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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We'll do it, making mornings great again. The first thing
today on the media apps right show, Thomas do it?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So this is Christy, What had you done?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And you long just be gone?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know a lot of people will tell you and yeah,
when you poke the radio to see if I'm actually
live in here, if it's a recording of a guy saying, well,
do it live. I love the fact that it's like
a sixty year old recording of Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Doing it live, and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Everyone uses it to say we're here live, and it's
like sixty year old Bill O'Reilly recording.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
He was what was it Weekend Update or whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
The show he was doing it was one of those
early evening news ish shows. I think Deborah Norville took
over or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was a.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Quasi news early edition something like that. Anyway, But on
this Christmas morning, I know two things. Number one, you're
sitting by yourself. That's almost axiomatic amongst radio listeners. If
you're not, you're an outlier, and we like we like outliers.
We don't like liars, we like outliers. You're also an extremist.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You are either.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So super Christmas that you are up right now trying
to get everything just right, or wrapping the packages that
you've had hidden somewhere in a barn so that when
the little kids or grandkids wake up, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Like, oh my god, Santa did come.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And I hope the radio is a noun in their room.
Or you're on the complete other side of the spectrum
and along the ba humbug side, I've got to work.
Nobody cares. Maybe you know, Christmas hasn't worked out the
(02:13):
way you want. And you know, we compartmentalize things a
lot now, and we have a lot to get into
this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
This isn't going to be sunrise sermonette.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We've got potential for peace in between Russia and Ukraine
before the Trump administration is even a decade old, I
mean a year old. The the compartmentalization often we do
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with our holidays, and I found it very interesting. I
was studying up on something a friend of mine, another
radio show host, was telling me about this. He said,
you know, Christmas wasn't even an American holiday at first.
He said, you know, the Puritans and a lot of
the settlers in America, it was a more Germanic sect.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was more.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Especially after Martin Luther, where a lot of the feasts
got purged, the.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Feast of Saint Nicholas being one of them.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And you know, we do a catechism or two and things,
you know, things are forgiven. I mean, if if Alatamir
Zelenski can put a demilitarized zone up and offer peace
with vlad the Invader, then we can put aside, you know,
your differences between Martin Luther and Christian Faith. So we'll
(03:58):
get into you know, how the extremists are gathering this morning,
because you are right now, if you're tuning in right
now to this program, you don't need to hear Christmas
music and NonStop Christmas powables, or you don't want to.
(04:23):
And if I tried to, you'd go throw the radio
through the window. So we appreciate your attention in either instance.
And it's all good in the hood. And we will
endeavor to what's the expression they used to use in vaudeville,
a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in
your pants. And we'll get on with the day this morning,
(04:48):
as we begin with our first things, as we every day.
If you're joining us on some of the stations that
pick us up because we're available, and I'm here mostly
because my family. No one in my family gets up
this early except for me and my youngest son. But
you know, we are early risers, and so I have time.
(05:09):
You know, my Christmas isn't even going to get started
until like two eastern. So our first things this morning,
Let's begin with the peace deal being floated in between
Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski said he would
be willing to withdraw troops from the heartland the don
(05:30):
Bas region if Russia agreed to as well, and an
international demilitarized economic zone, which was the proposal put forth
by Marco Rubio and the Department of State as a
pot potential for peace. A free economic zone, demilitarized and
(05:53):
independent of both countries could be created there. President Trump
used his Christmas message to tout recent economic data broader policy.
He did say on truth social Merry Christmas to all,
including the radical left scum that is doing everything possible
(06:13):
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shows that Americans strongly prefer First Lady of Milania Trump's
White House decor over those of Michelle Obama or Jill Biden.
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showed sixty one percent shows the current decorations over the
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On the air.
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What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So we gather on this Christmas day, Merry Christmas, forget
my manners. Sometimes we just jump in both feet and
I hope you realize the totality. So we were talking
about compartmentalizing sometimes and we talk about the birth of
Christ and so sometimes we talk about it without the
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context of the whole life lived. And you know, I
was talking to a friend who was a historian. Of course,
he's one of the folks who's like, well there's you know,
that's this isn't when the Judeans paid their taxes. It
wasn't in December and this and and it's truth. But
(14:24):
there's arguments, you know, on all sides. Literal I mean,
there are things in the Bible that are literally they
have to be when they happen, like the Crucifixion, because
we already know when Passover was, and he was in
Jerusalem for Passover. And one of the interesting things about
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how we.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Move forward is remember that.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem thirty three years later, he
wasn't looking to start a new church. He hadn't started
sowing the seeds of Christianity. He had lots of followers
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because he was ardently conservative regarding how the Jewish faith
should be followed, and was an activist, if you will,
about how the Temple had capitulated to the Romans. There's
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a reasonable case I hesitate to make because it's easy
fruit for somebody like me to say, well, he was
a political activist, just like you and me. But the
Temple was corrupted because the Romans had taken it over
and the leaders of the Temple had allowed it, of course,
(16:24):
and so they were aware. And there's you know, and
if you want to get into a hotter debate, if
somebody wants to start the Trump maga, you know, Laura Lumer,
Nick Fuenttees, any of these names get mentioned today at Christmas,
get togethers ask him. Okay, so who was the one
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who killed Jesus? That'll stop everyone in their tracks. Trust me,
you might as well slam a new set of disc
brakes on.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
You're hitting the windshet And so.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
We look at the life led that began, whether you
believe it apocryphal or not. He was born, parents couldn't
find room at the end because they were on their
way to pay their taxes, and so they come to
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pay their taxes, and Jesus is born and is a
blessing to every single last one of us, and does
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so by sacrificing, by looking at the world that's around
him and saying this is wrong and standing up for
what's right, regardless of the slings and arrows that befell him.
People started listening to him saying, you know, I read
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you know it says he's not wrong. This is how
things are supposed to go, and here we are. And
it's partially because Jefferson in this line of community organizers,
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if you will. That begins with Moses leading the Jews
from slavery in Egypt despite their complaints, saying, hold on
a second here, you didn't say it was going to
be this hard colloquiallyams for a time through Jesus, who
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then saw the Temple become corrupted by government through Constantine,
who does the greatest corporate merger in the history of mankind.
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As the Roman Empire is falling, He's decided, Hey, we're
falling because everyone's becoming Christian. Maybe if we become Christian,
I can save the Roman Empire. Then Martin Luther comes
along and sees how again governments and their indulgences and
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their need to control people are using the faith conveniently
interpreting the faith to their needs and ends. So he
tries to purify it, and yet again crowned heads like
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Henry the Eighth come along. There they are again, and
you know they'll take it over for themselves. So Jefferson
comes along and says, what if we try to put
a firewall up here? And I listened to this a lot,
especially as President Trump gives you know, he's talking to
the kids at Norad, and so so much better than
(20:41):
the let's go Brandon phone conversation for a few years ago,
just as a tangent, and the Christmas message and the
Christmas dressing and the house and where's the separation of
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church and state. You asked, well, it's not a separation
of church and state. It's a separation of church from state.
The state doesn't control the church. If we had a
Jewish president, he put a menora up on the Oval
office desk, would you have a problem with that? We
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have Muslim members who were sworn in on Jefferson's own
copy of the Koran, missing the fact that Jefferson got
the copy of Koran to understand why the Barbary pirates
thought it was their birthright to sack and pillage American ships.
But the word there, from the birth of this kid
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in a manger to the word there, and here we
are still trying to fight for an individual.
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Oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Somebody call me a ride.
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Love that guy, me too.
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Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
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You know, I thought was interesting.
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I was talking to a friend of mine who was
doing does history stuff YouTube stuff, and you know, I
went back and I looked into One of the things
about Christmas is that Christmas came to the United States later,
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and that because Christmas became an American holiday late, we
were able to in the Revolution. And I never quite
got the nuance of the Battle of Trenton.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Was showing me.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Because the Americans didn't hold these the elaborate Christmas feasts
and everything else, we were able to ambush the Hessians
take that route and all the munitions that came from
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it turned that into a win over the regulars in
Princeton and turned the tide.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Really and it wasn't and it's not the same thing as.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Saying, you know, George Washington wasn't Christian or anything like that.
The point of the matter is is that the Hessians said, well,
it's Christmas, so all things are held off and stopped
the Americans, the ones trying to fight for the liberty
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of the land that they were on. The understand, the
American Revolution was about expelling an occupying army. Once the
Declaration of Independence, a legal document had been filed, we
were a sovereign nation by our decree, and I'm going
somewhere with us sometimes I have to warn you. And
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therefore Britain was an occupying force and we had the
right to expel them. And people draw moral equivalencies of
all these different things, because that's what our mind does,
is we try to conceptualize current events in the shape
of previous events by drawing moral equivalencies. It's a starting point.
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I don't know, it's actually a really good starting point
because we're supposed.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
To know history.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But then you look into all the places where the
precedent is set aside. But I just because America was
more Lutheran.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Than Central Europe was.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Even the British were not heavy Christmas doers. That really
didn't come until the Victorian era. But the Hessians Christmas
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was the deal and they partied and we used it
against them. Now is that unfair?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
You know, using somebody's faith against them. We were trying
to rid an occupying army. Was southern New Jersey native
to the Hessian soldiers. No, they were an occupying army,
and we were seeking to expel an occupying army from
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our territory. We didn't call Cornwallis and say, can we
set up an independent trade zone in southern New Jersey
from let's say Camden to Newark. And that's how we
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segue from that into the day's travails, which is the offer.
And it's interesting because weeks and weeks ago this was
offered by Marco Rubio and Witkoff and all the envoys
that had been going back and forth between meetings with
the Ukrainians and meetings in Moscow with Putin's people, and
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each time they would come back much like Donald Trump
would come back from a meeting with Putin saying, yeah,
we had a great meeting, only to see another fleet
of drones zooming in overhead. And I'm not disregarding the
terrorist attack on Russian or Moscovite Muscovite police officers last night,
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the terrorist bomber killing police officers, And what does a
terrorists want to do? Change what you're doing, and what
are they trying to change? Very little of that coming
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out yet. We'll keep working on it. But these terrorist
attacks on Russian police officers in Moscow, there are those
who are drawing this in Sea. See the Russians aren't
behind Putin either. I'm not necessarily buying that because the
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whole thing comes unraveled. You don't get to invade another
country occupying force romans in Judea. People invade other people's countries.
Why because they want their stuff. All the other stuff
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is crap. Sorry, is that a word you're not supposed
to use on Christmas Morning? No, all the other excuses
for why one country invades another is crap. They want
their stuff. Either they want their money, they want their
guns and AMMO, they want their technology, or they want
their land for the lax their physical infra structure, portage,
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trade routes. Histories laid this out pretty clearly. We want
to invade you because you're on the trade routes. Somebody
always wants somebody else's stuff, and they're willing to marshal
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an army to go get it faster than you can proclaim.
One of my favorite Christmas movies not named die Hard
the Lion in winter. I mean, everyone's going off to
invade somebody at some point, and then the Crusades.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know, John's going.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Off to the Richard pardon me, is going off to
the Crusades, and then the robin Hood story starts. It's
amazing how this one family can be the source of
all this bad stuff happening in England faster than you
can say plantagen and good luck spelling it. You invade
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somebody else's country because you want their stuff, and Russia
can say we invaded Ukraine because there are Russian citizens
in there. If that's the case, and we allow that
kind of nonsense to take root, then Claudia Shinbaum can
invade southeastern United States because there are Mexican nationals there.
Trust me, I've seen them outside of Joshua Tree National
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Forest protesting saying this is my country. And if that's
the case, you all had better do a better job
on vetting your immigrant populations. You don't get to invade
another country. This was laughably the premise behind the League
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of Nations and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the
League of Shadows, and the United Nations and the United
Arab whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
All of these.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
World governments were supposed to stop all this from happening.
It is my contention I think we've just made it worse.
Often in a denial. No, there's nothing like that going on.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
To the troops.
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Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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So tell me Christmas?
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Are we kind?
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Are we really? And what is kind?
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Me?
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I mean, if you're going to be a question or
question everything.
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You know?
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Mind and most of the when you.
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Have it's.
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It's coming home this Christmas.
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You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
That's my favorite, well, it's my favorite song of Trans
Siberian Orchestras. It's also kind of my favorite point of
the program that builds up to its big ending and
is a what do they call it? Now?
Speaker 3 (45:14):
What's the pop culture phrase? Girl daddy?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
You know it's funny because it's rarely true in my world.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
And my daughter is.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
With my mother in law who's ninety nine, and my
daughter is in a weird spot, so she has a
young niece who's about ten years younger than she is.
And if you've ever had female and cousin Brucie the
disc jockey had it right. I read his autobiography once
(45:43):
and he explained why he chose the nickname cousin Brucie,
and he said he said cousins were always the fun relative. Hey,
you would fight with your brother or your sister and
you'd not talk to them for weeks and months of
the time, but every time your cousins came by, it
was fun, he said, So I wanted that to be
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the image she's that I'm the guy who comes by
and we have fun together. And so if you ever
have relatives in that kind of cousin's relationship. So this
girl idolizes my daughter, sees her literally once a year,
but I guess they talk all the time on text
message and video chat and everything and just idolizes my daughter,
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which is kind of cool for me because she's a
good kid. So by extrapolation, I've got to think my
daughter's a good kid. But she's not with us, and
she hasn't been with us at Christmas for a few years,
and that's a bone of contention with my wife. She
wants very much to have all of our kids together,
so she's holding off on all the big Christmas to
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do until everyone is in the house together.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Hey, somebody make sure all the.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Pictures my sister posted of her kids, I don't make
sure my wife doesn't see those. But she sent us
a text saying she wanted us to watch this very
cool movie she watches with her friends every year, is
called Christmas on the Square, and it's like somebody thought
it would be a good idea to give Dolly Parton,
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and you know, a bunch of Broadway people a show
together like wow, I mean sequins and one two three
kick turn one two three kick turn and spinning skirts
and big dance numbers, and you know, I got it.
I mean it was basically they're telling of the Ebenezer
(47:49):
Scrooge story. Twists and turn, you know, modern things thrown
in here and there, but it was basically the Scrooge story.
And that's not derision. That's not derision. There are no
news stories in the world. I'm not doing a unique
radio program. You may say, I don't hear anyone else
(48:10):
doing those like this. You know what, I grew up
listening to radio, so somewhere, you know, this all comes
from either a school teacher, I had, my parents, friends
of mine, radio shows I listened to. There's nothing new,
there's packaging is different, there's the way it's laid out.
(48:33):
There might be enlightening in a way that it wasn't before.
But I just after the movie, I looked at my
wife and said, doesn't it surprise you that our daughter
who is as goth as they get loves this movie.
I mean, my daughter is I love her dealer, and
she's not like goth, like I'm depressed. She just likes
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dark colored clothes and she you know, works in a
boutique sells you know, leather and dark old concert t
shirts and stuff like that. She's not a dark heart,
I guess, is what I'm trying to say about being goth.
You know, there's a lot of people who are goth.
I mean, they're just I mean, they're dark in the
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and that's heartbreaking for people who don't see all the
great things in the world.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
But my daughter does.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
And I had to chuckle because it's so anachronistic to
her public visage of this. You know, black eyeliner, black hair,
you know, Mortitia Adams or what the Wednesday Atoms kind
of look.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
To be this.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
I mean, it was just like it was. It was
like Fruitcake. It was the video version of Fruitcake. It
was full of sugar and fruit and substance and density.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
And I was just like wow. And I just looked
at my wife.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
I said, strike you, is is interesting that our daughter said,
you've got to watch this movie. And and my son,
you know, because you play on trips and kid gets
injured and you cry a little bit about that, and
you know it hits you in all those places that
good storyteller knows how to hit you in. But I
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want to meet the person who said, Hey, you know,
we've got all these Broadway people, you know, all these
theater kids, Let's give them to Dolly Parton and see
what happens.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Holy Moly.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
But you know, hopefully you have time to be with everyone,
because Christmas isn't supposed to just be today. Today is
the birthday of the King of Kings and I and
that is unquestionable. But I am a true adherent to
the idea of every day is Christmas because the message
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of Christmas is that we all are redeemable, we all
have the greatness of God in us. And I'm sorry,
I'm teetering out here on the precipice of sunrise Sermont,
and I don't want to be that guy. We got
plenty of people doing plenty of Christmas specials to fill
airtime with that. But I know, like I said at
(51:23):
the onset of the hour, if you're listening, you are
an extremist either you are super Christmas person who is
up right now making sure everything that looked completely the
same last night when the kids went to bed is
transformed into a Christmas miracle this morning. Or you are
(51:44):
the other way, and it's ba humbug for you putting
the waitress's song on for the umpteenth time. And in
either case, you are the greatness that was born this day,
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whether you view it to be apocryphal or not, the
kid was born and the kid saved us, and whether
it's through Charles Dickens and you do it the classic way,
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or you look at it in the more traditional American
ways with a coke and a picture of a cherubic
Santa on the advertising Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and
all of our advertising driven parts of Christmas that we've added,
but we've added them Merry Christmas.
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We'll do it, making mornings great again. The first thing
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
So this is Christy, What had you done?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And you long just be gone?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know a lot of people will tell you and yeah,
when you poke the radio to see if I'm actually
live in here, if it's a recording of a guy saying, well,
do it live. I love the fact that it's like
a sixty year old recording of Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Doing it live, and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Everyone uses it to say we're here live, and it's
like sixty year old Bill O'Reilly recording.
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He was what was it Weekend Update or whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
The show he was doing it was one of those
early evening news ish shows. I think Deborah Norville took
over or something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was a.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Quasi news early edition something like that. Anyway, But on
this Christmas morning, I know two things. Number one, you're
sitting by yourself. That's almost axiomatic amongst radio listeners. If
you're not, you're an outlier, and we like we like outliers.
We don't like liars, we like outliers. You're also an extremist.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You are either.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So super Christmas that you are up right now trying
to get everything just right, or wrapping the packages that
you've had hidden somewhere in a barn so that when
the little kids or grandkids wake up, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Like, oh my god, Santa did come.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And I hope the radio is a noun in their room.
Or you're on the complete other side of the spectrum
and along the ba humbug side, I've got to work.
Nobody cares. Maybe you know, Christmas hasn't worked out the
(02:13):
way you want. And you know, we compartmentalize things a
lot now, and we have a lot to get into
this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
This isn't going to be sunrise sermonette.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We've got potential for peace in between Russia and Ukraine
before the Trump administration is even a decade old, I
mean a year old. The the compartmentalization often we do
(02:54):
with our holidays, and I found it very interesting. I
was studying up on something a friend of mine, another
radio show host, was telling me about this. He said,
you know, Christmas wasn't even an American holiday at first.
He said, you know, the Puritans and a lot of
the settlers in America, it was a more Germanic sect.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was more.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Especially after Martin Luther, where a lot of the feasts
got purged, the.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Feast of Saint Nicholas being one of them.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And you know, we do a catechism or two and things,
you know, things are forgiven. I mean, if if Alatamir
Zelenski can put a demilitarized zone up and offer peace
with vlad the Invader, then we can put aside, you know,
your differences between Martin Luther and Christian Faith. So we'll
(03:58):
get into you know, how the extremists are gathering this morning,
because you are right now, if you're tuning in right
now to this program, you don't need to hear Christmas
music and NonStop Christmas powables, or you don't want to.
(04:23):
And if I tried to, you'd go throw the radio
through the window. So we appreciate your attention in either instance.
And it's all good in the hood. And we will
endeavor to what's the expression they used to use in vaudeville,
a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in
your pants. And we'll get on with the day this morning,
(04:48):
as we begin with our first things, as we every day.
If you're joining us on some of the stations that
pick us up because we're available, and I'm here mostly
because my family. No one in my family gets up
this early except for me and my youngest son. But
you know, we are early risers, and so I have time.
(05:09):
You know, my Christmas isn't even going to get started
until like two eastern. So our first things this morning,
Let's begin with the peace deal being floated in between
Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski said he would
be willing to withdraw troops from the heartland the don
(05:30):
Bas region if Russia agreed to as well, and an
international demilitarized economic zone, which was the proposal put forth
by Marco Rubio and the Department of State as a
pot potential for peace. A free economic zone, demilitarized and
(05:53):
independent of both countries could be created there. President Trump
used his Christmas message to tout recent economic data broader policy.
He did say on truth social Merry Christmas to all,
including the radical left scum that is doing everything possible
(06:13):
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shows that Americans strongly prefer First Lady of Milania Trump's
White House decor over those of Michelle Obama or Jill Biden.
According to Jail Partners, the poll for The Daily Mail
showed sixty one percent shows the current decorations over the
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the thirty percent who liked the twenty seven to twenty
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in the high profile ruling regarding the National Guard in Chicago,
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For you. From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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On the air.
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What's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So we gather on this Christmas day, Merry Christmas, forget
my manners. Sometimes we just jump in both feet and
I hope you realize the totality. So we were talking
about compartmentalizing sometimes and we talk about the birth of
Christ and so sometimes we talk about it without the
(14:02):
context of the whole life lived. And you know, I
was talking to a friend who was a historian. Of course,
he's one of the folks who's like, well there's you know,
that's this isn't when the Judeans paid their taxes. It
wasn't in December and this and and it's truth. But
(14:24):
there's arguments, you know, on all sides. Literal I mean,
there are things in the Bible that are literally they
have to be when they happen, like the Crucifixion, because
we already know when Passover was, and he was in
Jerusalem for Passover. And one of the interesting things about
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how we.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Move forward is remember that.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem thirty three years later, he
wasn't looking to start a new church. He hadn't started
sowing the seeds of Christianity. He had lots of followers
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because he was ardently conservative regarding how the Jewish faith
should be followed, and was an activist, if you will,
about how the Temple had capitulated to the Romans. There's
(15:53):
a reasonable case I hesitate to make because it's easy
fruit for somebody like me to say, well, he was
a political activist, just like you and me. But the
Temple was corrupted because the Romans had taken it over
and the leaders of the Temple had allowed it, of course,
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and so they were aware. And there's you know, and
if you want to get into a hotter debate, if
somebody wants to start the Trump maga, you know, Laura Lumer,
Nick Fuenttees, any of these names get mentioned today at Christmas,
get togethers ask him. Okay, so who was the one
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who killed Jesus? That'll stop everyone in their tracks. Trust me,
you might as well slam a new set of disc
brakes on.
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You're hitting the windshet And so.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
We look at the life led that began, whether you
believe it apocryphal or not. He was born, parents couldn't
find room at the end because they were on their
way to pay their taxes, and so they come to
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pay their taxes, and Jesus is born and is a
blessing to every single last one of us, and does
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so by sacrificing, by looking at the world that's around
him and saying this is wrong and standing up for
what's right, regardless of the slings and arrows that befell him.
People started listening to him saying, you know, I read
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you know it says he's not wrong. This is how
things are supposed to go, and here we are. And
it's partially because Jefferson in this line of community organizers,
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if you will. That begins with Moses leading the Jews
from slavery in Egypt despite their complaints, saying, hold on
a second here, you didn't say it was going to
be this hard colloquiallyams for a time through Jesus, who
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then saw the Temple become corrupted by government through Constantine,
who does the greatest corporate merger in the history of mankind.
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As the Roman Empire is falling, He's decided, Hey, we're
falling because everyone's becoming Christian. Maybe if we become Christian,
I can save the Roman Empire. Then Martin Luther comes
along and sees how again governments and their indulgences and
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their need to control people are using the faith conveniently
interpreting the faith to their needs and ends. So he
tries to purify it, and yet again crowned heads like
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Henry the Eighth come along. There they are again, and
you know they'll take it over for themselves. So Jefferson
comes along and says, what if we try to put
a firewall up here? And I listened to this a lot,
especially as President Trump gives you know, he's talking to
the kids at Norad, and so so much better than
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the let's go Brandon phone conversation for a few years ago,
just as a tangent, and the Christmas message and the
Christmas dressing and the house and where's the separation of
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church and state. You asked, well, it's not a separation
of church and state. It's a separation of church from state.
The state doesn't control the church. If we had a
Jewish president, he put a menora up on the Oval
office desk, would you have a problem with that? We
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have Muslim members who were sworn in on Jefferson's own
copy of the Koran, missing the fact that Jefferson got
the copy of Koran to understand why the Barbary pirates
thought it was their birthright to sack and pillage American ships.
But the word there, from the birth of this kid
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are still trying to fight for an individual.
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You know, I thought was interesting.
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I was talking to a friend of mine who was
doing does history stuff YouTube stuff, and you know, I
went back and I looked into One of the things
about Christmas is that Christmas came to the United States later,
(28:47):
and that because Christmas became an American holiday late, we
were able to in the Revolution. And I never quite
got the nuance of the Battle of Trenton.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Was showing me.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Because the Americans didn't hold these the elaborate Christmas feasts
and everything else, we were able to ambush the Hessians
take that route and all the munitions that came from
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it turned that into a win over the regulars in
Princeton and turned the tide.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Really and it wasn't and it's not the same thing as.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Saying, you know, George Washington wasn't Christian or anything like that.
The point of the matter is is that the Hessians said, well,
it's Christmas, so all things are held off and stopped
the Americans, the ones trying to fight for the liberty
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of the land that they were on. The understand, the
American Revolution was about expelling an occupying army. Once the
Declaration of Independence, a legal document had been filed, we
were a sovereign nation by our decree, and I'm going
somewhere with us sometimes I have to warn you. And
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therefore Britain was an occupying force and we had the
right to expel them. And people draw moral equivalencies of
all these different things, because that's what our mind does,
is we try to conceptualize current events in the shape
of previous events by drawing moral equivalencies. It's a starting point.
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I don't know, it's actually a really good starting point
because we're supposed.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
To know history.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
But then you look into all the places where the
precedent is set aside. But I just because America was
more Lutheran.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Than Central Europe was.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Even the British were not heavy Christmas doers. That really
didn't come until the Victorian era. But the Hessians Christmas
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was the deal and they partied and we used it
against them. Now is that unfair?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
You know, using somebody's faith against them. We were trying
to rid an occupying army. Was southern New Jersey native
to the Hessian soldiers. No, they were an occupying army,
and we were seeking to expel an occupying army from
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our territory. We didn't call Cornwallis and say, can we
set up an independent trade zone in southern New Jersey
from let's say Camden to Newark. And that's how we
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segue from that into the day's travails, which is the offer.
And it's interesting because weeks and weeks ago this was
offered by Marco Rubio and Witkoff and all the envoys
that had been going back and forth between meetings with
the Ukrainians and meetings in Moscow with Putin's people, and
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each time they would come back much like Donald Trump
would come back from a meeting with Putin saying, yeah,
we had a great meeting, only to see another fleet
of drones zooming in overhead. And I'm not disregarding the
terrorist attack on Russian or Moscovite Muscovite police officers last night,
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the terrorist bomber killing police officers, And what does a
terrorists want to do? Change what you're doing, and what
are they trying to change? Very little of that coming
(33:51):
out yet. We'll keep working on it. But these terrorist
attacks on Russian police officers in Moscow, there are those
who are drawing this in Sea. See the Russians aren't
behind Putin either. I'm not necessarily buying that because the
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whole thing comes unraveled. You don't get to invade another
country occupying force romans in Judea. People invade other people's countries.
Why because they want their stuff. All the other stuff
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is crap. Sorry, is that a word you're not supposed
to use on Christmas Morning? No, all the other excuses
for why one country invades another is crap. They want
their stuff. Either they want their money, they want their
guns and AMMO, they want their technology, or they want
their land for the lax their physical infra structure, portage,
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trade routes. Histories laid this out pretty clearly. We want
to invade you because you're on the trade routes. Somebody
always wants somebody else's stuff, and they're willing to marshal
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an army to go get it faster than you can proclaim.
One of my favorite Christmas movies not named die Hard
the Lion in winter. I mean, everyone's going off to
invade somebody at some point, and then the Crusades.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know, John's going.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Off to the Richard pardon me, is going off to
the Crusades, and then the robin Hood story starts. It's
amazing how this one family can be the source of
all this bad stuff happening in England faster than you
can say plantagen and good luck spelling it. You invade
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somebody else's country because you want their stuff, and Russia
can say we invaded Ukraine because there are Russian citizens
in there. If that's the case, and we allow that
kind of nonsense to take root, then Claudia Shinbaum can
invade southeastern United States because there are Mexican nationals there.
Trust me, I've seen them outside of Joshua Tree National
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Forest protesting saying this is my country. And if that's
the case, you all had better do a better job
on vetting your immigrant populations. You don't get to invade
another country. This was laughably the premise behind the League
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of Nations and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the
League of Shadows, and the United Nations and the United
Arab whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
All of these.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
World governments were supposed to stop all this from happening.
It is my contention I think we've just made it worse.
Often in a denial. No, there's nothing like that going on.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
To the troops.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Because Russia doesn't recognize the border. They feel like they
were duped. Putin feels like he was duped, mostly that
the Russian government was fooled into allowing the Ukraine out
of their control, that it was native to them, and
that if Putin had been in charge, he never would
have allowed. Well, too, bad lives were off. Get a helmet,
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So tell me Christmas?
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Are we kind?
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Are we really? And what is kind?
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Me?
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I mean, if you're going to be a question or
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You know?
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It's coming home this Christmas.
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You know, it's funny.
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That's my favorite, well, it's my favorite song of Trans
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the program that builds up to its big ending and
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Speaker 3 (45:14):
What's the pop culture phrase? Girl daddy?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
You know it's funny because it's rarely true in my world.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
And my daughter is.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
With my mother in law who's ninety nine, and my
daughter is in a weird spot, so she has a
young niece who's about ten years younger than she is.
And if you've ever had female and cousin Brucie the
disc jockey had it right. I read his autobiography once
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and he explained why he chose the nickname cousin Brucie,
and he said he said cousins were always the fun relative. Hey,
you would fight with your brother or your sister and
you'd not talk to them for weeks and months of
the time, but every time your cousins came by, it
was fun, he said, So I wanted that to be
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the image she's that I'm the guy who comes by
and we have fun together. And so if you ever
have relatives in that kind of cousin's relationship. So this
girl idolizes my daughter, sees her literally once a year,
but I guess they talk all the time on text
message and video chat and everything and just idolizes my daughter,
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which is kind of cool for me because she's a
good kid. So by extrapolation, I've got to think my
daughter's a good kid. But she's not with us, and
she hasn't been with us at Christmas for a few years,
and that's a bone of contention with my wife. She
wants very much to have all of our kids together,
so she's holding off on all the big Christmas to
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do until everyone is in the house together.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Hey, somebody make sure all the.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Pictures my sister posted of her kids, I don't make
sure my wife doesn't see those. But she sent us
a text saying she wanted us to watch this very
cool movie she watches with her friends every year, is
called Christmas on the Square, and it's like somebody thought
it would be a good idea to give Dolly Parton,
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and you know, a bunch of Broadway people a show
together like wow, I mean sequins and one two three
kick turn one two three kick turn and spinning skirts
and big dance numbers, and you know, I got it.
I mean it was basically they're telling of the Ebenezer
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Scrooge story. Twists and turn, you know, modern things thrown
in here and there, but it was basically the Scrooge story.
And that's not derision. That's not derision. There are no
news stories in the world. I'm not doing a unique
radio program. You may say, I don't hear anyone else
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doing those like this. You know what, I grew up
listening to radio, so somewhere, you know, this all comes
from either a school teacher, I had, my parents, friends
of mine, radio shows I listened to. There's nothing new,
there's packaging is different, there's the way it's laid out.
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There might be enlightening in a way that it wasn't before.
But I just after the movie, I looked at my
wife and said, doesn't it surprise you that our daughter
who is as goth as they get loves this movie.
I mean, my daughter is I love her dealer, and
she's not like goth, like I'm depressed. She just likes
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dark colored clothes and she you know, works in a
boutique sells you know, leather and dark old concert t
shirts and stuff like that. She's not a dark heart,
I guess, is what I'm trying to say about being goth.
You know, there's a lot of people who are goth.
I mean, they're just I mean, they're dark in the
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and that's heartbreaking for people who don't see all the
great things in the world.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
But my daughter does.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
And I had to chuckle because it's so anachronistic to
her public visage of this. You know, black eyeliner, black hair,
you know, Mortitia Adams or what the Wednesday Atoms kind
of look.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
To be this.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
I mean, it was just like it was. It was
like Fruitcake. It was the video version of Fruitcake. It
was full of sugar and fruit and substance and density.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
And I was just like wow. And I just looked
at my wife.
Speaker 4 (49:59):
I said, strike you, is is interesting that our daughter said,
you've got to watch this movie. And and my son,
you know, because you play on trips and kid gets
injured and you cry a little bit about that, and
you know it hits you in all those places that
good storyteller knows how to hit you in. But I
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want to meet the person who said, Hey, you know,
we've got all these Broadway people, you know, all these
theater kids, Let's give them to Dolly Parton and see
what happens.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Holy Moly.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
But you know, hopefully you have time to be with everyone,
because Christmas isn't supposed to just be today. Today is
the birthday of the King of Kings and I and
that is unquestionable. But I am a true adherent to
the idea of every day is Christmas because the message
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of Christmas is that we all are redeemable, we all
have the greatness of God in us. And I'm sorry,
I'm teetering out here on the precipice of sunrise Sermont,
and I don't want to be that guy. We got
plenty of people doing plenty of Christmas specials to fill
airtime with that. But I know, like I said at
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the onset of the hour, if you're listening, you are
an extremist either you are super Christmas person who is
up right now making sure everything that looked completely the
same last night when the kids went to bed is
transformed into a Christmas miracle this morning. Or you are
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