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Top 10 Christmas Stories and Songs
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well two three starting your morning off right.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
because we're in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael del Jornan Lot, Liberty and the Kitchen Table.
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Speaker 4 (00:49):
Born in Michael, Jeffrey and Red and Merry Christmas to
All Little Drummer Boy by Bob Seeker, Best version hands down,
That deep voice of Bob Seeger with the sex by
alto Read.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It is classy. The love life Seeger.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
That'll be a bucket list. Regret that I didn't see
him before he retired. Thank you both, Jeff, Jeff, that's
a line of the year. Maybe you captured our little
kitchen table spirit. Kathy also wrote, thank you, Michael. Both
of my parents are gone and my in laws too.
God is good and his grace and mercy is what
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she clings to. You know, I will tell you this statistically,
it's in my face, but there's just something in my soul.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I know that next Christmas is going to be a
really bad one for me.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You know, all we can really do when we're dealing
when loss and grief collides with Christmas. Man, go have
your moment with God and be honest. He knows right
where you're at. You know, thank Him for these people
and what they meant in your life. Cry miss them.
Then the best you can. I'll let you know I'm
probably not gonna do much better, but try not to
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as much as you can. Have it ruined the entire holiday,
let alone an entire day. There's just too many people
around us that still need us. But Christmas is very
tough when you're dealing with loss. Johnny Mathis was number
ten on our list of top ten Christmas Stories and Songs,
and it was an ode to holiday decorating and all
the people that make our streets and homes look and
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feel like Christmas. Our ode to Christmas movies we stopped
at Love. Actually there were many great movies, but there's
that last scene with God only Knows by the Beach Boys.
At number nine, Kenny Loggins for all of you that
will travel, get stuck in airport, so whatever happens. Our
ode to Christmas travelers would celebrate me home. At number
seven was Harry Connick Juniors, please come home for Christmas.
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Kind of my ode to the sounds and the smells
of Christmas in Nolens. Yeah, never had a white Christmas,
but boy, New Orleans does Christmas well. Carpenters were at
number six, and that's the ode to the empty chair.
There's probably someone who won't be there, and you'll wish
they were and you'll miss them. We say Merry Christmas,
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Darling at number five, maybe because we completely forget Joseph
in some cases over Honor Mary and other Protestant cases.
Under Honor Mary, we paid tribute to Mary and Joseph's
faith before sight and one of the most magical songs
and written by a comedian, Mary did you Know? At
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number four was Whitney Houston would do you hear what
I Hear? And we talked about how different the night
must have been, and not just the fact that they
didn't have lights and the stars must have been bright.
But there were no Christmas commercials, There were no months
of planning and decorations and trees, and throughout the world
there were only three wise men who were watching and waiting.
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The rest. They weren't hearing, and they weren't anticipate. Are
we any better today? Do you hear what I hear?
Whitney Houston at number three was our ode to those
who are gone and addressing grief in the holidays with
Frank sinatras, have yourself a merry little Christmas. There is
no Mary Wish. There is just permission to grieve and
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know that in that child arriving we have hope we'll
see him again. Where will we go? At number two
and number one on our list of top ten Christmas
stories and songs, we'll find out shortly. And as you know,
there's no way to have a Christmas party without inviting
the president.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Santa Drong Room right down, Santa Drum play It's Friday
with forty seven good morning, mister president.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, good morning to you. I have to say, you know,
we're doing very well right now. We have a tremendously
hot country, be very hot country. The country's hotter than
your ratings, and maybe not on Fridays, but your country
is out of an your rating. So we have something
a lot to be very proud of. I have to
say that we're winning big league.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let's talk about your speech.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I don't think i've ever seen you keep it to
twenty minutes or under. And it was filled with energy
for those that think you lack energy, and I don't know,
portions of it were fireside chatty, and then portions of
it were stated the Union kye.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How did you think it went and what was the intent?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, I think it went very well, you know, I think.
And I got along very well with Abe Lincoln a
long time ago. I think Gettysburg address was very short.
It wasn't a long speech, right, So I got along
well with him and we wrote that together. He said,
I don't know how that we're going to start it.
I said, hey, four score and seven years. He said, sir,
that is brilliant. Sir, where did you come up with it?
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I said, I'm a tremendous writer. I knew William Shakespeare
very well too. I called him Bill. He's a tremendous guy.
But we wrote so many beautiful things together, so we
kept it short, we kept it. It was very powerful,
it was very strong. We think it was inspiring and
nobody could have done a bit of job. I have
to say that. But it was a tremendous speech and
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we highlighted the failures of the crooked Joe. Remember crooked
Joe in the order, I.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Don't, we don't remember. I repressed them. You don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're worsted Crooked Joe. With the memory you have to.
But the speech was great, and we're very happy with
where our country is going.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I think there's no arguing that you have secured the border.
The classic line of the year was it turns out
you didn't need legislation, just needed a new president. And
I mean closed the Spicott down to zero and it
has stated zero. It's solved. An economy doesn't solve that quick.
When you inherit a mess, it takes a long time
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to fix it. Are the American people's expectations fair well?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think their expectations are fair they want to fix
and it's going to be fixed, but you have to
give it a little bit of time. But you look
at the border and you say, you talk about the border,
and there were a lot of we call them bad
ombres that came across the border. But we have Homan
I call him the Hominator. He's a tremendous guy and
he shut the border down. You know, he's a real
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borders are I remember we had a faith borders are?
How fake? Discussing corrupt borders are in the cackling communists
known as Kamala, Remember that she said, I've never been
to the border, and that's because she thinks the border.
You know, you look at borders, she thinks that's a bookstore.
And we know she doesn't do that a lot. You know,
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she doesn't read. You know, she says she wrote her books.
He read the book, but she took the border was
a bookstore. She says, I've never been. But we have
a real borders are. We shut the border down, and
the economy is gonna roar. It's gonna roar like the
biggest lion in the history of the world. You look
at the lion, the king of the jungle, and I've
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been known to be king of many things, the pirate king,
the King of the jungle, the king of the galaxy.
I got a lot very well with Darth Vader and
have Brimber at Palpacine. These are great people.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Did you know what Darth bar looked like under the mask?
I mean you knew him.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I knew what he looked like. And I pulled him
Bobby under the lisk. I said, you know, he took
the voice away. He would have sounded like Bobby. A
lot of people said, what the hell is that? I
knew that was Anaki, a nice guy, but he had
a hard time. But you know, you look at so
many different things that we've done so well in our country,
prescription drugs, the border, tariffs. We love our tarifs. And
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we had no hurricanes because of tariffs because I told
Mother Nature, if you send a hurricane into a country,
we're gonna aid you with tariffs. And she said, sir,
we're not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Continuing with Friday, with forty seven, it was really a
nice fireside chatty kind of a feel. May have to
become a new tradition for you. The speech behind us. Now,
let's press out towards Christmas. Do you have a naughty
or nice list?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, we're looking at it, and we have a very
long list on both sides, with a very long list.
You look at Mark, he's on the naughty list. You
look at low I Q A O. C. She's on
the noughty list. We're giving a call. We're giving her
call because she hates call. You know, the Democrats don't
let call. But I love big, beautiful, clean call. So
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if they don't want to, we'll take it. Uh, Jasmine Crocketts,
she's on the naughty list. I called her many names
that are not very nice. We're not going to say
that is on the naughty list. We also called him
a lot of not nice names, which we're not gonna say.
But on the nice list, we have Marco Rubio who's
got a big beautiful stocking, Little Marco to big big
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Marco Boppy, he's on the nice list.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
List.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Unlet's know, you just went to the naughty list now,
because that's the problem on the nord you want do
you want a nice thing? What do you want?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're going to be on the nice list. Excuse me,
excuse me. I got along very well with Santa. I
still get along very well with Santa, and we have
a tremendous relationship. And he heard a rumor that we
were sending ice to the north fall. I said, Santa,
you have too much ice already.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But you're elves.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What are we looking at? He said, They're all legal,
We have them. They're all perfect people. Not even these
are people. They're all perfect people. And we took a
look at it. We we took a look at it,
and they're doing a great job, making so many beautiful things.
We took a look at it. Highly respect and they're
tremendous elves, highly highly respected. You look at Rudolph too,
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and you have Democrats who
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are trying to turn Rudolph's nose blue at three in
the morning with mail. Can you believe that we're not
going to let it happen? Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeers
are tremendous. Rudoff All right, I want to finish.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I want to finish with this.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
There's a poll out that says, uh, seventy two percent
of us are not finished doing our Christmas shopping yet.
But even worse, sixty percent of us haven't even begun.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's me.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Have you shopped for Malanya yet? And is it hard
for a president to shop? I mean, do you have
access to your wallet?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, I I just told Yega looked very well with Santa,
so we will talk to him and we'll put it
in order and we're going to have it done very quickly.
But we did our shopping. Shopping is done. And frankly,
one of the greatest gifts we could give our country
is that I'm the president. It's a Christmas gift for
the entire nation. Malania is very happy about it. And
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I bought her a new outfit so she could look
like Carmen san Diego again. Remember that at a augeneration
she looked like, where in the world is Carmen san
Diego she is? She almost blew away with that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Heck, she.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Looked like Carmen san Diego, who I got along well
with also, And we found Carmen san Diego sooner than
the very nasty people, and I would probably say stupid
people in Rhode Island. They can't find the person with
just very bad We found Carvin san Diego, so look
at it. We love Malania. She does a tremendous job,
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and we have a Christmas gift for her and a
Christmas gift for the whole country. You have a new
president and a great president.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Mister President, any message for our listeners as you leave
on this Christmas Well.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I want to say to all of you, your great people,
the ratings are tremendous. You're all fantastic. And remember that
we have a huge election in twenty twenty six, so
get out and vote and let's continue to make America
great again.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
There you have it, out of the Chief, Merry Christmas
to the President, and Merry Christmas to you all and them,
Happy New Year and good night. Oh my gosh, you
know out of all legal elves, very highly respected legal elves.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That's good to know. With Santa Listen.
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This is your morning show with Michael Deltruno're just waking up.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The hunt ended Thursday night in New Hampshire in a
warehouse for the suspect of the Brown University killing. Turned
out to be that killing and the professor at MIT
were linked, and the same killer was found dead of
a gunshot wound.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Jennifer POLSONI has more.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
The suspected Brown University shooter have found dead from a
self inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage facility in Salem,
New Hampshire. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez, who's.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
A Brown student, who's a Portuguese national, and he's the
last name.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Noan Andrews was in Miami.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Florida, and I will tell you that he took his
own life tonight.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
The aspect found dead with a satchel and two firearms
in his car, had evidence that matched the scene in
Providence where two people were killed nine others injured in
the university shooting that took place Saturday. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I'm Jennifer Bulsony.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I mean follow the bouncing ball on this a Portuguese
national from Miami in Providence, followed by a homeless person
who was living presumably what in the basement at the university.
I mean no cameras. I mean we live in a
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pretty dangerous time. You have to harden these targets. Our
only clues came from ring cameras and people's phones and
a homeless guy following him, and it all ends in
a warehouse in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Pretty bizarre stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It shines one light on losing track of people in
our immigration system, which leads to our second top story.
The Milwaukee judge accused of helping a defendant tried to
evade arrest by ice inside her courthouse. She was found
guilty of felony obstruction.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
The incident involving Milwaukee County Judjehannah Dugan, took place at
the county courthouse last April, and a grandeury indicted Dugan
in the following month. Dugan was criticized by President Trump
around the turn of the incident.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
She could face up to six years in prison.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
By Mark Mayfield and the President's waging a war on drugs,
blowing up boats in the water but also easing marijuana restrictions.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
He signed an executive order switching the drug from a
Schedule one to a Schedule three, reclassifying it as less dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Does it legalize marijuana in any way, shape or form.
In no way sanctions its used as a recreational drug.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Instead.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Trump said it will help many of the Americans dealing
with extreme pain and other serious medical conditions. Marijuana has
been in the same category as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm Lisa Carton, I'm just a jelly Roll. I love
this guy.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Granted a full Parton for his past crimes in Tennessee,
and Governor Bill Lee announced pardons to thirty three people,
including the country music star Jelly Roll. He was convicted
of robbery as a teenager in possession while intent to
sell cocaine while on parole in two thousand and five.
They called jelly Rolls turnaround story remarkable, redemptive, and powerful,
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and said he was evident and deserving of a part.
And that's your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Lisa Cory, the yard Boy, and my morning show is
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Speaker 1 (17:56):
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Speaker 4 (18:15):
Good morning, Michael, Mary, Christmas From Michael from eleven in Ohio.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
It's I I had to tell you Andy Williams was
always one of my favorites. What a gorgeous voice. It
is the most wonderful time of the year. And from
all of us to all of you, the family at
the kitchen table, we love so much.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Merry Christmas, and.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is it for us this half hour, and then
we'll see you in the new Year. But I have
got some great news. Filling in for you will be
best of me, which is better than the average me
we don't have. You're going to get to know Kelly Nash,
who I have handpicked to be a fill in along
with Chris Kroc to get you through the two weeks
of Christmas and New Year's.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Got this email from Jerry.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It says, hey, Michael, Merry Christmas, Jerry from t Talsa.
Has it actually been a year since you've been nationwide?
Some of this has taken me back to the old
days at KFAQ and Tulsa. Thank you again for the memories, Jerry,
Merry Christmas. Well, we began kind of national a little
over two years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Nashville,
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and then over the course of that year it just
kind of grew to thirty three. Then it's been thirteen
months ago. We became a Premiere Network show to precede
glennen Beck and be affiliated with Clay and Buck and
Sean Hannity and the great lineup and the great folks
at Premiere, and we've grown to one hundred and seven stations.
This kitchen table's gotten big. The boy at stayed intimate, intimate,
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and we love all of you and wish all of
you at Merry Christmas. All Right, we're counting down my
top ten Christmas stories and songs, and we're at number two.
This happens at Christmas, at Easter, just like Christmas. Sometimes
I wonder if we forget our heavenly Father and his
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role and place in all of this. So number two
is kind of my ode to my heavenly Father on
a most holy holiday, divine, supernatural night. Know, as we
were just talking about our relationship with each other through
the intimacy of radio. It is kind of a mystery, right,
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We're all so clothes though we've never met. Now we
may take care of that before next Christmas. Some of
you want to have a Christmas party here in Nashville.
We're taking it very seriously. But think of how close
we are, and in virtually every case we've never met.
It's really a powerful and beautiful thing. I find myself
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wondering what will Christmas be like for you? Will it
be white? Will it be cold? Will it be dysfunctional?
Will it be boring? Oh please God, no, not lonely?
Will the focus be on christ or will it just
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be about family, presence, travel, food, football? I'll never forget Christmas.
And my girls were five, I think they were five
and Nick was four. We showed them the movie Gremlins.
They loved it. They became obsessed with it. And what
we never saw coming was that that Christmas all they
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would want for Christmas was gremlin dolls, all three of them. Now,
that probably wasn't hard to find in the eighties, but
thirty years later, in twenty ten, I had discour the
world and I did find three. I paid a crazy
collector's price for each of them, but oh their faces
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when they opened him. They loved, they cherished them. There
was one picture we took. Andrew thought it was a picture,
was actually videoing, and it was all three of them
with their little maguais singing, giz Most singing, and them
smiling and singing along. And then Andrew thinks it's a
picture and she comes up smiling. You know, I don't
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know if you get these visions as you're dying, but
if you do, I hope that's mine. Maybe the greatest
moment of my life. And how they loved and cherished
him long after, I mean took him everywhere. Flash forward
a few years and we're moving a house that didn't
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want to empty but eventually was completely empty, and I
making one last walkthrough and that's when I realized the addict.
We forgot the attic. Oh my gosh, what if it's full.
So I pulled down the creaky ladder and I start
climbing up. When I got up there there was just
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one box, and I got to tell you, like right
out of a movie, covered in dust and webs, and
I'm waving them to see what's in this box, waving
them aside.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It looked like junk.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
When I moved some things around and got to the bottom,
out of the dust and ashes, was one of those
gremlin dolls. Something so precious, so valuable, tossed and lost
in a junk box and an attic. That's the cruelty
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of time. That's the temporary nature of earthly material things.
We celebrate the sun, the reuniting with the Father, and
a pathway to eternity. It's the greatest gift and one
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we could never afford is one and only son, and
we celebrate this by giving gifts.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
This is why Christmas is so magical for kids.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I'm not bragging, and you're not bragging, and we don't
have to be rich, and these are tough times. But
if we really want something, if we really need something,
we get it. That's why we become harder and harder
to shop for. That's how we end up with just underwear.
What do I get a guy that has everything, Well,
everybody needs another pair of underwear. But kids, they have
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no currency, they have no earnings. They have no way.
They can just hope, they can just ask, they can
just wish. Someone else has to make it happen. That's
what makes the magic of Christmas. So if you're in
that cycle, I can tell you your greatest memories are
going to be your childhood and your kid's childhood, and
if you're caught somewhere in between, you have to look
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forward to grandchildren. That's why Christmas is magic. Well, kids, you,
my older kids, we maybe be able to buy anything
we want for ourselves, but there's one thing we still
can't afford, we still couldn't pay the price for. And
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not just eternal reconciliation with God, but look around you.
Look at everything else He's given you since my spouse,
my children, maybe your grandchildren, our friends, this morning show
what we celebrate together around the kitchen table, our homes,
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our careers are very gifting. You know, you didn't need
to go to a manger two thousand years ago to
find the Christ Child. And while any pastor can tell you,
I hope he's as near to your heart as your heart,
look around you too. He didn't give once, He just
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kept giving. Getting back to the first part of the story,
for God so loved the world he gave his only
begotten son. Don't forget your heavenly Father at Easter or Christmas.
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Don't forget the gifts that were so precious to you.
And you know what I'm talking about, those of you
who are once of strong faith, but life is in
the Enemy has beat you down, betrayal, by disappointment, by
tragic loss, and maybe that greatest gift you ever got
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has left your heart and been placed in a box
in the attic of your mind. Wipe the dust off,
because there's no reason why Christmas Night next week can't
be as divine as the very first. By the way,
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what does divine mean relating to or coming from God?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Or God?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Isn't that the whole story of the Holy Night? Number
two on our list of top ten Christmas stories and songs.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Oh not, the stars are ride shot. It is not
a hardy. All the world insane.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And report.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
To keep.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
And so south.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
The weird reworld rechoiceness before yonder.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
One new one called small the name of say do
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one class Ohn de.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Change shall play.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
For the slaves are Ba dun Dames name on the
fresh sh see sweet.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
Name in gray come spray sweet.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Not Gray's O name.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Stands the Lord there No.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
N oh nice, no.
Speaker 15 (31:11):
No no.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Oh nic.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
I don't know how long I've been doing the Top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs Holiday Spectacular. I think it's
been going on over twelve years. It used to be
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Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
All right, I gotta go quickly here it's fifty four
minutes after the hour. We've been counting down my top
ten Christmas stories and songs our gift to you, and
really trying to get our hearts and minds already for
the holiday season. I became a devout Christian, and I
think it was about nineteen seventy eight seventy nine, and
then about four four years later, contemporary Christian music really
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took off and Amy Grant became everyone's first love. And
it may be odd, and I don't think my kids
relate to it, but it may be my all time
favorite song. I mean this is even when I was
living in New Orleans, later Oklahoma City, d C, Virginia Beach, Tulsa.
Didn't matter where I lived, this was always my favorite
Christmas song. And then I ended up moving to, of
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all places, Tennessee. I'm very dear friends with a guy
you're gonna hear singing in the background, Gary Chapman, and
I've gotten to know Amy Graham. Isn't life fun with
all these crazy twists? As I get to celebrate my
nineteenth tender Tennessee Christmas, I want to take this opportunity
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from our home to yours, from Tennessee to wherever you are.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Merry Christmas, Amy Grant.
Speaker 11 (35:11):
Cother Man, give us save forecast, No we Why can't.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You hear the love?
Speaker 10 (35:25):
The every child like cant to night.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
Rockies are calling for someboll.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
And somebody said it's all, but.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
It doesn't matter. Give me the laughter.
Speaker 12 (35:48):
I'm gonna chose.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
To keep.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Another jil turn to see chrisswath msba were the love
sircs around.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Like the gift surround the archie. Well, I know there's
up and call by way.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
We're not going to have a tender white Christmas at all.
It's going to be raining in the seventies here, but
maybe you guys will look out and get one. I
want to end the show if I can with one
of us from around the kitchen table. You're the gift
I'm most grateful for, and I'll see you in the
new year. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Rachel sing us out of this thing. This is Rachel
from White House, Tennessee.
Speaker 16 (36:42):
My morning show is your Morning Show.
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With Michael Show.
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May your days be Mary and bra bye, and may
all your Christmases be wid.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Isn't it appropriate it's your morning show. We give you
the final say blessed, peaceful, wonderful, Merry Christmas. See in
the new year. This is your morning Show.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well two three starting your morning off right.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
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Speaker 4 (00:49):
Born in Michael, Jeffrey and Red and Merry Christmas to
All Little Drummer Boy by Bob Seeker, Best version hands down,
That deep voice of Bob Seeger with the sex by
alto Read.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It is classy. The love life Seeger.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
That'll be a bucket list. Regret that I didn't see
him before he retired. Thank you both, Jeff, Jeff, that's
a line of the year. Maybe you captured our little
kitchen table spirit. Kathy also wrote, thank you, Michael. Both
of my parents are gone and my in laws too.
God is good and his grace and mercy is what
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she clings to. You know, I will tell you this statistically,
it's in my face, but there's just something in my soul.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I know that next Christmas is going to be a
really bad one for me.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You know, all we can really do when we're dealing
when loss and grief collides with Christmas. Man, go have
your moment with God and be honest. He knows right
where you're at. You know, thank Him for these people
and what they meant in your life. Cry miss them.
Then the best you can. I'll let you know I'm
probably not gonna do much better, but try not to
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as much as you can. Have it ruined the entire holiday,
let alone an entire day. There's just too many people
around us that still need us. But Christmas is very
tough when you're dealing with loss. Johnny Mathis was number
ten on our list of top ten Christmas Stories and Songs,
and it was an ode to holiday decorating and all
the people that make our streets and homes look and
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feel like Christmas. Our ode to Christmas movies we stopped
at Love. Actually there were many great movies, but there's
that last scene with God only Knows by the Beach Boys.
At number nine, Kenny Loggins for all of you that
will travel, get stuck in airport, so whatever happens. Our
ode to Christmas travelers would celebrate me home. At number
seven was Harry Connick Juniors, please come home for Christmas.
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Kind of my ode to the sounds and the smells
of Christmas in Nolens. Yeah, never had a white Christmas,
but boy, New Orleans does Christmas well. Carpenters were at
number six, and that's the ode to the empty chair.
There's probably someone who won't be there, and you'll wish
they were and you'll miss them. We say Merry Christmas,
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Darling at number five, maybe because we completely forget Joseph
in some cases over Honor Mary and other Protestant cases.
Under Honor Mary, we paid tribute to Mary and Joseph's
faith before sight and one of the most magical songs
and written by a comedian, Mary did you Know? At
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number four was Whitney Houston would do you hear what
I Hear? And we talked about how different the night
must have been, and not just the fact that they
didn't have lights and the stars must have been bright.
But there were no Christmas commercials, There were no months
of planning and decorations and trees, and throughout the world
there were only three wise men who were watching and waiting.
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The rest. They weren't hearing, and they weren't anticipate. Are
we any better today? Do you hear what I hear?
Whitney Houston at number three was our ode to those
who are gone and addressing grief in the holidays with
Frank sinatras, have yourself a merry little Christmas. There is
no Mary Wish. There is just permission to grieve and
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know that in that child arriving we have hope we'll
see him again. Where will we go? At number two
and number one on our list of top ten Christmas
stories and songs, we'll find out shortly. And as you know,
there's no way to have a Christmas party without inviting
the president.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Santa Drong Room right down, Santa Drum play It's Friday
with forty seven good morning, mister president.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, good morning to you. I have to say, you know,
we're doing very well right now. We have a tremendously
hot country, be very hot country. The country's hotter than
your ratings, and maybe not on Fridays, but your country
is out of an your rating. So we have something
a lot to be very proud of. I have to
say that we're winning big league.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let's talk about your speech.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I don't think i've ever seen you keep it to
twenty minutes or under. And it was filled with energy
for those that think you lack energy, and I don't know,
portions of it were fireside chatty, and then portions of
it were stated the Union kye.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How did you think it went and what was the intent?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, I think it went very well, you know, I think.
And I got along very well with Abe Lincoln a
long time ago. I think Gettysburg address was very short.
It wasn't a long speech, right, So I got along
well with him and we wrote that together. He said,
I don't know how that we're going to start it.
I said, hey, four score and seven years. He said, sir,
that is brilliant. Sir, where did you come up with it?
(05:46):
I said, I'm a tremendous writer. I knew William Shakespeare
very well too. I called him Bill. He's a tremendous guy.
But we wrote so many beautiful things together, so we
kept it short, we kept it. It was very powerful,
it was very strong. We think it was inspiring and
nobody could have done a bit of job. I have
to say that. But it was a tremendous speech and
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we highlighted the failures of the crooked Joe. Remember crooked
Joe in the order, I.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Don't, we don't remember. I repressed them. You don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're worsted Crooked Joe. With the memory you have to.
But the speech was great, and we're very happy with
where our country is going.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I think there's no arguing that you have secured the border.
The classic line of the year was it turns out
you didn't need legislation, just needed a new president. And
I mean closed the Spicott down to zero and it
has stated zero. It's solved. An economy doesn't solve that quick.
When you inherit a mess, it takes a long time
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to fix it. Are the American people's expectations fair well?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think their expectations are fair they want to fix
and it's going to be fixed, but you have to
give it a little bit of time. But you look
at the border and you say, you talk about the border,
and there were a lot of we call them bad
ombres that came across the border. But we have Homan
I call him the Hominator. He's a tremendous guy and
he shut the border down. You know, he's a real
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borders are I remember we had a faith borders are?
How fake? Discussing corrupt borders are in the cackling communists
known as Kamala, Remember that she said, I've never been
to the border, and that's because she thinks the border.
You know, you look at borders, she thinks that's a bookstore.
And we know she doesn't do that a lot. You know,
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she doesn't read. You know, she says she wrote her books.
He read the book, but she took the border was
a bookstore. She says, I've never been. But we have
a real borders are. We shut the border down, and
the economy is gonna roar. It's gonna roar like the
biggest lion in the history of the world. You look
at the lion, the king of the jungle, and I've
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been known to be king of many things, the pirate king,
the King of the jungle, the king of the galaxy.
I got a lot very well with Darth Vader and
have Brimber at Palpacine. These are great people.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Did you know what Darth bar looked like under the mask?
I mean you knew him.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I knew what he looked like. And I pulled him
Bobby under the lisk. I said, you know, he took
the voice away. He would have sounded like Bobby. A
lot of people said, what the hell is that? I
knew that was Anaki, a nice guy, but he had
a hard time. But you know, you look at so
many different things that we've done so well in our country,
prescription drugs, the border, tariffs. We love our tarifs. And
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we had no hurricanes because of tariffs because I told
Mother Nature, if you send a hurricane into a country,
we're gonna aid you with tariffs. And she said, sir,
we're not going to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Continuing with Friday, with forty seven, it was really a
nice fireside chatty kind of a feel. May have to
become a new tradition for you. The speech behind us. Now,
let's press out towards Christmas. Do you have a naughty
or nice list?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, we're looking at it, and we have a very
long list on both sides, with a very long list.
You look at Mark, he's on the naughty list. You
look at low I Q A O. C. She's on
the noughty list. We're giving a call. We're giving her
call because she hates call. You know, the Democrats don't
let call. But I love big, beautiful, clean call. So
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if they don't want to, we'll take it. Uh, Jasmine Crocketts,
she's on the naughty list. I called her many names
that are not very nice. We're not going to say
that is on the naughty list. We also called him
a lot of not nice names, which we're not gonna say.
But on the nice list, we have Marco Rubio who's
got a big beautiful stocking, Little Marco to big big
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Marco Boppy, he's on the nice list.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
List.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Unlet's know, you just went to the naughty list now,
because that's the problem on the nord you want do
you want a nice thing? What do you want?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're going to be on the nice list. Excuse me,
excuse me. I got along very well with Santa. I
still get along very well with Santa, and we have
a tremendous relationship. And he heard a rumor that we
were sending ice to the north fall. I said, Santa,
you have too much ice already.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But you're elves.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What are we looking at? He said, They're all legal,
We have them. They're all perfect people. Not even these
are people. They're all perfect people. And we took a
look at it. We we took a look at it,
and they're doing a great job, making so many beautiful things.
We took a look at it. Highly respect and they're
tremendous elves, highly highly respected. You look at Rudolph too,
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and you have Democrats who
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are trying to turn Rudolph's nose blue at three in
the morning with mail. Can you believe that we're not
going to let it happen? Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeers
are tremendous. Rudoff All right, I want to finish.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I want to finish with this.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
There's a poll out that says, uh, seventy two percent
of us are not finished doing our Christmas shopping yet.
But even worse, sixty percent of us haven't even begun.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's me.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Have you shopped for Malanya yet? And is it hard
for a president to shop? I mean, do you have
access to your wallet?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, I I just told Yega looked very well with Santa,
so we will talk to him and we'll put it
in order and we're going to have it done very quickly.
But we did our shopping. Shopping is done. And frankly,
one of the greatest gifts we could give our country
is that I'm the president. It's a Christmas gift for
the entire nation. Malania is very happy about it. And
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I bought her a new outfit so she could look
like Carmen san Diego again. Remember that at a augeneration
she looked like, where in the world is Carmen san
Diego she is? She almost blew away with that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Heck, she.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Looked like Carmen san Diego, who I got along well
with also, And we found Carmen san Diego sooner than
the very nasty people, and I would probably say stupid
people in Rhode Island. They can't find the person with
just very bad We found Carvin san Diego, so look
at it. We love Malania. She does a tremendous job,
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and we have a Christmas gift for her and a
Christmas gift for the whole country. You have a new
president and a great president.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Mister President, any message for our listeners as you leave
on this Christmas Well.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I want to say to all of you, your great people,
the ratings are tremendous. You're all fantastic. And remember that
we have a huge election in twenty twenty six, so
get out and vote and let's continue to make America
great again.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
There you have it, out of the Chief, Merry Christmas
to the President, and Merry Christmas to you all and them,
Happy New Year and good night. Oh my gosh, you
know out of all legal elves, very highly respected legal elves.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That's good to know. With Santa Listen.
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This is your morning show with Michael Deltruno're just waking up.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The hunt ended Thursday night in New Hampshire in a
warehouse for the suspect of the Brown University killing. Turned
out to be that killing and the professor at MIT
were linked, and the same killer was found dead of
a gunshot wound.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Jennifer POLSONI has more.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
The suspected Brown University shooter have found dead from a
self inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage facility in Salem,
New Hampshire. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez, who's.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
A Brown student, who's a Portuguese national, and he's the
last name.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Noan Andrews was in Miami.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Florida, and I will tell you that he took his
own life tonight.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
The aspect found dead with a satchel and two firearms
in his car, had evidence that matched the scene in
Providence where two people were killed nine others injured in
the university shooting that took place Saturday. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
I'm Jennifer Bulsony.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I mean follow the bouncing ball on this a Portuguese
national from Miami in Providence, followed by a homeless person
who was living presumably what in the basement at the university.
I mean no cameras. I mean we live in a
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pretty dangerous time. You have to harden these targets. Our
only clues came from ring cameras and people's phones and
a homeless guy following him, and it all ends in
a warehouse in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Pretty bizarre stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It shines one light on losing track of people in
our immigration system, which leads to our second top story.
The Milwaukee judge accused of helping a defendant tried to
evade arrest by ice inside her courthouse. She was found
guilty of felony obstruction.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
The incident involving Milwaukee County Judjehannah Dugan, took place at
the county courthouse last April, and a grandeury indicted Dugan
in the following month. Dugan was criticized by President Trump
around the turn of the incident.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
She could face up to six years in prison.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
By Mark Mayfield and the President's waging a war on drugs,
blowing up boats in the water but also easing marijuana restrictions.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
He signed an executive order switching the drug from a
Schedule one to a Schedule three, reclassifying it as less dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Does it legalize marijuana in any way, shape or form.
In no way sanctions its used as a recreational drug.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Instead.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Trump said it will help many of the Americans dealing
with extreme pain and other serious medical conditions. Marijuana has
been in the same category as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm Lisa Carton, I'm just a jelly Roll. I love
this guy.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Granted a full Parton for his past crimes in Tennessee,
and Governor Bill Lee announced pardons to thirty three people,
including the country music star Jelly Roll. He was convicted
of robbery as a teenager in possession while intent to
sell cocaine while on parole in two thousand and five.
They called jelly Rolls turnaround story remarkable, redemptive, and powerful,
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and said he was evident and deserving of a part.
And that's your top five stories of the day.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Lisa Cory, the yard Boy, and my morning show is
your Morning Show with my buddy Michael Del Giorno.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Hi, it's me Michael, Your Morning show can be heard
live daily on great radio stations like News Radio six
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live every day and make us a part of your
morning routine, but better late than never. Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Good morning, Michael, Mary, Christmas From Michael from eleven in Ohio.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
It's I I had to tell you Andy Williams was
always one of my favorites. What a gorgeous voice. It
is the most wonderful time of the year. And from
all of us to all of you, the family at
the kitchen table, we love so much.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Merry Christmas, and.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is it for us this half hour, and then
we'll see you in the new Year. But I have
got some great news. Filling in for you will be
best of me, which is better than the average me
we don't have. You're going to get to know Kelly Nash,
who I have handpicked to be a fill in along
with Chris Kroc to get you through the two weeks
of Christmas and New Year's.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Got this email from Jerry.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It says, hey, Michael, Merry Christmas, Jerry from t Talsa.
Has it actually been a year since you've been nationwide?
Some of this has taken me back to the old
days at KFAQ and Tulsa. Thank you again for the memories, Jerry,
Merry Christmas. Well, we began kind of national a little
over two years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Nashville,
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and then over the course of that year it just
kind of grew to thirty three. Then it's been thirteen
months ago. We became a Premiere Network show to precede
glennen Beck and be affiliated with Clay and Buck and
Sean Hannity and the great lineup and the great folks
at Premiere, and we've grown to one hundred and seven stations.
This kitchen table's gotten big. The boy at stayed intimate, intimate,
(19:43):
and we love all of you and wish all of
you at Merry Christmas. All Right, we're counting down my
top ten Christmas stories and songs, and we're at number two.
This happens at Christmas, at Easter, just like Christmas. Sometimes
I wonder if we forget our heavenly Father and his
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role and place in all of this. So number two
is kind of my ode to my heavenly Father on
a most holy holiday, divine, supernatural night. Know, as we
were just talking about our relationship with each other through
the intimacy of radio. It is kind of a mystery, right,
(20:30):
We're all so clothes though we've never met. Now we
may take care of that before next Christmas. Some of
you want to have a Christmas party here in Nashville.
We're taking it very seriously. But think of how close
we are, and in virtually every case we've never met.
It's really a powerful and beautiful thing. I find myself
(20:50):
wondering what will Christmas be like for you? Will it
be white? Will it be cold? Will it be dysfunctional?
Will it be boring? Oh please God, no, not lonely?
Will the focus be on christ or will it just
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be about family, presence, travel, food, football? I'll never forget Christmas.
And my girls were five, I think they were five
and Nick was four. We showed them the movie Gremlins.
They loved it. They became obsessed with it. And what
we never saw coming was that that Christmas all they
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would want for Christmas was gremlin dolls, all three of them. Now,
that probably wasn't hard to find in the eighties, but
thirty years later, in twenty ten, I had discour the
world and I did find three. I paid a crazy
collector's price for each of them, but oh their faces
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when they opened him. They loved, they cherished them. There
was one picture we took. Andrew thought it was a picture,
was actually videoing, and it was all three of them
with their little maguais singing, giz Most singing, and them
smiling and singing along. And then Andrew thinks it's a
picture and she comes up smiling. You know, I don't
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know if you get these visions as you're dying, but
if you do, I hope that's mine. Maybe the greatest
moment of my life. And how they loved and cherished
him long after, I mean took him everywhere. Flash forward
a few years and we're moving a house that didn't
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want to empty but eventually was completely empty, and I
making one last walkthrough and that's when I realized the addict.
We forgot the attic. Oh my gosh, what if it's full.
So I pulled down the creaky ladder and I start
climbing up. When I got up there there was just
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one box, and I got to tell you, like right
out of a movie, covered in dust and webs, and
I'm waving them to see what's in this box, waving
them aside.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It looked like junk.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
When I moved some things around and got to the bottom,
out of the dust and ashes, was one of those
gremlin dolls. Something so precious, so valuable, tossed and lost
in a junk box and an attic. That's the cruelty
(23:43):
of time. That's the temporary nature of earthly material things.
We celebrate the sun, the reuniting with the Father, and
a pathway to eternity. It's the greatest gift and one
(24:04):
we could never afford is one and only son, and
we celebrate this by giving gifts.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
This is why Christmas is so magical for kids.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I'm not bragging, and you're not bragging, and we don't
have to be rich, and these are tough times. But
if we really want something, if we really need something,
we get it. That's why we become harder and harder
to shop for. That's how we end up with just underwear.
What do I get a guy that has everything, Well,
everybody needs another pair of underwear. But kids, they have
(24:39):
no currency, they have no earnings. They have no way.
They can just hope, they can just ask, they can
just wish. Someone else has to make it happen. That's
what makes the magic of Christmas. So if you're in
that cycle, I can tell you your greatest memories are
going to be your childhood and your kid's childhood, and
if you're caught somewhere in between, you have to look
(25:00):
forward to grandchildren. That's why Christmas is magic. Well, kids, you,
my older kids, we maybe be able to buy anything
we want for ourselves, but there's one thing we still
can't afford, we still couldn't pay the price for. And
(25:26):
not just eternal reconciliation with God, but look around you.
Look at everything else He's given you since my spouse,
my children, maybe your grandchildren, our friends, this morning show
what we celebrate together around the kitchen table, our homes,
(25:50):
our careers are very gifting. You know, you didn't need
to go to a manger two thousand years ago to
find the Christ Child. And while any pastor can tell you,
I hope he's as near to your heart as your heart,
look around you too. He didn't give once, He just
(26:13):
kept giving. Getting back to the first part of the story,
for God so loved the world he gave his only
begotten son. Don't forget your heavenly Father at Easter or Christmas.
(26:34):
Don't forget the gifts that were so precious to you.
And you know what I'm talking about, those of you
who are once of strong faith, but life is in
the Enemy has beat you down, betrayal, by disappointment, by
tragic loss, and maybe that greatest gift you ever got
(26:59):
has left your heart and been placed in a box
in the attic of your mind. Wipe the dust off,
because there's no reason why Christmas Night next week can't
be as divine as the very first. By the way,
(27:23):
what does divine mean relating to or coming from God?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Or God?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Isn't that the whole story of the Holy Night? Number
two on our list of top ten Christmas stories and songs.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Oh not, the stars are ride shot. It is not
a hardy. All the world insane.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And report.
Speaker 11 (28:08):
To keep.
Speaker 12 (28:12):
And so south.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
The weird reworld rechoiceness before yonder.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
One new one called small the name of say do
(29:08):
one class Ohn de.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Change shall play.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
For the slaves are Ba dun Dames name on the
fresh sh see sweet.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
Name in gray come spray sweet.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Not Gray's O name.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
Stands the Lord there No.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
N oh nice, no.
Speaker 15 (31:11):
No no.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Oh nic.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
I don't know how long I've been doing the Top
ten Christmas Stories and Songs Holiday Spectacular. I think it's
been going on over twelve years. It used to be
Andy Williams's version. But that's how much I favor my
sister in law, Michelle Klar and Broken Aaro, Oklahoma, got
to use the man she's obsessed with. Josh Grobin at
number two on our list with Oh holy night, our
(32:10):
ode to our heavenly Father on a most holy holiday, divine,
supernatural night, Oh night, divine. Who might be at number
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Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's your morning show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
All right, I gotta go quickly here it's fifty four
minutes after the hour. We've been counting down my top
ten Christmas stories and songs our gift to you, and
really trying to get our hearts and minds already for
the holiday season. I became a devout Christian, and I
think it was about nineteen seventy eight seventy nine, and
then about four four years later, contemporary Christian music really
(34:03):
took off and Amy Grant became everyone's first love. And
it may be odd, and I don't think my kids
relate to it, but it may be my all time
favorite song. I mean this is even when I was
living in New Orleans, later Oklahoma City, d C, Virginia Beach, Tulsa.
Didn't matter where I lived, this was always my favorite
Christmas song. And then I ended up moving to, of
(34:28):
all places, Tennessee. I'm very dear friends with a guy
you're gonna hear singing in the background, Gary Chapman, and
I've gotten to know Amy Graham. Isn't life fun with
all these crazy twists? As I get to celebrate my
nineteenth tender Tennessee Christmas, I want to take this opportunity
(34:52):
from our home to yours, from Tennessee to wherever you are.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Merry Christmas, Amy Grant.
Speaker 11 (35:11):
Cother Man, give us save forecast, No we Why can't.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You hear the love?
Speaker 10 (35:25):
The every child like cant to night.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
Rockies are calling for someboll.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
And somebody said it's all, but.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
It doesn't matter. Give me the laughter.
Speaker 12 (35:48):
I'm gonna chose.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
To keep.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Another jil turn to see chrisswath msba were the love
sircs around.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Like the gift surround the archie. Well, I know there's
up and call by way.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
We're not going to have a tender white Christmas at all.
It's going to be raining in the seventies here, but
maybe you guys will look out and get one. I
want to end the show if I can with one
of us from around the kitchen table. You're the gift
I'm most grateful for, and I'll see you in the
new year. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Rachel sing us out of this thing. This is Rachel
from White House, Tennessee.
Speaker 16 (36:42):
My morning show is your Morning Show.
Speaker 12 (36:48):
With Michael Show.
Speaker 16 (36:54):
May your days be Mary and bra bye, and may
all your Christmases be wid.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Isn't it appropriate it's your morning show. We give you
the final say blessed, peaceful, wonderful, Merry Christmas. See in
the new year. This is your morning Show.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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