Just the Highlights! 12/17/2024

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is what's trending, all right, So I guess Americans
are over Christmas traditions and that's trending today. A third
I want to swap a traditional turkey for a juicy burger.
They talked to two thousand people about this. Yes, thirty
one percent are bored with the usual Christmas customs and
would like to see more unusual alternatives during the lead

(00:21):
up to the big day, Pizza, tacos, chinese takeout mentioned
is preferred options over the traditional turkey. Forty seven percent
would rather spend the whole day in their pajamas rather
than getting dressed up. Do people do that? People get
dressed up for two Yeah, if you got.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
To go to the other family members' homes, you know.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Ye're not in the morning.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
We try to lounge around as long as possible, but
at some point you gotta wash your But I think we.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Ever got a dressed up. I think we washed our buds.
But I don't think we got Christmas not here. Yeah,
no one's going on there. Christmas. It's perfect, good holiday.
Why not celebrate. I don't know. Christmas doesn't do it
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, I'm like the least I've gotten plenty of action
on Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
With your family hold on one of the time children. No,
not with my family. I'm not decimus, Okay, are you
with them? No? I can think of many examples where
like I'm obviously back home. Alcohol is being served people
I used to dater back home, you know, like old

(01:32):
high school girlfriends, like, what are you doing? Come over?
See the family. They'd love to see you. They come
over and before long, you know, it's like back to
the childhood. Sure, why not slide I have already? Yeah,
who doesn't have an indoor slide into it into a
hot tub in their childhood bedroom? Who doesn't have that?
You don't have that? Yess just me? Eighteen percent like

(01:53):
the idea of doing a friend's only Christmas. Thirty five
percent who will choose to focus on quality time together
over give for decorations. I like that idea. Let's do
Why don't you give me a gift and then my
quality time with you is my gift to you. How
about that my present is your present? I like that idea.
Study also found that sixty percent who have eaten something
untraditional on Christmas or they say they have eaten something

(02:15):
on traditional on Christmas pizza, pasta, burghers or whatever. So
here are the things that people would be open to swapping.
The top ten Christmas traditions. Sending Christmas cards. I used
to do it. I used to do it for clients,
not friends. I used to like people who have part
advertising parties. Problem is, I don't even know if anyone
even goes to office. I don't even know where to
send them anymore. Like, honestly, I don't even know if

(02:37):
half of our clients have offices, and I don't feel
weird calling them up and being like, hey, thanks for
advertising with us, Can I have your home address? It's
kind of strange, ugly Christmas weather parties. We don't have
to do that. Gift giving in general, people are okay
not doing gift giving. Yes, secret scanti gift exchange. Listening
to Christmas songs, I will say, for the most part,

(02:58):
it's the same like ten songs being sung by every
contemporary artist you can imagine. And the ones I really
don't like, with the exception of All I Want for
Christmas is You, which has become a classic, and maybe
a couple others are the ones like where you try
and make your own Christmas song, not a fan, What
really I don't like I don't like INSCT Merry Christmas. Well,
there's a another rare example. That's a rare example. This

(03:19):
whole album that's a rare you're quoting the rare example.
Biebers is fire. I have to say, Sustin Bieber's is amazing.
But it's not really necessarily up to you to write
a new Christmas song. Like if you want to go
ahead and do your little album Sabrina Carpenter where you
sing jingle bells, then fine, make you know, get your
bag or whatever. Yes, but some of them have heard.
I'm like, we didn't need that, We didn't need you

(03:40):
to write your own. What Fox is a sexual one? Oh?
He does? He has a sexual Christmas song. Yeah, if
you look that up, I'd like to hear.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
How is it like It's like it's like calling her
missus claws and they're going to hold on, let me,
I'll find it.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay, let me see here elf on the shelf, Christmas lights,
holiday baking and treats, decorating a Christmas tree, people are
over all of that. Well, then there's this amazing Christmas song.
Here's one. This is from Linda Bennett. Yes, remember this
one the best.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
This is your music news and with us this is
this is messed up.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I'm the best in Christmas music on this beautiful Christmas scene.
Oh wait, hold on, watch an ad. I gotta watch
an ad right in the middle like that. Yeah, I
know that's not cool. Hold on a second. All right,
are we done with this now? I don't need that suitcase.
I'm all good. I got everything I needed. Here we go.
But this is a messed up song. It is It

(04:37):
goes on and on. It's telling a story. The snow
we's falling? What a s.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
Daddy will be coming home as happy?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yes, candy?

Speaker 7 (04:57):
Or will he here be walking rude ten minutes after night?
Wait for it because the bust he takes each night,
he's always rag home time. He's gonevery Christmas with all

(05:19):
the children by the ris.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, I'm getting bored now it gets sit apart soon
the b yesstal this is a real song, by the way,
like point, I didn't write this, Okay, So everyone's gonna
have every's gonna have nice Christmas. Daddy's coming home at

(05:47):
We're sorry to interrupt this program, but a bulletin has
just been handled me. There's been a serious accident involving
the number five bus out of New Haven.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Early information we have is that the bus sketed on
a patch of and slammed into a tree.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then this song goes on to talk about how
dad's dad. Yeah, yeah, so they just she just keeps
going and then she's gets sadder and sadder, and then
then a doorbell rings, right, and it's daddy. Yeah exactly,
So he didn't actually die. I walked five miles to
be here or something like that, Right, he walked all
the way home.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
But the song goes from we can't wait to see
Dad's Dad's probably dead to Dad's alive. It's Christmas yay.
I mean, that's a very traumatic evening. Part was like
we we regreat to inform you there were no survivors
in the It's a real song. It's a real song.
We didn't make this up. Wow. Anyway, we could probably
get rid of that, that's a Christmas tradition. We can

(06:41):
get rid of kiki trending stories. This is for you
and only you, all right. TikTok has asked the Supreme
Court for an emergency order to block the band and
the CEO of TikTok has met with Donald Trump. Yeah,
so they're gonna work this out. Donald Trump, I'm telling you,
he set himself up to be a hero. He has
no intention of upholding this. Yeah. I talked to Big Tea.
He is working on it. You talked to Big Teams

(07:02):
I did, Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So you're you're okid with
anybody owning TikTok as long as it doesn't go away. Yeah,
I don't. What do I care who owns it? What
if it changes dressed? So we're not doing any change.
We're not doing anything. Well, I got another breaking news.
Elon Musk bought it. He's gonna call it.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
He's gonna call it three point one four seven Z
anybody but Eli, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Rolls off the TOG. So they're asking for an emergency
delay in the enforcement of a band on the platform
that was supposed to going to an effect on January nineteenth.
That is, of course, unless the parent company sells the
social media site. So we'll see what happens. But there
was there been meetings, and Trump is saying, we're gonna
look at that. Trump likes it now because he believes

(07:44):
that it helped him win the younger vote.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
So now he's like I'm so bad and his son
wants it. And I saw him say that, you know,
actually he told me. Yeah, he tells me his son
had already been talking to him about it, and I
was right.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I know, Big T. Yes, it's trying to get you
to endorse him for some time, which you wouldn't do.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, we ain't going that far. Yeah, we did meet
you know about this. Yeah, yeah, you don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I can't tell you where we were, very private, but yeah,
Big T is in a lap He's working some things.
That is something I'd like to see, is it maur
a Lago with Big tea secretary of over there? Right? Yeah? Wow?
You know, well, because Rufie is the secretary of big

(08:26):
ass mouth over there. Luigi Maggioni. This is the guy
who allegedly killed the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This
guy has a could following now, so much so that
people are getting tattoos as a tribute to the man
who is accused of killing this guy. Images have started
appearing online of inkings honoring the guy. Not even two

(08:48):
weeks after the Ivy League grad allegedly shot dead, the
fifty year old dad of two in Midtown Manhattan. One
image of the hooded gunman inside a love of heart
read I Heart my Boyfriend. Another image shared on Instagram
showed an etching of his face alongside delayed, deny, and defend,
the main words in the title of a book about

(09:10):
insurance companies, and almost identical to the three words Thompson's
killer left on bullet casings. At the scene. Someone else
got his face on their ankle. So people are really upsessed.
I mean, the comments in this or they're hilarious and
they're awful at the same time, people going, oh, no,
he was at my house, then you couldn't possibly. I mean,
it's crazy if you've been following this Menendez brother's case

(09:34):
and the idea that they might be getting out of jail.
There's a new LADA. So all of this was under
another DA who lost reelection, so they were out like
they were going to get out. It was decided, And
now there's a new DA and he's going to a
hold on a second. The new District attorney in Los
Angeles County is skeptical about the menandaz brothers push to
get out of prison. Eric and Lamananez has spent nearly

(09:55):
thirty five years in prison serving life sentences for the
nineteen eighty nine murders of their parent in Beverly Hills.
In an interview with Deadline, the New DA rejected the
notion that the years of sexual abuse them and his
brothers say they suffered at the hands of their father
was not taken seriously at their nineteen ninety five trial.
That's been a key claim used in their defense. The

(10:16):
family supporting the brothers are now saying they haven't spoken
to this guy, but they're trying to figure it out.
And he said, hey, maybe not so fast. Maybe they
don't get to get out. Yeah. A lot of people
said that that old DA only did this to get votes,
like because he was up for re elections and that
didn't work. So now and this old Diddy again. This
is an actual trending story today. But it turns out

(10:38):
you may or may not be able to contract chlamydia
from jim exercise equipment. That's because, oh man, this is
what this is what a dude who cheated and got
chlamydia says, in my opinion, But a leading doctor wigheding
on viral social media claims that it's possible to contract
lamydia from touching JIM equipment. That means you and I'll
be okay, why don't go? I think exactly, Why don't

(10:58):
got a thing? At the same time when I do go, Yes, yes,
that's why I'm not. I'm out here running into these streets.
I'm not touching anything, you know what I mean. And
I can't do that when it's cold outside, So that's sorry. Gideon,
a TikTok user, claimed that he contracted the infection of
the gym after wiping his eye with a towel that
was placed on a seat, which is disgusting in itself.

(11:21):
Tests revealed that the cause was chlamydia, as the creator
hadn't been sexually active. A doctor asked if he were
that often. He said, yes, Chances are someone sweated on
the seat that you put your gym towel on, wiped
your face and got pink eye. In an Instagram reel,
a doctor named doctor Joe posted the question, can you
really getchlamydia from jim equipment? We all know that it's

(11:43):
primarily spread through doing the deed, not through casual contact.
You're touching services, so unless you're doing something very unusual
with those gym machines, then you should be safe. So yeah, honestly,
it sounds like someone who cheated, you know, they got
a little something and they're like, maybe it's a gym.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
I always wipe my stuff down with a towel and
then wipe my face with it afterwards. Disgusting. It's the
right brother's birthday. We were just talking about them. That
is amazing. We knew and his national say it nowadays,
data tell friends and loved ones how important they are
to us by expressing gratitude for all the ways they've
impacted our lives. You guys are all very important to me.
I just want you to know that. You start, I

(12:27):
just did. Wait no longer, Wait no longer. You guys
are all extremely important to me, most of you at least,
and it really depends on the day actually, And just
like Jason and this sex messages, right, Yeah, he was
until he didn't invite me to the party. Kaitlyn was
until she called me raggedocius Rufio was until he talked
all over me, which took about five seconds. Kiki was

(12:50):
so I found out you went to mar A Lago
without man, because I don't I don't really want to
go to Marrow Lago, but I kind of do. I
don't want to be spotted at mar A Lago. But
if I just have to accompany you, then I kind
of want to see what the hell is going on there.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Honestly, hey, I gotta save TikTok by any means.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Thank you. Honestly, you I'm the best one right now.
I ain't done a damn thing. Look at me, yeah,
look at we we locked in. Thank you for being you,
hey man, thanks you. Let's go celebrate the right brother's birthday.
To get the entertainment reportsnet. The show is on. It's
stay or go all right? Uh, Deanna, I have a
seat on the couch, Deanna, welcome. How you doing? Hi?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm doing okay.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
How are you doing great? What's going on with your
situation here? I've got your email? You and Josh are newlyweds.
We are congratulations Ago nice is so exciting?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I don't time very enthusiastic about it, but I'm sure.
I'm sure it's very exciting. I'm sure it is. So
what's going on?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
It really all is exciting. It's really just like one
little bone that I have to pick with Josh.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
So I guess it's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
But basically what's going on is that I was raised Catholic.
It was a big deal when I was a kid,
but I gave that up in like early adulthood. And
you know, after meeting Josh and realizing I wanted to
send the rest of my life with him, I actually
ended up converting to Judaism because you know, like I said,
I gave it up at like eighteen, the Catholicism, and

(14:18):
it wasn't a big deal, but I knew it was
important to him for me to do this, so I said, okay,
no problem, I'll go ahead and do it.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
So yeah, I'm officially Jewish. But the only thing is it,
thank you. It's just, you know, it's Christmas time. I
would love to put up a Christmas tree just because,
like it's just to me, it's not symbolic of anything.
It just makes me like feel warm and fuzzy inside,
you know, all that good stuff and like brings me
back to the simpler times. I feel like a nice tree,

(14:48):
like a couple of decorations in our house to me
is not a big deal. I really like to put
that up this year.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
But to me, because the presents go underneath.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
Exactly pres obviously we don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I didn't know exactly where to go to start shaking
stuff and looking at the size and sort of see
what's coming. So that's what you got to have it.
But anyway, I understand. So no Christmas tree, or at
least you want one, and I'm assuming he doesn't. He
does not.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
He's josh U, my husband. He is super serious about this.
He tells me all the time, like converting means you
actually have to convert to the religion, and like with
all the anti Semitism in this world, you know, the
community needs all the support they can get. The white
the heck, we put up a Christmas tree, basically what
he tells me all the time.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Why not, I mean, okay, that doesn't change your faith,
doesn't change your belief, it doesn't change your commitment to it.
Why can't you put up a Christmas tree and a
minora and whatever else.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I've been to so many houses that do exactly just that,
you know, and it's me it's this is not that
big of de Like I don't think we got to
go out and get a divorce or anything like that.
But uh, you know, like said, I wanted to convert,
but I think go through a lot of work at
the end of the day to do that. So for me,
I just wish that he could compromise here, do you
know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Okay, so you want a Christmas tree, he doesn't want one,
and so his I guess, his word in this, in
his opinion, is the deciding factor, and so you just
don't get to have one. Now, even though you I'm
assuming you did. You convert for him. I mean he
did it for you, But I mean you wouldn't have
done it otherwise, right.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, probably not if you know circumstances didn't work out
the way they did. I'm glad I did. I don't
have any regrets, you know, just the way I guess.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I don't get it. I don't understand why can't you
have whatever symbol you want. It doesn't change the fundamentals,
or does it. Maybe am I missing something here? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I think sometimes he's just a little serious about stuff
and he runs with it, and yeah, he's sometimes says
it's a little stubborn at the end of the day.
But yeah, I'm just wondering, like what I could say
to like you guys just kind of get through to
him because I why can't you have both?

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Right?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, this is I don't know, or yeah, I don't
know eight three five. I would also know, you know
other people who've been through the kipella, meaning here Bella
Hamen did this recently. I want to know what her
take is on this. I don't know what she was,
if she was Catholic or practicing Catholic or Christian or
whatever she was before, but I know that she converted

(17:24):
for her husband.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
She still does like the what is it the meal
of the what Italians do the seven fishes?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, she still does that with her dad with a
lot of fishes.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yes it is, which is a Catholic Italian fish?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
And so better cancel that. Cancel that because Josh says, no,
no fishes for you.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I mean, I know friends who have converted in their
husbands do feel the same, Like they've said, there's so
much anti Semitism right now, like we have to really
be in with this religion, and you converted, and why
do we need this? I want to raise our kids
just Jewish. But to me, I don't see an issue.
But obviously I can't really speak on it because.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I'm not sure how celebrating Catholicism makes you anti Semitic,
especially if you're a Jew. Oh no, I just mean
to have more solidarity. It's like more important than ever
I think. But I guess I don't know how putting
up a Christmas tree makes you not solid but or
doesn't demonstrate solidarity. But anyway, Deanna, let me take some
phone calls on this and belahamend just what ye we'll
see what she says. Have a good day and have
your radio one.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay, I appreciate it, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't mean to make this any deeper than it
has to be. But Belahamine, how were you raised?

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Well, so my parents weren't very religious, but I would say, quote,
I was Catholic and I did convert to Judaism in March.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Because you married a Jewish man.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Well, I hate saying that because we were together for
like seven years and I never did, but something in
me just kind of felt like, I don't know, I
was always very intrigued by Judaism and I was I
decided to make the leap for it.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Do you feel like you're any less Jewish if you
put up a Christmas tree? In your house to celebrate
or to honor. I suppose what you used to believe,
or your former faith, or what your friends and family believe.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
Not necessarily, I think it's all about what you're comfortable
with and you know, just your faith.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
You know.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
I don't necessarily think that a Christmas tree is gonna
knock your faith in Judaism. But that's my opinion. My husband,
he never had a Christmas tree. He doesn't get it.
I wanted a Christmas tree for like the longest time,
and he's like, yeah, I'm not really about this, but
he didn't tell you not to.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
No, he doesn't care. That's the thing. I guess if
you have a belief that it applies to you, fine,
if it doesn't, it doesn't. But like, I don't know,
you have to be all in one camp. If that's
your faith and you believe it and it's genuine to you,
do you have to be all on one side or
all on another? I think is that kind of part
of the problem. I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
I think that you don't have to prove to anybody
your Jewishness if you want to have a Christmas tree
by all means, I call it a Hanka bush I personally,
I don't have at the moment.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
That can be Yeah, I hate him. Yeah, was over it.
This is a great ass man over here, believe it
or not. Hey, Red, good morning, Red, Hey.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
Good morning. How are you guys?

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Hi, thanks for calling, Thanks for listening. So you are
Jewish and this makes you feel a certain kind.

Speaker 8 (20:16):
Of way, Yeah, definitely. The first thing is I do
think she should stay. I mean, this is no reason
to break up a marriage. But yeah, I guess at
the Jewish person the I called immediately, I was like,
I have to call it because I guess the I

(20:36):
think the thing that people who are not Jewish just
don't understand is that the oversaturation of Christmas and the
way that like now stores are like putting up Christmas
stuff in August, Like it just gets kind of exhausting
when it's something that you don't celebrate to be surrounded

(20:57):
by it all the time. And it's not like it's bad,
like you know, it's if you guys are enjoying it,
that's great. But I can see why her husband would
be like, I don't want this in my.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
House, Like can we just.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
Like it's everywhere, you know, like you can enjoy it elsewhere,
and I just don't think that, like you need the
tree up when yeah, it's not something that is related
to the religion.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well, and here's the thing red like, and I don't
advocate one way or the other. It's whatever whatever they decide.
It doesn't I'm not pushing one thing together. For me,
to be completely honest with you, I don't necessarily even
think I know what the tree represents, except it's missed
out too. I'm being honest. I'm honest, and I'm a Catholic.
I was raised Catholic. I consider myself kind of spiritual
at this point. But like the truth is, when the

(21:45):
tree comes up, it's Christmas time, and and it smells
good if we have a real one or light and
candle religious right, And like you put the I don't
know it just to me. It's just to me. It
reminds me of my childhood. So I feel like even
if I change my belief and in some ways I
have as i've grown, I and again this is different,

(22:06):
but like, I don't know that I think it makes
me any more or less devout in whatever I believe
because it's up, especially because don't we as grown ups
really sort of love stuff that we like. It makes
us feel good to remember being young, right, and that's
for me. That's what the chain represents. And the presence,
the presence, and I mentioned the presence.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I know the presents are important. I
think too. I think what maybe is a misunderstanding is
I don't even actually think it's religious at all. I
agree with you, but I think it is so like
there's so much symbolism embedded with what people associate it with,
like winter time that actually is Christmas.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I get you.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
So it's like again, when when that's what you grew
up with, it seems normal. But when that's not your thing,
when that's not what you grew up with, you're just like,
oh my god, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Ye Like.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
I'm like, I'm a teacher. And my one of my
coworkers who I love that she was decorating her room
for winter. She was trying to keep it very very
just like non secular in anyway, because you know, public school.
And I walked in and I didn't realize that she
was doing this, and I said, wow, this is very Christmasy,
and she yelled at me. She was like, no, it's

(23:23):
it's winter, and I said, well, no, it's it's not
because winter is like penguins and snowballs, and she had
reefs stopped. That's not religious, but it is. I guess iconography.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I hear your points. I just I guess it's dangerous.
The part that is dangerous for me is for her
husband to say, essentially, you're not It's almost he's implying
or saying, you're not into this completely. You're not committed
to your beliefs because of this symbol. And I think
that's kind of a dangerous place to be. He's projecting
onto her. He doesn't get to tell her.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
He's coming at it from the wrong place because I
don't think it's religious. I agree, Like the tree is
so iconic. When I was little, I wanted to set
up a tree because that's like it's just pretty, you know.
But yeah, I like, I think that that's the discussion
they need to have.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Okay, okay, well let me take some other culls here
and thank you, Red. I appreciate you calling. Have a
great day.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Yeah, of course you guys, So I love you guys.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
I listened to you every morning, and happy winter. I
mean that winter, you know, like penguin. I have a
good day, Ashley, Hi, actually, good morning. Welcome. So this
woman she called just a second ago, and she was
saying that she converted to Judaism, but she still wants
a Christmas tree in her house and her husband is Jewish,
says no, we're not doing that, and I don't know.

(24:48):
It doesn't sit well with me. And for no reason
except why does he get to decide whether she's committed
or not?

Speaker 8 (24:56):
I agree. I I am.

Speaker 9 (24:58):
I was raised Roman Catholic. I come from a big
Italian family. I went to Catholic school till high school,
and I married a Muslim Man and we have children,
and I did not convert, so it's a little bit
different for me, I guess.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
But we celebrate it all so.

Speaker 9 (25:23):
Because everyone likes to be included. I think in the
holidays spirit, and we have trees up and we host
Christmas at our house and the holidays and our children,
our children are also going to celebrate eed and we're
very inclusive.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
And I will say that.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Before we got married and things like.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
That, this had to be discussed with our families and
how we were going to do things. There were a
lot of questions, but it works for us. Everybody is involved.
We celebrate the diversity that our family and we love.
It's just more to celebrate for us an the whole year.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Actually, Yeah, Ashley, thank you so much. Have a good day. Yeah,
I do love that. Have a good one. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 9 (26:10):
Love you, guys, I love you too.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
If he's saving up for his belief in his religion
or he believes it's under under celebrated, under acknowledge, it's fine.
It's also coming off controlling though it's for me. Jacob, Hi, Hey,
how's it going? Hey, good morning man. You're Jewish and
it says it right here. So I guess we need
to do a you wanted. You wanted to lead with that,

(26:35):
so I want to make sure we get that out there.
Jacob is Jewish everyone, which is wonderful. We love that
for you, Jacob, you know.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Okay, So first first I want to shout out my mom, Hi, mom,
you're probably listening. And then second of all, I wanted
to say that I forgot their names, the people that
were talking, but the decision should be made take together.
It's both of their homes, so that needs to be
a mutual decision, so I wanted to preface with that.

(27:07):
But speaking to Judaism specifically, it's beyond a religion.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
It is a culture.

Speaker 10 (27:12):
It's a way of life, certain values, things like that.
When you are practicing Judaism, it's also what separates you
from from other religions, other cultures, other groups of people.
Honikkhah typically falls around Christmas, However, it is not the
Jewish Christmas. Honkah is about preserving Jewish values, identity, things

(27:36):
like that. The lady that had called in shared that
she had converted to Judaism. Judaism is a daily thing
that you are living, and I think it's just a
matter of what do you value Christmas tree. Sure there
is symbolism beyond beyond just the physical tree, but it's

(27:57):
also like what what are your value use How can
you live the Jewish lifestyle with with also having non
Jewish things in your home. I don't know if that
makes sense, but the symbolism goes beyond, just like the religion.
Jews have been persecuted for millennium for their you know, culture, identity, religion,

(28:19):
whatever it might be. So especially around Hanukah time is
the time to be Jewish and having a Christmas tree
might be a slippery slope. It might convolute the Jewish
values within.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
That Jewish home.

Speaker 10 (28:33):
Okay, I agree, it sounds like going back to what
I originally said.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
It is a it.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
Is a mutual decision that needs to be made with
all members of the household.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I agree with you, Jacob, and I appreciate the perspective
here in the education I do sincerely, and but and
I also agree with you that this is something to
day that he should be taking into consideration her thoughts too,
And it doesn't sound like he is. But Jacob, thank
you for listening. Man, Hi Mom, Hi Jacob's mom. I'm assuming, Yeah,
I don't need to assume, but yeah, right, Hey Julie, Hey,

(29:08):
how are you. Julie, Hey, good morning. So just to
stare go, here a Deanna she converted to Judaism, and
I'm just recapping the story here, Julie, and uh, and
she wants but she was Christian or Catholic and had
a Christmas tree and she wants a Christmas tree in
her house. And her husband says, no, I guess and
I'm paraphrasing here, but it's kind of like that makes
you maybe less Jewish. Or less committed or something like that.

(29:29):
If you do that, what do.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
You think, Well, I mean a couple of things. Everybody
has already said. It's really not appropriate for one person
in a relationship to dictate to the other, whether it's
the man dictating to the woman or the woman dictating
to the man. That's not a relationship. But and I
would say in response to the people who talk about

(29:50):
how embracing a religion, particularly judism, means you need to
be one immersed of the time, I would also say
I would disagree with that, because, after all, if you're
a thought mindful, thoughtful person who's thinking through your belief
system and the reason for beliefs, you ought to be
able to consciously examine other beliefs and not feel threatened

(30:14):
by that. But bottom line is what I wondered that's
a little different what everybody else has said is perhaps
he has in his family, his parents, his grandparents. If
he has Holocaustomer and his family, it's very possible that
this is a trigger for somebody else's emotional trauma. And
you know, she didn't get to really expand on why

(30:36):
he doesn't want it there, So she also really didn't
say whether they've discussed some sort of a compromise because
she does have a different background, and you know she
converted for him, So stay and examine, well, whether you
really meant to be Jewish or you're on the fence
about it, But there's compromises she could do.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
And maybe, like maybe.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
You decorate a hanuka bush with blue life and drada. Yeah,
maybe you don't put up the tree, but you still
put up to your full lights that are blue when white.
And instead of hanging wreaths and whatnot on your house,
maybe you hang dradles and symbols of Judaism, but you
still light up the night and get that warm, fuzzy.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Julie, I like it. I like all the points. Thank
you very much. I'm glad you called it. Have a
good day. This is everyone's very civilized here with this,
and I appreciate it. And I learned some things here.
I guess if they and I hear what she's saying
about the context, I guess if it were that sensitive
for him, though, maybe this wouldn't be so difficult for
her to manage, you know what I mean, Like if
it if her, if there if his history is deep rooted,

(31:41):
maybe she's not calling you radio. Maybe this is less trivial. Yes,
maybe she would have mentioned that. I'm not sure, but
I don't know. I don't know. I like the I
like the Christmas or the Hollyka Bush may see the
issue with Hanaka Bush. Now Ruvia, I see the But
that just got to you. No that it's been repeated
a couple of times. I'm going to change that.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
We're going to.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
La Bella. We are going to correct the hell out
of you. It took you twelve minutes to get I
love you so much, The Entertainmer reports, Ax