12.16: Christmas Shoes - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this is one of my favorite Christmas songs here,
and uh, my son told me last week, I think
it was that this is this is his best his
favorite Christmas song this year. Usually it's been actually I'm sorry,
he's run run Rudolph this year, but he's always been
as Santa Claus is coming to Town guy, which he
likes all Christmas songs. But uh, there is a new

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survey here that that makes me feel as if I'm
in the minority here because this is according to Mental
Flaws and Finance Buzz, they they did a survey and
did some research to determine, uh, the most annoying Christmas
songs in America. And it can be annoying because it's
just repetitive and it never stops and it's just an

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annoying song. Or it can be annoying because it's overplayed.
I think those are two distinctions that I feel like
need to be clarified when you look at these numbers
as far as why people went the way they went,
because I you know, I don't know if I agree
with any of this. So the most annoying Christmas song,
according to the one and fifty US adults that participated

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in this survey is Mariah Carrees. All I Want for
Christmas is you. That's a great Christmas song. I would
say the annoying part of is it's it's overplayed.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah as a song itself. Than Yeah, that's like the
definitive mainstream Christmas song, I feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
And then number two is the Chipmunk song. That's it's
a good one. Yeah, it's a good one for this list. Yeah,
because it's a Chipmunk voice. Of course it's annoying, right,
And then uh, the the Police Navida.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I don't. I was surprised to see that there.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It does say that one of the complaints was that
it's just it just says the same thing over and over.
But that one doesn't really bother me. And then number
four is a holly jolly Christmas Again, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't really know. Maybe you could say the.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Same thing that it just it's repetitive, uh, and it's
I don't find it annoying. And then number five is
baby It's Cold outside. That one is just a little weird,
if you you know, and not that we need to
have the conversation, but like, I think it's hard to
make a true Christmas song this day and age, and
it not be like overly corny. Yeah, and even songs

(02:07):
that I like that are Christmas songs, like we really
get Lucy Goosey with like lyricism right, like things that
we put together that rhyme and like a lot of
it it's like just nonsense words put together to stay
in the same ballpark of you know, Christmas theme. But
I say that as somebody who really loves Christmas music.
But the bar's low as far as like, wow, that's

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really great art, that's real creative.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Two songs that should been on that list. I want
a hippopotamus for Christmas. No, that doesn't need to be
played ever. Yeah, or all I want for Christmas is
my two front teeth. Yes, two songs are horrible.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Can I tell you that this is not so? This song?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And I feel bad saying it for two reasons because
this song has a really sweet story and it is
it is it's it's sad but again sweet and also
it's my mother's say of Christmas song. But the Christmas Shoes,
I mean to me, I think that's the worst Rismith's song.
And I'm not sure there's a close second for me.

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But again, it's like it's a it's an emotional, sad
song about a young boy. He's trying to buy a
pair of shoes for his mom because she's sick and
likely dying, and he wants her to look he wants
her to look beautiful in the shoes if she meets
Jesus tonight. Like it's it's it'll pull your heartstrings. So
that's why I feel bad. But like I think the
song's awful, Like I remember, I remember, you would have thought.

(03:27):
I confess to an awful crown to my mother when
I told her that song sucks when I was a kid,
because she was like, do you know what it's about?
And I was like, well no, And then I listened
and I was like that's all. Yeah, it's very sad,
but I just think it's it's too this is a
little bit of this, Yeah, what about these shoes. I'm sorry,

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this sucks, but it's a sweet it's a sweet.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Story, very sweet message.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But it doesn't hit for me.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, I just could you just I don't know it
just maybe maybe it was the kid in me.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
But when I heard it a lot as a kid,
I would think to myself, like it just sounded so
absurd that I didn't listen to the words. Maybe if
I had listen to the words before forming an opinion, yeah,
I would have had a different one.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
But yeah, you have to hear it, maybe at the
right time in your life.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Now, let me let me make sense.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Let me get your thoughts on this one, because I
think this one not being on the list was a
little bit of a little bit of a surprise.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Granma got run over by a rain day.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I do enjoy this song. Okay, I like it too.
It's really stupid, yeah, very stupid, very stupid, but I
like you see why people dislike it?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, but I do like it. Like, what
does this say about me? A young boy singing about
having beautiful shoes for his mother on Christmas because she
might die and go meet Jesus.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'm out on that one, man.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Why shoes though?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
But Grandma get run over by a reindeer. I'm I
mean again, what does that say about me?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
But she forgot her medication.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Out of the door into the snow when we found Yeah,
I mean I'm watching the music video right now. Very stupid,
but it's kind of here for it. But Christmas shoes,
sweet story, sweet message. It should have just been a movie, right,
they just made you know, make it a movie, make
it and maybe it is. And I'm just saying that
and don't In fact, I might have. Just now now

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I'm thinking, is it a movie?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
It sounds like it would be.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
It sounds like it would be, like, yeah, it is,
But I don't know if it was a movie that
came out like what came first. Yeah, so the Christmas
Shoes movie. Maybe there was an original, but there was
one that came out in two thousand and two. And
can't be a coincidence that it's called Christmas Shoes and
it's not about it's not from the song, because again,

(05:44):
that song is way older than two thousand and two,
is it not? Anyways, if you like that song, I'm
sorry I probably offended you, but hey, everybody's got their
own taste. And John, I hope you didn't agree with me.
Just did not make me feel bad.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, no, no, no, no, you're out on.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Christmas shoes too, on Christmas shoes. It's not just me.
It's not just you, and it's not just me. I've
got somebody with me and I'm sure I'm not alone,
all right, let's get to a quickupdit of traviick in weather.
Also the hundreds of vehicles this trio of eighteen year
olds were arrested for yesterday for stealing a lot to unpack. There,
we'll do that on the other side right here at
news Radio eight forty whas. So, three eighteen year olds

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are now in custody after yesterday. Louisville Metro Police say
they uncovered and organized car theft crew and they did
not target any specific area. As you heard in the
news update from John Shannon earlier. They if you look
at the map of where they were hit and they
just put dots all over the city. I'm paraphrasing to

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an extent, but that is what an LMPD spokesman said
because they were What I think is crazy is that
these are three eighteen year olds and they're believed to
be responsible for hundreds of vehicle thefts. So yeah, clearly
it's it's it's organized crime, right, It's this is what

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they do, and to be honest, I guess they do
it well. Can I say that without it sounding as
if like I'm giving them any kind of compliment or
praising them, because who would do that? But they had
a plan and it was working until of course, like
like it, like it usually works out, you end up
getting caught. But I mean, hundreds and hundreds could be

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you know, one hundred and one, could be you know,
four hundred. So I don't know if we have any
specific numbers. It doesn't look as if we know just
yet how many. But this is, uh, this is something
that clearly it wasn't just three children, because there's no
way they started doing this at eighteen, right, And I
just I wonder if we're going to get to the

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root of it, because there's no doubt in my mind
that a lot of the well really a lot of
the crimes that are being committed by juveniles, but really
carth f's just because of how rampant it's been at times.
I know we've made some progress as far as carjackings
and whatnot, but a lot of the stories you see
about the arrests that are made are children or you know,

(08:08):
borderline children like these three eighteen year olds that were arrested.
So there's no doubt in my mind that when it
comes to juvenile crime in Louisville, the system currently as
is where you've got to commit a certain level of
crime as a child to be kept in custody because
we don't have a juvenile attention center in Louisville, right,
you can, I guess you can hit the threshold whatever
that actually is to be shipped down to. I believe

(08:30):
a Dare County's where it is. But you know, you
get slapped on the wrist until you cross that line.
But until you've hit that it seems as if these
children are working for probably gangs that are utilizing these
kids as workers essentially to help, you know, make this
city more violent. And not to say that if there

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was a juvenile attention center in Louislle that none of
this would happen, but getting these kids off the streets
and having them in custody too, I guess, attempt to
reform them before they end up hitting that threshold and
really getting themselves in trouble, maybe catching a murder charge
or getting murdered themselves.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I say it all the time, it's a state issue. Right.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
The city has done enough to and the money's there,
it's just the ball has to get rolling at the
state level to get a juvenile attention center here in Louisville.
And when that happens who knows. So I think there
are parents that would would love to know that their
kids are there rather than just knowing in any moment,
they won't be surprised if they get a phone call

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that their child has ended up maybe losing his life
to the lifestyle he was living at a young age,
or maybe they've been arrested for something that's going to
impact their life forever. Now that's not to say every
parent's situations like that. There are many parents that should
know where their kids are. They don't and they've dropped
the ball, and that's really a whole other issue. But yeah,

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hundreds of vehicle thefts and the three arrests are eighteen
year olds. Come on, this is and again they've got
these three individuals in custody, So maybe they'll start talking
and they'll get to the root of it and figure
out a deeper level of the vehicle thefts.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
That are going on here in Louisville.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
But yeah, I mean, again not giving them credit, but
if these three were responsible or at least had an
impact in the hundreds of vehicle thefts, I mean they
were at least working hard at being you know, criminals,
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for you to listen in. So yesterday a lot of
folks were acting to President Trump's reaction to the the death,
the murder of.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Rob Reinert and his wife.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Now we know that his son has been charged with that,
and I I don't know if this is a bold
I guess takeaway here that that maybe others aren't having.
And I'm not trying to dress it up as if
it's something substantial that you just need to be on,
you know, on the edge of your seat for. But
you know his comments, you know, basically insulting this man

(11:28):
as he acknowledges that he was, you know, murdered. They
were anything but surprising, right, Like, I don't really know
how anybody can say they were they were surprised that
he that he sort of went there. And look, you
can argue your support of Trump.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
You can.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
You can praise him for his policies. And if you
just think he's doing a great job, you think he's
the man for the job. That that's fine, that's understandable.
But what what is a little I guess, just to
me obvious, is that because of that the support for
him that folks understandably have, they try to act like

(12:09):
this is not what it is. I mean, these comments,
it's unbelievable, right to just that be the statement from
our president after somebody is murdered by their son, now allegedly,
of course, and what people are doing right now as

(12:29):
we speak, I guarantee you, well, did you see did
you see what people were saying about Charlie kirk is
celebrating his death? Okay, they're idiots too, I mean, both
things could be true, regardless of political affiliation, regardless of policies.
Behavior like that after somebody's murdered is disgusting. I mean,

(12:57):
but we're so at war with each other that you
just try to try to because you were so strongly
for your side, you try to justify it, or maybe
not even justify it, but just point the finger and say, well,
look what they did. So I wasn't totally shocked. Maybe
if there was any initial shock that did quickly wear off,

(13:18):
because like, I can't say that I'm surprised that that
that that was the way President Trump decided to respond
to it. But yeah, anybody who celebrated or was insensitive
about what happened to Charlie Kirk, what they did is
is is just as bad. Now, I will say this
before we dive into what I think has become sort

(13:39):
of a deep rooted issue with society.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Let's also an act.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Like any like I mean, that's Trump's the president of
the United States, right, I mean, you could probably find
some notable people that made light maybe made I mean,
we all know what happened with Jimmy Kimmel. So again,
it's not like it's just random idiots on the internet
that were that were being awful about what happened with
Charlie Kirk. I'm sure there were notable people that you

(14:03):
would expect to never have behavior like that. But again,
this is the president. So that's the layer of like, wow,
it's the president who said that, But also again like
if anything, he's kind of consistent. And I don't live
in a world where I think I know any of
these people as individuals, just because like I know that
I don't and I'm not going to live my life
worried about I think it's nice to have people that

(14:24):
have good morals and that are kind human beings, but
I also am not going to live my life acting
as if I'll ever truly know that, right, So I
just I don't get caught up in it. But the
Charlie Kirk situation, and of course this situation just where
you've got responses to heinous crimes being questioned and of

(14:45):
course called out and there's an instant defense, well did
you see what you know? So again, what I think
this stems from is just we don't like right now,
we have the ability at any moment to get out
our phones, use the internet, social media, and just live
inside whatever reality you want. You can find content, clips,

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outrage and confirmation for anything you want to believe, and
it's going to make you believe that your side is
always right. The other way is always evil, stupid and
beyond you know, beyond saving, and that's not healthy.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Back in the day, we had real dialogue, you know why,
because we had to, and I think everything just seemed
to be a little bit better as far as just
not identifying everybody based off their political affiliation.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Political affiliation.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
So like before smartphones and social media, if you want
to argue politics or worldviews, you had to talk to
another human being face to face. You had to hear
them out as a person, not as you know, a
random person on the internet. So because we don't have
any of that anymore, now, we take the dumbest, the loudest,
the most extreme person on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and pretend

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that they represent an entire political party and that's so
obviously not reality, but it's what people do and it
scares me, but it doesn't surprise me. You don't have
to have any dialogue with anybody. You can live in
your own world and any moment, at any time, you
can find countless things that'll further just make you feel

(16:14):
as if the way you see it is one thousand
percent right and the other side. Again, they're beyond saving.
So when people have that ability to do it, they
just choose to do that. You didn't used to have
the access. If you wanted to talk politics and you know,
spew something, it had to be face to face. And
that led to I think more of the human element
in all of us being noted to where you could

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have a conversation, understand that maybe you strongly disagree, you
strongly see things in a different way than the person
you're talking to, but you're not in the You're not
wrapped up in thinking that that represents them as a
whole and that's their entire personality.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
So I don't have a fix.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's just to me that's we now don't have any initiat.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
We can just live in our own world.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I hate to dumb it down as if like it's
but that's very similar to what people do, like in sports.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
But sports isn't like real.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
I mean it is. It's entertainment and it's awesome. I
love it. Sport's a big part of my life. But
like you know, I'm used to loud mouthed Louisville fans
saying something ridiculous and a random UK fan hearing it
on a talk show or reading it on the Internet
and acting as if that lunatic, that lunatic fringe of

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the fan base represents the entirety of it. And now
we do that in life when things with things that
like really matter, that are impacting how we coexist and
live with one another.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
And it's it's scary again.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I don't I don't have the fix for it, but
I don't see a scenario wor it doesn't just get worse.
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