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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Where's Heart is a movie about Christmas?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's how I know.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
There's a fire that brightly burnt, a party where everyone's
turns and Ellis's drugs are kind kind of like the snow.
Die Heart is a movie about Chistmas.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And that's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And the rooftops at night they are full of twinkling
lights from the sub machine.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
There's a game together.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Over though they've been fighting before.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They work out all of their differences and they're not
mad anymore, and together they kill lots of terrorists.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That have Sea four.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think it is right.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Die Heard as a movie about Chistmas. There's red and
green decre Yeah. The green is the millions of bucks.
The red is from all the blood from the punching.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And the shooting and the gore.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Die Heard is a movie about Chistmas.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There was missile, so there were missiles. Stay with me
and MacLean had beare feet get it missed?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Are you feeling this?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And why is there eleven year old watching this?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Die Hard is a movie about Christmas. Because a bearded
man did fly. He was sort of like Santa Clause.
Instead his name was Hans and he flew through the
air into the sky. Die Hard is a movie about
Churris must all.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
The fun you tied clothes, all.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Of the swepters that we've seen, kind of like now
I have a machine gun.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Ho ho. There was packing tap for little surprises. The
parents had to wrap McLean. It was thirty four years back.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
A never ending debate super has come ups about this
time every year. I must confess I've never been a
part part of it, but other people on our team have,
and that is the enduring question.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is die Hard a Christmas movie?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
It is a hotly debated topic, I think partly because
people don't want the topic to die. It's just like
talking about the movie and whether or not it's a
Christmas movie. Either you think it's a Christmas movie or
you don't. There is no in between.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm told I haven't actually seen a movie, so no,
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Some people say it's an action movie that takes place
at Christmas, and others say it's an action packed Christmas movie.
You're welcome to weigh in by email if you'd like Roman.
Where are you on all this, I forget Christmas movie
all right? Apparently, if you've never seen the film, that
would be me. It stars Bruce Willis as John McLean,
a wise, cracking New York cop. Is a strange wife
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moved the kids out to la when she took a
new job, so McLean flies out to spend Christmas with
his family. He meets his wife Holly at her office
on Christmas Eve. While he's there, Hans Gruber played by
Alan Rickman and his men take everyone hostage, but McLean
manages to slip away unseen. He's Bruce Willis, he can
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do those things. He spends the rest of the movie
as a fly in their ointment. Screenwriter Stephen Desusa affirmed
that it is a Christmas movie. Bruce Willis says, no,
it's a Bruce Willis movie. The movie's director John McTiernan said,
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we hadn't intended it to be a Christmas movie, but
the joy that came from it is what turned it
into a Christmas movie. Does that clear it up for anyone? No?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
A new trailer was re edited by twentieth Century Studio
formerly twentieth Century Fox when they released the movie in
the new digital release, on four K and here's the trailer.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
John nice Ver. He just wants to spend Christmas with
the family. We'll see what Santa and Mommy can do.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
But when he gets stuck at the office party, Merry Christmas,
it'll be a holiday. He'll never forget this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's the time of Americas. So be a could share.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Only John can drive somebody that crazy.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Get ready to jingle some bells and deck the halls
with bows.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of Bruce Willis. Get together, Alan Rickman, think.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You have a chance against optimistic cowboy.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Together in the greatest Christmas story ever.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Told you got some bad news for you, Booby eed
at Harvey, I started to get a bad feeling of
this Harry Christmas movie, die Hard.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
This is their idea of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I gotta be here for New Years.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
That certainly seems to make a pretty good case that
this classic is indeed a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Should I watch it?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Remove But when the Hollywood reporters surveyed random people in
twenty eighteen, guess which percentage. Guess what percentage said it
was not a Christmas movie. I already started that sentence
by butt, so I've already tipped you off. Sixty two
percent said it was not a Christmas movie. If die
Hard is not a Christmas movie, then what about die
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Hard two, which I also haven't seen. It also took
place at Christmas. One thing for sure, Von Munroe's version
of let its Know at the end of the first
film sure makes it seem like a Christmas movie. Looking back,
what a smooth move that was, because the chatter around
the movie has kept it alive.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
All the weather outside its rightful, but the fire heavy,
so nightful and simply no place to go.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Let us know, let us know, listen, it doesn't your
side stopping and I brawl some call for poppy. So
like the day wait, let it know, let us know,
let its know, let remind me gets good?
Speaker 10 (07:42):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
How I am going out?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And the going?
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Did you really hold me kind.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
All the way home?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Wal?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm got to see how you clean step it in there?
Cute toys twelve terroristic Tony Plassen were doing this for
eleven years.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Ten square blocks day.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
May days, general nine eight licking thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To dispatch the seven members of the New prov Front
six mile with automatic weapons, five imprisoned leaders of the
Data CAEPEC. Four million dollars.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
It's Ramon the King of Dean and this other guy,
Michael Barry, is that Timmy?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Year again we get stories of someone dressed like a
Grench getting arrested. What was it the Bad Santa? What
was the movie where all the Santa claus is getting
the fight or was that actually real? I think that
was real.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, remember it went viral. Somebody find that and send
that to me.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
There's there's a there's mayhem that breaks out amongst these
all these small Santas and they get in a big
fight and it's just nothing funnier, right, It's the juxtaposition
of the you know, the weakness, the mean and the
happy and like Santa Claus can't get in a fight anyway.
Every year there's a story, and every year we get
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it of a new person. This year is a fellow
by the name of Tucker Lee Davis who's dressed as
a Grinch and they get arrested. So this year's story
goes like this. Tucker Lee Davis and a co worker
named Ryan Jones were in an altercation at a work
of Christmas party at the Hotel Indigo in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Davis attended the party as the Grinch and his buddy
Ryan Jones dressed as a reindeer. Now, let me first
say the idea of getting into a fight at a
Christmas party in an outfit and how that's going to
look later. I have a little experience without at the
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rcc our last Christmas party. Uncle Jerry. Anyone who knows
my co best friend, Uncle Jerry. He's about sixty two
sixty three, um, and he's a big fella, about two
sixty two seventy and he wore a rabbit suit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now, the rabbit suit was already awkward. Did you see it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I mean it's the shoes and all. It's not over
the shoes. I mean it's a onesie, right, It's something
you'd put a little baby in. Except for here's the
late fifties, big brownie fella. And the only thing that
you could see out of it was his face.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You know when you go to the amusement park and
they got that cardboard thing and it's all painted and
you put your face. That's the only thing he's doing.
His face, and he's got the rabbit ears up and
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He's got his hands inside there, and it's over his feet.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
So I mean he's in a onesie, a full on onesie, right,
And it was the employee Christmas party, so we'd closed
the place down to every everybody but our team and somebody,
some dude had brought a buddy of his. We don't
know why, but this dude was technically about to be
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fired anyway because he was a problem in the workplace.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And I don't know if he knew it or it
just he was just one big bad decision.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
His buddy comes and since we provided free food and
drink for everybody, we had we had a casino party.
Everybody got to play and there were prizes and we're
having a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And we used to really blow it out at our
Christmas party. Those were the good old days from home.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
And so Uncle Jerry is there and all of a sudden, Rico,
who was our director of security, comes over and says
to Uncle Jerry, I got a problem with this guy
over here. I'm gonna have to deal with him and
escort him out. And I don't want to have to.
I don't have to hit somebody at the Christmas party.
And he's a guest of one of our employees. Well,
the employee and the guests were getting so drunk that
at some point the guest was fired, I mean the
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employee was fired shortly thereafter. And that's when they knew
they had nothing to lose anymore. And so they decide
they want to get into a fight with Rico, who's
pretty bad ass dude who was our director of security.
And Uncle Jerry joins in, and they're rolling around in
the asphalt parking lot and Uncle Jerry's in his rabbit suit. Well,
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when the Stafford Police Department shows up, they understood the situation.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Jerry is stone coll so over.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
These two guys are drunk out of their heads down
in a headlock to keep them from hurting anybody else,
and there's Uncle Jerry in a rabbit suit. So once
the officers have ascertained that there's nothing really wrong, they
can't help but bust out laugh and ask if they
can have a photo of Uncle Jerry having apprehended them
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while in his rabbit suit. Now, can you imagine if
that thing had gone very, very wrong and Jerry had
been the purp as opposed to the good guy in
his full on rabbit suit. And when I say full
on rabbit suit, let me make this weird. You know,
the guy in the speedo on the beach who comes
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up to you and he's talking to you, and You're like,
I can't look below your chest, dude, you're wearing a
speed of Well.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He was wearing a slightly two tight rabbit suit. Did
I mention he's about six.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Three two seventy The rabbit suit was designed for a
comfortable fit for someone who was about six two to ten.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So yeah, it was a scene.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It's one of my greatest Uncle Jerry stories of all time. Anyway,
So nobody goes to the Christmas party looking to get
into a fight, but.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Tucker Lee Davis came in his Grinch outfit.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
And if Tucker Lee is like most men, he's looking
to have his heart swell, two size is too big.
Except alcohol was involved, and I guess Tucker Lee is
an angry drunk because a hotel employee said that the
Grinch was arguing with the man in a plaid jacket.
That's when a hotel employee, Jared Archibald, tried to intervene.
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When that happened, the reindeer took Archibald to the ground.
In a quote, This is a witness account grappling style,
and that's when Tucker Lee, dressed as the Grinch, started
to pummel the hotel employee about the head and shoulders.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
When the authorities arrived and asked who.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
In the cindiloo who was responsible for the francas, all
fingers pointed to the man in green, the Grinch. So
the popo took Tucker Lee to the Travers County jail
and charged him with misdemeanor assault and battery. The reindeer
was not charged, and we here at the Michael Berry
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Show cannot talk about the Grinch without pulling from the
archive one of our favorites, A class about our dear
dear friend, the congress Woman Chila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
The Hello, this is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in the
eighteenth Congressional District of Texas.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
You're a mean one, Jackson Ly, you rely are a queen.
You're as quiet as a riot. You're as honest as
you are weave Jackson.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Please, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You dress like every day is holl rage.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You're a foul one, Jackson. I also want to get
this big old gift.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
Your call lesi is jong Every steam you devise Michael
Berry will devunt Jacksonly, the three words that best describe
you are as follows, and you quote.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Frivolous, irresponsible, slap happy. You've got the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
So our talented show tea as we lurch toward the
end of the year, during this the Christmas season, in
preparation for our Christmas special, which we began back in October,
to send me their favorite Christmas movie and a clip
from that movie. And we have a lot to get
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to so let's get to it. I want to make
sure we get every one of them in here. First
up is Chad Knockanishi's movie. He is the executive producer.
He gets to go first. He loves Charlie Brown Christmas.
In this scene, Charlie Brown gets increasingly disgusted with the
commercialization of Christmas and wonders whether anyone even remembers the
true meaning of Christmas. Linus recites his memorable meaning of Christmas.
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After he finishes, he steps off stage and says, that's
what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Anyone who knows what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,
I can tell you what Christmas has thought about.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Lighting and there were in the same.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their
flock by night.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
The glory of the Lord shall round about them. And
they were sore afraid, And the Angel said, unto them,
if you're not for behold, I bring your tiding. Is
a great joy which shall be to all people. For
aunto you is born this day in the City of David,
a savior, just Christ the Lord. And this shall be
a sign onto you. You shall find the Babe, wrapped
from swaddling clothes, lying in the manger. And suddenly there
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was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host,
praising God and saying glory to God in the highest
and on earth. Peace wouldn't will toward men. That's what
Christmas has thought about, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
In this scene, George, played by the awesome Jimmy Stewart,
maybe my favorite Jimmy Stewart role, is doing some courting
of Donna Reed's character Mary. Let's get this out of
the way right now. We're all friends here, we can
talk openly about this.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, not a Reed was a looker.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Haul, Yes, a stone cold fox as my friend Jesse
Kelly says, a dime. Anyways, that's all. George is walking
Marry home when he promises to lasso the moon for her.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
This really is a great scene.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Mary.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow and the next day,
and next year and the year after that. I'm shaking
the dust of this crummy little town off my feet,
and I'm gonna see the world Italy, Greece, the Parthenon
the Coliseum. Then I'm coming back here and go to
college and see what they know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And then I'm gonna build things.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers one hundred
stories high.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm gonna build bridges a mile long. Were you gonna
throw a rock? Hey, that's pretty good?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What'd you wish?
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Puffalo?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Gals?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Can't you come out to me?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Can't you come?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Can you come?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you come out tonight?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Dance by the light?
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Oh? No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What do you wish? When you threw the draw? If
I don't, it might not come true.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
What does it you want? Mary?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do you want the moon? Just say the word and
I'll throw a glasshole around and pull it down.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Hey, that's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I'll give you the moon, Mary, I'll take it. Then
what well, then you.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Could swallow it and it all does all see and
the moon beams and shoot out of your fingers and
your toes and the ends of your hair.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Am I talking too much?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (19:40):
Why don't you kisser instead talking at a desk?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why don't cher kissers are.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Talking at a disk? One way to kiss her?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You this wishing on the wrong people.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Our research director, Sandy Peterson loves a Christmas story. She
wrote in her submission as to why this was her
choice what she wanted to be known by a quote.
I think that this movie perfectly captures the aching desire
for that one gift that you know it's highly unlikely
you'll ever get. For Ralphie, it was the Red Rider
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bb gun. For me, it was a pony. Sandy didn't
never say if she got that pony. Maybe the story
is better if she didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Are you kidding? Stick Martita, stupid poet stuff. That's cause
you know him, stick he hold it? Oh yeah, don.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
Dareia my jile DoD Dair.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yet all right, all right, we'll go on, smart Joy
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
God, ye.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Sack, sack, I'm really hard.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Jim Mudd's favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Because he's brilliant. I'm going to say that's a good one.
Not my favorite, but a good one.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
The only sequel to National Lampoons Vacation that holds up
to the original Fight me. In this film, our hero
Clark Griswold is hosting the family Christmas celebration at his
house for the first time. It's a huge to do,
and Clark wants it to be perfect. That's the setup
for all of the National Lampoons, right. Well, nothing goes
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as plan, especially when cousin Eddie shows up in an
RV unannounced with his family in tow. When Clark finds
out that Eddie is broke, he offers to buy gifts
for Eddie's kids.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Here we go, Helen.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I want to help you give the kids a nice Christmas. Clark,
I can do the wins.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh no, I'm not one for charity now, I know that, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
This is a charity. It's family.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Come on, if you don't tell me what they want,
I'll go out and get it on my own.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Boy, this is a surprise, Clark's a real nice surprise,
Just a real nice surprise.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Here's a little less alphabetical, starting with Catherine. And if
it wouldn't be too much, I'd like to get something
for you, Clark, something really nice.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So Ramone's favorite submission for some reason was or is.
I guess it's active today, but you submitted this a
couple of weeks ago. Ramon's favorite submission.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
As a movie.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You gotta tell us which version it is, but anyway,
it's Scrooge.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hello you that boy?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Me, sir?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes, you a good fellow for days.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Today today that's Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Of course I haven't missed you experience.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Did it all in one night?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They can do anything they like, of course the case Hello,
I find fellow.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hello. Do you know the Poulterer's in the next street
for one on the corner?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I should hope I did.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Intelligent boy, remarkable boy.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Was hanging there?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
But the worst big is me?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It delightful boy, pleasure talking to.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The one as big as you now? Going by, yes,
going by, and bring them round so that I may
tell them where to deliver it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Come back with the man.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'll give you a shitting come back in less than
five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'll give you half a.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Clown excuse so much.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm happy he.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Is.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He Very Christmas everybody.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
This is the Michael bennyshell. We thought we'd go out
with one of our favorites, Paul Harvey. He tells a
heart felt Christmas story about a man who is skeptical
of the Nativity tale. While his family is at church,
he finds himself faced with a flock of birds struggling
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in a snowstorm, and despite his efforts to help him,
the birds are afraid of him.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
The music is from Akira the Dawn, who puts music
over interesting things like this.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The man I'm talking about was not a scrooge.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
He was a kind a decent and mostly good.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Man, generous to his family and upright in his dealings
with other men. But he just did not believe in
all of that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaimed at
Christmas time. It just did not make sense, and he
was too honest to pretend otherwise. He could not swallow
the Jesus a story about God coming to earth as
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a man. He told his wife, I'm truly sorry to
distress you, but I'm just not going with you to
church this Christmas Eve. He said he'd feel like a hypocrite,
that he'd much rather just stay home, but that he
would wait up for them. So he stayed and they
went to the midnight service. Now shortly after the family
drove away and the car, snow began to fall. He
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went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier
and heavier. Then he went back to his fireside chair
hegan to read his newspaper. Minutes later, he was startled
by a thudding sound, and then another, then yet another another.
At first he thought somebody must be throwing snowballs against
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the living room window, but when he went to the
front door to investigate, he found.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A flock of birds huddled out there miserably in the snow.
They had been caught in the storm.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
In a desperate search for a shelter, they had tried
to fly through his large landscape window.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That was what had been making the sound.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Well, he couldn't let those poor creatures just lie there
and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children
stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter. All
even have to do is direct the birds into that shelter. Quickly,
he put on a coat and galoshes, and he tramped
through the deepening snow to the barn, and he opened
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the doors wide, and inside the barn, he turned on
a light so the birds wouldn't know the way in
what the birds did not come in, so he figured
that food would entice me. He went back into the
house and touched some bread crumbs and sprinkled those on
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the snow, making a trail of bread crumbs to the
yellow lighted, wide open doorway of the stable.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
The birds just continued to flop around helplessly in the snow.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
He tried catching them, he could not.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
He tried showing them into the barn by walking around
them waving his arms, but instead they scattered in every direction,
every direction, accept into the warm lighted the barn. And
that's why he realized that they were afraid of him.
They were afraid of him. To him, he reasoned, I'm
a strange, terrifying creature. If Holy I could think of
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someone let him know that they can't trust me, that
I'm not trying to hurt them, to help them. But
how any move he made tended to frighten them and
confuse them.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Just would not follow. They would not be led or
shoed because they feared.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Yet, and he thought to himself, if only I could
be a bird, now, I could be a bird and
mingle with them and speak their language and tell them
not to be afraid. Then I could show them the
way to the safety warm barn. But I would have
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to be one of them, couldn't so they couldn't see
and hear and understand. At that moment, the church bells
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began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the
sounds of the wind, and he stood there listening to
the bells at that stay few day list listening to
the bells, feeling the glad tidings of Christmas, and.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He sank to his knees in the snow. I hope
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for you and those you love, this will be a
wonderfully merry Christmas
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Where's Heart is a movie about Christmas?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's how I know.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
There's a fire that brightly burnt, a party where everyone's
turns and Ellis's drugs are kind kind of like the snow.
Die Heart is a movie about Chistmas.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And that's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And the rooftops at night they are full of twinkling
lights from the sub machine.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
There's a game together.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Over though they've been fighting before.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They work out all of their differences and they're not
mad anymore, and together they kill lots of terrorists.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That have Sea four.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think it is right.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Die Heard as a movie about Chistmas. There's red and
green decre Yeah. The green is the millions of bucks.
The red is from all the blood from the punching.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And the shooting and the gore.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Die Heard is a movie about Chistmas.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
There was missile, so there were missiles. Stay with me
and MacLean had beare feet get it missed?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Are you feeling this?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And why is there eleven year old watching this?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Die Hard is a movie about Christmas. Because a bearded
man did fly. He was sort of like Santa Clause.
Instead his name was Hans and he flew through the
air into the sky. Die Hard is a movie about
Churris must all.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
The fun you tied clothes, all.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Of the swepters that we've seen, kind of like now
I have a machine gun.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Ho ho. There was packing tap for little surprises. The
parents had to wrap McLean. It was thirty four years back.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
A never ending debate super has come ups about this
time every year. I must confess I've never been a
part part of it, but other people on our team have,
and that is the enduring question.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is die Hard a Christmas movie?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
It is a hotly debated topic, I think partly because
people don't want the topic to die. It's just like
talking about the movie and whether or not it's a
Christmas movie. Either you think it's a Christmas movie or
you don't. There is no in between.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm told I haven't actually seen a movie, so no,
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Some people say it's an action movie that takes place
at Christmas, and others say it's an action packed Christmas movie.
You're welcome to weigh in by email if you'd like Roman.
Where are you on all this, I forget Christmas movie
all right? Apparently, if you've never seen the film, that
would be me. It stars Bruce Willis as John McLean,
a wise, cracking New York cop. Is a strange wife
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moved the kids out to la when she took a
new job, so McLean flies out to spend Christmas with
his family. He meets his wife Holly at her office
on Christmas Eve. While he's there, Hans Gruber played by
Alan Rickman and his men take everyone hostage, but McLean
manages to slip away unseen. He's Bruce Willis, he can
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do those things. He spends the rest of the movie
as a fly in their ointment. Screenwriter Stephen Desusa affirmed
that it is a Christmas movie. Bruce Willis says, no,
it's a Bruce Willis movie. The movie's director John McTiernan said,
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we hadn't intended it to be a Christmas movie, but
the joy that came from it is what turned it
into a Christmas movie. Does that clear it up for anyone? No?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
A new trailer was re edited by twentieth Century Studio
formerly twentieth Century Fox when they released the movie in
the new digital release, on four K and here's the trailer.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
John nice Ver. He just wants to spend Christmas with
the family. We'll see what Santa and Mommy can do.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
But when he gets stuck at the office party, Merry Christmas,
it'll be a holiday. He'll never forget this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's the time of Americas. So be a could share.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Only John can drive somebody that crazy.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Get ready to jingle some bells and deck the halls
with bows.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Of Bruce Willis. Get together, Alan Rickman, think.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You have a chance against optimistic cowboy.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Together in the greatest Christmas story ever.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Told you got some bad news for you, Booby eed
at Harvey, I started to get a bad feeling of
this Harry Christmas movie, die Hard.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
This is their idea of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I gotta be here for New Years.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
That certainly seems to make a pretty good case that
this classic is indeed a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Should I watch it?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Remove But when the Hollywood reporters surveyed random people in
twenty eighteen, guess which percentage. Guess what percentage said it
was not a Christmas movie. I already started that sentence
by butt, so I've already tipped you off. Sixty two
percent said it was not a Christmas movie. If die
Hard is not a Christmas movie, then what about die
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Hard two, which I also haven't seen. It also took
place at Christmas. One thing for sure, Von Munroe's version
of let its Know at the end of the first
film sure makes it seem like a Christmas movie. Looking back,
what a smooth move that was, because the chatter around
the movie has kept it alive.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
All the weather outside its rightful, but the fire heavy,
so nightful and simply no place to go.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Let us know, let us know, listen, it doesn't your
side stopping and I brawl some call for poppy. So
like the day wait, let it know, let us know,
let its know, let remind me gets good?
Speaker 10 (07:42):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
How I am going out?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And the going?
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Did you really hold me kind.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
All the way home?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Wal?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm got to see how you clean step it in there?
Cute toys twelve terroristic Tony Plassen were doing this for
eleven years.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Ten square blocks day.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
May days, general nine eight licking thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To dispatch the seven members of the New prov Front
six mile with automatic weapons, five imprisoned leaders of the
Data CAEPEC. Four million dollars.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
It's Ramon the King of Dean and this other guy,
Michael Barry, is that Timmy?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Year again we get stories of someone dressed like a
Grench getting arrested. What was it the Bad Santa? What
was the movie where all the Santa claus is getting
the fight or was that actually real? I think that
was real.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, remember it went viral. Somebody find that and send
that to me.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
There's there's a there's mayhem that breaks out amongst these
all these small Santas and they get in a big
fight and it's just nothing funnier, right, It's the juxtaposition
of the you know, the weakness, the mean and the
happy and like Santa Claus can't get in a fight anyway.
Every year there's a story, and every year we get
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it of a new person. This year is a fellow
by the name of Tucker Lee Davis who's dressed as
a Grinch and they get arrested. So this year's story
goes like this. Tucker Lee Davis and a co worker
named Ryan Jones were in an altercation at a work
of Christmas party at the Hotel Indigo in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Davis attended the party as the Grinch and his buddy
Ryan Jones dressed as a reindeer. Now, let me first
say the idea of getting into a fight at a
Christmas party in an outfit and how that's going to
look later. I have a little experience without at the
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rcc our last Christmas party. Uncle Jerry. Anyone who knows
my co best friend, Uncle Jerry. He's about sixty two
sixty three, um, and he's a big fella, about two
sixty two seventy and he wore a rabbit suit.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now, the rabbit suit was already awkward. Did you see it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I mean it's the shoes and all. It's not over
the shoes. I mean it's a onesie, right, It's something
you'd put a little baby in. Except for here's the
late fifties, big brownie fella. And the only thing that
you could see out of it was his face.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You know when you go to the amusement park and
they got that cardboard thing and it's all painted and
you put your face. That's the only thing he's doing.
His face, and he's got the rabbit ears up and
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He's got his hands inside there, and it's over his feet.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
So I mean he's in a onesie, a full on onesie, right,
And it was the employee Christmas party, so we'd closed
the place down to every everybody but our team and somebody,
some dude had brought a buddy of his. We don't
know why, but this dude was technically about to be
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fired anyway because he was a problem in the workplace.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And I don't know if he knew it or it
just he was just one big bad decision.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
His buddy comes and since we provided free food and
drink for everybody, we had we had a casino party.
Everybody got to play and there were prizes and we're
having a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And we used to really blow it out at our
Christmas party. Those were the good old days from home.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
And so Uncle Jerry is there and all of a sudden, Rico,
who was our director of security, comes over and says
to Uncle Jerry, I got a problem with this guy
over here. I'm gonna have to deal with him and
escort him out. And I don't want to have to.
I don't have to hit somebody at the Christmas party.
And he's a guest of one of our employees. Well,
the employee and the guests were getting so drunk that
at some point the guest was fired, I mean the
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employee was fired shortly thereafter. And that's when they knew
they had nothing to lose anymore. And so they decide
they want to get into a fight with Rico, who's
pretty bad ass dude who was our director of security.
And Uncle Jerry joins in, and they're rolling around in
the asphalt parking lot and Uncle Jerry's in his rabbit suit. Well,
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when the Stafford Police Department shows up, they understood the situation.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Jerry is stone coll so over.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
These two guys are drunk out of their heads down
in a headlock to keep them from hurting anybody else,
and there's Uncle Jerry in a rabbit suit. So once
the officers have ascertained that there's nothing really wrong, they
can't help but bust out laugh and ask if they
can have a photo of Uncle Jerry having apprehended them
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while in his rabbit suit. Now, can you imagine if
that thing had gone very, very wrong and Jerry had
been the purp as opposed to the good guy in
his full on rabbit suit. And when I say full
on rabbit suit, let me make this weird. You know,
the guy in the speedo on the beach who comes
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up to you and he's talking to you, and You're like,
I can't look below your chest, dude, you're wearing a
speed of Well.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He was wearing a slightly two tight rabbit suit. Did
I mention he's about six.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Three two seventy The rabbit suit was designed for a
comfortable fit for someone who was about six two to ten.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So yeah, it was a scene.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It's one of my greatest Uncle Jerry stories of all time. Anyway,
So nobody goes to the Christmas party looking to get
into a fight, but.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Tucker Lee Davis came in his Grinch outfit.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
And if Tucker Lee is like most men, he's looking
to have his heart swell, two size is too big.
Except alcohol was involved, and I guess Tucker Lee is
an angry drunk because a hotel employee said that the
Grinch was arguing with the man in a plaid jacket.
That's when a hotel employee, Jared Archibald, tried to intervene.
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When that happened, the reindeer took Archibald to the ground.
In a quote, This is a witness account grappling style,
and that's when Tucker Lee, dressed as the Grinch, started
to pummel the hotel employee about the head and shoulders.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
When the authorities arrived and asked who.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
In the cindiloo who was responsible for the francas, all
fingers pointed to the man in green, the Grinch. So
the popo took Tucker Lee to the Travers County jail
and charged him with misdemeanor assault and battery. The reindeer
was not charged, and we here at the Michael Berry
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Show cannot talk about the Grinch without pulling from the
archive one of our favorites, A class about our dear
dear friend, the congress Woman Chila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
The Hello, this is Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in the
eighteenth Congressional District of Texas.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
You're a mean one, Jackson Ly, you rely are a queen.
You're as quiet as a riot. You're as honest as
you are weave Jackson.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Please, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
You dress like every day is holl rage.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You're a foul one, Jackson. I also want to get
this big old gift.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
Your call lesi is jong Every steam you devise Michael
Berry will devunt Jacksonly, the three words that best describe
you are as follows, and you quote.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Frivolous, irresponsible, slap happy. You've got the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
So our talented show tea as we lurch toward the
end of the year, during this the Christmas season, in
preparation for our Christmas special, which we began back in October,
to send me their favorite Christmas movie and a clip
from that movie. And we have a lot to get
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to so let's get to it. I want to make
sure we get every one of them in here. First
up is Chad Knockanishi's movie. He is the executive producer.
He gets to go first. He loves Charlie Brown Christmas.
In this scene, Charlie Brown gets increasingly disgusted with the
commercialization of Christmas and wonders whether anyone even remembers the
true meaning of Christmas. Linus recites his memorable meaning of Christmas.
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After he finishes, he steps off stage and says, that's
what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Anyone who knows what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,
I can tell you what Christmas has thought about.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Lighting and there were in the same.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their
flock by night.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
The glory of the Lord shall round about them. And
they were sore afraid, And the Angel said, unto them,
if you're not for behold, I bring your tiding. Is
a great joy which shall be to all people. For
aunto you is born this day in the City of David,
a savior, just Christ the Lord. And this shall be
a sign onto you. You shall find the Babe, wrapped
from swaddling clothes, lying in the manger. And suddenly there
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was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host,
praising God and saying glory to God in the highest
and on earth. Peace wouldn't will toward men. That's what
Christmas has thought about, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
In this scene, George, played by the awesome Jimmy Stewart,
maybe my favorite Jimmy Stewart role, is doing some courting
of Donna Reed's character Mary. Let's get this out of
the way right now. We're all friends here, we can
talk openly about this.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, not a Reed was a looker.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Haul, Yes, a stone cold fox as my friend Jesse
Kelly says, a dime. Anyways, that's all. George is walking
Marry home when he promises to lasso the moon for her.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
This really is a great scene.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Mary.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow and the next day,
and next year and the year after that. I'm shaking
the dust of this crummy little town off my feet,
and I'm gonna see the world Italy, Greece, the Parthenon
the Coliseum. Then I'm coming back here and go to
college and see what they know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And then I'm gonna build things.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers one hundred
stories high.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm gonna build bridges a mile long. Were you gonna
throw a rock? Hey, that's pretty good?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What'd you wish?
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Puffalo?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Gals?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Can't you come out to me?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Can't you come?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Can you come?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you come out tonight?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Dance by the light?
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Oh? No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What do you wish? When you threw the draw? If
I don't, it might not come true.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
What does it you want? Mary?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do you want the moon? Just say the word and
I'll throw a glasshole around and pull it down.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Hey, that's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I'll give you the moon, Mary, I'll take it. Then
what well, then you.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Could swallow it and it all does all see and
the moon beams and shoot out of your fingers and
your toes and the ends of your hair.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Am I talking too much?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (19:40):
Why don't you kisser instead talking at a desk?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why don't cher kissers are.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Talking at a disk? One way to kiss her?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You this wishing on the wrong people.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Our research director, Sandy Peterson loves a Christmas story. She
wrote in her submission as to why this was her
choice what she wanted to be known by a quote.
I think that this movie perfectly captures the aching desire
for that one gift that you know it's highly unlikely
you'll ever get. For Ralphie, it was the Red Rider
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bb gun. For me, it was a pony. Sandy didn't
never say if she got that pony. Maybe the story
is better if she didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Are you kidding? Stick Martita, stupid poet stuff. That's cause
you know him, stick he hold it? Oh yeah, don.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
Dareia my jile DoD Dair.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yet all right, all right, we'll go on, smart Joy
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
God, ye.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Sack, sack, I'm really hard.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Jim Mudd's favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Because he's brilliant. I'm going to say that's a good one.
Not my favorite, but a good one.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
The only sequel to National Lampoons Vacation that holds up
to the original Fight me. In this film, our hero
Clark Griswold is hosting the family Christmas celebration at his
house for the first time. It's a huge to do,
and Clark wants it to be perfect. That's the setup
for all of the National Lampoons, right. Well, nothing goes
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as plan, especially when cousin Eddie shows up in an
RV unannounced with his family in tow. When Clark finds
out that Eddie is broke, he offers to buy gifts
for Eddie's kids.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Here we go, Helen.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I want to help you give the kids a nice Christmas. Clark,
I can do the wins.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh no, I'm not one for charity now, I know that, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
This is a charity. It's family.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Come on, if you don't tell me what they want,
I'll go out and get it on my own.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Boy, this is a surprise, Clark's a real nice surprise,
Just a real nice surprise.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Here's a little less alphabetical, starting with Catherine. And if
it wouldn't be too much, I'd like to get something
for you, Clark, something really nice.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So Ramone's favorite submission for some reason was or is.
I guess it's active today, but you submitted this a
couple of weeks ago. Ramon's favorite submission.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
As a movie.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You gotta tell us which version it is, but anyway,
it's Scrooge.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hello you that boy?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Me, sir?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes, you a good fellow for days.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Today today that's Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Of course I haven't missed you experience.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Did it all in one night?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They can do anything they like, of course the case Hello,
I find fellow.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hello. Do you know the Poulterer's in the next street
for one on the corner?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I should hope I did.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Intelligent boy, remarkable boy.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Was hanging there?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
But the worst big is me?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It delightful boy, pleasure talking to.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
The one as big as you now? Going by, yes,
going by, and bring them round so that I may
tell them where to deliver it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Come back with the man.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'll give you a shitting come back in less than
five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'll give you half a.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Clown excuse so much.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm happy he.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Is.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He Very Christmas everybody.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
This is the Michael bennyshell. We thought we'd go out
with one of our favorites, Paul Harvey. He tells a
heart felt Christmas story about a man who is skeptical
of the Nativity tale. While his family is at church,
he finds himself faced with a flock of birds struggling
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in a snowstorm, and despite his efforts to help him,
the birds are afraid of him.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
The music is from Akira the Dawn, who puts music
over interesting things like this.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
The man I'm talking about was not a scrooge.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
He was a kind a decent and mostly good.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Man, generous to his family and upright in his dealings
with other men. But he just did not believe in
all of that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaimed at
Christmas time. It just did not make sense, and he
was too honest to pretend otherwise. He could not swallow
the Jesus a story about God coming to earth as
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a man. He told his wife, I'm truly sorry to
distress you, but I'm just not going with you to
church this Christmas Eve. He said he'd feel like a hypocrite,
that he'd much rather just stay home, but that he
would wait up for them. So he stayed and they
went to the midnight service. Now shortly after the family
drove away and the car, snow began to fall. He
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went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier
and heavier. Then he went back to his fireside chair
hegan to read his newspaper. Minutes later, he was startled
by a thudding sound, and then another, then yet another another.
At first he thought somebody must be throwing snowballs against
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the living room window, but when he went to the
front door to investigate, he found.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
A flock of birds huddled out there miserably in the snow.
They had been caught in the storm.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
In a desperate search for a shelter, they had tried
to fly through his large landscape window.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That was what had been making the sound.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Well, he couldn't let those poor creatures just lie there
and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children
stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter. All
even have to do is direct the birds into that shelter. Quickly,
he put on a coat and galoshes, and he tramped
through the deepening snow to the barn, and he opened
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the doors wide, and inside the barn, he turned on
a light so the birds wouldn't know the way in
what the birds did not come in, so he figured
that food would entice me. He went back into the
house and touched some bread crumbs and sprinkled those on
(27:55):
the snow, making a trail of bread crumbs to the
yellow lighted, wide open doorway of the stable.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
The birds just continued to flop around helplessly in the snow.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
He tried catching them, he could not.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
He tried showing them into the barn by walking around
them waving his arms, but instead they scattered in every direction,
every direction, accept into the warm lighted the barn. And
that's why he realized that they were afraid of him.
They were afraid of him. To him, he reasoned, I'm
a strange, terrifying creature. If Holy I could think of
(28:44):
someone let him know that they can't trust me, that
I'm not trying to hurt them, to help them. But
how any move he made tended to frighten them and
confuse them.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Just would not follow. They would not be led or
shoed because they feared.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Yet, and he thought to himself, if only I could
be a bird, now, I could be a bird and
mingle with them and speak their language and tell them
not to be afraid. Then I could show them the
way to the safety warm barn. But I would have
(29:32):
to be one of them, couldn't so they couldn't see
and hear and understand. At that moment, the church bells
(29:53):
began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the
sounds of the wind, and he stood there listening to
the bells at that stay few day list listening to
the bells, feeling the glad tidings of Christmas, and.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He sank to his knees in the snow. I hope
(31:16):
for you and those you love, this will be a
wonderfully merry Christmas
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