now he
(06:39):
comes back. I'm sure the Left is going to pile
on too, that this is everybody abandoning the administration. Well,
it's still possible. And Thursday Night Football tonight is a
NFC West clash. The Rams and injury are catching up
(07:00):
with them and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
One of the things that we like to do every
holiday season, now this year is a little different because
somebody started the idea that next year we may begin
a new tradition, which is have a Christmas party for
the Your Morning Show kitchen table here in Nashville, and
everybody's willing to fly in, stay and do it. If
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you're serious about that, we'll get serious and make it happen.
But we have another gift for you that we do
every year, and it's my top ten Holiday Christmas Stories
and songs Spectacular. It's our gift to you and the
reason we do it is usually to prepare our hearts
and minds for the season, and yes, you will need
(07:44):
a healthy heart and mind this season. We start at
number ten, disproving our theory that all the best Christmas
songs are sung by dead people. Our singer is still
very much alive, and he starts where we start.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Decorating.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
When you think of your childhood memories, when you think
of your family traditions, it all begins with decorating.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Outside inside.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was first in Christmas Vacation, the movie It's got
to look like the holiday to feel like the holiday.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I have two things on decorations. One, I love them.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I had a very bad experience at a Christmas store
in Gatlinburg over a life sized Santa.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Don't even get me started.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
When I stand before God, it will be my most
embarrassing expenditure.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But it usually comes. And this is kind of a
holiday tradition.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right after we all eat turkey, right after we all
lay down on the cow. And there's just something about
that slumber after a turkey feast with football on, and
that perfect moment when you're just about in a coma,
you know they're you're kind of leaving this world and
entering a different one. Maybe even a little bit of
(09:17):
a chill. But it's asleep. You can't fight, not like
your grandparents used to say. I'm just going to rest
my eyes. No, I'm going to go into a deep slumber.
And that's when your wife done cleaning the kitchen on
Thanksgiving with no respect for the game of football or coma,
(09:38):
has a burst of energy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's time to start decorating.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And the guys, that's when we get to either go
under the house or upp in the cold attic and
get all the stuff. I call it the Thanksgiving Day
rude awakening, kind of like when you get a boat.
They say the best two days are when you buy
and sell one. I can't really know, because my cruiser
I remember the day I bought it. I never really
got a chance to sell it due to dire dry rod.
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What would our neighborhoods look like if everyone wasn't doing it?
What our homes look like if our wives wouldn't do it?
Got to start at number ten with an ode to
everyone who makes our homes, our streets, and our communities
look and feel like Christmas, so we can prepare our
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hearts to celebrate Christmas. And who better to do it?
And still alive. Then he's the only man excited about it.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
The holly, the treaty for my spirit falls again.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Stock I need things, the halls again.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Christmas?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Is he playing Christmas music while I'm trying to wake up?
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Yes, he is a.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Christmas likes very magic has.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's not a single for him, but sad.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Chant.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Turn on the right, Johnny, his turtles a Frenklin dog.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
So Holly time be hung the sound.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Like mad men doing it all with a cigarette mascotch
and half.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Roll roll sadder growed angel should need a Christmas Nah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
All right, let's just dance around. Now, let's get it
the Christmas parent. Seventy of America has not finished shopping yet.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Here's it even worse debt like me, sixty percent of
America hasn't even started shopping.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh we've got more, Johnny, give me some sprinkle man pulling.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Need laughter, need little scene ringing the red and we
need later Christy.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
All right, there you have at number ten on our
top ten list and Journey of Christmas Stories and Songs.
Johnny mathis owe to all of you that make our
homes and streets look like Christmas. We need a little
Christmas I don't know about you, but I'm in the
spirit now. Moving up one big notch, we head to
number nine. Next booky Boogey Bogey Christmas Movies, A story
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and song coming up. Well, this Christmas we celebrate the
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In the season of life.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chongo.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Merry Christmas, guys, it's Woody Michael. You are truly blessed
to be able to work with two dear friends Jeffrey
and Red every day, but also many of the listeners
of the year Morning Show that consider you a friend.
It reminds me of what Clarence the Angel told George
Bailey in the movie It's a Wonderful Life. Remember, no
(14:52):
man is a failure who has friends. So a toast
to Michael, the richest man in Nashville.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
In Philadelphia, I'd like to thank the Morning Show for
making my mornings Mary and Bright and I love when
Michael sings Oh John, she really tickles my heart.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Christmas tells me, yeah, tickles your heart and ages me
that I know a song from the fifties like that.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Oh man, you guys are always the greatest. You're why
we love doing this show. We are.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We're very rich, We're very blessed. That doesn't need anything
to be under the tree this year for any of us,
it's all in our heart. Thank you so much for
those wonderful words.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
President Trump touting the progress of America during his first
year back in office. It was his fireside Christmas State
of the Union chat last night.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Trump took him with the Biden administration while highlighting an
economy that he said was trending upwards. During a primetime
speech at the White.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
House Wednesday, when I took office, inflation was the worst
in forty eight years, and some would say in the
history of our country.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
He started a speech by saying he inherited a mess
when he took office, but has achieved more than anyone
could have imagined. Trump said, current prices are down from
what they were under the Biden administration, and they're working
to lower the price of groceries by Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The House has narrowly passed a GOP health bill that
does not extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
More from Tammy Tricheo.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Wednesday's vote was two hundred and sixteen to two hundred
and eleven, with four moderate Republicans who had broken earlier
from party leaders ultimately voting yes. Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey
was the only member of his party to vote know.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where it's not
expected to pass. That would leave millions of Americans facing
higher healthcare premiums as Congress leaves for the holiday recess.
(16:43):
I'm Tammy Trichio and.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
The Matrix to decide who to blame.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Nick Reiner appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom in suicide
prevention vest.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
This could be a sign of his potential defense strategy.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
When you hear that he is on suicide watch, you
know that there are mental health issues, and I think
there will be a world question here whether his attorney
when they ultimately enter a plea, are they going to
enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Thursday Night Football Tonight an NFC West Showdown the Rams
and the Seahawks. Ram's got some recent wide receiver injuries,
but it still ought to be a great game. Birthdays Today,
The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Remember when in the seventies
who said this guy is never going to live.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
He's still alive and he looks the same as he
did in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Old eighty two, Keith Richards, Director, Steven Spielberg seventy nine,
Brad Pitt sixty two, Billie Eilish twenty four, and Stone
Cold Steve Austin is sixty one. If you're a birthday,
Happy birthday. So glad you were born. Thanks for making
us a part of your day.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
Hi, I'm actress Lisa Varga and my morning show is
your morning show with Michael del Giordo.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Hey, gang, it's me Michael. You can listen to your
morning show live. Make us a part of your morning
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listen live, but are grateful you're here now for the podcast.
Enjoy Hell yeah Cold, nothing gets by Jeffery.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If I'm coming under your tree and I haven't started
shopping yet, I might be there to pull a gridge. Yes,
Stone Cold. Steve Austin is sixty one today. You know
what Red said to me off the air?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I can't I can't even believe he's sixty one? I said,
can you believe I'm sixty one?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah? Well yeah, and I thought, what did shirk?
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So let's kid, I look sixty one? But how now
can Steve Austin Cold was an athlete? I mean, come on,
so was I forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And then my my third basement from high school, he
came into town and my son was going, wow, tap looks.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Good, and so Nat, what am I going to do?
I'm not vain, but I got it. Just look better
than me.
Speaker 14 (19:08):
Well, I'm just saying if I didn't know him, and
he wasn't your friend, and I saw him, I'd think,
you know, mid forties fifty, And I said, what about me?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, no, you look sixty one. It doesn't sound like
that with his big.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Nas I'm like, wow, thanks a lot, and read did
that right after the listeners are like what he's going
on and on about how blast I am for hand
friends like that, Well, thank you. I guess I look
like an old president. I got this email from Blake.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Michael. I'll say this about Trump's speech. It was fast.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
As someone who retires early, I had to concentrate at
how fast he was talking sort of life or death
difference from Biden, Yes, of course, and by the way
that may have been by strategy.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
There has been a lot of rumblings.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I know, there's been the false attacks from the left
that he's going aging or something's happened to him. He
has been kind of, you know, busy and seemed a
little run down. He had his energy last night, and
that just kind of goes to everything that that was about.
It was about having a final say before the holidays.
So that's why some moments it felt like a state
(20:18):
of the Union. At some moments it felt like a
fireside chat. At some moments it felt like I want
to give you a different impression from Monday and Tuesday
before you break for the holidays. I think it was
a very smart thing to do by the president. Rhode
Island police are releasing now images of a second person
of interest in the manhunt for the manhunt for the
Brown University shooter, and Nick Reiner appeared in court in
(20:39):
a suicide vest. That may be a little wink at
what the defense is going to choose. Insanity. And I
don't even think he served six months?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Did he? Did anybody do the math on this for
bonn Gino?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So he I mean he rose to fame for a
long time, but I mean he went through the stratosphere
using the Epstein case, like Candice Owens is doing right now.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
With the Charlie Kirk murder.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Roy's done the math, by the way, on that we
had Roy in WKBN, He's done the math on Bongino.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I did the math, so you don't have to.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
Bongino would have lasted in Trunk's administration approximately twenty eight
scare Mucci's.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Go, wow, that's a much better call than Red telling
me I can't believe or wrestler sixty one when he
can't be your age. But yeah, I think the left
will turn that into they're all fleeing the ship.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
We do something every year called my top ten Christmas
stories and songs. My Holiday gift to you spectacular at
number ten was Johnny Mathis with our ode to all
the Christmas decorating. We got to look like Christmas in
order to feel like Christmas. And for all that make
our streets and communities, and especially those in our homes
that decorate it to perfection, we honor you now at
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number nine the ode to Christmas movies, and there are
so many it's hard to do it. I can tell
you the Christmas story that's one of the Guy with
a Little Gun.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I never really registered with me, but I did love
Christmas vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Later for Christmases would come along and become kind of
a family classic. My north Star and I don't know
if you would call it a Christmas movie, I would
is Family Man with Nicholas Cage because that reminds me
of what's important in life. You're gonna think this is crazy,
but I actually watch that movie once a year just
for that. It has that much meaning to me about
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what life is all about and what really defines us
and what really defines happiness and success. There's a silly
little Hallmark movie called Naughty or Nice with little Chrissy
Kringle and she lives on Candy Cane Lane. That's always
been a favorite of mine, and I think it was
about three years ago I was introduced to Feast to
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the Seven Fishes. Now I realized Feast of the Seven
Fishes won't be everyone's favorite Christmas music, but if you're
an Italian American it will be. So I recognize. For me,
it's a time machine right back to my childhood. My
dad did a post and it was Maudlin. But at
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his age, everybody, you know, Christmas tends to revert to childhood.
Those are the most powerful memories, and all those people
are gone even later in life. His friends are gone,
not my son. Also, mister critical pointed out, why is
he acting like all those relatives are dead? We're all alive.
What does he come visit us?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
But I digress. But it can tend to feel that way.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And when you watch Feast to the Seven Fishes, Oh non,
he's back at the table. Pop, He's back at the table.
It's a scream. But I think one of my all
time favorites has always been a movie that dares to
do something that is really unthinkable. I mean, even movies
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that try to tell three simultaneous stories.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
They struggle but in love.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Actually they dare to tell so many stories. Every time
you watch it, you forget one and nothing gets lost
and everything is woven together. And I think the picture
it paints is whether you're ready or not, functional or dysfunctional,
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dysfunctional or not, Christmas is going to arrive, and you're
going to be in the state it's in when it arrives.
And if it's new love, that's great. If it's lost love,
that's not so great. And the brilliance of the movie
is the ability to tell that many stories and tell
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them all very well, and each individual's story paints the
most profound picture. There's the prime minister who falls in
love with his staff member. There's the writer whose wife
cheats on him with his brother, but then he falls
in love with the maid when he's in exile. There's
the old man and wife whose husband is tempted by
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his secretary, the widower whose son falls in love with
a girl at school. The bride and groom, whose best
man is in love not with the groom but with
the bride, as it would turn out, the office worker
who falls in love but is in conflict with a
brother who is institutionalized. There's the porn lighting models who
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eventually fall in love. One of my favorites is the
young brit who says, if he can just get to
America somehow, someway and he chooses Milwaukee with his accent,
he can finally get a girl, and he does.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
He gets three.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But probably the most profound moment is the ending, because
the ending reminds me of a real life.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Moment when my grandmother and my grandfather.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
They would come and Dad and I and my brothers
would go to Ahare Airport and wait for them to
get off the plane. And as we were there, we'd
pass by a Navy guy just sleeping in the hallway,
and you'd see complete strangers hugging as people are getting
off the plane. And that was my first realization, even
at the young age of seven or eight, Wait a minute,
life isn't about me. These people are all having the
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same life I am, and they have all the same
important people in their life that I do, and they
all matter, and the one thing that we all have
in common.
Speaker 14 (26:53):
Is love.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Actually, now, later this song would have way more meaning
for me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
There was a Christmas where our kids wanted these little
Maguay dolls because we turned them on to the Gremlins
thirty years after Gremlins was made. Well, they loved Gremlins
like we love Gremlins. And then they all wanted a
Gremlin for Christmas. That wasn't easy to find, but I did.
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And then making my whole movie, I chose this song
as they were opening the Presence and ending with them
all with their maguay is singing, and then Andrea walking up,
thinking it's a picture when it's a video, put your
personal memory to it. And this Christmas you could be
mourning what isn't there instead of what is? But look around,
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there's a lot that is there. There's a lot that
was there and someone loved enough to bring it there
in the first place. Do you ever think about where
we would be? I get chilled. What would my life
be without Andrea Anna Alex Nicholas Nick's right. Yeah, there's
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a lot of good ones gone, there's a lot of
good ones still alive, and God only knows where we
would be.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Without them. Our old.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
To Christmas movies, our old to all the love that
surround us that God's given us, and a Christmas that's
arrived ready or not.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Beach Boys, I may not always love you.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Good line is there are stars love you. You never
need to dad? Oh, thank you, sir, shit.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Good O.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Me knows what I dream with that V I still
believe me? Who will this show nothing to me? So
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what God would not mean? Jimmy, God of me knows
what I means that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
God and me knows.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Why I believe with that you if you should happen
be me your life would still believe me? The world
that show nothing to me?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
I well.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
When it comes to art, I'm not sure I know
what a masterpiece is. When it comes to music, I do.
It's that the Beach Boys and God only knows.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
One of my all time favorite songs from one of
my all time favorite Christmas movies, Love actually number nine
on our Holiday Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs Spectacular
Our Gift to You. It's forty eight minutes after the hour. Well,
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in debt. We are at thirty seven. We do have
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Forever.
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Meanwhile, groceries, housing, transportation costs, they're rising. Our dollar is
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Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
We're pounding down our top ten Christmas stories and songs,
our holiday gift to you.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
We're at number eight.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Next hour, first thing's first top five stories of the day. Well,
I guess a lot of people and it'll be in
the eyes of the beholder. Will they call this an
awkward State of the Union address in December, a fireside
chat from a holiday decorated hearth, or will they call
this damage control? Hey, even if it is damage control,
(32:49):
it was smart to do. It's the final say before
the holidays, and the President took it.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
While addressing the nation from the White House, Trump said
the Biden administration allowed too many illegal immigrants to take
opportunities from hardworking Americans.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
One hundred percent, he said, a reverse migration.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
This rising for the first time in decades, and that's
because of the work of his administration. Trump pointed to
places like Minnesota, where he said, in his words, that
Somalians have taken over the state and stolen billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Nick Reiner appeared in the Los Angeles court yesterday, formally
charged for the stabbing death of his mother and father,
Tammy Trihio has more.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
His lawyer, Alan Jackson, spoke outside the courthouse following the appearance.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case. They just need to be thoroughly
but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
At and analyzed.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Prosecute to say, the thirty two year old murdered his parents,
Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, in their Brentwood
home on Sunday. Nick Reiner appeared in a suicide prevention
vest and as defense lawyers requested, no video or images
be taken of him. Nick Rener is being charged with
two counts of first degree murder. He didn't enter a
plea or speak in court. The judge continued his arraignment
to January seventh. I'm Tammy trhio Well.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I always warned if we didn't get questions about when
life begins right, we won't get questions about when life
ends right either.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
At least the questions are popping up now.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Governor Kathy Hokel has signed a controversial right to die
bill making physician assisted suicide legal in New York. For doctors,
they take an oath to first to no harm. There's
the moral implication of taking your life. There's a lot
of questions, and it was a slippery slope with marijuana
for medicinal purposes to recreational. The governor says she's concerned,
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thinks she has the safeguards, but does she.
Speaker 12 (34:50):
The law allows New Yorkers with incurable illnesses in less
than six months to live to request medication to end
their own lives. Three doctors have to sign off on it.
Hocal ed lawmakers put in additional guard rails that include
a mental health evaluation, video of the patient requesting to die,
and the five day waiting period.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
It must be a well informed decision.
Speaker 12 (35:12):
The governor, whose Catholic had missed dealing with a lot
of religious conflict oversigning the bill.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Is that about me?
Speaker 12 (35:19):
A million Yorkers twelve states plus Washington, d C. Have
similar measures. I'm Sarah le Kessler of all the.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
People who could possibly walk away with.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
An oscar next month. Billy Idol, the singer's.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Song Dying to Live from his documentary Billy Idols Should
Be Dead, earned a spot on the Oscar's short list
for Best Original Song. The track is one of the
fifteen to make the short list with a category and
being narrowed down to five songs. A song that made
the short list is Dear Me by Diane Warren form
her documentary Ristless. Nominations for the ninety eighth Academy Awards
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will be announced on January twenty second.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I'm Rknefield. I think I got the sequel down. Keith
Richards ought to be dead. More on that in the moment.
First in sports Tonight, Thursday Night Football from Seattle. It'll
be the Rams and the Seahawks. We're looking for who's
the best in the NFC West.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And basketball. Cavs lost one twenty seven one to eleven. Tollball.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
The grizz won one sixteen one ten over the te Wolves.
On the ice, Fred's lost four to one of the Canes,
Red Wings lost four to one to the Mammoth Kings
lost three to two the Panthers. Did any of our
your morning show cities win?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
The Blues did? They shut out the Jets one to nothing.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Birthdays today, Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones, looking about
like he did at thirty.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Two eighty two.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Director Steven Spielberg is seventy nine, Brad Pitt sixty two,
Billy Eilish twenty four, and Yes Stone Cold Steve Austin.
The Wrastler is sixty one red, same age as me.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Jorno.
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