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Speaker 8 (04:13):
You know stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So there are you ready? Is everybody? Are we doing
anything for Christmas? You got the tree up yet? Mine
will be going up this weekend, this weekend. Finally a
throw it up. Also, folks, if you're driving right now
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and you're listening to Christmas music, well you wouldn't be
listening to me. But if you drive and you're listening
to Christmas music while you drive, understand.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Wearing danger?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
You are? You are?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You are in danger. Frosty the Snowman is the most
dangerous Christmas song to drive to. The news is out,
the study's been done, The truth is out there. I
find this to be completely lame, beyond compare, but nonetheless
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here it is according to a study from insurance Opedia.
Suspect immediately insurance Opedia is you know, does anybody suck?
I feel sorry for insurance agents. Give it up for
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the insurance agents. They're working hard, they're doing their job.
They're just trying to get you guys covered. It's the
rat bastards they work for that we're getting a little
sick of. And it's the insurance fraudsters that we need
to like, you know, string up from a tree and
the Town's Squared does a deterrent for other insurance fraudsters.
Just my opinion, but according to Insurance Opedia, songs that
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have beats over one hundred twenty beats per minute can
lead to dangerous driving habits. I saw Mommy kissing Santa
Claus by the Jackson five, one hundred twenty nine beats.
You're all over the road, You're all over the road.
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Judy Garlands have yourself a merry little Christmas one hundred
thirty seven beats per minute? My god, how do you?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
How do you even?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How do you even steer? But the number one now,
Mariah carry all I want for Christmas is you? That
would make me crash, you know anyway, just because I'm
so sick of it. But Gene autrees, Frosty the Snowman
at one hundred and seventy two beats per minute comes
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in at the most dangerous song that you could possibly
drive to. How dare how dare you? Greta?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Putting your family at risk? All these decades? Who knew?
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
We know now?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And is this going to be a way for the
insurance count? What were you listening to when you got
into that rag hoo frosty this no did I watch
trust me, They'll do it. That's how they are, That's
how they are.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Anyone get mad at you.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No one has said how dare you do that? Yet?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
The Markowski inflation index has.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Been right along.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
I went, I actually looked at the government numbers, which
we know are definitely skewed, skewed in the wrong direction,
went back to two thousand and took a look at
items that consumers buy making up the inflation index, and
you'd be blown away, blown away at the levels, whether
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it be food, housing, healthcare, cars, college, textbooks, everything has
gone through the roof years ago. I didn't call it
the Markowski inflation index. I call it the Bear Grillis
index because it was based upon items that we needed
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to survive on, and Bear Grillis, the survivalist out there,
had a great show. The reality is people, Yeah, TVs
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Okay, we're done dreaming. I had to run down the
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I guess close enough. Really, I would think the breaking news.
Republican National Committee co chair Laura Trump is stepping down
from her party role as she considers replacing Florida Senator
Marco Rubio. I'm all for it. Isn't it about time
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we had a hot senator for once? Come on? Murkowski Collins? Eh,
Laura Trump, I'm just saying, just saying, throwing that out there.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, there was some rumors it was going to be Gates,
but then they knew that was going to be Everybody
would just slit their wrists over that. So I think
he's going to be doing something else. I hope he's
in it. I agree with some friends. I hope he
is put in a position to where he can go
after the rat bastards in the House and the Senate
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that have been doing this, Uh, these dastardly deeds as
it were.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't know, she's said she's considering it. Well, if
you're stepping down, it kind of sounds like you might
be the one getting the call. Just just saying it
would appear that she's going to be getting the call.
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to me, speaks to a massive cover up. On January sixth,
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leaked out. The Democrats have been bowing down to Lieutenant
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Mike Bird's demands after he killed Ashley Babbitt, including allocating
him funds for fallen or wounded officers. The official arrative
behind US Capitol Police Lieutenant Mike Bird just got a
whole lot more interesting. This is disgusting. Did you read
this over the weekend? Story came out I think Friday,
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Thursday Friday. Of course, Yes he was a murderer. Yes
he indiscriminately shot at an unarmed woman when there were
cops right behind her. But he's cleared of any wrongdoing.
But this is a guy again leaves his glock twenty
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two in a visitor center bathroom until some other officer
discovers it. He also had his police powers revoked on
several occasions for failing to meet semi annual firearms qualification standards.
So he's like the cop that couldn't shoot straight. It's
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just and it just gets it just gets worse from there.
He's getting money, having money allocated to him that should
be allocated to the families and wounded officers, of families
of fallen officers and wounded officers. This guy'sn't wounded at all.
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He's a murderer. But nonetheless, there it is. Quick break
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News radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
Radio dot Com nine thirty one here at Charlotte County
speaks and with me on the phone is Christine Balling.
She's a senior vice president for professional Affiliations at the
Institute of World Politics, a Latin America expert. We talked
with her briefly last week about what's going on and
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what she was hoping that Secretary of State Rubio would
would do in rebuking America's enemies in the Western hemisphere. Christine,
how you doing? Welcome back?
Speaker 14 (19:07):
Oh, I'm doing well. Thanks glad to be with you.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So tell us in your mind, what do you see
as the effect of I guess the Trump effect on
the border. Do you see these people some self deporting,
a lot of them self deporting. Are they going back
to their home countries? How is this going to affect
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their home countries in relation to you know, the Marxist
ideology that a lot of South America suffers under.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Yeah, well, I would say, unfortunately, I don't see a
lot of self deportation. For example, with regard to the
Venezuelans who have come over, we've got I think it's
about seven one hundred thousand, And the bottom line is
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is that until Maduro, who is the president not duly elected,
unduly elected president, I should say I can get into
that until he's no longer in power, I foresee even
more of Venezuelans trying to get to the United States,
regardless of what Trump's policy is going to be, because
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it's it's really a dire situation in that country.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, does you know the Venezuelan people, they've been through
so much prior to Maduro, are any of them coming
here to actually experience the American dream? Because we've heard
stories about New York City of Venezuelan illegal aliens going there.
They've given top notch hotel accommodations EBT cards with like
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thirteen grand on them, and then Eric Adams was really nice.
You know, usually only green card people get these. But
here's your work permits. And they've scoffed at the work permits.
So we're not working, you're paying for us. So is
that the mentality we're seeing from the majority of them?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
Well, I don't know if it's the majority, but yes,
I mean the bottom line is, as long as those
policies are in action, it's worth I would imagine for
a given Venezuelan to take the chance to make what
is a really arduous and dangerous trek up through Panama
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and in Central America to come here, because that really
is like winning the lottery compared to what he or
she would be dealing with in Venezuela. So yes, until
the message is loud and clear and consistent that those
policies are over, that's going to continue to be a draw.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Just doesn't seem. Have we spent any time trying to
spread Americanism in South America, you know, like the constitutional freedom,
you know, the gift of our republic or as have
we instead just kind of been going along to get
along with a bunch of Marxists.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
Yeah, I mean that I think that's the real tragedy here.
You make a very good point. I mean, the bottom
line is, the vast majority of people in Central and
South America share democratic values. Nobody is having a great
time under these repressive communist regimes, and so it would
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actually take relatively very little money for the United States
to do much more messaging in terms of how if
we were to unite with fellow American as in South
and Central Americans who loved the freedoms that come under
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a democratic republic, to to basically say that a more
united hemisphere in the long run would benefit both those
of us in the in North America and those who
are who are south of us to.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
It.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
I spent many years working in Colombia, and what was
remarkable to me was that, for example, the Marxist rebels
down there, the Revolutionary Forces of Columbia FARC. I met
with several of them recently demobilized, and I was shocked
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to discover that their number one propaganda message for new
recruits was actually anti American and not even anti the
Colombian government. So we've done nothing to counter that ideology.
So we are still you know, Maduro and the Cuban
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regime can continue to talk about the evil Yankees, the
evil imperialists, and yeah, to your point, we've done very
little to counter that messaging.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What do you think is Malay having any effect on
the rest of South America down there?
Speaker 14 (24:25):
Well, yes, I mean in Argentina, he's had an amazing effect.
And actually, what I thought was incredibly significant was that
soon to be President Trump invited him to mar Alago
whatever it was about a week and a half ago.
I mean, for incoming American president to invite a president
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from that region just before his inauguration, that's extremely significant. Personally,
I'm very hopeful that that is a message that the
Trump and administration, and again with Senator Rubio's leadership in
the State Department, will be focusing much more on the
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region going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Speaking of the State Department, do you think that there
needs to be maybe some radical changes at the State Department?
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Well, yes, I will say that Traditionally, and I'm not
sure why, but traditionally many folks at the State Department
are more liberal in terms of their approach to foreign policy,
and I think most especially in the Western Hemisphere offices.
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I think that we as a nation have certain sort
of been still apologizing for past missteps in the region,
like Bay of.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Pigs certainly those years ago.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
No, No, but that's I know, you make an excellent
point there. We still are are as. The State Department,
I feel, is still very apologetic and is almost buying
into the message that we are this malevolent imperialist force
that we want to tread very lightly. And I think
we've been treading far too lightly in the region.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, far too lightly there, and far too heavily in Europe.
I mean, with Samantha Powers going over there starting color
revolutions all over the place. It's it's it's I can
understand why they're just leaving South America alone. They're of
like mind. But so where do we go from here?
And do you think that you know, we're in the
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last Trump's got probably two and a half years to
get to get things done. Do you think that he's
going to have a lasting effect on the South American
situation and the border?
Speaker 14 (27:02):
Well, I think with regard to the border, yes, absolutely,
I do think he's going to have a lasting effect. Now,
obviously the next president, if he or she isn't the Republican,
he or she could undo it. But in order to
have a lasting effect in the region as a whole.
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I think that the situation in Venezuela needs to be addressed,
that it's much support to the Venezuelan opposition that the
United States can offer would be very important. You know,
as your listeners have heard, the Syrian regime was just
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toppled and a lesson there for the region is and
I'm sure Maduro is not very happy about this. The
Russians didn't do anything to save Facade. I mean, he's
he's been offered amnesty or asylum. Excuse me, but I
think if ever something were to happen where Maduro would
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would be in a similar situation, I think what's happened
in Syria might very well show that Russia, who is
an ally Iran, who is an ally of Venezuela, that
they might not actually do anything to help Maduro. One
thing that that's very difficult about the situation of Venezuela
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is that, frankly, they're definitely US oil companies who benefit
from doing business there. So it's it's a very fine
line that the Trump administration has to walk in terms
of trying to deal with the Venezuelans. Venezuelan oppressive regimes,
but then also allowing American companies licenses to get some
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oil out of there. So it's it's a gray area.
It's it's not it's not cut and dry. I would
argue that promoting democracy in the region is the way
to go, it's the long term strategy. But I also
realize that they're going to be oil companies who are
probably loving the Trump administration to allow getting back to
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business as usual in Venezuela.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Who's the I.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Forget his name, who's the opposition leader and he won
the election, right, but then they pulled shenanigans and blew
him out.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
Yeah, that's right, and actually you know it's well, he's
in Ananda's he he's in uh. I believe he's still
in Spain and exiled. But the real leader of the
movement is actually Maria Corina Machado. And she's a very impressive,
uh young woman. She's she's still in Venezuela. She's actually
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I think in the in the embassy. I can't remember
which one. She's she's uh, she's she's sort of hiding
in as it were. She was disbarred, she was not
allowed to run for president, which is why there was
another opposition candidate put forth. But she's uh, she's not
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giving up. And I again, I still, I still have
hope that the US will do more to bolster the
Venezuelan opposition. But certainly this current administration wasn't willing to
do anything. Despite the various tweets of how you know
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Maduro lost the presidential election and how he should respect
the results, no action has been taken to to affect
that change.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
M So is that is so Venezuela seems to be
the big the big hotspot. There wasn't there some other
South American country that somebody who's going to take over?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well?
Speaker 14 (31:02):
Well, second one I would say is that in general
the region, there are more left leaning administrations in the region,
which is bad news. And one thing that is worth
mentioning is the current administration in Colombia. Of course, Colombia
being right next door to Venezuela. Through Planned Colombia, we've
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invested billions in terms of countering drugs, the drug trafficking
and to a certain extent, the civil war down there,
which was ended with a peace deal back in twenty sixteen.
But the current administration is actually run by a former
(31:46):
M nineteen gorilla so very anti US, and frankly, I
think that, well, the presidential elections are coming up in
twenty twenty six, I think it would be very good
for the Colombian people if they were able to elect
a more moderate or conservative president because frankly, I think
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if the same, if if Petro stays in office, the
chances of Maduro leaving office are are slim because that's
a very very tight relationship between the two countries and
we we would definitely need the support of Colombia to
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help the Venezuelan people, and this current administration down there
will absolutely not list a finger in that regard. At
this point, are we still.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Doing any like I remember there used to be radio
free Europe radio?
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Is there any.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Radio America?
Speaker 14 (32:56):
You know, I'm not sure about that going down. No,
I'm not sure, you know. Frankly, at this point, oh sorry,
go you know. At this point, I think what what's
important is is, especially when when elections are around the corner,
is is I'm hoping that there's more of a US,
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more pro democratic U regional unity messaging on social media
that that is definitely the medium that's most effective uh.
For example, believe it or not, when when here in
the United States we we had the whole defund the
police movement, that's actually that's something that the Petro uh
(33:41):
uh campaign team picked up. So so that's another interesting
thing is is that the what what goes on in
American politics is and messaging here is often picked up
by by political candidates down there. But I think I
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think the social media that's the platform to go as
opposed to radio. But no, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I actually am not aware any type of that. Yeah,
I know we used to have Voice of America and
stuff like that. I don't know if that even still
exists anymore. But just one, oh it does does all right? Well, Christine,
how can we find out more? Is there a website
that that you run that people can check in on
you with?
Speaker 14 (34:30):
Well, no, there's no, there's no website. I had an
article in National Review that that came out that's online,
that came out last week. But the Institute of World Politics,
the graduate school where I work, is a great outfit.
(34:50):
It's a boutique graduate school for for those who are
folks who are interested in going into the foreign service,
the intelligence community and nonprofit. So that website is IWP
dot edu. Okay, and it's it's we're we're looking to
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prepare patriotic Americans to serve our nation abroad one way
or another.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
That's awesome and that's good. We and we do need
more patriotic Americans serving our country as opposed to leftist ideologues.
Christine Balling, thank you so much. I want to have
you back on the show again as things progress, and
a continued success and look forward to talking to you
again super well.
Speaker 14 (35:39):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Have merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (35:43):
You do.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We'll be back.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
He had secret hidden cameras all over to women's bathroom.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Can you show me.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
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Heart, Matt.
Speaker 15 (38:15):
I don't need no food, no word locause I'm running now.
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No time.
Speaker 15 (38:24):
Finds and killint win in women, gonna put me to
my grace, run in hide and lose in crying.
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Nothing left to say but my life.
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Speaker 5 (39:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This what this sounds like? It looks like fish too.
Today is a luta fisk day, Lut the fisk, lut
the fisk. Yeah, c Hee's in Norway.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
There was in Norwegian that there. I told you so
there right there. Yeah, it's a fish luke fisk for Christmas.
It's cod. Oh okay, who doesn't like God? If you
ate fish dicks, you've had cod Lucas's cod that gets soaked?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
What what.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
A cod that gets soaked in lie? After the cod
is caught, it's dried to the point of becoming firm
and leathery. To tenderize the fish and bring it back
to its former condition, it gets soaked in lie. Once
it's nice and tender, the lukefisk is skinned and boned. Finally,
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the fish is boiled until it reaches a gelatinous consistent See,
you have lost me at gelatinous. We will not be
having lutfisk. I tell you what there? You you say
you out there? Norwegians said there feets? Use a finish?
You you eat the some poopy food? Tell you what there?
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God just soaked in lie?
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
No, Christmas Card Day today is also Christmas Card Day?
Do you get you know, Christmas cards anymore like from
anyone other than your proctologist, my real estate agent. I still, yeah,
I still get a Christmas card real estate she made
(41:16):
a bunch of money off me. Pay National Pastry Day.
Every day should be National Pastry Day, I would wager
yee uh. And it's also weary what Weary Willy Day?
Who the Hell's it's another one I missed? Who's Weary Willy?
Apparently he's been around since U for a long time.
(41:40):
Character made famous by Emmett Kelly, who was born on
this date in eighteen ninety eight, Weary Willy was a
unique character in the art of clowning. Kelly had developed
Weary Willy at a time when the white face goofy
clown was the norm, and selling the idea for a
sad down on his luck clown did not fit the
formula most circuses were seeking for the time being. Kelly
(42:03):
put back on the white face and the brightly colored costume.
But he wants to be nothing more than weary Willy.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Whoa, that's what we're celebrating today. Okay, there you go,
Weary Willy day. Well, it is a Monday, I guess,
so kind of understand that the most expensive Christmas tree,
(42:37):
if you bought one this year, reel or fake. Mine's fake.
It's probably safe to say you weren't thrilled with the price. No,
mine wasn't too bad. But you're gonna spend over one
hundred bucks if you're particularly if you're buying a pre
lit Christmas tree and you want a nice one, you're
going to be spent over one hundred bucks. But you
did not buy the most expensive Christmas tree in history
(43:01):
in the world. The world's most expensive Christmas tree has
just been unveiled in Germany. What the Muslims let them
celebrate Christmas over there? They haven't banned Germany or Germany
from celebrating Christmas yet. All right, well, still got time
left in the ear. It's not one of those mammoth
ones that people PLoP in the middle of town square.
(43:24):
It's not even a real tree. It's ten feet tall,
solid gold and was created from twenty twenty four gold
Vienna Philharmonic coins for the year twenty twenty four, calling
in a Christmas tree kind of a stretch. Doesn't even
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look like an actual tree. It's just the coins in
a tetrahedron shape, which is a cone with four sides,
kind of a funky pyramid if you will, and it's
top to a twenty four carrot gold instead of a
star or angel. Five million bucks.
Speaker 11 (44:05):
Is what the tree is worth, because you know, vi
Asa Gairman's even makes the most expansive Christmas tree that
doesn't look like a Christmas tree world.
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Speaker 8 (04:13):
You know stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So there are you ready? Is everybody? Are we doing
anything for Christmas? You got the tree up yet? Mine
will be going up this weekend, this weekend. Finally a
throw it up. Also, folks, if you're driving right now
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and you're listening to Christmas music, well you wouldn't be
listening to me. But if you drive and you're listening
to Christmas music while you drive, understand.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Wearing danger?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
You are? You are?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You are in danger. Frosty the Snowman is the most
dangerous Christmas song to drive to. The news is out,
the study's been done, The truth is out there. I
find this to be completely lame, beyond compare, but nonetheless
(05:22):
here it is according to a study from insurance Opedia.
Suspect immediately insurance Opedia is you know, does anybody suck?
I feel sorry for insurance agents. Give it up for
(05:44):
the insurance agents. They're working hard, they're doing their job.
They're just trying to get you guys covered. It's the
rat bastards they work for that we're getting a little
sick of. And it's the insurance fraudsters that we need
to like, you know, string up from a tree and
the Town's Squared does a deterrent for other insurance fraudsters.
Just my opinion, but according to Insurance Opedia, songs that
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have beats over one hundred twenty beats per minute can
lead to dangerous driving habits. I saw Mommy kissing Santa
Claus by the Jackson five, one hundred twenty nine beats.
You're all over the road, You're all over the road.
(06:30):
Judy Garlands have yourself a merry little Christmas one hundred
thirty seven beats per minute? My god, how do you?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
How do you even?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How do you even steer? But the number one now,
Mariah carry all I want for Christmas is you? That
would make me crash, you know anyway, just because I'm
so sick of it. But Gene autrees, Frosty the Snowman
at one hundred and seventy two beats per minute comes
(07:04):
in at the most dangerous song that you could possibly
drive to. How dare how dare you? Greta?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Putting your family at risk? All these decades? Who knew?
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
We know now?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And is this going to be a way for the
insurance count? What were you listening to when you got
into that rag hoo frosty this no did I watch
trust me, They'll do it. That's how they are, That's
how they are.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Anyone get mad at you.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No one has said how dare you do that? Yet?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
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Speaker 10 (07:54):
The Markowski inflation index has.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Been right along.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
I went, I actually looked at the government numbers, which
we know are definitely skewed, skewed in the wrong direction,
went back to two thousand and took a look at
items that consumers buy making up the inflation index, and
you'd be blown away, blown away at the levels, whether
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it be food, housing, healthcare, cars, college, textbooks, everything has
gone through the roof years ago. I didn't call it
the Markowski inflation index. I call it the Bear Grillis
index because it was based upon items that we needed
(08:43):
to survive on, and Bear Grillis, the survivalist out there,
had a great show. The reality is people, Yeah, TVs
are cheap, but you can't eat a TV. Watchdog on
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Okay, we're done dreaming. I had to run down the
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I guess close enough. Really, I would think the breaking news.
Republican National Committee co chair Laura Trump is stepping down
from her party role as she considers replacing Florida Senator
Marco Rubio. I'm all for it. Isn't it about time
(12:11):
we had a hot senator for once? Come on? Murkowski Collins? Eh,
Laura Trump, I'm just saying, just saying, throwing that out there.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, there was some rumors it was going to be Gates,
but then they knew that was going to be Everybody
would just slit their wrists over that. So I think
he's going to be doing something else. I hope he's
in it. I agree with some friends. I hope he
is put in a position to where he can go
after the rat bastards in the House and the Senate
(12:51):
that have been doing this, Uh, these dastardly deeds as
it were.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I don't know, she's said she's considering it. Well, if
you're stepping down, it kind of sounds like you might
be the one getting the call. Just just saying it
would appear that she's going to be getting the call.
So there two six fifteen eighty toll free eight eight
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to me, speaks to a massive cover up. On January sixth,
the arrogance of the murderer. Who is Lieutenant Michael Bird,
murderer of Ashley Babbitt. He's sent an emails, emails get
leaked out. The Democrats have been bowing down to Lieutenant
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Mike Bird's demands after he killed Ashley Babbitt, including allocating
him funds for fallen or wounded officers. The official arrative
behind US Capitol Police Lieutenant Mike Bird just got a
whole lot more interesting. This is disgusting. Did you read
this over the weekend? Story came out I think Friday,
(14:10):
Thursday Friday. Of course, Yes he was a murderer. Yes
he indiscriminately shot at an unarmed woman when there were
cops right behind her. But he's cleared of any wrongdoing.
But this is a guy again leaves his glock twenty
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two in a visitor center bathroom until some other officer
discovers it. He also had his police powers revoked on
several occasions for failing to meet semi annual firearms qualification standards.
So he's like the cop that couldn't shoot straight. It's
(14:53):
just and it just gets it just gets worse from there.
He's getting money, having money allocated to him that should
be allocated to the families and wounded officers, of families
of fallen officers and wounded officers. This guy'sn't wounded at all.
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News radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
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speaks and with me on the phone is Christine Balling.
She's a senior vice president for professional Affiliations at the
Institute of World Politics, a Latin America expert. We talked
with her briefly last week about what's going on and
(18:54):
what she was hoping that Secretary of State Rubio would
would do in rebuking America's enemies in the Western hemisphere. Christine,
how you doing? Welcome back?
Speaker 14 (19:07):
Oh, I'm doing well. Thanks glad to be with you.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So tell us in your mind, what do you see
as the effect of I guess the Trump effect on
the border. Do you see these people some self deporting,
a lot of them self deporting. Are they going back
to their home countries? How is this going to affect
(19:31):
their home countries in relation to you know, the Marxist
ideology that a lot of South America suffers under.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Yeah, well, I would say, unfortunately, I don't see a
lot of self deportation. For example, with regard to the
Venezuelans who have come over, we've got I think it's
about seven one hundred thousand, And the bottom line is
(20:04):
is that until Maduro, who is the president not duly elected,
unduly elected president, I should say I can get into
that until he's no longer in power, I foresee even
more of Venezuelans trying to get to the United States,
regardless of what Trump's policy is going to be, because
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it's it's really a dire situation in that country.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, does you know the Venezuelan people, they've been through
so much prior to Maduro, are any of them coming
here to actually experience the American dream? Because we've heard
stories about New York City of Venezuelan illegal aliens going there.
They've given top notch hotel accommodations EBT cards with like
(20:55):
thirteen grand on them, and then Eric Adams was really nice.
You know, usually only green card people get these. But
here's your work permits. And they've scoffed at the work permits.
So we're not working, you're paying for us. So is
that the mentality we're seeing from the majority of them?
Speaker 14 (21:13):
Well, I don't know if it's the majority, but yes,
I mean the bottom line is, as long as those
policies are in action, it's worth I would imagine for
a given Venezuelan to take the chance to make what
is a really arduous and dangerous trek up through Panama
(21:37):
and in Central America to come here, because that really
is like winning the lottery compared to what he or
she would be dealing with in Venezuela. So yes, until
the message is loud and clear and consistent that those
policies are over, that's going to continue to be a draw.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Just doesn't seem. Have we spent any time trying to
spread Americanism in South America, you know, like the constitutional freedom,
you know, the gift of our republic or as have
we instead just kind of been going along to get
along with a bunch of Marxists.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
Yeah, I mean that I think that's the real tragedy here.
You make a very good point. I mean, the bottom
line is, the vast majority of people in Central and
South America share democratic values. Nobody is having a great
time under these repressive communist regimes, and so it would
(22:43):
actually take relatively very little money for the United States
to do much more messaging in terms of how if
we were to unite with fellow American as in South
and Central Americans who loved the freedoms that come under
(23:04):
a democratic republic, to to basically say that a more
united hemisphere in the long run would benefit both those
of us in the in North America and those who
are who are south of us to.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
It.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
I spent many years working in Colombia, and what was
remarkable to me was that, for example, the Marxist rebels
down there, the Revolutionary Forces of Columbia FARC. I met
with several of them recently demobilized, and I was shocked
(23:44):
to discover that their number one propaganda message for new
recruits was actually anti American and not even anti the
Colombian government. So we've done nothing to counter that ideology.
So we are still you know, Maduro and the Cuban
(24:05):
regime can continue to talk about the evil Yankees, the
evil imperialists, and yeah, to your point, we've done very
little to counter that messaging.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
What do you think is Malay having any effect on
the rest of South America down there?
Speaker 14 (24:25):
Well, yes, I mean in Argentina, he's had an amazing effect.
And actually, what I thought was incredibly significant was that
soon to be President Trump invited him to mar Alago
whatever it was about a week and a half ago.
I mean, for incoming American president to invite a president
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from that region just before his inauguration, that's extremely significant. Personally,
I'm very hopeful that that is a message that the
Trump and administration, and again with Senator Rubio's leadership in
the State Department, will be focusing much more on the
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region going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Speaking of the State Department, do you think that there
needs to be maybe some radical changes at the State Department?
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Well, yes, I will say that Traditionally, and I'm not
sure why, but traditionally many folks at the State Department
are more liberal in terms of their approach to foreign policy,
and I think most especially in the Western Hemisphere offices.
(25:44):
I think that we as a nation have certain sort
of been still apologizing for past missteps in the region,
like Bay of.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Pigs certainly those years ago.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
No, No, but that's I know, you make an excellent
point there. We still are are as. The State Department,
I feel, is still very apologetic and is almost buying
into the message that we are this malevolent imperialist force
that we want to tread very lightly. And I think
we've been treading far too lightly in the region.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, far too lightly there, and far too heavily in Europe.
I mean, with Samantha Powers going over there starting color
revolutions all over the place. It's it's it's I can
understand why they're just leaving South America alone. They're of
like mind. But so where do we go from here?
And do you think that you know, we're in the
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last Trump's got probably two and a half years to
get to get things done. Do you think that he's
going to have a lasting effect on the South American
situation and the border?
Speaker 14 (27:02):
Well, I think with regard to the border, yes, absolutely,
I do think he's going to have a lasting effect. Now,
obviously the next president, if he or she isn't the Republican,
he or she could undo it. But in order to
have a lasting effect in the region as a whole.
(27:23):
I think that the situation in Venezuela needs to be addressed,
that it's much support to the Venezuelan opposition that the
United States can offer would be very important. You know,
as your listeners have heard, the Syrian regime was just
(27:47):
toppled and a lesson there for the region is and
I'm sure Maduro is not very happy about this. The
Russians didn't do anything to save Facade. I mean, he's
he's been offered amnesty or asylum. Excuse me, but I
think if ever something were to happen where Maduro would
(28:11):
would be in a similar situation, I think what's happened
in Syria might very well show that Russia, who is
an ally Iran, who is an ally of Venezuela, that
they might not actually do anything to help Maduro. One
thing that that's very difficult about the situation of Venezuela
(28:34):
is that, frankly, they're definitely US oil companies who benefit
from doing business there. So it's it's a very fine
line that the Trump administration has to walk in terms
of trying to deal with the Venezuelans. Venezuelan oppressive regimes,
but then also allowing American companies licenses to get some
(28:59):
oil out of there. So it's it's a gray area.
It's it's not it's not cut and dry. I would
argue that promoting democracy in the region is the way
to go, it's the long term strategy. But I also
realize that they're going to be oil companies who are
probably loving the Trump administration to allow getting back to
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business as usual in Venezuela.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Who's the I.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Forget his name, who's the opposition leader and he won
the election, right, but then they pulled shenanigans and blew
him out.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
Yeah, that's right, and actually you know it's well, he's
in Ananda's he he's in uh. I believe he's still
in Spain and exiled. But the real leader of the
movement is actually Maria Corina Machado. And she's a very impressive,
uh young woman. She's she's still in Venezuela. She's actually
(29:54):
I think in the in the embassy. I can't remember
which one. She's she's uh, she's she's sort of hiding
in as it were. She was disbarred, she was not
allowed to run for president, which is why there was
another opposition candidate put forth. But she's uh, she's not
(30:15):
giving up. And I again, I still, I still have
hope that the US will do more to bolster the
Venezuelan opposition. But certainly this current administration wasn't willing to
do anything. Despite the various tweets of how you know
(30:36):
Maduro lost the presidential election and how he should respect
the results, no action has been taken to to affect
that change.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
M So is that is so Venezuela seems to be
the big the big hotspot. There wasn't there some other
South American country that somebody who's going to take over?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Well?
Speaker 14 (31:02):
Well, second one I would say is that in general
the region, there are more left leaning administrations in the region,
which is bad news. And one thing that is worth
mentioning is the current administration in Colombia. Of course, Colombia
being right next door to Venezuela. Through Planned Colombia, we've
(31:26):
invested billions in terms of countering drugs, the drug trafficking
and to a certain extent, the civil war down there,
which was ended with a peace deal back in twenty sixteen.
But the current administration is actually run by a former
(31:46):
M nineteen gorilla so very anti US, and frankly, I
think that, well, the presidential elections are coming up in
twenty twenty six, I think it would be very good
for the Colombian people if they were able to elect
a more moderate or conservative president because frankly, I think
(32:12):
if the same, if if Petro stays in office, the
chances of Maduro leaving office are are slim because that's
a very very tight relationship between the two countries and
we we would definitely need the support of Colombia to
(32:34):
help the Venezuelan people, and this current administration down there
will absolutely not list a finger in that regard. At
this point, are we still.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Doing any like I remember there used to be radio
free Europe radio?
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Is there any.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Radio America?
Speaker 14 (32:56):
You know, I'm not sure about that going down. No,
I'm not sure, you know. Frankly, at this point, oh sorry,
go you know. At this point, I think what what's
important is is, especially when when elections are around the corner,
is is I'm hoping that there's more of a US,
(33:16):
more pro democratic U regional unity messaging on social media
that that is definitely the medium that's most effective uh.
For example, believe it or not, when when here in
the United States we we had the whole defund the
police movement, that's actually that's something that the Petro uh
(33:41):
uh campaign team picked up. So so that's another interesting
thing is is that the what what goes on in
American politics is and messaging here is often picked up
by by political candidates down there. But I think I
(34:02):
think the social media that's the platform to go as
opposed to radio. But no, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I actually am not aware any type of that. Yeah,
I know we used to have Voice of America and
stuff like that. I don't know if that even still
exists anymore. But just one, oh it does does all right? Well, Christine,
how can we find out more? Is there a website
that that you run that people can check in on
you with?
Speaker 14 (34:30):
Well, no, there's no, there's no website. I had an
article in National Review that that came out that's online,
that came out last week. But the Institute of World Politics,
the graduate school where I work, is a great outfit.
(34:50):
It's a boutique graduate school for for those who are
folks who are interested in going into the foreign service,
the intelligence community and nonprofit. So that website is IWP
dot edu. Okay, and it's it's we're we're looking to
(35:12):
prepare patriotic Americans to serve our nation abroad one way
or another.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
That's awesome and that's good. We and we do need
more patriotic Americans serving our country as opposed to leftist ideologues.
Christine Balling, thank you so much. I want to have
you back on the show again as things progress, and
a continued success and look forward to talking to you
again super well.
Speaker 14 (35:39):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Have merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (35:43):
You do.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We'll be back.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Selsa you have mental problems.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
He had secret hidden cameras all over to women's bathroom.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Can you show me.
Speaker 8 (35:51):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Mammy Mammy heavy CEC Christmas.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
If everyone's from a big family, you might have the
system we have. We don't get every sibling a gift.
We picked one name, give one sibling a gift, and
it worked out perfect. Last winter, I picked my oldest
brother and I'll ask you, what do you think is
a good present for someone who owes you money. I
got them a gift certificate to me.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
I call it real good.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
I go, there you go, Mark, remember that four hundred Yoemi,
it's down at three eighty. Happy Holidays, Yeah yeah, I
love the holidays though.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Man.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
Now I've only been a father for two Christmases, but
I've been an uncle for a long time. That's a
sweet gig too. That's why I tell a lot of
young people, I go, don't let anyone pressure you to
have children. You should pressure your siblings to make something
because you can't beat and or. Uncle's the greatest right,
because if you have kids, you have to love them
all unconditionally as an uncle, your favorite. It's a class
(37:05):
part of a Christmas. How come you don't get a
Christmas present? Because you're hard to be around. That's why
you didn't get a christ.
Speaker 15 (37:33):
Take me across the water because I need some place
to have. I done the ranch of don and I
shorted hurd is bride.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
M h.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Well there's a hundred miles of desert. Last bit between his.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Heart, Matt.
Speaker 15 (38:15):
I don't need no food, no word locause I'm running now.
Speaker 13 (38:21):
No time.
Speaker 15 (38:24):
Finds and killint win in women, gonna put me to
my grace, run in hide and lose in crying.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Nothing left to say but my life.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
Radio dot Com, Charlotte County Speaks nine point fifty four.
Is the time phone lines open at ninety four one
two zero six fifteen eighty toll free eight eight eight
four four to one fifteen eighty. Uh what do we
got here?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Dan Perkins coming up next hour, ladies, we'll stand by
for Dan. Also today, what are we celebrating? Well, today
is December ninth?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This what this sounds like? It looks like fish too.
Today is a luta fisk day, Lut the fisk, lut
the fisk. Yeah, c Hee's in Norway.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
There was in Norwegian that there. I told you so
there right there. Yeah, it's a fish luke fisk for Christmas.
It's cod. Oh okay, who doesn't like God? If you
ate fish dicks, you've had cod Lucas's cod that gets soaked?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
What what.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
A cod that gets soaked in lie? After the cod
is caught, it's dried to the point of becoming firm
and leathery. To tenderize the fish and bring it back
to its former condition, it gets soaked in lie. Once
it's nice and tender, the lukefisk is skinned and boned. Finally,
(40:22):
the fish is boiled until it reaches a gelatinous consistent See,
you have lost me at gelatinous. We will not be
having lutfisk. I tell you what there? You you say
you out there? Norwegians said there feets? Use a finish?
You you eat the some poopy food? Tell you what there?
(40:48):
God just soaked in lie?
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
No, Christmas Card Day today is also Christmas Card Day?
Do you get you know, Christmas cards anymore like from
anyone other than your proctologist, my real estate agent. I still, yeah,
I still get a Christmas card real estate she made
(41:16):
a bunch of money off me. Pay National Pastry Day.
Every day should be National Pastry Day, I would wager
yee uh. And it's also weary what Weary Willy Day?
Who the Hell's it's another one I missed? Who's Weary Willy?
Apparently he's been around since U for a long time.
(41:40):
Character made famous by Emmett Kelly, who was born on
this date in eighteen ninety eight, Weary Willy was a
unique character in the art of clowning. Kelly had developed
Weary Willy at a time when the white face goofy
clown was the norm, and selling the idea for a
sad down on his luck clown did not fit the
formula most circuses were seeking for the time being. Kelly
(42:03):
put back on the white face and the brightly colored costume.
But he wants to be nothing more than weary Willy.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Whoa, that's what we're celebrating today. Okay, there you go,
Weary Willy day. Well, it is a Monday, I guess,
so kind of understand that the most expensive Christmas tree,
(42:37):
if you bought one this year, reel or fake. Mine's fake.
It's probably safe to say you weren't thrilled with the price. No,
mine wasn't too bad. But you're gonna spend over one
hundred bucks if you're particularly if you're buying a pre
lit Christmas tree and you want a nice one, you're
going to be spent over one hundred bucks. But you
did not buy the most expensive Christmas tree in history
(43:01):
in the world. The world's most expensive Christmas tree has
just been unveiled in Germany. What the Muslims let them
celebrate Christmas over there? They haven't banned Germany or Germany
from celebrating Christmas yet. All right, well, still got time
left in the ear. It's not one of those mammoth
ones that people PLoP in the middle of town square.
(43:24):
It's not even a real tree. It's ten feet tall,
solid gold and was created from twenty twenty four gold
Vienna Philharmonic coins for the year twenty twenty four, calling
in a Christmas tree kind of a stretch. Doesn't even
(43:45):
look like an actual tree. It's just the coins in
a tetrahedron shape, which is a cone with four sides,
kind of a funky pyramid if you will, and it's
top to a twenty four carrot gold instead of a
star or angel. Five million bucks.
Speaker 11 (44:05):
Is what the tree is worth, because you know, vi
Asa Gairman's even makes the most expansive Christmas tree that
doesn't look like a Christmas tree world.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
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