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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Favorite thing about Christmas?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Or what do you actually just despise you can't wait
till it's over, Like what's the worst part, buying, wrapping,
putting all those bows, keeping everything in order? And let's
not ever forget the real reason for the season, yes.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Which is expressing your appreciation for the life of Mary,
Jesus and everyone who made.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Bible story come to life.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And you know what this is going to shock you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I told you, for the first time in my fifty
seven years, I'm going to start saying Mary and Aari
marry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I can't believe no one else has thought of that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But you know what I found out in my little
Bible study that we have on Wednesdays. You know, Jesus
wasn't necessarily born on December twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, he wasn't. I didn't know that all these years.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I thought it was really you know, Christmas Eve, the
night before Jesus is born, and then the manger and
all that. On Christmas Day of the twenty fifth, there's
no real documentation of the exact day that Jesus was born.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Correct? Did I not know that after all these years?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Maybe just hadn't, Like I mean, we think about a star.
I don't know when you were a kidie, think about
a star. You go look for the star out the
window around Christmas time and usually you can find something
really bright in the sky during winter months.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Now, what did they explain to you? I know what
I've heard about what you heard, But I.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Was already just shocked.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I was looking at Dixie, like Dixie all these years
we thought Genus his birthday was December twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
This wasn't born on the twenty event.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And they said, in God's eyes, it doesn't matter the
exact date when he was born, and maybe he just
doesn't want people to really know the exact date. But
then why do we celebrate on the twenty fifth? What
were you told?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So I've been told, and I think I've heard some
of this through sermons and some of it just like
through some research because I was curious about that that
and you're you're gonna be like Mikayla. So I've heard
that the winter Solstice, which is on December twenty first,
was actually part of a pagan holiday and given some
of the abundance and some of those other things and
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the fight between Christians and Pagans, that they decided to
take on December twenty fifth as their own, and I
think the Church did have something to do with it,
like the Roman Catholics had something to do with this,
and that is how we.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Ended up with it being December twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There's also some thoughts that there are signs from when
he was born that maybe that it was around that time,
you know, like how things were on Earth, how things
were over there in the Bethlehem area. But that is
what I have heard that it actually goes back to
what would have been I mean, shock of all shocks,
political strife between the Catholic faith pagans.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean that's so you can check me, you
can look me up. That's what I've been told. And yeah,
I find it interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know what's so sad to me too.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You think of political strife all the way back then,
and you look at Christianity or just faith and religion
in general. It has caused so many wars, It has
caused such heartache and death when it should be something
that should really unite people, no matter what you believe in, right.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, Well, think about the saints, you know, who lost
their lives, were all murdered, were killed for trying to
spread the news that's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Still going on now in other parts of the world. Hey,
we got a couple of phone calls, Pete. Are you
looking forward to Christmas Eve and Christmas? Do you love
it all or what's the part of it that you
just you've had enough?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well? I am looking forward mainly because of the sentiment.
My oldest daughter is getting married on the twenty seventh,
and she was born in February of two thousand and one.
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My dad passed away in October of two thousand and two,
and I'll never forget. Shortly after he died, I was
changing her diaper and the song Last Christmas by Waam
came on, and I just my dad lost was very
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sudden and definitely took us by surprise, obviously, and I
just remember, you know, looking at her and telling her
how much I love her, and she just built a
huge void. And so whenever you know, I know, Mindy,
your big fan of Christmas songs is hopefully everybody is.
But when I hear that song, I just it just
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takes me to a whole nother feeling. So I just
wanted to express that and thank you guys for everything
that you guys do. Every week. I love your show.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh Pete, thank you so much, and I can absolutely
one a test to your sentiments. That song last Christmas.
I can't help but think of my mom. I have
to dance no matter where I am when that song
comes on because she his dance to it. It was
just just one of those fun uplifting last Christmas. Wham
had no idea that song would get as big as
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it did, George Michael, but I know, and there is
something about music. When either a slow song plays or
just something that we relate to, it does bring all
those memories back, the good, the bad, the beautiful, the sad.
Music is really really part of our emotions for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Pete, Pete, I wanted I wanted to ask you a
quick question. Is the daughter that's getting married, the daughter
that I believe moved back here?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
If you're the same.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Piece, I thank you it is. But now she moved
back to uh Phoenix to be a nurse, and he's studying,
uh in med. He just started in med school, so
uh yeah, we're gonna we obviously miss her. But but
I have two other daughters as well, so they uh
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uh well there why of him in California? The other
one's uh uh studying to be a missionary. She's in
Hawaii right now, so who knows if we'll still have
my son at home in high school. So hopefully he'll
be around, uh for a few more years. I'm sorry
that didn't come out right. He'll be around for a
few more years and uh but yeah, it just uh
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you know again, you're absolutely right. Media. It's amazing how
you know, we hear something, especially around the holidays, and
just how a song can just uh you know, just
be so makes you feel so either sentimental, happy, whatever
it may be. It's so, it's a wonderful thing. If it,
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if it, if it, if it makes you feel happy.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
P thanks for being such a loyalistener, Mikaela and I
appreciate you so so much.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Absolutely likewise, thank you Mary, Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
May Christmas.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Andy, you're on the line with us. What would you
like to talk about in relation to the holiday?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Well, Jesus is the reason for the season first, that,
I mean, that's it. So one of the cool things
about Christmas when you're like an empty nester and say,
your kids are all grown up and I just want
to mention these charitable toy drives not going to promote
any particular particular one. But one of the cool things
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is you go and you shop for your like when
you used to go shop for your kids, like pollypop, well,
any certain toy and stuff like that. It brings back
so many good memories.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I knew exactly where you were going.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Little less Punch pet shops and my Little Ponies and
stuff like that. But yeah, you go back and you
walk through those aisles and you buy that. It just
and of course you buy something for your grown up
kiddo too, but it really is a treasure of memories
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just to experience that and then you can get somebody else.
Is so I mean, this is this is going to
be a really cool, cool Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Buddy, yep, and Merry Christmas to you all and God.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Bless you know what.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
This will make you laugh a little bit and you too, Mikayla.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So we are traditionalists at our house for sure, one
hundred percent. Even when every Christmas Eve we go to
Randy's side of the family in Kaleida, Alima area, northwest Ohio,
Putnam County, and then every Christmas we're back with my family. Well,
now that we've got the little place at Indiana Lake,
that's perfect. Like we did for Thanksgiving to go up
the night before. When the kids were young, I always
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told Randy it didn't matter how late, well, I will
stay till three in the morning. It's your family. I
would never take you away from that. My only rule
was I want Coyl and the Cameron to wake up
in their own beds every Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And it's just it meant something.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
When they would wake up, they'd go see the stockings,
they'd unwrapped, the presents that Santa brought all that. Now
that they're twenty four and twenty three, I asked Kylon
and Cameron. I said, what do you guys think about
if we stay the night at Indian Lake on Christmas
Eve and then wake up there and then drive back.
Kylon my son, God love them. It's like, Mom, whatever
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you want to do, whatever you want to do, whatever
is easiest for you. Cameron is like way to ruin
my childhood. Mom, I've never woken up outside this house
on Christmas Day. I'm like, Cammy, you're twenty three, now
do you really need to wake up?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean, what if I bring all the presents to
the Indian lake house.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But even in their twenties, they get used to tradition
and they don't want that interrupted or changed.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So what did you decide? Well, I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh I'm going to try to talk her into it.
I'm like, listen, your brother said, it's big.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You're a traditionalist, yes, but also change. I don't have
a bedroom anymore at my parents' house, right. They moved
out of the house that I grew up.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And Kimmy's living with us still.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
This is true, but every morning she.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Goes to Italy to play softball. She's with us, and
she'll leave at the end of March. But will she
needs some grace, Cammi.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Joe, Cammy Joe. Please, will she be in Italy for
Christmas next year?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Because she'll go from is it just end of March
through the end of August.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She'll be there for Easter though.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, that'll be a really special time to be in Italy.
I was I was thinking all the Christmas markers and
stuff like that would be really neat to see too.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, and she'll just miss the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
She will just barely miss the Olympics because they're in February.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Cammy Joe, Yes, give me some grace. Your mom stay traditional,
but she needs a little grape.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Right, It's okay, It's okayodnight on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, we don't have to worry about snow.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
This is going to be the warmest Christmas maybe on
record in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
It absolutely is. And I don't know how I feel
about that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know either. You thought last year was this
one's like gonna be a record breaker.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is going to be. I don't think anybody can hear.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Nobody can hear.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You want to pull down the mic Christian, pull down
that red mic and there you go.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
What were you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I was saying, how.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
A few Christmases ago the high was like sixty close
to sixty degrees one.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
We did have a really warm Christmas Day because I
think I had the fire on out in the backyard
and we were just like around it, you know, and
it was breezy, easy. But yeah, this is supposed to
be one of the warmest on record.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean, if you look at what Thursday is
supposed to rain, but a high of fifty four on
Christmas Day and then the next.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Day fifty eight. Do you know what that means when
I go to Nashville. Oh, it's gonna be warm there.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Careful with those boots, right, Yeah, it is going to.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Be a little warm.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
What are you planning on doing in Nashville? Like from
a holiday standpoint, what do you guys want to do
while you're there?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So we've obviously been to Nashville. That is Cammie's home
away from home, that's her other favorite city.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Kylin is so.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Much more reserved than Cammy and Kylin, we are allowing
him to bring his girlfriend. Don't worry, his girlfriend and
Cammy will share the bedroom.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Not my son. Happen. That's not happened until they're married.
Allowed to not allowed to share a room under my roof.
You know, I don't care what you do.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You're gonna do, you're gonna do, but it's out of
respect that that's just not cool. I don't think if
you are the parent, let them sleep in different rooms.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Christian Christian had sex ad this week.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I thought you said Christian had sex this week.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I'm like, why she had sex ad this week?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So that's why I'm like doing this.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
We don't need you to weigh in on anything today.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, like my my friend's parents established the same
rule as well. That's smart, okay, it's smart, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And they've been together a couple of years. I don't
have to know what they do, what they don't do.
But while you're under my roof, out of respect for
mom and dad, like Kristen, she stays over and she
gets her own bedroom and Kyle will stay down the basement.
And when he's living with her and her parents, Kyle's
got his own room. And Kirsten's mom was like, you
know what, I always wondered why I never fixed that
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floorboard coming out of that guest And now we're coming
in and out of that room.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Oh my gosh, our kids. Your kids have grown up
and mine are growing up oh a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean, if you think of when we started doing
the show together almost eight years ago, Kristin was how
old eight years ago?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You were five enough for me to say big well,
And it was actually prior to that, when we were
at Sunday ninety five, I mean that was what two
years before that, so Christian was probably three.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I've got the picture of her on my lap, Yeah,
sitting in the Sunday ninety five.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean this is and now he's almost I mean
he's not almost as tall as you, but he's almost
as tall as me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
A decade of being a part of the radio shows.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, it has been, and they grow up and the
show has documented all the change.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I will say that. Well, okay, up next, we are
going to the Holiday Spirit.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
My cousin Steve Fancelli, who owns Lola and Giseeppees, and
we asked him to provide the cookies for this year's
cookie eating contest. And one of the contestants it's already here.
She doesn't look like she can need a lot of cookies,
but she might be a real competitive And.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
The other one is he's just hiding right now they're here.
He looks like might be able to take it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
So we're gonna hear it Steve about Lola Jazeppees, and
then we're gonna meet our contestants on this year's Christmas
Cookie eating Contest.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
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