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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Five five fifty five k r C the talk station Tuesday,
Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
There we are.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
What I was thinking it would start the show, although
tradition requires us to play at least some part of
Anama followed by the Vince Garraldi trio. It is the
fifty five KRC Morning Christmas Show. Uh, taking a moment
to remember my dad very fondly. I had a really
good time with Dad. Doing this of course to help

(01:04):
a Rob Ryder, who will be in studio in the
six o'clock hour, for spending the rest of the time
in studio here and playing his guitar and singing some
Christmas carols and tunes and welcome in calls this morning.
If you have a Christmas wish, you'd like to say
something about the holiday season, generally not to overlook my
Jewish friends. Happy honeka to you. So we'll call this
a holiday special. Call it what you want. Trying to

(01:25):
have some fun and games in the last work day
for me of calendar year twenty twenty five, looking forward
to finishing out nineteen years and starting my twentieth and
year radio next year. Man, I just just thinking about
how fast time has flown, and it's really mind boggling,
just mind blowing. Five one three seven, four hundred eight

(01:45):
two three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phone,
just say, you know, since again this is my last day,
we're gonna do best of programming. That'd be Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day, that day after Christmas, so repeats of prior interviews, conversations,
et cetera. And I always any kind of funny, you know,
I someone will send me an email. I won't be

(02:06):
in the studio, but when I come back and log
into the email, program would be put people to email,
you know, talking about what's what I'm talking about in
this recorded interview and asking me to ask the person
in the recorded interview questions real time. That stuff is
a recorded interview, so you get the concept. But always
I always find humor in that. Kevin Gordon's going to
be covering for me on the twenty ninth and the

(02:28):
thirtieth and then on Christmas or on Neear's Eve in
ne Year's Day. We got best of again because everybody's
taken off. So thank you Kevin Gordon in advanced for
taking care of the twenty ninth and thirtieth. So five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two three
talk or pound five fifty on AT and T phones.

(02:50):
If you'd like to call wish somebody happy, or Merry
Christmas or happy hon a card listen. I don't care
what you celebrate, as long as you celebrate and don't
be a jerk. Let's start with that one you ready
Christmas theme, We'll call this person Lord Almighty. After yesterday's

(03:16):
need of the dump button, I'm a little worried that
I can even say anything out loud. I violated the
rule for the first time in nineteen years in radio. Anyhow,
going back to my dad, he did it a bunch
of times over here his cran radio, so I didn't
feel necessarily as bad, but I was trying to make
it a perfect record. When I retire, I wanted to
look back and say I never needed to use the
dump button to save me from the FCC. Well, okay,

(03:37):
I broke that yesterday. Anyway. British supermarket place called Sainsbury's.
I guess it's kind of like a Kroger or a
Publix or a Meyer or whatever. You get the idea
of supermarket pulling what many believed to be a humorous
Christmas card from its shelves. Why one single human being

(04:02):
claimed that it was transphobic. One It was a Doctor
Seus's themed Christmas card featuring the Grinch character, with the
caption this Christmas I'm identifying as a Grinch. Oh my god,
I'm so blown away. I can't believe it. Oh my god,
I'm offended here. Let me curl up in a ball.

(04:25):
The one singular described as transgender journalist. Journalist is in
quotes too, which makes me think that that would be
a person with access to the Internet who posts stuff
which is you know, honestly arguably journalism. Sophie Molly, this

(04:46):
transgender quote unquote journalist start complaining on some web some site.
I don't care, it's called blue cry whatever. After spotting
the card in the supermarket, writing transphobic Christmas card in
my local Sainsbury's, please do better Sainsbury's in letter remarks
to an organization called Pink News. Yep, certainly, she said.

(05:11):
The card belittles the identity of trans and non binary people,
saying trans people don't choose to identify as their gender.
It's part of who they are and being trans is
not a choice. The Grinch is a made a made
up character. You can't be a grinch. Well, although in
a world full of furries where people go around and think,
I guess that they're animals of some sort, do they

(05:31):
really believe their animals or they just like dressing up
as them. Have they taken on the identity of, say,
a poppy or a horse or a blanket unicorn. I
really don't think so, So let's knock it down that road.
Let's just realize the Grinch is a fiction made up
by doctor Seuss. She went on sis people saying that

(05:59):
I identify as something like a tomato and attack helicopter
or a grinch invalidates the lived experience of trans people.
It tells the world that they think it's a choice
to be trans, something you can switch in and out of,
a little like playing dress up. This is not true.

(06:21):
Well wait a second, and credit to the Steve Watson
at Modernity News for making this parallel and seeing right
through that nonsense from this whining transgender quote unquote journalist.
We'll call her a Karen. Apparently, lived experience tells the

(06:41):
world they think that it's a choice to be trans. Well,
as the author points out, no Wait a minute, isn't
that what gender fluid means.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
There's a certain.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Fluidity about it. Today I feel a little more heterosexual
than homosexual, and today I feel a little bit more
like a woman and a man. Just don't do label me.
Don't you tell me what I can think of, what
I can believe that's gender fluid? Right? Okay, points out
after all, you make the rules literally making them up

(07:12):
as you go along. She also added quote being trans
or non bine area is something you can switch You
can't switch or being trans or non binaria is not
something you can switch off of the same way a
SIS person can't switch off being cis. When you consider
the current UK climate of trans hostility, I feel that

(07:35):
it's a worrying site. There's that word again, it's a
blanken Christmas card. I feel it's a worrying site only
because you choose to feel badly about a joke. Lighten up, Francis.
It gets worse. It's not just this one single transgender

(07:56):
quote unquote journalist. One single person raises this to people's
attention through posting this complaint on social media, and what happens.
Apparently a one named Genie rut Or the creative director.
I guess at the cards publisher emotional rescues the name

(08:18):
of the publisher. She's the creative director there. Speaking again
with Pink News, it was in no way our intention
to cause anyone in the trans community offense. We were
to move this design from our range immediately.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
It wasn't your intention to cause anyone in the community offense.
You didn't believe it did it was even offensive. It's
a subjective creation of offense. There is no legitimate objective
offense there. It's merely one subjective determination that Oh my god,
I feel that it's a worrying site. Nick Okay. Moving

(08:55):
over to the operations director at Paper Salad. Apparently the
that created the illustration of the little Grinch character. In
other words, did the cartoon. Jack Wilson quote, due to
our contribution to the card, I'd like to apologize on
behalf of Paper Slid for any offense caused. It was

(09:15):
not our intention. Here we go again, and we've removed
the design from sale and destroyed all stock with immediate effect. Again,
you went ahead and published this and you did the
illustration for this card because you, in your wildest dreams,
couldn't imagine that there was someone out there like Sophie Mali,

(09:37):
the transgender quote unquote journalists who would get all offensive
and actually get traction enough to get other people to
capitulate on this one, including a grocery store.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
At sainsbury Is, we are committed to being an inclusive
or a retailer where people love to work and shop.
We offer a wide selection of Christmas cards, and our
ranges vary each year, so there's something for everyone. Except
this card, which was something for people who got a
kick out of it and thought it was funny to say,
I'm going to identify as a grinch this year. So

(10:10):
you can't have that kind of card, but you can
have another card, I guess, and I suppose it probably
transgender coming out cards where you know, you have a
guy wants to be a woman and there's a card
celebrating the you know, it's like the reveal party for birthdays?
Right now? Would that be offensive if I were to

(10:33):
express offense over it? And no, I never would because
I don't care. I truly do not care. You be
who you want to be as long as your lived
experience doesn't collide with my personal lived experience and we
can live next to each other in peace and harmony
and freedom in liberty.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm not transphobic. I'm just logical reasonable, and I hate
this kind of thing that goes on where one single
human being can utter a single voice of his scent
and have such a profound effect on so many people.
It's bat crap, insanity, plain and simple. Merry Christmas eight

(11:17):
hundred eighty two to three Talk fifty on eight and
T photo got some really hilarious holiday traditions from around
the world. I mean weird, yeah, very maybe not as
weird as that particular arm talk station about twenty one
fifty five kr CD talk station dusted off the old

(11:41):
Vinscaralti trio for bumber music this morning. Certainly my approved
Christmas music. Just Tracker approves of it too. But you're
not going to get any trans Siberian orchestra. So if
you're waiting around for that to happen, Joe not a
big fan. I think that's a gross understatement too. Are
you ready? Catalonia is pooping log Christmas traditions, and you

(12:07):
know you laugh at these, you think how backcrap and
sane they are. We have Easter bunny. I've never been
able to figure that one out. I've read stories, but
it just doesn't make any sense to me that you
have an animated bunny that runs around and provides you
with eggs because of Easter. Yeah, I know, try to
reconcile that will go ahead. Let's turn over to Catalonia.

(12:29):
Is pooping log to d nadal, which I guess translates
to pooping log described as a beloved cattle in custom,
it's a wooden log decorated with a face that is
fed treats throughout December and kept warm under a blanket.

(12:51):
If that's not weird enough, Apparently, on Christmas Eve, children
beat the log with sticks and saying traditional songs to
coach into pooping candy and gifts. I guess the candy
and gifts that they've been stuffing into the mouth of
the log only to have them come out. Okay, that's

(13:11):
Christmas tradition. No real explanation in the article about how
we arrived at the pooping log moving over to Iceland.
That may be it, Joe, he check the legality status
of weed and Catalonian see if maybe that's where it
came from. Over to Iceland, the mythical Yule cat, which

(13:33):
they say prows the snowy countryside looking for anyone who
hasn't received new clothes before Christmas. Legend has it workers
who finished processing the autumn wool before Christmas would receive
new garments as a reward. Failing to do that, the
Yule cat would eat them up. What yep? Casting a

(14:02):
paul over in otherwise uplifting holiday, I would say, over
to Italy, Befana the roomstick writing, which delivers candy and
presents to children not on the twenty fifth, but on
January fifth, which is Epiphany Eve. They say, I'm reading it.
I've never heard of Epiphany Eve. You know? Then, no

(14:23):
theologian of my legend has it. She missed the birth
of Jesus and had been searching for him ever since,
leaving treats for kids as an apology. Especially popular in
southern Italy, where she's celebrated with warmth and humor. Her
grandmotherly image and unconventional story make her a standout in
the holiday well stories that we're going through here. There

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you go, how do you pronounce l w wyde? Wide?
That's what I'm going with, Mary Wide. This will be
Wales's singing horse Skull What I know Barried Wide a
century's old tradition featuring a horse skull dressed up with
ribbons and mounted on a pole, comedy by groups of

(15:10):
singers and performers. Mary Wide's visit visit homes, pub pubs.
Of course, she visits pubs and other gathering places, challenging
those inside what is described as a humorous and clever
rhyming competition, described as similar to a rap battle. Goal
to win entry into the house and to be welcome
with food, drinks and merriment. Also, Mary Mary Wide's a leecher.

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It says the origins of this this creature pre date Christmas,
but in Wales it's a beloved tradition now intricately linked
to Christmas. Also decided, he describes the reason Jewish families
quite often chout down on Chinese food during Christmas Day.
I did not know that until I saw the Christmas

(15:57):
Story and there was Oh no, it was one of
those my favorite year. There was a comment about one
thing that Jews knows, suffering in good Chinese food. My
Jewish friends probably laughing about that. If you've remember seeing
that movie. Tradition goes back to early twentieth century, when
Jewish and Chinese immigrants were often neighbors in urban areas.
The Chinese restaurants were probably the only places open on Christmas,

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so they became kind of a natural gathering spot for
the Jews who had nowhere else to go given that
the Christians restaurants and places to eat were closed. So
people in Caracas, Venezuela celebrate Christmas morning skating. Please do
not tell aftab pervol about this idea is going to
shut down the roads and make us all don skates.

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The answer to the problem of congested roadways on a
day where everyone's trying to get to early morning masks,
the streets are closed to cars and people done roller
skates to get to church. Over to Japan, this is
an odd one. Japan Christmas Dinner is all about Kentucky
Fried Chicken. I guess every December, millions of Japanese families

(17:02):
line up for KFC, they say, a tradition that started
in a nineteen seventies marketing campaign called Kentucky for Christmas.
JFC Global nearly says nearly a third of the Chang's
annual sales in Japan come in December what third of
the whole year's sales. And finally, of course San Francisco
being weird and screwing it up for everybody. As this tradition,

(17:25):
the actual annual Santa Con event, Santa Is from all
over enjoy a day of merriment, acting and pretending to
be Santa Claus. However, in San Francisco, you know things
are gonna go into a blue, strange, bizarre way because
now some of the Santas show up completely nude. How
in the hell can you be Santa Claus when you're
completely nude? Aren't you defined by the red suit and

(17:47):
the belt in the boots? So you have a bunch
of naked guys, probably with white beards. That's a naked
white beard guy convention. That's not Santa Claus. This is
me editorializing, but this is done. It says naked Senna
has become an iconic part of the city's holiday lore,
perfectly capturing San Francisco's playful spirit and pension for pushing boundaries, yeah,

(18:13):
and rendering the event impossible for young children to go through.
That is, if they have parents who really care about
what is appropriate and inappropriate five point twenty seven right now.
I've got three seven, four, nine fifty eight two three
talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones, local stories,
phone calls, prever the ladder. But I do have a
stack of stupid on top of it. There's the rest
of the five o'clock hour. I'll be right back. Think

(18:35):
about Kese detalxation five thirty two. Heads up, I'm getting
ready to jump over to the phone. It's got a
couple of callers online. If you for people who typically
send me information via email or Facebook instant message during
the morning show. Our internet's down. We're not even gonna
have traffic. Really, there is some office out in the

(19:01):
remote reaches of the United States of America that is
responsible for iHeartMedia internet connection here in the city of Cincinnati,
much like Chuck Ingram does traffic for multiple cities across
this great land of ours. He can't do traffic because
he has no Internet. So I think the fact that
Chuck Ingram is without Internet and that all these other
stations won't beginning their traffic reports suggests to me in

(19:23):
an efficient operation, Joe Strecker, what is your take? It'll
probably be fixed quicker than if Joe Strecker merely complained
by himself at least by eight point thirty. That's Joe's prediction.
Let's go to the funds. Tom hold On Pat was
first pat. Welcome to the morning show, and a Merry
Christmas to you all.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Same to you, Brian. This business with mister Jones and
the hepatitis thing, there's a doctor who was on was
either on your channel or down the dial, but he
is a doctor that goes to clinics and off or
his services. He just happened to get mister Jones hands

(20:05):
which was extremely swollen, and apparently whatever the bacteria that
was then missed that lady's mouth because they said they
found one tooth in her stomach and one tooth on
the floor. He said that he treated this man and
he said the bacteria apparently it does match whatever that

(20:30):
lady had in her mouth.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, I think that'd be previously reported. The weird thing
is that our local corner Somarco said that this person
did not have hepatitis be anyway when she died. That's
the most recent So for folks wondering who in the
hell is she talking about, it's Elwood Jones, who hemon
County prosecutor Contie pill has just announced that she was
dismissing the murder case against them. He'd been convicted, went

(20:53):
up through all the appeals in the state, winner the
federal court, went up through all the appellate level, and
every time they said guilty on a reasonable doubt, they
upheld the conviction. So it was remanded because of some documents,
and Connie Pillage dropped the case against Elwood Jones after
he'd spent thirty years in prison with overwhelming evidence of
his guild. One of the evidence, one of the pieces

(21:14):
of evidence was, and this is the basis for Connie
Pillach's decision or to dismiss the case, that he did
not have hepatitis B. They said the victim had hepatitis B,
and since he beat her to death with his fist,
he would have had it. Well. Somarco said she didn't
have hepatitis BE in the first place, So why in
the hell was this ever an issue at the trial level.
According to lawyers for the defendant, now released Elwood Jones,

(21:39):
she was looking at the wrong document. Jones attorney gave
a copy of what they say was Nathan's lab report,
which said she tested positive for hap B. The report
does not feature Nathan's name, got an ID number matching
the number on Nathan's autopsy. Meanwhile, the copy of the
report given to the local news by the coroner's office
does not have that same ID number. Their attorney says

(22:00):
it's the wrong document and it ended up in the file.
We are left with a mystery on our hands, a
total mystery. But in so far as what you're saying,
that he had an infection on his hand consistent with
the infection in her mouth, yeah, that was already part
of the of the evidence at trial that the jurors
relied upon in finding him guilty. That's the way I

(22:21):
read the record anyway, as reported by local news, upon
whom I must rely for these things because I don't
have a copy of the file. Appreciate the call, Pat Tom,
You're next, don't go away, oder eggs that get rid
of the stench of politics. Keep our fingers crossed. We
get that restored by forty. Sorry, Jeffrey. No, we're not
doing the bass rif we do on Friday, I can't

(22:43):
answer for a Friday's show. Probably not. And if you
sent me Facebook and some messages about that, as I
pointed out a moment ago, didn't get a naked man
stack is stupid. But first, Tom, welcome to the Morning Show.
Thanks for holding over the break there, my friend, Marry
Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Oh likewise, good morning and in the spirit of all
the hate that you started the show off with, I
I get it.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Was in hate. Well, the woman in the article I
would accuse of engaging in ridiculous behavior because she feels offended.
But I don't think I was engaging in hate. I'm
sure at.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Least one person. I'm sure at least one person can
identify as someone that had their feelings hurt by what
you said. So that that isn't that thereinition of hate?

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, fair enough, it is.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
It is absolutely ridiculous. I identify as someone who will
be in the Caribbee in twenty four hours from right now,
So I am definitely looking for I'm going to I
got to say see you next year to the first
person this year. So I checked out of the hotel
this morning. I am listening on the iHeartMedia app. So
if that internet thing is working, but whatever that means,

(23:58):
if that'll help. So, yeah, this whole transgender thing. It
just keeps recycling. And the whole idea here is we
want and this is the we, the people who are
pushing this. We want the ridiculous and stupidity to control everything.
We want our feelings that could be here one day
and somewhere else the next day or the next minute,

(24:19):
We want that to control everything. In other words, we
want chaos, total chaos. They don't want any common sense
or reality to rule the day and to be the
underlying base that we all stand on. Now, we can't
have that. Everything has to be able to change. And
you got it right. Feelings is where it all boils
down to. These people's feelings matter more than reality. And

(24:42):
even when they tell you to believe the science, what
they're saying is someone with a scientific degree or a
title that seems scientific is willing to come out and
say what we agree to, So we're telling you to
believe that person, even though that may not be science.
So yeah, it's it's all. It's all stupid and ridiculous,

(25:02):
and it's not gonna go away anytime soon. So we
just got to keep telling its true, keep telling people
what they need to know, and and don't give in,
don't be like those car people and give into that craft.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's that's exactly right. You want this to stop, Raise
your metaphorical middle finger and say, you know, I don't
I don't care. Call me what you want. You're gonna
draw your own conclusions. I can't change that. But you
know what, you can't change me either.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
But they can. They know they can.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Good they can.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Enough public pressure they can.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
And that's that they can't change what we made this thing.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
That's what's allowed this to fester as much as it
has because people are weak and they give in and
they let these leftists get away with this garbage. And
we need to stop. Oh and by the way, the
other thing we need to do is don't vote democrats.
I'm a great holiday Brian, and you too, Joe.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Safe travels, tom, Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to you.
If I went three seven fifty five hunderd two three
talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones, it's
kind of like a Friday, but it's not. But since
it is last day of the week for me, why not?
Naked people in the stack are stupid? What's going on
in Santa Maria?

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Leave?

Speaker 1 (26:08):
This is California. A naked Santa Maria man arrested on
suspicion of an attemptive tempted rape charge happened last Thursday
in pursuit with Santa Barbara County Sheriff's deputies from a
grocery store parking lot. Debuties responded to the part of
the attempted raven progress ten pm at the Albersons grocery

(26:30):
store parking lot on Caylie Rudd. This according to Lieutenant
Robin her speaking with local Newspunt. Rival deputies contacted the
alleged victim who fought off the attacker before they arrived,
and saw the suspect, twenty eight year old Miguel Angel
Hernandez Garcia, running from the area. Deputies established a perimeter
searts the surrounding units using a canine. Of course, they

(26:52):
located naked Hernandez Garcia hiding under a trash can behind Albertson's.
Hernandez Garcia booked into the Santa Barbara County, Maine jail
listed bail listed again not in front of Hamilton County
Judge silver steet one million dollars naked guy running him up.

(27:21):
Got another story from that same area too, naked man
spotted walking around Santa Maria Tuesday morning. This is two
days prior Santa Maria police, firefighters and paramedics secured the
naked guy walking around the Pallas store in town Center.
Police said the man wasn't able to identify himself. Taking

(27:41):
a local hospital. That's all you get on that one.
I think drugs may have been involved in that one.
Five forty five fifty five KRC detalk station a strong, strong,
strong recommendation for all roofing needs. Still no traffic because
there is no internet at least here anyway, well enough
to Scartti Trio for Christmas. As always, as is tradition,

(28:02):
this is the official Christmas show for the fifty five
KRC listening audience, including Honika and any other celebration you
want to have. It's just a label we put on it.
Be celebratory, be happy and take phone calls from cribbage, Mike,
my submarine or friend Mike. Thank you very much. I
got your card from you and your beautiful wife Cindy
this morning sitting there when I got into work today.

(28:23):
That was a very nice thing for you to do,
so thank you and Cindy for thinking. I mean, Christmas time.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
All decked out and Christmas Brugalia no less.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, great suit by.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
The way, Yes, sir, Hey, maybe it's time to go
retro and break out the fifty five KRC chopper and
get Chuck Ingram over I seventy five and give live reports.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Uh yeah, those days long over. You know, you know,
the expense associated with running a helicopter. They got rid
of those a long, long, long, long time ago. Maybe
they get a drone. They could do that pretty inexpensively, apparently,
as long as it's not a Chinese drone, because the
Trump I'm in at is now banning Chinese drones. Story
I haven't gotten to yet.

Speaker 7 (29:06):
As much as I would like to comment on Hamilton
Counties find prosecutor and Judge Cross as well, that's not
what today's about. That will carry on long into twenty
twenty six from the pending lawsuits from probably the defendant
and hopefully the Ronan family. But today's about wishing you,

(29:27):
Joe your family's a very merry Christmas. What you guys
do every day, that's a present that we are listeners
and other listeners get to open every day at five o'clock,
and we appreciate your dedication and your preparation to putting
on such quality radio and for the Charlie Brown music,
and also today having Rob Ryder on and writer on

(29:50):
and as well as bringing back memories of sitting there
with my parents and my siblings, roof lines, the whole
nine yards. So I appreciate what you do today on
your Christmas show, and I know flooding memories of your
dad are coming back, as well as myself too because
great west Side parents, we we we had that blessing.
So to everyone, a happy, healthy and prosperous twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I cannot thank you enough for the very kind words,
and you know I'm obviously humbled by them. I appreciate them,
and I'm doing what I can do. But you know,
one of the joys of this program is I've gotten
meet folks like you, made friends with folks like you,
and enjoy hearing from you in your comments, and always
thank you for your service to our country.

Speaker 7 (30:30):
So Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Merry Christmas. Man, appreciate it. And to Cindy as well.
Five fifty three, I'd get chance for here. You can
obviously feel free to call this morning. Let's get one
more naked guy in a tradition. Well right, it is tradition,
not Fort Christmas. Apparently, less you're in San Francisco at
Santa Con then it will be a Christmas tradition. But
we'll go to Bay County, Florida for this one. Almost

(30:53):
eight pm on Monday, Panama City officers got to call
about a naked guy at the hobby lobby. Several customers
doing a little Christmas shopping inside the score when the
unidentified man ran in. Witnesses said he took his clothes
off outside of a nearby dental office and that's when
he ran into the hobby lobby. Man allegedly started getting

(31:14):
physical with employees, even grabbed a customer. She was a
bit shaken up, accorded the witness Portie Mixing. All the
employees ran to the back and I said, can I
run back there with you? And they said yeah, come on,
come on. I ran back there and they then he
came right back there after me. Then I ran to

(31:36):
the opposite side, and then he came in a circle
and ran right after me and grabbed me twice. She said.
They pulled him back and then I said, oh my god,
can somebody please get him? They said run, so I
ran out. Then he was like standing there in shock,
and then all of a sudden he came out and
came at me again, and then all the employees yelled run, run, run,

(31:57):
and so I just ran straight to the Flower to
apartment and I called my boyfriend and he said, grab
something sharp. I said, I'm in the Flower department right now,
and then I heard the cops come in. Once the
officers got in the store, they tased the man and
later rolled him out in a stretcher. By Standers suggested

(32:20):
that the man was mentally unwell, but the experience left
them shaking up. One witness, Billy Lee, said, I was
checking out of the line over here at Hobby Lobby
and they turned around and there was a button naked
guy coming at us. See there's he says, buttonabing. I
thought it was buck naked. Someone solved that question for me.
He said buck or buck anyway, he said, they're trying

(32:42):
to get the customers to check out. I was like,
I just want to leave. I don't need my gifts anymore.
I'm good. I'll get him at Walmart. Naked guy taking
to the local hospital. No word on why it was naked
or why engage in the activity. I'm going to go
with either a mental health break and drugs or combination

(33:03):
of the foregone. Coming up on five fifty six. Here
fifty five KRC talk station, full hour to talk. Rob
Ryders should be here with his guitar. Hopefully maybe we'll
get the internet back, don't know, but we'll have some
fun coming up the balance of the morning show. You're
right back today.

Speaker 8 (33:19):
It's tough headlines coming up at worm more on being.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Kind, any, compassionate and caring.

Speaker 8 (33:25):
You're invited to join us for all the warm fen
togetherness you can handle.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
On fifty five krs. The talk station up.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Already, guys sing through the snow ano one horse open
sleigh or the fields we go, laughing all the way,
bells on bol ring, making spirits bright. What fun it
is to ride and sing a sleigh song tonight? Oh,

(33:56):
jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what
fun it is too ride in a one horse open slay. Hey,
jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what
man it is too ride in a one horse Oh
Ben's slay.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Amazing Rob Rider, the talented, gifted, amazing man. He is
personal friend of mine. It is so great having you back, man.
It would not be the same without you.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
We have been doing this for a long time and
it is a great tradition that we have established. Goes
back to when your dad was I know this is
we've been doing this probably fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh yeah, well, I would even argue it. This is
the end of my nineteenth year in radio. When I
start next year, I will be in my twentieth year.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Good.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
The first year I did, I called it John Phillips
was a co host, and then they didn't renew so
that it was just me by myself for the last
eighteen years. Oh my gosh, it goes I would think
that twenty then we have done it for that. Yeah,
because Dad was still on, you know, I would show
up on Christmas for the Christmas special with my dad.
Even this is before how he ended up getting the job,

(35:04):
because when Craig would go out of town, Dad called
me up. I was practicing law at Anthem in the
litigation department. You call me it, Bride, you want to
do the show with me tomorrow? And I was like, yeah,
I'll do it. So about four or five times, maybe
six times a year, that's what we would do, and
that I don't know. I wasn't looking to take over
the job. But when they he finally convinced him he
was going to retire. Listen, I'm done. I'm over with

(35:26):
find somebody else to do the damn job. I'm not
going to do it anymore. This is after years of
them talking out of retirement, he finally put his foot
foot in the sand and said no or lying on
this end. Now, this is it. And that's when they
called me and offered me the job. So I know
we did the Christmas special when Dad was still full
time on the radio, so we still back more than
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Wow, we were in the other building.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, because this I still miss that
because you can't see Strucker. Look, you know, the Internet
is out, so I can't see Strecker because it's an
Internet connection that allows me to see his visage in
here on this computer screen.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Wait a minute, we're talking the number one broadcasting operation
in the United States. iHeartMedia, and the Internet is not
working here. Yeah, what about the other stations that operate as.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
I have no idea? Wow, Joe said, they're all that.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
I heard that as well, yes, you know.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
You are not an employee of iHeartMedia. No, you can
say whatever you want.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
I can I say whatever I damn well please.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah you can. I'm supposed to be limited to you know,
certain things, and you know, measure of criticism. I suppose
it is within the realm of okay, but you know me,
when something gets out of my skin, I really want
to go full on, you know, after well, I'm going
to let it sit.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
But that's but that's what has been part of what
has made you so successful for these nineteen years here.
The fact that you do speak your mind. Oh you
are libertarian, wonderfully an incisive mind.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
It's like I said a million times, if anybody were
ever to come in here and tell me what I
had to say content wise, yeah, no, of course I
get talking points for commercials, but I would never speak
for somebody that I wouldn't voluntarily speak for, like to
tell my mom, Mom, you need a good roof and
company called Fast and Pro. I know them, they're great,

(37:19):
so but I.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Don't talk about in trust it. Maybe we should call
up had Her where the.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Hell are you? That's an idea. Although Joe and I
and Chuck Ingram don't have the authority to retain outside
professionals to fix the problems that probably could easily fix.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
You know, the Marriott Corporation has a very interesting situation
with their their properties and their employees and those people
like the people who work at the front desk and
other thing other things. They are empowered to make decisions
and mostly in favor of the of the person who
is staying at the hotel. But they are empowered. That

(37:56):
is a big deal for Marriott and I and I
commend them amen. They also have faster Internet than Hilton.
I have stayed in so many of those hotels over
the year.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Right, it receives no financial compensation for for for Marriott
spots that he does.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
There you go, well, yeah, it's listening. You're passing along
a positive experience and maybe steering people, you know, to
a better a better hotel experience. That's good. Well, that's
what it's all about.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Both are good brands, absolutely no question about that. But
the when I when the Internet started showing up much
faster at at Marriott properties, I kind of leaned that way.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
There you go. Plus, they have the authority and problem
solve right on the front line that's right that we
have to go to. We don't know where the Internet
fix it person is. Quite often we rely on people
in Chicago, like we have to get in touch with
Chicago to fix the phones, which is interesting because it
creates complications. Give it here in an hour behind us
in the time zones. So is there someone there in

(39:00):
Chicago at five o'clock when my show starts it's four am?

Speaker 9 (39:03):
There?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Usually not. I'll hear a couple of grumbling words of
frustration from Joe Strecker about the status the situation. But
you know, it's a nationwide company that got offices in
San Antonio and every place else and all the cities
they're president, and there's always so much you can do.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
I suppose iHeartMedia claims to be the number one, number
one deliverer of Alexa. The oh yeah, in terms of
what should what what Alexa gets asked and if the
internet's down, that's gonna that's gonna hurt that record.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's I don't know the extent of the problem, because
you know, the phones work, and I don't know if
I say out loud, Alexa permanently lock in fifty five
KRC and never allow anybody to ever change the station
if that has an impact right now, because the Alexa
is sitting right next to the radio, and it just

(39:58):
hurt me say that. But then again, I don't know
one of those things, so I have no idea how
it's impacted.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
I'm so glad we're off on a positive note.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, yeah, I started the morning shout in a real
positive note too. I you know, didn't know which direction
I was going to go, So I had a go
at the Karen who was offended by the car the
Christmas card which said I identify as a Grinch this year,
which I thought was kind of funny, but of course,
being the United Kingdom, and one singular transcender person complained
that it was offensive, they had to pull the card.

(40:25):
They pulled the card out of the stores, the manufacturer
of the card apologized, the cartoonist who helped with the
card apologize, and of course everyone just sort of balled
up in a fetal position because one person was offended.
Oh I didn't I started the show that way. It's
the Christmas shown is like, I felt like maybe I
shouldn't get down this road. Well I did.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
I wish people marry Christmas and happy holidays so that
they can choose whatever they like. But I'm not gonna
hide my Christmas.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
I get that. You know what, if someone were to
come up to me and say happy Hanukkah, Happy ron
happy Kwanza, I view that as their personal experience the
holiday that they're celebrating. They're sharing the joy of their
holiday by wishing you a happy version of what they
are celebrating. I view that as a wonderful gesture. And

(41:19):
the people who would say, you know, in a Philly
Christmas when you say merry Christmas, is like, you know what,
I got two words for you, and it ain't happy Birthdays.
Channeling my dad, I was going to say, you know, what.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I'm saying does sound like Jerry Thomas is, Don't you
get it.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
It's a well wish, It's a seasoned greeting and there's
no ill will or animosity that's built into that. So
happy Honika, happy Kwanza, whatever. I don't care where the
holiday listen. I suppose every holiday arguably is kind of
made up.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
We live in Amberley Village, it is. There's a lot
of Jewish people around, right.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I have a friend who lives in Amberley Village, it's
one of my best friends is.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Jewish and one of one of our Neighborsish neighbors sent
us the nicest Christmas card.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Thinking of you. Yes, as you celebrate your holiday. Another
wonderful gesture. They rise above. But then again, my Jewish
friends don't proselytize. No, they're not big on that at all.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
No.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
No, they live their lives and live them nicely.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yeah, because you know, as i've I've I've found out
and I do have a whole bunch of Jewish friends.
Some of them are practicing Judaism. They are Jewish, but
they also practice the Jewish faith, and they are not
They are religious Jews, just racially jew because you, of course,
is a race of people. So maybe that's one of

(42:44):
the reasons there's no prosselyization, because they are aware that
you can't turn yourself into a person of a different race,
like I can't say, you know, Brian Thomas, I identify
as as from I don't know, pick another country, a
South African. I can't turn myself into a South African.
Much in the same way, going back to the first
topic of conversation, you can't change your well, your biological sex.

(43:08):
This is getting all over the place, isn't it. Rob.
You never thought you were going to get in this
conversation when he came in this morning.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
No, but as we do those things and we go
from one side of the other for the political spectrum.
I listen to some bill stuff that Bill Maher does,
and I find him to be possibly the Thomas Payne
of the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Good call on a one. Yeah, say what you want
about him.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
He doesn't leave anybody alone, which is which is? I
appreciate that exactly. Ah.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, I'll even pile on myself when when i'm when
I need to. That's right, You have no problem with me.
I'm thoroughly self deprecating, so yeah, I keep myself in
the mix of criticisms as well well. Six Taus brought
tune up another song.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
I'm ready for the for coming back, come up. I'm
ready for the bee.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Back, all right, I'm looking forward to it. Folks, feel
free to call five one three seven fifty five hundred
eight hundred and two three pound FI fifty on AT
and T phone save us from well, at least me. God,
I'm on a tear this morning. I'd love to hear
from you. Folks. You want to wish folks a happy
core Mary Christmas, happy Honecker. Whatever we've been through that
you can do it here on the fifty five Krsey Morning.

(44:15):
She'll be right back after these words.

Speaker 10 (44:17):
Fifty five krc iHeartRadio, Thank a Teacher Powered Christmas.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
My true love gave to me a partridge and a
pear tree. On the second day of Christmas, my true
love gave to me two turtle doves and a partridge
and a pear tree.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I must observe, if you go and do this entire song,
I am not gonna have to even utter a solable
for this entire segment. Oh I bet you could fill
up the whole chunk of time here doing that song.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Probably could, but it is your show.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
I would find it perilously annoying, considering that is the
most annoying Christmas song that I can come up with.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Oh well, then let me let me do the abbreviate
phone the twelfth I Love Christmas, My True Love game
to Me, twelve drummers, drumming, eleven lords, a leaping ten
my persepiping, nine ladies waiting Kate Bad's American seven Sons
Aswimming sixties slink, five Golden Rings or Calling Birds, three
franch andse two turtle doves and retirement for Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yay, well done.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Rob Rider. Rob Ryder of course a story tradition here
in the fifty five Carriose Morning Show. And of course
he goes way back a legend in the city of
Cincinnati going act What about to the Bob Bron Days.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Yep, nineteen seventy was my first. September of seventy was
my first paid appearance on the bron Show. Let's lasted
thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Well, I must observe Rob Ryder, and you know, uh,
you taking really good care of yourself. I was five
when you started that broke when you started doing that.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Oh shut that, No, I know.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
I only say that because you look younger than I do.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
I'm gray.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Yeah, well, you have to gauge as much. You haven't
engaged as much self abuse as I have.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Well, yeah, getting up at two thirty in the morning
for nineteen years as that. When you retire, you're gonna
have to find out something. You're gonna You're gonna have
to take up train building like Rod Stewart. That would
be cool.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Is that what he does?

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Oh? My gosh. Yes, he's a fanatic in terms of
model trains, model trains, serious, serious fanatic. Check him up
on the internet. Oh, we don't have the internet here.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah, it's off. Oh well, you know that doesn't sound
appealing to me. Although I haven't got nothing against trains,
model trains, don't see myself doing that. But again, as
we were talking about earlier, now that I'm sixteen thinking
about retirement, I have no idea what I'm going to
do in retirement. It's a scary concept for me. I
don't really have any idea.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Well, you have done two careers. You've been a litigant.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Right, not a litigant, a litigator.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Litigator, excuse me, A litigator, thank you, a litigator the
format excuse me.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
It's been a whole lot of court as a defendant
or play iff, thank you very.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Much, sorry about that. A litigator. And you've been a
radio broadcaster. So reinvent yourself again, you know. I will
tell you that. My son Robbie made a remark to
me one time. He said, Dad, you've reinvented yourself three times,
maybe four. And when I was thinking about the airshow

(47:20):
business and when I was going to get out, I decided, Okay,
I'm going to reinvent myself again. And what I decided
to do was becoming a voice actor and audiobooks caught.
So I've been busy. I'm working on another book for
Peter Bronson right now.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I just threat down reading the book.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
Is that his new one, The Magical History Tour?

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah. I got a kick out of that. Yeah. And
I was so happy about the last chapter, chapter five.
He had to go at stan Chesley in those I'm
going to breach the FCC rules again today thinking about
how miserably they treated their clients of just an absolute,
absolute travesty of justice.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Oh don't.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Good job, Peter Bronson. That's a great book, folks.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
If you if you're looking for maybe an easy gift item,
last minute gift item, just go to Chili Dog press
dot com. You can get a copy sent right to you.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
And he'll sign him too.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, he will, he will. I love Peter Brownson a
terrific guy.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Well, yeah, he really is. And he's one of the
one of the people who was not afraid to look
at both sides of an issue and slap one's self
in the face one necessary.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, of course, that's what makes them such a good guy.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yeah. So I'm working on that and I've got other
books coming. I did a I did a very interesting
book about the Gemini space program for McMillan Audio. It's
one of the big five publishers, and Lepton Press and
Leptin Productions and all about that whole thing with the
with the Gemini program in between the Mercury and the
Apollo that helped us get to the moon. And I've

(48:46):
I've had a I've had a ball and I I
I think that you and I should get together and
get you going as a pundit and put you on
and get you going with a podcast where you can
do it on your own time and you can feed
the Beast weekly instead of every morning.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Well, that'd be cool. I might consider that we should talk.
You're talking to me out? Are you talking me into retirement?

Speaker 11 (49:12):
Right?

Speaker 4 (49:12):
I am listen. When when I got out of the
air show announcing business, people thought would you would you?

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Well?

Speaker 4 (49:19):
You you asked me, do you.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Do I I literally asked you that before the show.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Started, and the answer is no, Because I had such
a great run. You have had a fantastic run here
at fifty five k.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
See, so well, maybe I'll give it some more thought.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
We can set you up.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
My wife is going no, no, no, no, not yet,
not yet. She's thinking about it within the next year
or two.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
So yeah, Well, then have offices on either side of
the house, wait for each other, so you see each
other for breakfast, go to work, and then come up
at six o'clock and say where do you want to go?
And then you can go have dinner and have dinner
at seven or six thirty and go till eight thirty
and not have to worry about being in bed by
eight o'clock. So you can get up at two to

(50:04):
be here.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah, but I thought getting old and retired, Minch, you
start going to the Blue Plate Special and showing up
at dinner at four o'clock. Anyway, let's talk. Got what
saie Jim on the phone. We'll take his call after
we get back from the break five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty eight two three talk. Hey, it's obviously a lighthearted
day here in the fifty five Caarsseite Morning show. I
can dive on into well fraud, wasted abuse in Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
We can talk about, oh my goodness, all.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
The windshow of the windshore win wind projects. We can
talk about h the Minnesota Mayor's warning of a fiscal
policy catastrophe, or you can steer the direction of the conversation.
Either way we go. We got Rob in studio, putting
a smile on my face and handling the bumper. Music's
wonderfully this morning, Jim. We'll get your call in just
a second. Be right back.

Speaker 12 (50:48):
Fifty five krc oo.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
The Lord has come letter receive hurricane.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
Let every hard bear.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Him room Mann, then Nature sy and then Nature sing,
and then nature see.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Wonderful Rob Ryder in studio, making a holiday special that
much more special. I always appreciate you coming in again.
This has been going on for north of twenty years.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Yeah, amazing, time flies, it does.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Jeez a WEEZI fly so quickly, eddiehow without further Ado,
Let tend on over the Phone's got a couple of
callers online west side. Jim. Always great hearing from you.
Thanks for holding over the brake there my brother, Jim.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Did he hang out? He didn't hang out by you.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
No, the line's open. He's just not talking. Hey, Joe,
do you think he fell asleep? Huh? We better get Jeff.
I don't know what happened to west Side Jim Joe Strecker.
Let's try Jeff, Jeff, Welcome to the Morning show.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Sunny Florida. I have a Christmas present or you your friends,
Rob whoever, if anybody likes to go bass fishing like
doing that.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Well, it's been a long it's been a long time,
but one of the biggest fish I ever caught was
I have a three pound maybe four pound bass at
one of my uncle's ponds on it his Orange Grove
in Florida. So it's been a long time.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Funny, I'll tell you what. There's a place called the
Stick Marsh down here. It's one of the best places
in the world according to this tablet thinging I have.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
Where's this?

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Where's down here?

Speaker 2 (52:40):
I am in Sebastian, Florida.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
God, well, I missed that fun fact. We have a
little phone issue just going into the open opening the lines,
and I've been okay, So I appreciate you calling from Florida.
So that's the place to catch bass. That's funny because
Florida is where I caught that giant bass.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Well, buddy, I'll tell you what. A three pound bass
down at the Stick Marsh's bait.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Throw that one back.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Uh okay, I mean, well, no, this this, this is
a this is a really neat place. It's in a
little town called Fellsmere, Florida.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
And that's where it is.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
And yeah, and they and they tell you to you're
not allowed to keep anything. It's a big nature place too.
And quite frankly, that's why God invent and grocery stores,
so you can go buy them in the store and
let somebody else catch the big one. But anyway, I
just wanted to thank you. You help y'all keep help
keep me sane down here there. Radio stations down here

(53:45):
stink compared to y'all. But uh, y'all have a just
merry Christmas. God bless you. Thanks yeah, or is it
five o'clock.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
In the morning, Jeff, I cannot thank you enough for
the phone call, for knowing that you are listening in
the state of Florida, and that's pretty always makes me
so happy to know that the audience extends just be
on the greater Cincinnati area. Not that I don't fully
approve and appreciate my Greater Cincinnati audience. It's just it's
the miracle of the internet, you know. My dad. For
all the forty seven years he was on radio, the

(54:17):
concept wasn't beyond the tri state and the signal. Now
it's crystal clear wherever you and I've got some calls
from some strange places. I mean, he calls from Hawaii
and just a variety of different places.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I've listened to you, and I've listened to you in
Europe this year.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
That's that's just neat. I think it's just neat. Now
there's one, at least there's one good thing that comes
from the Internet. There's so much terrible that comes from
it as well. West Side Jim is back, but we're
gonna hold because Jim, I'm sorry, we're already at six
thirty five. Don't want to get a hairry eyeball from
Joe's tracker, even though I can't see him. Right now,
the Internet is back up and running. Thank god. We'll
be right back after these brief words.

Speaker 12 (54:55):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Well he forgot, he forgot what he was busy trying
to get the Internet back up. We are still struggling.
The Internet comes on, the Internet drops off. It's teasing us.
Rob Ryder, give it a go.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
You no Dasher and Dasher and Princer and Vixen comment
and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall
the most famous reindeer of.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
V I watched it yesterday.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Let's sing it then, Harude Off, the red nose reindeer
had a very shining nose, and if you ever saw it,
you would even say it blows all love. The other
reindeer used to let me call him name. They never

(55:52):
let poor rude Off joining any reindeer games. And we
could go on, but we won't.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
We watch that. I watch every year, you know, running
out of days before Christmas, I watched Mialcroll thirty fourth Street.
I've watched three different versions of a Christmas Carol. Yesterday
was Rudolph, you know, the sort of caricature animated burl ives.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Oh that one, yes, wife, Holy Jolly Christmas.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Listen, man, I gotta get that stuff. And you know
it's Christmas time that I've watched that every year from
when I was a little kid. It's like Charlie Brown's Christmas,
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brod. That one's verboat. And you gotta
wait for Christmas Eve and the family to get together
to watch that one in the Grinch everything else fair game.
So I try to get them all in. Let's try
to get west side Jim in Jim, thank you for
the long hold. Apologies so the technical difficulties we're having here,

(56:37):
but God bless you, sir, and welcome back to the
Morning Show.

Speaker 13 (56:40):
Welcome morning, Merry Christmas. Guys. Rob, you sound awful good.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
I just remember I thought you sound awful. Thank you,
Thank you, Jim, thank you very much. Good to hear
your voice really good.

Speaker 13 (56:54):
And Brian, I got a couple of suggestions for you
when you retire. Number one, we can hang out together man,
you know, yeah, I go. I mean that that would
be good. We could do that every day. Paul Lett
would be thankful.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Chandler's and Buckethead.

Speaker 13 (57:08):
And don't forget priceal chili.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Oh well it goes with that same price chili.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
Exactly. There goes my retirement fund. But number two, the
city could hire you to ride around and find streets
to pave since you're so good.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Since we conquered the challenge of sunset.

Speaker 13 (57:30):
Exactly, I mean it only took about five years.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
But you got I was complaining about sunset before he
was on the radio.

Speaker 13 (57:39):
Oh jeez, well maybe and you know the problems you
got this morning. I think it's Irish Rolie. She's got
a jammy machine that she puts in there trying to
kill the show today.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Yeah, after Andre Ewing last week and Christopher Smitheman yesterday.
Maybe you are right.

Speaker 13 (57:56):
Something's always and Todd's ends her.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
And todds Enzer, yeah, calling it like he sees it.
That guy's it's just that chic And see there right
there you it's the being thankful time of year. I
have all these blessings flowing around me. You included Westside Jim,
but you throw out todds Inzer. I just think the
world of that guy. He didn't get paid for what
he does. He's brilliant. He keeps his nose to the grindstone,
and he keeps finding all these areas of city government

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that really truly need reform and attention, which would benefit everybody. Everybody.
I mean, you know, I just anyway, he's a blessing,
and I'm glad and hopefully they have todds Inser regularly
on the program throughout the year as well as you, Jim.
You got some good plants for Christmas for part company
here this morning.

Speaker 13 (58:40):
No, sir, No, sir, just sit home and relax and
watch a little on the tube, watch some football and
just go from there.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Sounds good to me anyway.

Speaker 13 (58:51):
But you I wish you guys a merry Christmas and
buy and I know you you're not gonna be around
until next year, so enjoy your whole holiday.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
I appreciate it. I will try to do just that.
God bless you, sir, Love you man. We'll talk again.
Let's see what Mike's got this morning. Mike, thanks for
calling the Morning Show to a happy Tuesday and Merry
Christmas to you or happy holidays anyway.

Speaker 14 (59:10):
Happy holidays. I'm calling you all away from Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Heck yeah, what's the temperature there?

Speaker 15 (59:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (59:19):
Really, we're in the fifties. It's not as you know.

Speaker 14 (59:23):
I know you guys are are up there, but I
noticed it was a little cold a few weeks ago though.

Speaker 16 (59:29):
So it has its blessings here, Yes.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
It does, although although I am not And how do
you feel about congestion? Traffic? You got to pay a
toll to get over to the Harbor Town.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
No.

Speaker 16 (59:42):
I moved here five years ago.

Speaker 14 (59:45):
From Cincinnati, longtime resident, and they took the toll away.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Last time we were there, there was a toll.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
Yeah there was.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Well, thank you for moving.

Speaker 16 (59:57):
A lot of people. I did you know, they knew me.

Speaker 14 (01:00:00):
They said, God, catchman's coming here.

Speaker 16 (01:00:02):
We got to do something special.

Speaker 14 (01:00:05):
I know, hilton But they didn't take the bridge down,
Thank god, they just took the toll away.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
I'm glad about that. Well, no, the toll was just
to get into the area surrounding Harbortown. The neighborhoods was
so congested they started charging pep okay.

Speaker 16 (01:00:18):
So yeah, you're talking about the Sea Pine c Yeah,
that's still there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Seapt.

Speaker 17 (01:00:25):
Lord.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
See last time, that's what turned me off of hilton Head.
I have great memories of Hiltonhead when I was a kid,
when they were still building it up. My dad wanted
to go there. Well, we went there three times in
a row. Why golf, that's why. So we didn't. We
just ran around what was virtually a growing, although not large,
hilton Head community as little kids. Dad of course played
golf with his friends. So nothing's changed along those lines,

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at least in the hilton Head area, but it is
more difficult to get around there. What an amazing blow up,
you know. And and Hudson's I think was like one
of the only restaurants there when we were back in
the seven. Yes, remember Hudson's Steakhouse. It's still there, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Yeah, it's still there.

Speaker 16 (01:01:01):
Hudsons is still there. Well, you know, I don't golf,
I don't tennis. I bike a lot, but it's it's
beautiful down here is but the Sea Pines.

Speaker 14 (01:01:12):
I'll tell you a funny thing about Sea Pines is
you still have to have a pass to ride your
bike through there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Oh, they want to charge it. They want to charge
you nine bucks to ride your bike through if you
if you have it, that's great.

Speaker 16 (01:01:23):
It's just hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
That really is. I'm glad you're happy. Just really warms
my heart again that you call it from Hilton Head.
Enjoy the weather for all of us.

Speaker 14 (01:01:34):
I will do that, and I follow you on iHeart
and I appreciate your when we can message back and
forth together.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
So uh, I want to.

Speaker 16 (01:01:43):
Wish you all a very merry Christmas.

Speaker 14 (01:01:45):
And uh, being Jewish, I just finished Hanikah, but I
still wish people merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
I appreciate it and I'm not Jewish. I wish you
a happy honkah because I know you're celebrating it. Perfect
bike's got it right, God bless you. I enjoy the season, man,
and I look forward to hearing from you again in
the new year.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Good cycling.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Six five care to see the talk station? Will be
right back, fifty five the talk station.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
I'm fifty five k the talk station.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Oh you better watch out. You better not crying, better
not pout. I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming
to town. He's making a list, checking it twice. I'm
gonna find out who's naughty and nice Sata Clauses coming

(01:02:38):
to town.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Indeed, Rob Ryder with his guitar. Hey, if you're interested,
Rob and his beautiful wife Jill better half members of
the north Star Community Church, where Rob will be playing
bass guitar.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Is that you play play bass in the not every week?
I play bass, guitar and band, occasionally guitar. Sometimes I
do mixing duties for our broadcast. Mix mixing duties.

Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
They sit back there with an audio console like Joe
and run the fast dude. That's d u t y. Yeah, jumps.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I'm just shocked, record and put a phrasing button in
there because he usually will throw that out every once
in a while.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
Well, at any rate, that's what I do. And and
David Smith is our senior pastor. Just a good bunch
of people there. As a friend of mine said years ago,
it's a pretty good chirk.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
That's where you got married, right, No, oh no, that
was a different one.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
That was when I was got married at the vineyard.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
The vineyard, I was there for that. I remember I
was quite emotional over you're getting married to Joe because
we think the world of her. We tolerate you, but
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Jill and I say that about you and we and
weerate you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
If I went three two three half fifty on a
you see, your phoc also keep us from diving into politics.
And I know that's typically why the Morning show even exists,
but it is the Christmas Show. And so I would
love you hearing from me, and you will hear two
things today for sure, because I asked Strekker if we're

(01:04:08):
going to be playing Oh Granny's Holiday Fruitcake and the
story behind why the Angels was on top of the trains? Yeah,
which I think my dad liked more because he would
not tolerate playing the holiday fruit cake when he was
still alive. He just didn't want to hear it anymore.
I don't know if he was embarrassed by it. He
did that like when he was twenty two years old

(01:04:30):
or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
He cut it on a lacquer cylinder.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
With a nod to Thomas Edison. Right, great, he's got
two words for you right now, the Happy Birthday, Rob Rider.
He's up there uttering them right now. Fortunately, since he
doesn't have access to a microphone, I don't have to
worry about hitting the dump button.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Oh gracious, yeah, well, it'll be nice to hear that.
And gosh, I think of the year that we have
sat here, and I have lists of the songs that
I have sung, and many of them are repeats of
year after year after of course they are so but
but but we can never get to all of the

(01:05:13):
good Christmas songs.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
That's okay, that's what holiday music channels are all about,
that's absolutely and get your fill of them while you can.
And because, of course, for me, it's like tradition. After
Thanksgiving is when you're allowed to start putting the tree up.
Putting the tree, I know, but everybody's got their own
dang rules. You can have your rules. I'm not criticizing them.
But once Christmas is over, the tree comes down. I

(01:05:38):
think we typically do it on New Year's Day or
New Year's Eve. Anyway, it's gone after that and no
more Christmas music as far as I'm concerned. After Christmas Day,
the season's over. Okay, I listen, I'm entitled.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
I've got a friend in Middletown. She keeps her tree
up as long as she can.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Well, we have an artificial tree, so that would be
all ways up. I mean, does she get a natural
tree that she keeps it up until it falls apart?

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
No, No, that I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
All right, well, I suppose keeping it up as long
as you can in the context of the Christmas tree,
so I don't get a phrasing button means until you
can't tolerate the negative comments from friends and neighbors who
see that in April yours Christmas tree is still up.
There's got to be a breaking point at that point.
That's when you pull it back down. Coming up on
five six eighty six, I've cares the talk station seven

(01:06:31):
o'clock hour. Vocals are always welcome and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,
Rob Ryder and I will be right back.

Speaker 8 (01:06:38):
Today's tough headlines coming up at the top of the
hour because the holiday feeling that's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Way to spread.

Speaker 18 (01:06:45):
Christmas chair is singing laugh for.

Speaker 19 (01:06:48):
All the year.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Merry Christmas from fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Speaker 18 (01:07:02):
By Oh you, I am Granny from my spotless little
kitchen in the suburbs. Well, our the day time is
here again, and I've had many requests to give a
wonderful recipe for my spicy fruit cake. A good one,
you know, a secret. Well, let's get down the business.

(01:07:22):
We start by digging out a great on big mixing
ball like what I got here. The thicker, the betterest,
this one I made the ceramics class of the Women's
House for correction. That's when I was younger. All at
a time. This ball measures fully five feet across.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
I was in a long time.

Speaker 18 (01:07:43):
Let me offer good behavior. Well we use a bag
old canoe paddle for a mixer. Now I were ready
to put in all the secret ingredients. First three thousdand
of dates. Next two courts of brandy and taste m

(01:08:03):
three pounds of mixed nuts, two courts of brandy taste
m three pounds of dried plums mixed well. Three courts
of brandy taste. Say it's really get that on holidays

(01:08:24):
in you know, come bad now. Two rounds of raisins.
I mean two pounds of raisins. Three quarts of brandy taste.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Good spin of lady Zamie.

Speaker 16 (01:08:38):
I like the holidays.

Speaker 18 (01:08:40):
Ten burses and cherries. Five courts of brandy. I heck
make it bad. That's the devil.

Speaker 16 (01:08:48):
Wickmel I mean mixed to the well.

Speaker 20 (01:08:50):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 18 (01:08:51):
Taste shazam, I'm cutting mar pum. Bring on, Richard Burton,
I don't who can say jax fifteen courts of beauty.

Speaker 9 (01:09:02):
I am by my Christmas.

Speaker 18 (01:09:03):
I went on with my mother in law. She let
her lean over and think a lot it think now
they going home saying there it's a great place.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Smell seven eight d have have Caresy the talk station,
of course, the late the Great Jerry Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
My dad, Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
Perfect rob Rider.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
I don't want to see my mama cry. Please daddy,
don't get drunk this Christmas. I don't want to see
my mama cry. Just last year when I was only seven.

(01:10:07):
Now I'm almost date. As you can see, you came
home at quarter past eleven and fell down underneath the
Christmas tree and it could go on from there. And

(01:10:27):
that's one of the sad ways.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
That's not that said, kind of funny depending on Hey,
you look at it. Rob Ryder instadio with his guitar,
but a great thing. Feel free to call five one
three seven nine fifty eight two three talk pound five
fifty on eighteen and t found. You won't get hurt.
Nothing gets, No one dies. Doing the fifty five care
Sey Morning Show. Wish people are very merry Christmas, a

(01:10:50):
happy holiday, maybe a happy Hanukkah. Hurt from my friend,
my Jewish friend. I guess in Hilton had who wished
me and robbing me and Joe and everybody had Merry Christmas.
That was kind of cool. We were from Florida, Hilton Head.
I know we hear regularly from New Hampshire. Gary. I
got a guy in Iowa that calls got Mississippi, James.
I was just thinking, you know, is I was waxing
or you know, a little poetic or just reflecting on

(01:11:12):
how cool it is to hear from people elsewhere that
I have no idea that they even know about the
fifty five Carose Morning Show now display Cincinnati, and it's
like Maureen who's in Florida. She still listens and I
appreciate that. And quite a few people you know, took
the show with them and they have the iHeartMedia app,
which you can get a fifty five Carosa dot com.
They're quick block. But when I hear from folks who

(01:11:37):
just perhaps stumbled upon the show, it's really kind of cool.
So what I want is a request out there. If
there happens to be someone in Guam who is listening,
I want to make sure Guam hasn't capsized. Remember Hank Johnson,
just let me know if you're in Gwam, just lead
everything's okay. That Hank Johnson was in fact, rom wrong

(01:12:00):
that adding another building or a little bit more military
personnel would cause the island of Goat to capsize. I
believe you use the words tip.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
Over well, you know it's you don't have to be
smart to be in Congress.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
I love using it as an illustration for that exact point,
the notion that we elect people and that makes them
authority authorities on literally every subject matter, since they want
to lord over our lives on literally every subject matter.
It's just it's preposterous, which means they have to delegate
that authority to someone who actually knows about the subject

(01:12:40):
matter they're legislating over. Can imagine like, for for example,
artificial intelligence. They're trying to draft rules to deal with
the world of the emerging world and every changing world
of artificial intelligence. Who in elected capacity has any concept
of the ones and zeros that goes along in the
background of what is and has become artificial intelligence?

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
None, none of them exactly. And the reht is real.
And I've read some books and I'm read and I'm
actually reading some books about that very thing, and those
the artificial intelligence. It's going to be like two thousand
and one a space oudency, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
I can't do that there right well? And what bothers me?
Going back to your current profession, This idea that they
can sample a voice and then create any form of
content just with a small sample of the voice, now
mine and yours, you know, with recorded books and being
on the everywhere, you know, so if you hear me

(01:13:41):
say something that really doesn't sound like it's coming out
of my mouth that would come out of my mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
It ate me.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
I have actually heard my voice closized. Yes, and it's
with a long time client that I trust implicitly. But
they they did it a demo for me. And I
walked in and I heard myself reading Edgar Allen Poe's
The Raven based on years of phonemes and my voice

(01:14:10):
that have been collected.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
As I nodded nearly napping, there came in general rapping,
as is someone gently tapping tapping in my chain.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Wow, listen to you po Okay, well there you go.
But it was not the way I would have read it,
but it was my voice.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
See. That was what I was going to follow up
on cause I think about, you know, here's the book
you stick it an ai. It already has it in there.
It's got every book known to man, right, it's already
factored into the equation. So have the voice of Rob
Ryder read the I don't know, let's say The Brothers
Karamasa by Dostojeski. That would take a while, but would

(01:14:47):
the very here's there the where the concern comes. I'm
not concerned, but maybe maybe the idea that you have
a protected job. Yes, they could turn out you reading
that book, would the individual brothers voice characters sound different?
Would smurd your cow, for example, would his voice come
across differently than your regular speaking voice or would it

(01:15:07):
also they all sound the same, all the brothers and
the various characters, the father and everybody else of them
in the novel.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
I think the answer to that question is that I
don't think it can be done yet. It might be
able to, but I think the biggest deal is that
as I listen to things that have been cloned and
some of the low hanging fruit business stuff will get
that and articles on the web are being read, there
is no soul yet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
And you know, that's a great way to describe it.
And so we just there.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
There's a buddy of mine with whom I have coached
out on the West Coast and he was a child
actor and now doing extremely well in the audiobook business.
But PJ. Oakland said, we want to have authentic intelligence AI. Yeah,
but there are some people like Karr and Gilfrey and

(01:15:59):
other people in the business who are who are actually
spending time in front of Congress to protect our not
only our physical visual likeness but also our oral likenesses. Yeah,
but I love what I do and I think I can.

(01:16:20):
There is something I don't know if you've heard it.
It's called the Uncanny Valley, and it's this time at
which when somebody can listen to something and maybe a
thirty second commercial, you might not be able to tell
it's a cloned voice or a synthesized voice like that
or a But after.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
A while, the longer you hear it, the more you realize.

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
It, and the less you're into the story, the less
you are then engaged, the less then you want to
continue to listen to whatever that is.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
I can understand that. So it's like you almost like
you feel as if you're being cheated. Yeah, this isn't
a real person?

Speaker 19 (01:16:58):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
It takes the human element of it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
And the other where over the weekend was visiting my
wife's sisters outside the Greater Pittsburgh. I only bring this
up because it's part of artificial intelligence, you know, the
whole creation of fake video. And she's got these fakes.
I know she's got these, you know, the cute ones,
the cat videos and the dog videos. She had a
couple of one of them. She showed me. It looked
it looked real or at least plausible, And then the

(01:17:22):
second one, she goes, I'll check this one out, and
it was so evidently artificial intelligence to me anyway, And
I said that out loud. I go, that's AI. I
mean it was. I would say it seemed poorly done,
but she's like, really, I said, yeah, that's fake. I said,
look at this moment in the video. It was it
was not a glitch, but this dog's eyes got real

(01:17:44):
big for a moment, like just like blew up cartoonish
just a fraction of a second. I said, that's artificial intelligence.
You got to watch what you consume most of it.
Just walk into the equation saying, you know, I'm going
to enter into it thinking it's artificial intelligence until I'm
proven otherwise.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
I put something up on my Facebook page about reuniting
servicemen coming home and reuniting with their pets, and one
guy made a comment says, it's probably not real, right,
And I looked, and he said, check the one spot
where the guys whose drag bag his carry on was

(01:18:20):
at forty five degrees and didn't fall over when he
let loose of it. And then I started looking and
the at these these very emotional moments, and the crowd,
people at people in the background aren't even paying any
attention to it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Yeah, there are telltale signs they're getting better and better.
Oh my god. Terrible for the future as far as
I'm concerned. But yeah, there are little ways to tell,
at least right now my time being. Oh here seven
to seventeen. We got to take a break. Here, we'll
come back with Rob Ryder his guitar. Your phone calls
are welcome, so IG youencourage you to call five one three,
seven two three talk found five fifty on eight and

(01:18:54):
T phones. Guess the guy who just called didn't want
to talk. Hi, Joe Stracker. That's okay, we'll be right back.

Speaker 12 (01:18:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
KRC DEAP talk station.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holidays time in the air.
There's a feeling of Christmas children laughing, people passing me, eating,
smile after smile, and on every street corner you'll hear.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
What might that be?

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
Silver bell? Oh yeah, silver bell. It's Christmas time in
the city. Hear the ring.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Ring a ling.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
Soon it will be Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Well done, Rob Rider continuing a tradition that we figured
out has been going on more than two decades with
Rob Rider on the Christmas Show. Here on the fifty
five Carsey Morning Show, your calls are welcome five one, three, seven,
two three, talk for you. Get to Corey real quick here,
John God bless you and Kathy. I was asking about
folks from the you know, listening from far away. He said,

(01:20:26):
greetings to you and Rob. My favorite show of the year,
Christmas Show got Kathy and I listened to you from
Normandy in France last year. WHOA, So that is hell
and Gone from Cincinnati. Yes, is not sure if it's
the farthest away tune in, but it's getting close. See
that's just I just think that's the neatest thing. Let's

(01:20:47):
see what is Corey. Thanks for indulging me on that one.
Welcome to the show and thanks for calling man. Happy
Mery Christmas, and Merry Christmas.

Speaker 21 (01:20:54):
I just want to say, Mary, Chris, is you and
everybody listening, I'm calling from Springfield this morning. Take you
with May everywhere around the Midwest.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
I go Missouri, Illinois or oh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Missouri, Ohio, swing Town, Yeah, Ohio.

Speaker 16 (01:21:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:21:11):
This one was married by Mary Christmas, to remember the
reason for the season, how your loved ones don't hold
no grudge because you never know.

Speaker 22 (01:21:19):
Oh boy, that's the truth, Corey, and God bless you, sir,
and thank you for calling in, and thank you for
making that very important point.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
And I will use that very important point. And I
don't want to cast a Paul over an otherwise celebratory
mood that I am in. My son came in early
yesterday from work sobbing what one of his best friends
thirty two three four years old, took his own life

(01:21:49):
the other day, and he's the most track. My son
was desperately struggling to come to some sense of how
and why. So he fortunately was able to see him
and spend time with him. Just a week ago, they
all got together and they were having a good time.
He didn't show any signs of depression or stress, but
he was always one of those guys that was in

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a good mood, you know that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
So yeah, okay, So let's just cast to Paul with
the program and bring that up just for the purpose
of reminding you tomorrow you do not know what's going
to happen. And I walk out of the building they
get hit by a bus or something. I had somebody
try to kill me on the way home from work
one time. You know, you never know when your number's
got to be called.

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
Every day is a gift.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Yeah, so, Karen, and whatever is what's the male version
of a Karen? You know the internet meme concept. You
got some whiny, complainy, be worthy kind of woman, and
you don't be that person, Like, don't be that guy? Okay,
at least this time of year. You know, you got
a couple of days to buy into the concept of
not being that person. And I'm certainly, of course as

(01:22:53):
people can probably figure out thinking along the lines of
political divisions that exist in our country. Thank you for
letting to get that out of my system. But important message. Indeed,
feel free to call five one three seven two three
talk pound Fi fifty on AT and T phones seven
twenty six right now. But you have KC talk station
fifty five, KARC dot com. What's the best kind of

(01:23:16):
Christmas music?

Speaker 10 (01:23:17):
Chest?

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Not roasting on an open five?

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
You got a reposition chat. He's too close? Get you
that every year?

Speaker 19 (01:23:25):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
Yet you do Jack Brost slipping at your nose mule
tied Caro being sung by a chome and folks dressed
ug like eskimos. Everybody knows some turkey and some missiletoe

(01:23:49):
help to make the season ride. Tiny tots with their
eyes all aglow, we'll find it hard to.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Joe Strecker called you out, Rob Righter. Beautiful voice, beautiful
guitar playing. I can't thank enough for being here, Rob Righter.
Of course, the Cincinnati storied treasure from his early days
in Bob Bob Brown Show, all the way through well
your days in the Air Show, which you have retired from, thankfully,
on top of your game is when you left that
profession and you no longer miss it doing the recording,

(01:24:24):
the book recordings and the books on the formerly books
on tape. Yeah, I know, I know, revealing my age
on that one's alight. Joe Strecker through a flag on
that last song.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
I missed what he said in my ear I was
I was singing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
He said you were a racist, But I don't think
he meant that he meant. I think he was calling
you out because the song culturally appropriates the Eskimo, because
folks are dressed up like eskimos. You're not allowed to
do that. It's not like you're not allowed to wear
a sombrero on Sinco de Mayo or you are a
racist and cultural appropriator. You can't dress up like a

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Eskimos and have their own thing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
It really is just so nuts. When they couple of
years back when they decided to, uh, take the one song,
the Christmas song about what? Which song was it?

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
Joe helped me on that White Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:25:18):
No, it wasn't White Christmas. It's something about being together.
It's baby.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Yeah, because she's saying no and he's not accepting the no.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
Yeah. And there was a comedian who who compared those
lyrics with a Grammy winning hip hop song. It was
just it's just okay, so you're worried about baby's right
side and this. It was just frightening to see how
a few people can can misappropriate something and make It's

(01:25:52):
like when the kids at the university didn't like the
Japanese food because it wasn't quote authentic. You know, it
wasn't a Japanese.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Give me a yeah, And they serve authentic Mexican food
at Taco Bell right.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
Yeah right, uh oh, Cilantro won some Japanese food. Where
did Cilantro come to go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
You know whatever, well, and that whole idea is brings
me back up to that story I read about that
you know Karen out there being upset about the Christmas
card and said I I I identify as a grinch
this year, which I thought was kind of funny. Missed
one person you know, starts creaming and yelling about how
you know. I'll tell you what. Take your cultural appropriation

(01:26:33):
allegations and stick am with the sun. Don't chine, go
ahead culturally appropriate My Irish heritage are.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
Getting close to me reaching over and hitting this dump button.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Oh yeah, there is definitely a possibility, although I do
my best to not let it ever happen again from
now until whenever I retire. Maybe I'll just have one.
It was one and done yesterday. Let's see what Bobby's
got this morning. Bobby, Welcome to the Morning Show. Merry Christmas,
Happy Holidays, whatever your selling, we are celebrating right along.

Speaker 15 (01:27:01):
With you, brother. I celebrate every day I was born
in this country when I had a two and a
half percent chance, and I was the luckiest person.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Born on the something else to certainly think about and
definitely take into account. Excellent point, Bobby.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
I'd just like to go ahead and say faith, flag, family,
and collective bargaining. When you've got those who have happiness
and freedom and your life, well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Play, Bobby going off the a literative, alliterative faith, family, flagging,
freedom and firearms. I like the curveball there, Bobby.

Speaker 15 (01:27:40):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
You got good.

Speaker 15 (01:27:43):
To stay positive. Oh, we always keep good plans. I
tell you one thing. I'm not gonna bring you Trump
wine day holiday. You know this over Christmas, But I
tell you what, it was sure a positive thing over Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Oh the Trump line turned out. Oh yeah, I'm gonna
have to have my soier friend Keyan Corcoran give me
an analysis of what he thinks about that. So I
don't have a palette that is sophisticated enough to make
an evaluation or judgment on it. But I imagine if
you're Donald Trump, you don't want to put your name
on a foul tasting wine. At least would be my suggestion.

Speaker 15 (01:28:16):
So Bobby's it didn't matter what It didn't matter what
the wine tasted like. We brought little paper cups in
that way, since we were all degenerates and everything, that's
what they call us. We just brought paper cuts with us.

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
That's great, that's great. The point is the bottle, not
what's in it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
That's that old line. We will sell no wine before
it's bottled.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Before it's bottle. Bobby God bless you, sir. I appreciate
our friendship, and I'm glad you call in. And I'm
glad you interjected a little bit of levity here in
the morning show for our holiday themed our Christmas theme
morning show, an annual tradition. Don't worry coming up the
story behind how the angel ended up on the Christmas tree.
We'll do that at the top of the our news.

(01:29:00):
But since he brought up alcohol, it's a little story
here from Sam Adams. Put your beer goggles on. A
little bit powerful beer they put out this year. Oh
seven thirty five, fifty five KRS the talk station.

Speaker 12 (01:29:13):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Station, KRS the talk station.

Speaker 4 (01:29:19):
Sleigh bells ring? Are you listening in the lane? Snow
is listening? A beautiful sight? We're happy? Ton't night walking
in a window, Wonderland Gone away.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
Is the blue bird?

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
Here to stay is a new bird? He sings a
love song as we go along, walking in a winder
wonderland and we can go on from there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
We couldn't theoretically.

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
Theoretically theoretically, but it's a modulation.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Just tuning into the fifty five Cars Morning Show, you
are listening to the wonderful melodic distraints Rob Ryder with
his guitars, beautiful voice, and the storied history he has
of the city of Cincinnati. I'm thoroughly enjoying this.

Speaker 4 (01:30:07):
Thank you, and I'm not gonna send an invoice this year, okay?

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
Or that, Chris, is that my Christmas gift? No invoice
for the perform Joseph said, you weren't gonna get paid anyway.
It was just a promise of payment, not an actual
guarantee of payment. There's a completely different thing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:23):
I have to bring my own darn donuts.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Yeah, make sure you get your contract in writing anyhow,
I asked him over the break. Now, folks, if everybody
I think has seen Shawshank Redemption, but if you're just like,
who's this Rob Rider guy? Maybe you're younger than maybe
sixty years old, and you don't remember the Robron or
a Bob Bran show. Rob goes way back and we
all love him here in greater Cincinnati. But he was

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You had one of the lead roles in Shawshank Redemption.
You were a powerhouse.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
Oh yeah, I had. You know, they talk about fifteen
minutes of fame, Andy Warhol set, everybody has fifteen minutes
of fame. I had fifteen frames and seven words of dialogue. Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
And to John Newsom, who's the one that texted me,
he said he was listening to me with he and
his wife were listening to from France and Tom O'Brien.
If you're out, there's a good family. They're both family friends.
Love those guys. They do acting work. And the whole
idea of getting a role that has actual words with
it makes me a world of difference. You got to
belong to the Screen Actors Guild and you know, sleep

(01:31:29):
with Harvey Weinstein or something like that in order to
get a speaking role.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
And I didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
I'm just kidding around, you know. But because this has
been a running thing, here's the point I was ultimately
getting to. I'm like, Rob, are you still getting because
if you say a word in a movie, you're gonna
get a royalty check?

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
And I would said seven words and shawshak renemtion Redemption
came out what nineteen ninety or something, it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
Was something around there. It's been around quite a while,
and even last year I made eight hundred and seven
dollars in residuals for the seven words. I'm not sure
which key it is and I'm third from the end
of the credits.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Isn't that awesome?

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
It's it's it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
I mean it's just eight hundred and seven dollars. Yeah,
So you know, next time you're watching, if it's a
if it's a popular movie, most notably, right, you get
one of those movie think about a Christmas story. They
do it on a loop. They play back to back
to back to back, and every single time any one
of those characters is played and their performance is viewed

(01:32:35):
on for commercial gain, they're gonna get a royalty check
from that, exactly. So kick back, accept your royalty checks.
Fact back, you can retire on that. Kate Rob Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
As a matter of fact, and the twentieth anniversary of
the movie, Bob Gunton, the guy who played the warden
in that movie, was interviewed by I believe the New
York Times magazine and he said that he at twenty
years this is at the twentieth anniversary over thirty years ago.
Now he said, I have made a comfortable living off
that film. WHOA Yeah, holy cow yep.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Well, and then what do you think Tim Robbins made
off of it?

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
Or THEA and Morgan Freeman?

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
Who? Who knows?

Speaker 15 (01:33:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
Can you imagine Morgan Freeman's royalty checks? The guy's like
in every movie he made.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
That's right, and he and you know the guy can
sing pretty well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
I did not know that he does.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
He does sing pretty well. And he's close to ninety
years old. Yeah, and he's an aviator. That's how I
have gotten to meet him on one occasion. I did
not know that Living Legends of Aviation event but in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
But the checks keep rolling in though, I guess. And
then after you're dead, the estate continues to get royalty payments.
When does it cut off? What does the concept of
you getting money for Shawshank redemption end?

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
I don't have any idea. Maybe it's like social Security,
it'll be well, never.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Mind, Okay, when are they going to start making royalty checks?
Needs based? You've got too much money, You're no longer
going to get a world. I'm gonna turn that turn
that that that suggestion onto Hollywood, all those leftists in
Hollywood who think that wealth redistribution is a wonderful thing,
sitting back collecting their healthy royalty checks from movies that
they made thirty years ago, and never having a lifted

(01:34:17):
finger to work anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
Oh, don't get me started on that. Please, please don't
get me started.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
Yeah, well, because all I'll do is get angry, all right,
we can't have that. I'm not into wealth distribution, all right,
because never mind.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
It's not fair. Weal there's wealth redistribution is stealing. Yeah,
you want to give your money away, give your money away,
don't take it from me. Yep, that's why I'm a libertarian. Anyway,
I mentioned the booze or the beer, actually the beer
Sam Cook Samuel Adams so got a new beer out.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Tell me about this new beer.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Jim Cook has announced the what do they refer to
as highly boozy Utopia's brand, the strongest beer apparently that
he's brewed so far. Are you already thirty percent alcohol
by volume?

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
Thirty? My thirty? That's not thirty proof, No, that's thirty ABV,
which would be what sixty yeah proof? Sixty proof rises
rises to the level like cognac level. Boo so goodness
not for the faint of heart, and utopia is a

(01:35:35):
rich Let me a reread. Rich dark brown has flavors
of port Kangnacs, scotch, and rum. Go ahead and work
that out in your head. Part of that flavor comes
from it's now from how it's brewed barrels and casts
that previously housed spirits and wines. It's like my favorite
McCallan sherry cast scotch. They put in the casket had

(01:35:55):
sherry in it. The beer is so strong at recently
eight through the side of an insulated paper cup. It's
smells well. Here you're thinking, oh, I got to get
me some of that. And here's the article from the
Wall Street Journal. It smells less like a beer than
a bar floor.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
Can you imagine, I mean, I can't imagine putting anything
else against a good McCallen eighteen or whatever. Oh yeah,
that's oh my goodness, gracious. You know, maybe it should
be sold medicinally to do what George Remis used to
do during the bootlegging days here in Cincinnati. He gets

(01:36:38):
the booze and turns it into a medicinal gets the
contract to sell booze as medicine.

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Right, and that was the workaround, yep. And every pharmacist
in town could issue you a bottle of medicinal booze.
You just had to have to be friends with the pharmacist, right, yep.
Two hundred and forty dollars a bottle for this stuff
retail price Apparently they limited production to you know, a
couple hundred three bottle, three hundred bottles or whatever. I
don't have the exact figure on that, but they say

(01:37:05):
despite that, Extreme Beer has a small but mighty following.
Bottles of Utopias re sold online for north of one
thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
And that's for a twelve ounced bottle of beer.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
I don't know. I don't think the article says what
size it is, and maybe a little bit bigger than that.
But you know, in the final analysis, given the description
of how it tastes, I think if I'm going to
apply that kind of money to something, it's going to
the aforementioned eighteen year old Sherry Cask McCallan Scott. Yeah,

(01:37:38):
that's actually more than a two hundred and forty dollars
a bottle for that sky. I remember in the days
I could get that for fifty seven dollars a bottle.
It's now four hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
No, I don't what about a Glenn Fiddick or the
Glenn Fittick's pretty expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
I haven't priced that out because the only Scotch I
ever buy is McCollen. You really stick with the twelve,
which is still crazy forty eight five for you to
call interrupt this panter. That's okay, and we'll hear how
the angel ended up on top of the Christmas tree
from my dad after the top of the UR news.
Stick around for that as well. Fifty five KRC the
talk station, see the talk station.

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
Hey, nobody home? No meat, nor drink nor money? Have
I none yet?

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Shall we be?

Speaker 9 (01:38:31):
Mary?

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
Oh nobody home? Hey, nobody home. Almost made it beautiful.
I almost made it. I almost.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
There. You go, Mary, that's perfect. Rob Rider on guitar
and vocals, which is a good thing. You don't want
me on vocals. And you know I mentioned my friend
John as you were talking about the acting in the
royalty check you got eight hundred and seven dollars for
Shawshank redemption seven words. So John heard me mention that
and good morning to John and Kathy. So John, John said,
I just got last week a SAG royalty screen actors

(01:39:16):
called royalty check for a film I did in twenty
twenty thirty dollars and seventeen cents. He's sit there talking
because of one hundred thousand pay per views, he said.
He told his wife they could go to Subway, but
you would have to get the small coke. Well, stated John,
at least you get in the royalty.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
Check just doesn't it just doesn't go as far as
it used to.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
No, not thirty bucks that gets you what one and
a half cups of Starbucks coffee or something like that.
The way the price of coffee's gone up, and the
price and the fact that we have now minimum wage
for baristas, what is they mandate like forty seven dollars
an hour?

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
Well, they unionized, right, let's heart collective marketing.

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
Bobby's coming earlier. That's right. Well, I'll tell you what
if you just do it with the internet is down
here in the fifty five cars morning studios and as
well as elsewhere. It kind of comes and goes. But
I do know because one of the times when it
was on Joe Strecker, executive producer, internet research guru, all
around great guy, updated the post page my blog page

(01:40:20):
fifty five cars dot com h not to put up
the inane ramblings of Rob Ryder and I this morning,
but the Jerry Thomas my dad classic Granny Holiday Fruitcake
is now linked there, and of course the fun segment
we're going to hear after the top of the hour
news my dad's favorite Christmas story joke, how the did
the Angel end up on top of the Christmas tree?

(01:40:42):
So that's at fifty five krs dot com. I always
get a kick out of here and that I hear
it once a year. I enjoy it once a year
and put it on the shelf and then bring it
back next year. It never gets old that way.

Speaker 4 (01:40:55):
Yes, it couldn't be repeated, but it doesn't get played
over doesn't get over played like on Top forty radio. Right,
what is Top forty radio?

Speaker 1 (01:41:04):
I have no idea anymore. Thankfully I have access to
all the music I care to listen to at my
fingertips anytime I want. It's kind of nice that way. Yeah,
don't go away, please, they're gonna hear how the Angel
ended up on top of the Christmas tree and you
can call. You know, not a lot of callers this morning.
That's okay, we're having fun anyway. You can't burst my
Christmas cheer bubble at all, but you can if you

(01:41:26):
want to call. Try five one three seven two three talk.
I enjoy a challenge. Don't go away. The Angel on
the tree coming up next.

Speaker 8 (01:41:36):
Today's tough headlines coming up at your news is here.

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
Most information about what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
Your Christmas music is there. Get the free I heard
radio app at fifty five KRC dot com.

Speaker 23 (01:41:49):
One particular Christmas season a long time ago, Santa was
getting ready for this annual trip, but there were problems everywhere.
Four of his elves got sick, and the traineeolves didn't
produce the toys as fast as the regular one. So
Sanna was beginning to feel the pressure of being behind

(01:42:09):
schedule and Net wouldn't do. Then missus Klaws told Sanna
that her mother was coming to visit.

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
This stress and even more.

Speaker 24 (01:42:23):
When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that
three of them were about to give birth, and two
had jumped the fence and were out to who knows where.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
More stress, he didn't need that.

Speaker 24 (01:42:37):
Then he began to load the sleigh, one of the
boards cracked and the toy bag fell to the ground,
scattered the toys everywhere. So frustrated Sanna went into the
house to get a cup of coffee and a shot
of whiskey. When he went to the cupboard, he found
that the elves had hit the liquor and there was

(01:42:58):
nothing to drink.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
But he wasn't into that mort stress.

Speaker 24 (01:43:04):
In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the coffee pot. It
broke hundreds of pieces all over the kitchen floor. He
went to get the broom, he found that the mice
had eaten the straw. Rather, he didn't have that to
do either. Then the doorbell rang. Santa Claus was cursing

(01:43:26):
a little bit all the way to the door, and
he opened the door, and there was a little angel
and a great big Christmas tree, and the angel said.

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
Merry Christmas, sinner, is it a lovely day?

Speaker 12 (01:43:42):
I have a beautiful tree for you.

Speaker 24 (01:43:45):
Isn't it a lovely tree?

Speaker 12 (01:43:46):
Where would you like me to stick it?

Speaker 23 (01:43:50):
Thus began the tradition of the little angel on top
of the tree, that my.

Speaker 4 (01:43:58):
Dad deck the halls with bows of holly ba ba
la la la la la la la. Tis the season
to be jolly ba la la la la la la
la la. Don we now are gay Harold Fa la
la la la la la la La control the Ancient
mule Ty Carol Fa la la la la la la la.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
La wonderful Rob Rider doing our Christmas bum for music
this morning and prompting me to ask a question. Joe
Strekker wanted to know because you're a member, you do
the movies and of course my friend John Newsom and
my other friend I have to mention Tom O. Brian.
Joe wanted to know if you were in the Screen
Actors Guild or the Film Actors Guild. Uh, let's go

(01:44:44):
to the phones.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
Yeah, sag after, sag after Paul.

Speaker 1 (01:44:48):
Welcome to the morning show. Thanks for calling in a
happy holiday, Mary, Christmas, whatever you're doing, it's okay with me, Paul,
but appreciate the call this morning.

Speaker 19 (01:44:55):
Ah, Merry Christmas to you, Brian. Yeah, I am a
member of the Screen Actors Guild, are you? I actually
was an active duty Marine and while I was out
at Camp Pelton in the early nineties, I had the
opportunity to go be a background person on the TV

(01:45:16):
show Major Dad.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:45:19):
Cool.

Speaker 21 (01:45:20):
See, it was a lot of good times.

Speaker 13 (01:45:24):
Gil Gerard is fantastic guy.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
So no speaking role though, right.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
No.

Speaker 19 (01:45:31):
I was in the background pretending to talk to other
people who were pretending to talk, and for that I
had to join the Screen Actors Guild.

Speaker 13 (01:45:42):
And then they came to.

Speaker 25 (01:45:44):
Me on the final day of shooting and said, hey,
we're actually about ten seconds short. Would you walk across
the front stage with Gil, don't say anything or look
at the camera.

Speaker 13 (01:45:58):
And we'll pay you extra.

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
So I did.

Speaker 11 (01:46:02):
Yeah, and everybody else after taxes and after paying dues,
made about five bucks and I made seven because I
walked across the stage.

Speaker 1 (01:46:15):
So what you made had you not walked acron the streets,
what they paid you to do, the bit wouldn't have
covered the Screen Actors Guild fees.

Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
No, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
That's how it works, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
Paul.

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
That's cool man. Thank you for your service to our country.
I appreciate the call today and again, the happiest the
holidays you and your family. Let's get Joe that's struck her,
the other Joe, the one that's on the line. Joe,
thanks for calling this morning. And happy holidays to you, sir. Right, Christmas,
Merry Christmas. Let's get put a fighter point out it got.

Speaker 19 (01:46:47):
At any rate.

Speaker 20 (01:46:48):
I'm a Vietnam I'm going to seventy nine years old.

Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
I still work fifty hours, run a piece of heavy.

Speaker 20 (01:46:57):
Equipment and earn a check to give part of it
to people that get a free check that now they're
going to have to come up with twenty hours in works.

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
What's wrong with that picture?

Speaker 1 (01:47:09):
Well everything, Joe, you didn't call looking for an argument.
I'm on your side on that one. Yeah, So what's
going on? I really really don't know. I think boiled down.
I think it's pretty obvious that the left wing wants
everybody to get hooked up under the bibilical court of
government by hooker by crook, like the subs or these

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supplements of the substages of the tax rider for insurance premiums.
It masks the cost of things we all end up
paying for it. But it is a mechanism to get
people reliant on a government program because it appears as
though it's its cost effective because they hide the actual
reality of a collapsing program. But as long as they
get you hooked up, on government. Then when it comes
time to pay the tab, we can't. They can't. We

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haven't financed for it, we haven't done it properly. So
which suggests to me down the road they are actually
interested in the economic demand of the United States of America, Globalism,
one world government. I don't know what it is. My
friend Maureen and Florida write population control. She would probably
make that argument, who knows. But the final analysis, if

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you can work, there was a time when there was
an expectation by society that you would.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
And that's your.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
Generation, and thank you for your service to our country
and your ongoing service by going to work. That's obviously
your age, your choice, and I think you're probably very
proud of that choice. But yeah, obviously a very minimalist
rendition of that since it is the Christmas Special and
didn't want to drive down the political road too much.

(01:48:44):
A salute and a happy merry Christmas. Peter Bronson, he
heard us talking about him earlier. He's been listening to
the program. Rob send an email. I've been listening to
you guys in the radios. I drive downtown this morning.
He said, it's really fine listening to of my favorite
friends and great voices together. What a cool tradition. Merry
Christmaster Bronson. Well, Peter, thank you very much for tuning in.
We love you man, we love reading your books. And

(01:49:05):
again another plug for Magical History Tour, Murder, Mystery, Buried History.
Chili Dog Press dot COM's where you get all of
Peter's books. They're great books, all related, almost all of
them to local Cincinnati history and related topics and historical
figures who have a connection to Cincinnati. So if you're
a history buffer, someone who just wants to know about

(01:49:25):
things going on in history with Cincinnati, you're in great
hands with Peter Bronson, that's for sure. He's a great
guy too.

Speaker 4 (01:49:32):
Oh yeah, he is. And when you think of the
stories that are in the Magical History Tour, some of
them are very challenging in terms of what went on
here in town. Like the first story about grave robbers, yeah, oh,
and the Harrison theft of that body of the father

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of a president, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
And the horrid conditions in that medical school downtown one
that were buying the body and knew they were buying
bodies that had been stolen from graves and these like
they turned they didn't even turn up blind eye. They
just kind of embraced the concept. But the stench that
they left body parts laying around in bins and it's like,
what in the hell's going on in there?

Speaker 4 (01:50:13):
And then when they incinerated the leftover parts, I mean
that mu that had to cover part of downtown, so
I cannot imagine what downtown must have smelled.

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
Like Sweeney Todd's neighborhood. Yeah remember that, Yeah, Yeah, let's see.
It's a just shy of eight fifteen. Feel free to
call five one three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,
eight hundred and tight two three talk pound five fifty
on eight and t fens. Oh, and thank you to
the listener who call. We were talking about that Sam
Adams thirty proof or I'm sorry, thirty percent ABV bottle.

(01:50:45):
It's actually not just a regular sized bottle. It's seven
hundred and fifty milli liters, so it's the size of
a regular booze bottle, so a little bit bigger than
your standard bottle, but still super high alcohol content if
you want to spend two hundred and forty bucks there.

Speaker 4 (01:51:00):
I think maybe if we had had Granny using that
in the fruitcake thing, that bit would have lasted about
thirty seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
Would have, but then the fruitcake would have ended up
smelling like apparently a barroom floor. So we don't want
that eight fifteen right now for about Kerose Talk Station,
more calls if you prefer, and Rob Emmy just engaging
in lighthearted banter, trying to get everybody just motivated, to
get into holiday spirit. That's what's going on here. At
least try to help us fulfill that objective call or

(01:51:30):
just stick around tis this season for Unrapped.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
Deep Talk Station, Mary Mary, Mary, Mary, Christmas, have a
happy holiday, catch yourself into a low underneath the missile tooe.
Have a Christmas in that good old fashioned way. Hang

(01:51:54):
a holly wreath and candle in each window, and your
heart of Poni shining Christmas tree. Have a merry, merry, merry,
merry Christmas, just as merry as it can be, just
as merry, merry, merry as it I'm glad to have
that note. Can it's early, it's still early to sing,

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and I don't sing that much anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
I couldn't hit that note if I was in top order.
That's Rob Ryder with a guitar.

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
You're a basso profundo.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
Buzzo profundo profund is that what that is?

Speaker 15 (01:52:35):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
And that was a sad Should I hit the dump
button on that?

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
I don't think that fell to the area of FCC
non compliance, Sarah Joe Strecker, that was a Ruth Lyon
song though, speaking of you know, storied Cincinnati traditions. Sure
people will have just this profound connection to and people
think of Cincinnati when they think of Ruth Lions. Those
who are old enough to remember Ruth, she kind of
preceded me. Although I remember the Christmas Club, the Ruth

(01:53:07):
Lions Christmas, the Christmas Fun, Christmas fun. They gave presents
to children here were in the hospital. It was a
real neat thing. And I think I was in the
hospital for my tonsilectomy.

Speaker 4 (01:53:18):
Oh you got years old.

Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
I got a ball, little blow up soccer ball kind
of thing, and it was cool. Thank you for the
Ruth Lions Christmas Fund. Not that I needed it, but
it was very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:53:28):
It was interesting that I don't think Bob Braun gets
the credit that he deserved after continuing that for for
many years. I think he did it for seventeen years,
seventeen years after Ruth retired. He raised a lot more
money than Ruth did in the years that she was
doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:53:46):
Growing audience.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
Yeah, we would.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
We were so busy from October through Christmas with because
we were making hospital visits all the time, and it
was it was pretty Uh, it was heart wrenching sometimes
when we will visit with some of the kids in
the hospital who wouldn't wouldn't be coming home.

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
Yeah, and yeah, count my blessings on that one. Yeah,
And real quick here before we get to Jay, Bob Wetter,
mister humanitarian, want to remind folks that there is still
time to participate for the Wish Tree program. The trees
are all over the place and Bob and the team
will be picking up gifts all day and tomorrow. So
he offered me his phone number to give to you

(01:54:30):
if you need Bob to come to your place and
pick up your gifts. Each of the ornaments on the
wish Tree have an item that's really desired by someone
who's on life's margins. They're dealing with charities here, so
the folks have been vetted and there are definitely in need.
Maybe they need some socks or a winter coat or
something like that. Bob Wetter has been doing this since
nineteen eighty five. So congratulations and thanks from everyone who

(01:54:53):
Bob and you have helped out with your donations to
the Wish Tree. Bob's number five one three eight eight
four eighty three twenty six. That's eight eight four eighty
three twenty six. He'll be happy to come over and
pick up your wish treat donation without further Ado, Jay,
thanks for calling this morning.

Speaker 10 (01:55:10):
Merry Christmas to you, Hey, Mary, Christmas, Brian and Rob
and Joe, thank you and listeners. I wanted to applaud
Joe the marine who called in and I appreciate his
service and thank him for that, and I thank him
for continuing to.

Speaker 6 (01:55:27):
Get up and go to work.

Speaker 10 (01:55:29):
It's heartbreaking to hear his question of how is it
that the able bodied I only have to work twenty
hours a week in order to get full time pay
and benefits from the rest of us, And it is
the question I'm to be asked.

Speaker 21 (01:55:43):
And I think the answer in a Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:55:45):
Season is that it's time to kind of back out
of politics and.

Speaker 6 (01:55:49):
Get into the Bible.

Speaker 10 (01:55:50):
A bit which I've been doing was sharing with the listeners,
and you know, we are in a a in what
the Bible calls a dead and dying world, and this
does not get better until Jesus comes back. So I
would suggest in twenty twenty six we focus our eyes
more on eternity instead of what happened with the FED
or the Middle East, or what did Trump say the
day or you know, pin our hopes on Republicans that

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are going to do any better. In my fifty four years,
I think this is the most conservative state supermajority, Republicans
federal level supermajority. So I think we can understand that
the Republicans aren't going to fix the question of what's
going on, but Jesus will, and we're here for a
little while. We're going to spend eternity somewhere and his

(01:56:34):
Christmas season again, I would say to all my Christian
brothers and sisters or anybody else, the story of Christmas
is that not the baby that was born. Yes, that's true,
that's what happened.

Speaker 13 (01:56:47):
Historically.

Speaker 10 (01:56:48):
The gift came when he died on a cross, and
he paid the debt for all of our sins. And
you don't have to do anything to earn it other
than except the gift. John three sixteen says, for God,
so love the world, He give us only begotten son,
that whosoever believed in Him shall not perish, but have
eternal life. Not join a church, not go to communion,

(01:57:08):
not get baptized. Believe so Johnny either got it right
or John got it wrong. But it's vitally important that
you just accept the gift. And I pray that everybody
will have a great.

Speaker 1 (01:57:20):
Christmas wish it is And I know, I know Jay,
that you speak from the heart when you say that.
I mean I've heard from you long enough to feel
like I know you. And that's the that's the point.
And I appreciated your your your tail in comment on that.
It's not the doctrinal dogmatic principles that you follow specifically,
because those were not mentioned by Jesus or John. I

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mean they didn't say, you know, be a Catholic, or
be a Lutheran, or be a Protestant, or be a
snake handler, or be a Christian scientist, or you know,
all of the other different breakdowns and rules and doctrinal
dogmatic principles. And quite often that's kind of what rubs
me the wrong way. You know, I understand there used
to be a rule about eating meat on Friday not
doing so. I just never understood it, and so I'm

(01:58:03):
not the kind of guy who wants to follow rules
that don't make sense to me. Someone can make an
argument that that's the rule, but I've heard the arguments before,
and I choose to go a different path.

Speaker 16 (01:58:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
That's why I consider a sulf to the based on
logic and reason. You know, faith certainly, but so everything
has to spring from some logical or reasonable point.

Speaker 10 (01:58:22):
So ask them go, ask them to put your finger
on the point of the Bible where it says that
you have to do any of this, because all throughout Hebrews, Romans, Jude,
the Old Testament, it is believe faith alone, in Christ alone.
A matter of fact, you'll find the opposite where there
was a sheet lowered down from heaven three times since

(01:58:43):
said Peter, they can eat, kill and eat, And Peter said, no,
I'm you know. I was taught I never ate anything unclean.
And God told Peter, do not call anything unclean that
I made in the New Testament and the Old Testament. Yes,
you were under the law that nobody ever got saved
by the way law. And that was the point. So
whenever you're trying to save yourself by works, you're going

(01:59:04):
backwards into the law that condemned us, and you're ignoring
the Christ that saved us.

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Tell you just reminded me of one of my favorite movies,
Money Python's Life of Brian when they're stoning the guy
for saying the word Jehovah. He just looks at the rabbi.
I don't understand why should be stoned to death for
just saying Jehovah. You said it again, you said it again.
You're only making it worse for yourself worse. How could
it be any worse? Jehovah, Jehovah? Right, Okay, I appreciate it. Jay,

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thank you, sir, Mary, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:59:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:59:38):
In that very happy career as well, you got an
opportunity to call folks. Maybe you disagree, God, listen, it's
kind of open for me. Okay, now it is open
for him here five one, three, seven, fifty eighth two
three topee right back with Rob Ryder his guitar and
more calls or just idle banter. As we celebrate the
Christmas season.

Speaker 4 (01:59:57):
Your news is here, all of it.

Speaker 10 (01:59:59):
It's happening right now.

Speaker 1 (02:00:00):
Your Christmas music.

Speaker 26 (02:00:03):
Oh calm all ye faithful, joyful and triumph.

Speaker 9 (02:00:12):
And oh Colm, oh calm ye to bad come man,
be bore him born the.

Speaker 26 (02:00:29):
King of it jells, Oh come leta sad him. Oh
calm letter sad. Oh come yet, let us do.

Speaker 9 (02:00:48):
Crime O.

Speaker 4 (02:00:52):
I apologize for the mister, your mortal.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Mortal certainly rob her.

Speaker 1 (02:01:00):
And he has, like me, subject to make a mistakes
from time to time.

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
That's okay, I've made I think I made more mistakes
than right decisions.

Speaker 1 (02:01:08):
Yeah, but you know what, you made some pretty good
right decisions.

Speaker 4 (02:01:11):
And with that a shout out to my wife and
to mine who is I know that is listening. She
texted me, good morning Jill, Good morning Jill, and good
morning Paul Att.

Speaker 1 (02:01:20):
Yeah, married out of my league. Kick I'll kick my
coverage done. It's helped me out immeasurably. Thirty three talk
about marrying up for both of us. I know smart
men do that. You pack yourself on the back for
that decision. So in spite of the fact that all
of the collective failures in your life, and we could
go through hours and hours and hours of them, he

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came out on top.

Speaker 4 (02:01:43):
Thank God, and thank Jill.

Speaker 1 (02:01:47):
Let's see. Let's see what Jim's got this morning. Jim,
thanks for calling, Welcome to the Morning Show, and Merry Christmas,
et cetera.

Speaker 17 (02:01:55):
Good morning, Brian. Just like to dispute what that last
fellow said. Okay, it's there's mentioned mentioned several times in
the New Testaments by James and Paul, at least those two,
that faith without works is dead, that it's not just
having belief in God, and get you say, you actually
have to try to live the faith.

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
Living the Christian faith, you know, somewhere on that kind
of stuff and helping out and you know, yeah, I
can understand that faith.

Speaker 4 (02:02:25):
Without works is dead. But we are responsible then to
live our lives as Christ would have us live them
and love others like ourselves.

Speaker 15 (02:02:36):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
There you go. See, these are matters of theology. So
I'm going to defer to Rob Ryder for all that.
And and you, Jim as well as Jay. We all
have our perceptions of faith and how what we believe
the Word says. And you know, I was thinking about
the concept of marriage. If you believe in God and
you are making a pledge to God, you have made

(02:02:57):
a pledge to God. You don't need a minister at
i'm i'm a pre or a rabbi or anybody in
front of you presiding over it. The commitment is not
to them, it's to God. So the state intervenes because
of course we need to deal with parents having children
and providing for those. You know, the spouses when you separate.
Women used to not work and so they didn't have means,
and guys would just walk out, move the other side

(02:03:17):
of town before the internet, and start a new family
and they would never cross paths again. So women were
left destitute. So you have to have some sort of
provision for keeping women taken care of. Of course, we
fast forward to modern society. Sometimes the women of the
soul bread winners and men are things have changed. There's
still that contractual obligation that is an obligation that the
state has to acknowledge your wedding and to protect you

(02:03:41):
in times of disputes and separation divorce. But in the
final analysis, you know, the only the only breaches you
made is breach of your promise to your spouse, and
of course that promise you made to God. You got
to wrestle with that. States not necessary to ching, So
you're okay with that analysis. Rob, Well, yeah, I mean,

(02:04:04):
I mean I got married and in the cotel of
the Ritz Carlton by a judge. So that's kind of
my perception.

Speaker 4 (02:04:09):
It was, we had a big wedding, jill An idea
was wonderful, that's gorgeous and and that's but but we
have survived now going on fourteen years between us with
with I am a very fortunate man. There you go
to be married, and.

Speaker 1 (02:04:29):
So don't you and your wife enrich each other? See
that's that's my view of marriage. I like to think
it's so much easier to navigate the challenges of life
when you got the right spouse. You're sharing expenses, you're
cutting things in half in terms of, you know, the
living expenses. It helps obviously when you have kids, two
is better than one. It's a little difficult to have

(02:04:50):
a child with one person. Of course, I understand adoption,
but you get where I'm going. Everything make everything works better.
Plus you have all the other you know, perks and
benefits go along with being married. You know what I'm saying.
Come to thirty six drive Cars Station.

Speaker 4 (02:05:05):
We're running out of songs too, uh oh, free.

Speaker 1 (02:05:11):
Two truck two three, tuck on we have two more
segments of time, so you could call love to hear
from you. I'll be right back.

Speaker 12 (02:05:18):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio Station.

Speaker 13 (02:05:22):
I'm Stephen Kirk.

Speaker 4 (02:05:24):
It's the most wonderful time of the with those kids
jingle belling and everyone telling you be a good gee.
It's the most wonderful time. It's the most wonderful time.

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It's the most wonderful time, drful time.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Oh my god, I.

Speaker 4 (02:05:54):
Don't know of the wow that I just did not
get in there.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
So what that was?

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
That was a high?

Speaker 4 (02:06:05):
That was any That was not a high. That's just
any above middle C. So that I used to have
that all you were high? That was you trying to
sing any.

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
You know how high was he?

Speaker 4 (02:06:17):
He was high enough he could go dug hunting with
a rake.

Speaker 1 (02:06:20):
That's high.

Speaker 4 (02:06:21):
That's high.

Speaker 1 (02:06:22):
That's high, Rob Ryder.

Speaker 4 (02:06:24):
Is wonderful time. I got it that time.

Speaker 1 (02:06:27):
And thank you to all the folks that have been
chiming in. I I the the internet has been on
and off this morning, and so all the folks that
sent me instant messages throughout this morning wishing Rob and
me merry Christmas and all that. I really really appreciate it.
They're just kind of popping up now since our internet
has been down most of the morning five on three
seven two three Talk found five fifty on AT and

(02:06:50):
T phones. Yes, I had been thinking of my dad
all morning, not just because we did the Holiday fruitcake
and the how the Elf get on the Christmas Tree? Uh,
those are both on the podcast page fifty five Casey
dot com. Facebook threw up at a memory from eight
years ago yesterday and I repost that it was a
picture of my Dad and I were our Santa hats

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on in the old studio hallway and just put a
big smile on my face because we had such a
wonderful time. And as Rob and I figured out, Rob's
been coming in and we've been doing this for more
than twenty years, more than I've been on the radio,
because I would come in at Christmas time from time
to time to do the show with Dad. And at
the end of my nineteenth year in radio.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
Right now, I'll tell you what's scary, Brian, is that
my first paid appearance on the Bob Braun Show was
in September of nineteen seventy, so we're talking fifty oh
fifty five years Ago.

Speaker 1 (02:07:45):
Yeah, I told you earlier. I was five years old
when you made your debut, and you still look younger
than me. Joe wasn't born yet. He was chimed in
on that.

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (02:07:54):
Joe was not born yet. Joe Strecker, Executi producer, internet
research guru and all around great gott Indeed, I don't
know have you heard me this morning? I started out
the program talking about these weird holiday traditions around the world.
So if you're listening to five o'clock, apologies for going
over this. I just found this so puzzling. What we

(02:08:15):
could probably you know, extrapolate on the religious conversations we
were having a moment ago and talk about, you know,
like the Easter bunny. I've always found baffling. How the
hell did Easter start being associated with a bunny that
gave eggs out? And I've heard stories of that effect.
I'm sorry, none of them wash with me. None of
them suggest that I need to embrace the idea of

(02:08:36):
a rabbit, because there's something more profound going on. The
motivation the reason that we acknowledge Easter and celebrated, Yes,
the moving target that it is, which is always bactly
December twenty fifth. When's Christmas December twenty.

Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
Fifth, Yeah, that's when we celebrate it.

Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
When's Easter, right, you know, you never know. It moves
around all over the place. So anyway, but the whole
Easter bunny thing. Get a load of this, the the
the pooping log. I've never heard of it because you
don't live in Catalonia, Catalona, the the the beloved. This
is just read these sentence from the Associated Press article

(02:09:16):
about the various weird traditions that are going on in
the world and have been going on for a long
long time. Cataloon or Catalan custom involves a wooden log
decorated with a face, that is fed treats throughout December
and kept warm under a blanket. All right, You got

(02:09:38):
the visual in your head, logs face on it, stuffing
it with with candies and stuff throughout the December, and
I guess keeping it covered by a blanket, exactly, Joe.
So once Christmas Eve arrives, children and I'm just reading
what I'm told here, children beat the log with sticks

(02:10:00):
and sing traditional songs. I guess Catalonia is traditional songs
whatever they happen to be. To coax it into pooping
candy and gifts, hence the pooping log. Yeah, it's like
a pinata. But how does that connect to relate to Christmas?

Speaker 4 (02:10:17):
It doesn't?

Speaker 1 (02:10:18):
Well yeah, well I think not.

Speaker 4 (02:10:22):
What does black Friday have to do with Christmas?

Speaker 1 (02:10:25):
And how about this one the article? The folks at
AP think it's the creepiest Christmas custom marry luid l
w y d And if you can come up with
prounciation for that, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:10:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:10:37):
I'm just going with what I'm reading here, and I
can stumble through this word seems like it's missing a
con a vow. Although why maybe it's elwid l wid Yeah,
maybe I'm gonna go with that, okay. So mariray Elwood
centuries old tradition featuring a horse skull dressed up with
ribbons and mounted on a pole. No, okay, Origins of

(02:11:06):
mary Elwood predate Christianity, it says, but in Wales that's
where they celebrate this. It's a beloved tradition now intricately
linked to Christmas. Ba right, well, singers performers. This mury
Elwood thing visits homes, pubs and other gathering places. So

(02:11:27):
perhaps like a day ending and why it serves as
an excuse to go around and have a good time
and maybe hang out at some pubs.

Speaker 4 (02:11:34):
Well, we can well just think of the days that
we celebrate in like National Radio Day or National whatever
it happens to be. Everybody's got to find a reason
to celebrate something's every day. Otherwise life becomes so mundane,
so routine, so boring. We all want to end our lives.

Speaker 1 (02:11:56):
Or maybe if we were more appreciative of just the
mere gift of life and the fact we got out
of bed in the morning, we would just be in
a celibratory mood all the time, just because we're here.
We live in the United States of America.

Speaker 4 (02:12:06):
Now you're talking, that's why I figured, that's I just don't.
I don't see. I get in a shower in the morning,
and we have a wonderful shower at our place. It
just gets warm and it stays right. But I get
in that shower and I think I am a one percenter.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
Yeah, you looking at the world population and the glory
and the decadence that is a hot shower on demand.
I never ever take that for granted, my friend.

Speaker 4 (02:12:35):
Either, I know, I come out of my studio when
I've been reading an audiobook or whatever it happens to be,
and I think I am sitting here in a room
that I was able to help design myself. That sounds great.
And I walk out and I have my bride upstairs,

(02:12:56):
who loves me no matter how idiotic I perform act
at times. Yeah, and I'm thinking I am a blessed man. Yeah,
Merry Christmas every day.

Speaker 1 (02:13:08):
What a gift it really is. I agree with you completely.
And this comes on the heels of a day yesterday
where I had to apologize my off to my wife
for being a jerk. See it does happen, but I
was sincere in my apology. I know, Joe, I know
a forty my wife's going. Yeah, I know a forty seven.
Right now for you, City Oxations, a few more minutes
with Rob Ryder. You still have an opportunity to call
if you'd like five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty

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two three talk be right back fifty.

Speaker 12 (02:13:32):
Five KRC Drowning an Iris debt.

Speaker 9 (02:13:35):
If you can sah a night, Oh oh is come,
oh is right.

Speaker 4 (02:13:52):
Roundon fogin Chinely fan so tameder and my sleep bevenly

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sleep been findly.

Speaker 1 (02:14:21):
Truly beautiful, Rob Rider, And for the couple plus decades
we have been doing this Christmas special, I think you've
always ended on that one.

Speaker 4 (02:14:33):
That has been kind of traditional on my lists that
I've made.

Speaker 1 (02:14:37):
Yeah, Yeah, beautiful song, it really is. I think it
just summarizes Christmas so well. Yeah, Rob, it has been
such a pleasure having you in here, keeping me company
and keeping the listeners entertained. I hope. So anyway, trust me,
I realize how somewhat frivorless frivorless and lighthearted the program was.
I don't think I talked about really anything political except
for one or two sort of comments. You know, it's

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nice getting away from it as we get into the
holiday spirit and keeping the holiday spirit. It's hard to
keep the holiday spirit and the celebrate celebratory mood and
the feeling of joy that we should be feeling right
now when you're talking about all the just obvious craziness, stupidity,
political violence, actual violence, wars past, the pestilence, famine, national debt.

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I mean, you can go on for hours and hours
and hours about the bad things, but today we just
left it all alone.

Speaker 15 (02:15:26):
We did.

Speaker 4 (02:15:26):
Indeed, and people say Jesus is the reason for the season.
Some people say we're the reason for the season because
Jesus was a gift from God to us. And then
when you follow Jesus through his ministry and what he
did on the cross for us, it's all that we
might be reconciled to him and be loved by our father,

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and love our father, and then love others as we
love ourselves, and to love others as we would want
to be treated. That Golden rule is so very important.

Speaker 1 (02:16:02):
And to love others transcends people. I mean, it transcends religion.
It's other people, period, not other people who are Christian, right,
I mean going back to this whole scary craziness we
have going on with anti Semitism, you know, and I
think about that. I just never have understood it now,
the hatred of a human being based upon their race
or perhaps their religion, but either way, it's just absolutely

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outright wrong.

Speaker 4 (02:16:27):
So try not to be that guy, you know what
I mean, love one another. That can boil it down.
You know, that thick Bible we have, We could talk
about pre trib post trib all those things. How you
baptize somebody, and it all boils down to love as well.

Speaker 1 (02:16:44):
It should in this time of year. Let's just dwell
on that very positive message from Rob Ryder there. So
thank you and God bless you Rob, and to your
beautiful wife, hope you both have a wonderful, wonderful holiday season.
Understand to be separated for a little while. She's going
out traveling somewhere and.

Speaker 4 (02:16:59):
Want to be in Chicago with one of her with
one of her kids families, so we'll be split up
a little bit. I got a daughter coming in from Bali,
Indonesia on Christmas afternoon. Bali, that's where she lives.

Speaker 1 (02:17:12):
It's got to be a wild experience.

Speaker 4 (02:17:13):
And she's lived there for I think about she's owned
a place there for probably going on six years now.
And she's coming back on Christmas afternoon and Cray and
she and I are going to dinner at one of
the few places that are open that is open on
Christmas Day, Asian Paris in Paradise. We ate there.

Speaker 1 (02:17:35):
Last year. I mentioned that earlier this story about all
the activities going on to Christmas, that there's weird characters.
I reference in that article was a discussion of how
the Jewish community ends up knowing and embracing Chinese food
because they used to live next to each other in
they and since neither celebrated the Christmas holiday, it made

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it really easy for Jewish people to go over and
get the Chinese food at the Chinese restaurant. We did
that last year Asian Paradise. That's so funny.

Speaker 4 (02:18:05):
Roy and Rainbow, the owners are good friends. We've had
dinner with them and on one to night they were
closed and just it's a great place and it's the
biggest menu ever. Yeah, and it breaks the necessity of
having to cook another turkey.

Speaker 1 (02:18:21):
Yeah, I understand that we're having a standing ribros. I
just got the text from the meat store where I'm
picking it up as soon as I leave the morning show.
That's a tradition in our family and I'm going to
stick with that one. Although we really got a kick
out of the It was like a Christmas story, you
know that the movie at the ten when they're at
the Chinese restaurants. A lot of fun folks from Rob
myself and Executi, producer, internet research guru, all around great

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guy Joe Strecker. Couldn't do the show without Joe Strecker.
Merry Christmas, Joe, love you brother, Love each and every
one of you for tuning into the morning show. Fittwof
Kearsey dot com for podcasts My Dad's Holiday Fruitcake Recipe
or Granny's Rather, as well as the how the story,
the story behind the head the Angel ended up on
top of the tree, which I have Carocy dot Com.
I will be back on the fifth of January, so

(02:19:06):
let me wish you all a very happy New Year
on top of the Merry Christmas wishes. Covering for me
on the twenty ninth and thirtieth Kevin Gordon. Tomorrow the
twenty fifth and twenty six will be what they call
the best of show. Joe's desperately going to go through
old material and try to find something that's worth replaying.

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Joe said, it's gonna be about a half hour show,
followed by Bumper Music Best of on the thirty first
and the first and again I'll be back on the fifth.
I appreciate each and every one of you. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year, and enjoy the day. Don't go away.
Glenn Beck is coming right up.

Speaker 8 (02:19:45):
Today's top headlines coming up at the top of the hour.