December 20, 2024 • 31 mins
Does Trump have a lump of coal for Congress trying to pass debt on to him?? We will ask and get a Christmas wish from him…it’s one last Friday with 47 elect!
In today’s politically correct culture, how might the Christmas story be told?? You’ll hear, it’s our annual presentation of “A PC Christmas!”
Our top ten Christmas stories and songs countdown finally arrives at number one!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Three starting your morning off right here we go, a
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This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Charman.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Wouldn't want to do this morning show one morning, let
alone all year or into the holidays without that voice,
Mike McCann. Merry Christmas to you, enjoys seven minutes after
the hour. Good morning and Merry Christmas to you. Welcome
to Friday, December the twentieth at Michael d at iHeartMedia
dot Com. Michael, the Ohio University Bobcats are taking on
the Jacksonville State game Cocks. It's the Cure Bold Today
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at noon IOW on the MAC this year for the
first time since nineteen eighty six. Well congratulations. The Democrats
and their media family have made Musk out to be
the catalyst for the CR failure. Wrong. I and concerned
citizens like me have been begging our US representatives to
end the continuing resolutions and give the US Congress a
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budget long before Elon Musk gave us X. Give us
an annual Well, that's the ultimate solution. Nobody's even even
discussing that yet, Give us an annual balanced budget. Have
a blessed and merry Christmas to you too, Bill, and
thank you for listening to your morning show. Rick wrote,
didn't Rush didn't Rush always tease about the union thug mofucker? Well, Rush,
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of course was at WABC in New York after he
was at KFBK and Sacramento. I believe there was a
union in New York City. There's no union where we live.
But unfortunately there must be Starbucks union because the workers
are on strike in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Get
your own coffee. Biden hasn't been running the White House.
In fact, even the Wall Street Journal's finally coming clean.
(02:10):
He's been seen now since he started running for president.
Now he's off to see the Pope one last time.
I wonder if life will come up in that discussion.
George's Court of Appeals Thursday disqualified Fanny willis yea route,
though it'll probably be appealed. But where does the entire
case stand? And the House is rejecting latest bedding bill
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to avert a government shutdown, will there be a crisis?
Come midnight, busy hour for us. We're going to have
our number one Christmas story and song to wrap up
our final show of the year, our presentation of a
PC Christmas. I mean, in today's political correctness, how can
you tell the Christmas story you'll hear in our annual
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presentation of a PC Christmas. DZ stops by to tell
you about our Christmas present to you on Christmas even,
Christmas Day morning and Friday, with forty seven elect just
moments away. First one quick vote from the voice from
the talkback line. We go to I Believe Sacramento, Roger.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Morning, Michael. Being here on the West coast. Three am
comes pretty early. My alarm is set for six, but
I let my body clock wake me up to play
deljorno Roulette. So whenever oake up, turn on your show.
Today was three nine am. So there's something I must
have needed here live, great show, great edition to kste
probably best showing about two decades. And I want to
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wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and
we'll see you next year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh that's better than any president. I'm going to get.
Thank you very Christmas to you and your family. I
know exactly what we were talking about at three oh
five here time, and I'm glad you got to hear it.
All right, suffer not by President elect done today. Oh
my gosh, I'm sure he's where Joe Biden's going to
see the Pope. I think I know where this discussion's headed.
Hell to the chiefs, mister President. Good morning, Well.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It is a great morning to you. I just got
off the phone with you. May know him very well.
I know him very well. Santa Claus, great guy. You
know he called me. He called me. He says, Sir,
how am I going to deliver the presence if there's
a government shut down?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I said, we're not funding.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You said, you're not being We don't tell you, right,
he said, but crook, And Joe Biden said he was
going to I said, no, we're not going to do that. Santa.
We give you milk we give you cookies, and if
you don't behave, we'll feed it to Chris Christy and said,
he said, sir, please don't take away my Milton. Cookies
will deliver the presence. I said, as long as.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You give Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Everybody in Congress is getting cold.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I have to tell you that if there was ever
a Mommy that Santa wanted to kiss, I'll bet it's
coming down your chimney.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, you know that we have a fantastic relationship with
Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And I could also tell you that the drones they're
seeing in New Jersey might be Santa. So we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What do you make of that whole mystery? So we're
never going to know. The White House, Hey, nothing means
you any harm, there's nothing here to see. Then Congress
gets briefed by NSA Ziab you know, well it's classified.
So yeah. Then the Congress comes out and says, oh,
it's nothing to be worried about, but it's classified. We
can't tell you. You said, of course the government knew
all along. Well, they know what they are.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Even though the government is full of stupid people.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
They know what they are.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
And they're not a threat.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I can tell you that it's a lot of stupid
things that are happening in the sky flying around. And
the best way to do it. We talked about it.
It's the greatest plan. You could do it one of
two ways. Both of them include Chris Christie. Right, if
you've ever seen the movie star Wars, Obi Wan, who
I happen to know very well, I called him Ben right, Ben,
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he was our only hope. Right, you look at Princess Leah.
She says, help me, Obi Wan, You're our only hope.
But she meant to say help me Donald Trump, You're
my only hope. But you know you look at it.
He says, that's no moon, it's the space station.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
We have attractivey.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Chris Christy has the same type of pull. You could
pump them full of helium and he could catch the
drones in his orbit. It would be very easy. Or
he could eat them. Both ways.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We could use him for good no Country instead of bed.
But we could fix those problems. But now we have
another problem. In Congress.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
They walk down pass the budget. But we have to
balance the budget, right, We have to balance it right
now it's lopsided because The Democrats want to put more
pork than anybody's ever seen before. More pork? Can you
find a the view?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You look at the view. It's a horrible place. We
will let the zoo by the.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Way, but you look at you look at it.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
This budget is a disgrace. But we're going to fix it, right,
or we're going to shut.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
The government down until Danny comes home.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We'll see what happened. President elect forty seven with us
for our annual and final Friday with forty five before
he becomes forty seven. All right, So Joe Biden leaves
office with an approval rating of thirty four second lowest
in presidential history. You are sitting at an approval rating
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of fifty three percent. There's change coming and America seems
to be behind it and embracing it. And now the
bombshell from the Wall Street Journal something you experienced firsthand.
Joe Biden has been cognitively impaired from the beginning, begs
the question, who's been running the country?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, what a surprise, you know, when you have a
guy like Crook and Joe Biden and you talk about
he's going to the pope and we know exactly what's
going on there?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Operation You know we.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Had Operation to zero, right, now we have it's called
Operation Well, I want to tell you something, right, you
had Operation to zero. Now he's going to the Pope again.
It's called Operation Charleston Jew. It's a horrible thing, right,
you know, you look at it. Thinks you are getting
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worse Operation excuse me, Operation Lincoln Line. You know what
I'm talking about, right, but you look get it? Okay?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
They say Crooked Joe's cognitively impaired. Now they say, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Pizza boy. One second, they said, Crooked.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Joe is cognitively impaired.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Okay, and you see what happened. He may not make it.
You hear this, folks, he may not make it. We
knew that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
We knew that Crooked Joe was cognitively impaired.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
He talked about his hairy legs.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Right, who does that?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I would never do that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
He does that. He's sniffing children, he's.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Fighting corn pop, he's biting kids' feet. What the hell
is wrong with this guy? And by the way, did
you know we finally beat medicare right, we finally beat it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Moment, so I am literally sweating. Don't do that to me,
all right, but you may claims sometimes and I google them.
Not that I don't trust what you say, but I
just gee, I hadn't heard that that the President may have,
you know, had an accident the last time he was
with the Pope, And then when I googled it, it
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was like a real store. Sorry, and the Vatican itself
would not confirm nor deny. So sometimes you go on
these rants and people think, you know, you're just being funny,
but that really happened. And this time it's going to
go from TUTSI roll to opera.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Charleston Chew linked log right, you look at it, right,
We talked about it. If he didn't do it, the
Vatican would say he didn't do it, right, They're not
allowed to lie.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
These are people who are supposed to be very nice
and very honest.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
If he didn't do it, they would say he didn't
do it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
So by not denying it, what does that mean? Deductive reasoning?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Crooked Joe, Crooked Jose Kaka.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
And Freende Delapa, we know that for.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A fact, right, all right?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Closing closing moments with our Friday with forty five. You know,
if this had been a movie, we'd say this is
too ridiculous. I'm so ready for this to be over
and ready for a new direction for our country. What
is your Christmas wish for all Americans listening? And give
us a message of hope for the next four years.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, as I mentioned, I got to look very well
with Santa Claus right, and we're very excited about twenty
twenty five, not Project twenty twenty five, although those people
think it's a horrible thing. And I'll tell you what.
If you think Project twenty twenty five is bad, wait
until you see Project twenty twenty six. It's a noosey.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I can tell you that it's some beauty.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Let me tell you something that's going to make people
go crazy. By the way, but we're going to have
the greatest country once again.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
We're going to be respected, we're going to be safe.
We're going to have beautiful borders, a beautiful wall.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We have Tom Holman.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
He's going to clean things up.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
He's going to get things so clean. All the bad
ombres are going to get the hell out right, We're
going to get them the hell out.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And we're going to have a beautiful country. We're going
to get the greatest Christmas gift of all is making
America great again. So I want everybody to have a
merry Christmas, which we by the way, we say again
a happy new Year. And we are going to not
just take our country back, we are going to make
it so great.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Everybody's going to be so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Merry Christmas to you, the first Lady, and to all
the children. Thank you for every weekly visit. And this
year that you've been through ends with you alive and
well and prepared to take the oath of office. I
look forward to talking to you in the new year.
Merry Christmas, mister President.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
God bless you Pizza boy. The ratings are through the roof.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
And we will see you next year. That much I
can tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
We have a Christmas present for you the listeners on
Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day. We'll tell you all
about it when your morning show continues next eighteen after
the hour.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
From the Julie Talbot microphone of the Chris Berry Studios
in the Bill May broadcasting. This is your Morning Show.
Mery Christmas. Twenty four minutes after the hour, still to
come our PC Christmas story. How would you tell the
Christmas story today? Politically correct? You'll find out next half hour.
And we've been counting down on our top ten Christmas
stories and songs, and we're all the way to number one.
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Before we say goodbye for the year, there's a liner
Mike mccannon, the smart Alec, you know, basically saying we
have a Christmas present for you. We're taking two weeks off,
but boy, do we have a Christmas gift for you.
On Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day morning and it's
Christmas in America. David's an Audi and his team at
the Public Square with some of the finest musicians this year.
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David did the old raise your hand if you have
or been a part of a Grammy and you know
how many they all had. These are the best musicians,
best singers, some of the best old fashioned radio storytelling.
As we look for the Manger in the middle of
the Depression nineteen twenty eight and nineteen seventy three, David,
good morning, good When did your first When did you
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first get I don't even if I've asked you this
the idea of doing Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Two thousand and nine at a meeting actually in Franklin, Tennessee.
And what we were trying to figure out is how
do we integrate the message of conservative thought and how
it comes out of the Declaration and the Constitution and
the worldview of the founding with the modern society.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Big, big question, a collegiate type question. And we came
out with three words.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We actually came out with a whole list of things,
but at the very top was three words.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Start with Christmas. Now we didn't even understand what that meant.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Then we started into a really research project on how
did Christmas impact the founding of our country? And what
we discovered was the whole idea of God coming to
earth impacted the worldview that created the Declaration of Independence.
So I thought, okay, so maybe Christmas is still our
medium of exchange, the place where we think together about
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why we do what we do, and call it America.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So we said, okay, Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's I mean, we stumbled along at that primitive idea,
the idea that then doing a right day.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
David, can I interrupt? Can I interrupt and say something?
I think you're still stumping along. I don't even think
we still get what God plans to do with this
every year, and then it became a joke because every
year I would go, oh, my gosh, that's my favorite ever. Well,
by the fifth year of me going oh my God,
that's my favorite ever, I started to realize there's a
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life to this, and there's a drum beat to this,
and it's getting louder and louder. I think of the
George Washington one nineteen twenty eight that we're going to
present on Christmas Eve morning probably is still my favorite,
only because it's the greatest oh wow moment that we're
at our best when things are worse, and when things
are worse, God is the most active, most busy in
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creating the greatest generation. The greatest you had to have
the depression to have the generation that would free the world.
And then nineteen seventy three, this year, well, nineteen seventy three,
this year may be for the artists themselves and the
music and the voices. It went to a whole new level.
But I still don't think we have a grasp of
where God's going with Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, our musical director called me to the day and said,
I think I figured this out.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
These are all capsules.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
These shows are going to play forty years from now
and be as valid as they relate day. So what
I'm excited about is that you have decided that to
let your morning show be the home on Christmas Day
and the day after Christmas for Christmas in America.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's pretty exciting past. Yeah, and again, you can go
to the public Square dot com and all fourteen years
are there, and I welcome you to take that journey.
Nothing will get your focus and your hope and the
sounds and the smells and the feels old fashioned radio Christmas.
I mean, it's just great to have it on the background,
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and you'll love all of them and all the stories
we have. Like a minute and a half if I
said in one sentence, because life is best understood looking back,
but unfortunately must be lived looking forward. Finding the major
in any of these given years is the goal is achieved.
Yet I don't know that we find the major in
the very year we're living, but hopefully it helps them.
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Nineteen twenty eight, I'd boil that one down to you
had to have the depression to create the generation that
will liberate the world. That was the oh wow moment.
What about nineteen seventy three, How would you summarize that?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I think nineteen seventy three is a little bit of
a difficult message, Michael. So it's hard to get into
one sentence because it's almost a warning message because we
talk about the whole Christmas story that ends with Jesus
fleeing to Egypt, and so it's sort of like, watch
out what you wish for as a culture.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I told that story in my stories that Mary and
Joseph because of Patrothal in that day, their life was
in danger. Thanks to Herod. Christ's life was in danger.
Thanks to nineteen seventy three, the unborn had been in
danger for decades. David Zanati, presenter of Christmas in America.
Our gift to you Christmas Eve Morning and Christmas Day Morning.
Thank you for allowing us to aer it. It is
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going to be one of the best presents under their tree.
God bless you, and we'll see in the new year.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
This is James from Greenwood's Outcareja and my morning show
is your Morning Show with Michael Dojorno.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning Show can be heard live
on great radio stations across the Country at Wilm and
w dov and Wilmington and Dover, Delaware or wgst AM
seven twenty the Voice in Middle Georgia and We're going
to need some blankets. News Radio six fifty k e NI, Anchorage, Alaska.
We'd love to be a part of your morning routine.
Now enjoy the podcast. I wanted to share with you
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a PC Christmas. Gwen Freeman and I did our morning
show together both in Tulsa a KFAQ, and then later
in Nashville. We brought this to life, and the cast
list was so long we even had to use the
janitor Elmer. So I have cherished this for twenty something years.
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It has become a tradition I play at every Christmas.
As America gets more and more political correct, how much
do you have to change the Christmas story for it
to be politically acceptable in today's politically correct culture? How
might the Christmas story actually be told? Now? Will you
get to hear and our annual presentation of a PC Christmas.
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And 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, behold,
I've written you tidy is a great joy was born
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a savior, which is Christ. The Lord.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
H 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.
As he explained to Joseph, and I have to tell you,
this whole thing looks to me a lot like a
nativity scene, he said, sadly.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's a no note too. Then Joseph had a bright idea.
What if I put a couple of reindeer over there
near the yorks 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 liked to be on the safe side and
surround it with deer or woodland creatures of some sort,
you know.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Just to sentient throw in a candy cane, couple of elves,
maybe a snowman as well.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He said, no court can resist that. Mary asked, what
does my son's birth have to do with snowman? As
snow persons cried a young woman, changing 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 Jojoseph looked too tattered and worn in
the picture artistic license. He said, I've got to show
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the flight of the haggard homeless in a greedy, uncaring
society and winter equipped. We're not haggard or homeless. The
inn was just full, said Mary, Whatever said the painter.
Two women began to argue fiercely. One said she objected
to Jesus' birth because it's privileged motherhood. The other scoffed
at the virgin births, but said that if they encouraged
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more attention to diversity in the family forms and the
rights of the single mothers, well 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. Will the arrival
of ten child advocates, all trained to spot infant abuse
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and major rash, Mary and Joseph were pushed to the
edge of the crowd, where 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 a fairy and whether the elf
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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 use of asses and oxen as picturesque backdrops for
Nativity scenes carries the sublime message of human dominance. He
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passed out two leaflets, one denouncing major birds as invasions
of animal's face, the other arguing that stables are penned
enviolements where animals are incarcerated against their ville However, he
had no opinion about elves or candy canes. Signs declaring
that began to appear, referring to the obviously exploited as
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an ox. Someone even said the halo on Jesus's head
was a litist. Mary was exasperated.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
And what about you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Old mother, She said, sharply to an elderly woman. Are
you here to.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Attack the shepherd's prison guards for excluded species?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Maybe he complain that singing in Latin.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Identifies us with our Roman oppressors, or just to say
that I should have skipped patriarchal religiosity and joins a
dumb New age goddess religion. None of the above, said
the woman. Just wanted to let you know the magi
are here.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Sure enough, the three wise men wrote up. The crowd Gaspedoo,
they're all male and not very multi cultural. Hey, I'm
bad as all, and I'm black, said one of the magi. Yes,
but how many of you are gay or disabled? Someone shouted.
A committee was quickly formed to find an impoverished lesbian
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wise person among the halted name of Bethlehemm. Then a
calm voice said.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Be of good cheer, Mary, for you have done well,
and your son will.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Change the world. At last, a sane person, very thought.
She turned to see a radiant and confident female face.
The woman spoke again, there is one thing. The religious
holidays are important. Can we learn to celebrate them in wasyesday, unite,
not divide? For instance, instead of all this business about
Gloria in Excelsius Dale, why not just season's greetings. Mary
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thought about it and then said, you mean my son
has entered human history to deliver the message. Hello, it's winter.
That's harsh, Mary said the woman.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
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 1 (23:31):
On his birthday. That's not job Liver, 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 They're not ready for primetime, big big show players.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Happy.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Uh Mary, Hello, it's winter. Tragically, that is how that
has held up over the twenty five years. Although there
are signs, isn't there that political correctness might be on
its death beb I'm Babiza and that's actually Elmer. He
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was our our janitor, Elvis Polo, Gwen Freeman, so many people,
board ops, production people. I mean, we just grabbed any
voice in the office. Charlene was the woman at the end.
Charlene is now of course in heaven. So that always
means so much to me and people get such a
kick out of it. That's it a PC Christmas twenty
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twenty four style as done originally in two thousand and four.
All Right, you got about eighteen minutes to be to
work on time in the Central time zone, forty two
minutes after the hour. The House is rejecting the latest
spending bill that would avert a government showdown. We are
going to continue to fight for every day Americans. That
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is why we are voting no on this bill.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
That's House my Nordly leader Hockey and Jefferies. Moments before
Thursday evenings vote, almost forty Republicans voted against the one
hundred and sixteen page proposal, which was supported by a
president elected Trump. Democrats voted mostly along party lines, opposing
the bill that included disaster relief money and funding for farmers.
The bill would have funded the government through March fourteenth.
Without legislation, the government will shut down late Friday night.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I'm Mark Meefield. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is unveiling a
new border strategy Brian Shook has that includes billboards that
are being posted in South and Central America.
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Want to ask families thinking about sending their kids here,
how much did.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You pay to have your daughter rate? He says.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
The billboards that are posted closer to the border warn
of jail time for those caught crossing into Texas. They
also highlight what will happen under the incoming Trump administration.
They'll be in Spanish, but the governor says some will
also be in Chinese, Russian and Arabic.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm Brian Schuk. December the most popular month to propose
and breed tennis. With details on the start of the
engagement season.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Weddingside than Not dot Com says they're seven percent of
all engagements take place between November and February, but the
bulk of proposals, they say will happen this month because
December is romantic, family and friends are around, and there's
a general feeling of celebration. Statistically, Christmas engagements work out
just as well as any other and come with an
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eighty to ninety percent acceptance rate, but no pressure. I'm
Bree Tennis.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
This is your morning show with Michael de Trono.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Thanks for waking up your morning show and taking us
along with you on the drive to work. We have
been counting down as our gift to you all week long.
Our top ten Christmas Stories and songs At number ten,
Johnny mathis we need a Little Christmas Beach Boys at
number nine with God Only Knows. Kenny Loggin Celebrate Me
Home was number eight. Harry Connick Junior with Please Come
Home for Christmas at number seven, The Carpenter's Merry Christmas
(26:50):
Darling was number six. Clay Eke and Mary Did you know?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
It?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Was number five? Whitney Houston. Do you hear what I hear?
Number four, Frank Sinatra have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
at number one, three, and Josh Grobin with Oh Holy
Knight was at number two, and that brings us to
number one. When I was fourteen years old, I went
to a small private school, Keiho Academy, so small we
didn't even have a cafeteria. We ate in our classroom.
(27:15):
Were outside on one of the tables. Well, you may
not think of New Orleans when you think of cold,
and I grew up in Chicago. But let me tell
you something. It was a wet, humid cold in New Orleans,
and when it got cold, it was cold. On one
such cold day, me and my friend Keith Collins wanted
to eat in the gym. We were met by our
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varsity basketball coach, who said, hey, if you eaten here,
you got to go to Bible study again. It was
freezing cold outside. I looked and I could see the
two gorgeous Bricado sisters were at the Bible study. I
was like, hey, call me, brother Mike. Here I come.
And I heard the word. It was red, it was taut,
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it was discussed, and my heart in my life was
changed forever, and so was Keith's. He's now the pastor
of the church my family attends. So now I find
myself born again in the seventies, no more weed, no
more a lot of stuff. And you know, I'm a
music lover. The only Christian music there was at that
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time was Andre Crouch, Anita Baker, and BJ Thomas. That
wasn't much to choose from, but that all changed about
a year or two later, Keith Green, Mileon Lefever, Steve Camp,
Petra Whiteheart, we had better music, and yes, Amy Grant
and Amy did more than impact our life with her
stories and songs. She became the very standard of what
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we all were going to marry someday. And one song
that had nothing to do with life, nothing to do
with Jesus, a Christmas song, just a Christmas song about
a place I never lived or even visited, found its
place in my heart just stuck with me throughout all
the years. Strangely became my favorite Christmas song, and whether
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I was living in no Llans, Oklahoma City, Washington, d C.
Virginia Beach, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was always my favorite.
I guess God knew something in nineteen eighty three that
I didn't when she sang this song. He knew about
my future life, my wife, my children, and my future home.
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And anyone that knows me knows my heart belongs to
Jesus Andrea, Anna, Alex and Nick. They are my everything.
They're all I need period. And so for the eighteenth year,
with the family I made in the city I love,
I have everything I want for Christmas, and here comes
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my eighteenth Tender Tennessee Christmas, Amy Grant, where she is
every year at number one in our Your Morning Show
Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs from my family to
you and yours. We'll see you next year and have
a blessed, safe, merry Christmas. If you were listening live,
this is where the song would play after such an
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emotional story, But we don't have licensing for the podcast,
but feel free to look it up and listen to
it online. And can you imagine the fourteen year old
me later at seventeen when this song came out and
singing this would one day be on the balcony of
my radio station and I look down and there's Amy
Grant and she goes, are you the one I'm looking for?
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And I was like, well, thank you Lordow. And that's
how we met, and Gary has become a very, very
dear friend of mine. I would have never thought that
Tender Tennessee Christmas number one on our Top ten Christmas
Stories and Songs. Our gift to you, Hey, stick around
even though we're taking off next week. What a treat
(30:51):
we have for you. One of my favorite hosts, Jamie Allman,
will be with you. Jamie is a tremendous talk talent.
He'll be filling in. We have our very special Christmas
in America for you. On Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day,
we'll find the Manger in the middle of the depression
nineteen twenty eight and in nineteen seventy three. I do
wish you a merry Christmas, and I'll see you in
our new year, and whatever comes our way, we'll get
(31:14):
through it together. We'll see you then. Thanks for waking
up with your morning show. Merry Christmas everyone.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Ndheld Joano
Hey, it's Michael reminding you that your morning show can
be heard live each weekday morning five to eighth Central,
six to nine Eastern and great cities like Nashville, Tennessee
two below, Mississippi and Sacramento, California. We'd love to be
a part of your morning routine and take the drive
to work with you, but better late than never. We're
grateful you're here now. Enjoy the podcast on two.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Three starting your morning off right here we go, a
new way of talk, a new.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Way of understandings because we're in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Charman.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Wouldn't want to do this morning show one morning, let
alone all year or into the holidays without that voice,
Mike McCann. Merry Christmas to you, enjoys seven minutes after
the hour. Good morning and Merry Christmas to you. Welcome
to Friday, December the twentieth at Michael d at iHeartMedia
dot Com. Michael, the Ohio University Bobcats are taking on
the Jacksonville State game Cocks. It's the Cure Bold Today
(00:59):
at noon IOW on the MAC this year for the
first time since nineteen eighty six. Well congratulations. The Democrats
and their media family have made Musk out to be
the catalyst for the CR failure. Wrong. I and concerned
citizens like me have been begging our US representatives to
end the continuing resolutions and give the US Congress a
(01:21):
budget long before Elon Musk gave us X. Give us
an annual Well, that's the ultimate solution. Nobody's even even
discussing that yet, Give us an annual balanced budget. Have
a blessed and merry Christmas to you too, Bill, and
thank you for listening to your morning show. Rick wrote,
didn't Rush didn't Rush always tease about the union thug mofucker? Well, Rush,
(01:48):
of course was at WABC in New York after he
was at KFBK and Sacramento. I believe there was a
union in New York City. There's no union where we live.
But unfortunately there must be Starbucks union because the workers
are on strike in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Get
your own coffee. Biden hasn't been running the White House.
In fact, even the Wall Street Journal's finally coming clean.
(02:10):
He's been seen now since he started running for president.
Now he's off to see the Pope one last time.
I wonder if life will come up in that discussion.
George's Court of Appeals Thursday disqualified Fanny willis yea route,
though it'll probably be appealed. But where does the entire
case stand? And the House is rejecting latest bedding bill
(02:30):
to avert a government shutdown, will there be a crisis?
Come midnight, busy hour for us. We're going to have
our number one Christmas story and song to wrap up
our final show of the year, our presentation of a
PC Christmas. I mean, in today's political correctness, how can
you tell the Christmas story you'll hear in our annual
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presentation of a PC Christmas. DZ stops by to tell
you about our Christmas present to you on Christmas even,
Christmas Day morning and Friday, with forty seven elect just
moments away. First one quick vote from the voice from
the talkback line. We go to I Believe Sacramento, Roger.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Morning, Michael. Being here on the West coast. Three am
comes pretty early. My alarm is set for six, but
I let my body clock wake me up to play
deljorno Roulette. So whenever oake up, turn on your show.
Today was three nine am. So there's something I must
have needed here live, great show, great edition to kste
probably best showing about two decades. And I want to
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wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and
we'll see you next year.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh that's better than any president. I'm going to get.
Thank you very Christmas to you and your family. I
know exactly what we were talking about at three oh
five here time, and I'm glad you got to hear it.
All right, suffer not by President elect done today. Oh
my gosh, I'm sure he's where Joe Biden's going to
see the Pope. I think I know where this discussion's headed.
Hell to the chiefs, mister President. Good morning, Well.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It is a great morning to you. I just got
off the phone with you. May know him very well.
I know him very well. Santa Claus, great guy. You
know he called me. He called me. He says, Sir,
how am I going to deliver the presence if there's
a government shut down?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I said, we're not funding.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You said, you're not being We don't tell you, right,
he said, but crook, And Joe Biden said he was
going to I said, no, we're not going to do that. Santa.
We give you milk we give you cookies, and if
you don't behave, we'll feed it to Chris Christy and said,
he said, sir, please don't take away my Milton. Cookies
will deliver the presence. I said, as long as.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You give Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Everybody in Congress is getting cold.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I have to tell you that if there was ever
a Mommy that Santa wanted to kiss, I'll bet it's
coming down your chimney.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, you know that we have a fantastic relationship with
Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And I could also tell you that the drones they're
seeing in New Jersey might be Santa. So we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What do you make of that whole mystery? So we're
never going to know. The White House, Hey, nothing means
you any harm, there's nothing here to see. Then Congress
gets briefed by NSA Ziab you know, well it's classified.
So yeah. Then the Congress comes out and says, oh,
it's nothing to be worried about, but it's classified. We
can't tell you. You said, of course the government knew
all along. Well, they know what they are.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Even though the government is full of stupid people.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
They know what they are.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
And they're not a threat.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I can tell you that it's a lot of stupid
things that are happening in the sky flying around. And
the best way to do it. We talked about it.
It's the greatest plan. You could do it one of
two ways. Both of them include Chris Christie. Right, if
you've ever seen the movie star Wars, Obi Wan, who
I happen to know very well, I called him Ben right, Ben,
(05:44):
he was our only hope. Right, you look at Princess Leah.
She says, help me, Obi Wan, You're our only hope.
But she meant to say help me Donald Trump, You're
my only hope. But you know you look at it.
He says, that's no moon, it's the space station.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
We have attractivey.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Chris Christy has the same type of pull. You could
pump them full of helium and he could catch the
drones in his orbit. It would be very easy. Or
he could eat them. Both ways.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We could use him for good no Country instead of bed.
But we could fix those problems. But now we have
another problem. In Congress.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
They walk down pass the budget. But we have to
balance the budget, right, We have to balance it right
now it's lopsided because The Democrats want to put more
pork than anybody's ever seen before. More pork? Can you
find a the view?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You look at the view. It's a horrible place. We
will let the zoo by the.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Way, but you look at you look at it.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
This budget is a disgrace. But we're going to fix it, right,
or we're going to shut.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
The government down until Danny comes home.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We'll see what happened. President elect forty seven with us
for our annual and final Friday with forty five before
he becomes forty seven. All right, So Joe Biden leaves
office with an approval rating of thirty four second lowest
in presidential history. You are sitting at an approval rating
(07:06):
of fifty three percent. There's change coming and America seems
to be behind it and embracing it. And now the
bombshell from the Wall Street Journal something you experienced firsthand.
Joe Biden has been cognitively impaired from the beginning, begs
the question, who's been running the country?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, what a surprise, you know, when you have a
guy like Crook and Joe Biden and you talk about
he's going to the pope and we know exactly what's
going on there?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Operation You know we.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Had Operation to zero, right, now we have it's called
Operation Well, I want to tell you something, right, you
had Operation to zero. Now he's going to the Pope again.
It's called Operation Charleston Jew. It's a horrible thing, right,
you know, you look at it. Thinks you are getting
(07:52):
worse Operation excuse me, Operation Lincoln Line. You know what
I'm talking about, right, but you look get it? Okay?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
They say Crooked Joe's cognitively impaired. Now they say, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Pizza boy. One second, they said, Crooked.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Joe is cognitively impaired.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Okay, and you see what happened. He may not make it.
You hear this, folks, he may not make it. We
knew that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
We knew that Crooked Joe was cognitively impaired.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
He talked about his hairy legs.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Right, who does that?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I would never do that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
He does that. He's sniffing children, he's.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Fighting corn pop, he's biting kids' feet. What the hell
is wrong with this guy? And by the way, did
you know we finally beat medicare right, we finally beat it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Moment, so I am literally sweating. Don't do that to me,
all right, but you may claims sometimes and I google them.
Not that I don't trust what you say, but I
just gee, I hadn't heard that that the President may have,
you know, had an accident the last time he was
with the Pope, And then when I googled it, it
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was like a real store. Sorry, and the Vatican itself
would not confirm nor deny. So sometimes you go on
these rants and people think, you know, you're just being funny,
but that really happened. And this time it's going to
go from TUTSI roll to opera.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Charleston Chew linked log right, you look at it, right,
We talked about it. If he didn't do it, the
Vatican would say he didn't do it, right, They're not
allowed to lie.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
These are people who are supposed to be very nice
and very honest.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
If he didn't do it, they would say he didn't
do it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
So by not denying it, what does that mean? Deductive reasoning?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Crooked Joe, Crooked Jose Kaka.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
And Freende Delapa, we know that for.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
A fact, right, all right?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Closing closing moments with our Friday with forty five. You know,
if this had been a movie, we'd say this is
too ridiculous. I'm so ready for this to be over
and ready for a new direction for our country. What
is your Christmas wish for all Americans listening? And give
us a message of hope for the next four years.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, as I mentioned, I got to look very well
with Santa Claus right, and we're very excited about twenty
twenty five, not Project twenty twenty five, although those people
think it's a horrible thing. And I'll tell you what.
If you think Project twenty twenty five is bad, wait
until you see Project twenty twenty six. It's a noosey.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I can tell you that it's some beauty.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Let me tell you something that's going to make people
go crazy. By the way, but we're going to have
the greatest country once again.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
We're going to be respected, we're going to be safe.
We're going to have beautiful borders, a beautiful wall.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We have Tom Holman.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
He's going to clean things up.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
He's going to get things so clean. All the bad
ombres are going to get the hell out right, We're
going to get them the hell out.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And we're going to have a beautiful country. We're going
to get the greatest Christmas gift of all is making
America great again. So I want everybody to have a
merry Christmas, which we by the way, we say again
a happy new Year. And we are going to not
just take our country back, we are going to make
it so great.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Everybody's going to be so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Merry Christmas to you, the first Lady, and to all
the children. Thank you for every weekly visit. And this
year that you've been through ends with you alive and
well and prepared to take the oath of office. I
look forward to talking to you in the new year.
Merry Christmas, mister President.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
God bless you Pizza boy. The ratings are through the roof.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
And we will see you next year. That much I
can tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
We have a Christmas present for you the listeners on
Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day. We'll tell you all
about it when your morning show continues next eighteen after
the hour.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
From the Julie Talbot microphone of the Chris Berry Studios
in the Bill May broadcasting. This is your Morning Show.
Mery Christmas. Twenty four minutes after the hour, still to
come our PC Christmas story. How would you tell the
Christmas story today? Politically correct? You'll find out next half hour.
And we've been counting down on our top ten Christmas
stories and songs, and we're all the way to number one.
(12:04):
Before we say goodbye for the year, there's a liner
Mike mccannon, the smart Alec, you know, basically saying we
have a Christmas present for you. We're taking two weeks off,
but boy, do we have a Christmas gift for you.
On Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day morning and it's
Christmas in America. David's an Audi and his team at
the Public Square with some of the finest musicians this year.
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David did the old raise your hand if you have
or been a part of a Grammy and you know
how many they all had. These are the best musicians,
best singers, some of the best old fashioned radio storytelling.
As we look for the Manger in the middle of
the Depression nineteen twenty eight and nineteen seventy three, David,
good morning, good When did your first When did you
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first get I don't even if I've asked you this
the idea of doing Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Two thousand and nine at a meeting actually in Franklin, Tennessee.
And what we were trying to figure out is how
do we integrate the message of conservative thought and how
it comes out of the Declaration and the Constitution and
the worldview of the founding with the modern society.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Big, big question, a collegiate type question. And we came
out with three words.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We actually came out with a whole list of things,
but at the very top was three words.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Start with Christmas. Now we didn't even understand what that meant.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Then we started into a really research project on how
did Christmas impact the founding of our country? And what
we discovered was the whole idea of God coming to
earth impacted the worldview that created the Declaration of Independence.
So I thought, okay, so maybe Christmas is still our
medium of exchange, the place where we think together about
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why we do what we do, and call it America.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So we said, okay, Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's I mean, we stumbled along at that primitive idea,
the idea that then doing a right day.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
David, can I interrupt? Can I interrupt and say something?
I think you're still stumping along. I don't even think
we still get what God plans to do with this
every year, and then it became a joke because every
year I would go, oh, my gosh, that's my favorite ever. Well,
by the fifth year of me going oh my God,
that's my favorite ever, I started to realize there's a
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life to this, and there's a drum beat to this,
and it's getting louder and louder. I think of the
George Washington one nineteen twenty eight that we're going to
present on Christmas Eve morning probably is still my favorite,
only because it's the greatest oh wow moment that we're
at our best when things are worse, and when things
are worse, God is the most active, most busy in
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creating the greatest generation. The greatest you had to have
the depression to have the generation that would free the world.
And then nineteen seventy three, this year, well, nineteen seventy three,
this year may be for the artists themselves and the
music and the voices. It went to a whole new level.
But I still don't think we have a grasp of
where God's going with Christmas in America.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, our musical director called me to the day and said,
I think I figured this out.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
These are all capsules.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
These shows are going to play forty years from now
and be as valid as they relate day. So what
I'm excited about is that you have decided that to
let your morning show be the home on Christmas Day
and the day after Christmas for Christmas in America.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's pretty exciting past. Yeah, and again, you can go
to the public Square dot com and all fourteen years
are there, and I welcome you to take that journey.
Nothing will get your focus and your hope and the
sounds and the smells and the feels old fashioned radio Christmas.
I mean, it's just great to have it on the background,
(15:37):
and you'll love all of them and all the stories
we have. Like a minute and a half if I
said in one sentence, because life is best understood looking back,
but unfortunately must be lived looking forward. Finding the major
in any of these given years is the goal is achieved.
Yet I don't know that we find the major in
the very year we're living, but hopefully it helps them.
(15:58):
Nineteen twenty eight, I'd boil that one down to you
had to have the depression to create the generation that
will liberate the world. That was the oh wow moment.
What about nineteen seventy three, How would you summarize that?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I think nineteen seventy three is a little bit of
a difficult message, Michael. So it's hard to get into
one sentence because it's almost a warning message because we
talk about the whole Christmas story that ends with Jesus
fleeing to Egypt, and so it's sort of like, watch
out what you wish for as a culture.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I told that story in my stories that Mary and
Joseph because of Patrothal in that day, their life was
in danger. Thanks to Herod. Christ's life was in danger.
Thanks to nineteen seventy three, the unborn had been in
danger for decades. David Zanati, presenter of Christmas in America.
Our gift to you Christmas Eve Morning and Christmas Day Morning.
Thank you for allowing us to aer it. It is
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going to be one of the best presents under their tree.
God bless you, and we'll see in the new year.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
This is James from Greenwood's Outcareja and my morning show
is your Morning Show with Michael Dojorno.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hi, It's Michael. Your Morning Show can be heard live
on great radio stations across the Country at Wilm and
w dov and Wilmington and Dover, Delaware or wgst AM
seven twenty the Voice in Middle Georgia and We're going
to need some blankets. News Radio six fifty k e NI, Anchorage, Alaska.
We'd love to be a part of your morning routine.
Now enjoy the podcast. I wanted to share with you
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a PC Christmas. Gwen Freeman and I did our morning
show together both in Tulsa a KFAQ, and then later
in Nashville. We brought this to life, and the cast
list was so long we even had to use the
janitor Elmer. So I have cherished this for twenty something years.
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It has become a tradition I play at every Christmas.
As America gets more and more political correct, how much
do you have to change the Christmas story for it
to be politically acceptable in today's politically correct culture? How
might the Christmas story actually be told? Now? Will you
get to hear and our annual presentation of a PC Christmas.
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And 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, behold,
I've written you tidy is a great joy was born
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a savior, which is Christ. The Lord.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
H 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.
As he explained to Joseph, and I have to tell you,
this whole thing looks to me a lot like a
nativity scene, he said, sadly.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That's a no note too. Then Joseph had a bright idea.
What if I put a couple of reindeer over there
near the yorks 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 liked to be on the safe side and
surround it with deer or woodland creatures of some sort,
you know.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Just to sentient throw in a candy cane, couple of elves,
maybe a snowman as well.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He said, no court can resist that. Mary asked, what
does my son's birth have to do with snowman? As
snow persons cried a young woman, changing 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 Jojoseph looked too tattered and worn in
the picture artistic license. He said, I've got to show
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the flight of the haggard homeless in a greedy, uncaring
society and winter equipped. We're not haggard or homeless. The
inn was just full, said Mary, Whatever said the painter.
Two women began to argue fiercely. One said she objected
to Jesus' birth because it's privileged motherhood. The other scoffed
at the virgin births, but said that if they encouraged
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more attention to diversity in the family forms and the
rights of the single mothers, well 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. Will the arrival
of ten child advocates, all trained to spot infant abuse
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and major rash, Mary and Joseph were pushed to the
edge of the crowd, where 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 a fairy and whether the elf
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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 use of asses and oxen as picturesque backdrops for
Nativity scenes carries the sublime message of human dominance. He
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passed out two leaflets, one denouncing major birds as invasions
of animal's face, the other arguing that stables are penned
enviolements where animals are incarcerated against their ville However, he
had no opinion about elves or candy canes. Signs declaring
that began to appear, referring to the obviously exploited as
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an ox. Someone even said the halo on Jesus's head
was a litist. Mary was exasperated.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
And what about you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Old mother, She said, sharply to an elderly woman. Are
you here to.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Attack the shepherd's prison guards for excluded species?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Maybe he complain that singing in Latin.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Identifies us with our Roman oppressors, or just to say
that I should have skipped patriarchal religiosity and joins a
dumb New age goddess religion. None of the above, said
the woman. Just wanted to let you know the magi
are here.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Sure enough, the three wise men wrote up. The crowd Gaspedoo,
they're all male and not very multi cultural. Hey, I'm
bad as all, and I'm black, said one of the magi. Yes,
but how many of you are gay or disabled? Someone shouted.
A committee was quickly formed to find an impoverished lesbian
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wise person among the halted name of Bethlehemm. Then a
calm voice said.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Be of good cheer, Mary, for you have done well,
and your son will.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Change the world. At last, a sane person, very thought.
She turned to see a radiant and confident female face.
The woman spoke again, there is one thing. The religious
holidays are important. Can we learn to celebrate them in wasyesday, unite,
not divide? For instance, instead of all this business about
Gloria in Excelsius Dale, why not just season's greetings. Mary
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thought about it and then said, you mean my son
has entered human history to deliver the message. Hello, it's winter.
That's harsh, Mary said the woman.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
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 1 (23:31):
On his birthday. That's not job Liver, 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 They're not ready for primetime, big big show players.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Happy.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Uh Mary, Hello, it's winter. Tragically, that is how that
has held up over the twenty five years. Although there
are signs, isn't there that political correctness might be on
its death beb I'm Babiza and that's actually Elmer. He
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was our our janitor, Elvis Polo, Gwen Freeman, so many people,
board ops, production people. I mean, we just grabbed any
voice in the office. Charlene was the woman at the end.
Charlene is now of course in heaven. So that always
means so much to me and people get such a
kick out of it. That's it a PC Christmas twenty
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twenty four style as done originally in two thousand and four.
All Right, you got about eighteen minutes to be to
work on time in the Central time zone, forty two
minutes after the hour. The House is rejecting the latest
spending bill that would avert a government showdown. We are
going to continue to fight for every day Americans. That
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is why we are voting no on this bill.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
That's House my Nordly leader Hockey and Jefferies. Moments before
Thursday evenings vote, almost forty Republicans voted against the one
hundred and sixteen page proposal, which was supported by a
president elected Trump. Democrats voted mostly along party lines, opposing
the bill that included disaster relief money and funding for farmers.
The bill would have funded the government through March fourteenth.
Without legislation, the government will shut down late Friday night.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I'm Mark Meefield. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is unveiling a
new border strategy Brian Shook has that includes billboards that
are being posted in South and Central America.
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Want to ask families thinking about sending their kids here,
how much did.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You pay to have your daughter rate? He says.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
The billboards that are posted closer to the border warn
of jail time for those caught crossing into Texas. They
also highlight what will happen under the incoming Trump administration.
They'll be in Spanish, but the governor says some will
also be in Chinese, Russian and Arabic.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm Brian Schuk. December the most popular month to propose
and breed tennis. With details on the start of the
engagement season.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Weddingside than Not dot Com says they're seven percent of
all engagements take place between November and February, but the
bulk of proposals, they say will happen this month because
December is romantic, family and friends are around, and there's
a general feeling of celebration. Statistically, Christmas engagements work out
just as well as any other and come with an
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eighty to ninety percent acceptance rate, but no pressure. I'm
Bree Tennis.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
This is your morning show with Michael de Trono.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Thanks for waking up your morning show and taking us
along with you on the drive to work. We have
been counting down as our gift to you all week long.
Our top ten Christmas Stories and songs At number ten,
Johnny mathis we need a Little Christmas Beach Boys at
number nine with God Only Knows. Kenny Loggin Celebrate Me
Home was number eight. Harry Connick Junior with Please Come
Home for Christmas at number seven, The Carpenter's Merry Christmas
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Darling was number six. Clay Eke and Mary Did you know?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
It?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Was number five? Whitney Houston. Do you hear what I hear?
Number four, Frank Sinatra have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
at number one, three, and Josh Grobin with Oh Holy
Knight was at number two, and that brings us to
number one. When I was fourteen years old, I went
to a small private school, Keiho Academy, so small we
didn't even have a cafeteria. We ate in our classroom.
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Were outside on one of the tables. Well, you may
not think of New Orleans when you think of cold,
and I grew up in Chicago. But let me tell
you something. It was a wet, humid cold in New Orleans,
and when it got cold, it was cold. On one
such cold day, me and my friend Keith Collins wanted
to eat in the gym. We were met by our
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varsity basketball coach, who said, hey, if you eaten here,
you got to go to Bible study again. It was
freezing cold outside. I looked and I could see the
two gorgeous Bricado sisters were at the Bible study. I
was like, hey, call me, brother Mike. Here I come.
And I heard the word. It was red, it was taut,
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it was discussed, and my heart in my life was
changed forever, and so was Keith's. He's now the pastor
of the church my family attends. So now I find
myself born again in the seventies, no more weed, no
more a lot of stuff. And you know, I'm a
music lover. The only Christian music there was at that
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time was Andre Crouch, Anita Baker, and BJ Thomas. That
wasn't much to choose from, but that all changed about
a year or two later, Keith Green, Mileon Lefever, Steve Camp,
Petra Whiteheart, we had better music, and yes, Amy Grant
and Amy did more than impact our life with her
stories and songs. She became the very standard of what
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we all were going to marry someday. And one song
that had nothing to do with life, nothing to do
with Jesus, a Christmas song, just a Christmas song about
a place I never lived or even visited, found its
place in my heart just stuck with me throughout all
the years. Strangely became my favorite Christmas song, and whether
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I was living in no Llans, Oklahoma City, Washington, d C.
Virginia Beach, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was always my favorite.
I guess God knew something in nineteen eighty three that
I didn't when she sang this song. He knew about
my future life, my wife, my children, and my future home.
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And anyone that knows me knows my heart belongs to
Jesus Andrea, Anna, Alex and Nick. They are my everything.
They're all I need period. And so for the eighteenth year,
with the family I made in the city I love,
I have everything I want for Christmas, and here comes
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my eighteenth Tender Tennessee Christmas, Amy Grant, where she is
every year at number one in our Your Morning Show
Top ten Christmas Stories and Songs from my family to
you and yours. We'll see you next year and have
a blessed, safe, merry Christmas. If you were listening live,
this is where the song would play after such an
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emotional story, But we don't have licensing for the podcast,
but feel free to look it up and listen to
it online. And can you imagine the fourteen year old
me later at seventeen when this song came out and
singing this would one day be on the balcony of
my radio station and I look down and there's Amy
Grant and she goes, are you the one I'm looking for?
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And I was like, well, thank you Lordow. And that's
how we met, and Gary has become a very, very
dear friend of mine. I would have never thought that
Tender Tennessee Christmas number one on our Top ten Christmas
Stories and Songs. Our gift to you, Hey, stick around
even though we're taking off next week. What a treat
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we have for you. One of my favorite hosts, Jamie Allman,
will be with you. Jamie is a tremendous talk talent.
He'll be filling in. We have our very special Christmas
in America for you. On Christmas Eve morning and Christmas Day,
we'll find the Manger in the middle of the depression
nineteen twenty eight and in nineteen seventy three. I do
wish you a merry Christmas, and I'll see you in
our new year, and whatever comes our way, we'll get
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through it together. We'll see you then. Thanks for waking
up with your morning show. Merry Christmas everyone.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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