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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Well, Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our
Christmas show for Boulevard, the gift of a lifetime in Chesterfield.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
My secret happy Birthday the snow Man.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
It was a jolly happy who did it?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Come?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Come bodinos and twine meat out of cool girl.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Here comes Santa Clus.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here comes Santa calls right down Santa Claus Lane. He's
got a bag that's billed with toys for boys and girls.
Again hear those sleigh bells jingle jangle. Oh what a
beautiful side. So jump in bed and cover your head.
Called Santa Claus comes to and.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I rude all the redd and those rain.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Had a very shining nose.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I you ever saw it, you would even.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Say struggling around Christmas treet and Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Listen where you can see the chaps stop.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Ebody knows the turkey and some missle to.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Help to make the season rise.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Be charge.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Be Melchi Macca is a thing to say on a
bride in a wild Christmas day. That's the island greeting
that precend from the land where Purees.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sway, It's a Martiamallow world in the windsor playing the
snowcom to.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Coround, It's time to play It's a winter day, a winter.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Snow white Christmas Snow.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
I was creative director Jim Mudd who joined the show.
It was in November of last year. We found out
in September that we would be guest hosting for the
Rush Limbaugh Show, but we were asked not to announce
that yet, but we began preparing for the the It
was about ten days at Christmas, and so I brought
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Jim Mudd on to help us staff up. And it
was kind of a trial run to see if he
was going to be able to keep up because we
produce a lot and and well, I'll leave it at that.
Not everyone could keep up. And it turned out he
was such a great addition to the show that he
developed into being our creative director and it's been a
big boon to our show and a lot of times,
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a lot of segments we do. He will pull together
a news story and maybe some audio and audio clip
to go with that, or he might write a parody.
Chance McLean makes a lot of our funny songs, but
Jim has also started writing more and more of our parodies,
and whether it's a song that's chosen to go with
a segment, or a sound clip or a parody, he
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will write a little background for us as to why
he wrote that. And the background is not meant to
be shared on air. It's not part of the segment.
It's just for us to know why he considered that newsworthy.
And a lot of times I will take what he
has written and I will work that into my own narrative.
I'll call it my truth, ramon my truth. Let me
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start using liberal language. I will speak my truth. I
will find my voice anyway. I'll take what he's written
about something and I'll say, well, that's not accurate, that's
not my perspective. But here I'm let me make it
my perspective. And he will have been the conversation starter.
But he wrote a little background for us, and I
liked it so much that I asked him to record
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what he had written for y'all to hear from Jim
at Christmas in his own voice. Really, ramon, that's what
you Seriously.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
As I get older, I find myself reflecting on the
Christmases of my childhood, I look back and I long
for those days. I remember that my parents would let
us open one gift, and that was before we went
to my grandma's house. It was always the Christmas outfit
and new shoes that we would wear to Grandma's and
then later to church, and we would always get excited,
and not because we were happy to get some nice clothes. No,
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it was because we knew it was time to get
ready and go to Grandma's soon. Christmas at Grandma's was
the best. Everyone was there, all my aunts, uncles, and cousins,
and they would be dressed up too, and they were
happy to see you. Now, my grandma I only lived
three blocks away from us, and I used to walk
down there all the time, but on Christmas, she may
as well have been across the country because that drive
took forever. Now Dad would pull up and let Mom
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out in front of the house, and I would ride
with them to find a spot to park the car. Now,
we had a big family, so there were a lot
of people there and you had to find a spot
down the street to park. I know now that this
was more than just my dad making me feel like
I've grown up, because you know, he needed help with
the presents. Now, it really it was him showing me
that my mom was worth letting out at the door.
He didn't want her to walk all the way down
the street and her good shoes and they were probably
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new too, and you know how new shoes can be.
We would get the gifts that we brought for the
gift exchange and head to the house. Now, when we
walked through that back door, everyone agrees with a hug
and a Merry Christmas. My Grandma would have the biggest
smile on her face, probably because I was her favorite.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's a fact. Everyone knew it.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Everyone knew that I was the favorite, but a little
bit because it was Christmas. She would give you a
big hug and tell you to go put your coat
in Grandpa's room. Now, Grandma and Grandpa slipped in separate
rooms at this point, and if you asked them why
this up in separate rooms, they would both say that
the other one snored too loud and they couldn't sleep.
Besides the warm welcome, the smell of Grandma's house was amazing.
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The smell of food and baked goods, cookies, pies, I
mean it filled the air. My Grandma and I'm sure
like yours was a great cook. Sinatra, Jerry Mathis, Nat King, Cole,
Elvis was surely playing on the stereo ed if I
am just loud enough to be heard under the conversation
happening throughout the house. Now, as a kid, you're excited
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about getting presents. Now that I'm all grown up, I
really can't remember anything that ever got a grandma's Honestly,
not one thing. Turns out it wasn't as important as
I thought at the time. Now, I do remember one
gift that my grandpa got my grandma. He was so
excited to give it to her. He rapped it all
by himself, and he waited to the very end of
the gift exchange for her to open it. She was
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all smiles opening that box. But let me give you
some background on my grandpa. He was not the romantic type,
not at all.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
He loved my grandma, he had ORed her, He worshiped
the ground she walked on. But he was not the
romantic type, and he wasn't going to get her jewelry
or anything like that. He was practical. He had grown
up on a farm during the depression and fought the
Nazis He worked at the gas company for forty years
and fished every weekend. He was very much a function
overformed kind of fella. So when she opened her present
to find a shiny, brand new fire extinguisher for the house,
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she shouldn't have been as surprise as she was. He
was beaming and she was seating. You see, Grandpa thought
that that extinguisher was a sign of just how much
he loved her. He wanted her to be safe if
a fire broke out, and he took that fire extinguisher
and he mounted it on the wall right outside her
bedroom door. Now, that fire extinguisher outlasted Grandma and was
still hanging on the wall when Grandpa sold the house
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fifteen years later. It was a lasting monument of his
love to her. I can never go back and live
those moments. Those are gone forever. But I still carry
with me the greatest gift that have ever received at
Grandma's house, the love that was in that house. That
love is what I bring with me as I make
the rounds this Christmas. The love from Grandma's house is
the love that my kids will carry with them as
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they get older and have families of their own. That
love has endured longer than any material gift ever could
longer even than that fire extinguisher.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't have a monkey, pop, can't bend over, ton't
wear my socks.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
I think Michael.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Berry Russia, Michael Very show, Jack Cross made a Christmas
song that's actually the title commonly subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on
an Open.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Fire, because that's how we know it.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
It was originally subtitled and Merry Christmas to You, So
it was originally the Christmas song with the subtitle Merry
Christmas to you, but now it's come to be known
as the Christmas song subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an open
file to May classic Christmas song written in nineteen forty
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five by Robert Wells and the Velvet Fall Mel Tourmae Well.
According to Tourmae, 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
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born for him to b m, I that's where the
royalties pay. The Christmas song or Chestnuts Roasting on an
open fire is the most performed Christmas song of all time.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Quote.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I saw a spiral pad on Robert Wells piano with
four lines written in pencil. They started chestnuts, roasting jack frost,
nipping yule Tide, Carrol's 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 win, he
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could cool off. It's been forty minutes later that song
was written. Maybe Ty wrote all the music in some
of the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
End quote. That was in nineteen forty five.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
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 song with women aged thirty to
forty nine and Ramone. Roban I asked our team to
give me one Christmas song that is their absolute favorite,
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and you're going to hear those now.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That one was Ramones.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
This next song was released on the Andy Williams Christmas
album titled the Andy Williams Christmas Album. They didn't hire
a consultant for however, it wasn't released as a single.
Well His rendition of White Christmas was the single promoted.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
For that album.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
The Kids Jane Little Song peaked at number twenty one
on the UK Singles charts back in 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 Charts in the US.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
With those holidays, agreed, he was in gay happy meetings.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
When friends come to call.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
It's the parties.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
There'll be parties for hosting my spellers, for toasting them,
carrying out in the snow. They'll be scary ghost stories
and tales of the glories.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Of Christmas is long long ago.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It's the most wonderful time. O.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
This next song is the favorite of Chad's Swoothie. It's
a 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 that this next song is fantastic
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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.
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 of cool.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Even born and then made.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
To bring the world joy.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
So little bit, you know what you'll do your brain
the world deson love and teach them while you do.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
You have nothing to baby, because you know God is with.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You of a way, that little important baby.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
In fact, that kind of reminds me of Travis Thibodeaux
christmast the guy who first wrote take My Hand. I
think he was twelve years old singing with his dad
when he's saying when he wrote that man, and he
first recorded it, and then of course Wayne Tubes made it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
A big hit that time run perhaps the best song
of the bunch. He is the one I chose.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It's my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
This comes from the TV movie A Year Without Santa
Claus and I love it. It's called mister heat nice har.
Speaker 13 (13:54):
Christmas card and on the pore Cally.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I much chance.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
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 12 (14:34):
Christmas is the time movie for with the ones we love,
sharing so much joy cheer, what a one of watch
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in the Wandfrey.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Love a Christmas classic Biold Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It was written for Jude for uh No.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
It's written for Judy Garland for the musical Meet Me
in Saint Louis. Sinatra sang the song later with reworked
lyrics and its subdues.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Have your self.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Unmarry Little Christmas. Let your heart line from no.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Odd troubles will be out of side.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Have yourselves merry little Christmas. Make the U.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Tied from all troubles will be miles oid.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
We are as in old and Happy Gold. This is
the Michael Berry Show. Locked and loaded, can loaded. The
news is so bad these days.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
One of the things we do here at the Michael
Berry Show, or at least we try just to make
you laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Liberals, the woke mob, all of it.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
It can be infuriating, so we try to laugh at
it because when you laugh at it, you own it,
and that wounds them the worst.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
One of the days.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
One of the ways we do this is with parodies.
We try to take the worst news and make a
joke out of it, not because we don't take it seriously,
but because we want to expose how ridiculous and absurd
it is. And I don't like to get all braggadocious
or anything, but I think we do as find a
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job as anyone in the country at making parodies.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
We certainly make more. Not the quality is quantity, But
we see humor in.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
A lot of the crazy that's going on, and it's
our goal to make a joke of it, because sometimes
you can get through with a joke in ways that
you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
If you're deadpan.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
So let's look back on some of our favorite parodies
in no particular order. Let's start at the top. This
first one was one we did when Paul Pelosi was
arrested for DUI.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
This was the first time he was hammered. Mister Pelosi,
do you know why I pulled you, rosie? Because my
wife wanted to defund it the funnel.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
No, that's not that defund you, No, sir, you were
speeding driving a radically. But now, your pardinent officer, I'm
many two years old and I haven't been erotic in
many years. Please step out of the car, sir, osijsie, sir,
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how much have you had to drink tonight?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm married to a Dorian Gray painting. How much do
you think I've had to drink him? Young man? I've
got a pee, sir. Let's have a seat in the
back of my cruiser. There you go, watch your head. No,
you watch your head might tell you what to do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're not tell me, min tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I've got a pee. Okay, sir, We're gonna take you
down to the precinct. I have to catch my first hopper.
You're already in my car there. I'm getting way too
old for this.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Alab since I don't know where.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I think the production value of that Scott parody was outstanding,
if I may say so, and so this next one
took it to the next level. This was a parody
featuring the fictitious hood Rat Airlines when LaToya the Destroyer,
the mayor of New Orleans had to pay back thirty
thousand dollars for her flight to France.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
This is your captain.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Speaking, thank you again for flying hood Red Airlines. We'll
be landing in New Orleans in just about twenty minutes
or so. Where the temperature is currently eighty five degrees
with a little bit of an overcast. By the way,
just a quick reminder that flying in coach is never
a safe place, especially if you're the mayor of New Orleans.
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That's why here at Hoodrat Beer Lines, we're always happy
to upgrade any female Democrat mayor of a city in
the South for free to first class. That's our policy
and we're sticking to it. You got a problem with
that cracker with.
Speaker 12 (20:17):
A study done, a dirty rut.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Study out in the suns.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
This next parody was a major coup for us. Remember
when Joe Biden was ushered around by the Easter Bunny. Well,
we received an insider communication from the person wearing that
bunny costume.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yes, I wasn't the bunny coustume that day at the
White House. It was my job to shadow the president.
It was Easter, so someone thought that it'd be a
good idea to dress me in a bunny outfit. They
thought that if I've dressed up like the Easter Bunny,
I could blend it in the crowd, and if the
President went off script, I would be able to steer
him back to a more appropriate conversation. Now it is
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time for the event in the White House.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Long.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Things were going pretty well at first, but then the
President decided to mingle with the people. First, he saw
a man in the crowd that was, how do I
say it slow? So the President kind of leaned down
in his stage whisper to me, telling me about the
Behabit's George. I think he thought that referencing Lenny of
Mice and Men when he saw someone that was a
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little slow was funny because I was dressed like a
giant rabbit. However, this is the type of situation that
I was there to steer him away from. My job
in that scenario was to mention how much his dead
son bo loved Easter. I mean that always works to
get the president back on course. If he strays away
from the script, we always bring it back to Bow.
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Always and later when you try to talk about Pakistan
with a toddler, I mentioned bow nothing. But this time
it didn't work. He was going to talk about Pakistan
with that toddler no matter what. I'll admit.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I pan up.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
At this point. I start waving my arms and I
say the code word for Lansbury. See Lansbury is the
code we have with the President when we see he's
starting to get a little tired or maybe end over
his head. We say Lansbury. He knows it's time to
go up to the residents and lay down and watch murder.
She wrote, The President loves a good who done it?
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We played that same episode right before his nap every day.
He never remembers that he's seen it, and it's his
favorite episode. So it's a win win for us. But
I'm telling you right now, if they asked me to
dress up like his mother again for Mother's Day and
he tries to breast Freed like last year, I'm out
of here. I don't need this job that bad.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Next up, New Orleans Mayor LaToya the Destroyer.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
She was involved in another scandal with her quote unquote
charity Face Forward New Orleans.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
Hello, it's me LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor of New Orleans.
I just wanted to clear some things up forgotten my
non profitabook organization called Forward Together New Orleans. And man,
now you're a fund also named Forward Together New Orleans.
You see, I strongly believe that New Orleans needs to
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face forward, and we need to do that together. We
don't need none of y'all to be facing backwards now,
No way, no how.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'm sure as.
Speaker 15 (23:44):
Hell ain't facing backwards. Ever since I was a little girl,
people always said, girl, are.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You facing forward?
Speaker 15 (23:51):
That's just how my mama raisement can't help it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 15 (23:55):
That's why I named earthing I do forward.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Together New Orleans for my mama.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
I heard no one complain when George Farmer name all
his children George, not once.
Speaker 16 (24:06):
Some people say that I'm cooking day round. Some people
say that I'm making myself rich day round. Some people
say that I'm a nightmaya.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
But I'm here to tell you that I'm a maya
during the daytime too, Loudie, I'm gonna tell you to
destroyer peace, y'all.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
In to new work.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I'm going to Beverish. We'll not get through walking the woods.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I should arrest me or take me to Texas because
I'm ready gets out of the state.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I think Michael Barry robs Michael Berry.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
Show, I like you.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
A visit from Saint Nicholas, or as you more commonly
know it, the Night before Christmas and twas the Night
before Chrisstmas. From its first line is a poem. First
Poe no Okay, now you're interrupting. Okay, So the actual
poem is called a Visit from Saint Nicholas. The first
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line of the poem is twas the Night before Christmas.
It has come to be known as twas the Night
before Christmas or the night before Christmas because people don't
know how to write twas, which is apostrophe, and then
at twas.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So the actual name of it is a visit from
Saint Okay, all right, that I will agree. Most people
probably did not know that. Yes, I will give you credit.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
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, then let me complicate the whole
thing even worse. The original title was not a visit
from Saint Nicholas. Original title, well, I believe was account
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of a visit from Saint Nicholas, account of a visit
from Saint Nicholas, and it became a visit from Saint
Nicholas or twas the 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
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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 on the lawn. Looking out the window,
he sees Santy Claus or Saint Nicholas, in a sleigh
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pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof,
Santy Claus enters the house by sliding down the chimney.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He carries a.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
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
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Claus calls out Happy Christmas to all, and to all
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
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celebrity or a friend. But I don't know that there
is a better version than from the late Great Charlie Daniels.
We share it proudly with you now.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Twas a night before Christmas, and all through the house
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The
stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled,
all snugg in their beds, while visions of sugar plums
danced in their heads, and Mom in her kerchief and
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eyed 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.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I waited the window. I flew in a flash, and
I tore open a shutter.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And threw up the sash, and the moon on the
breast of the new fallen snow gave luster of midday
to the objects below. Then once, to my wondering eyes,
should appear, But a miniature sleigh had eight tiny rain
here with a little old driver, so lively and quick,
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and I knew in a moment that it must be
seen when it more rapid than eagles as courser as
they came, and.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
He whistled and shouted and called him by.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Name, now Dasher, now dancer, now Prancer, now vixen. On
combat on Cuba, on Donner, on blissen to the top
of the porch, to the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Top of the wall.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all has dry
these before the wild hurricane fly when they meet with
an obstacle mountain to the sky, so up to the
housetop the coursers.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They flew with a sleigh full of toys, and at
Saint Nicholas too. And then in a twinkling, I heard
on the roof the princing and paw out.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Of each little hoof, and I drew in my head,
and I was turning around and down the chimney.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Saint Nicholas came with a mail.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
He was dressed all in firm from his head to
his foot, and his clothes are all tarnished, and ashes
and soot. 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 nipples, how merry.
His cheeks were like roses, and his nose like a cherry.
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His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as
his snow.
Speaker 17 (30:23):
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his
teeth and smoke it and circled his head like a wreath.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He had a broad face and looking around, 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.
Speaker 17 (30:42):
A wink of his eye, a twist of his head.
Soon he gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his
work and filled all the stocke ads. And he turned
with a jerk, laying his finger aside of his nose
and giving a nod up the chimney heroes.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle,
and away they all flew like the dawn.
Speaker 15 (31:08):
But this.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
That I heard him explain before he drove it out
of sight.
Speaker 18 (31:14):
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
I'm charity, Daniels. We all know what Christmas is about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Twas the Night before Christmas is a fun poem, but
it's really about the birth of the Savior.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Man kar and Jesus Christ. We wish you a very
very merry Christmas. A lot of those folks. You're a charity,
Daniels Man god, this
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Well, Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our
Christmas show for Boulevard, the gift of a lifetime in Chesterfield.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
My secret happy Birthday the snow Man.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
It was a jolly happy who did it?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Come?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Come bodinos and twine meat out of cool girl.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Here comes Santa Clus.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here comes Santa calls right down Santa Claus Lane. He's
got a bag that's billed with toys for boys and girls.
Again hear those sleigh bells jingle jangle. Oh what a
beautiful side. So jump in bed and cover your head.
Called Santa Claus comes to and.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I rude all the redd and those rain.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Had a very shining nose.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I you ever saw it, you would even.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Say struggling around Christmas treet and Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Listen where you can see the chaps stop.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Ebody knows the turkey and some missle to.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Help to make the season rise.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Be charge.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Be Melchi Macca is a thing to say on a
bride in a wild Christmas day. That's the island greeting
that precend from the land where Purees.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sway, It's a Martiamallow world in the windsor playing the
snowcom to.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Coround, It's time to play It's a winter day, a winter.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Snow white Christmas Snow.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
I was creative director Jim Mudd who joined the show.
It was in November of last year. We found out
in September that we would be guest hosting for the
Rush Limbaugh Show, but we were asked not to announce
that yet, but we began preparing for the the It
was about ten days at Christmas, and so I brought
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Jim Mudd on to help us staff up. And it
was kind of a trial run to see if he
was going to be able to keep up because we
produce a lot and and well, I'll leave it at that.
Not everyone could keep up. And it turned out he
was such a great addition to the show that he
developed into being our creative director and it's been a
big boon to our show and a lot of times,
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a lot of segments we do. He will pull together
a news story and maybe some audio and audio clip
to go with that, or he might write a parody.
Chance McLean makes a lot of our funny songs, but
Jim has also started writing more and more of our parodies,
and whether it's a song that's chosen to go with
a segment, or a sound clip or a parody, he
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will write a little background for us as to why
he wrote that. And the background is not meant to
be shared on air. It's not part of the segment.
It's just for us to know why he considered that newsworthy.
And a lot of times I will take what he
has written and I will work that into my own narrative.
I'll call it my truth, ramon my truth. Let me
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start using liberal language. I will speak my truth. I
will find my voice anyway. I'll take what he's written
about something and I'll say, well, that's not accurate, that's
not my perspective. But here I'm let me make it
my perspective. And he will have been the conversation starter.
But he wrote a little background for us, and I
liked it so much that I asked him to record
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what he had written for y'all to hear from Jim
at Christmas in his own voice. Really, ramon, that's what
you Seriously.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
As I get older, I find myself reflecting on the
Christmases of my childhood, I look back and I long
for those days. I remember that my parents would let
us open one gift, and that was before we went
to my grandma's house. It was always the Christmas outfit
and new shoes that we would wear to Grandma's and
then later to church, and we would always get excited,
and not because we were happy to get some nice clothes. No,
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it was because we knew it was time to get
ready and go to Grandma's soon. Christmas at Grandma's was
the best. Everyone was there, all my aunts, uncles, and cousins,
and they would be dressed up too, and they were
happy to see you. Now, my grandma I only lived
three blocks away from us, and I used to walk
down there all the time, but on Christmas, she may
as well have been across the country because that drive
took forever. Now Dad would pull up and let Mom
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out in front of the house, and I would ride
with them to find a spot to park the car. Now,
we had a big family, so there were a lot
of people there and you had to find a spot
down the street to park. I know now that this
was more than just my dad making me feel like
I've grown up, because you know, he needed help with
the presents. Now, it really it was him showing me
that my mom was worth letting out at the door.
He didn't want her to walk all the way down
the street and her good shoes and they were probably
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new too, and you know how new shoes can be.
We would get the gifts that we brought for the
gift exchange and head to the house. Now, when we
walked through that back door, everyone agrees with a hug
and a Merry Christmas. My Grandma would have the biggest
smile on her face, probably because I was her favorite.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
It's a fact. Everyone knew it.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Everyone knew that I was the favorite, but a little
bit because it was Christmas. She would give you a
big hug and tell you to go put your coat
in Grandpa's room. Now, Grandma and Grandpa slipped in separate
rooms at this point, and if you asked them why
this up in separate rooms, they would both say that
the other one snored too loud and they couldn't sleep.
Besides the warm welcome, the smell of Grandma's house was amazing.
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The smell of food and baked goods, cookies, pies, I
mean it filled the air. My Grandma and I'm sure
like yours was a great cook. Sinatra, Jerry Mathis, Nat King, Cole,
Elvis was surely playing on the stereo ed if I
am just loud enough to be heard under the conversation
happening throughout the house. Now, as a kid, you're excited
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about getting presents. Now that I'm all grown up, I
really can't remember anything that ever got a grandma's Honestly,
not one thing. Turns out it wasn't as important as
I thought at the time. Now, I do remember one
gift that my grandpa got my grandma. He was so
excited to give it to her. He rapped it all
by himself, and he waited to the very end of
the gift exchange for her to open it. She was
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all smiles opening that box. But let me give you
some background on my grandpa. He was not the romantic type,
not at all.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
He loved my grandma, he had ORed her, He worshiped
the ground she walked on. But he was not the
romantic type, and he wasn't going to get her jewelry
or anything like that. He was practical. He had grown
up on a farm during the depression and fought the
Nazis He worked at the gas company for forty years
and fished every weekend. He was very much a function
overformed kind of fella. So when she opened her present
to find a shiny, brand new fire extinguisher for the house,
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she shouldn't have been as surprise as she was. He
was beaming and she was seating. You see, Grandpa thought
that that extinguisher was a sign of just how much
he loved her. He wanted her to be safe if
a fire broke out, and he took that fire extinguisher
and he mounted it on the wall right outside her
bedroom door. Now, that fire extinguisher outlasted Grandma and was
still hanging on the wall when Grandpa sold the house
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fifteen years later. It was a lasting monument of his
love to her. I can never go back and live
those moments. Those are gone forever. But I still carry
with me the greatest gift that have ever received at
Grandma's house, the love that was in that house. That
love is what I bring with me as I make
the rounds this Christmas. The love from Grandma's house is
the love that my kids will carry with them as
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they get older and have families of their own. That
love has endured longer than any material gift ever could
longer even than that fire extinguisher.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't have a monkey, pop, can't bend over, ton't
wear my socks.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
I think Michael.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Berry Russia, Michael Very show, Jack Cross made a Christmas
song that's actually the title commonly subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on
an Open.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Fire, because that's how we know it.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
It was originally subtitled and Merry Christmas to You, So
it was originally the Christmas song with the subtitle Merry
Christmas to you, but now it's come to be known
as the Christmas song subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an open
file to May classic Christmas song written in nineteen forty
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five by Robert Wells and the Velvet Fall Mel Tourmae Well.
According to Tourmae, 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
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born for him to b m, I that's where the
royalties pay. The Christmas song or Chestnuts Roasting on an
open fire is the most performed Christmas song of all time.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Quote.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I saw a spiral pad on Robert Wells piano with
four lines written in pencil. They started chestnuts, roasting jack frost,
nipping yule Tide, Carrol's 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 win, he
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could cool off. It's been forty minutes later that song
was written. Maybe Ty wrote all the music in some
of the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
End quote. That was in nineteen forty five.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
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 song with women aged thirty to
forty nine and Ramone. Roban I asked our team to
give me one Christmas song that is their absolute favorite,
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and you're going to hear those now.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That one was Ramones.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
This next song was released on the Andy Williams Christmas
album titled the Andy Williams Christmas Album. They didn't hire
a consultant for however, it wasn't released as a single.
Well His rendition of White Christmas was the single promoted.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
For that album.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
The Kids Jane Little Song peaked at number twenty one
on the UK Singles charts back in 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 Charts in the US.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
With those holidays, agreed, he was in gay happy meetings.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
When friends come to call.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
It's the parties.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
There'll be parties for hosting my spellers, for toasting them,
carrying out in the snow. They'll be scary ghost stories
and tales of the glories.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Of Christmas is long long ago.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It's the most wonderful time. O.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
This next song is the favorite of Chad's Swoothie. It's
a 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 that this next song is fantastic
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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.
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 of cool.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Even born and then made.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
To bring the world joy.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
So little bit, you know what you'll do your brain
the world deson love and teach them while you do.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
You have nothing to baby, because you know God is with.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You of a way, that little important baby.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
In fact, that kind of reminds me of Travis Thibodeaux
christmast the guy who first wrote take My Hand. I
think he was twelve years old singing with his dad
when he's saying when he wrote that man, and he
first recorded it, and then of course Wayne Tubes made it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
A big hit that time run perhaps the best song
of the bunch. He is the one I chose.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It's my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
This comes from the TV movie A Year Without Santa
Claus and I love it. It's called mister heat nice har.
Speaker 13 (13:54):
Christmas card and on the pore Cally.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I much chance.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
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 12 (14:34):
Christmas is the time movie for with the ones we love,
sharing so much joy cheer, what a one of watch
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in the Wandfrey.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Love a Christmas classic Biold Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It was written for Jude for uh No.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
It's written for Judy Garland for the musical Meet Me
in Saint Louis. Sinatra sang the song later with reworked
lyrics and its subdues.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Have your self.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Unmarry Little Christmas. Let your heart line from no.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Odd troubles will be out of side.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Have yourselves merry little Christmas. Make the U.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Tied from all troubles will be miles oid.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
We are as in old and Happy Gold. This is
the Michael Berry Show. Locked and loaded, can loaded. The
news is so bad these days.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
One of the things we do here at the Michael
Berry Show, or at least we try just to make
you laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Liberals, the woke mob, all of it.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
It can be infuriating, so we try to laugh at
it because when you laugh at it, you own it,
and that wounds them the worst.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
One of the days.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
One of the ways we do this is with parodies.
We try to take the worst news and make a
joke out of it, not because we don't take it seriously,
but because we want to expose how ridiculous and absurd
it is. And I don't like to get all braggadocious
or anything, but I think we do as find a
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job as anyone in the country at making parodies.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
We certainly make more. Not the quality is quantity, But
we see humor in.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
A lot of the crazy that's going on, and it's
our goal to make a joke of it, because sometimes
you can get through with a joke in ways that
you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
If you're deadpan.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
So let's look back on some of our favorite parodies
in no particular order. Let's start at the top. This
first one was one we did when Paul Pelosi was
arrested for DUI.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
This was the first time he was hammered. Mister Pelosi,
do you know why I pulled you, rosie? Because my
wife wanted to defund it the funnel.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
No, that's not that defund you, No, sir, you were
speeding driving a radically. But now, your pardinent officer, I'm
many two years old and I haven't been erotic in
many years. Please step out of the car, sir, osijsie, sir,
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how much have you had to drink tonight?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm married to a Dorian Gray painting. How much do
you think I've had to drink him? Young man? I've
got a pee, sir. Let's have a seat in the
back of my cruiser. There you go, watch your head. No,
you watch your head might tell you what to do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're not tell me, min tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I've got a pee. Okay, sir, We're gonna take you
down to the precinct. I have to catch my first hopper.
You're already in my car there. I'm getting way too
old for this.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Alab since I don't know where.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I think the production value of that Scott parody was outstanding,
if I may say so, and so this next one
took it to the next level. This was a parody
featuring the fictitious hood Rat Airlines when LaToya the Destroyer,
the mayor of New Orleans had to pay back thirty
thousand dollars for her flight to France.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
This is your captain.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
Speaking, thank you again for flying hood Red Airlines. We'll
be landing in New Orleans in just about twenty minutes
or so. Where the temperature is currently eighty five degrees
with a little bit of an overcast. By the way,
just a quick reminder that flying in coach is never
a safe place, especially if you're the mayor of New Orleans.
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That's why here at Hoodrat Beer Lines, we're always happy
to upgrade any female Democrat mayor of a city in
the South for free to first class. That's our policy
and we're sticking to it. You got a problem with
that cracker with.
Speaker 12 (20:17):
A study done, a dirty rut.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Study out in the suns.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
This next parody was a major coup for us. Remember
when Joe Biden was ushered around by the Easter Bunny. Well,
we received an insider communication from the person wearing that
bunny costume.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yes, I wasn't the bunny coustume that day at the
White House. It was my job to shadow the president.
It was Easter, so someone thought that it'd be a
good idea to dress me in a bunny outfit. They
thought that if I've dressed up like the Easter Bunny,
I could blend it in the crowd, and if the
President went off script, I would be able to steer
him back to a more appropriate conversation. Now it is
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time for the event in the White House.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Long.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Things were going pretty well at first, but then the
President decided to mingle with the people. First, he saw
a man in the crowd that was, how do I
say it slow? So the President kind of leaned down
in his stage whisper to me, telling me about the
Behabit's George. I think he thought that referencing Lenny of
Mice and Men when he saw someone that was a
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little slow was funny because I was dressed like a
giant rabbit. However, this is the type of situation that
I was there to steer him away from. My job
in that scenario was to mention how much his dead
son bo loved Easter. I mean that always works to
get the president back on course. If he strays away
from the script, we always bring it back to Bow.
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Always and later when you try to talk about Pakistan
with a toddler, I mentioned bow nothing. But this time
it didn't work. He was going to talk about Pakistan
with that toddler no matter what. I'll admit.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I pan up.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
At this point. I start waving my arms and I
say the code word for Lansbury. See Lansbury is the
code we have with the President when we see he's
starting to get a little tired or maybe end over
his head. We say Lansbury. He knows it's time to
go up to the residents and lay down and watch murder.
She wrote, The President loves a good who done it?
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We played that same episode right before his nap every day.
He never remembers that he's seen it, and it's his
favorite episode. So it's a win win for us. But
I'm telling you right now, if they asked me to
dress up like his mother again for Mother's Day and
he tries to breast Freed like last year, I'm out
of here. I don't need this job that bad.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Next up, New Orleans Mayor LaToya the Destroyer.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
She was involved in another scandal with her quote unquote
charity Face Forward New Orleans.
Speaker 15 (23:16):
Hello, it's me LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor of New Orleans.
I just wanted to clear some things up forgotten my
non profitabook organization called Forward Together New Orleans. And man,
now you're a fund also named Forward Together New Orleans.
You see, I strongly believe that New Orleans needs to
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face forward, and we need to do that together. We
don't need none of y'all to be facing backwards now,
No way, no how.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'm sure as.
Speaker 15 (23:44):
Hell ain't facing backwards. Ever since I was a little girl,
people always said, girl, are.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You facing forward?
Speaker 15 (23:51):
That's just how my mama raisement can't help it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 15 (23:55):
That's why I named earthing I do forward.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Together New Orleans for my mama.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
I heard no one complain when George Farmer name all
his children George, not once.
Speaker 16 (24:06):
Some people say that I'm cooking day round. Some people
say that I'm making myself rich day round. Some people
say that I'm a nightmaya.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
But I'm here to tell you that I'm a maya
during the daytime too, Loudie, I'm gonna tell you to
destroyer peace, y'all.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
In to new work.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I'm going to Beverish. We'll not get through walking the woods.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I should arrest me or take me to Texas because
I'm ready gets out of the state.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I think Michael Barry robs Michael Berry.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
Show, I like you.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
A visit from Saint Nicholas, or as you more commonly
know it, the Night before Christmas and twas the Night
before Chrisstmas. From its first line is a poem. First
Poe no Okay, now you're interrupting. Okay, So the actual
poem is called a Visit from Saint Nicholas. The first
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line of the poem is twas the Night before Christmas.
It has come to be known as twas the Night
before Christmas or the night before Christmas because people don't
know how to write twas, which is apostrophe, and then
at twas.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So the actual name of it is a visit from
Saint Okay, all right, that I will agree. Most people
probably did not know that. Yes, I will give you credit.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
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, then let me complicate the whole
thing even worse. The original title was not a visit
from Saint Nicholas. Original title, well, I believe was account
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of a visit from Saint Nicholas, account of a visit
from Saint Nicholas, and it became a visit from Saint
Nicholas or twas the 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
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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 on the lawn. Looking out the window,
he sees Santy Claus or Saint Nicholas, in a sleigh
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pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof,
Santy Claus enters the house by sliding down the chimney.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He carries a.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
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
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Claus calls out Happy Christmas to all, and to all
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
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celebrity or a friend. But I don't know that there
is a better version than from the late Great Charlie Daniels.
We share it proudly with you now.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Twas a night before Christmas, and all through the house
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The
stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled,
all snugg in their beds, while visions of sugar plums
danced in their heads, and Mom in her kerchief and
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eyed 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.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I waited the window. I flew in a flash, and
I tore open a shutter.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And threw up the sash, and the moon on the
breast of the new fallen snow gave luster of midday
to the objects below. Then once, to my wondering eyes,
should appear, But a miniature sleigh had eight tiny rain
here with a little old driver, so lively and quick,
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and I knew in a moment that it must be
seen when it more rapid than eagles as courser as
they came, and.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
He whistled and shouted and called him by.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Name, now Dasher, now dancer, now Prancer, now vixen. On
combat on Cuba, on Donner, on blissen to the top
of the porch, to the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Top of the wall.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all has dry
these before the wild hurricane fly when they meet with
an obstacle mountain to the sky, so up to the
housetop the coursers.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They flew with a sleigh full of toys, and at
Saint Nicholas too. And then in a twinkling, I heard
on the roof the princing and paw out.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Of each little hoof, and I drew in my head,
and I was turning around and down the chimney.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Saint Nicholas came with a mail.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
He was dressed all in firm from his head to
his foot, and his clothes are all tarnished, and ashes
and soot. 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 nipples, how merry.
His cheeks were like roses, and his nose like a cherry.
(30:15):
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as
his snow.
Speaker 17 (30:23):
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his
teeth and smoke it and circled his head like a wreath.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He had a broad face and looking around, 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.
Speaker 17 (30:42):
A wink of his eye, a twist of his head.
Soon he gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his
work and filled all the stocke ads. And he turned
with a jerk, laying his finger aside of his nose
and giving a nod up the chimney heroes.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle,
and away they all flew like the dawn.
Speaker 15 (31:08):
But this.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
That I heard him explain before he drove it out
of sight.
Speaker 18 (31:14):
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
I'm charity, Daniels. We all know what Christmas is about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Twas the Night before Christmas is a fun poem, but
it's really about the birth of the Savior.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Man kar and Jesus Christ. We wish you a very
very merry Christmas. A lot of those folks. You're a charity,
Daniels Man god, this
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