December 20, 2025 • 60 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyway before we look at to look back at significant
events and people tied to this particular date in history,
including but not limited to these. This was the date
that the Louisiana Purchase was completed, as that territory formally
transferred from France to the United States. South Carolina became
the first state to secede from the Union this date,
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in eighteen sixty the shots would be fired. Soon to follow.
One of my top three favorite films of all time,
the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, premiered on this
day in nineteen forty six. At the Globe in New
York City, the United States launched Operation Just Cause. A
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familiar scene with the news headlines today. The year was
nineteen eighty nine, and this is when we sent troops
in to Panama at a top of the government of
Manuel Noriega. Sound familiar with Venezuela and Maduro. Let's see
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nineteen ninety five tragedy. American Airlines Flight nine sixty five
from Miami to Cali, Colombia crashed into a mountain near Buga,
Columbia at night while descending to the Cali area, killing
all but four of the one hundred and sixty three
on board and in twenty nineteen United States Space Force
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established by President Donald Trump. Let's see, oh yeah, more
islamis terrorism. Sadly to remember just a year ago when
the car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany,
killing six, entering more than two hundred. Rock drummer Peter
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Cris of Kiss Is eighty today, Dick Wolf, Law and
Order seventy mentioned, Alan Parsons, Michael Batteluco the Actor seventy one,
Chris Robinson of The Black Crow, still bouncing around at
fifty nine. Actor Jonah Hill turns forty two. And if
it's your birthday, Iope, it's the best birthday you could
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possibly imagine. And you get to spend that with the
people you love, doing the things you love to do.
That is truly my wish for you. It's five forty
two and some change. Liam Tomlinson standing by as we
get you. Going next with Weather in Sports on this
Saturday morning to start this Saturday morning edition on seven
hundred WLW not I the Internet of Things world is
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the world we live in. And this morning I became
very distressed. Right at the beginning of the show. I
tried to cover it up with music, and that's what
I did basicly, but my computer wouldn't work. My mouse
wouldn't work. I brought Liam in here. He couldn't get
it to work properly either, So I can you read
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stuff on my computer and bring people up on the telephones?
I need my mouse to work. I mean, Liam can
do all of that. But yet I feel, because I
am a control freak ultimately that I need to have
total control of the show except things like answering the phones,
which Liam does very well, and read the sports, which
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Liam is much more than adequate at at this point.
But I couldn't get the mouse to work properly and
in my room, and then I realized the mouse was
upside down, so I just turned it the other way
and now it works perfectly. Well, I'm a genius. Good morning, Lynnette.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How perstal so bat.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Studs now save inself for their proper it's taking.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And is so felt.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Serving stained off retal on underst.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
See set.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Fast befare, oh.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
WoT frish cob oh oh hold.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ay man, Oh my gosh. I was a little concerned
you weren't going to hit that last one, but you
sure did, like a champ That is my favorite. That
is my favorite Christmas hymn. Thank you so much much.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
God bless America, godless.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That yell that you God bless you. Listen. What are
you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
I wanted to come and surprise you both, but with
this cold stuff, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I let's pray for healing so you can be
here Monday. Really, I would love for you to be here.
If you can't, I mean, if it's safe for you
to travel, I would love to see you on Monday.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
If it's just worry about the Exodi. Well, see, I
could eat when I get back.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
You fixed me up plate, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't know if I'm even going to have any
food here.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Oh you're not going to have any food?
Speaker 9 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Probably probably. Maybe Dave can pick you up something on
the way back to the home.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Yeah, that would work.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh all right, Lynette, Well let's let's kind of plan
on it. Listen. I'm kind of rushed for time this morning.
But I love you.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Merry Christmas, and hopefully I will see you on my
birthday on Monday here in the.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Studio, Okay, out with God's willing great down Yes, right.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All of that, all right, His will be done. Five
point fifty four seven hundred WL do to the first
official hour of this Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, December
the twentieth, twenty twenty five. Garry Jeff Walker, Merry Christmas Seasons, Greetings,
Happy holidays, and it's okay to say happy holidays if
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you remember that the root of the word holiday is holy,
because this is a holy time of year. Praise the Lord,
Baby Jesus coming to save us all from our sins.
Six oh seven and Gary Jeff Walker back into the
breach as they say, Oh, look who it is. It's
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our friend Dave from Harrison. That friend Dave. Good morning, friend, Dave.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Take you more than their friend, Gary Jeff genius type guys.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, are you coming?
Are you coming to my birthday party on Monday?
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Wouldn't miss it, sir.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know, Dave, I've often thought parallel lines have so
much in common, and it's a shame they'll never meet.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Hey, Hey, Hey, hey, Dave, Dave. I'm reading a book
on anti gravity. It's impossible to put down. I ate
I ate a clock yesterday. It was very time consuming.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Hey, I have a guy who watch candy canes. Yeah,
they're all in mint condition.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Actually funny, actually funny, Dave. You know, hey, I hope
that's not the best one, but it was actually funny.
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Okay, Well, what do you call an elf who just
won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
What do you call an elephant that just won the
Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Well? An elf?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
An elf? An elf?
Speaker 10 (09:20):
That just what?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't know. What do you call an elf that
just won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Wealthy? Did you say?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Did you say wealthy?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Wealthy?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
W E L F y?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, indeed they're supposed to they're supposed to get better.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Well there so, uh so then conversely, what do you
call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What do you call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I call it broke Santa Claus, Saint nicol Les, Dave, Dave, Dave.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I told my wife the truth. I told her I
was seeing a psychiatrist, and then she told me the
truth that she was seeing a psychiatrist. Two plumbers and
a bartender.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
Jokes told by Dave from Harrison are not necessarily considered
funny by the staff, management or advertisers of seven hundred
WLW or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at
humor have caused you to roll your eyes, made your
stomach churn, or you have considered the entire exercise to
be a colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now
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back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
My friend, who I think is listening in right now.
His name's Art and Bolo. He's also known as Radio's
best Friend, has been bugging me for a picture of
me and Liam together. For what purpose?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Art's kind of a different guy, but it kind of
reminds me of the the Robin Williams movie Good Morning Vietnam,
where the Vietnamese bartender or bar owner is always asking
him for naked pictures of Walter Brennan. It kind of
reminds me of that. So Art, Liam's in the studio
right now and figured we just go ahead and get
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it done because he bugged me again this morning. Liam
all right, uh que, there you go, you look less
like a hostage. Now here we go, picture made. It'll
be sent forthwith Art. Thank you, Liam, appreciate that. And
now that we've got that little piece of business taken
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care of. Let's talk to mister Washburn all radio. Rick,
good morning, how are you receiving us?
Speaker 13 (11:47):
I'm sorry, I'm distracted thinking of the old George Carlon
routine of somebody broke into my house and stole my
nude pictures of Ernest bordnine.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Who doesn't Who doesn't have nude pictures of Ernest borgnine?
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Right?
Speaker 13 (12:02):
That's see everyone, I hope that's there's probably a website
for that.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you, my friend.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
You're coming in four by four, which is better than expected,
quite frankly, really on a Majestic Model one four. This
radio is for nineteen fifty one. It's an AM radio
boasting four tubes and nothing else, oh except that it's
a marbled Catlan, which means it costs a lot to
buy one now. And it's in the shape of Rudolph
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the Red Nose reindeer. And it has a dial likee
that doesn't like the dial, but it lights up his
little red nose. It's really cute. It was based on
the Oregond four forty four, which was the Mighty Mite.
But I'll tell you what the Rudolph obviously being for kids.
And by the way today's money, it actually sold for
less than two hundred bucks, so that's not bad for
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radio back then. Absolutely. But the one nice thing is
that it is Catlin because the the Arvin Mighty Might
that was based on was a metal cabinet and what
they called the hot chassis. Depending upon which way you
plug the plug into the outlet. Yeah, if you touch
did it might send you across the room?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Nice?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, because it was it was an electronic travel agent.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (13:28):
So the catalogs the Arvin says smart, trim and dainty,
so small and compact. Okay, so far they're bat and
two for two so big in power and tone. No,
that's not true. So attractive in design when you remove
Rudolph it's no, it's not. But solo in price, yes
it is. Most families need three or more Arvins. Okay,
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then there's one way to sell them upstairs, downstairs, anywhere.
They were really reaching for anything.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No, I mean you know they're trying to upsell those suckers,
no doubt about that. I mean, you know, the more
the merrier, how do you do it? Volume?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
It's right, they made one with Rudolph, and they made
one with the lone Ranger and the the marbled Catlan
cabins like this one. Well, they'll bring in two grand
or more today. And then Ward's Airline also had a
bake light version that was not the marbled color, and
it was a more fragile plastic. But nonetheless it will
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still bring in a grand or so.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, no doubt, no doubt. So uh you need? I mean,
how many Arvins do you have?
Speaker 13 (14:45):
I actually had six of the little Mighty Mites and
always and I put polarized plugs on them, so they
will not send you across the room.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
They will across the room.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What are you and Marie doing for Christmas?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
Rick?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What's the usual traditional Washburn Christmas?
Speaker 10 (15:06):
We?
Speaker 13 (15:07):
Well, traditional Washburn Christmas. We actually celebrated two days ago
with our daughter and had a uh we went out
to Ford's Garage for dinner, which is a really cool
restaurant that has a model a hanging over the bar
and a great menu and lots of old antique signs
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from from old Ford dealerships and repair places.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And so forth.
Speaker 13 (15:32):
And since basically that's that's our only family, we uh,
celebrated early because she and I both unfortunately have to
work for the whole next week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh my, what a bunch of draconian ogres you must
work for on Christmas. Not on Christmas.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Well, listen to draconian ores.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I hope you both have a wonderful, blessed Christmas at work.
I will I'm gonna work on Monday and Tuesday. I'm
doing Willie Show on Monday afternoon and then the nightcap
on Tuesday, and then we'll be going to Middle Tennessee
to see Mom and Dad to the lovely village of Ripley, Ohio.
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How now Brown County Main Street in Ripley. The place
is called Brookies, and the Gang has assembled there once
again on an early Saturday morning. Good morning, gang, Good,
good to hear your lovely voices all fresh tailed and
bushy eared or something like that. How are you this morning?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Hi?
Speaker 14 (16:41):
We're doing pretty good. We're all down here, nots Mormon,
just having a good time and joint Tell's Company.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We had a we had a we had a Queen
of Hearts winter on Wednesday night at Brookies. Bill German
as that was, that was his name, That was Bob Bob. Okay,
Bill was out of the money, but Bob won the
money because, as as Doug said at the time, he's
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a lucky s ob. So he I knew he was.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Gonna I think he just said that right before you call.
Speaker 14 (17:19):
For Christmas, our weather's gonna be almost sixty degrees.
Speaker 15 (17:22):
It's gonna be wonderful for Christmas.
Speaker 13 (17:25):
Well, I mean because I don't care for him.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, see I'm not. I'm not a big fan of
the cold either, but I'd like a little snow on
Christmas just to look at in the morning, you know,
and then sunshine and sixty is fine with me. So, uh,
what else is going on? How is the weather beaver?
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Sherry, the weather beaver.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
He's in good shape. He can't wait to come to
my Christmas celebration. You know, he's going gonna uh you know,
the party.
Speaker 16 (17:54):
Oh it's gonna say he should be the star, the
star if when we're just discussing, uh, this cold weather
that we've had off and on here lately, and we
just found out that Buzz has a real nice battery
power keeted coat, which surprises me.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A battery.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yes, he's gonna full charge to this.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yes he's he's on level two.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Well up coat, Well that interchangeable man.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Most of them most of the time. Buzz is on
like level thirteen and it has nothing to do with
an electric powered coat.
Speaker 14 (18:38):
Well, you guys, we don't have We don't have any
really anything going on out Berties right now, which other
than just our regular things since the queen is over
until probably next March, maybe in February.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
March.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, we don't need anything.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
We just need.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We don't need anything.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
We just need.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We just need holiday cheer, goodwill towards men, peace on earth.
And if you've got that, you've got everything.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yes, that is true. We do have to cook us
out of jail, so we do have.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Food and uh a good company, Yeah, always good company.
Uh is Miller there? Matt Miller?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, Dad, Okay, I know, I know you like all
the jokes, and we finally got one for you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, I mean you mean beside besides you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Know, I, uh so, what has a small unit and
hangs upside down?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
What has a small unit and hangs upside down?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
A bat?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (19:43):
A bat? So it has a large unit and hangs up.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I don't know what, Oh I get it?
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Steve from Edna is standing by with the pithy phone
called News of the Week, a commentary revolve and regarding
Christmas kind of and that peace on earth, goodwill toward
men thing. And you know what, before we talk to Steve,
I'm gonna talk to this lady real quickly. Good morning, Pat, Good.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Morning, sugar lips. I want to wish you a happy birthday.
And I also I want to give the praises to Lynette.
Her singing this morning was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oh I'm like I said, that's my favorite Christmas hymn
hands down is Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Well, how well, sweetheart, I've been fine, trying to get
back into the groove.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:44):
Well, anyway, I just pray for the kids and especially
the lost children. So anyway, sweetheart, you just have a happy.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Birthday, Okay, all right, Pat, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (20:59):
Dear saying to you babe, bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Six at seven l our friend Steve from at Ohio.
Good morning, Steve, and Marry, Good.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Morning Gary, Jeff. Indeed, it was on Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day of nineteen fourteen, just a couple of months
after World War One started. US wasn't involved yet, you
are correct. The soldiers on both sides came out of
their foxholes, they shook hands. The Germans actually produced a
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Christmas tree. I did a little digging in just to
see how many books and how many papers had been
written about this incident, and I came up with this one.
This particular author acknowledges the fact that, beginning in the
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nineteen eighties, the Brits suddenly took a very active interest
in exactly what happened. Now, let me read a few
paragraphs at the end of this report. I've tried to
counteract two popular misconceptions of the truths. One is that
only common soldiers took part in it, while officers opposed it.
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No few officers opposed it, and many took part. The
other is that neither side wished to return to fighting. No,
most soldiers, especially British, French and Belgium, remained determined to
fight and win. Sadly, I also had to admit the
Christmas Day games of football or soccer as they call
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it in the US, often falsely associated with the truth.
The truth is that the terrain of No Man's Land
ruled out formal games. Though certainly some soldiers kicked around
balls and make shifts substitutes. Another false idea about the
truce was held even by most soldiers who were there,
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that it was unique in history. Though the Christmas Truce
is the greatest example of its kind, informal truces had
been an outstanding military tradition during the American Civil War.
For instance, rebels and Yankees traded tobacco, coffee and newspapers,
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fished peacefully on opposite sides of the stream, and even
gathered blackberries together. Some degree of fellow feeling had always
been common among soldiers sent to battle. It got me
to thinking, there's a lot of hate going around. As
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a matter of fact, there's more hate this Christmas than
anyone since I've been alive and aware of what was
going on around me. It's despicable in every respect. It
would be just speakable even if it wasn't Christmas. But
I got to thinking, can I ask God on his birthday?
Can I ask Jesus? Could you give us another one
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of these Christmas truces in Australia, Ukraine, the United States?
Wouldn't it be wonderful? And I know you can do it, Jesus.
I want to end, as we always do at Christmas time,
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happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Jim le Barbara,
and happy birthday to my great grandchild first one, all
of whom were born on the twenty second. God bless y'all,
and God bless everybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thank you, Gary Jeff, Thank you Steve. Great Christmas message.
Can it be so? My friend Ray will join us
Ray Scott here in just a moment as we continue
on this Saturday before Christmas six fifty one at seven
hundred WLW actually heard during a report recently the alleged
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killer died of a gunshot wound from a gun No kidding.
Our friend Steve Shilty, who also has a birthday coming
up this coming week, his on Christmas Eve. He has
a birthday on Christmas Eve every year, and he is
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also our resident environmental engineer. You know, environmental engineers never
really retire, They just appear on the radio once a week.
Steve Shilte, good morning and merry Christmas, my friend. How
are we?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Good morning, Gary Jeff? Better than I deserve as always,
and again I'll join the chorus wishing you and the
music professor a very happy and blessed birthday on Monday.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well, thank you very much, and hopefully hopefully you can
do that for us on Monday. What are you doing
on Monday, Steve?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Nothing starting two, one thing after another.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So yeah, well, you know noon to three, you know
where we'll be. You wanted to give some shout outs
first this morning? What have you got for it?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
First of all, shout out to my fellow Golden LaSalle
alumni as we enjoyed our third annual Class of seventy
three Christmas party at the firehouse at Covington Yard, hosted
by our fellow classmate Steve Hamburger. Okay, so were was
about fifty somewhere between fifty and sixty guys joined us,
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and that was great.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, no way, how long ago? I don't want to
divulge too much personal information of yours, but how long
ago did you graduate from Lassell?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I said, class of seventy three.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Seventy three, okay, so we're talking about fifty two years? Yes, well,
and what made you decide to start doing an annual
Christmas party three years ago?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
At our fiftieth I think it was at our fiftieth
ann fiftieth you know, animation decided to have we decided
to have it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So that's great and.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Steve Hamburger owns the firehouse that coming into the yards
a great place, especially with fifty sixty guys. So we've
done it today. This year is our third year. Also
to acknowledge guy I've known since grade school, Tim Iory
and his wife who always listened to the program. And
interesting one I don't I can't remember who it was.
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Another alumnus, when he heard that I was doing this
gig every week, responded quote, I remember his quote. So
you are the Steve Shulty. I've been noting you two
for years. That's yep, that's me. But onto the subject
and topic at.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Hands bear polar bears. Everybody loves the cute little polar
bears that will rip your shrowdout if you get too close. Yeah, anyway,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
But Climate Change Weekly number five sixty six from yesterday
Heartland dot org gur polar bear populations decreasing or on again.
We've been hearing for years that polar bear populations are
decreasing and threatening due to so called man's made catastrophic
climate change. And to this day, even in your favorite
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NGOs such as the National Resource Defense Council and the
World Wildlife Federation used polar bears as their poster childs
for fundraising. It's not you know, give us lots of
money and we're gonna save the bears. Well, here's the fact.
Pullar bear populations have been increasing ever since sciences have
been had started counting them despite slight warming and the
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loss of ice in the arty, since nineteen fifty, which
is when they started counting them. But I guess the
best they could population estimate it went from ten thousand
to today over thirty nine thousand. Part of the reason
is tighter restrictions in the hunting, but there were more
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to it. Polar bears have are extremely adaptable predators and
scavengers evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. That's the
number of folks hundreds of thousands of years, lived through
periods that were warmer than today, such as five thousand
and just seven thousand years ago. They also survived cold
periods we know as ice age that other animals and
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species died, like the wooly mammoth and the sabertooth tiger.
And yes, there are some local populations that have declined,
but they're far outweighed by booms of population and other
In fact, research suggests that ice loss in the Arctic
regions has benefited polar bears by resulting in increased the
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populations of healthy ringed and bearded seals, which polar bears
love to must be the filaming young for polar bears.
They've showed that the polar bears in some regions are
literally fatter going into winter harbonations than they did decades ago,
in having more cubs survived the adulthood. So again, once again,
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another so called man made catastrophic climate change hopes hits
the scrap pile.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, well, Steve, what you just said, though, illuminates the
danger of man made climate change because we are causing
the polar bears to become obese.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
They're fatter, so yeah, the extent of the cute little
uh bearded and polar and ring polar polar seals. Yeah, no,
they're cute too.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I think I think humans prefer seal meat over bear meat,
so I can understand while hunting has been greatly restricted,
I don't need any polar bear backstrips or ground polar bear.
But you know, you know what, I'm I'm like a
bull walrisk. Give me a tight seal every time. Thank
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you so much. Mary Chris yes.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Brook like end with this Jesus Christ reason for the season.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
God bless Amen seven to eleven at seven hundred WL.
Great thanks to Tony Rosiello, Joe Cina, and everyone else
who made it possible for me to attend the Proteller
You Needy Breakfast yesterday morning at Western Hills Country Club.
It's something they've done now, I believe, for thirty five years.
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I believe they started in nineteen ninety when about ten
or so guys of the Italian American community on the
West Side would get together the weekend before Christmas and
they'd go from house to house, have coffee, and then
wind up at somebody's place for a few drinks, play
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some cards, have a good time and celebrate the joy
of the season together. And now it has come to
be this huge charity event. And the breakfast was there
yesterday and it was absolutely wonderful, and thank you all
for inviting me and letting me enjoy it with you
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again this year. I set at a table with a
bunch of guys who are just the best, Mark and
Fly and Brian and Frank and Tom and Jim Lebarbara
who will be joining us momentarily for Rock and Roll Archaeology.
After we take a listen to this week's Tom Davis
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Diaries or the here's our correspondent Tommy Davis with the
Christmas up of wild wacky stories from around the world,
around the country. Tom Good morning, Gary Jeff. This week
the world's biggest snowman is Chinese. But first, a husband
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in distress seen hanging from the second floor sign of
a hotel naked. He was apparently caught seeing someone on
the side when his wife walked in and he ended
up out the window hanging from a sign. Rescuers were
able to get him down, but instead of hanging around,
he took off running naked through the streets and he
is still missing. Meanwhile, NBC News is reporting on a
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camel kick during a Christmas gig. The faithful attending a
live Nativity scene at the Champion Forest Baptist Church had
a front row seat to see a camel kick its
hind legs back and hit a woman seated in the audience.
She was immediately tended to and she's expected to be okay.
Speaker 17 (33:52):
There is no word on the camel's motive Aboutinez, California
wife surprised her husband with a Godzilla rage room for
his birthday. The man, a Godzilla superfan, dressed up as
the monster and smashed a mini replica of Tokyo. His
wife shared the experience on social media and said it
was a fun way for him to let off steam.
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The internet had a mixed reaction, everything from he's a
week loser to at least she cares enough to indulge
his infantile behavior and finally, it's the size of Godzilla.
But it's not Japanese, it's Chinese. The world's largest snowman
was just built in Harbin, China. It took a team
of workers weeks to pile up three hundred and ninety
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six thousand pounds of snow into a sixty two foot
tall snowman. He's wearing your red Santa outfit and is
called Frosty. Last year's snowman was a record breaker, and
they beat it this year by three feet. Next week,
Oklahoma family dazed and confused when a kangaroo busts down
the door during dinner.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Have a great weekend, Elite athlete or the everyday guy.
Saturday before Christmas, December twentieth, twenty twenty five, Geary Jeff Walker,
God Bless America Fest Turning Point USA going on in
Phoenix this weekend. How about that six minutes after the
hour eight oh six eastern that is, and well, look
(35:12):
at where does the time go? How about a little
science minute with little science mic on a Saturday morning?
Speaker 12 (35:20):
It seems appropriate, yes, as a night of Scientist is
a bit surprising. Bell blinded kneewing.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Good morning, Michael, how are you hello? Hey? How are
you man?
Speaker 10 (35:35):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Little science mic, little little science, A little science minute
with little science mic, a little science. How would you
like a little science mic with your coffee?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (35:49):
I was here for breakfast yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I had scrambled eggs, which were delicious. I mean, and
you can get scrambled eggs in any of those kind
of breakfasts, but these were very very good. They had
getta and I don't know who made the getta, but
I found it was a little overdone, but it was
still very good. Bacon. I had a cinnamon roll and
lots of fresh fruit that was oh breakfast, potatoes too,
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very well seasoned, and coffee and a bloody Mary. Before
the breakfast started, I was with the Bonavito brothers. Is
there a more Italian West Side name than Bonavito. So
I'm there with the Bonavitos and the little Bonavitos. They
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brought their sons along, and we were the only ones
at the bar. Actually, before breakfast, I just wanted a
Bloody Mary, so I had that and enjoyed that. And
one of them had bourbon in their bloody Mary and
I never heard of that before, and it still kind
of makes me gag a little bit when I think
of it when it comes to bloody Mary's. You know,
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vodka jin maybe, but not bourbon.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
I don't know anyway, And I'm like the donkey put
a smile on my wife's face this morning.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Didn't really?
Speaker 10 (37:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Has she always been a fan of donkeys?
Speaker 10 (37:18):
Yes, sir, yeah, well, I mean it's not when she
goes to the polls.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
There, you go, very nice. What are you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Well, I guess I'll be working.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Oh okay, well hopefully hopefully you'll be listening. It's it's
during Willie's show. He's gone and they asked me to
fill in, and I said, wow, that's my birthday. I
might as well host my own birthday party with Jim
Lebarbera because it's his birthday too. Jim is exactly nineteen
years older than I am, and I am I am
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clipping at sixty five on Monday, which I'm not really
fully prepared for still, you know, trying to figure out
the medicare thing and all of that garbage, and it's
just it's a little bit much for me.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
Well, I know where to go to.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Oh do you good?
Speaker 8 (38:14):
One?
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Yeah, we'll actually go to you.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We will we will talk. We will talk after the show, Michael,
Thank you very much. All right, So what do you
got this morning?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Right?
Speaker 10 (38:24):
One? This is quickly one of the better social science
studies that for the year. I think that regularly helping
people outside your household can actually improve your help improve
your cognitive decline and keep it astray and people of
our age, middle aged and older adults. So what they
did thirty thousand Americans. They looked at from over the
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age of fifty one since like ninety eight, and they
counted for OTU factors as well with education and current
physical mental health. And what they found out is if
you formally and even informally help somebody else two to
four hours a week in this scheduled environment, or even
go help a neighbor with you know, yard work or
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get their garbage every Monday night or anything like that,
or something regular like that. They can decrease your probability
of having cognitive decline by twenty percent. You know, it
helps you stay connected to the outside world too, and
things like that. But just it's amazing. It's like help.
Things are interrelated. Helping other people helps you. You know.
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One of the stats I've read was one three of
Americans take part in schedule formal volunteering in this country,
and fifty percent do informal informal help for their neighbor.
So you know, it's not all bad out there.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
What, No, No, it's not. In fact, we hear about
the bad because that is news that is out of
the ordinary. The bad is out of the out of
the usual of what goes on in most people's lives.
I've talked about this for years, Mike. The reason people
always go, well, why isn't there any good news? There's
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good news all around us. We only hear about the
so called bad news because it's the aberration, it's the anomaly,
it's not the usual. And people need to remember that
if they feel inundated with chaos and bad news all
the time. Remember the reason you don't hear good news
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is because good usually happens. I believe that.
Speaker 10 (40:37):
Well, I hope you have a safe trip down to
mom and dad'sie.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to you
and yours. And are you getting your wife a donkey
for Christmas?
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Okay? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Eight twelve at seven hundred WL the season of Immanu
God with us, and he still is, I believe, Brother
Rick Green on this weekend before Christmas. Merry Christmas, my brother,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (41:13):
Mary? Christmas? Hey?
Speaker 18 (41:14):
Can I give a shout out before we start?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You always can give a shout out? Brother. The floor
is yours.
Speaker 18 (41:21):
I receive the Christmas card Thursday from Don and Ronda.
And Don and Ronda, I'm so sorry. I do not
remember who you are, but thank you for blessing me
and my family.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Oh that's wonderful. Don and Rondo.
Speaker 10 (41:37):
My brain up for thirty day.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
I don't know who they are, Gary, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Okay, all right, well listen, go ahead with the Bible verse.
Speaker 18 (41:49):
Okay, So then we have John chapter one, verse twelve.
He says, yet to all, Yet to all who did
receive him. To those who did believe than his name,
he gave the right to become children of God.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Amen, brother, have a blessed Christmas. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Hey, you all have a merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
All right, Rick Green and Teresa. That Teresa quickly with
our word of the day. Teresa, Liam tells me we
are tight on time.
Speaker 19 (42:22):
Well, okay, seasons, greetings and salutations. Hello Frankie the wonder Elp.
Hello christ Hello everybody.
Speaker 9 (42:30):
God bless you all.
Speaker 19 (42:32):
Happy birthday to you, and professor, Happy birthday to you.
My daughter is the twenty fourths Steve Silty.
Speaker 10 (42:37):
The word of the day is blessing.
Speaker 19 (42:39):
Oh gosh, thank you Lynette. It was beautiful blessings. Blessings
are favor of God, God's favor protection. And with the
season upon us, we all need to remember our blessings
that we are all so blessed by God. God bless you.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Merry Christmas to that Teresa and to you kids. Time
will gives from Wally. Does anybody really know what time
it is? The guy goes to the doctor for his
annual physical doctor's office calls him wants him to come
back in the lab reports have detected a serious terminal illness.
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The doctor says, I don't know how to tell you this.
I'll just tell you there's no treatment right now that
we know of, no surgery, and I'd say you have
about six months to live. You probably need to make
sure your your will is in order. You have a will,
I hope, get your affairs in order, and uh, just
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figure out what you're gonna do with the last six months.
The guy thinks for a second. He says, Doc, I
think I'm gonna go live with my mother in law.
I says, well, I mean it's your business, but why
are you gonna go live with your mother they're in law?
Because it'll be the longest six months of my life.
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Is it going to be almost sixty degrees on Christmas Day?
Which is kind of weird, especially after what we've just
been through the last couple of weeks. I'm curious about
what our friend Moe Egger has cooking for the Christmas
season and the Christmas week ahead. So what do you
think We'll ask him? Hey, mo, how are we doing?
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I'm doing fantastic. One of my favorite times of the year.
You know, it's my birthday, on Monday. And by the way,
I want you to know if you're around, you're more
than invited to the on air Christmas birthday party we're
going to have for myself and jim Lebarbara on Monday
in lieu of the Willie Show. I'll be on for
mister Cunningham, and I decided, you know, nobody else is
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going to throw me at Christmas party, so I throw
my own, just like why I throw my own anniversary
party for this show because I knew nobody else would
do it. So my question for you as a dad,
uh huh. Everybody has Christmas traditions in their family, and
I'm just curious if you want to share with us
what Christmas tradition have you established for you and the
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missus and and Crosley. Do you have any Christmas traditions
something that you've come to do every year since you've
become a dad, Crawsley.
Speaker 8 (45:24):
Do we have any cool Christmas traditions? Well, she gave
me a shoulder shrug.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Oh no, she's already, she's already. She's already got your
personality pretty much.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I don't you know we uh,
Crosley and I usually take a Saturday early in December
and go visit Fanta Claus and have lunch. That's probably
it qualifies our most recurring one. We've done that every year.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
For a long time.
Speaker 8 (45:55):
You know what I like to do on Christmas, and
this has very little to do with my family.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
I like on Christmas Eve night, I like to pour
myself a live as and I like to watch.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
Mass midnight Mass from the Vatican.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Nice, probably not for everybody. It's quiet in the house
before the storm the next day. My friends of mine
who laugh at me for enjoying.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
This prevision, but because they said, well, don't you just
go to a real Mass?
Speaker 9 (46:33):
But I actually do enjoy doing that.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Oh no, that that totally qualifies. And you know, it's
it's your thing, So it's got to be cool if
that's what you enjoy doing, and that's the way you
kind of soak in the spirit of what should be
a joyous time for believers and for people who understand
the reason for the season. I mean that that totally
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gets it for me.
Speaker 6 (46:58):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I like that, you know, and and what she spoke
to there also speaks to something that a lot more
of us could benefit from. Not just at Christmas, but
in our daily lives, and that is taken some quiet
time by ourselves, maybe maybe not with anything on in
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front of us, maybe with some screen time like masks
like you're talking about, but just taking just taking some
time to just be quiet and tune out from everything else.
Speaker 10 (47:32):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
I mean, it's been more and more people are talking
about that, especially in the age in which we live,
where we're constantly on our screens, on our phones. And
like you said, the noise of the next day, I
hear Crosley in the background. Is she singing?
Speaker 9 (47:49):
She's yes, she's making Christmas cards and I think she's
trying to get hurt on the radio.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
I think is gotcha?
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Hi, Crosley? How you doing.
Speaker 9 (48:02):
She's doing well, as you can tell. I enjoy everything
that you just talked about. The occasional bursts of quiet
time are very much cherished.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I come home from when I work at the bar,
and I will again today when I get home a
little after seven o'clock tonight, after listening to the jukebox
and to the TVs with the games. The last thing
I want is noise. And when I get home from
this show, I will sit for an hour before I
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have to go to work at my other job, and
we never on Saturday mornings have the TV on or anything.
When I get home, we just sit there in silence,
drink a little coffee. Sometimes I take a nap. But
I'm telling you what tuning out is. I think one
of the healthiest things you can do mentally, just to
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replenish your soul. Man, it's mass It really matters.
Speaker 8 (49:01):
It matters a lot.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 9 (49:04):
That's a big part of my morning every day is.
Speaker 8 (49:07):
Drop it off school and enjoying some some silence before
we uh, before we get going for the day.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Yeah, no doubt about that. No silence in that stadium
last night in Oklahoma and Norman. That was a Rockets
place and it looked like the crowd was going to
rule the day along with the Sooners in the first half.
But Alabama came to the fore man and they they
knocked it out and moved on. In the College Football Championship,
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do you like the setup of the first round games
being played on the top top teams in the seedings
home home field.
Speaker 6 (49:47):
Do you like that?
Speaker 10 (49:49):
I do.
Speaker 9 (49:52):
I kind of wish that was the case in the
second round as well, to give those teams that got
by the home field advantage that the teams in the
first round that earned home games got. I think it's
it's a cool element. You know, the scene last night
and Norman was awesome. I also feel like if you
put those games on neutral sites, logistically with the turnaround,
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you know, you're not giving fans that much of an
opportunity to go see their favorite team play.
Speaker 8 (50:21):
And so I think you would have a lot of
venues that are what.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
You don't want for a college football playoff game, and
that's half empty or mostly empty.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
But yeah, I think you know, last year.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
Home teams won all four games in the first round,
and frankly, none of them were very competitive. Last night
was two entirely different games. I think I was like
a lot of people who thought, Okay, Alabama is down
seventeen to nothing, there's a lot of noise arounding their coach.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
Maybe going to Michigan.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
They just laid an egg in the SEC championship game.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
They're playing on the road.
Speaker 9 (50:53):
And then because of some Oklahoma mistakes, they had a
punt that was dropped where the putter literally dropped the
ball he was about to kick. They had a pick
six that just totally felt like it swung the game.
But yeah, there's lots of issues with the College Football
Playoff that people have. Some of them are very legitimate gripes.
But I think the coolest element that has been added
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since they expanded the field of twelve was playing games
on campus sites. It's last year Notre Dame hosting Indiana.
That was an awesome setting. The game wasn't very good,
but that was an awesome setting. Ohio State got a
home game last year and there were a ton of
Tennessee fans there because it was in the wake of
Ohio State losing to Michigan. I thought that was a
really cool setting.
Speaker 8 (51:33):
It wasn't much of a game.
Speaker 9 (51:35):
I like the fact where we're seeing games played in
true home sites in the first round, and I wish
it would continue in the second round.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Yeah when that and this is the last thing I
saw on last night's Alabama Oklahoma game was one of
the best punters in the nation simply dropping the punt
right before his foot met it, and you know, Alabama recovers,
And to me, that was the at one play was
the shifting of the mo.
Speaker 8 (52:02):
Mo and you could feel it, you could see it.
Speaker 10 (52:05):
In real time.
Speaker 9 (52:06):
They also missed. They also missed a couple of field goals,
including a chip shot.
Speaker 8 (52:09):
By a guy who hadn't missed since the first game
of the season.
Speaker 9 (52:13):
That game very quickly went from one that felt like
Oklahoma was in complete control to one that very quickly
felt like it was slipping away, which it did.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yeah, amazing that the choke color fit at home.
Speaker 10 (52:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
The only game today that seems like it's going to
be competitive is the Miami Texas A and M game,
because I mean, let's face it, James Madison in Tulane
are not college football juggernauts. They got in because they're
in that Power five. Whatever. What do you look for
in the Texas A and M Miami game today? And
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how do you think that's.
Speaker 10 (52:49):
Going to go?
Speaker 9 (52:51):
I want to see how good Miami quarterback Carson Beck is.
You know, in this day and age of college football,
there are certain players who feel like they've been playing since.
Speaker 8 (52:59):
I was in college.
Speaker 9 (53:00):
Yeah, and he's won and look to me, you know,
the big The two controversial selections were obviously Alabama getting
in instead of Notre Dame and Miami getting in instead
of Notre Dame. Now, I think the consensus is that
ultimately Miami deserved to get in ahead of Notre Dame
because they won head to head, but how they got
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there was weird, and how they got there has elicited
some very legitimate gripes from not just Notre Dame fans,
but the athletic director at Notre Dame who went on
about a three day crusade to kind of tell everybody
how much his team got screwed. And I think, to
a degree, they did.
Speaker 8 (53:37):
And so I think it's not dissimilar from last night.
Speaker 9 (53:41):
Do the Hurricanes belong in this field? If they play
well and win, then I think to a degree, it's
going to justify what the committee did. It's also a
game between the ACC representative, not the ACC champion, versus.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
The SEC team.
Speaker 9 (53:59):
And I think if Miami loses tonight, it's going to
be a very stark referendum on a conference that did
not have a very good season, that did not send
its champion to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 6 (54:10):
And so we'll see.
Speaker 9 (54:12):
And it's also a coach in Mario Cristobal at Miami.
And I was listening to a college football podcast with
a talk show host from Miami who was on who
was talking about the fact that, you know, Mario Cristiball,
who played at Miami, was the center, was the coach
at Oregon, now coaching his alma mater. He's had some
terrific wins, but he's also had some games where his
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decision making has cost his team victory. If that happens
today in the game against Texas A and M I
think how he's talked about and how he's written about
is going to be really interesting.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
I had some definite thoughts about Notre Dame and their
reaction to not getting in, and they're you know, taking
their collective balls and just saying, no, we're not going
to play. Yeah, you cheated us out of a chance
to play for a champion, so we're just not going
to play in any bulls. And I've talked about this
Notre Dame fans and they kind of agree with me.
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And you know, maybe it's time Notre Dame joins a conference.
Maybe it's time that they play the best week in
and week out during a conference schedule instead of relying
on the name Notre Dame. What do you think about that?
Speaker 9 (55:21):
Well, I think if there's a program that has often
fairly been accused of being entitled. It's Notre Dame. And
you know, look, your independence comes at a cost, and
for Notre Dame, the cost is unlike everybody else in
the conference, don't get a chance to play a thirteenth game,
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don't get a chance to call yourself conference championships. Now,
the upside of that is if you make the college
football playoffs, you don't have to split the money, and
so you know, there's a cost of independence.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
I didn't have an issue with.
Speaker 9 (55:56):
What Notre Dame did. Mainly I remember Florida State two
years ago. Florida State got snubbed because their quarterback got
hurt and they excluded them despite being undefeated from the
College Football playoff. They had a lot of players opt out,
and they put a product on the field that was
not representative of how good that Florida State team was
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all season, and they got destroyed by Georgia. I would
rather a team say we're not showing up, we're not
gonna play, We're not gonna play without a bunch of
guys who opt out, then put on the field what
Florida State did. And look, a lot of schools say
no to bowl games. A lot of schools say look
for a variety of reasons, whether it's a coaching change,
whether it's you know, we have players who aren't going
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to play in the game because they're going to go
pursue other opportunities.
Speaker 10 (56:44):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 13 (56:45):
There's a lot of schools that say no to bowl games.
Speaker 9 (56:47):
There are schools that say no to the NIIT or
some of the other college basketball tournaments every March. With
Notre Dame, the reaction is a little bit different because
it's Notre Dame, and because the athletic director did a
fair amount of whining and again, and I thought many
of his gripes were legitimate. But bowl games have never
mattered less. Notre Dame doesn't need to pay out from
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some second or third tier. Bowl schools opt out all
the time. And frankly, as you watch some of these bowls,
when you see teams take the field without you know, sticks, ten, twelve,
fifteen of their best players, sure the games often become
kind of a farce. I would rather a team just say, look,
we're not going to be a part of that than
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put a team on the field that gives us a
game that's not very competitive.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
Well, I'll be watching with great interest the Vanderbilt Iowa
game because my dad's in Iowa alum. I was born
in Iowa, and I rooted for Vanderbilt for the last
I don't know decade or whatever. So that's a bowl
game that's not in the championship that I'll I'll have
great interest in. Listen, Moe, have a very very merry Christmas.
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Enjoy Mass on Tuesday night and or but yeah, Wednesday night,
and Merry Christmas to Crosley, you too, man, Thanks so much.
All Right, you got a counselor what's going on? Hey, buddy,
how you doing. You're one of those Notre Dame fans whining,
aren't you. I'm one of those Notre Dame fans, but
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not whining. Okay, go ahead, I mean I kind of
agree with Moe on that one.
Speaker 20 (58:17):
What's on the show today, Well, I'll tell you we're
gonna be talking a lot about what's going on in
Minnesota and Gary Jeff.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
It is just unbelievable. They're now up to I believe
six billion. I heard nine. Well, this is on our.
Speaker 20 (58:31):
That's undocumented so far. It's going to go beyond that. Well,
beyond that, we're going to talk about that in detail,
in the rant. Also Janis Higel of the Epoch Time.
She filed no less than five separate stories this week
on it. She's up there on the ground, she's all
over this thing. We're gonna talk to Janis about that.
(58:51):
I believe I've got her on at eleven o'clock. I'm
going to talk to her about that. Go to talk
to Kevin Burton, independent political consultant. This Ohio governor's race
is getting close. It's heating up.
Speaker 10 (59:04):
You know.
Speaker 20 (59:05):
Everybody thought, myself included Vivek Ramaswami, would blow Amy Act
in a way, and that may ultimately happen, but it
is tight now. Also Texas Senate race Jasmine Crockett. I mean,
if the people of Texas elect that woman, I'm moving
to Mexico. So we'll be talking to Kevin about all
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those things. And again heavily on the Minnesota situation. Yeah,
I'd hold off on the move to Mexico. I think
that's gonna happen. I don't think and Amy Acting just
needs to go smoke some dope and leave us alone.
Have a fantastic Christmas. Merry Christmas too, buddy, you're invited
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to the Christmas party. Money if you want to come
by June to three. All right, Mike Allen, Saturday midday
next and the after the show show at Huddles. After
I go home for about an hour and sit in
silence and enjoy a cup of coffee. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
This Sports Spotlight is brought to you by Capital One
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Anyway before we look at to look back at significant
events and people tied to this particular date in history,
including but not limited to these. This was the date
that the Louisiana Purchase was completed, as that territory formally
transferred from France to the United States. South Carolina became
the first state to secede from the Union this date,
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in eighteen sixty the shots would be fired. Soon to follow.
One of my top three favorite films of all time,
the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, premiered on this
day in nineteen forty six. At the Globe in New
York City, the United States launched Operation Just Cause. A
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familiar scene with the news headlines today. The year was
nineteen eighty nine, and this is when we sent troops
in to Panama at a top of the government of
Manuel Noriega. Sound familiar with Venezuela and Maduro. Let's see
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nineteen ninety five tragedy. American Airlines Flight nine sixty five
from Miami to Cali, Colombia crashed into a mountain near Buga,
Columbia at night while descending to the Cali area, killing
all but four of the one hundred and sixty three
on board and in twenty nineteen United States Space Force
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established by President Donald Trump. Let's see, oh yeah, more
islamis terrorism. Sadly to remember just a year ago when
the car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany,
killing six, entering more than two hundred. Rock drummer Peter
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Cris of Kiss Is eighty today, Dick Wolf, Law and
Order seventy mentioned, Alan Parsons, Michael Batteluco the Actor seventy one,
Chris Robinson of The Black Crow, still bouncing around at
fifty nine. Actor Jonah Hill turns forty two. And if
it's your birthday, Iope, it's the best birthday you could
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possibly imagine. And you get to spend that with the
people you love, doing the things you love to do.
That is truly my wish for you. It's five forty
two and some change. Liam Tomlinson standing by as we
get you. Going next with Weather in Sports on this
Saturday morning to start this Saturday morning edition on seven
hundred WLW not I the Internet of Things world is
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the world we live in. And this morning I became
very distressed. Right at the beginning of the show. I
tried to cover it up with music, and that's what
I did basicly, but my computer wouldn't work. My mouse
wouldn't work. I brought Liam in here. He couldn't get
it to work properly either, So I can you read
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stuff on my computer and bring people up on the telephones?
I need my mouse to work. I mean, Liam can
do all of that. But yet I feel, because I
am a control freak ultimately that I need to have
total control of the show except things like answering the phones,
which Liam does very well, and read the sports, which
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Liam is much more than adequate at at this point.
But I couldn't get the mouse to work properly and
in my room, and then I realized the mouse was
upside down, so I just turned it the other way
and now it works perfectly. Well, I'm a genius. Good morning, Lynnette.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How perstal so bat.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Studs now save inself for their proper it's taking.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And is so felt.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Serving stained off retal on underst.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
See set.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Fast befare, oh.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
WoT frish cob oh oh hold.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ay man, Oh my gosh. I was a little concerned
you weren't going to hit that last one, but you
sure did, like a champ That is my favorite. That
is my favorite Christmas hymn. Thank you so much much.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
God bless America, godless.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That yell that you God bless you. Listen. What are
you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
I wanted to come and surprise you both, but with
this cold stuff, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I let's pray for healing so you can be
here Monday. Really, I would love for you to be here.
If you can't, I mean, if it's safe for you
to travel, I would love to see you on Monday.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
If it's just worry about the Exodi. Well, see, I
could eat when I get back.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
You fixed me up plate, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't know if I'm even going to have any
food here.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Oh you're not going to have any food?
Speaker 9 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Probably probably. Maybe Dave can pick you up something on
the way back to the home.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Yeah, that would work.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh all right, Lynette, Well let's let's kind of plan
on it. Listen. I'm kind of rushed for time this morning.
But I love you.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Merry Christmas, and hopefully I will see you on my
birthday on Monday here in the.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Studio, Okay, out with God's willing great down Yes, right.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All of that, all right, His will be done. Five
point fifty four seven hundred WL do to the first
official hour of this Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, December
the twentieth, twenty twenty five. Garry Jeff Walker, Merry Christmas Seasons, Greetings,
Happy holidays, and it's okay to say happy holidays if
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you remember that the root of the word holiday is holy,
because this is a holy time of year. Praise the Lord,
Baby Jesus coming to save us all from our sins.
Six oh seven and Gary Jeff Walker back into the
breach as they say, Oh, look who it is. It's
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our friend Dave from Harrison. That friend Dave. Good morning, friend, Dave.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Take you more than their friend, Gary Jeff genius type guys.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, are you coming?
Are you coming to my birthday party on Monday?
Speaker 10 (08:13):
Wouldn't miss it, sir.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know, Dave, I've often thought parallel lines have so
much in common, and it's a shame they'll never meet.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Hey, Hey, Hey, hey, Dave, Dave. I'm reading a book
on anti gravity. It's impossible to put down. I ate
I ate a clock yesterday. It was very time consuming.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Hey, I have a guy who watch candy canes. Yeah,
they're all in mint condition.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Actually funny, actually funny, Dave. You know, hey, I hope
that's not the best one, but it was actually funny.
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Okay, Well, what do you call an elf who just
won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
What do you call an elephant that just won the
Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Well? An elf?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
An elf? An elf?
Speaker 10 (09:20):
That just what?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't know. What do you call an elf that
just won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10 (09:26):
Wealthy? Did you say?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Did you say wealthy?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Wealthy?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
W E L F y?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, indeed they're supposed to they're supposed to get better.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Well there so, uh so then conversely, what do you
call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What do you call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I call it broke Santa Claus, Saint nicol Les, Dave, Dave, Dave.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I told my wife the truth. I told her I
was seeing a psychiatrist, and then she told me the
truth that she was seeing a psychiatrist. Two plumbers and
a bartender.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
Jokes told by Dave from Harrison are not necessarily considered
funny by the staff, management or advertisers of seven hundred
WLW or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at
humor have caused you to roll your eyes, made your
stomach churn, or you have considered the entire exercise to
be a colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now
(10:38):
back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
My friend, who I think is listening in right now.
His name's Art and Bolo. He's also known as Radio's
best Friend, has been bugging me for a picture of
me and Liam together. For what purpose?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Art's kind of a different guy, but it kind of
reminds me of the the Robin Williams movie Good Morning Vietnam,
where the Vietnamese bartender or bar owner is always asking
him for naked pictures of Walter Brennan. It kind of
reminds me of that. So Art, Liam's in the studio
right now and figured we just go ahead and get
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it done because he bugged me again this morning. Liam
all right, uh que, there you go, you look less
like a hostage. Now here we go, picture made. It'll
be sent forthwith Art. Thank you, Liam, appreciate that. And
now that we've got that little piece of business taken
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care of. Let's talk to mister Washburn all radio. Rick,
good morning, how are you receiving us?
Speaker 13 (11:47):
I'm sorry, I'm distracted thinking of the old George Carlon
routine of somebody broke into my house and stole my
nude pictures of Ernest bordnine.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Who doesn't Who doesn't have nude pictures of Ernest borgnine?
Speaker 10 (12:01):
Right?
Speaker 13 (12:02):
That's see everyone, I hope that's there's probably a website
for that.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you, my friend.
Speaker 13 (12:13):
You're coming in four by four, which is better than expected,
quite frankly, really on a Majestic Model one four. This
radio is for nineteen fifty one. It's an AM radio
boasting four tubes and nothing else, oh except that it's
a marbled Catlan, which means it costs a lot to
buy one now. And it's in the shape of Rudolph
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the Red Nose reindeer. And it has a dial likee
that doesn't like the dial, but it lights up his
little red nose. It's really cute. It was based on
the Oregond four forty four, which was the Mighty Mite.
But I'll tell you what the Rudolph obviously being for kids.
And by the way today's money, it actually sold for
less than two hundred bucks, so that's not bad for
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radio back then. Absolutely. But the one nice thing is
that it is Catlin because the the Arvin Mighty Might
that was based on was a metal cabinet and what
they called the hot chassis. Depending upon which way you
plug the plug into the outlet. Yeah, if you touch
did it might send you across the room?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Nice?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, because it was it was an electronic travel agent.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (13:28):
So the catalogs the Arvin says smart, trim and dainty,
so small and compact. Okay, so far they're bat and
two for two so big in power and tone. No,
that's not true. So attractive in design when you remove
Rudolph it's no, it's not. But solo in price, yes
it is. Most families need three or more Arvins. Okay,
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then there's one way to sell them upstairs, downstairs, anywhere.
They were really reaching for anything.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No, I mean you know they're trying to upsell those suckers,
no doubt about that. I mean, you know, the more
the merrier, how do you do it? Volume?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
It's right, they made one with Rudolph, and they made
one with the lone Ranger and the the marbled Catlan
cabins like this one. Well, they'll bring in two grand
or more today. And then Ward's Airline also had a
bake light version that was not the marbled color, and
it was a more fragile plastic. But nonetheless it will
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still bring in a grand or so.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, no doubt, no doubt. So uh you need? I mean,
how many Arvins do you have?
Speaker 13 (14:45):
I actually had six of the little Mighty Mites and
always and I put polarized plugs on them, so they
will not send you across the room.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
They will across the room.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What are you and Marie doing for Christmas?
Speaker 10 (15:02):
Rick?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What's the usual traditional Washburn Christmas?
Speaker 10 (15:06):
We?
Speaker 13 (15:07):
Well, traditional Washburn Christmas. We actually celebrated two days ago
with our daughter and had a uh we went out
to Ford's Garage for dinner, which is a really cool
restaurant that has a model a hanging over the bar
and a great menu and lots of old antique signs
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from from old Ford dealerships and repair places.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And so forth.
Speaker 13 (15:32):
And since basically that's that's our only family, we uh,
celebrated early because she and I both unfortunately have to
work for the whole next week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Oh my, what a bunch of draconian ogres you must
work for on Christmas. Not on Christmas.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Well, listen to draconian ores.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I hope you both have a wonderful, blessed Christmas at work.
I will I'm gonna work on Monday and Tuesday. I'm
doing Willie Show on Monday afternoon and then the nightcap
on Tuesday, and then we'll be going to Middle Tennessee
to see Mom and Dad to the lovely village of Ripley, Ohio.
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How now Brown County Main Street in Ripley. The place
is called Brookies, and the Gang has assembled there once
again on an early Saturday morning. Good morning, gang, Good,
good to hear your lovely voices all fresh tailed and
bushy eared or something like that. How are you this morning?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Hi?
Speaker 14 (16:41):
We're doing pretty good. We're all down here, nots Mormon,
just having a good time and joint Tell's Company.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We had a we had a we had a Queen
of Hearts winter on Wednesday night at Brookies. Bill German
as that was, that was his name, That was Bob Bob. Okay,
Bill was out of the money, but Bob won the
money because, as as Doug said at the time, he's
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a lucky s ob. So he I knew he was.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Gonna I think he just said that right before you call.
Speaker 14 (17:19):
For Christmas, our weather's gonna be almost sixty degrees.
Speaker 15 (17:22):
It's gonna be wonderful for Christmas.
Speaker 13 (17:25):
Well, I mean because I don't care for him.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, see I'm not. I'm not a big fan of
the cold either, but I'd like a little snow on
Christmas just to look at in the morning, you know,
and then sunshine and sixty is fine with me. So, uh,
what else is going on? How is the weather beaver?
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Sherry, the weather beaver.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
He's in good shape. He can't wait to come to
my Christmas celebration. You know, he's going gonna uh you know,
the party.
Speaker 16 (17:54):
Oh it's gonna say he should be the star, the
star if when we're just discussing, uh, this cold weather
that we've had off and on here lately, and we
just found out that Buzz has a real nice battery
power keeted coat, which surprises me.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A battery.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yes, he's gonna full charge to this.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yes he's he's on level two.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Well up coat, Well that interchangeable man.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Most of them most of the time. Buzz is on
like level thirteen and it has nothing to do with
an electric powered coat.
Speaker 14 (18:38):
Well, you guys, we don't have We don't have any
really anything going on out Berties right now, which other
than just our regular things since the queen is over
until probably next March, maybe in February.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
March.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, we don't need anything.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
We just need.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We don't need anything.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
We just need.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We just need holiday cheer, goodwill towards men, peace on earth.
And if you've got that, you've got everything.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yes, that is true. We do have to cook us
out of jail, so we do have.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Food and uh a good company, Yeah, always good company.
Uh is Miller there? Matt Miller?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, Dad, Okay, I know, I know you like all
the jokes, and we finally got one for you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, I mean you mean beside besides you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Know, I, uh so, what has a small unit and
hangs upside down?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
What has a small unit and hangs upside down?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
A bat?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (19:43):
A bat? So it has a large unit and hangs up.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I don't know what, Oh I get it?
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Steve from Edna is standing by with the pithy phone
called News of the Week, a commentary revolve and regarding
Christmas kind of and that peace on earth, goodwill toward
men thing. And you know what, before we talk to Steve,
I'm gonna talk to this lady real quickly. Good morning, Pat, Good.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Morning, sugar lips. I want to wish you a happy birthday.
And I also I want to give the praises to Lynette.
Her singing this morning was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Oh I'm like I said, that's my favorite Christmas hymn
hands down is Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Well, how well, sweetheart, I've been fine, trying to get
back into the groove.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (20:44):
Well, anyway, I just pray for the kids and especially
the lost children. So anyway, sweetheart, you just have a happy.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Birthday, Okay, all right, Pat, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15 (20:59):
Dear saying to you babe, bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Six at seven l our friend Steve from at Ohio.
Good morning, Steve, and Marry, Good.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Morning Gary, Jeff. Indeed, it was on Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day of nineteen fourteen, just a couple of months
after World War One started. US wasn't involved yet, you
are correct. The soldiers on both sides came out of
their foxholes, they shook hands. The Germans actually produced a
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Christmas tree. I did a little digging in just to
see how many books and how many papers had been
written about this incident, and I came up with this one.
This particular author acknowledges the fact that, beginning in the
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nineteen eighties, the Brits suddenly took a very active interest
in exactly what happened. Now, let me read a few
paragraphs at the end of this report. I've tried to
counteract two popular misconceptions of the truths. One is that
only common soldiers took part in it, while officers opposed it.
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No few officers opposed it, and many took part. The
other is that neither side wished to return to fighting. No,
most soldiers, especially British, French and Belgium, remained determined to
fight and win. Sadly, I also had to admit the
Christmas Day games of football or soccer as they call
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it in the US, often falsely associated with the truth.
The truth is that the terrain of No Man's Land
ruled out formal games. Though certainly some soldiers kicked around
balls and make shifts substitutes. Another false idea about the
truce was held even by most soldiers who were there,
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that it was unique in history. Though the Christmas Truce
is the greatest example of its kind, informal truces had
been an outstanding military tradition during the American Civil War.
For instance, rebels and Yankees traded tobacco, coffee and newspapers,
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fished peacefully on opposite sides of the stream, and even
gathered blackberries together. Some degree of fellow feeling had always
been common among soldiers sent to battle. It got me
to thinking, there's a lot of hate going around. As
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a matter of fact, there's more hate this Christmas than
anyone since I've been alive and aware of what was
going on around me. It's despicable in every respect. It
would be just speakable even if it wasn't Christmas. But
I got to thinking, can I ask God on his birthday?
Can I ask Jesus? Could you give us another one
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of these Christmas truces in Australia, Ukraine, the United States?
Wouldn't it be wonderful? And I know you can do it, Jesus.
I want to end, as we always do at Christmas time,
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happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Jim le Barbara,
and happy birthday to my great grandchild first one, all
of whom were born on the twenty second. God bless y'all,
and God bless everybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Thank you, Gary Jeff, Thank you Steve. Great Christmas message.
Can it be so? My friend Ray will join us
Ray Scott here in just a moment as we continue
on this Saturday before Christmas six fifty one at seven
hundred WLW actually heard during a report recently the alleged
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killer died of a gunshot wound from a gun No kidding.
Our friend Steve Shilty, who also has a birthday coming
up this coming week, his on Christmas Eve. He has
a birthday on Christmas Eve every year, and he is
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also our resident environmental engineer. You know, environmental engineers never
really retire, They just appear on the radio once a week.
Steve Shilte, good morning and merry Christmas, my friend. How
are we?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Good morning, Gary Jeff? Better than I deserve as always,
and again I'll join the chorus wishing you and the
music professor a very happy and blessed birthday on Monday.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well, thank you very much, and hopefully hopefully you can
do that for us on Monday. What are you doing
on Monday, Steve?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Nothing starting two, one thing after another.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So yeah, well, you know noon to three, you know
where we'll be. You wanted to give some shout outs
first this morning? What have you got for it?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
First of all, shout out to my fellow Golden LaSalle
alumni as we enjoyed our third annual Class of seventy
three Christmas party at the firehouse at Covington Yard, hosted
by our fellow classmate Steve Hamburger. Okay, so were was
about fifty somewhere between fifty and sixty guys joined us,
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and that was great.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
No, no way, how long ago? I don't want to
divulge too much personal information of yours, but how long
ago did you graduate from Lassell?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I said, class of seventy three.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Seventy three, okay, so we're talking about fifty two years? Yes, well,
and what made you decide to start doing an annual
Christmas party three years ago?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
At our fiftieth I think it was at our fiftieth
ann fiftieth you know, animation decided to have we decided
to have it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So that's great and.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Steve Hamburger owns the firehouse that coming into the yards
a great place, especially with fifty sixty guys. So we've
done it today. This year is our third year. Also
to acknowledge guy I've known since grade school, Tim Iory
and his wife who always listened to the program. And
interesting one I don't I can't remember who it was.
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Another alumnus, when he heard that I was doing this
gig every week, responded quote, I remember his quote. So
you are the Steve Shulty. I've been noting you two
for years. That's yep, that's me. But onto the subject
and topic at.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Hands bear polar bears. Everybody loves the cute little polar
bears that will rip your shrowdout if you get too close. Yeah, anyway,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
But Climate Change Weekly number five sixty six from yesterday
Heartland dot org gur polar bear populations decreasing or on again.
We've been hearing for years that polar bear populations are
decreasing and threatening due to so called man's made catastrophic
climate change. And to this day, even in your favorite
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NGOs such as the National Resource Defense Council and the
World Wildlife Federation used polar bears as their poster childs
for fundraising. It's not you know, give us lots of
money and we're gonna save the bears. Well, here's the fact.
Pullar bear populations have been increasing ever since sciences have
been had started counting them despite slight warming and the
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loss of ice in the arty, since nineteen fifty, which
is when they started counting them. But I guess the
best they could population estimate it went from ten thousand
to today over thirty nine thousand. Part of the reason
is tighter restrictions in the hunting, but there were more
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to it. Polar bears have are extremely adaptable predators and
scavengers evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. That's the
number of folks hundreds of thousands of years, lived through
periods that were warmer than today, such as five thousand
and just seven thousand years ago. They also survived cold
periods we know as ice age that other animals and
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species died, like the wooly mammoth and the sabertooth tiger.
And yes, there are some local populations that have declined,
but they're far outweighed by booms of population and other
In fact, research suggests that ice loss in the Arctic
regions has benefited polar bears by resulting in increased the
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populations of healthy ringed and bearded seals, which polar bears
love to must be the filaming young for polar bears.
They've showed that the polar bears in some regions are
literally fatter going into winter harbonations than they did decades ago,
in having more cubs survived the adulthood. So again, once again,
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another so called man made catastrophic climate change hopes hits
the scrap pile.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, well, Steve, what you just said, though, illuminates the
danger of man made climate change because we are causing
the polar bears to become obese.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
They're fatter, so yeah, the extent of the cute little
uh bearded and polar and ring polar polar seals. Yeah, no,
they're cute too.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I think I think humans prefer seal meat over bear meat,
so I can understand while hunting has been greatly restricted,
I don't need any polar bear backstrips or ground polar bear.
But you know, you know what, I'm I'm like a
bull walrisk. Give me a tight seal every time. Thank
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you so much. Mary Chris yes.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Brook like end with this Jesus Christ reason for the season.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
God bless Amen seven to eleven at seven hundred WL.
Great thanks to Tony Rosiello, Joe Cina, and everyone else
who made it possible for me to attend the Proteller
You Needy Breakfast yesterday morning at Western Hills Country Club.
It's something they've done now, I believe, for thirty five years.
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I believe they started in nineteen ninety when about ten
or so guys of the Italian American community on the
West Side would get together the weekend before Christmas and
they'd go from house to house, have coffee, and then
wind up at somebody's place for a few drinks, play
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some cards, have a good time and celebrate the joy
of the season together. And now it has come to
be this huge charity event. And the breakfast was there
yesterday and it was absolutely wonderful, and thank you all
for inviting me and letting me enjoy it with you
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again this year. I set at a table with a
bunch of guys who are just the best, Mark and
Fly and Brian and Frank and Tom and Jim Lebarbara
who will be joining us momentarily for Rock and Roll Archaeology.
After we take a listen to this week's Tom Davis
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Diaries or the here's our correspondent Tommy Davis with the
Christmas up of wild wacky stories from around the world,
around the country. Tom Good morning, Gary Jeff. This week
the world's biggest snowman is Chinese. But first, a husband
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in distress seen hanging from the second floor sign of
a hotel naked. He was apparently caught seeing someone on
the side when his wife walked in and he ended
up out the window hanging from a sign. Rescuers were
able to get him down, but instead of hanging around,
he took off running naked through the streets and he
is still missing. Meanwhile, NBC News is reporting on a
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camel kick during a Christmas gig. The faithful attending a
live Nativity scene at the Champion Forest Baptist Church had
a front row seat to see a camel kick its
hind legs back and hit a woman seated in the audience.
She was immediately tended to and she's expected to be okay.
Speaker 17 (33:52):
There is no word on the camel's motive Aboutinez, California
wife surprised her husband with a Godzilla rage room for
his birthday. The man, a Godzilla superfan, dressed up as
the monster and smashed a mini replica of Tokyo. His
wife shared the experience on social media and said it
was a fun way for him to let off steam.
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The internet had a mixed reaction, everything from he's a
week loser to at least she cares enough to indulge
his infantile behavior and finally, it's the size of Godzilla.
But it's not Japanese, it's Chinese. The world's largest snowman
was just built in Harbin, China. It took a team
of workers weeks to pile up three hundred and ninety
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six thousand pounds of snow into a sixty two foot
tall snowman. He's wearing your red Santa outfit and is
called Frosty. Last year's snowman was a record breaker, and
they beat it this year by three feet. Next week,
Oklahoma family dazed and confused when a kangaroo busts down
the door during dinner.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Have a great weekend, Elite athlete or the everyday guy.
Saturday before Christmas, December twentieth, twenty twenty five, Geary Jeff Walker,
God Bless America Fest Turning Point USA going on in
Phoenix this weekend. How about that six minutes after the
hour eight oh six eastern that is, and well, look
(35:12):
at where does the time go? How about a little
science minute with little science mic on a Saturday morning?
Speaker 12 (35:20):
It seems appropriate, yes, as a night of Scientist is
a bit surprising. Bell blinded kneewing.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Good morning, Michael, how are you hello? Hey? How are
you man?
Speaker 10 (35:35):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Little science mic, little little science, A little science minute
with little science mic, a little science. How would you
like a little science mic with your coffee?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (35:49):
I was here for breakfast yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I had scrambled eggs, which were delicious. I mean, and
you can get scrambled eggs in any of those kind
of breakfasts, but these were very very good. They had
getta and I don't know who made the getta, but
I found it was a little overdone, but it was
still very good. Bacon. I had a cinnamon roll and
lots of fresh fruit that was oh breakfast, potatoes too,
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very well seasoned, and coffee and a bloody Mary. Before
the breakfast started, I was with the Bonavito brothers. Is
there a more Italian West Side name than Bonavito. So
I'm there with the Bonavitos and the little Bonavitos. They
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brought their sons along, and we were the only ones
at the bar. Actually, before breakfast, I just wanted a
Bloody Mary, so I had that and enjoyed that. And
one of them had bourbon in their bloody Mary and
I never heard of that before, and it still kind
of makes me gag a little bit when I think
of it when it comes to bloody Mary's. You know,
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vodka jin maybe, but not bourbon.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
I don't know anyway, And I'm like the donkey put
a smile on my wife's face this morning.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Didn't really?
Speaker 10 (37:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Has she always been a fan of donkeys?
Speaker 10 (37:18):
Yes, sir, yeah, well, I mean it's not when she
goes to the polls.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
There, you go, very nice. What are you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Well, I guess I'll be working.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Oh okay, well hopefully hopefully you'll be listening. It's it's
during Willie's show. He's gone and they asked me to
fill in, and I said, wow, that's my birthday. I
might as well host my own birthday party with Jim
Lebarbera because it's his birthday too. Jim is exactly nineteen
years older than I am, and I am I am
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clipping at sixty five on Monday, which I'm not really
fully prepared for still, you know, trying to figure out
the medicare thing and all of that garbage, and it's
just it's a little bit much for me.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
Well, I know where to go to.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Oh do you good?
Speaker 8 (38:14):
One?
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Yeah, we'll actually go to you.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
We will we will talk. We will talk after the show, Michael,
Thank you very much. All right, So what do you
got this morning?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Right?
Speaker 10 (38:24):
One? This is quickly one of the better social science
studies that for the year. I think that regularly helping
people outside your household can actually improve your help improve
your cognitive decline and keep it astray and people of
our age, middle aged and older adults. So what they
did thirty thousand Americans. They looked at from over the
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age of fifty one since like ninety eight, and they
counted for OTU factors as well with education and current
physical mental health. And what they found out is if
you formally and even informally help somebody else two to
four hours a week in this scheduled environment, or even
go help a neighbor with you know, yard work or
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get their garbage every Monday night or anything like that,
or something regular like that. They can decrease your probability
of having cognitive decline by twenty percent. You know, it
helps you stay connected to the outside world too, and
things like that. But just it's amazing. It's like help.
Things are interrelated. Helping other people helps you. You know.
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One of the stats I've read was one three of
Americans take part in schedule formal volunteering in this country,
and fifty percent do informal informal help for their neighbor.
So you know, it's not all bad out there.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
What, No, No, it's not. In fact, we hear about
the bad because that is news that is out of
the ordinary. The bad is out of the out of
the usual of what goes on in most people's lives.
I've talked about this for years, Mike. The reason people
always go, well, why isn't there any good news? There's
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good news all around us. We only hear about the
so called bad news because it's the aberration, it's the anomaly,
it's not the usual. And people need to remember that
if they feel inundated with chaos and bad news all
the time. Remember the reason you don't hear good news
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is because good usually happens. I believe that.
Speaker 10 (40:37):
Well, I hope you have a safe trip down to
mom and dad'sie.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to you
and yours. And are you getting your wife a donkey
for Christmas?
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Okay? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Eight twelve at seven hundred WL the season of Immanu
God with us, and he still is, I believe, Brother
Rick Green on this weekend before Christmas. Merry Christmas, my brother,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (41:13):
Mary? Christmas? Hey?
Speaker 18 (41:14):
Can I give a shout out before we start?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You always can give a shout out? Brother. The floor
is yours.
Speaker 18 (41:21):
I receive the Christmas card Thursday from Don and Ronda.
And Don and Ronda, I'm so sorry. I do not
remember who you are, but thank you for blessing me
and my family.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Oh that's wonderful. Don and Rondo.
Speaker 10 (41:37):
My brain up for thirty day.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
I don't know who they are, Gary, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Okay, all right, well listen, go ahead with the Bible verse.
Speaker 18 (41:49):
Okay, So then we have John chapter one, verse twelve.
He says, yet to all, Yet to all who did
receive him. To those who did believe than his name,
he gave the right to become children of God.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Amen, brother, have a blessed Christmas. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Hey, you all have a merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
All right, Rick Green and Teresa. That Teresa quickly with
our word of the day. Teresa, Liam tells me we
are tight on time.
Speaker 19 (42:22):
Well, okay, seasons, greetings and salutations. Hello Frankie the wonder Elp.
Hello christ Hello everybody.
Speaker 9 (42:30):
God bless you all.
Speaker 19 (42:32):
Happy birthday to you, and professor, Happy birthday to you.
My daughter is the twenty fourths Steve Silty.
Speaker 10 (42:37):
The word of the day is blessing.
Speaker 19 (42:39):
Oh gosh, thank you Lynette. It was beautiful blessings. Blessings
are favor of God, God's favor protection. And with the
season upon us, we all need to remember our blessings
that we are all so blessed by God. God bless you.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Merry Christmas to that Teresa and to you kids. Time
will gives from Wally. Does anybody really know what time
it is? The guy goes to the doctor for his
annual physical doctor's office calls him wants him to come
back in the lab reports have detected a serious terminal illness.
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The doctor says, I don't know how to tell you this.
I'll just tell you there's no treatment right now that
we know of, no surgery, and I'd say you have
about six months to live. You probably need to make
sure your your will is in order. You have a will,
I hope, get your affairs in order, and uh, just
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figure out what you're gonna do with the last six months.
The guy thinks for a second. He says, Doc, I
think I'm gonna go live with my mother in law.
I says, well, I mean it's your business, but why
are you gonna go live with your mother they're in law?
Because it'll be the longest six months of my life.
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Is it going to be almost sixty degrees on Christmas Day?
Which is kind of weird, especially after what we've just
been through the last couple of weeks. I'm curious about
what our friend Moe Egger has cooking for the Christmas
season and the Christmas week ahead. So what do you
think We'll ask him? Hey, mo, how are we doing?
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I'm doing fantastic. One of my favorite times of the year.
You know, it's my birthday, on Monday. And by the way,
I want you to know if you're around, you're more
than invited to the on air Christmas birthday party we're
going to have for myself and jim Lebarbara on Monday
in lieu of the Willie Show. I'll be on for
mister Cunningham, and I decided, you know, nobody else is
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going to throw me at Christmas party, so I throw
my own, just like why I throw my own anniversary
party for this show because I knew nobody else would
do it. So my question for you as a dad,
uh huh. Everybody has Christmas traditions in their family, and
I'm just curious if you want to share with us
what Christmas tradition have you established for you and the
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missus and and Crosley. Do you have any Christmas traditions
something that you've come to do every year since you've
become a dad, Crawsley.
Speaker 8 (45:24):
Do we have any cool Christmas traditions? Well, she gave
me a shoulder shrug.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Oh no, she's already, she's already. She's already got your
personality pretty much.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I don't you know we uh,
Crosley and I usually take a Saturday early in December
and go visit Fanta Claus and have lunch. That's probably
it qualifies our most recurring one. We've done that every year.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
For a long time.
Speaker 8 (45:55):
You know what I like to do on Christmas, and
this has very little to do with my family.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
I like on Christmas Eve night, I like to pour
myself a live as and I like to watch.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
Mass midnight Mass from the Vatican.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Nice, probably not for everybody. It's quiet in the house
before the storm the next day. My friends of mine
who laugh at me for enjoying.
Speaker 8 (46:29):
This prevision, but because they said, well, don't you just
go to a real Mass?
Speaker 9 (46:33):
But I actually do enjoy doing that.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Oh no, that that totally qualifies. And you know, it's
it's your thing, So it's got to be cool if
that's what you enjoy doing, and that's the way you
kind of soak in the spirit of what should be
a joyous time for believers and for people who understand
the reason for the season. I mean that that totally
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gets it for me.
Speaker 6 (46:58):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I like that, you know, and and what she spoke
to there also speaks to something that a lot more
of us could benefit from. Not just at Christmas, but
in our daily lives, and that is taken some quiet
time by ourselves, maybe maybe not with anything on in
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front of us, maybe with some screen time like masks
like you're talking about, but just taking just taking some
time to just be quiet and tune out from everything else.
Speaker 10 (47:32):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
I mean, it's been more and more people are talking
about that, especially in the age in which we live,
where we're constantly on our screens, on our phones. And
like you said, the noise of the next day, I
hear Crosley in the background. Is she singing?
Speaker 9 (47:49):
She's yes, she's making Christmas cards and I think she's
trying to get hurt on the radio.
Speaker 8 (47:57):
I think is gotcha?
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Hi, Crosley? How you doing.
Speaker 9 (48:02):
She's doing well, as you can tell. I enjoy everything
that you just talked about. The occasional bursts of quiet
time are very much cherished.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
I come home from when I work at the bar,
and I will again today when I get home a
little after seven o'clock tonight, after listening to the jukebox
and to the TVs with the games. The last thing
I want is noise. And when I get home from
this show, I will sit for an hour before I
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have to go to work at my other job, and
we never on Saturday mornings have the TV on or anything.
When I get home, we just sit there in silence,
drink a little coffee. Sometimes I take a nap. But
I'm telling you what tuning out is. I think one
of the healthiest things you can do mentally, just to
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replenish your soul. Man, it's mass It really matters.
Speaker 8 (49:01):
It matters a lot.
Speaker 6 (49:02):
Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 9 (49:04):
That's a big part of my morning every day is.
Speaker 8 (49:07):
Drop it off school and enjoying some some silence before
we uh, before we get going for the day.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Yeah, no doubt about that. No silence in that stadium
last night in Oklahoma and Norman. That was a Rockets
place and it looked like the crowd was going to
rule the day along with the Sooners in the first half.
But Alabama came to the fore man and they they
knocked it out and moved on. In the College Football Championship,
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do you like the setup of the first round games
being played on the top top teams in the seedings
home home field.
Speaker 6 (49:47):
Do you like that?
Speaker 10 (49:49):
I do.
Speaker 9 (49:52):
I kind of wish that was the case in the
second round as well, to give those teams that got
by the home field advantage that the teams in the
first round that earned home games got. I think it's
it's a cool element. You know, the scene last night
and Norman was awesome. I also feel like if you
put those games on neutral sites, logistically with the turnaround,
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you know, you're not giving fans that much of an
opportunity to go see their favorite team play.
Speaker 8 (50:21):
And so I think you would have a lot of
venues that are what.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
You don't want for a college football playoff game, and
that's half empty or mostly empty.
Speaker 8 (50:29):
But yeah, I think you know, last year.
Speaker 9 (50:32):
Home teams won all four games in the first round,
and frankly, none of them were very competitive. Last night
was two entirely different games. I think I was like
a lot of people who thought, Okay, Alabama is down
seventeen to nothing, there's a lot of noise arounding their coach.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
Maybe going to Michigan.
Speaker 8 (50:48):
They just laid an egg in the SEC championship game.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
They're playing on the road.
Speaker 9 (50:53):
And then because of some Oklahoma mistakes, they had a
punt that was dropped where the putter literally dropped the
ball he was about to kick. They had a pick
six that just totally felt like it swung the game.
But yeah, there's lots of issues with the College Football
Playoff that people have. Some of them are very legitimate gripes.
But I think the coolest element that has been added
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since they expanded the field of twelve was playing games
on campus sites. It's last year Notre Dame hosting Indiana.
That was an awesome setting. The game wasn't very good,
but that was an awesome setting. Ohio State got a
home game last year and there were a ton of
Tennessee fans there because it was in the wake of
Ohio State losing to Michigan. I thought that was a
really cool setting.
Speaker 8 (51:33):
It wasn't much of a game.
Speaker 9 (51:35):
I like the fact where we're seeing games played in
true home sites in the first round, and I wish
it would continue in the second round.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Yeah when that and this is the last thing I
saw on last night's Alabama Oklahoma game was one of
the best punters in the nation simply dropping the punt
right before his foot met it, and you know, Alabama recovers,
And to me, that was the at one play was
the shifting of the mo.
Speaker 8 (52:02):
Mo and you could feel it, you could see it.
Speaker 10 (52:05):
In real time.
Speaker 9 (52:06):
They also missed. They also missed a couple of field goals,
including a chip shot.
Speaker 8 (52:09):
By a guy who hadn't missed since the first game
of the season.
Speaker 9 (52:13):
That game very quickly went from one that felt like
Oklahoma was in complete control to one that very quickly
felt like it was slipping away, which it did.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yeah, amazing that the choke color fit at home.
Speaker 10 (52:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
The only game today that seems like it's going to
be competitive is the Miami Texas A and M game,
because I mean, let's face it, James Madison in Tulane
are not college football juggernauts. They got in because they're
in that Power five. Whatever. What do you look for
in the Texas A and M Miami game today? And
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how do you think that's.
Speaker 10 (52:49):
Going to go?
Speaker 9 (52:51):
I want to see how good Miami quarterback Carson Beck is.
You know, in this day and age of college football,
there are certain players who feel like they've been playing since.
Speaker 8 (52:59):
I was in college.
Speaker 9 (53:00):
Yeah, and he's won and look to me, you know,
the big The two controversial selections were obviously Alabama getting
in instead of Notre Dame and Miami getting in instead
of Notre Dame. Now, I think the consensus is that
ultimately Miami deserved to get in ahead of Notre Dame
because they won head to head, but how they got
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there was weird, and how they got there has elicited
some very legitimate gripes from not just Notre Dame fans,
but the athletic director at Notre Dame who went on
about a three day crusade to kind of tell everybody
how much his team got screwed. And I think, to
a degree, they did.
Speaker 8 (53:37):
And so I think it's not dissimilar from last night.
Speaker 9 (53:41):
Do the Hurricanes belong in this field? If they play
well and win, then I think to a degree, it's
going to justify what the committee did. It's also a
game between the ACC representative, not the ACC champion, versus.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
The SEC team.
Speaker 9 (53:59):
And I think if Miami loses tonight, it's going to
be a very stark referendum on a conference that did
not have a very good season, that did not send
its champion to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 6 (54:10):
And so we'll see.
Speaker 9 (54:12):
And it's also a coach in Mario Cristobal at Miami.
And I was listening to a college football podcast with
a talk show host from Miami who was on who
was talking about the fact that, you know, Mario Cristiball,
who played at Miami, was the center, was the coach
at Oregon, now coaching his alma mater. He's had some
terrific wins, but he's also had some games where his
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decision making has cost his team victory. If that happens
today in the game against Texas A and M I
think how he's talked about and how he's written about
is going to be really interesting.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
I had some definite thoughts about Notre Dame and their
reaction to not getting in, and they're you know, taking
their collective balls and just saying, no, we're not going
to play. Yeah, you cheated us out of a chance
to play for a champion, so we're just not going
to play in any bulls. And I've talked about this
Notre Dame fans and they kind of agree with me.
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And you know, maybe it's time Notre Dame joins a conference.
Maybe it's time that they play the best week in
and week out during a conference schedule instead of relying
on the name Notre Dame. What do you think about that?
Speaker 9 (55:21):
Well, I think if there's a program that has often
fairly been accused of being entitled. It's Notre Dame. And
you know, look, your independence comes at a cost, and
for Notre Dame, the cost is unlike everybody else in
the conference, don't get a chance to play a thirteenth game,
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don't get a chance to call yourself conference championships. Now,
the upside of that is if you make the college
football playoffs, you don't have to split the money, and
so you know, there's a cost of independence.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
I didn't have an issue with.
Speaker 9 (55:56):
What Notre Dame did. Mainly I remember Florida State two
years ago. Florida State got snubbed because their quarterback got
hurt and they excluded them despite being undefeated from the
College Football playoff. They had a lot of players opt out,
and they put a product on the field that was
not representative of how good that Florida State team was
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all season, and they got destroyed by Georgia. I would
rather a team say we're not showing up, we're not
gonna play, We're not gonna play without a bunch of
guys who opt out, then put on the field what
Florida State did. And look, a lot of schools say
no to bowl games. A lot of schools say look
for a variety of reasons, whether it's a coaching change,
whether it's you know, we have players who aren't going
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to play in the game because they're going to go
pursue other opportunities.
Speaker 10 (56:44):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 13 (56:45):
There's a lot of schools that say no to bowl games.
Speaker 9 (56:47):
There are schools that say no to the NIIT or
some of the other college basketball tournaments every March. With
Notre Dame, the reaction is a little bit different because
it's Notre Dame, and because the athletic director did a
fair amount of whining and again, and I thought many
of his gripes were legitimate. But bowl games have never
mattered less. Notre Dame doesn't need to pay out from
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some second or third tier. Bowl schools opt out all
the time. And frankly, as you watch some of these bowls,
when you see teams take the field without you know, sticks, ten, twelve,
fifteen of their best players, sure the games often become
kind of a farce. I would rather a team just say, look,
we're not going to be a part of that than
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put a team on the field that gives us a
game that's not very competitive.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
Well, I'll be watching with great interest the Vanderbilt Iowa
game because my dad's in Iowa alum. I was born
in Iowa, and I rooted for Vanderbilt for the last
I don't know decade or whatever. So that's a bowl
game that's not in the championship that I'll I'll have
great interest in. Listen, Moe, have a very very merry Christmas.
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Enjoy Mass on Tuesday night and or but yeah, Wednesday night,
and Merry Christmas to Crosley, you too, man, Thanks so much.
All Right, you got a counselor what's going on? Hey, buddy,
how you doing. You're one of those Notre Dame fans whining,
aren't you. I'm one of those Notre Dame fans, but
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not whining. Okay, go ahead, I mean I kind of
agree with Moe on that one.
Speaker 20 (58:17):
What's on the show today, Well, I'll tell you we're
gonna be talking a lot about what's going on in
Minnesota and Gary Jeff.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
It is just unbelievable. They're now up to I believe
six billion. I heard nine. Well, this is on our.
Speaker 20 (58:31):
That's undocumented so far. It's going to go beyond that. Well,
beyond that, we're going to talk about that in detail,
in the rant. Also Janis Higel of the Epoch Time.
She filed no less than five separate stories this week
on it. She's up there on the ground, she's all
over this thing. We're gonna talk to Janis about that.
(58:51):
I believe I've got her on at eleven o'clock. I'm
going to talk to her about that. Go to talk
to Kevin Burton, independent political consultant. This Ohio governor's race
is getting close. It's heating up.
Speaker 10 (59:04):
You know.
Speaker 20 (59:05):
Everybody thought, myself included Vivek Ramaswami, would blow Amy Act
in a way, and that may ultimately happen, but it
is tight now. Also Texas Senate race Jasmine Crockett. I mean,
if the people of Texas elect that woman, I'm moving
to Mexico. So we'll be talking to Kevin about all
(59:25):
those things. And again heavily on the Minnesota situation. Yeah,
I'd hold off on the move to Mexico. I think
that's gonna happen. I don't think and Amy Acting just
needs to go smoke some dope and leave us alone.
Have a fantastic Christmas. Merry Christmas too, buddy, you're invited
(59:47):
to the Christmas party. Money if you want to come
by June to three. All right, Mike Allen, Saturday midday
next and the after the show show at Huddles. After
I go home for about an hour and sit in
silence and enjoy a cup of coffee. Have a great weekend.
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