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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For the past thirty four years back, a never ending
debate has come up about this time every year. I
must confess I've never been a part of it, but
other people on our team have, and that is the
enduring question. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? It is
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a hotly debated topic. I think partly because people don't
want the topic to die. They're 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. I'm told I haven't actually
seen a movie, so no, I haven't. Some people say
it's an action movie that takes place at Christmas, and
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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. His estranged wife moved the kids out
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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 do those things. He spends
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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, we hadn't intended it to
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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?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
A new trailer was re edited by twentieth Century Studio
for twentieth Century Fox when they released the movie in
the new digital release on four K. And here's the trailer.
This is John nice Fair.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
He just wants to spend Christmas with the family.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
We'll see what Santa and Mommy can do.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
But when he gets stuck at the office party, Merry Christmas,
it'll be a holiday.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He'll never forget this Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's the time of a miracle, So be a good share.
Only John can drive somebody that crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Get ready to jingle some bells and deck the halls.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
With bows.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
O Bruce Willis, move to the coos and get together.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Owen Rickman, do anything you have a chance against our
stimistic cowboy.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It became.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Together in the greatest Christmas story ever told.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I got some bad news for you, Dwayne time Spooby
hat at Harvey Hold.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I'm starting to get a bad feeling of there, Harry Christmas,
die Hard, this is their idea of Christmas.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I gotta be here for New Years.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That certainly seems to make a pretty good case that
this classic is indeed a Christmas movie? Should I watch it?
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
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percent said it was not a Christmas movie. If die
Hard is not Christmas movie, then what about Diehard two?
Which I also haven't seen? It also took place at Christmas.
One thing for sure, Von Monroe'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
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has kept it alive.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All the weather outside. It's fright voice, what the five
is so delightful? And since me no place to go,
let its know, let us know, let us know. It
doesn't show size stopping and they brought some call for poppy.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
The light of day, wait and.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Let its know, let us know, let its know.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Lever remind league is good night.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh I hate going out and.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Hold me time.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
All away.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I'm here to see Holly McClean stype it in there,
cute toy.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Twelve Terrorist Natomy Placid.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
We're doing it for eleven years. Ten square blocks, may Day,
may Day, Channel nine eight Linco thirty to dispatch.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The seven members of the New Provo.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Front six time with automatic weapons.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Five imprisoned leaders of Live Afteta Quebec, four million dollars,
three down board to go.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Code two and Knockatomy Plasis.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Killed one terrorist for shot.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
He claims he's capped off to others.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Happy here, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
I'm very merry kiss, Merry.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Christmas, you became Christmas.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It's dramon the King of Ding and this other guy,
Michael barryck FROs.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The Christmas song. That's actually the title commonly subtitled Chestnuts
Roasting on an Open Fire, because that's how we know it.
It was originally subtitled Merry Christmas to You, So it
was originally the Christmas song with the subtitle Merry Christmas
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to you, but now it's come to be known as
the Christmas song subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an open file
classic Christmas song written in nineteen forty five by Robert
Wells and the Velvet Fall Mel Tourmae. According to Tourmee,
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the song was written in July during a blistering hot summer,
in an effort to quote stay cool by thinking cool,
the most performed Christmas song was born. According to b
and I that's where the royalties payment. The Christmas Song
or Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is the most
performed Christmas song of all time. Quote. I saw a
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spiral pad on Robert Wells piano with four lines written
in pencil. They started chestnuts roasting, jack frost nipping yule
Tide Carols, folks dressed up like Eskimos. Bob didn't think
he was writing a song limit lyric. He said he
thought if he could immerse himself in winter, he could
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cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I
wrote all the music and some of the lyrics. End quote.
That was in nineteen forty five. That King Cole's nineteen
sixty one version is generally regarded as the definitive and
in two thousand and four was the most loved seasonal
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song with women aged thirty to forty nine and ramone Roman.
I asked our team to give me one Christmas song
that is their absolute favorite and you're gonna hear those now.
That one was Ramones. His next song was released on
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the Andy Williams Christmas album, titled the Andy Williams Christmas Album.
They didn't hire a consultant for that, however, it wasn't
released as a single. His rendition of White Christmas was
the single promoted for that album. The song peaked at
number twenty one on the UK Singles charts back in
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seven and into the top ten consistently over the past
several years, peaking at number five in twenty twenty on
the Billboard Hot one hundred Singles chart in the US.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
With those holiday greetings in gay happy meetings.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
When friends come too call, it's the poucecenes long.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
For toasting and caroling out in the snow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Of Christmases long long ago. It's the most wonderful time
of the.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
This next song is a favorite of chad'sothis very unique song,
and that it was written by Brad Paisley. Now I
don't really care for Brad Paisley, but I can't speak
ill of Chad because he's executive producer and we all
kind of work for him. So I'm going to pretend
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that this next song is fantastic because it's his favorite,
but it's not mine. It is, I will say, a
unique song, and that it was written by Brad Paisley
when he was still a kid, so I gotta give
it credit for that. It starts with him singing it
as his younger self. It was then morphs into an
adult Brad Paisley, and I have to admit that's kind
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of cool.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Eveoy born in that maideer to bring the world joy.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So harsh up, little.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Baby baby, you know not what you do. You'll bring
the world peace and love and teach them well you do.
You have nothing to fear because you know God is
with you. Are away that little import baby.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
In fact, that kind of reminds me of Travis Thibodeau,
the guy who first wrote Take My Hand. I think
he was twelve years old singing with his dad when
he saying when he wrote that, and he first recorded it,
and then of course Wayne Tubes made it a big hit.
Perhaps the best song of the bunch is the one
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I chose.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It's my favorite day.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
This comes from the TV movie A Year Without Santa
Claus and I love it. It's called mister heap.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
Nice, I'm mister Christmas, I'm mister sheet, mister.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Call me he miser one too much Chance.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
McLean's pick is by a musical genius, Ray Charles. You
may recognize it from the attic scene in the movie
Christmas Vacation. It's the Spirit of Christmas and it's Ray
Charles and can there be anything more?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Christmas is the time movie.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
For being with the ones we love, sharing so much
joy and cheer, what a one the pulpy watching the
ones we love.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A Christmas classic by Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra. It
was written for June for uh No, It's written for
Judy Garland for the musical meet Me in Saint Louis.
Sinatra sang the song later with reworked lyrics and it's
subducing your self.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A merry little Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Let your heart.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Life from No.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Odd Troubles will be out of side.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Have yourself merry little Christmas. Make the ule tie game.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From No.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Odd Troubles will.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Be Our research director Sandy Peterson. We saved hers her favorite,
her submission to close out the segment. She's the classiest
of the group and chose a song to fit Handel's Messiah.
Why aside from the fact that Handel managed to take
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most of the Book of Isaiah and turn it into
sheer poetry, the music composition is flat out genius, with
power chords and soaring vocals, and we're still listening to
it two hundred and fifty years on.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For unto us, a child is born from Handel's Messiah.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
This is the Michael Bay Show, Monster.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Missic Is that timming you again? When we get stories
of someone dressed like a Grinch 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. Yeah, remember it
went viral. Somebody find that and send that to me.
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There's there's a There's may Him that breaks out amongst
these all these mall Santas and they get in a
big fight, and it's just nothing funnier, right, It's the
juxtaposition of the you know, 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 coworker named
Ryan Jones were in an altercation at a work Christmas
party at the Hotel Indigo in Traverse City, Michigan. Davis
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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 experiences without at the rcc our
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last Christmas party, Uncle Jerry. Anyone who knows my co
best friend Uncle Jerry. He's about six two sixty three
and he's a big fella, about two sixty two seventy,
and he wore a rabbit suit. Now, the rabbit suit
was already awkward. Did you see it. I mean it's
the shoes and all. It's not over the shoes. I
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mean it's a onesie, right, It's something you'd put a
little baby in, except for here's the late fifties, big
brawnie fella. And the only thing that you can see
out of it was his face.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
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 the only thing he is
doing his face, And he's got the rabbit ears up
and the whole thing. He's got his hands inside there
and it's over his feet. 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
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to 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 fired anyway because
he was a problem in the workplace. And I don't
know if he knew it or it just he was
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just one big bad decision. 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. And
we used to really blow it out at our Christmas party.
Those were the good old days, ram And so Uncle
Jerry is there and all of a sudden, Rico, who
was our director of security, comes over and says to
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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 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 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
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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, when the Stafford Police
Department shows up, they understood the situation. Jerry is stone
cold sober. These two guys are drunk out of their
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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 laughing and ask if
they can have a photo of Uncle Jerry having apprehended
them while in his rabbit suit. Now can you imagine
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if that thing had gone very, very wrong and Jerry
had been to 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 up to you and he's talking in and you're like,
I can't look below your chest, dude, you're wearing a
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speed of Well, he was wearing a slightly two tight
rabbit suit. Did I mention he's about six three two
seventy The rabbit suit was designed for a comfortable fit
for someone who was about six two to ten. So yeah,
it was the scene. It's one of my greatest Uncle
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Jerry stories of all time. Anyway, So nobody goes to
the Christmas party looking to get into a fight, but
Tucker Lee Davis came in his Grinch outfit. And if
Tucker Lee is like most men, he's looking to have
his heart swell two sizes too big. Except alcohol was involved,
and I guess Tucker Lee is an angry drunk because
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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. When that happened, the reindeer
took our ball 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
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about the head and shoulders. When the authorities arrived and
asked who 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
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reindeer was not charged, and we hear at the Michael
Berry Show cannot talk about the Grinch without pulling from
the archive one of our favorites, a classic about our dear,
dear friend, the congress Woman Sheila Jackson Lee the Grinch. Hello,
this is Congresswoman Shilo Jackson Lee of the eighteenth Congressional
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District of Texas.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
You're a mean one, congress Jackson Lee.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Ury are a queen. You're as quiet as a riot.
You're as honest as you are Weave Jackson Please.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It's okay.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
You dress like every day is hollage. You're a foul one,
Jackson Lee.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Also want to get this big old gift.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Your pall see is jong Every scheme you devise, Michael
Berry will debunk Jackson Lee. The three words that best
describe you are as follows and you quote frivolous.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Irresponsible, slap happy you've got the Michael Berry Show. A
visit from Saint Nicholas, or as you more commonly know it,
the Night before Christmas and twas the Night before Christmas.
From its first line is a poem first poe. No, okay,
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now you're interrupting. Okay, So the actual poem is called
a visit from Saint Nicholas. The first line of the
poem is twas the night before Christmas. It has come
to be known as twas the Night before Christmas or
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the night before Christmas because people don't know how to
write twas, which is apostrophe, and then at twas, So
the actual name of it is a visit from Saint Okay,
all right, I will agree. Most people probably did not
know that. Yes, I will give you credit. Most people
probably did not know that, all right, So please don't interrupt.
But you are right. That is okay, So well, all right,
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then let me complicate the whole thing even worse. The
original title was not a visit from Saint Nicholas. The
original title I believe was out of a visit from
Saint Nicholas, account of a visit from Saint Nicholas, and
it became a visit from Saint Nicholas or twas the
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Night before Christmas, but I digress. It emerged in eighteen
twenty three. It was later attributed to Clement Clark Moore,
who fourteen years later would claim authorship. In eighteen thirty seven,
on the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling
down to sleep when the father is disturbed by noises
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on the lawn. Looking out the window, he sees Santi
Claus or Saint Nicholas in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer.
After landing his sleigh on the roof, Santy Claus enters
the house by sliding down to chimney. He carries a
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sack of toys, and the father watches his visitor deliver
presents and fill the stockings hanging by the fireplace, and
laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa
bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Santa
Claus calls out Happy Christmas to all, and to all
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a good night. While this poem has been read by many,
maybe your mother or your father, your grandmother, your grandfather,
a school teacher. Maybe you've seen it read by a
celebrity or a friend, But I don't know that there
is a better version than from the late Great Charlie Daniels.
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We share it proudly with you now.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Twas a night before Christmas, and auf their of the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The
stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
it satni lassoon would be there. The children were nestled
all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums
danced in their heads. And Mom and her kerchief and
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eye and my cap had just settled down for a
long winter nap, when out on the lawn there rose
such a clatter, and I sprang from my bed to
see what was the matter. Away to the window, I
flew in a flash and tore open the shutter and
threw up the sash, and the moon on the breast
of the new fallen snow gave a luster of midday
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to the objects below. Then what to my wondering eye
should appear but a miniature sleigh had eight tiny rein.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
Deer with a little old driver, so lively and quick,
and I knew in a moment that it must be
Saint Nick, more rapid than eagles as courser as they came,
and he whistled and shouted and called him by name,
now Dasher, now dancer, now Prancer, now vixen, on comet,
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on Cuban, on donner, on blizen.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
To the top of the porch, to the top of
the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all
as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when
they meet with an obstacle mountain to the sky, so
up to the housetop the Courser save flew with a
sleigh full of toys, and looked at Saint Nicholas too,
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And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
the prancing and pawing of each little hoof, and I
drew in my head, and I was turning around and
down the chimney. Saint Nicholas came with a man. He
was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all tarnished and ashes and soot.
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A bundle of toys that he hung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes high, they twinkled, his stemples, how merry. His
cheeks were like roses, and his nose like a cherry.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as
the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight
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in his teeth, and the smoking and circled his head
like a wreath. He had a broad face and a
little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a
bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, all right,
jolly old elf. And I laughed when I saw him
in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, a
twist of his head. Soon he gave me to know
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I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word,
but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings.
And he turned with a jerk, laying his finger aside
of his nose, and giving a nod up the chimney.
He rose, He sprang to his sleigh, to his team,
gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the
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dawn of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim before
he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and
to all a good night. I'm Charity Daniels. We all
know what Christmas is about. Twas the night before Christmas
is a fun poem, but it's really about the birth
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of the savior man kind, Jesus Christ. We wish you
a very, very merry Christmas. Of all those folks, you
are Charity Daniels Band.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
God bless you.
For the past thirty four years back, a never ending
debate has come up about this time every year. I
must confess I've never been a part of it, but
other people on our team have, and that is the
enduring question. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? It is
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a hotly debated topic. I think partly because people don't
want the topic to die. They're 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. I'm told I haven't actually
seen a movie, so no, I haven't. Some people say
it's an action movie that takes place at Christmas, and
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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. His estranged wife moved the kids out
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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 do those things. He spends
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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, we hadn't intended it to
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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?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
A new trailer was re edited by twentieth Century Studio
for twentieth Century Fox when they released the movie in
the new digital release on four K. And here's the trailer.
This is John nice Fair.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
He just wants to spend Christmas with the family.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
We'll see what Santa and Mommy can do.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
But when he gets stuck at the office party, Merry Christmas,
it'll be a holiday.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He'll never forget this Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's the time of a miracle, So be a good share.
Only John can drive somebody that crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Get ready to jingle some bells and deck the halls.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
With bows.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
O Bruce Willis, move to the coos and get together.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Owen Rickman, do anything you have a chance against our
stimistic cowboy.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It became.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Together in the greatest Christmas story ever told.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I got some bad news for you, Dwayne time Spooby
hat at Harvey Hold.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I'm starting to get a bad feeling of there, Harry Christmas,
die Hard, this is their idea of Christmas.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
I gotta be here for New Years.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That certainly seems to make a pretty good case that
this classic is indeed a Christmas movie? Should I watch it?
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
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percent said it was not a Christmas movie. If die
Hard is not Christmas movie, then what about Diehard two?
Which I also haven't seen? It also took place at Christmas.
One thing for sure, Von Monroe'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
(04:21):
has kept it alive.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
All the weather outside. It's fright voice, what the five
is so delightful? And since me no place to go,
let its know, let us know, let us know. It
doesn't show size stopping and they brought some call for poppy.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
The light of day, wait and.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Let its know, let us know, let its know.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Lever remind league is good night.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh I hate going out and.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Hold me time.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
All away.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
I'm here to see Holly McClean stype it in there,
cute toy.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Twelve Terrorist Natomy Placid.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
We're doing it for eleven years. Ten square blocks, may Day,
may Day, Channel nine eight Linco thirty to dispatch.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The seven members of the New Provo.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Front six time with automatic weapons.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Five imprisoned leaders of Live Afteta Quebec, four million dollars,
three down board to go.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Code two and Knockatomy Plasis.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Killed one terrorist for shot.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
He claims he's capped off to others.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Happy here, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
I'm very merry kiss, Merry.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Christmas, you became Christmas.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It's dramon the King of Ding and this other guy,
Michael barryck FROs.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The Christmas song. That's actually the title commonly subtitled Chestnuts
Roasting on an Open Fire, because that's how we know it.
It was originally subtitled Merry Christmas to You, So it
was originally the Christmas song with the subtitle Merry Christmas
(06:31):
to you, but now it's come to be known as
the Christmas song subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an open file
classic Christmas song written in nineteen forty five by Robert
Wells and the Velvet Fall Mel Tourmae. According to Tourmee,
(06:56):
the song was written in July during a blistering hot summer,
in an effort to quote stay cool by thinking cool,
the most performed Christmas song was born. According to b
and I that's where the royalties payment. The Christmas Song
or Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is the most
performed Christmas song of all time. Quote. I saw a
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spiral pad on Robert Wells piano with four lines written
in pencil. They started chestnuts roasting, jack frost nipping yule
Tide Carols, folks dressed up like Eskimos. Bob didn't think
he was writing a song limit lyric. He said he
thought if he could immerse himself in winter, he could
(07:41):
cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I
wrote all the music and some of the lyrics. End quote.
That was in nineteen forty five. That King Cole's nineteen
sixty one version is generally regarded as the definitive and
in two thousand and four was the most loved seasonal
(08:04):
song with women aged thirty to forty nine and ramone Roman.
I asked our team to give me one Christmas song
that is their absolute favorite and you're gonna hear those now.
That one was Ramones. His next song was released on
(08:25):
the Andy Williams Christmas album, titled the Andy Williams Christmas Album.
They didn't hire a consultant for that, however, it wasn't
released as a single. His rendition of White Christmas was
the single promoted for that album. The song peaked at
number twenty one on the UK Singles charts back in
(08:47):
seven and into the top ten consistently over the past
several years, peaking at number five in twenty twenty on
the Billboard Hot one hundred Singles chart in the US.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
With those holiday greetings in gay happy meetings.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
When friends come too call, it's the poucecenes long.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
For toasting and caroling out in the snow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Of Christmases long long ago. It's the most wonderful time
of the.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
This next song is a favorite of chad'sothis very unique song,
and that it was written by Brad Paisley. Now I
don't really care for Brad Paisley, but I can't speak
ill of Chad because he's executive producer and we all
kind of work for him. So I'm going to pretend
(10:01):
that this next song is fantastic because it's his favorite,
but it's not mine. It is, I will say, a
unique song, and that it was written by Brad Paisley
when he was still a kid, so I gotta give
it credit for that. It starts with him singing it
as his younger self. It was then morphs into an
adult Brad Paisley, and I have to admit that's kind
(10:23):
of cool.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Eveoy born in that maideer to bring the world joy.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So harsh up, little.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Baby baby, you know not what you do. You'll bring
the world peace and love and teach them well you do.
You have nothing to fear because you know God is
with you. Are away that little import baby.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
In fact, that kind of reminds me of Travis Thibodeau,
the guy who first wrote Take My Hand. I think
he was twelve years old singing with his dad when
he saying when he wrote that, and he first recorded it,
and then of course Wayne Tubes made it a big hit.
Perhaps the best song of the bunch is the one
(11:21):
I chose.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It's my favorite day.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
This comes from the TV movie A Year Without Santa
Claus and I love it. It's called mister heap.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
Nice, I'm mister Christmas, I'm mister sheet, mister.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Call me he miser one too much Chance.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
McLean's pick is by a musical genius, Ray Charles. You
may recognize it from the attic scene in the movie
Christmas Vacation. It's the Spirit of Christmas and it's Ray
Charles and can there be anything more?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Christmas is the time movie.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
For being with the ones we love, sharing so much
joy and cheer, what a one the pulpy watching the
ones we love.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
A Christmas classic by Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra. It
was written for June for uh No, It's written for
Judy Garland for the musical meet Me in Saint Louis.
Sinatra sang the song later with reworked lyrics and it's
subducing your self.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
A merry little Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Let your heart.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Life from No.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Odd Troubles will be out of side.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Have yourself merry little Christmas. Make the ule tie game.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From No.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Odd Troubles will.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Be Our research director Sandy Peterson. We saved hers her favorite,
her submission to close out the segment. She's the classiest
of the group and chose a song to fit Handel's Messiah.
Why aside from the fact that Handel managed to take
(14:10):
most of the Book of Isaiah and turn it into
sheer poetry, the music composition is flat out genius, with
power chords and soaring vocals, and we're still listening to
it two hundred and fifty years on.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For unto us, a child is born from Handel's Messiah.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
This is the Michael Bay Show, Monster.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Missic Is that timming you again? When we get stories
of someone dressed like a Grinch 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. Yeah, remember it
went viral. Somebody find that and send that to me.
(15:57):
There's there's a There's may Him that breaks out amongst
these all these mall Santas and they get in a
big fight, and it's just nothing funnier, right, It's the
juxtaposition of the you know, 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
(16:19):
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 coworker named
Ryan Jones were in an altercation at a work Christmas
party at the Hotel Indigo in Traverse City, Michigan. Davis
(16:43):
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 experiences without at the rcc our
(17:03):
last Christmas party, Uncle Jerry. Anyone who knows my co
best friend Uncle Jerry. He's about six two sixty three
and he's a big fella, about two sixty two seventy,
and he wore a rabbit suit. Now, the rabbit suit
was already awkward. Did you see it. I mean it's
the shoes and all. It's not over the shoes. I
(17:24):
mean it's a onesie, right, It's something you'd put a
little baby in, except for here's the late fifties, big
brawnie fella. And the only thing that you can see
out of it was his face.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
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 the only thing he is
doing his face, And he's got the rabbit ears up
and the whole thing. He's got his hands inside there
and it's over his feet. 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
(17:58):
to 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 fired anyway because
he was a problem in the workplace. And I don't
know if he knew it or it just he was
(18:18):
just one big bad decision. 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. And
we used to really blow it out at our Christmas party.
Those were the good old days, ram And so Uncle
Jerry is there and all of a sudden, Rico, who
was our director of security, comes over and says to
(18:39):
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 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 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
(19:02):
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, when the Stafford Police
Department shows up, they understood the situation. Jerry is stone
cold sober. These two guys are drunk out of their
(19:23):
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 laughing and ask if
they can have a photo of Uncle Jerry having apprehended
them while in his rabbit suit. Now can you imagine
(19:45):
if that thing had gone very, very wrong and Jerry
had been to 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 up to you and he's talking in and you're like,
I can't look below your chest, dude, you're wearing a
(20:06):
speed of Well, he was wearing a slightly two tight
rabbit suit. Did I mention he's about six three two
seventy The rabbit suit was designed for a comfortable fit
for someone who was about six two to ten. So yeah,
it was the scene. It's one of my greatest Uncle
(20:26):
Jerry stories of all time. Anyway, So nobody goes to
the Christmas party looking to get into a fight, but
Tucker Lee Davis came in his Grinch outfit. And if
Tucker Lee is like most men, he's looking to have
his heart swell two sizes too big. Except alcohol was involved,
and I guess Tucker Lee is an angry drunk because
(20:47):
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. When that happened, the reindeer
took our ball 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
(21:10):
about the head and shoulders. When the authorities arrived and
asked who 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
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reindeer was not charged, and we hear at the Michael
Berry Show cannot talk about the Grinch without pulling from
the archive one of our favorites, a classic about our dear,
dear friend, the congress Woman Sheila Jackson Lee the Grinch. Hello,
this is Congresswoman Shilo Jackson Lee of the eighteenth Congressional
(21:52):
District of Texas.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
You're a mean one, congress Jackson Lee.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Ury are a queen. You're as quiet as a riot.
You're as honest as you are Weave Jackson Please.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
It's okay.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
You dress like every day is hollage. You're a foul one,
Jackson Lee.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Also want to get this big old gift.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
Your pall see is jong Every scheme you devise, Michael
Berry will debunk Jackson Lee. The three words that best
describe you are as follows and you quote frivolous.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Irresponsible, slap happy you've got the Michael Berry Show. A
visit from Saint Nicholas, or as you more commonly know it,
the Night before Christmas and twas the Night before Christmas.
From its first line is a poem first poe. No, okay,
(23:04):
now you're interrupting. Okay, So the actual poem is called
a visit from Saint Nicholas. The first line of the
poem is twas the night before Christmas. It has come
to be known as twas the Night before Christmas or
(23:25):
the night before Christmas because people don't know how to
write twas, which is apostrophe, and then at twas, So
the actual name of it is a visit from Saint Okay,
all right, I will agree. Most people probably did not
know that. Yes, I will give you credit. Most people
probably did not know that, all right, So please don't interrupt.
But you are right. That is okay, So well, all right,
(23:48):
then let me complicate the whole thing even worse. The
original title was not a visit from Saint Nicholas. The
original title I believe was out of a visit from
Saint Nicholas, account of a visit from Saint Nicholas, and
it became a visit from Saint Nicholas or twas the
(24:09):
Night before Christmas, but I digress. It emerged in eighteen
twenty three. It was later attributed to Clement Clark Moore,
who fourteen years later would claim authorship. In eighteen thirty seven,
on the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling
down to sleep when the father is disturbed by noises
(24:33):
on the lawn. Looking out the window, he sees Santi
Claus or Saint Nicholas in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer.
After landing his sleigh on the roof, Santy Claus enters
the house by sliding down to chimney. He carries a
(24:54):
sack of toys, and the father watches his visitor deliver
presents and fill the stockings hanging by the fireplace, and
laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa
bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Santa
Claus calls out Happy Christmas to all, and to all
(25:19):
a good night. While this poem has been read by many,
maybe your mother or your father, your grandmother, your grandfather,
a school teacher. Maybe you've seen it read by a
celebrity or a friend, But I don't know that there
is a better version than from the late Great Charlie Daniels.
(25:44):
We share it proudly with you now.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Twas a night before Christmas, and auf their of the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The
stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
it satni lassoon would be there. The children were nestled
all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums
danced in their heads. And Mom and her kerchief and
(26:10):
eye and my cap had just settled down for a
long winter nap, when out on the lawn there rose
such a clatter, and I sprang from my bed to
see what was the matter. Away to the window, I
flew in a flash and tore open the shutter and
threw up the sash, and the moon on the breast
of the new fallen snow gave a luster of midday
(26:30):
to the objects below. Then what to my wondering eye
should appear but a miniature sleigh had eight tiny rein.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
Deer with a little old driver, so lively and quick,
and I knew in a moment that it must be
Saint Nick, more rapid than eagles as courser as they came,
and he whistled and shouted and called him by name,
now Dasher, now dancer, now Prancer, now vixen, on comet,
(27:00):
on Cuban, on donner, on blizen.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
To the top of the porch, to the top of
the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all
as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when
they meet with an obstacle mountain to the sky, so
up to the housetop the Courser save flew with a
sleigh full of toys, and looked at Saint Nicholas too,
(27:24):
And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
the prancing and pawing of each little hoof, and I
drew in my head, and I was turning around and
down the chimney. Saint Nicholas came with a man. He
was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all tarnished and ashes and soot.
(27:45):
A bundle of toys that he hung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes high, they twinkled, his stemples, how merry. His
cheeks were like roses, and his nose like a cherry.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as
the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight
(28:09):
in his teeth, and the smoking and circled his head
like a wreath. He had a broad face and a
little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a
bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, all right,
jolly old elf. And I laughed when I saw him
in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, a
twist of his head. Soon he gave me to know
(28:29):
I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word,
but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings.
And he turned with a jerk, laying his finger aside
of his nose, and giving a nod up the chimney.
He rose, He sprang to his sleigh, to his team,
gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the
(28:49):
dawn of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim before
he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and
to all a good night. I'm Charity Daniels. We all
know what Christmas is about. Twas the night before Christmas
is a fun poem, but it's really about the birth
(29:11):
of the savior man kind, Jesus Christ. We wish you
a very, very merry Christmas. Of all those folks, you
are Charity Daniels Band.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
God bless you.
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