12.23: Holidaze - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you very much, John Shannon. It's seven oh five
here it News Radio eight for e W h as
Coffee and Company with you, and we are fueled by
Thornton's and we are just two days away from Christmas,
Christmas eve Eve and now this Christmas song here that
the company man John Alden is playing. It's it's a
classic and my kids really really like it. Didn't expect

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them to be big on this is the Beatles, right,
Paul McCartney. Yes, yes, I didn't necessarily expect them this
to be, you know, one that they like a lot.
But Daddy turned up. That is often said when this song,
this song comes on. So I'm sure many of you
listening have been here before and you'll be there one day, John,
not yet though. But one of the things that you

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as a parent you start to uh, you start to
have to be mindful of is making sure that when
your kids open up presents that they get from somebody else,
that they are respectful and they and they say thank you.
And I've probably been a little harder on my on
my son when it comes to that, because you know,

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I want to make sure he's I want to make
sure he's he's appreciative and and you.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Know, gentlemen, yes exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So we've got a run down here that tells us
ways we can teach kids to be polite gift receivers.
And before we dive in, I'll just say the one
thing that that that it just can't stand it when
he does it whenever he gets a gift that he
already has, which isn't super common. But here's where here's
what we run into. We have the Amazon list rather

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be Christmas, Birthday whatever, or people who just know what
he likes and end up getting the same thing just
because of the randomness of just they realize, Hey, I
saw this gift. I thought he'd love it. Oh, I
already have it, and like, that's not like he doesn't
know he's being rude. And I don't think anybody who
has ever been told that he already had a gift
that they purchased him took it anyway. But you know,
I've tried to tell him, hey, just say thank you,

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and he's like, well, but I do already have it.
And sometimes he's happy he has too. He's just letting
them know he already has one. But anyways, this is uh,
this is some these are some tips to share with you.
Is as far as your kids being good gift receivers,
practice ahead of time. This is an etiquette expert Diane
Gotzman who says that being a gracious gift receiver doesn't

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mean pretending to love everything. It just means smiling and
saying thank you. Parents should set that expectation ahead of time.
And noah doesn't include forest hugs or fake enthusiasm. The
goal is kindness towards the giver, even if the gift
is a little you know whatever. So also get them
involved in giving. That can just teach. Then that's the
human element of where you are able to truly see

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that you got somebody a gift and they're really appreciative
of it, and you're happy. You have joy. On the
other end as well, it's not just about gift receiving
but also gift giving, so that can go a long way.
And then also this is a good one that maybe
I should should, UH should should study up on. Help
them name their feelings. When kids start bouncing off the walls,
it's often excitement mixed with exhaustion. Experts say acknowledging what

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they're feeling like saying you know, I know, it's hard
to wait you're really excited, helps then feel uh seen
and can calm things down before a full blown, you know,
melt down hits. Now. One thing that we've we've uh
we've learned is that with my daughter she uh for
those who know my daughters is especially each child, she's
intellectually disabled and she's she she has autism, and uh,

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you know for her, just the the the unwrapping of
presents can be a little bit difficult at times. Uh.
And you know she's uh, the the whole you know,
are you open up all years and then you open
all years She's she's you know, she wants to do,
she wants to go you know, everybody at once. Uh.
And sometimes she's so excited and just so into it

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that she's just yeah, her emotions are all over the place.
But yeah, so we we've we've we've developed where they
get to open up one present the night before Christmas
and then the next day. It's really just a free
for all. But we do have to tell her brother
to uh, to be to you know, to pay attention
to her pace. That way, it doesn't end up to
where she's already done and he's got a bunch more

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and then she may think that he got more. So,
you know, you at this point, especially with my kid's age,
you get you know, you get a feel for what
for what makes sense. By the way, real quick, before
we move on, I will say you talked about this
yesterday on the show. John. You took your little one,
miss Daisy, who is going to have her first Christmas
in a couple of days, to take the picture with Santa.
Where did you guys go?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
We went to the Oxmore Center.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, you had some nerves as far as just not
knowing what to expect. Again, nobody knows what to expect
when it's the first time. I feel like Oxmore Centers
should take the photo of Daisy and have that be
the photo they used to promote that Sanna's there. It
could not have been better. Yeah, when we got in,
like she knows the big guy. First of all, it
was weird.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I hadn't been in the line for Santa and over
probably fifteen plus years, so that was already strange in
and of itself. Uh. And then just to the anticipation
of how you're trying to figure out how she might react.
She was in a good mood, so I was definitely
optimistic about it heading into it, but you never know, Yeah,
you never know. And then she's that right down on
his lap, looked up at him, was very curious, and

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they got a lot of good, you know, candid photos
as people call them. He pulled out the little uh
was the Night Before Christmas book and it looked like
she was reading along with them, and it was a
very a very photogenic experience, I'll say. And she looked
she's the new poster trout in my opinion, for photos
with Santa if you're an infant.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I mean she she looked comfortable with Santa, and uh yeah,
I mean, it couldn't have gone better. So I'm sure
that'll be a photo that you guys, you guys have
forever her first Christmas. And again, it couldn't It couldn't
have worked out any better, all right, So real quick,
this is something we've discussed this morning, and I don't
want to spend a ton of time on it because
it's not really necessarily news just yet, but it is.
It is out there, and if you're a Louisville football

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fan today, you're probably more so thinking about Jeff Brahm's
future with Louisville more than you're thinking about the bulk
of Rattan Bowl baked beans, whatever it is. And I
don't mean to mock it, but it's just you know,
it's a two o'clock Tuesday afternoon bowl game and it's
against a MAC opponent. That's just that's just what it is.
So I think Jeff Brohm will will be here long term.

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I say that not misleading you by having any information
that I'm not. I just that's just my belief and
it's more so wishful thinking than anything else. But here
is why some Louisville fans have been worried. Because Michigan
obviously is in need of a football coach and the
game of musical chairs has ended. There's not a lot,
I mean, the movement's already taken place this cycle for
college football coaches to shift. In Michigan, they're in an

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unusual situation where they didn't plan to fire their coach,
they had to because of his actions. So Jeff Brohm
is a really good football coach. Is he the best? No?
But Michigan, given their situation, having interest in Jeff Brohm
does not at all surprise me. Now, what we don't
know is what the interest level actually is on both sides.
That's just impossible to know, regardless of what those insiders

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are reporting. I don't. I mean, nobody truly knows other
than Michigan and Brahm and his agent. So I don't
believe they've offered him the job, but I will not
be surprised to if any moment they do. And the
noise out there from the brom side of it is that,
like he said a couple of weeks ago when Penn
State pursued him, he's committed to Louisville and working out

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a new arrangement to stay here long term. From an understand,
Jeff is seeking a extension and more resources for his
coaching staff to have a better salary pool from an understand,
But more than anything, it is about continuing to try
to drive more Nile money so they can go build
a really good roster each and every year. And here

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we stand a couple of weeks after the whole Penn
State situation, and I don't think anybody said, yeah, we're
not doing that anymore. Plans have changed, it just hasn't
fully happened yet.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
There could be a variety of reasons maybe because they're
going to wait until the actual season ends, or maybe
because Brom's focused on football stuff and his agent's the
one that's working it out. I don't know, but I
think that what Jeff wants is more I guess contractual
obligations to have money available to go build a roster

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within ale money, and I think that's just tough to
do because I think nobody in the right mind would say, Yeah,
we don't want to go out and try to get
more money for Jeff Brom. We just don't want to.
We don't think he deserves it. But I don't think
it's possible to know where exactly that money comes from.
So if you're Josh Hurd, and I know Josh not well,

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but I know him enough to it wouldn't shock me
if he's giving Jeff Brom the Yes, we're going to
try to do everything we can. We understand how important
it is to have those resources, but I can't tell
you right now where that money's coming from, and that
may not be good enough. So it sounds like, even
as of late last night, there's a better feel as

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far as them getting something arranged to where we don't
have to sweat out the Michigan job being open and
them taking the Louisville coach. However, those that feel like
brom is reaching here and he should just be thankful
and not want more because hey, they went eight and
four and they lost some games this year that money
had nothing to do with. He didn't lose to cal

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and Virginia because they didn't have because because he doesn't
have enough talent on his roster, because the money's not there.
What's your point in bringing that up? I mean, do you?
I mean, that's what I don't quite understand. I mean,
I just I can't. I can't relate. So, I mean,
if you look at Jeff brohm in as a as

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a as a human being, and as a guy that
is in a competitive industry like Michigan is a is
a better job with way better resources that give him
a better chance to succeed at the highest level of
his profession. So like, if they did want him and
he decided to stay at Louisville, we should be forever
thankful for him for doing that. But it's not a given.

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He doesn't owe us anything. If he left today, I'd
be bummed. I'd be really sad as a fan and
as somebody who knows the bron family at least some
of them, some of them pretty well. Actually I'd be bummed,
but like it would be him doing what ninety nine
percent of society would do. Take a much better job,
that gives you a better chance to be successful at

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the highest level of what you do. So if your
push is, hey, he shouldn't be asking for more money.
He could win two three titles and he'd still be
asking for more money, because that's where college football is.
It matters that much. You have to have money. But
if you worry that UFL may not have the resources
to do it, I get your worry, because, let's be honest,

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it's always been the case, but it's never been more
visible for fans to see and also for fans to feel.
The U OFL alumni base is tiny compared to schools
like Michigan, like Indiana, even who now that they've got
success within football, they got so many big money people
to pull from. Louisville didn't have that. So the fan

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base is just not as big. The alumni base is
not as big as some of these big ten SEC programs,
and there's really nothing you can do about that. Like
I don't know who to point the finger right when
it comes to that. That's just the way it is.
So I just wanted to bring I just the reason
I wanted to bring it up and share my thoughts
on it is that despite Louisville having a really underwhelming year,

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right like outside the Miami win and beating Kentucky really
bad once again, like this team should have been better.
They missed on their quarterback in the portal. It happened,
but the guy still went eight and four. He's never
won fewer than eight games in the regular season. He
has two top ten wins, He's two and win against
his rival. He made the ACC Championship game, all in
three years time. The guy who he took over for,

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who some were willing to keep and wanted to keep,
he never won eight games in a regular season a
single time in his time here. So Louisville football said
in much better shape now than before. And if there's
a guy that can can get this ceiling extended for
Louisville football to really do some special things, I believe
it's Jeff Brohm, and I hope he stays. But if
Michigan offers him the job and he decides to not

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take it. I mean, I think we should just say
thank you. I mean, that's just my opinion. I'm sure
many don't agree, and that's fine, all right, quick time out,
don't go anywhere, keep it locked right here. Who's ready
to wait? Forty whas? So this is Trace Adkins? Am
I right?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
It is? Yes?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
You know, I tell you what the there are classic
Christmas songs like this one, and there's so many different
versions of them by different artists, and some are way
better than others. But I feel like it's rare, and
it's been a long time since a musician or a
band did their version of one of the classics that

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ends up being like a bigger hit, a bigger fan
favorite than the original. Because this is fine. You know,
Tray Adkins, he's got a unique, real country voice, right,
He's He's great. But you know, I'm always gonna want
to you know, I'm always gonna want the classics. And
I'll say, you have helped me learn about this world

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of country Christmas music songs I didn't know existed. I mean,
you played me an Aaron tip in Christmas song earlier.
I wasn't expecting that because I didn't know that it existed,
So yeah, good stuff. But like jingle Bell Rock, there's
a lot of different versions of that. But you know,
the Bobby Helms is probably the go.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
To who does the original version of what we just played.
What's the title the Christmas song? The Christmas song Let's see?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
The Christmas song original is let's see, Let's see.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I feel like it's Andy Williams, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm sure there's many that are punching the radio. How
do these young idiots not know this? But it was
written in nineteen forty five and the songwriter is Melton
May and Robert Wells.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
That don't help me at all.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, so it says the Nat King Cole Trio first
recorded the song in June of nineteen forty six, so
Nat King Cole. But yeah, you know, for example, the
jingle Bell Rock, which is a great song. I'm sorry,
we just we just talked about that one. Santa Claus
is coming town. That's what I was looking for. Here
you've got. And by the way, I will say, I
may have just proved myself wrong because the Jackson five

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and the Bruce Springsteen version are both phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
The Bruce Springsteen Santa claus Is coming to town is great.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, have yourself a merry little Christmas. There's a bunch
of different good ones there with Kelly Clarkson, Judy Garland,
Frank Sinatra. Yeah, so's there's a bunch of good ones,
just like the one you just played that was Trace Adkins.
That's fine. But I think if I'm gonna to truly
get me in the Christmas feels with with with with
these classic songs, the one to do that the best

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is always going to be for me, the originals. But yeah, Christmas. Look,
I keep Christmas music on at all times, almost during
the Christmas season, and I'm sure some people think, how
would you do that? They get so annoying or I
don't know why, just it's my thing. So I appreciate
you accommodating me, John by playing Christmas music this morning
and really throughout the season. So when we come back,

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there'll be no more reason. There'll be no reason to
play another eleven weeks gone, no doubt about it, all. Right,
So this is this is something that we'll do a
little more of once we get into really next week.
Right as we get to the final days of twenty
twenty five, we'll start sort of recapping and doing some
year and review kind of stuff. But just quickly, if

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you look at the weather that we had in twenty
twenty five, it really was a wild year for US. Tornadoes,
historic flooding, massive snow, hailstorms. We had it all in
twenty twenty five. So the top five weather events of
twenty twenty five for Louisville, it starts, of course in January,
when we had ten and a half inches of snow

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plus a half of inch of ice in the area,
and the nine inches that fell well on January fifth alone,
that of course made it the third snowiest January day ever.
And I remember that thinking, Okay, in my lifetime, this
is the most snow that I can remember us ever having.
Now I know there was bigger snowstorms when I was younger,
but yeah, that was that was memorable. And if you remember,

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that's why January I got off to such a rough start,
because we had on the fifth and sixth all the
snow come down and it never consistently stayed above freezing,
and then we had a little bit more snow come
in just days later. I believe it was I mean,
I believe there was a whole week where there was
no school.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh, it was crazy. My wife I think she said
they had and I could be wrong about this. They
only went to school I think for three or four
days in the month of January.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, and I remember the NTI, the NTI last year,
ergas this year at the beginning of January. So when
I say there was no school, sometimes they were able
to do it that way. But yeah, it was And
what seemed different than any of the other snow storms
that we had, other than, of course, just the amount
of snow, meaning the accumulation, but we just usually it's

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rare for I think us to not have a few
days where it's consistently above thirty two degrees, but we
just we rarely got I mean, this is what I
think of the mounds of snow that were piled up
in the parking lots of shopping centers. They turned black
pretty quickly, just nasty, and they didn't it took forever
for them to melt. And it's just because again we

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didn't get we didn't get enough warm weather consistently. And
then in April we had a tornado that hit Jaytown.
I was actually out of town during spring break at
that time. But if you remember Waters Trail, Ravana Drive
that area, there was a legitimate tornado. Winds peaked at
one hundred and forty five miles per hour and it
was the highest rated Louisville tornadoes since since May of

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nineteen ninety six. Now, somehow, in a miracle, in a
miraculous way, no injuries or fatalities that took place. And
then in April we had some really bad flooding, so
six inches to one foot of rain inches alone in Louisville.
First time ever you had three straight days with two

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inches of rain coming down. Uh. And yeah that if
you remember, we had to cancel thunder of a Louisville
because of how bad things were flooded down there. And uh,
I don't remember this as much, but we did get
a hailstorm that came down and did some real damage,
but that seemed to be more southern Indiana than the
Louisville area. And then again, this isn't something that is

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I get. Yeah, this I don't. I don't remember if
it was chalked up to anything that happened weather related,
but I'm just thinking about things. I guess in that
in that lane, you remember the the I can't think
of where it was. It was in the East End
where you just had a complete hole in the ground
like a road. Yeah, a road completely collapsed out near
I think it was near Blanket, the Blanket Baker area.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, I do remember that.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, So we had some weird stuff happened this year
when it comes to weather, and here's to hoping for
a better twenty twenty six because you know, some of
the you know, we talk about snow occasionally being convenient
and pretty for Christmas if you get it, and of
course you get some snow days. But man, some of
the stuff that came in with the winter storms, the tornado,
the flooding, I mean that that that substantially changed people's

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lives in a negative way. So yeah, hope, hope, hopefully
there's a there's a better year of weather coming our
way here as we get twenty twenty six started in
just uh just a little over a week, all right. Uh.
Something else I wanted to touch on here, So this if
this is a survey that's out there and it's more
I guess people, I guess it's more than anything people

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pulling responses in data from a social media poll. But
Santa Claus. Women have chimed in to share who they
think the sexiest Santa Claus is, Which actor makes the
sexiest Santa of all time? And some have expressed that
they really got into Santa in a way that most
don't because Santa was being portrayed by you know, certain, uh,

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certain actors.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
So no.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Number one, well, I'm sorry, No, they don't have it.
They just mentioned the names. They don't have him ranked,
but the ones that came up more than than than any.
Tim Allen and the Santa Claus, the Wholesome Dad, which,
by the way, he's he's at his best in that movie.
I don't know what it is. He's he's such a
really funny, smart ass, if that makes sense that you know,
I just I think Tim Allen's great in that movie.

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It's one of my Christmas favorites. And he's he's he's
the kind of guy that can be in a PG
movie and still be like really funny. He's just got
a natural, natural gift. And then also Kurt Russell, he
did the Christmas Chronicles that was actually relatively recent, and
Kurt Russell was a big fan of the Ladies. When
he played uh, he played Santa. And then David Harbor

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in Violent Knight. Not super familiar with that one.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
That was that was an in theaters movie a couple
of years ago.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Gotcha. And then uh, the the honorable mentions here that
didn't get mentioned quite as much, Billy Bob Thornton and
Bad Sanna. That is absolutely a Christmas movie, but man,
it is a different type of Christmas movie. He is
this just self destructive slob and he's a great actor,
and yeah, I don't know, it's hard for me to

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say it's one of my favorite Christmas movies because it's
just so different, but I do like it a lot.
And then also, this was more of I guess this
this Justin Hartley, who is a male model. He played Santa.
I think he played a Santa stripper in the Bad
Mom's Christmas Movie. So he's like not even he's not that.
That's more of just I guess people realizing, like, you
know that he's.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
An actor though he was in the This Is Us,
wasn't he let me see, he's one of the main
and he's also in that show Tracker. I know you
don't listen, you can't watch a lot of network.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, so now that I'm looking at him, I definitely
recognize him. Maybe maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like
when he did The Bad Mom Santa, he had not yet.
Maybe Yeah, it looks like the majority of the things
he's known for are things that came up, you know,
after he had that role in that movie. But in
that movie also again a little differ than your typical
Christmas movie, but I do enjoy it. So yeah, I
just realized this. We have a couple of days left.

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I've I've yet to watch my favorite, which is Christmas
Vacation All the Way. I've got to do that soon.
It's been on in the house, but I haven't actually
watched it start to finish once again, which I've got
to because it's it's it's my favorite. All right, let's
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