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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tony Cats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out
there to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Mostly we have not been talking about serious things or
newsy things today because darn it is Christmas Eve. But
I will do just a little bit of this news
stuff because it also seems like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We probably should.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Epstein files continue to be released. People on both
sides of the isle are saying that these files seem incomplete.
Mostly there are now redactions that seem like they shouldn't
be happening. The law that was passed said that you
could only redact something for the protection of a victim
or an ongoing investigation if it's neither of those things.
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Protecting the identity of people that are tied to Epstein,
people that would be referred to as co conspirators was
not supposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So whether or not this battle.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Will end up with the DOJ doing what the courts
seem to think it should do, and whether a lot
of politicians wind up getting that done, is yet to
be seen. I will say that it's so disingenuous, and
it's been the entire time for Democrats to be fighting this,
and you know the reasons why.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know that they had all the power to do
it themselves and didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
They then waited to pressure the Trump administration to do
it so they could turn it into a political conversation,
and they could turn it into it. You don't know
what's missing, which will always be their reaction, no matter
what comes out, no matter how thorough the inevitable transparency
is the democratic side of the conversation, and a lot
of the mainstream media outlets that lean into that side
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of the conversation will tell you there's still something that's
a secret, it's still missing, and it's most likely tied
to Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is essentially their.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Version of Russia, Russia, Russia, where they think they never
have to admit they're wrong, and no matter again, what
comes out, some people might actually care about catching all
those involved in a horrible sex trafficking ring that exploited miners,
But darn it, I don't think it's actually the democratic
politicians or a lot of the people in mainstream media,
because some of that has started to it appears, come out,
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some of the versions of understanding how all of this worked,
how Maxwell was so involved in making it work, et cetera,
et cetera. That is definitely something that you can get
more transparency in if you want it. One of the
other big stories going on right now involves Venezuela. The
United States has an armada of ships in the area,
and we are disrupting the oil trade that occurs between
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that country and other countries.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
What are we doing, as far as you know, making
certain veiled threats back and forth between US and Venezuela
that are tied to you know, the drug boats that
have been exploding that we've been blowing up, et cetera,
et cetera. Most people, I think will say that it's
all about oil. They'll say that it's similar to anything
else the US has done thereafter an oil rich country, granted,
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a country that does a lot of terrible things in
the world. The people who live in Venezuela are, you know,
overwhelmingly poor. They're overwhelmingly living in poverty because of the
corrupt political system that exists there. They absolutely send drugs
throughout the whole world, including the United States, and they
absolutely sell oil to places like China and Russia in
a way that that oil trade industry allows for China
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and Russia to circumvent any sort of sanctions the US
would put on them, essentially the paper penalty that the
US might try to impose on people that they want
to not do certain things. A great example is Russia
invading Ukraine and how much that failed. That that's all
Biden said he would do. That's all he did, and
of course no one believed he'd do more. And how
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different it would be if you actually had a commander
in chief in office that you think would take action.
And this is the least direct but most impactful action
you can take to actually gain some sort of control
in that area and with certain people that I think
will inevitably benefit the entire world. One of the things
that might cause a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine
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would be the United States willingly backing off in some
of the ways that it's preventing oil trade between Venezuela
and other countries. It would be an interesting caveat, probably
not talked about publicly, but a potential avenue toward peace.
So all of this is actually much more about just
taking oil for the United States, and the easiest way
to prove that to you before we take a break
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and get back. This sillier, more fun stuff is that
if the US just wanted venezuela and oil, we could
buy it at a much cheaper price than the amount
of money we're spending to try to prevent it from
being a thing that goes other places or disrupting some
aspect of that industry for them. We could do this
much more cost effectively by just buying a bunch of it.
We're not doing that, which tells you we have a
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lot more interest than just gaining oil here in the
United States. All right, quick break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in, Tony Kat's in the Morning News ninety
three WIBC. Tony Cat's in the Morning News, ninety three, WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins filling in. You have Matt
hanging out as he does every morning on this very program,
even on Christmas Eve. We got to keep giving him
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an attaboy for that. Although Ryan Hedrick is here too,
and Janette Cruz is here as you heard them earlier
in the show. So a lot of people from the
A team working on Not that Kylin's not the A
team too, she is, but she's working on special assignment,
and then I'm like B plus team here as well.
I thought this was an interesting story that Kylin sent me.
Holiday spending per kid has hit an all time high
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in twenty twenty five. It seems like that's probably true
every year that money keeps getting tighter and people keep
going up.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In the amount of money they spend in their kids.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I do have a unique personal complaint about this topic.
But first, I don't know if anyone wants to weigh
in on the price per child being the highest it's
ever been in twenty twenty five. What is the price
per child the actual amount of money you spend per
kid on the holidays?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, I think one?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Okay, okay, all right, it's significant. You know what's what's
in the rest of the story?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
What have you got there?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, there's a range one thousand dollars per kid, his
families splurge. Two fifty per kid is, as we said,
kind of the lower end, but five twenty one the average.
Here's my complaint, though, I'll just get right into my complaint.
I vividly remember when I was a younger kid, and
I would make my Christmas list, and I had two
older sisters and a younger brother that I'd like look
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on my list and be like, I covered everything. I
like this stuff, And then I'd see my sister's lists
and they were way nicer things on those lists, and
so when they got them. I think that it's an
average spend because I couldn't have cost as much as
my two sisters cost Christmas. After Christmas, just because of
the things on the list, I got what I wanted.
It wasn't about that for me, but especially as I
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got older, I realized I think I was a lower
spend child just based on you know what I wanted?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You are the low maintenance child I was.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I really was.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I wasn't very often that I was asking
for any of the fancy stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think. The fanciest thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I ever asked for which I didn't get, which is
a story my mom is still crazy about to this day,
was a Teddy Rock Spin.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Does anyone remember that? I know Kylin probably does.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Ah, yeah, I had a Teddy Rocks, but sure, can
you explain?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Teddy Rock Spin was a cartoon and also a talking bear.
You'd put a cassette tape in the back of it
and its mouth would move. It didn't matter what cassette.
You could put anything in the back of it and
it would just seem like it was telling you the story.
It came with a Teddy Rock Spin story. It was
an IT gift in like the I don't know, mid
eighties for kids, and it was selling out all over
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the place, and I asked for one and I didn't
get it, and I was devastated by it. And Ma
hates the fact that I still remember that in my
forties now, and she gave me one when I graduated
high school.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
By the way, that's how Mom fixed that.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
She went and founded Teddy Rock Spin and gifted it
to me as a graduation thing. And not the same
didn't hit the same at eighteen as it would have
at five.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
So now, thinking about you could pop a docent tape
into the back of you try to sing it, you know,
let's watch cigarette.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, the funny thing about the technology then compared to
now is the mouth didn't move with the word standing.
Thing like, even if you put the correct tape in,
it didn't speak when it was supposed to the mouth
would just move occasionally. And so as a child, you're
just supposed to be deceived by mouth moving and sounds happening.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is good enough for me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Like in today's world, the Teddy Rocksman will probably be
much more convincing. But again, I think that was the
only thing I asked for that was remotely challenging to get.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
For the most part, the stuff that I'd ask for
was fairly easy.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I was talking to Kylon a little bit about this
before the show, and I was thinking, you know, five
hundred dollars seems like a lot to me, but I
don't know, especially since I haven't been a parent, I
can't imagine a child asking every single day for like
three months, six months whatever for a certain present and
at least not trying to get it for him, you know,
just to get them off my back. That's what a
great part I would be. But we were talking about
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a little bit. Yeah, five hundred seems a lot, but
I'd almost think, and I don't know if this would
have worked with me as a kid. If you have
five hundred dollars to buy in presents, maybe just kind
of pool that money and everybody go on a big trip.
Because when you think about it, when you got those presents,
unless it was like the original Ntendo you didn't play
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with any of that stuff more than a week, you know,
I just got it there from the end of time
until you moved or dumped the toy box.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So maybe something that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Since we all have cameras on our phones now, maybe
something that'd be more like a trip. Would they can't
dig that, you know, something that could put on social media.
Would that mean more important to them than just gifts?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think it experiences. But by the way, Mom's defending
herself via text. My mother still texts me when I
do radio, and so she's saying, not only did I
not tell her, I only told mal Santa that I
wanted the Teddy Rocksman. That's why I didn't get it,
which I think that might be true. I'm not going
to object to that one. The other thing that she
said is she got me one after Christmas when she
found out that I wanted it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's not true. That's a blatant lie.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know that the blatan line. I didn't get on
until I was eighteen years old. Teddy Rocksman did not happen.
I think I got like an knock off, you know,
dog stuffed animal that did not talk or speak at all,
and she told me it was one of the misfit toys.
I think I got that instead of getting Yeah, I
didn't get Teddy rouxman.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Though, let's not go this crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Until I was eighteen with the Cabbage Patch Kids, I
remember my dad gave away my brother's Cabbage Patch Kid
and KB toys. He's getting ready to buy it, and
there was only one left, and he gave it away
to something stranger or put on a real story. And
there was a nuclear meltdown in that cab story. Yeah,
I mean, and I was mad too, just because it
was my brother. I was like, how you know, to me,
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that's just looking back. Of course, that sounds spoiled. You know,
maybe this guy had a real prison. Whatever it was.
Dad had a good heart, was trying to He's like,
these kids are going to do whatever they want anyways.
You know, here here's the Cabbage Patch Kid. But it
just like Teddy Repskin that had seeing that it just
had it was the toy, the toy you wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And yeah, man, five hundred dollars, it's a lot anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I know, I know we still have one. I don't
think I have it anywhere that I live now in Texas.
I think it's probably in my mother's house, the one
I got when I was eighteen. But you still have it,
so if at some point, Kylin, you need to understand
the value of it. There's also a nineteen eighty five
commercial that I could play for Teddy Rocksbin.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm not sure if I should play this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
At You really want to hear this, You want to
hear the Teddy Rucks are fine. Well, this is more
for Kylin and anyone else out there that's unaware Cheddy
Rouxsban and his importance in society. He was again a
talking bear that didn't really follow the thing he was
talking with, but at least his mouth moved in words
and sounds happened at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Here we go, ch well, that's not included.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
My name is Cheddy Ruts. Oh my god, it's magical.
Really enjoy talking to people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I would like you, Teddy Ruxlin.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The storytelling Bear comes with illustrated book and cassette from
Worlds of Wonder.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god, it comes from Worlds of Wonder. That's
an even better company. I'm sorry that the audio was
screwed up at the beginning there. I love the fact
that in the commercial, the kids are making fun of
the boy, the young man for bringing in a Teddy
Bear until they find out that it talks, and then
all the kids minds are blown and everybody's probably the
coolest kid in class, and they probably bring him out
of the you know, school that day in the King's
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chair where they lift him up on their shoulders.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I assume that's how this thing ends.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, they didn't give a damn until the bear could talk.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Right and its eyes would move.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I forgot to mention that it had eyelids that would
open and close.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah. Yeah, it was a it was a sentence. I
mean it was live.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You don't it was basically a live in nineteen eighty five,
which is when that ad came out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This was as a live as something. Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This sounds like the beginning of Friday Night at Freddy's exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How dare you? How dare you? Smirchd the character of
a Teddy rucksman. This is in no way a scary thing.
All Right, we're gonna take a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in Tony Kat's The Morning News. Tony
Cats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you over
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the holidays and for thrilled to be with you on
Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas Eve to everybody out there. You
got Matt and Kylin hanging out on special assignment. Well,
Matt is here all the time. I found a list
of the best Christmas movies according to Rotten Tomatoes, and
I kind of thought it was interesting. I wonder if
we would weigh in. Anyone would want to weigh in
on some of these with me, because there's very old
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movies at the top of this list, and yet they're
not the typical old ones you would assume they are.
The highest ranked Christmas movie according to Rotten Tomatoes is
The Shop around the Corner, which is a nineteen forty
Jimmy Stewart movie, but not the Jimmy Stewart movie I
thought would be at the top of this list that
is sort of a classic Christmas movie. A number two
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for best Rotten Tomato reviewed movie is Meet Me in
Saint Louis, the nineteen nineteen forty four Excuse Me, Judy
Garland movie again they're good movies. If you've seen them,
you probably like them. But those two seem like they're
inappropriately at the top of the list. And then finally
number three of the best Christmas movies as reviewed by
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the people who do this sort of thing, and then
Rotten Tomatoes puts it together, The Holdovers, which is a
twenty twenty three Paul Giamanti movie that definitely doesn't deserve
to be in the top five or top ten of
Christmas movies all time.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
What wows going on here? Meet me in Saint Louis,
The Holdovers. I mean, I didn't even know these were
considered Christmas movies. And here we're debating Diehard every year.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hi know, it's crazy, it is, thank you sir, it
is insane. But yes, this is according to Rotten Tomatoes
for best Christmas movies ever. You got to go pretty
far down the list, as far as how much you'd
expect to go down number five, Miracle on thirty fourth Street,
and then you go deeper to get to It's a
Wonderful Life, which comes in at number ten. And actually,
this is funny. Die Hard ranked just as highly as
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It's a Wonderful Life at number eleven. Ninety four percent
positive ratings. So that's that seems wildly appropriate that two
movies that are almost identical in quality according to the
reviewers are It's a Wonderful Life and Die Hard.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And keep in mind, Rotten Tomatoes is like an aggregate
of movie reviews. Okay, so if you get ninety percent
or above sixty percent, it's going to be fresh and
that means it's a pretty good movie. If it gets
like seventy eighty ninety, then it's like a really well
done movie. And that isn't really I guess when it
comes to the Christmas movie genre, that's the least time
it's important, you know, a movie review, because it's like
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Elf isn't going to be a highly reviewed movie. People
aren't going to be like, wow, this is fantastical movie
and everything, or even with a Christmas story some of
these classics, but because it's Christmas in their Christmas movies,
they still really affect us.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I mean, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Directed by Spielberg and it's not in the Avatar line
of move sure, but they touch us every season because
we just love them. I mean, you won't find Snoopy's
Christmas on that list.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You won't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, well, I probably, I don't know. It's a long list,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Number twenty is a Christmas Story at eighty seven percent
on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay, and number twenty seven is elf
at eighty five percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, My favorite wasn't sure. I was just like really pretentious,
you know reviewers or no?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
My favorite inclusion is Batman Returns, which is on this list.
Love it because Christmas does occur during Batman Returns, the
second of the Tim Burton movies, and that's in eighty
two percent.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Twenty nine is the ranking for Tomatoes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, Dark Knight Rises is a better Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Wait a minute, does Christmas happen during the Dark Knight Rises?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah? Snowing?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
So if you're going to call Batman Returns a Christmas movie,
you can call that a Christmas movie. Move I mean anything,
come on, I mean, if it's in December, it's a
Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now, well, Batman Returns.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I thought they actually celebrate Christmas? Doesn't the penguin use
like a candy cane at one point?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.
Daddy Devido as the penguin.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yes, that's yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The Dark Knight's a way better movie, and The Dark
Knight Rises is probably a better Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's fine, but they don't. Oh Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Christmas found it fifty three on the list of Rotten
Tomatoes Best Christmas Movies.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That seems wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Take it on wrong, take it off.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It shouldn't. You shouldn't review a Snoopy's Christmas. Okay, yeah,
that should not be a movie that's ever reviewed. It's
just great and it's just perfect for the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Boo done. No review.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah seriously, I actually will judge the reviewers.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Number sixty three on the list of best Christmas Movies
is Frosty the Snowman, which only got a seventy three
positive rating from you know critics, who said that Frosty
was a bad movie. It was made in sixty nine
for children who sat through it and was like, I
don't know if I believe this one.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's pretty good, but it surely wasn't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What Scorse had right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm gonna look for a bad review of Frosty the Snowman.
I'm now curious why someone will review it poorly. It's
just so odd and I kind of wish it wasn't
so gloomy and.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Downtrodden.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's someone who reviewed Frosty the Snowman and gave it
a four out of ten.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, because the Snowman melts at the end, So it's
a tragic ending.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I guess, you know, never mind gonna melt. But that
taught me as a young kid that you know, life
is precious.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Because Frosty melts me not go outside.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The av club gave Frosty the Snowman a bad review.
There's not much to it beyond a raspy narration and
a dim, gloody voice as the icy column of the title.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Screw you, guys, is what I'm saying to these people.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I mean, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Really humbug to anybody who gave Frosty the Snowman a
bad room prouged.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Because it wasn't exactly like you know, to Charles Dickens.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now exactly. Yeah, Critics ruined a lot of things. All right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up in a bit, well,
very little coming up actually in a bit. It's Craig
Collins filling in Tony Gats The Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three, WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in. You got Matt hanging out
as he does every morning on this show. Kylon is
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here on special assignment, and she sent us a list
of the twenty fun and fascinating facts about Santa Claus.
It's actually up at WIBC dot com. I was written
by Nick Cottingham.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is that right? Is that his name? It's a writer, No,
Cotten Jim, Thank you, thank you. It's a g in
there all right, Cotton Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He has twenty interesting fun facts about Santa Claus. One
of the more interesting ones that I saw on this
list was the fact that Santa is one seven and
fifty years old as of right now. Saint Nicholas was
born in two seventy eighty. I know, yeah, he's got
he's got some ears on him. Man timeless of course,
but certainly not a young man. Kylon, Do you want
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to throw some of the other ones out that you
like on that list?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I think it's interesting that Santa Claus has always been
depicted wearing this bright red jolly suit, but that was
only popularized by Coca Cola and their commercials.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, the branding of Santa Claus is significant. That does
make sense. He does look cool drinking the Coca Cola
in the glass bottle in the red outfit, So I
get it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That makes sense. Are there more that you like?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
The North Pole headquarters is interesting because the idea of
him becoming like living at the North Pole was only
popularized in the nineteenth century, so it wasn't like this
whole time he was in the North Pole.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, I think it's interesting. I think that's interesting too.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I wonder if Santa regrets the fact that he got
moved to the North Pole, if he used to live
in Hawaii or something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I wonder if disappointing thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Matt, do you have any interest in any of these
fun facts about Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, Santa, like Lincoln, spent a couple of years in Indiana,
as we all know, so it's.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Just a fact. Yeah, I was just thinking about.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Actually, guys, I was a little bit lost on the
fact that Coca Cola designed Santa's red suit, and for
some reason, I feel like that took a part of
my childhood I don't know. I know Christmas is not
about commercialization, No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
This should absolutely not bother me, But it.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Just feels like, really, I didn't know that it bothers
me for some reason.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I gotta I think I got to decompress a little
bit about it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Now, Why would you think that a holiday where we
have to buy each other a bunch of stuff has
anything to do with commercialization.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't know why you think that, man, that's.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Crazy, it's ludicrous.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's thinking somehow you worked some sort of like weird
money thing into this whole equation that has nothing to
do with it. I like these Santa Elves stuff that's
out there too. What's that one, Kylan?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
The Santa elves? It originated from Scandinavian folklore, where the
elves were believed to be magical helpers who protected homes
and brought good fortune. So like the elf on the shelf?
Yeah maybe not like jingles, only good fortune not right back?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah not Jenet, not Jeanette Cruise is mean elf that
would draw on her child's face.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's still hilarious that she told us that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But yeah, no, go ahead, I'm stuck on Santa's slave speed.
That the fact that scientists and mathematicians have tried calculating
what it would logically be to make it happen worldwide,
Sanna would need to visit eight hundred and twenty two
homes per second to be able to deliver all of them,
and according to Norad Sanna dot org, right now he
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was last spotted in Australia, he's delivered one billion and
ten million, nine hundred thousand. Oh no, it just keeps rising.
Lots of presents so far.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, lots and lots of presents. Yeah, I forgot that.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
For some people it's already Christmas, already enjoying their ridiculousness
of that. Yeah, it would be the fastest vehicle ever imagined,
not to exist only but ever to even be conceived.
Eight hundred and twenty two houses per second. Maybe somebody
else get involved in the more than we know, you know,
maybe they're maybe they're dropping off gifts as well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
When you go with that fast and the sleigh, do
you like, if you're Santa ever worried about crossing getting
a Russian airspace or Venice Whiteland airspace or anything, you know? Okay, yeah,
you don't want to have to anybody trying to shoot
you down.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I gotta be honest too, man, if you're flying that
fast in the air, the amount of birds that are
screwed and I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's a dark take on Santa.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But I can't imagine that birds are dodging that sleigh
very well.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Well, he's got to, I mean, even with all the
good Santence doing, as far as giving out the gifts,
I mean, that's got to weigh on his soul a
little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yet, do you guys, there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You go home Christmas and you have a thousand yard stare,
you know it's it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, the dark side of being Santa Claus that we've
never thought about before.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The amount of bird.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Get north boy is a glass of Scotch, right, Missus
Claus is like how many birds?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
How many birds?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You want to talk about it?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm sure someone out there who's not going to ba
humbug Us is we just scarred Thailand for life. It's
going to say that there's magic involved that prevents this
from being a thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But if if the sleigh was to fly that fast.
Birds are absolutely screwed.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's got it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, do you want to you said you want to
throw a traffic update in it? Whoever just texted me
just tell me on the radio what do we want
to do.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We have about a minute left to whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Thank you, Kylan.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And then we got some traffic going on. Matt, is
it getting crazy out there? You don't have to tell
me all that yet.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Okay, No, it's not a lot of people like that day.
It's been very comfortables nice rush.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I always like driving in those conditions, you know, like
I like going out when it doesn't make any sense.
I actually that's the one thing about like when people
weren't driving a lot during COVID or whatever, that it
was weird. How calm it would be to be on
the highway, which it definitely is not anymore, especially not
in Indiana. Yeah, yeah, today's a lovely daynybody that wants
to do a little bit of driving, anybody who wants
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to go anywhere. That's my traffic report, totally inappropriate. Matt,
yours is going to be way better in just a bit.
But thank you Kylon for all the Santa Fax. Is
there one more you want to leave us with before
we get out of here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's not on the list, But Santa Claus, Indiana writes
back to all the children who write letters to Santa Claus.
They have millions of well I don't know millions is exaggerated,
but they have a ton of volunteers. They're helping as
real life helves.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's very cool.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That's adorable and lovely and way better than the bird
question that Matt and I asked that now is going
to scar me for life.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
All right, I live in the gallloads of broader I
mean it's dark.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He got some traffic for us,
Tony Cats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out
there to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Mostly we have not been talking about serious things or
newsy things today because darn it is Christmas Eve. But
I will do just a little bit of this news
stuff because it also seems like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We probably should.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Epstein files continue to be released. People on both
sides of the isle are saying that these files seem incomplete.
Mostly there are now redactions that seem like they shouldn't
be happening. The law that was passed said that you
could only redact something for the protection of a victim
or an ongoing investigation if it's neither of those things.
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Protecting the identity of people that are tied to Epstein,
people that would be referred to as co conspirators was
not supposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So whether or not this battle.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Will end up with the DOJ doing what the courts
seem to think it should do, and whether a lot
of politicians wind up getting that done, is yet to
be seen. I will say that it's so disingenuous, and
it's been the entire time for Democrats to be fighting this,
and you know the reasons why.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know that they had all the power to do
it themselves and didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
They then waited to pressure the Trump administration to do
it so they could turn it into a political conversation,
and they could turn it into it. You don't know
what's missing, which will always be their reaction, no matter
what comes out, no matter how thorough the inevitable transparency
is the democratic side of the conversation, and a lot
of the mainstream media outlets that lean into that side
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of the conversation will tell you there's still something that's
a secret, it's still missing, and it's most likely tied
to Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is essentially their.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Version of Russia, Russia, Russia, where they think they never
have to admit they're wrong, and no matter again, what
comes out, some people might actually care about catching all
those involved in a horrible sex trafficking ring that exploited miners,
But darn it, I don't think it's actually the democratic
politicians or a lot of the people in mainstream media,
because some of that has started to it appears, come out,
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some of the versions of understanding how all of this worked,
how Maxwell was so involved in making it work, et cetera,
et cetera. That is definitely something that you can get
more transparency in if you want it. One of the
other big stories going on right now involves Venezuela. The
United States has an armada of ships in the area,
and we are disrupting the oil trade that occurs between
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that country and other countries.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
What are we doing, as far as you know, making
certain veiled threats back and forth between US and Venezuela
that are tied to you know, the drug boats that
have been exploding that we've been blowing up, et cetera,
et cetera. Most people, I think will say that it's
all about oil. They'll say that it's similar to anything
else the US has done thereafter an oil rich country, granted,
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a country that does a lot of terrible things in
the world. The people who live in Venezuela are, you know,
overwhelmingly poor. They're overwhelmingly living in poverty because of the
corrupt political system that exists there. They absolutely send drugs
throughout the whole world, including the United States, and they
absolutely sell oil to places like China and Russia in
a way that that oil trade industry allows for China
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and Russia to circumvent any sort of sanctions the US
would put on them, essentially the paper penalty that the
US might try to impose on people that they want
to not do certain things. A great example is Russia
invading Ukraine and how much that failed. That that's all
Biden said he would do. That's all he did, and
of course no one believed he'd do more. And how
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different it would be if you actually had a commander
in chief in office that you think would take action.
And this is the least direct but most impactful action
you can take to actually gain some sort of control
in that area and with certain people that I think
will inevitably benefit the entire world. One of the things
that might cause a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine
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would be the United States willingly backing off in some
of the ways that it's preventing oil trade between Venezuela
and other countries. It would be an interesting caveat, probably
not talked about publicly, but a potential avenue toward peace.
So all of this is actually much more about just
taking oil for the United States, and the easiest way
to prove that to you before we take a break
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and get back. This sillier, more fun stuff is that
if the US just wanted venezuela and oil, we could
buy it at a much cheaper price than the amount
of money we're spending to try to prevent it from
being a thing that goes other places or disrupting some
aspect of that industry for them. We could do this
much more cost effectively by just buying a bunch of it.
We're not doing that, which tells you we have a
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lot more interest than just gaining oil here in the
United States. All right, quick break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in, Tony Kat's in the Morning News ninety
three WIBC. Tony Cat's in the Morning News, ninety three, WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins filling in. You have Matt
hanging out as he does every morning on this very program,
even on Christmas Eve. We got to keep giving him
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an attaboy for that. Although Ryan Hedrick is here too,
and Janette Cruz is here as you heard them earlier
in the show. So a lot of people from the
A team working on Not that Kylin's not the A
team too, she is, but she's working on special assignment,
and then I'm like B plus team here as well.
I thought this was an interesting story that Kylin sent me.
Holiday spending per kid has hit an all time high
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in twenty twenty five. It seems like that's probably true
every year that money keeps getting tighter and people keep
going up.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
In the amount of money they spend in their kids.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I do have a unique personal complaint about this topic.
But first, I don't know if anyone wants to weigh
in on the price per child being the highest it's
ever been in twenty twenty five. What is the price
per child the actual amount of money you spend per
kid on the holidays?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, I think one?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Okay, okay, all right, it's significant. You know what's what's
in the rest of the story?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
What have you got there?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, there's a range one thousand dollars per kid, his
families splurge. Two fifty per kid is, as we said,
kind of the lower end, but five twenty one the average.
Here's my complaint, though, I'll just get right into my complaint.
I vividly remember when I was a younger kid, and
I would make my Christmas list, and I had two
older sisters and a younger brother that I'd like look
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on my list and be like, I covered everything. I
like this stuff, And then I'd see my sister's lists
and they were way nicer things on those lists, and
so when they got them. I think that it's an
average spend because I couldn't have cost as much as
my two sisters cost Christmas. After Christmas, just because of
the things on the list, I got what I wanted.
It wasn't about that for me, but especially as I
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got older, I realized I think I was a lower
spend child just based on you know what I wanted?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You are the low maintenance child I was.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I really was.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I wasn't very often that I was asking
for any of the fancy stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think. The fanciest thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I ever asked for which I didn't get, which is
a story my mom is still crazy about to this day,
was a Teddy Rock Spin.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Does anyone remember that? I know Kylin probably does.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Ah, yeah, I had a Teddy Rocks, but sure, can
you explain?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Teddy Rock Spin was a cartoon and also a talking bear.
You'd put a cassette tape in the back of it
and its mouth would move. It didn't matter what cassette.
You could put anything in the back of it and
it would just seem like it was telling you the story.
It came with a Teddy Rock Spin story. It was
an IT gift in like the I don't know, mid
eighties for kids, and it was selling out all over
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the place, and I asked for one and I didn't
get it, and I was devastated by it. And Ma
hates the fact that I still remember that in my
forties now, and she gave me one when I graduated
high school.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
By the way, that's how Mom fixed that.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
She went and founded Teddy Rock Spin and gifted it
to me as a graduation thing. And not the same
didn't hit the same at eighteen as it would have
at five.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
So now, thinking about you could pop a docent tape
into the back of you try to sing it, you know,
let's watch cigarette.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, the funny thing about the technology then compared to
now is the mouth didn't move with the word standing.
Thing like, even if you put the correct tape in,
it didn't speak when it was supposed to the mouth
would just move occasionally. And so as a child, you're
just supposed to be deceived by mouth moving and sounds happening.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is good enough for me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Like in today's world, the Teddy Rocksman will probably be
much more convincing. But again, I think that was the
only thing I asked for that was remotely challenging to get.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
For the most part, the stuff that I'd ask for
was fairly easy.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I was talking to Kylon a little bit about this
before the show, and I was thinking, you know, five
hundred dollars seems like a lot to me, but I
don't know, especially since I haven't been a parent, I
can't imagine a child asking every single day for like
three months, six months whatever for a certain present and
at least not trying to get it for him, you know,
just to get them off my back. That's what a
great part I would be. But we were talking about
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a little bit. Yeah, five hundred seems a lot, but
I'd almost think, and I don't know if this would
have worked with me as a kid. If you have
five hundred dollars to buy in presents, maybe just kind
of pool that money and everybody go on a big trip.
Because when you think about it, when you got those presents,
unless it was like the original Ntendo you didn't play
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with any of that stuff more than a week, you know,
I just got it there from the end of time
until you moved or dumped the toy box.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So maybe something that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Since we all have cameras on our phones now, maybe
something that'd be more like a trip. Would they can't
dig that, you know, something that could put on social media.
Would that mean more important to them than just gifts?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think it experiences. But by the way, Mom's defending
herself via text. My mother still texts me when I
do radio, and so she's saying, not only did I
not tell her, I only told mal Santa that I
wanted the Teddy Rocksman. That's why I didn't get it,
which I think that might be true. I'm not going
to object to that one. The other thing that she
said is she got me one after Christmas when she
found out that I wanted it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's not true. That's a blatant lie.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know that the blatan line. I didn't get on
until I was eighteen years old. Teddy Rocksman did not happen.
I think I got like an knock off, you know,
dog stuffed animal that did not talk or speak at all,
and she told me it was one of the misfit toys.
I think I got that instead of getting Yeah, I
didn't get Teddy rouxman.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Though, let's not go this crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Until I was eighteen with the Cabbage Patch Kids, I
remember my dad gave away my brother's Cabbage Patch Kid
and KB toys. He's getting ready to buy it, and
there was only one left, and he gave it away
to something stranger or put on a real story. And
there was a nuclear meltdown in that cab story. Yeah,
I mean, and I was mad too, just because it
was my brother. I was like, how you know, to me,
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that's just looking back. Of course, that sounds spoiled. You know,
maybe this guy had a real prison. Whatever it was.
Dad had a good heart, was trying to He's like,
these kids are going to do whatever they want anyways.
You know, here here's the Cabbage Patch Kid. But it
just like Teddy Repskin that had seeing that it just
had it was the toy, the toy you wanted.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And yeah, man, five hundred dollars, it's a lot anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I know, I know we still have one. I don't
think I have it anywhere that I live now in Texas.
I think it's probably in my mother's house, the one
I got when I was eighteen. But you still have it,
so if at some point, Kylin, you need to understand
the value of it. There's also a nineteen eighty five
commercial that I could play for Teddy Rocksbin.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm not sure if I should play this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
At You really want to hear this, You want to
hear the Teddy Rucks are fine. Well, this is more
for Kylin and anyone else out there that's unaware Cheddy
Rouxsban and his importance in society. He was again a
talking bear that didn't really follow the thing he was
talking with, but at least his mouth moved in words
and sounds happened at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Here we go, ch well, that's not included.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
My name is Cheddy Ruts. Oh my god, it's magical.
Really enjoy talking to people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I would like you, Teddy Ruxlin.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The storytelling Bear comes with illustrated book and cassette from
Worlds of Wonder.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god, it comes from Worlds of Wonder. That's
an even better company. I'm sorry that the audio was
screwed up at the beginning there. I love the fact
that in the commercial, the kids are making fun of
the boy, the young man for bringing in a Teddy
Bear until they find out that it talks, and then
all the kids minds are blown and everybody's probably the
coolest kid in class, and they probably bring him out
of the you know, school that day in the King's
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chair where they lift him up on their shoulders.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I assume that's how this thing ends.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yes, they didn't give a damn until the bear could talk.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Right and its eyes would move.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I forgot to mention that it had eyelids that would
open and close.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah. Yeah, it was a it was a sentence. I
mean it was live.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You don't it was basically a live in nineteen eighty five,
which is when that ad came out.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This was as a live as something. Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This sounds like the beginning of Friday Night at Freddy's exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How dare you? How dare you? Smirchd the character of
a Teddy rucksman. This is in no way a scary thing.
All Right, we're gonna take a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in Tony Kat's The Morning News. Tony
Cats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you over
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the holidays and for thrilled to be with you on
Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas Eve to everybody out there. You
got Matt and Kylin hanging out on special assignment. Well,
Matt is here all the time. I found a list
of the best Christmas movies according to Rotten Tomatoes, and
I kind of thought it was interesting. I wonder if
we would weigh in. Anyone would want to weigh in
on some of these with me, because there's very old
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movies at the top of this list, and yet they're
not the typical old ones you would assume they are.
The highest ranked Christmas movie according to Rotten Tomatoes is
The Shop around the Corner, which is a nineteen forty
Jimmy Stewart movie, but not the Jimmy Stewart movie I
thought would be at the top of this list that
is sort of a classic Christmas movie. A number two
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for best Rotten Tomato reviewed movie is Meet Me in
Saint Louis, the nineteen nineteen forty four Excuse Me, Judy
Garland movie again they're good movies. If you've seen them,
you probably like them. But those two seem like they're
inappropriately at the top of the list. And then finally
number three of the best Christmas movies as reviewed by
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the people who do this sort of thing, and then
Rotten Tomatoes puts it together, The Holdovers, which is a
twenty twenty three Paul Giamanti movie that definitely doesn't deserve
to be in the top five or top ten of
Christmas movies all time.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
What wows going on here? Meet me in Saint Louis,
The Holdovers. I mean, I didn't even know these were
considered Christmas movies. And here we're debating Diehard every year.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Hi know, it's crazy, it is, thank you sir, it
is insane. But yes, this is according to Rotten Tomatoes
for best Christmas movies ever. You got to go pretty
far down the list, as far as how much you'd
expect to go down number five, Miracle on thirty fourth Street,
and then you go deeper to get to It's a
Wonderful Life, which comes in at number ten. And actually,
this is funny. Die Hard ranked just as highly as
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It's a Wonderful Life at number eleven. Ninety four percent
positive ratings. So that's that seems wildly appropriate that two
movies that are almost identical in quality according to the
reviewers are It's a Wonderful Life and Die Hard.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And keep in mind, Rotten Tomatoes is like an aggregate
of movie reviews. Okay, so if you get ninety percent
or above sixty percent, it's going to be fresh and
that means it's a pretty good movie. If it gets
like seventy eighty ninety, then it's like a really well
done movie. And that isn't really I guess when it
comes to the Christmas movie genre, that's the least time
it's important, you know, a movie review, because it's like
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Elf isn't going to be a highly reviewed movie. People
aren't going to be like, wow, this is fantastical movie
and everything, or even with a Christmas story some of
these classics, but because it's Christmas in their Christmas movies,
they still really affect us.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I mean, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Directed by Spielberg and it's not in the Avatar line
of move sure, but they touch us every season because
we just love them. I mean, you won't find Snoopy's
Christmas on that list.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You won't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, well, I probably, I don't know. It's a long list,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Number twenty is a Christmas Story at eighty seven percent
on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay, and number twenty seven is elf
at eighty five percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, My favorite wasn't sure. I was just like really pretentious,
you know reviewers or no?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
My favorite inclusion is Batman Returns, which is on this list.
Love it because Christmas does occur during Batman Returns, the
second of the Tim Burton movies, and that's in eighty
two percent.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Twenty nine is the ranking for Tomatoes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, Dark Knight Rises is a better Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Wait a minute, does Christmas happen during the Dark Knight Rises?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah? Snowing?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
So if you're going to call Batman Returns a Christmas movie,
you can call that a Christmas movie. Move I mean anything,
come on, I mean, if it's in December, it's a
Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now, well, Batman Returns.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I thought they actually celebrate Christmas? Doesn't the penguin use
like a candy cane at one point?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.
Daddy Devido as the penguin.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yes, that's yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The Dark Knight's a way better movie, and The Dark
Knight Rises is probably a better Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's fine, but they don't. Oh Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Christmas found it fifty three on the list of Rotten
Tomatoes Best Christmas Movies.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That seems wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Take it on wrong, take it off.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It shouldn't. You shouldn't review a Snoopy's Christmas. Okay, yeah,
that should not be a movie that's ever reviewed. It's
just great and it's just perfect for the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Boo done. No review.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah seriously, I actually will judge the reviewers.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Number sixty three on the list of best Christmas Movies
is Frosty the Snowman, which only got a seventy three
positive rating from you know critics, who said that Frosty
was a bad movie. It was made in sixty nine
for children who sat through it and was like, I
don't know if I believe this one.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's pretty good, but it surely wasn't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What Scorse had right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'm gonna look for a bad review of Frosty the Snowman.
I'm now curious why someone will review it poorly. It's
just so odd and I kind of wish it wasn't
so gloomy and.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Downtrodden.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's someone who reviewed Frosty the Snowman and gave it
a four out of ten.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, because the Snowman melts at the end, So it's
a tragic ending.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I guess, you know, never mind gonna melt. But that
taught me as a young kid that you know, life
is precious.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Because Frosty melts me not go outside.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The av club gave Frosty the Snowman a bad review.
There's not much to it beyond a raspy narration and
a dim, gloody voice as the icy column of the title.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Screw you, guys, is what I'm saying to these people.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I mean, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Really humbug to anybody who gave Frosty the Snowman a
bad room prouged.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Because it wasn't exactly like you know, to Charles Dickens.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now exactly. Yeah, Critics ruined a lot of things. All right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up in a bit, well,
very little coming up actually in a bit. It's Craig
Collins filling in Tony Gats The Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three, WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in. You got Matt hanging out
as he does every morning on this show. Kylon is
(19:24):
here on special assignment, and she sent us a list
of the twenty fun and fascinating facts about Santa Claus.
It's actually up at WIBC dot com. I was written
by Nick Cottingham.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is that right? Is that his name? It's a writer, No,
Cotten Jim, Thank you, thank you. It's a g in
there all right, Cotton Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
He has twenty interesting fun facts about Santa Claus. One
of the more interesting ones that I saw on this
list was the fact that Santa is one seven and
fifty years old as of right now. Saint Nicholas was
born in two seventy eighty. I know, yeah, he's got
he's got some ears on him. Man timeless of course,
but certainly not a young man. Kylon, Do you want
(20:04):
to throw some of the other ones out that you
like on that list?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I think it's interesting that Santa Claus has always been
depicted wearing this bright red jolly suit, but that was
only popularized by Coca Cola and their commercials.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, the branding of Santa Claus is significant. That does
make sense. He does look cool drinking the Coca Cola
in the glass bottle in the red outfit, So I
get it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That makes sense. Are there more that you like?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
The North Pole headquarters is interesting because the idea of
him becoming like living at the North Pole was only
popularized in the nineteenth century, so it wasn't like this
whole time he was in the North Pole.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, I think it's interesting. I think that's interesting too.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I wonder if Santa regrets the fact that he got
moved to the North Pole, if he used to live
in Hawaii or something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I wonder if disappointing thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Matt, do you have any interest in any of these
fun facts about Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, Santa, like Lincoln, spent a couple of years in Indiana,
as we all know, so it's.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Just a fact. Yeah, I was just thinking about.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Actually, guys, I was a little bit lost on the
fact that Coca Cola designed Santa's red suit, and for
some reason, I feel like that took a part of
my childhood I don't know. I know Christmas is not
about commercialization, No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
This should absolutely not bother me, But it.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Just feels like, really, I didn't know that it bothers
me for some reason.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I gotta I think I got to decompress a little
bit about it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Now, Why would you think that a holiday where we
have to buy each other a bunch of stuff has
anything to do with commercialization.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I don't know why you think that, man, that's.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Crazy, it's ludicrous.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's thinking somehow you worked some sort of like weird
money thing into this whole equation that has nothing to
do with it. I like these Santa Elves stuff that's
out there too. What's that one, Kylan?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
The Santa elves? It originated from Scandinavian folklore, where the
elves were believed to be magical helpers who protected homes
and brought good fortune. So like the elf on the shelf?
Yeah maybe not like jingles, only good fortune not right back?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah not Jenet, not Jeanette Cruise is mean elf that
would draw on her child's face.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's still hilarious that she told us that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But yeah, no, go ahead, I'm stuck on Santa's slave speed.
That the fact that scientists and mathematicians have tried calculating
what it would logically be to make it happen worldwide,
Sanna would need to visit eight hundred and twenty two
homes per second to be able to deliver all of them,
and according to Norad Sanna dot org, right now he
(22:33):
was last spotted in Australia, he's delivered one billion and
ten million, nine hundred thousand. Oh no, it just keeps rising.
Lots of presents so far.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, lots and lots of presents. Yeah, I forgot that.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
For some people it's already Christmas, already enjoying their ridiculousness
of that. Yeah, it would be the fastest vehicle ever imagined,
not to exist only but ever to even be conceived.
Eight hundred and twenty two houses per second. Maybe somebody
else get involved in the more than we know, you know,
maybe they're maybe they're dropping off gifts as well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
When you go with that fast and the sleigh, do
you like, if you're Santa ever worried about crossing getting
a Russian airspace or Venice Whiteland airspace or anything, you know? Okay, yeah,
you don't want to have to anybody trying to shoot
you down.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I gotta be honest too, man, if you're flying that
fast in the air, the amount of birds that are
screwed and I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's a dark take on Santa.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But I can't imagine that birds are dodging that sleigh
very well.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Well, he's got to, I mean, even with all the
good Santence doing, as far as giving out the gifts,
I mean, that's got to weigh on his soul a
little bit, right.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yet, do you guys, there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You go home Christmas and you have a thousand yard stare,
you know it's it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, the dark side of being Santa Claus that we've
never thought about before.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The amount of bird.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Get north boy is a glass of Scotch, right, Missus
Claus is like how many birds?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
How many birds?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You want to talk about it?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I'm sure someone out there who's not going to ba
humbug Us is we just scarred Thailand for life. It's
going to say that there's magic involved that prevents this
from being a thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But if if the sleigh was to fly that fast.
Birds are absolutely screwed.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's got it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, do you want to you said you want to
throw a traffic update in it? Whoever just texted me
just tell me on the radio what do we want
to do.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We have about a minute left to whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Thank you, Kylan.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And then we got some traffic going on. Matt, is
it getting crazy out there? You don't have to tell
me all that yet.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Okay, No, it's not a lot of people like that day.
It's been very comfortables nice rush.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I always like driving in those conditions, you know, like
I like going out when it doesn't make any sense.
I actually that's the one thing about like when people
weren't driving a lot during COVID or whatever, that it
was weird. How calm it would be to be on
the highway, which it definitely is not anymore, especially not
in Indiana. Yeah, yeah, today's a lovely daynybody that wants
to do a little bit of driving, anybody who wants
(25:02):
to go anywhere. That's my traffic report, totally inappropriate. Matt,
yours is going to be way better in just a bit.
But thank you Kylon for all the Santa Fax. Is
there one more you want to leave us with before
we get out of here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's not on the list, But Santa Claus, Indiana writes
back to all the children who write letters to Santa Claus.
They have millions of well I don't know millions is exaggerated,
but they have a ton of volunteers. They're helping as
real life helves.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's very cool.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That's adorable and lovely and way better than the bird
question that Matt and I asked that now is going
to scar me for life.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
All right, I live in the gallloads of broader I
mean it's dark.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He got some traffic for us,
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