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and Welcome to Thursday, December the eighteenth, twenty twenty five.
America reacts to the president's speech. Was it a fireside chat?
Was it a State of the Union? Was it damage?
(00:53):
Damage controlling a response to some of the self induced
errors earlier in the week. I don't know. My suspicion
is it was damage control and momentum stealing. They didn't
want the last taste in people's mouth to be his
comments on Rob Reiner or the things that Susie wils
(01:14):
said about everyone in the cabinet with Vanity fair and
I think it was smart to do things we noticed
that were very different, very high energy, very short, under
twenty minutes, very little to no ad lipping or leaving
the script, and as one of our listeners said, filled
with visuals that can be shared. If anything, it shows
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they might be refocused. They're certainly the target of the midterm.
Nobody's going to target four hundred and thirty five races,
and in the twelve that really matter, they're making him,
not the Republican candidate, the target. This shows me someone's
hip to that. And it was a much better sounding
(01:59):
and looking president last night. The biggest takeaway with the
matrix will be can you blame the economy on Biden
when it's been years? A year now you can fix
a border quickly the president did for turnaround an economy
that fast. And again it's a perceptual appearance. We happened
(02:25):
to have an economist. I first saw him on Fox
Business and then read his book, and then we had
him on the show. And I've never stopped bothering him
since our Economist and Money with David Bonson is joining us.
You're analysis of the president's speech last night beyond politics
the essence of it the content.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, I kind of wish I could talk about the
politics of it, because I was learning from you as
you were talking. I think you're right that he went
under twenty minutes and stayed on script. Those are two
things that I would point out as a positive politically
and a rare thing. He doesn't do it much. The content,
and there's certain things that I just spent most of
(03:03):
the night and here into the early morning scratching my head.
I just can't even comprehend how he thinks people are
gonna believe that there is seventeen trillion dollars a foreign
investment coming in the country from his trade deal, soaking
or I think he said eighteen trillion.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Soaking wet.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you gauge it with the most preposterous favorability and
count things that were already going to happen anyways, and
so forth and so on, you get the seven or
eight trillion, which right the way is a pretty big number.
But what is the reason to go embellish by the
size of most countries, whole entire GDP.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I just don't understand it. But you know what can
I ask?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is it as simple as well? The left isn't going
to believe it anyway, and the right whatever he says
is gospel, So why.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Not because of the people who determine elections. The left
isn't going to believe in anyways, and the left isn't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Going to vote for him anyways.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And if you mean the right, as in his MAGA base,
they don't care what he says and they're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Vote for him or his people anyways.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the silent.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Center, well, there is a significant amount of people that
actually determine the outcome of elections. And you can call
them independent, you can call them moderates, you call it centrist.
They are mostly, by the way, center right, and they
are mostly an anti woke and they are more favorable
to some of the president's policies, like things on border
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and tax cuts, than they are to the cultural policies
of the left. But they are also not idiots, and
they also do not like being like to. But I
think the biggest issue is the one you brought up,
which is can you blame an economy on your predecessor.
And I will just say for listeners, there is zero
(04:58):
and I mean zero precedents in American history where for
right or for wrong that has worked.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It may very well be.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That sometimes there's truth to it. In this case, I'll
tell your listeners the truth, because that's the only reason
you let me come on your show, is to tell
the truth. The fact of the matter is that some
of the things that we're dealing within the economy now
are over one year old. And when Biden was president
that was true. All the talk about Biden's spending caused
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the inflation, which isn't completely true itself, but to the
extent it is true.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was Trump's spending.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That's the whole thing is if when two can play
at this game, it was all spending packages that Trump
wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So you don't get to have your cake and eat
it too.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's the way. And by the way, I'd like to
come right out and say, when it came to the
decision of being duped or spooked or whatever you want
to call it by Fauci, the decision to send everyone home,
quarantined and shut down the economy was the president's how
many mega people hate the JAB or the VACS that
was sold to you by President Trump. But that kind
(06:12):
of leads David into what we kind of wanted to
talk about. And then I do want to give you
a chance to address whatever political you want. I didn't
mean it that way. It's just we don't lack political analysis.
We lacked smart economists fact checkers. But you know this
whole talk about inflation, and I always hear your voice
in my head, well what do you want deflation? You
think that and run, but you know, is it transitory
(06:33):
or is it cumulative? This whole blaming thing is nonsense anyway,
because everybody's overused it. And so when a Republican's in office,
they blame it on the Democrat. When the Democrat's in office,
they blame it on the Republican. And I guess we
all should be blaming Congress and ourselves for electing people
that don't do their job. But the whole thing of
inflation and trying to blame that, you don't really ultimately
(06:56):
correct it, do you as being sold?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, what do you mean correct it as in correct?
You don't politically correct who you blame it on, or
or you don't go.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Fix the actual inflation. I mean, this is the.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Issue the way I think we're Yeah, yeah, well, we
talked about this last week. The prices don't go down,
and when they do go down.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's a bad thing. It's because we're in a recession.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So so what you have to do is stop the
growth of inflation, and that will end up being a
good thing, and you can work on the issue that
is most impactful, which is housing.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But when the president.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Runs saying I'm going to bring these prices down, and
then he if, by the way, not that he has,
but if he ends up succeeding and slowing at the
rate of growth of inflation, then he has to deal
with the fact that people feel that they were I do.
I wouldn't be down on him for not bringing those
prices down, because I don't think that's possible.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'd be down on him for saying he was going
to to begin with.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What you have to do is focus on rising wages,
which he talked about in the speech last night, but
again he gave nonsense numbers. Real wages are not going
to be highed this year. Manufacturing jobs are down. Manufacturing
jobs started going down more when the tariffs came in
the biggest people hurting from the tariffs are the people
(08:25):
that he was supposed to be helping because American American
domestic manufacturers import over forty percent of their unprocessed goods.
That's where this issue is hurting, is that you're seeing
a hiring slowdown in smaller businesses, and not primarily in
the services sector, more in the goods sector. That's the
(08:46):
economic analysis. So I liked President Trump one point zero
the first term, where the basic economic formula was the
type of stuff the conservatives have talked about. There were
other things thrown in I didn't always care for, but
the main actions were tax cuts, were deregulation, were energy independents.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And I think that right.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Now he's going to have to own that he made
his major economic agenda trade tariffs, which the American people
don't know what they're getting out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I know what they're getting out.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Of it is that the big companies aren't paying it
and the little companies are.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That's what is happening.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Wow, we're r on a theme today. When people say
something very wise, I do the old fashioned pastor trick.
Could you say that again?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Real slowly?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
David bonson our economist is joining us well, loved it,
hated it, Smart moves, dumb moves. Twenty twenty five is
about to slip into history, and twenty twenty six is
ahead your thought, just from an economic standpoint, no politics,
just economic. Did America do? What was the smartest things
we did this year? What were the dumbest things? And
(09:57):
what must we cross our fingers and hope someone corrects
next year? Because I would say the biggest blunder was
the tariffs. And I don't know if the president had
this planned, if he'd had a consecutive second term or not,
but it is a tax and it was a step
back for everything else that unless you're the expert you
saw other bigger mistakes.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, I think that I would just sort of put
a little more nuanced around that mistake, which is the
way in which it was done.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So I not only agree with you it was.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
A mistake, but the implementation took a bad idea and
made it worse. The inconsistency, the mixed messaging, the carve outs,
the reversals.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, this is funny. Susie Wiles said the quiet part.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Out loud in the Vanity Fair article, which was that essentially,
even as of April second, when he was doing it,
the administration was not yet in agreement with the message,
with the policy, and so you had varying people saying
different things, and the President thought, Okay, well, let's just
throw it out there and see what happens. And what
it did, I think is create an awful lot of
(11:01):
problems in the economy that they will be unpacking in
twenty twenty six that are not done yet. And the
way the media has covered this is shameful because the
right media will sound it like if prices didn't go
up last month, it means the tariffs are a success,
and the left media says the prices did go up,
it means the terroists are a failure. And nobody wants
(11:21):
to look at job creation, gage growth, capital expenditures, you know,
the capital investment, foreign capital flows. There's a lot of
other factors here that are going to play into what
happens in twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's a big issue I see for the economy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thoughts, said John F. Kennedy. Closing thoughts would
be wow, most disappointing for me is that America still
doesn't realize it has a spending problem. We haven't addressed
the debt, and they don't realize we're in a housing
crisis and they haven't addressed that. There are some other
things mixed in the twenty million illegals that came in
(12:02):
or using some housing that needs to be addressed as well,
but buy and large for me, not addressing the housing
crisis in debt that that is the sin of omission.
The sin of commission was the tariffs.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
But what I know I'm doing No, no, no, you're right,
you're right, And I think that on the spending issue,
the debt issue, we just have to point out it's
not only that we're not addressing it, not dealing with that,
that the immediate instinct, the go to is still less
scan right, there's no difference right now is what can
we do? What button can we push that will help
(12:34):
the economy or help us politically, all of which is.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Going to add to the debt.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So the seventeen seventy six, you know, payment to the
troops is adorable politically, The two thousand dollars DOGE dividend
and the two thousand dollars tariff, just throwing money around
at people with no tax on tips, all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's buying votes.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And when the Biden mistiction did it, it was student
loan forgiveness, it was we're going to give you the
money for the down payment on your house. All of
the attempts at political bribery add to the debt.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and they're doing Nobody.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Can tell me that any nobody is thinking.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
About stopping it. No one.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, and they're all doing it with our money. And
unfortunately America is always gung ho to accept the check
coming up tomorrow. On the Dividend Cafe.
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Yeah, it's a really fun one. Twenty five years. We're new,
twenty five years into this new century. What's the obvious
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Years Dividendcafe dot Com our economist David Bonson, David, Merry Christmas,
and I know it will be for you. Happy new year.
Thank you for the sacrifice of being on this show
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Merry Christmas.
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The President says open jobs are being filled by more
and more Americans than migrants under his watch. Mark Mayfield
has more from the President's speech last night.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
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 (14:13):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He said, reverse migration that's 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 (14:36):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Nick Reiner appeared in a Los Angeles court formally charged
with the stabbing death of his mother and father, Tammy Trehillo.
Has more.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
His lawyer, Alan Jackson, spoke outside the courthouse following the appearance.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case. They need to be thoroughly but
very carefully dealt with, hammon and looked at and analyzed.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
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 his defense layers requested no video or images be
taken of him. Nick Reiner 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
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January seventh. I'm Tammy Trichillo.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Well, as you're walking along and looking at all of
the Hollywood stars in the pavement, here's one that will
surprise you. SpongeBob making a rare appearance in cements.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
On Tuesday, the famous bikini bottom resident at his hand
and feet imprinted in front of the TCL Chinese Theater
in Hollywood. His latest film, The SpongeBob Movie Search for SquarePants,
is out this weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm Murkneyfield. Now, how do you put him in there? Nuts?
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My friend tap Benz, who was quarterback on the football
team point guard in the basketball team in third base
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All State on the baseball team came to visit this
week and he was telling me, mister w I was
talking seriously about the maturation of Arch Manning, because when
the series began, I was starting to wonder, boy, I
wonder if Arch is a bust. And by the end
of the season, I was like, Arch is not a bust,
and thank goodness, he's coming back. He needs a little
more college football. But he's in a bar and these
people are griping in Texas A and m Aggie Land
(17:42):
about him being a bust, and he one of the
guys said something to the effect of, yeah, they just
went to some small private school in New Orleans. It
wasn't even good competition. Twitch Tap wheeled around and said,
you mean the same school that Eli and Hey and
went to. Worked out good for them, didn't it. Then
the guys just shut up, and that high school is
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Newman High School. We used to call them the newman Nerds,
probably because they lived uptown and came from all rich families.
And our only real use for the newman Nerds, long
before Peyton and Eli Manning, was that when you played
them in the jamboree. You got to play at two
Lane Stadium, which I loved two Layde Stadium. Super Bowls
(18:25):
were played at two Lane Stadium. It was AstroTurf. We
weren't used to that. About the same time, my father
had interviewed the district attorney in New Orleans, kind of
became friends with him, and you know what that what
happens then then you get the whis together and you
start going to dinner together. Now I knew nothing about
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this district attorney. I didn't know something about his predecessor.
They made a movie about him with Kevin Costner JFK
Jim Garrison. He was the first to try a case
in the JFK assassination, but a successor. Not many people
knew about him well because Dad interviewed him, because they
became friends, because they started doing things as couples. Eventually
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Mom and his wife, Anita became friends. Now you enter
my life in progress. The newman nerds of no worth
whatsoever other than we get to play at two Lane
Stadium in the jamboree. Well, my mom comes to me
and because we're going by Missanita's house, you can meet
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his son play with him. He goes to Newman. He's
a Newman NERD. You wanted to play with a Newman Nerd.
So we get there and Missuneda is wonderful. Mom and
her start talking and I'm just sitting at the table
as I often did third Wheel and Michael, my mom
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turns me says, Mike, you got to hear her son
play the piano. Do you want to hear him play
the piano? Stop right there, right? Because we all know
people who think their kids are great at something, right,
And is there anything more awkward than they make them
play for you? They don't want to play for you.
They're not all that good. And I was like, well, no, no, no, no,
no no, you need to hear him.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Had Ray get down here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I need you to pray for his Jealmi and Michael
and I'm like, what is going on? And this younger kid,
I don't know how to describe it other than one.
He didn't argue, so it didn't seem like it was
putting him out or a big deal. He also didn't
seem particularly interested either. And I remember he had a
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candy bar. It comes down the stairs, doesn't acknowledge any
of us. Goes to the piano, puts his candy bar
down and starts playing and singing. And I know what
you're thinking, Oh, that had to be really awkward.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, it was.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yes, it was really good. And it wasn't just the
way he played the piano. It wasn't just his voice
in the way he sang. It was as if he
was performing for us. This guy was like an entertainer.
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And I'm telling you, the minute he finished, he picked
up his candy bar on right up the stairs and
one right back to his room, and I was like,
what was that? Now? I know you've heard of Newman
High School, thanks to Peyton, thanks to Eli, thanks to Arch.
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And I know you never heard of Dad's friend, even
though you know his predecessor, Jim Garrison. And I know
you never heard of his mother, Anita, although she was
a very esteemed judge. And then there's Harry Jr. You see,
(22:08):
the Newman nerd was the son of the District Attorney
Harry Connick, and the son was Harry Connick Junior, son
of Anita and Harry. I wouldn't lay eyes on Harry
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Connick Junior till long after he became famous through movies.
Harry met Sally things like that. And it was at
a concert in Boston, and he was sensational. He's a
very underrated actor. He is probably our generations Frank Sinatra.
(22:51):
And he is one of the greatest living treasures from
New Orleans, probably since Louis Armstrong and Pete Fountain. And
he reminds me not just of my childhood, but of
a fact. For everything negative about New Orleans, one thing
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New Orleans does is Christmas, very well, very well decorated,
the smells and the sounds and the beauty. And I
think he captures it in this song at number seven
on our top ten list of Christmas Stories and songs.
Harry Connick Jr. Please come home for Christmas Nolan style,
(23:35):
else we'll be ringing.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The sad, sad now.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Oh well of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
To have the blue from his gummy ton go. I
have no friends.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
To wish.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We agree.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Once again, whiles we'll be seeing.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Well silent Night.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Christmas Carol by candle Lie. Please come home for Christmas.
So please come home Christmas. If not for Christmas, then
by New Year's. My friends and relations.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Send this salgutation.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Sure as the star shine a ball, for this is Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's Christmas, my dear, it's.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
The time of year.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, to be with the one you love. So won't
you tell me you never more.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Christmas?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And we'll find new home.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
There'll be no more sorrow, family, and I'll be happy.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Check out yet down tell me by the way. One
of things about Harry's mother and Nita A very very
esteemed judge the boy did you have a thick Nolins accent?
Harry Connick Jr. At number I'm losing track of my
own list. Number seven on our top ten Christmas Stories
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and songs. Remember we had our ode to decorating Johnny
mathis we need a little Christmas ode to decorating at
number ten, and all those who make our neighborhoods and
homes look right so Christmas can feel right. Beach Boys
were at number nine. That was our ode to great
Christmas movies and God only knows from the movie Love Actually.
At number eight, we celebrated everyone that travels during the
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holiday season and everything you will go through to get
to your destination. Our ode to Christmas travelers, Kenny Loggins
and celebrate me home and there you had it. At
number seven, Harry Connick Junior, would please come home for Christmas,
so you could feel the sounds of my childhood Christmas
in New Orleans. I would say that newman nerd ended
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We've had analysis of the president speech last night. Economically
and politically. It was short, it was on script, it
was filled with energy. Whether it makes America feel better
about the new year, time will tell, and that we'll
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and Rhode Island. We now have a second suspect of interest.
This one does look Middle Eastern and nick Yander appeared
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bit of an inkling of how they plan to handle
this defense. And Dan Bongino leaving after what seven months
and heading back to the media. I wonder what that
means for the guy that took his place on this show, right,
I guess you're gone. Oh well, here there's an opening
at the FBI. And we've been counting down our top
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ten Christmas stories and songs, and we've gone from Johnny Mathis,
Beach Boys, Kenny Law against Harry Connick Junior to now
we're at number six. Hang on, yikes, okay, over there
something in my throat? Shall I take a sip? Let
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me play some music. No, let the enemy try what
he wants. I am sixty one years old, and I'm
very blessed to have both of my parents alive. That's
rare at this age, and I'm very mindful of the
fact that that may not be the case for one
or both by the next Christmas. But I remember whenever
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I was away, and then once we started our tradition
of no Christmases outside the home, that my children would
have their own Christmas memories, not the dysfunction of previous generations,
so that we would not travel. It caused me to
be a part from my family on most occasions. There's
an old Jewish tradition to mourn the empty chair, and
(30:03):
we believe it was perfected later much better by Italian
mothers than Jewish mothers. But we all know what that is.
You have five kids, ones missing, you have a miserable Christmas,
and you make the four that are there pay for
the one that is missing. That's mourning, the empty chair.
You can have parents, children, grandchildren, but if you're no there,
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they throw on the guilt. And now there's a reality
even if you don't respond to that guilt that when
you make a choice like we did to keep it
about our children and our Christmas, you're going to move
forward with an empty chair of your own. And so
as I play this song, you'll insert the person in
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your life. For me, I always think of my mother
and the irony is seven years ago I moved her here.
So this doesn't really have its place in our stories
and songs list used to until now. This is our
first in the same town where she can't be there
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because she can't leave a room that I'll have to
go visit. This is the power of music and its
attachments to our Christmas memories, and these are challenges, like
I said, been a theme through this Ready or not,
Here comes Christmas and it will find you in whatever
state you're in. If it's a state of mourning, if
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it's a state of missing, if it's a state of abundance,
if it's a state of need, mourning or celebrating, it's
going to find you. And for me, whenever I didn't
have my mom on the holidays, this song always comforted me.
It's our ode to the empty chair. To those who
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will have someone missing this year, don't focus solely on
the empty chair. You owe it to the filled chairs
to celebrate them and celebrate with them. And for those
of us on the receiving end of this, well, we're
doing the missing. This one's for you. At number six
(32:13):
on our Top ten Christmas Stories and songs. The Christmas
classic Merry Christmas, Darling, the Carpenters'.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Reading Cards of aubn sent the Christmas rushes through, But
I still have one wish to make a special one
boy Mary Christmas Darling. We're apard, that's.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
True, but I can dream, and in my dreams I'm
smissa Weir.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Holiday is a.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Joyful there's always something new.
Speaker 11 (33:16):
But every day is a holiday.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
When I'm.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
The lights on my tree, I wish you could see.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I wish it.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
Every days on the far Filly was is on to
see When to say that I wish she made every
chrismas Sister Heavy new It's.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
I just don't.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Who as Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I wish I would with you.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
On the far fairly wit is on to see you
and to say that I wish you madey Christmas.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Happy.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Newly just want way shall this Christmas? This Christmas, I
wish I would with.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I wish I w.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
What a voice the late Carry Carpenter and Merry Christmas
Darling coming in at number six on our Top ten
Christmas Stories and Songs The Ode to the Empty Chair.
I don't know who you're missing insert your memory or
who you're missing, but that's an all time classic. And
then we had Harry Connock Junior at number seven with
our ode to Nolan's Christmas, The Sounds of the Holiday
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Season with Harry Connick Junior, and Please Come Home for Christmas.
At number eight was Kenny Loggins Celebrate Me Home, our
ode to travelers, those that are traveling and those that
are awaiting on those that are traveling, Celebrate Me Home,
Beach Boys. God only knows. Our celebration of movies and
that one came from love actually, and Johnny Mathis got
a started with our ode to holiday decorating. Who will
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be five four three two one. Find out tomorrow when
we continue our gift to you our top ten Christmas
stories and songs.
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and Welcome to Thursday, December the eighteenth, twenty twenty five.
America reacts to the president's speech. Was it a fireside chat?
Was it a State of the Union? Was it damage?
(00:53):
Damage controlling a response to some of the self induced
errors earlier in the week. I don't know. My suspicion
is it was damage control and momentum stealing. They didn't
want the last taste in people's mouth to be his
comments on Rob Reiner or the things that Susie wils
(01:14):
said about everyone in the cabinet with Vanity fair and
I think it was smart to do things we noticed
that were very different, very high energy, very short, under
twenty minutes, very little to no ad lipping or leaving
the script, and as one of our listeners said, filled
with visuals that can be shared. If anything, it shows
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they might be refocused. They're certainly the target of the midterm.
Nobody's going to target four hundred and thirty five races,
and in the twelve that really matter, they're making him,
not the Republican candidate, the target. This shows me someone's
hip to that. And it was a much better sounding
(01:59):
and looking president last night. The biggest takeaway with the
matrix will be can you blame the economy on Biden
when it's been years? A year now you can fix
a border quickly the president did for turnaround an economy
that fast. And again it's a perceptual appearance. We happened
(02:25):
to have an economist. I first saw him on Fox
Business and then read his book, and then we had
him on the show. And I've never stopped bothering him
since our Economist and Money with David Bonson is joining us.
You're analysis of the president's speech last night beyond politics
the essence of it the content.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, I kind of wish I could talk about the
politics of it, because I was learning from you as
you were talking. I think you're right that he went
under twenty minutes and stayed on script. Those are two
things that I would point out as a positive politically
and a rare thing. He doesn't do it much. The content,
and there's certain things that I just spent most of
(03:03):
the night and here into the early morning scratching my head.
I just can't even comprehend how he thinks people are
gonna believe that there is seventeen trillion dollars a foreign
investment coming in the country from his trade deal, soaking
or I think he said eighteen trillion.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Soaking wet.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If you gauge it with the most preposterous favorability and
count things that were already going to happen anyways, and
so forth and so on, you get the seven or
eight trillion, which right the way is a pretty big number.
But what is the reason to go embellish by the
size of most countries, whole entire GDP.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I just don't understand it. But you know what can
I ask?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is it as simple as well? The left isn't going
to believe it anyway, and the right whatever he says
is gospel, So why.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Not because of the people who determine elections. The left
isn't going to believe in anyways, and the left isn't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Going to vote for him anyways.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And if you mean the right, as in his MAGA base,
they don't care what he says and they're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Vote for him or his people anyways.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the silent.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Center, well, there is a significant amount of people that
actually determine the outcome of elections. And you can call
them independent, you can call them moderates, you call it centrist.
They are mostly, by the way, center right, and they
are mostly an anti woke and they are more favorable
to some of the president's policies, like things on border
(04:36):
and tax cuts, than they are to the cultural policies
of the left. But they are also not idiots, and
they also do not like being like to. But I
think the biggest issue is the one you brought up,
which is can you blame an economy on your predecessor.
And I will just say for listeners, there is zero
(04:58):
and I mean zero precedents in American history where for
right or for wrong that has worked.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It may very well be.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That sometimes there's truth to it. In this case, I'll
tell your listeners the truth, because that's the only reason
you let me come on your show, is to tell
the truth. The fact of the matter is that some
of the things that we're dealing within the economy now
are over one year old. And when Biden was president
that was true. All the talk about Biden's spending caused
(05:31):
the inflation, which isn't completely true itself, but to the
extent it is true.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was Trump's spending.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That's the whole thing is if when two can play
at this game, it was all spending packages that Trump
wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So you don't get to have your cake and eat
it too.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's the way. And by the way, I'd like to
come right out and say, when it came to the
decision of being duped or spooked or whatever you want
to call it by Fauci, the decision to send everyone home,
quarantined and shut down the economy was the president's how
many mega people hate the JAB or the VACS that
was sold to you by President Trump. But that kind
(06:12):
of leads David into what we kind of wanted to
talk about. And then I do want to give you
a chance to address whatever political you want. I didn't
mean it that way. It's just we don't lack political analysis.
We lacked smart economists fact checkers. But you know this
whole talk about inflation, and I always hear your voice
in my head, well what do you want deflation? You
think that and run, but you know, is it transitory
(06:33):
or is it cumulative? This whole blaming thing is nonsense anyway,
because everybody's overused it. And so when a Republican's in office,
they blame it on the Democrat. When the Democrat's in office,
they blame it on the Republican. And I guess we
all should be blaming Congress and ourselves for electing people
that don't do their job. But the whole thing of
inflation and trying to blame that, you don't really ultimately
(06:56):
correct it, do you as being sold?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, what do you mean correct it as in correct?
You don't politically correct who you blame it on, or
or you don't go.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Fix the actual inflation. I mean, this is the.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Issue the way I think we're Yeah, yeah, well, we
talked about this last week. The prices don't go down,
and when they do go down.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's a bad thing. It's because we're in a recession.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So so what you have to do is stop the
growth of inflation, and that will end up being a
good thing, and you can work on the issue that
is most impactful, which is housing.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But when the president.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Runs saying I'm going to bring these prices down, and
then he if, by the way, not that he has,
but if he ends up succeeding and slowing at the
rate of growth of inflation, then he has to deal
with the fact that people feel that they were I do.
I wouldn't be down on him for not bringing those
prices down, because I don't think that's possible.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I'd be down on him for saying he was going
to to begin with.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What you have to do is focus on rising wages,
which he talked about in the speech last night, but
again he gave nonsense numbers. Real wages are not going
to be highed this year. Manufacturing jobs are down. Manufacturing
jobs started going down more when the tariffs came in
the biggest people hurting from the tariffs are the people
(08:25):
that he was supposed to be helping because American American
domestic manufacturers import over forty percent of their unprocessed goods.
That's where this issue is hurting, is that you're seeing
a hiring slowdown in smaller businesses, and not primarily in
the services sector, more in the goods sector. That's the
(08:46):
economic analysis. So I liked President Trump one point zero
the first term, where the basic economic formula was the
type of stuff the conservatives have talked about. There were
other things thrown in I didn't always care for, but
the main actions were tax cuts, were deregulation, were energy independents.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And I think that right.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Now he's going to have to own that he made
his major economic agenda trade tariffs, which the American people
don't know what they're getting out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I know what they're getting out.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Of it is that the big companies aren't paying it
and the little companies are.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
That's what is happening.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Wow, we're r on a theme today. When people say
something very wise, I do the old fashioned pastor trick.
Could you say that again?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Real slowly?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
David bonson our economist is joining us well, loved it,
hated it, Smart moves, dumb moves. Twenty twenty five is
about to slip into history, and twenty twenty six is
ahead your thought, just from an economic standpoint, no politics,
just economic. Did America do? What was the smartest things
we did this year? What were the dumbest things? And
(09:57):
what must we cross our fingers and hope someone corrects
next year? Because I would say the biggest blunder was
the tariffs. And I don't know if the president had
this planned, if he'd had a consecutive second term or not,
but it is a tax and it was a step
back for everything else that unless you're the expert you
saw other bigger mistakes.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, I think that I would just sort of put
a little more nuanced around that mistake, which is the
way in which it was done.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So I not only agree with you it was.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
A mistake, but the implementation took a bad idea and
made it worse. The inconsistency, the mixed messaging, the carve outs,
the reversals.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, this is funny. Susie Wiles said the quiet part.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Out loud in the Vanity Fair article, which was that essentially,
even as of April second, when he was doing it,
the administration was not yet in agreement with the message,
with the policy, and so you had varying people saying
different things, and the President thought, Okay, well, let's just
throw it out there and see what happens. And what
it did, I think is create an awful lot of
(11:01):
problems in the economy that they will be unpacking in
twenty twenty six that are not done yet. And the
way the media has covered this is shameful because the
right media will sound it like if prices didn't go
up last month, it means the tariffs are a success,
and the left media says the prices did go up,
it means the terroists are a failure. And nobody wants
(11:21):
to look at job creation, gage growth, capital expenditures, you know,
the capital investment, foreign capital flows. There's a lot of
other factors here that are going to play into what
happens in twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's a big issue I see for the economy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thoughts, said John F. Kennedy. Closing thoughts would
be wow, most disappointing for me is that America still
doesn't realize it has a spending problem. We haven't addressed
the debt, and they don't realize we're in a housing
crisis and they haven't addressed that. There are some other
things mixed in the twenty million illegals that came in
(12:02):
or using some housing that needs to be addressed as well,
but buy and large for me, not addressing the housing
crisis in debt that that is the sin of omission.
The sin of commission was the tariffs.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
But what I know I'm doing No, no, no, you're right,
you're right, And I think that on the spending issue,
the debt issue, we just have to point out it's
not only that we're not addressing it, not dealing with that,
that the immediate instinct, the go to is still less
scan right, there's no difference right now is what can
we do? What button can we push that will help
(12:34):
the economy or help us politically, all of which is.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Going to add to the debt.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So the seventeen seventy six, you know, payment to the
troops is adorable politically, The two thousand dollars DOGE dividend
and the two thousand dollars tariff, just throwing money around
at people with no tax on tips, all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's buying votes.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And when the Biden mistiction did it, it was student
loan forgiveness, it was we're going to give you the
money for the down payment on your house. All of
the attempts at political bribery add to the debt.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and they're doing Nobody.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Can tell me that any nobody is thinking.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
About stopping it. No one.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, and they're all doing it with our money. And
unfortunately America is always gung ho to accept the check
coming up tomorrow. On the Dividend Cafe.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, it's a really fun one. Twenty five years. We're new,
twenty five years into this new century. What's the obvious
lesson for investors after twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Years Dividendcafe dot Com our economist David Bonson, David, Merry Christmas,
and I know it will be for you. Happy new year.
Thank you for the sacrifice of being on this show
every week, and I look forward to next year. God
bless you.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuno.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
The President says open jobs are being filled by more
and more Americans than migrants under his watch. Mark Mayfield
has more from the President's speech last night.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
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 (14:13):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He said, reverse migration that's 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 (14:36):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Nick Reiner appeared in a Los Angeles court formally charged
with the stabbing death of his mother and father, Tammy Trehillo.
Has more.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
His lawyer, Alan Jackson, spoke outside the courthouse following the appearance.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case. They need to be thoroughly but
very carefully dealt with, hammon and looked at and analyzed.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
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 his defense layers requested no video or images be
taken of him. Nick Reiner 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
(15:22):
January seventh. I'm Tammy Trichillo.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Well, as you're walking along and looking at all of
the Hollywood stars in the pavement, here's one that will
surprise you. SpongeBob making a rare appearance in cements.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
On Tuesday, the famous bikini bottom resident at his hand
and feet imprinted in front of the TCL Chinese Theater
in Hollywood. His latest film, The SpongeBob Movie Search for SquarePants,
is out this weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm Murkneyfield. Now, how do you put him in there? Nuts?
Squidword or pat right? All right? Thursday Night Football Tonight
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My friend tap Benz, who was quarterback on the football
team point guard in the basketball team in third base
(17:19):
All State on the baseball team came to visit this
week and he was telling me, mister w I was
talking seriously about the maturation of Arch Manning, because when
the series began, I was starting to wonder, boy, I
wonder if Arch is a bust. And by the end
of the season, I was like, Arch is not a bust,
and thank goodness, he's coming back. He needs a little
more college football. But he's in a bar and these
people are griping in Texas A and m Aggie Land
(17:42):
about him being a bust, and he one of the
guys said something to the effect of, yeah, they just
went to some small private school in New Orleans. It
wasn't even good competition. Twitch Tap wheeled around and said,
you mean the same school that Eli and Hey and
went to. Worked out good for them, didn't it. Then
the guys just shut up, and that high school is
(18:05):
Newman High School. We used to call them the newman Nerds,
probably because they lived uptown and came from all rich families.
And our only real use for the newman Nerds, long
before Peyton and Eli Manning, was that when you played
them in the jamboree. You got to play at two
Lane Stadium, which I loved two Layde Stadium. Super Bowls
(18:25):
were played at two Lane Stadium. It was AstroTurf. We
weren't used to that. About the same time, my father
had interviewed the district attorney in New Orleans, kind of
became friends with him, and you know what that what
happens then then you get the whis together and you
start going to dinner together. Now I knew nothing about
(18:48):
this district attorney. I didn't know something about his predecessor.
They made a movie about him with Kevin Costner JFK
Jim Garrison. He was the first to try a case
in the JFK assassination, but a successor. Not many people
knew about him well because Dad interviewed him, because they
became friends, because they started doing things as couples. Eventually
(19:12):
Mom and his wife, Anita became friends. Now you enter
my life in progress. The newman nerds of no worth
whatsoever other than we get to play at two Lane
Stadium in the jamboree. Well, my mom comes to me
and because we're going by Missanita's house, you can meet
(19:35):
his son play with him. He goes to Newman. He's
a Newman NERD. You wanted to play with a Newman Nerd.
So we get there and Missuneda is wonderful. Mom and
her start talking and I'm just sitting at the table
as I often did third Wheel and Michael, my mom
(19:59):
turns me says, Mike, you got to hear her son
play the piano. Do you want to hear him play
the piano? Stop right there, right? Because we all know
people who think their kids are great at something, right,
And is there anything more awkward than they make them
play for you? They don't want to play for you.
They're not all that good. And I was like, well, no, no, no, no,
no no, you need to hear him.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Had Ray get down here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I need you to pray for his Jealmi and Michael
and I'm like, what is going on? And this younger kid,
I don't know how to describe it other than one.
He didn't argue, so it didn't seem like it was
putting him out or a big deal. He also didn't
seem particularly interested either. And I remember he had a
(20:46):
candy bar. It comes down the stairs, doesn't acknowledge any
of us. Goes to the piano, puts his candy bar
down and starts playing and singing. And I know what
you're thinking, Oh, that had to be really awkward.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, it was.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yes, it was really good. And it wasn't just the
way he played the piano. It wasn't just his voice
in the way he sang. It was as if he
was performing for us. This guy was like an entertainer.
(21:22):
And I'm telling you, the minute he finished, he picked
up his candy bar on right up the stairs and
one right back to his room, and I was like,
what was that? Now? I know you've heard of Newman
High School, thanks to Peyton, thanks to Eli, thanks to Arch.
(21:47):
And I know you never heard of Dad's friend, even
though you know his predecessor, Jim Garrison. And I know
you never heard of his mother, Anita, although she was
a very esteemed judge. And then there's Harry Jr. You see,
(22:08):
the Newman nerd was the son of the District Attorney
Harry Connick, and the son was Harry Connick Junior, son
of Anita and Harry. I wouldn't lay eyes on Harry
(22:30):
Connick Junior till long after he became famous through movies.
Harry met Sally things like that. And it was at
a concert in Boston, and he was sensational. He's a
very underrated actor. He is probably our generations Frank Sinatra.
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And he is one of the greatest living treasures from
New Orleans, probably since Louis Armstrong and Pete Fountain. And
he reminds me not just of my childhood, but of
a fact. For everything negative about New Orleans, one thing
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New Orleans does is Christmas, very well, very well decorated,
the smells and the sounds and the beauty. And I
think he captures it in this song at number seven
on our top ten list of Christmas Stories and songs.
Harry Connick Jr. Please come home for Christmas Nolan style,
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else we'll be ringing.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The sad, sad now.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Oh well of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
To have the blue from his gummy ton go. I
have no friends.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
To wish.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We agree.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Once again, whiles we'll be seeing.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Well silent Night.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Christmas Carol by candle Lie. Please come home for Christmas.
So please come home Christmas. If not for Christmas, then
by New Year's. My friends and relations.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Send this salgutation.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Sure as the star shine a ball, for this is Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's Christmas, my dear, it's.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
The time of year.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, to be with the one you love. So won't
you tell me you never more.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Christmas?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And we'll find new home.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
There'll be no more sorrow, family, and I'll be happy.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Check out yet down tell me by the way. One
of things about Harry's mother and Nita A very very
esteemed judge the boy did you have a thick Nolins accent?
Harry Connick Jr. At number I'm losing track of my
own list. Number seven on our top ten Christmas Stories
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and songs. Remember we had our ode to decorating Johnny
mathis we need a little Christmas ode to decorating at
number ten, and all those who make our neighborhoods and
homes look right so Christmas can feel right. Beach Boys
were at number nine. That was our ode to great
Christmas movies and God only knows from the movie Love Actually.
At number eight, we celebrated everyone that travels during the
(26:21):
holiday season and everything you will go through to get
to your destination. Our ode to Christmas travelers, Kenny Loggins
and celebrate me home and there you had it. At
number seven, Harry Connick Junior, would please come home for Christmas,
so you could feel the sounds of my childhood Christmas
in New Orleans. I would say that newman nerd ended
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Speaker 1 (28:10):
We've had analysis of the president speech last night. Economically
and politically. It was short, it was on script, it
was filled with energy. Whether it makes America feel better
about the new year, time will tell, and that we'll
all run through the nasty filter that is the Matrix
and Rhode Island. We now have a second suspect of interest.
This one does look Middle Eastern and nick Yander appeared
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in court wearing a suicide vest, which might be a
bit of an inkling of how they plan to handle
this defense. And Dan Bongino leaving after what seven months
and heading back to the media. I wonder what that
means for the guy that took his place on this show, right,
I guess you're gone. Oh well, here there's an opening
at the FBI. And we've been counting down our top
(28:55):
ten Christmas stories and songs, and we've gone from Johnny Mathis,
Beach Boys, Kenny Law against Harry Connick Junior to now
we're at number six. Hang on, yikes, okay, over there
something in my throat? Shall I take a sip? Let
(29:16):
me play some music. No, let the enemy try what
he wants. I am sixty one years old, and I'm
very blessed to have both of my parents alive. That's
rare at this age, and I'm very mindful of the
fact that that may not be the case for one
or both by the next Christmas. But I remember whenever
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I was away, and then once we started our tradition
of no Christmases outside the home, that my children would
have their own Christmas memories, not the dysfunction of previous generations,
so that we would not travel. It caused me to
be a part from my family on most occasions. There's
an old Jewish tradition to mourn the empty chair, and
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we believe it was perfected later much better by Italian
mothers than Jewish mothers. But we all know what that is.
You have five kids, ones missing, you have a miserable Christmas,
and you make the four that are there pay for
the one that is missing. That's mourning, the empty chair.
You can have parents, children, grandchildren, but if you're no there,
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they throw on the guilt. And now there's a reality
even if you don't respond to that guilt that when
you make a choice like we did to keep it
about our children and our Christmas, you're going to move
forward with an empty chair of your own. And so
as I play this song, you'll insert the person in
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your life. For me, I always think of my mother
and the irony is seven years ago I moved her here.
So this doesn't really have its place in our stories
and songs list used to until now. This is our
first in the same town where she can't be there
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because she can't leave a room that I'll have to
go visit. This is the power of music and its
attachments to our Christmas memories, and these are challenges, like
I said, been a theme through this Ready or not,
Here comes Christmas and it will find you in whatever
state you're in. If it's a state of mourning, if
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it's a state of missing, if it's a state of abundance,
if it's a state of need, mourning or celebrating, it's
going to find you. And for me, whenever I didn't
have my mom on the holidays, this song always comforted me.
It's our ode to the empty chair. To those who
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will have someone missing this year, don't focus solely on
the empty chair. You owe it to the filled chairs
to celebrate them and celebrate with them. And for those
of us on the receiving end of this, well, we're
doing the missing. This one's for you. At number six
(32:13):
on our Top ten Christmas Stories and songs. The Christmas
classic Merry Christmas, Darling, the Carpenters'.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Reading Cards of aubn sent the Christmas rushes through, But
I still have one wish to make a special one
boy Mary Christmas Darling. We're apard, that's.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
True, but I can dream, and in my dreams I'm
smissa Weir.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Holiday is a.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Joyful there's always something new.
Speaker 11 (33:16):
But every day is a holiday.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
When I'm.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
The lights on my tree, I wish you could see.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I wish it.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
Every days on the far Filly was is on to
see When to say that I wish she made every
chrismas Sister Heavy new It's.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
I just don't.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Who as Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I wish I would with you.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
On the far fairly wit is on to see you
and to say that I wish you madey Christmas.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Happy.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Newly just want way shall this Christmas? This Christmas, I
wish I would with.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I wish I w.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
What a voice the late Carry Carpenter and Merry Christmas
Darling coming in at number six on our Top ten
Christmas Stories and Songs The Ode to the Empty Chair.
I don't know who you're missing insert your memory or
who you're missing, but that's an all time classic. And
then we had Harry Connock Junior at number seven with
our ode to Nolan's Christmas, The Sounds of the Holiday
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Season with Harry Connick Junior, and Please Come Home for Christmas.
At number eight was Kenny Loggins Celebrate Me Home, our
ode to travelers, those that are traveling and those that
are awaiting on those that are traveling, Celebrate Me Home,
Beach Boys. God only knows. Our celebration of movies and
that one came from love actually, and Johnny Mathis got
a started with our ode to holiday decorating. Who will
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be five four three two one. Find out tomorrow when
we continue our gift to you our top ten Christmas
stories and songs.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
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