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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Because we're in this.
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Togevon, this is your morning show with Michael Bill Charny seven.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Minutes after the hour, Good morning, and welcome to Friday, December,
the nineteenth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five, on
the air, streaming live on your iheartradiop This is your
morning show. Honor to serve you. I'm Michael. This is
my final show. I won't see you between now and Christmas. Oh,
your morning show is every morning without fail, but I'll
take off the week of Christmas. So my gift to
you for counting down my top ten Christmas stories and songs.
(01:01):
And we're at a little bit of a break in
the countdown before we get to number three. Our traditional
presentation of a PC Christmas. What if the greatest story
ever told was told politically correct? Or another way of
looking at it, is it as how different would we
have to tell this story in order to please everybody
(01:21):
in multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion that's coming up? A PC
Christmas a tradition. Yes, you haven't missed it yet. And
as it turns out, we not only have the Brown
University shooter, we also have the MIT shooter of a professor.
They were one and the same and found dead in
a warehouse. Roy O'Neil is joining us Rory. This is
(01:44):
at least the end of this saga, but a bit
of a shock at who this person turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, it's an investigation that certainly is still well underway.
In that the why the motive here is still a
little bit fuzzy. We had a Florida guy who's the
suspect here, Claudio Nevesvalente. He went to Boston, rented a
car there, drove down to his alma mater at Brown University,
went to the engineering building on Saturday again, open fire,
(02:13):
killing two, wounding nine, then two days later, police say
he's also the man who went up to mit the
campus there assassinated the professor, then drove up to a
storage unit in New Hampshire that he rented back in November,
and then took his own life there. What's really interesting,
we had the man hunt for most of the week,
but it was this guy who this second guy where
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we saw the video and the police said he was
a person of interest. If you see this guy, we
think he had an interaction with the shooter. Well, it
turns out he went right to police about an hour
after his picture was published. Had this whole story about
how he interacted with the gunman in the bathroom at
the engineering building beforehand, said boy, that coat's not going
to keep you warm in this weather kind of a thing,
(02:56):
and then said.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
He looked weird.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So he followed him around, actually followed him through the
streets of the east side of Providence and recognized the
car that he had rented, saw the funny Florida plate,
had all that information for police who were able to
quickly track things down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So the second person of interest ended up being the
key to the actual shooter, who was then found dead.
But you're right Rray were connecting the dots on this motive.
I mean, he's down in Miami. Comes up. Well, at
least we know he went to Brown University. But was
it that do we know if that professor at MIT
once worked at Brown? I mean, it's just that part.
I don't know how to connect those.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, well, i'll tell you. These two guys were both
in college together in their original Portugal. In their native Portugal,
both of them had gone attending the same Portuguese university
back I think what two thousand and two thousand and
two in there, somewhere in there, does he.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Have any idea what the motive was? Well, now, so
the MIT professor is dead, and now you're saying that
he's not the other guy that was helping. Oh, the
MIT professor and him were ones, it said, Okay, okay,
so that's a tie that a professor.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, but why the two had the confrontation or the
encounter in the bathroom at Brown That was just strange.
And so it may have been this shooter went to
the engineering building where he used to be a student
back in two thousand and two thousand and one, thinking
he would be shooting into an engineering class instead, it
was an economic study group.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So we had the Brown University shooting, the MIT shooting.
They ended up being the same person. He's found dead
in a warehouse. That case goes its way. We have
Nick Reiner who is in prison or in jail waiting
trial any word, and whether or not he has cleared
his mental stability testing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, he got through the medical check, so they're going
to have an arrangement in that case on January seventh.
Is probably the next big legal hurdle event there January seventh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And the amount of evidence found in that hotel, I'll
probably throughout the house, let alone, the circumstantial evidence of
his behavior at a party. Just a very violent week.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But and then yeah, oh then Greg Biffel and that
was awful that plane crash yesterday, the NASCAR driver and
of course what happened in Australia.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, that's why number three on our list of top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs is for those heading into
Christmas after experiencing tragedy or recent loss that has to
be processed and we'll do it. Rory, great reporting as always, listen,
I have to say this because it's our last time
until next year. I would never do this show without
you every morning. Thank you for great reporting and great friendship.
(05:37):
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I would say the same, but it's your show, so yes,
I can't do the show without you. But that's an
awful to say, and I do appreciate it. And you know,
as much as we like to rip one another, you're
not my least favorite shows.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
To the day, so I always enjoyed talking to you
as great. Don't get soft. I like the tension, I know.
Oh God, I love you, Mary. Christmas to you and yours,
and Happy New Year and I'll see you in that
new year. Roy O'Neil. Everybody right, you got it thirteen
minutes after the hour listen. We did this a long
time ago. This is a very cherished piece of audio
(06:11):
for me. When I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma at KFAQ,
it may have been one of the most glorious radio
experiences and certainly one of the most glorious teams. And
my news director and newsman is also working with me
today on your morning show. But there's a lot of
voices in this who are no longer here. The very
(06:33):
Christmas story we are talking about is their reality today.
They have gone on. We just sat down and thought
the world's getting so crazy, so woke, so politically correct.
How on earth would the ACLU choose for us to
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tell this divine, amazing story? In other words, what will
we have to do to make it politically correct? And
after the brainstorming and after all the voice work, and
I'm a few of them, this was our presentation of
a PC Christmas, And twenty four years later, it's still
(07:16):
a lot of people's favorite stop on our holiday tradition
and spectacular of top ten Christmas stories and songs and
not ready for primetime players, and a PC Christmas. And
(07:44):
Joseph went up from Galilee to Bethlehem with Mary, his
espoused wife, who was now great with child. And she
brought forth the sun and wrapped him in swaddling clothes
and laid him in a manger because there was no
room for them in the inn. And an angel of
the Lord spoke to the shepherds and said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Behold, I've bringing you tight as of great joy was
born a savior, which is Christ the Lord.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Uh, there's a problem with the angel, said a pharisee
who happened to be strolling by. Angels are widely regarded
as religious symbols, and the stable was on public property
where such symbols were not allowed to land or even hover.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
As he explained to Joseph, and I have.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
To tell you, this whole thing looks to me a
lot like an activity scene, he said, sadly.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That's a no note too. Then Joseph had a bright idea.
What if I put a couple of reindeer over there
New York and the ass he said, eager to avoid
sectarian strife. That would definitely help, said the pharisee, who
knew as well as anyone that whenever a savior appeared,
judges usually like to be on the safe side and
surround it with deer or woodland creatures of some sort,
you know, just to sentient throwing a candy cane, couple
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of elves, maybe a snowman as well. He said, No
court can resist that. Mary asked, what.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Does my son's birth have to do with snowman?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
As snow persons cried a young womananging the subject before
it veered dangerously towards religion. Off to the side of
the crowd, a philistine was painting the Nativity scene. Mary
complained that she and Joseph looked too tattered and worn
in the picture artistic license, He said, I've got to
show the plight of the haggard homeless in a greedy,
uncaring society and winter equipped.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
We're not haggard or homeless.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The inn was just full, said Mary, Whatever said the painter.
Two women began to argue fiercely. One said she objected
to Jesus' birth.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Because it's privileged motherhood.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The other scoffed at the virgin births, but said that
if they encouraged more attention to diversity in the family
forms and the rights of the single mothers, well then
she was all for them. I'm not a single mother,
Mary started to say, but she was cut off by
a third woman, who insisted that swaddling clothes are a
form of child's abuse since they restricted the natural movement
of babies. With the arrival of ten child advocates, all
(09:54):
trained to spot infant abuse and major rash, Mary and
Joseph were pushed to the edge of the crowd, where
are arguments were breaking out over how many reindeer or
what mix of reindeer and seasonal spirits had to be
installed to compensate for the infant's unfortunate religious character. An
older man bustled up, voting over two merchants who had
been busy debating whether an elf is the same as
(10:15):
a fairy, and whether the elf fairy should be shaking
hands with Jesus in the crib or merely standing to
the side, jumping up and down, kind of like a
sports mascot. I'd hold the fund the reindeer if I
was you, the man said, explaining the.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Use of asses and oxen as picturesque backstraps for nativity
scenes carries the sublime message of human dominance. He passed
out two leaflets, one denouncing major birds as invasions of
animal space, the other arguing that stables are penned enviolements
where animals are incarcerated against their ville.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
However, he had no opinion about elves or candy canes.
Signs declaring began to appear, referring to the obviously aploded
acidn ox. Somebody even said the halo on Jesus's head
was elitist. Mary was exasperated, And what about you, old mother,
she said, sharply to an elderly woman.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Are you here to attack the shepherd's prison guards? For
excluded species, Maybe to complain that singing in Latin identifies
us with our Roman oppressors, or just to say that
I should have skipped patriarchal religiosity and joined some dumb
New age goddess religion.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
None of the above, said the woman. Just wanted to
let you know the magi are here.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Sure enough, the three wise men wrote up. The crowd gasped,
they're all well and not very multi cultural. Hey I'm
bad as all, and I'm black, said one of the magi.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yes, but how many of you are gay or disabled?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Someone shouted. A committee was quickly formed to find an
impoverished lesbian wise person among the halted lame of Bethlehem.
Then a calm voice.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Said, be of good cheer, Mary, for you have done
well and your son will change the world.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
At last, a sane person.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Mary thought, trying to see a radiant and confident female face.
The woman spoke again, there is one thing. The religious
holidays are important. Can't we learn to celebrate them in Wednesday? Unite,
not divide?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
For instance, instead of all this business about Gloria in
Excelsia's Dale, why not just season's greetings.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Mary thought about it and then said, you mean my
son has entered human history to deliver the message. Hello,
it's winter.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's harsh, Mary said the woman.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Remember, your son could make it big in the midwinter
festivals if he doesn't push the religious thing too far
centuries from now in nations yet unborn people will give
each other pricey gifts and have big office parties.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
On his birthday. That's not job Liver.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
At which point Mary said, Uh, let me get back
to you. And that's a PC Christmas story, Aclu style,
brought to life by the not ready for prime time,
big big show players. Happy Uh, Mary, Hello it's winter.
You know they were My favorite is still I'm Babiza
(13:04):
and I'm glad that was our janitor Elmer. Really yeah,
and so many of those voices have since gone home
to be with the Lord. We have made some good strides,
I think this year in defeating wokeness, but there's a
long way before it goes. But when we did that, well,
that's when wokeness of political correctness was just starting to
(13:25):
get crazy, and it didn't get a lot crazy Twenty
years later.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
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Speaker 1 (13:34):
Good Moore and Michael from Vankley the city. Hatty Toddy
go rebels, Oh, you got to be killing me. It doesn't.
I'm ripper ol miss, but I'll never get that Hotty Toddy.
Thank College football playoffs begin tonight. Oh you and Alabama
three games tomorrow. One of the big stories is officials
are confirming the Brown University shooting suspect was also the
(13:56):
individual who killed the MIT professor. How they're linked, we
don't know. US Attorney Lea Foley spoke at Thursday night's
news conference.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
On December fifteenth, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Lourieriro at
Loariro's home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The suspect, identified as Claudio Nivi's Valente, was found dead
of a self inflicted and self inflicted gunshot wound at
a New Hampshire storage unit. He was found in there
with his satchel.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
There was nothing else found in there that I am
aware of, but they're still they're still in the process
of searching that facility right now.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Fully says the authorities had probable cause to charge the
Portuguese national in the death of the two students at
Brown University and the MIT professor. She added that Nevez.
Valente attended the same academic program in Portugal as the
MIT professor whom he is believed to have killed. The
professor who shot Monday in his home outside of Boston.
(14:55):
The US attorney Leo Foley says the suspect likely had
previous content with that MIT professor. The Milwaukee judge accused
of helping a defendant evade arrest by ice inside her
courthouse has been found guilty of a felony obstruction.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The incident involving Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, took place
at the county courthouse last April, and a grandeur indicted
Dugan the following month.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Dugan was criticized by President Trump around the time. With
the incident, she could face up to six years in prison.
By Mark Mayfield Well, The US Senate is shutting down
Adam Shiff's bid to require the Pentagon to release a
video of a deadly boat strike. The US Senator's effort
was blocked on Wednesday. He wants a video of the
September US strike that killed two people on an alleged
rug boat near Venezuela to be released to the public.
(15:41):
The two people who died survived the initial strike on
the boat. Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma Blockshift's
proposal from being considered schiff. A Democrat says, the video
is going to come out. I'm Daniel Martindale hard as
I mentioned. The college football playoffs begin this weekend. Indiana, Ohio, State, Georgia,
and Texas Tech one through four all have a bibe tonight.
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seven over the Rams. Birthdays Today we have Jake Gillenhall
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Oh no, she's fifty three. And Bobby Brady Mike Lookinland
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Chris is be why.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I don't know what it is about Rachel, but I
picture her singing by a kitchen window half open, with
birds sitting on her shoulder and butterflies what like snow wider?
So I don't know who you are, Rachel, but I
love your voice here where I live. I mean, that
could be a nineteen forty She should have been in
some of these old classic movies. What a gorgeous voice.
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Thank you for sharing your gifting with us, Thank you
for listening, and thank you for proving what I always
say my listeners, they're the greatest. Thirty six minutes after
the hour, that leaves you about twenty four minutes to
be to work by eight o'clock if you're in the
Eastern time zone. The suspect in the Brown University shooting
and the suspect in the MIT Professor shooting were one
(18:45):
and the same, and he was found dead in a warehouse.
We'll have more on that. US and Russian officials are
expected to meet in Miami this weekend to discuss the
ending of the war in Ukraine TikTok. Do you remember
when TikTok was considered a clear in present danger, a
national security threat. Then everybody's using it to campaign, including Trump.
(19:08):
Now no one's buying TikTok, they're just creating a US version.
Or how about the war on drugs and now we're
gonna soften things with marijuana. I'm having a hard time
following things. One thing I can't keep my eye on
the ball with is today is the deadline. So the
Democrats continue to release pictures and try to make hay
with this Epstein file story, but the files themselves must
(19:30):
be released by tonight at midnight. Our White House correspondent
John Decker is here to discuss what's expected to be
made public and what we can expect where we go
from here. I guess with this political weapon, John, good morning.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Well, you know you think about it this way, Michael,
you think about all of the bad news.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's been a lot of good news, but all the.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
Bad news associated with the Trump administration and President Trump
that's come out in his first year back in the
White House. Would you agree with me? This is the
only story that has had staying power. There have been
so many stories that come and go. This one has
remained around for literally months, and now we're going to
get another element to.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The story with the release of these files.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
No one knows what's going to come out of these files,
whether there'll be a quote unquote smoking gun, but I
think it will certainly create a lot of interest in
this story, continue that interest in this story, which has
gone on for so many months now.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
John, Don't you think it's because it's one of the
few things that are bipartisan. In other words, it's a
weapon Democrats use against Republicans when they're in office, or
Republicans use against Democrats when they're in office. In other words,
it's matrix proof. That's what keeps it alive. And yet
I don't know what anyone thinks this does for the victims.
(20:47):
Some of these things we're compromising. And this should matter
to you. A Supreme Court bar attorney. You know our
laws of a judicial ethics. These were testimonies. Some we
don't know if they're true, not true, they're they're out
of what do you call depositions. I mean, it's just
(21:10):
this is pure political weaponry. And then in the end, okay,
now they're released, no one's going to be satisfied. It won't.
It won't even take the weapon out of commission.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
And yet look what happened in Congress. The reason why
they're being released. At some point during the day to
day is because of a nearly unanimous vote in both
the House and the Senate. So it's members of both
parties that want to see this material released, and maybe
to a certain extent, the idea here is release it
(21:42):
and maybe this story will ultimately go away.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I guess well that you know, and then you have
the TikTok story. While that one comes to an end. TikTok,
that's been an ongoing saga for over a year, and
now we find out it's not a clear and present danger,
it's not a national security thread. It didn't even have
to be sold. They just had to do a different
version for the US. What's up with that?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
Yeah, I think that's part of what the President will
announce today in the Roosevelt Room today, a signing of
essentially sealing that deal, which will mean that the parent
company of TikTok, Byte Dance, officially selling off this US
version of TikTok. And it all came together over the
(22:26):
course of the past eleven months. That's how long it's
taken for this deal to be finally consummated.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And then the President renounces his easing of marijuana restrictions.
We're in the midst of a war on drugs. We're
blowing up planes in the water, and now the president's
easing everything on there. I guess marijuana's not a drug, right,
I mean, this is common sense.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
It's a drug, but it's being lowered in terms of
classification from what it was over the course of the
past fifty years to what the President lowered it to
yesterday with that executive order. And you saw all of
those health officials by the President. I'll leave it to
(23:08):
others to say whether this is part of the Making
America Healthy Again agenda lowering that classification of cannabis as
a drug. In any case, this is what the President
has decided to do, and actually it's following up on
steps that President Biden was taking as it relates to
the issue of lowering the classification of marijuana.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
John's gonna have more in his White House Briefing Room
with John Decker. It's a podcast every morning it's up
by nine Eastern and eighth Central, and he goes in
depth on all the issues surrounding the White House. John,
you know how I feel about you. This show wouldn't
be the same ever without you, and I don't take
it ever for granted and I cherish every moment we
spend together on and off the year. I wish you,
your beautiful wife and yours a very merry Christmas, and
(23:53):
I can't wait to see you in the happy New Year. Oh.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
I look forward to just talking to you in the
new year. I thank you so much for on your
show every day, Michael. It's a great way to start
my day. And I love talking to your audience and
telling you every day what's happening at the White House.
And we'll do it again starting in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I can't wait. White House correspondent John Decker. Yesterday we
got the news that my godmother, she had been diagnosed
with cancer. She had just begun chemo. I face timed
with her a couple of days ago. She was in
She's the most godly woman I've ever met, so, I mean,
her spirits were great and she was feeling great and
still walking ten thousand steps a day, and you know,
(24:34):
I was scared, but you know, feeling pretty good about it.
My mom was facetiming with her as she was decorating
the house for Christmas. And then I was on a
call yesterday with who's going to be filling in next week,
Kelly Nash, You're going to love him. And I could
see that her husband of sixty three years pops up
on my phone. I go, oh, that's not good. But
she couldn't have died of cancer. Ed Then I saw
(24:55):
my brother's name pop up, and I went, oh, my gosh,
my godmother's gone. Death never arrives on time, does it.
I'm sitting here looking at one of our top stories
today and none of us can pretend to have known
Greg before we knew who he was as a retired
NASCAR driver. But Greg, his wife, two of his children
(25:18):
on a plane of seven killed in a plane crash.
And sadness falls on the holidays. It's always the worst
and didn't matter if it happened in March or April,
it would just be the first Christmas without them. So seriously,
(25:39):
merry Christmas, no way, fellow believers, Sometimes with the best
intentions could be some of the worst when it comes
to comforting those with broken hearts. And I don't know why.
I guess we always feel like we need to say
something rather than just be, and then we say awful
(26:01):
things like well they're in a better place now. No
here with me would be better, it's what their mind
and heart is thinking. Or how about the worst Christmas
song ever? Mommy's with Jesus this year for Christmas? Wow?
How about that really comforted a small child whose mother died. No,
(26:22):
a merry Christmas is probably not in the cards. Talking
to my godmother's husband, who was crying like a child
with me on the phone, he's not gonna dry his
tears and have a merry Christmas. By Thursday, all he
could utter was, I can't believe she's gone. She left me.
(26:45):
How am I gonna live? No, a merry Christmas is
probably not in the cards, But what is? We all
will battle with loss this Christmas. It's just a matter
of how long ago. When I think of my childhood Christmas,
(27:06):
my brothers and I lying on the floor, or watching
football bowl games, or me lying under the table that
was in our great room, Sinatra singing, my mom and
dad laughing, playing pinaco with my grandmother and grandfather, Poppy
and Grammy Nan. He's there smoking a Carlton. My parent's
(27:30):
not fighting, my grandfather chewing on nuts. He chewed him
so loud. My dad throwing a card down. Who shmelt
this mess? You would have to know the peace of
seven fishes in the role of smelt and who dealt
to get the pun. Then Mom would respond to no Trump, Oh,
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Mom and Dad have been divorced for I think twenty
years now. I don't speak to one of my brothers.
Non he died first, then Poppy, then Grammy. They're all gone,
and wouldn't I And what I would not give for
any of them to know my amazing wife, or meet
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my twin daughters or my son Nick. What a kick
they would have gotten out of my kids. The Bible says,
we mourn, we hurt, we cry, we miss, we grieve,
not like those without hope, but we grieve, and depending
how fresh. There are no words, just permission to not
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have a Mary, but perhaps a merry little Christmas. I
believe this was actually a World War two song, and
in it's uncertainty it uses words like if the fates allow,
but because of the child that we celebrate this holiday season,
his later suffering victory over Hell and Day and his
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kingdom to come. We have hope, we have faith certainty
that we will all be reunited. It's faith, and faith
says it will be so. But in the meantime, I
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know there's many people hearing the sound of my voice
in deep, deep pain. I get it, and many others
of us are there with you. I just wanted to
say I love you. I'm sorry for your loss. I
simply wish that somehow you find a moment to have
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yourself a merry little Christmas. Number three on our top
ten Christmas stories and songs are owed to those gone
the chairman of the board.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be lie.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
From now.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Our troubles will be out of sight. Have yourself a
merry little Christmas. Make the ule tide game.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
From now.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Our troubles will be miles away.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Here we are as an old and dad.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Happy golden days of your faithful friends who are dear
to us. Gather nearer to.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Us, one small.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Through the years, we all will be together. If the
fates alone, hang a shining starm upon the highest bard.
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Had your self a merry little Christmas.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
Now disus.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Through the years, sue, all will be together if the
fates allow, lang a shining star upon the highest bards.
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Have yourself, Ah, marry little friend.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, I'm thankful to God He's given us the theme
for this year. Which is Christmas finds us right where
we're at, doesn't it every time? And we come as
we are, and He's arriving and in loving us just
as we are. And I think, you know, my first
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thought when I found out my godmother died yesterday was that,
oh my gosh, she's back with her twin brother. She's
back with my aunt Louisa, her mother. Can you imagine
the reuniting she's having. And yet here we are trying
to figure out how to have Christmas without her. When
loss meets Christmas, all I can do is say, I
pray that the peace of God will guard your heart
and mind, and bottle your tears and do the best
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you can to have a merry little Christmas. Number two
or number three rather in our list of top ten
Christmas Stories and songs My Holiday Gift to you, we've
gone from Johnny Mathis to the Beach Boys, to Kenny
log to Harry Connick Junior, to the carpenters Clay Aiken,
Whitney Houston. That was Frank Sinatra, who might be at
number two and number one. Next tot half hour we'll
reveal along with our visit with Friday with forty seven.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, Jeremiah had a Bullfrog. We have a Sherry from
Bullfrog on the talk back line. Here's Sherry.
Speaker 14 (34:27):
Good morning, Michael and your crew and your morning show listeners.
I just wanted to wish everyone to merry Christmas, and
I wanted to tell you my favorite Christmas movie is
Holiday Inn has fred A staring, Bing Crosby singing and dancing.
And my favorite Christmas song is a little drummer Boy.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
All right, take.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Care, thank you good We're bed Sherry for crying Goidlin.
And I was just thinking, I don't, I don't. I
can't make my mind up about Drummer Boy. I don't
know if it's kind of a bad vibe. Maybe it
was the version when Bing did it with David Bowie
just kind of creeped me out. But I really I
just thought that was great. You love to see a
lot of it. I think it's a love it or hated
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Richard's listening at k f YI. I love this sweet spirit.
Speaker 15 (35:16):
That's a reminder of those who are grieving between these holidays,
pieces grease with us.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
He will always be.
Speaker 15 (35:23):
There for us, and we just remember we hear temporary.
Our real home is in heaven when time comes, and
eventually you will see your love once once again. God
bless everyone, and have a married Christmas.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh, I was sweet, sweet man, I think that's what
I was trying to say. He just said it better.
We didn't think we were gonna have a Christmas party
without inviting the President? Did you? Friday with forty seven
our number two and number one top ten Christmas Stories
and songs. They're right after your local news, so please
come back one final hour together.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Starting your morning off right, A new way of talk,
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Because we're in this.
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Togevon, this is your morning show with Michael Bill Charny seven.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Minutes after the hour, Good morning, and welcome to Friday, December,
the nineteenth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five, on
the air, streaming live on your iheartradiop This is your
morning show. Honor to serve you. I'm Michael. This is
my final show. I won't see you between now and Christmas. Oh,
your morning show is every morning without fail, but I'll
take off the week of Christmas. So my gift to
you for counting down my top ten Christmas stories and songs.
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And we're at a little bit of a break in
the countdown before we get to number three. Our traditional
presentation of a PC Christmas. What if the greatest story
ever told was told politically correct? Or another way of
looking at it, is it as how different would we
have to tell this story in order to please everybody
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in multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion that's coming up? A PC
Christmas a tradition. Yes, you haven't missed it yet. And
as it turns out, we not only have the Brown
University shooter, we also have the MIT shooter of a professor.
They were one and the same and found dead in
a warehouse. Roy O'Neil is joining us Rory. This is
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at least the end of this saga, but a bit
of a shock at who this person turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, it's an investigation that certainly is still well underway.
In that the why the motive here is still a
little bit fuzzy. We had a Florida guy who's the
suspect here, Claudio Nevesvalente. He went to Boston, rented a
car there, drove down to his alma mater at Brown University,
went to the engineering building on Saturday again, open fire,
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killing two, wounding nine, then two days later, police say
he's also the man who went up to mit the
campus there assassinated the professor, then drove up to a
storage unit in New Hampshire that he rented back in November,
and then took his own life there. What's really interesting,
we had the man hunt for most of the week,
but it was this guy who this second guy where
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we saw the video and the police said he was
a person of interest. If you see this guy, we
think he had an interaction with the shooter. Well, it
turns out he went right to police about an hour
after his picture was published. Had this whole story about
how he interacted with the gunman in the bathroom at
the engineering building beforehand, said boy, that coat's not going
to keep you warm in this weather kind of a thing,
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and then said.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
He looked weird.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So he followed him around, actually followed him through the
streets of the east side of Providence and recognized the
car that he had rented, saw the funny Florida plate,
had all that information for police who were able to
quickly track things down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So the second person of interest ended up being the
key to the actual shooter, who was then found dead.
But you're right Rray were connecting the dots on this motive.
I mean, he's down in Miami. Comes up. Well, at
least we know he went to Brown University. But was
it that do we know if that professor at MIT
once worked at Brown? I mean, it's just that part.
I don't know how to connect those.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, well, i'll tell you. These two guys were both
in college together in their original Portugal. In their native Portugal,
both of them had gone attending the same Portuguese university
back I think what two thousand and two thousand and
two in there, somewhere in there, does he.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Have any idea what the motive was? Well, now, so
the MIT professor is dead, and now you're saying that
he's not the other guy that was helping. Oh, the
MIT professor and him were ones, it said, Okay, okay,
so that's a tie that a professor.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, but why the two had the confrontation or the
encounter in the bathroom at Brown That was just strange.
And so it may have been this shooter went to
the engineering building where he used to be a student
back in two thousand and two thousand and one, thinking
he would be shooting into an engineering class instead, it
was an economic study group.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So we had the Brown University shooting, the MIT shooting.
They ended up being the same person. He's found dead
in a warehouse. That case goes its way. We have
Nick Reiner who is in prison or in jail waiting
trial any word, and whether or not he has cleared
his mental stability testing.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, he got through the medical check, so they're going
to have an arrangement in that case on January seventh.
Is probably the next big legal hurdle event there January seventh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And the amount of evidence found in that hotel, I'll
probably throughout the house, let alone, the circumstantial evidence of
his behavior at a party. Just a very violent week.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But and then yeah, oh then Greg Biffel and that
was awful that plane crash yesterday, the NASCAR driver and
of course what happened in Australia.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, that's why number three on our list of top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs is for those heading into
Christmas after experiencing tragedy or recent loss that has to
be processed and we'll do it. Rory, great reporting as always, listen,
I have to say this because it's our last time
until next year. I would never do this show without
you every morning. Thank you for great reporting and great friendship.
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Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I would say the same, but it's your show, so yes,
I can't do the show without you. But that's an
awful to say, and I do appreciate it. And you know,
as much as we like to rip one another, you're
not my least favorite shows.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
To the day, so I always enjoyed talking to you
as great. Don't get soft. I like the tension, I know.
Oh God, I love you, Mary. Christmas to you and yours,
and Happy New Year and I'll see you in that
new year. Roy O'Neil. Everybody right, you got it thirteen
minutes after the hour listen. We did this a long
time ago. This is a very cherished piece of audio
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for me. When I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma at KFAQ,
it may have been one of the most glorious radio
experiences and certainly one of the most glorious teams. And
my news director and newsman is also working with me
today on your morning show. But there's a lot of
voices in this who are no longer here. The very
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Christmas story we are talking about is their reality today.
They have gone on. We just sat down and thought
the world's getting so crazy, so woke, so politically correct.
How on earth would the ACLU choose for us to
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tell this divine, amazing story? In other words, what will
we have to do to make it politically correct? And
after the brainstorming and after all the voice work, and
I'm a few of them, this was our presentation of
a PC Christmas, And twenty four years later, it's still
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a lot of people's favorite stop on our holiday tradition
and spectacular of top ten Christmas stories and songs and
not ready for primetime players, and a PC Christmas. And
(07:44):
Joseph went up from Galilee to Bethlehem with Mary, his
espoused wife, who was now great with child. And she
brought forth the sun and wrapped him in swaddling clothes
and laid him in a manger because there was no
room for them in the inn. And an angel of
the Lord spoke to the shepherds and said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Behold, I've bringing you tight as of great joy was
born a savior, which is Christ the Lord.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Uh, there's a problem with the angel, said a pharisee
who happened to be strolling by. Angels are widely regarded
as religious symbols, and the stable was on public property
where such symbols were not allowed to land or even hover.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
As he explained to Joseph, and I have.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
To tell you, this whole thing looks to me a
lot like an activity scene, he said, sadly.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That's a no note too. Then Joseph had a bright idea.
What if I put a couple of reindeer over there
New York and the ass he said, eager to avoid
sectarian strife. That would definitely help, said the pharisee, who
knew as well as anyone that whenever a savior appeared,
judges usually like to be on the safe side and
surround it with deer or woodland creatures of some sort,
you know, just to sentient throwing a candy cane, couple
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of elves, maybe a snowman as well. He said, No
court can resist that. Mary asked, what.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Does my son's birth have to do with snowman?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
As snow persons cried a young womananging the subject before
it veered dangerously towards religion. Off to the side of
the crowd, a philistine was painting the Nativity scene. Mary
complained that she and Joseph looked too tattered and worn
in the picture artistic license, He said, I've got to
show the plight of the haggard homeless in a greedy,
uncaring society and winter equipped.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
We're not haggard or homeless.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The inn was just full, said Mary, Whatever said the painter.
Two women began to argue fiercely. One said she objected
to Jesus' birth.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Because it's privileged motherhood.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The other scoffed at the virgin births, but said that
if they encouraged more attention to diversity in the family
forms and the rights of the single mothers, well then
she was all for them. I'm not a single mother,
Mary started to say, but she was cut off by
a third woman, who insisted that swaddling clothes are a
form of child's abuse since they restricted the natural movement
of babies. With the arrival of ten child advocates, all
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trained to spot infant abuse and major rash, Mary and
Joseph were pushed to the edge of the crowd, where
are arguments were breaking out over how many reindeer or
what mix of reindeer and seasonal spirits had to be
installed to compensate for the infant's unfortunate religious character. An
older man bustled up, voting over two merchants who had
been busy debating whether an elf is the same as
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a fairy, and whether the elf fairy should be shaking
hands with Jesus in the crib or merely standing to
the side, jumping up and down, kind of like a
sports mascot. I'd hold the fund the reindeer if I
was you, the man said, explaining the.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Use of asses and oxen as picturesque backstraps for nativity
scenes carries the sublime message of human dominance. He passed
out two leaflets, one denouncing major birds as invasions of
animal space, the other arguing that stables are penned enviolements
where animals are incarcerated against their ville.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
However, he had no opinion about elves or candy canes.
Signs declaring began to appear, referring to the obviously aploded
acidn ox. Somebody even said the halo on Jesus's head
was elitist. Mary was exasperated, And what about you, old mother,
she said, sharply to an elderly woman.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Are you here to attack the shepherd's prison guards? For
excluded species, Maybe to complain that singing in Latin identifies
us with our Roman oppressors, or just to say that
I should have skipped patriarchal religiosity and joined some dumb
New age goddess religion.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
None of the above, said the woman. Just wanted to
let you know the magi are here.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Sure enough, the three wise men wrote up. The crowd gasped,
they're all well and not very multi cultural. Hey I'm
bad as all, and I'm black, said one of the magi.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yes, but how many of you are gay or disabled?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Someone shouted. A committee was quickly formed to find an
impoverished lesbian wise person among the halted lame of Bethlehem.
Then a calm voice.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Said, be of good cheer, Mary, for you have done
well and your son will change the world.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
At last, a sane person.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Mary thought, trying to see a radiant and confident female face.
The woman spoke again, there is one thing. The religious
holidays are important. Can't we learn to celebrate them in Wednesday? Unite,
not divide?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
For instance, instead of all this business about Gloria in
Excelsia's Dale, why not just season's greetings.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Mary thought about it and then said, you mean my
son has entered human history to deliver the message. Hello,
it's winter.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's harsh, Mary said the woman.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
Remember, your son could make it big in the midwinter
festivals if he doesn't push the religious thing too far
centuries from now in nations yet unborn people will give
each other pricey gifts and have big office parties.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
On his birthday. That's not job Liver.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
At which point Mary said, Uh, let me get back
to you. And that's a PC Christmas story, Aclu style,
brought to life by the not ready for prime time,
big big show players. Happy Uh, Mary, Hello it's winter.
You know they were My favorite is still I'm Babiza
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and I'm glad that was our janitor Elmer. Really yeah,
and so many of those voices have since gone home
to be with the Lord. We have made some good strides,
I think this year in defeating wokeness, but there's a
long way before it goes. But when we did that, well,
that's when wokeness of political correctness was just starting to
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get crazy, and it didn't get a lot crazy Twenty
years later.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael Del Trono.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Good Moore and Michael from Vankley the city. Hatty Toddy
go rebels, Oh, you got to be killing me. It doesn't.
I'm ripper ol miss, but I'll never get that Hotty Toddy.
Thank College football playoffs begin tonight. Oh you and Alabama
three games tomorrow. One of the big stories is officials
are confirming the Brown University shooting suspect was also the
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individual who killed the MIT professor. How they're linked, we
don't know. US Attorney Lea Foley spoke at Thursday night's
news conference.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
On December fifteenth, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Lourieriro at
Loariro's home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The suspect, identified as Claudio Nivi's Valente, was found dead
of a self inflicted and self inflicted gunshot wound at
a New Hampshire storage unit. He was found in there
with his satchel.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
There was nothing else found in there that I am
aware of, but they're still they're still in the process
of searching that facility right now.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Fully says the authorities had probable cause to charge the
Portuguese national in the death of the two students at
Brown University and the MIT professor. She added that Nevez.
Valente attended the same academic program in Portugal as the
MIT professor whom he is believed to have killed. The
professor who shot Monday in his home outside of Boston.
(14:55):
The US attorney Leo Foley says the suspect likely had
previous content with that MIT professor. The Milwaukee judge accused
of helping a defendant evade arrest by ice inside her
courthouse has been found guilty of a felony obstruction.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The incident involving Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, took place
at the county courthouse last April, and a grandeur indicted
Dugan the following month.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Dugan was criticized by President Trump around the time. With
the incident, she could face up to six years in prison.
By Mark Mayfield Well, The US Senate is shutting down
Adam Shiff's bid to require the Pentagon to release a
video of a deadly boat strike. The US Senator's effort
was blocked on Wednesday. He wants a video of the
September US strike that killed two people on an alleged
rug boat near Venezuela to be released to the public.
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The two people who died survived the initial strike on
the boat. Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma Blockshift's
proposal from being considered schiff. A Democrat says, the video
is going to come out. I'm Daniel Martindale hard as
I mentioned. The college football playoffs begin this weekend. Indiana, Ohio, State, Georgia,
and Texas Tech one through four all have a bibe tonight.
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Oklahoma and Alabama a rematch tomorrow eleven am. It'll be
Miami in Texas. A and m two thirty two Lane
and Old Miss six thirty. James Madison and Oregon over
a thousand yards of offense last night, but it was
a crazy play to end the game for two for
a mistake that leads to two Seahawks thirty eight thirty
seven over the Rams. Birthdays Today we have Jake Gillenhall
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or do you say gillen Hall, I'm gonna say both
forty five. I don't know why Red is so fixated
on Alyssa Milano being fifty three. That's not young. I
mean you were like I thought she was way younger
than us. That's not that much younger than us. That's
about what it was. Is any younger. You thought you
would be. You thought, what did you think she was
in her forties? I thought she was like fifteen years younger.
Oh no, she's fifty three. And Bobby Brady Mike Lookinland
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is sixty five, and Alex from Shitts Creek Andy Murphy
is thirty nine. If it's your birthday, Happy birthday. So
glad you were born and thanks for making us a
part of your day.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm Joe Vigan, Tampa, and my morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael del Jorno.
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Now enjoy the podcast.
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This is Rachel from my house, Tennessee. My morning show
is your morning show.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Love Rachel with Michael.
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May your days be Mary and bra and mail your
Chris is be why.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I don't know what it is about Rachel, but I
picture her singing by a kitchen window half open, with
birds sitting on her shoulder and butterflies what like snow wider?
So I don't know who you are, Rachel, but I
love your voice here where I live. I mean, that
could be a nineteen forty She should have been in
some of these old classic movies. What a gorgeous voice.
(18:25):
Thank you for sharing your gifting with us, Thank you
for listening, and thank you for proving what I always
say my listeners, they're the greatest. Thirty six minutes after
the hour, that leaves you about twenty four minutes to
be to work by eight o'clock if you're in the
Eastern time zone. The suspect in the Brown University shooting
and the suspect in the MIT Professor shooting were one
(18:45):
and the same, and he was found dead in a warehouse.
We'll have more on that. US and Russian officials are
expected to meet in Miami this weekend to discuss the
ending of the war in Ukraine TikTok. Do you remember
when TikTok was considered a clear in present danger, a
national security threat. Then everybody's using it to campaign, including Trump.
(19:08):
Now no one's buying TikTok, they're just creating a US version.
Or how about the war on drugs and now we're
gonna soften things with marijuana. I'm having a hard time
following things. One thing I can't keep my eye on
the ball with is today is the deadline. So the
Democrats continue to release pictures and try to make hay
with this Epstein file story, but the files themselves must
(19:30):
be released by tonight at midnight. Our White House correspondent
John Decker is here to discuss what's expected to be
made public and what we can expect where we go
from here. I guess with this political weapon, John, good morning.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Well, you know you think about it this way, Michael,
you think about all of the bad news.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's been a lot of good news, but all the.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
Bad news associated with the Trump administration and President Trump
that's come out in his first year back in the
White House. Would you agree with me? This is the
only story that has had staying power. There have been
so many stories that come and go. This one has
remained around for literally months, and now we're going to
get another element to.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The story with the release of these files.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
No one knows what's going to come out of these files,
whether there'll be a quote unquote smoking gun, but I
think it will certainly create a lot of interest in
this story, continue that interest in this story, which has
gone on for so many months now.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
John, Don't you think it's because it's one of the
few things that are bipartisan. In other words, it's a
weapon Democrats use against Republicans when they're in office, or
Republicans use against Democrats when they're in office. In other words,
it's matrix proof. That's what keeps it alive. And yet
I don't know what anyone thinks this does for the victims.
(20:47):
Some of these things we're compromising. And this should matter
to you. A Supreme Court bar attorney. You know our
laws of a judicial ethics. These were testimonies. Some we
don't know if they're true, not true, they're they're out
of what do you call depositions. I mean, it's just
(21:10):
this is pure political weaponry. And then in the end, okay,
now they're released, no one's going to be satisfied. It won't.
It won't even take the weapon out of commission.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
And yet look what happened in Congress. The reason why
they're being released. At some point during the day to
day is because of a nearly unanimous vote in both
the House and the Senate. So it's members of both
parties that want to see this material released, and maybe
to a certain extent, the idea here is release it
(21:42):
and maybe this story will ultimately go away.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I guess well that you know, and then you have
the TikTok story. While that one comes to an end. TikTok,
that's been an ongoing saga for over a year, and
now we find out it's not a clear and present danger,
it's not a national security thread. It didn't even have
to be sold. They just had to do a different
version for the US. What's up with that?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
Yeah, I think that's part of what the President will
announce today in the Roosevelt Room today, a signing of
essentially sealing that deal, which will mean that the parent
company of TikTok, Byte Dance, officially selling off this US
version of TikTok. And it all came together over the
(22:26):
course of the past eleven months. That's how long it's
taken for this deal to be finally consummated.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And then the President renounces his easing of marijuana restrictions.
We're in the midst of a war on drugs. We're
blowing up planes in the water, and now the president's
easing everything on there. I guess marijuana's not a drug, right,
I mean, this is common sense.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
It's a drug, but it's being lowered in terms of
classification from what it was over the course of the
past fifty years to what the President lowered it to
yesterday with that executive order. And you saw all of
those health officials by the President. I'll leave it to
(23:08):
others to say whether this is part of the Making
America Healthy Again agenda lowering that classification of cannabis as
a drug. In any case, this is what the President
has decided to do, and actually it's following up on
steps that President Biden was taking as it relates to
the issue of lowering the classification of marijuana.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
John's gonna have more in his White House Briefing Room
with John Decker. It's a podcast every morning it's up
by nine Eastern and eighth Central, and he goes in
depth on all the issues surrounding the White House. John,
you know how I feel about you. This show wouldn't
be the same ever without you, and I don't take
it ever for granted and I cherish every moment we
spend together on and off the year. I wish you,
your beautiful wife and yours a very merry Christmas, and
(23:53):
I can't wait to see you in the happy New Year. Oh.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
I look forward to just talking to you in the
new year. I thank you so much for on your
show every day, Michael. It's a great way to start
my day. And I love talking to your audience and
telling you every day what's happening at the White House.
And we'll do it again starting in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I can't wait. White House correspondent John Decker. Yesterday we
got the news that my godmother, she had been diagnosed
with cancer. She had just begun chemo. I face timed
with her a couple of days ago. She was in
She's the most godly woman I've ever met, so, I mean,
her spirits were great and she was feeling great and
still walking ten thousand steps a day, and you know,
(24:34):
I was scared, but you know, feeling pretty good about it.
My mom was facetiming with her as she was decorating
the house for Christmas. And then I was on a
call yesterday with who's going to be filling in next week,
Kelly Nash, You're going to love him. And I could
see that her husband of sixty three years pops up
on my phone. I go, oh, that's not good. But
she couldn't have died of cancer. Ed Then I saw
(24:55):
my brother's name pop up, and I went, oh, my gosh,
my godmother's gone. Death never arrives on time, does it.
I'm sitting here looking at one of our top stories
today and none of us can pretend to have known
Greg before we knew who he was as a retired
NASCAR driver. But Greg, his wife, two of his children
(25:18):
on a plane of seven killed in a plane crash.
And sadness falls on the holidays. It's always the worst
and didn't matter if it happened in March or April,
it would just be the first Christmas without them. So seriously,
(25:39):
merry Christmas, no way, fellow believers, Sometimes with the best
intentions could be some of the worst when it comes
to comforting those with broken hearts. And I don't know why.
I guess we always feel like we need to say
something rather than just be, and then we say awful
(26:01):
things like well they're in a better place now. No
here with me would be better, it's what their mind
and heart is thinking. Or how about the worst Christmas
song ever? Mommy's with Jesus this year for Christmas? Wow?
How about that really comforted a small child whose mother died. No,
(26:22):
a merry Christmas is probably not in the cards. Talking
to my godmother's husband, who was crying like a child
with me on the phone, he's not gonna dry his
tears and have a merry Christmas. By Thursday, all he
could utter was, I can't believe she's gone. She left me.
(26:45):
How am I gonna live? No, a merry Christmas is
probably not in the cards, But what is? We all
will battle with loss this Christmas. It's just a matter
of how long ago. When I think of my childhood Christmas,
(27:06):
my brothers and I lying on the floor, or watching
football bowl games, or me lying under the table that
was in our great room, Sinatra singing, my mom and
dad laughing, playing pinaco with my grandmother and grandfather, Poppy
and Grammy Nan. He's there smoking a Carlton. My parent's
(27:30):
not fighting, my grandfather chewing on nuts. He chewed him
so loud. My dad throwing a card down. Who shmelt
this mess? You would have to know the peace of
seven fishes in the role of smelt and who dealt
to get the pun. Then Mom would respond to no Trump, Oh,
(27:51):
Mom and Dad have been divorced for I think twenty
years now. I don't speak to one of my brothers.
Non he died first, then Poppy, then Grammy. They're all gone,
and wouldn't I And what I would not give for
any of them to know my amazing wife, or meet
(28:12):
my twin daughters or my son Nick. What a kick
they would have gotten out of my kids. The Bible says,
we mourn, we hurt, we cry, we miss, we grieve,
not like those without hope, but we grieve, and depending
how fresh. There are no words, just permission to not
(28:38):
have a Mary, but perhaps a merry little Christmas. I
believe this was actually a World War two song, and
in it's uncertainty it uses words like if the fates allow,
but because of the child that we celebrate this holiday season,
his later suffering victory over Hell and Day and his
(29:00):
kingdom to come. We have hope, we have faith certainty
that we will all be reunited. It's faith, and faith
says it will be so. But in the meantime, I
(29:24):
know there's many people hearing the sound of my voice
in deep, deep pain. I get it, and many others
of us are there with you. I just wanted to
say I love you. I'm sorry for your loss. I
simply wish that somehow you find a moment to have
(29:45):
yourself a merry little Christmas. Number three on our top
ten Christmas stories and songs are owed to those gone
the chairman of the board.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be lie.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
From now.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Our troubles will be out of sight. Have yourself a
merry little Christmas. Make the ule tide game.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
From now.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Our troubles will be miles away.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Here we are as an old and dad.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Happy golden days of your faithful friends who are dear
to us. Gather nearer to.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Us, one small.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Through the years, we all will be together. If the
fates alone, hang a shining starm upon the highest bard.
(31:47):
Had your self a merry little Christmas.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
Now disus.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Through the years, sue, all will be together if the
fates allow, lang a shining star upon the highest bards.
(32:56):
Have yourself, Ah, marry little friend.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, I'm thankful to God He's given us the theme
for this year. Which is Christmas finds us right where
we're at, doesn't it every time? And we come as
we are, and He's arriving and in loving us just
as we are. And I think, you know, my first
(33:27):
thought when I found out my godmother died yesterday was that,
oh my gosh, she's back with her twin brother. She's
back with my aunt Louisa, her mother. Can you imagine
the reuniting she's having. And yet here we are trying
to figure out how to have Christmas without her. When
loss meets Christmas, all I can do is say, I
pray that the peace of God will guard your heart
and mind, and bottle your tears and do the best
(33:49):
you can to have a merry little Christmas. Number two
or number three rather in our list of top ten
Christmas Stories and songs My Holiday Gift to you, we've
gone from Johnny Mathis to the Beach Boys, to Kenny
log to Harry Connick Junior, to the carpenters Clay Aiken,
Whitney Houston. That was Frank Sinatra, who might be at
number two and number one. Next tot half hour we'll
reveal along with our visit with Friday with forty seven.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, Jeremiah had a Bullfrog. We have a Sherry from
Bullfrog on the talk back line. Here's Sherry.
Speaker 14 (34:27):
Good morning, Michael and your crew and your morning show listeners.
I just wanted to wish everyone to merry Christmas, and
I wanted to tell you my favorite Christmas movie is
Holiday Inn has fred A staring, Bing Crosby singing and dancing.
And my favorite Christmas song is a little drummer Boy.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
All right, take.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Care, thank you good We're bed Sherry for crying Goidlin.
And I was just thinking, I don't, I don't. I
can't make my mind up about Drummer Boy. I don't
know if it's kind of a bad vibe. Maybe it
was the version when Bing did it with David Bowie
just kind of creeped me out. But I really I
just thought that was great. You love to see a
lot of it. I think it's a love it or hated
(35:12):
Richard's listening at k f YI. I love this sweet spirit.
Speaker 15 (35:16):
That's a reminder of those who are grieving between these holidays,
pieces grease with us.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
He will always be.
Speaker 15 (35:23):
There for us, and we just remember we hear temporary.
Our real home is in heaven when time comes, and
eventually you will see your love once once again. God
bless everyone, and have a married Christmas.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh, I was sweet, sweet man, I think that's what
I was trying to say. He just said it better.
We didn't think we were gonna have a Christmas party
without inviting the President? Did you? Friday with forty seven
our number two and number one top ten Christmas Stories
and songs. They're right after your local news, so please
come back one final hour together.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Del Jorno
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