December 29, 2025 • 5 mins
We got a question in for our American Mamas...
Dear Mamas, how are y'all celebrating Christmas this year?
Dear Mamas, how are y'all celebrating Christmas this year?
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a question for American mama's, your mama's, how
(00:02):
are y'all celebrating the Christmas this year?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, let's ask our American mamas.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And joining is now we're American mama's. Terry Edville and
Kimberly Burlason. Hey, it's Christmas time. What are you guys
doing to celebrate? You guys, Kimberly, you're always decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I mean that's I am done decorating. Do you know
that on Christmas Day? I take it all down? You
take it all down, take it all down. Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You don't even wait till box.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't. I don't. It's like Christmas Eve is my
favorite time. We played We Mike plays a guitar, we
sing Christmas carols, we sing, We wake up and we
open our presents and then it's like that's how that's
how it feels, is like, and I'm like, okay, box
it up.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
That's how she guys has a little girl too, Like
when is it that day's you know, when you've opened everything,
you're like, oh no, because that Christmas spirit's so wonderful
for the whole month. And then you're like, oh my gosh,
you have to wait three hundred and sixty five more days.
But you know, our family, like a lot of people,
if you when you get to our age and you've
got children who are out of college, who are they're adulting,
(01:17):
or they're married, they've got their own families, you find
other days to have Christmas. So we had our we
continued our mom's tradition of Christmas soup party where we
would all gather at her house and she would have
three different kinds of soups and all these yummy appetizers
and desserts and all the kids. We'd all go and
you know, we'd have play games. And she died a
(01:38):
couple of years ago, so this was one of those
things that we were like, we got to keep this going.
It's like our big Christmas. So we did that last
weekend and it was just so fun. It's like a reconnection.
So you realize it doesn't have to be on Christmas
Day if you're surrounded by all of the Christmas stuff
and you know, all of our kids went down to
Fort Worth and you know, they got to see the
(02:00):
lives and show the grand baby, you know, all of
the Christmas y stuff you have that spirit type of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's interesting though right now I feel like nostalgic Christmas
is killing me, you know, like going down memory Lane
and looking on and I don't know if I feel
like right now our culture is being is under attack.
I feel like we are in a spiritual warfare, you know.
I'm watching Christmas markets in Europe where these hate groups
(02:26):
are going in and creating havoc and so and trying
to kill it and so. For the first time, I
feel like I never understood. I thought that we were
tough on nothing could hurt our country, nothing could hurt
anything about us, until twenty twenty showed me that we
are very fragile. We're a very fragile country. Our faith
(02:46):
is very fragile as well. And for the first time,
I feel like I am clinging to my faith. I'm
clinging to what we believe in as a country as Christians,
and I will not let it go because I do
feel like it's under attack and I feel like we
cannot sit. I know this is all about Christmas, but
I feel like we as Christians, we are in a
(03:07):
place in our lives where we need to stand for
Jesus more so than we ever have before because it
is being attacked.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I think that's a really good point that most
of the United States, ninety five percent of Americans celebrate Christmas,
but less than seventy percent consider themselves Christian. Only half
are going to church all the time. I mean, what
percentage of Americans are actually going to church to celebrate
Jesus at church this time of year?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Very it's little, or there's people that that's the only
time that they do celebrate, right, you know, But don't
you feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
This is y there is there is a spiritual warfare.
I feel like faith is coming back, so I feel
a little bit more hopeful. And I know that, you know,
right after Charlie Kirk died, there was this big push
and failed to fould it, so then you felt the
enemy come in in attack. So now there's a lot
of fractions.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Which what he does comes immediately.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
But more and more, I'm seeing people talk about their
faith outwardly, even if they don't go to church. They
talk about their love for Jesus, their Christian values, and
that's something that we haven't seen in a while. So
I feel like that it's like people are feeling emboldened
because that's their only way to fight back against the enemy.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I feel excilent. We cannot be silent, I feel.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And I think people are more and more are being
vocal about it, and it is the reason for the season.
You know, that's a kind of one of those cliches,
but it really really is. So I think what Kimerly
is talking about is real. If you're nostalgic about it,
that means you go back in time when it felt
like that everybody felt the same way. We were all
on the same page. We're all you know, right was right,
wrong was wrong? Up was up, down was down. Now
(04:47):
it's just been so turned over that we all craved
that time in our life. Maybe it was us living
in the bubble. Maybe it was that we just were blind,
We had our blinders on. We didn't know what the media,
we didn't know the control of the media add on
us and those in the media. So I'm with you.
I think we all long for it. When you see
those reels come up about a nineteen seventies and eighties
(05:10):
nineties of Christmases and going to the mall, you're like, God,
I want my children to feel this.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, going going to the mall and seeing that
and then also you know, caroling the choirs at Trity.
My uncle was just in a great choir doing a
Christmas service and seeing the Halle Louis course and all
this other stuff, and it was really cool to see
something like nostalgically and singing praises to Jesus. So a
(05:38):
great time in the year to do that. If you
like to ask our American Mama is a question, go
to our website americancow Radio dot com slash mamas and
click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Neutifolk, Kim Brothers,
and thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Thank you,
We got a question for American mama's, your mama's, how
(00:02):
are y'all celebrating the Christmas this year?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, let's ask our American mamas.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And joining is now we're American mama's. Terry Edville and
Kimberly Burlason. Hey, it's Christmas time. What are you guys
doing to celebrate? You guys, Kimberly, you're always decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I mean that's I am done decorating. Do you know
that on Christmas Day? I take it all down? You
take it all down, take it all down. Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You don't even wait till box.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't. I don't. It's like Christmas Eve is my
favorite time. We played We Mike plays a guitar, we
sing Christmas carols, we sing, We wake up and we
open our presents and then it's like that's how that's
how it feels, is like, and I'm like, okay, box
it up.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
That's how she guys has a little girl too, Like
when is it that day's you know, when you've opened everything,
you're like, oh no, because that Christmas spirit's so wonderful
for the whole month. And then you're like, oh my gosh,
you have to wait three hundred and sixty five more days.
But you know, our family, like a lot of people,
if you when you get to our age and you've
got children who are out of college, who are they're adulting,
(01:17):
or they're married, they've got their own families, you find
other days to have Christmas. So we had our we
continued our mom's tradition of Christmas soup party where we
would all gather at her house and she would have
three different kinds of soups and all these yummy appetizers
and desserts and all the kids. We'd all go and
you know, we'd have play games. And she died a
(01:38):
couple of years ago, so this was one of those
things that we were like, we got to keep this going.
It's like our big Christmas. So we did that last
weekend and it was just so fun. It's like a reconnection.
So you realize it doesn't have to be on Christmas
Day if you're surrounded by all of the Christmas stuff
and you know, all of our kids went down to
Fort Worth and you know, they got to see the
(02:00):
lives and show the grand baby, you know, all of
the Christmas y stuff you have that spirit type of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's interesting though right now I feel like nostalgic Christmas
is killing me, you know, like going down memory Lane
and looking on and I don't know if I feel
like right now our culture is being is under attack.
I feel like we are in a spiritual warfare, you know.
I'm watching Christmas markets in Europe where these hate groups
(02:26):
are going in and creating havoc and so and trying
to kill it and so. For the first time, I
feel like I never understood. I thought that we were
tough on nothing could hurt our country, nothing could hurt
anything about us, until twenty twenty showed me that we
are very fragile. We're a very fragile country. Our faith
(02:46):
is very fragile as well. And for the first time,
I feel like I am clinging to my faith. I'm
clinging to what we believe in as a country as Christians,
and I will not let it go because I do
feel like it's under attack and I feel like we
cannot sit. I know this is all about Christmas, but
I feel like we as Christians, we are in a
(03:07):
place in our lives where we need to stand for
Jesus more so than we ever have before because it
is being attacked.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I think that's a really good point that most
of the United States, ninety five percent of Americans celebrate Christmas,
but less than seventy percent consider themselves Christian. Only half
are going to church all the time. I mean, what
percentage of Americans are actually going to church to celebrate
Jesus at church this time of year?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Very it's little, or there's people that that's the only
time that they do celebrate, right, you know, But don't
you feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
This is y there is there is a spiritual warfare.
I feel like faith is coming back, so I feel
a little bit more hopeful. And I know that, you know,
right after Charlie Kirk died, there was this big push
and failed to fould it, so then you felt the
enemy come in in attack. So now there's a lot
of fractions.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Which what he does comes immediately.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
But more and more, I'm seeing people talk about their
faith outwardly, even if they don't go to church. They
talk about their love for Jesus, their Christian values, and
that's something that we haven't seen in a while. So
I feel like that it's like people are feeling emboldened
because that's their only way to fight back against the enemy.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I feel excilent. We cannot be silent, I feel.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And I think people are more and more are being
vocal about it, and it is the reason for the season.
You know, that's a kind of one of those cliches,
but it really really is. So I think what Kimerly
is talking about is real. If you're nostalgic about it,
that means you go back in time when it felt
like that everybody felt the same way. We were all
on the same page. We're all you know, right was right,
wrong was wrong? Up was up, down was down. Now
(04:47):
it's just been so turned over that we all craved
that time in our life. Maybe it was us living
in the bubble. Maybe it was that we just were blind,
We had our blinders on. We didn't know what the media,
we didn't know the control of the media add on
us and those in the media. So I'm with you.
I think we all long for it. When you see
those reels come up about a nineteen seventies and eighties
(05:10):
nineties of Christmases and going to the mall, you're like, God,
I want my children to feel this.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, going going to the mall and seeing that
and then also you know, caroling the choirs at Trity.
My uncle was just in a great choir doing a
Christmas service and seeing the Halle Louis course and all
this other stuff, and it was really cool to see
something like nostalgically and singing praises to Jesus. So a
(05:38):
great time in the year to do that. If you
like to ask our American Mama is a question, go
to our website americancow Radio dot com slash mamas and
click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Neutifolk, Kim Brothers,
and thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Thank you,
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!