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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What holiday are we celebrating right now? Oh, it's like,
uh early fall. It's like pre pre pre pre pre Halloween,
pre Halloween. On October eighth, when do you plan on
celebrating Halloween? We're like, how many days are we from Christmas? Now?
I don't know. Columbus Day's Monday, right, yeah? Yeah, Columbus
slash Indigenous People's Day, depending on which side of the
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side of that you want to celebrate. I don't know
many people who talk about both of those things at
the same time, but yeah, it's both Columbus and Indigenous
People's Day, my only I mean, Columbus wasn't the first
guy though, like to come to this land from another land,
like there was some vikings before him. So yeah yeah.
Leif Ericson, Yeah, so why don't we have Leif Erikson Day?
Good durg Yeah, that's what we could do that all day.
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I'd love it. It's a SpongeBob reference. There's a SpongeBob
episode where he celebrates happy Leif Eriksson. Yes, yeah, godding
ad durgon. Can we go, okay this Monday? Can we
just call that Leif Erikson Days? We can do that
all show. No, no, and the reason we don't do
that is because that's not entirely incorrect. It's just that
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the Vikings didn't hang around for long. They didn't come back. Well,
there wasn't much to plunder. I can't blame them. Yeah,
they showed up at the wrong place and they didn't
even bother to explore other places. They show up in
like Nova Scotia. Now Columbus landed in like the Caribbean,
where there was stuff, plenty of people to murder. Eh,
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take it easy on old. He got off the boat,
and that's the first thing he said, Look at all
the people I can murder. He didn't say that the
history book. You were not there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I was doing.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's not what he said. Well, well, liberal textbook, where
you learn it about this from the name of the
paint in the Santa Maria were thinking about trying to
get to Okay, remember this is what they were thinking
at the time. And I'll get to why this matters
in a second. But Columbus, in his three ships, they're explorers.
He was going to go to India, a place that
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had already been colonized by Britain. Is like okay, yeah,
go figure out what's something He's like, but the earth
is round. We have figured this out recently. The earth
is round, therefore I should be able to find it
on the other like going the other direction. So he
went the other direction, and when he made landfall, it
wasn't in India, it was somewhere else. So, yeah, there
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was all sorts of stuff that ended up happening. The
people that you know met him there, they weren't super
pumped to see these three ships, had no idea who
they were or why they were there. And yeah, but
there was like different types of society that were ongoing
throughout North America. And that's not what I'm here to
talk about. But you know, considering all of the things
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that the people of the Americas, both north and south
kind of went through. Was Portugal in Spain and France
and Britain kind of and the Dutch kind of all
battling with each other over all of the land for
the next few hundred years. You know, many people are like,
you know, what I think is a little bit more
it's better to be calling this Indigenous People's Day than
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celebrating Christopher Columbus, which I think, and Neil Degrass Tyson
said as much what Columbus did going the other direction
to try to find India and then running into an
entirely new society in the New World in the Western
Hemisphere is maybe the most significant thing that has happened
in world history. Wow, Neil Degrass Tyson said this right now.
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I'm sure somebody would have also accidentally have done that,
at least in the next hundred years after that. I mean,
it wouldn't have been that long before that would have happened.
But when it happened, it changed everything. I mean there
was stuff happening there, and you could grow stuff there,
and how much of that land was even there we
didn't know. So yeah, but that's going on. Do we
celebrate that though, or we commemorate that, commemorate what Indigenous
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People's Day, oh, or Columbus Day. It's not really a celebration.
You don't put window clings on your in your house
or set up a tree or anything. Oh, I see,
it's more of it. It's more of a learning holiday. Yeah, yeah,
Well are you do you say Halloween? Like, are you
a Halloween guy? Do you dress up for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Usually Halloween is on a Thursday. This year Thursday, Okay,
over here they do that the kids go to the
houses and trick or treat on the Thursday, right on
the actual day. Because when I was in the Moines,
that wasn't how that worked. They did that like the
day before or the day after. It was very strange.
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I don't know why they did it that way, but
they didn't realize it was different. The Baker's Night and
Halloween were not the same night in Des Moines for
some reason in the state of Iowa. To be honest,
I wonder why. It's probably safety purposes or something. They
think the delinquents are out on hallo Old Hallows Eve. Whatever. Well,
guess what I saw when I went to my bathroom
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last night. I'm thinking, you know what, it's almost bedtime.
I'm ready to you know, take one last week before
I you know, lay down and have my sweet dreams
about what I'm going to do at work tomorrow. And
I have my backyard. I see my backyard in my bathroom.
So when I am in the bathroom where I let
the dogs, I can go to the bathroom I and
can see the dogs. So my blinds are like just
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a little open so I can see the backyard. I
have a fence. But beyond the fence, I have the
people that live on the back side of our block.
And then I can see some of the trees on
the other side of the street, on the street across
from us. And what do you think I saw at
like ten pm last night, Bigfoot? No, I saw a
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fully decorated lit Christmas tree. Oh you're kidding, I am not.
I saw it with my own two eyes. It was
October seventh. October seventh, So why would that be? Is
there an acceptable reason for that? When are we going
to draw the line? And before people start calling in
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and say, this doesn't affect you, This doesn't matter to you.
Have a little fun in your life. It's okay for
us to talk about stuff that's not super duper serious.
When is the line? Can we not even get past
Halloween anymore?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You know me, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to that.
I say, you wait, you decorate for Christmas the day
after Thanksgiving at the earliest, Yes, that's when you start it.
It's a beautiful time. What about Christmas music? Same right, same, same?
The day after Thanksgiving is a wonderful day. Get up early,
go do some shopping, come home, start with the Christmas decorations,
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take a nap. Then that night, go out and drive
around and see who's putting up Christmas lights, and communicate
with your neighborhood and have some fun. It's a beautiful day,
and that's how it should work. At some point, you're
gonna need to like give Carver out of four hours
so you can watch the Huskers play Iowa. But yeah,
I picking up what you're putting down on Yeah, but yeah,
I mean, come on, what are we talking about here?
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Like you don't have enough time between then and Christmas?
What about right now? We're not even the beginning of November.
I would still have this reaction. It's the beginning of October.
I have a neighbor down the street that has like
six skeletons, including one they've made look like it's buried
in the ground. It's very elaborate, and I'm okay with that.
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It's October. It's it's the Halloween month. I got a
person that I'm seeing in my back like like through
my back window across the street that has a giant
Christmas tree they already have lit. That's wild, even if
they're just testing it, Even if they're just testing it,
Why are you testing your Christmas decorations in the first
week of October. Can't we enjoy the seasons? Why are
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we in such a hurry these days at this point?
Why don't just have it up all year long, Christmas
all year. You can give a weekly tradition at that house,
Just give a gift to somebody, weekly tradition. Christmas no
longer special, no longer just for you know, December. What
do you think? I don't know. I don't think I
like it. Well, if you got an opinion on this,
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if you have an idea of what we should do
and when we should be decorating, or if you're one
of those people that like to decorate early and you're
such a fanatic about Christmas, you have a good reason why.
I would love to hear it. You can call us
at four oh two, five five eight to eleven ten.
Four oh two, five five eight, eleven ten. It's news
Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, this person on December or October, rather October the seventh,
I saw in my backyard through my back window they
had a Christmas tree outside, fully decorated and lit already.
Now I'm trying to figure out why that is. And
if I'm the only one that's fairly appalled by this,
seems like Matt, you are also fairly appalled by this.
I am appalled. I am a peterd I am a
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John mm hmm. Yeah. Well you can call us at
four oh two, five, five, eight to eleven ten and
Julie is there. Julie's on the phone line. Thanks Julie
for the call. What do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Oh, Chris, about the birth of lace and Christ is
celebrated by Christians. I'm at and that's to be celebrated
every day of the year. Now it's first decorating. I
decorate on Halloween because I do not observe Halloween, Okay,
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but the reason I start so early is because I'm
disabled and for me to decorate it takes many days. Interesting,
but that's how important it is to me. So you
can be called a Peter whatever, but I'm a Christian.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And all for it, all right, I mean, it's fair,
Juliau's why I had the conversation. I don't expect people
to all call in and you know, agree with me here,
And I'm glad that you know, you you find joy
in the decorating part of this, and I understand where
you're coming from on that. I'm not gonna combat you
on that. But you're not decorating right now, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Like like no, but but I but I start at Halloween.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, all right, fair enough, Julie. Well, I appreciate you
calling in and sharing that one with us. Okay, called
bye bye. What do you think? What do you think?
You know that the religious aspects, she doesn't observe Halloween,
and that's another you know, there are many devout Christians
that do not. Is that a way to like give
Halloween kind of the shoulder? It's just like, hey, Halloween,
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take this Christmas action while you're at it. Well, I mean,
to be honest, I'm a Christian and I don't really
care about Halloween. But I would say this is more
do we really need to celebrate a holiday this early?
That's kind of where I'm at with it. Sure, well,
she made it sound like in a way she celebrates
the holiday or what the meaning of the holiday is
every single day, and you know the decorating of same,
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you know, like you leave those lights up. What about
the other end of this. How long do you even
leave the decorations up. There was one year that I
just never got around to, like taking the lights off
my house. You know, it was like almost the end
of January by the time I took those down. Multiple
people that were friends are just like your neighbors haven't
said anything to you. They're annoyed that you still have
those up. I wasn't turning them on, but you know,
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like if you're not turning them on, then I mean
a little self conscious though you don't want to be
the guy in the in late January, still is Christmas
lights in his house? Right to each their own. Brian's
on the phone line of four, two, five, five, eight
to eleven teen. What do you think, Brian?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Hi, guys, Yeah, so, all due respect to Julie, I agree.
As a Christian, I celebrate christ every day in my heart.
The day after Thanksgiving is when you start putting the
decorations up for Christmas. Now here's my calendar. First half
of October you celebrate fall. Second half of October is Halloween, okay.
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The month of November is for Thanksgiving. The month of
December is for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How do you celebrate? How do you celebrate fall there, Brian,
just to.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Fall decorations, putting up your fake leaves, you know, like
just like you can do oranges, you can do window
clings for fall, right, yeah, or whatever. Now I think,
I know, I'm wondering if we might not be looking
at the same tree. I know, I'm not too far
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away from you. It's like this fifty foot tall pine tree.
And they have this house has a whole bunch of
Halloween decorations in their front yard. So what I'm hoping
is that they were just testing now and maybe they
had to make an appointment. Maybe they had to make
an appointment to have semny Count come out and install
these lights. But what you do then is you plug
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them in. Do they work? Yeah, and then you can
just unplug them.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah. So now that you mentioned this, I'm going to
have to look be on the lookout tonight and see
if it's back on, because.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, it may it may not.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I just maybe I just caught them at the wrong time.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Possibly you can test the lights without keeping them on.
So yeah, I'm gonna drive buy this place again. And
I'm like, no, shut them off, like you know, they work,
shut them off now, right?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well? And it's just so early to even be worrying
about this. But yeah, I guess I'm moving with.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You, Brian. But that's why I say, maybe they had
to make an appointment and this was the only time
that the company could come out.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
To and install out.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
We'll give them a little benefit of the doubt for now,
but if they're on again tonight, then.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I'm going to have a brother all right, and I'll
keep you updated on that, Brian. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
All right, thank you, have a good day, all.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, bye, bye. Chris is on our phone line of
four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
What do you think, Chris, Well, you know, it could
be a situation where these folks don't have the luxury
of celebrating along with the calendar. They could have somebody
in their family that's sick and they might not make
it to Christmas, so they're going to celebrate it early.
They could have a family member who's in the military
it is about to get deployed, so they want to
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have Christmas with them and maybe start doing it early
because those people aren't going to be around in December
when we have the actual holiday.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sure, I just I would I would ask and again,
I'm just this is more Devil's Advocate than having a
problem with what you're saying. The calendar. You know, like
you mentioned they don't have the they want to celebrate
Christmas specifically, but even though it's not Christmas itself, is
it strange to you know, do the whole decorating part
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of Christmas even though like, yeah, we can celebrate Christmas,
but if you are decorating for Christmas in October because
you're not sure you're going to be able to celebrate
with a person that potentially could be deployed or whatever
in December, is the decorating part of that like the
most important part of it or what would the significance
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be of decorating this early if not just to you know,
have it ready for December itself? You know, I guess
would be my question, like how do I articulate this?
If I was celebrating something early because I'm not sure
I'm going to see these people for the holiday we're
talking about, I would probably just gift them something or
you know, have the meal or the dinner and the
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meal from Thanksgiving to Christmas isn't really all that different,
a right, but it's a reason for us to get
together and have fellowship with our family and our friends.
The decorating part of that isn't something that I consider
to be like that important to this. Am I missing
that is? Do you think that that has?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
It depends on the family. It depends on the family
because for a lot of people, the whole tradition of
decorating and everything, it's a big part of it. And
I know with I have two children and they're both
in the military, and if I was going to do
this for them, buying them a gift would not be
the big part of it. It would be celebrating the
editions that we celebrated with them ever since they were children,
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and decorating maybe a part of that. I mean, it
depends on the family. But and I'm a veteran too,
and I spend many Christmases away from my family. And
the gifts, although that's nice to get a gift, I
would have given anything just to have been there with
the Christmas tree, you know, and all those kinds of things,
and it was just it's just it's the making of
memories that that's the most important thing, and then not
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so much the gift. So the gift itself might be
just the decorations and experiencing those traditions with a loved
one because they're not going to be around to experience
it for whatever reason. And that's sure, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, Chris, that's a very very compelling discussion piece
of this and I one hundred percent thank that you're
nailing it on the head there. Really appreciate your insight
to this today.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good day you too.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll get to more calls this situation of early Christmas decorations,
like the guy at least that was testing his tree
potentially turning it on who knows, seems to be fully
decorated on the first week or first week thereabouts of October.
You can call us with your opinions on this four, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,
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and we'll do more next on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And Maurice Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I just I said, couldn't believe that on October the seventh,
This was last night, October seventh, I one of the
neighbors as a fully decorated Christmas tree that they actually
flipped on for a little bit. Now, with that being said,
I'm trying to figure out when the right time to
decorate for Christmases and if there are any exceptions to that.
Plenty of emails are coming in, but I'd rather talk
to you on the phone. Four two, five, eight, eleven, ten,
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and John is on the line. Hey, John, what do
you think about this?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Hi? Amory.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hey, the guy that was on there about the military deal.
That was the same deal that my parents did for
me when I was getting ready to go. I was
I'm the submariner, you know, when I was getting ready
to go underway, they would they would have the whole
house decorated and stuff, and so, I mean, you know,
I'm not I don't decorate early. I'm the same way
with Matt. We do it Thanksgiving Day. We'll we'll put
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the tree up and start decorating. But I do have
a specific you know, the day after Christmas, I want
everything down and packed up and stored away. I do
not keep anything past the first of the year. Because
I don't know where I heard this years ago, but
somebody told me, if you keep up your Christmas tree
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after the first, if you had any bad luck or
any bad experience that year, you'll carry it into the
new year. So I don't carry that. I don't leave
any Christmas decorations up past the first but as far
as that person that's got their tree up, you know,
I was at Low's a couple of days ago and
I thought the same thing you did.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All the Christmas decorations are out. Yeah, But then I
found myself looking at him.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I was like, oh, isn't that cool?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know, so didn't you see John? Did you see
the did do you see the giant abominable snowman?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, I took a picture of him. Actually that leads
like a ten foot tall bole snow monster standing there
putting a star on top of a tree. And the
first thing I thought was whose house when that thing fitted?
And then I thought, well, there's some big houses out
the problem.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know, I'm guessing they're gonna that's an outside thing.
I don't even know how you get that home, Like
do you need a semi to bring that home to you?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But that thing was like five hundred bucks. I thought,
you set that outside, guess where that's going to be.
It's probably going to be in the back of somebody's
pickup going down the street. Oh, but I think it'd
be cool if they had like Yukon Cornelius, you know,
with the dogs lad next to them or something right, right,
But anyway, it made me happy looking at it, so
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you know, they got probably a reason for doing that.
So I mean, it's cool that they're being constructive, right
and they're not, you know, trashing their house. Or I
think it would be a cool opportunity for you to
go over there during the daytime someday and just say, hey,
I noticed your tree. I'm memory, you know, and hey,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I think you overestimate how friendly I actually am.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Woll it'd be cool, you know, or take take your
dogs for a stroll over there and have little stocking
caps on and go, hey, here's my Christmas dogs. You know,
we come over and sing jingle bells, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know, John, you're
asking a lot of man hang on their tree. There
you go, all right, buddy, Hey, thanks for the call, buddy, Yeah,
thanks for the thanks for the call. Yeah. I don't know. Man,
I'm a friendly person, but I'm not like the kind
of friendly guy like my dad's like this. My dad's
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a big friendly guy, and he will walk up to
strangers and just talk to them if he's observing something
that he wants to speak with them about. Right, I'm not.
I'm the kind of the opposite. I just kind of
like flying under the radar a little bit. But you know,
it might be a good conversation starter, just to kind
of like look, walk in front of the house and
kind of just look at this tree and be like,
why is this tree like this? And then hopefully maybe
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somebody will come out and be like, hey, creep, while
you standing outside my house looking at my tree, and
then we can talk about it. I don't know if
that conversation is gonna go the same way though. Doug's
on our phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Hey Doug, what's up.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Good Man?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Good?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I just wanted to say I.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Agree with you. I think it's way too early. I
think all of this has been driven me by the
retail outlet. Like you said, I mean, every year, they're
trying to get ahead of their competition, so they keep
putting stuff out earlier and earlier, and so people just
start getting interested and go earlier and earlier, and you know,
to me personally, by the time Christmas comes, I'm about
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half burned out by decorations. It's been so long.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, Well and that's the thing, right, like, how
how long does the season need to be before it
just stops being the special part of the year that
we notice it to be?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yep, I exactly agree. I don't think it should happen
till after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm with you, man, Thanks for the call, Doug, you
bet bye? All right? Are my guy Jeff Angelo? Remember
Jeff Angelo. He's over in the in the Des Moines area.
And old uh oh old Jeff. He's a he's a
year rounder, year rounder, like he he like he's he
will celebrate Christmas in July. He watches Hallmark Christmas movies
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all year long. To me, that's weird. He loves the holiday, right,
but for what? What about it? Specifically? Some of the
emails that have come in, Kyle says, I go with
the park parks and rec right to jail bit for
Christmas up before Thanksgiving. My mother swears Christmas can stay
until January for Epiphany. But I take my stuff down
on the twenty sixth Joe says, I happened to be
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in Walmart September thirtieth saw a decorated lighted Christmas tree WDF.
The Waltons are the ones who created this crap mahambug.
So if we do like the transitive property to this,
when would we start seeing like like, okay, so September
thirtieth is how far before Christmas? Like the day Christmas?
September thirtieth? Yeah, it's too almost three months? Yeah, shy
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of five days? That would mean Halloween. If we had
the same principle for Halloween, well where would Halloween land? Like,
we'd see Halloween stuff in July?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is that right after fourth of July? I wouldn't be
surprised if you do kind of start seeing like, well,
that would be that would be it? Right? Five days
short of three full months. Now, that would be August, August, September,
all of October. So yeah, i'd be early August, you'd
see it. That seems early. What about Valentine's Day? Just
shy three months of Valentine's Day would be we'd be
seeing what would it be January December? It would be
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middle November we'd start seeing Valentine's Day stuff. By this principle,
you're gonna buy your Valentine's Day stuff in November. You're
gonna buy those sweetheart things that hit the same words
on them, those sweethearts, You're gonna be buying those in November.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't know if the comparison is perfect, because Christmas
is a bigger holiday than all the right, I'm just
using the same rules, all right. I'm not trying. I'm
not trying to bamboozle you here. I'm just I'm saying,
I'm the same rules. If we are trying to use
retail outlets to sell stuff to promote holidays about the
same time for every holiday, what would that look like?
(23:56):
And I'm just saying if September thirtieth is when some
of the big conglomerates are starting to put Christmas decorations out,
then if you use that property across every lastpit, you're
going to be starting to buy fireworks for Fourth of July,
another Fourth of July stuff. You know what that would be.
We're talking early April April. You can't possibly tell me
that that's acceptable or that anybody would want to do that.
(24:17):
I mean, you're barely out of Easter and now you're
selling me fourth of July stuff. What are we talking
about here? So you're right, it is about the size
of the holiday, but it's also about the commercialization of saying.
You know what I mean. I think it's different. In
my opinion, it's different for a store to sell the
stuff than for people to put it up in celebration
of it. Like if a store wants to get their
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Christmas stuff out there because they're only going to do
that because it behooves them too, because people will buy
it because it's good for their bottom line. It is
certainly it is getting bought immediately for sure. Yeah, And
it makes sense when you're talking home depot lows, you're
talking stores like that, to put out those decorations a
fifteen foot tall abottable stone monster, for instance, it makes sense.
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I mean, you go there and they've got them across
the aisle. They've got your Halloween decorations on this side,
the Christmas on the other. That is exactly what is
going on right now. David says, my mother used to
decorate her house in October every year for Christmas. However,
shortly after it was set up, Heer and my father
would go to the Florida Keys until just before Christmas,
and we'd come back home for the holidays and the
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home was ready for the festivities. That's different. Yeah, that's different.
Come on, now, that's not even close to the same thing.
I got more emails here. I might try to read them.
Rob sent a picture of the Abominable Stowe Monster. I
was referencing. If you haven't seen this, it's pretty crazy,
but pretty interesting stuff. And Matt had a question about
(25:43):
something allegiance wise, and I think this is going to
be kind of cool. We're going to pick a hockey
team for all Matt here, Oh, we're gonna do that
in the next segment, so so be ready for that.
On news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
And raise songer on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Matt, you inform me you don't have a hockey team.
You're not you don't have a favorite hockey team. The
dream is free, but the hustle is going to cost me.
Is that right? I decided I was going to fit
that into the show somewhere today and I haven't found
a good spot, so there you go. It didn't really work.
But yeah, I don't have a I don't have a
hockey team, never really have had a hockey team that
(26:22):
I've rooted for. All right, So we're talking NHL specifically.
Other pro teams for you are in the other sports,
professional football, the Las Vegas Raiders okay, although they'll always
be in Oakland in my heart, okay, New York Knicks
of course for basketball okay, and baseball Saint Louis Cardinals. Okay.
So there's hockey teams in all three of those cities.
(26:43):
Are you interested in, you know, like tacking one of
those on. I don't like to I don't like to
mix the cities. Oh, so you want to go somewhere else? Yeah,
I like the idea of it being in a different city. Okay,
So a different city. Is there a part of the
country that you like the best or the I guess
north of Mayeraera, because there are seven Canadian teams in
this league, Like, what do you think, like, is there
(27:04):
is there a spot that is warm and near and
dear to your heart that you're not cheering for a
team in that city. I do like the idea of
it being in Canada. Oh a Canadian team?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Or seven? Now we're narrowing this down. Let's find you
a team and we'll cheer on that team together and
we'll talk about that. Well, will you choose the team
and then you and I we'll just cheer on this team. Okay?
How how about all right?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What do you have a favorite color? I like a
lot of colors, but do you I like I like
like red or blue? I like I like blue, but
I like silver too. Do you care about do you
care about winning? Is it imperative that you're cheering for
a team that has a chance to win a lot
of games. I'm a Knicks fan, I'm a Raiders fan.
It's not that big of a deal to me. So
(27:46):
you just want to be attached to and root the
team on it. It will mean something that they end
up being good. Yes, okay, how I'll give you a
few here. The Toronto mayple leafs. That's kind of the
one I h I'll tell you this. They had a
mayor there once. What was his name, R Johnson or something?
He was like the He was like the Canadian Chris Farley.
He passed away, gone too soon. But if it was
(28:09):
in his honor, I would like to maybe root on
the Toronto team just for him. Well, the Winnipeg Jets
are blue and silver as well, oh with some white,
and they're kind of an underdog franchise, small market up
there in Manitoba. That's a cool name, Winnipeg Jets. And
then they're the Vancouver Canucks, also a lot of blue
in their shirts. Were an incredible city. It's on my
(28:31):
short list of places that I want to go vacation.
Is a Canuck a flightless duck. No, a Kentuck is
literally just a Canadian. It's a word for a Canadian.
Their logo is uh Orca. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Their
gears pretty I gotta be honest, their gears pretty sick.
I like the I like the Orca. And then the
Canucks name is you know, there's a team called the
(28:53):
Canadians for goodness sake. I mean, a lot of teams
aren't really named that creatively in the national hockey It's
the same reason why I don't really like the Houston Texans.
It's too boring. Yeah, exactly, there you go. So those
are you know, the Edmonton Oilers. They have blue, there's
not a lot of silver in there. And then the
other Canadian teams are Montreal, Ottawa Senators, and the Calgary Flames.
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Who you know, what do you think? What team are
we rooting for in this NHL season? I'm between the
first two there, the Toronto Mate Believes and the Winnipeg
Jets because they're both blue and silver, right, yeah, well,
and Vancouver is kind of as well. So Toronto isn't silver.
They're blue and white, oh, very white, blue and very white.
Winnipeg has silver in the logo, they don't really wear silver.
(29:40):
Vancouver Canucks, I think, have a little bit more of
a gray in there in their thing. I don't know
if it's silver per se. What do you what do
you think?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
What team are we cheering for? Here? Well, it's between
those three the Vancouver was it? Canucks? Yeah? Yeah, here
you go. I've already got a the logo and stuff
pulled up.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
What do you think? What do you think? H yeah, yeah,
It's not like we're committing to buying stuff with the
logo on it. I'm gonna say Winnipeg Jets, but I'm
not committed to that yet. Well, it looks like we
got ourselves a hockey team for Matt Case. Congratulations, all right,
(30:22):
this three fifty six and we come back We're gonna
go ahead and try to figure out what how I
A problem I mentioned on this show last year about
this time probably has reoccurred, and now I am definitely
thinking that I have a bit of a bigger problem here,
and we're gonna do the best that we can to
try to resolve that. I will explain when I come back.
(30:45):
Don't you go anywhere. You're listening to Emory Songer Live
with You on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
What holiday are we celebrating right now? Oh, it's like,
uh early fall. It's like pre pre pre pre pre Halloween,
pre Halloween. On October eighth, when do you plan on
celebrating Halloween? We're like, how many days are we from Christmas? Now?
I don't know. Columbus Day's Monday, right, yeah? Yeah, Columbus
slash Indigenous People's Day, depending on which side of the
(00:23):
side of that you want to celebrate. I don't know
many people who talk about both of those things at
the same time, but yeah, it's both Columbus and Indigenous
People's Day, my only I mean, Columbus wasn't the first
guy though, like to come to this land from another land,
like there was some vikings before him. So yeah yeah.
Leif Ericson, Yeah, so why don't we have Leif Erikson Day?
Good durg Yeah, that's what we could do that all day.
(00:45):
I'd love it. It's a SpongeBob reference. There's a SpongeBob
episode where he celebrates happy Leif Eriksson. Yes, yeah, godding
ad durgon. Can we go, okay this Monday? Can we
just call that Leif Erikson Days? We can do that
all show. No, no, and the reason we don't do
that is because that's not entirely incorrect. It's just that
(01:06):
the Vikings didn't hang around for long. They didn't come back. Well,
there wasn't much to plunder. I can't blame them. Yeah,
they showed up at the wrong place and they didn't
even bother to explore other places. They show up in
like Nova Scotia. Now Columbus landed in like the Caribbean,
where there was stuff, plenty of people to murder. Eh,
(01:27):
take it easy on old. He got off the boat,
and that's the first thing he said, Look at all
the people I can murder. He didn't say that the
history book. You were not there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I was doing.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's not what he said. Well, well, liberal textbook, where
you learn it about this from the name of the
paint in the Santa Maria were thinking about trying to
get to Okay, remember this is what they were thinking
at the time. And I'll get to why this matters
in a second. But Columbus, in his three ships, they're explorers.
He was going to go to India, a place that
(01:58):
had already been colonized by Britain. Is like okay, yeah,
go figure out what's something He's like, but the earth
is round. We have figured this out recently. The earth
is round, therefore I should be able to find it
on the other like going the other direction. So he
went the other direction, and when he made landfall, it
wasn't in India, it was somewhere else. So, yeah, there
(02:19):
was all sorts of stuff that ended up happening. The
people that you know met him there, they weren't super
pumped to see these three ships, had no idea who
they were or why they were there. And yeah, but
there was like different types of society that were ongoing
throughout North America. And that's not what I'm here to
talk about. But you know, considering all of the things
(02:42):
that the people of the Americas, both north and south
kind of went through. Was Portugal in Spain and France
and Britain kind of and the Dutch kind of all
battling with each other over all of the land for
the next few hundred years. You know, many people are like,
you know, what I think is a little bit more
it's better to be calling this Indigenous People's Day than
(03:05):
celebrating Christopher Columbus, which I think, and Neil Degrass Tyson
said as much what Columbus did going the other direction
to try to find India and then running into an
entirely new society in the New World in the Western
Hemisphere is maybe the most significant thing that has happened
in world history. Wow, Neil Degrass Tyson said this right now.
(03:25):
I'm sure somebody would have also accidentally have done that,
at least in the next hundred years after that. I mean,
it wouldn't have been that long before that would have happened.
But when it happened, it changed everything. I mean there
was stuff happening there, and you could grow stuff there,
and how much of that land was even there we
didn't know. So yeah, but that's going on. Do we
celebrate that though, or we commemorate that, commemorate what Indigenous
(03:48):
People's Day, oh, or Columbus Day. It's not really a celebration.
You don't put window clings on your in your house
or set up a tree or anything. Oh, I see,
it's more of it. It's more of a learning holiday. Yeah, yeah,
Well are you do you say Halloween? Like, are you
a Halloween guy? Do you dress up for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Usually Halloween is on a Thursday. This year Thursday, Okay,
over here they do that the kids go to the
houses and trick or treat on the Thursday, right on
the actual day. Because when I was in the Moines,
that wasn't how that worked. They did that like the
day before or the day after. It was very strange.
(04:25):
I don't know why they did it that way, but
they didn't realize it was different. The Baker's Night and
Halloween were not the same night in Des Moines for
some reason in the state of Iowa. To be honest,
I wonder why. It's probably safety purposes or something. They
think the delinquents are out on hallo Old Hallows Eve. Whatever. Well,
guess what I saw when I went to my bathroom
(04:46):
last night. I'm thinking, you know what, it's almost bedtime.
I'm ready to you know, take one last week before
I you know, lay down and have my sweet dreams
about what I'm going to do at work tomorrow. And
I have my backyard. I see my backyard in my bathroom.
So when I am in the bathroom where I let
the dogs, I can go to the bathroom I and
can see the dogs. So my blinds are like just
(05:07):
a little open so I can see the backyard. I
have a fence. But beyond the fence, I have the
people that live on the back side of our block.
And then I can see some of the trees on
the other side of the street, on the street across
from us. And what do you think I saw at
like ten pm last night, Bigfoot? No, I saw a
(05:28):
fully decorated lit Christmas tree. Oh you're kidding, I am not.
I saw it with my own two eyes. It was
October seventh. October seventh, So why would that be? Is
there an acceptable reason for that? When are we going
to draw the line? And before people start calling in
(05:50):
and say, this doesn't affect you, This doesn't matter to you.
Have a little fun in your life. It's okay for
us to talk about stuff that's not super duper serious.
When is the line? Can we not even get past
Halloween anymore?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You know me, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to that.
I say, you wait, you decorate for Christmas the day
after Thanksgiving at the earliest, Yes, that's when you start it.
It's a beautiful time. What about Christmas music? Same right, same, same?
The day after Thanksgiving is a wonderful day. Get up early,
go do some shopping, come home, start with the Christmas decorations,
(06:24):
take a nap. Then that night, go out and drive
around and see who's putting up Christmas lights, and communicate
with your neighborhood and have some fun. It's a beautiful day,
and that's how it should work. At some point, you're
gonna need to like give Carver out of four hours
so you can watch the Huskers play Iowa. But yeah,
I picking up what you're putting down on Yeah, but yeah,
I mean, come on, what are we talking about here?
(06:45):
Like you don't have enough time between then and Christmas?
What about right now? We're not even the beginning of November.
I would still have this reaction. It's the beginning of October.
I have a neighbor down the street that has like
six skeletons, including one they've made look like it's buried
in the ground. It's very elaborate, and I'm okay with that.
(07:07):
It's October. It's it's the Halloween month. I got a
person that I'm seeing in my back like like through
my back window across the street that has a giant
Christmas tree they already have lit. That's wild, even if
they're just testing it, Even if they're just testing it,
Why are you testing your Christmas decorations in the first
week of October. Can't we enjoy the seasons? Why are
(07:28):
we in such a hurry these days at this point?
Why don't just have it up all year long, Christmas
all year. You can give a weekly tradition at that house,
Just give a gift to somebody, weekly tradition. Christmas no
longer special, no longer just for you know, December. What
do you think? I don't know. I don't think I
like it. Well, if you got an opinion on this,
(07:49):
if you have an idea of what we should do
and when we should be decorating, or if you're one
of those people that like to decorate early and you're
such a fanatic about Christmas, you have a good reason why.
I would love to hear it. You can call us
at four oh two, five five eight to eleven ten.
Four oh two, five five eight, eleven ten. It's news
Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, this person on December or October, rather October the seventh,
I saw in my backyard through my back window they
had a Christmas tree outside, fully decorated and lit already.
Now I'm trying to figure out why that is. And
if I'm the only one that's fairly appalled by this,
seems like Matt, you are also fairly appalled by this.
I am appalled. I am a peterd I am a
(08:38):
John mm hmm. Yeah. Well you can call us at
four oh two, five, five, eight to eleven ten and
Julie is there. Julie's on the phone line. Thanks Julie
for the call. What do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Oh, Chris, about the birth of lace and Christ is
celebrated by Christians. I'm at and that's to be celebrated
every day of the year. Now it's first decorating. I
decorate on Halloween because I do not observe Halloween, Okay,
(09:15):
but the reason I start so early is because I'm
disabled and for me to decorate it takes many days. Interesting,
but that's how important it is to me. So you
can be called a Peter whatever, but I'm a Christian.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And all for it, all right, I mean, it's fair,
Juliau's why I had the conversation. I don't expect people
to all call in and you know, agree with me here,
And I'm glad that you know, you you find joy
in the decorating part of this, and I understand where
you're coming from on that. I'm not gonna combat you
on that. But you're not decorating right now, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Like like no, but but I but I start at Halloween.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, all right, fair enough, Julie. Well, I appreciate you
calling in and sharing that one with us. Okay, called
bye bye. What do you think? What do you think?
You know that the religious aspects, she doesn't observe Halloween,
and that's another you know, there are many devout Christians
that do not. Is that a way to like give
Halloween kind of the shoulder? It's just like, hey, Halloween,
(10:20):
take this Christmas action while you're at it. Well, I mean,
to be honest, I'm a Christian and I don't really
care about Halloween. But I would say this is more
do we really need to celebrate a holiday this early?
That's kind of where I'm at with it. Sure, well,
she made it sound like in a way she celebrates
the holiday or what the meaning of the holiday is
every single day, and you know the decorating of same,
(10:43):
you know, like you leave those lights up. What about
the other end of this. How long do you even
leave the decorations up. There was one year that I
just never got around to, like taking the lights off
my house. You know, it was like almost the end
of January by the time I took those down. Multiple
people that were friends are just like your neighbors haven't
said anything to you. They're annoyed that you still have
those up. I wasn't turning them on, but you know,
(11:05):
like if you're not turning them on, then I mean
a little self conscious though you don't want to be
the guy in the in late January, still is Christmas
lights in his house? Right to each their own. Brian's
on the phone line of four, two, five, five, eight
to eleven teen. What do you think, Brian?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Hi, guys, Yeah, so, all due respect to Julie, I agree.
As a Christian, I celebrate christ every day in my heart.
The day after Thanksgiving is when you start putting the
decorations up for Christmas. Now here's my calendar. First half
of October you celebrate fall. Second half of October is Halloween, okay.
(11:41):
The month of November is for Thanksgiving. The month of
December is for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How do you celebrate? How do you celebrate fall there, Brian,
just to.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Fall decorations, putting up your fake leaves, you know, like
just like you can do oranges, you can do window
clings for fall, right, yeah, or whatever. Now I think,
I know, I'm wondering if we might not be looking
at the same tree. I know, I'm not too far
(12:09):
away from you. It's like this fifty foot tall pine tree.
And they have this house has a whole bunch of
Halloween decorations in their front yard. So what I'm hoping
is that they were just testing now and maybe they
had to make an appointment. Maybe they had to make
an appointment to have semny Count come out and install
these lights. But what you do then is you plug
(12:29):
them in. Do they work? Yeah, and then you can
just unplug them.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah. So now that you mentioned this, I'm going to
have to look be on the lookout tonight and see
if it's back on, because.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Right, it may it may not.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I just maybe I just caught them at the wrong time.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Possibly you can test the lights without keeping them on.
So yeah, I'm gonna drive buy this place again. And
I'm like, no, shut them off, like you know, they work,
shut them off now, right?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well? And it's just so early to even be worrying
about this. But yeah, I guess I'm moving with.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You, Brian. But that's why I say, maybe they had
to make an appointment and this was the only time
that the company could come out.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
To and install out.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
We'll give them a little benefit of the doubt for now,
but if they're on again tonight, then.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I'm going to have a brother all right, and I'll
keep you updated on that, Brian. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
All right, thank you, have a good day, all.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Right, bye, bye. Chris is on our phone line of
four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
What do you think, Chris, Well, you know, it could
be a situation where these folks don't have the luxury
of celebrating along with the calendar. They could have somebody
in their family that's sick and they might not make
it to Christmas, so they're going to celebrate it early.
They could have a family member who's in the military
it is about to get deployed, so they want to
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have Christmas with them and maybe start doing it early
because those people aren't going to be around in December
when we have the actual holiday.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sure, I just I would I would ask and again,
I'm just this is more Devil's Advocate than having a
problem with what you're saying. The calendar. You know, like
you mentioned they don't have the they want to celebrate
Christmas specifically, but even though it's not Christmas itself, is
it strange to you know, do the whole decorating part
(14:14):
of Christmas even though like, yeah, we can celebrate Christmas,
but if you are decorating for Christmas in October because
you're not sure you're going to be able to celebrate
with a person that potentially could be deployed or whatever
in December, is the decorating part of that like the
most important part of it or what would the significance
(14:35):
be of decorating this early if not just to you know,
have it ready for December itself? You know, I guess
would be my question, like how do I articulate this?
If I was celebrating something early because I'm not sure
I'm going to see these people for the holiday we're
talking about, I would probably just gift them something or
you know, have the meal or the dinner and the
(14:56):
meal from Thanksgiving to Christmas isn't really all that different,
a right, but it's a reason for us to get
together and have fellowship with our family and our friends.
The decorating part of that isn't something that I consider
to be like that important to this. Am I missing
that is? Do you think that that has?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
It depends on the family. It depends on the family
because for a lot of people, the whole tradition of
decorating and everything, it's a big part of it. And
I know with I have two children and they're both
in the military, and if I was going to do
this for them, buying them a gift would not be
the big part of it. It would be celebrating the
editions that we celebrated with them ever since they were children,
(15:35):
and decorating maybe a part of that. I mean, it
depends on the family. But and I'm a veteran too,
and I spend many Christmases away from my family. And
the gifts, although that's nice to get a gift, I
would have given anything just to have been there with
the Christmas tree, you know, and all those kinds of things,
and it was just it's just it's the making of
memories that that's the most important thing, and then not
(15:57):
so much the gift. So the gift itself might be
just the decorations and experiencing those traditions with a loved
one because they're not going to be around to experience
it for whatever reason. And that's sure, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, Chris, that's a very very compelling discussion piece
of this and I one hundred percent thank that you're
nailing it on the head there. Really appreciate your insight
to this today.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good day you too.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We'll get to more calls this situation of early Christmas decorations,
like the guy at least that was testing his tree
potentially turning it on who knows, seems to be fully
decorated on the first week or first week thereabouts of October.
You can call us with your opinions on this four, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,
(16:41):
and we'll do more next on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And Maurice Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I just I said, couldn't believe that on October the seventh,
This was last night, October seventh, I one of the
neighbors as a fully decorated Christmas tree that they actually
flipped on for a little bit. Now, with that being said,
I'm trying to figure out when the right time to
decorate for Christmases and if there are any exceptions to that.
Plenty of emails are coming in, but I'd rather talk
to you on the phone. Four two, five, eight, eleven, ten,
(17:13):
and John is on the line. Hey, John, what do
you think about this?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Hi? Amory.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hey, the guy that was on there about the military deal.
That was the same deal that my parents did for
me when I was getting ready to go. I was
I'm the submariner, you know, when I was getting ready
to go underway, they would they would have the whole
house decorated and stuff, and so, I mean, you know,
I'm not I don't decorate early. I'm the same way
with Matt. We do it Thanksgiving Day. We'll we'll put
(17:44):
the tree up and start decorating. But I do have
a specific you know, the day after Christmas, I want
everything down and packed up and stored away. I do
not keep anything past the first of the year. Because
I don't know where I heard this years ago, but
somebody told me, if you keep up your Christmas tree
(18:05):
after the first, if you had any bad luck or
any bad experience that year, you'll carry it into the
new year. So I don't carry that. I don't leave
any Christmas decorations up past the first but as far
as that person that's got their tree up, you know,
I was at Low's a couple of days ago and
I thought the same thing you did.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I was like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All the Christmas decorations are out. Yeah, But then I
found myself looking at him.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I was like, oh, isn't that cool?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know, so didn't you see John? Did you see
the did do you see the giant abominable snowman?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, I took a picture of him. Actually that leads
like a ten foot tall bole snow monster standing there
putting a star on top of a tree. And the
first thing I thought was whose house when that thing fitted?
And then I thought, well, there's some big houses out
the problem.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know, I'm guessing they're gonna that's an outside thing.
I don't even know how you get that home, Like
do you need a semi to bring that home to you?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But that thing was like five hundred bucks. I thought,
you set that outside, guess where that's going to be.
It's probably going to be in the back of somebody's
pickup going down the street. Oh, but I think it'd
be cool if they had like Yukon Cornelius, you know,
with the dogs lad next to them or something right, right,
But anyway, it made me happy looking at it, so
(19:22):
you know, they got probably a reason for doing that.
So I mean, it's cool that they're being constructive, right
and they're not, you know, trashing their house. Or I
think it would be a cool opportunity for you to
go over there during the daytime someday and just say, hey,
I noticed your tree. I'm memory, you know, and hey,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I think you overestimate how friendly I actually am.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Woll it'd be cool, you know, or take take your
dogs for a stroll over there and have little stocking
caps on and go, hey, here's my Christmas dogs. You know,
we come over and sing jingle bells, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know, John, you're
asking a lot of man hang on their tree. There
you go, all right, buddy, Hey, thanks for the call, buddy, Yeah,
thanks for the thanks for the call. Yeah. I don't know. Man,
I'm a friendly person, but I'm not like the kind
of friendly guy like my dad's like this. My dad's
(20:16):
a big friendly guy, and he will walk up to
strangers and just talk to them if he's observing something
that he wants to speak with them about. Right, I'm not.
I'm the kind of the opposite. I just kind of
like flying under the radar a little bit. But you know,
it might be a good conversation starter, just to kind
of like look, walk in front of the house and
kind of just look at this tree and be like,
why is this tree like this? And then hopefully maybe
(20:38):
somebody will come out and be like, hey, creep, while
you standing outside my house looking at my tree, and
then we can talk about it. I don't know if
that conversation is gonna go the same way though. Doug's
on our phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Hey Doug, what's up.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Good Man?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Good?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I just wanted to say I.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Agree with you. I think it's way too early. I
think all of this has been driven me by the
retail outlet. Like you said, I mean, every year, they're
trying to get ahead of their competition, so they keep
putting stuff out earlier and earlier, and so people just
start getting interested and go earlier and earlier, and you know,
to me personally, by the time Christmas comes, I'm about
(21:18):
half burned out by decorations. It's been so long.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, Well and that's the thing, right, like, how
how long does the season need to be before it
just stops being the special part of the year that
we notice it to be?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yep, I exactly agree. I don't think it should happen
till after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm with you, man, Thanks for the call, Doug, you
bet bye? All right? Are my guy Jeff Angelo? Remember
Jeff Angelo. He's over in the in the Des Moines area.
And old uh oh old Jeff. He's a he's a
year rounder, year rounder, like he he like he's he
will celebrate Christmas in July. He watches Hallmark Christmas movies
(21:58):
all year long. To me, that's weird. He loves the holiday, right,
but for what? What about it? Specifically? Some of the
emails that have come in, Kyle says, I go with
the park parks and rec right to jail bit for
Christmas up before Thanksgiving. My mother swears Christmas can stay
until January for Epiphany. But I take my stuff down
on the twenty sixth Joe says, I happened to be
(22:21):
in Walmart September thirtieth saw a decorated lighted Christmas tree WDF.
The Waltons are the ones who created this crap mahambug.
So if we do like the transitive property to this,
when would we start seeing like like, okay, so September
thirtieth is how far before Christmas? Like the day Christmas?
September thirtieth? Yeah, it's too almost three months? Yeah, shy
(22:45):
of five days? That would mean Halloween. If we had
the same principle for Halloween, well where would Halloween land? Like,
we'd see Halloween stuff in July?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is that right after fourth of July? I wouldn't be
surprised if you do kind of start seeing like, well,
that would be that would be it? Right? Five days
short of three full months. Now, that would be August, August, September,
all of October. So yeah, i'd be early August, you'd
see it. That seems early. What about Valentine's Day? Just
shy three months of Valentine's Day would be we'd be
seeing what would it be January December? It would be
(23:20):
middle November we'd start seeing Valentine's Day stuff. By this principle,
you're gonna buy your Valentine's Day stuff in November. You're
gonna buy those sweetheart things that hit the same words
on them, those sweethearts, You're gonna be buying those in November.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't know if the comparison is perfect, because Christmas
is a bigger holiday than all the right, I'm just
using the same rules, all right. I'm not trying. I'm
not trying to bamboozle you here. I'm just I'm saying,
I'm the same rules. If we are trying to use
retail outlets to sell stuff to promote holidays about the
same time for every holiday, what would that look like?
(23:56):
And I'm just saying if September thirtieth is when some
of the big conglomerates are starting to put Christmas decorations out,
then if you use that property across every lastpit, you're
going to be starting to buy fireworks for Fourth of July,
another Fourth of July stuff. You know what that would be.
We're talking early April April. You can't possibly tell me
that that's acceptable or that anybody would want to do that.
(24:17):
I mean, you're barely out of Easter and now you're
selling me fourth of July stuff. What are we talking
about here? So you're right, it is about the size
of the holiday, but it's also about the commercialization of saying.
You know what I mean. I think it's different. In
my opinion, it's different for a store to sell the
stuff than for people to put it up in celebration
of it. Like if a store wants to get their
(24:39):
Christmas stuff out there because they're only going to do
that because it behooves them too, because people will buy
it because it's good for their bottom line. It is
certainly it is getting bought immediately for sure. Yeah, And
it makes sense when you're talking home depot lows, you're
talking stores like that, to put out those decorations a
fifteen foot tall abottable stone monster, for instance, it makes sense.
(25:00):
I mean, you go there and they've got them across
the aisle. They've got your Halloween decorations on this side,
the Christmas on the other. That is exactly what is
going on right now. David says, my mother used to
decorate her house in October every year for Christmas. However,
shortly after it was set up, Heer and my father
would go to the Florida Keys until just before Christmas,
and we'd come back home for the holidays and the
(25:20):
home was ready for the festivities. That's different. Yeah, that's different.
Come on, now, that's not even close to the same thing.
I got more emails here. I might try to read them.
Rob sent a picture of the Abominable Stowe Monster. I
was referencing. If you haven't seen this, it's pretty crazy,
but pretty interesting stuff. And Matt had a question about
(25:43):
something allegiance wise, and I think this is going to
be kind of cool. We're going to pick a hockey
team for all Matt here, Oh, we're gonna do that
in the next segment, so so be ready for that.
On news radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
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Speaker 1 (26:00):
Matt, you inform me you don't have a hockey team.
You're not you don't have a favorite hockey team. The
dream is free, but the hustle is going to cost me.
Is that right? I decided I was going to fit
that into the show somewhere today and I haven't found
a good spot, so there you go. It didn't really work.
But yeah, I don't have a I don't have a
hockey team, never really have had a hockey team that
(26:22):
I've rooted for. All right, So we're talking NHL specifically.
Other pro teams for you are in the other sports,
professional football, the Las Vegas Raiders okay, although they'll always
be in Oakland in my heart, okay, New York Knicks
of course for basketball okay, and baseball Saint Louis Cardinals. Okay.
So there's hockey teams in all three of those cities.
(26:43):
Are you interested in, you know, like tacking one of
those on. I don't like to I don't like to
mix the cities. Oh, so you want to go somewhere else? Yeah,
I like the idea of it being in a different city. Okay,
So a different city. Is there a part of the
country that you like the best or the I guess
north of Mayeraera, because there are seven Canadian teams in
this league, Like, what do you think, like, is there
(27:04):
is there a spot that is warm and near and
dear to your heart that you're not cheering for a
team in that city. I do like the idea of
it being in Canada. Oh a Canadian team?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Or seven? Now we're narrowing this down. Let's find you
a team and we'll cheer on that team together and
we'll talk about that. Well, will you choose the team
and then you and I we'll just cheer on this team. Okay?
How how about all right?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What do you have a favorite color? I like a
lot of colors, but do you I like I like
like red or blue? I like I like blue, but
I like silver too. Do you care about do you
care about winning? Is it imperative that you're cheering for
a team that has a chance to win a lot
of games. I'm a Knicks fan, I'm a Raiders fan.
It's not that big of a deal to me. So
(27:46):
you just want to be attached to and root the
team on it. It will mean something that they end
up being good. Yes, okay, how I'll give you a
few here. The Toronto mayple leafs. That's kind of the
one I h I'll tell you this. They had a
mayor there once. What was his name, R Johnson or something?
He was like the He was like the Canadian Chris Farley.
He passed away, gone too soon. But if it was
(28:09):
in his honor, I would like to maybe root on
the Toronto team just for him. Well, the Winnipeg Jets
are blue and silver as well, oh with some white,
and they're kind of an underdog franchise, small market up
there in Manitoba. That's a cool name, Winnipeg Jets. And
then they're the Vancouver Canucks, also a lot of blue
in their shirts. Were an incredible city. It's on my
(28:31):
short list of places that I want to go vacation.
Is a Canuck a flightless duck. No, a Kentuck is
literally just a Canadian. It's a word for a Canadian.
Their logo is uh Orca. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Their
gears pretty I gotta be honest, their gears pretty sick.
I like the I like the Orca. And then the
Canucks name is you know, there's a team called the
(28:53):
Canadians for goodness sake. I mean, a lot of teams
aren't really named that creatively in the national hockey It's
the same reason why I don't really like the Houston Texans.
It's too boring. Yeah, exactly, there you go. So those
are you know, the Edmonton Oilers. They have blue, there's
not a lot of silver in there. And then the
other Canadian teams are Montreal, Ottawa Senators, and the Calgary Flames.
(29:16):
Who you know, what do you think? What team are
we rooting for in this NHL season? I'm between the
first two there, the Toronto Mate Believes and the Winnipeg
Jets because they're both blue and silver, right, yeah, well,
and Vancouver is kind of as well. So Toronto isn't silver.
They're blue and white, oh, very white, blue and very white.
Winnipeg has silver in the logo, they don't really wear silver.
(29:40):
Vancouver Canucks, I think, have a little bit more of
a gray in there in their thing. I don't know
if it's silver per se. What do you what do
you think?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
What team are we cheering for? Here? Well, it's between
those three the Vancouver was it? Canucks? Yeah? Yeah, here
you go. I've already got a the logo and stuff
pulled up.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
What do you think? What do you think? H yeah, yeah,
It's not like we're committing to buying stuff with the
logo on it. I'm gonna say Winnipeg Jets, but I'm
not committed to that yet. Well, it looks like we
got ourselves a hockey team for Matt Case. Congratulations, all right,
(30:22):
this three fifty six and we come back We're gonna
go ahead and try to figure out what how I
A problem I mentioned on this show last year about
this time probably has reoccurred, and now I am definitely
thinking that I have a bit of a bigger problem here,
and we're gonna do the best that we can to
try to resolve that. I will explain when I come back.
(30:45):
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with You on news Radio eleven ten KFAB
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